Oh gawd, Dabs.
My first quickie read of your above paragraph caused me to consider that you were referring to the BTC portion that you are speculation to NOT have been cashed out, and then I saw that you were speculating in regards to the dollar value...
Holy sheeeeeiiitttt.
For sure, I do not mind speculating in terms of attempting to dollar pegging of value, but I surely do not consider it to be healthy for guys to be planning to lump sum cash out their BTC into dollars and then feel some kind of assurance regarding that kind of financial planning.. even though I understand that a lot of normies do want to gravitate towards that kind of dollar denominated (rather than dollar pegging) thinkenings.
For sure, BTC HODLers should be attempting to remain in the real world, and it is quite doubtful that the dollar is going to completely go away anytime in the near future, even though we have been witnessing extreme levels of ongoing abuse, in terms of the ongoing and seemingly ever increasing levels of outrageous irresponsibilities in terms of dollar printing.. but I really find it problematic that anyone with any kind of semblance of bitcoin conviction would be wanting to frame bitcoin strategies in terms of lump sum cashening out of BTC in order to secure some kind of dollar denominated future...
Aren't we here (meaning in bitcoin) in the first place, because we are having troubles in terms of having a lot of faith in the dollar being able to retain value?
*edit* nah, both addresses kept on moving. The first one is probably an exchange address. I'm not sure about the other one, but it kept moving and sending the coins somewhere else.
Fair points regarding trying to speculate regarding places that the BTC may have gone.
I thinkenings of it this way, if I (personally, me) had 750 BTC in cold storage for 9 years, and I needed to access that today (or yesterday, or any time this year 2021), after seeing its dollar value go fluctuate between $20k up to $60k in the first quarter of 2021 alone, I would probably do something similar.
Oh gawd, Dabs. You are both showing that you have no where close to 750BTC, and you seem to be creating some kind of artificial hypothetical that is not going to apply in terms of considering that someone who has 750 BTC would be the ONLY wealth that they have, so they have to engage in some kind of desperate reallocation, after a 50% BTC price drop...
Sure, there might be some legitimacy in your claim that the person had shaved off some BTC through an exchange after a 50% drop in price, but still seems quite presumptuous to be ascribing so many specifics.
Cash out 100 BTC, save the remaining 650 BTC and put back into cold storage (or in this case, the owner did something else, perhaps he split it some more into more parts depending on how he thinks it should be managed.)
So yes, many of us are here because the fiat world is devaluing, but at the same time we also know the dollars and the fiats are not disappearing soon.
Considering that the average person can survive on approximately $40k in expenses per year (or less), then $1m ought to last that person at least 30 years, even if conservatively invested in traditional equities/fixed income assets. $3m therefore will be about the same thing for anyone with less than $120k in annual expenses.
Most people will have more than 9 years with that kind of fiat cash dollars, even if they don't invest in anything and just dump it in a cash "savings" account, or spending account.
Fair enough.
The remaining 650 BTC (worth at least $20m USD), I probably will not need myself, as I'm sure the real owner of that address did not need it for 9 years, can be put back into cold storage and not touched for at least another 9 to 10 to 20, maybe to 30 years.
Seems to be assuming a lot in regards to that 750 BTC (reduced to 650 BTC) was all the BTC and wealth that the person had.
I did not bother tracking where the rest moved though, so I don't know what could have happened to it. The wise thing to try to do is obfuscate the trail using whatever tech there is now, such as CoinJoins like Wasabi or Samourai or putting it into multi-sig, or if you trust an exchange to handle that kind of coin temporarily before sending it back to cold storage.
Sure no problem with that.
Personally, I would divide that into maybe 65 different addresses of 10 BTC each (or even smaller), whatever I can handle just thinkenings about it, just so I can keep them separate.
Of course 10 BTC per address is more manageable than 650 BTC in one address.. cannot argue with you about that... especially maybe 750 BTC might have only been worth less than $1k or maybe $5k at the most 9 years ago... .. so sure there might not have been much consideration of any kind of need to create separate addresses (or wallets) for those 750 coins 9 years ago... and sure even more than 1BTC per address might draw more attention these days, so there might even be some concern about dividing lower than 10 BTC per address or even below 1 BTC per address for some addresses, even though they might be more difficult to manage.. and even having equally sized addresses might not be any kind of strict requirement in keeping track... in terms of how many addresses to divide into and how much to keep in each.. some with larger quantities of BTC and some with smaller quantities of BTC.
Even if I did not have to use the cash, allowing a budget of at most 10 BTC a year, the stash could last 65 years, at whatever price it is then.
Hm? that is a strange way of framing the matter, especially since we likely can project that bitcoin is very likely to have considerable price fluctuations in the next 65 years or so, presuming that anyone who would have 650-750 BTC might want to be projecting 65 years into the future.. sure consider that a high school or college student might have easily acquired that quantity of BTC.. but still seems a weird way to frame thinking about the future in terms of 10 BTC per year... or anything like that kind of framing of the time/value expectation matter.
Of course, if in the next 10 to 20 years, we see that fiat is seriously and miserably failing according to whatever standards we believe in the future, then surely, just HODL onto the BTC and spend as needed. Or don't spend, try to make the $3 million dollars in cash last as long as you can.
If someone has 750 BTC currently (more than $22 million currently), I am not sure why there might be any need to strive to be frugal with $3 million of it.. again presuming that $22 million might be the total wealth.. which also comes off as a wee bit of a stretch as I already mentioned.
Of course, this all depends on what is one's current income and spending numbers. The usual 4% rule and $40k annual expenses are just arbitrary numbers. Some have it higher or lower.
Yes.. we know that 4% is a good starting point, especially when considering a variety of traditional investments, and a presumptively diversified portfolio of investments based on such presumptively traditionally diversified portfolio.
So, yeah, if we might not all be on the same page regarding the method for accounting an projecting, then starting out with 4% of the portfolio as a safe withdrawal rate and even that every million dollars might bring $40k of annual income, then that could give us some ideas for starting points in terms of the entry point living expenses of normies... So, sure, if the basics are covered, then we might be able to extrapolate from there some levels of wealth or abilities to live extravagantly beyond the basics, too... so of course, we are not approaching the topic from greatly divergent starting points, but still seems that there might be a considerable amount of errors in trying to ascribe too many details regarding how to manage particulars, but sure let's say that the current value of the portfolio is 750 BTC which is currently over $22 million then we could very well attribute $40k x 22 = $880k of annual income at current values to such an investment portfolio, which would thereby generate around $73k of income per month.
Of course, if someone does not feel that they need that level of income, and lives off of a much lower quantity of income, then the remainder would presumably stay in BTC, so sure there are a lot of ways to project how much income to draw right now from the investment portfolio and whether that might be sustainable. Of course, I personally have a preference for the 208-week moving average, so I personally would consider the amount that I have and the limits that I would be willing to withdraw in a different framework... so let me just put it out there in this context. The 208-week moving average is currently at $13,600, so for the purposes of withdrawal and withdrawal limits, I would consider the value of 750 BTC to be at $10.2, and I personally consider a 12% per year withdrawal rate to be acceptable, so long as the current BTC price is at least 12% higher than the current 208-week moving average price, which it currently is above $15,232 (1.12 x $13,600)... So I would feel ok. to withdraw $1.224 million per year or a $102k per month (which actually causes higher withdrawal numbers which could be a mistake if such 12% per year from the 208-week moving average is not sustainable).
I guess my point is that there are a lot of ways to consider the matter, and even to consider if any of us is even coming close to his/her withdraw limits or if we might be living within the boundary of such withdraw limits in the even that we have actually entered into such a period in which we are withdrawing portions of our BTC and attempting to make such withdraws sustainable within the timeline that we would like to project our BTC cashenings to be sustainable.