Re btc in retirement funds-eu has XBT provider (bitcoin tracker one)-I managed to buy it in Fidelity Roth IRA, but it is completely illiquid in US because of some SEC complains.
A few months ago decided to put 50% of one Roth IRA account into GBTC+whatever I had in bitcoin tracker one (not much).
Why not? Many people thought the same, probably, hence the increase in Barry's fund from 1bil to 7 bil and growing fast.
Re retirement per se, here are my 2c:
Providing that btc "behaves" like a good bull this year, I am thinking of instituting a "dialed down" work.
Thankfully, I can do it at my work place-at first, reduce by 44% with salary decrease of only 26%, then, next year, start taking a whole summer off, another 23% hit.
In the end, I will be making about 60-61% while working much less and taking all-summer vacations.
All I would need to do is to supplement that 40-45% that would be missing, which is much easier than to finance the whole retirement Bob's style.
I am glad that you, Biodom, are being somewhat creative with your way of looking into these kinds of matters.
So, in accordance with your recent calculations and some of our previous conversations, you should ONLY need around $2.4 to $2.7 million (40-45%-ish) in principle rather than the $6 million that you had mentioned - making the amount of principle a wee bit more reachable.
I see that currently, BTC's 208-week moving average are approaching $7k, so as I type, to be conservative and prudent, a $2.4 to $2.7 million in principle would ONLY require 342.86 to 385.715 BTC to meet your maintenance of current lifestyle expectations.
On a positive note, many of us should be expecting the 208-week moving average to continue to move up in the coming years - especially given current BTC prices, recent BTC price performance and some of the expectations around BTC price performance (including the various legitimate BTC price models, which seem to be largely playing out within previous/recent expectations). Another possibility could be to shave off some BTC at prices that are much higher than 208-week moving average prices in order to NOT have so much of the expectations in BTC.. but then you would be stuck with attempting to maintain that principle in other assets... currently, that shaving off would only require 147.24 to 165.65 BTC (based on current $16,300 BTC prices), and surely that would be risky to shave off all of the BTC in order to ensure adequate principle, even though some combination of approaches could be doable - depending on the size of your BTC stash - which would then bring you to some variation of Bob's approach in terms of cashing out some reasonable portion rather than all of your BTC stash.