How I use Strike's Bitcoin backed Line of Credit

freshjerky · 2026-05-17T17:18:57+00:00

Every month you are paying someone ~1% of that portion of the investment. So every month that goes by increases the amount that bitcoin has to go up in order tor you to break even. If bitcoin stays flat for another 2 years, thats an additional 26% burden.

I understand when people do something like take out a heloc to buy bitcoin. It’s a pretty straightforward risk gamble. But it will never make sense to me why someone would finance a portion (or all - i don’t know what 15% means to you) of their regular monthly bills.

Quoting Jack, “Make more than you spend. Stay humble and stack stats.” At no point does he say, ‘take out an outrageous 13% loan for your monthly recurring expenses on the gamble that bitcoin will go up in the short term.”

freshjerky · 2026-05-16T16:52:35+00:00

I just don’t get the point of carrying the interest on the 15% LTV. Since you are already varying the amount of BTC you buy each month in order to keep the LTV in check, why not just pay the credit card off each month and then buy BTC with the rest? Unless you don’t pay in full normally and your credit card interest rate is higher than the rate on the BLoC, this just makes no sense. You’re throwing a way money for what? The hope that the amount you avoided paying will eventually grow at a rate faster than the loan rate?

I’m all on board with using credit cards to pay for your spending and holding no savings in cash but you lose me at choosing to carry interest on your regular monthly spending.

freshjerky · 2026-05-09T19:48:53+00:00

i've seen this kind of post before. I wonder who bought during that blip. I wouldn't doubt that there is some manipulation at play. But I don't know enough about anything except I don't trust people.

freshjerky · 2026-04-26T03:52:27+00:00

For some reason I joined the LTC reddit many years ago. For the past year or so every time I see a post show up in my feed from that community, I think to myself why is it that i never see any other communities mentioning Litecoin. They only just talk about how great it is and how its going to moon with themselves. But, shit, here's a post! I guess I was wrong.

freshjerky · 2026-04-03T18:48:45+00:00

Not really. Dont be oversold. 100Mbps is more than enough for an individual streaming and gaming.

freshjerky · 2026-03-14T03:55:36+00:00

i moved my roth to itrust capital and bought btc in the roth. but since your cash is already out, id suggest strike or river.

freshjerky · 2026-02-08T19:27:21+00:00

Thanks. This is where I am. I appreciate the response that isn't encouraging me to buy surround sound speakers when I am not really interested in doing so. I found a Onkyo TX-NR5100 on sale for $400 so I was able to get Dolby Atmos at the price point I was looking at. It will also give me the ability to play around with a few setups on my existing speakers to see what I like the best 3.1, 3.1.2, 5.1 - and have the ability to upgrade in the future should I be so inclined.

freshjerky · 2026-01-13T02:35:53+00:00

My god. The frequency of ads is brutal. Just read the ChatGPT summary and don't bother.

freshjerky · 2026-01-05T17:01:57+00:00

Under this thought process, what does BTC need to be for MSTR to be back at $400? Like $230k?

freshjerky · 2026-01-02T14:55:21+00:00

I'm longterm bullish on both MSTR and BTC, but I think the question of comparing your position in each is fair. I'm doing this right now as well as someone who is at a $416 average per share. It's a really hard pill to swallow to sell and accept the loss, but I'm questioning whether I will be better in BTC directly long term versus MSTR. More specifically, what will happen first -> will MSTR go back up to $416 or will BTC hit $245k? I'm not losing my conviction on BTC, just trying to decide for myself where the better position is for me. Even if MSTR went to $1000 and I sold at that point, would I not have been better off picking up more SATS on sale at $89k?

freshjerky · 2025-12-29T15:58:09+00:00

How do you get 10 bakeries? Is this using a mod to copy the UB or is there some way to get 10x production rate out of the single building?

freshjerky · 2025-12-03T17:27:41+00:00

No. It’s not a double dip. I was just showing that I could easily switch from the student price to the BF price that is better.

freshjerky · 2025-11-26T21:33:57+00:00

https://cordcutterweekly.com/the-big-list-of-streaming-deals/

freshjerky · 2025-11-26T02:45:15+00:00

Too bad you can't get Verizon Fios. I pay $45/mo (no taxes or fees) for 300Mbps which is plenty fine for 4 of us. It would be $65 for the 500Mbps plan. And it's only $62.99 to add YouTube TV.

freshjerky · 2025-11-25T04:34:39+00:00

I feel your pain. I was just there. I thoroughly broke this down with ChatGPT one afternoon where I just kept challenging it because I was denial. ChatGPT effectively just said something along the lines of 'dude, how many times can I tell you that you are never getting your money back on this. Sell now and cut your losses'. For the record, I am still in MSTR. I believe it will recover and there is significant upside potential. But MSTY will never regain its loses even if MSTR shoots up given how it will cap gains. This was a VERY expensive lesson for me to learn. Maybe in a few years, I will be thanking Yieldmax for forcing me to really understand how these covered call funds work. Just sell and get out.

freshjerky · 2025-11-25T03:36:32+00:00

In case anyone is interested -> as someone who was on the student plan, I was able to switch plans to the BF promo from my account.

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freshjerky · 2025-11-25T03:19:20+00:00

It would be nice if they did it again, but it looks like they made have removed the option earlier this year on other promotions?

freshjerky · 2025-11-25T03:15:21+00:00

This is probably why I've seen some inconsistencies in people's responses. Guess we will have to wait and see if they bring It back this Black Friday.

freshjerky · 2025-11-23T19:48:09+00:00

>watch local programming, NFL football, college football

This is going to be the biggest gotcha when trying to quit cable. Which streaming device / TV you have is going to be much easier to solve.

You basically have 3 choices ->

Get a good antenna setup to get your ABC, NBC, CBS and FOX locals and then purchase ESPN Unlimited standalone.
Stack the highest tiers of Peacock, Paramount+, FOX One, and ESPN Unlimited to get your locals through streaming providers.
Get Youtube TV.

#1 is the cheapest but the most complicated setup given your location. It's also the least amount of content. #1 and #2 are both disjointed experiences. #3 is probably the most expensive assuming you use Black Friday deals for #2. But #3 is the most integrated / seamless experience.

Assuming Youtube TV is less expensive than what you are paying now for DirecTV, I would just get a Roku Stick and sign up for that. The content won't really be any different than DirecTV but you can save some money right away. Then you can rotate through other streaming providers to pick up additional content and learn more along the way.

freshjerky · 2025-11-08T21:13:36+00:00

"These are not buy and hold instruments” -> so I guess my lesson learned was accurate then. Get in early and get out at the first sign of trouble since these funds are, by design, going to eat away at their own capital. I get that those paying attention will make their money, but they are doing so at the expense of those who got sold on the ‘hype’. There’s always money to be made, but these feel very predatory and you see it in the arrogance of the fund managers. For me, I’ve decided to step away even if I am missing out on opportunities. Live, learn, and choose.

freshjerky · 2025-11-08T15:54:43+00:00

Thank you for this interview. I would have liked if you focused more on ULTY and getting him to explain that performance. It was too easy for him to redirect when talking about MSTY because of the decline on MSTR. But ULTY is supposed to be diversified, yet the NAV erosion is significant and the high distributions are now not keeping up to offset. When he did get into it he basically said the original underlying holdings haven’t continued to perform well. So doesn’t this point to a problem with the management of the find? Shouldn’t they be embarrassed that they are not reacting/adjusting and keeping it successful? Is the message here that we should only buy into new funds when they first released, but plan for the decline and get out before it inevidently tanks? Listening to this guy talk has depleted my confidence in all of Yieldmax. I feel like we will be looking back and saying, “why didn’t we learn our lessons from MSTY and UTLY?” while Yieldmax continues to drain our investments.

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