The whole financial system is built on the assumption that people die.
Retirement accounts designed for 20-to-30-year payouts. Mortality tables. Estate taxes. Social Security. Every institution assumes a hard stop at the end of your life.
Biotech researchers talk about Longevity Escape Velocity — a point where medical advances extend life faster than time passes, making it possible to outrun death indefinitely. Whether or not that ever happens, it forces a useful reframe.
Bitcoin is money that doesn't depend on a government lasting, a central bank maintaining credibility, or a corporate board staying solvent. If your timeline stretches across multiple centuries, you'll outlive most of the systems people are planning around today — and you'll need something more durable underneath.
FIRE gets more important in that world, not less. Low time preference. Hard money. Independence from systems that can change the rules on you. The principles don't change. The horizon just gets longer.
https://firebtc.io/p/bitcoin-and-the-end-of-time-scarcity
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Retirement accounts designed for 20-to-30-year payouts. Mortality tables. Estate taxes. Social Security. Every institution assumes a hard stop at the end of your life.
Biotech researchers talk about Longevity Escape Velocity — a point where medical advances extend life faster than time passes, making it possible to outrun death indefinitely. Whether or not that ever happens, it forces a useful reframe.
Bitcoin is money that doesn't depend on a government lasting, a central bank maintaining credibility, or a corporate board staying solvent. If your timeline stretches across multiple centuries, you'll outlive most of the systems people are planning around today — and you'll need something more durable underneath.
FIRE gets more important in that world, not less. Low time preference. Hard money. Independence from systems that can change the rules on you. The principles don't change. The horizon just gets longer.
https://firebtc.io/p/bitcoin-and-the-end-of-time-scarcity
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