A little more on rationale:

I figure we've got like ... 3-5 years before the thing either

a) takes hold robustly, or b) sort of skulks around until the end of time or the end of humanity, whichever comes first.

The nature of the influence that can be exerted for the next 3-5 years is to build the sinews of real people who care about real stuff, where btc is attached in their minds and lives not to what the world considers to be a fringe ideology, but to them and their concerns, which are far vaster than btc.

One can pursue this by trying to transform everyone into Darthcoin, a strategy that comes with its own catalogue of issues in addition to being impossible, and whose success has (imo) already reached its asymptote; or one could stoke the furnace in a way that might set other things afire. A broad fire, not just people playing financial chicken.

And so, napkin math: 50 btc = look to fund 10 people full time for 5 years, at 1 btc a year. Hopefully that price becomes ludicrous six months from now, but that's a rough algorithm for dry powder.