My assumption with changes like SAB 122 is that might light a fire under bitcoin companies like Strike to offer collateralized products before banks, so you might only need to wait another 3-12mos before some decent options are available.

Otherwise I was wondering if it makes sense to just take your entire stack minus some legacy amount, and divide it by the amount of years until you're 90 or so and consider that your allowance every year.

Maybe just talk to someone who's already been retired for some years and see what they think.

Exactly, if rent was allowed to double in price in an area how many people would consider renting out their house who hadn't previously?

I picked up a shirt but wondering if there is any explanation to why the store wouldn't accept bitcoin as well? Is it mostly lack of demand or some technical/accounting problem?

If he's in Costa Rica he should check out bitcoin jungle, based in Uvita: https://primal.net/bitcoinjungle https://www.bitcoinjungle.app/business-services

Some interesting implications for ACH transactions that get cancelled/returned/whatever other shenanigans are possible with ACH, not sure how they intend on handling those situations.

I think the significance is in the automation: incoming direct deposit to bitcoin balance, automated sell / transfer / accounting for outgoing. So you wouldn't need to open the app or make any decisions related to selling.

Might be a fun project to connect to the blockstream satellite if you're in the desert https://blockstream.github.io/satellite/

I'm not sure exactly how straightforward it is to go the diy route vs their kit which seems a bit pricey for hobbyist stuff.

I had set up one of these to work remotely through tailscale at home, but I discovered Android seems to support WiFi bridging as a hotspot now (or at least my pixel 8 pro) so I just did that instead and returned the router.

Unfortunately if you want a VPN tunnel as well you need to unlock & root (https://github.com/Mygod/VPNHotspot)