Again, I am having troubles understanding where you might be going or wanting to go with this kind of an honorable mention of "our" homie.
Nothing really, as it's just facts and something he has stated publicly, whether that's true or not (but likely true, as there's no reason to lie about holding cash, it's not uncommon.)
As for the rest of your post, I guess it all came about because you treat stablecoins differently than the US dollar. I understand they are completely different, but they are currently valued the same, where one is "as good as cash" but has it's own issues, and the other, I simply use because it's easier to send back and forth to other exchanges that also accept that stablecoin, as you have experienced with Binance / Binance US.
Based on what I can understand from you, other than your dislike or hatred for stablecoins and shitcoins, if you consider the USD as cash, and I'm treating stablecoins as cash, we're simply talking about the same thing with different properties or risks associated with them. I'm not talking about the underlying platform, or yield, or borrowing from BlockFi / Celsius / Nexio / what-ever other lending or borrowing platform.
I think I may have just misunderstood you and apologies for using the term stablecoins when I meant USD; I just happen to be able to use the stablecoin as a proxy for the fiat dollar for general usage purposes. Or rather, I did mean stablecoins and not USD but for almost all practical intents and purposes I see them as similar if not the same. There's more than one to choose, and if using an exchange like Gemini or Circle, they support the more notable ones that aren't in as much danger as say, tether.
As for FU status, your view is a lot more conservative using the 208 WMA, I was just trying to think in terms of the sat stacker who can't get up to 100 BTC starting today and may want to experience "retirement" earlier than attempting to stack 143 or 200 BTC, or even have 30 BTC. These guys want to get as close to, and maybe exceed a little, but not have "too much". It's good, but there are some trains of thought that you don't need beyond a certain amount, so waiting too long might be "wasting" time you can enjoy now doing other things than working for income.
If someone already has other sources of income other than employment, such as other traditional investments, or running a successful business (pretty hard to do during the pandemic), then they may not actually be into retiring from work, or may not see their work as something to quit from anyway.
Some people like what they are doing, get paid for doing it, and don't even get into thinking of retiring in the traditional sense. They can live off their earnings and stack more sats. I believe most current multi-millionaires and billionaires are in this category. They don't need to do anything, but they still do whatever it is they are doing, and can obviously afford to say FU to anyone (not that they do it.)
It's a fine line between achieving FU status and actually living off it. You don't want to get there when you are 80 years old when you could have done it earlier because you insist on being too conservative. (and then dying a year later because you hit average life expectancy age.)
I'd be scared to "retire" even at 65 if I only had $2m USD, but it's one of those things where you just have to take that risk. Or keep working.
As for someone with 30 BTC to spend out of 200, I'd think other than continuing to work because he likes to, he can retire now.
Perhaps the discussion now should be between using 208 WMA * 25 instead of spot price * 30 ? or something in between. I mean, I like looking at 208 WMA, but I think it's too conservative. Some people don't have much time to live, so I guess it also depends on your age now.
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