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Welcome back to the Bitcoin Reformation Podcast - where three LCMS pastors talk about their love for Jesus and Bitcoin. This week on the podcast, they introduce the “hurdle rate” as the rising bar households must clear as inflation and cost of living increase, criticizing CPI “basket” changes and noting gas and housing pressures. Using housing appreciation and money-supply expansion as examples, they argue fiat money printing raises prices and forces people further out on the risk curve (from gambling/prediction markets to stocks). They discuss saving options like bonds, the S&P 500, Bitcoin’s long-term performance despite volatility, and MicroStrategy’s STRC (“Stretch”) preferred stock paying about 11.5% as a way to clear inflation with less volatility.

09:46 Hurdle Rate Explained

25:14 Stimulus And Inflation

28:31 Why Saving Fails

30:04 Risk Curve And Gambling

33:43 Saving For A Home

35:37 Bonds Stocks Bitcoin

37:35 Bitcoin Volatility Window

45:02 Banks Adopting Stretch

47:54 Bitcoin As Education 52:58 Jesus The Hurdler

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