Market Analysis & Trends - The housing market is not broken, but functioning as designed, rewarding scarcity and disincentivizing mobility [8] - High mortgage rates contribute to scarcity, as approximately 90% of home loans in the United States are under a certain percentage, discouraging movement [9] - 46% year-to-date listings in the United States are coming off the market, not primarily due to price dissatisfaction, but because selling is too expensive [12] - Seasonality and ego (not wanting to miss 2021 COVID prices) also play a role in homes coming off the market, particularly in markets like Miami, Denver, and Houston [13] - Inventory, not rates, will primarily affect pricing [15] Policy & Regulation - The IRS tax code 121 from 1997 allows for a $500,000 deduction in capital gains on a home for married filing jointly, which is outdated considering the median home price in 1997 was $124,000 [10] - The current tax code disincentivizes people from selling homes with large gains, leading to empty nesters staying in large homes [11] - Raising the capital gains exclusion, potentially to $1 million, could incentivize Americans to move [15] Company Strategy & Innovation - Sirant has 1500 agents across 14 major markets nationwide [1] - Sirant has a partnership with T-Mobile to bring "SuperMo" to its AI operating system for salespeople, called "simple" [1][2] - Sirant's founder created a show called "House of Sirant" and chose Netflix over other platforms [6]

RT Cointelegraph (@Cointelegraph)🎧 LISTEN: Journalist and Bitcoin educator @natbrunell says the real fear isn’t BTC's price plunging, it’s the system we’re all stuck in.The latest Byte-Sized Insight episode breaks down inflation, scarcity, and why Bitcoin is still a human-rights technology with Cointelegraph US news reporter @VinceQuill. ...

🎧 LISTEN: Journalist and Bitcoin educator @natbrunell says the real fear isn’t BTC's price plunging, it’s the system we’re all stuck in.The latest Byte-Sized Insight episode breaks down inflation, scarcity, and why Bitcoin is still a human-rights technology with Cointelegraph US news reporter @VinceQuill. ...

Crypto Market Perspective - Crypto is redefining the modern treasury [1] - BTC anchors scarcity and trust [1] - ETH adds yield and productivity [1]

Whether you like it or not, bitcoin's value is very much linked to its scarcity. Fiat will be printed, bitcoin will rise. https://t.co/iJ854qXw33 ...

RT PlanB (@100trillionUSD)FYI: I still believe that bitcoin average price will be ~$0.5m this halving cycle (2024-2028).Note that S2F prediction is very rough (obviously because the prediction is made only using scarcity/S2F-ratio) with a $0.25m-$1m range (so $0.3m or $0.6m average would also be fine). ...

Bitcoin Scarcity - Bitcoin scarcity is increasing over time [1] - The Bitcoin network is currently undergoing its 4th halving out of a total of 32 [1]

Supply Dynamics - 40% of $CATE supply has already been burned, reducing the total supply [1] - An additional 3% of $CATE supply has been permanently lost, further increasing scarcity [1]