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Run a purchasing-power scenario
Change the price, timeline, and assumptions to see whether an expense gets more expensive in dollars but cheaper in Bitcoin terms.
1. What are you calculating?
2. Today's prices
3. Your assumptions
4. Purchase type
Results (5 years)
Today
0.5125
BTC
Future USD price
$49,883
in 5 years
Future BTC price
$160,909
in 5 years
Future cost
0.3100
BTC
You'll pay less
40%
cheaper
This became 39.5% cheaper in Bitcoin terms.
Cost over time
Opportunity cost
Buying Tesla Model 3 today costs 0.5125 BTC. If that same amount of Bitcoin followed your growth assumption, it would represent about $82,466 in 5 years.
Assumptions
- Time horizon
- 5 years
- Purchase type
- one time
- Item inflation
- 4% / year
- BTC growth
- 15% / year
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Denominated
Measure life in purchasing power.
Tesla Model 3 could move from 0.5125 BTC today to 0.3100 BTC in 5 years.
39.5% cheaper in Bitcoin terms.