Pay off my house or buy Bitcoin?

was there a recording of this q&a session? i am interested in watching it and hearing it from himself

Shoebacca wrote:

I am aghast at the amount of people on this board who don't understand how mortgage interest is paid, but half the people on this board probably don't own a home, so I shouldn't be. Home loans are structured so that you pay mostly interest at the start and barely any principle. This trend slowly evens during the middle part of the loan term and then finally at the end of the loan term you are paying almost no interest and almost entirely principle. This is so that the banks make their money up front on your loan to mitigate their risk.

I am aghast that you don't understand how mortgage interest works yet you are lecturing others.

"This is so that the banks make their money up front on your loan to mitigate their risk"

That is flat out wrong.

They do not charge mostly interest in the beginning to make their money up front and mitigate risk.

For one, their risk is higher in the beginning because you owe more principle.

More interest is charged up front because that's how math works.

Say you have a $300,000 loan at 5% for 30 years.

Your payment (P&I) will be $1,610.

On your first payment you will be charged 5% divided by 12 months times the principle remaining- $300,000.

That's $1,250 in interest leaving $360 in principle for that payment.

Your new balance will be $299,640

The interest on the next payment will be $1,248.50 with $361.50 applied to principle.

Then it amortizes from there.

You are correct that you pay mostly interest at the start but you do not comprehend the reason.

I had $9000 I was willing to risk for one coin so I opened an account with Coinbase. I linked my checking account but after a week I still have not been able to confirm my identity...now one coin is close to 18K. Every day I send them the front and back of my drivers license and a selfie, they tell me the system is backlogged then I try again and they tell me I've exceeded my daily amount of attempts.

You need to verify your identity with the device that produces the best image quality. I tried verify on my computer and it kept declining it. Then I found a link on the verify page to verify on my cell phone. It text a link to my cell and it went through first time... but I did all that before the mayhem.

X-Runner wrote:

I am aghast that you don't understand how mortgage interest works yet you are lecturing others.

"This is so that the banks make their money up front on your loan to mitigate their risk"

That is flat out wrong.

More interest is charged up front because that's how math works.

I came here to say this. It is basic math. There's no other way a fixed monthly loan payment could work.

Rick Sanchez wrote:

You need to verify your identity with the device that produces the best image quality. I tried verify on my computer and it kept declining it. Then I found a link on the verify page to verify on my cell phone. It text a link to my cell and it went through first time... but I did all that before the mayhem.

Same experience here. Use your phone, not your computer.

I think that paying off the house is a better idea. But still if you decide to buy BTC then you should find some information about cryptocurrency market on the internet to sort things out before investing your money. A lot of useful information can be found for example on ICO Pulse website - https://icopulse.com/blog/bitcoin-atm-toronto/ .

Surely, the house is important and necessary for every individual. If you have a good work providing you enough money and even more, it'll be the best solution. But I am happy to invest in BTC and to get good profit with the help of https://3commas.io/blog/best-crypto-trading-platforms as the most profitable way to make my future independent from anything connected with the financial problems. And I will do it again, if this question takes place.

HenrySV wrote:

Surely, the house is important and necessary for every individual. If you have a good work providing you enough money and even more, it'll be the best solution. But I am happy to invest in BTC and to get good profit with the help of asthe most profitable way to make my future independent from anything connected with the financial problems. And I will do it again, if this question takes place.

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