Mark MossChief Bitcoin Strategist Satsuma | Partner BTCOppFund | ArchLending | BlockwareTeam | 100M+ YouTube

How To INVEST Like The Wealthy...

10 Jun 2026 · 2 min

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In this monologue, Mark Moss critiques the conventional diversified portfolio approach—splitting $100,000 across many unrelated assets—and proposes a "vertical" investing strategy aimed at engineering a high blended return (25‑30%). He outlines a three‑step process: (1) use the $100,000 as a down‑payment on a tax‑depreciable real‑estate asset (e.g., a home) to acquire a $500,000 property, generating rental income, tax depreciation, and modest appreciation (~5% p.a.); (2) after equity builds, pull out $250,000 and allocate it to Bitcoin, assuming a 30% annual compound return; (3) take $125,000 of the Bitcoin gains and invest it in the NASDAQ, targeting a 17% return. By stacking these “jobs” the blended return on the original capital is projected to be 25‑30%, bypassing the complexity of traditional diversification. The video ends with a call‑to‑action inviting viewers to comment "ready" to receive a link to a "wealth operating system" for further guidance.

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We have $100,000. And what most people would do is they would divide this up, they would find 17 different positions, non-correlated. And so they'd put some into bonds, you know, 30% into stocks. And then in those stocks, they would break those up into a bunch of things that they don't know or understand. Then they might put some into some private equity. And they would split this up and they'd say, well, if I can get 10% return here, and I can get a 20% return here, and I can get a 5% return there, My blended return could be 15%, but the wealthy think about it differently. We want to engineer the return we need without all this complexity. What we want to do is we want to take our $100,000 and we want to invest it vertically. So I might put it into a tax depreciation asset first, like a home. What this home does, it allows me to buy a $500,000 asset with the $100,000. With that $500,000, I get now income. I also get tax depreciation, and I also get the compounding growth of this, call that 5% a year. Then let's say that I have equity in this home after a period of time. I could pull out, let's call $250,000 of that equity, and I could put that into another investment. Let's call that Bitcoin. Now that Bitcoin is compounding at, let's call it 30% a year. Then I could say, take $125,000 of that Bitcoin out, and then I could put that into the NASDAQ here at say 17%. Now when I add up what this $100,000 is doing, one job, two jobs, three jobs, and I take my blended return here, I'm closer to 25 or 30% return. If you wanna know more about creating a wealth operating system, just comment ready and I will send you the link.