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April 30, 2021

RCIF II - Five bullet Friday - Issue # 13

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Sam Ikkurty
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Dear Partners,

       Crypto markets quickly recovered from the down draft experienced last week. Many people quickly started talking about the death of bitcoin without realizing what kind of cycles bitcoiners have gone through already. I have been buying bitcoin since 2013 and 30% drops in 2 weeks are just like a walk in the park 😀

 1.     I apologize for the delay in getting the statements in time this month. Ever since we bought tokens that rebase on a daily basis the supply quantities in our wallets increase and decrease every day. In traditional finance, if you have 100 shares of Microsoft, till you sell it you have exactly 100 shares. In Decentralized finance, to generate income we perform staking, lending, re-staking, supply rebasing, claiming rewards, re-staking claimed rewards to borrow. These are very complex to perform the accounting and keep track of capital gains/losses and also keep track of the income. All of this gets more complicated as we have to deal with numbers with 18 decimals.

2. Many of you may have noticed that the $OHM price was showing as high as $1600. In reality, it never went above $1100 in price. Due to a glitch in the Coingecko API, it got the wrong price info. It did not affect the market but misreported the data. We were buying $OHM token all the way between $250 to $1100. 

3. Bitcoin is not a currency, but an asset. It is too volatile to be a currency.  OHM token seeks to be a currency. OHM backs its currency by various assets and provides a steady reserve to back the OHM token. Currently its treasury only holds DAI, but in future they may add bitcoin and ethereum to it. You can think that ohm stakers are collectively acting like the Federal Reserve, which manages OHM tokens similar to US Dollars. OHM has a floor price as there are reserves to back stop the declining price of OHM. Just in one month, 1 ohm has turned into 1.9799 OHMs as you can see below.

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4. OHM is currently producing the maximum income out of all the tokens we have. Its supply is increasing at a level of 0.6715% every 8 hours. Let us say, I bought 1 OHM token at a price of $1000 and a month later the price dropped to $700. Does that mean we lost 30% of our capital in one month? No, because of the magic of compound interest. Since there are 3 epochs every day of 24 hours, we get 90 epochs in one month. 1 OHM will grow to (1.006715)^90 = 1.82637. We will have 1.82637 OHM in a month. If the price is $700, it is worth 1.82637 * $700=$1278. That means our $1000 grew into $1278 in one month, 27.8% growth in a month or 334% growth in a year!

5. I started tracking our income received from OHM tokens this week. You can see it in a new tab, in our Retained Earnings spreadsheet. The total number of tokens we purchased with US Dollars was 3313 tokens of OHM. I copied the data directly from Etherscan. These tokens now grew to 4678 tokens in a month. That means our cost-basis for each token keeps reducing slowly over time. We received an additional 1364 tokens of OHM, which are currently valued at $1,139,667.76.

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Actions speak louder than words. I want all of you to know that I personally invested an additional $1 million into the fund myself this month. This is a great time to dollar-cost average into your positions because of the recent drop.

 Have a wonderful weekend!

warm regards,

Sam Ikkurty
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