The One Thing a Stacker, a Founder, and a Retiree Have in Common
They look nothing alike. One's been stacking Bitcoin for a decade. One runs a company with a Bitcoin treasury and a payroll due Friday. One is 63 and needs the stack to fund groceries. But they share a single sentence: I need to use my Bitcoin without giving it up.
For most of Bitcoin's history that was a contradiction. You either sold — tax hit, lost upside, and it stings most in a soft market — or you handed your coins to a lender and prayed it stayed solvent. 2022 showed how that prayer gets answered.
The fix all three use: deposit Bitcoin (as RBTC on Rootstock) into a vault, mint a dollar-pegged stablecoin called BPD at 0% interest, and keep custody the whole time. The collateral sits in code, not on a company's balance sheet. The safety numbers — 110% minimum collateral, 150% recovery mode — are hard-coded, not set by a committee. Repay, reclaim, done.
Add a fourth — the DeFi native who won't trust a custodian again — and the pattern's complete: four lives, one need, one self-custodial answer. Not risk-free (mind your collateral ratio; it's still early), but the direction is clear: your Bitcoin can work without leaving your control.
Full breakdown: https://blog.moneyprotocol.co/four-bitcoin-holders-one-problem-how-different-people-actually-use-a-0-interest-vault
Start here: Borrow against Bitcoin at 0% interest — keep the stack, use the value.

















