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> Come to think of it, I should at least consider that he's making it up, but I've met him several time and he's well versed in crypto and way ahead of the curve in learning about this stuff. Who knows?

If you poll people after a presidential election, a higher percentage of people claim to have voted for the winning candidate than voted for the winning candidate.

It's a lot easier to be well-versed in crypto and claim you won some big bets, than it is to be well-versed in crypto and actually have won enough big bets to "comfortably retire". The former requires hindsight, and the latter requires immense luck and timing.

Would he have to be well-versed to have enough BTC to retire? Surely you could just get on board the hype train at the right station, when it was cheap enough to buy a few, and maybe at the urging of a colleague, and go from there.

None of the few people I know with BTC are especially well-versed in it.

This isn't that terrible. However its much much less risk and at worst only tiny bit less upside to put 34% in Ethereum, 33% in Bitcoin, and 33% in a basket of all else possible.

I'd suggest S&P index funds for the remaining third. If it's FU money already, taking out a third and putting into a known-decent investment because you don't need it right now should be a good way to ensure that you can actually retire whenever you'd like to.