Since the very first issue, this letter has gone out under the name Scar Wealth.
It was an honest name. It pointed at the losses: the Bitcoin locked inside a bankrupt custodian, the business that didn't make it, the year I learned what I owned by watching it disappear.
But a scar is where the story starts. What you do after the wound is the part I’m writing about. So starting today, this letter has a new name: Amplifica Wealth.
The name change isn't cosmetic. It's the whole idea.
We call the work itself the Amplification: the repeatable cycle that takes a dollar and puts it to work more than once. Each completed turn of that cycle is an Amplicon. The scars taught us the rules; the Amplification is what we build with them.
▎ The wound remains as a lesson, but the focus is forward looking.
The second piece of news: I haven't been building this new version alone, and it's time you met Jackie.
Jackie has been my friend for years. We’ve been using a flavor of this system for years, in parallel. I’ve focused on big swings and bitcoin, while Jackie chose a more conservative and careful approach. Our different approaches coming together is our superpower.
Here's Jackie, in his own words:
Same destination. Different maps.
Miguel and I don't always agree on how. We agree on where.
He handed me an early version of this methodology years ago. It's one of the most valuable things I've ever learned. We've each built on it in our own way since. Different paths, same destination: financial freedom, and a full life to go with it.
That difference is a feature, not a bug. It's what makes Amplifica Wealth stronger.
We want you on this journey with us. We'll teach you the method, help you put it to work, and help you adjust it when life throws you a curve.
Two of us now. One methodology.
Almost everything else about this letter remains unchanged. It's still free, still weekly, still built on real numbers and our real moves: wins and expensive lessons included.
One small thing changes, though. Starting soon, we’ll launch a community for members to thoroughly learn our method. We’ve been working behind the scenes on hours of training material, a calculator to visualize and optimize the methodology for your specific circumstances.
We’ll share our actual monthly Amplification — what we put in, what came back, and what it bought back: time with the people we care about. More on that shortly.
If you've been here since the beginning: thank you. You read the newsletter when it was one person working through what went wrong. I think you're going to like what two people building forward looks like.
Hit reply and tell us one question you want us to answer in a future issue. We’ll be sharing both points of view and the system that brings it all together.
Engineer your future. Amplify your wealth. Live your way.
— Miguel & Jackie
P.S. Something bigger is coming on July 6. We've been building it quietly for months — a way to actually run this system alongside us, not just read about it. I'll share the details next week.
Strategy (MSTR/STRC) update
This week, Michael Saylor and Strategy announced a Digital Credit Capital Framework.
Those are big words to do one thing: build trust within capital markets.
If you’ve followed my newsletter since its inception, you know I am a big fan of STRC and Digital Credit as developed by Strategy.
In the last few weeks a significant dip caused a ripple effect that pushed confidence further down. While no one can say for sure exactly what cause and effect were, the result was that STRC ended below $80, which is significantly off its target.
Throughout the turbulence, I checked my fundamentals and Strategy’s. All were unchanged. So I stuck to the plan.
The latest announcement is not exactly everyone’s ideal solution but a step in the right direction to let the market build trust again.
This is a great cautionary tale. Even when you’ve looked under every rock, market events will impact your day to day value of investments. That is exactly what we are building the community for: so you don’t have to panic on your own about details you might have missed.
We’ll discuss events as they happen and you can take action or change direction based on that information.
I chose the steady route and am being rewarded by the current trend back to $100.
Miguel’s moves this week
Lines of Credit — down to about $10k, leveraging my savings contribution and the Amplicon income
Portfolio — no moves. Although STRC presented a unique buying opportunity, I did not want to leverage my portfolio any further.
Strategy check — all green!
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Disclaimer: All material is provided for educational purposes only and does not guarantee any financial results. This is not financial, legal, or tax advice. I am not a financial professional. Results vary and are dependent on individual effort, timing and circumstances. There is no solicitation to invest.