🧵 Thread (3 posts) 2025-09-30

You can spend your robinhood gold card reward points on "mystery boxes"?! wtf?!

Also I'll have to check the odds but I have a suspicion it actually may be optimal to do so and concentrate all your consumption on days you hit 5% cash back

Looking at the breakdown it seems hard to profit. All the 5% cash backs are at best break even with the cap (and counterfactual 3%). And then you have to actually spend it which seems like a hassle. I do think it's substantially +EV vs. cash redemption if you do always use the…