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October 03, 2025, 10:46:49 PM
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Facts, bro. Too many people miss out because they want to catch that perfect dip, but in reality nobody can time Bitcoin perfectly. The best move is consistency, DCA keeps you in the game without stress, and over time those little stacks build into something big. At the end of the day, it’s not about being the smartest trader, it’s about having the discipline to stay in and let Bitcoin do its thing.

I also agree more with your last point because any investor who still believes in Bitcoin is clearly not a trader or a craftsman who frequently predicts the timing and price of Bitcoin on a daily and weekly basis. Because their primary goal remains to buy Bitcoin as a foundation to grow their own Bitcoin holdings and also to see how much and how consistently they achieve that. Accumulating Bitcoin through DCA has truly provided the easiest path for everyone because this method can be done by anyone with an uncertain amount of funds.

So I also still like this method and also like the point you mentioned, where every investor must have endurance in terms of carrying out investments and must also have discipline in terms of implementing long-term investment methods without confusing their own thoughts and basic goals with price volatility that is still often seen in the market.

I often see that same thing too, a lot of people confuse themselves thinking they need to outsmart the market every time. But like you said, the real game is about building slowly and sticking with it no matter what the price is doing. Discipline and patience are the tools that separate the long term holders from those who get shaken out by every small dip. DCA just makes it simple, because it removes the guesswork and keeps you aligned with your bigger goal. So the take is , the ones who endure are the ones who benefit the most.
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October 03, 2025, 10:48:05 PM
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...Buying the dip is not bad, but waiting for it(Dip) to come before you start your Bitcoin investment journey is the wrong approach here and we advise that you can start small with the DCA and accumulate Bitcoin...
There are different strategies that can be used for accumulating bitcoin and I believe that if each of the strategy is properly apply definitely will have a good result and if it is not properly apply then we are left with a poor investment. Therefore non of the strategies is bad , an investor can combine all the strategies but it shouldn't be wrongly apply. There is absolutely nothing wrong in buying the dip whenever it occurs but waiting for bitcoin to dip is something that will make us to miss market opportunities since no one can speculate correctly the market direction.

What's actually wrong their is you keep delaying your accumulation because you keep waiting for those dips.

If we look at the current situation of Bitcoin it already pass thru the dumps happened. If people keep waiting when the price is at $109k - $110k then provably they missed big time when Bitcoin price recovers at current price level.

That's why instead of thinking about waiting for dips because you can buy more Bitcoin. I'd rather choose to buy now and avoid being so technical since somehow my intention for my bought coins is for long term and I'm not aiming to get a quick gain since I think its risky also not totally worth to spend our time on.

Exactly and don't waste your time now waiting for Bitcoin to get more lower maybe at $100k before you buy, cause you don't know if by tomorrow Bitcoin will get up to $200k and by then you start regretting had i know. so it's advisable you buy now and start accumulating your Bitcoin and don't sell yet and it enables you accumulate more and more and you won't regret it again and having emergency fund that will help you out during any emergency so you don't touch your Bitcoin you already accumulated is what you also needed.
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October 03, 2025, 11:20:51 PM
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The best time to accumulate Bitcoin is not when the price is low, although it is the traders that think in this direction because they want to buy low and sell on an increase,
That's not the mindset of the traders only, holders purchase on dip knowing that bitcoin will definitely increase and it increase will be greater than now, example, bitcoin hits sixty thousands [60k] last year, and before it got to sixty thousands, the price were below 60k, but this year the price hits hundreds and twenty four thousand [124k] which nobody knew that the price will increase to such price, even next year the price can be more than the current price, so immediately the price of Bitcoin falls from 124k many rush and purchase knowing the next move will be higher than 124k.

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October 03, 2025, 11:44:58 PM
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The best time to accumulate Bitcoin is not when the price is low, although it is the traders that think in this direction because they want to buy low and sell on an increase,
That's not the mindset of the traders only, holders purchase on dip knowing that bitcoin will definitely increase and it increase will be greater than now, example, bitcoin hits sixty thousands [60k] last year, and before it got to sixty thousands, the price were below 60k, but this year the price hits hundreds and twenty four thousand [124k] which nobody knew that the price will increase to such price, even next year the price can be more than the current price, so immediately the price of Bitcoin falls from 124k many rush and purchase knowing the next move will be higher than 124k.
Next you mean, I hope that's not 2026? because that will be a kick off of bearish market or possibly December 2025, so you should be precised when using words, next cycle is possibly the next time bitcoin gets such heights.

Last year 60k and this year 120+k is only the fact that 2025 was a full bullish season, so let's be guided so those who are new wouldn't be thinking bitcoin is going to be  booming every year.

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October 03, 2025, 11:52:50 PM
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The best time to accumulate Bitcoin is not when the price is low, although it is the traders that think in this direction because they want to buy low and sell on an increase,
That's not the mindset of the traders only, holders purchase on dip knowing that bitcoin will definitely increase and it increase will be greater than now, example, bitcoin hits sixty thousands [60k] last year, and before it got to sixty thousands, the price were below 60k, but this year the price hits hundreds and twenty four thousand [124k] which nobody knew that the price will increase to such price, even next year the price can be more than the current price, so immediately the price of Bitcoin falls from 124k many rush and purchase knowing the next move will be higher than 124k.
Next you mean, I hope that's not 2026? because that will be a kick off of bearish market or possibly December 2025, so you should be precised when using words, next cycle is possibly the next time bitcoin gets such heights.

Last year 60k and this year 120+k is only the fact that 2025 was a full bullish season, so let's be guided so those who are new wouldn't be thinking bitcoin is going to be  booming every year.
How did you know that 2026 will be the kick off of bearish market? You may be following the 4 year's cycle but a lot have changed now which means there is no guarantee that Bitcoin will follow that textbook pattern any longer. I hope you still remembered that Bitcoin made a new all time high before the halving, something that never happened in the precious market cycle so you should be ready for some surprises come 2026. You will be making a terrible mistake if you consider selling all your Bitcoin this year and hoping to replenish them next year in your imagined bear market, you might end up buying Bitcoin around $200k or above, you know how painful that will be for someone who had the privilege of buying below $100k. Just keep holding and if you still have some funds, buy more and don't look at the price
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Today at 02:15:21 AM
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The best time to accumulate Bitcoin is not when the price is low, although it is the traders that think in this direction because they want to buy low and sell on an increase,
That's not the mindset of the traders only, holders purchase on dip knowing that bitcoin will definitely increase and it increase will be greater than now, example, bitcoin hits sixty thousands [60k] last year, and before it got to sixty thousands, the price were below 60k, but this year the price hits hundreds and twenty four thousand [124k] which nobody knew that the price will increase to such price, even next year the price can be more than the current price, so immediately the price of Bitcoin falls from 124k many rush and purchase knowing the next move will be higher than 124k.
When Bitcoin holders analyze the market and know that its price is likely to go up in the future, they want to buy more during bullish times. I see some experienced investors. It is really amazing that they save regularly and sometimes buy more when Bitcoin is increasing. But usually we buy Bitcoin during price declines and increase holdings. It is most ideal that if you buy Bitcoin in any price trend, your holding will increase and the UP will continue to decrease. Compared to the same period last year, the price of Bitcoin has doubled, which was only $28k at this time in 2023. This means that in the first quarter of October 2024, the price was $60k, which is $120k at the same time in 2025. This continuation indicates a surprising climbing trend.

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Today at 04:18:26 AM
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JayJuanGee I think in other for someone to prevent making mistakes when he or she has reached overaccumulation stage the best thing to do is to withdraw only when the price of Bitcoin doubles, I learnt this from you and it's very effective, with this strategy it won't affect one's Bitcoin investment now if one is using this strategy in withdrawing his or her Bitcoin he or she don't need to depend on Bitcoin only he or she needs to be working since it may take a long time before a price doubles in Bitcoin so while waiting for the price to double he or she can be using the income he or she gets from there job to get there basic needs.

Don't worry about making mistakes, since we learn from our mistakes, yet at the same time, if we do make mistakes, we would like to mitigate such mistakes so that we are damaged ONLY minimally, if we do make mistakes.

Yet, to your main point, there are a variety of ways to deal with managing your BTC holdings after reaching overaccumulation status.

One of the things about reaching overaccumulation status is that it increases options, yet there are likely levels and even differing ways of measuring overaccumulation status, so in that regard, if we are barely at overaccumulated status, then we might not have as many options as someone who is many times higher than overaccumulation status.

Let's say for example, a guy who had made $50k per year had been investing into bitcoin for the past 9 years at $200 per week which would have been about 25% of his income at about $10k per year, so he may well could have had invested $90k or $100k into bitcoin over such time, and maybe he accumulated right around 16 BTC.   He might be feeling pretty good about his BTC stash, since his goal was to be able to quit his job, but he wanted to make sure that his bitcoin would support at least an $80k per year income, and he cal see that right now right around 15 BTC would perpetually be able to afford an income of $80k per year, so in that regard he has enough or more than enough BTC, and he even has 1 BTC extra to give him a little bit of a cushion if he were to want to start to withdraw $6,666k per month.  So that would be a time based sustainable withdrawal.

The withdrawal of 10% of your bitcoin holdings every time the BTC price doubles would be a price based sustainable withdrawal, yet that requires the BTC price to double to be able to withdraw from it, even though you could divide it into smaller increments, such as selling 2.5% every time the BTC price went up 25%.

So there can be various options to employ sustainable withdrawal that might differ in terms of how they are employed, whether they are time based or price based and/or in terms of how they are employed.

The only time you can get into a problem is when you depend only on your Bitcoin investment even if you have accumulated Enough or you have reached overaccumulation stage you don't have to depend only your Bitcoin investment for your survival except you have thousands of Bitcoin Grin

You don't need thousands of bitcoin.  I think that my formula for withdrawing based on the 200-WMA value, the withdrawal of up to 10% per year based on the 200-WMA valuation of your holdings is able to work if you know how to employ and not to overdo it and maybe to cut back on the withdrawals if the BTC Spot price goes to less than 25% above the 200-WMA and it seems to me that right now, if you have at least 15 bitcoin, you could sustainably withdraw $80k per year and even increase your dollar value by 7% per year, and it should be sustainable at that level.. yet of course, you have to monitor that you are not overly withdrawing and/or that the BTC price dynamics have not changed so much as to cause needs to reconsider the withdrawal formula.

Part of the trick is to make sure that the BTC value is not getting depleted, meaning that you are not withdrawing past your limit, and surely if you have a bit of an extra cushion, such as the guy who has 16 BTC rather than 15 BTC, then it is quite likely that the formula will work out better, and you will not mistakenly overdraft too much too soon from your holdings and/or overly deplete it in such a way that it is no longer able to grow sufficiently to support your targeted income, which is $80k per year (with a 7% per year increase) in my example.

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Once a person reaches overaccumulation status then he might choose to pause any new buying, and he might have a period where he is neither buying or selling, and perhaps once he starts to withdraw, then if the dollar value of his bitcoin holdings is growing faster than his withdrawal rate then he does not need to keep buying..
Do we need to give an example?

It is optional to keep buying once a guy reaches overaccumulation status, and sure he might make mistakes and come to conclude that he is in overaccumulation status and he is not.  He also might not really know what overaccumulation status is, so if he does not know, then he is also more likely to make mistakes.
This is really a good phase that will happen to investor since it will lessen up the pressure of thinking about they should buy more Bitcoin since for reaching that level is like they have freedom to choose whether they continue buy now or just relax then do this later since they already hit their targets.

But I would rather choose to buy more since for many good things happened in terms of adoption and recognition. My confidence level goes high that I can use Bitcoin for retirement, that's why I continue accumulating then let see if I could able to hit that goal without getting bothered by future events, but most likely will not since I know Bitcoin is good asset to hold.

There can be a certain lack of confidence that causes  a guy to want to make sure to have an extra cash cushion (or extra BTC cushion) beyond his target level so that he can make sure that he is withdrawing from within the overaccumulation status and not causing himself to go below overaccumulation status.  Guys are responsible for their own situations and to make sure that have adequately reached overaccumulation status and that they don't overly withdraw from their bitcoin, while knocking themselves out of overaccumulation status.

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I get what you mean, Overaccumulation isn’t some fixed number, it’s more like a personal decision depending on the person's needs and comfort level. For example, let’s say someone has built up enough bitcoin over 8–10 years, and their holdings are growing at around 8–10% or more a year. If they’re only withdrawing about 3% to 5% a year for expenses, then technically their bitcoin stash is still growing even while they are already living off of it, so they don’t really need to keep buying although they can continue if they want to. The tricky part, like you said, is that people sometimes misjudge where they are, some stop too early thinking they’ve already made it and later regret it, while others never feel like they’ve reached enough and just keep stacking/accumulating forever. Honestly, the bigger mistakes usually happen earlier on like selling too soon or not accumulating enough during those early cycles like the first and second one.
At the end of the day, it comes down to experience and discipline. The longer someone has been accumulating bitcoin, the easier it gets for them to judge when they have crossed into that overaccumulation territory and shift their mindset from pure accumulation to careful management.

I think that you are getting the ideas pretty well, and surely when you are applying them to your own situation, as your bitcoin grows, then they will start to make more sense in terms of how to manage your holdings, since you will likely pass through phases of more aggressive bitcoin accumulation and then maybe less intense accumulation and then maybe only strategic accumulation, and so if you are paying attention to your stack size, then yeah, you might come across regrets in regards to how whimpily you had invested in your earlier years, when you could have had afforded to invest more aggressively, yet surely these are judgement calls that each guy has to make in terms of how aggressive he believe that he is able to be without overdoing it.  So, sometimes we punish ourselves afterwards for not being aggressive enough, yet it is not really a big mistake, since it is better to have had continued to invest through the years rather than not, so the no coiners will be in a worse situation, and really there will be a lot of folks in a worse situation who had not been accumulating bitcoin.

Surely part of the reason that i frequently repeat that guys should try to stack bitcoin as aggressively as they can without over doing it is because guys still have to determine those boundaries, and if they fuck it up by either over doing it or underdoing it, then they can ONLY  blame themselves, even though they cannot turn back the clock, but just attempt to accumulate BTC the best that they are able to accomplish under their own circumstances and within their discretionary income, and surely some guys may well be quite limited in terms of how much discretionary income that that they are able to generate to be able to invest more than 10% of their income into bitcoin... .. so they do the best that they can and realize that it takes time to build up a bitcoin investment, and even though some guys might be able to accomplish their building up in 4-6 years, there are plenty of guys who will take more than 2 cycles, and perhaps even 3-4 cycles before they really get to a point where they might start to feel that they are getting to a point where they can actually see where their overaccumulation amount would be.

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Today at 08:59:56 AM
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The best time to accumulate Bitcoin is not when the price is low, although it is the traders that think in this direction because they want to buy low and sell on an increase while an investor will focus on the long term benefits and not the short term and this will result them in to consideration every time or condition of the market as an opportunity to increase the quantity of their Bitcoin as they buy all the time be it when the price is high or low and this is the best approach because, Bitcoin is for long term investment and not good for short term ( trading) buy when in high or low with dollar cost averaging.
There is actually nothing wrong with buying bitcoin when the price is low, buying the DIP is one major way to invest in bitcoin, where the problem comes up is when investors start waiting for the price of bitcoin to dip instead of continually accumulating, the become stagnated and can push their investment forward because they are waiting, but if during your accumulation a DIP happen then there is absolutely nothing wrong with it if you decide to buy the DIP as long as your finance can allow it, so buying when the price is low isn't just a trader's strategy, it's also an investor's strategy if they use it properly.

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I think that you are getting the ideas pretty well, and surely when you are applying them to your own situation, as your bitcoin grows, then they will start to make more sense in terms of how to manage your holdings, since you will likely pass through phases of more aggressive bitcoin accumulation and then maybe less intense accumulation and then maybe only strategic accumulation, and so if you are paying attention to your stack size, then yeah, you might come across regrets in regards to how whimpily you had invested in your earlier years, when you could have had afforded to invest more aggressively, yet surely these are judgement calls that each guy has to make in terms of how aggressive he believe that he is able to be without overdoing it.  So, sometimes we punish ourselves afterwards for not being aggressive enough, yet it is not really a big mistake, since it is better to have had continued to invest through the years rather than not, so the no coiners will be in a worse situation, and really there will be a lot of folks in a worse situation who had not been accumulating bitcoin.
Stacking rarely plays out in a straight line. In the early years most people either hold back too much or go harder than their situations actually allows them to, and only with time do they find that middle ground inbetween, the regrets about being timid early on are just part of the investment journey what matters is that the stacking never stopped regardless of how the situations play out, because even a slow pace accumulation compounds across cycles and that’s where the big divide shows up between people who kept stacking versus people who didn’t start at all.

Surely part of the reason that i frequently repeat that guys should try to stack bitcoin as aggressively as they can without over doing it is because guys still have to determine those boundaries, and if they fuck it up by either over doing it or underdoing it, then they can ONLY  blame themselves, even though they cannot turn back the clock, but just attempt to accumulate BTC the best that they are able to accomplish under their own circumstances and within their discretionary income, and surely some guys may well be quite limited in terms of how much discretionary income that that they are able to generate to be able to invest more than 10% of their income into bitcoin... .. so they do the best that they can and realize that it takes time to build up a bitcoin investment, and even though some guys might be able to accomplish their building up in 4-6 years, there are plenty of guys who will take more than 2 cycles, and perhaps even 3-4 cycles before they really get to a point where they might start to feel that they are getting to a point where they can actually see where their overaccumulation amount would be.
Finding the line between pushing hard and staying sustainable is where people usually make themselves or eventually break themselves, buying aggressively but for short term is already a bad decisions, play it too safe and you look back wishing you had aimed higher,  Everyone’s income and risk tolerance are different, so the percentages don’t matter as much as being able to keep going year after year because It’s a long game, most people won’t feel anywhere near ‘overaccumulation’ until they’ve lived through two, three or even four cycles. By then, the difference between someone who stuck with their plan and someone who couldn’t hold discipline becomes massive.
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Today at 09:57:01 AM
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Yeah bro, a lot of people keep delaying because they are always waiting for that so called perfect dip, but truth is, Bitcoin doesn’t move according to anyone timing. If you keep waiting, you will most likely end up with nothing, because by the time you think the price will drop, it might actually pump even higher.
That is where DCA really makes sense, it takes away the pressure of trying to predict every move, and it helps you keep stacking bit by bit without stressing about timing. it’s not about buying at the absolute lowest price, it is about actually being in the market and holding long enough to enjoy the bigger growth..

Facts, bro. Too many people miss out because they want to catch that perfect dip, but in reality nobody can time Bitcoin perfectly. The best move is consistency, DCA keeps you in the game without stress, and over time those little stacks build into something big. At the end of the day, it’s not about being the smartest trader, it’s about having the discipline to stay in and let Bitcoin do its thing.
That is the real mindset. People stress too much trying to time the market, forgetting that even professionals get it wrong most times. DCA just keeps things simple, no pressure, no guessing, just steady accumulation.
With time, consistency always beats timing, and like you said, it is all about discipline and patience. Bitcoin always rewards those who stay long enough to let it play out..

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