Those who can afford it will invest in Bitcoin. Those who will not face any problem if they lose some money. But it is true that investing in Bitcoin does not require much money. You can start investing with a small capital and it has to be invested through DCA. We do not get immediate results by investing in Bitcoin, so we have to wait for at least 5-10 years. Then we can be profitable in BTC.
Bitcoin investment capital is discretionary income.
Investment does not mean that you are willing to lose money, investment means that you are giving an amount of money that will not put your lifestyle or emergency expenses at risk. And that you can lock up for a long time.
And, you could lose up to 100% of the amount that you put in, but you won't lose more than 100% if you don't leverage.
It seems to me that you are in the wrong mindset if you investing money that you believe that you are guaranteed not to lose.
But, hey, you do you.
The idea is to invest no more than you can afford to lose. Sure you don't want to lose it, but you could. Also the reason that we invest in bitcoin is because we believe it is very likely to give us more options by having had invested in it rather than not.. and also that there are potentials that bitcoin could appreciate quite greatly from here.. In other words, bitcoin is an asymmetric bet to the upside, yet even though bitcoin is an asymmetric bet to the upside, there is still a possibility that 100% of the amount invested could be lost - due to execution risk or even risk of the actual asset..
The most realistic thing in the case of Bitcoin is that you can keep it for 4–10 years or more. That should be your investment budget. Because the big risk of Bitcoin is not often the price going down, but being forced to sell at the wrong time.
Sure if we budget for the long term, then we should not be worrying about the extent to which our investment into bitcoin is in profits or not... at least not in the short-to-medium term, even though surely we may well have plans that we are anticipating tapping into our bitcoin once we get further down the road, such as 10 years or longer.. .so for example, if we are in our mid-30s, maybe we are thinking that we would like to retire in our early 50s.. or perhaps we would want to be able to start to tap into our bitcoin around our early 50s or to have options to do so... so perhaps in the next 10 years we are not too worried and we also might be thinking that we will continue to put money into our bitcoin up until the time that we start to draw from it.. or maybe we might invest into it fairly aggressively in the first 8-10 years and then perhaps after we get past 10 years, we might not need to invest into it as much since we would have had largely already built up our bitcoin investment within our first 10 years of investing into it.
I disagree with the statement " Investment does not mean that you are willing to lose money" that is totally wrong because starting any Investment be it Bitcoin investment or whatsoever Investment is already willingness to accept anything that will come out from it and these things can either be loss or profit because two things are always involve in Investment or business which is loss and profit so you are totally wrong. The discretionary income we use to invest in Bitcoin is a money we can afford to lose in other words it is a money or funds we are willing to risk or lose because anyone who is not willing to lose can not use their discretionary to invest even though it is a leftover.
This is why an investor is told to invest with the money that he will not regret even if he loses. The reason for this is so that he can invest without pressure. People invest with the hope of future profit, so it is not at all the case that you will be ready to lose without giving up the hope of profit. You will only invest with the money that you are ready to lose and will not regret even if you lose. Investment should not advance your human position in any way.
If a person invests from his discretionary income, which is the money left after all his expenses. And if he faces any loss during that investment period, then I do not think he will regret it as much. As much as a person who invests from his required money will do. So it is said to investors that they should invest with the money that they will not regret later if they lose. Or he is ready to lose that money.
A consistent investor invests on the basis of these two things you mentioned.
Since no one controls the market, he must always be prepared for two things. So he must invest with money that he is ready to lose. From here, he can either profit or face loss. So the correct and disciplined investment method is to be ready for any situation. And to invest from the money left after all expenses.You have the right idea Lembo69, in regards to investors to be investing with money that they can afford to lose, so in that sense your last portion focusing on profits and losses seem to be contradicting your overall point, since in the short term while the investor is building up his bitcoin holdings, he need not get distracted in terms of the extent that his bitcoin holdings are in profits or loss, since if he is investing 4-10 years or longer, then the short term moves of the BTC price should not majorly affect his overall goal to ongoingly, persistently, consistently, regularly and perhaps even aggressively accumulate bitcoin through buying.
Sure, there is no problem to keep track of the holdings and to monitor amount invested versus value (meaning profits), even though that ongoing monitoring should not distract from the main mission of ongoingly accumulating bitcoin and building up the bitcoin holdings.
I will note that even investors in bitcoin are free to get out of their bitcoin investment at any time, especially if they believe that something about their long term bitcoin investment thesis had weakened to such a significant extent to justify getting completely out or even partially out of their bitcoin holdings. At the same time, I would think that many folks who are into bitcoin and who are comment to understand bitcoin better, they are able to recognize and appreciate the power of bitcoin as an asset, and even appreciate that various ongoing battles about bitcoin (and its likely ongoing price manipulation relate to its power rather than its weakness).. but yeah, everyone is free to conclude what he likes and even change his mind about bitcoin, and even over the years we have had quite prominent bitcoin members who rage quit about bitcoin since they no longer believed in bitcoin, yet I doubt that their rage quitting bitcoin had ended up helping them out financially, even if they might have had felt good at the time of their rage quitting incident.
In a situation where one with the intention of buying Bitcoin and holding for the long term bought Bitcoin and after sometime the price drops and keeps devaluing for a long time.
As an investor what will be your response to this, your opinions will be highly appreciated,
Why you asking such dumb questions?
Why don't you sell everything, become a no coiner and wait for the price to reach $40k, so when the rest of us are happy with bitcoin, then you are whining because you don't have any bitcoin.
In a situation where one with the intention of buying Bitcoin and holding for the long term bought Bitcoin and after sometime the price drops and keeps devaluing for a long time.
As an investor what will be your response to this, your opinions will be highly appreciated,
What you are asking is actually a very important mindset question in investing, especially with Crypto assets like Bitcoin which are highly volatile.
Don't be retarded. We are talking about bitcoin in this thread, not shitcoins.
Another thing is that he is not asking an important question. He is asking a dumb question.
if a person is investing in bitcoin then they keep buying bitcoin.. How else are you going to increase your bitcoin stash? You think that you increase your bitcoin stash by doing something other than buying?
A long-term investor typically does not react emotionally to price drops but responds strategically.
You talking about trading? You have been registered here since November 2025. What have you been doing since then? Buying bitcoin? or waiting to buy?
However, a newcomer to investing can easily feel overwhelmed and may react emotionally, which often leads to regret. Therefore, it is important for a beginner to develop investing strategies that help manage losses and control emotions, in order to avoid making impulsive decisions that could later be regretted.
You seem to be just making shit up. If you are new to bitcoin and the price is going down, you don't have any losses because you don't have any bitcoin.
Maybe you can clarify your assumptions related to bitcoin (we don't need to hear about your shitcoin theories) to the extent that you have anything meaningful (or helpful) that you might say, besides spouting out vague baloney.
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I completely agree just as said in most cases what really matters is for the new investor to have a little ideas of how Bitcoin roam about, more over in this aspect you can forther with bitch investment also reaching out with your dictionary and other purposes is to work with someone that will lead you after sometimes, as an investor aim is to gain but most times it happens to be at the end you don't get what you were craving for this occurrence take place when the investor only hold it for a short period of time.
You speak in gobbledy-gook. Do you even know what you are talking about?