Do you have an exit plan from crypto?

[o48o]

I am interested if people in here have an exit strategy. Or do you believe you are in crypto for the rest of your life?

If there's a number on how much you need to reach in fiat money to exit, what exactly would that cover? If it's retirement, how luxurious retirement it would be?

I would be amazed if everyone would stick in this their whole life, because speculative trading / investing is going to take lot from your time and it's very tiresome when you do it for years.
Especially with altcoins, there's a danger to wear yourself out with sleep deprivation and constant market awareness. Following news closely comes with that and news today are mostly doom scrolling now.

So what's your goal? Your own mansion? Enough passive money for rest of your life from real estates you are buying? Enough funds to start your own company? Or are you just in here until your loans are paid?

Reason why i am asking that i noticed that i don't have a clear exit strategy myself, and i might want to get one.
But higher i get, more greedier i get, so i change my plans and that often leads to losing that investment because higher it gets, harder it falls.

[Odusko]

Reason why i am asking that i noticed that i don't have a clear exit strategy myself, and i might want to get one.
But higher i get, more greedier i get, so i change my plans and that often leads to losing that investment because higher it gets, harder it falls.

You are not alone in this, most of us here don't have a clear exit plans or even think about that at all, and the reason is not far from the fact, that cryptocurrency have not been around for long at least it has not been around for up to 20 years so, to many of us here, we are still among the early bird and we consider to still be too early to start thinking about exiting the space, our romance with cryptocurrency seem to become sweeter and sweeter as time goes on, so for sure we can become old and retired with a huge portfolio is not bad to be a crypto grandpa/ma!am.

[markm]

Everything I have in crypto has for many years now been pure profit.

I long long ago got back all the electricity I initially put into mining first with some CPUs but then some GPUs and then even some ASICs.

But where I am electricity is not competetive.

I ordered about $12k of Neptune ASICs back in their day, then when they encountered a production glitch that meant they would be shipping two weeks later than they had anticipated they sent twice as many ASIC machines to all who had ordered (and paid) in advance because in those two weeks half the profits those machines would ever make would be gone because difficulty was rising so fast and would rise even faster once those new ASICs were delivered.

I meanwhile ran into problems getting electricity turned on at the house I planned to host them, so it was actually a whole year before I finally got the stolen/vandalised power meter re-installed and the whole house up to code to get electricity turned on, so by then it was way too late to be in early enough for the prices of electricity around here to be at all competitive, and likely also ever more-efficient ASICs were coming out by then.

But what I had learned in the meantime was that my strategy of building stronger and stronger buy-sides "all the way down" to catch even most extreme dumps, while building my sell-side up to "astronomical" heights to catch even those times that had in the past led to me waking up to find my sell side that was only three times as high as I had ever imagined the price would go had been skyrocketed past to three times that, is a wonderfully robust strategy that leads not only to being able from time to time to "thin out" the bottom of my buy-side due to higher parts of my buy-side having become strong enough to make it extremely unlikely any "dump" would drive price down far enough to come close to the thinned-out lowest part of my buy-side but also to an ever-growing hoard of the sell-side asset even way over and above my astronomically high column of sell offers, so that in fact there comes a point where one's column of sell offers goes so so so very very very high that one might as well just take some of the "surplus sell-side asset" and bury it in concrete under one's swimming-pool because not only oneself but even one's great-great-grandheirs will probably never need to dig up those "surplus sell-side" coins because by the time price ever approaches the astronomically high top end of one's column of sell offers one would have accumulated huge numbers more "surplus" sell-side asset, so much most likely that one's heirs grand-heirs and great-grand-heirs will more likely find themselves still burying "surplus" under the estate's swimming-pool than even considering digging any up from under there.

The buy sides and sell sides just keep growing and growing and growing, the "burying" of "surplus" sell-side increases rarity of the sell-side asset on the markets and the amount "in the wild" to potentially be "dumped" onto your buy-side consuming it, so frankly the only "exit" to be considered is at what astronomical height to not bother building one's sell-side higher for now and at what strength and density of one's buy-side to consider thinning it out a little bit without thereby risking some extreme "dump" managing to break through a "crust" as it were to enter free-er fall in an emptier region lower down.

Everything "out there" on the net / in crypto is long ago all pure profit anyway, but those huge columns of pure profit, arranged as buy sides and sell sides on markets, are income-generators that one got basically "for free" as pure profit from work done long long long ago so why ever consider dismantling them, especially doing so to convert to fiat which is know to be a sure loss in the long term?

The next step really, it seems to me, is to apply this same strategy to the buy-side asset, in effect starting to build its buy-sides stronger and stronger too, to guard against someday devaluing of the sell-side asset (often bitcoin, absolutely never any kind of fiat or fiat-tracking so called stable crap) and start accumulating "surplus" of that too to start making that too rarer on the markets thus less "out there" to potentially get "dumped"...


-MarkM-

[bullbandit9]

Exit? Exit into what? All fiat currencies are rapidly devaluing. If you exit today, in 5 years you will be down 50% on the value of your money. The inflation numbers are completely fabricated lies and extreme situations like COVID have pushed the rate of devaluation into record values. Sure you can buy some good assets, but other than that there is nowhere to really exit to.

So what's your goal? Your own mansion? Enough passive money for rest of your life from real estates you are buying? Enough funds to start your own company? Or are you just in here until your loans are paid?

A mansion is a bad idea and will waste a lot of money on maintenance, don't mention such things. Starting your company is risky and hard work. The best option is to buy assets that passively generate money, but those which require minimum input from the owner. There are assets that generate more money, but they require a lot of work that it is often not worth it if you have enough money.

[CryptoKranthi]

Everything I have in crypto has for many years now been pure profit.

I long long ago got back all the electricity I initially put into mining first with some CPUs but then some GPUs and then even some ASICs.

But where I am electricity is not competetive.

I ordered about $12k of Neptune ASICs back in their day, then when they encountered a production glitch that meant they would be shipping two weeks later than they had anticipated they sent twice as many ASIC machines to all who had ordered (and paid) in advance because in those two weeks half the profits those machines would ever make would be gone because difficulty was rising so fast and would rise even faster once those new ASICs were delivered.

I meanwhile ran into problems getting electricity turned on at the house I planned to host them, so it was actually a whole year before I finally got the stolen/vandalised power meter re-installed and the whole house up to code to get electricity turned on, so by then it was way too late to be in early enough for the prices of electricity around here to be at all competitive, and likely also ever more-efficient ASICs were coming out by then.

But what I had learned in the meantime was that my strategy of building stronger and stronger buy-sides "all the way down" to catch even most extreme dumps, while building my sell-side up to "astronomical" heights to catch even those times that had in the past led to me waking up to find my sell side that was only three times as high as I had ever imagined the price would go had been skyrocketed past to three times that, is a wonderfully robust strategy that leads not only to being able from time to time to "thin out" the bottom of my buy-side due to higher parts of my buy-side having become strong enough to make it extremely unlikely any "dump" would drive price down far enough to come close to the thinned-out lowest part of my buy-side but also to an ever-growing hoard of the sell-side asset even way over and above my astronomically high column of sell offers, so that in fact there comes a point where one's column of sell offers goes so so so very very very high that one might as well just take some of the "surplus sell-side asset" and bury it in concrete under one's swimming-pool because not only oneself but even one's great-great-grandheirs will probably never need to dig up those "surplus sell-side" coins because by the time price ever approaches the astronomically high top end of one's column of sell offers one would have accumulated huge numbers more "surplus" sell-side asset, so much most likely that one's heirs grand-heirs and great-grand-heirs will more likely find themselves still burying "surplus" under the estate's swimming-pool than even considering digging any up from under there.

The buy sides and sell sides just keep growing and growing and growing, the "burying" of "surplus" sell-side increases rarity of the sell-side asset on the markets and the amount "in the wild" to potentially be "dumped" onto your buy-side consuming it, so frankly the only "exit" to be considered is at what astronomical height to not bother building one's sell-side higher for now and at what strength and density of one's buy-side to consider thinning it out a little bit without thereby risking some extreme "dump" managing to break through a "crust" as it were to enter free-er fall in an emptier region lower down.

Everything "out there" on the net / in crypto is long ago all pure profit anyway, but those huge columns of pure profit, arranged as buy sides and sell sides on markets, are income-generators that one got basically "for free" as pure profit from work done long long long ago so why ever consider dismantling them, especially doing so to convert to fiat which is know to be a sure loss in the long term?

The next step really, it seems to me, is to apply this same strategy to the buy-side asset, in effect starting to build its buy-sides stronger and stronger too, to guard against someday devaluing of the sell-side asset (often bitcoin, absolutely never any kind of fiat or fiat-tracking so called stable crap) and start accumulating "surplus" of that too to start making that too rarer on the markets thus less "out there" to potentially get "dumped"...


-MarkM-

Looks most likely an AI generated text. Not matching the context that the author has posted. The reply here was talking about the mining and trading strategies which the author has not spoken about. Kindly a moderator should look into this.

[CryptoKranthi]

I believe there is no exit strategy for crypto. We struck here forever. Crypto will be here forever in our day to day life. We will be using crypto just like how we are using our credit and debit cards and UPI in India.

[Cryptoddler]

Yes! but it’s more of a strategy than a hard exit.

I don’t believe in “selling everything and walking away.” To me, crypto is no longer just an investment — it’s a parallel financial system, a long-term thesis on decentralization, and a core part of how I interact with the world.

That said, I do have an exit framework for specific market cycles:

🔁 1. Cycle-Based Profit Taking

I plan to gradually scale out of certain positions (especially high-beta altcoins and memecoins) as we enter what looks like peak euphoria. I use:

    On-chain data (e.g. MVRV Z-score, BTC dominance trends)

    Macro signals (Fed pivots, liquidity shifts)

    Historical halving-based cycle models

🛡️ 2. Stablecoin Allocation

Part of the exit is rotating profits into stablecoins, then earning yield through low-risk strategies (DeFi or centralized platforms I trust at the time). This keeps me liquid and ready for re-entry.

🧱 3. BTC & ETH as Long-Term Core

I don’t plan to fully exit BTC or ETH unless the thesis behind them breaks. They’re part of my long-term portfolio, much like gold or real estate would be.

🏠 4. Real-World Diversification

A portion of profits will be moved into real-world assets:

    Real estate

    Index funds

    Private equity or angel investing

    Cash reserve for peace of mind

🎯 5. Mental Exit Criteria

If crypto stops being fun, if the tech stagnates, or if I feel like I’m just gambling — that’s when I reassess my exposure. Money’s only part of it.

[bitzizzix]

For me personally, I will most likely still be here when I am old or retired, it's just that I will limit activities that do not disturb my mind, most likely I will focus on investing in Bitcoin for the long term because it will not disturb my mind when I am old, I will only make purchases gradually and hold it maybe one or two cycles that I think are still possible to generate profits.

And my current goal is a guarantee of old age so that I can live peacefully and financially stable with a simple but very comfortable house, and if that target is achieved maybe I want to create some other businesses or businesses, and also build a big house to be used as a boarding house and also a shop so that I can still make money without disturbing my mind and I can also help my children and grandchildren's finances later and also to share.

[TheUltraElite]

I spend my crypto from time to time on buying giftcards to pay for groceries, travel tickets and so on. I would be selling for fiat during needs but conditions are not so conducive in my country and hence I dont do that, huge taxes and all.

I would also like merchants to accept crypto which means I could buy/sell stuff for crypto directly without having to buy a gift card or sell for fiat. Surely I dont have any "luxury/retirement" sort of thing, I take them as pipe dreams, something that will never happen in real.

I dont think "exit" is the right term here. Rather how we want to live with crypto is the better use.

[mich]

No I did not think about this how to exit from crypto. I do think I will hodl my crypto for along time. I do think it is ok for some people to want to sell if they make alot of gains. There is alot of profit we can make from investing in it.

And I will make it so my nephews do have some crypto. And they will want to invest in it when they become older. I do think crypto is going to be around for along time. So I want them to learn all about investing in it.

[MArsland]

Reason why i am asking that i noticed that i don't have a clear exit strategy myself, and i might want to get one.
But higher i get, more greedier i get, so i change my plans and that often leads to losing that investment because higher it gets, harder it falls.

Honestly I don't have such a plan yet, but I always think about it whenever I think about how to live my old age. The point is I have to make the most of this opportunity, seek profit while I still can according to my abilities. Because I believe the crypto industry continues to grow rapidly, the demands for the ability to survive will be even higher. And at that time age will be a factor where the mind, energy and health can no longer support it.

[bakasabo]

Not only people have exit plan, many dont even know or have experience in converting crypto to fiat. I think that most cryptocurrency users only tried converting/withdrawing crypto to fiat, some do it regularly but minor amounts. But in case it becomes necessary to turn $100k equivalent in crypto to fiat, lots of questions appears and people would go to google searching for guide. If someone has a million in crypto and urgently needs that million tomorrow, such person will not know what to do. Probably would start ordering crypto cards and try to withdraw from ATMs, or will risk and try p2p exchange.

[JamesDaniel90]

Been in crypto few years, still waiting to experience the real euphoric stage of a bull run, where we get some kind of decent altseason. Hopefully it comes in the next 3-6 months and that is when I plan to cash out all my altcoins.

Then with those profits, put half towards my mortgage, and half in Bitcoin.

I bought my first house 18 months ago, 30 year mortgage so want pay that off as soon as I can whilst at the same time accumulating Bitcoin to hold until 2034 at least.

[ultrloa]

I am interested if people in here have an exit strategy. Or do you believe you are in crypto for the rest of your life?

If there's a number on how much you need to reach in fiat money to exit, what exactly would that cover? If it's retirement, how luxurious retirement it would be?

I would be amazed if everyone would stick in this their whole life, because speculative trading / investing is going to take lot from your time and it's very tiresome when you do it for years.
Especially with altcoins, there's a danger to wear yourself out with sleep deprivation and constant market awareness. Following news closely comes with that and news today are mostly doom scrolling now.

So what's your goal? Your own mansion? Enough passive money for rest of your life from real estates you are buying? Enough funds to start your own company? Or are you just in here until your loans are paid?

Reason why i am asking that i noticed that i don't have a clear exit strategy myself, and i might want to get one.
But higher i get, more greedier i get, so i change my plans and that often leads to losing that investment because higher it gets, harder it falls.

Yes have plans for my exits on crypto since usually I don't stick or HODL and don't have any long confidence if they stay relevant since what I see they usually end up dumping and hard to recover especially if dev stop supporting or abandon their projects.

For asking about if I'm going to be here for life well provably the answer is depends. Since we don't know how long crypto would last and if this will stay then for sure I will be here trying to grab some opportunity to earn money.

So far I manage to hit my goals but I can't mentioned what it is. What I try to aim now is sustainability and trying to earn more Bitcoin and crypto so that I can secure myself on my retirement age since I don't want to get pressure on where to get money if I'm not capable to do it anymore especially for doing those physical jobs.

[Dzwaafu11]

The fact is that everybody have target although the target I’m trying to say is about the crypto investment many are targeting when to exit the market but as for me I don’t have plan to exit the market but I have plan to later focus on only bitcoin investment and leave any other cryptocurrencies, for my own peace of mind.

Since I believe that it’s only bitcoin that can give me peace of mind in my old age, after my retirement I will definitly invest in only bitcoin, since I know how altcoins are, I can’t take a lot of risk when I don’t earn much rather I should only invest for bitcoin for a long period of time.

[passwordnow]

I've sold many of my holdings too early but that didn't discourage me to think of an exit. While taking profits are necessary when we have to do it and we have plans to follow accordingly when the market dips. I have no plans of getting out of this, crypto is already a huge part of my life and I don't think that I am seeing myself getting away from it. And I guess that most of us here have also a special place in their hearts for crypto or mainly for Bitcoin. If someone has an exit, maybe a million dollar or more is going to be their given number. But this is more than that, if it's a routine, we can't just leave it.

[markm]

Not only people have exit plan, many dont even know or have experience in converting crypto to fiat. I think that most cryptocurrency users only tried converting/withdrawing crypto to fiat, some do it regularly but minor amounts. But in case it becomes necessary to turn $100k equivalent in crypto to fiat, lots of questions appears and people would go to google searching for guide. If someone has a million in crypto and urgently needs that million tomorrow, such person will not know what to do. Probably would start ordering crypto cards and try to withdraw from ATMs, or will risk and try p2p exchange.

That is I think endemic to most of crypto, maybe really something that occurs with anything whose liquidity becomes less as it grows.

The bigger your hoard becomes the more unreasonable it becomes to plan on "dumping" it because each piece you "dump" destroys the buy-offer you "dump" it onto which lowers the value/price as reported by aggregation sites like CoinMarketCap and CoinGecko, making the portion you still have lose value.

The larger your hoard as compared to the volume of the very highest price buy-offer in the buy-side order-books the longer it is going to take to liquidate without consuming in its an entirety a buy-offer you "dump" onto thus impacting the perceived value of the remainder of your hoard.

Even if you limit yourself to only placing a column of sell-offers at prices higher than the highest buy offer you risk discouraging anyone "out there" who might be assessing their ability to push prices higher, so it seems best to stick with a column of equal-sized sell offers ascending ever higher rather than concentrating the density of your sell-offers column down near the currently active "spread" between the buy and sell orderbooks.

Since my approach has historically reliably resulted in an ever-growing hoard of the sell-side asset, this "problem" becomes more and more apparent year by year, making it ever more clear that ultimately the real utility of one's "hoard" of the sell-side asset is not at all any idea of oneself or one's estate/beneficiaries ever someday selling it but rather the simple fact that the more of it you hoard the less there is still out there in the hands of potential "dumpers", that is, people willing to destroy part of the buy-side orderbook, thus the published valuations found on commonly used aggregation sites, for their own perceived momentary "profit".

So in the long term one hopes to end up in assets that have accumulated more and more over time of holders who see things similarly and are thus implicitly co-operating in upholding the value of the asset rather than people whose goal is ultimately to be "dumpers" trashing the value of the whole thing as their "exit strategy".

Over the more than a decade so far of operation already glimpses have begun to peek out of a few assets that already seem to have attracted sensible people who are working for the long term value of their chosen assets so I suspect this approach might even prove more and more viable, at least for assets already chosen if newfangled ones spawned daily continue to mostly be intended as short-term money-grabs, if so this strategy might even become more and more powerful and effective over the next few decades than it has already proven to be over the last more than a decade.

There is actually some book or other I read once upon a time all about hunting gold that ends up finally with pointing out to the main character(s) that ultimately it is the actual live movement of value, all the commerce surrounding them, the hotel they have the conversation in, the bars, the restaurants, the entire lively culture surrounding it all that the value resides in and the gold is dead and useless without all that, so it seems important to keep in mind that the real value of the asset long term is the constant buying and selling and re-buying and re-selling of it, the ever-growing hoard of "surplus" asset serves mostly just to increase the rarity on the markets, decrease the chance and size of a "dump" by over time any "dumper" type entities having long ago "dumped" so what they "dumped" is more and more likely over time to have found its way into the hoards that intend never to be dumped...

The value is in the trading, not the hoards that result as a side-effect of the trading profits which are basically "surplus sell-side" either placed on sale at prices far far higher than anyone remotely expects price to ever reach or simply hoarded "in case" prices ever skyrocket up over their highest extant sell offer leaving them having to resort to bringing more from their hoard rather than already having from proceeds of their column of buy offers already more to continue piling their sell side higher with.

Historically provided one builds one's sell side high enough and one's buy side low enough there is always plenty of sell-side asset obtained from "dumpers" "dumping" onto one's buy-side to keep replenishing the sell-side and building it higher, until the platform one is trading on flies by night claims to be hacked etc by which time hopefully one is already set up on some other venue so that the loss of trading venues to such incidents becomes just a cost of doing business, making a slight dent in overall profits, rather than any kind of real "loss".


-MarkM-

[Ullaa]

Personally I do want an exit strategy and I don’t see myself doing this full time forever because like you said it’s mentally draining and can take over your life if you’re not careful also for me the goal is a mix of financial freedom and time freedom. I'd like to reach a point where I have enough to pay off everything invest into some income generating assets like real estate and maybe fund something creative like a small studio or startup. Not aiming for a mansion or yacht just a calm life where I don’t have to stress over money but yeah I’ve definitely had that same experience seeing numbers go up and suddenly thinking maybe I can squeeze out more and then the crash wipes half of it

[gunhell16]

I am interested if people in here have an exit strategy. Or do you believe you are in crypto for the rest of your life?

If there's a number on how much you need to reach in fiat money to exit, what exactly would that cover? If it's retirement, how luxurious retirement it would be?

I would be amazed if everyone would stick in this their whole life, because speculative trading / investing is going to take lot from your time and it's very tiresome when you do it for years.
Especially with altcoins, there's a danger to wear yourself out with sleep deprivation and constant market awareness. Following news closely comes with that and news today are mostly doom scrolling now.

So what's your goal? Your own mansion? Enough passive money for rest of your life from real estates you are buying? Enough funds to start your own company? Or are you just in here until your loans are paid?

Reason why i am asking that i noticed that i don't have a clear exit strategy myself, and i might want to get one.
But higher i get, more greedier i get, so i change my plans and that often leads to losing that investment because higher it gets, harder it falls.

We all have the same aim here, now it just depends on when and how we plan to sell the holdings we bought as investments. It's really up to us how we manage the possible earnings we can
get from cryptocurrency correctly.

Maybe there are others among our companions who, while conducting dca on assets, have already been able to fund investments that will provide profit in the future,
maybe that's it or others who have also invested somehow from crypto profit.

[DeathAngel]

Everybody needs an exit plan but you don’t need to follow it exactly because things can change fast in a bull run. You should set a certain % of your coins you are willing to sell. Make sure you account for taxes in your calculations of how much you plan to extract. Never sell your whole bag though because you need to hedge for further price increases in the future.