Since it is 3 months already, I want OP to give some updates regarding his investment situation because I don't want to assume that he is now in a huge profit. But the question is if he still holding till now or if he might sell them when the price of Bitcoin reaches $40k last month. Because it was not new to us here and we've been hearing the same stories and sadly, some of them just quit after a few days after investing as they can't bear to see their portfolio dump as the market crisis arises.
We can say it is a good idea for someone to start to invest Bitcoin but the question is how it ends --profiting or losing?
Exactly. We get a lot of seemingly newbie bitcoiners who enter their bitcoin journey with supposed BIG plans to buy bitcoin and to be invested in bitcoin for years and years and years, but then we frequently seem to end up with radio silence.. they just poof disappear and fail/refuse to continue to update, which does not necessarily mean they ended up with losses, or even failure to gain by selling too much too early, but it does seem to indicate some lack of enthusiasm to continue to discuss the employment of some kind of a longer term strategy.. and surely if OP had started with $10 invested, then surely he could continue with $10 per week or $10 per month, and likely still be in profits.
Tis the tough road of Bitcoin HODL unless you have the discipline of a country like El Salvador with the Bukele tracker where you track the price of Bitcoin over time and the discipline to rebuy you can take quite the loss.
https://nayibtracker.com/Sure there are a few things that you likely need to do to make sure that you are not overinvesting, which is to invest within your discretionary income and have an emergency fund, and then just continue to be persistent. I doubt that countries are better off merely because they have a larger budget.
In other words, you likely have a smaller budget, but you are way more flexible and able to plan your own things, rather than being a company or a country that has to account for various interests, such as shareholders and/or citizens.
That position was pretty bad as they bought during the 70,000 peak and average bought down to the current market price if they sold like they were told too they would have taken quite the hit. But they didn't are still holding and while its only up a million dollars now on the position hey at least its positive again, and they have no plans to sell.
Does not seem that unusual to me. Anyone who bought during 2020 and 2021 could have gotten caught in a similar kind of situation in which you go through down before going through up., and if you have conviction, your BTC portfolio size keeps growing during that time, even if your holdings might be in the negative for a considerable period of time... such as 2-3 years... so yeah, El salvador seems to be only right around 2.5 years.. for its BTC accumulation period..
No need to deify them.
So don't let the short money get in the way of making good money in the long run.
That seems true.. stay consistent, persistent and ongoing... sounds like a good plan.
I guess the lesson from El Salvador is to not DCA only for 1 to 2 years but keep the DCA going for multiple years and with split amounts eventually you will get back to green over time.
Fair enough.
They did start in 2021 though so 3 years and going however point is that DCA does work.
I am pretty sure that they are a little less than 2.5 years.. Of course, they announced that they were going to legalize bitcoin in June 2021 (meaning making bitcoin legal tender in El Salvador), but that was three months before the legal tender law went into place, so when I google the question, it appears that El Salvador made its first BTC purchases in September 2021.. yet there is probably more accurate information out there, even though El Salvador has been accused of being a bit too obscure in regards to the quantity of their BTC and their custodial arrangements.. which may have a bit of validity, but the secrecy is a bit justified too.. but since they are a government, they probably should be a bit more detailed and specific in regards to their BTC holdings.. ..
But individuals do not have to disclose these kinds of matters, so in that sense public entities are different from individuals and/or institutions who might follow similar kinds of practices to accumulate BTC and having to go through some tougher periods in the earlier years of their BTC accumulation journey, and I am not even sure if it is better to start in a down period or to start in an up period since there surely are advantages to accumulating during down periods.