I hear you. But the landscape is changing. With all these forks there's an insidious kind of inflation happening. Bitcoincash, Bitcoingold...and now the big guns with Segwit2x. Doesn't that skew the math a bit in your mind?
It is not exactly inflation. If you adopt the view that each bitcoin you hold represents 1/21,000,000 of the total economic value, then your purchasing power is unaffected by these splits -- neither positively nor negatively.
Your response here make almost no sense whatsoever, especially since you also seem to be an advocate of these supposed take-over bitcoins.
So if there is any kind of question at all in terms of what is the real bitcoin, then forks are dilutions of the real bitcoin (and does not matter which version you believe to be the real version, as long as there is any kind of market value that is given to competing non-bitcoins)
The only way you get NO dilution whatsoever, is if the various non-competing versions of bitcoin have no value and no perception of value (and what kind of fantasy world is that). I will assert that through the passage of time, many of these competing versions of bitcoin have a decent chance of going to zero if they stop getting support - but how fucking long is that going to take when you have a number of persons out there, including yourself (whether we refer to them as nutjobs or not) who are either pumping value into them or proclaiming that the competing version is the real bitcoin - and possibly a few gullible folks buy the message because they either really believe it or they think possibly they could get rich from such a outside likelihood of a transformation, if such transformation were to take place.
As to your earlier question, I am primarily in hodl. When I get a hankerin' for stinky fiat...
1) set aside a small amount of Bitcoin for trading
2) make a series of laddered sell orders with your trading funds
3) as your orders get bought into, place buy orders of the dollar value of the sell, but at a lower bitcoin price
4) as your buys execute, enter sells at a higher bitcoin price
5) rinse and repeat. With volatility, the net effect is that your quantity of Bitcoin will grow
6) the net direction is up. You will over time accumulate a backlog of open buy orders that are unlikely to ever be bought into
7) as your open buy orders cross the threshold of implausibility, cancel them. Now they are cash.
8 ) you may or may not be bitcoin positive at this point. Either way, you are cash positive
9) when your pile of stinky fiat gets big enough that you don't know how to spend it, withdraw any remaining open sell orders.
10) Sit back and let bitcoin get pricier until the cash itch returns.
Actually, this is a real nice step by step description that borders on perfection... hahahahha.. funny I say that about the content of one of your post.. Miracles do happen.
Regarding your point 8: There are ways to structure your sales in order that you never run out of bitcoin - even if bitcoin reaches $10 million. You just project ahead in order that you never run out, which means not selling too many and possibly monitoring or adjusting if it appears that you are selling too many that would cause you deficiencies at various points. Also, you can use some of the cash that you accumulated based on your step 7 to make a few adjustments, here or there to your holdings and to buy on dips, to the extent reasonable and practical for your situation.. and possibly, also, like you seem to suggest the cash accumulated from step 7 might not ever be reinvested, but possibly just used for personal pleasure (if any of us can imagine such things beyond posting in these forums... hahahaha).
Regarding your points 9 & 10: I think that there are going to be quite a few of us who may be in a situation similar to this, if we have been employing such a staggered buy/sell strategy for the past couple of years when there has been between 10x and 20x BTC price appreciation, depending upon when you got in and how you had played the matter - so there have likely been quite a few of us having to consider and reconsider these kinds of matters, in part based on BTC performance that may have shot above expectations, while employing strategies to address a likely scenario of "too much fiat."
After going through this, I have figured out ways to approach my too much fiat "problem" that differs slightly from your approach. I don't actually cancel BTC sales orders; however, I tend to make those BTC sales orders smaller and perhaps spread them out a bit larger, also you can get into a temporary arrangement of buying back a bit more than you sell in order to help to bring a better balance... another option is just to hang onto the money for a couple of situations such as 1) the price corrects downwardly so much that you want to garner up as much fiat that you can in order to throw at what appears to be a bargain basement situation or 2) just do the outrageous thing of completely removing the money completely from the table and spending it (and actually having some fun with it - far fetched as that may seem
)..