All joking aside, I have been giving considerable thought to how I am going to handle this bull run of my first cycle.
As many of you know, I didn't actually get onboard until late June of this year. I have since been consistently buying every week from my DCA amount. And in the midst I have done a little dabbling (J1G would call it gambling) with various "shitcoins" to take advantage of short term gains to be invested into BTC. I have consistently accumulated approximately 30% more BTC than the market price I invested, and at this point am at a bit over 100% profit. But, realistically, it's nothing. So I'm leaning heavily towards an attempt to DCA out to the top and then buy back after the crash with my profits. First sale at $98k would be the smallest and last sale at $249k the biggest leaving me with a little less than 10% of my current bag but nearly 100x in profits. If all works perfectly and we see 60% dip after a $250k top, I would be a whole coiner by my 1 yr BTC anniversary date. Even if it tops at any point below $249k but above $100k I would still be well on my way to whole coin status by end of year 2022. Only way I lose is A) it shoots up significantly higher than $300k and never drops back below $200k OR if it ends up in a super-cycle that never comes back. Either way, I'm still up significantly in Fiat, but will be back to ground zero in BTC accumulation. But considering I've only got 6 mos. of weekly DCA's invested, I just don't see the downside as being anywhere near the potential or even likely upside. Regardless of the outcome, I still continue my weekly DCA for the next 10 years, but if my bet pays off, I continue as a whole coiner. If it doesn't I just continue as a low coiner.
Open to thoughts and criticism, but can't honestly say I'll change my course based on it.
-Cope
If you believe BTC can drop by so much by some type of shock event, shitcoins will probably drop much harder.
Litecoin was promised to be the silver against BTC. It never recovered. The rest of the coins out there are promising to solve a problem that doesn't exist or literally were invented to make the "CEO" very wealthy or keep them busy with some type of fan BTC type of project to see if they could also do it. If you need smart contracts, they can be run with a few SATS on the BTC blockchain, via lightning if required. What else is out there that you need right now other than a store of wealth as a hedge against ridiculous inflation?
You could be holding a bag of shit that you cannot shift and you could be kicking yourself "if only I had kept BTC, even if I thought it wasn't that much at the time".
You can go back onto this very website and see people shifting 100s or even 1000s of BTC for a jar of coffee or a pizza in 2011!
If they continue to make more shitcoins I reckon we could end up with 15 million of them, as many as there are available BTC out there (not counting the lost ones).
Which one will THEN hold value? 1 shitcoin or 1 BTC.
I'd go with 1 BTC.
Gamble all you want. No-one will stop you.
Personally, if I hadn't gotten into the BTC world until this year I can fully appreciate being a whole coiner is pretty tough. But then I'd set my goal on 0,1BTC and then the next milestone 0,15. If I can then going forwards only ever get up to 0,2 then that would show that BTC will be growing by so much that 0,01BTC will be a huge amount. So that becomes the yearly target.
Etc...