I am expanding the mine and will continue to sell some coin as it comes in.
Reasonable, yes. But... why don't you hodl for about 1-2 months and then sell a bigger chunk? Wouldn't that be more profitable? Or you don't believe in 2013 scenario playing out?
I appreciate that philpma is continuously presenting kinds of dilemmas for us regarding what he is doing versus what other guys believe that he should be doing, and even his admissions about the mistakes of his past, in terms of not holding as much BTC as he should have, does not seem to cause him to HODL more BTC (at least from our perspectives of what he should be doing - because he does claim that he is accumulating more BTC (as a percentage) than he did in the past.. something like that).
Of course, he continues to describe pretty small levels of ongoing BTC sales that seem to be business cashflow related, so it tends to be tough to judge his whole package beyond considering that he admits that he does not have much BTC.,.so maintaining a business and engaging in personal BTC accumulation (or even business BTC accumulation) may well be two different questions (a kind of ongoing dilemma).
By the way, even in my own circumstances, I have created a system in which I have continued to sell BTC all the way up from $250... but I also proclaimed that in 2015, when I started this ongoing selling, I had quite overallocated into BTC.. which was a kind of target of 10% and reaching 13.5%.. and then subsequent BTC price appreciations brought my allocations to 90% levels.. I have always considered that once reaching overallocation in BTC, there is quite a bit more flexibility as compared with someone who considers themselves to still be striving to reach target allocation levels... whether that is 1%, 10% or some other number like that.
So for example, if I had 10 BTC in 2015 and the price went from $250 to $300, then my 10 BTC would have gone from $2,500 to $3k, so maybe I would have authorized myself to sell less than 1/2 the profits from that price appreciation.. the profits would be $500, so I would authorize myself to sell up to $250.. but never more than that (and largely I had never reached even close to my max authorization levels).
So even these days, let's say that were to have 2.3BTC, so when the BTC price went from $40k to $67k, the value of my holdings would have gone from $92k to $154k - which would have been $62k in profits, and even these days I might authorize myself to sell up to half of the total profits.. which would be up to $31k authorized, but in reality, I only end up selling
around $20k less than $5k (and that's with some real world expenses that had been being worked out through my BTC portfolio since April/May 2021... and even still "in progress" though in some of their final stages of everything getting back to "normal" or "routine" (if there are such things?)).
I may also suggest that I remain in a position in which I have authorized to sell ONLY up to 50% of profits on a regular basis, but I do not even get close to selling that amount. Those ongoing profits continue to roll into the value of the underlying package, and surely I could be selling more at any time to just make up for all the years, that I had been underselling my authorized sell amounts.Sure, maybe I am providing too many details too, but just saying that some BTC selling could be justified, rational and within systems - especially if there is quite a bit of overallocation involved (which many of us do not consider to be phillip's case, from what we have heard about it).
Personally, I believe it is more justified when a guy might have never removed himself from the overallocated aspect in concern to his BTC holdings to then be feeling some freedoms in terms of shaving off BTC whenever he would like.. including taking a lump sum shavening at any point of his choosing because he might have been rolling over profits for a decent amount of time.. versus a guy who is still saying that he his in BTC accumulation mode.. and surely I am having trouble suggesting any kind of selling prior to reaching target allocation levels
For sure we can attempt to understand that for miners/or anyone earning an income in bitcoin, there could be some different dynamics, so the BTC sales are for business purposes and not part of any kind of cashflow that could be used for BTC accumulation - and even reaching basic target allocation levels which many guys should be targeting to do.. even though sometimes it could take several years to reach target allocation levels or even to reach what is considered BTC overallocation levels - whether that is exceeding your initial allocation levels of 1% to 10% or reaching some higher levels due to ongoing BTC price appreciation over the years - which may well end up reaching levels like 90% or more and additionally justify shaving off BTC profits from time to time.
Edit: fixed some of my numbers in the above middle paragraph and changed the conclusion remarks