Quote from: Moreno233 on Today at 09:38:27 AM

For instance, MicroStrategy have been buying Bitcoin in large quantity through instant execution (I will call it instant execution because the quantity is not uniform even though they buy often). They really do not consider the price or the dip... they just buy and this shows that they do not adopt the DCA method.

I agree with the other points of your post.Moreno233.

But in the above cited portion, you fairly accurately described what MSTR is doing.. which is that they have been buying BTC fairly consistently based on their own cashflows (what capital they have available) and they do not seem to care too much about price.. they just seem to assume that BTC is mostly going to go up in the long term, even though not really being sure about what BTC is going to do in the shorter term.

That pretty much is DCA.. even though you said that they are not doing DCA. Probably the ONLY things different from DCA is that they are trying to front load their investment.. and their increment for buying and/or considering to buy seems to be on a quarterly basis (or at least they report what they did, if they did anything on a quarterly basis).

In MSTR's case, it may well be that front loading really does not make too much if any kind of a difference in regards to their largely ongoing buying of BTC in a kind of DCAing approach... that also might not be exactly on a weekly or monthly schedule, but seems to somewhat be quarterly. .even though there have been some quarters in which they did not buy any BTC.... yet I do believe that they are assessing what to do in regards to bitcoin, if anything, on a quarterly basis.

Quote from: Su-asa on Today at 10:29:33 AM

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Waiting for the dip is not always good. Although I am not yet an investor, I have observed some movement in the Bitcoin price chat. I wanted to buy Bitcoin when I had the money and, as of then, Bitcoin was $20k, but I didn't buy it because I did not have information and any strategy that I could use to accumulate more coins whenever I have more money saved separately for investment. Since I joined this forum, I have learned how to apply the DCA method whenever I start accumulating BTC. Bitcoin investment is productive when an investor has a strategy.
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Waiting for the dip is not always good.. especially if you don't have any bitcoin.

If you are waiting for the dip, then you are preparing for ONLY 1 direction, which is down.

One of the basic ideas of learning about bitcoin is to prepapare yourself for either BTC price direction, which largely means that the overwhelming number of people (including uie-pooie) don't have enough BTC.. they (and you) are not prepared for UP.

How do you get prepared for UP? You start buying and you continue to buy until you have reached enough of a BTC stack size that you feel that you are prepared for UP.

So get started sooner rather than later rather than being a no coiner.. and sure it is better to be a low coiner rather than a no coiner and even better to be a lowcoiner who is constantly trying to increase his/her BTC stash size rather than a lowcoiner who is just waiting around and not doing anything besides talking about possibly getting some BTC some day.

The power is in those who act and also in those who try to act in a reasonable way that they don't cause themselves to have to lose their coins.. so whether that is $100 a week or $10 per week or some other amount that you believe is sufficiently aggressive but not too aggressive that you end up having to sell coins at a time that is anything but at a time that is of your own choosing.

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Now that the world is seeing increasing levels of uncertainty, Bitcoin would be a possible contributor. As an asset Bitcoin has proven time and again that it rises more sharply when political and economic issues develop, which I think will bring more institutional investors into the domain to balance their portfolios. It's taking risks and leaps but that's the real investment in technique and the mechanics are individual for sure.

Arguing that Bitcoin is an inflation hedge is still not a valid argument.

Last time I checked there has been no argument that Bitcoin is an inflation hedge or not. Even if its the only cryptocurrency that people believe to fight against inflation doesn't doesn't mean its purchasing power against other currencies will no be weakened. Perhaps you misunderstood at some point what was discussed here. If you have been an early adopter of Bitcoin or should I say 6 years back you bought bitcoin then yes you can proudly say that it has been a hedge over inflation that has happened within this years, am sure that was when the theory that bitcoin can stand against inflation was popular.

Also, the Bitcoin whitepaper, since its creation, has never mentioned anything about it being an inflation hedge. It was designed to make peer-to-peer transactions faster, and it does its job perfectly. Therefore, there is no need for argument on this statement.

Bitcoin is whatever you are able to make it to be, including a way transact and move value and also a way to store value that so far has seemed to have had been not very correlated to traditional asset classes. Of course in the short term there are some kinds of correlations and even seemingly correlations that people frequently misread their meanings... Better if none of us is getting distracted in our attempts to pigeon-hole or limit what bitcoin is, even though surely bitcoin does not do all things, but it does create a lot of strong incentives in terms of serving as the soundest money that the world has ever seen including the value of it being very portable, very verifiable and something that bitcoin users are able to secure on their own without third parties.. even if sometimes there can be some technical challenges in regards to the various ways that individuals might choose to hold their coins and those systems are still evolving, some of them more user-friendly (and secure) than others.