Quote from: JayJuanGee on Today at 12:23:22 AM

You likely should feel reassured because maybe after 5-10 years investing, you end up getting up to 1-2 years of your income/expenses invested into bitcoin, and so maybe you would not feel as bad to be having all of that unworking capital just sitting around.

Another thing will be that if you try to be too whimpy on your emergency funds and reserves and you realize that the first 5 years, you always were able to get away with $3k to $6k in those funds.. .. .. but then if the reality of the matter, is that your expenses and various complications in your finances have gone up, and you would be more justified to double your emergency funds and reserves, yet you choose to keep them the same as they had been previously, then no one is going to feel sorry for you, if you end up getting recked because you were being too stingy with your emergency funds/reserves, and you would ONLY have yourself to blame for your own failure/refusal to sufficiently assess your circumstances while your circumstances are likely to be changing from time to time and in need of adjustments that account for such changed circumstances.

Yeah I think both the emergency funds and our bitcoin investment compliments each other, our emergency funds helps keep our investment safe and ensure we won't be dipping our hands into it, while our bitcoin investment compliments for the cash that would be sitting idea and not generating any income for us and even losing Value, so as long as we continue to invest and keep on buying bitcoin we don't have to worry much about the cash sitting idle cause if our portfolio does well, we would be getting rich.

Your right anyone that's decides to be too stingy or greedy and doesn't want to build up his emergency funds or reserves to well be able to meet up with his bitcoin investment and later encounters an issue, maybe after 4 years of buying woudl also face the fate of someone that has no emergency funds, cause I believe as we get richer we should also assume that challenges may or may not get thougher but we must always are sure our emergency funds woudl be able to counter any issue that may arise.

Quote from: teamsherry on April 04, 2024, 03:29:35 PM

But at in a case where we feel we have too much of cash around in our emergency and reserves, would it be wise to put some into bitcoin when, let's say I'm having over a year of emergency funds and I feel I have too much of cash kept lieung around could I put at least 10% of that into bitcoin or keep or working for, like diversifying into some other asset ?

Even guys who have pretty straight forward cashflow and pretty straightforward expenses, they are still likely are going to have some variance in their cashflow and/or what their reserve levels might reach.. so for sure the emergency funds would likely be the least flexible in terms of your never wanting to use them yet they still might have to grow from time to time to account for what is at minimum of 3 months worth of expenses... and so there would likely be times in which you have a certain amount of emergency funds, a certain amount of reserves a certain amount of float, but also a certain amount that is just extra beyond those categories, so you will want to decide are you going to put that in to bitcoin or into something else... you have more options the more funds that you have, but of course, your own situation should be dictating to you where to put your funds.

Let's say that the guy has already been buying around 10% to 15% of his income in BTC for the past 5 years, and so he has invested close to 3/4 of year of his salary into bitcoin, but bitcoin has performed to such a level that it is about 1.5x his annual income, He has emergency funds that are about 3 months of his income and various classifications of reserves that are around 4-5 months of his income, so some of his reserves are already assigned for buying BTC on dips and other parts of his reserves is his entertainment fund and another part of his reserves is dedicated to his transportation costs and another part of his reserves have been to save up to buy his daughter a bicycle and another part of his reserves is saving up for a vacation, and another part of his reserves is to pay for the construction of a storage shed, and so if he has extra money coming in then he can figure out if he wants to buy BTC with it or maybe he thinks that he should use some of that extra money to invest into something else... My point is that the guy's circumstances and priorities should be helping to guide the extent to which his extra money goes into bitcoin or into something else, and if you notice, there can be certain parts of the guy's reserves that have higher priorities than others, and he sometimes, might have to dip from one portion of his reserves and to put it into something else, and he would spend from his reserves before he spent from his emergency fund, since no matter what he does not want his emergency fund to go any lower than 3 months (unless he really had an emergency and he had already spent from his reserves prior to dipping into his emergency fund).

No one is going to tell you if you have enough or too much, even though some practices might be more risky, and maybe you have a list of things that you want, but you only save up for them one item at a time, but you could still end up building up part of your reserves and then at some point redesigning it to something else, and maybe the part of your reserves that are dedicated towards buying BTC on dips have the highest priority, but if your wife does not get the vacation that you told her that you were going to pay for then, you might have to reconsider you priorities.
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This clarifies thigns even more, so we should assign or spend money from our reserves based on priorities of those events, like lests say a young guy that hasn't rented an apartment and is also buying bitcoin and has some extra cash that came in and so after doing all the maths and budgets he is left with up to 1k in his reserves and he had prior plans to buy on a certain dip but as the current situation may be, he is in a more pressing need to rent an apartment than to buy bitcoin, so he should rather reconsider and rent the house then any extra can go for buying the dip.

What I understand from this is that we should make our plans based on necessity of events and our decision shoudl not be too greedy and make us forget that we have other thigns to do and get too carried away with investing in bitcoin, so yeah we can have a life, go on vacations and have a balance in all that we do. Then it would be said that we should invest money that we won't miss, so if investing or buying bitcoin at a time would cost me some of my necessities like paying a bill, it's not worth it and could later lead to me wearing myself.

So in general I shoudl have balance in everything I'm doing and make sure I'm allocating wisely to spending and also buying bitcoin.

Quote from: teamsherry on April 04, 2024, 03:29:35 PM

Quote from: JayJuanGee on April 04, 2024, 02:23:12 AM

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I think that the longer that anyone invests, the more and more comfort that he should have about having had built various systems to protect his investment, but surely one of the problems becomes that sometimes people will start to unnecessarily take extra risks with some of their investment and not protecting themselves as much as they should, and surely there can be points in which your holdings are more vulnerable than others, yet sometimes we cannot always know while we are in the middle of the process, and we can ONLY do as much as we are able to do, in terms of making our own best and solid practices to make sure that we are sufficiently protecting our portfolios and perhaps being aggressive without over doing it.. . and sometimes normies (normal people)_ do not always realize when they are either overdoing it or they are too far on the whimpy side or too far on the aggressive side...
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Your right about this a line should be drawn in everything especially knowing when we are messing up and when to correct ourselves, although it's not very easy to know when you are on the wrong and at time we do the wrong thigns thinking we are right and find it hard to take correction, so most people never learn or notice untill it's too late, yeah we must do a lot of reassessment from time to time to make sure we are still on the right part.

@teamsherry kudos for bringing this topic up, really has made Jay to touch some old misconception.