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Re: Buy Buy Buy or Sell Sell Sell?
by
Chiomaobi
on 15/06/2024, 23:10:43 UTC
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This is your misconception. Emergency funds should never be invested in any investment.

The only way emergency funds should be used in terms of investment is if they happen to be excessive, and surely some folks might be labeling all of their extra funds as emergency funds, and part of their emergency funds might be reserves and/or float but they are labeling such as emergency funds.

So yeah there can be questions regarding how much emergency funds a person needs to build up.. and if someone is brand new to investing and brand new to consciously paying attention to building and maintaining an emergency fund, then the emergency fund might start out relatively small.. maybe just by coincidence normal people might keep a kind of float of 2-4 weeks of their expenses worth of extra cash that is kind of considered to be used for any any extra expenses that might come about.. but then once they start to invest into something like bitcoin, they realize that they are likely going to need to keep larger amounts, such as 3-6 months worth of emergency fund, but they are not necessarily going to get their emergency fund up to that size immediately, so they end up building up their bitcoin investment and their emergency fund at the same time.. and surely once they get their emergency fund up to a certain size (such as a minimum of 3 months), then they might begin to feel that they have more abilities to be aggressive in their BTC accumulations (adding to their BTC holdings) or even to use some of the excess (greater than 3 months amounts) for the purposes of investing into bitcoin or other kinds of purposes.. but yeah, if they are barely floating on keeping ONLY 3 months as emergency funds that are not touched for any reason except actual emergencies, they may well find that they are not keeping enough emergency funds since sometimes various expenses can come at the same time and quickly eat into such relatively lower level amounts of financial cushion... .so yeah in the end, there becomes more and more need to keep some funds in cash that never get touched because otherwise the depletion of such extra cash ends up putting the person closer and closer to having to dip into his bitcoin investment that might be at a time that is not at his own choosing.
You are right, keeping ONLY 3 months as emergency fund will eventually lead you to deep your hands into your Bitcoin investment, so as a long time investor in Bitcoin it it advised to always keep a very big emergency funds in other not to run dry as time goes on.
For me since am using the DCA method of accumulation when I get my salary I invest a particular percent to my Bitcoin then I remove a particular percent also for my emergency, reserve and float fund then I keep the rest for myself in running my day to day activities and settle some bills, I do this each time I take my salary and it has been working for me and making my Bitcoin accumulation journey so easy. So is better to make sure your emergency funds are more than enough so you won't find your self dipping into your Bitcoin investment there by destroying your investment.
I don't think I will ever stop funding my emergency, reserve and float funds anytime soon reasoning being that I don't know what kind of emergency that maybe coming in future so I need to make sure my kept funds can handle any kind of issues without me dipping into my investment.
Any one that those not have a strong emergency, reserves and float funds is in danger of selling of his entire investment one day.

If you earn bitcoins directly, you can save with bitcoins in an emergency fund. Very few people can earn bitcoins. If you don't earn bitcoins, if you do earn money, investing in an emergency fund or reserve fund to save bitcoins is a stupid thing to do.

I think that it is very weird to be failing refusing to consider reserves in terms of fiat, unless there are some folks who truly are able to spend all of their expenses in bitcoin.. or if maybe they have so much bitcoin that they are willing to just take the chances of keeping all of their value in bitcoin (presuming they earn in bitcoin), and so these seem to be less common kinds of circumstances, and there is a certain level of healthiness to considering holding and/or converting value into fiat.. since even if some expenses might be payable in bitcoin, they are likely calculated in terms of fiat.. so it does not even seem very realistic that we are considering some of the exceptional cases in which some few folks might completely earn in bitcoin and are able to spend in bitcoin and they just let bitcoin's volatility go where it goes, especially if they are already getting all of their income in bitcoin..
is better your reserves funds are kept on Fiat since is general accepted so as not to complicate things, from my little experience I think keeping your reserves in Bitcoin may complicate things for you Bitcoin is an investment platform. However like you said expect one is getting his or her salary in Bitcoin or especially if they are already getting all of their income in bitcoin.