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Re: Discretionary Income vs Emergency Funds: Why It Matters for Bitcoin Investing
by
JayJuanGee
on 05/08/2025, 03:46:13 UTC
Your suggestion that bitcoin is 10x of your emergency fund seems quite strange including that in the beginning of your bitcoin investing time, your emergency fund and your bitcoin investment might be similar in size.. and it could take a bit of time before your bitcoin investment is outgrowing the size of your emergency fund.  If you don't have enough emergency fund then you are more likely going to get stuck in a situation where you have to sell some or all of your bitcoin at a time that is not of your own choosing.
surely people need to prioritize emergency and reserved fund including other backup fund within the the next 3 to 4 months before more force is now added to bitcoin investment. because if bitcoin is been prioritized more from the beginning instead of emergency then it will be a big problem down the road, especially when emergency or an unforeseen circumstances happens.
I will agree that the larger your bitcoin investment grows, then it is likely going to start to outpace your emergency fund, merely from the amount that you put into bitcoin, and not necessarily considering the amount bitcoin might appreciate from time to time.
i also agree with you on this too, as long as our emergency and reserved fund is firstly given priority, then bitcoin should be more concentrated, as that will make our bitcoin holding outpace our emergency fund. and normally there is no how it is even possible for emergency fund to compete bitcoin investment when we know that our bitcoin HODLings are meant to last for a longer time without being sold or used for any purpose, but in the other hands emergency funds will surely be used for emergency cases and it will reduce while bitcoin will still be constantly invested on. this reason is why people need to foresee the important of emergency as a priority that will stand as a wage against selling bitcoin in the future. because if bitcoin is given more priority at first instead of emergency then when a serious emergency happens surely its fund will not be able to solve the problem but will include bitcoin investment to be satisfied.

People can do what they like, yet I think it is problematic to be holding onto too much cash unless you know of some specific reason that you are going to need it.

if you know an emergency is coming then it is not an emergency, even though you might need to keep some cash on hand.

Also even more problematic for poor people to be holding 3-4 months of cash and have hardly any bitcoin, which is part of the reason that so frequently as a ball park suggestion I consider that building the emergency funds and the bitcoin until they both reach 3 months as a ballpark idea.. ..

 and so there is a need to balance liquidity and volatility yet at the same time eaqch of us has to account for various circumstances in our lives related to our anticipated income and our anticipated expenses so that we have some decent ideas about how much discretionary funds we have on a regular basis and how much various back up funds that we need.. including accounting for how we hold them in terms of both liquidity and volatility.. and anyone holding more than 4 months in cash is likely losing value as fast as they can keep it up (especially if they do not have at least similar levels of bitcoin)... so they might not be keeping value if they are stacking cash rather than stacking bitcoin...

and yeah, each of us has to figure out those balances without overly preparing for emergencies that might not happen or to speculate that there is only one way to prepare for emergencies.. and really, sure none of us want to sell any bitcoin that is at a time that is not of our complete choosing, so we have to figure out the balances and the likelihood of various scenarios in which the expenses exceed the income for extended periods of time.