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Topic
Board Speculation
Re: Buy the DIP, and HODL!
by
Derekfunds
on 02/10/2025, 19:07:59 UTC
I get where you’re coming from about diversifying, but from my own experience in 2025 that still doesn’t replace a real emergency fund. Other ‘profitable’ assets can also drop or get locked up right when you need them most. I keep a small cash emergency fund separate so I’m never forced to sell my Bitcoin at a bad time. It’s boring, but it works.
Emergency funds are indeed better if they are in cash and not invested in any assets. Investing emergency funds in certain assets does have the potential to generate profits. However, doing so is still very risky. So, the bottom line is that emergency funds remain emergency funds and should not be used for any other assets or for anything else. Emergency funds are used when we are experiencing an emergency. So, the point is, don't play around with emergency funds, even if it's for positive purposes, such as investing. Let emergency funds settle, and if possible, we should continue to increase them little by little to cover the value eroded by inflation. It's undeniable that inflation will continue to eat away at our money. Therefore, we must continue to increase our emergency funds to prevent their value from decreasing.

Investing with your emergency fund is not a total bad idea at all because after you have might paid all your bills and the money remaining becomes your discretionary income and inside that your discretionary income you can still generate out your emergency fund and started investing in the last 6 months and think you to invest using your emergency fund so that it multiple more income since you are not using it at the main time, you can invest with the emergency fund and tage it emergency fund which means it can be pull out if incase of unforeseen circumstances that might happen, so the reason why we should invest emergency fund is to back your really investment incase of anything, so you can decide on what to do with your emergency fund as per dividual convenient or best know to you, if actually you needed your emergency to in cash but left with me, i will say that once you progress with your Bitcoin portfolio that there are always a need to invest to have emergency fund.

While am struggling to really understand your point the fact is that it is wrong to invest with your emergency funds and there is no smartness in doing this at all it is called an emergency funds for a reason which means it has to be ready for the real reason of it's purpose, you sound as if you know when emergency will happen, nobody knows when this will happen and the level to which it will happen investing it is risky and it is not a good thing to do and is a total bad idea and advice if you ask me.

An emergency fund should only be used when faced with danger, whether it's for investment or to help Bitcoin investors through danger. If I can't help Bitcoin investors with an emergency fund, then why should I have a Bitcoin investment emergency fund?
Maybe that person is investing Bitcoin weekly, but if he is working and he gets a monthly salary then he will invest occasionally weekly and may not invest regularly every week. So if you want to follow regular investment weekly, you must use the emergency fund. Because you remember that the emergency fund is always kept to protect the investment from facing danger.


You made a mistake somewhere in your post I believe the right word to be used there should be discretionary income and not emergency funds because we don't use emergency funds to invest or accumulate Bitcoin rather we use our discretionary income for safety and security reasons. When you said emergency funds should be use when we face danger to me the word danger doesn't really fit in here I think what we should use is emergency and not danger because not all danger you will need to use emergency funds to solve but you will surely use emergency funds to solve emergency problem because that's its task.