Stacking’em Volume 37 (October 2024)

Back at it! There’s been a long break from writing this blog. Mr. Stax has had some rough times, and you know how it goes, you miss once, you’re gonna miss again. Just like going to the gym. You miss once because you don’t feel like it, you’re gonna miss again. And again, and again. That’s kinda what happened to the blog earlier this year, but thanks to you guys, finally got enough of a push to bring myself back. But the most important thing is – the stacking never stops. You don’t stack when you feel like it. You don’t not stack if you don’t feel like it. You stack every month before you get to do anything else with you newly fiat mined money! This months’ price was ~57200 € / btc which means I got another ~.008 btc added to the stack (I buy with 500€ every month) that totals roughly 4.55 b/c today.

The coin’s been teasing us a while with trying to break into new ATHs while patiently waiting for the ‘normal’ schedule familiar from the previous cycles. Many people (myself included) already announced that the cycles are dead after seeing a new ATH before the halving. But if you think that the previous ATH was suppressed (as it was with the FTX etc. fuckery) then you could argue that the cycle is perfectly in tact and it would be textbook cycle theory to reach a ‘real’ ATH at the end of this year and go on to the price discovery mode next year. Well, whatever happens, I’m sure bitcoin will surprise us, one way or another, as it always does. Let’s take a look at the charts:

The orange line is my bitcoin stack, ever increasing, currently around 4.55 btc. The journey from 4 –> 4.5 btc was roughly 2 years with some nice discounted btc prices. With the bullmarket so close ahead of us, I don’t think I’m ever gonna reach 5 full coins. The orange line will inevitably flatten and keep me below 5 on the chart, though I’m not so sad about it as at the same time the green line is gonna shoot straight up. The green line is the corresponding fiat worth, lately reaching a new ATH of nearly 300k measured in eurozone funny money. The black dashed line is the total amount on money spent, currently ~45k€, in the span of 7 years.

The bars represent every bitcoin purchase I’ve ever made, once per month, starting from October 2017, 85 in total. For example, in October 2017 I made my first btc purchase when the price was ~3700 € / btc, this purchase has now given me a +1440% on the money put in. Nearly every one of these purchases has been on the negative at some point on time. And there has been long periods when it would have made more sense to just stack fiat in the bank account instead of buying bitcoin every month. But there simply is no shortcut to building your stack. Everybody needs to feel stupid and be underwater (even Saylor), and eventually, if you persevere, you will end up with a nice bitcoin stack. It’s a cliché but it’s true – no pain, no gain!

The orange line is the performance of my bitcoin savings strategy. The blue line is the performance of a ‘normal’ savings strategy of using S&P500 as your savings vehicle. Basically, I wanted a baseline for my bitcoin strategy as nobody stack fiat to their bank account. So, I chose to compare my bitcoin strategy to S&P.

Stacking sats vs. stacking stocks.

My bitcoin strategy has given me ~470% profit for the money put in, whereas an S&P strategy with similar investment amounts would have given only 64%. That’s roughly a ten X, and the bull market hasn’t even started yet. Choose your savings vehicle wisely!

That’s all for now! Happy Halloween and see you again next month!

-@BRetirementPlan


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