The BitcoinSaving blog
Data stories about small, regular Bitcoin buying. We research real posts and discussions daily, recompute every number in our own calculator, and publish the ones that hold up.
Start with the method
How dollar-cost averaging works and how our calculator replays real prices since 2010.
Lump sum or little and often?
The honest comparison, including the cases where the lump sum lost.
Think in sats
Why small buyers count in satoshis, and a converter for both directions.
Latest
The Weimar hyperinflation: what happened to savers
In 1918 a loaf of bread in Germany cost 0.29 marks. By November 1923 it cost 200 billion. The story of how printed money wiped out a nation's savers.
DCA vs lump sum: which actually won?
The same $5,200, invested once or spread weekly, for every January start since 2016. Lump sum won most years; DCA won the years that scared people.
Stacking sats: a beginner guide
Why small buyers count in satoshis, what a dollar buys today, and what $25 a week has actually stacked since 2023.
Bitcoin savings vs a bank account
$100 a month for five years, started at the all-time high: the honest comparison, with the bad years left in.
What $100 became in 10 years
Cash, gold, the S&P 500 and Bitcoin, side by side, plus the fifth lane nobody charts: buying a little every week since 2016, recomputed.
Coming next
- "I sold too early": regret stories, recomputed honestly, with the seller treated fairly.
- Small amounts, long horizons: what $5 to $50 a week actually did across full market cycles.
- The start-date problem: why the same plan can look brilliant or broken depending on one month.