"Only buy something that you would be perfectly happy to hold if the market shut down for 10 years." Warren Buffett.

And that in a nutshell is what investing is about.

A great deal of all of those that consider themselves investors fail to meet its most minimum standards, with most of them being traders, aspiring traders or people that like to burn their money away, but whatever the case, it would be for the better if they stopped calling themselves investors, since many newbies read those kind of claims and mistakenly believe investing requires holding their bitcoin for a very short amount of time.

Taking a break will slow down your bitcoin target which is not a wise decision when trying to build your bitcoin investment as a brand new investor or a low coiner. This is why you must prepare for all possible case scenarios which is the good and worst case scenarios. A new investor needs to plan properly to make sure that he uses part of his discretionary income to buy bitcoin that will not affect his regular buying weekly or monthly so that he can always buy his bitcoin as budgeted. Consistency and persistence is very important when you are accumulating bitcoin no matter how small the amount you are using to buy is. If you stop buying because bitcoin if pumping or dumping means that you are not serious in accumulating more bitcoin fast.

No one can predict the price movement of bitcoin and that is why you are to invest in a long term using DCA to constantly buy irrespective of the price of bitcoin to enable you have a good size of bitcoin stash overtime. You can continue with your DCA regularly buying and at the same time re-access your buying pattern but not to stop buying. Only investors who have a good size of bitcoin portfolio can stop buying at a certain time because the price of bitcoin is high but they will always want to buy when the price of bitcoin dips because that is when they will buy in discount price.

A new investor is just to keep buying for 4-10 years and above. Bitcoin investment is for the future and the size of your bitcoin investment is what matters a lot because that is what will determine your profits overtime.

Of course, when it comes to the BTC accumulation, being well organized even from the theoretical standpoint can make you feel surprisingly powerful. It creates consistency and discipline in the investment plan by determining the disposable income and the portion set aside regularly to invest in BTC.

Being able to incorporate the idea of buying the dip additively into your regular accumulation plan is even more of an improvement to the strategy. It offers an edge by leveraging on lower prices when they are available, although your basic strategy is not solely pegged on DIPs, which may be unpredictable.

As identified, lump-sum buying can therefore indeed be a strong addition to the normal BTC buying plan. It also helps when you receive some amount of money which is not expected, for instance bonuses and other forms of windfalls, one already has a BTC investment plan that is followed as opposed to going on a spending spree.

These methods simply become a part of your planning, execution and schedule, at some point helping you lock your investments and at the same time leverage on possible opportunities most people probably won’t even notice. This is a forward looking strategy that places you in a much better situation of reaping from Bitcoin’s long term prospect

I don't have a problem with investors talking a little break from investing in bitcoin due to personal reasons, or the fact that they may consider that they have gotten a reasonable amount of stash in their portfolio. But if the reason is to go and research the the market to know the reason for a down trend, that's where am not too comfortable with and I don't support that. Long term investors has nothing to do with whatever that's causing down trend in the market. We are quite aware that things like this do happens and our own is just to continue with our buying. Let me ask you this question, what exactly are you hoping to achieve when you finally know the reason for the down trend? Why put yourself through the psychological and emotional stress by researching the market? Personally I don't always care to know what's causing any down trend, provided I'm engaging with my DCA. And when the down trend reaches the level I already projected for myself before time, I utilize my buy the DIP strategy and move on.

Yet I think Warren Buffett can be a controversial figure at times. He somewhere said he would do it the exact same way today as he did back then. But this statement has so many flaws. It is very abstract to put it that way and people think he is right because he is the billionaire and they are not. Well, now there are lots of billionaires because of Bitcoin while he wouldn't have become one as it is rat poison in his opinion. He missed several tech stocks back at the time because he couldn't see how technology would enfold. Yet I respect that he sticked to his guns, but as much as you could become rich running a bakery in the 60s, as unlikely is it today doing the same.

He said he would again concentrate on finding businesses with lots of value + growth potential. But times have indeed changed. The advantage he got over others due to gathering knowledge wouldn't enfold the same way to his advantage today. There are cycles in life and those who became a billionaire with Bitcoin would probably say that it was a once in a lifetime chance. Maybe it is going to happen twice in a lifetime to some of us. But Buffett was born in 1930 and he invested all the way through the post Second World War boom and was immensely wealthy when the 1970s recession kicked in. That was the time when most of the world had to dump while he was able to buy.

He did a lot of things correctly, but he refused to buy Google despite allegedly having insider information back at the time. He failed to buy Amazon and himself calls it dumb. He failed to buy Apple early, only started in 2016. He calls Bitcoin rat poison.

In conclusion, he was the right man at the right time in the right place under the right circumstances. I don't know how far Coca Cola and McDonalds would get him today.

Building a solid portfolio in bitcoin requires consistency and commitment. Especially, when you are still in early phase of accumulating. Holding Bitcoin for a long period doesn't require any lapses along our holding journey, taking a break because of dumping and pumping  in the market could be a step backwards, we just have to keep going and stay on the track of accumulation no matter the market circumstances.

Using a DCA strategy that you can invest a regular fixed amount from your income or earnings at your own comfort, why consider going for break when consistency and commitment is required to grow your bitcoin stash. As you invest continuously, research can still be made on how to improve and increase your holdings.  You dont necessarily need a break in regards to dumping and pumping, each of these market moments presents opportunities for investors to capitalise on. If an investor is holding bitcoin for a long term,  we should always see these market situation in a positive direction that when our accumulation has matured it will be beneficial to our investments.

Bitcoin market conditions are predictable but reality can be different so you should stay in regular buying as you will keep stashing into your portfolio whether the price of Bitcoin is bearish or bullish. When its price goes down, the same amount of money accumulates more bitcoins that increase over time, even continuing to accumulate during bullish periods. Accumulating bitcoins for a long time also makes you more experienced in investing so bearish and bullish divergences can become more positive for you than they do for larger investors. DCA naturally becomes easier for you as your stash gets progressively bigger and it becomes easier for you to decide to continue accumulating bitcoin for 10 years or more. Since your portfolio is a decent size you can be aggressive in buying bitcoin during dips. For example, if the price of Bitcoin is going up for 6 months then you continue to accumulate normally and if the price goes down for the next 1 month then you should continue to buy aggressively. By conducting DCA in this process after 10 years you will see a huge stash of Bitcoins in your portfolio which can give you huge profits. So you should increase holdings and go long.

When it comes to investing in Bitcoin we must always gain enough experience about the Bitcoin market before we invest in Bitcoin. Many times it is seen that in the condition of lack of experience in Bitcoin, investing in Bitcoin has to face more losses than clubs. But for those who are new or new to Bitcoin, I must tell them that before investing in Bitcoin, they need to know enough about Bitcoin before investing. Bitcoin we always have to have a long term plan and check the market and then invest. Many times it is seen that we are too hasty to rush back and make wrong decisions due to which we lose the profits that we have invested. If we can bring Bitcoin and invest patiently with a long-term plan, surely we will be able to earn enough profits in Bitcoin that will make us more interested in Bitcoin.

As much as this kind of statement holds ground theoretically and goes to explain the need to believe in whatever asset one is investing into,  we can't be too certain on what will become of Bitcoin if the Bitcoin market shuts down for a period of 10 years. And even when we consider another asset, it's not all that easy to keep HODling an asset after 10 years of its value shutting down except you're left with no option than to keep HODling since you've invested too much already.

The idea of HODling is from a standpoint of giving yourself enough time that allows you to accumulate a lot of Bitcoin and so I wouldn't totally agree with this quote that tend to suggest that the yardstick for measuring which asset you're investing into or how long you're HODling your asset is based on your mere long term believe in the asset. Primarily, everyone that's investing in Bitcoin already believes that Bitcoin is the best digital asset to HODL and that's the reason why we keep buying both at the bears and even during the bull using the DCA methord and by consistently doing it for a number of years upto the point when we've reached our goal, it's not just because we want to HODL for a very long time as though it's how long we have HODLed our Bitcoin that guarantees the profitability of our investment, it's just that buy continuous DCA with respect to time, we are placed at a better position where we have a large amount of Bitcoin which determines the profitability of our Bitcoin investments.

So in summary, it's not about how long you've HODL but how well you utilized those period and how much Bitcoin you're able to buy within such space of time. Some of the long term HODLers only buys an initial Bitcoin or ceased it from a source and might succeed in holding it for 10 to 20 years, you can't compare the rate of profitability of such holders to how profitable another person that DCA consistently for 4 to 8 years considering that the amount of Bitcoin the latter must have bought would be more than what the initial person has held unto.

If we want to get education through mobile phone or read books then why do we go to school. You cannot become a scholar by reading yourself. In school we go to expand our knowledge. We can learn a lot more in school than what we can learn from outside. There are many things which are unknown to us and we can learn about those things through school teachers. In other words, there is a lot of need for practical learning in all fields. We will have complete knowledge about investment when we will invest to get a practical application. Investing yourself creates your own idea about that investment and from that idea you can advise others.