While I don't recommend unnecessarily leaving funds on exchanges, you're option here is to not withdraw the BTC after every DCA purchase. Instead, probably do the withdrawals biweekly/monthly(whichever you're comfortable with). That way, you'll significantly decrease your fee payments.

If exchanges is not involved, you can use ViaBTC free accelerator and use low fee like 10 sat/byte for legacy addresses, or 18 sat/vbyte for native segwit addresses.

For exchanges, you can use side chain to accumulate 5 to 10 times. Send the money back and convert it to bitcoin. Just do not leave huge amount on the side chain because they are not actually bitcoin but pegged with bitcoin price. They are altcoins.

Good idea.

I do agree, but this is just short term effect of the high transaction, sooner or later it will go down a bit. And obviously, you have to look at the long term, maybe 1-2 years still or at least when we are in the bull run you will forget that at one time brc20 ordinals clogged the network.

So just continue to accumulate as much as you can and simply ignore or just hold the money that you got and timing the network when it is not congestion.

You need to be just observant and in the end, everyone of us here will make a profit by doing DCA.

It stops being DCA since you're going to buy in a slump sum that might be 50% of the average , for better or for worse, it could also be the exact average of for the whole year, exactly on that day but anyhow it will be better than spending 10% or 5% of fees, those are lost money anyhow.


That's your problem, and you must overcome that with discipline, if you feel like you're wasting that money on unnecessary expenses then better just incur the fees, at least you end up with something while buying rather than just spending, but again, it com down to what expenses you think of.

Anyhow I would suggest trying LN as your fried did, the rest are just measures that will chip money from you with other expenses
- moving between coins to save on withdraw fees and then change back to bitcoin will again incur extra fees
- using a dex will get you in problems with sending small sums to the buyer, you will see increase fees there
If we would have a truly cheaper solution for this ready then those exchanges would have already been out of business.


You do realize that when saying from now on the network will be less congested it means that less people are going to actively use Bitcoin, right?
Cause you can't have 1sat/b byte transactions in the next block unless you have less than network capacity in waiting transactions.

While being a rosy pictures on the fee issue is quite a grim prediction for actual Bitcoin usage.

I also tried it yesterday and the results are almost the same as what you said in terms of the fee request range, and if approved then it can be executed, but it's still not bad compared to last week, almost 3x more than today. and the waiting time is up to five days before completion. Is this the case and do we seem forced to do it or is it just my opinion, regardless of network congestion when BTC is going up.

This is the solution I'm implementing, and it's not just a temporary solution during times of transaction fee spikes, I've been implementing it more regularly to save as much on transaction fees as possible . The collapse of FTX is a warning to us that storing assets for long periods of time on exchanges is something we should avoid. Furthermore, just because FTX collapsed doesn't mean the remaining exchanges will collapse anytime soon, and temporarily leaving some bitcoin on exchanges isn't a bad thing.

OP said he doesn't like storing bitcoins on exchanges, but I think he should consider what you said because I don't think it's too bad.

Bitcoin DCA in this period of time is worrying, I now have to wait for weeks before moving Bitcoin into my offline wallet for long term hold, sometimes I have to check mempool from time to time to make sure that the transaction fee is affordable, it's going to be very hard for people that make less money, it's not worth sending $50 Bitcoin with $4-$10 on Bitcoin network, if you do this in few months you will realise that you have spend a lot of transaction fee alone.

I recommend storing your fund somewhere for weeks before buying Bitcoin unless the transaction fee becomes reasonable enough, if not it's better to keep saving up the money first, this will be a very hard thing in the coming bull market as there will be a lot of congestion on the network and only those with the $$$ will be able to do some transactions successfully, it's really a big concern.

I am glad that I already bought some Bitcoin before the transaction starts going up but now I can't make small transactions because I am worried about the transaction fee, I just decide to use something else for daily payment solution.

Any will do. They seem to be good plans at all and if the time comes that the price of Bitcoin goes into correction and yet the fees are still not yet fine. I think that you have to do it and take those fees by that time or calculate if it's worth it to pay those fees for you to buy the cheap price by that time. But it's not a problem if you're going to wait until the fees goes down. We've got ways of how to deal with these high fees and gives us more idea on how we'll able to continue DCAing. IMHO, many does this that they keep and save first their money and wait for the right timing of cheaper fees and price of Bitcoin if it's possible then that's when they do the transfers whichever is favorable but much better if both does at the same time.

You don't have to be forced to do this as long as you don't need money suddenly or still want to keep Bitcoin because you don't want to sell it at the current price. You can use the time to wait for the fees to become cheaper so that you don't pay more fees when making transactions. So don't think of it as a complicated problem as long as you can still wait for cheaper fees on the current Bitcoin network, because I'm sure this fee problem will change again in the near future when Bitcoin prices start to run more stable.