Vol. I · No. 1

The Stack Report

A periodical for the patient buyer of bitcoin.

The Stack Report

What if you'd actually
stacked sats?

A historical dollar-cost-average backtester for Bitcoin. Pick an amount, a cadence, a starting date. The numbers don't lie.


Portfolio value, today

$16,421

$5,971 (+57.1%)vs. $10,450 invested

Fig. 01 — Value vs. Cost Basis

ValueInvested

Total invested

$10,450

Buys executed

209

BTC accumulated

₿ 0.252979

Avg. cost basis

$41,308/BTC

Your worst day on paper

43.4%

$28,399 $16,080

The story

On 27 Feb 2026, you were down 43% on paper. It hasn't fully come back.

If you'd lump-summed at the start

$22,854

+$12,404

Verdict

Lump sum won — but you also had to time it perfectly.

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§ The Method

Boring beats brilliant.

— An essay in three paragraphs

Dollar-cost averaging (DCA) is the practice of buying a fixed dollar amount of an asset on a fixed schedule, regardless of price. You buy more when it's cheap, less when it's expensive, and never have to guess the top or bottom.

For Bitcoin specifically, DCA has historically outperformed almost every form of active trading by retail investors. The reason is structural: BTC's drawdowns are brutal (–80% is common), and most people who try to time them sell at the lows and re-enter at the highs. A recurring buy bypasses the psychology entirely.

This tool runs your hypothetical buys against real historical daily closes and tells you the truth. The strategy isn't clever. It's just patient.

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