§ Preset · A modest stack, plainly
$50 a month, five years
Five years is not a long time in markets. It is also long enough that the median Bitcoin holder reading this has owned coin for less. This run deploys $50 a month — about a movie ticket and a coffee — across the trailing sixty months. The amount is on the low end of plausibility; the cadence is on the low end of friction. The output is what happens when a small commitment runs uninterrupted through one halving cycle and the first months of the next.
$50 monthly · from 2021-07-15 to 2026-07-15
$50 monthly · 15 Jul 2021 → 15 Jul 2026 · Daily close · cached snapshot
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
$4,596
Fig. 01 — Value vs. Cost Basis
Total invested
$3,050
Buys executed
61
BTC accumulated
₿ 0.072093
Avg. cost basis
$42,307/BTC
Your worst day on paper
−40.1%
$7,672 → $4,596
The story
Today is the worst day on paper — you're 40% below the $7,672 peak set on 15 Aug 2025.
If you'd lump-summed at the start
$6,101
+$3,051
Verdict
Lump sum won — but you also had to time it perfectly.
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