§ 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 2021-09-03 to 2026-09-03
$50 monthly · 3 Sep 2021 → 3 Sep 2026 · CryptoCompare · daily close
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
$5,736
Fig. 01 — Value vs. Cost Basis
Total invested
$3,050
Buys executed
61
BTC accumulated
₿ 0.071468
Avg. cost basis
$42,677/BTC
Your worst day on paper
−44.2%
$7,846 → $4,381
The story
On 3 Jul 2026, you were down 44% on paper. It hasn't fully come back.
If you'd lump-summed at the start
$4,894
+$1,844
Verdict
DCA won. Patience paid.
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