§ Preset · Six years through one cycle
DCA from the 2020 halving
The third Bitcoin halving cut the block reward from 12.5 to 6.25 coins on 11 May 2020. Halving narratives are loud; the math is quieter. This run buys $50 a week from the halving block to today — through the 2021 highs, the 2022 collapse, the 2023 recovery, and the post-2024-halving run-up. Nothing in the schedule reacts to any of that. The result is what a single, uninterrupted six-year commitment looks like when laid against one full bitcoin cycle and the start of the next.
$50 weekly · from 2020-05-11 to 2026-05-29
$50 weekly · 11 May 2020 → 29 May 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
$35,672
Fig. 01 — Value vs. Cost Basis
Total invested
$15,800
Buys executed
316
BTC accumulated
₿ 0.482787
Avg. cost basis
$32,727/BTC
Your worst day on paper
−65.3%
$13,224 → $4,595
The story
On 21 Nov 2022, you were down 65% on paper. You did nothing. It came back.
If you'd lump-summed at the start
$136,242
+$120,442
Verdict
Lump sum won — but you also had to time it perfectly.
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