{ "version": "https://jsonfeed.org/version/1.1", "title": "BTC DCA Engine — Articles", "home_page_url": "https://btcdcaengine.com/blog", "feed_url": "https://btcdcaengine.com/blog/feed.json", "description": "Measured write-ups from the DCA engine — what the data actually shows, including the results that do not flatter Bitcoin.", "language": "en-US", "authors": [ { "name": "BTC DCA Engine", "url": "https://btcdcaengine.com/about" } ], "items": [ { "id": "https://btcdcaengine.com/blog/panic-sold-bitcoin-what-if-i-held", "url": "https://btcdcaengine.com/blog/panic-sold-bitcoin-what-if-i-held", "title": "You panicked, sold Bitcoin. What if you had held?", "summary": "Selling Bitcoin and buying back can help or hurt. We replay 2,467 sell dates, keep the cash contributions equal, and show how to check your own trade.", "content_text": "Whether selling Bitcoin left you worse off depends on when you bought back and what happened to the cash. In our fixed $50 weekly plan, a 30-day exit finished behind uninterrupted buying on 1,419 of 2,467 sell dates. Some exits won. Your dates matter more than that historical count.", "date_published": "2026-09-30T12:00:00Z", "date_modified": "2026-09-30T12:00:00Z", "tags": [ "does-dca-work" ], "authors": [ { "name": "BTC DCA Engine", "url": "https://btcdcaengine.com/about" } ] }, { "id": "https://btcdcaengine.com/blog/bitcoin-dca-worst-case", "url": "https://btcdcaengine.com/blog/bitcoin-dca-worst-case", "title": "Bitcoin DCA worst case: how far down it has actually gone", "summary": "Every weekly start date since 2014, marked at its lowest point: how far below cost each plan went, how far the balance fell, and how often it happened.", "content_text": "Of 624 weekly Bitcoin start dates, 615 spent time below what they had paid in — 98.6% of them. The median plan was down 32.2% at its worst and 92 were down more than half. Yet the worst any start date has finished is 9.4% below cost.", "date_published": "2026-09-03T12:00:00Z", "date_modified": "2026-09-03T12:00:00Z", "tags": [ "does-dca-work" ], "authors": [ { "name": "BTC DCA Engine", "url": "https://btcdcaengine.com/about" } ] }, { "id": "https://btcdcaengine.com/blog/dca-frequency-and-lump-sum", "url": "https://btcdcaengine.com/blog/dca-frequency-and-lump-sum", "title": "DCA vs lump sum: which wins, measured on 571 Bitcoin start dates", "summary": "Lump sum vs dollar-cost averaging: investing at once beat a twelve-month DCA in 68.3% of 571 Bitcoin start dates, but the worst 5% finished 44.3% behind.", "content_text": "Dollar-cost averaging vs lump sum, on Bitcoin: investing the cash at once beat feeding it in over twelve months in 68.3% of 571 start dates, a median 24.4% better — though the worst 5% finished 44.3% behind. Buying weekly instead of daily moved the cost 0.02%, which is noise. Hesitating a year before starting lost in 77.5%.", "date_published": "2026-08-27T12:00:00Z", "date_modified": "2026-09-29T12:00:00Z", "tags": [ "does-dca-work" ], "authors": [ { "name": "BTC DCA Engine", "url": "https://btcdcaengine.com/about" } ] }, { "id": "https://btcdcaengine.com/blog/bitcoin-dca-calculator-comparison", "url": "https://btcdcaengine.com/blog/bitcoin-dca-calculator-comparison", "title": "Bitcoin DCA calculator comparison: 17 tools, 8 real answers", "summary": "The same plan through every Bitcoin DCA calculator I could find. Only 8 of 17 express a closed window; the five that ran it as written disagree by $1,904.", "content_text": "Of 17 Bitcoin DCA calculators tested on 27 August 2026, only 8 let you set both a start and an end date, and the five that ran it as written disagree by $1,904 on identical inputs. This site scored 21 of 24 and bennet.org 20 — but one of them is ours, so read the method before the ranking.", "date_published": "2026-08-26T12:00:00Z", "date_modified": "2026-09-02T12:00:00Z", "tags": [ "tools-and-method" ], "authors": [ { "name": "BTC DCA Engine", "url": "https://btcdcaengine.com/about" } ] }, { "id": "https://btcdcaengine.com/blog/bitcoin-vs-other-assets", "url": "https://btcdcaengine.com/blog/bitcoin-vs-other-assets", "title": "Bitcoin vs other assets: 15 you could buy, 4 you couldn't", "summary": "The same $50 a week into 19 of the simulator's 22 assets over 11.5 years, ranked. Only 15 were purchasable. Bitcoin finished 2nd. Nvidia won.", "content_text": "From 17 September 2014 to 1 April 2026, $50 a week — 603 purchases, $30,150 — into each of 19 of the simulator's 22 assets. Nvidia turned it into $1,963,969, or 65.2× what went in. Bitcoin finished 2nd at 44.5×. 14 of the 19 finished below 4×, and 3 failed to beat inflation.", "date_published": "2026-08-25T12:00:00Z", "date_modified": "2026-09-29T12:00:00Z", "tags": [ "bitcoin-vs-everything" ], "authors": [ { "name": "BTC DCA Engine", "url": "https://btcdcaengine.com/about" } ] }, { "id": "https://btcdcaengine.com/blog/how-long-bitcoin-dca-underwater", "url": "https://btcdcaengine.com/blog/how-long-bitcoin-dca-underwater", "title": "How long have Bitcoin DCA buyers actually stayed underwater?", "summary": "Every weekly start date since 2014, measured to today: how many buyers are down, how far, and the longest anyone has waited to get back above cost.", "content_text": "Across 624 weekly start dates since September 2014, 80 are below cost today — about one in eight. The deepest is down 9.4 percent. The longest any cohort spent continuously below what it had paid in was 486 days, and every one of the 624 has been above water at some point.", "date_published": "2026-08-25T12:00:00Z", "date_modified": "2026-09-03T12:00:00Z", "tags": [ "does-dca-work" ], "authors": [ { "name": "BTC DCA Engine", "url": "https://btcdcaengine.com/about" } ] } ] }