From $1,000/mo, cycle by cycle, aiming at $1M. If the chain says different, the chain is right. Educational, not financial advice.
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Epoch 2 starts August 2026 — the first $1,000 buy lands on-chain then.
Nothing here renders as live before there is something to read — the first number arrives with the first buy.
BTC starts this chapter 48.6% below its 2025-10-06 high (snapshot 2026-07-24). Starting in a deep drawdown is not bad timing — it is the point. The plan claims patience, and this is what claiming patience looks like on day one.
Faster than the 30-year index is the goal. Whether it happens is published, month by month, losses included.
Nine of every ten dollars sit in the hold and never trade. The sleeve is the remaining 10% — small by rule, capped by rule, and never what this plan leans on.
Growth past the cap sweeps into the hold, where compounding does the real work.
The same monthly paycheck is replayed four ways — me with the trading sleeve, me without it, pure BTC-DCA, and the S&P 500. The gap between those lines is the whole argument, and the rule is simple: I won't fake a gap that isn't there yet.
Seeded from my live portfolio — homework, not a promise.
Illustrative base case at the tool's editable defaults: ~4y 1m to $100k, ~16y 2m to $1M. A long climb — that is the point.
Monthly contributions compounding at a rate you set — contributions drawn separately from growth, so the chart can't flatter itself. The optional fade (×0.57 per 4-year cycle) is the geometric mean of the only two completed halving cycles on record (×0.48 and ×0.68) — a thin sample that disagrees with itself, so treat it as a scenario, not a schedule.
The same monthly payment, two ways: as loan interest you pay it; invested at a return you set, it earns — or, in a bear stretch, loses. The interest changes sign, and the crossover is solved at your rate, never typed.
BTC has losing years — the bear preset is not a stunt. A negative return is a real outcome, and it's shown as plainly as a good one.
Same $200/mo, opposite sign: as loan interest it costs you $2,000; invested at 8%/yr it earns +$2,589. That's the interest changing sign — the whole idea.
The slow part is real. At 8%/yr, passive income overtakes your monthly contribution only after ≈ 8.8 years from zero (≈$30,000 invested at the cross), and bear years push that further out — not “a couple of years”.
The point is never “stop paying your way”. It's that, given time, your contribution becomes a choice, not a necessity.
Borrowing against your holdings instead of selling is a different animal — do it only at a low LTV with the liquidation price on screen, because a 50–80% crypto drawdown liquidates a top-of-cycle loan taken at 50% LTV.
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