i sometimes like to cut my frozen pizza into lots of little slices so i can pretend i have friends to share it with. in reality i eat the whole thing by myself every time. i am a sad lonely loser and i will die alone.
"Just DCA and hold long-term" worked when the asset class was being discovered.
Now you're competing with funds, algorithms, and literal scammers who treat your "conviction" as exit liquidity. Passive strategies require passive markets. Crypto isn't that. And holding isn't a strategy. It's the absence of one.