π $25 Weekly BTC Portfolio β Week 5
Another $25 deployed - 0.00039653 BTC acquired
New average cost basis: $73,376
β Total invested so far: $125
β Total BTC stacked: β0.001704 BTC
Estimated portfolio value right now: β$107
Unrealized P/L: β$18 (β14.4%)
Solid week of stacking. Cost basis continues to improve nicely. Keeping the DCA going!
DYOR - This is not financial advice.
#DeFi #Bitcoin #Investing #Portfolio #ChiPortfolio
@TedPillows This is basically a casino for guessing which direction the market will go. Better to just provide liquidity pools - you earn fees from both directions, no matter what!
Selling at the bottom is the #1 portfolio killer.
DeFi alternative: Borrow against BTC/ETH instead of selling.
Example with $10k BTC collateral on Aave:
- Deposit BTC as collateral
- Borrow USDC to pay bills (keep health factor >1.7 for safety)
- Still fully own the BTC for future upside
Why does this help reduce losses (conservative view):
Bitcoin has delivered strong long-term growth historically. Even assuming a more conservative 20% average annual growth going forward (well below past cycles), it can still make sense.
If BTC grows ~20% per year on average, and your borrowing cost is only 2-8%, keeping 100% of your BTC exposure allows the asset growth to outpace the interest on the borrowed portion.
You benefit from the full upside while accessing liquidity today - without selling and potentially missing the recovery.
No taxable event. No panic sale at the lows. You can even earn yield on the collateral to help offset borrowing interest.
β οΈ Important Warning: Liquidation risk is real if prices crash hard. Always over-collateralize heavily (health factor 1.7+ or higher), monitor daily, and never borrow more than you can comfortably handle even in a deep drawdown.
Have you ever borrowed on-chain? Worth it or too stressful for you? π
DYOR. Not financial advice. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Manage your own risk carefully.
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Update on my cbBTC/USDC LP position - Week 2!
Just borrowed (health factor: 1.5) another $10 USDC against my Bitcoin collateral and added it straight into the Uniswap v3 liquidity pool.
Position details (same as before):
Pair: cbBTC/USDC (0.30% fee tier)
Range: $53,149 β $73,927 (still comfortably in range at current price)
Total position value: $57.48
Itβs been exactly one week since I started, and Iβve already earned $0.75 in trading fees - a solid result on this small but growing capital.
Fees are doing exactly what theyβre supposed to: compounding toward more Bitcoin.
Strategy unchanged: earn fees > buy more BTC > repeat - slow and steady accumulation.
Will keep updating every week.
DYOR - this is not financial advice.
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Bear markets are the best time to create capital.
Bull markets are the best time to increase it - especially using DeFi.
The ones who stack quietly now will be the ones winning later. βοΈ
cbBTC/USDC liquidity pools looking wild right now
Running a small test across different protocols & fee tiers:
Leading Uniswap v3 on Base:
0.30% tier β 39% Fee APR
0.05% tier β 30% Fee APR (2nd place)
Others ranging from 19β27%
These tiny test pools that I opened 2 weeks ago are currently topping the fee APR leaderboard on Base
CEO of BlackRock, Larry Fink, says a 2-5% institutional allocation to Bitcoin could send BTC to $500Kβ$700K.
BlackRock officially recommends just 1-2% in BTC for most portfolios - even higher-risk ones - due to its volatility.
BTC remains a small satellite position.