[brooklyntribe]

Plan B?

Just buy what you can afford each week. And don't think about it. Come back in a year.

Retire to Goa. AKA A beach. :-)

[gnaritas]

Terrible plan, even if it double or tripled in a year you're not going to retire from that and given its history it's entirely possible it'll be half the current value next year.

[bradleyjg]

This asset class is different. Prices only ever go up.

[qntty]

It's hard to tell what's satire and what's serious when people are talking about bitcoin

[paulpauper]

paradoxially, if you buy a little each week , you want the price to oscillate rather than go strait up

[jstanley]

Don't you want it to stay low for ages and then shoot up all at once?

How does oscillation help?

[fragsworth]

You are right, and they probably mean the reverse causation. If it is volatile, you want to "dollar cost average", so you aren't significantly impacted by the price of a single purchase.

[brndnmtthws]

'oscillation' isn't the word I'd use, but I assume the parent is referring to dollar cost averaging: https://www.bogleheads.org/wiki/Dollar_cost_averaging