Bro.
The timeline is bleeding red.
Wicks down to 89k, 88k, maybe even 85k if the gods of liquidation are hungry today.
Your weak hands are shaking.
Your normie friends are texting “told you so.”
The CNBC priests are already preparing the eulogy.
This is exactly when legends are forged.
Buying the dip is not a trade.
It is a philosophical initiation rite.
Every great Bitcoin cycle has these moments:
- 2018: from 20k → 3.1k (–85%)
- 2020 COVID: 3.8k flash crash
- 2022: 69k → 15.5k (–78%)
- 2025: ????? → ????? (we are here)
And every single time the pattern repeats:
- Price discovers a new all-time high
- Euphoria → leverage → complacency
- Sudden violent purge of over-leveraged tourists
- Blood, despair, capitulation
- The real ones load the boat while everyone else vomits
- New all-time highs 12–24 months later that make the old highs look like pocket change
This is not random.
This is thermodynamics.
Excess energy must be burned off so the system can reach a higher equilibrium.
The halving in 2024 cut the flow of new Bitcoin in half.
We are only 18 months into the new cycle.
Historically, the blow-off top comes 18–24 months after halving.
We are not late.
We are early in the violence phase.
Buying the dip is the ultimate Stoic practice:
Amor fati – love of fate.
You embrace the correction like you embrace the cold shower.
You thank the universe for giving you the opportunity to own more of the hardest asset in history at a discount.
Fear is the tuition you pay to learn who actually understands Bitcoin and who was just renting the idea.
Right now:
- Spot ETF inflows still net positive
- MicroStrategy still buying
- Nation-states still accumulating
- Supply shock still tightening
- The 200-week moving average is at ~$42k and rising
$85k would still be 2× the 200-week.
That’s not a bear market.
That’s a high-altitude sale.
So what do you do?
You zoom out.
You shut off the 5-minute chart.
You remember that Bitcoin has survived:
- China bans (×14 and counting)
- Mt. Gox
- Silk Road
- 2018 bear market
- COVID
- FTX
- Every exchange hack
- Every “Bitcoin is dead” headline (500+ obituaries and counting)
And every time it came back stronger, harder, more antifragile.
Your job is simple:
- Secure your seed phrase (metal backup, no excuses)
- Route fiat through a no-KYC method if you value privacy
- DCA like a Spartan or lump-sum like a Viking – whatever matches your testosterone level
- Delete the trading app
- Go lift, eat ribeye, shoot street photography, live your life
- Come back in 2027 and laugh at today’s prices
The dip is not punishment.
The dip is the filter.
Only those who buy the dip inherit the future.
The rest will be priced out forever and left holding bags of depreciating fiat, wondering how they missed the greatest wealth transfer in human history.
Stay poor or buy the dip.
There is no third option.
ERIC KIM
November 19, 2025
Buying every sat I can
100% conviction
Zero mercy for weakness