BTC, satoshi and fiat converter
Convert between bitcoin, satoshis and dollars at the live proxied rate, and see what a regular buy schedule would have accumulated historically. Thinking in satoshis is a useful habit: there are 100,000,000 to a bitcoin.
Edit any field and the other two follow. The rate is a spot quote from one venue and is not what you would pay after spread, fees and slippage.
Regular-buy (DCA) view
Computed from real daily closes over the selected window. This describes what a schedule would have done in the past. It is not a projection, it ignores fees and spread, and it is not a recommendation to buy.
Why satoshis
A satoshi is one hundred-millionth of a bitcoin, and it is the unit the protocol actually works in. Fee rates are quoted in satoshis per virtual byte, and most everyday amounts are far easier to reason about as whole sats than as long decimals. Learning to think in sats removes a surprising amount of confusion.
What dollar-cost averaging is and is not
Buying a fixed amount on a fixed schedule removes the timing decision. Its real benefit is behavioural: it stops you from committing everything at one moment and from waiting indefinitely for a better entry that may not come.
It does not guarantee a profit, and it does not protect against a sustained decline — a schedule through a multi-year drawdown accumulates more coins at lower prices and is still underwater. The panel above shows what a schedule would have done over a historical window. Past performance is not indicative of future results.
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