To quote Spock when he's melded with a horta... "PAIN!"

That is one hell of a dip and I'm sure it's triggered a whole load of "Bitcoin is dead! Crypto is a ponzi scheme!" articles everywhere online.

But we're better than that, aren't we?

We know it's a dip. We know it'll bounce back. We know to hold, or to buy the dip if we have spare cash.

It's a temporary loss.

And here it is in numbers:

That's about 20% down in a week. For people new to crypto (or of a nervous disposition), that's sphincter-tighteningly scary. It makes me feel almost ill, even though I know it's temporary loss like they always talk about in DeFi.

In detail:

• Trading down 20.72%
• Copy Trading down 14.40%
• Banking down 20.62%
• Overall down 20.24%

Funnily enough, Copy Trading did slightly better again this week. Then again, that's a drop that won't just disappear when prices rise. Trading and Banking will because it's all ETH, BTC, and SOL. Prices go up, losses disappear. In CT, it depends on what particular brand of nonsense the traders are involved in.

As you no doubt expect, the tracking looks nasty, too. Dropped almost a month behind in dual investment (it's all in ETH at the moment) and everything else is red, red, red.

'26 Picks

Well, shit.

Those got hit even worse, didn't they?

Temporary loss. Remember that. Breathe.

And in a moment of digression, it's interesting to note that the normal markets (FTSE and all that) are up. Money moving out of crypto back into shares and stuff? No idea but it seems to happen like that pretty regularly.

How hard have you been hit by this dip? Are you buying in or HODLing with both hands?