How I Beat Inflation With Bitcoin!
Published September 18, 2025
by Joel Bomgar
YouTube Video Transcript
00:03 This is how to win in the world of
00:05 Bitcoin. I have two charts. I'm going to
00:07 walk you through them. And it's a lot
00:09 simpler than it looks like from what
00:10 it's on the screen. So, let's go. All
00:12 right. You win in Bitcoin by spending it
00:15 at a price that is higher than the price
00:17 you bought it for, thereby undoing the
00:19 effects of inflation. For example, if
00:21 you bought Bitcoin in uh 2023, you spend
00:25 it in 2024, you were up, I don't know,
00:28 150%. You bought Bitcoin in 2024, you
00:30 spent it in 2025, you were up 100%. And
00:34 that pattern keeps repeating, but
00:36 because the price chart on a daily
00:38 basis, which is on the left side of the
00:40 screen, because it looks so jagged,
00:42 people don't really understand what's
00:44 really going on here. So, it looks
00:45 scary. They're like, but I don't know
00:46 what to do. It's kind of all over the
00:48 place. It goes up and down. But what's
00:50 actually happening if you look at this
00:52 price chart, the price chart on the
00:54 right, um, well, let me explain the one
00:56 on the left first and then I'll flip
00:58 over to the one on the right. So, what's
00:60 actually going on here is Bitcoin, you
01:02 can't really tell it from the left, the
01:04 left chart, but let's talk only about
01:05 the left chart right now, is Bitcoin is
01:08 spending on this left chart about 7
01:11 months in the ballpark of $28,000. Yeah,
01:14 there's a little bit of time below
01:16 20,000. There's a little bit of time
01:18 above 40, but overall it spent about
01:21 seven solid months. You'll see on the
01:23 bottom right chart, 224 days around
01:27 $28,000. So if you just sort of zoom
01:29 out, it's like what happened in 2023,
01:33 late 2022, early 2023. The answer is
01:37 Bitcoin spent 224 days, which is more
01:40 than seven solid months. Bitcoin spent
01:43 more than seven solid months, generally
01:45 in the ballpark of $28,000. Now, a lot
01:49 of people did not buy Bitcoin around
01:51 $28,000 because it felt like it was
01:53 going nowhere. For 7 months, it was up
01:55 and then it was down. Look at Look at
01:56 all this grind in here. For seven
01:59 months, all this grind here just felt
02:01 like it was going nowhere. It just felt
02:03 like it was grinding sideways. When's
02:05 something going to happen? When's
02:06 something going to happen? When is
02:08 something going to happen? Well,
02:09 eventually something did happen
02:11 relatively quickly over the course of a
02:12 month or two. It got up here to $74,000
02:16 in March of 2024. And then it ground
02:19 sideways for eight solid months. You'll
02:22 see this on the chart on the right. For
02:24 246 days, eight solid months, it was
02:30 within 10% of $64,000.
02:33 And again, did did a lot of people buy
02:35 it in that zone? I mean, yes, but a lot
02:37 of people didn't because they were like,
02:38 well, it's going nowhere. It's grinding
02:40 sideways. It feels like it's trending
02:42 ever so slightly down, which is the
02:45 exact same thing it felt like over here
02:46 in 2023. If you draw a trend line from
02:49 some of these sort of peaks early on
02:51 here, all the way back down here through
02:53 this little low spot, the trend line
02:55 would be slightly going down. And so
02:57 people are like, why would I buy
02:58 Bitcoin? Because I missed out on the big
03:00 run up and now it's sort of grinding,
03:02 grinding, grinding, but ever so slightly
03:04 down. Then it runs up here to 74,000 and
03:07 it sort of grinds around 64,000. Again,
03:10 the peak was 74, but we're looking here
03:12 on this chart on the right of when it
03:14 was within 10% of that price. So on the
03:18 left side, Bitcoin spent 224 days, 7
03:21 months within uh 10% of $28,000. That
03:26 means within $2,800
03:28 above or below. uh because obviously 10%
03:32 of $28,000 is move the decimal and it's
03:35 uh $2.8,000. So $2,800. So it spent 7
03:38 months within $2,800 of $28,000.
03:42 Then Bitcoin spent eight months within
03:47 $6,400 of $6,400. So within 10 within
03:51 10% below or 10% above, it spent eight
03:55 solid months grinding sideways slightly
03:57 down. Since then up here on the right
04:00 you've seen we have spent 200 from late
04:03 late 2024 to today we have spent 216
04:07 days seven solid months grinding mostly
04:12 within 10 uh for that 216 days that is
04:15 216 days within 10% of 107,000 right up
04:20 here grinding grinding grinding a little
04:23 bit of that got within 10% on the peaks
04:25 over here but most of that is just
04:26 grinding grinding grinding grinding in
04:28 2025, little bit of 2024, uh, late 2024,
04:32 but mostly super early 2025, and then,
04:35 you know, most of 2025, grinding,
04:38 grinding, grinding. So, how do you win
04:40 at the Bitcoin game? Well, the answer is
04:42 when it's grinding and being boring down
04:44 here around $28,000, you buy some. And
04:47 then you can sell it to buy what you
04:50 need for your family and your life up
04:52 here a year later at $64,000.
04:55 And that's like a massive epic uplift in
04:58 the price between uh $28,000 and
05:01 $64,000. Everything is radically
05:04 discounted. Okay. So, what if you're
05:06 like, "Yeah, but I didn't buy it at
05:07 $28,000." In the entire seven months, I
05:09 could have bought Bitcoin uh within 10%
05:12 of 28,000. I didn't. So, you're up here
05:15 last year at 64. And I mean, it was
05:17 brutal. Eight solid months. Believe me,
05:19 I was there. I was recording videos
05:20 almost every day for eight solid months
05:23 telling people that the pain would
05:24 eventually end, that Bitcoin would
05:26 eventually not be trading in this range
05:29 between I called it between 55 and 70.
05:31 Obviously 64 is not exactly the midpoint
05:34 between these, but mathematically we
05:36 spent more time within 10% of $64,000
05:39 than within 10% of any other number uh
05:42 in 2024. So the magic number is $64,000.
05:45 happened to be the midpoint where we
05:47 spent the most number of days within 10%
05:50 of that number 64,000 the $64,000
05:53 question magic here. Um so what if you
05:57 didn't buy it at you know 7 months
05:59 around 28,000 you had eight months to
06:02 buy it around 64,000 and again a lot of
06:05 people didn't. And so all these people
06:07 show up in 2025 and the price from late
06:10 2024, the early 2025, then there was a
06:13 dip in here we'll talk about in a
06:14 minute. And then we've spent, you know,
06:16 even today, today, right now, we're at
06:18 $115,700.
06:21 And that is within 10% of 107,000. So
06:26 literally right now literally as I'm
06:27 talking we are within 10% of this
06:30 107,000 which means at the end of today
06:33 that little stick will go from 216 days
06:36 to 217 days because today was another
06:39 day that you could have bought Bitcoin
06:41 within 10% of $107,000.
06:44 Now what's going to happen? Well, what's
06:46 going to happen is this pattern
06:47 eventually is going to repeat. And so
06:50 you will have you've had already seven
06:52 months to buy Bitcoin uh within 10% of
06:55 107. And eventually the same thing will
06:57 happen. I don't know if it's going to be
06:58 a 125, 132, 146, 165. Heck, I don't
07:04 know. I mean, maybe we'll get lucky and
07:05 it's like 180, 220. I don't know. It's
07:08 probably not that big for where it's
07:09 going to grind around because uh the
07:11 whole thing, what's actually happening
07:12 here is the pig and a python, right? So
07:14 the question is, the python swallows the
07:17 pig around $28,000 and everybody's like,
07:20 "Oo, the python's hungry. It's it's
07:22 going to infinity tomorrow." It's like,
07:24 no, the python swallowed the pig. What's
07:26 going to happen when a python swallows a
07:28 pig? Well, it's going to take some time
07:29 to digest it. That's what happens. One
07:31 second.
07:35 In this case, takes seven months for the
07:37 python to swallow the pig and get hungry
07:39 again. And when it gets hungry again,
07:41 because demand outstrips supply, all the
07:43 people that want to possibly sell
07:45 Bitcoin within 10% of $28,000 are
07:48 finally after seven months, they're all
07:50 finally done. And the, you know, Python
07:52 has digested the pig and the python's
07:54 hungry again. So off the python goes
07:57 looking for a new pig. Well, it finds
07:59 one at $64,000 and it spends eight
08:01 months digesting it. And everybody's
08:02 like, "Ooh, infinity tomorrow, you know,
08:05 here here we go to the moon." It's like,
08:07 "No, we're not going to the moon because
08:09 the pig, the python just swallowed
08:11 another pig. What are we going to do?
08:13 We're going to grind on this left chart.
08:14 We're going to grind sideways for eight
08:16 months up here. Grinding, grinding,
08:18 grinding for eight months while the pig
08:20 digests the python. And then what
08:22 happens? Well, we've been up here for
08:24 seven solid months within 10% of 107."
08:27 Again, that's broken off a a little bit
08:29 of those days are uh from late 2024. A
08:33 handful of those days are from early
08:34 2025. the vast majority of those 216
08:37 days are from the back end of 2025 that
08:41 you know basically since you know the
08:43 low in uh April we've had a you know a
08:46 lot of stacking of those days since
08:47 then. Um okay so again at some point
08:51 it's going to go higher. Now, what's
08:53 going to happen is there's all these
08:54 people who are going to text me and
08:55 message me on Signal and message me on
08:57 Facebook Messenger and message me by
08:59 text message and email me after bit
09:01 after after the pig after another pig
09:04 gets swallowed by the python. Right? So,
09:06 we're bouncing around at 1157 and
09:09 Bitcoin's going to sort of tear up, you
09:11 know, at some point over the course of
09:12 days or weeks or a month or two or
09:14 whatever it is to, I don't know, 146.
09:16 I'm just picking a number out of thin
09:17 air. 146. Then we're bouncing around at
09:20 146. And all these people are going to
09:21 say, "Is it a good time to buy? Is it a
09:23 good time to buy? Is it a good time to
09:24 buy?" And I'm going to say, "Well, you
09:25 had eight months to buy around within
09:30 10% of 107." So, yeah, you can buy up
09:32 here at 146. But the whole point of
09:35 money that works for you is to buy it,
09:38 you know, at the tail end of when it's
09:41 the python is digesting the prior pig,
09:44 not when the python just catches a new
09:46 pig and starts the digestion process.
09:47 Because that's what happens. it. Let's
09:49 say 146. It runs up to 146. A bunch of
09:52 people buy it at 146 and they're like,
09:54 "Infinity tomorrow. The moon here we
09:57 come." Well, guess what? The python's
09:58 going to digest the pig, which is going
09:60 to take a while. And so, we're going to
10:01 grind sideways for six, seven, eight
10:03 months, maybe 3 months, maybe nine
10:05 months. Nobody knows. But the short take
10:07 is the python's going to digest that
10:08 pig. And it's not going to be infinity
10:10 tomorrow. It's going to take some time.
10:13 So, what does that mean? Uh, so then
10:16 let's talk about this dip here. This dip
10:17 here was what what's called the tariff
10:19 tantrum. That was when the entire world
10:21 economy was afraid it was going to go
10:22 off the cliff because we were going to
10:24 end up in a massive trade war. A trade
10:26 war is when everybody's tariffing uh
10:28 each other's stuff, which basically
10:30 means, hey, if you ship products to the
10:31 United States, you have to pay a huge uh
10:33 fee uh you know, and it's super
10:36 expensive and it's bad for the economy
10:38 and it's bad for everything. So, the
10:39 whole world economy freaked out and when
10:41 people freak out, they sell stuff. Uh,
10:43 Bitcoin gets sold because it's the most
10:45 liquid market out there in any currency.
10:47 You can buy and sell Bitcoin 24/7
10:50 trading daily volumes of between 50 and
10:52 80 billion dollar. So, if you're
10:55 freaking out and panicking and you think
10:56 the whole world's about to shut down,
10:58 even though Bitcoin is the right asset
10:60 to own in that situation, when people
11:02 are freaking out, they do stupid stuff
11:04 and irrational stuff. Or if they're
11:05 trying to save a business or save a
11:06 family farm, they're going to sell
11:08 whatever they can. They don't sell what
11:09 they want. there. They sell what they
11:11 can and they could sell Bitcoin because
11:13 it's liquid. You don't have to like find
11:15 a realtor to, you know, sell your second
11:17 home or whatever. I only have one, but
11:18 some people have more than one. Um, so
11:20 anyway, in this tariff transfer, it
11:22 dipped. Now, what if you had bought it
11:24 back here in this grind around $64,000?
11:28 Well, you actually don't care because
11:29 the lowest it ever got in this dip was
11:32 higher than the highest it ever got back
11:34 here. So, so what? instead of, you know,
11:37 buying everything 50% off very
11:40 temporarily, you're buying everything at
11:42 5% off, 10% off, you know, 1% off,
11:45 whatever. But like, so what? You're not
11:46 under you're not underwater. You're
11:48 still you're still in a great spot.
11:50 You're just not living life as as much
11:52 of a discount if you're in a trough like
11:54 that. Um, so same same in the future.
11:57 Now, we could go through a brutal bare
11:59 market at some point in the future where
12:01 the price comes way down. If so, your
12:03 finances have to be able to handle that.
12:05 meaning you have to be able to just sit
12:06 on your Bitcoin and wait for a higher
12:09 price. And historically, a higher price
12:11 has always come. It's only a matter of
12:13 time. A higher price always eventually
12:16 comes as long as you're patient enough.
12:18 You just got to make sure your finances
12:19 do not end up upside down. And by upside
12:21 down, I mean, you know, you're up to
12:23 your gills in debt. You bought Bitcoin
12:26 on leverage, you know, which you
12:28 shouldn't do. and then suddenly there's
12:29 a brutal bare market and you have to
12:31 make payments on your house or you lose
12:33 your job and suddenly you're stuck
12:35 selling all your Bitcoin when it's
12:36 really low. Um, so you've got to be able
12:38 to survive that. But if you can survive
12:40 that, if you make sure with you're
12:41 careful with your finances where you can
12:43 survive that, then great. That means all
12:45 you just wait it out. So there was a you
12:47 know bare market in 2018 uh 2014 2018
12:51 2022. So what if you own Bitcoin? You
12:54 just stop spending it and you spend US
12:56 dollars or you going to spend another
12:58 source of income. Now if you're like me
12:60 at 100% Bitcoin, then you're going to
13:02 have to spend Bitcoin at any price. Um
13:04 unless you just start selling assets,
13:06 but if Bitcoin got low enough, I would
13:07 just start selling other assets. I'd
13:10 find out things I'd find things I own
13:11 and I'd find a way to sell them. Um, but
13:15 I've accumulated enough Bitcoin for a
13:17 long enough from 2017 to the present
13:19 that my average purchase price is
13:21 $35,000 right here on this chart over
13:24 here. It's right around there. So, right
13:27 around there is my average purchase
13:28 price. That's because I bought a bunch
13:30 of bit, not a bunch, but I bought some
13:31 Bitcoin as low as 6,400. I bought a lot
13:34 more at 9,000. and I bought some more at
13:37 14,000, but I didn't really start
13:39 accumulating aggressively until 2021,
13:41 which means I've accumulated a bunch of
13:43 Bitcoin all up at these much higher
13:45 prices. And when you average out the the
13:48 higher prices and the lower prices, you
13:50 get to an average in my case of about
13:51 $35,000 per coin, which means I've more
13:54 than tripled my entire net worth because
13:56 I have 100% of my net worth in Bitcoin.
13:58 And the a at an average price of 35,000.
14:01 Now, the same if you're starting buying
14:02 Bitcoin for the first time today, what
14:04 will happen is you'll buy some at 115.
14:06 It'll dip to 110, you'll buy some more.
14:08 It'll go to 120, you'll buy some more.
14:10 At some point, if you're starting today,
14:12 you're going to end up with an average
14:13 purchase price of $180,000.
14:15 But again, with enough time, you won't
14:17 care because it will be in the hundreds
14:19 of thousands of dollars and the dips
14:21 will never get you close to 180. So, I
14:24 am in that place. There's nobody on the
14:26 planet that I'm aware of thinks that we
14:28 will ever see $35,000 Bitcoin. So even
14:31 though I've bought Bitcoin at prices as
14:33 high as $122,000,
14:35 so what? I'm just waiting. You know,
14:37 I've got plenty of Bitcoin that I bought
14:39 cheaper. So my average price is lower.
14:41 And so what if I'm spending Bitcoin uh
14:44 you know at 115,000 or if I'm dipping
14:47 back here in this dip where it dipped as
14:48 low as $74,000 for like five minutes.
14:52 Um, so what it's like I'm willing to
14:55 spend Bitcoin at $74,000 because I have
14:57 enough Bitcoin that I've accumulated
14:59 long enough at lower prices. So
15:01 everybody eventually ends up in that
15:03 place where they've uh bought enough
15:04 Bitcoin over a long enough time period
15:06 that their average price is low enough
15:09 that you're just never going to see that
15:10 average low price again. Um, look, I've
15:12 got friends who, you know, their average
15:14 Bitcoin purchase price is in the
15:15 hundreds of dollars. Not thousands of
15:18 dollars, hundreds of dollars, not
15:19 hundreds of thousands of dollars, just
15:21 hundreds of dollars. and they're up
15:23 a,000x on their average purchase price.
15:25 Well, great. I mean, they can spend
15:27 Bitcoin at any price. They don't even
15:28 have to care what the price is because
15:29 they're so uh they're so in the money on
15:32 their investment. So, the takeaway from
15:34 all of this is accumulate Bitcoin as
15:37 much as you can. We are still within 10%
15:38 of that 107. You can still buy Bitcoin
15:41 today. And then the most important part
15:44 is buy it before a huge runup that you
15:48 know before the python swallows another
15:50 pig. That's not whatever It's almost
15:52 nobody wants to do that because who
15:54 wants to buy Bitcoin after you've been
15:55 grinding around for seven months around
15:57 107 within 10% of 107. Nobody wants to
15:60 do that. They're all like, "Bitcoin's
16:01 boring. It's 115,000. You know, it was
16:04 124,000 a month ago. It, you know, we've
16:07 we've spent seven months. It feels like
16:10 we've spent seven months in the same
16:12 general vicinity." And the truth is,
16:15 yeah, that's because we've sp spent
16:16 seven months in the same general
16:18 vicinity. That's exactly what's
16:19 happened. We've spent 7 months within
16:21 10% of 107,000. Now, it hasn't been
16:24 entirely contiguous. Some of those days
16:26 were late 2024. Some were early 2025.
16:29 The vast majority were uh from May, what
16:31 looks like May 1st. Anyway, first week
16:34 of May forward. The vast majority of
16:36 those days within 10% have been, let's
16:38 call it May 1st forward, uh, which is
16:40 all of May, all of June, all of July,
16:42 all of August, and half of September. So
16:46 anyway, that's however that's more than
16:49 half of those 216 days for whatever it's
16:51 worth. Um has been, you know, recently.
16:54 So anyway, but again, everybody
16:56 everybody waits for the price to run and
16:59 then they're like, "Okay, the pig
17:00 swallowed a python. Now I'm ready to
17:02 buy." And it's like, "Yeah, but now
17:04 you're going to have to be wait and be
17:05 patient." Uh that sucks. If you bought
17:08 Bitcoin on conviction based on the
17:10 technology and the use case, then you
17:12 could buy when it's grinding sideways
17:15 and benefit when the python catches
17:18 another peg instead of having to buy in
17:22 on the front end of that grind sideways
17:24 and then be patient for seven or eight
17:25 months while the python swallows the peg
17:28 and digests it. So, that's where we are.
17:30 Again, we could go through a brutal bare
17:32 market, meaning a down market. make sure
17:34 your finances can handle that if that
17:37 happens. I don't think that's super
17:39 likely, but it could happen. Um, and
17:41 even if we dip again, I don't think
17:43 anybody sees a dip lower than this dip
17:44 over here. So, so what? If you bought in
17:46 2023, uh, 2023, sorry, 2024, it's like
17:50 last year. If you bought in 2024 and we
17:53 see another dip down here to the 2025
17:56 lows, so what? You wait it out. And then
17:58 when we're done with that dip, it goes
17:59 much higher. Just like here, it's like
18:02 it went up to here barely above 100,000.
18:05 Then it dipped and people are like, "Oh
18:06 no, we're, you know, the world has
18:07 ended." And it's like, "No, give it a
18:09 minute." And now we're chilling up here
18:11 well above 100,000. Enjoy it. So
18:14 accumulate as much Bitcoin as you can.
18:15 Hold on to it for as long as conceivably
18:17 possible. And the way you win in Bitcoin
18:19 is you spend the Bitcoin you accumulated
18:21 at 28,000 when it's 64. You spend the
18:24 Bitcoin you accumulated at 64,000 at
18:26 107. you spend the Bitcoin you
18:28 accumulated around 107 or 115 or
18:31 whatever up when it's a lot higher and
18:34 Bitcoin appreciates much p faster than
18:36 inflation and as a result you go to
18:39 Costco or Kroger or Walmart or you know
18:42 Target or wherever you shop the prices
18:44 are all going up 7% a year and you're
18:46 like I don't care my purchasing power is
18:48 going up 30 40 50 100% a year so who
18:51 cares if everything costs 7% more for
18:53 everyone else it costs 50% less for you
18:56 So, that's how you win with Bitcoin. I'm
18:59 here. You can text me anytime.
19:01 601-2070813.
19:04 I answer, you know, texts all day long
19:06 by anybody who texts me at that number.
19:08 Um or my direct iPhone number if you
19:10 happen to know that number. Uh they both
19:12 they both uh uh text me on the same
19:14 iPhone. Uh but if you if you have my
19:16 direct iPhone number, text me there. If
19:19 not, text uh my forwarding number which
19:22 is 601-2070813
19:25 which will automatically uh text my
19:27 iPhone. I they both are on my same
19:29 phone. Um you can also message me on
19:31 Facebook Messenger. Just message me from
19:33 one of my posts. So it's you know it's
19:34 the real me. Uh or you can uh hit me up
19:38 on Signal uh or WhatsApp or any other
19:41 messaging app which has the same phone
19:43 number as my real iPhone number that
19:45 I've had for more than 25 years. So I am
19:48 here to serve. I love answering Bitcoin
19:49 questions. Let me know what I can do for
19:51 you. And that's how you win with
19:53 Bitcoin. You buy it when it grinds
19:55 sideways for seven or eight months and
19:57 then you wait a year and it's way higher
19:59 and you spend it. Uh or you hold on to
20:02 it if you want to spend it. I mean,
20:04 nothing's more fun than buying it around
20:06 28 and spending it at 107. So, you don't
20:09 have to buy you don't have to spend it
20:11 the next year when it's up, you know,
20:12 100% or 50% or whatever. You can just
20:15 wait. had, you know, spend Bitcoin you
20:19 bought at in the the 28,000 grind zone
20:21 or the 64,000 grind zone or the 107
20:24 grind zone. You can wait a few years and
20:27 spend it when it's 250,000 and that's
20:29 even more fun. The whole world is even
20:31 more discounted for you because you were
20:33 patient. That's how you win with
20:34 Bitcoin. It's not that hard. I hope uh I
20:37 hope these charts were helpful in
20:38 understanding just sort of how much time
20:40 the Bitcoin price spends at each of
20:42 these price levels and um and why it
20:45 sort of hangs around certain price
20:47 levels as the Python digest the peg and
20:50 why it's better to buy on the tail end
20:52 of those price uh levels which is where
20:54 we are right now. we are on the very
20:56 tail end of this $17,000.
20:59 Um rather than wait for the next big
21:01 price jump and then buy and then you're
21:03 stuck grinding sideways for six, seven,
21:05 eight months and being annoyed at me
21:07 that your Bitcoin's not going up. Well,
21:09 it would have gone up if you bought it
21:11 before the python caught a new pig.
21:14 That's the magic here. Buy the Bitcoin
21:16 before the python catches the next pig.
21:18 And then when it's grinding sideways,
21:19 you feel good about it instead of sort
21:21 of wondering why it's taking so long.
21:23 So, I'm here to serve. I love answering
21:25 Bitcoin questions. I'm here for anything
21:26 you need. Just let me know. Thank you
21:28 everyone.
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