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Strategy-Wednesday explores how I translate abstract principles into concrete portfolio structure — it’s where philosophy meets execution.Thinking in $BTC means treating it not as an investment, but as a denominator — the baseline for measuring performance, opportunity cost, and conviction.By viewing every asset through its relation to $BTC, I try to design a system that adapts to market cycles instead of chasing them.
Introduction: What Strategy-Wednesday Is About
Strategy-Wednesday is the part of crypto-jazz where I translate ideas into systems. If Macro-Monday explains the grammar of liquidity and Ecosystem-Tuesday studies how code builds value, then Strategy-Wednesday is about how to navigate between them — how to design a method that doesn’t rely on prediction, but on structure. 
This series isn’t about signals or trading setups. It’s about orientation: how to build a portfolio that reflects understanding, not impulse. And for me, that orientation begins with one mental model — thinking in $BTC.
1 The Denominator of Conviction
When I began trading, I measured everything in USD. It seemed natural — profits and losses were visible, tangible. But after a while, I noticed that my reference point distorted perception: gains in fiat didn’t necessarily mean progress within the crypto system.
That’s when I began to think of $BTC not as a position, but as a reference frame.
It’s not “another coin in the portfolio”, it’s the unit of measure by which all other assets are evaluated.
In practice, that means:
When I hold an altcoin, I don’t ask whether it will rise in USD, but whether it will outperform $BTC.If $BTC moves +30% and an altcoin moves +20%, it’s effectively underperforming.If an asset rises faster, I consider reallocating profits into $BTC, not into fiat.
This way, $BTC becomes the denominator of conviction — a quiet standard that forces discipline. It reminds me that I’m operating inside a system where trust and scarcity already have a baseline.
2 Building a Strategy Around Relative Thinking
Thinking in $BTC changes how you design everything else: position sizing, rebalancing, and risk.
For me, the core rule is simple: 
Hold conviction assets for the long term, but measure them in $BTC, not USD.
From there, everything becomes relative management:
Structure: I keep a base allocation in $BTC (my anchor) and smaller “tilts” in high-conviction ecosystems ($ETH , $SOL , $SUI , $APT).Rotation: When altcoins outperform $BTC, I rebalance by realizing part of the gains and rotating back to the base.Hedging: During phases of euphoria or macro stress, I increase stablecoin liquidity, but always as a temporary energy buffer, not a goal.
The idea isn’t to maximize every move, but to design a system that breathes with the market. When fear dominates, the system contracts around $BTC. When confidence returns, it expands outward — into projects that show real developer traction or user growth (as discussed on Ecosystem-Tuesday).
This creates rhythm without prediction.
3 From Holding to Designing
“Thinking in $BTC” also means seeing your portfolio not as a collection of trades, but as a self-regulating structure. I’m not trying to outsmart the market; I’m trying to stay aligned with its internal logic. Over time, that means documenting how each position behaves relative to $BTC:
Which coins consistently outperform across cycles?Which depend on hype and liquidity?Which are fundamentally improving in developer metrics or adoption?
That documentation becomes the real strategy — a feedback loop between observation and design. It’s not about being right once; it’s about being structurally correct over time.

Question for You
Sometimes I think “thinking in $BTC” isn’t a trading principle at all — it’s a psychological one. It trains detachment: you stop measuring your success in nominal terms and start asking how well you’re positioned inside the system itself.
So what’s your frame of reference? Do you still think in fiat, or have you started to think in systems — in $BTC, in code, in cycles? Share your thoughts below or tag #StrategyWednesday on Binance Square.
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