I first heard about Bitcoin in the early-to-mid 2010s, back when it was mostly internet rumor and forum chatter. Like most people, I wrote it off immediately. Get-rich-quick scheme. Moving on.
Then in 2015, I actually saw it for the first time. Two of my friends, Josh and Chris — semi-professional poker players — were day-trading BTC. I sat there watching a screen full of numbers that meant absolutely nothing to me. And honestly, it kind of confirmed my theory. Poker players trading fake internet money? Yeah, that tracks.
So I ignored it for a while longer.
When the pandemic hit and markets crashed in early 2020, something clicked for me. Entry points across the board — stocks, ETFs, crypto — were at levels you rarely see. I started taking investing seriously for the first time, mostly focused on ETFs and long-term stock holds. Nothing crazy.
But my friend Jeremy kept talking about Bitcoin. Not in a "you're gonna get rich" way — in a this thing is different way. He broke it down for me until I actually understood it. Then I went deeper myself: the use cases, the security model, the fixed supply, the decentralization. And the thing that really got me was comparing it to the US dollar — a currency that can be printed at will, with no hard cap, by people who aren't accountable to you.
The idea that a currency could have a mathematically enforced supply cap — no central bank, no printing press, no exceptions — that wasn't just interesting. That was elegant. Everything I'd learned about monetary systems, inflation, and the time value of money suddenly had a new lens to look through.
That was the moment Bitcoin stopped being an investment and became something bigger.
I started following JV over at Crypto News Alerts and tried to watch each of his 2+ hour daily streams (the guy is the Cal Ripken Jr. of BTC — never misses a day). At first, I'd gloss over the technical analysis — RSI, moving averages, all of it. But while working on my master's degree in accounting and finance, I had a class that covered many of those same metrics, and something clicked. There's more to Bitcoin than just price. A lot more.
I later followed Anthony Pompliano and Jordi Visser — a veteran macro investor with 30+ years on Wall Street. With the foundation JV had built and my finance background finally filling in the gaps, following Pomp and Jordi started making even more sense. The framework I already had finally had an asset worthy of it.
At that point, I wasn't just holding Bitcoin. I was defending it. If you've been in this space for more than five minutes, you know what I mean. Everyone has an opinion. Most of them are wrong, and most of them are built on the same misunderstandings I had back in 2015.
RocketDip actually started during Super Bowl LX. My Ravens missed the playoffs (Steelers fans are more than welcome here, by the way), I was a few beers in, and I found myself tinkering with an idea I'd been sitting on for a while — a single score that combines all the technical signals into one number so you don't have to juggle five different tools to answer one simple question: is now a good time to buy?
I'm not a developer by trade — I'm an accountant with a finance background who taught himself enough to build this. What I kept running into was that the data telling you when to buy is scattered across a dozen different places, all of which assume you already know what you're looking at.
That's what I wanted to fix — so I built RocketDip.
RocketDip pulls together four key technical signals — RSI, the Fear & Greed Index, Bitcoin's 200-day moving average, and 24-hour price change — and combines them into a single score from 0 to 10. Zero means stay patient. Ten means the dip is screaming at you. No interpretation required.
It's something I genuinely use myself and believe in. I constantly check the app widget on my home screen to monitor price movement — and I've bought the dip when the signal called for it more than once. So far, with great results.
If you've ever Googled "should I buy Bitcoin right now" and come away more confused than when you started, RocketDip is for you. That's exactly who I built it for.