Why I Got Into Bitcoin — And Why I Built RocketDip

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 Things Clicked

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.

Going Down the Rabbit Hole

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.

The Super Bowl Beer That Became RocketDip

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.

What RocketDip Actually Does

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.