Dana Reihl

Has held through two full cycles since 2017. Writes about the psychology of staying in.

What Dana Reihl covers here

Everything published on Crypto Holder Diary is written by one person, and the scope is deliberately narrow: market psychology, long-term strategy, selling discipline, on-chain holder behavior. Articles stay inside it rather than chasing whatever is trending.

How the writing is checked

Figures carry the date they were taken. Claims that can be verified link to a primary source rather than to another article summarising it. Where something is genuinely uncertain, the article says so instead of rounding the uncertainty away.

Corrections are published with a note saying what changed and when. If you find an error, the contact page is the fastest route.

Published on this site

• Why the Exit Plan Matters More Than the Entry
• Separating the Asset From the Sector
• Ten Years of Holding: What Actually Compounds
• When the Thesis Actually Breaks, and How to Tell
• Four Years of Quarterly Notes: What the Record Shows
• What Happens to Your Crypto If You Die
• The Cost of Checking, Measured
• Rebalancing Without Emotion: A System That Survived Two Cycles
• What I Tell People Who Ask If They Should Buy
• The Cost of Being Early, and Why Nobody Talks About It
• The Difference Between Patience and Paralysis
• What a Bear Market Does to Your Reading Habits
• What I Got Wrong in 2018, in My Own Words
• When Boredom Is the Signal
• The Emotional Cost of a Concentrated Position
• Position Sizing for an Asset That Falls 70 Percent
• Why I Trimmed Into Strength and Would Again
• Why I Do Not Discuss My Positions Publicly
• On Holding Something You No Longer Believe In
• How Long-Term Holders Actually Behave On-Chain
• Reading Old Predictions, Including My Own
• Why I Stopped Predicting Anything
• The Case Against Checking Your Portfolio Daily
• Holding Through a Narrative Collapse
• My Quarterly Review Template
• How I Handle Being Wrong in Public
• What Conviction Means When You Are Down 40 Percent
• The Trap of Averaging Down Without a Rule
• Building a Liquidity Buffer Before You Need It
• FOMO, FUD and Five Other Words That Cost People Money
• On Not Having a Price Target
• What Survivorship Bias Looks Like From Inside
• The Year I Added Nothing
• Selling Rules You Should Write Before You Need Them
• How I Decide What Counts as Evidence
• The Second-Order Effect of Telling People You Hold Something
• The Rule About Never Adding on a Green Day
• DCA vs Lump Sum: What the Numbers Actually Say
• The Difference Between Risk and Volatility
• What Happens to Conviction After a Recovery
• The Psychology of Watching Your Portfolio Drop 60 Percent
• Why I Keep a Written Investment Policy
• Regret Minimisation as a Decision Framework
• Why Holding Is Harder Than Buying
• Sizing a Position You Intend to Hold for a Decade