Crypto Cafe · by Rafael Almeida · 2026-09-01

Fees are eating my \$20 buys alive

I wanted to start super small and do frequent buys, but once I actually looked at the fees I felt like I was tipping the exchange more than funding my own stack.

How do people with modest budgets handle this? Less frequent buys? Different platform? Just accept it as beginner friction?

23 sparks · 6 comments

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Minh Nguyen · 10 likes

Spreads matter too, not just the line item labeled fee.

Camille Dubois · 6 likes

Usually less frequent buys helps. Weekly vs daily can make a surprising difference.

Luciana Vargas · 1 likes

The first lesson of small DCA is that convenience has a price

Noah Miller · 1 likes

Apparently my convenience budget was more optimistic than my actual budget

Aisha Jacobs · 1 likes

I batch into one buy every two weeks because otherwise it felt silly.

Linh Tran · 0 likes

Check whether your platform has an advanced/trader interface with lower fees. Some bury it.