BTC

Otherwise_Rain431

What do you think about the BTC monthly timeframe?

Legitimate-Hyena-513

If your options are retirement accounts vs. BTC, it’s a no brainer to me. Just pull up the charts and zoom out. One day, it will be extremely rare for an individual to be able to hold an entire coin.

69_breeze_69

They dont sell SHITcoin vapes only limited antique BTC vapes that hold value

CatButtHoleYo

If you zoom out, the charts clearly show BTC will go right

FreshMistletoe

Altoira.com allows you to buy BTC with your IRA money every year.  $7500 limit for 2026 and Coinbase is the custodian.

Counciltuckian

I dunno man, I’ve seen an article every couple of hours to buy cause BTC is going to the moon….   Eye fucking roll. 

JohnnyStrides

Pretty much this. I had this big portfolio during that BTC run to $20K that I thought I was so smart for holding, like 20+ coins. Eventually overtime you realize it's too exhausting staying on top of shit/scam coins, or coins that are brilliant projects but will never do anything. It's just BTC and ETH for me now and I don't even bother to follow the news, or go running to reddit if the price surges or dumps. Just hold and go on with life.

Not_athrowaweigh

Comments like yours are why people don't take this sub seriously. There are just under 20 million BTC in the world, if they were each 10 million that is 200 hundred trillion. In the entire world there is ~150 trillion (m3 supply). So no, there are a multitude of reasons why Bitcoin isn't at 10 million or even 1 million right now and it has nothing to do with normalcy bias.

Melodic_Hand_5919

What chart is this? Does not look like BTC…

uselessbets

https://preview.redd.it/fb16r91ocucg1.jpeg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=1fa5fe227f0cf43809129a242091973601b021c0 I'm in the same boat as you. 500$ capital. Lost about 2000$ to learn the ropes last year. My learnings (Not an advise. Take it if it works for you) 1. Never risk more than 1-2% 2. Any coin below top 500 coins is 99% useless 3. But and HODL strong coins like BTC / ETH / BNB on lows (Like 20-30% fall from peak). Short the shit coins when they're up 10x-20x from the bottom. Profitability is about 10-20% a month now. I'm compounding by re-investing my profits. Planning to withdraw 1000$ once my 500$ becomes 2000$ and repeat the cycle.

ButtBooties

2017 Monero topped Dec 20, 3 days after BTC hit ATH. 2021 Monero topped May 7 and crashed while BTC was rallying to ATH into Nov 2021. You're wrong and you're just parroting what other people say 'hehe privacy kokos running is ber sign hehe evertim is happenz'

msdrahcir

Trump won't lead BTC. He wants to pump the next scam coin

b1mm3rl1f3

"Trump says the existing financial system has reached its limits, and a crypto-driven era is coming next." Russell 2000 Index breaks above 2600 for the first time ever, DJT coming after jpow and geopolitical risk rising. Stocks at record highs, metals rising. BTC needs to move soon

JG87919

Yea but putting money into an S&P index fund is just about a sure thing. You won’t be mega rich but if you keep adding till you retire you’ll be way more than comfortable. BTC isn’t a sure thing. It’s looking better and better each year but u never really know. Both is the safer bet.

DeFi_Ry

Monero tends to top after BTC peaks, as money leaves the space. Happened the last two runs  See you in 4 years!

Veronica_JW

Honestly at this age, I think dollar cost averaging (DCA) strategy won't go wrong, assuming you truly believe in BTC.

Comprehensive_Tip310

This definitely isn't the worst. There's already clarity around BTC, this won't affect it at all. Maybe alts, but that appears to already be priced in. Worst case scenario is a us/nato ground invasion.

Equivalent-Tip-3084

A cold wallet is something like the Trezor. https://trezor.io/store#hardware-wallets Or Bit Key https://bitkey.world/ Only buy your cold wallet direct from the manufacturer.  If you can't afford a cold wallet now. You can buy BTC and leave it on strike until you can afford a cold wallet 

ReasonablePossum_

Go check the BTC Wallet Challenge LMAO.

keralaindia

Chamath is essentially forecasting that central banks will create their own government-controlled cryptographic asset (think a supercharged CBDC or digital reserve currency) that outperforms both gold and Bitcoin as a store of value. Key features it'd need: full fungibility (every unit identical and interchangeable), seamless tradability (easy to buy/sell globally), built-in privacy protections (but tied to "sovereignty," implying governments could selectively override it for control), and quantum-resistant encryption to future-proof against advanced computing threats. He predicts this happens in 5-10 years, positioning it as the ultimate "digital gold" under state oversight. If this plays out, it might siphon institutional money away from BTC toward a "safer" state-backed alternative, increasing regulatory pressure on decentralized cryptos (e.g., more crackdowns on self-custody or exchanges). Ultimately, it risks turning crypto into just another tool for the legacy financial system, diluting Bitcoin's revolutionary potential as sound, sovereign money for the people. What do you think. could this actually boost BTC adoption? People on X talking about ZCash instead

TheScrewUp_WhoGrewUp

Thought this was a new kind of BTC miner 🤣

MinimalGravitas

One of the most interesting things about this is that this time last year Bitmine were (as the name suggests) a bitcoin mining company, with thousands of ASICs operating in Texas and Kentucky [https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2025/01/13/3008482/0/en/BitMine-Reports-Fiscal-1st-Quarter-2025-Financial-Results.html]. Last year they pivoted completely, abandoning BTC mining and investing in ETH. Now they are one of the biggest ETH stakers.

BaldBear_13

which country? US only accepts US$ to pay taxes, and I do not believe there is a tax-exempt way to buy BTC. Retirement schemes allow pre-tax contributions, but you cannot use them to pay taxes, and I am not sure if any let you invest into BTC.

jwz9904

i guess BTC couldn't satisfy their needs.

NinjaN-SWE

It's as white hat as it gets. It's not outright illegal since you need a victim and these BTC would be considered lost. It's like finding a wallet in the Amazon jungle with a couple of millions in it but no identification or anything that could possibly link it to a person. In a sea of wallets with most being empty (and none have any ID, just clear that very few of the wallets belong to the same person). Anyone can claim that one is theirs, but of course they would...  At the same time it's questionable morally but not enough for me to call I grey hat, depending maybe on exactly how they target and how they hack, could be details that make it morally more complex. 

Equivalent-Tip-3084

You can do both. Personally I think BTC will return better profit if you hold for 10 years. 

ThePugz

Around 265,000 satoshi or 0.00265 BTC is all there will ever be available for every person on earth. And slowly going down from there as the population continues to grow. That currently works out to about $250 worth of BTC. Any more than that & you have more than your share.

TheRealConchobar

1. You are wrong, and it's already happening. 2. Absolutely agree, BTC is a store of value. I don't foresee it being used as a currency. Also I don't have to convince anyone to use BTC, in order for the value to keep going up. 3. I don't think your ideas are stupid. You're underestimating the potential of the human born in 2026. For better or worse they are about to inherit this mess.. and yes, those babies born today will absolutely know what SATS are. -- I believe future generations will have savings, spending, budgeting- embedded in their daily lives. 2026 babies will make financial decisions in very different ways, for very different reasons. Something like Ubermensch, but not morally speaking.

qwertylopez

Can someone explain. Do I need exactly 1 BTC to get the same price change exposure as BTC? So if I own less than 1 BTC, then I won’t participate in the same gain/loss?

trevorturtle

Buy BTC or usdt and use ff.io

DaltonDifferent

Everyone here is saying sell half of the BTC, but I think the current "rich person method" would be to borrow against the BTC when you need cash, keeping all of your assets. However, I understand diversifying without leveraging debt may be more in line with most people's risk tolerance. Assuming they had no other assets.

richardto4321

#1 and #2 are contradictory. Governments and major corporations holding BTC is indeed adoption. Not everyone else hold them, yet. Being confident that there won't be anymore bull runs on a 17-year-old asset is quite silly. I guess you forgot what happened with gold and silver recently. These assets have been around for thousands of years.

swingftx

Best site for BTC [Swing Ftx](https://swingftx.com/)

Equivalent-Tip-3084

Stacking BTC is simply the action of acquiring more sats. You can buy, mine, trade(not recommended), or accept it is payment.

TapThatYak

I hope you're aware, Iran has been BTC mining for many years. Look into it.

MinimalGravitas

Most of the value of gold comes from speculation rather than utility. Yes it has use cases, but clearly they represent only a very small portion of the demand. If you thought it's use in electronics etc was the main driver of price then it would take some pretty amusing mental gymnastics to avoid concluding it is very overvalued. BTC's price is also almost entirely down to speculation, everyone just believes they will be able to sell later to a greater fool. The only utility of Bitcoin the network is to transfer BTC the asset, and it doesn't even do that particularly well. Fee's aren't enough to compensate miners and pay for the chain's security, transactions take 10 minutes for a single confirmation, and 3 mining pools are responsible for over half of all blocks. You won't see me defending it as an investment. I'm not sure I agree with your point about public (by which I assume from context you mean 'transparent') chains being inherently easily controlled. The ability to see assets being moved doesn't give anyone the ability to do anything about it. A sufficiently decentralized chain is effectively impossible to censor. As an example just look to the OFAC sanctions placed on various Ethereum addresses in 2022. At the absolute peak around 80% of block producers were complying with the US sanctions, but that still meant 1 in 5 validators wasn't, so sanctioned addresses just took on average 5x longer to be included onchain, about 60 seconds rather than 12 seconds for a regular transaction's inclusion. Hardly a big issue. But regardless of all that. My comment above was just making light of OP's very obvious reason for posting! Presumably you share OP's investment preferences and so want persuade people to pump your bags too.

coinfeeds-bot

tldr; A Bitcoin miner from 2010 has reactivated after 15 years, transferring 2,000 BTC worth $181 million to Coinbase. This marks the largest Satoshi-era transfer since 2024. The coins, mined during Bitcoin's early days, were consolidated from legacy addresses. Analysts suggest such moves often occur at key market inflection points, reflecting profit-taking or custody updates. Despite selling pressure from early holders, Bitcoin's market absorbed the supply without structural stress, showcasing its deep liquidity and resilience. *This summary is auto generated by a bot and not meant to replace reading the original article. As always, DYOR.

Medium_Change4574

Once this bear flag on BTC breakes down, alts are gonna erase the YTD gains within just a few days

LargeSinkholesInNYC

BTC will trade like a penny stock for a while.

Long_Illustrator_988

False. Once you move it off of the exchange, Monero is private. With BTC, it will be tracked wherever you send it. One of the biggest problems with bitcoins too is that they can't really be used as currency anymore due to blockchain analysis. The problem is if you are selling say a laptop online and the buyer pays you with "dirty" bitcoins (this could be something as innocuous as gambling) and then you deposit them on an exchange, the exchange may close your account. This makes Bitcoin no longer fungible. All Monero, on the other hand, are equal.

acechangeofficial

You have more options to pay no tax or at least pay as little as possible legally — but that’s not the main point. The bigger goal is to help people understand how to protect their assets. Even though I’m not from Ukraine, I lived there — I have my wife and child there. When the war started, the very first thing that happened was that the banks stopped working. If I hadn’t had BTC and the knowledge of how and where to exchange BTC for cash, there’s a high chance we could have been killed, because we needed money for diapers, food, and fuel. We were driving in three cars, we didn’t know when we would get out of the war zone, we didn’t know anything — and gas stations accepted only cash. These are my real experiences, and I can prove them. The story is longer, and anyone who has lived through something like that will understand: BTC isn’t mainly about investing — it’s about safety, and about the fact that no one can take away your right to basic necessities.

SSAeternitatis

People have realized that this space is largely populated by BS. 99.9% of crypto ranges from unnecessary to cynical cash grab to outright scam. There are only three worth a damn: 1. BTC (original, benefits from network effects, significant institutional support, store of value); 2. ETH (robust smart contract functionality BTC doesn't provide); 3. XMR (privacy features BTC doesn't provide). Virtually every other crypto is a slavish copy of one of these three that doesn't perform its core functions nearly as well, and exists only because of the greed of its founders.

Thomas5020

How? Their currency has collapsed. The time to buy BTC has long since passed. Plus getting access to an exchange right now will be borderline impossible with the only internet coming from the people who've got their hands on satellite internet

Equivalent-Tip-3084

ETF skims your BTC in fees, and usually is letting someone else hold the Bitcoin. Learn to use a cold wallet. Trezor is extremely easy if you have a PC. Just remember to never click on anything from an email, even if it looks like Trezor sent you an email. In fact you should never give Trezor you email either. 

Equivalent-Tip-3084

So you are trading. Irrelevant of the amount it is a trading action.  Usually tax authorities will see it that way. They won't separate your accounts they look at the asset.  If your not in the USA, then maybe the rules are different. Maybe your in El Salvador, I don't know.  I still stand on trading BTC is stupid 

Decentralization-God

Alt season is the same nonsense as 4 year crypto cycle. If you live in narratives, then obviously you will disagree. If you use your own brain - you will know, or experience aha moment 🤔 It simply happened in 2017 for the first time in a decent size, because in 2013 alts were mostly nonexisting or some bitcoin code fork trash. Then from this SINGLE REASONABLE instance, manipulators created a narrative. It worked like a charm! Because what? People actually love narratives - at least till they realize, someone fooled them LOL So yes, this worked in 2021 because at that time people lacked skills, experience etc. So we have only TWO INSTANCES of this phenomenon. 2025 - Bitcoin made another solid ATH, because of institutions, ETFs and madman Saylor. But it is already a different stuff, and alt season did not happen, because BTC did not crash badly, only retreated from 110-125 to 90k and also because Trump was tweeting bombs and alt holders reacted like pussies and always dumped. Also pump and dumps were running aside on all those memecoins, so standard coins were not. Anyway this is nowhere near to some proven pattern, because so many key things changed. Remember: It happened only twice, now it is different. Any coin/project today needs to start showing real problem solving and this is where I am in full agreement with OP. Narrative vs Proven Real-world Useful Stuff The industry is maturing! It is actually good!

respectandmanners

My prediction is BTC gonna BTC

Wild-Cup7515

Deffo focus on learning first. Have you traded anything else before? Crypto price action hasn't been the best environment to trade in especialky for beginners for almost the past 2 months. The YouTube channel @morecryptoonline gives daily technical analysis based on Elliott wave theory on various coins which is helpful in understanding what's going on and what scenario to expect and @frankiecandles primarily focuses on BTC but goes live during the week and answers questions on alt coins and any set ups hes looking to take where you can get a better understanding of short term and long term directional bias.

devCheckingIn

So he bought a lot of BTC and the price didn't move at all?

Lunatic_Heretic

All of my "investment" money going forward will be going towards BTC. No more stock market nor nothing.

Severe-Masterpiece61

Who here wants to buy 0.01 BTC for 1200$ ?

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el_rico_pavo_real

My timeline for BTC and MSTR has always been no earlier than 2033 for any potential “profit taking” but also by then I figured the baking and yield infrastructure for BTC will be baked out and I won’t ever need to actually sell. BUT my plan for MSTR has always been to sell so I don’t have to touch my Cold Storage.

erjo5055

BTC from 26 to 30 will be like 75-150% gain calm down

Leading_Armadillo921

Ever since May of 2017, I've bought $500 of BTC on the first and the fifteenth of each month. Like a slow-cooker, set it and forget it.

Icy-Aardvark-1158

Haha okay you got me there. So everything except BTC is a scam on a spectrum. Thats actually a consistent position.

MinimalGravitas

Don't be a bell-end. If you have been here any length of time you probably know I'm one of the most annoyingly persistent ETH advocates here, but it is stupid to pretend that anyone who supports Monero is a bot. It's obviously one of the most legit projects in crypto, sticking hard to the cypherpunk fundamentals that many other projects (like BTC) have long abandoned. I don't own any XMR, and I don't have any current use for the network, presumably neither do you, but that doesn't mean we can't acknowledge a legitimate project.

Icy-Aardvark-1158

Cant argue with that. If its only about getting in early to dump on latecomers thats Ponzi scheme. ETH and BTC trying to fix real problems vs most alts just exit liquidity. Different goals but I respect your take

Unable_Illustrator_2

Im married so, if I die, my wife will get it. Also, I have a young niece (my sister's daughter) who I want to help. So, basically if I die, I'll leave most to my wife, a bit to my niece, and the rest to my older sister. But I get your point. I'll personally probably never benefit from my BTC.

RamoneBolivarSanchez

You clearly don’t know what XMR is kiddo. It absolutely has a use case that BTC and ETH can’t satisfy, and it’s why it’s compliments them nicely. I’ve been holding all 3 since 2017 and it’s been great

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5553331117

Open up that history I’m sure it’s all a bunch of btc eth bullshit lol XMR is what Bitcoin was supposed to be. FUNGIBLE. No other crypto is.  BTC and ETH are corpo coins now, just look who controls development. Ok I’m going to stop talking to the bot now 

Sector__7

Don’t feed the 4 day old bot account. I love BTC as much as any of us but OP is cherry picking numbers to get these stats to be true. At the start of 2023, BTC was ~$17K and at the end of 2025 it was ~$91.4K. This is a total return of 537% but ONLY if you bought and sold at those specific dates and the weekly return would be much less. Basically, you had to time the market at those specific times to get those returns and anybody who’s DCAing surely isn’t getting anything anywhere that high. If you change the time period. If you change the time period to the beginning of 2022, you’d have a 218% return (~$41.9K - ~$91.4K) and weekly returns that are even less.

Lega17

People better be prepared for whats going to happen on Wednesday and the Trump tariff ruling. If the tariffs are deemed illigal BTC is going to tank 10% easy....

flying-fox200

I'd stay away from Exodus...! BlueWallet is open-source and tried-and-tested: it's what the Bitcoin community usually recommends for an iOS/Android wallet. Blockstream BTC Wallet is also a good choice.

Super-Smoke295

You say you want to start "earning" Bitcoin. As in a job? Otherwise, you can pick up a FOLD BTC Visa Card that gives you rewards on just about every purchase you'll ever make...rewards in Bitcoin. Up to 30% cash back in many places. The company also trades publicly and was just added to the Russell 2000 index. Symbolf FLD. Trades around $2.50 a share and just got an analyst price target of $14 a share.

cannedshrimp

Is the point of crypto to let people get in early so that they can get rich? If so it actually is a Ponzi scheme. To me the point of crypto is to fix the broken incentives in our financial system. I don’t think anything outside ETH and BTC have a chance at doing that and I am still extremely skeptical of the path ETH is on.

steppe5

That's because everything outside of BTC and ETH is a scam.

Icy-Aardvark-1158

That makes a lot of sense. Going from speculation to seeing BTC as savings instrument is probably the natural evolution after getting burned enough times. Havent read Your Money or Your Life but sounds like I should. Maybe Ill get to your approach after a few expensive lessons. Appreciate you sharing your journey instead of just saying I told you so.

labatte

> there’s always a chance I might need capital quickly if a business or investment opportunity comes up. I’m going to hit you with some brutal honesty. There is not going to be a business or investment opportunity coming up that a poor person like yourself can “invest” in that will see greater return than BTC. What do you expect? You put 5k into a startup that turns into a million? Not going to happen. Just keep DCA’ing into BTC

uncapchad

South Africa. It's been active for about 3 years now. You can pay in many cryptocurrencies, not just BTC. Instantly converted to fiat, so the supermarket gets fiat, not crypto. Near-zero transaction costs. Banks here still charge fees for every transaction (and anything else they can think of). Also a lot of unbanked people here A similar set-up went live last year in Switzerland. Accepting crypto as payment is not so rare.

im_a_stapler

I'm glad this is upvoted. This post is embarrassing. It has the mentality of a child. BTC would do well to separate itself from this vibe because it really detracts actually intelligent and insightful people.

im_a_stapler

Another post that looks like it was made by a 14 year old. Wouldn't it be nice if BTC could strip itself of that vibe?

ComfortableLeading49

BTC isn’t going lower, but it all now. If you DCA, all you’ll be doing is slowing marking your average buy price go up

Icy-Aardvark-1158

Fair perspective and probably the healthiest approach honestly BTC DCA and touch grass is unironically solid life advice I respect that but also some people are wired to take calculated risks on asymmetric bets Not saying its smarter just saying different risk tolerance You stick to BTC and real life. Ill probably lose money on small caps and learn the hard way Appreciate the reality check though

Icy-Aardvark-1158

100% agree crypto is inherently risky especially outside top 20 No amount of research eliminates scam risk completely My question is does that mean we should only stick to BTC ETH SOL etc or is there a way to reduce the risk enough to make small cap plays worth it Because if everyone only buys top 20 then nobody ever gets in early on anything Not saying I have the answer just trying to figure out where the line is between reckless and overly cautious

Full_Click_8846

😂 That's one way to say “thank you” for the BTC tip. Who else is hoping their 2026 self remembers today like this? 🚀💎

ninjazee124

Pretty much realized all the alt coins are scam, moved everything to BTC and chilling now.

I-Feel-Love79

The crazy 🤪 world of BTC dreamers.

OccasionalXerophile

BTC strong like BULL

Ereptile-Disruption

While I really like XMR, price was never the point of the coin, I would keep a bigger amount of coin in ETH/BTC and convert in XMR only a small amount that I need to spend right away. 

Ok_Insect7614

Because every fucking post about BTC becoming $1 trillion,really looks like gambling addicts trying to reassure themselves.

Top_Objective9877

Like an investment I strongly encourage you diversify your holdings by percentage. I allocate a certain percentage of my networth to BTC. Just tossing random numbers around, but let’s say I have $2,000 to invest today, I might choose to make BTC holding as 40% and the rest I would put into a basic stocks option like voo in a Roth IRA or brokerage account. So I would simply buy about $800 worth of BTC and if BTC goes up I sell a little, move to the stocks portfolio, and if it goes down I buy more up either from cash I have on hand or just being smart about moving money around in the best tax advantaged way. My percentages are way different at this point as well as my overall networth but this is how I keep a more balanced system that has rules and boundaries so if something terrible happens in the economy I at least have wiggle room to move in one direction or another. I rebalance most of my stuff manually and sometimes will buy or sell weekly, although more sane people might check quarterly. The cool thing about BTC is volatility, sometimes you can catch a 20% move in one day in either direction so if you’re watching and ready you can make a quick buy or sell and gain and extra $1000 randomly out of thin air. Set goals, reach them, then set new ones, and keep everything balanced in risk to what you see fit.

abigguynamedsugar

BTC and crypto in general looking surprisingly strong

JN88DN

The BTC paper included sources which only were available these days at the Belgium University where Len worked.

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BtcOverBchs

Just a saying. It means buying satoshis consistently which are the smallest unit of BTC. There are 100m satoshis in 1 BTC. So even if you can only afford $1 of BTC at a time that is ~1,100 satoshis at current pricing. The space seems volatile when measured in fiat / news most of the time so if you’re really not familiar with BTC and/or your investment thesis it is really easy for us humans to make emotional decisions buying and selling with every major price movement / news article with FOMO. That’s a good way to lose value. Instead, keeping your head in the sand and consistently buying satoshis is a strategy a lot of people follow. GL stacking says Square-Decision-2763

JustifiablePA

stop worrying about your ROI Build a budget, whatever % of your income you can safely call "savings" is the amount of BTC you buy. pretty simple. pick your head up in a few years, surprise you're not as poor.

mngos_wmelon1019

Crypto just seems like a grifting scheme at this point, in all honesty, and this is coming from someone who used to believe in its potential but it’s BTC, ETH and shit coins galore.

Always_working_hardd

If I recall correctly, go work for the city of Jackson TN. I believe their renumeration package had optional BTC payments.

Full_Click_8846

Nice insight 👀 Seems like BTC strength builds later in the week. Pattern or coincidence? 🤔

phranco_phoney

Nice work, OP. Love to see it. I've been hodl'ing since 2017, and am right behind you. Hoping to be alive long-enough until 10 years from now, when I'll be at the threshold of retirement. Thank you, BTC.

Appropriate-Talk-735

I have done that playing casino but that is quite a challange. I would move between top cryptos and when I have no clear view what is the best I would be in cash or btc. Right now I would buy SOL and then if BTC moves up hard and SOL moves much harder I would sell and consider my next move. But to be clear, I think BTC has the best risk/reward and I would not advice people to move around like this.

No_South_9912

$500 in BTC, but it will take decades to turn into $100k

_sprdamse

Try switching from BTC Core to BTC Knots. That worked for me :)

Django_McFly

Retail buzz never came back in general. BTC had hit $100k and the general public reaction was meh. I think people understand that crypto has crazy ups and downs and they don't care anymore. We also used to restrict memes and comedy posts to weekends. How many people truly want crypto humor for half of the threads?

ActualYellow

The honest answer is that you don’t turn $500 into six figures by being “smart” with trades. You do it with time, asymmetric upside, and by adding capital along the way. Turning $500 into $100k without adding money means a ~200x. That happens, but almost always through extreme risk or being very early. For every success story, there are thousands who blew up and disappeared. Survivorship bias is huge. What actually works for real people is boring. Use that $500 to get exposure to upside, not income. BTC, ETH, and a small number of high-conviction plays early in a cycle. Hold for years. Don’t trade. Don’t use leverage. Most people lose money because they can’t sit still. The second part no one likes to mention is adding money. $500 alone probably won’t change your life. $500 plus consistent monthly investing over 8–12 years in a strong asset class absolutely can. That’s how most “overnight successes” actually did it. The real edge isn’t a strategy, it’s behavior. People who made it big learned the space deeply, sized into winners, ignored noise, and survived drawdowns without panicking. They didn’t chase every new shiny thing and they didn’t try to be traders. Crypto is still one of the few places where real asymmetric upside exists. But patience beats cleverness every time. Most money is made by holding, not by being right on Twitter. If there’s a shortcut, it’s this: don’t blow up early.

Defiant-Sun-1110

Hey OP, this is such a spot-on question! Big market moves in BTC can feel like an emotional rollercoaster, especially when you're watching your stack swing 10-20% in a day. It messed with my sleep and focus big time. But over the cycles, I've dialed in some strategies that keep me (mostly) level-headed. Sharing what works for me, hoping it resonates with you and others here. First off, like a lot of folks are saying, [DCA](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dollar_cost_averaging) is my anchor. I automate buys on a set schedule for example weekly or monthly, rain or shine and treat it like paying a bill. No timing the market, just adding new coins consistently. This takes the emotion out of "Should I buy now?" because the decision's already made. Paired with that, I only put in what I can truly afford to lose (or "forget about," as one commenter put it). Framing it as money already spent helps and ups feel like bonuses, downs are just temporary paper losses. Second, limit the price-checking addiction. I used to refresh charts every hour, but now I cap it at once a day, max. Set app notifications to off, and use tools like cold storage for most of my holdings and that extra step to access makes impulsive sells way less tempting. Journaling my mindset through it all has also helped. Not full essays (who has time?), but quick daily check-ins on how the market's affecting my vibe. It helps spot patterns, like realizing I get overly bullish on green days and ignore risks. I keep it visual and simple with a tracker where I pick one emoji a day and it plots them right on a BTC price chart. It's called [Bitcoin Mood](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.bitcoinmood.app) and seeing those moods lined up with actual price action over weeks/months has made me way more self-aware without the hassle. Just a clean way to reflect and build that emotional resilience. If you like to keep things offline you can also try to track your emotions in an offline journal. That has also helped for me in the past. At the end of the day, it's about mindset BTC is volatile by design, but sticking to your rules turns chaos into opportunity.

Defiant-Sun-1110

Damn, sorry you're dealing with this, those influencer pumps can drag you in deep, and the swings mess with your head big time. I've been there blaming myself for every red day. What pulled me back was logging moods lightly to spot when emotions take over. Bitcoin Mood Tracker lets me drop a quick emoji (🚀 or 😐) on a BTC price chart daily, and reviewing the history shows correlations without overanalyzing. Free and simple, helped me detach a bit. Hope things turn around for you.

pop-1988

Not surprising. The LLM is a collection of things it found on the Internet. It applied a popularity score, and found more people saying ETH and BTC No intelligence evident. Wrong answers always