BTC

Be_Me_Anon_irl

Less likely to not be given 10k than BTC

DrEtatstician

Unlike stocks , BTC value is driven by supply - Demand and if 1 person is willing to pay more he price increases !! High risk high reward play

OrangePillar

It’s sats, 0.00000001 BTC.

canadas

Yes but I keep it general, not I own x BTC.

DrProfresher

Disregarding if those funds where accumulated nefariously or not; Monero showcased its purpose and this is also another reason not to use USDT (or any other freezable crypto). A centralized actor having the power to freeze wealth is exactly the problem BTC was meant to solve.

MrKillerKiller_

Buy us out? Huh? It’s a trade in a tiny market cap asset in the sketchiest asset class in the history of markets. Huge pullbacks are gonna be a thing for at least the next decade for BTC

No-Conference5664

BTC remains the only safe bet long-term. Most alts bleed against it forever. ETH has real risks from AI audits and quantum threats. Stick to native Segwit BTC, no address reuse. That’s your edge. The rest is gambling.

No-Conference5664

Crypto is bleeding, but it's not over. BTC near $60k support hold or drop to $50k. ETH under $2k looks weak. Alts are dying, but good projects survive. This is a normal cycle crash, not the end. Stop panicking. Don't overleverage. DCA slowly. Keep cash ready. Wait for real bounce above $67k. You've seen this before.

FitCompetition1804

Told my mother in law, who was nice enough to store one of my Shamir backups that I’m getting into BTC this year. She asked, “isn’t it down?” My response was “exactly”.

Maximum-Cover-786

Set rules: If BTC drops to this level I buy x amount of it. If it drops further I buy another x amount of it. If it crashes to its absolute bottom I double down.

Over-Winter-3668

Bruh… Does that mean I’m in the 1%? I’ve got .13 BTC.

Nice-Worldliness9254

I lost 10 BTC from 2014 myself. Back then wallets didn’t use seed phrases like today — you had a wallet file sitting somewhere on a hard drive. I went through years of trying to recover it and never managed to. So honestly, your story didn’t impress me that much considering what some of us already lived through in the early Bitcoin days.

HoldMyCrackPipe

People will buy and hold BTC then wonder why it doesn’t have adoption as a currency…. Why would you buy anything with your bitcoin if you very truly believed it would be worth more tomorrow…

JunkBondJunkie

My dad does and he told me BTC was stupid when I was mining it.

FKNLE63ND

Cold storage : Coldcard Q Seed storage: Crypto Tag Zeus (titanium plates) Watch a few videos from BTC sessions (on YouTube) for the Coldcard Q setup They just need to have access to the seed phrase and they’ll be fine. Good move! They’ll be happy in the future 😎

usa_reddit

It's not that bad, it's only down 30% YTD. Just keep holding, it will go up when everyone realizes how amazing BTC really is. Do not sell, diamond hands all the wall to $100K. Over the past 5-days BTC is up almost .34% which is a positive side, some might say statistical noise and trading sideways, but I say positive sign.

IndustrialPuppetTwo

This isn't the end—it's the start of the next cycle. I'm talking about BTC. One of the most interesting on-chain indicators is Bitcoin's Supply in Profit vs. Supply in Loss. Supply in Profit measures the percentage of coins whose current price is above their last on-chain purchase price, while Supply in Loss measures the percentage of coins currently underwater. When these two lines converge and cross, it means that more than half of Bitcoin's circulating supply is sitting at an unrealized loss. Historically, these periods have coincided with major bear-market bottoms and some of the best long-term accumulation opportunities. The crossover has now occurred again. In previous cycles, similar signals appeared around the major lows of 2011, 2015, 2019, 2020, and 2022. While no indicator is perfect and history never repeats exactly, this has consistently been one of the strongest on-chain signs that the market is entering a late-stage capitulation phase rather than the beginning of a new downtrend. If history rhymes, the next few months could look a lot more like accumulation than collapse. It has not failed yet. Of course it could but it has not so far. Now is an excellent time to DCA and perhaps in a month or two ape in a bit. Don't throw any money into BTC that you need to feed yourself or pay your rent.

BakedGoods

lol so many bad takes. he sold the equivalent of $10 bucks of bitcoin to us plebs. he also told everyone he was going to do it on the last earnings call. the s&p500 inclusion and ratings agencies clearly stated they won't count Strategy's BTC as an asset unless they prove they're willing to sell it. so he sold $10 worth to prove he could and a week later bought 100x that amount. not rocket science guys.

__redruM

It likely is, but stop at 10-20%, put the rest in index funds. If you don’t have a brokerage account, open one, and: - 15% BTC - 25% QQQ - 60% VOO

Blackiris-Code

I'd rather use a piece of paper as cold storage tbh. A written seed phrase can be broken into pieces (with numbers for order) to increase security, duplicated if needed, wedged inside books, moved digitally... Unless your kids want to use DeFi, there isn't much to do with BTC, beside holding it in the hope that its value goes up. (It will very likely go up from today's value, at some point.)

Beginning-Tax-8473

All of crypto is a fkn joke!! Worthless and seems like every crypto we thought would be legit was just a fkn rug pull. Even BTC is a shitcoin , ETH is useless, SOL is worthless, XrP dont even get me started on how big of a fuckery xrp is..  The whole market, stocks and crypto is rigged and completely market manipulation.. The 9 families that created the Central Banking system are at war with anyone or anything that could make one $$ or self reliant.

Parraddiddle

I just did!.. I took out a BTC backed loan on Coinbase with 3 BTC as collateral then bought 1 BTC on another exchange and transferred the 1 BTC back to Coinbase and now have 4 BTC as collateral for a $60,000 loan, the terms are to pay back whenever and there is no minimum payments, so ideally I could wait for let’s hypothetically say $200,000 BTC and pay back in full plus interest on the original $60,000 loan. The risk is that BTC goes below around $18,000 and I would be liquidated. This is worst case scenario and I don’t think we will get close. I will also be transferring around $20,000 to Coinbase for a safety net in the event we get close to the liquidation point, in this case I can either pay down the loan or just add more collateral by buying more BTC at a lower price. I’m not suggesting anyone do this, it’s just what I am doing.

Leithm

Since you left,  Saylor  has leveraged his balance sheet against Bitcoin bought 50bln of BTC with 60 Bln of borrowed money and people are trying to work out how the gap  will be filled.  Eth cannot  scale and Solana started eating it’s lunch now Hype is eating Sol’s lunch and none of them look much like what Satoshi invented. Ask yourself if you care about… Proof of work vs Proof of  stake, decentralisation, what crypto is for.

Ge_Yo

I was referring to things like native BTC staking, using BTC as collateral, and the infrastructure emerging around those models. Not saying they'll be the main driver, but they could contribute over time.

TenderLA

So are you actually pricing it in Bitcoin or will you change the BTC amount as the USD value changes?

Retire_date_may_22

I said Crypto keeps printing. There’s little barrier to a new coin. If you can’t read you probably don’t understand crypto. As for BTC. You don’t even know who owns most of it.

Arboga_10_2

I personally would not go over 5%. BTC could to a million or to 0. Don't invest more than you could stand to lose completely overnight.

Much-Log-187

The news are terrible but BTC is still 60k+, which surprises me. I think it will drop between 40-50k from October. Many people lost money with crypto, they are tired of praying for their token to pump, which is way too risky and random. They discovered ETF, semiconductors compagnie, AI, which rely on something in the real world, which is adopted contrary to defi... In less than one year AI has been adopted wildly. At the opposit, more than 10 years of cryptocurrencies have only raise scams, suspicions, sophisticated ponzi schemes and next to no adoption. Altcoins are too diluted. It is too easy to create a new crypto. Blockchains are mostly hype trains but after some time still 0 real usecase. People still believe on BTC as a mean to protect over inflation, monkey money, but as it is also highly centralized and manipulated and its performance are decreasing and decreasing, people will prefer ETFs or stock picking.

FranklinCook

I dont see a reason to go into anything crypto related except BTC and maybe top 3 alts. If i want more of a short term gamble i rather buy a stock/Tech sector ETF etc. Obviously some selected alts will do well but its so hard to get the right ones now with the sheer amount of projects/coins available…

Chemfreak

Just factually wrong. If I buy 100 BTC, and 100 people sell 1 BTC, there is 100x more sellers than buyers but supply and demand mechanics hold. I'm so confused how confident you are when it's clearly wrong.

JustStopppingBye

According to crypto twitter lol A 32 BTC sale is tiny relative to btcs daily trading volume.

thistimelineisweird

If they went IPO just to access money to buy BTC, I've got an exploding rocket to sell you.

Patient-Ordinary-359

The same way Not at all the same. Not remotely the same. Fundamentals eventually matter because earnings exist. Your BTC or any crypto give you no claim on any income. Some defi tokens do, then it's more valid valid. But show me how to value any crypto without resorting to scarcity and network effects, which is no better than horoscopes.

jawni

you want to know what a BTC address would give access to? bro i'm not answering your dumbass questions anymore, go find an LLM or if you want me to keep entertaining whatever it is you're doing, you can send me some of the crypto that you seem to think is worthless but I'm not wasting my time with this for free anymore.

SamQuentin

Do BTC. What resources does that ledger entry give someone access to

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BrutalistGoogie

Because I'm agnostic about crypto. Believe it or not I bought in the $300s and paid my kids' tuition. But I don't believe in the BTC thesis; I only saw an opportunity to arbitrage irrationality.

Billkr

If I needed to wash some coins I would send my coins on-chain to my Phoenix wallet. I use this wallet for trivial spending cash. It supports Bitcoin and Lightning without having to run your own lightning node. Then I would go to [boltz.exchange/swap](http://boltz.exchange/swap) and create a swap from lightning network to my 'clean wallet' bitcoin address. That will create a lightning invoice that you can pay with Phoenix wallet through the lightning network. This will cost you BTC transfer fees as well as the boltz transfer fees. You have now moved BTC through lightning without having to have any lightning knowledge or node. This is not the most efficient. It is the easiest way without doing coinjoin with wasabi wallet.

TheresNoSecondBest

>* **BISQ -** looked like a good fit but I had to fund my account I believe to post an offer so stopped there. If you don't have or want to load some sats in, look up BISQ2. >I finally was able to connect to their site using TOR but didn't see how to actually buy BTC If you've managed that far, try a bit harder. This video might help https://youtu.be/52snf3x2KKA >* **HodlHodl** \- Nothing in person / cash Make your own cash/in person offer. >* **Vexl** \- Nothing in the US. I downloaded the app even and nothing. Yeah, Vexl is quite new and Europe oriented BUT it's an open source software that is crossing the continents. The dashboard shows 60k connections in Canada, I don't believe there's not a single connection in the US. Again, just make your own offer and see if someone comes back to you. It's connecting ONLY with people in your contacts, plus people in their contacts if you set it up. Hope that helps.

BigDiperEruption

I'm also currently at the BTC Prague. Lot of mining services but haven't talked to any of them yet. Have you seen any service that is innovative? I run about 240TH solo on CK-Pool.

stereoagnostic

The more price goes down against dollars, the more Bitcoin you get. You literally get double the amount of BTC now compared to buying at all time high. Setting automatic buys is a good way to go because it just takes all emotion out of the equation. Then just set some limit orders for any brief deep dips if you want to make some bigger buys at steep discounts.

Rocko210

Because it will dump even harder for the next 3 months, then you can buy BTC

rizzlejee

I also have fewer than 3 BTC

radiationholder

its not there yet. in the coming years, ETH, HBAR, XMR, and BTC are different types of coins that do very different things. Right now even though these are, technology wise, very different coins, pricewise they are very correlated in that they are generally following BTC. The bear market is determined by BTC. The bull market you can have different performance levels for all alts, even different performance levels (but all bad) during the bear market as well.

kageiii

Yep. Now BTC only

Turbulent-Land-5664

Ive seen the cycles and lived the exhilaration of surges and the deflating feeling of the crashes, and I know these cycles and I expect them - but I dont pretend to understand them or predict them - so I also do not trade. I simply am happy to focus on how much BTC I have and I look at that potential - knowing that fiat number last ATH gives me home, I know it will be more next time. But I am aoso getting too old for this - quite frankly I am living quite lean and ready to retire and wish I had some money giving me income, and soon I will need to exit some of my BTC or come up with a strategy for realizing some of this asset without all the angst of timing it all right. Thats a really weird thing about money - the more you have the more you have to worry about. How Ironic.

indomitus1

1 BTC=1 BTC Few understand this.

Ok_Freedom3290

The SpaceX IPO will have massive hype, but the real alpha is in Bitcoin's post-halving structural accumulation. I track spot vs perp Cumulative Volume Delta (CVD) and institutional flows on a dashboard I built ([https://alphasignal.digital](https://alphasignal.digital/)). While retail gets distracted by the IPO, smart money is accumulating BTC spot.

Turbulent-Land-5664

I wish they didnt - I have told them before to buy some, and that was even when it was lower than it is now. They will say things like Oh bitcoin is down - even when it was near the ATH - they dont understand it - or the cycles - or the fact its not money made or lost till you exit - and the comittment to HODL. They will be secretly gloating right now about how low its went - with no clue about how far ahead I still am from my DCA from my grand entry early 2018. My brother is particularly annoying, because he's a stock broker - he doesnt like BTC - he has had some of his clients who moved their money management to their children and those kids think he's a dinosaur and they are in crypto. Its a threat to the establishment old guard - I get it. So he says crypto all the time - I dont deal in crypto, I only deal in BTC - anyhow he say I think it will go to zero. Hw eould be right smug if it did even it it wiped me out totally. But if it goes where we all believe it will, it can be undeniable to them that we made a good decision - but even then they will say - well - you got lucky - that was risky - glad it worked out. haha. FML - I wont talk to them anymore about it.

Fast-Ice7537

Any other suggestions, I' will post there, I'm always open to feedback Although I wouldn't want to post in a sub where people aren't properly educated in BTC, some people pretend that they know BTC because they heard its a scam or unstable or whatever and think they solved btc

SunixKO

Wow, that's nice of you. You don't need to give a number, seems like you are hoping for my success; I hope for your success also. I don't really see why you feel the need to go shitting on bitcoin pretending you don't understand it and acting like a low IQ troll. If you don't like BTC, just leave it be. I'll be here forever, and I won't feel the need to dunk on you when bitcoin goes up again

oec

Exactly. It’s always, “Why are you selling on a dip?” Like bro, some of us have been holding since this thing was basically a sperm cell. LOL People get in, hold a couple BTC for two years and think they’re so holy here.

JEI2E

Idiots who don't know what they're doing. Of course they don't own a whole lot of Bitcoin, but the sheer amount of suckers with only $50 in BTC, who are now panicking because of all of the fud in the media (and on places like Reddit) is just through the roof. Either that or they genuinely believe that we'll hit 30k by October, because their favourite YouTuber said it.

Aggressive_Notice313

It's already a good time to start DCAing. 1 BTC = 1 BTC. In the end, it all comes down to your patience and your ability to control your emotions through the ups and downs.

bobbyvlx

I haven’t looked at BTC since it was high. The messages are very depressing.

No-Rain-6115

Monero is doing great, I bought when it started to crash because of bitcoin and just made a killing when it popped back up. There is a clear market for good privacy, BTC just doesn’t accomplish much

polymath_uk

On what platform can you trade CFDs on BTC? I've traded metals and oil before using derivatives, just never seen derivative trading for crypto before - I've always traded the underlying asset.

cowboy_shaman

The problem is that nearly everything is crypto is heavily dependent on Bitcoin. If BTC rises, alts usually pump higher. If it falls, alts crash even more. This is why buying more coins is more like buying a lottery ticket than truly diversifying. Actual diversification needs uncorrelated assets to reduce risk. The best example is investing in stocks, bonds, real estate, AND crypto. That’s diversification. Within the stock market, you can diversify tech stocks by buying defense or energy stocks for example. This is diversifying with different sectors

Select_Aide_6548

My fault for not doing this, but when I make these posts I should indicate I'm in the US -- since a lot of the suggestions (Vexl, Peach) must assume you're outside of the US. Hell Peach won't even load if you're in the US. You have to use a VPN. Then when you do, and you try to order, you see the locations are all in EU and Africa. But yeah, I tried all of those without much success. * **BISQ -** looked like a good fit but I had to fund my account I believe to post an offer so stopped there. Might get it another shot. * **RoboSata** \- never could get it to work. I mean even if you google it you don't see the site, just a github link, a site that has a directory of KYC free sites, and some other links. I remember needing to get an onion browser. I finally was able to connect to their site using TOR but didn't see how to actually buy BTC. Fully willing to admit it could be user error, but it sure wasn't a simple process * **HodlHodl** \- Nothing in person / cash * **Vexl** \- Nothing in the US. I downloaded the app even and nothing. Here is their site showing top countries. US isn't on there at all. [https://dashboard.vexl.it/](https://dashboard.vexl.it/) * **PeachBitcoin** \- won't even load if you're in the US (dumb). You can view the site using a VPN but it's clear when looking at their site there are no US locations/users. I might give BISQ another shot. The reason I liked LCW is it seemed to be a bulletin board of sorts where you can make a profile, say what you were buying/selling, and if someone wanted to do a deal, they'd reach out and you'd make it happen. That seemed to be the best fit for an in-person cash transaction. I'd be willing to do a deal via mail but not with a stranger where I'm sending first -- even if an escrow. However if I'm buying I'd be happy to mail cash once I got it. The problem becomes trust. I used to use LocalBitcoins all the time back in the day (2013). Still crazy to think that 13 years ago, when most people never heard of bitcoin, it was easier to buy/sell in person and easier to acquire (in non KYC way). BTC feels 'captured' now in comparison.

Blackiris-Code

I also have shorts. I'm sure that 60k is going to be tested again. But I'd rather bet BTC is not going under 58k, at least not this month.

Fast-Ice7537

I think string of codes is a oversimplification, but yes I will be doing that. Atleast BTC delivers

LibertyWithLiquidity

He's very bearish, that should be another indicator for you. Every single time we saw such pessimism among the sheeple, BTC ripped higher not long after.

SunixKO

Like if you were here for any other reason than trolling, you'd spend 3 minutes to read about BTC and learn how you can manage it by yourself or leave it in the hands of a bank or anyone else. The "gameboy" is for a person choosing to have 100% control over his own bitcoin, and with the device he can still create and send bitcoin without ever putting his seed phrase(his "password" for the bitcoin he has) into an device that is connected to the Internet. Enjoy your trolling, though here's an reply if anyone else was actually wondering what the device is for.

bitcornmaxi21

My buddy had BTC on voyager and he would say the same thing. “It’s insured” or “they’re a public company, they’ll be safe”. It didn’t play out well for him… turns out no Bitcoin is FDIC insured. Voyager was lying.

Aerocryptic

Sure nothing can happen anymore. And let's forget about the fact that most of BTC's trading volume happens on the ETFs or that protocols like Hyperliquid are eating CEX"s market share. So comfy

ColegDropOut

What is the inflation rate of the global fiat system? This will be the minimum growth rate of BTC imo.

Known-Application106

This is the kind of thing that actually makes the case better than any BTC price chart alone. Seeing everyday stuff like a gallon of milk or a loaf of bread priced in sats from 2009 to now hits different. Nice work putting the data together.

Gr1009

Because this is the middle of a crypto winter. Because there are three giant IPOs coming (first is today) where the money will flow, causing BTC to fall further. Because Saylor admitted the Ponzi scheme yesterday when he said YOU should never sell, but my company should. You won't listen to this, but you did ask the question.

OddRecognition6214

BTC holding near .4K while demand is weakening underneath it is the part people miss. The crowd sees a chop day, but the flow data looks more like a fragile holder-profit zone than a clean reset.

Inevitable-Cat869

BTC should be considered more of a highly volatile long-term investment. Emergency funds are for immediate use in case of actual emergencies.

CizzGotRizz

I try to make it my duty to tell as many people who are interested, about BTC

Impossible-Buyer6389

Just BTC is the correct answer

Fast-Ice7537

well, yeah... but BTC would be my emergency fund anyway (but yeah I will also save some FIAT just in case), I can just sell. But hopefully that never happens

beingmodest

And the BTC decline has wiped out more than $1.2 trillion in market value and erased all gains recorded during President Donald Trump's second term.

OldGoneMild89

Absolutely should be funneling 100% of his paychecks into BTC for the remainder of their days

DimensionPrize8168

I’m pissed I have to sell my house first before I can take advantage of the BTC price right now. Once I sell, my proceeds are going to the bit

Lefties_TheWorst7331

Macroeconomics held this bullrun back a lot, but that will be what sends the next bullrun to oblivion.. People are going to realize investing into tech heavy SP500 is speculation and manipulation, not investing on true principals anymore.. so why not buy another speculative asset (BTC) instead of the speculative SP500? At least BTC has a ledger behind it showing any manipulation.. I have yet to find that ledger for the SP500..

Lefties_TheWorst7331

I'm full port into BTC and BTC related ETFs.. and also using margin. Also purchasing more every day. If you believe in it, hit it bro. If we haven't bottomed already for this cycle, then we should have been pretty damn close to it, if we haven't already. Honestly at this price level, it just screams to accumulate as much as possible because the next bullrun is gonna be juicy. If anything, set up a DCA recurring buy daily with money that you can afford to lose (if you hold there is no losing, though).

Raph0uX

How the fuck is it still early when there already are billion dollars ETF with BTC ☠️

Additional_Hat_9313

Acho que a precificação de produtos vai ser sempre em dólar ou moeda local e BTC sempre vai ser volátil, a você verá quando é hora de gastar ou segurar.

_This_Is_Ridiculous

But whoever you pay the BTC to just converts it to Fiat so you're forcing a selling event. Ferrari accepts BTC yet has a third party convert it to fiat so it really isn't being used as a the sole currency in the transaction.

Scared-Permit2587

Probably because you didn't think it would get back down to those levels again else you would have said I can't wait until BTC drops back down to 2021 prices so I can buy more rather than I would give anything to back to that date. See the difference?

CryptoGateLive

Did this dance with a lot of small merchants, so taking your four in order: 1. Self-custody vs processor — it's a false choice now. The setup you want is xpub-based: you give a processor (or your own BTCPay Server) your extended PUBLIC key, it derives a fresh address per invoice, and funds go straight to your wallet. You keep the keys; the software only does invoicing, payment detection, and records. Full self-host = BTCPay (free, but you run a server); hosted xpub-based gateways exist if you don't want ops. Avoid anything where "they" receive the coins and pay you out — that's the custody model you're rightly trying to skip. 2. Volatility — quote the job in dollars, always. The invoice locks a BTC amount at the current rate with a short expiry (15 min is the standard window), customer pays that amount, done. Whether you then hold or convert is a separate treasury decision — don't let it leak into pricing. "Lock and hold" means your books record the USD value at receipt, which also solves half of question 4. 3. Lightning for $200–500 — at that ticket size on-chain is honestly fine fee-wise most of the time, but confirmations take 10–60 min, which is awkward when you finish a job and want to leave. Lightning settles instantly and fees are negligible; BTCPay does both and picks per-invoice. For your sizes I'd offer both and let the invoice decide. 4. Taxes (the real pain) — every payment is ordinary income at fair market value when received; if you later sell/spend the BTC, the difference from that basis is capital gain/loss. The thing that makes year-end survivable is per-invoice records: date, BTC amount, USD value at receipt. Any decent gateway/BTCPay exports this as CSV; feed it to Koinly or similar and it's an hour, not a nightmare. The merchants who suffer are the ones reconstructing prices from a bare wallet history. (Disclosure: I work on a hosted non-custodial gateway in this space, so discount the "hosted exists" line accordingly — BTCPay is the right call if you want zero third parties involved.)

Retire_date_may_22

Like is said, I really hope you are right. Good luck. Just curious. What percentage of your portfolio is BTC?

BroheemTheDream

I see BTC going down to around 30k before going back up. I’m just scared for a lot of alts because that last “bullrun” for most of them was dogshit

Inevitable-Cat869

I basically bought BTC to shut my friend up and if I don't want to talk about something, I just pivot to BTC. Lol

skydiver19

Money rotates in to different assets. At the moment a lot of money is rotating into AI stocks etc. This is what happens when smart money via ETFs etc play a big part of BTC now. You also have the biggest IPO in history happening today and people will no doubt be rotating funds out of their ETFs in to SpaceX

grapedog

My family knows whether or not I invest in BTC. You illiterate fucks on the Internet however, do not get to know.

Far-Photograph-2342

My guess is BTC drops too, at least initially. When investors de-risk, they usually sell what they can, not just what they want to. We've seen that during multiple market shocks where Bitcoin traded more like a high-beta risk asset than a safe haven. The interesting question is what happens after the first wave of selling. If liquidity improves and crypto fundamentals remain strong, BTC could recover faster than many equities. But I wouldn't count on a tech correction automatically rotating money into crypto.

cyger

I like to diversify. I sold lots of BTC for AI stocks over the last couple of years - most would say that was not a brain dead move.

NoPea1663

How long have you been in Bitcoin? Been in BTC since 2016. Bought and sold several times and took profits. I still have a position in Bitcoin and DCA every month. I was DCAing every month with the plan on stopping when BTC hit 100k and it did. When it hit 126k it dropped so fast that I didn't have time to sell it. I took some profits at 82k. I first got into Bitcoin at $300. I think it's a bargain right now.

HesitantInvestor0

“No one should expect their 0.01 BTC today to buy them a yacht in 5 years.” Are you saying I should cancel my order?

Notorious7oh2

My 2 cents are the way technology is going you can’t predict *anything* 10-15 year out anymore. I am pro BTC but man it might not even exist in 10 years.

Teamduncan021

Space x owns BTC. 

mrjune2040

Yeah fwiw I’m basically one of those, all my BTC is from 2012. Investments in other things outside of that too obviously. A lot of these kinds of posts are from relative newbies, who don’t understand that capital is just rotating around to manage risk. My BTC sells are just managed reallocation over time to account for best tax outcomes, and I’ll continue to do that for the next decade plus. 60k, 40k, 120k, 200k- the exact prices don’t matter, heavy profit was determined long ago- it’s just about where that capital gets redeployed.

s3426556

Yay! Having my cash ready for BTC’s red candles so I can stack more 😂😂

GrokM14232

The MSTR trade was always a financing mechanism more than a pure conviction play. Saylor used the equity premium and the convertible bond market to lever BTC exposure at scale, which works well in a reflating environment. The selling, if it is happening, is probably routine within the strategy rather than a signal on BTC itself. What is worth watching is how the convertibles behave if BTC corrects 40% -- that is where the forced unwind dynamic could get interesting. The strategy is essentially a long-duration BTC call with convertible holders providing the financing; the exit costs are embedded in the structure from the start.

Assist_Lumpy

Are you in the usa. I think the most seamless so you can get use to it is FoldApp. It's a debit card and you can buy and sell Bitcoin so you can move between USD and BTC as you figure out how things work and it has the lowest fees. There is also river which is really good for buying and locking in BTC. I think buy and hold for now but those are my top two picks of you're just getting started.

darkpool_watcher

This is exactly what a healthy mid-cycle shakeout looks like after the post-halving euphoria. We’ve seen this movie in 2017-18, 2021-22, and now again. I’m doing the same as you, strict DCA on BTC and a bit of ETH, staying patient, and keeping dry powder for when real capitulation or better macro setup appears. No hero moves, no revenge trading. The $58-60k zone is key for BTC. If it holds, great. If it breaks, we’ll probably get one more scary leg down before the real recovery starts. Either way, the people who make it through these periods are the ones who don’t panic sell and keep stacking.

Hot_Sacks

Great take. IMO, outside of the forced sellers, the group that's creating the biggest consistent sell pressure is OG VC capital with huge gains already just rotating some of their holdings into AI and other sectors to de-risk, diversify, and potentially catch the next trend. However, they likely still have a ton of BTC exposure. If you listen to some of the later-stage OG's, who got in around 2015/2016, VC's in Silicon Valley were already balls deep into Bitcoin around 2012-2014 and bought in the single digits.