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No-Masterpiece2246

Which is... what stablecoins were made for! USDT: Originally created to pump BTC price by printing "dollars" out of thin air. USDC: Goldman Sachs founder got USG permission to print money when no one else could

No-Masterpiece2246

7 year risk is literally the definition of FUD. Goldman Sachs will probably own half of the world's BTC and rig the price 100% by then anyway.

ChuckFinely69

It will go to $200k when the democrats take the office back so it can feel edgy to own BTC again.

loupiote2

As long as you have your 24-word recovery seed phrase, there is no issue at all, as you can enter it in a newer ledger device (or update the firmware of your old ledger). If you lost your seed phrase, there are ways to recover access to all cryptos secured by your old ledger without having to update the firmware (updating the firmware is not recommended is you lost your seed phrase). As long as your ledger device works and that you have the unlocking PIN, all cryptos secured by your ledger are recoverable. The tools to use and the efforts / difficulty depends on the type of cryptos that are secured by your ledger device. For example, BTC can generally be recovered by using Electrum, connected to your ledger device. Other cryptos may require using older versions of existing front-ends, or in some cases, custom low-level front-ends. Note: It is not recommended to update the device firmware if you lost the seed phrase, because if the update goes bad, you would permanently lose access to all your crypto. So, for safety, the recovery has to be done using the older firmware that is on your device.

oopssomething

BTC +4% in 24h, DOGE +2%. This used to be +8%. I think crypto is maturing.

Shittyzed15

If you’re thinking 20–30 years, consistency matters more than entry price. I’d focus on holding and letting it grow over time.Even better if your BTC isn’t just sitting idle platforms like CoinDepo let you earn while holding.

Full-Atmosphere-4818

Worst mistake.... when it hit $3600 in early 2019 and a friend and I each planned to buy 6 or 7 BTC when it went below $3000, which we were sure would be within days.

ParallelSmoke

Never too late to preserve whatever amount that you want to. Even just 1 dollar in BTC is better than 1 dollar USD over time. Think of it as preservation with large potential upside. If it doesn't go parabolic, it'll still have more value in 5 years than your USD savings will.

Comfortable-Half5165

Keeping it simple and consistent: * DCA (monthly buys) into BTC/ETH—no timing stress * Hold majority long-term, don’t overtrade * Small portion for higher-risk plays (strict limits) * Take profits along the way, not just at the top * Use simple tools/wallets (like LIFE Wallet) for easy management Nothing fancy—just discipline, risk control, and consistency.

IBAN-IBON64

Une partie en STRC et BTC

Walter_White_RV

Hmmmm let's ask the BTC sub.....

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ElPeroTonteria

It’s something on the scale of 7:1 (17:1?), I forget the actual number… but that’s the scale of the derivative market over the spot market with BTC

notrodman

Sold your house to buy 5 BTC in hopes it 2x’s amidst macro uncertainty? Hope you can stomach the dip to $50keks

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elreyadr0k

Now. Yes. With his BTC shorts. But the whole reason he had 100 million was because he held like a lunatic before.

Enrrabador

The dude sold his house and went all in on BTC, I think it’s safe to say he will not panic sell

HSuke

BIP-360 only protects against new long-range attacks for anyone who migrates. It doesn't solve short range mempool attacks or longer-range attacks for stuck BTC in P2PK addresses and other early addresses used more than once.

defeater33

Buy ETH and or BTC only. With ETH big swings you can make 80-100% in six months to two years. Be patient.

Fold_Substantial

That would be a 36% return in 4 years from top to top. Per year about 9%. Why not just buy stocks instead at this point if buying and holding BTC isn’t going to outperform stocks…

Desperate-Purpose178

I can crack BTC in one second with a one million qubit computer.

JuxtaposeLife

Too late? If anything, it's too early, since adoption is still growing. There can only be about 0.002BTC per person on earth and that doesn't even start to factor in countries, and corporations that want it too. In the future people will wish they could have bought .002 BTC in under a lifetime.

DreamingTooLong

The all-time high was like 126K middle of October 2025 We are down 50% since then BTC has a four year cycle and the previous four year tops were Q4 2025, Q4 2021, Q4 2017, and Q4 2013 Everyone is giving you advice and warnings. This is one of those things you gotta do your research or it could be a very expensive lesson.

andys811

It depends on what you define as savings, BTC has shown based on history that it generally isn't good for short-mid term savings but is great for long term aka 4+ years, for a trip that's happening soon it's best to put that money aside because there's a decent probability you will have less than if you just have saved

coinegg

i have zero interest in spending a single cent on stocks of companies propped up by fake printed money. stocks value also has zero connection to a companies success. the entire thing is a manipulated joke. I buy assets. BTC is one.

DarKcS

This. The cost of cracking a single BTC wallet has to cost less than the cost of computing it, and the first machine capable of the qubits necessary is roughly estimated to be around 300 billion of R&D and development at the minimum, and that's using Google's latest tech estimates for the qubits required. I think the tech has to get cheaper to see that level of investment, by then we'll have a BTC code update to mitigate the risks, and worst case scenario you send the BTC to a cold wallet with no transactions thus no public key revealed and you wait a little while until it's safe.

Grogers92

Are you talking only crypto investments or your entire portfolio? No offense, but if you don’t at the very least have a retirement investment account (401k, IRA, etc.), you are insane. Diversification is investment knowledge 101. I can understand people not wanting to waste their time on alternative crypto investments (I personally love quite a few of them, but that’s just me), but not investing into stocks, bonds, ETFs, mutual funds, etc. is just crazy to me. All your money depending on BTC. OOF

samuscoped

People not holding BTC will tell you its too late but it’s not at all. Start DCA & dont sell anything for 5-10 years atleast. In 15-20 years it might be too late, but its not the case ATM.

coinegg

Most people will ONLY invest in BTC going forward, forever. Me included.

Letsgotothemovie

LOL. The risk of quantum to the BTC network is basically zero. The risk involved in any non proof of work crypto is built into the software. You never actually own it because they can always change the software meaning they are writing you out. What do you think they mean by “freezing your wallet”?

locustsandhoney

Upper estimates of Satoshi’s wallet is that it may contain around a million BTC. That’s less than 5% of the total supply. And that’s the upper estimate of how much it may be. The supply of gold and silver increase by 5% every few years. It’s not crashing their price. Even if Satoshi’s wallet was dumped all at once, it would lower the price but certainly not unrecoverable crash it. Of course, someone who invested the high costs of cracking the cryptography necessary to access Satoshi’s wallet, would not want to crash the price of the asset they just came into possession of. Assuming they are acting rationally and in their own interests, they would sell it slowly to maximize their profit. But, if they are irrational, dumping it at once would hurt the price but it would be perfectly recoverable. It may not matter anyway because, when Bitcoin is upgraded to be quantum resistant, they could put a lock on pre-upgrade wallets to prevent them from being spent ever again, which prevents hackers from benefiting from abandoned wallets. These are the discussions being had.

More_Butterscotch_38

Make sure your back up has backup put in cold storage wallet drop it in a safety deposit tell no one you know or put it in your will just in case some happens to ya. But like I said not tell anyone they leave it in there for at least 2 years you will see that has increased or set an alert on your phone for a certain amount to alert you if btc it's 85000 or 100,000 they run to the bank sell then wait 3 months it will drop back down buy another 4 BTC take the difference put some back for tax you will owe of course then put that on property. Continue the cycle until you have a million in the bank pay off all debt and retire...... Of course this is all in theory you got to hold that much btc and not spend it I know I wouldn't I love spending it too much to hold on to it. Lol

dimi727

Bad news, tradifi future down. BTC pumps. yeah sure 🤣 totally normal

spb1

i dont think he sold it for BTC, he sold it and wanted to invest the cash somewhere so put it all into BTC. if he wants to hold long term - fine. but it seems he's doing it because he thinks the stock market will go down this year due to iran. If that means he's buying BTC as a short term play then uhhh, yeah , risky

Charlie-boy1

I sold my house at the end of 2022. Rolled all the profits in BTC. Saw my BTC rise in 2023 and 2024 but rolled that into memes and alts thinking it would better my chances. Whatever you do, keep it in BTC only.

rainy_desert

Banks can patch their systems overnight. Bitcoin requires ecosystem-wide consensus for any cryptographic upgrade, and one paper estimated ~76 days of downtime just for the transition.  SWIFT and US federal agencies are already on post-quantum timelines. Bitcoin’s leading proposal (BIP 360) is still on testnet. On top of that, 6.9M BTC already have public keys exposed on an immutable ledger. Adversaries can harvest that data now and crack it later.

jacksonxly

The "fragmentation tax" is so real. I went through the exact same phase with market data instead of news. By the time I cross-referenced a resting whale wall on Bookmap against funding rates on Coinglass, the setup was gone. The fix for execution data is the same logic you applied to news: collapse it into one view with hard filters. For order books, I aggregate Binance, Coinbase, and Hyperliquid into a single ladder, but filter it to only show walls >50 BTC. You instantly see which venues are defending a level without switching tabs: https://preview.redd.it/l8ret2mg5gtg1.png?width=2536&format=png&auto=webp&s=546bdd319a07dd48a3a2092370cae8fa3e91d528

BiggusDickus-

Of course stablecoins can bypass a blockchain. I can snail mail you the key to my wallet and you now own my stablecoins. I could do that with BTC as well. How the "currency" is transmitted is irrelevant to it being "crytpo" currency. Quick question. what actually keeps Bitcoin secure? What is the mechanism that prevents the creation of a million BTC by a central bank? What keeps the number of BTC absolutely secure and fixed at 21 million?

MtGloomy0420

It’s not. Pure distraction as I bought more $BTC lol 😂

Hopeful-Mortgage4681

It is generally a **bad idea** to use Bitcoin for short-term savings (anything you need in less than a year, like a trip). Bitcoin is a "volatile asset," not a "stable savings" tool. While it can go up, it can also drop significantly right when you need to book your flights. For example, in early 2026, BTC saw a **21% drop** in just a few months. If that happens right before your trip, you’d have to either cancel or sell at a massive loss. Bitcoin can be a good option for long-term savings (1-2 years) to capture potential growth until the next peak.

No_Cockroach3179

Buying BTC during the dip? Get your Trezor at a discount too use code V6N6S3

Revolutionary-Cup78

definitely separate your trip money. You can't count on BTC to be worth enough at the time you'll need it. If there is not much of a deal to lose that vacations (example, instead have them a few years later) then yes you could do that

epic_trader

You really should stop posting this comment because it's incredibly ignorant. Upgrading your security if you're a bank is not controversial, it's not difficult and you're not bound by some arbitrary contraints like signature sizes. And even if someone managed to compromise a banks security, it's not like they can just steal everyones' money and get away with it. It's a completely different scenario with BTC, where a bunch of addresses is known to be vulnerable, where the community would rather pretend like there's no threat and never will be, and where if funds get stolen, it's irreversible.

tooheavybroo

7 BTC? 😂 Brother we’re dying trying to get 1btc

owcka

😭how many BTC was stolen?

FromThePits

Assisting with setting up multi-sig solutions for generational bitcoin storage. I only accept BTC as commission for providing this service. Never fiat currencies.

Dsingis

Are you absolutely sure about that? Have you tried checking the transaction ID in a BTC block explorer? The change adress of that transaction should be listed there too. See if that is the wallet your second transaction was sent to.

Eastern-Access-7555

Absolutely not. What I do is way smarter. I buy USDT from OTC desk and convert to BTC onchain directly with leather finance, i wouldn't trust anything else. \[ne va pas marcher a cause du keyword usdt je pense, faut edit jusqua y arriver i guess\]

Eastern-Access-7555

Absolutely not. What I do is way smarter. I buy USD from OTC desk and convert to BTC onchain directly with [leather.finance](http://leather.finance), i wouldn't trust anything else. \[ne va pas marcher a cause du keyword usdt je pense, faut edit jusqua y arriver i guess\]

Dsingis

That is being done for quantum resistance. No joke. As soon as you do a transaction from a BTC adress, the public key is revealed and is thus vulnerable to a possible future quantum attack. So to prevent that, any adress type since P2PKH uses them. The change adress wasn't used to send something so it's quantum safe until it's used to send, then the rest is moved to another change adress. You do control the change adress though. I don't know how it works with Electrum, but look for other adresses, look for ways to generate more adresses and see if they have balance, maybe try sending some BTC from that adress? Is there something called "Coin Control" somewhere?

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Confident_Hunter7506

Just patiently wait for some of these BTC treasury companies to fail. It’s going to happen and it’ll be catastrophic as well as the mother of all dips

Bazaruta

Well dude, the market is in a downtrend…so you have to stick to your guns and hold. Nobody knows where the bottom is. If you can handle a good drawdown you are set, institutions are on BTC now, so we know they’ll never allow it to become worthless. Just wait for the next risk on period to make bank!

Blockchainauditor

BTC is not account-based, but is UTXO-based. When you send BTC, you do not transfer the exact amount; you are sending one or more UTXOs, and the recipient receives what you send them and you get back “the change”.

TheresNoSecondBest

6.15 BTC is all you need, mate. Scientifically proven!

Unlucky_Split7536

With 5 BTC you've already won, retire....

--Quartz--

You can have an account based model like ETH that works like a bank account (you see your "balance" and send only what you want, or you can have a utxo (unspent transaction) model like BTC, where each unspent transaction is like a paper bill. So your private keys can validate that you are allowed to spend that bill. You spend it and generate multiple other bills. Like paying 52 dollars with 100 bill, you'll send 52 to somebody (now only spendable with their keys) and are left with a 48 dollar bill (only spendable with your keys). Each of those is a distinct "entry" in the ledger

totoin74

I would start at below 60k and will DCA as it falls. I would start with 5% allocation and then add 1% per 1000 dollars down. A savings account that has 15% BTC would be a bad portfolio. Too risky considering the nature of the portfolio.

Quirky-Reveal-1669

Well, I guess I will be stacking until 7 BTC then, for the next \~22 years...

InvestAISavvy

The miner selling is the part I keep going back to. MARA just dumped $1.1B in BTC, cut 15% of their workforce, and pivoted to AI infrastructure. Social engagement on MARA spiked over 250% in a week from that news alone. They're sitting on 30% short interest. Riot is in a similar boat. So you've got miners liquidating to survive on one side, and Schwab quietly building spot BTC trading infrastructure on the other. That's not a normal tug of war. That's a generational handoff. The weak hands are literally the people who mine the stuff. The strong hands are the ones building custody and settlement rails for the next decade. The $67K level matters, but I think the Schwab launch is the thing nobody's pricing in. When a firm managing $12 trillion in client assets says "we're ready to let people buy BTC directly," that's not a retail catalyst. That's plumbing. And plumbing matters more than price levels.

Different-Limit-2683

Those $50 in BTC already priced-in for end-user by his business by whatever action you’ll choose to do. Scam.

Soggy-Welder2265

Just sold one of my investment cars 🚗 going to pick up some more BTC this week also

dtg99

I’m convinced the average person would have an easier understanding of how to send a rover to Mars than they would of how to store and transact their crypto. Outside of BTC/crypto being an extremely volatile speculative asset there is no real future. At least in your lifetime.

JuxtaposeLife

I sold a house in fall 2024 and moved the equity in Bitcoin around $70k average. I've never been happier. BTC doesn't need maintenance, it doesn't need to pay rent, and I don't have to feel bad about making a business out of raising rent on humans. You'll appreciate this move more and more in time... Bitcoin is a way better place to park long term wealth than housing (which is essentially a depreciating asset after factoring in all costs and pains).

joos_hubert

For a trip later this year I’d keep that money separate. BTC makes more sense for long term savings, not money with a fixed date attached to it. If the market drops 25% right before you book flights, suddenly the trip gets a lot more expensive.

bruce_cockburn

Your xpub address can be derived for reporting and tax calculations to show the sum of all balances from change addresses. Most BTC wallets will provide an xpub address, but there are websites (always download and use in offline mode) that can calculate it as well.

senditFrmU2M

If the 4-year cycle still holds and so far it looks like it does then the BTC bottom likely lands in Q1 2027, probably Feb–March 2027. We also haven’t seen true capitulation yet, which usually marks the final phase before a cycle bottom.

Leithm

From  a smart  contracts perspective  UTXO’s  are  much safer because blind signing (the cause of most big protocol hacks) are not possible as the tx’s are  committed within the contract and miner validated like any normal payments.  You don’t have to trawl through contract code  looking for  vulnerabilities. Pruning has been around on BTC for a decade but no one used it because there was no  need,  removing the  storage bottleneck.   Compact blocks, Xthinner and Graphene removed the network speed bottleneck, leaving the signature validation processing bottleneck.   The BU  team were running 256mb blocks single threaded on a normal desktop  PC many years  ago.  Bog standard desktop PC’s  have many cores and Libbitcoin proved the advantages of parallelisation long ago.    

No-Bass-344

That’s a SMART FREAKIN’ person that just commented…I mean a person that CARES can’t be SUBSTITUTED for a BULLSHHT’er and this person CARES…I’m thankful for that one and don’t have any BTC

loxotbf

If BTC decides to run this cycle, you’re positioned way better than most of us.

Low_Date1078

Congrats BTC-friend you’re on your way to becoming a millionaire👏🏼

thinkingperson

Is it the way utxo work? When you send BTC out, the remainder do not start on the old address but it's automatically sent to a new derived address. https://www.ledger.com/academy/topics/crypto/bitcoin-utxos-explained BTC UTXO Transaction Example Let’s say you have these UTXOs in your wallet: One worth 0.5 BTC One worth 1.0 BTC Two worth 0.01 BTC each Total: 1.52 BTC You want to send someone 0.9 BTC. So, your wallet evaluates its options: The 0.5 BTC piece is too small, The 0.01 BTC pieces are way too small, The full 1.0 BTC piece is enough to cover the transaction. If you have a 1.0 BTC UTXO but only need to send 0.9 BTC, you can’t just send 0.9 and leave 0.1 behind. Instead, your wallet sends 0.9 BTC to the recipient and automatically creates a change output of 0.1 BTC that goes back to you. Your wallet now holds: Total: 0.62 BTC 0.5 BTC (unchanged) 0.1 BTC (newly created change) 0.01 BTC (unchanged) 0.01 BTC (unchanged) The original 1.0 BTC UTXO is ‘destroyed’ as an input and ceases to exist, replaced by the two new UTXO outputs (0.90 BTC to the recipient, 0.0995… BTC to your change address). Input: the single 1.0 BTC UTXO your wallet chooses to spend. Outputs: 0.9 BTC sent to the recipient (payment output) ~0.0995 BTC sent back to a new address you control (change output) This ‘change’ doesn’t return to the same address it came from. Your wallet generates a brand new change address from your own pool of addresses and sends the leftover ~0.0995… BTC there.

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Admirable_Piccolo_18

Buy more 10 BTC when it below $50k and wait for 2-3 years. Sell at $171k. Don’t over wait. Whenever it reach to $171k, sell all, take profit.

XRP-GORILLA

BTC holding above 67K after the tariff chaos is actually impressive. Smart money isn't panicking — watching the 4H structure closely. 🦁

Propeller74

If it’s truly a short terms savings, I would choose a hi-yield. Don’t put that money at risk. I’ve been investing in BTC since 2018 and for example, we are 40-50 % off the high in just a few months. Not worth the risk for short term unless you’re an experienced trader and even then…

stringfellowpro

Any idea why BTC is making a move rn?

Always_working_hardd

Get a loan against your BTC and buy a less expensive house for cash.

ParfaitQuick8426

You won't. I can guarantee you that, not in the short term. You're playing the long game. BTC has cycles, 2 years up, 2 years down. The halving is every 4 years. 2028 is the next halving. Everything spills over into 2029. In 2030, another correction, and so on. 2028 to 2029 will see things WAY past 120k. I'm expecting 150 to 250k with 200k being a medium. Some see 400k, but I think that's during the next halving, maybe 2032 to 2036.(remember 4 year halving) G.L.

Low-Significance5483

If you have $250k in equity, get a HELOC, buy the BTC and keek your house.

mrjune2040

Tbh this question has less to do with BTC and more about your investment approach in general. Going 'all in' on one asset is generally a bad idea, at least hedge your bets, especially when your timeframe is short. You should see BTC has a good long-term savings play, but not something that you should rely on to grow/hold value over the short-term (which is what 'later this year' is). And again, this is no different to most asset classes right now, we're in a time of global stagnation and war- and there is zero assurance that the market will be up come year end.

Excellent_Mango7377

Think of the BTC like your house. You didn't go check the house price every day. You didn't care if price went down or up. You only cared about price when you were ready to sell - which you said is 5 years for BTC.

AbsoluteZero--

Yes, BTC is volatile. DCA what you can afford, & forget about it, until you're ready to cash out.

Kuuzie

Not OP.  The password thing hits for me.  I have an old file from 2010 of passwords I was looking at and caught an entry named "internet GEMS" followed by a lengthy password. Totally what I would have called BTC back then.  It sparked a memory of buying BTC long ago when I was just learning about stocks and BTC, around that time.  This is good info and might take my old comp out of storage and peek at it. Thank you. 

yatv

XMR has more value then BTC

PolicyWonka

BTC is undoubtedly in the top five in terms of financial targets. Compared to banking and investing, crypto remains relatively unregulated. The security on some of these big exchanges is pretty abysmal. It would not take much for some of the institutional investors to get spooked out.

LiquidityCompass

For an average joe, like me, trading on a short time frame is 100% guarantee losing your money. I tried 1 min candles, it was awful. Now I watch weekly and monthly candles, I think long term trend is way more important than shorter gains. Just compare success of your trading with just holding BTC. Do you have any edge? And tbh, a big part of that long term trend is liquidity… if global liquidity isn’t expanding, it’s really hard to outperform just by trading noise.

damianoko31

Great option. But I think it's not a necessary bad thing to not be too much divergent because I'm 19yo. And right now, I have almost all of my money in BTC. And when I have my goal, I will put almost all of my income in stocks and other things to diverify. I think it makes sense when young? 😅

No_Network404

Ehrliche Frage. Wie viel & ab welchen BTC Kurs würdest du von 150.000€ Tagesgeld in BTC stecken?

matthegc

Yes….it really is. The conversion rate of USD to BTC is based on similar mechanics as all currency exchange. Just as USD gets stronger vs Argentina Peso because Argentina used to print new money nonstop, before Javier, BTC will get stronger vs every other currency due to all other currency being inflationary….thanks to all other currency being fiat, government controlled, and governments can’t stop printing money for any reason they choose. It’s inevitable, because it’s just math. FX rates fluctuate daily, until certain conversions explode due to one becoming worthless or worth much less. BTC is the easiest offset to fiat value decline ever created.

Chrysalis1111

all in BTC after sold house? Fk me, huge respect!

Inevitable_Pen_9075

You miss that BTC used to be over 100k.

dclap_

Happy birthday Satoshi. Buying more BTC to celebrate today

WaffleDonkey23

AI slop post. BTC does its normal 20% range that boomer investors aren't used to because anything beyond 2% for them is "MY 401k IS GONE!!!!" And you get an AI slop post "KABOLLION dollars are brutally WIPED OUT in a BLOOD RED market!!"

jbm747

BTC has a tendency to not do what we want in the short term…

dj_destroyer

I've had thoughts that I sell my house if it drops to $50k but I realized the housing market isn't nearly liquid enough and would take too long -- so I'd have to sell now, or even a month ago, which made me realize I'm just not ready. I have about $250k of equity in my home so it would also be 5 BTC to add to my stack of 2 BTC. 7 BTC would be insane and much better than a house. Home ownership is overrated, so much maintenance. Renting makes it someone else's problem and BTC, the apex asset, requires no upkeep or maintenance.

BentJohnsonFTP

Only difference is the other guys is trying to time the asset on a shorter horizon than you are. The short and longterm position of BTC are both completely unpredictable. Regardless what you tell yourself and others.

Wolfkurt1

BTC is solution for global reserve money , that much simple and we are going to BTC global reserve money. If it’s happened, BTC over night millions dollars

Professional_Tea4502

Dude, fucking legendary. You just transferred a significant amount of wealth into a monetary asset that cannot be debased or inflated. The peak will be higher this next Bull Run. Imagine how sweet it will feel when your next house costs 3 BTC instead of 5 and it’s an upgrade.

totoin74

Selling your house and buying a volatile asset is plain gambling. Nothing more, nothing less. 100 ways you can get heavy exposure to BTC without risking everything and getting returns but noooo, you gotta do the dopamine game. In the end, BTC might skyrocket but we will see if you can hold on the bear market and not sell during the bull.