BTC

AgentSmith2077

Using 7BTC to buy Butterfly Labs Jalapeño miners, instead of just paying cash.

Happy_Research_1285

Neutral indicators don't tell you which way the flush goes. I've been watching whale flow data instead, you can see on coinlobster.com/crypto whether large wallets are accumulating or distributing. Free tier shows BTC moves across 14 exchanges. Helps cut through the noise

GreenStretch

Epstein really did make BTC.

GreenStretch

Brian Harrington who makes videos trying to get personal finance normies to buy bitcoin thinks that a wealthy person in the west should hold 0.25 BTC for each million in fiat assets they have.

PaperOrnery8697

Stupid is as stupid does. Fiat can crash. Stocks can crash. BTC can crash. Stupid people bet on one horse in one race. Wealthy people diversify, dummy.

AdBusy7112

I wonder how many people actually held Bitcoin up until this point with big investments. He might have sold at 200$ just to flip and get out because BTC is speculative especially back then.

zo1d8erg

Is there any organised pushback on this at all? ChatGPT suggested I send them this - "Subject: Objection to updated Terms — staking, deemed consent, and short notice I object to the updated Terms effective 28 April 2026, specifically the deemed consent to BTC Markets staking digital assets held on my behalf while retaining all staking rewards. Please confirm in writing: 1. Whether any assets in my account will be staked without a separate opt-in. 2. Whether I can opt out while keeping my account open. 3. Which exact clause authorises this, as the public Terms page appears to list clause 13 as “Fees and Commissions”. 4. Whether BTC Markets accepts liability for any staking-related loss, slashing, custody failure, or delay caused by these activities. I also object to the short notice period given for a material change affecting custody risk and ownership economics. Please treat this as a formal written complaint."

SpontaneousDream

You're a millionaire yet you beg for donations on your "consulting" website. [https://tokenomicsexplained.com/support/](https://tokenomicsexplained.com/support/) LOL. Take care of yourself dude. And just buy BTC next time.

MaximumStudent1839

How a technology evolves is a function of at least these two variables: 1) its technical capabilities and 2) how its "users" behave towards it. 1) Since the small blockers have won, P2P cash is not technically feasible for Bitcoin. It simply can't handle the transaction volume for its average user. Thus, it is best suited for ppl to leave it alone and just hold it. So the store-of-value narrative fits it well. 2) Saylor markets it as "pure digital capital" - something you just put away and forget about it. There is also a saying: "bear market creates Bitcoiners." The direct translation is that a bear market creates disillusionment/pessimism about crypto, and it drives them to become Bitcoiners, i.e., believing this asset class has no use case beyond hodling and hoping the price goes up. Increasingly, new marginal buyers of BTC are those who engage with it behind a wrapper. So they can't use the BTC as digital cash because they just own the wrapper. So essentially, you have strong self-reinforcing forces behind Bitcoin that attract and solidify its base, making it think it is only a number, go-up technology, aka digital gold.

rawco187

I bought at $500 per, but a few years later when ETH and all the early cryptos came on line I used some of it to buy those. I should have used cash and not touched the BTC. Don't get wrong, I have way exceeded my investments, but I could have done better. At least I didn't buy pizza...

Merlin1039

BTC has lost to dollars in your matress the last 5 years

LuckyWinds

> Strategy is that they are responsible for nearly all recent BTC inflows (10x more than all ETFs combined, 30x more than all other reserves combined). Even if this is true it doesn't automatically mean that > BTC price going up hinges entirely on them, and it can crash if their products fail.

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Post is by: Bcom_Mod and the url/text [ ](https://goo.gl/GP6ppk)is: /r/bitcoin_com/comments/1sxmo6o/heres_why_tomorrows_fed_decision_might_be_bullish/ April has been quietly remarkable for Bitcoin. Coming into the month, BTC was hovering around $67,000. The war had been running for five weeks. Fear & Greed was at 8. The narrative was "how much further does this fall." As of today it's sitting just under $78,000: up roughly 14% in April, which makes this its strongest monthly performance since April 2025. That's against a backdrop of active naval blockades, $100+ oil, a collapsed ceasefire, and a DeFi sector that just lost $600M in 19 days. Not the environment anyone would have written a bull thesis into. Tomorrow the Fed meets. CME Fedwatch is pricing a 99% probability of no change at 3.50–3.75%. Polymarket's 2026 cuts market has zero cuts as the leading outcome at 40% odds, with $20.9 million in real money behind it. The probability of a cut at the June meeting sits at roughly 7%. [The counterintuitive read on this: the fact that 99% certainty of a hold is already priced means the Fed decision itself has almost zero capacity to disappoint.](https://news.bitcoin.com/federal-reserve-set-to-hold-rates-at-3-75-as-traders-price-99-odds-for-april-29-fomc/) There's no cut expectation to strip away. There's no hawkish surprise the market hasn't already absorbed. What's left is Powell's press conference: and specifically whether his language opens any daylight on the path back toward easing, even hypothetically. Any even mildly dovish framing gets amplified in an environment where every scrap of rate cut hope has already been priced out. 10x Research has an interesting take on the negative funding rates that have persisted for nearly 50 days now. Their argument: it's institutional hedging. Large holders are buying spot and shorting perpetuals to collect the funding rate while protecting their downside. It's a carry trade, not a directional bet. If that's right, it reframes the whole "most hated rally" narrative. The shorts aren't wrong; they're just playing a different game. Three things converge this week. FOMC tomorrow. Bitcoin 2026 conference in Las Vegas where the new SEC Chair Paul Atkins is giving his first major public address on digital asset market structure. And Powell's tenure as Fed Chair formally ends May 15, handing the chair to Kevin Warsh — who, as you may remember, owns SOL, Lightning Network stakes, and Optimism. If BTC closes April above $78,000 it will be the first positive month in six. The last time BTC had a monthly losing streak this long was 2018. 99% chance of no cut, and the market's up 14% anyway. The rally doesn't need the Fed. That's either very bullish or a setup for a very rude awakening when the Fed narrative does eventually shift. *I am a bot, and this action was performed automatically. Please [contact the moderators of this subreddit](/message/compose/?to=/r/CryptoMarkets) if you have any questions or concerns.*

SpontaneousDream

It's literally the only coin in crypto that uses it's revenues (which are greater than many chains combined) to directly buyback and burn its token. Just last year the protocl made roughly $1 billion in revenue with a team of 11 engineers. It's also the only place in the world that you can trade RWAs with size, security, and liquidity on chain. Oh yea and its the only altcoin that is making new ATHs against everything else, including BTC. You be the judge.

Crypto-Bets

Stick with winners like BTC, ETH and SOL

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Post is by: Suspicious-Cut3237 and the url/text [ ](https://goo.gl/GP6ppk)is: /r/CryptoMarkets/comments/1sxmnj4/foundation_distributed_27k_eth_this_week_bitmine/ Going to lay the timeline out in order because it reads differently when you do. * Feb 2026: EF starts staking: 2016 ETH * March: another 22,517 ETH * Earlier this month: 45k+ more ETH staked across a series of transactions. Total around 69,5k. Just shy of their internal 70k target * April 25: EF sells 10k ETH OTC to BitMine * April 26 (Saturday): EF unstakes 17,035 ETH via Lido (\~$40M). Now sitting in the unstETH withdrawal queue. Same 24-hour window as that unstake, BitMine and Grayscale collectively stake nearly $500M of ETH. BitMine alone adds 112,040 ETH (bringing their total to 3.7M ETH staked). Grayscale adds 102,400 via Coinbase Prime. So the sequence: Foundation builds up to its publicly stated staking target. The week they basically hit it, they sell a 10k chunk OTC to BitMine. The day after, they pull another 17k via Lido. In that same window, BitMine stakes 112k ETH of their own. I'm not saying anything was coordinated, but structurally what you're looking at is the Foundation distributing into peak institutional demand. ETF inflows just hit a 10-day streak. BitMine and Grayscale are stacking. ETH is pinned between $2315 and $2380, can't break $2400 and the most consistent seller in this whole picture continues to be the people who created the asset. The bullish read: EF treasury is doing its job. They built a yield position, hit their stated target, now they're rebalancing. The unstake doesn't even guarantee a sale - could sit, get redeployed, fund grants. The institutional demand is real. The bearish read: same pattern as last cycle. Foundation inventory finds the market exactly when retail starts feeling okay about ETH again, Vitalik personally sold millions earlier this year. The flow has been to create supply, distribute to institutions and retail at workable prices, repeat. What's bothering me less is "is this bearish short term" and more that ETH price action has been a function of who's currently selling into it rather than fundamentals. ETH/BTC near multi-year lows. Solana eating dApp revenue 5 weeks running. ETF inflows feel like cope when supply keeps getting topped up by foundation distribution. Anyone got a charitable read I'm missing? Not being rhetorical. I've got a chunk of my ETH locked in a fixed term on Nexo right now, so I'm watching this play out from the wrong side of a position I can't even unwind. Foundation's pulling liquidity out, I've got mine bolted down. *I am a bot, and this action was performed automatically. Please [contact the moderators of this subreddit](/message/compose/?to=/r/CryptoMarkets) if you have any questions or concerns.*

RecoveringXRPHodler

If Fed-Rates remain unchanged on 29th, how much of a drop on BTC might we expect?

MistressMinaDear

Anyone else feeling like the market is in that weird “calm but somehow stressful” phase right now? BTC just crab walking around the same range, alts randomly doing +20% then -18% in 24 hours, and every second tweet is either “supercycle” or “this was the top.” My current strategy is literally: DCA, keep dry powder, touch grass, and avoid any project whose name sounds like a meme I wouldn’t even laugh at. Also if someone is DMing you “insider alpha,” they’re not. What is everyone actually buying or watching this week, aside from the usual BTC/ETH?

SaltyAFscrappy

Get your BTC off exchanges

b1mm3rl1f3

4H hammer. Come on BTC

PartyBanana9134

So lucky, wish I had bought BTC when the first time I heard about it.

ajaykumar2023

To answer your question directly: Yes, this is a massive red flag. If someone you don't know personally is insisting on being paid specifically in Bitcoin via CashApp, you are almost certainly being targeted for a scam. Here is why: ​Irreversibility: Unlike credit cards or standard bank transfers, Bitcoin transactions are final. Once you send it, there is no 'chargeback' or support team that can get your money back. ​Anonymity: Scammers love BTC because it allows them to move funds quickly without being easily tracked or linked to a real-world identity. ​CashApp Policies: While CashApp is a legitimate platform, their buyer protection for Bitcoin transactions is virtually non-existent. They generally cannot help you if the seller disappears after receiving the BTC. ​Common Scams to watch out for: ​Investment Scams: 'Send BTC and I'll trade for you.' ​Marketplace Scams: Selling goods/services but only accepting BTC to avoid refund requests. ​Sugar Daddy/Grant Scams: 'Send a small BTC fee to release a large payment.' ​Bottom line: Unless you are paying a trusted friend or a verified business with a solid reputation, do not send Bitcoin. If it feels like a scam, it usually is. Stay safe!

Crypticcrypto

I imagine if you had, say a few thousand from back in the days, it would have been easy enough to spend 'some', and perhaps that would turn into a little easier spend again later. Who knows? I wasn't around for $100 BTC, so can't say what I would have done, but I bet if I had a lot from early days, I would have spent some on upgrading life, hopefully keeping a solid stack, but again who knows once life is upgraded after a couple years.

ozza37

The cycle timing instinct is reasonable and the institutional money argument cuts both ways. Yes it changes the depth of some corrections but it also means more forced selling during risk-off events because institutions have risk management frameworks that trigger at specific drawdown levels. That actually contributed to the February low being as sharp as it was. On the geopolitical prop argument I would push back slightly. The Iran conflict fear was actually the trigger for the selloff not the support. When the fear peaked in February Bitcoin dropped to approximately $60,000 on a wick before recovering. What has been propping price is the VIX normalising and macro fear receding, not geopolitical tension staying elevated. The mid 50s target for BTC is possible but there are a few structural levels worth knowing about before assuming price gets there. The 2024 to 2026 volume profile has a high volume node at approximately $64,000 that has held on monthly closes despite the wick to $60,000 in April. Below that the next meaningful structural reference is in the high 40s to low 50s range. So your target is not unreasonable but there is a significant volume wall between here and there that would need to give way on a monthly close basis. The more important signal for timing that bottom is probably the BTC/VIX ratio rather than price levels alone. It has touched its long-term trendline at every major fear-driven low since 2020 and already fired in February. If geopolitical tensions spike again and the VIX surges toward 40 or above, that ratio touching the trendline again would be a more reliable signal of exhaustion than any specific price level. For ETH the $1,400 area aligns with significant longer-term support but ETH has been structurally weaker than BTC this cycle so that target is more plausible than the mid-50s for BTC in the current environment. On the cycle timeline broadly I think you are right that the four-year rhythm is still intact. The institutional money has not broken the cycle. It has just made the moves more violent in both directions. I have been tracking the January range monthly close signal and the volume profile structure for this cycle if either of those frameworks is useful context for your positioning. Both are live right now with April 30 as the key date. [https://www.themarketsunplugged.com/bitcoins-january-range-the-monthly-close-signal-that-has-only-failed-once/](https://www.themarketsunplugged.com/bitcoins-january-range-the-monthly-close-signal-that-has-only-failed-once/)

xander1421

soon to hold all the BTC and prove he's Satoshi

EnderSword

I'd agree with that if we're talking a real big position, like you're about to unload $70 million or something and you're actually in a situation where you need to actually work the trade and you might impact the price. But most people aren't doing that sort of thing, like if you've got under like probably 1000 coins, which I sure don't have, then I'm never gonna be too worried about that. So if you've got like 1 BTC, I don't think it really makes any difference if you stacked for 5 years $50 at a time, or you bought it yesterday and are at a gain or a loss.

cubeeless

BTC to $400k!

Character-Resist-961

No shit! I didn’t know Bitcoin and BTC were the same.

jb_in_jpn

Who's spending BTC? Or utilizing the vast majority of crypto's at that? It's just become another means of manipulating wealth to the already rich.

Last_Activity9978

Actual answer. Stop getting caught in 6 month time horizons. Study was BTC is and buy when you can with what you can. It’ll go up over time, zoom out.

Etabafein7

That's about 0.3 BTC at this price which values at $23k right now. Still a win even if you had more to put in at the time

Drspaceman1717

Percentage of your wealth or total value. Any 40 year old millionaire needs more BTC than a 40 year old hourly shift worker to get the same economic effect. I would say everyone should have at least 5-10% in Bitcoin and higher if you can tolerate risk based on your lifestyle, marriage status, career, kids or no kids.

Lavayo

Alt coins when I started in 24. Although it could have been way worse. Never went below 75% BTC allocation, sitting at 89% right now. I wonder why. And it's mostly the really big names in the top 3, don't want to "sell" them here but everyone knows them. Even if I don't like it, selling them now makes no sense either. They probably won't just disappear and I will make fiat in the next cycle. But that's that. That fiat becomes the new DCA stack. That said if alts were gone and I just had my BTC left I would be fine.

Wolfkurt1

lol 😂 don’t buy even BTC don’t

ridgerunners324

I would too if I hadn’t spent 90% of my BTC on the dark web 😂

totoin74

I was literally mining with my pc back in my collage years when 1 BTC was 62 dollars and then i got distracted with shenanigans and forgot BTC all together till it hit 65k.

SemperVeritate

Leaving BTC on an exchange. This is the most dangerous BTC mistake, much more common than other security threats.

tcool

well, he means you could decide "I want BTC to be 25% of my net worth at any time"

Worth_Excitement_677

Put more into BTC.

tcool

They are one of my fave BTC companies.

MCL-Jonathan

Likely we will head higher first before crashing down [negative funding rate pushing BTC higher](https://youtu.be/WzeTDL3Wq1M)

OrdinaryInformation

Really depends on what the median price has been. I said every few months but in reality, it's probably more like 4-5 months. But I would say it's usually anywhere from like 0.006 to 0.01. Was obviously WAY more back in 2020 when it was <20k. Should have just been a big boy and bought 2 BTC when it was last at 6K but I'm a wuss lol.

GaRGa77

Staking BTC always goes well 🤣🤣🤣

rory_culpepper

I still avoid all the memecoins. Based on reddit mentions, 68% of the convo is still about BTC and ETH. [https://www.stockcar.app/insights/retail-investor-radar-april-2026](https://www.stockcar.app/insights/retail-investor-radar-april-2026)

Prestigious-Stay-312

Most people think this is about "how much". It's not. It's about how much you can hold through a normal drawdown without flinching. A 25 year old with 0.2 BTC they panic sell isn't better off than someone with 0.5 they can actually sit on. Same at 40 or 50. The constraint isn't age, it's the volatility tolerance relative to position size. If a -30% move feels like a threat, you're going to override whatever long term plan you had anyway. So the real answer is enough that matters, small enough that you don't get forced out. Most people overshoot that and learn it the hard way.

OrangePillar

If you’re new to the space, stick with BTC and ignore everything else.

Mountain-Syllabub-10

818k BTC is \~3.9% of the total supply… that’s insane for a single company People still arguing “institutions aren’t here yet” while one firm is out here dollar-cost-averaging billions like it’s nothing. The real question isn’t whether this is bullish (it obviously is) — it’s how long the market ignores the fact that liquid supply is getting thinner every week. Feels like we’re watching the early stages of a supply shock in slow motion.

BioFrosted

The "tilt" is you realizing you fucked up, and that has an identitary effect, most likely. It's not just "I fucked up" but "I fucked up *and I feel stupid*". So what works? Feel stupid. And once you're done feeling stupid, which takes a variable amount of time - and I imagine quite a bit of time, if you loose half a Bitcoin (though it depends if the money was yours or trust fund money) -, you start to think about *why* that hurt. Was it because you lost? Or perhaps because you tried to fly too close to the sun when you usually are the type to be responsible? Or because you think it means you're dumb? And once you figure out your answer, figure out what to do about it. Use it as the moral of your story: you tried to outsmart the market, and like the previous gazillon people, the market punched you in the penis. So what can you do about it? You can play it safe, play the long game, which is essentially the only way to beat the market. You can see leveraging for what it is: gambling. You can tell other people about it so your new identity shifts to "I'm now a responsible guy". Whatever helps, I guess. Just do what makes you least susceptible to leverage 0.5 BTC again.

Mandalorian_07

What amount do you guys consider to store in wallet? Say above 0.1 BTC? More or less?

Smooth_Pianist485

Honestly investing in shitcoins/celsius/BlockFi made it click for me. In a roundabout way, for those of us who like to learn thru pain, the crypto casino is the best ad in the world for BTC.

zRoyalStar

your bank account, if it has money, buy BTC until you have no money on it. thats the only indicator you will ever need

Drspaceman1717

Get a vasectomy, your career is your best chance to increase revenue, invest in BTC but also traditional stocks. There is no ‘flipping’ Bitcoin. There is no ‘staking’ bitcoins. Those are all risky services that make promises that they rarely keep. Just raise your kids with love and empathy and send them to the best schools you can afford that match their interests and you’ve done the best you can.

williy23

Easy… you buy $5,000,000 worth of BTC now. You’ll be all set.

MoverWhoStacksSats

Something like. I panicked sold one time in a dip from the fear of losing all my gains sometime in the early 2020/2021 after only being in for a year or 2. Then the hype of never getting low enough to “buy cheaper” came around and used all my gains plus my original invest to buy back the same amount of BTC I had originally owned just now at a higher average price. It was my learners fee I guess still kick my self when I think about. Thanks for the reminder lol

crazybird-thereal

Simple i have DCA for BTC, i stick to the DCA. Then sometime i can spare more money, i make fund for days of big deep and «Extreme Fear», then i buy the fear (only done once, it worked this time).

mrvitz

Alt coins invest not in BTC

Equal-Button

This nice chap contacted me randomly and explained that he needed my BTC to unlock his inheritance. Turns out he is a Prince! He’s going to return many times more of it after he sorts out some legal issues in Nigeria. He assured me it’s very very safe.

Smooth-Limit-1712

Yeah, I absolutely hear you on that. That feeling when BTC pushes but the alts just don't follow, and sentiment is wild... it definitely gives you pause. Been there so many times, watching moves feel 'thin.' It's smart to question it. Trust your intuition on these vibes.

Letsgotothemovie

What few years? It’s been around for 12 years. It went from zero to $1.4 today. BTC was $400 12 years ago and it’s $78,000 today.

cashflashmil

I’d call $75.5K an important reflexive zone, not a true structural floor yet. Strategy’s average cost matters because the market watches it, and widely watched levels can shape behavior. But a single treasury buyer’s blended entry is not the same thing as a cycle floor. For a level to become structural, it usually needs broader confirmation through repeated holds, spot demand, ETF flow support, and market structure that survives stress, not just one high-profile balance sheet. What Strategy does create is absorption. If the market knows a player of that size tends to keep buying, dips into that area can get bought faster and panic can fade sooner. That can absolutely make $75K–$76K behave like a near-term support zone. But I wouldn’t overstate it. If macro tightens, ETF flows roll over, or leverage unwinds, price can still slice through a famous cost basis. The market does not owe any institution a breakeven defense. So my read is: * $75.5K is psychologically and reflexively important * It is not automatically the cycle floor * It becomes more credible if BTC keeps reclaiming and defending that area on pullbacks * It becomes structural only if broader demand confirms it, especially spot and ETF-related flows The cleanest framing is this: Strategy’s cost basis is a watched support candidate, not a guaranteed floor. Right now it tells you more about where large-scale conviction sits than where downside becomes impossible.

Ge_Yo

Most people I know end up leaning toward self custody for long term holding. But there’s also growing interest in ways to earn yield while still keeping control of your BTC through native staking models in BTCFi.

materialistbandz

It’s not too late. I would like to help jumpstart your son’s savings with a years worth. Can you dm me or comment with the receive address for BTC on BTC network?

ThreeTonChonker

Anyone who’s been involved in crypto long enough knows it was inevitable. Yes the big players suck, but so does retail. When it was just retail in BTC, the slightest bit of bad news would cause the degenerate gamblers and paper hands to fold. Didn’t matter if they bought high and were selling low, they had zero conviction. If the current market is going to be big players and retail with diamond hands, so be it, it’s an improvement overall.

HSuke

My problem with Strategy is that they are responsible for nearly all recent BTC inflows (10x more than all ETFs combined, 30x more than all other reserves combined). BTC price going up hinges entirely on them, and it can crash if their products fail. STRC is a great product and it's driving all their BTC purchases, but it's not sustainable in the long run unless BTC keeps going up in price over 10-30% every year. If Microstrategy is forced to reduce STRC dividends, everyone is going to dump it, causing a huge cascade, forcing Microstrategy to bulk sell MSTR or BTC. The news of that itself would cause a panic.

TedW

The code has been changed many times, and will continue to change. Don't get me wrong, I think BTC is very safe, but it's still not fundamentally different. They just have the best track record.

b1mm3rl1f3

SPX to ATHs and BTC can't sustain a 3% pump. It tests $87k in May. RemindMe! 1 month

xaviemb

It’s hard not to notice the contrast: short-term holders (those with positions under two years) continue to oscillate between fear and FOMO, while long-term holders remain largely unmoved. In the past 12 hours, only 133 BTC from the 4+ year cohort has changed hands (which represents over 50% of total supply). While at the same time the crowd that has held their BTC for under 90 days made up 99.8% of volume trading hands (which makes up just 15% of the total supply). At some point, those attempting to precisely time a deeper pullback later this year may have to confront a simple question: If everyone is waiting for one more leg down to accumulate for the next cycle… who, exactly, is providing the supply to push price to those levels? It is unlikely to be long-term holders, who collectively control a significant share of the circulating supply and have shown little inclination to distribute at lower prices. The marginal seller, in that scenario, becomes increasingly difficult to identify. A more plausible outcome is that downside liquidity thins out well before widely anticipated “ideal” entry points are reached. One could reasonably argue that meaningful selling pressure below $75K would be limited... even if price attempts another move lower. Just a bit of perspective for a Monday.

Suspicious-Holiday42

Thats not increasing the supply, that just cutting it into smaller pieces that are each worth less than one bigger piece. Someone who had 1 BTC worth 100k will then have that 1 BTC split into 10 BTC where each coin is worth 10k. Nothing changed except the rule that states how many sats make up one full coin

Sazmining

Not mining when the block reward was 50/25/12.5 BTC 😅 Thankfully, there's still time until we trend down to 1 satoshi!

Drumroll-PH

It feels like rotation, not expansion. When real risk on hits, you usually see BTC lead first, then dominance drops as capital flows harder into alts. NFT pops and infra narratives coming back are interesting, but they’ve faked people out before. Until BTC either breaks cleanly up or dominance starts trending down, it’s hard to call it a full shift.

AvatarOfMomus

Yes, but there are a lot of taxes and regulations that make that very difficult, especially combined with the size of the stock market relative to the holdings of any given individual or company, even the richest ones. If multiple collude to manipulate a stock it becomes very obvious and the rest of the market can use those rules and laws to punish the bad actors. Crypto in general and Bitcoin specifically has very little regulation, a lot of trading is partly or completely anonymous, and the size of the actively traded market is tiny compared to the resources of even some individuals, let alone a major investment firm or fund. The headlines generally talk about the 'market cap', but the fact that over 2/3rds of Bitcoin hasn't moved in years rarely gets brought up. Currently a bit over 10% of BTC is on exchanges, and a fraction of that is actively traded daily. This is a bit part of why the market is so volatile. One moderately sized buy or sell order can fill every counter party order at a given price and send the value flying several percent in either direction, and the nature of these platforms makes that ahift fairly easy to predict for the party making the move.

TedW

BTC is not fundamentally different. Just because something hasn't happened, doesn't mean it can't. Same goes for other coins that have been flawless until now.

Hopeful-Parsley3713

Does this Gal I’m speaking Still have Hal’s BTC and private keys is the real question

Attempt-According

This would have been me if my friend who knew how to buy it on the dark web had not gone on a 3 week meth bender and ended up 5150 for a whole month, I was going to buy $50k worth of BTC at $97 per coin the day Silkroad was taken down by the FBI and priced dropped from $134 to $94 per coin, to this day I give him shit for it..

MoverWhoStacksSats

For me it was buying something online with Bitcoin early on and going back a year or two later realizing the BTC I sent for that purchase would have been worth two or three times what I paid. Not to me, to the seller. If they had just held it. That hit different. It wasn’t about the price going up. It was realizing Bitcoin was quietly rewarding the patient ones and penalizing everyone treating it like cash to spend. I’d heard about it years before that on the radio and laughed it off. Finally bought in 2019 thinking I was already late. Watched it crash and held anyway. That’s when it really clicked not when it went up, but when I stopped caring if it did.

TheRealDeviouz

I sold some last yr in summer and built a new pc with it. At this time Btc was at ATH and prices for pc hardware were reasonable. This exact moment came with regrets "don't stop DCA" "I can't afford it so I don't buy it" Now I think differently.. It's when I started treating BTC as a currency

KateR_H0l1day

It certainly fits my investment style, I don’t DCA per see, but I select a “base price” for myself. It’s based on coins I like the fundamentals, my average price, that I keep striving to reduce at this point in time, which means 2026 so far. It’s obviously also based on mid/long term future, I’ve a portfolio of ~30 coins (which includes no BTC or ETH, they’re a separate animal all together). This portfolio has three tiers, it’s totally based on risk/reward and my conviction for each coin. For 2026, it’s only been about 4 coins, I’ve increased my holdings of each while reducing the average price, using dips. All the other coins have been basically dormant in terms of buying any, but a good percentage of them are staked, so the amount is increasing and the average is reducing. I keep my eye on them, but it would require a substantial move for me to action them, either up or down, where I’d sell or buy accordingly. It’s truly an accumulation phase for me, but also recognize I’m in the camp of the market is going lower following the big dogs tail, whichever way it moves.

ClitYeastWood1337

No but Strategy may have a BTC problem (potentially).

Top-Care-8946

HW wallet like Trezor. I don't speak loud that I am stacking up BTC (some of my friends and close people know) but I don't talk about it publicly on the social media and so on, except in a dedicated forum. I will not expose myself in public with Trezor Merch like T-shirts or put their logo stickers anywhere because everyone who sees that logo will start make research about it and then they will understand that I have crypto. I don't want that anyone outside of my circle would know about it.

Comfortable-Ant-418

Hmm, some of the wallets you're recommending to OP are literally shitcoin wallets lol. Trezor I am sure supports a ton of shitcoins. Meanwhile Foundation wallets are BTC only. Hard to take your concern seriously when you're starting with a contradiction. I find it difficult to understand how them making a blogpost, which at one point mentions that a group of developers made an app with their open source OS, is related to their products being good or not? It's not even related to their device lol. That also isn't even the product page, you're pretending that a developer blogpost is a product page which is intellectually dishonest to say the least. Of course, no one here is obligated to promote any specific product. But I was worried if my wallet was bad or had any potential security risks, and from your reply it seems like the wallet is fine and you just have issues with them making a blogpost you didn't like. Fair enough! Have a good day sir.

courtesy_patroll

His points are shallow. He argued that Bitcoin's code can't be trusted because SBF "changed" the code on FTX. SBF didn't change any code he just diverted funds, and even if he did change code, it has no bearing on BTC.

HSuke

It's more based on Microstrategy now. Earlier this month, it was reported that MSTR bought had 10x more BTC inflows that all of the Bitcoin ETFs combined. A single company holding up BTC's price.

BullSensex

You can however you should know how to securely keep your digital asset. I would invest in stocks to start with once you have accumulated million peso think of BTC

devCheckingIn

All these BTC maxis like Saylor think retail is irrelevant and all you need is "institutional adoption".

TheDigitalPoint

Supply vs demand. How do you know they didn’t get them for $1/BTC? Maybe for them, an 8 million percentage gain is enough.

Nrs_Vecna

Saylor may be the only thing defending the line for BTC right now. Even those hefty buys cant pump the market considerable.

mlag000

Around 95% of all stablecoins trade for BTC are tether.

Ok_Location_1092

Ben has a BA in Econ from University of Virginia from 2001. It’s basically passing some basic macro, micro, quantitative methods, stats, a few electives. I have more business telling you whether or not BTC is valuable since my degree is from a decade ago and a better school, and trust me when I say I have no business telling you shit about fuck.

Ruzhyo04

BTC had value before tether, it will have value after tether. There’s also USDC and other regulated stablecoins now. This was a poor argument in 2016, it’s no argument at all in 2026.

Lefties_TheWorst7331

I'm also invested via ETFs. It is much easier (and cheaper) to borrow margin against my equity, to purchase even more than it is to borrow against crypto itself. I'm margined around 1:1 equity to margin ratio and my portfolio is like 85% BTC related funds.

mlag000

Except the whole BTC value is based on tether.

Acceptable_Staff3105

companies stacking BTC like strategy plays

Big80sweens

if what you say is true, you don't think Satoshi also bought a couple hundred BTC in the early days and is still quite wealthy despite not being the multibillionaire he could be with access to the 1M coins which will remain untouched? Also, if the real guy is such a saint, why not use those 1M BTC for good? Like ending world hunger, or whatever other global scale issue we face? Anyways, I don't know the intricacies of this all, but a secret this big along with the potential power it has, tells me SN was someone who wanted to leave a legacy for the world and knew they were going to die. It would be too difficult to live a meagre life knowing you had billions at your disposal... there isn't a person alive with that kind of discipline. But, to my earlier point, perhaps he did make tens of millions and lives quite comfortably which would certainly make it easier. There is a threshold where money doesn't matter, it's probably somewhere around $50M depending on what kind of life you want to live.

Expensive-Paint-9490

BTC is a permissionless distributed ledger. It's not really rocket science. These kind of discussions maybe were interesting fifteen years ago, now they just define you as dense.

Rock_Strongo

This comment makes no sense. Crypto can be a "thing" regardless of the price of BTC. Whether it's "cheap" or not is irrelevant because you can buy any fraction of any crypto you want. The USD price of a single BTC has zero bearing over its utility.

Professional_Gas2092

companies stacking BTC like strategy plays

Galavanta

Good framing on the altcoin rallies during macro weakness. Thats the part people miss when they say "just wait for confirmation. " By the time you get confirmation half the move is done. I dca with risk-adjusted sizing, not a flat amount every week. When risk is low I scale up, when it's elevated I pull back or stop entirely. Been using alphasquared's risk scores to anchor those decisions since I dont trust my own read when things get choppy. BTC risk dropped back into the 10s recently so I've been scaling back in gradually. The key for me is having rules set before the moment hits. if you're deciding in real time whether to buy a support retest you're already fighting your own emotions. a lot can happen in 6-8 months and sitting fully in cash through intermittent 2x moves on alts is a rly cost too.

OrdinaryInformation

Been buying $50/week for the past 6 years now. Transfer whatever ive accumulated to my trezor every few months. Other than that. I barely pay attention to what the price is or what's going on around BTC. Ill start paying more attention in 10 years or so from now.

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