BTC

Silarous

It's simple, I don't sell BTC unless I need the money to fund my life or I think another investment will outperform it. I can't think of any.

discipleofvitalik

Capped supply is a weakness long term, what’s important is gradually increasing scarcity. Issuance is what secures the network. Once the BTC supply cap is reached how will miners be incentivized to secure the network? Transaction fees are down only, digital gold is mostly held not transacted. ETH issuance isn’t capped but it is limited and lower than BTC by percentage of supply. Ethereum also has burn mechanisms that could make it deflationary. It’s ok to prefer BTC but the intellectual dishonesty or lack of clear discourse on the quantum resistance or security budget issues is cultish.

cagrinvestor

It doesn't matter if you have internet or not. Is it safer to store your wealth in Gold that could easily be taken by corrupt thugs in Iran? Your Bitcoin stays safe while chaos erupts around you. BTC is long term wealth that can't easily be stolen from you.

trx-repo

Just DCA that 3k into BTC and ETH over the next few months and forget about it. Don't try to time the market or pick obscure altcoins if you want safety. See you in 2031.

Ghola_Mentat

Just buy BTC. I regret putting any money into alts, including ETH. My BTC position has doubled in value and I’ve been buying continuously for years constantly raising my average cost basis. I’m just a little in the green on ETH now after a similar period of time. Every other alt is deep in the red.

devCheckingIn

I'm otherish. BTC is having a nice rally but the rest of the market has been flat for the most part. There is still absolutely no interest at all in crypto when looking at metrics of sentiment.

Bongressman

Oh, my sweet summer child... Just buy a chunk of BTC. Or learn the hard way. One of two paths in front of you.

Escapement_Watch

BTC is not above your budget. Get some BTC/ETH/SOL ignore the rest. win in 5-10 years. slowly DCA every month and use cold storage.

Professional_Sugar14

I'm up 143% on silver for this last year. I'm hoping BTC will improve to match.

Seattleman1955

I don't look at it quite like that (but similar) and I come up with $500k by 2035. That's a reasonable value regarding a gold ratio but I'd get there by taking some percentage of the gold store of value use case as well as a smaller percentage of the use cases of bonds, stocks, and real estate. We probably come up with similar numbers though. I also (conservatively) consider that BTC will be "mature" at that point and will just keep up with dollar debasement after that. This is not a scenario that I'm "betting" on. It's just looking into the future with reasonable assumptions for the variables, IMO.

OpticallyMosache

What'a the minimum price you want BTC to be in 10 years to be life changing? $500k? $750k? $1,000k?

OpticallyMosache

I ended up selling for the first time back in September/October 2025. I thought I would only accumulate and HODL until my investments made it possible for me to retire. But then I started thinking about retiring early and being at home when I'm 50 will be a lot less fun than being home now while my kids are young. So, I decided to take a year off work and my wife was comfortable with it when she saw the liquid cash in our account (HYSA) from selling BTC. I still have mixed feelings but am thankful to still be holding a life changing amount of BTC if we hit $500k in the next 10 years. There's so much uncertainty in the future. I knew with 100% certainty that being home now and helping raise my kids would be the best life experience. Only possible because of BTC.

Scarab702

I saw this on Twitter today so had to post it here: "I like to imagine a future where the CIA sits on the fact they invented Bitcoin until one BTC is worth $100M, at which point they sell Satoshi’s stash ($110T) to clear out the national debt and cement their place in history as the greatest deep state known to man."

zerolimits0

All fiat goes to zero versus BTC, the only question is how long it takes for each.

OpticallyMosache

Perfectly executed and excellent demonstration of conviction. These posts are awesome to see. My only advice is to consider deleting it after a few hours. You'll probably be fine but letting the internet know you have a good chunk of BTC can make you a target.

seraph321

The responsible answer is to set a target percentage of your total portfolio and periodically rebalance into a diversified set of uncorrelated assets. This target may change over time based on age, lifestyle, etc. But does this sub seem very interested in that rational approach? Not really. Personally, I'd never have all my eggs in one basket, and the best thing about having a larger portfolio is the ability to meaningfully diversify and minimise risk. I'm a fan of Raoul Pal's advice of investing for the long term, but being ready and willing to 'take some lifestyle chips off the table' along the way. An example might be spending enough BTC to fund a house purchase. But only when you have enough that you can keep a significant amount and continue to let it grow. You'd never sell it all unless your whole thesis about the asset has changed. They way you phrase your question makes it seem like you've either spent it, or you haven't, which is strange but I see it a lot here. You never need to spend it all, just little bits along the way, and you should absolutely have a plan for when and how.

dankmcganx

This is half. Also, the Iranian dollar going to absolute shit. Anyone with any money and knowledge would throw it all in BTC

Treebranch103

If we all want the value of this to skyrocket, we should all seek to exclusively transact using Bitcoins directly. I got the Coinbase Bitcoin CC recently as a start, but I’m talking rent, utilities, and receiving paychecks from our companies in BTC. Anyone have experience attempting to make that possible? Do we ask our companies for this and tell our landlords that if they want money, they need to have a bitcoin address? What about the utility companies and cities? Seems like not too far fetched of an idea to push for these things. Also, caveat, please humor me, I’m well aware this comment comes off as naive and that the IRS would hate this and things like that come with the territory- but hypothetically if there were enough people demanding it, how could it get going?

Cute_Win_4651

I love BTC so it should be more utilized

373331

Whoa. We have a genius over here! BTC is up 10% YTD on the euro as well. Someone should tell them they haven't ACkTuALy gained any value

Alert_Way_3389

Don't forget increasing pressure on the Fed, with a new chairman coming in March. Trump has said repeatedly that the prerequisite to be chairman is a devotion to lowering interest rates. He's going to drive it hot... Print money, inflate assets, and hope growing GDP outpaces the debasement of the dollar 🤦 Geopolitics, America's 250th, Midterms, the Clarity Act, hosting FIFA... HECK, imagine if the US actually starts purchasing BTC for the strategic reserve. Looking back at the end of the summer is going to be wild 🤣

brock2063

Supply and demand. BTC supply is fixed at 21 million. When there's more demand then price goes up.

reddstudent

It’s the computer angle that makes it so different from BTC

LegitimateDream4942

Capital flow into BTC from Iran. Proof of this???

eshay_investor

How can you push up or down short or long positons if orders are not being filled. you cant just use buy and sell orders to trigger postions unless the BTC price reaches those positons and forces the sale. Buy and sell orders can only move the price if the orders are being met. explain that please

OpticallyMosache

Gotcha I would never reccomended anything besides BTC I just finished Price of Tomorrow (Jeff Booth) and am half way through Broken Money by Lyn Alden. I'm personally only prepared to argue the merits of Bitcoin and its role in healing our eroding monetary system. Online I'm a little different and a little bit degen. What sparked my interest in shi*coins, is that I learned how to become eligible for airdrops. Over the last five years, it's allowed me to eventually accumulate more Bitcoin because I received airdrops. But for the record, Bitcoin is my true love. I was accumulating aggressively from 2017 until October 2025 when I sold a chunk for the first time ever. I'm taking a year sabbatical from work and spending time raising my two young boys. All this is possible because of BTC. Sorry! Way too much information (will delete soon to avoid being a target). But to answer your question again. Use the dry powder on the next major red day. It's gives you something to be happy about when the price is tanking. Good luck!

FilmDazzling4703

If the traditional cycle holds like many are expecting it should be pretty low in 5-6 months but I’m not operating like that’s for sure because in my very limited time here it seems whenever there’s a general consensus about BTC doing something it does the opposite so idk 🤷‍♀️

FastVideo9700

Are you talking about waiting for the cycle bottom of BTC for later this year before buying?

BeeQuiet83

Yea I should have added that in the post as well, I see to avoid a lot of the mainstream platforms (kraken, crypto.com, Coinbase etc), so I’m unsure what wallet to use. But I’m not interested in any other crypto, so I could use Newton as a wallet and still only purchase the BTC through Bitcoinwell?

nantesdeals

Putting everything into BTC is crazy, that's what CZ did, just look at the result.

OpticallyMosache

If it's a significant amount of money and part of your savings/investing portfolio just swap 75% to BTC & 25% to ETH. Be done with Pulsechsin. If it's more of a gamble, consider one of the following (IMO) USELESS, ASTER, BONK, SPX6900 or DOG (Bitcoin rune or bridged Solona version). I personally went all BTC back in September exvept still hold ASTER.

elidevious

I have a really hard time feeling bad for anyone that bought into a Richard Heart scam. It’s just so obvious and most the people I’ve chatted with that buy in are so stubborn about it. That said, sorry for your loss. Sell and buy BTC. But maybe wait for the cycle bottom later that year. Oh, and don’t listen the “cycle is dead” peps, they are almost as bad as the Richard Heart believers. They say the same thing every cycle.

Escapement_Watch

Pulse chain is just a shitty eth. If you wanna buy pulse just stick with eth. Sol will be 1000 dollars one day....long term. could be 1 year could be 100 years from now. and if it hits 1000 dollars it will hit 10,000 dollars. It could be in 1 year or 100 years from now. But it will get there. Not if just when. BTC/ETH/SOL your good to stack and hold forever. Stake your solana for 7% returns and eth for 3%. btc makes its own returns by pumping hardest.

Rubycon_

I agree with this. My mom is one of those prepper boomers and always fantasizes about when 'SHTF' and I always say if it comes to that, guns will be the new currency of power. Like the idea of people staying orderly and lining up, following rules and saying "oh you have gold? Okay great here re some goods in exchange for it. Somehow this is different from regular currency and we respect it" is ridiculous. If that happens, you'll have to just join the largest group of marauders and hope for the best. In any other case, BTC seems superior than gold to me because gold is tricky. First you have to prove it's gold. That takes time. Then you have to ship it somewhere, which also takes time. BTC is instantly transferable and verifiable. I personally believe a balance of both BTC and tradFi is best

FastVideo9700

I am in it for Long term and don’t need the money. I just hate to loose the money in an alt I learned my lesson from. Who knows if it will go up, I don’t think it will, but again my first cycle. Just don’t know if I should hold and if it goes to 0 it goes to 0, or if I should take out the 30% and allocate it to BTC. Idk what makes the most sense.

Excellent-Yellow-883

I’ve done this twice. Once in 2017/2018 and another in 2021. First time I bought something I can’t even remember now, lost a lot. Took a big hit and bought into BTC. Come 2021 and I recovered most of it and thought I should be smarter and diverse into a basket of hopeful alts. Nope, same result. Took the hit and bought in BTC. Come 2025 and I won’t make the same mistake again 😅 the fixed formula now is 80% BTC and 20% whatever i believe at that point to be the next solana. Always use BTC as base of investment. Control the greed.

LaurentDuboi

you don’t have 10k in BTC, for the moment someone hold for you 10k in BTC, so your answer is yes

FastVideo9700

Do you think I should just take the money and go into USDC & wait to invest in BTC since we may or may not be in a bear market and may plummet ?

Natural-Contact-3875

One wallet BTC only another for the rest

FastVideo9700

I own BTC but not much

mrjune2040

Unfortunately you invested in one of the scammiest projects in crypto (and Richard Heart has had a few of them!). Definitely don't get caught up with sunk cost, just walk away and put that remaining value into quality assets. And imo not holding any BTC whatsoever is always a mistake.

Secret_Computer4891

I will say that there have been economic and geopolitical drama my entire life. It may be a little more volatile right now, but I believe it will also pass. If I am wrong S really HTF, then shiny rocks and digital tokens won't mean much. As part of a diversified portfolio, gold and BTC have a place. As an all in, FOMO, or sky is falling move, I'm not so sure....

eshay_investor

how could they turn to BTC if no one is buying their fiat

Upstairs_Ride_1740

Honestly putting everything in BTC is kinda wild but I get the logic with all the geopolitical chaos rn. That said, maybe keep like 10-20% in something boring just in case? Even if it's just some index funds or whatever The gold boat thing is funny tho - people have been saying they "missed it" for like 15 years straight lmao

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Investing-Berry719

Iran shitting the bed or BTC having a good day?

FinalPangolin3654

BTC is going to $48k! 💯 GUARANTEED! U ARE LOST 😆 🤣 😂

kjdaytrade

I bought a lot of BTC. Thats why it has been going up. You’re welcome guys!

Hot_Philosopher3199

Good man! Keep that DCA! I sold in 2 tranches: one at 111 and one at 124. I've round-tripped the bear before, not this time. I'm ready to retire and didn't want the possibility of a big drawdown. I rotated to TSLA because I believe TSLA will run harder than BTC. I have been selling covered calls to regain cheap exposure to BTC through 2028 IBIT LEAPS. It has worked out well so far. Just my game. Doesn't make sense to most. It's all about increasing our wealth based on BTC value. It works for me. Once again, not a popular method.

MathematicianFun5126

Gov gonna debase USD and move to BTC backed.

pill_tender

Iranians purchasing BTC via starlink

machoman1214

This is my first time seeing this, ever. Got into crypto late October. I was that dummy who's first buy was $250 of BTC at 118k, lmao. That said, I've learned a lot. How's my portfolio you ask? If it was garbage, no way would I have been bobbing my head to this hard beat with a big smile watching on my face.

partymsl

Strategy bought BTC on the weekend and prices didn't move at all there.

FairlyUormal

Random question. How much does it cost in fees to move BTC from an exchange to a hard wallet? Let’s say 10k in BTC, what should I expect in fees?

FromThePits

I really appriciate your dedication. Also the estimate on CPU runtime. Thank you. I promised some other redditor to release the xpub early next week, if that is useful to you? He wanted to verify the 0.01 BTC incentive is real. I promise its still there. I just checked. Other than that - the challenge is the challenge. You'll probably waste more electricity than its worth with that PC? Maybe you can team up with someone? Get some more hashing going.

Gallus_11B

I'm thinking blockchainbacker was correct, we nuked oct 10, we chop sideways for a bit, we now get a little BTC relief rally to 95 - 100ish K, a few alt coins that are down bad 90+% get little 25 - 40% pumps and then btc crashes lower dragging entire market with it to goblin town.

MrWonderfulPoop

Retoswap or swap to another coin and sell that. I’m all in on BTC & XMR and would love to see Monero off all the CEXs. It don’t need them.

bfeeny

Pokémon cards are not divisible, fungible, liquid, durable, etc. BTC is superior.

elixon

I agree. Still, how we understand it does not really matter. What matters is perception. Most people see fiat currencies as fair mainly because they are opaque. Their distribution may be far less fair than Bitcoin’s, but we cannot see it, so the issue never fully surfaces. Bitcoin is different. Its transparency exposes the imbalance. Once ordinary investors and everyday users clearly see how uneven the distribution is, trust starts to erode. And without trust, Bitcoin has no future. This is not a debate about objective reality. It is about the message Bitcoin sends. It was designed to resist central control, yet in practice we now have a small number of powerful exchanges and large holders controlling a significant share of the supply. That reality clashes directly with the idea people were sold about what Bitcoin is and what it was meant to be. That contradiction is the real risk I am pointing to. I am not judging if BTC/hierarchy/imbalance is good or bad in itself.

Buddy_Palguy

How’s the air up there BTC hodlers?

DryMyBottom

so beautiful when BTC does its thing

Sudden_Buyer3852

So I had 50% BTC and 50% alts in the bull run. I sold most of my alts on top, so I could then buy more BTC in the bottom. So I have some capital in USDC waiting for BTC lows. But with all this instability with the orange blob in America wanting to take Greenland, there’s a big risk of dollar plummeting when Europe strikes back. So it’s a safe bet my USDC will loose a lot of its value… what would people do asset wise in my situation?

Sudden_Buyer3852

So I had 50% BTC and 50% alts in the bull run. I sold most of my alts on top, so I could then buy more BTC in the bottom. So I have some capital in USDC waiting for BTC lows. But with all this instability with the orange blob in America wanting to take Greenland, there’s a big risk of dollar plummeting when Europe strikes back. So it’s a safe bet my USDC will loose a lot of its value… what would people do asset wise in my situation?

El_precaution

You should atleast be stacking BTC

juangusta

The vast majority of Americans just have their 401k set to auto. Basically institutions are getting these paychecks every week and choose how to invest it. My 401ks don’t have a BTC option but if they did I’d be 100% in. But I’m an outlier and the the real win would be these institutions just deciding to allocate 1-5% into crypto and suddenly there’s billions consistently flowing into BTC every month, regardless of price action or news.

Hodler_caved

Don't invest money you can't afford to lose or may need soon in crypto. BTC only. Never sell at a loss.

JumpDue7186

Gold just peaked, BTC surge is expected

JKimRX

401K is retirement savings. Investments made here usually sit for years, if not decades. If people can buy BTC ETFs, that’s gonna be a large amount of BTC that just sits in accounts until retirement, thereby raising the price floor. In theory.

No-Average3202

BTC hit $97k because a massive wall of short positions just got liquidated. This "short squeeze" forced a cascade of automatic buy-backs, fueling the vertical move. The bears got absolutely wrecked and their liquidations are the rocket fuel for this pump.

RepulsiveCheck9201

trading trading advice from reddit is crazy.... but ill give my two cents anyway I think it depends on how much research you want / have time to do, i work a full time job so i dont really have the time to keep up with the new tokens and such but still like to have some in my portfolio so i just dollar cost average in to ETH BTC and a little bit of LINK, make sure you youre using a safe platform too, shop around different ones to try, i see a lot of people recommending ndax, kraken, wealth simple and dcafun, at least for what i like to do (dca) not much of a lump sum buyer

flying-fox200

Trust wallet is not an open-source wallet. The most recommended wallets by this community are BlueWallet and Blockstream BTC Wallet. The are open-source and heavily audited. At the very least, get BlueWallet (on iOS/Android), make a new wallet, and send your BTC there. For about 0.1 BTC - as you say you have - you should *seriously* consider getting a [hardware wallet](https://trezor.io/). You could also set up an air-gapped Linux PC for wallet generation, but that's more work and easier to fuck up.

WorkerPlayful4192

NEVER make digital copy of your seed phrase. If you receive e-mails from "platforms" of the place from which buy BTC, never follow link is such mail. Close browser and go on platform site and ask support for mail verification. Hackers love to exploit your psychology.

CanadianCompSciGuy

That's the wrong question. You should be asking "How much will it bother me when I lose the $10k in BTC?"

Benorleporc

I’ll get downvoted but if you create a wallet on a clean computer and never use your wallet to send BTC out of it (long term storage), only BTC in … not sure why you would need a hardware wallet

nacentaeons

Irans dumping their local currency for BTC.

ikari_warriors

USD is losing ground against BTC

SodOffChoom

Illuminati & Freemasons have added bitcoin as a store of value in their treasuries after acknowledging modern world needs modern adaptations to keep the secret societies running. 1M$ BTC by December 2026!

slayernfc

holding 2BTC is the new 1BTC

doctor-soda

just recovering from the BS correction. Pay attention to the price of Gold. Dollar is losing value. The problem with BTC is that BRICS is not adopting it. Once BRICS heavily adopts it (which is unlikely as most of them are dictatorial and authoritarian so they don't want something that they can't control), then BTC will basically become digital gold. Right now it's only adopted by the US + its friends.

KobeNakamoto

Ah, wasn't an issue for me. I setup a Trust Vault tied to our family trust, so they can KYC the heck out of that to ensure the BTC goes to whoever it needs to if we conk off this earth

Azatis-

I won't touch it either, the opportunities for x10 or x50 is not in BTC anymore

EffectiveWelder2443

As far as I'm concerned, my consultant stance during the latest BTC run, the peak around USD 250000 before any sustained down trend for this round !

Centmo

I think your GPT is hallucinating. Ask it to list the three largest of each. Backed by BTC (physically held ~1:1) 1. IBIT (iShares Bitcoin Trust) — $75.10B AUM  2. FBTC (Fidelity Wise Origin Bitcoin Fund) — $19.61B AUM  3. GBTC (Grayscale Bitcoin Trust) — $15.88B AUM  Not backed by BTC (futures/derivatives “paper BTC”) 1. BITO (ProShares Bitcoin Strategy ETF) — $2.17B AUM (futures/swaps; no direct BTC)  2. BITX (2x Bitcoin Strategy ETF) — $1.51B AUM (2x leveraged exposure to BTC futures index)  3. BITI (ProShares Short Bitcoin ETF) — $97.22M AUM (inverse exposure via futures-linked benchmark; no direct BTC) 

Azatis-

Amazing but i will still wont touch BTC at 100k, i am poor

Gibbybby

Only trust in BTC!

PimpinNevrSimpin

A currency cannot be an investment. I will say, though, if youre a miner youre technically producing some sort of cash flow with the mining fees and block rewards paid in BTC and not USD.

RandomLemonHead

If the four year cycle holds, which it has... this should be a very rough year.. $50K BTC

biophysicsguy

If you needed a car and didn't have cash or didn't want to finance then you did what you had to do. Nobody can predict the pumps and that's why I try to avoid selling. I've even taken a loan out against a small portion of my BTC to avoid selling it.

VariatCA

It's literally a neverending conveyor-belt of new narratives to try to excuse BTC doing exactly what it's been doing for the last 16+ years. Even above the new ATH you'll just hear vapid "peak-to-peak" comparisons and talk of diminishing returns, lol. These are not serious people, they're here to seek confirmation to their anti-crypto bias and dissuade others.

Staxu9900

Keep buying, no bother, last time bought close to the bottom and sold it all at almost ATH. Pure luck, but I don’t believe BTC will go over 130 before big winter crash. This is my personal prediction I’m going for, I’m not saying anyone to do the same. Check how this ages if you want.

ColonelSahanderz

Iranians who bought bitcoin currently can’t access their BTC (no internet) and even if they could it’d be kind of pointless because their society is literally collapsing. Also they might die from walking in the street so I think they’ve got bigger things on their minds at the moment.

SkillzThatKillz10

Perhaps satoshi did this so a bunch of BTC nerds don’t start worshipping him over a cool invention lol also id bet his IQ is off the charts so im not surprised he took the time to fact check the Bible.

Hazys

As usual will be " under Politics " I see news on BTC , seem like Govt also trying to own it. Some Govt behind buying too. Just like buying Gold.

Kontrav3rsi

I would suggest watching a number of videos from Bloomberg or other non-hype sites and make decisions based off real world utility and not a quick moon shot type meme coin. Get in slow and learn the environment, learn how the patterns of trading go between BTC and alt coins. Just my advice, do your DD.

gothicnonsense

The irony. BTC, you were supposed to beat the forgeries not join them!

Healthy_Ask_8641

Wait for crashes - then invest 5% of your portfolio in BTC. Don't try and get rich off $100 - you will lose it.

Hitchie_Rawtin

Shitcoin echo chamber effect, CC lost sight of what it used to be around 2020 unfortunately, now it's mostly SOL memecoin grifters or BTC & ETH maxis. Pretty sure 99% of people here have zero interest in the technologies that used to be discussed here anyway, project founders used to post and comment here regularly, they don't nowadays because it's become a cesspit of WSB cunts.

fan_of_hakiksexydays

$800 seems pretty imminent now after BTC's break above $95K. The growing FOMO now is creating so much momentum, it's gonna be hard to stop this train. $1k is looking much more likely now.

discipleofvitalik

Don’t listen to this person. ETH is arguably more decentralized under PoS and has more sound fundamentals. BTC quantum resistance plans are unclear and will have a major security budget issue in coming years. DYOR.

_moneyish_

tbh if you’re purely long-term DCA, BTC + ETH is totally enough. I mainly stick to BTC and ETH for my DCA, but I’ve been using BYDFi to dip into Solana and NFTs, do some small trades, and just get a feel for the ecosystem