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No-Eagle-547

It's a BTC prediction, this is more than sufficient

roz303

10 BTC right now. Mostly because I'm afraid I couldn't repeat the steps it took to get me where I am in life today with my spouses. But also because I probably couldn't influence the right people not to completely ruin the original spirit and culture of Bitcoin. I miss the 2010-2011 culture very, very much.

Grunblau

If the bankers wanted everyone to stop talking about silver, all they need to do is throw a few $Billion into BTC. Or better yet a low MC alt like ALGO…

Citizen_Kano

I sold all my alts and 75% of my BTC between October & November. I'll start to DCA again (BTC only this time) when it gets to around 60k

angelwolf71885

You mean trusted custody!…well there is no such thing as even standard financial institutions that let you buy actual BTC can’t cover all the withdrawals from a price drop run of withdrawals to self custody and will buckle and shut off trading just like normal crypto only exchanges

RandomPlayerCSGO

Shit if I go back to 2010 with the knowledge I havr now as a 12 year old kid I could get a lot more than 10 BTC, fuck imagine buying all the BTC you can since it gets out and then at COVID dip buy oil fields and airlines and more BTC too

jdaddyfaded

I’m taken 10 BTC now. I’ve lived those years already, I’ll take the payday.

Prestigious-Big2542

If you can't I can you can email me at stephenkirkvdh@gmail.com Leave a bold header HELP BTC ill send you my info and we chat about the solution

dividedSt8s

Because no one wants Etherium. It had one good use case, proof of work mining. Since going proof of stake it’s done nothing but trend down for the most part, at least vs BTC.

jup1t3rr

Coins move up and down, you can make money either way, any good strategy is going to be making you pull shorts when market is bleeding only fools watch it go down (along with there balance), i see no point not shorting positions you know are going down, make money while you wait for it to reverse, and im not being called out here as i have no shorts open i take profits never hold, just assuming that is why your seeing alot of them. If i traded BTC or some stable coin with years worth of chart data my strategy would however told me to buy short as soon as it started heading away from that 120k mark, and would have made a fortune, always follow a strategy, emotion trumps profit, i don't even need to worry when it reverse as ill get a sell signal and then ill buy long if its actually on way up, otherwise ill get another sell signal and go short again, im sure any good trader sold at 120k or whatever it hit and then shorted, you don't hear the ones that can trade / successful in here much

Friendly-Profit-8590

It’s gonna fuck around in this 80k-ish range for a bit. Maybe we get into the 70’s. Maybe we see the mid 90’s but it’s basically just gonna hang. Then at some point come Spring or so, once the masses realize that BTC isn’t tanking, that whatever previous cycles have occurred don’t apply anymore, you’ll start to see a more steady price increase. Not saying there’s gonna be some big meteoric move. It’s just gonna start creeping back up. Maybe some tweet changes that one way or the other but that’s how I see it. Not gonna guess where we’ll be come 2027 but it’s be north or wherever we are now.

A_Dragon

Wow you mean a guy that dilutes his own shares to buy BTC and pay off preferreds performed worse than the underlying?! You don’t say!

Cratos007

if they’re building liquidity services anyway, they’ll still start with BTC because it’s already liquid and easy to source, monero could come later

JuxtaposeLife

I get it... I guess we all have our own fears. Personally, I'm wa more concerned about someone breaking into my house to steal thing... than I am of anyone getting my BTC. Bitcoin allows you to keep what it yours very safe... to sleep well at night. With self custody, I'd recommend starting small, and building that confidence. I gess after almost a decade, you start to just realize... it's solid if you are...

BloodWillow

You clearly have done near to zero research, as you're asking some of the most basic questions. The 'math problem' is called Proof Of Work. This process secures the blockchain and creates new coins. Miners, those calculating the 'math problem', get rewarded by solving blocks. Blocks are packed with transaction data, and info from the previous block. These blocks are strung together in what is called a blockchain. Miners are rewarded for their effort with newly 'minted' Bitcoins. The amount of Bitcoins ever to exist is 21 million, and set on a defined schedule which halves approximately every four years. Today, that reward is 3.125 BTC. In about 2 years that reward halves again. There's much more to all of this, but that's the basics.

mlbman_

It's never over bro. DM me your BTC address.

RamoneBolivarSanchez

I would add BTC or ETH So many tokenomics and staking issues with Solana. Inflationary emissions, validator count dropping like flies, overhead to run a validator with full voting is $20m/year to breakeven. You have to KYC (and be approved) by the Solana foundation. There’s only one validator client (agave rust). The list goes on, and that’s sort of the tip of the iceberg. I personally think the infra is extremely aggressive and harmful for retail users and the recent lawsuits that are very much so open, growing, and ongoing, only back this up. Used to be a bigger fan of Solana but time and time again their leadership has cut corners and done things in ways that bite them later. Much more comfortable sitting with BTC and ETH. Also mined ETH and have been running my own validator at home, so I understand the hardships of wanting to be supportive of the network and actually in it for the tech. With Solana, it’s not even possible for me to try cause it would cost me $20m and jumping through a bunch of permissioned hoops, once again *just to break even*. This is why validator count is shrinking and the issue of centralization becomes even more relevant.

jschram84

Tether making massive BTC purchases while being one of the most opaque major financial entities in crypto is... a choice. Like cool, they have a policy of allocating profits to Bitcoin, but maybe address the years of questions about whether their reserves actually back all the USDT in circulation first? The math in that other comment about their profit margins not adding up to what you'd expect from treasury holdings is exactly the kind of thing that should make people nervous. Not saying it's definitely shady, but "trust us we're buying bitcoin with our totally legitimate profits" from a company that's dodged proper audits for years isn't exactly reassuring

RandomPlayerCSGO

Yes but its not something that would happen overnight, they will start buying it slowly as they create their own liquidity services, just like they are doing with BTC.

Seattleman1955

Buy and keep on Fidelity. You can buy IBIT or you can buy actual BTC and have the option to move it if you ever need to but probably don't ever need to. I wouldn't store BTC on Coinbase. I would on Fidelity.

Bubbacarl

I have a small, respectable SOL holding. They have a fast platform and may be key to financial services in the long run. Plus, you can stake it for a decent return unlike BTC. ETH also returns very little staking it.

No_Giraffe_4647

I want to see the fundamentals of analysis explaining the 13 million or is it for 2100 maybe ? In this case yes sure it will. For one million mark it may take around a decade or so and it could be explained by the scarcity VS the cost of production as a coin right now cost about 100K to be produced by a farming site (energy cost mostly) so another couple halving and the cost will be multiplied by 4 as the reward will be only 25 percent of 3.125 BTC currently. Then as the computing power necessary to solve the maths problem to validate the bloc it is realistic to say that the energy needed might be double so we are looking at a production cost of 800K I am not sure how the market price will match or not but it is usually tracking it with more or less 30 percent move above or below so you get a projected price range of 600k to 1 million roughly

6M66

That's what Btc is made for, that's what decentralization is about. I was doing some shopping the store offered me 15% off if I pay with BTC.

Seattleman1955

I know how they do it. You are basically right and a little wrong. How's that?:) haha IMO the better way to look at it is to consider that Bitcoin as a store of value will take a little away from gold, a little away from stocks and bonds (that's how Saylor does it) but at the end of the day my number still ends up about at the investment market cap of gold. I consider that by 2030 BTC will probably be around $350k and by 3035 will be around $500k. At that point I think BTC will be fairly mature and the high growth or adoption rate is over. After that it goes up as the dollar is debased so it remains a store of value in true purchasing power but that's about it. Can it get to $1 million. Anything can get to any number in nominal terms due to inflation if enough time passes but that's not very meaningful.

ar5onL

Shouldn’t that old BTC cover some of those cost 💁🏻‍♂️

kzt79

The exact same as every year since learning about BTC over a decade ago.

darkklown

How often do you buy something with gold? Imagine if all online trade was done over a crypto currency like lightning and you kept long term investment in BTC. Much more utility, higher value.

gunnychamero

Because unlike Alts , BTC investors are fully aware, this asset is too big to fail and are waiting for yet another bounce back!

cqm

that was what had gotten me interested in MSTR initially, but they couldn't find demand for their bonds. The idea that it was just MSTR and they could do stock dilution and bond sales to stack BTC and actually have leverage at max they only ever had like 10% of BTC purchases with debt, so leverage was always minimal instead now they found demand for other esoteric financial products they created under STRC STRF etc MSTR buyers till act like MSTR is the former simpler offering

victorduart3

There's no way BTC can be huge if the 4-year cycle still exists. @ 50187_1@

therhinohunter

Honestly I'm just full-porting with 40x leverage on the 1m chart everytime BTC goes below 30 RSI

Shibinator

BCH down bad over 8 years. BCH up a little last 4 years. So actually, in the totality of time since BTC/BCH split, BCH has a slight edge in terms of positive price performance. An investor who DCA'd starting from a random day would have a >50% chance of being in profit.

Unclestanky

Forced brilliant move. Consider selling your mistake? If everyone got locked out of their BTC in 7 year cycles they would be pretty happy with the results.

blackjackn

I use Fidelity Crypto Roth IRA. If youre holding for more than 8 years, I think it may be worth it versus a regular Roth IRA buying spot ETFs. 1% spread to buy then sell v. 25 basis point expense ratio. Thats the only advantage I see because no self-custody. Maybe you'll be able to withdraw the BTC rather than sell it by that time too and there'll be more opportunity to buy things purely in BTC.

Brilliant_Builder697

The decoupling vs gold/equities is the part I’d watch, but I’d interpret it differently: it can be a sign that BTC is behaving like the most liquidity-sensitive risk asset. When liquidity is selective, gold can bid on reserve/credibility demand while BTC waits for easing / risk budget expansion. Sometimes that sets up the snap-back. Sometimes it’s just telling you the marginal buyer is still constrained.

Ulrask

I accumulated slowly over years, last transaction was maybe couple months ago ? BTC was gone minutes after I tried to use said apps.

zeeblefritz

wow. There are so many things that don't seem to track here. Why are you doing this all on livecd mode without persistence? Why was using an app in an app store the first thing you thought of if you had that much BTC. And you sent it all at once?

flying_cactus

Cold storage is great if you know what youre doing. But if you dont, nothing beats a trusted custodian like Coinbase or Kraken. That is why companies like Blackrock store billions of dollars of custodial BTC for their ETFs with Coinbase. These custodians are too big to fail, but I trust them more than any normal person trying to manage their own cold storage system.

Terrible_Opening7430

Blue. Is the only choice. Dust money worth of BTC at the time and better life decisions to do. 

maskedbrush

If all you wanted to do was checking your balance, why not paste you wallet public key on a BTC explorer website?

Derpykins666

Most people would take blue, if you have all the knowledge you have now 10BTC isn't worth a lot. The problem is that you'd have to do a lot of stuff you don't want to do all over again, work a bad job maybe, save up money to invest in those things you 'know' about. It's not without it hardship but will eventually lead to an outcome that is likely way better in the long-run.

Mission-Ant-9258

First of all, I'm really sorry for you man. The only thing left to get value out of this shitty experience you had to go through is to investigate and gather info to avoid other falling for the same. There's something missing here. Please, if possible, answer this questions: 1. You had the BTC in a hardware wallet, yes? 2. You were using Sparrow/Wasabi/etc in watch only mode for your hardware wallet, yes? 3. At any point in time, did you enter your seed phrase (or seed and pass phrase) in your computer?

tklite

You've been working with computers since the C64 era and all you had accumulated was 0.85 BTC?

Lord_Gudda

Shorting alts until summer 2026. Then maybe buying back into ETH & BTC

PassiveBliss

BTC will always set the trend, but diminishing returns are real. Select coins will outperform BTC. You might be pleasantly surprised with your decision.

AdExternal209

0.5 BTC. Not life-changing, but definitely worth the effort after all those years

Ok-Landscape-1681

Me too. I moved ~40% of my BTC into stable coins waiting for the dip. Would be able to pick up. Still DCA in the meantime

Brilliant_Builder697

I agree with the direction (flows matter), but I’m not sure that “apparent demand growth (# of BTC)” is clean enough to call a cycle by itself. Step 1: Bitcoin trades on marginal flows, not average ownership. Price is basically the auction clearing level between (a) who must sell and (b) who has fresh money + risk budget to buy. You can have “weak demand” on a monthly/YoY metric and still get a stable or rising price if sell pressure dries up (miners/leveraged players calm down, long-term holders stop distributing). And the reverse is also true: price can dump even with decent demand if there’s a forced seller (margin events, ETF outflows, credit tightening). Step 2 (non-obvious): a lot of “demand” has moved off-chain or into wrappers. ETF creations/redemptions, custodian rebalancing, internal exchange movements, UTXO consolidation, and coins shifting between “liquid/illiquid” buckets can all distort on-chain “apparent demand” without reflecting real net new capital. Also measuring demand in BTC units can mislead when the marginal buyer thinks in dollars: $10B of demand at $90k is fewer coins than $10B at $30k. Step 3: the macro regime matters. When liquidity is tight/ selective, risk budgets shrink and the marginal buyer becomes price-sensitive. That can show up as contracting demand metrics even if the longer-term adoption story is intact. In that environment, I’d watch a dashboard: ETF net flows, futures basis/funding, stablecoin supply growth, and broader financial conditions (rates/dollar/credit spreads). Those tend to explain “why now” better than one on-chain series.

SadTransition2214

I mean 10 BTC isn't even a million, if you could go back to 2010 you would only need to bet 250 on Leicester city to win the Premier league during the 2016 season to earn 1.25m

prince0fbabyl0n

Never forget that when BTC market cap is $15 T , gold Mc would be over $30 T , inflation is serious world wide and governments and individuals will continue to hord gold and other assets

Royal_Cod_6088

I've decided that the only way for me to HODL is to have my wife electroshock me and burn out the part of my brain that remembered I bought BTC. My lawyer will give me a letter in 10 years, informing me of it. Then, just to torture myself, he'll give me a 2nd letter 10 years after that with the secret words. Giving me a solid 10 years of torture trying to find a way to sell it (and failing).

daheff_irl

Most important question is how many BTC did you recover?

graytleapforward

BTC is the only investable asset. All else is a gamble at best. Did you learn nothing from this year?.That should have been the number one conclusion from your research.

Alfador8

>1. Leveraged traders are preventing appreciation of BTC price. At the moment, I agree this is true. But leverage can cut both ways and short squeezes have historically been common. It just takes a shift in sentiment. >2. BTC will never be a stable form of transaction medium Maybe not. We'll see. If it fulfills its potential as a store of value then eventually people will want to spend it when the opportunity cost has decreased sufficiently. >Stablecoins will be better for transactions Yes. Stablecoins will be much more prevalent as a medium of exchange for the foreseeable future. Centralization results in reduced friction and you're incentivized to spend fiat per [Gresham's law](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gresham%27s_law)

jsh63

Really depends on your personal circumstances. I’m 62 and near retirement. I don’t need BTC to change my life - I’ve been saving and investing for more than 40 years and I’m doing ok

ABM-ghost

How can I buy BTC?

iTyrone__

IMO BTC, ETH , XRP and Solana seems pretty good to me .

Last-Cap2143

How so? His BTC is currently on the exchange.

Background-Day-4957

Stablecoins will be better for transactions as it’s pegged and not give up assets that will appreciate once better regulation on leverage traders are adopted. Right now BTC is stuck in a rut, being manipulated by short whales taking advantage of leveraged longs. Once leveraged traders are better regulated, then BTC can appreciate as DAT companies, sovereign nations, and retail investors hope for. And as such, BTC will be a horrible medium for transaction as, hopefully, it’ll appreciate, and who wants to give up an appreciating asset to buy items, like pizza?

mrestiaux

Yes I understand self custody. No, not everyone does. Some people just want exposure to Bitcoin. You don’t need to harp and shit on people for using Coinbase. As I stated, get over yourself. This is how they’re comfortable buying BTC, and that’s ok.

AdExternal209

Let's just say it was definitely worth the mass GPU hours 😉 But honestly, even if it was 0.01 BTC, the satisfaction of finally cracking it after 7 years would've been worth it.

very_responsive_12

No, not that low. In the end support levels are basically psychology at work. BTC stayed in a range, call it about 55k to 65k from march to november of 2024, enough people bought and sold in this time and BTC has stayed above that range since then so that this price is considered very cheap. Only early buying whales who really have made this bear market may be the ones to get out as their acquisition price was low. However, there has been enough liquidity since wall street got in, if they were going to sell they would have done so alreeady. Some whales, understanding the BTC market, got out at 100K+ and will get back in at 70k buying 30% more BTC. Also, the panic selling that would have to happen to drop below 60k would be based on never seeing that price again, but we saw 60k in April and Oct. of 2021 bookended with sub 20k prices. Everyone is looking at this support level, many want to buy in at the local bottom, when it gets around 75K people will be looking for others to jump the gun and get in before that support level. 74,73,72....I am already in with all my dry powder at that point and holding it until then may be a big mistake. We may already be bottomed in the 83k-88k support level and ready to go up....In my personal opinion that is the big question. Has the last 10 days of consolidation been building for a move up or move down?

Friendly_Specific512

this isn’t stupid at all. If the dollar hyper-inflates, you stop measuring value in dollars and start measuring it in real goods and services. Bitcoin wouldn’t be “worth” more bread because BTC changed, the dollar would just be worth less. So instead of asking “How many dollars is 1 BTC?”, the better question becomes: “How much purchasing power does 1 BTC have?” Example: • Today: 1 BTC might buy a car • Hyperinflation scenario: bread costs $10,000, a car costs $5 million • BTC price explodes in dollars, but its real value is how much stuff it can buy BTC is fixed in supply (21M). Fiat is not. So over long periods, BTC tends to hold purchasing power, while fiat measures melt. Dollars become the ruler that’s shrinking — BTC is the thing being measured. That’s why some people say “priced in fiat, valued in goods”.

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Lazy_Intentions

1. Save 3-6 months worth of total living expenses and put it in a high yield savings account. This is your safety net. You lose your job. You get into a car accident and can’t work for 3 months. This will keep you afloat until either disability kicks in or you find new work. 2. Open a Roth IRA, max it out every year and invest the money in that account into something that tracks the SP500 (VOO or others). You don’t have to get too fancy with this unless you want to learn a lot about stocks and start picking individual ones. 3. With anything excess, BTC. Crypto in general is a bumpy ride, so be ready to see big red on some days and big green on others. Keep the emotion out of it. If your excess at the end of each month is $100 (meaning you’d be spending it on something you don’t really need or you’d be ok losing it in a casino without starving or jeopardizing #1 or #2), then buy $100 of BTC each month and don’t worry about it for 10+ years.

nihongos

Do you understand how much capital that would require? Please be realistic. Comparing it to gold is also stupid. People and countries have bought gold as a store of value for thousands and thousands of years. BTC will obviously never reach that scale and level of adoption. Gold reached that market cap largely due to those reasons. What will it take to bring BTC to even half that cap?

qxqxxq

I'll take the 10 BTC.... want my wallet address?

Echo609

Meaning he’s eating cheap and unhealthy to get enough calories to live so he can put all his disposable money into BTC

InformalSecretary895

I think you meant XRP not BTC, everyone makes typos it’s fine

nihongos

No, you aren't "so" early. And that's fine, you just need to accept it. You will no longer experience the days of 10-1000x's, where people were actually so early. I can absolutely guarantee you that BTC won't 10x from here EVER. In fact, I'll be very very surprised if BTC even hits an ATH in 2026. Come back to this comment EOY.

TrustInNumbers

It's not even fiat, they're just issuing fresh batch of USDT and buying BTC with that - it's free purchase for them, no brainer to do when you think about it.

ouchifell

DCA into both BTC and ETH as I’ve done since 2020

CyberCrud

The cycle says strongly bearish.  Bottom in 2027.  It's shocking how many people don't understand the cycle.  It's literally how BTC was designed.  This is by design. 

jtrade420

I think your better off using cashapp vs CB. Cashapp now doesn’t charge a fee for recurring buys at all & the price is usually spot on. Got one of those will give you free BTC things and did it for a couple weeks.

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Cumminpwr11

If I can go to 2010 get BTC and a few other things then come back to my current life and reap the rewards? That. Otherwise I’ll take the 10 btc because I live my life and my wife and kids.

CyberCrud

The problem with going back to 2010 is that you'd have to go back to Obama years and COVID-19.  Though I'd make way more money, I'd hate to have to wait for basically 7 years to do so.  Ugh.  I think I'd take the 10 BTC now.  

Crypto-Voice-Pro

Makes sense — the macro setup looks favorable for BTC. If liquidity improves and demand keeps growing, 2026 could really be a strong year. Excited to see how ETFs and institutions shape the market this time.

AdExternal209

Haha I wish I had that kind of power! Unfortunately my 0.5 BTC recovery isn't moving the market 😅

RamoneBolivarSanchez

Hey that’s a wonderful reason to sell if any; congratulations on the big move, and a great one at that. My point was that we often change our minds when new information is presented. I also sold that BTC for things I claimed were worth it and in retrospect I’ve realized they weren’t at that time in my life, and I could’ve/should’ve approached things differently. Everyone is different and every circumstance is different too.

CyberCrud

Pretty sure this gets you 30 BTC.  

Extra_Ad8616

Bitcoin isn’t superior, BTC will win in the short term but XRP will win in the long term due to ripple building out

Crivos

Exactly why BTC is superior.

EarningsPal

How do you think they got out of the past hole? Audit? Hold on, we are busy buying BTC and need the price of BTC to climb to show we’re fully backed.

Chemical_Material824

Lmao can't wait for Coinbase to start spamming physical wallets with $5 of BTC already loaded on them

bin-noddin

I'm with you I mean if economists are right fiat is going to go to zero 🤣 so maybe BTC eats shit along with it

Cptn_BenjaminWillard

So, fiscal/calendar 2025 is now behind us. Does this mean that the biggest market players have managed to defer gains on taxes for another 12 months, and BTC will finally be able to start rising slowly throughout 2026? Will it hit at least $140k by the end of 2026? I think it probably will, barring a global geopolitical black swan event.

DKZeusInvestor

Such a waste of money. Think as to how all of that cash could have been used to accumulate better returns of BTC when the macro trend was in the positive. Remember everyone… “HODL SUCKS!”

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Snoo_34686

Let’s go 10 dollar BTC

Radiant-King5524

Never in a million years would I have thought BTC would get this high. I see no reason why it won’t get higher - in the long term

Whole-Reserve-4773

I’m very tempted to buy gold and silver but I have to go against my regard retail brain and buy low instead of buy high. I simply cannot find anything that is not overvalued and hasn’t gone parabolic in the past year now except bitcoin. S and P 500 + some small percent VXUS international and the rest BTC. The sentiment sucks now, lots of FUD and everyone clowning BTC now that it’s below 100k. Large institutions are still buying so I will too. I feel diversified enough to survive whatever happens

WeddingPKM

No but people in communities like this for some reason think it will. The OP is also asking if BTC can 10x and by bringing up parity with gold you’ve introduced the idea it’s possible that happens as a way for the price to go dramatically up. I know your comment is pure math and doesn’t make any speculation on its own, but people read in to things.

Informal-Ad220

The full article, specifically the part about rehypothecated BTC, a topic I am particularly interested in, requires the download of an app? No, thank you is my nice way of saying it.

thatmankev

I dont own BTC

paperlevel

Same here, I had a small amount of BTC in 2024, and was able to accumulate a lot more over 2025.

TravelDaWorld81

I do 200 weekly on river then auto withdrawal to my fidelity crypto account every 0.01 BTC since I like all my retirement accounts in one spot. Works flawlessly amd free. This is on top of maxing my 401k, roth IRA, HSA, mega backdoor roth 401k contributions. Keep going.

Alfador8

That has nothing to do with anything you posted previously. Please try to have a coherent argument without shifting topics if you want to have a productive discussion. >I will never use BTC for transaction. I don’t want to look back years later and regret purchasing two large pizzas with 10k BTC. This implies that you believe bitcoin will go up over time, because more people will adopt it as a store of value. I agree. What happens when everyone has adopted bitcoin and there is diminished room for growth? I suspect people will then feel motivated to spend their bitcoin, and we *will* see it used as a currency.

LexxM3

MtGox: Most definitely did not restore “much of users’ funds”: a) about 18% +/- BTC/BCH has been recovered as potential repayment; b) the theoretical fiat gains are irrelevant and has nothing to do with the recovery process; it is fiat, after all; if you’re going to talk about recovery, use the actual asset lost, not some other random asset c) the repayment process is literally glacial (i.e. the ice caps are melting faster than the repayments are made), has not completed, and is fully expected to take another 12-15 years if ever; an exponentially increasing number of outstanding MtGox users/creditors are dying of old age

Background-Day-4957

I’m invest for wealth management. I will never use BTC for transaction. I don’t want to look back years later and regret purchasing two large pizzas with 10k BTC.