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Money-Tip-7543

Can you give me .1345 so I can finally hit 1BTC, thanks in advance my fellow Canadian

yoneroyamagachi

Around 20 bucks. Because thats all I have in my savings account and I’ve set a buy order at $1000 for $20 of BTC. /s

Doritos707

Like maybe 100k BTC at once? 200k would for sure cause a move

Character-Resist-961

Yes this is the right way to use BTC in the first place but if govs intervene to mess it up It is technically feasible to remove the trace of a tainted BTC. The blockchain is a curse and a mercy at the same time.

Available_Win5204

This is all based on 1 random quote too. BTC maxis are some of the most desperate in all of reddit. And that is saying something.

HumanNo109850364048

Here’s from ChatGpt: Short answer: Bitcoin becomes “safe” from quantum attacks only after it fully migrates to quantum-resistant cryptography before large-scale quantum computers can break today’s signatures—and users actually move their funds to the new scheme. Here’s the breakdown. ⸻ 🔐 1) What exactly is the quantum threat? Bitcoin relies on Elliptic Curve Cryptography (ECDSA). A sufficiently powerful quantum computer running Shor’s Algorithm could: • Derive a private key from a public key • Steal funds from exposed addresses (especially after you spend once) 👉 Important nuance: • Funds in addresses that have never revealed a public key (e.g., unused addresses) are much safer for now ⸻ 🧩 2) What must happen for Bitcoin to be “quantum safe”? A) Upgrade the signature scheme (protocol level) Bitcoin must replace ECDSA with post-quantum cryptography, such as: • Lattice-based (e.g., CRYSTALS-Dilithium) • Hash-based (e.g., XMSS) This requires a consensus upgrade (soft fork or hard fork) in Bitcoin. 👉 This is the single most critical step ⸻ B) Widespread user migration Even if the protocol upgrades: • Users must move funds to new quantum-safe addresses If they don’t: • Old addresses remain vulnerable • Attackers could still steal coins from “legacy” outputs 👉 This is the most underestimated risk ⸻ C) Timing: upgrade BEFORE quantum capability arrives The network must upgrade: • Before quantum computers can break 256-bit ECC in practical time If not: • Attackers could scan the blockchain and steal exposed funds at scale ⸻ D) Defense during transition (intermediate protections) Bitcoin may adopt interim strategies like: • Encouraging address reuse avoidance • Faster transaction confirmation to reduce attack window • Possibly hybrid signatures (classical + post-quantum) ⸻ ⚖️ 3) How far away is the real threat? Today’s quantum computers: • Cannot break Bitcoin • Are far from the millions of stable qubits required Estimates: • ~10–20+ years (very uncertain) 👉 So: • This is a serious but not immediate threat ⸻ 🧠 4) What “safe” actually means (realistically) Bitcoin is “quantum safe” when: ✔ Protocol supports quantum-resistant signatures ✔ Majority of funds are migrated ✔ Old vulnerable outputs are negligible ✔ Attack cost > potential reward ⸻ 🔍 5) Key insight most people miss The biggest risk is NOT the tech—it’s coordination. Bitcoin can technically upgrade. But: • It requires global consensus • Millions of users must act • Lost wallets (millions of BTC) can’t migrate 👉 Those dormant coins could become prime targets ⸻ 🧭 Practical takeaway For Bitcoin to survive quantum threats: 1. Core developers implement post-quantum signatures 2. Community agrees to upgrade 3. Users actively move funds to new addresses 4. This all happens before quantum breakthrough

Ashembir

Always in your last line is a strong sentence. Imthere may just as well come a day that the values flip. I still think personally that any raw BTC mined but not passed through any cex will be valued higher.

Rumbletastic

This is honestly the first I've heard of this. I thought BTC was immune to regulation?

Fit_Palpitation8243

The writing was on wall when mining pools started censoring transactions in first place. We already seeing this split happening with some exchanges flagging certain UTXOs as "high risk" - it's basically creating two classes of bitcoin without anyone admitting it. Building at protocol level is probably only real option left. Sure, sovereign BTC might trade at discount, but that's still better than having completely neutered version that governments can control. At least we'd preserve the actual utility even if price suffers. The moment we accept compliance fork as "real" bitcoin, we basically handed over the keys to traditional financial system anyway.

meeleen223

One cant have enough BTC and MOON

justforgigs96

Just added this for you bro! For your question - there's a few layers: \- If you have a W-2 job, you have $3000 in losses directly offset per year for doing nothing (which is a few hundred back in your pocket). \- If next year BTC increases to 90k you're not paying taxes on anything unless you sell & have capital gains. If you are someone who is holding a decent stack at huge gains, I would not advise selling unless absolutely necessary. \- So if you don't sell, then you basically have a tax asset that carries forward indefinitely forever that you can use if you ever do sell or if you want to rotate out of other weaker assets (for me I had a big Amazon position for many years that I wanted to rotate out of & this helped there).

rahcambacon

Because the $30k loss fully offsets the $10k gain. You pay $0 in tax, carry forward the remaining $20k loss which you can use the next time you have a gain. You can do this until you use up the entire $30k loss. BTC has no wash sale rules like stocks.

SVPLAYZZ

the quantum thing is super interesting with BTC not having quite an "active dev team" pushing out updates and being open source (code), how is the blockchain and the security infrastructure going to be modified for that purpose?

DontJealousMe

Couldn’t say Iran, make a new crypto currency and trade in that instead of BTC

Salam_Alayk

BTC Barrel Trading Coin 🚢⛽️🪙 Actually, thinking about this. Iran has a state controlled BTC mining industry. The US holds the most BTC of all the countries in the world. The Us gets privite companies to speculate on aquiring btc while iran has been mining for years by now with cheap energy. In the scenario that we are in now, if iran start imposing a fee in BTC both countries would tremendously benefit. Pretty much creates a constant demand of BTC. 2 millions $ per boat, not a small number. DJT wanted to make the US the world capital of crypto. Laws are being discussed. BTC is a commodity. How convenient? Probably not going to happen but it is very interesting to think about what's the game being played

powerguy134

If USD becomes worthless, I can promise you, you will have a lot bigger problems on your hands then caring about how much BTC is worth. I’d imagine things on your mind in that scenario if you are still alive would be “what am I going to eat today and how am I going to hunt it” or “should I build my own shelter for the night or shack up in an abandoned building?”

InvestAISavvy

Same. The "cycle" people drive me nuts. BTC is up almost 9% in the last week on the back of a ceasefire nobody's sure will hold, Iran is apparently using bitcoin for oil tanker settlements now, and social sentiment is running around 80% positive. None of that fits neatly into a 4-year halving chart. The thing that's different this time is the macro backdrop. Consumer sentiment just hit the lowest reading since 1952. Gas above $4. Inflation expectations spiking. And yet BTC is sitting at $73K acting like a chaos hedge instead of dumping with risk assets. That decoupling is either the most bullish thing I've seen in years or a trap. Haven't decided yet.

InvestAISavvy

You're right to question that. Closing shorts is generally bullish, not bearish. When hedge funds cover short positions they're buying back what they borrowed, which adds buying pressure. If short positions on crypto ETFs dropped a full percentage point in 2 days that's a pretty aggressive unwind. The timing lines up with the ceasefire rally earlier this week. BTC trading volume is up almost 48% week over week and social sentiment is running around 80% positive across the major platforms right now. Institutional flows through spot ETFs have been one of the main drivers all year — something like $88 billion in cumulative inflows since launch. Doesn't mean it goes straight up from here though. BTC's still down 40%+ from the October high and a lot depends on whether the Iran talks in Pakistan this weekend produce anything real.

Impressive-Dust5395

Most of the volume comes from institutional desks, market makers, and ETF-related flows, and they all run on weekday schedules. The ETF piece is especially relevant now because a huge chunk of BTC is locked in spot ETFs that only trade during market hours. On weekends that liquidity is completely absent. Retail alone doesn't move the needle enough to compensate.

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horriblemonkey

Isn't scarcity going to be a hinderance to global adoption of BTC? I mean if MicroStrategy owns 766,970 BTC, how will the average Joe even have a chance?

mrjune2040

I did. 25 years at 3% inflation that median wage is just under 120k euro per year. Let’s say the guy wants to live on his BTC for the following 20 years, he needs that 0.1 to be worth 2.4million euros, which means that Bitcoin needs to be at 24million. Even the most bullish current s2f projections at 3.4m at the high end (and fwiw S2F has continually missed and the actual growth has been more diminishing than that as I stated.) And none of that is accounting for a period of extended/hyper inflation, living costs//CPI is likely to range upwards. I’m long Bitcoin, but imo a lot of people coming in during the past 5 years are underestimating the capital investment needed now, in order for that BTC to be enough to live off, let alone be life changing.

LiquidityCompass

Headline is a bit exaggerated, but the direction is real. States under pressure are starting to use BTC (and crypto) for actual trade flows, not just speculation. It’s not “BTC only”, but the fact it’s even in the mix at this level is a big shift. This is how adoption usually starts… messy, indirect, but real.

LiquidityCompass

If this were actually real, it wouldn’t be a crypto headline… it would be global breaking news. You’re talking about one of the most important oil chokepoints in the world suddenly requiring BTC. That’s not a niche story, that’s a geopolitical earthquake. Feels more like classic crypto media exaggeration. Has anyone seen a legit non-crypto source confirm this?

Blockchainauditor

What do you think: is BTC increasing in value, or is fiat decreasing? Does it matter if BTC is 500.000 Euro in 20 years if a car still costs .5 BTC?

malacosa

Depends, does Bitcoin go to zero in that time frame, or to infinity? If you think it’s got nowhere to go but up, 0.1 BTC is a pretty achievable goal now.

Honest-Mess-812

Doubt that. You can probably live in some poor Asian countries if BTC goes to 1 million

partymsl

People may not like this, but I think its completely fine. They mined their BTC to sell and make money, rather have a profitable mining operation than another Saylor from Temu.

Joy_Boy_12

If BTC reach 1M you'll have 100k. If BTC reach 10M you'll have 1M. If BTC reach 100M you'll have 10M. No one knows the future but we can have calculated guess. With that knowledge make you own research and let me know your findings 

Acrobatic_Dish6963

I would bet that many, if not most people who have 1+ BTC are already millionaires outside of crypto

mrjune2040

0.1 BTC equals 1.5 months of the median wage in Germany. So, no.

WorkerPlayful4192

When BTC fall with 2500%?

a14alo

I'm using crypto credit cards, do they count? I have a spending limit on my card based on the BTC I hold in my wallet, and I can use this credit card for all kinds of everyday expenses. When it’s time to pay my card bill, I can either instantly sell BTC or deposit USDC into my wallet and use that to pay the depth.

NJelkPVP

If you follow charts and a few of the good charters we are in for a crash in BTC. It will not be that far away could be next week or the end of this month. The 59k bottom will be broken, people will be in a panic when we see 60k. If you can keep your head 55 k will go to 50 k then around 48 k it will calm down. The market is setting the stage for this down turn. The market will go up for an unexplained reason. We are at war! The BTC fear greed index is still in fear the price of bitcoin is still going up. How do you explain this, a trap has been set I hope you are not sucked in.

janjaas

BTC. Everything else will bleed against it.

LordJamPunt

When retail investors buy a Spot Bitcoin ETF they are buying a traditional stock. "Paper Bitcoin” Wall Street can trade billions of dollars in ETF shares, derivatives, and futures contracts without a single BTC ever moving on the blockchain. They can create artificial supply and demand derivatives, suppressing or inflating price without on-chain analysts seeing a thing A massive, growing percentage of the global Bitcoin supply is being funneled into their wallets. Once wall street controls a large enough share of the physical supply, they dictate the terms of the market. They can lend it to short-sellers, hypothecate it, and use their massive holdings as leverage to exert gravity.

Glad-External8640

Every national currency will be pegged to a variable amount of satoshi..... BTC will be the new currency standard If anyone isn't aware of this fact it means they will die poor If you hold just a fraction of BTC you are bound to be rich This is my personal opinion. Do not sell a single satoshi

KatieSmithxxx

Soon -BTC adaptation is very close!

Fijiambed

Banks do not like cash, most big banks now prohibit customers from depositing cash into personal bank accounts of which they are not a joint owner or an authorized user. I owed a friend so I transferred BTC into his account and it was a nice experience.

Pristine_Kangaroo527

I don’t know if you know this but BTC’s ATL is pretty much zero. “Cycle bottom” is not ATL lol

Flimsy-Candle-2195

Exactly this, people list more than 50% during the dotcom bubble back in the early 2000s. BTC has always been profitable if you hold it for more than 4 years. So again, this is a good thing more choices is always better.

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Think-Sector-6329

Its mostly bigger players, market makers, funds desks, etc. And weekends are usually just quieter for them. So even though BTC trades 24/7, the people who move the most size arent as active

wjean

20m BTC have been mined. Right now, market expectation is that the first 1M has been lost so the price reflects the 19M on circulation. If any of the 1m.moved, the expectation would be that those 1m could be sold anytime. That would have huge negative price influence. Drop the price down far enough and the institutional money on BTC would abandon ship. It wouldn't be as bad as a quantum compute breakthrough, but that's a possible scenario. Fwiw, I don't think it's likely. Just possible. I'd also say a state actor is the most likely candidate to pull this BS vs any of the early BTC developers.

blaand01theflipside

AVAX, no doubt. Blockchain for businesses, retail, RWA, gaming, banking. Got it all. We got BTC halving in 2028 and AVAX escrow is done by 2030. Will make a huge impact. And patience is still a virtue.

UKcoin2

I'm in a tax free location so if there was a way to earn yield on my BTC in a very secure way it's be good.

ImprovementOver8660

Is there a nin KYC method to stash BTC without mining

shifty_pete96

Let's see what happens when the realize BTC is limited to 8 transactions per second, can cost $100s or $1000s per transaction during congestion, can take up to 2 weeks for transactions to go through, if they even go through at all, and are reversible until they fully go through. Doesn't sound like a peer to peer electronic cash system to me.

Lighting_TT

Iran accepting BTC as a payment for barrels do not affect broad markets. Its a nothing burger. Markets are pricing peace talks and potential end of conflict.

LateNeverr1

Yeah, this BTC range is exhausting, but it's not the first time this has happened we'll get through it. Until you lock in the loss, it doesn't exist, lol

DangerHighVoltage111

🤣🤣🤣🙈 So successful that chivo is dead and nobody uses BTC anymore.

Even_Sugar6852

Deposited 0.001 BTC on ViaBTC.co.uk; just to test their “withdrawal” functionality, I withdrew the same 0.001 BTC. That worked. I deposited my 0.001 BTC again and this time tried to withdraw 0.002 BTC (I.e. more than I had). That also worked, and it started confirming on the blockchain straight away. Not complaining, but still quite a stupid bug.

BlazingPalm

Haha I found that funny too. Like, you gotta have the crypto hacker guy spamming email refresh and RAPIDLY immutably send millions worth of BTC where a mistake can be costly. Surely they meant minutes? “Sorry folks, we missed out window, we’ve gotta turn it around now…”

Wildwildworld123

yes, I use USDT monthly. I use to use BTC monthly but due to accumulating .2 at around 66k ive decided to just hold onto it.

RainThick

What’s your strat once you have the BTC? Barrow against it? Sell? I know I’m holding for a long time but I’m always curious what then plans of others are

Doritos707

I mean its generally already been known that those certain individuals have been there since day one. Its just literally all open source software. Now where the fuck is the 1 million BTC is probably the concern of the govt and others.

Afraid_Grocery3861

On its way to 11-15K usd. Highly doubt the BTC bear market will be over by years end

FairBlamer

Consider two worlds: World A: All bitcoin is split evenly among 8 billion people, so each person owns ~0.002 BTC World B: Our real world Why is World A’s bitcoin protocol “healthier” than our world’s bitcoin protocol?

Dependent_Code7796

You can’t pay it in yen (JPY). It was proposed that it would’ve been accepted in Chinese Yuan, or some unnamed stablecoin, but highly unlikely they would have chosen one that is US based. As of yesterday, all the credible information that I have seen is that it will only be accepted in BTC.

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CleanUpstairs7593

BTC is going nowhere until I sell. I’ll let you guys know when I sell so you can all be rich

genius_retard

Iran won't accept USD. They will prefer BTC because can't be sanctioned.

therewontberiots

He was not, and I’m quite certain. His picture was put there as a tribute after his tragic suicide. Not for BTC, for other things. His (ex) wife says he was not Satoshi.

Ragincajun1975

$BTC 100% set it and forget it. Cold wallet.

wjean

Theres nearly 1m coins which were generated before BTC started trading, it matters if SN is dead, still alive, or a state actor. If any of those coins move it would significantly destabilize BTC.

Legitimate-Hyena-513

BTC is a wild mustang. It does what it wants when it wants to. But yes up long term always

Impressive_Iron2885

OP there are a fixed # of BTC (~21 million). explain how US hedge funds control supply? im either misunderstanding a basic premise of BTC or about to be enlightened.

Far-Illustrator6145

I bought my first BTC off of Ebay. Yes Ebay. Then traded on BTC-E.

cashbox_cash

Interesting approach, but the comparison to the 4% rule doesn't hold up. The 4% rule means: I withdraw 4% annually and live off it. Your model basically says: I don't withdraw anything and watch the floor value grow. But what do I live off then? As soon as I sell BTC to cover expenses my stack shrinks and the floor growth shrinks with it. Then it's not a 2.5 million portfolio anymore. A retirement portfolio you can't touch isn't a retirement portfolio. 🤦🏽‍♂️

DangerHighVoltage111

Because it was not Bitcoin. Chivo was custodial and most LN wallets were custodial and on top of that if you tried self custody you have to deal with the crippled base layer. BTC was crippled to fail.

Fnuckled

Every BTC transaction is on the public ledger and is what brought Silk Road undone. Cash is used far more than BTC for criminal activity.

Scarecrow4980

everyone was so excited when BTC made it to wallstreet. I didn't like the feeling I had when it happened for this reason.

BaldBear_13

I can send internationally. Crypto might be a bit faster, but they are in a different time zone anyway and will not get it until tomorrow anyway. ETF cannot be taken from me. I know the government *could* take over the brokerage, but also hackers *could* take over your wallet app through an undiscovered backdoor. I do not have to ask permission to change the numbers. I believe brokerage does buy BTC to support it. And even if it does not, it has plenty of capital to cash me out when I want to.

bobbo6969-

That’s very clearly not what I said. I’m not even a BTC maxi. I don’t even hold any BTC. You’re so smart though. You should be so proud.

slickyeat

FYI: I just received a notification from Coinbase while sending out a transaction to my BTC address. They had notified me that the address is a "scam" despite having used this exact same one for multiple years now. This address was in fact the same one they had on record so i didn't have to copy paste anything. I even confirmed multiple times using a separate explorer that it was my wallet. This shit is starting to look very suspect. Not to sound like a conspiracy theorist but with Iran now accepting BTC for passage through the Strait I'm starting to wonder if something else is going on here.

devCheckingIn

Don't forget that miners are selling a crapton of BTC -- something like 15,000 coins in the past couple of months. They need to pay the bills and mining isn't very profitable right now. Then you had Nakamoto Holdings and Bhutan selling about 2,000 BTC combined in March. But I do agree that "paper BTC" is likely used by institutions for leverage trading, and that short selling pressure isn't helping the price any.

bobbo6969-

Ok. “Illegal toll fees” the illegal part is the point. If the US is going to keep sanctioning more and more countries. And those countries respond by trading in BTC, that’s the demand. That’s the use case. Also, I’m pretty sure Iran has already been getting paid for their oil in crypto for a while.

AnotherThroneAway

They could take rubles, yuan (which they are), dinar....but BTC is clearly the best overall choice.

WamBamTimTam

Because companies and countries operate off of currencies they are familiar with? Every country has an idea of what USD is compared to their currency, one of the results of it being the most popular global reserve currency. 30 BTC is prone to fluctuating, and at the end of the day they’ll exchange for fiat anyway since that is what they spend on their day to day. Iran also accepts Euro and Yuan, currencies they use anyway, so it makes sense. BTC is just a form of exchange to them, they want the fiat, not the BTC

yunghelsing

The usability in question: oil tankers are forced to pay a fee in BTC when passing the strait of hormuz Dont see how that applies to us

MarioWilson122

Yeah, that tracks. Bitcoin holding around $72,000 after a big options expiry makes sense, and Strait of Hormuz issues are the kind of thing that can keep markets on edge. So it feels like BTC is just sitting there while broader uncertainty hangs over everything.

InvestAISavvy

I built a pipeline that tracks social engagement across about 10 platforms and scores each asset by how abnormal the current attention is relative to its own baseline. Basically a Z-score for social buzz. That filters out the constant BTC/ETH noise and surfaces stuff that's actually spiking in a statistically meaningful way. The other thing that helped was finding a second data source that scores assets independently. When two systems that don't share data both flag the same coin at the same time, that's a much stronger signal than either one alone. Took me about six months to build but now I spend maybe 20 minutes a morning reviewing what it flagged overnight instead of scrolling CT for hours.

Quirky-Reveal-1669

In practice, a minimum of 5-8 hops should be fine. But it is ridiculous that CoinJoined bitcoin is seen as any different than non-CoinJoined BTC.

bobbo6969-

I’m not grasping at anything. Iran is engaging in a strategic assault against the petrodollar. The US just destabilized the Middle East. It also failed to protect the gulf states. And now some oil trades are happening in BTC. I think you’re the one grasping at straws. Is it early, of course. Could it go another way, absolutely. But the facts are what they are. Even if ONLY Iranian oil traded in a combination of BTC, and Yuan that’s a huge development

MarshmallowReading

Doubtful considering gold more than doubled with a market cap 15x the size of BTC

KCConnor

That's a bit too low unless we get another FTX sized collapse. Strategy being forced to sell into the lows, Blackrock being proven to hold no actual BTC for their ETF (though that should actually drive price up rather than down but it's scandalous enough), something like that. I see a trend line from the October high to the January 14th high, descending through to October 2026. By the first week of June we should be in the $58K range. I expect summer flirtation with $60K on and off, then an August/September scare to $44K.

dtg99

Listen bub, you can hope, cope or do whatever it is you'd like to do but BTC has been moving inside the same channel for \~3 months now and the next thing it does it going to be move another leg down. Nothing changed with BTC, it will follow the exact same pattern it has during every other single cycle. There is no "this time is different" on the way up and there sure as fuck is no "this time is different" on the way down.

usa_reddit

BTC is now the currency of terrorists, great marketing. Yikes!

2xfun

I am sorry I am not paying taxes everytime BTC. The taxation law has to change first 

Boring-Bus-3743

Oh they are doing that again? Last time It happened we came off the gold standard. Are we getting a BTC standard now?

ivy_rosetn

This is exactly the kind of post this community needs more of. The distinction you make right at the top — that Bitcoin uses digital signatures, not encryption — is something that gets butchered in almost every mainstream article on this topic, and it invalidates half the fearmongering before it even gets started. The fact that you led with that tells me you actually did the work. The point about the 6.26 million BTC with exposed public keys is the one I think deserves the most attention going forward. It's not a sky-is-falling number, but it's not nothing either — and the people holding those coins range from lost wallets to early adopters to Satoshi's own stash, which makes any community conversation about it genuinely complicated. The BIP-360 mention is encouraging. Bitcoin has navigated hard upgrades before and come out stronger. The bigger question is whether the governance process can move at the pace the qubit timeline now seems to demand. That feels like the real race. Genuinely appreciate the no-hype framing. Bookmarking this for the next time someone sends me a "quantum computer will destroy Bitcoin" headline. Will have more as I read more but this is my first pass after reading segment 1 - great research...:)

EarningsPal

A token is a record. The record can be anything someone says and advertises it is. All these are just ERC-20 tokens or whatever -# token. WBTC: redeemable for BTC PAXG: redeemable for Gold LINK: a token that represents an oracle PEPE, SHIB: meme coin token Some can represent stocks or other reworld assets like real estate interests or bond holdings.

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Post is by: OkMagician7867 and the url/text [ ](https://goo.gl/GP6ppk)is: /r/CryptoMarkets/comments/1shuznb/btc_is_up_10_in_a_week_fear_greed_is_at_16_adx/ This is the weirdest setup I've seen in months. Price is ripping. ADX at 64.58 means this is one of the strongest trends of the entire year. EMA ribbon is fully bullish on 4H — 8 above 21 above 55 above 200. MACD histogram at +636. By every momentum metric this is a freight train. And Fear & Greed is at 16. Extreme Fear. The crowd is terrified while price goes up. Here's where it gets interesting. Top traders flipped to 1.06 long. Retail is 0.86 — net short. Retail is literally shorting into the strongest trend signal of the year. There's a $106M short liquidation cluster sitting between $73,255 and $75,000. If price pushes through that zone, those shorts get liquidated and fuel more upside. But — and this is a big but — BTC is still 13.9% below the 200 EMA at $84,951. That's the macro line in the sand. Until price reclaims that level, this whole rally is technically a bear market bounce. CVD is falling while price is rising — that's bearish divergence. Someone is selling into this strength. Two things can be true at once. This can be the strongest short term trend of the year AND still be a bear market rally. The question is whether $75K breaks or $84,951 rejects. *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.*

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Post is by: dustyllanos27 and the url/text [ ](https://goo.gl/GP6ppk)is: /r/CryptoMarkets/comments/1shuhgv/2_months_with_an_ai_trading_agent_full_review/ TLDR at the bottom if you don't want to read my novel. Been on 1024EX beta for 2 months. BTC/ETH momentum strategy. Started with $3k. Here's everything. \*\*Numbers:\*\* \- Month 1: +9.6% ($3,000 → $3,288) \- Month 2: +4.2% ($3,288 → $3,426) \- Total: +14.2% in 60 days \- Max drawdown (worst point): -4.1% \- Total trades: 59 \- Win rate: 56% \- Profit factor: 1.62 Month 2 was less exciting because BTC consolidated a lot. The agent traded less frequently (24 trades vs 35 in month 1). This is the correct behavior for a momentum strategy in a ranging market. \*\*What I love after 2 months:\*\* 1. Risk management is the killer app. Not returns. The agent cut my drawdowns in half compared to manual trading. 2. I sleep. I actually sleep now. Cannot overstate this. 3. The decision logs have made me a better manual trader. Reading the agent's reasoning is like having a journaling partner. 4. It doesn't get worse on bad days. My manual trading quality drops when I'm tired/stressed/angry. The agent doesn't have bad days. \*\*What still sucks:\*\* 1. UI. It's gotten slightly better but it's still not good. 2. I can't fully explain the risk model's decisions. "Elevated risk score" is not enough info. 3. Strategy tuning is trial and error. No proper backtesting for agent behavior (only for raw strategy logic). 4. Limited assets. Top 20 tokens only. 5. No mobile app. \*\*Who should try this:\*\* \- You have a trading strategy but not the time/discipline to execute it 24/7 \- You know your biggest weakness is emotional decisions \- You're okay with modest but consistent returns rather than home runs \- You want to stop waking up at 3am \*\*Who should NOT try this:\*\* \- You don't have a strategy (the agent executes, it doesn't think for you) \- You want to gamble with high leverage (the agent will fight you on this) \- You need to trade obscure altcoins \- You want a polished consumer app experience (it's not there yet) \*\*Would I recommend it?\*\* If you're in the first category: yes, but start small and spend time on your strategy description. The agent is literal — garbage in, garbage out. If you're in the second category: no, wait 6 months until the product matures. tl;dr: +14.2% in 2 months, max drawdown -4.1%, sleeps better, UI still sucks, risk management is the actual value, not the returns. happy to answer specific questions in comments. *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.*

Crypticcrypto

Block reward* gets smaller! Halving of block reward every 210,000 blocks I believe, roughly every four years. I think there are less than One Million BTC still to be mined, of the original 21 Million. Will take over a century.

ryansalad

Why don't they just say that the price is 30 BTC per ship? If they say it's $2M per ship, payable in BTC, then it shows that the USD is still the currency of exchange and the payment is just a form of money laundering, (anonymous, untraceable etc...)

slickyeat

You know what else is interesting about that 1MZBude8bq6MbEoNkie2v1biYXHQEjQKPj address? There are only 2 transactions dating back to 2014. It received a single payment of .59 BTC then immediately transferred the funds out. How often do people do that if this is a legit wallet?

dormango

Static HODL is just BTC bending the space time continuum and making sideways feel like forever!

ParkerRoyce

That would be the play or your ships sits until you wait for btc to fall while its going higher and higher and higher. Best time to buy BTC was in 2009 the next best time to buy BTC is today.