BTC

ShilpaMitra

Just because it dipped, nobody knows anything, bro. BTC doing BTC things.

tcastloo

ETFs inflows like that definitely help the bullish narrative, especially when capital starts rotating back into BTC first. Still feels like one of those moves where follow-through matters more than one strong headline.

Ok_Winter8503

A good place to start is honestly keeping it simple. I’d spend the first couple weeks learning 4 things: what BTC is why position sizing matters why most “diversified” crypto portfolios actually aren’t and why you need a plan before buying random coins For free stuff, I’d start with Bitcoin and Ethereum basics first, then learn portfolio risk, rebalancing, and how to avoid overconcentration. One mistake a lot of newer people make is using trackers that only show balances. That makes a portfolio look healthy when it might actually be way too concentrated or full of coins that move together. That’s actually why I built Crypto Clarity AI. You can use the sample demo first and see how a portfolio gets scored across concentration, diversification, stress tests, rebalancing, and future value before risking real money.

MarioWilson122

Well, for BTC, it’s pretty nice, but I believe most won’t get truly excited until we cross back over 100k.

SuperSynapse

- Iran uses BTC - BTC pumps to $72k - US blocks Strait so Iran stops using BTC - BTC pumps to $75k

Mammoth-Birthday-437

8 years is about when the mental shift happens imo. the first few cycles you think youre gonna time everything perfectly, then you realize the people who actually made it just.. kept buying and didnt blow up their stack trying to be clever. the 80% BTC/ETH split at the end says a lot. most people who started in 2017 ended up way too heavy in alts that went to zero

kingcakeaholic

I suggest ColdCard. Quality Canadian device. Lots of how to videos on YouTube by a guy named BTC Sessions. I’m quite happy with mine for years.

Pure-Jackfruit-95

I think there’s no such thing as a truly “safe” crypto, only less risky ones. For me, BTC is the closest since it’s the most established, with ETH as a solid second but more volatile. If you want stability, stablecoins (USDT/USDC) work, but they’re more for parking money than growing it.

marcusmv3

And this is why my 70 yr old dad is selling his stack and buying STRC, he just doesn't have the capacity for the risk exposure that BTC has.

CommanderStrident

Might not recommend levering to get more BTC. But if you do, take a look at our credit line product. You borrow when you want and repay when you want. So it can help get you out of positions you get into faster than typical loans. On the app store today. Surge.credit. Open to feedback!

Pure-Jackfruit-95

It’s a mix of macro + technical + sentiment. Very normal way of BTC.

Blockchainauditor

You said "long term". So BTC is currently the "safe in the long term" non-stablecoin. But if you want the ones with the least variability, one of the top stablecoins - Tether, USDC have the volume behind them.

Party_Operation_9711

Stablecoins or BTC

deviapto

BTC doesn't care about Binance or other CEXes lol

grayjacanda

They take yuan too, but BTC has advantages over that

FeralFancyBop

Yeah exactly, it’s like everyone’s dipping a toe in, not jumping in the pool. BTC holding up while oil and dollar rip is impressive, but it also kinda proves your point. If macro gets uglier again, all this “cautious risk on” can unwind stupid fast. Feels more like people hiding in the “least ugly” risk asset for now, not actually believing the storm is over.

aramirez07

During bear markets BTC goes on tears like these often, but resolve in a lower higher that is followed by a much more aggressive leg down. I don’t look too much into the narrative... But truth be told, BTC bears markets historically do not resolve until at least one year after the high. So I’m betting this pump will be short-lived.

Designer-Shake-7690

Tbh over the time you get used to it. The most important is not trying to “time the markets” because nothing personal but you statistically just won’t. Invest over a longer time horizon, set a part of your savings aside for it and make it a habit to think that when the price goes down a bit, that the next time you buy you can accumulate cheaper. BTC just has been a social experiment in investing to see how long people can hold their breath

terp_studios

You have an extremely limited view of history. That has only been the case in the past 100 years. But go ahead and keep thinking that. Thanks for selling all your BTC

b1mm3rl1f3

BTC extends to nearly $75k. What if that was the bottom? even war and oil spiking couldn't drag it below $60k

PartSuccessful2112

Something does not become a currency because of its popularity. It becomes currency because a government deems it to be so because they are printing it. That is the point. It will never be currency and that is why nobody buys pizza with it. You have to fill out tax forms for every transaction. BTC will never be money.

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ProgramLow8782

MSTR's preferred STRC just bought a billion dollars worth of BTC through it's ATM issuance. They've been gobbling up all supply over the past month and a half and it's starting to consistently trade over 100 (on par) so the excess is used to buy BTC. check out [strc.live](http://strc.live)

Few-Engineering9803

Saylor buying 13k BTC last week, and over 9k just today might help. I suspect positive inflows from ETF's this week as well. Or just the usual exchange manipulation, who knows.

viajero_loco

Now that twitter has been completely destroyed by Elon and turned into a hateful version of tik tok / instagram for people to go and get outraged, I hope to find more of this here in good old r/Bitcoin I feel like u/[rnvk](https://www.reddit.com/user/rnvk/) missed the most important "keeps me up at night" point though: BIP360 won't make BTC quantum proof. It's just a first step. Implementing actual quantum proof signatures will completely wreck Bitcoin and would either reduce capacity by 40 times or require 40 times bigger blocks. So the only real hope is that Quantum Computers won't exist for at least another 30-50 years. Which really isn't great...

xaviemb

Yep. Up we go. So far, looking like Strategy's $1.1b in BTC buying today is breaking through the structural downtrend. This company appears to be single handedly kicking off the next bull market 6 months early. Gotta love it!

quantumsparq

I keep about 12,000 dollars or so worth of BTC on Kraken. Just for liquidity. Been on there for over a year.

Crystal_Smitha

i’m kinda in between now. still play around with alts but most of my stack is BTC and sits in gem wallet. feels way better knowing it’s simple and under my control

Matthews_Allestra

yeah i had the same shift tbh. at some point chasing alts just gets exhausting and BTC starts to make more sense as something you actually want to hold long term

CyGoingPro

BTC, ETH, SOL, DOGE, LINK, SUI Just some bad entries in August 2025.

29da65cff1fa

this should not be controversial... 90% of this sub is broke-ass, holding less than 0.01 btc, fantasizing about $1B bitcoin... none of ya'll are going to be hit with a wealth tax... that's pure hopium. you've all got the "temporarily embarrassed millionaire" syndrome... take your fiat UBI, save in BTC

BakedGoods

yeah i mean look, if you're imagining a scenario where the demand dries up so completely on their common and preferreds that for 2 years they have to use cash then sure, they're in a bind and likely they won't actually dilute they'll just return the BTC to the capital stack and fold. diluting the shareholders consistently over time isn't viable. so if that's the edge case you're betting on you're welcome to do that, the rest of us will buy MSTR and ride this thing up. point is we're not there, and for the last few years selling shares has been accretive.

atlasayn

One fundamental problem: Claude is both the strategist and the risk manager. Ask it the same question tomorrow with slightly different phrasing and you might get different allocations — LLMs are non-deterministic by nature. The guardrails ("never lose more than 5%", "3x/50% model") are static. They don't adapt to what the market is actually doing. "Never lose more than 5%" means very different things when Fear & Greed is at 12 (right now) vs 75 (two months ago). Same rule, completely different risk. I went down a similar path — started with Claude for trading analysis, realized the LLM shouldn't decide how much to risk. Built a separate deterministic layer: 30+ signals feeding a policy engine that outputs max position size. Right now it says BTC 36% max. Last week it said 53%. The sizing adapts to conditions automatically, no LLM involved in that decision. Architecture if you're curious: [https://github.com/likidodefi/riskstate-docs](https://github.com/likidodefi/riskstate-docs)

BakedGoods

as long as they continue to offer a product the market wants (preferred shares, leveraged bitcoin exposure) they have a resource (trading volume) they can monetize by selling more shares into the market. notwithstanding the almost 2 years of cash they hold to pay dividends without share issuance, if you're saying what if people stop buying MSTR/preferreds, then yes that's a problem, but i'd be curious of how that could come about if BTC's trajectory continues. a bet on MSTR is just a leveraged bet on BTC. if BTC fails MSTR will, if BTC continues MSTR will as well.

Generationhodl

feels like that. I'm using it myself for my cash-buffer thats just laying around my bank account that I don't want to put into BTC Cold Storage

Spl00ky

> yeah of course it's a bet they can consistently increase BTC per share (ie buy BTC with no dilution). every stock is a bet. What happens when they run out of money to pay the yield on the preferred shares?

CryptoOnTheSidewalk

Was that 0.1 BTC already locked in a product, or just sitting on the exchange, and did you check what actual yield you were getting versus the risk? Keeping a small portion on an exchange is pretty common, but you’re trading custody for a relatively small return, so moving it back to your cold wallet like you did is usually the safer call unless you’re fully comfortable with the counterparty risk.

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BakedGoods

yeah of course it's a bet they can consistently increase BTC per share (ie buy BTC with no dilution). every stock is a bet. 2024 their yield was 74%, last year it was 22%, this year after Q1 it's already 5%--this means in the last three years there has been no dilution in so far as the BTC per share decreased. the reason people want a financially engineered stock over spot bitcoin is the bet it will outperform btc in the long-run. since aug 2020 BTC is up 500%, MSTR is up 900%--seems to be working.

Eastern_Tell5393

Wise move on the withdrawal. You just avoided the "Yield Trap." Most people look at the 2-4% return of staking and think they are making "passive income." From a systems perspective, they are making a catastrophic mathematical error. When you leave assets on an exchange, you no longer own Bitcoin; you own a "Security Entitlement"—a legal IOU from a private corporation. You are risking 100% of your principal to chase a 4% reward. In the era of "The Great Taking," where exchange terms of service and UCC laws treat your "deposits" as bank collateral, the only metric that matters is Absolute Possession. You don't play for chips in a casino you don't own. You won the game when you bought the 0.1 BTC. Don't hand the prize back to the house for a few extra sats. Stay Sovereign. 🛡️🦾🌑

TheRadishBros

Since I moved to 100% BTC I’ve found it *much* easier to stomach the bear market

Sufficient_Fuel5269

Quantum computing does not threaten BTC today, but it could do so in the future if its signature system is not updated. The community is already studying post-quantic solutions.

CryptoMemesLOL

Oh yeah right, not only does it makes no sense, but sure, he will just come out and say I am the guy who has Satoshi's BTC !!

BakedGoods

no he isn't, this us FUD. STRC is a preferred share he's selling to buy BTC and any common used is accretive to the common stock.

Blockchainauditor

Who cares if .1 BTC = $1M if a car still costs .5 BTC?

Romanizer

Current cash reserves cover about 2 years of dividends. After that, they would need to sell up to 10k BTC to cover dividends. That wouldn't have a noticable effect on the market. I wouldn't expect the price to fall below $200k in 2027 just because of that.

Necessary-Drummer801

Boatload of assumptions? Assumption 1: Fiat currency continues to be printed (safe assumption but curious to hear your argument) Assumption 2: More people want to buy and hold bitcoin over time This is really the only true assumption imo. But given assumption 1, all BTC needs to do is remain unhackable (and have more net buyers than net sellers, which would make sense if there is an available asset which is unhackable, requires no central intermediary, can be used to send funds anywhere in the world within seconds/minutes, and has a fixed supply in a world where government backed currency is predictably devalued, subject to arbitrary rules, and backed by the good faith of a government entity which have shown themselves to be more and more untrustworthy by the year)

Predict_Asia_X

This is pure Bitcoin magic 🔥 A solo miner running just 70 TH/s (basically one old Antminer S17+) just solved block 944,306 and walked away with the full 3.128 BTC (~$222K at the time). Network hashrate is over 1,000 EH/s right now. This guy’s hashpower was roughly 0.000007% of the total — odds of hitting a block in a single day were about 1 in 100,000, or once every ~300 years on average. Yet it happened. Congratulations to that lucky miner (and shoutout to CKpool for making solo mining still possible). Proof that Bitcoin is still decentralized at heart. You don’t need a massive farm — sometimes the little guy wins the lottery. Anyone else still solo mining in 2026? Or has everyone fully given up and joined pools?

dmx442

*Buy high, sell low* is life Only after you have successfully survived that trials, you learn to simply DCA BTC and live your life

myrceneskunk

Im going to answer your questions in a very concise manner:  A1: Coinbase does offer loans up to 1mil I believe and it runs on Morpho's infrastructure, Morpho is a DeFi Protocol but if you do it through Coinbase it is custodial. A2: You need to 'Wrap' your BTC via a cex or dex since native BTC doesn't run on Eth chain for those lending protocols and no, it's not a bad thing.  A3: Smart contracts don't require for you to be an experienced user, they are programs/or code that execute financial agreements without 3rd parties.  A4: the protocols liquidate automatically and immediately once the price crosses that threshold A5:  You would just need to get ahold of the protocol's support in such cases or any further questions. A6: other risks you need to consider, smart contract risk, interest rate risk and custodial risk which pretty much goes for the Cefi platforms.

xaviemb

It’s interesting to watch Bitcoin press into a technical zone that, on many charts, looks like resistance at ($73k today) unless the broader trend resolves higher. A break downward would keep the bearish narrative intact, with some pointing to a possible revisit toward prior support levels around the $60K area. On the other hand, there’s a growing demand dynamic developing around STRC (today about $1b is flowing into BTC buying, in a single day) flows and structured accumulation vehicles, which (at current rates) represent a meaningful share of available sell-side liquidity over time (sounds like 20-30% of all BTC on supply side is being bought today from this company alone. At some point, one of these forces will dominate: either distribution overwhelms incremental demand and confirms the bearish continuation, or sustained structural buying pressure forces a repricing and invalidates the lower-high thesis earlier than expected. Either way, it’s a compelling setup to observe in real time. If demand-driven accumulation continues to expand, participants waiting on deeper retracements may eventually shift toward a more momentum-driven or FOMO-sensitive posture as the narrative spreads more broadly across market participants.

stoplossftw

so the yield is measured in USD value of BTC, does it account for the conversion fee (transaction + withdrawal) from BTC to USD?

Historical_Candle511

Satoshi and other whales owned a substantial percent of the market in the past and today... It doesn't seem to have stopped people from appreciating the importance of BTC.

EarningsPal

BTC in 2027-2029 will be like BTC in every other 4 year cycle.

JoeSchmoe314159

Correct me, but isn't BTC mining processor-heavy instead of GPU-heavy?

ElanInsights

That is exactly it - and in the meantime the price consolidation in the low 70's is a very good sign. Add in an end to the war, and increased liquidity coming to pay the debt / deficits and refloat this year's bond turnover, we could be looking a very, very good fall 2026 to spring 2027 for BTC.

deviapto

Never ever leave any funds on Binance. Not your keys, not your BTC.

procabiak

Oh it'll come eventually. He's creating his own Hunt brothers scenario and cornering himself while announcing it very loudly. The moment he needs a tiny bit of liquidity to pay those STRC dividends he promised (that is, he has no more reserves in fiat), is when we can string him along for cheap BTC. I'm expecting sharp dips to $20k/btc during the ex-dividend week from 2027 upwards (when the cash reserves are dried up) followed by bounces back to 120k right after. You can't reveal ex dividend dates and expect the market to not react to it. STRC will never work.

No-Masterpiece2246

And I'm assuming you think BTC is technically the best coin? lol BTC has like 1/4000th the capacity and speed of SOL At 1000x the cost

ozera202

Pump the shit coins ffs , no one gets into crypto for boring BTC ….. we want our alt / shit coin season 😤

No-Masterpiece2246

Sure they do. Blackrock, Strategy, and other ETFs own like 30% of BTC supply. Read up on how Gold ETFs rigged the price with "paper gold" for over 30 years. Oh, and the top 10 BTC miners are corporations which are listed on NASDAQ.

Defiant_Ice_4860

Trend values for 2027 January is 160k, 2028 215k and 2029 300k or so. Let’s use a lower trend value of 0.7 and do a simple calculation. Year one average price: 90k BTC left after 20k: about 0.77btc Year two average price: 131k BTC left after 20k: about 0.62 btc Year three average price: 180k BTC left after 20k: 0.51 btc Year four average price: 246k BTC left after 20k: 0.43 Are you getting it? This is an asymptote.

procabiak

The wealth tax will hit you before it hits them. Let's not. BTC is the only wealth tax you need. The billionaires and upper millionaires are cocky as hell and don't think much of BTC at all. They won't be buying, until the very last minute.

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No-Masterpiece2246

Also this is a brazen challenge to the Petrodollar, usually that is grounds for assassination like with Qaddafi and Saddam. Bt the way, the article is hypothetical, there's no proof Iran has even collected any BTC for tanker transits.

Puzzleheaded_Tale_53

Completely agree with this take. You can hold BTC and still be against billionaires. In fact, I feel it is incumbent upon BTC hodlers to be anti billionaire since BTC is the most egalitarian of all forms of currency.

richardto4321

This guy's a legend. I got into BTC around the time his talks came out. Too bad I was not smart enough to be ultra bullish on it at the time.

That_Jicama2024

I was working with a bunch of guys who were into BTC. We were by a coffee shop that was offering 1 free BTC with a cup of coffee. Two of my buddies went. I didn't.

tapakip

Only if you borrowed too much. If you borrow 20% of the value of your BTC, for example, BTC would have to drop over 75% to liquidate you. That's not happening.

tapakip

It's not some sort of voodoo. They liquidate you if the amount you borrow hits 86% of the value of your BTC. So put into simple terms, here's an example. Let's say you borrow $43,000 against BTC worth $100,000 at the time. Your usage rate is 43%. Now let's say BTC falls in value by half, 50%. Instead of being worth $100k, it's now worth $50k. So instead, your $43,000 borrowed is now up to 86% of the value of your BTC holdings, because they are down to $50,000. Before that point, you can either pay down the loan, or add more Bitcoin. Bitcoin is volatile, but not so volatile that you need to worry about this on a weekly basis. It's also a good time to borrow if you are worried about liquidations, because we are near the bottom of the bear market. This isn't 6 months ago when we were around $125k. We might go down to 50k, but you'd still be fine in that example above. I've been using their lending for over a year, no problems. The rate fluctuates but is always around 4-7%, give or take. WBTC is simply a smart contract enabled version of BTC and nothing to be afraid of. They need to be able to liquidate and control your BTC and they need smart contracts to do that. Morpho is an established lending platform on crypto. Any other questions let me know.

Flat_Flounder_581

This may work for US individuals but does not work for US corporations. Capital losses can only be used to offset capital gains on the corporate side. So BTC treasury companies like MSTR are tax inefficient. Net gains are taxed but net losses are not deductible.

damianoko31

I wouldn't say I should have bought more than I should have held. When I was 15 I probably anonymously bought something like 0.5 BTC. After a few months I sold it for SOL and then bought a new computer. It was great but 0.5 would have put me half a coin closer to 1....

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Crazerz

Talk to literally any person in your life in real life, ask them if they think it makes BTC look more legitimate, lol.

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unknowngloomth

Wow, that's wild. That's bearish for BTC then?

unknowngloomth

So, BTC holders will be screwed over? I've been holding BTC for a long time

Icy_Annual_9954

So when BTC drops fast, due to a temporary incident, are you liquidated then? This is hampering me from taking a loan. When a whale drops shit, while having a thin order books, you are directly affected then?

unknowngloomth

It can happen if BTC's price goes up like crazy...

mookbrenner

I want BTC to reach a point where a single company couldn't tank the entire market.

bananabastard

I want BTC to reach the point where Strategy making another $1B purchase only gets them hundreds of new coins.

TheresNoSecondBest

>Why does it say I need to ‘wrap’ my bitcoin (is that a bad thing)? That's IMHO a bigger problem than the liquidation itself. You have to exchange your BTC for a shitcoin token created by a shitcoin casino, running on top of another shitcoin. At that point, **you won't own any real bitcoin**. And for the whole duration of the loan, you'll hope the shitcoin won't lose peg to bitcoin, something we've witnessed before. Using wrapped bitcoin means Conbase gets to keep your BTC while you lose due to liquidation or the peg not holding up.

haliker

Jewish families are connected with Central banking around the world. You really though 20-40M in transactions in BTC or Yuan was going to undo the stranglehold Israel, the US Petrol Dollar, and the IMF have on the global economy?

FriendsMade_MeDoIt

I get the analogy, but in my friend group it never really feels that one-sided in practice. yeah BTC is the anchor everyone checks first, but most of the actual activity people I know do isn’t on it. like nobody I know is sending BTC around daily or building on it, it’s more like the “store of value” everyone references while everything else is where the experimenting happens. when BTC dips, everyone panics, but when alts run, that’s when the group chat actually gets active lol. also not totally sold on PoW being strictly winner takes all. feels more like BTC won the “trust layer” spot, but other chains carved out different roles instead of competing directly. agree with your last point though, the ecosystem matters both ways. BTC sets the tone, but without everything orbiting it, it’d probably feel way less alive overall.

DirtyD8632

Depending on different parties to store my stocks means nothing. Holding Bitcoin gives you no more optionality than stocks. Hell the optionality with crypto comes with a fee whereas stocks most places have no fees. No one is buying bitcoins to just spend it which is the same reason people buy stocks. In the end the only difference is BTC has fees and is very volatile while stocks are safer. There is nothing wrong with either of them but they are the exact opposite of each other but the same as well when it comes to investing. Two sides of the same coin is all.

joos_hubert

APY is honestly not the first thing I’d look at. I’d care more about liquidation rules, how much buffer I have at the starting LTV, who actually holds the collateral, and whether I have a clear way to repay without depending on BTC going up fast. A cheap loan with bad liquidation mechanics is way worse than a slightly more expensive one with room to breathe.

Sea-Development-8046

I'm in agreement. I don't mine BTC, I just keep DCA'ing more.

n3lz0n1

then run the old QT wallet, leave it as it needs to download the database (blockchain)…. the file size could be more than 1 TB ? not so sure as last time I used it was in early years of BTC

Unusual-Piece-93

Totally agree. My grandfather died, my sister died, found a computer I used in high school and bought some BTC with = the computer I stole last night from a house with a bitcoin bumper sticker or using an address from the dark web. please help me steal their bitcoin before they move it to another wallet.

BalancedAngle

Yeah it’s legit, but still risky if BTC drops fast, coinbase uses morpho, and wrapping just means your BTC gets turned into a usable token. Rates are low but you can still get liquidated. I tried a small loan once and it worked fine, but I was constantly checking prices lol.

tonyler_

You refer to cryptography while I refer to tokens (BTC, eth, sol etc).

Flash-Ranger

Yeah it kinda does feel that way, and there’s some truth to it but it’s not as clean as “institutions = floor”. This cycle is way more driven by institutional flows than before. ETFs, funds, corporate treasuries etc are moving billions, and those players don’t trade like retail. they scale in, rebalance, and hold longer, which naturally dampens volatility and creates more consistent bid zones. On top of that, ETF mechanics matter a lot. when money flows in, issuers literally have to buy spot BTC, which creates real structural demand instead of just speculative leverage. that’s part of why dips get bought faster than in older cycles. Another layer is supply. a chunk of BTC is now locked in ETFs, corporate holdings, or long-term wallets, so the tradable float is tighter. less liquid supply = easier for price to bounce when bids show up. Macro is the other big piece. BTC is now behaving more like a risk asset tied to liquidity, rates, and global flows rather than just its halving cycle. when macro conditions stabilize, you get buyers stepping in systematically. But it’s not a guaranteed “floor.” same mechanism works both ways. when institutions de-risk or ETF flows reverse, price weakens just as mechanically. So yeah, compared to previous cycles there is more structural support, but it’s conditional support, not a hard floor. it holds until flows flip.

chufruity

It’s a risk for financial sovereignty. You took the first step when buying Bitcoin, so it’d be better to use it as intended, no? Binance si great for buying/selling BTC, but you really should just get a simple hardware wallet and lock it in a safety deposit box if you’re worried

Huge_Bet9746

Don't think it it would be easier for China to pay in BTC than a currency they can just print...

Huge_Bet9746

Yeah but China buys 90% of Iran's oil exports all priced in... Yuan. That only leaves 10% of exports which could realistically be paid for in BTC and that's only if they decide to use BTC instead of yuan or another crypto

Independent-Funny342

Sounds useful in theory, being able to exit locked LP early definitely adds flexibility for teams and early investors. The real question is how deep and reliable that buyer liquidity actually is across different market conditions. Personally, I’ve moved more toward simplifying things and reducing stress around timing altogether. Instead of relying on secondary liquidity solutions, I prefer keeping a portion of capital in more predictable setups like CoinDepo earning fixed BTC yield, so I’m not constantly forced to rotate based on unlocks or market cycles

tgm0

Use an online calculator to calculate how much power you will draw mining BTC with your rig and DCA the same amount weekly or monthly buying BTC directly. Less stressful, more reliable and most probably you will also end up with more bitcoins than just mining.

Independent-Funny342

Tbh that kind of volume looks good on the surface, but it’s not really sustainable since it’s mostly artificial activity rather than real demand. You might get short-term attention, but without actual buyers or utility it usually fades just as fast as it pumps. That’s why I’ve been leaning away from pure meme plays lately and focusing more on consistency—like keeping a portion in platforms such as CoinDepo earning fixed BTC yield instead of relying on volume spikes. Way less stress than trying to keep momentum alive all the time

tenor_tymir

For me it was when i first heard about BTC when it reached $250 and I was like “nah, ain’t throwing my money away on made up internet money“. I was intrigued through, did some research on my old computer and slow internet connection and figured it‘s too much of a hassle to get something that will probably turn useless anyways. To be fair, it wasn’t easy for an average joe like me to buy or mine BTC back in the day, so i skipped the idea … and look where we are now, still working on my first 1.0 BTC. 🙈

bitcoinbrisbane

Like others have said, 1. copy the file to somewhere offline like a usb drive or 2 2. copy that file to the bitcoin core / bitcoin qt folder. Mac and Windows are different 2.5. If it asks for a wallet password, you'll need to try brute force that. 3. Start bitcoin core! Note that it might take a day or two for the chain to catch up so might say 0 BTC until it does Good luck