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Nice-Can-1581

As long as you also have a decent stock portfolio it's fine. Going 100% into BTC without any other investment is bad idea from a risk management perspective.

Jealous-Reindeer-610

Earn it , I would pay in Sats for someone local to mow my lawns once every few weeks , other digital services like web design or programming can be international & BTC is borderless

ArsenalOfCards

Only being slightly wreckless. Instead what I'd do if it was me. 2/3rds into a Roth IRA either in VOO or VTI. Then the other 1/3rd in BTC. Or if you're feeling extra spicy put that third into IBIT in your Roth IRA. Don't go all in on any single investment, make sure you diversify. At your age time is very much so on your side so diversifying into low cost index funds will give you far more upside and reduced risk than just BTC alone will.

LiquidityCompass

This works… but only if the macro backdrop supports it. A lot of people treat every dip as a buying opportunity, but BTC doesn’t move in isolation. If liquidity is tightening (strong USD, higher real yields), dips can turn into longer drawdowns, not just quick shakeouts. Agree on the long-term thesis, but timing still matters more than people think. Best approach is probably staying consistent (DCA), but also being aware of the bigger liquidity cycle — that’s usually what decides whether dips are opportunities or traps.

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pocketfungus876

I did the same last time BTC was at these prices. Good timing is my personal speculation 🤝

BigDab4438

Ya I get it. I have a kid and I pay child support even though it's 50/50 and help the mom a little extra. Have rent and bills... But I wouldn't trade places with anyone I love my little girl. I'm happy with my $50 BTC dca purchase per paycheck 😌

LiquidityCompass

Not reckless, but timing still matters more than people think. BTC doesn’t just go up in a straight line — it tends to follow global liquidity with a lag. So you might be right on a 5–6 year horizon, but still go through some rough cycles in between. If you’re consistent and don’t panic, that’s where most people actually win.

buzzyfairy

I'm 33, in Canada and right now I'm also DCA about 2k per month in Ibit and etha ETFs in my TFSA. I intend to hold until 2029 after the halving of 2028, and maybe take some out for profit then. I know, not my coins since I don't hold the keys ..., but tax free since it's my TFSA.,. Until my TSFA is full this is my plan. I'm about 20% of my portfolio in etf crypto (mainly BTC but dipping a very few bit in ethereum too since I believe the %profit can be greater...)

Ok-Palpitation-74

I'm 60 also, and fairly well invested in BTC. Can I ask you if you're buying heavily now as well? I am.. Personally.

Dziabadu

what is the market cap/worth of world financials ? 400 trillion? what is market cap of BTC \~2,6 billion what would you attack first? besides read the google paper and focus on assumptions. Would Santa Claus go through himney of your house?

BeginningBeautiful69

If you're going to mess around with a hot wallet, try Blue Wallet. If you have more BTC than you are willing to carry around in physical bills in your pocket, I'd advise getting a hardware device.

burnbabyburn11

Are you investing in anything else? Maybe a good idea to get some VOO or other S&P index fund so you have more than 1 bet. I think BTC DCA for 6 years is probably a good bet though.

CryptoOnTheSidewalk

Are you mostly spot or using leverage here, and are you watching how BTC reacts to macro spikes or just the price range? I’m more in the “fragile hold” camp too, holding up isn’t the same as strength, so I’d stay cautious and treat it like selective accumulation at best, not a clean trend, since one headline can still flip things fast.

epic_trader

lol it's very cute how you weren't there and you got no idea what the Ethereum community was like at the time and then you're trying to portray this as if there was a huge rift in the community. The reality is that Ethereum was only just coming out of beta and literally everyone went with what is called Ethereum today. ETC did not having backing of anyone noteworthy. It only became a thing because a few people like Barry SIlbert and Poloniex saw it as an opportunity to make money and try and sow division. No one ever used ETC for anything, it never had any traction, the only people who ever supported it were BTC maxis.

Previous_Blueberry_5

I’ve used it before, held BTC and other shitcoins on it after Blockfi went bankrupt and never had an issue. Now I use river and bought a cold storage hardware wallet

jkl2035

Es geht nicht um „schützen“, das geht m.e. gegen das BTC Konzept, BIP360 liefert eine Antwort wie mit diesen Wallets umgegangen werden kann…

chaitanya1015

BTC dominance has become a myth now. People should stop looking at that shit

SM-

BTC needs to drop $800 for a 6th red month

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**Securing Elliptic Curve Cryptocurrencies Against Quantum Vulnerabilities — Babbush et al. (Google Quantum AI / Ethereum Foundation / Stanford), March 2026** Core findings: * Shor's algorithm can break 256-bit ECDLP (the cryptographic basis of Bitcoin and Ethereum) On a superconducting architecture, this translates to fewer than 500,000 physical qubits and ~9 minutes of runtime. **Roughly a 20× improvement over prior estimates.** **Bitcoin vulnerabilities** * ~1.7M BTC in P2PK scripts exposes public keys directly; ~6.9M BTC total are currently at-rest vulnerable * P2TR (Taproot) reintroduced at-rest vulnerability; P2PKH/P2WPKH protect against at-rest attacks only if keys are never reused * **Proof-of-Work consensus is not meaningfully threatened** **Ethereum vulnerabilities** * All accounts that have sent a transaction expose their public key permanently (Account Vulnerability) * Admin keys controlling smart contracts, stablecoins (~$200B), and RWAs are at-rest vulnerable (Admin Vulnerability) * L2 rollups and bridges using zkSNARKs inherit cryptographic vulnerabilities (Code Vulnerability); ~15M ETH at risk * BLS12-381 validator signatures vulnerable; compromising 2/3 of validators would allow chain rewrite (Consensus Vulnerability) * KZG trusted setup for blob data availability is susceptible to a one-time on-setup attack (Data Availability Vulnerability) **Dormant assets problem** * ~2.3M BTC inactive for 5+ years cannot be migrated via software updates; likely includes Satoshi-era coins * Three community options: Do Nothing (quantum attackers eventually take them), Burn (protocol destroys them), Hourglass (rate-limits spending) **Migration to Post-Quantum Cryptography (PQC)** * PQC signatures (e.g. Falcon, ML-DSA) are 10–20× larger than ECDSA, creating bandwidth and consensus challenges for Bitcoin in particular Algorand (Falcon), QRL, Abelian, and Solana (experimental) are already deploying PQC **Migration must begin immediately; the authors estimate the window is still open but narrowing fast** *The quantum threat to cryptocurrency is closer than commonly assumed, affects active transactions (not only dormant holdings), and requires urgent PQC migration across all major blockchains.*

IndustrialPuppetTwo

I'm so glad we are in the hopeless stage and fear that BTC is done for, getting close to the best time to buy back in again ;)

Filthyquak

Anyone saying "only BTC" is the way doesn't believe in the functionality of crypto. BTC is literally just digital gold. It only has worth because many people agree that it's worth something. Besides that theres a better coin for anything else

qqAzo

Tbf you can spam seed phrases on the BTC network. There is no limiter if you try seed phases

ecafyelims

My dream job would pay me way more than 10 BTC per week, and I wouldn't even have to show up.

Global_Strain_4219

My dream job would give me more than 10 BTC value, so then I'll just be able to afford it.

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HairyChest69

I'm semi new to this market, but I'm not 💯 ignorant and will not respond to dms etc. I was hoping someone here could publicly suggest the easiest, fastest way to enter your seed somewhere to view its contents. I purchased XMR years and years and years ago and just found some seeds I had written down. Problem is; idk if it's all that or just BTC/eth. The problem is I never learned much past buying it. I'd appreciate any help

ilikeplayingthisgame

And yet it's up 2.50% today. I wish we had more apocalyptic narratives when it comes to BTC

FiatFree

10 BTC. comeon now, give me 10 BTC.

Big-Finding2976

How are you going to prove that you bought $13 worth of BTC in 2011 if you didn't? Early mining you say? Bank computer says no.

theenecros

Been in crypto since 2012. This is a super typical 3rd year low cycle. Bitcoin is off it's high by around 50%. 2024 Bull run is a distant memory, etc, etc. This year Christmas will have optimism, but with the macros like this, it will be pretty flat. Bring in the new year 2027 and the promise of a bull run, traders will start to take their longs waiting for the 2028 havening. Optimism will return and the Alts will perk up, likely we will even get an Alt season in 2027-2028. Winter 2028 will be well on to new ATH and in full bull run where BTC could hit $250-500k. Rinse repeat.

Big-Finding2976

When you try to cash out that wallet the CEX and bank will ask you to prove the source of the funds, which you won't be able to do because you didn't buy the BTC, then it'll get frozen/seized.

Forsaken-Welcome-709

So let's get some clarity here: \- Exchange: A place to trade one thing for another (Bitcoin for Dollars for example) \- Wallet: A digital equivalent to your leather wallet. A tool to help you secure your Bitcoin in a way that ONLY you can access it, rather than a bank account where you and your bank can access it and your bank can even restrict your access to it. Unfortunately, whenever you are dealing with FIAT (cash, dollars, pounds, whatever), if you are doing it through a business, that business legally has to jump through hoops to help the government keep tabs on its citizens and their activities. Therefore you have all of this KYC and ID checking etc. For our protection of course -- not for surveillance. Businesses are legal entities, there is nothing we can really do about that. We have \*\*decentralised exchanges\*\* (DEX for short), such as: \- Robosats (uses tor but pretty beginner friendly IMO) \- Bisq (requires downloading an app on a laptop and can feel a little overwhelming to start) \- HodlHodl (not used it) \- Others (can't remember others) There are many "crypto" DEXes, but we don't want to tempt people into all the other nonsense if you are just trying to understand Bitcoin. Plus many of them only focus on trading between cryptocurrencies because that is how they can avoid being subject to all these laws and regulations that come when you are handling or working with fiat/government money in any way. Robosats and Bisq provide a structured peer to peer technology (think BitTorrent for trading). They are not companies, they don't even do the trading. They just provide the technology, others will run the software and they can claim fees for doing it, others will volunteer as dispute resolvers and get paid for doing it, and people post their offers and others take the offers and that's the system in a nutshell. It's as peer to peer as you can get online. The key here, is that there are no businesses, so Government regulations don't apply for now which means we can all remain anonymous !!:party:!! Of course, we want some security, and that is what these tools do, they provide a way for us to find each other, and propose and enforce a sensible way for us to de-risk our interactions to avoid being scammed while respecting each other's anonymity. The government would have you believe that only through surveillance, can we expect any sort of safety, while also pretending that data leaks don't happen. Now, honestly, before we can trade Bitcoin, I recommend that you learn (if you don't know already) what Bitcoin is, how to natively handle it from wallets, and what fees to expect, the difference between custodial and non-custodial wallets, and the difference between Lightning and On-Chain bitcoin. I'll give a crash course: \- Bitcoin is often measured in BTC. \- There will never be more than 21,000,000 BTC in circulation. Ever. \- The REAL unit of bitcoin is satoshis (sats) \- There are 100,000,000 sats in 1 BTC \- A maximum total of 2,100,000,000,000,000 sats \- The core of Bitcoin is this decentralised technology that we call "on-chain". \- Users can create "transactions" that reallocate sats from one (or more) "address" to another (or many). \- Addresses are just unique identifiers that look like random unrelated serial numbers. \- We create addresses with Bitcoin wallets. This is all math, no central authority handing out IDs to people. \- If Bitcoin is allocated to an address that we created, then it is locked forever and only WE can reallocate it to someone else. \- That means that if we ask someone to send Bitcoin to an address we own. It is ours. Ours alone. No one can take it from us without physically attacking us. \- All of this actually relies on cyber security. We get a "key" when we create our wallet, and that key is stored on our devices. If the device is compromised, or if we expose our key insecurely (e.g. by taking a digital photo of it and letting it go into the cloud) then anyone who learns the key can use it to take the Bitcoin. This is the difference between absolute ownership (possession based) and legal ownership (identity based, enforced by law if you can afford it or know the right people and the law is not corrupt) \- At first, getting a few bucks or hundred bucks of Bitcoin, you can rely on your mobile phone/laptop for security, but when you are thinking of larger amounts and storing it for years, then we need to explore more advanced ways of creating and securing our wallets before sending funds to them. \- Making transactions on Bitcoin takes about 10+minutes on average and sometimes can cost a pretty penny in fees to bake into the blockchain quickly. \- This is a technical limitation, solved by a fee market. We can't confirm a billion transactions in one go for technical and sustainability reasons, and there is no way to conclusively know which order people are making these transactions without there being a "ruler" who decides that order, so the system is archaic by nature and often a higher fee will get a transaction prioritised over others. \- Some smart people devised a solution called the Lightning Network. It uses some interesting concepts, like shared addresses (multisig addresses), where an address is owned by two people in tandem. One cannot move funds without cooperating with another and vice versa. This plus some other complex things. \- Ultimately, it means that people can create wallets and when they want to spend, they don't need to create a Bitcoin Transaction for every transaction, they can use this Lightning Network technology to effectively record the payment for later. \- The system is battle tested, and hardened, so there is negligible risk that someone can steal money from you just because the transaction hasn't settled on the Bitcoin blockchain yet. The technical details are complex, so I'll leave it at that for now. \- This means that a transaction now happens in seconds, fees are often smaller, especially for smaller amounts, making it suitable for micropayments like penny tips. \- Look for "Lightning wallets", these apps will guide you through setting up a wallet that can take advantage of this technology. \- Custodial wallets are wallets that are basically just apps or interfaces to a company service.. like a bank. \- Non-custodial wallets are apps/software that interface directly with the Bitcoin or the Lightning network. \- Custodial wallets often require usernames and passwords (but sometimes don't -- be careful) \- Non-custodial wallets may provide technical support, but the support teams can't get access to your Bitcoin, so if you tell them you lost some Bitcoin, they can't get it back for you or "refund" you. \- Custodial wallets CAN usually do this under certain circumstances, but often don't anyway. \- Custodial wallets are more familiar, like opening a bank account and then its all familiar. \- Non-custodial wallets require you to understand what you are doing, they use unfamiliar terminology. It can be a little painful to understand, but doing so is WORTH IT. Again, custodial is like leaving your money with your parents and asking them every time you want to give someone money. You never actually touch the money yourself. Non-custodial is like dealing with cash, but if you drop your wallet, or someone steals from you, the consequences are final. I'd still recommend holding your own cash. When a custodian gets hacked, the consequences are often yours to bear, not theirs, and since they are big centralised companies, hackers are more likely to target them than you. You just need to learn some basic skills like "not prancing about telling everyone how much bitcoin you have and where you live" so that you aren't low hanging fruit for hackers. This was a lot. I hope some of it is useful. Good luck.

F4NT4SYF00TB4LLF4N

**4 Bitcoin infrastructure developments this month that nobody is talking about:** 1. **CFTC no-action letter** — Futures Commission Merchants can now accept BTC as margin collateral. Treats Bitcoin on par with cash in derivatives markets. 2. **Joint SEC/CFTC formal taxonomy** — BTC officially classified as a digital commodity, not a security. Published to the Federal Register. The legal ambiguity that B/D compliance departments have hidden behind for years is gone. 3. **Coinbase + Better Home Finance — Fannie Mae-conforming BTC mortgages** — Bitcoin accepted as down payment collateral on conforming loans. No margin calls. No liquidation on price movement. Bitcoin is now collateral in the US housing finance system. 4. **Morgan Stanley files MSBT at 0.14% — the cheapest BTC ETF** — First major bank to issue its own spot Bitcoin ETF directly. 16,000 advisors. $6.2T in client assets. Bloomberg's ETF analyst noted the low fee "means none of Morgan Stanley's advisors would feel conflicted recommending it to clients." Launch expected early April pending SEC approval. None of these moved price meaningfully. All of them are structural. The plumbing for institutional mass adoption is being laid in real time.

Big-Finding2976

That's nonsense. If addresses created since 2017 were "very quantum safe" people could just transfer BTC from their old wallets to a new address and BIP360 would be unnecessary.

F4NT4SYF00TB4LLF4N

If you’re looking for a reflection of demand in the price, you’re missing the structural integration that happened just in the last month: 1. **CFTC Clarity:** FCMs can now officially use Bitcoin as margin collateral. That is institutional plumbing. 2. **SEC/CFTC Joint Taxonomy:** The 'is it a security?' debate is effectively over. BTC is formally classified as a digital commodity. That removes the single biggest legal overhang that scared away institutional capital for years. 3. **Real-World Utility:** Coinbase and Better Home & Finance just launched Fannie Mae-conforming mortgages where BTC is used as collateral. You can now use your Bitcoin to buy a house without selling it. The price action you see is just the 'market noise' of the current liquidity environment. The value proposition is being built into the global financial system in real-time. If you're waiting for the price to tell you when it's safe to pay attention, you’ve already missed the structural shift. We aren't in 2021 anymore the 'catalyst' isn't an influencer tweet; it's the fact that Bitcoin is continuing to become a standard, regulated component of the mortgage and derivatives markets... This is a huge step towards mass adoption.

WeakEstablishment686

Yea fully agree here. You’re young based on the Uni comment so you have time on your side. This means everything you stack now has decades to compound which is the number 1 factor for building wealth. If you get too cute trying to play with options or leverage (eg mstr), you add in infinite decisions, might actually lose some principal, and likely won’t beat just stacking BTC. I would also highly suggest you have at least a portion of wealth in a simple total stock market ETF like VTI or VT if you don’t already. I’m all for Bitcoin but you always need some level of safer growth, which a total stock market ETF provides.

crazy_lolipopp

Lol BTC is really gonna make a monthly close with like +0.5%. You can't make this shit up.

MinimalGravitas

> The split between Eth and Eth Classic, was an effective rollback. They split the chain at a date before the hacker had access to the funds. Hence, a defacto rollback. Where have you got this idea from? The term 'rollback' has a meaning, you return the chain to a previous state, effectively reversing every transaction that happened since. That is not what happened to resolve the DAO hack. It wasn't a rollback, 'defacto' or otherwise! Only transactions related to the DAO hack were reversed, if you weren't involved then none of your transactions were undone. As far as I remember, the only significant chain that has actually done full rollbacks is Bitcoin. Once in 2010 to remove the 184 million BTC that were created; and once in 2013 when the mining entity 'BTC Guild' wound back the chain to before Bitcoin version 0.8.

Accomplished_Tax9104

Respect the hustle spreading the BTC gospel one coffee at a time. But real talk, how often do you actually see BTC accepted? Lightning is sick when it works, no doubt but it’s still kinda niche for everyday life. I keep a LN wallet too, but for most payments I just use Oobit so I’m not hunting for that one shop with a BTC sticker

Financial_Design_801

Per community notes- There was no confirmed breakthrough or imminent threat. The recent Google quantum headlines are about future risk planning, not current capability, there is no machine today that can break any encryption, let alone Bitcoin. We are at ~1,000 noisy qubits today. 500K fault-tolerant qubits is a decade+ away minimum. BIP-360 and post-quantum testnets are already live. The real story here is Google publishing scary numbers to justify their quantum budget, not an actual threat to BTC.

EndSmugnorance

BCH is this easy (assuming the merchant accepts BCH) But BTC maxis still refuse to accept larger blocksize & 0-conf matters.

Natural-Contact-3875

You're a bit late to think about swapping, as alts dropped more than 30%, should have taken profits or invalidated months ago. If you want to move on alts just swap I guess, the more BTC % the better

W_BUFFETT69

Hey man, apreacite it, for real. Yes I was trying to get more into the greeks and their possible outcomes, but I wanted to get some feedbacks before. Someone suggested to get 20/70 call spread, which might actually be a very good suit. I´ll dig more into the greeks and also the call spread strategy and eventually follow one of these two paths. I think BTC will not rebounce (I mean a strong movement) very soon, so I should have some time

Sayan_833

If you want simple and less hassle, try using Bitget Wallet easy to buy, store, and send BTC without heavy verification

Aggravating-Map-293

Whatever the news is, it ends with BTC going down. Good news, bad news and changing macro, still the answer is down.

MinimalGravitas

> Why was lightning built with ways to lose BTC? Why state channels to manage? Why so complicated? Bitcoin is only able to handle a very limited set of operations [https://bitcoindev.info/docs/bitcoin/op-codes] and so anything built on top of it (i.e. 'layer 2s') can only run in a very limited set of ways. State channels were quite a clever way to add some extra capacity (kinda) to the network, but unfortunately they just aren't actually very useful. > What people want: > Using your existing wallet. Enter a lightning address you want to send to. Send. You're describing rollups (e.g. Base, zkSync, Optimism etc). They work because the L1 they are built on top of (Ethereum) is able to process the validity proofs etc that they use to secure themselves. Bitcoin is simply not able to do that, so the only options for their L2s are state channels (which are secure but not useful), or sidechains (which are useful but not secure).

EndSmugnorance

It amazes me that all these years later, BTC maxis still don’t recognize the importance of larger blocksize.

Final-Print8272

I get where you’re coming from tbh, I felt the same way when I started. All those apps asking for ID right away kinda kills the vibe when you just want to buy some BTC and send it. The honest truth though, if you’re trying to use card/bank, almost every legit platform is gonna ask for KYC now. There’s not really a clean way around that anymore. If you really want to avoid it, you’d have to go the P2P route. Stuff like Bisq or Hodl Hodl. It works, just a bit more effort and not as smooth as the big apps. Also quick thing that confused me at first too, wallet is just where you store/send your BTC. You could use something simple like BlueWallet, buy somewhere, then send it there and you’re good. If you’re okay compromising a little on verification, some platforms feel less painful than others. People usually mention Kraken, and I’ve seen Delta Exchange come up too depending on where you are, but yeah… KYC still kinda unavoidable there. Kinda sucks, but it’s basically a trade-off now: privacy = more steps, convenience = more verification.

Any-Newt985

Still leaning BTC, rising dominance usually means capital is rotating to safety.

Commercial-Ad90

It never hits 50 then bro is still waiting watching BTC hit 1 mill

Romanizer

Wallets, about 50 BTC each, so this will take a few weeks/months to crack them all once that is possible. Right now, it looks like Google is leading so Satoshis coins will likely be part of the US Treasury reserve.

ma6ic

I have sold everything except for Bitcoin for HYPE, and I reduced my BTC exposure. Concentrated bets on a winner imo. But depend son your size. If I layered my port over 10-20 tokens I'd just have an insignificant amount of each. In this case, it makes sense to just stack into the one dominating all others this year.

Any-Newt985

Everyone screaming “dead” while BTC holds $70K multiple times. That’s accumulation behavior, not collapse.

Any-Newt985

First real one was BTC, kept it simple instead of chasing random alts.

Street-Brush8415

Can we at least get one more decent pump so I can dump my ADA and PEPE bags? I've learned my lesson this time, honest, and will only hold BTC/ETH going foward.

joos_hubert

Because the real benefit isn’t “free money,” it’s staying exposed to BTC while getting liquidity. If you sell, your position is gone and you may also trigger taxes depending on where you live. If you borrow conservatively, you keep the upside. The catch is the risk can flip on you fast, so this only really makes sense at very low LTV with a clear repayment plan. For most people, selling a small portion is still the simpler option.

Think-Sector-6329

yea, you're thinking about it the right way, but you my be adding too many moving parts. You BTC thesis can be right and the options trade can still disappoint because of timing, IV, and decay. Maybe keep BTC as the core position and treat IBIT LEAPS a small side bet. Feels like the cleaner move unless you're very confident on both direction and timeframe.

AnyMeet6281

Solid fundamentals. DCA + Cold Storage is the 'boring' but most proven way to win in the long run. A few things to consider as you scale: 1. **UTXO Management:** If your DCA buys are very small (e.g., $10-20), try not to withdraw them to your cold wallet every single time. Frequent small transactions create many 'dust' UTXOs. When fees spike in the future, it might cost you a huge chunk of your balance just to move those coins. Better to batch withdrawals. 2. **Fee Awareness:** Learn to use tools like [mempool.space](http://mempool.space) to time your withdrawals when the network is quiet. No need to overpay the miners if you aren't in a rush. 3. **The 'Bus' Test:** Does anyone you trust know how to access your backup if something happens to you? Self-custody is great, but a 'dead man's switch' or a simple inheritance plan is a must. How often are you planning to rebalance or are you 100% BTC only?

Think-Sector-6329

That's kind of how I see it too. Feels ugly in the moment, but this is also just normal BTC behavior. I'm not risky enough to call every dip an opportunity.

HocusThePocus

I also would love to own 1 whole BTC ☺️

Impossible-Elk6848

Not doomed, just in a weak phase. Crypto lost hype to AI, alts are getting crushed, and BTC is moving like a risk asset instead of “digital gold”. The quantum stuff isn’t a real near term threat. People still hold because cycles repeat and real use cases like payments, stablecoins, and institutions are still growing.

That-Comparison-3631

Because it is. BTC is currently hackable but it doesn’t mean it will be hacked. That’s why levels of cryptography exist. BTC is currently at SHA-256; which is not resilient enough to beat quantum hacks. Designers however can upgrade BTC so it (potentially) has maximum security against quantum attacks. Even though it’s very complex and the clock is ticking. I think we both come from a different angle.

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AdEmbarrassed1607

Buy BTC

ma6ic

All the posts asking what coin do you like this or that, I talk about HYPE and it's insta-downvoted. Just BTC maxis?

BillWeld

So much winning! I could wish BTC were ripping but apart from that and senate Republicans I'm delighted.

Forded_Fiction24

I definitely don't have access to it in my 401k. Also just because they allow it legally doesn't mean every employer-sponsored 401k is going to add it as an option. My employer is pretty progressive but they choose to give generous matching as opposed to having the most comprehensive of fund options within our 401k so I wouldn't be surprised if I never see it added. A combo of self-custody BTC and Roth held BTC ETF's will suffice though if I never see it and maybe the better option anyways

CuriousGeorge22_02

I still don't know a single person who uses it because everyone I know hodls on to theri BTC nad never spend it. On one hand it's good but on the other we are all kinda holding adoption back lol

ma6ic

| Token | Jan 1 | Current | YTD | vs HYPE | | ----- | ------- | ------- | ------ | ------- | | HYPE | $25.44 | $35.99 | +41.5% | — | | XRP | $2.08 | $2.09 | +0.4% | -41.1% | | BTC | $87,520 | $66,696 | -23.8% | -65.3% | | ETH | $2,967 | $2,046 | -31.0% | -72.5% | | SOL | $124.52 | $80.83 | -35.1% | -76.6% | | HBAR | $0.268 | $0.163 | -39.2% | -80.7% | | TAO | $440.21 | $223.65 | -49.2% | -90.7% |

KarmaShawarma

Someone remind me to short BTC in 9 minutes 🥱

EarningsPal

Why was lightning built with ways to lose BTC? Why state channels to manage? Why so complicated? There had to be a better way. It lightning was more like every other blockchain that currently moves value around it would have been adopted by more people. What people want: Using your existing wallet. Enter a lightning address you want to send to. Send. In the background, all the necessary mechanics happen, value appears in the address.

StaticAutomatic202

From what I gathered online, this is still not possible until 2029 and there is a lot of time until then to come up with quantum resistant upgrades for all blockchains. IMO the only risk here is the majority of BTC miners ignoring quantum risk, but that's unlikely to happen

snbsys

Just stacking at the moment. Never used BTC to buy anything, not sure if I would at the moment. Got friends that pay bills with theirs, but I keep mine as a long term investment and take profits here and there.

harl_vann

It doesn’t matter to me what charts say, my crypto portfolio is always at least 70% BTC.[portfolio](https://zarniwoop.info/news/f/boring-at-best)

Onalerono

No, that's completely optional. Businesses using Square can receive BTC and keep it as BTC if they want to. Businesses in the US that use Square have the option of accepting BTC and keeping it as BTC, accepting BTC and having a specified percentage automatically converted to USD, accepting USD and having specified a percentage automatically converted to BTC, or accepting USD and keeping it as USD. And those businesses can withdraw their BTC from their Square merchant account at any time.

kajunkennyg

really? The process to make Bitcoin (BTC) quantum-resistant involves a multi-year, consensus-driven protocol upgrade via Bitcoin Improvement Proposals (BIPs), followed by a phased migration of funds. All the stuff i read said 1-3 years of testing, soft fork 6-12 months, phased user migration 3-7 years. Looks at calendar.... ya it's not a concern. Maybe you folks should do some fucking research instead of believing meme's, because the timeline isn't that cushy.

user_name_checks_out

By setting growth to zero I was able to trigger a NaN 😆 > Your Bitcoin Retirement Plan > To reach $2.00 by age 12, assuming an average appreciation of 0% p.a., your plan would be: > 🎯 Suggested Annual Investment: $NaN (equiv. to ~NaN BTC) > 🗓️ Suggested Monthly Investment: $NaN (equiv. to ~NaN BTC)

ReadingTheSign23

Honestly, trying to time BTC like that is where most people get burned. It \*can\* work, but you need to be right twice, when to sell and when to buy back in. Nobody really knows if it’s going lower this year. You’ll find strong opinions both ways, but they’re still guesses. BTC has a habit of doing the opposite of what feels obvious. Also don’t beat yourself up over the 2013 thing. A lot of people had it early and treated it like nothing. Hindsight makes it look obvious, but it really wasn’t back then. If anything, the bigger question now is what your plan is going forward. Are you trying to trade swings, or just accumulate and hold. Mixing both is where it gets messy.

Sea-Reference6800

Honestly, BTC gets recommended a lot to beginners mainly because it’s the most established and least risky (relatively speaking) in crypto. But the tradeoff is: higher potential gains = way higher risk So BTC is usually the “safe entry point” before people explore riskier stuff.

LatinumGirlOnRisa

ah, ok, 2013, got it + the Silk Road, hahaha!👍😄 I think I got into BTC about 4 years ago? heard some people created a kind of de facto early 'hardware wallet' in the form of a USB flash drive in the Bitcoin olden days. though it sounded like it wasn't at all as secure as the later dedicated *real* hardware wallets. but better than nothing else I guess since the dedicated technology didn't exist yet. and yes, I remember the Silk Road drama, that was crazy. esp. since the founder didn't seem to know how to hide himself when he was online because he got caught so easily in the end! at the library I think is where he was when the feds found him? in any case, after all he had done re: his website I find it weird that he didn't cover his tracks better.🙃 but I do believe the government went over the top re: Ross Ulbricht  & the charges + that ridiculous sentence. avs I can't know for sure but I read that they did all of that because of bruised egos. all because they didn't like his attitude + he didn't seem sorry about what he did, etc. really, it seemed like an illegal sentencing but apparently they were able to get away with doing what they did to him. so, I'm glad he got pardoned & is now free. and at some point I also found out about the nexus between the Silk Road and the BitInstant x Charlie Shrem fiasco, too. then there was the Mt. Gox takedown. and I still think Mark Karpelès stole those Bitcoin funds & there appeared to be plenty of evidence money was transferred from within improperly - but he claimed innocence & that those funds were stolen by someone else because there was a hac. and you might already know the details but for anyone else who might find this reply I just don't get why the Japanese authorities decided there was insufficient evidence. in part, because it was shown he kept dodgy records, falsified some of them, too..and otherwise records he should have had were missing which something some people do [lose & falsify files] in order to hide their illegal behavior. that in itself should have been emo of a red flag, imho.🚩 so, I really don't understand their thinking & laws & them dropping the embezzlement & breach of trust charges & then letting him avoid any prison time for falsifying & 'losing' records.🙄 but I guess they're more forgiving than a lot of other governments & that burden of what *they* call proof is much higher in Japan than it is in his home nation of France - or even than it is stateside. because pretty sure those are the kinds of activities that *would* land someone in prison in many other countries. I mean, it seems so obvious what he did. and I just hope *you* didn't lose funds re: the Mt. Gox case because I recently saw that there are still some former users of the exchange that *still* haven't been refunded yet, just awful. esp. considering how long ago it all happened. and the only silver lining I can see, since those users aren't getting a full refund re: the amount of Bitcoin they lost, is that, luckily, it's gone way up in value since 2014.

holaprimeglobal

Feels like a typical risk off phase. BTC holding or rising in dominance usually means alts are getting drained rather than BTC being super strong. Until that flips, hard to see sustained alt season.

Mattie_Kadlec

That's 250k BTC to go.... Pretty ambitious, and probably the biggest bet in human history

Ropl

oh wow! i hope you find a good entry again so you can recoup the 3 BTC and don’t have to buy back at a higher price later.

Joy_Boy_12

Can someone explain me the short and long influence on BTC? Is good, bad or neutral for BTC (and any asset actually). I'm asking about the asset not about the person who initiate the action.

No-Put7619

Did you know you can fund a Lightning Bitcoin payment in Cash App using dollars from your linked bank account, as long as you keep a small BTC balance in the Cash App wallet? I find it even simpler than "spend and replace." There should be no capital gains to report, since no taxable gain is realized.

AdEmbarrassed1607

Personnally I do DCA every month, and I use a part of my BTC capital on DeFi thanks to Build on Bob

OscarCorterz_20

In my expert opinion it seems you are trading based on emotions, and not the fundamental value of the network. It does sound boring but doing your own research is the best thing you can do right now. Once you understand the value of BTC as a network and immutable ledger, you will understand that no entry is expensive, and that only DCAing into BTC is the right way to go

OscarCorterz_20

Usually, an increase in hashrate is always followed by an increase in BTC price. It's only a matter of time...

East-Cricket6421

A meaningless metric. It was cute when we had a robust alt market with new projects emerging to challenge BTCs dominance but it doesn't really tell us much to see how BTC is doing relative to the rest of the market these days. Especially given the state of the alt market. 

hrdeskchronicles

For alts to really run, you typically want to see BTC stabilize and dominance roll over, not just stall. Until then, strength in Bitcoin can quietly suppress alt performance even if prices across the board look okay. If you’re tracking this actively, pairing dominance with on-chain flows and stablecoin movement gives a clearer picture. That’s where tools like Blueblocx can help connect the dots between where liquidity is sitting and where it’s starting to move.

MinimalGravitas

LLM slop making unsourced claims. In reality Lightning is an irrelevance. There are only about 5,000 BTC on the entire Lightning network, which is less than the amount of BTC on Arbitrum (7,780); and there are only about 44k channels, a little over half as many as this time 3 years ago (83k). https://bitcoinvisuals.com/lightning

Ropl

for BTC i get the appeal: you avoid selling, avoid triggering taxes, and keep upside. for USDC collateral i agree with you, that part makes a lot less sense unless there's some balance-sheet or underwriting reason. the cleaner use case is really "borrow stablecoins against BTC." Liquidium is one example of that model. Full disclosure: I work there. the bigger question is whether the extra leverage is actually worth it for a house.

Ropl

if you do it, 60% LTV is the part that would scare me, not the idea itself. i'd want way more buffer — more like 25-45% if the collateral is BTC and the purchase is something as non-liquid as an apartment. if the goal is just to unlock stablecoins against BTC, there are options built for that too; Liquidium does BTC-backed USDT loans or Sats Terminal lets you compare between different options. Full disclosure: I work there. either way, i'd optimize for boring survivability over max capital efficiency.

OkFarmer3779

The thing worth watching here is the ATM share issuance pace. Strategy's BTC accumulation is almost entirely funded by selling MSTR equity, when the premium to NAV compresses (which it does in drawdowns), the flywheel slows or stops. At 762K BTC they're already \~3.6% of total supply. The path to 1M BTC in 2026 requires either the premium holding up or new debt issuance. Not impossible, but the marginal buyer premium keeps shrinking as the strategy gets more crowded with imitators like Twenty One Capital.

NoodlesOnTuesday

BTC dominance at 56% in a downturn is capital seeking relative safety within crypto, which is normal. The question is whether this cycle is comparable to previous ones. One thing that changed structurally: stablecoin market cap is much larger now than in 2022. A significant portion of total3 (market cap minus BTC and ETH) is stablecoins, wrapped assets, and liquid staking tokens. These are not risk-on altcoin bets, they are infrastructure. That means the "real" alt exposure is thinner than the dominance chart suggests. What I watch for rotation signals: BTC dominance peaking usually coincides with BTC hitting a resistance level and consolidating while money starts flowing into higher-beta assets. But the timing varies a lot. In 2021 the dominance peak was months before the alt season really kicked in. In 2024 the rotation happened faster because the narrative shifted quickly. The honest answer is that dominance alone is a lagging indicator. By the time you see it clearly reversing, the first move in alts has already happened. I find it more useful as a risk gauge than a timing tool. High dominance means the market is defensive. If you are holding alts in a high-dominance environment, you are fighting the trend.

Trader_for_earner

Over the past three days, the cryptocurrency market has exhibited a prolonged sideways trend characterized by limited volatility. This stagnation has significantly impacted my ability to execute intraday trading strategies, which inherently rely on market movement. Major assets such as Bitcoin (BTC) and Ethereum (ETH) are mirroring this consolidation phase. I am actively seeking to understand the macroeconomic or technical catalysts driving this lack of momentum across the digital asset markets.

Zestyclose_Mail_4569

That’s fair. BTC-only makes more sense here, I just still think the backdrop is too fragile to get overly aggressive yet.

Lavayo

I never was opposed to BTC but indifferent and skeptical. I could have been around early. I was a tech savvy mid 20 with exposable income, I heard a multiple hour long podcast about BTC in 2011. But I did not buy any and lost track. From time to time it appeared again on my radar, mainly through mentions in other podcasts etc. Remember spcifically that I was amazed when it hit the $1000 barrier, I thought this could not last. I inhereted fiat in 23/24 and had to really decide what to do with it. I got in after the ETF pump, I think the media presence at that time helped a lot, don't know if I would have seriously considered it back then if it had been the start of a bear market. Read and learned a lot since then though so I'm sleeping well right now. Impatience is human though. ;)