BTC

snek-jazz

> BTC is failing Bitcoin stopped going down almost 2 months ago.

joos_hubert

I’d separate the question into two parts: loan mechanics and sleep-at-night risk. At \~1.24% APY the rate looks attractive, but 60% LTV against BTC is the part that would make me nervous, not the interest. Bitcoin can move 20–30% fast, and once you’re forced to watch liquidation levels every day, the “cheap” loan stops feeling cheap. Personally I wouldn’t do this at 60% unless I had a very obvious top-up plan and extra liquidity ready. If you really want to keep exposure, a lower LTV or even a hybrid approach makes more sense to me: sell a bit, borrow a bit, and avoid putting yourself in a position where one ugly move decides the apartment purchase for you.

Suspicious_Act4982

BTC is the only one where "too late" is genuinely off the table as an argument. The thesis is simple enough that it either works long term or it doesn't - and if it doesn't, most altcoins go with it anyway. For smaller caps the question is always whether there's a real product underneath the price. Most don't have one. The ones worth watching have utility that works outside a bull run - yield, credit lines, actual user activity. Nexo fits that category. HBAR and XRP are more macro/institutional bets, different risk profile entirely. What's your time horizon?

No-Confusion4519

I meant the yield provider not the coin. Ofcourse the coin can go up or down in 6 months. That is a different thing. But in your case it is BTC and 6 months is fine with Kraken.

Working_Pilot_5864

Yeah, I get what you mean, it kind of feels like BTC is in this weird middle ground now. It’s not acting like a true safe haven like gold, but it’s also not getting dumped first like a high-risk asset anymore. Almost like the market is starting to treat it as something more “established,” but not fully defensive yet Might just be a sign that BTC is maturing into its own category rather than fitting the old narratives.

Maddcapp

That’s the right attitude but I’d advise some kind of diversification. Even if you go mostly BTC, with some metals ETFs, some energy ETFs, and some solid companies. Just in case Bitcoin doesn’t perform as expected you can still have exposure to other assets. Over your lifetime they should all be much more valuable. And since your young, keep some cash liquid so eventually when the market crashes you can buy in low. You have time on your side and can wait for the right opportunity 

pronebonedetector

The following is a snippet from what I asked chatgpt: >How Bitcoin is actually exposed Important nuance: ❗ Only certain wallets are vulnerable If you’ve never spent from your address → your public key is hidden If you have spent → your public key is visible on-chain Does anyone have any insight into this, is this true and a possible way to be safe if I never intend to spend my BTC from my cold wallet? And when I do I'd probably cash it all at once.

WorldlyCaramel3793

DCAing BTC no matter what happens

Financial_Vanilla_47

Bitcoin is failing.. this is the FINAL bear market for Bitcoin... Only the strongest alts will survive and stablecoin yield will be fine... Block times will become worrisome below 30k causing a death spiral for BTC and there's where the BTC.d breakdown will be.

Financial_Vanilla_47

It's not a normal bear market... BTC is failing and won't really admit it until it's under 30k and block times start getting worse.

Financial_Vanilla_47

It's not going to feel great if BTC is sitting below 30k and block times start to get real bad

geditaza

First BTC is the hardest. Now the journey really begins.

ThreeTonChonker

Thanks for that ChatGPT description of quantum computing. The energy needed to execute quantum computing dwarfs the current energy generation by the entire planet. Quantum computing would make AI data center usage look like a joke in comparison. It would be incredibly obvious if a company was going to try and break crypto. Not only would various governments shut them down in a heartbeat, but realistically all it means is BTC would hard fork away from the hostile takeover (not ideal but always an option).

jurs78

Wrong place to ask this question. Buy some BTC yes, but don’t make it your ride or die.

Potatotornado20

The bottom will be in Oct-Nov, but BTC will have already priced in the crisis, so price will still be around where it is now, which is the 2021 all time high.

LiquidityCompass

These quiet phases are usually where the bigger moves get set up. What I’ve noticed is it often lines up with liquidity being in transition — not clearly expanding or contracting yet. That’s when price gets choppy and boring on the surface. Once liquidity direction becomes clearer, BTC tends to move with a lag. So yeah, these phases feel slow, but they’re usually where positioning matters most.

baIIern

>1973, 1979, 1990, 2008. And while it’s still debated whether 2022 was a true recession, the Russia/Ukraine energy crisis coincided with a 19.4% crash in the S&P and 64% crash in BTC. Here's the thing: 2008 was a banking/real estate crisis. In 2022, we didn't really get an oil crisis, Europe was a little too exposed to Russian gas... Sad thing is we can't compare all this to the situation today. \-> could be nothing, could be the start of deepest bear. There's no way to be sure

MKT_Paydao

BTC doesn’t really have a clean Q1 pattern. Some years explode, some years bleed, and that’s why simple seasonality takes can be misleading.

Awkward_Potential_

The other interesting thing, everyone involved in that decision making could load up on BTC before they make that announcement.

Olive_paydao

Same here. I’m not betting on a specific year, just treating BTC like a long-term savings asset and letting time do the heavy lifting.

BlazingPalm

Yes, but if the internet has a serious, widespread and enduring outage, banking will also be severely affected. Same concept of quantum computers cracking SHA-256 encryption- yes, BTC would be directly negatively impacted, but so would everything else.

CryptCranker0808

> The inflation bug was found long before that unless you’re talking about something else? The original inflation bug (integer underflow) was July, 2010. The BTC inflation bug found by the BCH dev was found in 2018, first put in place by a 2016 code change.

Different-Bell-3360

Dude you could have got your rub and tug and still accumulated your BTC.

_paydao

I see it the same way. BTC doesn’t look strong enough to be called defensive, but it also doesn’t look like the weakest asset in the room anymore. Feels like the market is starting to price it differently.

TheMaharishiEffect

Well for me I was just an NPC and thought BTC was too expensive because buying a whole one seemed expensive... so I bought ETH and other stupid alt coins instead. Then when ETH went nowhere I decided to research BTC and was orange pilled immediately. I realized the value it holds and its anti inflationary properties.

MainTommyyB

You people are delusional. BTC went from 58,000 to 16,000 in 1 year during the last presidential administration. The Nasdaq fell 30% during the same time period. Did you regret voting for Biden then?

MythicMango

1 BTC still equals 1 BTC

crazy_lolipopp

March ended in green for BTC with +1.85% 🤣🤣🤣

NRmy73

Diversify. Stocks, Mutual funds, etfs, cds, cash, bitcoin. If you're going to go all in on BTC...... Don't

Jbarista94

You are on the bitcoin Reddit thread, so you will get plenty of yes answers to that approach. Personally I am much more heavily invested in equities - now is probably a good time to buy - and I buy $50 of BTC every week until eternity

ehhhwhynotsoundsfun

Puts on BTC and BCC.

InternationalFun1337

I see your bet and raise you to ‘Manufactured charges, then donation BTC to the US government, followed by a presidential pardon’

ignacio-webdev

Same situation!! Been thinking about this a lot and have been buying a lot of BTC over the last few months. I believe it can still go down so I try to DCA Let’s see where we are at in a few years!!

SpiritedWay5745

Had the same thought when I started working right out of college a few years ago, and I’ve been maxing out my Roth IRA with FBTC ever since. I’m already well diversified through my brokerage account and my 401k and I hold additional crypto on a hardware wallet (mostly BTC, along with some ETH and SOL). Altogether, about 20% of my net worth is in bitcoin. At 24, I’m comfortable taking on that level of risk. My thinking is simple, Roth IRA is one of the most tax-advantaged accounts available. Why not use it for a higher-risk, higher-upside asset? If bitcoin continues to grow the way it has over the past decade, the tax-free gains could be insane. And if it doesn’t play out that way, I’m fine with it. I’d rather take a calculated risk now than play it too safe early on.

yoobermcruber

You're incorrect. The base unit is actually SAT, not BTC.

Suitable_Criticism72

That’s a fair assessment. The difference between "resilience" and "true momentum" is a fine line right now. To lean into that macro-heavy perspective and spark some debate, you could ask: Do you think we need to see oil and the DXY actually cool off before BTC can break its correlation with macro fear, or is the fact that it's holding the high 60k range despite those headwinds the 'clean' signal we're looking for?

coffeebadger21

Hell no it isn't. Just because this was announced years in advance doesn't mean instutional investors are smart enough to actually put money in it ahead of time. The "digital beanie babies" narrative is still alive and well. The whole problem with 401k's is that things like this can't be priced in because everyone is relying on someone else to decide their portfolio allocations. There's no accountability in this industry for failing to buy BTC early.

SydZzZ

No one cares about SOL and XRP. That’s just pump and dump for big funds to make quick cash at retails expense. Only BTC and to some extent eth has value. Rest is all noise.

KoalaOk3020

50% BTC 50% Sats

rawfuelinjection

Ain't spending BTC on grocery, coffee, etc a taxable event?

InvestAISavvy

This is the part that doesn't get talked about enough. A 60-year-old and a 28-year-old both independently arriving at the same conclusion from completely different life situations. That's not a coincidence — that's a signal. The social data is backing this up too. Institutional accumulation hasn't slowed down despite BTC being 45% off its October highs. MicroStrategy, the ETF flows, even some sovereign wealth funds are quietly adding. Meanwhile retail sentiment has been getting more bearish week over week. That gap between what big money is doing and what the crowd is feeling is exactly the kind of divergence I pay attention to. OP's got the one thing most people don't — time. At 28 with a 5-6 year horizon, he's not even playing the same game as the people panicking about weekly candles.

Advanced-Industry-50

Personally I am 30 and doing like 2k a month but that's maybe 15-20% of my monthly investments.  I am accumulating till 10% of my net portfolio is crypto and rest is in index funds and little bit in Google.  My two cents would be as long as you are buying and the total holdings is maybe 10-15% of your portfolio, you should be fine but if not you are in for huge swings.  I personally believe investments should be less risk and careers/earnings should be high risk so higher income and safeguard it through a well diversified portfolio which won't swing too much. If you are ok with the volatility sure but that's against the basic principles of investing tbh, irrespective all the best and hopefully BTC goes up since I am long on Btc as well.

Exarc799

Certainly like this a lot better than the "tRaDe fOr a ChAnCe aT a BTC" that coinbase rams down my throat.

admin_default

Markets are still ignoring the downside risk. An energy crisis would pop the AI bubble which would drag crypto to the depths of hell along with it. There’s a real chance that we see BTC in the $30K range and ETH under $1000.

Sazmining

If you're going to dump $2,500 a month into BTC...that's amazing. You might also want to pick up a rig (or two) so that you can DCA into the network for 2-3 years! 🟠⚡⛏️

baconcheeseburgarian

BTC proved the core functionality of crypto. If there was no BTC there would be no crypto industry. If Vitalik wasnt a bitcoin fanboy hed have never started creating Ethereum. Gold is great to store value and even though we've come up with tons of exotic financial instruments that do all sorts of crazy shit countries still keep vaults filled with precious metals.

devCheckingIn

MARA sold over 15,000 BTC earlier in the month. There's plenty of stuff available OTC.

snamepchag5

The people who never invested in BTC and the paper hands will always talk shit about it.

EarningsPal

Maybe it was always a covert operation for the US government to buy up lots of BTC using money printing. Essentially borrowing money from a bank creates more circulating money.

DahliaDeviantArdor

It kind of depends what you mean by “slower,” though. On-chain speed? Lightning is way faster than waiting for regular BTC confirmations. Finality vs “time to first confirmation”? Or are you talking about UX, like opening channels, liquidity, etc., which is still kinda clunky compared to just sending on some L2 or alt chain. Also, a lot of stuff with Lightning is happening in the background now. If you’re using a custodial wallet or a service that abstracts it away, it can feel instant enough that you don’t really care what’s under the hood. Not saying Lightning is perfect, it’s definitely still rough around the edges, but “slower than the others” is a pretty broad brush.

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.