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aeronauticalingrid

I hold mainly stables which I might use for real world payments and also a small amount of BTC.

TheRadishBros

I mean, the world’s largest economy now has a literal strategic reserve of BTC; you can’t get much more mainstream than that.

TangerineSpiritual51

Keep your money for end of the year..when BTC ..will drop

thienpro2

Total game changer for capital efficiency. Being able to keep gold exposure while using it as margin for BTC/ETH trades is a solid move by BingX. Definitely beats letting assets sit idle

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Post is by: dustyllanos27 and the url/text [ ](https://goo.gl/GP6ppk)is: /r/CryptoMarkets/comments/1shh00z/is_anyone_elses_ai_agent_way_too_conservative_or/ Running an agent on 1024EX beta for about 2 weeks. Momentum strategy on BTC. The agent is profitable (+3.1%) but it passes on SO MANY setups. Like, I can see clear breakouts that meet all my criteria and the agent just sits there. When I check the logs it's always something like "insufficient volume confirmation" or "risk-adjusted return below threshold." In the last 10 days it took 5 trades. I would have taken probably 15. On one hand — it's profitable and the trades it DOES take have a high hit rate. On the other hand, I feel like it's leaving money on the table. Anyone know if there's a way to make it more aggressive? Or is this just... the point? That it's supposed to be the disciplined version of you? starting to think the agent's biggest feature is stopping me from overtrading and I'm not ready to accept that emotionally *I am a bot, and this action was performed automatically. Please [contact the moderators of this subreddit](/message/compose/?to=/r/CryptoMarkets) if you have any questions or concerns.*

Plane-Salamander2580

If you want safe relative to crypto, there's really only BTC and ETH. Slightly more speculative you have Cardano.

brianmonarch

Not true. XRP has outperformed it in the last year or 2. Look it up. BTC just has a store of value at this point. And that might be enough for it to succeed. But if utility matters in the future, and I think it might, I’m not sure it’ll be as good of a money maker as it has been. But maybe!

yoobermcruber

0.00057053 BTC was sent to bc1qjjww43wu2e4uxxhkw3nrueyg2nljj8acn870k3 in that transaction and the transaction was confirmed. Nobody here can tell you if that is their "old address" or anything else. It honestly just sounds like somebody is scamming you.

ubermensch1001

This is a solid place to have made your first entry into this asset. If you are possibly interested in accumulating more, I would spend time learning about BTC itself and also study where it currently is compared to previous cycles and where it's going. I would also come up with some sort of accumulation strategy if you do in fact decide to continue to buy. IF this is the case, I'd also learn about self custody, how to use a cold wallet, securing seed phrases, etc. I would also accept that unless you are willing to accumulate a lot this is not going to make you rich easily and that it will take time and effort. Depending upon your budget, set goals for yourself that are reasonable instead of going to some insane target you have 0 chance of ever hitting. You will always feel left behind, but going for .01 then .025 and .1, etc. If you are living in America and serious about accumulating, you still have a very realistic shot of getting to .1+, which is a very big deal and way ahead of what the overwhelming majority of people will ever have.

beingmodest

What of Steve Keen's prediction on BTC hitting $0. He says the core design is flawed :-p

Apprehensive-Book787

16 years ago, 10.000 BTC got you a couple of pizzas, today it gets you 350 ships through the Strait of Hormuz… progress..

Zestyclose_Cheek527

I tried recovering the one that passed the checksum in BlueWallet aswell and used other types in electrum. I must have never received the BTC

Apprehensive-Book787

16 years ago, 10000 BTC got you a couple of pizzas, now it can get 350 ships through the Strait of Hormuz.. progress..

Apprehensive-Book787

Who would have thought that “Crypto President” Trump would trigger a bull run by allowing Iran to cash in these Strait of Hormuz toll fees in BTC…

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PurpleRodd

Thank you so much, I was planning on doing this route too. I love BTC and def want to do it long term. I'll also consider having a minor in fintech or ai engineering (im gonna kms throughout college)

Ok_Winter8503

For someone brand new I’d keep it boring on purpose. If it’s crypto only, BTC first and maybe ETH second, but I definitely wouldn’t start a family member off with a bunch of random alts and call that “investing” Most people think they’re diversifying when they’re really just adding more ways to be wrong

RaMeR31

Guten Morgen, ich denke keiner von uns hier weiß ob und wann BTC durch die Decke geht. Wie sagt man bei uns in Ostfriesland: Abwarten und Tee trinken 😎

MtGloomy0420

When you mention $BTC and have no idea what you are talking about, you buy more $BTC! When those same people come out (Terrance Howard) and suddenly have an option about $BTC, you definitely 💯 buy more!! Idiots.

--TheCity--

BTC, Yuan and stable coins.

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Post is by: Bcom_Mod and the url/text [ ](https://goo.gl/GP6ppk)is: /r/bitcoin_com/comments/1shbbj9/btc_hit_72k_on_ceasefire_news_etfs_just_had_their/ Let's look at what's actually happening in the market right now versus what sentiment is saying, because the gap between them is unusually wide. This week: BTC pushed above $72,000 on ceasefire optimism as Trump announced a two-week pause in Iran hostilities brokered through Pakistan. Monday saw $471 million in ETF net inflows. It's the sixth-largest single day of 2026. Morgan Stanley's $MSBT launched on Tuesday at 0.14%, the cheapest spot Bitcoin ETF on the market, attached to $9.3 trillion in wealth management AUM. Bitcoin has now broken out of a two-month $62K–$75K range to the upside on meaningful volume. The ceasefire, fragile as it is, has removed the single biggest macro headwind that's been sitting on every risk asset since late February. Fear & Greed: 11. Extreme Fear. That's the widest disconnect between price action and sentiment that's appeared in this whole bear market cycle. Price is doing one thing. The index tracking how scared people are is doing the complete opposite. There are two readings of this. The cynical one: Fear & Greed is a lagging sentiment indicator based on social media volume and survey responses from retail participants, many of whom have been burned repeatedly over the last six months and no longer trust bounces. The index being at 11 during a $72K print just means retail is exhausted and disengaged, not that the market is actually fragile. The other reading: the market is right to be scared. The ceasefire is two weeks, not a peace deal. Iran hasn't formally confirmed all terms. Oil is still above $100. The Fed is on hold. The altcoin divergence, where ENA is down 66% over 90 days, SUI and ARB down 50%+ while AI and privacy tokens outperform, suggests capital is concentrating rather than rotating broadly. That's not what healthy recoveries look like. What I'd actually watch: [if BTC holds above $72K into the weekend without the ceasefire unravelling](https://news.bitcoin.com/bitcoin-shatters-72000-as-middle-east-ceasefire-sparks-relief-rally/), the next resistance is $75K–$76K. A close above that on spot demand rather than short liquidations would be the first genuinely clean bullish signal in months. If the ceasefire breaks and oil spikes again, back to $65K–$67K support. *I am a bot, and this action was performed automatically. Please [contact the moderators of this subreddit](/message/compose/?to=/r/CryptoMarkets) if you have any questions or concerns.*

steebulee

You’re in a crypto sub boss. And it’s a BTC etf. It did absolutely nothing for bitcoin.

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Zestyclose-Suit-2858

The irony is that you don't realize that posts about price (like this one) are the same talking point? Over and over and over again. With 0 input, nothing interesting. But I hope you have fun giving yourself all kinds of anxiety by tracking the daily BTC price. :) Reddit hasn't been the place to talk about Bitcoin anyways, for at least a decade.

AdPrevious5886

Yes, you said it. If i held over that period. But i didnt because i was completely new, made my research, took my chances and it paid off, not as good as it could, but enough for a 22yo at the time. Now if i hold 50$ a month from now until ATH, return on BTC would be nothing compared to ETH.

Lazy_Intentions

My wife’s boyfriend says BTC moon tomorrow

chance_waters

Your return on BTC would be much higher than your return on ETH. With what you are describing just go throw your $50 down at the casino.

CalligrapherSpare634

I started with Kraken because the fees are reasonable and I didn't want to accidentally open a futures position like you mentioned. Coinbase is even simpler but fees are higher. One thing I wish I knew earlier: you can check order book depth across exchanges before committing to one. Some look liquid on the surface but have thin walls that cause slippage. CoinLobster shows aggregated BTC order books and liquidation data for free - useful for seeing which exchange actually has the depth for your size.

Deep_Ad5293

The hardest part for most beginners is realizing price action is just a symptom. The real drivers are order books and liquidations. A free tool like [coinlobster](https://coinlobster.com/crypto) makes it easier to see those dynamics, like a 500 BTC sell wall forming or a cascade of leveraged longs getting wiped, without having to piece it together yourself.

AdPrevious5886

Thats for sure. Im not investing everything in one time, i will take my time to do it properly, and probably will buy some little BTC again, who knows, just in case it reaches 500k or 1M someday in the next 20 years. Thanks, wishing good for you too!

AdPrevious5886

I dont think we are talking about the same graphics, and also could not agree on anything. Tbf, ETH did break its 2021 ATH in 2025, the last bull cycle, thats why i call it slow and steady. It was harder for it than BTC to reach ATHs, but it did. Also, how much is BTC down this year? You just upholding based on facts that can lead the conversation into your favour. You compare BTC and ETH with XMR and BNB, but you dont want me to compare HYPE with DOGE. Nobody expected DOGE to reach his ATH, and it did. Also, didnt have any institutional backing, like almost any crypto does, but i remember you Elon Musk, one of the richest and market manipulation person on the world, backed it many times. Who is even behind HYPE? Who backups it to be that trustful to you? Just your illusions. Also, yes, it worked for me. But BTC worked for me too, and i dont think is a profitable investment for me anymore. Im going back wanting the memories, yes, but also while having many takes and paths to follow. Thats why i take my time to choose my investments. Thats why i like to know how people think. Because i like to analize every scenario possible, even if its not going to happen. And the only one talking about HYPE in a post that has nothing to do with HYPE, even when other people told you're wrong already, are you. Still trying to convince how good investment HYPE is, when its the third time im saying that im not taking you seriously. Delusional, gambler, greedy, and also obstinate.

unknowngloomth

Slow and steady? ETH is down 27% this year while you're calling it steady. BTC hit new ATHs. BNB hit new ATHs. HYPE up 61% in a confirmed bear market. ETH couldn't even break its 2021 ATH in a full bull cycle. That's not slow and steady. You compared HYPE to DOGE. DOGE has no revenue. No buybacks and burnz. No institutional backing. HYPE generated $14 million in fees last week alone. You said you don't need to strike it rich. Fine. But you're planning to put 90% of survival money into an asset that underperformed the S&P 500 over 4 years. That's not conservative. You said I'm a gambler, but you're about to bet 90% of everything you own on one asset because it worked for you once in 2020.The casino analogy is perfect actually. ETH is your favorite slot machine because it paid out once. You're going back because of memory not maths

Arc_ClutchUp

Honestly any answer that’s not BTC would be wrong😂

AdPrevious5886

I told you, im not taking you seriously. ETH grows slow but steady, just cant compare it. Putting BTC and ETH in the same bag and comparing their growth to the BNB, SOL and XMR or even HYPE, tells me enough. And you also doesnt seem to know how to read. I dont need to strike it rich, i need some peace and some decent money to cover holes. Also, saying " risk big in low market cap" just confirm what i said, you're a gambler. And greedy. And as someone that was a greedy gambler on casinos, maybe idk what to do with my monet but i know perfectly what to not do. Greedy gambling NEVER ends good. So keep going balls deep on HYPE, maybe someday you strike it rich like some people did back in the day with DOGE. And you know what? If that ever happens, i will feel happy for you, because you got what you wanted. But also i would be happy if it never happens, because would mean i was right nowadays. So i have a 100% chance to be happy, while you have a slightly 50% less chance due to your expectations.

Cyberblood

So if crypto was the movie Junior, BTC would get pregnant?

Kurosaki56843

I'm seeing lots of people keep spamming that the bottom is in, that a huge pump is right around the corner... just because BTC went up to $72k.. I hope I'm wrong, I hope in 2 weeks I get like 100 messages saying stuff like "well this aged well" and so on, but tbh the reality is looking like we're gonna head lower further into 2026

AdPrevious5886

I mean, it is. It is a good investment, but not really worthy for people like me that could only afford maybe investing 50 monthly dollars or so. Maybe worthy is not the word, maybe it is profitable. I dont think is profitable anymore for people like me. Feels like its just for people who already have some interesting amount or for people that can get an interesting amount without even care about the money. Being realistic, if you invest 50 dollars monthly from now, until next ATH, if it happens in 2028, thats 2 years, and you invested like 50x24=1200$ , at an average cost of lets say 70k, sometimes 67k sometimes 73k, you will have lets say, aiming higher, 0,02 BTC. You will spend 2 years waiting and investing just to double your investment, in the best case. Wait 2 years just to make 1200$, or 600$ a year, feels not worthy to me. Maybe its my fault, since last time ive invested on crypto, did x7 in 11 months... But that was a long time ago, was big for me because was a good investment, but not even that good because i invested a little amount, like a thousand or so. And went on biting my nails for at least 9 months😅

unknowngloomth

And you obviously can't math. If you wanna strike it rich. You have to risk big in low market cap. You absolute 🤡 Plus, take a look at hyperliquid moat. ETH barely hit a new ATH from its 2021 ATH. Worst investment ever. BTC, SOL and BNB blew ETH out of water. Even XMR did. Get out...

theskyalreadyfell217

So let me get this straight. Some of these super majors like Exxon, Chevron, etc., are going to have to add BTC to their balance sheets to be able to pay Iran?

mmastropiero

They are not important to the most decentralized monetary network in the world, at all. >I Wish they weren't!!! Unfortunately, they are highly influential people. I agree that they mean nothing to the network, but most of the world doesn't know about Bitcoin, therefore we have to teach them. Unfortunately, people like these are doing that job poorly. No. Bitcoin doesn't give a duck about your favourite diet either. >I agree, it's not my point to make Bitcoin vegan, it's exactly the opposite; stop linking carnism to BTC. Again, Bitcoin nor anyone else cares what you of or don't akshually need Bitcoin to be... >I think you're just being rude now. I'm here to have a conversation, if you really don't care just stop talking dude. Lol. This all because of their diet? Well, if they are THAT WRONG about Bitcoin and carnism...maybe they're analysis on other Bitcoin-related topics is also myopic.

tidjou

Are there activities on the network that supports that iran is taking payments in BTC? I would check but i don't know how

VibinNoodle

No.. BTC will likely go under $60k in the following months (just my opinion ofc). Everything is going shit rn, oil supply shock will hit this month, this will push prices up and more ppl will be forced to sell, cuz they'll probably need money to repay loans, pay bills, etc..

BrooklynNeinNein_

Triple what No but seriously, if you think millionaires invest into BTC, then it sounds like a pretty good investment

northcasewhite

Or they could have bough all the BTC before Iran got hold of it.

Kurosaki56843

Easy - you go to the store and pay with crypto just as easily you pay with your current bank card. And I do mean this in the terms of accepting directly BTC, ETH and stablecoins, not converting them to the dollar or euro amount..

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Post is by: Kurosaki56843 and the url/text [ ](https://goo.gl/GP6ppk)is: /r/CryptoMarkets/comments/1sh4p1s/ceasefire_violated_on_day_one_what_exactly_is_btc/ BTC pumped on ceasefire news and is already fading. Looking at what's actually happening on the ground it's hard to see what's sustaining this. The US-Iran two week ceasefire was announced Tuesday. By Wednesday morning Israel had launched its largest wave of strikes on Lebanon since the war started (100 targets in 10 minutes, 254 killed in a single day). Iran accused the US of violating the deal within hours. Gulf states reported drone and missile attacks on oil infrastructure. The Strait of Hormuz is still effectively closed. There have been only 4 dry cargo ships that crossed on day one, no oil tankers. Iran is charging over $1 million per ship and threatening to walk away entirely if Israel doesn't stop bombing Lebanon. Even if the two weeks somehow hold, the Saturday talks in Islamabad start with Iran demanding sanctions removal, uranium enrichment rights and Hormuz control. The US wants zero enrichment and a permanently open strait. Those positions aren't remotely close. If talks collapse after the ceasefire expires oil probably spikes harder on the breakdown than it did going in. Add Powell basically admitting private sector job creation is zero, oil still near $100, and inflation about to get another push from energy prices... and this definitely doesn't feel like a macro environment that sustains a rally. Not trying to be the doom guy here.. Long term still bullish on BTC and the institutional thesis is real. But honestly skeptical these price levels hold while the ceasefire is already fraying and none of the underlying macro issues have moved. Either way I'm still stacking BTC at these levels, just not convinced this rally has legs. If it reverses and we see low $50k I'd probably borrow on Nexo and add more at a discount rather than scrambling to free up cash when the opportunity actually arrives. Honestly... do you still think there's an actual bull case here beyond short covering? *I am a bot, and this action was performed automatically. Please [contact the moderators of this subreddit](/message/compose/?to=/r/CryptoMarkets) if you have any questions or concerns.*

chubs66

Oh, well no you have my attention. If a slightly renowned BS artist thinks BTC will die, it's as good as done.

yell0w8

BTC utilities will finally be found on the moon and the mars...

Terepin123

Back told Carreyrou that whoever Satoshi is, he wouldn’t sell and would pass on to his heirs, which Carreyrou took to mean that’s Back’s plan for his BTC

AdPrevious5886

Im definitely not taking you seriously lol. Zoom out. How much higher you really think that HYPE you talking about will go? Or how much time will it stay? You cant compare ETH or BTC growing any of these coins nowadays, not even SOL, and if you do, one of two, youre a delusional or youre a gambler.

AdPrevious5886

Nah thats not for me anymore.. even if i wait 3-4 years, with the little money i can invest, at this price, the returns would be not worth the waiting, fr I really think BTC is great since i learned about it on 2018, and had my piece of it between 2020 and 2021, but nowadays i think its just for the people that been holding for more than 5 years or for those who already have big money to invest in it, like millionaires or big companies.

bitusher

Simply spinning up a non economic full node , A node that has no BTC secured by it and does not send and receive Bitcoin almost always helps no-one except a few exceptions 1) You are a developer and running node in a testnet /signet for testing 2) You are using a full node for a block explorer that is used like https://github.com/blockstream/esplora 3) You have incoming port open on 8333 (some isps and firewalls block this , have plenty of bandwidth , and an archival node that can perhaps help bootstrap new nodes Full nodes do not vote if they are non economic. Bitcoin's consensus is not a democracy where a majority of the nodes "vote" just by running a certain implementation or version. You vote by actually using your full node and enforcing the consensus rules with your UTXOs you secure and send and receive. Spinning up a sybil node is often a waste of time. This means you typically want to run a full node that is paired to a hardware wallet for best security. Something akin to HW wallet + sparrow and than core backend is a popular setup. Running software that fully validates all the rules like - https://bitcoincore.org/en/download/ Archival full nodes contain the full blockchain and allow new nodes to bootstrap from them . Current blockchain size is ~732GB for an archival node Pruned nodes can get down to around ~5 GB , and have all the same security and privacy benefits of archival nodes but need to initially download the whole blockchain for full validation before deleting it (It actually prunes as it validates) You are only truly p2p if you are running a full node . running light clients depend upon you trusting a middleman and typically only validate block headers. Light clients are exposed to many more threats full nodes are not. There are also privacy concerns with light clients that full nodes are secure against. The whitepaper only suggests SPV "light" nodes in the context of fraud alerts(proofs) existing but thus far none exist and therefore you shouldn't trust large amounts of btc with a light client.

Live_Employment_6611

I want BTC , please. Mining BTC...🫂

Ok_Pipe6417

The toll can be paid in anything but USD. Of all the financial instruments available to shippers or oil producers I find it extremely unlikely that BTC is going to find a use case here. Most likely Yuan and long established trust worthy escrow providers. 

TheGreatCryptopo

Any investment decision should be made as holding long term, minimum 5 years. Ease your mind back into it buy a portion now, not more than 50%. Then DCA back in when you feel comfortable, ETH and BTC is the way to go. All other coins is a crap shoot.

Majestic_Can_6363

Volatility isn't the real risk for beginners, emotional decision making is. The market doing -30% is fine if you don't sell. Start with BTC only, learn one platform properly, ignore everything else for 6 months. Nexo is decent for beginners - buy, earn yield, nothing complicated.

lexicon_riot

I haven't seen anything in here since the FT report from yesterday that explicitly mentions BTC.

KCConnor

Define "expensive." NiceHash has a hashrate marketplace. So does Braiins. The nice thing about open markets is that prices are more or less the same wherever you go to rent it right now due to supply/demand. You're going to pay about $33,000 per Exohash/sec per day. $33K per Exohash per day is the same as: $33 per Petahash per day $0.033 per Terahash per day Renting someone's Fluminer T3 rig that does 100T-hash will cost you about $3 a day, to rent a rig that sells now for around $1800 or so. And they're paying the electricity to run it as well. Residential electricity is anywhere from $0.10 to $0.40 per kilowatt hour, and that thing will chew up 1700 watts per hour, resulting in $3-$8 or so per day (unlikely someone with high electrical costs is renting such a unit but you get the point). You keep the BTC mined, and you don't have to maintain the machine or provide power.

stellarfirefly

Most small-scale miners are either lottery mining, or mining something other than BTC which has a better potential ROI, or yes most likely, losing money slowly. You have to scale up quite a bit and/or have extremely cheap electricity to see a daily or even monthly positive income.

oopssomething

Now that the wars are almost over and world peace has never been closer than now. Humanity focusing on space exploring and renewal energy. BTC will see new highs this month.

Old_Pilot6434

I think they use Coinbase to host their BTC, but I'm not sure.

filenotfounderror

Its collected in BTC, not charged in BTC. I.e. even if they crashed the price...they would juat collect more btc.

dMONKEYMANb

It can't but everything outside of BTC can be. Payments or interactions can't be accepted from blacklisted address is pretty much what happens. If you accept BTC from a blacklisted address yours will most likely be monitored or possibly blacklisted as well.

InvestAISavvy

The social data around BTC right now is wild. Fear & Greed index is sitting at 14 — extreme fear — while price is actually up 8% on the week. Meanwhile Morgan Stanley just launched a spot BTC ETF today with $34M in first-day volume. So you've got a sovereign nation demanding BTC for critical infrastructure tolls, the biggest US investment bank launching an ETF, and retail sentiment is the most bearish it's been since February. That disconnect is hard to ignore. I keep going back to the idea that institutions are positioning for a world where BTC has real geopolitical utility while retail is panic selling. Whether Iran actually follows through on this is almost beside the point — the fact that it's even on the table changes the narrative.

Live_Drive_6256

How can feds blacklist a BTC address? I thought btc couldn’t be controlled.

SalteeKibosh

Collecting 282BTC per day is equivalent to running 1,068,181 S23 Hydro ASICs w/o paying for the power to run them. Power required to run 1M S23 Hydros is ~5,885 megawatts or 141,240,000 kWh per day which would cost ~$6,356M/day @ $0.045/kwh.

Marsuvias

Its not about the amount. They chose BTC. No privacy. Good luck Iran 😂😂😂

LibertyWithLiquidity

You said you started a month ago, that's 30 days, that's not a significant amount of time. You have hundreds of hours of research to do. If news faze you, you just haven't studied BTC. 2 comments from strangers on Reddit also shouldn't increase or decrease your confidence in something. DYOR & become sovereign. All the best!

BooDawg908

I’m glad there’s people still super confident in BTC. I’ve been hearing nothing but negativity lately

LiquidityCompass

This setup usually isn’t “alts breaking free”… it’s a transition phase. Low volatility + rising BTC dominance = liquidity still sitting in BTC, not really rotating yet. That rotation is what actually drives alt runs. Real question is: does current liquidity even support a proper BTC breakout first… or is this just another compression before a fake move?

coinfeeds-bot

tldr; Bhutan has accelerated its Bitcoin sell-off, transferring 250 BTC worth about $17.7 million to exchanges as part of a broader 319.7 BTC move worth $22.7 million. Since early 2026, it has moved over $215 million in BTC, signaling a faster liquidation pace. Despite the sales, Bhutan still holds about 3,954 BTC worth roughly $280 million. The move reflects a gradual risk-reduction strategy amid wider institutional Bitcoin selling. *This summary is auto generated by a bot and not meant to replace reading the original article. As always, DYOR.

Revolutionary-Cup78

if you want to get technical, you should read the full White paper. Then get into the docs and deploy a BTC test net (you can make your own Bitcoin deployment, although only Bitcoin in what is agreed upon as the main net are valuable). No need to purchase any fancy hardware especially when you don't know for what it is. If you are interested in the financial side of it, just DCA some and keep it for emergencies. When you have a lot of it then you should consider getting a native wallet. I would heavily advice against going into self custodian solutions (a native wallet is self custodian) before understanding the technical side of BTC, Otherwise you might lose access to your funds or fall into a scam (very frequently, when you purchase dedicated hardware like this so popular "cold storage" ledgers, you end up getting a compromised product and or credentials designed to drain you

Awkward_Potential_

Youre right. I'll add, we should not let Christian fundamentalists co-opt the BTC story either.

ElanInsights

Yep, correct. And as is usual with any crisis, I think think risk-on / rising liquidity assets (BTC for now) suffer in any crisis, political or economic. Big players go to cash (or are forced into it by margin calls) and the retail players follow.

ElanInsights

Thanks for the lead u/NeitherAd3347 I just looked up his account - what a shame he stopped posting. Nonetheless I'll go back through them - there's a "lot of BTC in them hills!"

DespairWillOvercome

Buy Gold and BTC, OIL might get down as Israel offered readiness to peace talks regarding Lebanon

jcb193

But they had no ideas BTC would ever amount to anything other than a hobby, so why be secret about it and go to these levels of secrecy?

hughkuhn

How are you all missing the fact that Morgan Stanley introduced their BTC ETF yesterday? 16,000 wealth advisors now able to put their clients in an MS Bitcoin ETF....

ElanInsights

Yep, exactly. To my mind, "nothing stops this train" (Lyn Alden) of BTC (or the devaluation of the US$).

FromThePits

I can imagine Exxon paying Iran a toll of 25 BTC to pass a ship through the straight of Hommuz Also paying a Korean shipyard for their next bulk carrier with bitcoin. I can imagine Iran buying anti-air weapons from Russia with BTC, and Russia buying drones from China, and China buying debt from USA. But with an average of 1000 sats transaction fee I don't see BTC becoming a daily standard for salaries or coffee purchasing any day soon (ever?) . Second layer solutions will also have to settle from time to time . Too expensive for small-timers. ETF's might break also. It's tradition with third party solutions, although there's some big money behind this time. Time will tell.

Cool_Natural_145

I have 60% BTC and 40% ETH in my portfolio and will HODL

kawfeemeister0920

Has to begin with pretty much everyone has a cold wallet for their own savings. Pretty much everyone knows the difference between a hot and cold wallet and converting between cryptos whether it be USDC/T to BTC or DOGE for that matter is just an app away and a matter of minutes.

EmployEuphoric

Every 4 years my friend, and the BTC halving period affects most of the rest of the crypto market. It's been the exact same trend since the beginning. Yes, it seems to be that simple... for now. Things can always change.

FromThePits

Ok, well The main point is that you're part of the first-mover bitcoin holders, and your great great grandchildren will never be able to have as easy access to buying and saving millions of satoshi as you do right now. It will be out of reach for almost everybody by then. Even 0,0079 BTC (one month of total BTC mining release in year 2120) Weither or not planning should be considered at all, is really up to the individual. Most people probably couldn't care less.. but everybody would also very much love a huge windfall from their own ancestors. And someone has to start it somewhere, for that to ever happen, right? :)

Pretty-Memory-3472

It’s a smart sanctions workaround forcing quick BTC payments that are hard for the West to block. Basically turning Bitcoin into digital oil toll money. a single country soaking up that much fresh BTC daily is no small thing for supply pressure. Crazy how geopolitics is pushing nation-state Bitcoin adoption.

Confident_Hunter7506

The DAT strategy is going to implode. All those companies bought at cycle highs and their financing was suspect. They may be up millions in staking revenue but they’re down billions from the cost basis. A couple are bound to fail which means a lot of ETH BTC and SOL are going to flood the market.

FromThePits

I wont. Of course we all have other sources of income. My point is that BTC is bound to slip through your familys fingers over a few generations. Doesn't matter how much of a diamond hand you are and how much cold storage you do. They will become close to no-coiners, if you don't do plan for them. I plan to save for the next 4 generations. Just to give them a fighting chance and hopefully inspire them to do the same. Otherwise they will also become no-coiners, and wonder what the hell I was thinking about, having millions and not saving just a little for them? They will still be able to save in satoshi or milli-satoshis, but for every generation, their salary will allow them less and less bitcoin. Meanwhile institutions and not just the ones that issues ETF's, but banks, governments, retirement funds, companies etc. around the world will scoop up every bitcoin found in the wild, and they will sit on it forever for leverage and collateral. Individuals will not on a large scale be able to compete, so retails share will shrink significantly. NYKNYC or not. Thats not the issue here. Stamina is.

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tldr; Strategy says its Bitcoin buying strategy produced a 3.7% BTC Yield and about $1.7 billion in “BTC Gain” this year after acquiring over 94,000 BTC, more than twice newly mined supply. But the article says those company-defined metrics mask the picture in SEC filings: under fair-value accounting, Strategy recorded a roughly $14.46 billion unrealized quarterly loss, leaving its overall Bitcoin position underwater even as it keeps issuing equity to buy more. *This summary is auto generated by a bot and not meant to replace reading the original article. As always, DYOR.

lurker512879

He put 2.5 billion into BTC according to some article I read yesterday and as of recently he was down nearly half, they keep hedging to not lose anymore valuation there They bought at the ATH and then then said it's gonna double in price and it nearly halved

Dull_Door_9376

I'm assuming your definition of a bull run is "BTC", "BNB" and "SOL" In that case yes the bull run is over. Possibly summer is a good time for accumulating

ynnubyzzuf

Iran will receive absolutely zero bitcoin, none of this will happen They will get Yuan, which is smarter anyway. World governments are not suddenly going to skyrocket BTC to pay tolls. Absolute horseshit headline.

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Post is by: ScholarPrize1335 and the url/text [ ](https://goo.gl/GP6ppk)is: /r/Buttcoin/comments/1sercte/this_sub_is_not_smart_enough_to_understand_the/ Point 1.) Every investment but MSTR loses purchasing power to inflation. Fiat in MSTR grows in value the more that fiat is less valuable. Point 2.) Fiat will go to zero and BTC will go to infinity. When dollars are essentially worthless MSTR will be worth an insane amount of worthless dollars. Point 3.) Scarcity and value are the same thing. The Vaquita is the rarest animal on earth and farts through its blow hole. If those farts could be harvested and stored as an investment they would be the rarest/ most valuable thing on the planet. Point 4.) Saylor knows if your are HODL or have been disloyal. Currently the person with the most money to invest in buttcoin has that money from buying buttcoin puts. But if that person tries to put their dirty fiat in MSTR Saylor will find them and devalue their shares. Point 5.) Return rates from the last 15 years apply to debt issued today. Buttcoin went up so much that gains from the last decade will easily pay for interest on any and all debt even if buttcion never goes up again. 6.) The name "strategy" is pure genius 3d chess game theory. If you have a fruit stand that doesn't sell Mango it should be named Mango fruit stand. Strategy has no real strategy which means no one can effectively position themselves on the other side of a non existent strategy. Stack, HODL, and & F\*&k fiat!!! Multiple people correctly pointed out that Saylor is like Santa Claus. To that say **"You better not sell, you only can buy** **Don't look at the NAV, I'm telling you why** **Saylor Claus is coming to town** **He's selling junk bonds, so he can buy** **More buttcoin, no matter the price** **MSTR stock is going right down** **Don't look at benchmark index's, they just lead you astray** **He knows if you've been bad or HODL, so HODL for Saylor's sake!** *I am a bot, and this action was performed automatically. Please [contact the moderators of this subreddit](/message/compose/?to=/r/CryptoMarkets) if you have any questions or concerns.*

FromThePits

Large institutions has the capacity to buy and hodl for far longer than any individual. The only reason we have bitcoin-millionaires is because some people were lucky enough to be at the right place at the right time with the right mindset. Even those people will not increase the holdings by much. Most of them will probably sell little by little, and their heirs will divide the remaining BTC. 2 or 3 generations and its all gone again, into the cooperate treasuries that can afford to hodl indefinitely. The BTC pool for retail will shrink to almost nothing (but never nothing). It is relatively easy for us to buy and save millions of satoshi, but for our great grandchildren this will seem absurd.

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Post is by: One-Formal-824 and the url/text [ ](https://goo.gl/GP6ppk)is: /r/CryptoMarkets/comments/1sgr180/is_the_bull_run_really_over_or_not/ i genuinely don't think so, but i get why people are asking. the Fear and Greed Index has been sitting at 12 for over 46 consecutive days which is rough. BTC is down 46% from its all time high and 30% since January, altcoins are hurting even more. it feels awful to be in right now. but that's kind of the point isn't it. while retail is reducing exposure, whales and institutions are moving in the opposite direction, Strategy added over 85,000 BTC in Q1 alone, and spot ETFs just recorded their first month of net inflows after a string of outflows. that's not how a dead market behaves. there are also actual catalysts coming. the CLARITY Act markup is expected mid-April which could open the door to a whole new class of institutional capital. that's not nothing. so no i don't think it's over. but i'm also not pretending the next few weeks will be easy. the way i'm dealing with it, keep a core position, let stables earn yield while i wait, and if i need liquidity i borrow against holdings rather than sell into this. been using nexo for that, keeps me from making panic decisions when i just need cash for something. protect the downside, don't over-leverage, let things develop. what's everyone else doing rn *I am a bot, and this action was performed automatically. Please [contact the moderators of this subreddit](/message/compose/?to=/r/CryptoMarkets) if you have any questions or concerns.*

Blade_Runner_69

Mainly Yuan, but they accept BTC and certain stable coins too.

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tldr; Bitcoin Depot, a major bitcoin ATM operator, lost at least 54 BTC, worth about $3.6 million, in a hack on March 23, according to investigator ZachXBT. The breach reportedly went undetected for three days until March 26. The attacker targeted the company’s storage wallets, using 19 blockchain addresses, and some funds flowed to KuCoin. Bitcoin Depot said no customer personal data was likely exposed and has hired external security investigators. *This summary is auto generated by a bot and not meant to replace reading the original article. As always, DYOR.

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Post is by: dustyllanos27 and the url/text [ ](https://goo.gl/GP6ppk)is: /r/CryptoMarkets/comments/1sgq287/was_on_a_5hour_flight_when_cpi_data_dropped_my_ai/ I travel for work about twice a month. Usually that means I either close all positions before boarding or accept that I might land to a margin call. Neither option is great. I've been testing 1024EX's AI agent for about 3 weeks now (closed beta). Last Thursday I had a 5-hour flight — no wifi — and CPI came in hotter than expected right after takeoff. \*\*What happened while I was in the air:\*\* The agent's decision log showed this sequence: 1. CPI released at 8:30 ET. Agent detected BTC dropping 2.1% in 4 minutes. 2. It immediately reduced my BTC long by 40% (I had a momentum position open). 3. 12 minutes later, when BTC bounced slightly, it closed another 30% at a smaller loss. 4. Held the remaining 30% with a tightened stop. 5. By the time I landed, it had closed everything. Total damage: -0.7% on portfolio. \*\*What would have happened without the agent:\*\* Based on the price action, if I'd held my full position through the dump and recovery, I would have been down about -2.4% at the worst point. And knowing myself, I probably would have panic-sold somewhere near the bottom after landing and seeing the chart. So realistically, maybe -1.8% to -2.2%. \*\*My honest reaction:\*\* Relieved, but also a little freaked out. The agent made 4 decisions in 15 minutes that I couldn't even review, let alone approve. The reasoning in the logs made sense \*after the fact\*, but I had zero control in the moment. This raises a genuine philosophical question about these agents: how much autonomy is too much? I told it "manage risk aggressively during macro events" and it did exactly that. But there's a difference between trusting a strategy and trusting a system to make real-time judgment calls with your money. \*\*The uncomfortable truth:\*\* The agent did better than I would have. That bothers me more than I expected. Still testing. Still not sure I'm comfortable giving it more capital. But the CPI incident is hard to argue with. *I am a bot, and this action was performed automatically. Please [contact the moderators of this subreddit](/message/compose/?to=/r/CryptoMarkets) if you have any questions or concerns.*

FunWithSkooma

see how many people rather have BTC ETFs than the asset itself...

Str8truth

Bullish for BTC!

Suspicious_Act4982

This is the phase where BTC stops being a leveraged bet on risk-on and starts just sitting there like a thing people own. What changed for me practically is I stopped thinking about exit points and started thinking about utility. Like I have a chunk of BTC that I'm not selling anytime soon, so instead of it just sitting there I took a loan against it on nexo when I needed liquidity last month. Didn't trigger a taxable event, kept my exposure. That boring middle zone you're describing is actually where crypto starts functioning like an asset class instead of a casino ticket.