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Unable_Illustrator_2

Im married so, if I die, my wife will get it. Also, I have a young niece (my sister's daughter) who I want to help. So, basically if I die, I'll leave most to my wife, a bit to my niece, and the rest to my older sister. But I get your point. I'll personally probably never benefit from my BTC.

RamoneBolivarSanchez

You clearly don’t know what XMR is kiddo. It absolutely has a use case that BTC and ETH can’t satisfy, and it’s why it’s compliments them nicely. I’ve been holding all 3 since 2017 and it’s been great

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5553331117

Open up that history I’m sure it’s all a bunch of btc eth bullshit lol XMR is what Bitcoin was supposed to be. FUNGIBLE. No other crypto is.  BTC and ETH are corpo coins now, just look who controls development. Ok I’m going to stop talking to the bot now 

Sector__7

Don’t feed the 4 day old bot account. I love BTC as much as any of us but OP is cherry picking numbers to get these stats to be true. At the start of 2023, BTC was ~$17K and at the end of 2025 it was ~$91.4K. This is a total return of 537% but ONLY if you bought and sold at those specific dates and the weekly return would be much less. Basically, you had to time the market at those specific times to get those returns and anybody who’s DCAing surely isn’t getting anything anywhere that high. If you change the time period. If you change the time period to the beginning of 2022, you’d have a 218% return (~$41.9K - ~$91.4K) and weekly returns that are even less.

Lega17

People better be prepared for whats going to happen on Wednesday and the Trump tariff ruling. If the tariffs are deemed illigal BTC is going to tank 10% easy....

flying-fox200

I'd stay away from Exodus...! BlueWallet is open-source and tried-and-tested: it's what the Bitcoin community usually recommends for an iOS/Android wallet. Blockstream BTC Wallet is also a good choice.

Super-Smoke295

You say you want to start "earning" Bitcoin. As in a job? Otherwise, you can pick up a FOLD BTC Visa Card that gives you rewards on just about every purchase you'll ever make...rewards in Bitcoin. Up to 30% cash back in many places. The company also trades publicly and was just added to the Russell 2000 index. Symbolf FLD. Trades around $2.50 a share and just got an analyst price target of $14 a share.

cannedshrimp

Is the point of crypto to let people get in early so that they can get rich? If so it actually is a Ponzi scheme. To me the point of crypto is to fix the broken incentives in our financial system. I don’t think anything outside ETH and BTC have a chance at doing that and I am still extremely skeptical of the path ETH is on.

steppe5

That's because everything outside of BTC and ETH is a scam.

Icy-Aardvark-1158

That makes a lot of sense. Going from speculation to seeing BTC as savings instrument is probably the natural evolution after getting burned enough times. Havent read Your Money or Your Life but sounds like I should. Maybe Ill get to your approach after a few expensive lessons. Appreciate you sharing your journey instead of just saying I told you so.

labatte

> there’s always a chance I might need capital quickly if a business or investment opportunity comes up. I’m going to hit you with some brutal honesty. There is not going to be a business or investment opportunity coming up that a poor person like yourself can “invest” in that will see greater return than BTC. What do you expect? You put 5k into a startup that turns into a million? Not going to happen. Just keep DCA’ing into BTC

uncapchad

South Africa. It's been active for about 3 years now. You can pay in many cryptocurrencies, not just BTC. Instantly converted to fiat, so the supermarket gets fiat, not crypto. Near-zero transaction costs. Banks here still charge fees for every transaction (and anything else they can think of). Also a lot of unbanked people here A similar set-up went live last year in Switzerland. Accepting crypto as payment is not so rare.

im_a_stapler

I'm glad this is upvoted. This post is embarrassing. It has the mentality of a child. BTC would do well to separate itself from this vibe because it really detracts actually intelligent and insightful people.

im_a_stapler

Another post that looks like it was made by a 14 year old. Wouldn't it be nice if BTC could strip itself of that vibe?

ComfortableLeading49

BTC isn’t going lower, but it all now. If you DCA, all you’ll be doing is slowing marking your average buy price go up

Icy-Aardvark-1158

Fair perspective and probably the healthiest approach honestly BTC DCA and touch grass is unironically solid life advice I respect that but also some people are wired to take calculated risks on asymmetric bets Not saying its smarter just saying different risk tolerance You stick to BTC and real life. Ill probably lose money on small caps and learn the hard way Appreciate the reality check though

Icy-Aardvark-1158

100% agree crypto is inherently risky especially outside top 20 No amount of research eliminates scam risk completely My question is does that mean we should only stick to BTC ETH SOL etc or is there a way to reduce the risk enough to make small cap plays worth it Because if everyone only buys top 20 then nobody ever gets in early on anything Not saying I have the answer just trying to figure out where the line is between reckless and overly cautious

Full_Click_8846

😂 That's one way to say “thank you” for the BTC tip. Who else is hoping their 2026 self remembers today like this? 🚀💎

ninjazee124

Pretty much realized all the alt coins are scam, moved everything to BTC and chilling now.

I-Feel-Love79

The crazy 🤪 world of BTC dreamers.

OccasionalXerophile

BTC strong like BULL

Ereptile-Disruption

While I really like XMR, price was never the point of the coin, I would keep a bigger amount of coin in ETH/BTC and convert in XMR only a small amount that I need to spend right away. 

Ok_Insect7614

Because every fucking post about BTC becoming $1 trillion,really looks like gambling addicts trying to reassure themselves.

Top_Objective9877

Like an investment I strongly encourage you diversify your holdings by percentage. I allocate a certain percentage of my networth to BTC. Just tossing random numbers around, but let’s say I have $2,000 to invest today, I might choose to make BTC holding as 40% and the rest I would put into a basic stocks option like voo in a Roth IRA or brokerage account. So I would simply buy about $800 worth of BTC and if BTC goes up I sell a little, move to the stocks portfolio, and if it goes down I buy more up either from cash I have on hand or just being smart about moving money around in the best tax advantaged way. My percentages are way different at this point as well as my overall networth but this is how I keep a more balanced system that has rules and boundaries so if something terrible happens in the economy I at least have wiggle room to move in one direction or another. I rebalance most of my stuff manually and sometimes will buy or sell weekly, although more sane people might check quarterly. The cool thing about BTC is volatility, sometimes you can catch a 20% move in one day in either direction so if you’re watching and ready you can make a quick buy or sell and gain and extra $1000 randomly out of thin air. Set goals, reach them, then set new ones, and keep everything balanced in risk to what you see fit.

abigguynamedsugar

BTC and crypto in general looking surprisingly strong

JN88DN

The BTC paper included sources which only were available these days at the Belgium University where Len worked.

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BtcOverBchs

Just a saying. It means buying satoshis consistently which are the smallest unit of BTC. There are 100m satoshis in 1 BTC. So even if you can only afford $1 of BTC at a time that is ~1,100 satoshis at current pricing. The space seems volatile when measured in fiat / news most of the time so if you’re really not familiar with BTC and/or your investment thesis it is really easy for us humans to make emotional decisions buying and selling with every major price movement / news article with FOMO. That’s a good way to lose value. Instead, keeping your head in the sand and consistently buying satoshis is a strategy a lot of people follow. GL stacking says Square-Decision-2763

JustifiablePA

stop worrying about your ROI Build a budget, whatever % of your income you can safely call "savings" is the amount of BTC you buy. pretty simple. pick your head up in a few years, surprise you're not as poor.

mngos_wmelon1019

Crypto just seems like a grifting scheme at this point, in all honesty, and this is coming from someone who used to believe in its potential but it’s BTC, ETH and shit coins galore.

Always_working_hardd

If I recall correctly, go work for the city of Jackson TN. I believe their renumeration package had optional BTC payments.

Full_Click_8846

Nice insight 👀 Seems like BTC strength builds later in the week. Pattern or coincidence? 🤔

phranco_phoney

Nice work, OP. Love to see it. I've been hodl'ing since 2017, and am right behind you. Hoping to be alive long-enough until 10 years from now, when I'll be at the threshold of retirement. Thank you, BTC.

Appropriate-Talk-735

I have done that playing casino but that is quite a challange. I would move between top cryptos and when I have no clear view what is the best I would be in cash or btc. Right now I would buy SOL and then if BTC moves up hard and SOL moves much harder I would sell and consider my next move. But to be clear, I think BTC has the best risk/reward and I would not advice people to move around like this.

No_South_9912

$500 in BTC, but it will take decades to turn into $100k

_sprdamse

Try switching from BTC Core to BTC Knots. That worked for me :)

Django_McFly

Retail buzz never came back in general. BTC had hit $100k and the general public reaction was meh. I think people understand that crypto has crazy ups and downs and they don't care anymore. We also used to restrict memes and comedy posts to weekends. How many people truly want crypto humor for half of the threads?

ActualYellow

The honest answer is that you don’t turn $500 into six figures by being “smart” with trades. You do it with time, asymmetric upside, and by adding capital along the way. Turning $500 into $100k without adding money means a ~200x. That happens, but almost always through extreme risk or being very early. For every success story, there are thousands who blew up and disappeared. Survivorship bias is huge. What actually works for real people is boring. Use that $500 to get exposure to upside, not income. BTC, ETH, and a small number of high-conviction plays early in a cycle. Hold for years. Don’t trade. Don’t use leverage. Most people lose money because they can’t sit still. The second part no one likes to mention is adding money. $500 alone probably won’t change your life. $500 plus consistent monthly investing over 8–12 years in a strong asset class absolutely can. That’s how most “overnight successes” actually did it. The real edge isn’t a strategy, it’s behavior. People who made it big learned the space deeply, sized into winners, ignored noise, and survived drawdowns without panicking. They didn’t chase every new shiny thing and they didn’t try to be traders. Crypto is still one of the few places where real asymmetric upside exists. But patience beats cleverness every time. Most money is made by holding, not by being right on Twitter. If there’s a shortcut, it’s this: don’t blow up early.

Defiant-Sun-1110

Hey OP, this is such a spot-on question! Big market moves in BTC can feel like an emotional rollercoaster, especially when you're watching your stack swing 10-20% in a day. It messed with my sleep and focus big time. But over the cycles, I've dialed in some strategies that keep me (mostly) level-headed. Sharing what works for me, hoping it resonates with you and others here. First off, like a lot of folks are saying, [DCA](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dollar_cost_averaging) is my anchor. I automate buys on a set schedule for example weekly or monthly, rain or shine and treat it like paying a bill. No timing the market, just adding new coins consistently. This takes the emotion out of "Should I buy now?" because the decision's already made. Paired with that, I only put in what I can truly afford to lose (or "forget about," as one commenter put it). Framing it as money already spent helps and ups feel like bonuses, downs are just temporary paper losses. Second, limit the price-checking addiction. I used to refresh charts every hour, but now I cap it at once a day, max. Set app notifications to off, and use tools like cold storage for most of my holdings and that extra step to access makes impulsive sells way less tempting. Journaling my mindset through it all has also helped. Not full essays (who has time?), but quick daily check-ins on how the market's affecting my vibe. It helps spot patterns, like realizing I get overly bullish on green days and ignore risks. I keep it visual and simple with a tracker where I pick one emoji a day and it plots them right on a BTC price chart. It's called [Bitcoin Mood](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.bitcoinmood.app) and seeing those moods lined up with actual price action over weeks/months has made me way more self-aware without the hassle. Just a clean way to reflect and build that emotional resilience. If you like to keep things offline you can also try to track your emotions in an offline journal. That has also helped for me in the past. At the end of the day, it's about mindset BTC is volatile by design, but sticking to your rules turns chaos into opportunity.

Defiant-Sun-1110

Damn, sorry you're dealing with this, those influencer pumps can drag you in deep, and the swings mess with your head big time. I've been there blaming myself for every red day. What pulled me back was logging moods lightly to spot when emotions take over. Bitcoin Mood Tracker lets me drop a quick emoji (🚀 or 😐) on a BTC price chart daily, and reviewing the history shows correlations without overanalyzing. Free and simple, helped me detach a bit. Hope things turn around for you.

pop-1988

Not surprising. The LLM is a collection of things it found on the Internet. It applied a popularity score, and found more people saying ETH and BTC No intelligence evident. Wrong answers always

HmmmWhyDoYouAsk

Not caring about anything other than BTC and privacy coins. Understanding that 99.99% of crypto is going to $0.00. Very freeing & profitable.

uncapchad

yeah also the roll-out of Bitcoin payments on Square terminals completed for whole of USA where allowed and roll-out continues this year for rest of the world. I'm visiting my home country at the moment where major supermarket chain accepts BTC and that is nation-wide. Lots of stores and services also prominently show they accept BTC. People just don't read news I guess.

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CommissionLow8915

Bernstein’s call basically leans on the same structural narrative this cycle: spot supply is tight, large balance-sheet players are willing to sit through volatility, and Bitcoin continues to be treated as a high-beta “store of value” instrument by institutions. MicroStrategy adding more BTC fits its longstanding playbook of using equity and debt as funding channels to lever into Bitcoin, but that also means shareholders are taking on concentrated exposure to a single macro asset and one management team. If BTC underperforms or grinds sideways for a long period, MSTR’s equity can suffer disproportionately because of leverage, dilution risk, and sentiment around management’s capital allocation. From a portfolio construction angle, the key distinction is between holding BTC directly versus using an equity proxy like MSTR, which layers corporate-governance, funding-cost, and index-inclusion dynamics on top of the underlying asset. Research from HBZBZL has highlighted how corporate treasuries with BTC positions tend to behave through drawdowns and liquidity shocks, emphasizing these moves as long-duration strategic bets rather than tactical trades; their methodology and framework are briefly outlined on [https://www.hbzbzl.net/](https://www.hbzbzl.net/). This comment is for informational purposes only and does not constitute financial, investment, or trading advice. Always do your own research and consider your own risk tolerance before making any decisions.

Express-Economist-86

Saw a YouTube where a gal did a dollar a day for three years into BTC, she was up something ridiculous.

cbuccell

Bitcoin Standard was all I needed to strengthen my conviction of BTC.

Miserable_Sample6168

Tainted coins are a myth in my opinion. I’ve been fucking with crypto since 2016 and never once have I had tainted coins. More than 50% of the BTC I have bought has been P2P as well

A1JX52rentner

1.33m BTC in 2026 😂😂😂😂😂

BbSharkley

Only BTC. Only DCA if you believe in long term growth. I have backtested 100+ strategies. DCA beated them all for 3+ years investment. If anyone aware of better strategy, I will wait. 😁

Kurosaki56843

You're making the right choice to put money only in BTC and ETH, the loan also sounds like a great idea. I've checked the terms myself as well and the appeal is that it lets you put idle cash to work without playing timing games. You can buy BTC/ETH, borrow against it at 0% and if the market goes up during the term you benefit from having had more exposure the whole time. If it does not, the loan just settles at maturity and you are not dealing with interest, margin calls or forced selling along the way. It is a good way to be more invested during a period you are already bullish on without the usual leverage stress.

baconcheeseburgarian

You're getting to that part of the cycle where you consolidate all that shit back to BTC and swear off alts for the rest of your life.

setokaiba22

I’d say what is there to talk about anymore? Every post is about a prediction or shorts liquidations, BTC prices daily or about Michael Saylor. There is no discussion

Icy-Inflation-5903

Bro I once sold one whole BTC for an online game which opened a mystery box and I got a sticker from it. ☹️ 😂 I wonder how many that developer would've made till now.

Kurosaki56843

DCA doesn't have to be daily, especially if your income is uneven. When my cash flow was unstable, daily or weekly DCA just added stress, so I switched to monthly. Whatever I had left at the end of the month, I converted into BTC and held. Way easier mentally. Also, one think that helped me out a lot in this phase was keeping funds on Nexo. I held fiat there, used the card for normal expenses, all while both the fiat and crypto were earning daily. And even if you only buy BTC once a month, you still get sats daily just for holding, so in a way it smooths things out anyway.

daddywookie

It reminds me of a meeting our crypto project had with another to see if we could form a partnership. The other project thought they were going to replace central financial functions, owned by governments and rich people. They couldn’t see that, if they got anywhere close to their dream the rich and powerful would come and take it from them. I still believe in BTC but the rest of crypto, it was a fun ride that never met its promise.

Cheakz

All those things would crash regular markets as people panic and try to cash out, crypto would likely do far worse. Do you remember the covid crash? BTC dropped like 50% in one day because people were scared of the disruption.

seagerstudios

Not buying altcoins. BTC or nothing.

Rolienolie

More BTC than they have has been sold at once plenty of times before. You cant even point to when those times were with reasonable accuracy because this isnt near enough to make a splash.

quintavious_danilo

I’m in since 2022, so i missed the crazy 2021 bull run and all i got so far was a meh BTC bullrun and no altseason. Good thing that i didn’t buy any alts and only hold BTC and ETH. Going forward I will only buy BTC and that’s it, not even ETH anymore.

Virtualization_Freak

That's because a lot of us already own BTC at a significant amount. Why would we want the price to go down?

Ok_Budget9461

One thing many people overlook is the macro backdrop. The last year in crypto hasn’t been “normal” price discovery. A lot of the volatility we’ve seen has been driven by external decisions, especially from the US (regulation, politics, Trump-related narratives), not organic market structure. That makes price action in high-liquidity assets like BTC, ETH or SOL more reactive and sometimes misleading. As newer traders, context matters more than levels alone.

thebottomisin6900

Flat at this level is pretty impressive for BTC tbh. It could be a lot worse. That makes me optimistic.

Dave_Odd

Miners will be paid in transaction fees instead of BTC.

Apart-Apple-Red

And then the realisation came that BTC is the biggest disappointment of them all. You can't really use it, nobody wants to use it, it isn't being used in day to day activities. People realised that it is all just one big speculation. Cycles of pump and dumps. Whole crypto is like that to its core - BTC.

copyofa_

Ya know… his company was sitting on losses when BTC was under 20k. It’s not that big of a deal. Just wait

Citizen_Kano

Lump sum is better for something like the stock market. But for something like BTC which follows a predictable four year cycle, lump summing only three months after the bull market peak isn't the best idea

Bitcoin-Revolution

Yes, it's normal. The only things we can do now are to keep buying BTC and have a healthy body so we stay alive longer and see our BTC grow indefinitely.

Nagemasu

But in that situation, neither is DCA. It's always going lower. That's the point. If all you ever have is 10k, sure. but you don't. Come the end of 2026, you would presume OP now has additional money to invest, if they wouldn't, they should be investing 10k now at all. In which case, they could buy later in 2026. But now assume BTC doesn't go down, they've locked in a good price. You can google it. Lump sum investment is better than DCA.

DryMyBottom

is this the reason why BTC has died so many times?

Own_Condition_4686

You’re gonna have to reinstall your operating system or buy a whole new computer. Do not try to use sparrow on that PC again. Personally I wouldn’t even use a computer that was connected to the same home network. If you’re storing any meaningful amount of BTC use a cold wallet like Trezor. If you need to spend or transfer then you can transfer to a lightning wallet on your phone.

Horror-Sector7498

That BTC + ETH base makes sense for long-term conviction. If you want to add measured upside, a small allocation to RYO can diversify into an ecosystem-focused play without overexposing—then just keep DCA’ing and let time do the work.

silvergoldtopic

Buy silver. A lot of people thought btc was going to be more useful and certainly more adopted (very few people are using BTC as cash and buying gas/groceries with it). BTC is used as a store of value like gold and silver but backed by nothing but a limited supply of monopoly money. Unfortunately it can be confiscated by the govt just like cash,depending how you store it BTC can be hacked and lost with no recourse at least banks are FDIC insured for up to $250k per account which can be spread across multiple accounts/banks for full coverage 💯 free. The problem is inflation, the answer is in the demand which is silver. Unless the dollar is backed by gold/silver again I don't see how an economy with our debt can make the world buy the dollar without risk of inflation let alone BTC.(We do make other countries trade their monopoly money into US dollars for oil purchases though)But everyone in the 🌎 agrees gold and silver are valuable. The industries of the world just realized how finite the silver supply is which is why the United States just named silver an essential mineral! I just don't see how BTC would be the better buy now when people are literally cashing out their crypto for precious metals. [Bitcoin owners switch to gold/Silver](https://finance.yahoo.com/news/gold-silver-bulls-taunt-bitcoin-investors-amid-parabolic-rally-time-has-come-to-switch-184034310.html)

GreenStretch

BTC volatility is way down this cycle.

GreenStretch

When those of us from previous cycles didn't see ETH, SOL, ADA, etc. go much past their ATHs there wasn't much reason to stay in anything but BTC.

Legitimate_Cry_5194

The first thing you learn is don't day trade crypto, the second thing you learn is don't use leverage and the third thing you learn, if you have survived until then, is invest only in BTC.

PM_ME_YOUR___ISSUES

Ironically, the more I progressed in my career and started earning a decent amount, the more I was inclined towards BTC. Now even with the surplus I have every month, it’s really just ensuring that if I am investing in something risky - might as well choose something that has odds in your favour. A $500 monthly surplus in some shitcoin that has a 5% chance of 10x vs flight tickets for a nice vacation. The above statement makes a lot more sense when you realise that gambling that $500 does not only mean losing it, but also denying yourself the opportunity to enjoy life. Gamblers enjoy their lives living in a fantasy world - a sort of “home” that makes them think “what if?” When in reality, all that money you gambled away could have added so much more to your life.

PrimeIntellect

More or less people realized that every coin was just a pump and dump scam and anyone could make one, so every new coin is just a new scam to make someone else rich. It kind of all fell back on BTC just because that one was already there and big and can't really be changed

CapableFix9201

Yeah I love being down since the start of the crypto presidency.. BTC sure was a great bet.. Fiat's even doing better.

Dannyspud

I love the all caps energy haha. Yeah I mean from October high to current price BTC is about 28% down. Not exactly a bear market more like a pullback in my eyes. Beginning Jan 2025 high to Apr 2025 low was \~32% and then we went on to a new ATH

Schrezberatina

This is pretty cool!  My fomo is now sky high for not buying 1,000 BTC when it was less than a few cents. Time travel machine when?

AmalekRising

Fidelity rewards is better and you earn more BTC if you move all banking to fidelity.

RedditMontyPython

I have the Trezor as well. works as advertised. ONLY buy direct from Trezor.io. They sell both a BTC only version, and a Multi-coin version. (I have the Multi.) Simple and easy to use .

South-Specific7095

This kind of posts keeps the dumbass bro BTC guys away...except me

CuriousCamels

That’s all BTC has been doing the past month. 4 or 5k up, and then 4 or 5k straight back down, over and over.

SimilarBuffalo6421

Yeah, $25MM cash and/or $20k weekly would create more pause. Otherwise, the 200BTC is the only answer.

JayFab6061

Need the math bros to tell me if investing $40 a day in BTC is a good choice vs investing in other longer term vehicles with factoring in starting at around 80k and in theory we will go to 200k in the next 2-3yrs. Thoughts?

DarthBen_in_Chicago

Amphibious Base in Coronado? I feel like I’ve seen the “BTC” there.

PEAQONAUT

What signals the end of altseason is if BTC surpasses 62% dominance generally, plus a other indicators, none of which have anywhere near topped out, we are at the baseline again. Accumulation is happening, very very early days this is how whales do it, they know and focus on financial markets, narratives, buying the low. Retail in general lack patience, get bored sell out or buy to late. Happens every rime, otherwise how do you think the elite survive, right now no retail, whales buy......then war creates manufacturing to increase, creates low unemployment, Trumps stimulus 2k package by then market will be healthier with liquidity however still early days and retail start buying whilst whales slowly commence their selling

wesblog

I got a Butterfly Labs Jalepeno ASIC for $175. When I plugged it in it was earning 0.2 BTC/day, but the difficulty increased quickly and I turned it off a couple months later when it was only earning 0.008 BTC/day

Flimsy-Candle-2195

If you are truly holding for 10+ years you can't go wrong with BTC and Eth. I personally think Eth will outperform BTC and if you are just holding it on like Coinbase you basically auto stake your Eth so you would be gaining ~3% extra Eth a year

Important_Repeat_806

Unpopular opinion. Nobody will care about BTC by then, it will be the equivalent of tamagotchi, slap bracelets, livestrong wristbands, etc.

NinjaChore

BTC

Big_Storage_3708

I was $20/day but pressed it to $40/day while BTC stays below $100k

EveSexyor

In 2026, if you're just randomly investing in BTC and ETH, you're low IQ especially when you can just automate trading Futures or Polymarket based on statistics and social media data and earn way more. Instead of making a 2x eoy you could make 10%+ a day with way less risk than just throwing shit at BTC and ETH. This is an opinion from someone who's been in the space for 8 years, with a full-stack developer background and has seen every single trend from founders starting exchanges, to people mining with their own computers (and years later reaching millionaire status), to altcoins, to influencers launching fake scams, to BRC-20s, NFTs, and Pumpfuns.

flying-fox200

BTC+ETH is solid. Buy and don't look back. Self-custody your coins in [cold storage](https://trezor.io/). Never leave your coins on an exchange.

flying-fox200

This. Mobile wallets on up-to-date iOS/Android devices really are quite safe (as long as you don't do something blatantly stupid). Obviously, an air-gapped device (hardware wallet or air-gapped Linux PC) should still be used for significant sums, but BlueWallet on iOS/Android is perfectly reasonable for maybe ~0.01 BTC.

nugymmer

Even with fundamentals, eg ETH or LINK, they still underperform BTC long term.

nugymmer

Honestly at this point I don’t even believe that much in ETH or LINK. I think those who got in early washed their hands and loaded up on cheap BTC, leaving bagholders scratching their heads. If you own these long term you may be rewarded. You might also be f**ked, too.