BTC

Obtusk22

Hmm, your gut is right for where you're at. Derivatives aren't the future of crypto, they're just a tool that exists, and 95% of people who touch them lose money. I lost $4k in my first month trying 25x longs on Bitmex back in 2019 because some Youtuber made it look easy, took me a year to make that back. Shorting BTC isn't dumb btw, it's just risky. Sometimes the chart screams "this is going down" and being able to actually act on that is useful. But that's a skill, not a beginner move. If you're new just stick to spot, learn how the market actually moves first. The leverage stuff will still be there in 2 years when you actually know what you're doing, and by then you'll have the discipline to not blow your account in a week.

OkProject2361

I recently hit one “fulll BTC. .66 in cold storage, the rest in BTC ETFs in my taxable brokerage, HSA, ROTH IRA and rollover IRA. I wish I hadn’t bought for my taxable, but I was excited and bought the day $FBTC started trading. I now just do $50 every Monday on River.

isofakingwetoddid

Buy and hold. If you want to DCA just set up a dollar amount to put into BTC every week or two weeks or every month. If you’re new, recommend taking the more traditional approach by just dumping money in and leaving it just like the stock market. Check on it every couple of weeks. It’s too volatile to sit there all day and look at the charts

isofakingwetoddid

Fully expect it to drop again. I was expecting the whole market to explode at the end of last year like it did back in October of 2021. Been holding since August 2024. Not sure what’s gonna happen but I’m holding on for the ride!! Let’s see what 2026 has in store for BTC

justcurious3287

Never worry about the price of BTC. Just keep buying and holding. That’s it.

phaceacid

I keep buying. BTC for me its not anymore just investment but a real opportunity to privacy and freedom. BTC is future.

deviapto

It depends. If it's on Binance, I would even get rid of 0.01BTC. If it's self-custody, it's another level.

Salt-String1151

0.1 BTC will be satisfying enough for the long-term future

gtwooh

Statements like this show your lack of understanding of the subject outside of incendiary headlines. Already there is BIP-360 (Pay-to-Merkle-Root) on BTQ Bitcoin Quantum testnet; post-quantum signatures (e.g., NIST ML-DSA, SPHINCS+) on Blockstream Liquid sidechain. And if you just hold and have not spent your BTC you’ve never exposed your public keys and thus are not currently at risk. But thanks for spreading FUD

Any-Huckleberry2593

Currency change and domination is not easy. Wars have been fought in the past for this domination. For USD to continue to dominate, they may annex BTC to it, that too to keep USD as the king maker. If not, US will likely continue to protect dallarking. Crypto is being used as underworld and being played to fluctuate, at this point. The retailers may get lucky but the deep pockets are lining up their pockets. Nothing new.. read history..

alexlovesbitcoin

don’t listen to this guy. fear is completely natural feeling when you’re first starting to invest in anything. it’s completely normal. it’s your hard earned money, and watching it not be net positive is an ugly sight. but here’s what i’ll tell you. I slowly started DCAing in from the 2021 draw down. from 60Kish all the way down to 15K. I was negative for a long time. but I kept building a position, and honestly it was shitty feeling, but as i kept learning about bitcoin, i understood that this was gonna print one day. You have to get used to it being red, and you have to change your outlook on red days. red days aren’t bad days if you’re in the game for the long term. the red days are GOOD days. over a period of time you’ll discover what and when you’re comfortable throwing more money in. I’m all in on it, and my average cost is much lower than today’s price. You may not get in the pricing i was in, but you can build today’s price as yours. BTC in the future is only set to grow much larger than what it is today.

Logical_Lemming

1) Very few people have pensions anymore 2) The first example they give is a pension fund doubling its money by investing in Bitcoin 3) I agree a 10% allo in BTC is high for a pension fund, but Florida's policy is UP TO 10% - doesn't mean they will actually invest that much.

devCheckingIn

That's because people invest in the S&P long term -- "up and to the right". Whereas BTC "investment" is based on gaming the "cycle".

WittyElevator4579

What does crypto do? BTC? Nothing? Ok let’s invest!

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Real-Technician831

Buy Euros you mean. BTC gains shrink when paired with actual currency.

LiquidityCompass

Crowded shorts don’t automatically mean price goes up. It just means there’s fuel for a move. If BTC breaks resistance, those shorts get forced to buy back → that’s your squeeze and the move can get violent pretty fast. But if price keeps rejecting here, those same shorts are actually right… and you usually get a pretty sharp move down after.

VastJuice2949

Buy BTC. Anything else is degenerate gambling

TheresNoSecondBest

Nah. Just a 2019 meme, mate. It started by the Twitter persona known as AmericanHodl. It was in response to this tweet from CZ, the CEO of Binance. He suggested that owning just 1 BTC would place someone in the top 0.3% richest people in Bitcoin terms. https://twitter.com/cz_binance/status/1165533865554804739?s=21 The response was that “If you own 6.15 BTC, you are guaranteed to get eternal riches and big titty bitches."

TheresNoSecondBest

It was a joke, mate. Let me explain. The ₿6.15 is a 2019 meme. It started by the Twitter persona known as AmericanHodl. It was in response to this tweet from CZ, the CEO of Binance. He suggested that owning just 1 BTC would place someone in the top 0.3% richest people in Bitcoin terms. https://twitter.com/cz_binance/status/1165533865554804739?s=21 The response was that “If you own 6.15 BTC, you are guaranteed to get eternal riches and big titty bitches."

DaviT2817

Can someone give me 50$ of BTC? Please 🙏🏻🥺

justjokiing

Nah they said they would sell BTC to pay the dividends, but its highly unlikely

No-Unit-6074

Extreme fear with price action diverging is one of the cleaner setups but easy to pick the wrong assets during a recovery. Volume/mcap anomalies and buyer/seller order book ratios are worth checking because they separate real accumulation from manipulation. I use cryptoscores for that filter, it tracks volume relative to market cap, RSI signals, and buyer/seller ratios across thousands of coins so you can spot where actual positioning is building rather than just following the headline moves on BTC and SOL

pirate_pues

This ^ $100 now is what $50 was a few years ago But inflation is only 3.5% The bond rating of the US is going down , Europe and China are buying less..Iran used BTC for the toll. Brics is being spoken about more than ever It's a great time to buy

snacktoshi

Regularly donate BTC (via my Lightning wallet to their Chivo) to an overstretched dog shelter in El Salvador. Confirmed it was real before donating by visiting there in person and meeting the owner.

ahhhaccountname

It is only 1.85 BTC. It isnt like 100+

TheresNoSecondBest

**6.15 BTC**. Cannot have less than that. Only true Bitcoiners will understand the science behind that number.

CryptoOnTheSidewalk

That kind of “never sell” amount is personal but it’s worth being careful about going too low on cash, because even if you believe in BTC you still need liquidity for real life and it’s safer to keep your core stack in your own wallet rather than fully relying on exchanges.

Leynnox

There's nothing like "normal amount", what would be considered as "normal" for a "normal" person, would be to invest 10% of your income, every month, and not just into crypto. Now if you want to invest only into crypto, which can be ok depending of your income (no real point investing into many things if you're going to invest $50 per month), a "normal" person would invest those 10% monthly, and 80% of it into BTC (knowing there's not many "normal" persons on these subs, I'll probably get downvoted on that).

Dull-Arachnid6605

Experience I'd say. Just comparing with previous cycles. I was able to long at 18K and short at 115K. The same experience says BTC goes below 60K. (Not a financial advice)

ApartmentFit7912

Don't worry this is bull trap! $BTC #BTC.... Lets meet at 50k$ 😏

No-Put7619

If you show people this... 1BTC =76000usd They respond "it's a ponzi" If you take the labels off and change the ratios it becomes clear how dumb the argument is. Let's change it to

Dull-Arachnid6605

Right now BTC is testing a key resistance at $78K This level previously acted as strong support, price rallied from $77k to $126k and now it's acting as resistance. Now it’s being tested for the first time after breakdown A rejection is highly possible which means further downside movement.

NerdFarming

If BTC goes up more than 11% in a year, by owning STRC you're just making money for Saylor. I'd much rather just stack the underlying asset BTC or IBIT.

ozera202

Sell your BTC and buy Rave. Rave to $1000 by end of April buy now or regret . BTC days are done it’s all about the new shinny coin

kingcakeaholic

Congratulations and self custody is definitely the way to go. I’ve been doing this for a while and I’m surprised by the advice here. Avoid Ledger as there’s a long list of security, reliability and clones out there that will steal your seed. The hardware wallet brand I’d recommend is a ColdCard. Buy it directly from the manufacturer in Canada. There are terrific video tutorials on how to set it up and use it on YouTube by a guy called BTC Sessions Be sure you etch your seed phrase into stainless steel (or something equivalent to this) as a backup, and keep it and the ColdCard physically secured.

vega_9

if BTC is over one BTC

nugymmer

Yes, they'll make BTC a degen currency if they modify it so old coins cannot be spent.

stoplossftw

where is free cash flow coming in to pay the dividends? my understanding is: the software business isn't making money, BTC holding doesn't yield they to either sell BTC or use the borrowed money, is that right?

yoobermcruber

You actually hacked all of my BTC. I attacked him with a wrench and stole his BTC first and then you hacked my BTC ☹️

HSuke

Holding STRC is suboptimal when BTC price moves EITHER up or down by a lot. 1. If BTC price goes **down** too much, dividends will likely drop. Its holders will be unhappy if the dividends are less than what can get risk-free from an online savings account. 1. If BTC price goes **up** too much, holders will be upset because they're being paid a much smaller dividend than the price increase in BTC. They'd be better off holding BTC. I think fine to hold STRC if you think BTC price isn't going to move much. Just be ready to dump STRC if it looks like there might be an investor run if the price of BTC either drops by a lot or doesn't move much for years, and they're forced to lower the dividends rate.

Character-Resist-961

People that spread this kind of narrative are either stupid or have an agenda. No saint human being would learn enough about BTC and came to that conclusion.

FriendsMade_MeDoIt

yeah this is basically how the convo went in my group too once people started getting deeper into security a couple of them went the BTC-only wallet route and it was mostly for peace of mind rather than “necessary.” like they just liked separating their long-term BTC from everything else so it felt cleaner mentally multisig came up a lot too, but most people backed off after realizing it adds a lot of complexity. one guy tried setting it up and the rest of us were like “would you actually be able to recover this at 2am under stress?” and that kinda ended the discussion lol the general vibe we landed on was: if your current setup already makes it really hard for someone to access your seed, you’re probably past the point of biggest risk. moving to a fresh seed is more about sleeping better at night than fixing a guaranteed issue splitting BTC and alts like you’re thinking sounds pretty in line with what people end up doing once they stop overthinking it a bit

quintavious_danilo

Strike is good, just don’t leave your BTC on the app and transfer it to your own wallet

Bucser

Saylor said he will never sell BTC, So how will he cover the cash-flow requirement to pay the dividends? So despite the appreciation of assets is he going to rack his balance sheet with loans to pay for his BTC acquisition? but then how will he service those lenders? Always reservicing debt that you use to repay dividends and other lenders is not a going concern business model that is the definition of a Ponzi. (taking from Peter to pay Paul).

Bulky_Lack_2111

it will flyby the moon and fill up all the black holes in the universe because BTC is going up forever to INFINITY!!!

Mantis-Prawn

I am doing this for years, hence why i sold all my alt coins for BTC during the trump pump

th_shoester

Every asset can also be described in BTC value now

jungle

Why is that necessary? Someone "donated" that dust to them, why can't they use it like any other BTC?

Both-Store949

This news is fact, we should def. Sell all our assetd and house and buy BTC now.

Ur_boi_skinny_penis

They arnt struggling with credit. They view this as a product to get more BTC in the treasury. They do t care about paying 11.5% interest when Saylor thinks he’s getting 20-30% on all his new BTV he’s collecting from this

Gamblin_Ke

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YSL_Crypto

Move BTC to Bitcoin only cold wallet. Such as a Jade Plus or Bitkey

EdTip586

The USA obliterates any country that leaves or threatens to leave the dollar. BTC has been bought by banks and countries all over the world. Believing that those whom understand the control of currency and that do control currency ( and play the game generationally) were not in control the entire time is difficult, to day the least

Planetoidling

Discovering the BTC power law - btcpowerlaw.nl Honestly mind blowing stuff

potificate

If you’re in the US, you do realize you don’t pay tax on buying BTC (or stocks) right? It’s only when you sell… the most you’re liable for is taxation on the airdrops (technically).

_Commando_

So... what was the BTC Maxi's response to this video??? https://x.com/TapTools/status/2044913394751586754 He has a point... and I'll add my thoughts. If "they aka devs" can simply fork BTC and lock away Satoshi's coins, they can do that to anyone's coins. Also, so much for "there is no one controlling BTC, it's decentralized, bla bla" when a core dev can simply change the code at gun point. Do you think the government wont force a code change now that they hold a lot of BTC? Any change to bitcoin core that affects people's BTC is an end to the social experiment that Satoshi created. What say you BTC Maxi's?

RealisticSomewhere23

Yep,,, I'm working on BTC-CORE on 2 laptops since 👀😁👀💯 awhile!

Objective-Choice6518

Pretty sure someone that asks for your BTC will never be legit

riscten

Pfff. I bought in 2008. Sold my Lehman Brothers shares before the bankruptcy and went all in on BTC.

MikeMiller8888

You owe no taxes when you don’t do any transactions. You’ll owe 2026 taxes if you sell the BTC and other forked currencies this year, which you’ll report on your 2026 return due in 2027. You don’t need to worry, you had no tax reporting obligation at all; you don’t EARN the profits until you sell and that’s when you’re taxed.

Flaky_Concentrate898

I use coinglass and look at the heat maps and recent liquidation data. the "crush" or "squeeze" comes when you see that a lot of shorts are in danger of being liquidated if BTC closes the end of the day at certain levels. it actually turned out to be just under 400m of liquidations for shorts today and only about 40m in long liquidations (bulls won the day). if it would have closed over 80k it would have been closer to a billion in shorts getting liquidated.

davidtakahashi

OP doesn't believe in BTC's cycles.

pkyang

For a lot of his topics esp the geopolitical stuff that’s very complicated I think it’s fine, and he’s clear that he’s speculating. For something as established as BTC, it doesn’t play. BTC deserves better critics

DevilDonkee

You did exactly the right thing: buy high, sell low. Wait until BTC goes up a bit, buy again, and as soon as it goes down, just sell it again. Simple.

randallmauel

Thank you for break down. Im buying AVAX and LINK as well as BTC, SOL, and ETH.

pirate_pues

It's because you are buying XRP Switch banks...this is the whole purpose of BTC Nobody in the middle of your transactions

steebulee

My Coinbase credit card gives me 4% BTC reward on every RT purchase. Can’t stop won’t stop.

Marszzs

Sure, but at $3500 the difference is not going to be significant unless we see a BTC drop below 50k which I doubt we will see again, at least not for a time longer then a couple weeks. But what do I know about the future btc price ...the same amount that everyone else does, nothing.

lynchrw

I think one key issue to resolve to to figure out what it wants to be. One hand it is "Digital gold" on the other some people want it to be "currency". Current laws and regulations kind of make it hard to be both since, in the US anyway BTC ( as well as other cryptos) is treated as property. So,. that makes it very hard, in my opinion, to use it as an alternative currency. I probably missed some or nuance (I have only been delving into crypto for a few months). What does anyione eklse think?

666TripleSick

I bought in 2020/21 and have never sold. I almost did when it dropped to $16k and I had thought “I really fucked this one up” because I had invested A LOT OF MONEY. BTC bounced back and bought more. Now I know it’s going to fluctuate but eventually it will come back stronger

oki_sauce

You chickened out and now you have FOMO. Remember this when you go to panic sell your BTC later

disuye

BTC is trading on headline noise right now ... liquidity & monetary policy just aren't present for huge upside moves... yet. I expect to see at least 3\~6 months more of sideways chop before the market finally figures out how to price geopolitical macro (in the form of central bank rates). Might hit 80, might hit 60, all depends if Trump need to pee at 3AM on a Friday night.

Formal_Variation9293

Yes, obviously, we shouldn't pay them any attention. I was just curious to know if other people are noticing this increase, or if it's always been like that on the BTC subreddit.

SeaMicSte

Depends on the post. Nothing wrong with “I bought BTC 10 years ago, and I’m glad I did” Obviously “I bought BTC 10 years ago, here’s financial advice” is not worth paying attention to.

thupkt

I wish BTC was as good at doing BTC as that operator is at Mario

aaaanoon

If X = good then BTC = more Thanks

LilWetWet_

Check out Benjamin Cowens recent BTC analysis on his YouTube; it’ll help you understand what factors play into the price. But as others are saying, dollar cost averaging is the best strategy if you’re bullish on btc long term, and don’t want to deal with the psychological stress of timing the market.

Infinite_Switch1412

Honestly the best way to avoid volatility is to DCA. Although I'm assuming your bullish on BTC in the long-term or you wouldn't be investing so if you can leave this money in there long term and you believe it's going to go up you could just go for it.

RunUndefined

Been buying BTC since it was 22K on a fairly regular basis.. and every time I buy more I STILL ask myself if now is the best time. Just jump in.

Rickard403

You're acting like the bear market is over, with little to no evidence. Sounds to me like you're just listening to the people in this sub. Every time BTC has a 5% day lots of people say, AHA, bull run is here. Which has already like 6 times since last October.

Impetusin

BTC / ETH were the chosen ones. Now it turns out ETH is dying and BTC was always the long term play

Specialist_Play_4479

It is. The majority has to agree. What will happen is: 1. At some moment in time this proposal is implemented in code. Or the idea is abandoned entirely and nothing happens. 2. Bitcoin node operators now have to choose: Install update or keep at current codebase. If enough operators upgrade to the new code, the operators that don't will end up with non functioning nodes, as they will be forwarding transactions/blocks that newer software deems invalid So if they don't want this implemented, they will have to fork. A new bitcoin will emerge. Something like BitcoinOld, BitcoinQuantumUnsafe (BQU!) or whatever. This is essentially what happened with BCH. BCH is a fork of BTC. 3. Other node operators that do agree will install the updated code and that's it. BTC continues as it always has. So basically.. if enough people disagree BTC will fork into a new coin and it remains to be seen which one will survive in the long run. BCH is worth a fraction of BTC, so it kind of failed. Same with ETC and ETHPoW. Both are hardforks from Ethereum. Both are worth pennies to their Ethereum equivalent.

ShockCatOnSol

Agreed, that's exactly why BTC is the highest conviction call in today's report.

Specialist_Play_4479

Does anyone know which addresses will be affected by this? For example I have BTC stored in an address that starts with 1. Do I need to move that to a Taproot address?

AbramsTankVeteran29

All you need to know is that governments will absolutely never stop printing money out of thin air so over the long run it will take more and more of those printed fiats to get a BTC. DCA into BTC or lump sum into BTC doesn't really matter much because over time it will absolutely go up. If you're day trading or doing chart analysis you don't really understand BTC IMHO.

matthegc

It’s math….math don’t lie BTC will exist for a very long time…keep Stacking

matthegc

DCA….BTC isn’t going anywhere.

UDP7

Relax kid, BTC is still below the BMSB. It's going to drop in the coming weeks.

ubermensch1001

What I'm thinking about doing is perhaps getting a BTC only wallet, putting the BTC on there and then maybe setting up multi sig with it. As I have it set up now, it's virtually impossible for someone to get a hold of my entire seed phrase without me specifically having to go out of my way to give it to them. Not even sure if multi sig is necessary here, but I think having a BTC only wallet may not be a bad idea. I then could just leave the alts on their respective wallets as is. I do eventually plan on selling them, it's not like I intend to keep them for the next 10 years, so perhaps this is totally fine.

8512764EA

Nothing whatsoever. Hopefully I don’t have other BTC in that wallet.

Virtual-Target9733

Probably in late 2017 when the global financial industry started investing, making BTC derivatives and driving the price up. Not to mention it had survived about 5 or 6 major crashes by that point and come back stronger every time.

Logical_driver_42

Yeah I send my BTC to my cold wallet from Robinhood

MCL-Jonathan

Just be grateful they’re now helping to onboard more people into $BTC 😅

suckyuhhmada

Been doing most of my spot trading on BitMart lately and honestly it's been pretty smooth. Fees are reasonable and they've got a solid selection of altcoins that some of the bigger exchanges don't list. Good discussion thread btw, watching BTC closely today.

Ping0u

Where I live, exchanging BTC for USDC is not taxable.

Abject-Stretch-1187

And the same bears are acting like the current conditions in BTC are exactly like the past 2 cycles and that is dumb.

Shot_Street_7940

For rebalancing, it's strictly a one-way street for me. At the end of the month, if the Workbench or Casino buckets are in profit, I sweep the gains directly into the Vault (buy BTC/ETH and send to cold storage). If the Casino goes to zero, I don't refill it from the Vault. The Vault is a black hole—money goes in, never comes out.

BIGZ_998

I only do one thing DCA daily I buy and hold infinitely but that’s just ME it doesn’t make any sense for to sold my BTC for fiat and pay a crazy ass capital gains tax no way I’m good

Abject-Stretch-1187

Duh, it is meant to break the consecutive red months as it can't keep dropping forever. The point is that, that's typically the norm for bear market bottoms in BTC