BTC

fan_of_hakiksexydays

XMR dipped pretty hard. But a correction was expected after such a big rally. If BTC doesn't go lower, and continues its rally, this could be a nice opportunity. I've seen this happen too many times in my many years in crypto. One of the most classic case people might remember was with Doge. But it was the same with all the similar hype trains. There's always at least one big correction in the middle as things correct from the first big rally, and the first people get shaken out. Then there's at least one of two more phases and rallies, as hype is very quick to return.

Bigalex_Qc

You're not alone 😅 i started last month, and when i understood BTC and fiat dilution , massive US/CAD debt I FOMO hard and bought 14k CAD in 72h , now i dca weekly and only feel better

MakCapital

Can you write without gpt? You have absolutely no idea what you're talking about. The ETFs also weren't just "approved" under Biden. The BTC ETF was after it became clear they would lose to the courts, and the ETH ETF got zero hour approval by a hair because Trump was gaining votes and funding by aligning with the crypto industry. There was no upside to continue fighting it. It would have stopped there, though. This is not how you determine if there was a full US war against the industry. Towards the end, we were scared to launch anything that even touched US users. As an investor, you should be much more plugged in. Nothing was allowed besides BTC and BTC self custody was next in the chopping block. This only touches on what was going on, but misses mountains more of US backed attacks against everything our industry. https://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoMarkets/s/WZgCny6oku

wtf--dude

My man, read your own comments. You say absolutely nothing. Your first statement can be made just as easily for btc "Rewards are paid out in BTC. If its value stays stagnant (which it has), then holders are losing value to fiat inflation." "It is not balanced because POS is crap". Stop putting up strawman arguments, changing arguments and give actual counter arguments. Like I said. They are extremely similar in a lot of ways. One is progressive, the other is conservative. Let the best protocol win.

coinfeeds-bot

tldr; U.S. spot Bitcoin ETFs saw $1.7 billion in inflows over three days from January 13-15, 2026, reversing earlier outflows. Bitcoin briefly traded above $97,000 during this period, with BlackRock's iShares Bitcoin Trust (IBIT) leading inflows at $648.39 million on January 14. The surge boosted market sentiment, reflected in the Crypto Fear and Greed Index. By mid-January, spot Bitcoin ETF assets totaled $128 billion, holding 606,000 BTC. The inflows highlight shifting market dynamics, though subsequent outflows on January 16 suggest volatility remains high. *This summary is auto generated by a bot and not meant to replace reading the original article. As always, DYOR.

Froz3n_Cornchip

Still early adoption. Electricity is arguably the greatest invention of all time and it still took 70 years to go from practical invention to mass adoption. Limited supply of BTC and it is being gobbled up. Basic math really OP isn’t wrong time is running out to accumulate.

AInception

That isn't how normal pools work. Individuals each direct their hashrate at the pool, and the pool-owner decides what to do with it. If everyone acted independantly and only used pools for profit-smoothing, there'd be much more waste (people guessing the same wrong-hashes over and over) and less overall profitability. Nobody sits in front of a console and watches what the pool-owner is doing live and 247. Instead, they put their trust in the owner to do the right thing. It functions on trust-me-bro. They're antiethical to crypto itself. In the past BTC pools have re-directed their hashrate and used it to attack smaller POW chains already. Pretending the risk/reward will *never* make sense to the pool-owner to attack their main-network is ludicrously niave. Again, the banks already existed and this tech was created to eliminate human fallacy (if used correctly). It would take 2 pool-owners to 51% Bitcoin at this point. 3 max. The thousands of individual miners under them acting only as their useful idiots. You are correct that AFTER the attack, after news made its rounds; miners would go back and change the pool they're participating in - potentially days after the fact. But it only takes at most 6 blocks to preform a profitable 51% attack since that's what the 'probably finalized' standard is for Bitcoin everywhere. Then, after that, forever, the safe-standard wait time might become 200+ blocks like smaller POW chains all became post-attack. Maybe that's enough time for 'useful idiots' to have a glance at what they're really doing, or maybe it's not? Who's to tell? Users would be stuck waiting days or weeks for even the smallest transactions to go through instead of 10s of minutes. This would irreversably harm the network and all the trust in the network. There's a new pool design that uses hash-encryption and a 2-way communication network, called Stratum (v2). If a pool is using this they can NOT re-direct your hashrate and NOT use it to 51% attack your network. The most popular pools are all not using Stratum! The fact that the top 2 pools have 51% hashrate says a lot. It tells you the majority hashrate does not care about centralizing the network since ALL advice ALWAYS has been to opt-into a small minority pool (something with 1% the total hashrate is great) to combat centralization.. And it tells you the individual miners are unwilling to make even the smallest step in protecting the network because they are not using Stratum pools. *These* are the guys you think are watching the pools like a hawk to make sure they always do the right thing? Ready to pull the plug at the first glance of something weird, in seconds? These are extremely apathetic entities. Bad actors. They already make up over 51% of the network, now it just takes 2 or 3 of them to ignite the flame. Most BTC is paper-backed today. You don't need to do anything on-chain today to cash all of its value out. You could even open shorts on NASDAQ and cash out without touching BTC, bankrupting Microstrategy and mining corps and exchanges in the process. Loads of opportunity to get creative in this environment. All it takes is that moment to be more profitable than X-years of being the good guy for a good guy to pull an exit scam. Crypto used to be better than this.

Captaincdj

Keep the house, keep the BTC.

FromThePits

You can lead a horse to water, right? My grandchildren will get letters and hopefully my system will airdrop some BTC over the next 4 generations. But there's no guarantees, no matter what when you're dead and gone

anymonero

How's that a bad thing? I can swap my BTC for XMR, not miss out on gains and ALSO gain privacy? Sounds like a no-brainer to me.

AU0nyx

Been tempted but going to stay diversified to avoid putting all my eggs in one basket. Will continue with a 50/50 split between stocks and BTC for the foreseeable future.

AU0nyx

Would really depend what your strategy is. But paying of your house and having the piece of mind that one of the biggest debts you'll have is out of the way and done would be mine. And assume you'd have extra freed up cash previously used for mortgage repayments which can all go towards BTC potentially towards accumlating enough to retire early, would be my personal strategy. I envy you it's a good position to be in.

VeryThicknLong

Tbf, humans used to trade in food, animals, land, gold, money. BTC is better than all of these!

partymsl

Can he up the price of BTC fo $1M?

ATnetennba

My guess is he is no longer with us. [Archive.org](https://web.archive.org/web/20170509054939/https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/6a3lvd/today_i_took_out_a_325239_equity_loan_on_my_house/) managed to archive this post before it was deleted. For those who don't feel like clicking, here is the text: >Having been a lurker here on reddit for a while and a daily BTC price checker, I have finally decided to take the plunge and go "all in" with bitcoin. >Having a terminal disease, and a penchant for making big risks (so far I have been correct most of the time) - I decided to make my newest lunge, using what equity I have accrued on my estate over the past 10 years since the 2008 financial crisis. >If bitcoin reaches, the 10k mark, which I see as a distinct possibility, or I would not have taken such a risk - I plan on moving to the west coast and getting away from all the angry people here where I currently reside. >Wish me luck, I'm going to need it. >

Ibshake

Yeah you are right. The community will have to come together to implement a soft fork but then that still leaves the question of the lost BTC and satoshis stash.

Ton1206

BTC and DUSK Network.

Interesting_Loss_907

It’s an amusing thought, almost philosophical. But I’d disagree, because in that scenario, you would not own any BTC at all. You’d have a large potential liability, open-ended until you buy BTC to close out the short. But it wouldn’t be any % of your net worth imo.

Intelligent-Ferret80

I sold 800 BTC for £3k in 2012; at a small loss IIRC. I needed to buy a house, i needed every single penny for a 30% (self employed) mortgage deposit. I'd already sold everything else and borrowed £20K+ from fam, but 'needed liquidity' to get it over the line. Do I regret: fuck yes Would i have sold @ £100 or whatever? Yes also, zero doubt. Does it bother me? Less so on a daily basis. I ignored Crypto for 8 years as a result which meant i was less PTSD when I took a second look in late 2020 (still round-tripped everything though, lol) Gonna wanna shunna.

MakCapital

Then a chance of volatility with sidelined long term buyers eventually stepping in that remember everything mentioned is long term good for BTC. After that, time passes and new retail learns to ignore the noise. The US ended its war against crypto. Currently embracing Web3 innovation. This pivot and related news fundamentally mattered for Web3 adoption. Current headlines noise.

Loud-Shopping7406

When everyone switches to BTC maxi, that's when Altcoin season finally starts 💀

MariachiArchery

I wonder how he played this. When it peaked at 20k that following December, he could have sold about 16 BTC to pay off this loan. Selling 32 probably would have paid the house and loan off entirely. Leaving him with about 160 BTC, worth roughly 15m today. Or did he hang onto these, and eat the loan *and* mortgage payments until the next run 3 years later? I've got to think this guy was super house poor when he entered this position. Why are we taking out a home equity loan, you know? And, eating those payments for 3 years while being house poor would suck. But then again, at his entry, there really wasn't very much time at all when he wasn't at least 5x on the investment. Yeah, I would enjoy an update for sure. Total degen move here, and I hope it worked out.

Individual_Refuse_30

Used to invest in stock market only. Later I transitioned 50/50. As of recently I moved 100% into BTC effectively transitioning all into BTC.

Altruistic-Raise-579

That transition hits quietly, doesn’t it. One day you’re chasing narratives and rotations, next day you just want something that doesn’t need a weekly explanation thread to justify holding it. I went through a similar phase after watching too many alts bleed out despite doing everything right on paper. I still keep a rough personal log of what actually survives across cycles versus what just feels exciting at the time, and BTC kept showing up in boring ways. Kinda curious how many maxis were born the same way, not from ideology but just fatigue.

Altruistic-Raise-579

This analogy actually lands for me more than most BTC essays. People forget how unusable early internet felt if you judged it like a finished product. Slow wasnt a failure, it was a constraint that forced the right layers to form later. I’ve been loosely tracking which systems survive long enough to become boring infrastructure and BTC fits that pattern way more than flashy apps do. Kinda makes me think the impatience itself is the signal, not the tech.

Real-Technician831

Not even BTC is that good investment nowadays, only way to make significant profit is to buy when it’s low and time the sell. Thus it’s more like gambling than investing.

Altruistic-Raise-579

Feels like everyone’s saying that at the same time which usually means it won’t happen the way people expect. Most alts I watch only move after BTC money actually settles somewhere else, not just because timelines get bored. I’ve been casually jotting down rotation patterns after ETF heavy weeks and half the time alts lag way longer than the vibes suggest. Still though, when it flips it usually feels sudden as hell. Kinda curious which bags people are quietly tracking vs just hoping on.

HumanNo109850364048

So what, all he can do it change the rate, the price of BTC doesn’t factor into that decision

General_Feeling8839

BTC or Fiat?

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Beef_suprema

I think you might get another cycle. Kinda hard to tell. I have a feeling you’ll always be chasing. Lots of spikes on many investments right now. Just try to remember there are always opportunities that present themselves in life if you keep an eye out. There will be new Teslas, Apples, and Amazons. BTC just flipped grey on the super guppy too, in past cycles there’s been a rally right after that and then a plummet. In 2-4 weeks you’ll know more. You might get a nice dip to pick up some more. Just keep stacking what you can, when you can. You’ll still be an early adopter. 21 million coins for 8.1 billion people. That’s .002593 coin per person at full adoption. Knowing many coins are lost, more will be lost, some people will never sell. I think you’d be sitting pretty if you can get above that.

Humble-Finger-Hook

Hmm I thought There are approximately 19.9 million Bitcoin (BTC) in circulation

ehhwhatsthatbrother

The uneducated ones are definitely not the ones who hold BTC though, even if it’s $1 worth. People from rural India have much bigger issues in life to give a shit about(or even know about) Bitcoin. So I’m not sure I missed the point you initially made. The reality is that 85 million holders when your population is 1.4 billion isn’t really that big a deal. The only reason China doesn’t have similar numbers is because their government keeps “banning” BTC every couple years and I’m guessing they make it incredibly hard for people to get into it. India hasn’t ever outright banned crypto so it’s much easier to get into and with the younger generation being a lot more into web3 in general, it kinda makes sense.

MariachiArchery

Lol, anyone who's been through a real all-season and held onto that crap knows this. BTC +600% ETH + 550% Alt -98% Alt -99% Alt -95% Alt -90% Alt -91% Alt -99% Alt -99% Alt -99% ... This is what my portfolio looks like, lol. I'm sure there are many like me too.

crouchmomma

I think that the older, established ones like Ripple (XRP) and BTC are going to make a come back. They will be the way money gets moved around if Russia, China, USA do their thing.

Nappingspider

Bobs, vagene and BTC lol

rocket_beer

ETF and centralized exchanges are not BTC holdings, at all.

ILLIDARI-EXTREMIST

Any decent job should do 401k matching. If your job offers to match 5% of your contribution, that’s an instant 2x on your money not counting the compounding growth of the S&P 500 you’ll have till retirement. Absolutely, 100% take the employer match and then put what you can invest into BTC.

LongjumpingIN

Yes, but I have my portfolio broken down into 75% STRC and the rest in MSTR and BMNR (About 15% MSTR and 10% BMNR). So fully exposed to BTC and ETH through DATs

ReliantToker

The 'it’s not rocket science' argument works if you’re looking at a 2018 map, but the 2026 terrain is fundamentally different. If the cycle were a perfect repeat, 2025 wouldn't have been the first post-halving year in history to finish in the red, dropping 30% from the $126k peak. ​Right now, as of January 17, 2026, the data shows the 'October low' is already being front-run We’re seeing a massive structural trend shift; Bitcoin just reclaimed $95,300 this morning, supported by a heavy buy-wall at $94,600. Corporations are already buying MicroStrategy just added another 13,627 BTC ($1.25 billion) at an average of $91,519 this month. ​Spot ETFs just had their biggest haul of the year on Wednesday, pulling in $843 million in a single day this is institutional liquidity acting as a permanent floor. ​Betting on a 9-month slide to October ignores that we’ve already absorbed the 2025 correction and are currently in a bullish trend shift with a 73% probability of holding above $95k through January. Are you betting on a ghost from 2018 or the actual order books of 2026?

jkl2035

Actually it‘s like that - I hold a decent amount of BTC and I‘m really worried how the BTC Community handles the discussion on the quantum threat - looking at the current proposals to make BTC quantum Secure like BIP360, it is obvious that it’s not an easy Journey. It will be a multi-year migration story with controverse discussions (burning Satoshis coins and similar) - for me a Must to take this serious and start taking Action on it Right now

gonzo_laps

I’m 42 and I contribute up to my employer match in my 401k. The rest is maxing out an HSA invested in index funds. Then an IRA I buy btc etfs and treasury companies in. The rest goes to BTC cold storage.

doyzer9

Yes, 5% in the top crypto is pretty fair, store it in a hardware wallet (Ledger nana S+ good starter cold wallet.) and forget about it. Most would say 60% BTC, 30% Eth 10% in a punt RWA/Privacy/Utility coins... Memes pump and dump, so much less secure. DYOR, and know the risks. All crypto is stored on the Blockchain, locked with encryption linked to a seed phrase (keys) Crypto held on an Exchanges, then the exch holds the keys. (Risk if the exchange goes bust) Wallets are only interfaces to the Blockchain. Hot wallets (Trust Wallet, Meta Mask, coinbase wallet, etc, etc, have the keys stored in the software and they are exposed to the internet, hence can be hacked. Hardware or cold wallet, keys stored on a device and never exposed to the internet, hence safer and cannot be hacked. 👍

Bionic_Push

amount of owners and amount of BTC are two totally different things. Also if it was represented as % of the population who owns btc, would be a totally different thing.

Zestyclose_Stomach51

You are WAY ahead of over 95% of the world right now!!! keep stacking and secure your keys. REMEMBER!!! NOT YOUR KEYS,NOT YOUR CRYPTO!!! if you havent found an option....Check out my page for a referral link to Ledger to earn some free BTC with your purchase

Ok_Budget9461

You’re basically mixing a few things here, which is super common with margin spot — so don’t worry. In margin trading, the “margin” is your own money. Leverage just means the exchange is letting you borrow extra funds on top of that. So yes, your position is your capital plus what you borrowed. Liquidation doesn’t happen when you’re down 100% on the trade. It happens when your account equity (your margin + unrealized PnL) drops below the exchange’s minimum requirement. That’s the key part most people miss. That’s also why the liquidation price can look surprisingly far away (like 12.6k). It depends on: how much BTC you actually borrowed how much margin you added and the exchange’s maintenance margin rules And yes — as long as price doesn’t hit that suggest liquidation level, you won’t get liquidated. Just keep in mind that interest on borrowed funds and margin requirements can slowly move that level over time. If this still feels confusing, that’s usually a good sign to either size down or avoid leverage for now. Margin is fine once you fully get it — but it’s pretty unforgiving when you don’t.

Zestyclose_Stomach51

Its ALWAYS a good idea to diversify, Unless you are a BTC Maxi, even if you are not, BTC will have the final say for Financial Freedom!!!

Own_Condition_4686

BTC is going to grind up forever. Its main utility is preserving and protecting wealth not creating it. For the next few years at least there is still a lot of opportunity and money to be made though.

drKRB

In ten years when BTC is between $500k and $1M, people will kick themselves. And it will be. No hopium, real talk.

DrCrazyCurious

Do whatever's best for you. I'm up over $60,000 in XRP and also hold BTC and a bunch of alts that are in the green. I'd rather be a "diversify" than a "maxi-anything" but again do whatever's best for you.

Slaxx93

All in im BTC. Thats the way for me

Abject-Stretch-1187

Well since BTC doesn’t only exist in my country doesn’t that make your retort another dogshit take? 

RetiredAvocado

A stock ticker is not BTC.

SadHappypotamus

BTC

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Western-Gain8093

I measure it against bananas. Currently the prices are: 1 BTC = 380,000 🍌 1 🍌 = 263 sats

Born-Chipmunk-7086

Likely sold when BTC did a 2x.

That_Jicama2024

Does he convert BTC to it's current exchange rate or is it a set BTC price for rent? Converting it to current exchange rate seems like cashing in BTC to pay fiat with fewer steps.

Crawsh

Yet. But it has a credible roadmap towards it which is unlikely to be controversial or contested. Whereas Bitcoin moves at a snail's pace, doesn't even have such a roadmap, and is notorious for contentious hard forks. And that's not even mentioning what will happen to Satoshi's coins. My prediction is that BTC will hard fork into a quantum resistant chain which will be the BTC of today, and the legacy chain which will become BCH. But that's after highly contentious years-long tug-of-war, which will possibly give ETH a chance to flip it finally.

BedBubbly317

The Ring betrayed Isildor and essentially had him killed. Is that where you think BTC is taking us? Elrond is the one who should be right in this meme…

whimsical-crack-rock

haha I like reading stuff like this it gives me hope…. you must have got into MSTR at a better time than I did lol. I have done very well on BTC, not so well on my MSTR

Bionic_Push

Lets say you entered a short for 35% of your net worth. That means you sold BTC that you don't have. So you owe that BTC back and at some point you will need to buy it back to close the short. Basically you could say that a situation where you owe 35% of your net worth in btc means btc is - 35% of your net worth.

Objective_Basil6897

gold alone has a 30 trillion market cap. It isn't hard to see BTC hit 20 especially since we aren't talking about today, but in the future where a lot more money will be printed with more inflation. The S&P has over 60 trillion today. If we are talking like 10 years and project the average CAGR of S&P and Gold forward, that gives S&P like 155 trillion market cap and gold 65 trillion. I don't think 20 trillion for BTC is necessarily unreasonable compared to the economy at that time. That's just my food for thought though.

VFFC-

VTSAX + BTC. Not adding any more to either, just here for the ride 🚀

BlockScopeHQ

If this was ~8 years ago, that purchase would’ve been around the $1–2k BTC range. If he didn’t get liquidated or panic sell, he’s probably doing just fine today.

palacheenka

Not a Solana fan. To the contrary, I thunk it's a badly designed blockchain bit BTC is still king just because everyone thinks it is. It's not sustainable at current hashrate without higher fees. Everyone just buys it and do nothing with it. Waiting for the price to go up with new investors coming in while the high hashrate dtains the value from the network.

HSuke

Much faster, but expensive to use due over time due to routing fees and needing to rebalance channels periodically. Merchants are always accepting BTC during the day while customers are always spending. They'll need to rebalance their channels. Unlike with Bitcoin, operating costs are proportional to the amount being spent across a channel. So it's cheap to spend small amounts and expensive to spend large amounts. As a customer, I'd rather use a credit card and get 2% cash back than having to pay operating fees proportional to the amount being spent.

AlpinSean007

Majority in my house. Rest in BTC

alwaysmyfault

IMO someone that had that much conviction in BTC to take out a huge loan is the same kind of person who would diamond hand for years and years.

BigPlayCrypto

Need BTC at 1,000,000 now

Ok-Introduction2492

bro delete this shit u from UK someone would be knocking Ur door with knife/gun. They have nothing to lose, u have 6 BTC.

Guala111

99% of my net worth BTC, I have 15 year old car what is the other 1%

BroncoBucky

My best advice is for you to continue your DCA journey. Many of us may never hit our original stack goal and I think that's bullish enough as is. But seriously, most people who have entered within the last 5 years probably set out for 1 BTC. And if you're putting in even what you say at a couple hundred a month, you're still looking at $2-3k purchased in a year. With price being it's lowest in the last 5 years at $16k a coin. You would have needed price to stick to that low for the full 5 year time frame to achieve that 1 BTC. At today's prices, you could be looking at 15 more years if you've already made it to half a BTC. I also like to think about even splits of the whole BTC pie to the world population to gauge how early we are. Certainly flaws with my logic here but still a comforting thought excerise. For the example, the US population is estimated to be greater than 340M (so we'll take the low end of that range). With only 21M BTC ever created, an even split to just the US population is 0.0588 BTC. This is not my way of confirming you are "behind" and that you should throw lump sums at it now. Not at all, just a suggestion to recalibrate on what you have.

CryptoBrown87

I sold BTC to buy high-cap alts, thinking it would be an altseason like other cycles, but that didn't happen, and it was a big mistake. Next time I sell BTC, it will be for Fiat, alas, but one must live.

davoste

VOO + BTC + Silver

epic_trader

>Your scenario will occur in the year 2140. Then, the network earns transaction fees. Wrong. In 20 years the reward will have shrunk from 3.125BTC today, to 0.097BTC. The amount of BTC offered by the network to miners to uphold security is therefore only about 3% of what it is today. So, the question posed to you is, where will the money to pay miners to secure the network come from? Transaction fees account for about 1% of the total reward for miners today. Are you saying it will cost $97 to send a Bitcoin transaction?

0xCryptoPal

6 BTC on Exodus… you like playing with fire my friend

bailaowai

The unpopular opinion here is that it’s just another asset class in a portfolio. There’s very little chance that Bitcoin in anything close to its current form will ever ever ever “replace fiat”. Bitcoin would need a nation, governing structure, and a military with a lot of weapons for that to be a realistic possibility. The politics just don’t work on a planet populated by humans because power will always find a way to preserve itself and concentrate. So, the end game hasn’t changed, build wealth measured in the currency of your choice until you have enough to do whatever TF you want with your time. Some call that retirement. This comment doesn’t work on this subreddit because the only acceptable opinion is dogmatic devotion to a higher concept. But in reality the vast majority that are in bitcoin know this, otherwise they wouldn’t obsessively be checking the “price” denominated in “USD”. How many BTC holders do you know that can’t immediately tell you have many DOLLARS a BTC is WORTH.

No_Giraffe_4647

Diversification is key so all in for me will never be the way to go but allocating the lion share on BTC why not it may still outperform diversified equity index on long run. However I prefer have a split between crypto energy materials amd equity

Yeezus_1

Have BTC in cold storage, Roth 50% VTI and 50% FBTC. In taxable MSTR and in a separate tab STRC. So mainly bitcoin but in different exposures

Opposite_Ad_4431

People will make this same post at $1M BTC. Buy what you can, nothing to worry about if you’re long term. Happy Stacking! 💎

JG87919

Never go all in on BTC and nothing else. You should be prioritizing some sort of S&P 500 stock and betting on bitcoin. S&P is historically a sure thing if you add weekly/monthly till you retire. Bitcoin is not, even though it sounds and feels like it’s going to be. I wouldn’t put all my eggs in one basket. Stick with the sure thing and then put what u can in BTC. I mean even if BTC goes to 1 million it’s only a 10x. And that’s if ALL your BTC bought is between 90-100 100k. So your not going to make much unless you have alot to put into it. That is, unless BTC goes to like 10,20,50,100 million. Not impossible but I wouldn’t bet on it with everything I have to invest.

jkl2035

For me it’s more than a story - think the BTC migration will be extremely complicated, no matter when it has to be done. Think it’s widely accepted that BTC has to do a hard fork - even Michael Saylor accepts this - the current proposal consider burning Satoshis coins which will be discussed controversal in BTC community. I‘m also Holding BTC and it worries me that quantum threat isn‘t taken more serious

FOMOmeterCrypto

Institutions don’t hold forever. They trade, rebalance, and distribute liquidity. BTC doesn’t disappear onto balance sheets. It just changes hands each cycle.

Jimagon

I was until this week. I was 90% invested in bitcoin and did a deep dive on ETF returns for the past 5 years. I’ve since invested funds into some ETFs, that were going to be invested into BTC. I’m still mostly invested in BTC but diversified a Bit more now

FOMOmeterCrypto

Becoming a maxi after BTC outperforms and alts are wrecked is the most common path. You’re not alone. That’s exactly why it looks like narrative chasing, not a timed strategy.

23_skido-o

What if he's just not wanting to say the real reason he's dropping his stakes, and pointing to "quantum risks" instead? He wouldn't be the first financial person to trim expectations on BTC.  Kinda hard not to after October 2025.

PirateSKB

BTC just jumped back over $100k 🚀 (No need to look at the charts guys, go outside and enjoy time with your loved ones and spend time doing what matters to you)

epic_trader

You think you're saying something really profound, but you don't realize how profoundly ignorant it is. Both Bitcoin and Ethereum's security hinges on the issuance of currency to pay miners/validators. Ethereum has a small steady level of issuance to pay for securing the network, which guarantees there's always a budget to pay for securing the network. Bitcoin unfortunately is not so cleverly designed. Every 4 years the block reward halves, which means that in 20 years, the reward for finding a valid block is reduced from 3.1215BTC today to only 0.097BTC. That is a *disastrous* design that has no solution, and touting this as a good thing is laughable. Where does the money to uphold security for Bitcoin in 20 years come from? Let me guess, people are going to be paying $100 per transaction? Or miners will mine at a loss? Or nation states will mine Bitcoin at a loss because Bitcoin with its 7 transactions per second is underpinning the global economy?

gihkal

Just don't read the white paper and bitcoins great. Nowhere does it say store of value. It requires p2p currency transfer without a third party. As to allow efficient transfers and privacy. Lighting is the opposite of that. The slow transactions of Bitcoin today and the cost of transfers makes BTC unreasonable for a huge portion of the world. Bitcoin has strayed from Satoshis vision. Monaro is closer imo. It's pow, anonymous, efficient and works for individuals all over the world. Bitcoin core has either been manipulated by large miners to ensure big profits or by the banksters/three letter agencies.

_speedoflight_

* 60% RSU + VTI (Taxable + Trad 401k/IRA), * 20% RE, * 20% BTC + ETH (cold storage & Roth IRA).

Narrow-Ad6797

BTC is an idea. These idiot boomers didn't catch on they just seen others getting 100% + gains in a year consistently and jumped on board. Are there better coins? I'm sure. Is there an infinite amount of bullshit memes? Yeah. Alts may have their day when all these geriatric fucks die off.

Such-Dragonfruit-968

Nothing but BTC for \~3 years here

Rare_Rich6713

I hear you, staking can feel like free money until you actually break down the real returns vs expectations. For the major PoS assets like ETH and ADA, yields are generally in the low single digits usually around 3–6% APY or so, depending on the platform and network conditions. That’s decent, but definitely not crazy, especially after fees or if you’re just delegating instead of running your own validator. For BTC, the situation’s a bit different because Bitcoin doesn’t natively support staking. But with protocols like Babylon enabling BTC holders to contribute to securing PoS networks, you can earn rewards on BTC too

Rare_Rich6713

This seems to be a pretty common arc tbh. A lot of people come into crypto through alts chasing outsized returns, then slowly realize Bitcoin is the only asset that doesn’t need perfect timing to work. Alts can be great in certain phases, but they come with dilution, governance risk, and the constant need for liquidity to stay favorable. BTC just keeps compounding conviction over time. What’s interesting now is that even the BTC maxi path isn’t just passive anymore with things like Bitcoin being used as a security layer via Babylon, holding BTC doesn’t necessarily mean sitting on the sidelines.

Rare_Rich6713

Instead of selling BTC outright to chase majors or smaller alts, there’s a growing idea around using BTC as a security asset especially with protocols like Babylon. The interesting part is that BTC doesn’t get wrapped or bridged. It stays on Bitcoin, but is used to secure other chains cryptographically. So you can keep BTC exposure while still earning yield and freeing up risk capital for alts. Thats what I do.

Brewerfan1979

You have to diversify your crypto. I like alts like XRP,HBAR,XDC and XLM. I also understand having some BTC makes your overall holding stronger.

biba8163

BTC is Grass. Alts are Ass. | | Jun. 2017 | Nov. 2021 | January. 2026 |:-----------|:------------:|:------------:|:------------:| | BTC | $40.4 Billion | $1.23 Trillion | $1.902 Trillion | Stablecoins | $0.13 Billion| $0.11 Trillion | $0.32 Trillion | Ex.BTC/Stablecoins | $66.6 Billion |$1.52 Trillion | $1.008 Trillion | Total Crypto | $107.13 Billion |$2.86 Trillion | $3.23 Trillion | **BTC Dominance** | **37.8%** | **44.7%** | **65.36%** **BTC Dominance excludes stablecoins*

BiMuscleJock

I made 5 billion in BTC

azauca

All in on BTC. 🙋