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Could I end up with no coins on the BIP-110/BLAKE2b chain if it ever became the economically dominant Bitcoin?
BTC $85k by 2026 is 68c, but smart money is 81% YES. Fair?
Is it really that farfetched that BTC could rise 400$ in 2 hours?
Anyone know of US workshops that teach real cold storage techniques and the different technologies?
Has anyone here personally hit a Bitcoin block with a NerdOCTAXE or similar home miner?
Are we actually past the bottom of the bear market? Is the bull run slowly beginning?
Are we actually past the bottom of the bear market? Is the bull run slowly beginning?
Cardone Capital Adds 1,200 BTC, Doubling Down On Bitcoin And Multifamily Housing
How much has the last bullrun colored how you see the market?
Going to sleep — curious what I’ll wake up to 👀
Remittix Presale vs XRP Established Value
Wait until a low/no income year to sell, if at all (US-only)
What Wyckoff taught a century ago about reading tape just flagged this month's close as one that matters
I accidentally sent Bitcoin to the wrong address — I’m asking the community for help
Does anyone believe a word this guy said? if Powell made the same speech BTC would go to 50k in an hour
Given the news that there will be a rate hike at Jackson Hole, what is the bottom?
When BTC establishes a floor higher than your entry target
Looks like BTC is turning from a bounce into a real reversal
BTC hits $80K: Will Fed Chair Warsh fuel or freeze the rally?
Was ZEC the coin we should have been paying attention to instead of BTC and ETH?
What Wyckoff taught a century ago about reading tape just flagged this month's close as one that matters
highly relevant signal for those of us who love and believe in $BTC
Don’t know who uses fibs and watches yearly open prices but here’s my breakdown of why BTC wants to see 100k again.
8 months of neck pain and migraines from this job, finally feels manageable now
Will BTC ever get a unit split like stock shares do all the time their price per unit gets too big?
Do you use crypto as a way to protect savings from local currency instability?
Do you use crypto as a way to protect savings from local currency instability?
Indian Crypto exchange ZEBPAY MEMBERSHIP FEES! FRAUD FUCKERS
BTR price surge explodes 300%, what am I missing here?
Analyst Bitcoin Price Predictions: Who's On Track and Who's Not
How Kalshi Perpetuals work (and why US traders don't need a VPN for crypto perps anymore)
Bitcoin’s Real Strength Goes Beyond Scarcity — It’s the Power to Verify 🟠
What is ur opinion on the “captain goes down with the ship” mentality?
Will the recurring sept/oct BTC tanking still be a thing?
Will BTC eventually reach $200,000?
What are you making of the market right now?
BlackRock has now pulled more than $5 BILLION of BTC into its ETF system
Bitcoin Just Entered the American Mortgage System Without Being Sold.
I’m thinking about selling all my ETH and just holding BTC
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Looking for EXMO Users Affected by Frozen, Withheld or Converted Funds
A lot of Bitcoin discussion focuses on price, cycles, and where BTC might be headed next.
USDT dominance just topped and turned down, this is the actual tell for where capital goes next
BTC Short eröffnet – ich baue aktuell eine Swing-Position auf
BTC Reaching 90k By Week’s End? A Cosseted Mind’s Dissonance Depleted Cognition
TRAGIC: 16 years ago, 'Stone Man' formatted his hard drive and lost 9,000 Bitcoins. BTC remain frozen there, worth $700M. Pour one out for a legend!
Built a Bitcoin auction leaderboard — pay sats, get #1 until someone outbids you. Is this genius or braindead?
[DISCUSSION] Built a pay-to-win leaderboard — highest BTC bid = #1 until someone outbids you
Coldcard Hacker discovered mixers and is doing a terrible job
Crypto from Binance to Kraken transfer
I built a bot to predict Kalshi’s 15-minute BTC markets; first 100 results
Does keeping custody of your BTC actually matter once it's locked as collateral?
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It needs to start somewhere... If someone like Bob who is an expert in financial cycles.... He's a cycle analyst.... I'm not an expert. It resonated with me... As soon as I found it... I had my first part of BTC in 2018...prior to Bob putting out his first video... So I got to see what the fourth year of that cycle was like ... Then experience two more cycles(still being played out)... About to experience my fourth cycle starting in 2027ish. I never claimed to be an expert ... But I learned from one... Not only that I've been following BTC since around 2011-12.... I was asked about mining it when it was $9. I have time in the market ... Real world experience in the market .. I follow the four year cycle since 2019.... And it has rung true and is playing out exactly as Bob loukas explained it would .. I'm not the only one talking about the cycle... Every long term investor who follows Bitcoin knows of it .. but most don't follow it fully... They DCA... Good for them .. But I guarantee anyone that DCA and has been in BTC as long as I have.... Has a higher BTC average than I do. Ask yourself why you don't watch Bob loukas and follow an expert when he offers his info for free... And proved that yes BTC has been following a four year cycle. I can lead a horse to water but I can't make it drink. Continue to buy the top... Have fud ... And fomo... If that's what you and most others want to do... But as of it's factual history there is no need to do the above .. Bob is an example and I to am because I followed his lead... And bc I did it changed my life .. I no longer have to worry about my future finances... I was homeless when I started with BTC. But it extends beyond BTC... It trade a handful of other crypto based on the four year cycles they have .. but that's another volume I can write about. Believe Bob or don't I care less.
You dont want these blake coins. Honestly people will messup and lose their real BTC trying to even get their BTC. Then replay protection you need to protect yourself from.
Im not talking about its peak all time high last year. I'm talking about BTC reaching its previews all time high of $69k before the halving for the furst time
I use it all of the time for payments, but those payments amounts are always based on USD value, not BTC. I wish for the day where everything is based on BTC, but that day is not today....
Another Trump rug pull just happened. Feels like these are the kinds of things that kill public sentiment. It will be interesting to see to see how crypto fares when the sitting president of the United States isn’t constantly making a bad example of everyone in the space. I do think BTC and ETH require large scale public buy in, not just institutional investment, in order to hit the returns that people reading this subreddit in 2026 are hoping for over the long term.
what did you add to the smelter to turn it into BTC?
why do you think watching Youtube videos is going to make you a BTC cycle expert? Just curious. Bob Loukas knows nothing about Bitcoin, he can’t and will not predict cycle lows like that. Again, when are you going to buy if not now?
I agree. I think the BTC cycle acts exactly like a compressed stock market cycle. Every 20 years for the stock market, every 4 years for BTC.
The perennial nocoiner non-argument. Bitcoin/USD is just one pair of currencies. I bet the Swiss get excited when their CHF/EUR or CHF/USD goes up, you can also measure BTC against ANY OTHER ASSET or commodity out there.
You wouldn't have to know the keys. Quantum computing would test all combinations to force a public key. Stealing over 800 BTC that has been thrown away would be a much easier target than an entity like Blackrock. Who has custody over burned coins?
I’m Canadian so I use wealth simple if something happens they are liable for up to 200k worth for BTC that’s just me though
Exchanges aren’t freezing anything over that. Tens of thousands of wallets have been dusted with ETH from Tornado Cash, BTC from mixers, and shitcoins from blacklisted wallets. I’ve been dusted hundreds of times and it’s never been an issue.
I dont care if its up or down. I will check in 2030 what BTC is doing. It can go to $10k in the meanwhile or rip to a Million. I don’t care. For me my bitcoin is locked for at least 4 years. This is a long term game. If you want to buy now in the hope of selling 2-6 months later, this isn’t for you.
What's to stop quantum computing from cracking BTC's burn address?
It’s funny you bring up hitler and hyperinflation. There are limits to growth. That’s the core thesis BTC is designed to stopgap. Any fiat becomes worthless when it becomes economically unviable for transactions. If there is a banking crisis an average home being valued at 10m USD isn’t a far fetched concept. For any person or institution betting that BTC will exponentially increase in value is effectively debasing the fiat they transact in, it just takes a majority to think that way to make it so. We’re still in the speculation phase of pricing BTC — that is humans are in the speculation phase. Machines are a whole other subject.
It's not a bull run. It potentially could have started early if BTC broke the 84k level again. It was rejected hard at 81, then again at every attempt at 80. It's at the top of its local run right now, if it can't get above 84, it remains in a downtrend. If it breaks and holds 84 we could keep going up. As of now it looks like we're headed back towards the 60s before a big move. Everyone will likely get a good buying opportunity in the next few months
Post is by: orid7 and the url/text [ ](https://goo.gl/GP6ppk)is: /r/CryptoMarkets/comments/1w1rvfe/btc_85k_by_2026_is_68c_but_smart_money_is_81_yes/ One BTC prediction market I keep coming back to: "Bitcoin hits $85,000 before 2027" is sitting around 68c. The clean read is almost boring: the model number I have is 70c, so there is not some giant gap here. The interesting part is the wallet split. Among tracked profitable prediction-market traders, about 81% of the smart-money side is YES. That makes this feel less like "BTC is obviously cheap" and more like a crowding question. If the market is already near fair value, are those wallets seeing a path/volatility edge, or are they just all leaning the same obvious macro trade? Touch markets are weird because BTC does not need to end 2026 above $85k. It only has to tag it once. That makes 68c look less aggressive than it would for a year-end close market. But the other side is real too: long-dated markets tie up capital, spreads can eat the apparent edge, and one slow volatility-crush period makes the "one wick will do it" thesis a lot weaker. What would you want to see before calling this correctly priced: options vol, ETF flow, liquidity on the market itself, or just BTC reclaiming a specific level first? *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.*
When everyone starts believing that the bottom is going to hit at a particular date, thats when it definitely wont happen. Its like thinking that you know next weeks lottery numbers. Plus last cycle everyone thought that BTC would hit a new ATH AFTER the halving. Just because thats how it had always happened. Guess what? It hit the ATH before the halving for the first time. Things play differently once EVERYONE thinks they know a certain outcome. Whether big corporations or whales know this and take advantage or whatever the cc reason come Oct Nov ppl waiting will realise shit i better jump in. I'm expecting Oct nov the price will soar because of late comers.
I’m messing with you, dude. I have only ever accumulated. No plans to ever sell. Will borrow against BTC if fiat is needed, but accumulation is the only priority.
How long have you been into BTC? This isn't QQQ 🤣
If you bought low enough from the top, just hold. If it drops further, you can buy more with whatever cash you have on hand. If it goes up, you already own BTC. It's a win-win situation. No need to panic.
I think the problem is that you only ever know the bottom was the bottom in hindsight. Personally I’m cautiously bullish from here, but I wouldn’t interpret a few strong BTC/ETH rallies or improving sentiment as confirmation that we’re suddenly in a full bull market. Crypto can rally 20–30%, convince everyone the worst is over, and then wipe most of that move out pretty quickly. What I’d rather see is BTC establish a sustained uptrend, ETH continue showing strength, BTC dominance eventually cool off and liquidity start rotating properly into alts. That would make me much more confident that we’re moving into the next broader risk-on phase rather than just having a bear-market rally. I also wouldn’t put too much weight on Robinhood being *the* catalyst. It can improve retail access/sentiment, but macro conditions, liquidity and institutional flows are much bigger drivers of the overall cycle. Could we still get another nasty flush? Absolutely. But waiting for some obvious final capitulation candle before buying can also mean watching the market run away from you. Basically: I think things look considerably more constructive, but “the bottom is definitely in and the bull run has started” is a level of certainty nobody really has.
Try to transfer and cash out BTC via CEX, same same. It’s fucked. Only comfy way is P2P as intended by Satoshi - but we are not there yet.
Notice how literally the day after you felt motivated to post this, BTC hit its low and has since recovered. You need to learn to reverse the retail FOMO in your gut. That's how the institutions get you. When you feel that type of low, it usually means it's a buying opportunity. NFA.
Most technical analysis is helpful when it is used well. Most traders do not use technical analysis well. TA can be good if you keep things simple. I read Tom O'Brien's book Timing the Trade long ago, and it can still teach anyone how to be a better trader. If you can't trade with just price and volume, don't bother dealing with indicators, patterns and other fancy stuff, it simply is not likely to ever work before you're fluent in the interrelations of price and volume and how they move markets. It takes most people 10-20 years to REALLY get it. I got back into BTC long in July. Through studying and understanding it over the years I was able to start trading it, and when it got back to the 60K plus level and stayed there for some weeks, I thought it is building a right hand base for a future breakout. That is when I added long exposure. That trade has been one of my best ever. It took me nearly 15 yrs to get here. It doesn't happen on a timeline that most people want it to happen. You could be a genius and do it in months. But you could also be like 99% of everyone else and it requires FAR longer to master your trade.
Like others have said, it’s for making sure people don’t get scammed. Pulling out $20K to buy a car? They’re not going to stop you. Get all nervous about what the $20K is for? Yeah, they will want to make sure someone isn’t taken advantage of. Maybe if BTC wallets had the same protections they wouldn’t get drained…
My simple but effective BTC investment rules. 1. Buy the bulk of your Bitcoin at or below the 200 WMA. 2. Sell Bitcoin (only if necessary) above the 50 WMA. 3. Never buy Bitcoin above the 50 WMA.
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I got accused of being a shill and banned for saying Monero and other chains do a better job than BTC at certain things. Which I thought was kinda the whole point of the sub. Some smooth brain mods over there.
Yes and no. BTC has less than 1% adoption. If that goes up to 10% adoption (or 10x more demand) we get 1 million bitcoin, fiat stays the same.
And this is why I'm BTC/ETH only
Antifraud/AML convo, if it actually happened. If someone were trying to drain my account of a large sum, I’d hope the bank would try to create at least a little friction/some kind of trail like this. Yeah, we accept the convenience of BTC but accept lots of risk in return.
That’s my issue man. I feel like my DCA days always fall on days when BTC hits a monthly/weekly high😂😂. It is what it is though I feel BTC will hit 300-500K sometime in my life so any price below that is good for me.
By all measures so far and likely into the future, Bitcoin will beat inflation so even at $1M BTC, it will still be a lot of money. Just not as much as it is today.
In my opinion this is the biggest leap people need to make in their mental framework regarding BTC vs Fiat. Measure everything under the Fiat system and everything is a dumpster fire. Even those who THINK they’re doing well with nominal gains are just barely keeping up or even falling behind faster than inflation. And we all know, can measure, and feel the debasement happening way more aggressively than what our governments are putting out. Owning BTC doesn’t care about any of that. Your purchasing power will just continue to go up forever.
No. Macro economic outlook is horrific. Those rallies are nothing. BTC and all the mains are still down significantly from ATHs. Macroeconomics has to improve otherwise no bull. And you need good leaders for that. lol
It’s time in the market not timing the market DCA BTC ESD
I’ve lived through all of the cycles since 2013 as a BTC holder. Range bound with no new ATH for the next 3 years , would be the cycle right on schedule …
I have a monitor for my BTC node and got tired of looking at chain data so I made a quick loveable app. It's meant to just be a full screen, glanceable, real time view of the BTC market. Almost like a screensaver. If anyone wants to use it: https://btcdash.lovable.app/
The hitting $1,000,000 discussion doesn’t really matter because the value of the dollar discussion needs to be had in conjunction with it. If BTC hits $1,000,000 and an average house in the US costs $10mil, it doesn’t mean what people think it means. I hope in 25 years 1 BTC has the buying power of a million today.
Thats why I dont buy BTC. Maybe in the distant future, but I'm profiting way more by not buying BTC right now. It is what it is.
The monthly net price movement of BTC is not predictive. There are no patterns established leading up to your point of prediction.
If you plan on buying more BTC, buy some shares of MSTR instead. It works like leveraged BTC imo. If btc moves x % this stock moves like 2x %
Who gave you the 0.000013 BTC?
Love em or hate em these guys have zero fear. While the world’s biggest bitcoin treasuries are dumping bitcoin as fast as they can these guys are stacking. Strategy, May to August 2026, sold 6,948 BTC; MARA Holdings, March 2026, sold 15,000+ BTC; Sequans Communications, July 2026, sold approximately 1,606 BTC; Bitdeer, February 2026, sold 943 BTC; Prenetics, July 2026, sold 510 BTC; Genius Group, April 2026, sold 84 BTC; Nakamoto, July 2026, sold approximately 324 BTC; Smarter Web Company, July 2026, sold 178 BTC; K Wave Media, May 2026, sold ENTIRE treasury for $64.2 million
You somehow don’t see a bear argument when the price is looking like it’s about to set a lower high again & rate hikes are coming later this year which is terrible for BTC and other risk assets.
BTC bullrun is ongoing since 2009
I am 100% in BTC this cycle. I also like XMR, hype is also great, but it has a high FDV and I think it might shoot really high, but I don’t hold it.
Real BTC OGs never sell. For us mere mortals who need cash at some point, we have no choice but to sell.
Since inception average movement price on BTC for september: -3.4%. For April: +13%. Those are just averages, but yes, Bitcoin care which month it is. Seasonality its a factor in almost every asset class.
There is a dedicated sub for you r/bitcoinbeginners My only tip to you is to buy in as soon and as much as you can. The longer you wait the more regrets you’ll have down the line. Your timing is good, we’re in a bear market. Prices are very likely to go up from here (with a few bumps on the road). One golden rule: Do not sell at a drawdown. BTC always recovers. Do not consume any sketchy social media. Stay vigilant, do not fall for scams or fishy DMs. Anything you want to know you can ask out in the open, there is no need for private messages ever! Good luck!
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Don't do it. U will ultimately lose money. Just buy BTC and become Rip Van Vinkle
That is more technically advanced than most people care to learn when holding like only couple hundred dollars in BTC and more likely to lead to a loss, than a device that has a GUI and setup walkthrough like a Trezor. Which has a clean record when you look at the device alone. The leak they had wasn't from them, it was a logistics co. that was hacked for shipping records and only 90 days of records, which has now been reduced to 30.
Haha, true. People have absolutely no understand what it would take to bring BTC to $5m. 🤡
Listen here, buddy. On behalf of all crypto holders, please dump your BTC now. We'll buy it back at 50k and split the profit with you. 🤝
Bitcoin has logarithmic graph. There is no compounding effect (maybe reverse compounding xdd) If you want longterm compounding effect BTC is not for you
I don't think BTC or SpaceX cares what you sold or bought.
And and and! There has never been two consecutive red Octobers. So I fully expect whoever believes this mumbo jumbo to short the shit out of BTC and then buy the dip the month after. Easy peasy.
That's roughly my approach too. DCAing BTC into weakness makes more sense than averaging down forever on alts and hoping one of them comes back. BTC's the long term part for me, and whatever I'm not planning to touch goes into yield options. same goal either way, slowly grow the stack without pretending I can pick the bottom.
How it safe?. What if you lost the device, damage or theft? Your BTC will be lost forever?. And How you can do transaction without internet, you have to connect it for transaction. Sorry, I have less knowledge, explain me if I am wrong
Classic 😂 thanks for the heads up, selling everything now. jokes aside, this is roughly why I stopped trying to time it. I just DCA BTC and keep part of the long term stack in yield. less stressful than finding out I'm the market's reverse indicator
To be fair BTC started from a very low base, so let’s temper that into the mix. But we all know what protects us from debasement and which will continue to be the best performing asset.
Your problem is that you did active trading and probably with highly speculative coins. The way people have made money in crypto is holding good projects long term, at least ride a bull run for 2 years, e.g. BTC, ETH, SOL, BNB. Now, this ones don't have the same super high upside potential anymore, but there are new promising projects that are still mid-size.
Someone in another thread was bragging about BTC being up 69% over the last 5 years, but Nasdaq is up roughly 100% for the same period.
Wife. Ill leave 21mil BTC and the same amount of dogs
What do those ads always say? Past performance isn’t indicative of future performance 😂. What worked last cycle isn’t necessarily the rule, it’s just what worked then. So yeah, being coloured by the last cycle is definitely real, but 90% BTC is fine if it’s based on today’s market and honestly, who knows what this cycle brings.
He kicked AU, AG and BTC right in the family jewels today
Its called the rotation effect. You gotta read the Btc news there is a group that wanted to buy BTC at 75k once it hits that i would have sold yesterday but i bought way under 75k so you hold and once they biy i think 518BTC or more it will go up. Bitcoin is projected to hir 125k this year. If you bought it low when it dropped 60k hodl. This isnt financial advice. Just what i read from the news of the conpany that was relased by bitcoin.
Just put 50% in BTC and 50% in SpaceX and then come back in 5 years.
I think he is on to something maybe we should all sell our BTC at once and buy it back when its cheaper
It should be more stable. BTC doesn't produce anything. It serves as less friction for transactions. Actual inflation (not cpi) marches upwards and is not generally spiking as much as btcs price.
This is why I have stacked to .75097231 BTC since 2021. I expect to leave at least 1.0 to my heirs
It was time to take some chips off the table. You can’t take BTC to the grave. I still have one. We did ok.
lol BTC hit a wall at 80
I don’t - I mean it’s only like 4% of our portfolio - maybe a little more I think we are at 1.4M total. But I am a lifetime HOLDR as I bought it for only 3k the last time BTC was 3k. If it hits 250k I’m sure there will be something available if need be. Right now we took a small heloc out but are otherwise debt free and cash positive.
Open a family business. Katamarijuana LLC. Fund the LLC with your BTC. Shift every possible bill into a business expense. Trip to Europe? Convention. Site scouting. Never take a paycheck. Pay no taxes. This is how rich people stay rich.
You are wealthy as you have money to invest in things like BTC in the first place. Thats the point.
The blockchain by itself doesn't solve the fundamental problem that Bitcoin was created to solve: How can people send & receive digital payments and store digital value without needing permission from anybody and without having to trust any third parties? Bitcoin solves that problem through a combination of things: * A native digital asset with a fixed monetary policy: bitcoin. * A decentralized network of nodes that independently verify the rules. * Proof-of-work mining, which makes rewriting history extremely expensive. * Economic incentives that pay miners in BTC for securing the network. * A ledger whose reliability emerges from the interaction of all those pieces. * Digital scarcity: there is a maximum supply of 21 million bitcoins. * Permissionless: being able to store digital value and transfer that value without requiring permission. Other cryptocurrencies aren't just different implementations of the same breakthrough. They're competing with Bitcoin to become money, and monetary competition has strong forces pushing toward one dominant network. Every blockchain needs a native currency to pay for security. If you're going to have a trustless network, someone has to spend real resources securing it. Bitcoin pays miners in bitcoin. The currency has to be valuable enough that miners are willing to invest capital and energy to protect the network. This means every cryptocurrency is ultimately competing as money. Even if a project says, "We're not trying to be money; we're building a decentralized computer / application platform / token ecosystem / etc", the underlying blockchain still ultimately needs a valuable native asset to incentivize security. And if that asset has no other claim on productive assets, its fundamental economic role becomes money. Money tends to consolidate around the most liquid and secure network. Bitcoin has a larger hashrate, greater security, greater decentralization, greater adoption, greater liquidity, a credible fixed monetary policy and a longer operating history. That creates a self-reinforcing cycle: more value --> more security --> greater confidence --> more adoption --> more liquidity --> more value --> more security. This network effect makes Bitcoin's monetary properties increasingly difficult for another cryptocurrency to replicate. Why would you store your wealth in a smaller cryptocurrency that is less secure and less liquid? Altcoins need to convince people to move wealth away from the more secure, more liquid monetary network in order to build the very network effects that would make it competitive. That's a difficult bootstrap problem. Altcoins don't just have to catch Bitcoin; Bitcoin is simultaneously getting stronger as its hashrate rises, its value rises and adoption increases. The monetary network effects strongly favor one dominant winner and Bitcoin has such a large lead in security and liquidity that other cryptocurrencies cannot realistically catch it. Altcoins can't copy Bitcoin's mining infrastructure or hashrate. They can't copy Bitcoin's user base. They can't copy Bitcoin's adoption. No other cryptocurrency can ever be launched as fairly as Bitcoin because Bitcoin's fair launch cannot ever be replicated. Bitcoins circulated freely for 18 months before they ever had any monetary value. Now that the genie is out of the bottle and Bitcoin exists, it's impossible to ever have another cryptocurrency where the coins are circulating in the wild freely for 18 months before having any value because people would immediately be speculating and gambling on this new cryptocurrency right out of the gate. This has happened with literally every cryptocurrency that was created after Bitcoin. I also don't think that we'll ever see another cryptocurrency created where the founder never cashes out.
I am the least bullish for BTC in the 14 years I’ve been following it. Its USP and utility have been destroyed by the institutions it was designed to disintermediate. Apart from niche websites and the dark web I can’t spend it or use it. It’s just become a speculative instrument so it’s a meh from me at the moment.
it's not done yet, but BTC is also maturing and the more holders the less volatile it becomes.
BTC TANKED to levels not seen since Wednesday!
This sucks man. My condolences. If i ever make it rich I’ll gift you back the 2 BTC.
Satoshi having 1 million BTC is a myth created by sergio which was quickly shown to be flawed and contradictory. Here is Sergio's original post - https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=175996.msg1832533#msg1832533 and followup https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=178629.0 Where Greg and others point out flaws in his research and how some of it is self contradictory Here is Bitmex's follow up research on the matter - https://blog.bitmex.com/satoshis-1-million-bitcoin/ >In conclusion, although there is strong evidence of a dominant miner in 2009, we think **the evidence is far less robust than many have assumed.** Although a picture is worth a thousand words, sometimes pictures can be a little misleading. Even if one is convinced, the evidence only supports the claim that the **dominant miner may have generated significantly less than a million bitcoin in our view. Perhaps 600,000 to 700,000 bitcoin** is a better estimate. >**None of the above says much about whether the dominant miner was Satoshi**, although we know Satoshi mined block 9, which we have allocated to the dominant miner in our analysis. **However this is in a slope of just 11 blocks, so it’s certainly not conclusive**. Whoever the dominant miner was, it is of course **possible the keys have been lost or discarded by now**. > The analysis is built on a logical fallacy. In any period there is going to be at least one miner who has the largest share or the steepest rate of increase in the ExtraNonce. There are also going to be at least some types slopes which do not overlap. Grouping these slopes from potentially different miners together is misleading and potentially based on flawed reasoning. Thus block 9 and genesis block was created by Satoshi 100%, and the evidence reflects he might have mined 11 blocks at least in addition to the genesis under these assumptions . This means the evidence suggests we definitely know satoshi mined 2 blocks , and likely mined 11 blocks, and that **perhaps** there was a dominant miner who mined between 600-700k bitcoin(not blocks). **There are other explanations for the extranonce pattern that do not point to a dominant miner. Simply a similar software setup can cause this.** Since there was over 5 days between the genesis block being mined and block 1 and difficulty was 1 it would be safer to assume satoshi waited for other miners to start mining before joining in . Satoshi released the code 2 months before launching Bitcoin on multiple popular mailing lists and designed the original client so multiple peers on the network must exist to produce blocks. Here are examples of at least 2 early miners mining alongside satoshi from the start https://stephanlivera.com/episode/314/ https://twitter.com/halfin/status/1110302988
Hey! I’d put the liquidation terms ahead of the advertised interest rate. A cheaper loan can become very expensive if a sudden BTC drop triggers a full liquidation with little warning. CoinRabbit uses a custodial model and does not rehypothecate collateral. When comparing it with other lenders, check the liquidation LTV, whether you can add collateral or repay part of the loan, and how quickly the collateral becomes available after repayment. Those details matter more than a small difference in APR.
Or just buy BTC and hold it for the long term. FED statements can definitely make market swings but not always.
Correct, in fact Bitcoin is still the same value as it was when it launched in 2009. 1 BTC = 1 BTC.
SpaceX owns some BTC and BTC does not own any SpaceX. Think about it.
I will never sell my BTC. I can use it to secure a loan if I need liquidity, but the commodity itself is a HODL. I buy MSTR to take profits at the top of the cycle, to buy more Bitcoin. swing trade BMNR to raise short to mid term cash!
Maybe overpriced at this level, but price isn’t the only thing that matters. BTC still has plenty of room to unlock more utility.
BTC has never entered a bull market from above the red line, but there's a first time for everything I guess. [https://ibb.co/TMZ1dw01](https://ibb.co/TMZ1dw01)
Interestingly from the beginning of 2010 to the end of 2011 BTC increased approx 53500% thats roughly a 1536x gain . Got me thinking . How much Bitcoin did Gaddafi hold before his death in 2011 ?
I NEED it to at least go to 82k and then I gotta sell. Hard times in today’s economy and as much as I would love to hold it i lost everything I own besides my BTC so I gotta sell and rebuild my life
The 4 year cycle still exists but it is being increasingly swamped by other factors as BTC liquidity improves. At some point the modest supply and demand changes of the halving cycle aren't big enough to overcome the ongoing, daily allocation decisions of participants. This is just what a maturing asset looks like.
At the end *of* the day 80k BTC, 70k BTC, 60k BTC, it’s all cheap AF sats. Just stack em and chill.
Dunno about BTC but I'll de\*d if it goes below 40k