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Possible_Iron2047

**I’m heavily invested in BTC and MSTR. If Bitcoin hits $700k, I’m buying a private jet.**

Leynnox

ETF world -2.6% in 5 days. BTC up +11% in 5 days. That doesn't look like a trap or manipulation to me, but real rotation starting.

PizzaThrives

At that point you have a black market kidney business. Do you still need BTC ?

mvds74

Sorry, but what is the point that you are trying to make here? If 300 dollars is so much money to you, maybe you should not gamble with BTC in the first place.

Patient_Day7829

So they somehow got loans in BTC? Then sold it for USDT? Then bought BTC back after falling?

async9

global financial crisis loading... US treasury bought some meaningful debt to bail out the private credit lenders and the same day trump had some crypto companies at the white house and said they will push the clarity act even without congress. so, they will try to offload the 40T total debt through US stablecoins across the world. for each stablecoin the stablecoin issuers are able to buy 1:1 debt and issue 1:1 stablecoin(s). US government will incentivize transactions done between countries with US stablecoins and figure out a way to purchase BTC as well.

FolkenleNB

I've been throught that also. BTC is made to be bought and forgot for a while. Maybe it's how we learn? Good luck for your next purchase!

Ollie_639

I believe this was the largest liquidation of short positions ever for BTC

-rosslyn26-

Solo BTC, la vedo più legata al concetto di valore puro e potrebbe essere tirata maggiormente.

SpaceDesignWarehouse

Hello! I have 1BTC to my name and I’m waiting until 2040 to sell it.

JimmySki6166

I have the D’Cent cold wallets. And I have myself and my daughter’s fingerprints on them for access! And they are easy to use! Word to the wise, write down your address for each crypto you want to transfer into it. Capital letter versus lower case & #s. Check this address, every digit, one by one before sending. Also, always send a low amount as the first transaction for the day, $10, just to confirm it goes through, before sending large amounts. BTC is slow, usually about 25-30 minutes for transactions, and I sweat each time until it’s in my wallet!! lol. If there is one digit off, or capital versus lower case, it will send to a wrong address, and your loss!! I know my addresses but still double check every digit!!

SlickNegotiator

Even with ETH (which is highly recommended to pair with BTC). A year ago when BTC hit ATH that was almost double 2021 ATH, ETH also hit ATH, but it was literally few $ above 2021 ATH. So advising just to buy anything because it will move with BTC is probably the worst advice around.

EggOnlyDiet

It’s up over 15% in the last 24 hours though. The 2.5% change was on the hourly chart. Not saying it’s the biggest move ever, but it’s a larger move than BTC has been making recently.

binglar

İt's like trying to get average positions based on price or time for example let's say your guess would be BTC would go 40k and as it falls to this price you take your positions from 70-60-50 until 40 if it every goes there or lower so you get the average of it, same goes when you sell.

NashDaypring1987

As I understood it, BTC usually bottoms 1 year from the top. BTC moves fast. Maybe we won't see $50k... I wouldn't be surprised by $58...$60k $62k.

A_Honking_Goose

Yeah the important thing with reddit also is there are a lot of bots made by larger investors these bots specifically want to make retail sell and over the last couple months especially when BTC was 58-62k that was mostly because of retail selling. Now those retail people are mad because they wanted to buy back in when BTC was under 50k, they thought it was all so easy. Lucky for them if this is the start of the next major bull run it is is actually quite easy still.

Oliverdako

No way., just keep holding ur BTC

Oliverdako

Hodl BTC

yahyoh

It nothing to do with BTC itself..the huge bull run yesterday was due US bonds news..

Efficient_Range1156

1 BTC @ 63k 👏 👏 👏 Well done friend!

No_mee

same on last bear cycle everyone calling it BTC will go 10k when drop to 16k and never happen

Conflictingview

BTC is up \~11% vs all major fiat currency though

myster1ouspapaya

You won’t have a true bull run until after the stock market has its correction. BTC can still drop into a new low before end of year.

Klutzy_Grapefruit_96

Nexo has been freezing my BTC since early June following a transfer from HTX—which I had originally transferred from Nexo just a few hours prior. I am still waiting for the funds to be released. They keep claiming they are waiting for regulatory framework changes, but nothing has materialized yet

Used-Height-2670

BTC Oracles

RealisticViewr

Bought at 59k, sold at 62.5k 2 weeks ago. 1.5 BTC btw. Sigh.

Tall-Blacksmith3632

say what you want but the guy was right about BTC lolll

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wineglosswhore

BTC Crossed 100K, we are so fucking back! Wait a sec, AUD, never mind then 🫣

NivTheGever

You know, everyone is extremely bullish by a merely rally to the bear market resistance band. It's always like that, BTC go down like 50% or more, from 126k to 58k and then a rally to 70k makes people scream at you that you missed the low and now to the moon and all this bullshit. They get too much excited and then the rich people dunk on them and it goes to the cycle bottom. The best thing is to DCA but don't get baited into that rally, see how btc does in this point if he stay strong in this 20w sma or not. I think the market cycle bottom is yet to arrive, and the market is baiting everyone to gain more money. Think clearly :) You didn't miss anything BTC was like 90k few months ago and now it's only 70k after a "big" rally. It's fine, it happens every bear market.

mfatalay

I'm really glad you liked the docs. Here is my thinking behind those design choices: 1. Cold storage mindset and seed management I built SignerOS assuming that cold storage users only sign transactions once or twice a year. In my experience, beginners often get confused about where coins are actually stored. Some even think the BTC is literally inside the USB drive or hardware wallet. When people save their wallet on an encrypted USB or harddrive, they start seeing the USB as the "main" wallet and treat the seed phrase just as a backup. In my circle, most self-custody losses happen because people stop taking care of their seed phrase once it's saved somewhere digitally. Keeping it purely mnemonic-based reminds the user that the seed phrase is the wallet. 2. Inspiration from Tails OS I actually use Tails OS myself and it was a big inspiration for this project! But Tails is a general privacy OS with internet access, LUKS persistent storage, and many other tools. I wanted to build something much more minimal: Single-purpose, strictly no-network system that only signs transactions and has zero extra bloat. 3. Attack surface of typing the seed I totally agree that typing the whole seed phrase every time is annoying and adds a risk. To reduce this attack vector, I am planning two things: Scrambled on-screen keyboard: A randomized UI layout where you click with a mouse instead of typing on a physical keyboard. (The UI actually has a on-screen keyboard but not shuffled yet) UEFI integrity check tool: A small tool to help detect if the underlying UEFI firmware has been tampered with. This also prevents deeper firmware malware which can read the RAM itself. It's a little bit paranoid but yet it has to be done evetually.

AcostaJA

The Bitcoin Fear and Greed Index is a daily sentiment score (0-100) calculated by Alternative.me using a weighted formula. It quantifies market emotions based on five key data sources, comparing current values against 30-day and 90-day averages to spot unusual behavior. Here's the breakdown of the calculation: · Volatility (25%): Measures current price swings against 30/90-day averages. High volatility signals fear, while calm markets hint at complacency. · Market Momentum & Volume (25%): High buying volume in an uptrend indicates greed (FOMO), while heavy selling in a downtrend signals fear. · Social Media (15%): Analyzes engagement (hashtags, mentions) on platforms like X/Twitter. Surges in interaction often point to greed and speculative behavior. · Bitcoin Dominance (10%): Tracks BTC's share of the total crypto market cap. Rising dominance means investors seek safety (BTC = fear), while falling dominance means chasing riskier altcoins (greed). · Google Trends (10%): Tracks search volume for Bitcoin-related terms. High searches for "Bitcoin scam" = fear, while high searches for "buy Bitcoin" = greed. A component for surveys (15%) was originally part of the formula but has been paused by Alternative.me. The score range is interpreted as: 0-24: Extreme Fear, 25-49: Fear, 50: Neutral, 51-74: Greed, 75-100: Extreme Greed. It is often used as a contrarian indicator, where extreme fear can signal a potential buying opportunity, and extreme greed can warn of a market correction.

hegdefucker

Who cares? Minor swings. New ATH and perhaps doubling this in 2-3 years is more realistic scenario than BTC tanking or going nowhere

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BizarroTheory

Wow a relief rally, are we in the disbelief stage now? Who knows, but I sure loaded up heavily on BTC during the past 3 months. If we drop back to 60K, I'm loading up again.

PeteyPab305

IDK if "never" sell is the answer, but it very well could be. I treat (some) stocks that way, But for some reason I have an uneasy feeling that BTC is heading down a path of "Dollarization" and eventually will find parity with inflation.

Odd_Palpitation6715

You do not need kidneys when you have BTC

VivaHollanda

BTC, future of manipulation! 

id-ltd

Different wallets for different purposes. As currency.- I'd more likely switch to lightning or similar rather than directly pay with BTC.

HotelPuzzleheaded654

Holy liquidity grab. Few understand that this is one of BTC’s actual use cases.

tenor_tymir

Not sure what triggered the sudden rise but it’s nothing unusual in the BTC universe. I’m sure it’s going to bounce up and down a few times until the end of the year. BTC does BTC things. Don’t let your emotions get in the way. Keep stacking.

Orin_n

I made some nice gains with UNI yesterday, I think it'd be somewhere at the top of the list too. Real talk, it doesn't matter if you buy BTC or ETH, or any other altcoin. You'd literally be buying the BTC movement regardless, so there is no 'risk' per se.

Splat800

Both times I bought BTC in my life, 1-2 weeks later there have historic crashes. I’m so sorry.

waldito

Here's a wild prediction for people trying to make a buck timing the market: The moment USA and Iran reach some kind of truce for oil tankers to function normally again, Bitcoin price will take the plunge again. Not because of Bitcoin, but because of investors moving money from BTC into stock options. So far, it looks like this will continue going up until mid terms. Then, right after, bonk.

tnat0r

DCA all the way down and up and down and up ... sooner or later I am buying my Water with BTC.

Impossible-Buyer6389

100% agree with you. BTC should be majority of your portfolio If you want to risk it buy some ETH and things inside top 10. Small amount inside top 20. Ps: Love that youre using CoinTrends. Respect

JRMegafeste

Wtf x25 leverage is INSANE. If BTC pumps by 4% this retard gets liquidated lol

RedHood31

Looks like you have cash ready to buy some 55k BTC

sylsau

Your Bitcoin keys can be perfectly safe… **and you can still become the target.** That’s the new self-custody security crisis. For years, Bitcoiners focused on protecting: → Seed phrases → Private keys → Hardware wallets → Cold storage But attackers are increasingly targeting something much easier to steal: **your identity.** A leaked database can reveal: → Your name → Your email → Your phone number → Your home address → The fact that you bought a hardware wallet The attacker doesn’t need to crack Bitcoin. They don’t need to break SHA-256. They don’t even need your seed. They may simply need to know: **You own Bitcoin. And this is where you live.** That changes the threat model completely. Bitcoin solved digital custody. It did **not** solve e-commerce databases, KYC leaks, data brokers, compromised vendors, or physical coercion. And as BTC becomes more valuable, old leaked information becomes more valuable too. The next era of self-custody isn’t just: **Not your keys, not your coins.** It’s: **Protect your keys. Protect your identity. Protect your location.** Because the blockchain can work perfectly… and you can still lose everything.

sylsau

Your Bitcoin keys can be perfectly safe… **and you can still become the target.** That’s the new self-custody security crisis. For years, Bitcoiners focused on protecting: → Seed phrases → Private keys → Hardware wallets → Cold storage But attackers are increasingly targeting something much easier to steal: **your identity.** A leaked database can reveal: → Your name → Your email → Your phone number → Your home address → The fact that you bought a hardware wallet The attacker doesn’t need to crack Bitcoin. They don’t need to break SHA-256. They don’t even need your seed. They may simply need to know: **You own Bitcoin. And this is where you live.** That changes the threat model completely. Bitcoin solved digital custody. It did **not** solve ecommerce databases, KYC leaks, data brokers, compromised vendors, or physical coercion. And as BTC becomes more valuable, old leaked information becomes more valuable too. The next era of self-custody isn’t just: **Not your keys, not your coins.** It’s: **Protect your keys. Protect your identity. Protect your location.** Because the blockchain can work perfectly… and you can still lose everything.

sQtWLgK

That's a very interesting viewpoint. Imho it could be argued that the invention of Bitcoin can be thought of making a substantial change to that debate: a Bitcoin standard goes beyond the traditional hawkish, "hard money" approach. It gives perfect certainty and transparency on the supply of money, and removes the Cantillon effect. However that's the idealist view only, because if money isn't pure Bitcoin, if we make, let's say, a BTC-backed fiat, then we lose those absolute properties and fall back to something similar to gold-reserve fiat. We'll see.

Rough_Helicopter6181

Honestly BTC preparing for breakout max till 73-74K

Crcex86

This isn't any kind of news for investors. If you're trying to pay off a trip to miami with that special lady off a BTC trade, or just plain get your kicks from trading cough gambling the market. Have fun?

rocker28041580

Good point 😂 If you mean price action, I’m watching to see whether BTC keeps moving to the right **and** breaks above $70K with strong volume. That confirmation could tell us whether this is a real breakout or just consolidation. 👀📈

clownahh

Small stagnation untill October-November than slow and steady growth past 120k. Historically BTC was low in summer because most miners are found in the northern hemisphere(US, China, Europe). When summers hit, mining efficiency gets lower and cooling costs go up. This historically made miners "give up" especially retail miners who could not solve the heat issue. In winter this usually reversed, cold weather allowed for natural cooling and more miners would go up. Back in late 2010s, even regular people used to mine btc(and other crypto) in their rooms as a way to passively heat their apartements(while generating new coins). This cycle may not hold anymore, as most btc has been mined already and also more and more btc is being held by institutions, instead of miners. So the new pump and dump cycles probably do not follow the old summer-winter cycles.

FuzzedOutAmbience

“When a short gets liquidated, the position has to buy BTC back” When you say “Has to buy back“ what does that mean exactly? Pls ELI5

DiamondHandsDarrell

The squeeze didn’t just come out of nowhere. Treasury moved to increase long bond buybacks, long yields eased, the dollar weakened, and BTC already had a couple days of ETF inflows behind it. That gave Bitcoin the initial push through the resistance area everyone had been shorting against. Once BTC broke through that level, the shorts started getting liquidated. When a short gets liquidated, the position has to buy BTC back, so that forced buying pushes the price higher, which liquidates more shorts, which creates even more buying. That’s how you end up with roughly $1.4B in shorts getting wiped out in a few hours and BTC basically going straight up. So the short squeeze was the accelerator, not necessarily the original cause. Now the important part is whether actual spot and ETF buyers keep buying after all that forced short covering fuel is gone.

immersive-matthew

Predicting BTC is like predicting the weather. Sure we know the seasons and sure we can expect a warming trend in the long term, but day to day, even year to year still will have unexpected variations. Same with Bitcoin that are has some patterns, but they too are not clockwork like some want to pretend.

BitcoinKaspaCom

Worth noting: the last two major BTC drawdowns (2018, 2022) each took roughly 12-13 months from top to bottom before a sustained recovery started. If this one rhymes, "a couple more months of chop" might be optimistic on the short side — but cycle lengths aren't a law of physics, just a pattern so far.

daddywookie

When I last had to do a personal assessment that involved crypto I just attached my spreadsheet with about 1000 lines on it. I was quite consistent in recording the ins and outs with values converted to GBP. It was accepted without query. Now I just sit on a small amount of BTC so it’s not an issue until I come to sell. Basically, if you invest then keep some records. If you trade then definitely keep some records. Either way, keep some records.

Efficient_Site5445

Wondering how mining works here: if I mined 1 BTC into existence, is the profit at point of sale effectively all of its value?! Ie 100% of sale value is a taxable event ?

No-Finish-2411

My transaction was stuck between banks for **3 DAYS** and they told me to wait!!! I then started learning and understanding the digital money infrastructure and then learned about blockchain and then BTC.

be_easy_1602

It says 5.1m IM which I believe means Initial Margin. This is his equity essentially. Value is ~71m. This is the total exposure of the position. 5.1x14=71.4 There were probably $400k in fees or something idk. He has lost 3.2m which is 62% of his 5.1m. Est Liq Price has nothing to do with established liquor… BTC hits 71,300 and he is liquidated and probably completely wiped out.

Plus-Fuel8495

Noooo don't rise yet, I need more time to accumulate BTC!

AlternativeHunter543

Since the top comment is asking whether this is a bull trap, here's what the base rates actually say. I pulled every day across 8 majors (BTC, ETH, SOL, XRP, DOGE, BNB, ADA, LINK) where the coin closed up 15% or more on the day. 253 instances. Then I looked at the following day. 57.9% of those next days closed red. 30.3% closed more than 5% down. 13.8% closed more than 10% down. But the average next-day return is +0.92%, comfortably above the +0.21% baseline for a random day. Both of those are true at once, and that is the whole point. The median next day is -1.51% while the mean is positive, because 14.6% of the time the thing rips another 10%+ and drags the average up by itself. The distribution is barbell shaped, not centered. So "is it a bull trap" is the wrong shape of question. Most days after a big pump are red, and the ones that aren't are occasionally enormous. If you size for the average you get run over by the median. If you size for the median you miss the tail that pays. Method: daily candles, Binance spot, up day measured close vs open on the same candle. Happy to be told this breaks somewhere I didn't test.

hodler1992

So glad I did buy more yesterday. Reaching 0.234 BTC :)

NoBrosCrypto

Possibly. I suspect the shorts that were liquidated will play the bull trap. I also suspect this time will be different and they get slapped a second time. The bull trap was done in June. I’ve seen very little that has pushed BTC down of late - not a war restarting, not a fork drama, nor a self custody hack. Nobody knows the future but I’d love shorts to get slapped twice.

FlagFootballSaint

That‘s good overall. Bitcoin became an institutional investment. Means Bitcoin will always be bailed out to save banks from getting dragged down or in other words: BTC will never die

Buphucked

I’m waiting for the IRS to determine it for me. They only have to comb thru tens of thousands of transactions across a dozen or more blockchains .. my current aggregated wallet balances add up to $10 (maybe $12 with this current BTC pump) so hopefully they’ll be merciful and pity me

Illustrious-Boss9356

I don't think 99% left, maybe 50%. Maybe 60%. But 99% is near extinction level and we never got close to that. Even the doom posters I doubt they all sold the entirety of their BTC.

NotAMeatPopsicle

Tell me harder how you don’t know what caused a pump of millions of dollars into BTC.

ElderMight

Get to 0.21 BTC as fast as you can, end of story.

Wise-Statistician172

Philippines & Japan if I’m tracking correctly. Followed by China & then everybody else as nation-state FOMO builds. We’ll get our Strategic Reserve 1mnBTC once the price reaches $500k/BTC because… Congress.

Electronic_Quote399

I'll do it for 0.1 BTC

luvsic11

Thanks so much for the award..!! My first one! And no doubt, theres no quitting BTC.. If it worked out for you the first time it will work out again, with time. Salute and God bless brother 🙏

Usual_Suspect8663

I think the record and timelines don’t have enough history to be anything other than rough guidelines, this is where BTC starts to detach due to the insanity of debt going on.

CandidLion6291

Timing the market let alone BTC is a gamble.you are gambling

kallaloostx

I believe in BTC as an asset, but I believe more in diversifying. BTC is about 5%.

NMoney007

The problem with selling is what do you invest in the meantime? You said it yourself you believe in BTC long term and have held this long. Keep holding into the bull market, no telling where it may go.

pnwcon

Impossible to answer without knowing how much of your savings are invested in a single asset like BTC. Sounds like you're all in. Sorry mate.

deleted-_-alt

That’s the goal but just like BTC you can’t predict life

deleted-_-alt

It’s been 10 years, just like BTC you can’t predict life

TheMonkeysPaw7

Pennies are gone, then nickels, dimes, quarters, all fiat... BTC will be the safe haven.

RealLilacCrayon

That’s not correct. He used \~6 mill as collateral. The short position was >1000 BTC @65.4k. The short position was over 65 million.

goofygooberxiv

I'm not down at all. I'm UP 1K today. My average price per coin is right at 69k. This morning my price per coin was around 63k, but I bought 500$ of BTC when it was at 68k earlier, so it brought it up a bit.

Puzzleheaded-Dot-762

If this is the cause of the new BTC hack, I will no show any sympathy. 

Evening_Helicopter98

There are almost always second chances. I agree the tide has turned - i.e. the bear market is over - but there was so much damage over the past year that there is virtually zero chance we go straight up from here. Saw a great chart today that suggests we have about 3 months to buy as much as possible on the dips before BTC really takes off.

lexicon_riot

Bitcoin being too valuable to spend makes zero sense. If you're going to spend fiat anyways, but have the option to spend Bitcoin, you can either spend and replace or convert and spend. Do you think BTC is better "pristine collateral" if it's a greater fool pet rock, or if it's used to foster genuine economic activity?

lilvixen

Folding at home. Then I was curious, since this was a resource (compute), could I passively earn? Found BTC in 2012. Relapsed in 2014. Woulda coulda millionaire billionaire story. Been clean for about 2 years. Got a new car out of it tho. Last time I sold BTC (6 over 6 months... About 8-9 years ago), I was houseless, living in my $500 ride. McDonald's bathroom hot water towel showers. Sleeping a few blocks from my tech job ($16/hr managing a production art lab). I didn't realize that was a $60k job the way my output was. Car got stolen. Went to Louisiana and was a plug for a while. Got kicked out of the trap, back to West Coast. By then my previous gig and career prior that were but a distant memory. Continued hustling- enrolled in college. Spent all my grants, tuition and scholarship money on mining equipment and buying BTC. My apartment was just mining gear in the second bedroom, a mattress no box in the main, a computer in the living room, and a table and chair for it. 95°F in snowy winter with the heat off. Sold equipment when my 42 TH/s was no longer profitable. A year later my auction house $250 special got stolen from my parking lot. Sold nearly all my crypto for ~$38k. Original investment (equipment, electricity, buying crypto) roughly ~$9-11k. About a %245 return. Not bad. Bought a new car for uhhh $29k down. Was wild taking the Greyhound 200 miles away because this happened during COVID, and due to the chip shortage, there were zero cars in the make model trim color package I wanted. Rep that held the car for me picked me up from the bus station in the whip. 33 miles on the odo. Told him to pick up his greasy fries out of my cup holder. Broke the dealerships money counter with the small bill bonanza Bodega haul. That left me with enough BTC to take a vacation for a few weeks to just lay on a beach and not really dent it, because I sold at a point right before it corrected and just re bought. But... Relapsed again. This time due to university pressure. I had stopped hustling on the street and was hustling scholarships, just investing in stocks, BTC, and oh wait I didn't actually stop hustling... Just feeding my addiction with petty exchanges. Relapsed hard into what would be a 6 week supply, in the face every 3-4 days. String of love letters. Then vendor disappeared. Then a market. Left with nothing but some fucking memories? Kind of... None of those friends during the fast times and $5 bags stuck around. I knew that's how it went, wasn't my first rodeo, but I was a different person now- in uni, new ride, purpose on my shoulders. Fed into the relapse. Took a year off during my undergrad. Got a job. Two years later was two years ago. Decided I have what I needed in life finally. Put everything I had down on a nice two story in the safest part of town, 12 minutes from work. New car. Two beautiful dogs. The best health insurance. Got my weight and health under control. How much BTC am I holding? $500 worth. How far would I be without crypto? I mean hell I might have made it to here, but crypto was my safety net during at least half a dozen critically devastating points in life. It facilitated the absolute worst and abhorrent vices. When I was done hanging myself and didn't somehow die, it gave me that same rope and I was able to climb into whatever crumbs are left of the American dream. Did I answer the question? I forgot what we were talking about.

PaulWTF

BTC is wealth only when you lay low, being humble and not greedy.

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PatternAgainstUsers

That's my point, if they DON'T think it's over... then it probably is. That's why buying fear and selling greed work as general rules... I called a BTC low approximately 35 minutes after the February low simply due to capitulatory volume, an extreme volatility reading (largest in the cycle) and a historical fear print. I was ultimately wrong about that being the low... but that low held for like 3 months, do you understand how tradeable that is?

FL9NS

1 BTC = 1 BTC, no more, no less

TheBigLR901

Hacker fuks have had supercomputers on this for years. Especially when BTC was at $120k. Confirmation of the solid SHA256 cryptographic hash. Quantum computers are no match either.

PatternAgainstUsers

Bitcoin is pristine collateral, it is A) a tool to provide the OPTIONALITY of reducing counter-party risk (this comes with a tradeoff, but for some is an absolute life line when needed), and B) a long-term debasement hedge. Long-term because of it's immaturity as an asset, but this is what solutions like STRC try to give people who want to try and front-run that long-term capability and bring SOME of that functionality forward into the future. The best way for MOST normal, first world people to use BTC right now is to heavily accumulate when it is below business cycle fair values (so, now) and have a long duration view, using it (if comfortable with some counter-party risk) to reduce the rate on their mortgage for example. Actually locking it up, saving it, and getting a financial benefit in the here and now. Bitcoin isn't about changing the government or something, it is about diversifying your risks from debasement - at least on the financial investment side of things. BTC is not a good currency for spending, because it is too valuable for that. Unless you are "SPENDING" (trading) it to buy undervalued (or fair-valued) strong assets to diversify your book at times when BTC is specifically over-valued. This is a bit difficult to do (not that hard though, just plot a 0 to 1 fib between the 2 year and 2 year x 5 MA on a log chart, and when BTC crosses the 0.5 threshold, put in a trailing stop below monthly bullish higher closes). So if you think Apple is cheap or fairly valued at a given time when BTC is ripping... great, go get her tiger... but assets for assets. Dollars are ONLY FOR IMMEDIATE LIQUIDITY, particularly in a crisis.

Public-Pen-1366

rYou’re so right. I have $200K worth of Bitcoin that I bought at $80K, and you better believe I’m going to sell everything and never invest in BTC again. I’ve been in the red since October 2025, while missing out on dividends and the S&P 500. I’ve really learned what “opportunity cost” means with Bitcoin. It’s been my worst investment ever.

Mwilley23

The crowd is nothing but group-think. And I’d hardly say that the overwhelming majority of BTC holders think the bear market is over.

Dear-Focus4353

Buying strc to nearly 100 where mstr starts buying BTC again 

PatternAgainstUsers

You're on a BTC sub, I have been researching this all year. The prevailing narrative is 100% not on the side of the bulls... which is great for the bulls.