BTC

snoob2015

Lol, alts dumping causes BTC dom to spike, not the reverse. That is how BTC.D is defined mathematically. Stop spewing bullshit

nickoaverdnac

BTC is a leading indicator, not a trailing indicator.

Strange_Two_1417

They’re idiots saying the same thing other idiots did for multiple 4 year cycles. Google BTC halving

Strange_Two_1417

Google BTC halving and 4 year cycle.

One-Platypus3440

I like a nice BTC dip pray she drops so we can add

Hidden5G

Sure, stack your sats and call it “digital gold”…but meanwhile XRP is actually being used. Ripple just got a banking charter, Amina Bank integrated Ripple payments in Europe, and regulators are approving tokenized settlement systems with XRP explicitly named. BTC is and ALWAYS will be a speculative, whale driven toy propped up by hype cycles and whales, useful only if the next crowd pays more, which it relies on. You know it. FACT. XRP has been the “banker’s token” for over a decade, solving the real plumbing of global finance something Bitcoin will never, ever ever claim. When regulations arrive, decoupling will begin. The Beta Test Coin can continue to play it’s speculative games while true Utility tokens will lead the way.

BondMi6

I’m good with a nice BTC dip

MaximumStudent1839

What you describe is a financial asset, not a pyramid scheme. A pyramid scheme has an implicit contract that older holders get to exit more than newer holders. That is not true for Bitcoin. Those who brought BTC at $100 and sold it for $1000 didn’t make more than those who brought it at $1000 and held it until now. The p2p cash use case is still alive with a lot of coins like Monero, Bitcoin Cash, and Litecoin. But the market clearly indicate the demand for digital p2p cash isn’t as strong as SoV.

Kind_Soup_9753

I think we will transact with alt coins like XRP or lightning but governments will likely mint their own tokens for domestic use to maintain control, and stable coins will likely be used to transact internationally. BTC will be the gold of our time and store value for generations to come. BTC returns have destroyed all other returns I have made with any other crypto. No comparison. It’s a long term game that’s trending in the right direction and has never really stagnated anywhere.

These-Brick-7792

Only one you can be 100% sure will be here in a few years is BTC and maybe eth. The top 10 crypto’s completely change every cycle almost.

These-Brick-7792

Bear markets make BTC maxis

Kind_Soup_9753

A massive boost? lol it’s 2.01 USD. I bought it at 33 cents and sold most of my bag at 3.45 flipped it into a local Ai server and the ram has gone up more than the rest of my XRP. I still have enough to be happy if it moves again but we may have seen the peak. BTC on the other hand is 95% of my crypto and it’s on sale I’ll keep stacking Sats. Add an off shore account that accepts BTC to international credit card and you have hedged your one basket will all investments and cash in it with a solid back up. Hold on to your seat cause the rocket is lifting off miss it if you must.

TheBlacktom

The BTC price is higher than 5 or 10 years ago, so yes, it has a lot of credibility.

Kilimainjaro

Exactly. It's hilarious to see this likely-fraudster-of-a-whale's would-be defenders here plead that his massive wins must be all "skill"; I mean, setting up a $735 million BTC short, which along with a massive ETH short, yielded Garrett Jin a $200 million profit, just 30 mins before Trump made his fateful October 10, 2025 tweet threatening 100% tariffs on China and suspiciously convenient collateral depegs occurred on Binance (the largest and most manipulative of crypto platforms, formerly headed by the convict Changpeng Zhao), leading to the biggest liquidation event in crypto history and wiping out $20 billion and 1.6 million traders? Pure luck and/or pure skill? Uhhhh, no. This Garrett Jin character has a shady past. He was CEO of BitForex from 2017 to 2020. The exchange was later accused of falsifying trading volumes and flagged by Japan’s Financial Services Agency for operating without registration. In 2024, BitForex lost $57 million from its hot wallets, froze withdrawals and ultimately shut down after its team was detained in China. Hong Kong’s SFC later issued a warning for suspected fraud, and users claimed millions in unrecovered funds. Following BitForex’s collapse, Jin founded several ventures, including WaveLabs VC (2020), TanglePay (2021), IotaBee (2022) and GroupFi (2023). Most of these projects have since become inactive. In 2024, he launched [XHash.com](http://XHash.com), a staking platform that allegedly funneled ETH from questionable sources. When investigator u/emmettgallic posted about Jin’s potential involvement in insider trading relating to the October 10, 2025 shorting windfalls, Jin's social activity changed abruptly: Telegram privacy settings were updated, hiding his phone number and photos. References to u/XHash_com disappeared from both his X (Twitter) and Telegram bios. These actions, combined with prior wallet correlations, strengthened suspicions that Jin sought to obscure public ties to the whale operations. And you can bet on it that the Trump Cartel, with their history of profiteering from meme coin rug-pulls (19-year-old Barron Trump, for example, reportedly now has a net worth of $150 million thanks to his own meme coin), and their crypto-friendly allies in the administration, such as the Lutnicks (Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick's firm, Cantor, now run by his sons Brandon and Kyle, miraculously had its best year ever in 2025 and is on track to post revenue of $2.5+ billion), managed to make windfalls from the crypto crash of October 2025. There's a reason Trump pardons people like Changpeng Zhao, one of the most influential people in the crypto world - follow the money. With Trump, always follow the money. He essentially sells presidential pardons like the medieval Catholic Church sold indulgences. Over the past year Trump has rewarded dozens of convicted fraudsters, drug traffickers, tax evaders and unregistered foreign agents with presidential pardons. And it stinks all the more when, soon after doling out one of his bought-and-paid-for pardons, Trump suddenly feigns amnesia. Asked about the pardon he gifted to Changpeng Zhao, Trump said, "\[I have\] no idea who he is". Only the guilty deny the truth.

Ok-Proposal6598

More than the altcoin itself, bro, it's the leverage you use and the funding fee. I recently saw that many traders, despite making money, had their funding fees eat up all their profits. Also, check the correlation with BTC.

DangerHighVoltage111

If the only demand comes from selling it for more later it is a pyramid. BTC has no use case, produces nothing. Bitcoins use case is p2p cash. That is what adoption actually meant, people starting to use Bitcoin as money. But Maxis crippled it and had to shift the narrative.

HomelessInASuit

You just said fidelity has no innovation. You know they been in BTC the longest correct? Since 2013… You come off as very, very new here. Ripple is hot trash and always will be.

Ace2021

I’m at 95%, because I’ve done the due diligence and studied BTC for over 100 hours at this point, between books, YouTube, and podcasts.

Outrageous-Leopard23

Bitcoin is one way to make push transactions on a deflationary digital asset. This was a utility that did not exist before BTC. So, that is an improvement. BTC will be two decades old soon, and it still works. That is impressive. How many posts have you jumped on with FUD today?

PirateSKB

Wanna know what's crazy? If you go to the 1Y chart on XMR, it shows that it's up 100% in 1Y in USD Value, but down 1.2% against BTC value

Premium_Hunter

In theory this should return more long term because the premium from selling calls is icing on the BTC price appreciation that I’ll capture with the LEAPS. What this helps hedge against is a flat (or down) year like we are seeing right now. Imagine if we end 2026 still around $90,000. That would suck but at least this method pockets premium. If we end around $200,000 or higher the LEAPS will increase in value and you won’t have missed out. Honestly, there’s a small degenerate in the back of my mind that wants to say screw shares and full port into long calls. That’s the best way to maximize your money but opens you up to the risk that BTC doesn’t go up much in 2 years and your options thetaburn to $0.

Ace2021

It’s a phase. You eventually realize everyone gets BTC at the price they deserve.

binary_quasar

Assets like BTC allow you to be your own bank. Ripple allows you to be your own worst enemy by constantly feeding you an appetizer of bologna and promising you that the filet mignon is coming very soon. Regardless, they gave Circle(USDC), Fidelity, and PAXOS the same approvals to do this with their much more used and established stablecoins. Circle is going to be at the top of the food chain without a doubt in regards to this.

-SolidBase

Sometimes it pays to be the idiot, keep your mouth shut, don’t tell anyone. Act like a fool “ Machiavelli Cause when BTC POPS off, they’ll be begging you.

malte_brigge

What a sales pitch for Bitcoin. "Hold this super volatile asset. It might suck for you, but hey, your dollars suck too!" The thing about BTC is that while it has historically gone up over large time frames, on shorter time frames (and by "shorter" I mean even as much as 1–2 years at a time), it can actually lose MUCH more of its purchasing power than the dollar does over the same time frame.

partymsl

BTC is running ATHs constantly, no issue. The issue is that all of us yoloed into shitcoins instead.

MaximumStudent1839

Thought only alts had this over concentration problem suppressing price. It turns out BTC/ETH suffers the same at higher magnitude despite how Saylor and Lee is printing billions of stocks to raise new buys.

WhiteHartLaneFan

10% Crypto split 60-40 BTC and ETH

Primary_Volume_8144

Overtaking gold market cap? Yea, not happening. Even BTC won’t hit 20T by then , imo and I’m bullish on btc, just not that bullish. I don’t think the market will abandon gold as a safety haven any time soon, which could be observed in real time in this very year.

AlpineVibe

Yep, 10% is the right answer. It’s not a security on its own, but more a the asset class. It doesn’t have to all be in BTC, but be careful of the shit coins. The other 90% of your assets should be spread well across other asset classes. Don’t be stupid.

elidevious

Next cycle is going to be that much sweeter for BTC as liquidity gets concentrated where it should be.

One-Measurement-9529

He could have easily loaded up on BTC early on in a random wallet. Ignoring the "Satoshi" wallet does not mean anything.

Financial_Design_801

Jane Street puts Bitcoin on sale nearly every day. ...then it buys calls after they beat up the price. JS is one of the biggest market makers and high-frequency trading firms in the world. They Dump BTC at the open. Push the price into liquidation zones. Re-enter lower. Repeat daily. (There are other others, but JS has the most pronounced Delta between selling IBIT at the market, but then loading up with IBIT calls.) Until regulations and bills pass expect the same, only when the market is saturated can we expect less manipulation.

BTC_is_waterproof

They mean BTC will go up next year.

Kind_Soup_9753

Fiat in BTC out to cold wallet.

RetiredAvocado

Elon literally says shit on Twitter that a billion people can see. There are only 55 million BTC addresses with above zero balance.

Electrical-Image4564

Why would BTC need any other currency? We can just trade directly. I trade my goods for your BTC or vice versa.

PeopleNose

Not really Cycle is irrelevant BTC (over unspecified time) is only going up

na3than

Gifted to you or not, if the government wants proof of purchase they want to know the capital gain so they can tax it. If it was purchased circa 2012 (when 1 BTC could be acquired for less than $100), the gain is >99% of the proceeds from the sale. If you can't provide a cost basis the cost basis can be assumed to be zero, in which case the capital gain is 100% of the proceeds from the sale ... so does it really matter to them or to you if you can't provide proof of original purchase? Can you just call it zero and pay long term capital gain tax on 100% of the sale price?

Knight925

I am not even talking about the supply. The block rewards are mostly an incentive for miners to use real energy to secure the blockchain. I prefer an actual limited supply, as stead inflation would limit the price longterm. But this really has nothing to do with my point earlier. It is the actual energy consumption that we want and need. Who decides which transactions come into the next block? The transaction fees and miners decide who get's into the next limited size block. If mining was free (no energy consumption) then who would get to decide the next block? Currentlly it is the fastest miner on earth, the one who wins the mining-lottery. And because it is decentralized a different miner could create the next block every time, meaning that every transaction has a chance to get into the block. Transactions can not be prevented, because we have decentralized miners. How would the next block decided without proof of work? There isn't really any good option besides proof of work with it's energy consumption. The next best thing is proof of stake, but it is not even in the same ball park of decentralization and resiliance. With proof of stake typically the people who own the asset create the blocks by having the job go around between the holders. That means if the holders band together with a big stake, they can censor transactions between them. And permantently and at no cost, as just holding the stake is enough. Smaller holders become irrelevant while the big oligarchs control the chain. And while Bitcoin mining incentivises decentral mining, spreading around cheap energy sources around the map, proof of stake incentivises centralized block creation or at the very least has no incentive against centralization. Therefore proof of stake is just less secure, risks becoming centrally governed and can be censored. There is a reason why even the biggest proof of stake, ETH, has very few validators and is highly centralized compared to BTC. ETH would drop dead without the Ethereum foundation, while BTC needs noone. You can destroy half the earth with all it's people and Bitcoin just continues on the other side without a hitch. The energy consumption of Bitcoin is a managable amount for the world to provide. And it is a cheap price to pay for the one decenralized and independent money that humanity needs and will have. It is the first time humanity came up with a solution for decenralized digital money and as to our knowledge it is the only way that works. Everthing else is just tech stocks.

Loud-Temperature-630

BTC dominance doing its thing again

VariatCA

Over the last 3 weeks since hitting that November low, yeah I'm still talking about correlation. Pull up a few charts and point out the trend differential since then. I'm clearly not talking about how Crypto suffered a liquidation-cascade when Binance's Oracles exploded. Yet Crypto was still on a path to recovery after that, right until the October 28th FOMC spooked the markets and they have *all* been floundering since. Also, give me a good reason why Crypto/BTC should follow the *DOW Jones Index*, that heavily weighs companies like Caterpillar, Home Depot, United Healthcare, Walmart and McDonalds. This is still a speculative tech asset, and its primary correlation has been with the Nasdaq with more +/- volatility.

Material-Statement50

Idk what good is, depends on your age & risk tolerance. I am 43 retired no wife no kids and BTC is 70% of my total portfolio

Numerous_Big_3680

Lmao nah but historically every time they fire up the money printer BTC does get a nice little pump eventually. Not saying it's instant but that extra liquidity has to go somewhere and some of it always finds its way into crypto

Supaflyray

I mean to be fair, that’s just simple math. BTC needs to 10x to surpass gold as an asset. I wonder what 100k x 10 is? Someone make me a billionaire now

TurkishBitcoiner

Depends on age and if you have to take care of others. Personally, compared to my real estate, stock portfolio and gold allocation BTC is a measly 5%. That is because I am 59 almost retired with 2 kids in college. However, it is about 80% of my liquid investments. I am buying more BTC and Dividend Stocks with every paycheck I get until I am 62-63 when I am retired. I fully believe in BTC as my son demanded I buy some when it was the year 2016 ish and I didn't so here we are.

2shyofa3sum

So your thesis is that if/when the stock market dumps so hard that the Fed/Treasury have to step in and 'print money', that this will be a positive short term catalyst for the price of BTC? Please, pass the joint.

VariatCA

You're really going to reply to a comment made 90 minutes ago with "nuh uh prices are different at this very moment?" When I *made the comment*, S&P was down -1.35%, Nasdaq was down -1.97%, and BTC was down to 89.5k.

VariatCA

That today's movement, along with many of the dips and jumps of the last several weeks, are just moving in tandem with the stock market. S&P and Nasdaq are both basically flat since Thanksgiving on Nov 27th, and BTC/Crypto has just been chopping +/- a few percent while basically also being flat since then. The point was clearly that they're still moving in correlation as stocks *and* crypto have been carving a positive uptrend since November 20th. It's not just "Crypto Manipulation" on a day like today.

FilmDazzling4703

It’s been just over 6 thousand days and BTC went from 0 to one of the top 10 currencies in the world. Be patient, grass roots adoption > forced institutional adoption

Flamboiant_Canadian

Literally. Everyone is always doom/gloom during periods of bear market activity, but it is literally the best time to be buying.  Maybe not so much for BTC because it is still priced insanely high compared to the bear market low of $15k, but ETH is down almost 50% from the recent high, and most alts are at a lower entry price now than they were during the last official bear market.  I know damn well I will be when I get my bonus next week. 

TekatoZikame2

Yes! I managed to sell all my ETH but didn't do BTC. That was a mistake.

agentlardhat

First BTC ATM was in Vancouver in 2013, second probably in Bratislava and Prague

JDovah

I doubt it was $750 worth, think that meant they had 750 Bitcoins to give away. I’ve seen similar screenshots but with the ₿ sign instead of the $ sign. They started out by giving 5 per visitor when BTC was worthless, then the amount they would give away per visitor diminished as BTC prices climbed.

Knight925

Maybe 1 sat = 1 cent is not too far away. We reach that at 1 million per BTC.

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BTCplsclear8k

They are generally correct, my main point was that FBTC specifically does self custody. So ETFs do exist which store the BTC to alleviate the issue of excess supply inflation on exchanges. They just mostly don’t.

JoeRosenhide19

BTC as an investment ❌ BTC as a private nongovernmental currency ✅

royal_fish

Because none of these coins actually do anything, including BTC, but BTC has the most name recognition/cult status while altcoins are literally just a bunch of nothings.

Premium_Hunter

The LEAPS aren't there solely for profit, they are there to ensure I don't miss out on upside through capped shares. I bought them 2 years before expiry and will have them paid for through CC premium on the shares after 10 months. With 6 months left on their expiration I will sell them and buy new 2 year calls. In a perfect world BTC slowly creeps up, (with ups and downs along the way) I keep my shares, and I can sell the LEAPS for a profit as well. If they become basically worthless I will still end in the green on them because they allow me to sell CCs without worrying that BTC will have a +30% month and run away from me.

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Ok-Bet444111

People always talk about this, but for real… really think about it… if you were the average person and you got this random website booted up claiming that this “is a new kind of money” circa 2010ish what would really compel you to actually take part, transfer the BTC to your wallet and just hold it randomly…What are the chances YOU would actually do that in the 2010 era… I would think it was a virus lol. The chances are so low unless you were a geek back then and understood the white paper and the potential. I don’t beat myself up over it. It would be like taking a chance and holding a points card hoping the points would be worth something 15 years later. To the people that did… I tip my hat to you!

Thebig_Ohbee

Weird to talk about decimal (base 10) places and bits. Does he mean 8 bits after the radix point? How does BTC actually work?

Gunnarsgaming

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Real-Technician831

If that would happen it would signal that there is no interest in BTC, and all hell would break loose. Casino with no bets is a dead casino.

Tundra14

DCA is the best strategy for not felling bad if the price falls suddenly, which it still could, it's bitcoin. BTC is my main hold for Crypto, but I try to keep my money split between different types of value. Dividend stocks a pretty great, and generally more consistent than crypto. BTC maxis will tell you bitcoin and only bitcoin. If you feel you wouldnt be mad if bitcoin disappears overnight, than sure, go all in. Personally I have reasons for putting it in other crypto beyond because I want to be rich quick. I want the old system gone, and a better system in place. Crypto seems to be that since it's far more transparent. I also dont see the stock market going away, just evolving. So it's not a bad Idea for me to own certain stocks. Tesla was doing me fantastic, but then Elon did his little Nazi Salute, and I dont support Nazis.

glizzy_goblin710

TLDR; who gives two shits or a fuck about a grand or two on any given day on a super volatile asset like BTC

Flipmode45

BTC 1 week chart looks ridiculous. Nothing natural about that price movement.

namieorange

BTC exists and pumps. ETH brings use, adoption and with other coins future and they barely move, if lucky to not just dump. Amazing market

PutAdministrative809

BTC Dom spikes trigger alt beta flushes. Nothing happened per se just natural market movement that is actually necessary. What happened around ~10am was a BTC dominance spike triggering an alt beta flush. This wasn’t news or a sector issue. It was market structure. Phase 1 (what we just saw): • BTC holds steady • BTC dominance ticks up • Funds de-risk by selling alt baskets (TOTAL3, sector indices, perps) • Result: ~99% of alts drop ~1–3% in sync That uniform move is the tell. It’s not discretionary selling — it’s portfolio math. Phase 2 (what comes next depends on BTC): • If BTC breaks up → alts snap back fast • If BTC ranges → alts bleed/chop lower • If BTC rejects → alts capitulate harder later Key thing: Alts are basically leveraged risk, BTC is the reserve asset inside crypto. When managers trim risk, they cut beta first — not BTC. So no, nothing “broke.” This was Phase 1 de-risking. Phase 2 starts when BTC chooses a direction.

intotheEnd

I would just buy BTC..

Btcmot

DCA is a way of LIFE. You should have that set up for ALL markets and ALL prices. In dips or pull backs, smart money buys MORE ‼️ save yourself a lot of pain - BTC only. Not advice…. Only opinion You can thank me later…..

Ill_Middle_1397

If you're looking for low risk, then crypto is not the space for you. But if you really want to do crypto and are in it for the very long term, BTC.

HRMena

Follow Nomad Capitalist on Youtube. You can exit the US, get a second citizenship, and transact with your BTC/other currency without the US having much say in what you're doing.

MotoMola

You're either selling the pump, or bagging the dump. That's all there is to it. There has never been any pump without a pullback ever in the history of BTC. The difference between BTC and Wall Street, is that there's no halving conventional ETF's need to abide by, so of course BTC will not follow when stocks rally.

Anonymous_Lurker_1

Thats a funny way to spell BTC.

Blockchainauditor

\>> Bitcoin only holds value by the grace of the US government. Bitcoin is not limited to the US. Some of the most interesting success stories are people who use in in countries with confiscatory environments. \> They allow the conversion of Bitcoin into Dollars (the global trade medium), which they can end at anytime. Bitcoin was designed as a peer-to-peer method. Reliance on exchanges, with AML and KYC, is not part of the original vision. The US does not spend a lot of time with peer exchanges for money, goods, or services. \> The population could continue to trade goods and services between themselves with Bitcoin Yes ... as it was designed. If the system relies on third parties, this was not the intent of the community. \> but it ultimately needs to be converted to Dollars. Many people here look to save it for intergenerational purpose or believe it will be tomorrow's payment method. \> What ever is accepted for payment of taxes will always be primus whether it's Dollars or Tally Sticks. Under the current administration, and with the support of Senator Loomis, we will probably be seeing a lot more about this. A handful of states and cities support tax payments with Bitcoin. \> How does Bitcoin mitigate this risk? Bitcoin was not designed to deal with this issue. However, the huge investments in BTC by corporations means there will be a lot of influence for the limitation not to be put in place by the US government.

MrKillerKiller_

No reason to pay all those fees and never own any BTC the entire time. None

Richar_16

Its all a big scam. BTC is the ONLY, I repeat, the ONLY coin that matters.

ilikeplayingthisgame

BTC try to sustain rally for more than 12 hours before dumping challenge. Been the story of the last month

TexasBoyz-713

Been offloading chunks of BTC throughout this quarter that I bought during 2022, feels sad seeing my holdings decrease and although I did not time the top perfectly, I know I mustn’t get greedy and hodl all the way down like I did last run

Queasy_Jackfruit_474

TAO first halving is on Sunday. Nah fuck it. I’ll buy BTC instead. Performed worse than gold in last four years AND I get to pay capital gains tax. Triffic.

New-Ad-9629

Just DCA into BTC, bro.

No_Hour6830

Well of course it performs better when BTC is flat to down. And how much was the premium on the LEAPS? What happens if BTC rises, but not enough for the LEAPS to be in the money?

blaziken8x

I have btc, eth, ltc, stellar lumens. Personally, I'd dump the 10k into either BTC or into PAXG. BTC if you think we've mostly bottomed out and BTC won't drop more than another 10-15k in price. Or PAXG if you think BTC will drop more. The way gold has been moving lately, it will probably be up another 20% by the end of next year.

Introduction_Little

I don’t think you understand what speculation means . It’s not something BTC or gold is used for.. it means it hasn’t been proven to have real world value yet.

babooog

What would happen when all this BTC is sold No bearish Or conspiracy theory angle Just curious what would happen

Cryptocaller

I meant not selling currently. Sold 1.73 BTC at $97k earlier in the year. Paid off half of my home mortgage and stacked the rest. Gg

Premium_Hunter

It 100% will. If BTC goes to $1 million tomorrow my shares will get capped out, but the LEAPS will allow me to capture all the gains from the price increase. This strategy allows me to farm premium along the way regardless of what happens to BTC's price. For some context - the account I work IBIT in started 2025 with $160k. Buy and hold YTD on IBIT is -2% as of this morning. However, selling options I've pocketed $40k in premium for 2025. To each their own.

Aggravating_King1473

That sounds like the right choice for you based on your question and other comments. You'll look back at this moment in a few years and say "what if" or "i should have". Everyone gets Bitcoin at the price they deserve. General investing advice: toss in 5% of your cash into BTC. if it all goes to hell then you're not completely screwed.

EvidenceWorking

It may test ATH again temporarily but it won’t surpass that in the short term. Long term consensus is still bullish. However, this next year from now to October all the experts and people with common sense know it is going down. So you are going to want to wait for it to hit its low point of 18-30k in October 2026 then it will climb back gradually after that. It’s going to be a prime buying opportunity from October 2026 at all time lows to later. But buying from now until October 2026 is very risky unless you plan on holding the BTC longer. Hope that helps!

DSMRob

IMO if he was a person, and I’m still 50/50 on that, he’s dead. He would have had to not only step away from BTC but also completely step away from computers and never post, write or publish anything of substance again. If he does then it wouldnt be to hard to flag it as him due to writing styles.

RecentDraw

Can you explain how BTC would help in that scenario? Explain the pain points seen by the person

Jewror-Fuhrer

Wait till 2027, not the right time to invest in BTC or any crypto asset

Patient-Process-2565

If you’ve not sold you’ve so far made nothing, I’d suggest taking some profits along the way. All the best with your BTC investment going forward.

Odd_Fun5012

Honestly this makes way more sense than the old system. Having whale status at like 10 BTC when that's literally a house down payment now seems way more achievable and gets people actually stacking

WildTip69

I first bought Bitcoin in 2017 and have never once been offered payment in, it nor would I offer payment for something in it unless it was for something explicitly advertised in BTC (which I am yet to see).

WellPayed

Feels like BTC ETH SOL & XRP about to pump

jackie_elisabeth

I take 1 or 2 BTC for a story that did not happen