BTC

ResolutionSmall3692

That's like finding a time capsule. Once you recover them, the smartest move in 2026 imo is to move that found money to Nexo like I did. You can swap your APL for $BTC$ or $ETH$ and earn up to 13% daily compounding interest

World-Ender-109

I'm guessing it's referring to the phase of the userbase, and the integration of BTC into the real world? But this sentence makes as much sense as my 2 year old when it's read by itself

masterfu678

Answer is There USED to be legit mining platforms, and I actually made some money from it, I have a story to tell There ussd to be a website called Genesis Mining, that lets you buy "mining contracts" in hashrate amounts, this was 2016, so about 15TH is enough to earn a steady small amount of satoshi. Keep in mind that in 2016, Bitcoin was still around $200-$300, this was a couple years after the MtGOX incident, and Bitcoin is still in the middle of recovery for the price. With that cloud mining, I was earning about $25 in Bitcoin about every two days, and that was enough for me as pocket money, then one day, that $25 became a few hundred dollars, and I was shocked, checked the Bitcoin price, and that is when I saw it jumped to a few thousand dollars. We all know how that ended, Bitcoin went as high as $12,000!!! I was getting at least $1100 a week from the cloud mining. However, that was also a time I regret not knowing how to save my money, I would have some crazy savings by now if I didn't spend all that money on stupid stuff. Then slowly, Genesis Mining started becoming not profitable because Bitcoin's price kept going up, and my now measly 15TH mining contract is barely keeping up. Then in 2022, Genesis Mining announced that they are shutting down operations, because it is just not profitable to keep going. No idea what their mining farm is being used for nowadays. Genesis Mining is still up as a website, and I just logged in to see what is going on, my account is still there, with a tiny bit of BTC left over from the contract, but I couldn't take it out because it was not enough to meet the payout limit. That is the end of my cloud mining experience story. Nowadays, finding another website that can have this kind of cloud mining service is very rare, an operation that is on the scale of what Genesis Mining had, is one of those mining companies that dedicates enterprise level hardware to mine that 3BTC reward, no more cloud mining stuff that you can buy.

Tarado96

65%+ BTC. Long-term holding till 2040 or so.

andreaste

Fear & Greed at 9 and BTC holding $66K. The last time we saw single digits was the August 2025 flash crash which marked the local bottom. What's interesting: funding rates across Binance, Bybit, and Hyperliquid are neutral to negative right now. That means the market isn't overleveraged to the long side. When cascading liquidations happen, funding is usually deep positive. Not the case here. $1.2B in BTC options expire Tuesday with max pain at $67.5K. Price is below max pain which historically creates upward gravity into settlement. I've been tracking cross-exchange funding spreads and orderflow data on multiple exchanges. The CVD on HL actually shows net buying over 48h despite the price drop, somebody is accumulating while retail panics. Not calling the bottom, but the setup looks more like August 2025 than June 2022.

TimeStampKing

I haven’t lol’ed at a BTC meme in a while. Good job

Goldy_iMs

Serious question, don’t you have the feeling you paid double the price because it’s so low atm? Paying with BTC is cool and all but when the price is down so hard, why not use fiat instead?

devCheckingIn

The AI / datacenter market is going to get wrecked by the soaring price of energy because of the "Excursion" in Iran. Hopefully BTC mining isn't going to get hit too hard. I read where MARA had to sell $1bn in BTC to raise revenue.

tenkunin

Only hold BTC and ETH. Everything else is going into the gutter.

CryptoOnTheSidewalk

I don’t really run a fixed percentage, it shifts depending on how things look, but I keep BTC as a smaller slice than my boring stuff like index funds so I don’t feel pressure during drawdowns. If you’re feeling the urge to keep adding just because it’s “cheap,” that’s usually where I slow down a bit and stick to a preset amount so I’m not just reacting to price.

tcool

one of the only things i don't like about BTC is normal people can't mine anymore.

Beginning-Put-4467

50% world ETF 50% BTC

d1rtball

BTC is like 67% of my total portfolio haha

rs1971

Between actual BTC and MSTR it's about 15% of my net worth at today's prices. It's enough that I'll be set if BTC every really does go to $500k and not so much that I'll be destitute if it goes to zero. I don't intend to ever buy any more of either, regardless of what happens with prices.

FitCompetition1804

Wonder if you get $5 BTC gift card each time you purchase via BTC? Regardless, not a bad deal if you buy to replace right away and then bank the gift card. Help the cause a bit while banking a few bucks more worth of BTC vs buying with fiat. Tax implications might be prohibitive for many though, I’d know I’d be apprehensive to deal with it.

JimboyXL

I lost 100 BTC. My wallet key was on a mail provider that has disappear.

SpontaneousDream

Big yikes. Why would you ever allocate 60% of your portfolio to coins that have massively underperformed BTC on the long term? The only alt anyone should hold, as I have said before on numerous subs, is HYPE. HYPE is the only coin in all of crypto that is at ATHs against everything else, and actually has meaningful buybacks from revenue.

SpontaneousDream

1. Zero meaningful buyback and burns of the token. 2. AAVE/BTC is near all time lows. 3. AAVE/USD is at the same price from years ago. Hard pass.

the100blocks

Je te conseille une expérience beaucoup plus fun que de miner du bitcoin sur ton ordinateur. Déjà car de nos jours vu le niveau de difficulté ton ordinateur a très peu de chance de miner quoi que ce soit. Acheter un véritable mineur de Bitcoin cela va te coûter très cher en électricité pour un gain quasiment nul, voir même des pertes. La dernière option que je te conseille c'est de faire tourner un BITAXE en SOLO MINING, tu laisses tourner ton miner tu ne gagnes absolument rien, par contre tu participes activement à la décentralisation du réseau BITCOIN mais en plus tu as la possibilité de miner un bloc toutes les 10 minutes et d'empocher 3,25 BTC. Par contre c'est complètement aléatoire, c'est vraiment de la loterie numérique. Personnellement j'ai 2 bitaxes et un Nerdqaxe, et je trouve ça passionnant. Bonne continuation ⚡⚡

Survivalist2

Hey man! I am new in Bitcoin too. I wanted to buy bitcoin when the price was 17.000€ . I didn’t. I invested some money into BTC last year. I think mostly because of FOMO. First purchase was totaly based on feelings and not on any research. Later, I started reading about bitcoin, listening to podcasts, watching yt videos, and it opened another world for me. You see, I invested before in other assets like ETF’s , so that means im not totaly new into this right? I was so wrong! Bitcoin is an investment on another whole level, and the whole cominity is just amazing. My advice is, buy the dips and DCA as long as you can, because IMO you won’t be able to do that in the future.

oopssomething

Bit confused by today's price movement, opened a short at 67k, expecting a dump. But cant even pay my diner bill with my position, any reason BTC is holding so strong?

tooheavybroo

Who’s talking about selling? I’ve never sold a single BTC, but if you’ve been buying for almost 10 years you’d see that BTC runs in cycles by now. I’ll DCA into October and drop a bag at the real bottom.

No_Purchase4145

Remember the goal of bitcoin is to be the global neutral reserve or bridge currency that no government can control or stop no matter what they do. It's the first currency to take financial power away from governments. who recklessly debt burden their citizens weakening their currency thus stealing value from citizens while the elite profit at their expense. The goal of bitcoin isn't to sell it because when we win you'll just spend it. So if 1 BTC equals 100,000,000 then .1 BTC equals 10,000,000. Start DCAing as much as you can. Right now BTC is really cheap take advantage of this because it will never be this cheap in the next cycle.

Easik

You can already leave your money in treasuries and make a yield. I don't see how it changes if it's a stable coins. At least if it's a stable coin it means there is a potential floor for BTC because speculators are ready to buy at specific price targets without dealing with on ramp/off ramp of fiat.

RetiredAvocado

BTC mining is a competitive industrial scale business. Everyone competes for the same reward. The smaller you are the less likely are you to get anything. And the big miners are so big you are not going to catch up. It's like digging for oil with a teaspoon. Forget mining. Learn how to purchase and use and protect your bitcoin.

OutlandishnessLimp25

You can attempt such, but not for me. I don’t have a crystal ball. I buy constantly regardless of price but if I wake up one morning and see it’s down say 7-8% in a day, I’ll buy a lot on those days. Well, “a lot” is subjective. A lot for me, maybe $5-10k on those days. I’ve been buying since 2017, just how I’ve always done it personally. A guy I know sold all of his BTC at $96,000 and he’s waiting to buy back in, this (so far) has worked for him, but not how I do it. Different strokes for different folks I guess.

PacMansSurvivor

Dachte schon, er hat 4.000 BTC gekauft!

tooheavybroo

Why not hold onto the money until that 15-20 drop? It seems that BTC runs in cycles.

SmoothShift2277

When I first got into crypto, I followed all the usual influencers chico, BitBoy, WendyO, Suppoman. Reality check: most of them didn’t know what they were doing, or worse, they were paid and didn’t disclose it. Straight clown show. I lost money listening to them. That’s on me. The real lesson: stop outsourcing your thinking. Best move you can make in crypto: → Invest in yourself before any token → Learn charts, market structure, and market phases → Understand how cycles actually work Most indicators? Lagging. They might work sometimes, but long-term edge is weak. Yet people treat them like gospel. What actually matters: Market structure + phases. That alone filters out 90% of the noise. Right now you’re seeing the same cycle repeatnew wave of people coming in, blindly following influencers, thinking someone has their best interest. They don’t. Every pump gets a narrative slapped on it. Politics, news, whatever. Truth is: those events usually just accelerate what the market was already set up to do. 95% of people don’t understand this. That’s why ~1% consistently win. And that whole “just HODL” mindset? Survivorship bias. For every winner, there are thousands who held garbage to zero. BTC at $1, $1K, $10K was a different game. At today’s prices, you need skillnot hope. Do your own research. Build real understanding. Otherwise you’re just exit liquidity with a Twitter account.

Dubb18

I'll preface this by saying we are always a major event away from things getting worse. I know there's currently serious concerns about private equity along with various global issues that can affect crypto pricing. Contrary to the belief and desires of some, Clarity Act is a big hurdle and potential catalyst for crypto right now. Yes BTC and ETH are the top 2 in crypto for various reasons. SOL is actually gaining a lot of traction by institutions as they transition to crypto and blockchain tech. The problem is that this may or may not translate into SOL actually seeing its monetary value mirroring its technological value, similar to Chainlink, AVAX, and others. Unsure about the best exchange. DEXs are probably the better option, but sometimes have their negatives depending on what you are trying to get. If going through the CEX route, you'd have to find which is usable in your area of the world and has plenty of liquidity with low fees. In time, we'll see more major brokerages also allow crypto trading so it'll add some flexibility to where you can keep it while possibly utilizing it for things such as staking. Competition is usually better for retail as we'll see lower fees and better rewards. There's also the convenience factor for retail users. Morgan Stanley will be entering the crypto arena via Etrade starting sometime within the next year. Fidelity has already started.

isaacvictory

There’s no true on-chain “staking” for Bitcoin it’s mostly lending or yield products. If you’re going that route, also look beyond yield. Some platforms like Coindepo have native tokens with upside potential similar to early BNB or NEXO. So it’s not just earning on BTC could be a token play too.

BlueThor400

I’ve read where the FED wants to cut its balance sheet in half. Wouldn’t that be deflationary? And then, wouldn’t you want USD? Sounds like USD in the 1990s. BTC dead IMO on so many levels.

SkewerSk8r

Retail is selling out to big corps, chasing devaluing dollar profits.. we need to keep every bitcoin private and in cold storage if not then government CAN/WILL control BTC sooner than later (even thru private corporations).

edmcryptodad

Sorry about your luck. Keep buying and be ready to sell in 2028/2029 and don’t listen to the influencers. Their job is to keep you in. If BTC makes it to $250k, I’m out, even if everyone is calling for $300k to $500k. Like Flava Flave says, “don’t believe the hype!”.

Stan_Laurel1

😅 I watched my 2021 investment of 3K go to like 16K and now become about 1K. (bought alts). Then in 2023, I went all in and bought my first BTC, watched it go from $22K to $126K and now down to, well, you know the story. Everyday feels like a kick in the nuts since November, I would literally prefer being put in a coma until the next ATH than live through this shitty time.

edmcryptodad

I missed my first opportunity to sell in 2021.. wasn’t about to miss this one. In 2020-2021, I watched my $20k investment go to $45k, then down to $14k in 2022. Kept on buying into 2024-2025 and watched my now $35k investment go to $110k, and got out at $100k. 😅 Now I’m gonna try again.. $500/mo into BTC until 2029.. hopefully catch another 3x. 🤷‍♂️

Ok_Golf_6467

Probably 1 more leg down... Will be painfu,l but BTC is basically at a generational discount for wealth.

pwNtorious8i6

I’m working towards 1/2 BTC and 1/2 in $STRC. The world will slowly adopt bitcoin so keeping both feet in fiat and btc will be the reality for a while

ZivSerb

It's called a debt refinancing year. Maybe go listen to someone like a Raoul Pal, Hugh Hendry, or Michael Howell on liquidity cycles. 2026 is a massive year for debt refinancing, it was always going to be a volatile year with the massive liquidity sponge of global debt sucking up the majority of it. As for BTC in general, the worst thing for BTC was when futures became a thing. It simply provides a means for institutional money to manipulate price.

Ok_Golf_6467

I'm positioned for meme coin season (PEPE and PENGU). I also think AI is due for a rally (VIRTUALS, RENDER, TAO). I also think SOL is going to out perform both BTC and ETH this year but that's just my personal conclusion

zemogregor

BTC always, fiat is the biggest lie of all time.

ZivSerb

Maybe it has nothing to do with either. Maybe it's that 2026 was always destined to be a low liquidity year. 2026 is a massive year for debt refinancing. Maybe it's that BTC or crypto in general was always a hype industry and now that the vast majority of the hype is behind it (Wall Street adoption being the last) that it's no longer the flavour of the week. This post simply smacks of emotionality. Assuming that you have bags, sorry that you have them. Maybe sit there and evaluate why you bought crypto (whatever coin(s) you own) and determine if from a fundamental point of view in terms of what you believe the fundamentals are and whether or not those still make sense in your overall portfolio structure. If you look at a ton of different altcoins, they've completely underperformed since the hype in 2021. I sold my ETH because it's been not only dead money, it's been a horrible asset since 2021. I sold my BTC at 95k because technically it broke down and I figured I could just buy it back later at a cheaper price if I wanted to. Do yourself a favour and don't get caught up in narratives when it comes to investing, simply ensure you have a plan and that you compound return either through yield or harvesting profit as you go. That's how you grow wealth.

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Porn4me1

Increasing my daily buy from $10 to $50 Dedicating all my futures gains with oil this week to BTC. May she keep dropping.

Libertarian000

BTC is cash

dj_destroyer

Cash is king right now across all markets. That being said, buy a bit of BTC now and be ready to buy more. We could very well see $40k-$50k but we might also not -- so just buy enough that you'll be happy when it goes up but not too much that you'll be crushed and out of money if it goes down. I've learned with BTC to always have some left in both tanks -- that is, make sure you always have more cash to buy and make sure you always have more BTC to sell. Never run out of either.

0xSOL

If you have a 6 month emergency fund, BTC. This investment will almost certainly 2x in just a few years.

jakedaboiii

Do you not get tired of posting this every time BTC has been negative? You'd think you'd learn by now lol

shedgehog-orchard

Needed to hear this lol. Was just in an argument in another thread with someone who would not be convinced there was any value in BTC and your last sentence is exactly right. No need to convince in the long run lol, it’ll speak for itself

ChanceCash6708

BTC, What can you do with cash?? Inflation takes al you're cash

Conchi13

Si jamais ça atteind les 45k, je considère très fortement le fait de faire un petit prêt conso pour augmenter mon exposition à un faible prix. Je sais que c'est par principe un gros risque et presque débile de faire un prêt pour un actif, mais je suis convaincu de la véritable "valeur" de BTC dans l'avenir et je précise que j'ai la chance aujourd'hui de ne pas avoir de prêt à rembourser. Je me dis que je l'argent que je met en DCA chaque mois pourra servir à rembourser ce petit prêt conso afin d'avoir une plus grosse entrée à un prix bas. Et évidemment, j'ai suffisamment d'épargne de précaution pour rembourser ce prêt conso dans son intégralité.

TetherTodd123

You aint seen nothin yet... BTC going to spend some years on the downside to get people out.. I would be looking at 2028 for a real potential upside after a lot of down and then sideways for a period of time

American-Pitbull

Just be quiet. Nobody should even know you own BTC. Too many lunatics out there who know how to force you to give over your keys.

Medfried

Lol. Come on bro, BTC is also down 50% from ATH.

liftcookrepeat

Depends on your timeframe, the key thing is liquidity needs, not just returns. I would keep enough cash for near term use and only put excess into BTC. Also consider volatility and access depending on your jurisdiction.

itshanito

Depends on your life circumstances right now. I got a new job and just focused on stacking cash. Need an emergency fund. Yet I’m still buying the dips on BTC just not as much as I usually do. Do whatever you’re comfortable with!

intocryptverse

It really depends on your goal and how much risk you’re okay with taking right now. If you’re choosing between holding cash vs buying Bitcoin, here’s the honest way to think about it: Cash (safe, flexible) Good if you might need the money soon Protects you from market drops Loses value slowly over time because of inflation Best for emergency funds or short-term plans Bitcoin (volatile, higher risk/reward) Can grow a lot over time, but swings hard (up and down) Not something you want to rely on for money you’ll need soon Works better as a long-term bet rather than a quick play What I’d do (balanced approach): Keep a solid base in cash (3–6 months of expenses if possible) Put a portion into BTC, not everything Think in percentages, like 10–30% in Bitcoin depending on your risk tolerance If you’re younger or have steady income, leaning a bit more into BTC can make sense. If you need stability, lean more toward cash. If you want, tell me: how long you’d hold the money and how okay you are with big swings I can give you a more exact split tailored to you 👍

J7-is-home

$400 is not enough, u need to own 1 full BTC to make any $

ArmandoElTexan

CMC put me onto BTC Rush some time ago, and for months I was collecting and using my daily free pickaxe. I had maybe 11 USDT, 3 Ton, and 90 CHZ. I figured even though it was so minuscule, takes such lengthy periods of time, and was free, that I could one day maybe cash out. Guess not

Bkokane

Buy 1 BTC at least. Then you can either watch it go down and be glad you still have the rest of your money to buy more, or you can watch it skyrocket and regret not buying more with the rest.

Grantteed

Good on ya 👍🏽 in my twenties BTC was created, so not even can buy it 🤣

Lavayo

You bought BTC, not crypto. You should hold for at least 5 years. DCA on the way up and down. Get your SATs off the exchange. Do some reading.

DRX-trade

Hey man, good callouts on the bearish sentiment. MARA deleveraging is a valid point, but single corporate actions often aren't the sole driver for sustained trends. ETF inflows cooling is notable, yet MSTR consistently accumulating shows conviction from other big players, so it's not a total institutional desertion. From a prop trading perspective, we're less focused on headlines and more on the charts and managing risk. Losing the 50-day MA and testing supports is absolutely key. But projecting an absolute $45k based purely on a percentage drop isn't how we define risk. Instead, define your *own* clear invalidation levels for your trades. What specific price action would make your long thesis invalid? Size your positions based on that. The 'altcoin bloodbath' is standard when BTC corrects, so factor that in. Focus on your invalidation and sizing.

leonm0161

Bitcoin is NOT for early retirement. It's for having a censorresistent, decentralised digital currency. Look at China. They are the leader in implementing a CBDC to control their citizens & strongly focus the roll-out. They can essentially freeze your digital yuans if you don't align with the governmental agenda. The more our governments will try to control us, the more realistic Bitcoins use case. I repeat: This is NO get-rich-quick. Also, the reason I consider it likely that it won't bleed out: Usage grows exponentially (let's say every BTC enthusiast is so convinced that he explains it to his entire environment, convincing at least 2 additional people). However, new supply halves every 4 years. It is our mission to explain to the world, why free money is important. Early retirement for everybody basically is a scam as it essentially means letting other people do your work, meaning you are dependent on others. Maybe with AI. But then you are dependent on the AI

FromThePits

Here is one take One bitcoin takes an average of 3 minutes to be mined today by all miners worldwide. Fast forward to the end of the century, those mining pools will have to work almost 3 years to release the same amount. Compare this metric to every other mining industry in the world, which only extracts their commodities more efficient and faster over time - and you realize how increasingly scarce BTC will become. More points [here](http://www.thegreekchain.info)

bullips

What you just described is art of donkeys like you being on the stock market, people like you are the ones that give fake value for air like BTC, its just whose gonna be the last to hold the bag, or in this case, hold the nothing.

Worldly-Ad-1274

I used to smoke and spent 15 euro per day on cigarettes, I have stop smoking many years now and I use these money buying BTC.If BTC is going up o would be happy if is going down I don't care bcs anyway I used to burn these money

AnyMeet6281

It's not an "either/or" question, it's a **risk management** question. Cash is for your 6-month emergency fund (rent, food, bills). It's your safety net. Don't invest money you might need next month. BTC is for your **purchasing power** in 5-10 years. It's a hedge against inflation. While cash loses value every year (devaluation), BTC has a fixed supply. **The Strategy:** 1. Keep enough cash to sleep well at night. 2. DCA (Dollar Cost Average) into BTC with what's left. 3. Move it to cold storage and ignore the daily noise. Don't gamble with your survival fund, but don't let your long-term savings melt away in a bank account. 🛡️

J_Jelizah

don’t ever look for anything else beside top 20 BTC ETH SOL LINK HYPE LTC etc all coins beside top 20 are dipping every month then get delisted

Survivalist2

It really comes down to what goals you have? If you want to have some cash put aside for unoredictable times then BTC isn’t the right option because its volatile.

OutlandishnessLimp25

BTC. Downside risk is limited imo. Buying now might bring you to a 15-20% drop or so in the near term. However, if you truly don’t need the money in the near term, the upside is far greater than 15-20% imo. Of course I don’t have a crystal ball, just as others don’t either. But, I’ve been buying since 2017 and have always had conviction in Bitcoin longterm so it’s easy for me to buy and hold. I think as long as you truly don’t need the money in the short term, these prices are great for a longterm holder. If you asked me this same question and the caveat was for the next 30-90 days I’d say keep your cash but if you have a longer time horizon where don’t need the cash, then bitcoin is my answer all day. Here are some longer term visuals that help articulate my sentiment: https://ibb.co/sV1sLSV https://ibb.co/qWtxfmF

TenderLA

BTC should be a part of a diversified portfolio. You are in the Bitcoin sub so….

Fro3en_Cornchip

This. If I save in fiat, I’m fucked. If BTC doesn’t work out I’m fucked. The risk is worth it. Especially after educating myself with BTC. Not to say there’s no other investment options but BTC has proven to be the best one of them for me. Have your back ups and emergency funds and always only invest what you’re willing to lose.

tenor_tymir

I DCA into these prices. My plan is to DCA until June 2027, putting a staggering $100k into BTC until June 27 - and then just ride the wave of whether may come.

Patient-Ordinary-359

They're still only your favourite features. They don't matter one bit to, for example, almost anyone who buys a BTC ETF to get in on the action. Or, given that almost nobody uses it for actually buying stuff or sending money, more than 15 years after it was launched (and don't quote third world countries here, call me when it breaks out of single digits in a real economy), and in reality almost all BTC action is circle-jerk speculation, where the actual mechanisms don't matter in the slightest, in reality they don't matter to almost anybody at all. Accusing dishonesty because a real life professor, real life professional trader and respected popular financial commentator with a million subs doesn't like your favourite toy for your favourite reasons is just lame.

Left_Entrepreneur918

I love Bitcoin but gold is just awesome. But to invest, gotta go with my BTC, I had some OZ of silver and tried to sell during the run up, coin shops were straight up ripping me off for 20% if not more, some wouldn’t even buy it. There will always be buyers and sellers of bitcoin

Only_Examination_458

21 mil cap is what finally brought me on board to BTC.

FromThePits

One bitcoin takes an average of 3 minutes to be mined today by all miners worldwide. Fast forward to the end of the century, those mining pools will have to work almost 3 years to release the same amount. Compare this metric to every other mining industry in the world, which only extracts their commodities more efficient and faster over time - and you realize how increasingly scarce BTC will become. More points [here](http://www.thegreekchain.info)

Only_Examination_458

This is the best post I’ve ever read RE BTC.

TheresNoSecondBest

Here's something interesting I came across on X: – Iran mines BTC for $1,300 per coin, sells every single one the same day at market price – The US bombed their grid for 27 days. BTC pumped $71K to $74K in the same window – Trump paused strikes. Machines came back online overnight. Sell pressure returned immediately. – BTC dumped daily by a nation state with a 50x margin and zero reason to hold – We’re in a war market. And the enemy is funding himself through Bitcoin The US accidentally found the off switch for crypto’s largest consistent seller. Then turned it back on

FriendsMade_MeDoIt

kinda reminds me of when a few friends tried using BTC ATMs just for the experience and immediately complained about the fees lol. like it’s cool seeing crypto in normal places like convenience stores, but no one I know actually sticks with them after the first try. maybe it helps with onboarding people who are brand new though, especially if they don’t wanna deal with exchanges yet. still feels more like a novelty in our circle than something we’d use regularly. curious if that changes once there’s more of them around

FriendsMade_MeDoIt

tbh in our group we ran into this same issue once we stopped using CEXs, and it got way more confusing than expected. most of my friends ended up using bridges or swap services but everyone kept complaining about fees and extra steps. what worked “easiest” for us was just picking one method and sticking to it so we didn’t keep messing up networks. if you’re moving from BTC mainnet to something like USDT on another chain, there’s usually gonna be at least one middle step no matter what. curious what others here are using now though, feels like everyone I know is still kinda winging it depending on the day 😅

Rare_Rich6713

My advice is that stake BTC while you wait for the pump that’s what I’m doing. I’m staking on Babylon.

Devexperts

Over the past few weeks, BTC moved down into the range it was trading in between March and October of 2024, and has touched 2021's highs (meaning it's retraced the entire 2025 move). Looking at the bottom of that 2024 weekly range at $55k as support, but it will have to test the 200-week MA first (currently at around $60k).

theincognito66

The US Dollar is backed by a government that is nearly $40 trillion in debt and there’s nothing that indicates it will get under control in the near future. I fear holding onto my fiat more than I fear holding onto BTC. Sure, I could be wrong - but the more people that get tired of losing their savings to inflation, the more attractive BTC looks...

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meandjarvis

No one knows, but I just think the asymmetry is worth it. If BTC goes to zero I lose whatever I DCA'd: money I specifically set aside as money I won't need for living. If BTC does what it's done every cycle for 15 years, that same money 10x's or more. That risk/reward makes sense to me. The "bleed out" scenario would require something to actually replace it, and after 15 years, nothing has. Every cycle people call it dead, and every cycle it comes back higher. Could this time be different? Sure. But I'm not betting my life on it, I'm betting a fixed weekly amount I genuinely don't miss. That's the key: only DCA what you'd be okay lighting on fire.

ReadingTheSign23

For a fully decentralized route, your best bet is using something like Thorchain since it lets you swap native BTC directly into assets on other chains without wrapping first. It’s probably the cleanest option if you want to avoid bridges and CEXs. If you go the bridge route, you’d have to convert BTC into a wrapped version first, then swap on a DEX like Uniswap or PancakeSwap depending on the chain. Works fine, just more steps and a bit more room for mistakes. For only $100 though, fees can take a noticeable cut, especially with BTC network fees. I’d personally lean Thorchain or similar just to keep it simple, but yeah double check fees before pulling the trigger.

Remote-Computer-3752

BTC just came back to pre - trump price. Was 2x more. So like every human being - I liked him when crypto was up, and don’t like him when it’s down. Anyway thanks to him made huge profit. So still liking him more than Biden.

Brains-Not-Dogma

I transferred all my BTC to Trumpcoin and Melanie and lost most of it. Not going back to crypto for a long time since that’s clearly turned this whole area into a joke.

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Post is by: Sadikshk2511 and the url/text [ ](https://goo.gl/GP6ppk)is: /r/CryptoMarkets/comments/1s6mai8/do_exchange_protection_funds_actually_matter_or/ Every time the market gets ugly or there's a scare, CEXs love to remind us about their protection funds. feels like every tier 2 and tier 3 exchange suddenly has a nine-figure safety net they want to brag about. tbh as someone who keeps a decent chunk of capital on centralized platforms for active perp trading, i started wondering how much weight we should actually give these funds. honestly imo treating a protection fund as your main safety net is a huge mistake. a standalone fund means nothing if the exchange has trash internal security or commingles assets. if they get wrecked by an exploit because they didnt isolate client funds, that protection fund is just going to evaporate in bankruptcy court anyway. layered security should actually look like this: real proof of reserves (PoR). not just a static snapshot from 2 years ago. if they cant prove they hold over 1:1 reserves periodically, a protection fund is useless. strict cold storage & segregation. client assets shouldnt be sitting in the same wallet as the company's operational funds. period. the protection fund as a fallback. THIS is where the fund actually matters. if the first two fail due to a black swan or whatever, the fund is there to make retail users whole. i actually split my perp stack recently because of this. binance obviously has their massive SAFU fund, but for my secondary rotation i moved some capital over to bydfi. they didn't just slap a 'safety fund' label on their site, they actually link their 800 BTC protection fund to periodic PoR reports. more importantly, they actually segregate client assets from company funds and use strict whitelisting for cold wallets. the 800 btc fund is def nice to have, but i only care about it because the cold storage and over 1:1 reserve layers are sitting firmly in front of it. bottom line is dont blindly trust an exchange just because they boast about a massive insurance fund. look at their opsec first.how do u guys evaluate exchange risk these days? do you actually look at the PoR and fund structures or just split your capital across a few different platforms and hope for the best?" *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.*

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Post is by: SingulusMiner and the url/text [ ](https://goo.gl/GP6ppk)is: /r/CryptoMarkets/comments/1s6m6se/i_tested_gomining_for_30_days_heres_my_honest/ I’ve been experimenting with different “passive BTC” methods recently, and I wanted to share real data instead of hype. Starting point: • \~5.6 TH • Joined mainly to test Miner Wars (their competition system) What I did: • Upgraded gradually → now around \~200+ TH • Participated in Miner Wars cycles • Tested different clan sizes (this actually matters more than I expected) What I learned: 1. Clan choice > raw power I spent \~6 hours in a small inactive clan and earned basically nothing. After switching to an active one, rewards improved immediately. 2. It’s not fully “passive” if you optimize If you just buy and forget returns are average. If you actively move between clans / track cycles → better results. 3. Maintenance costs matter Your daily earnings are NOT pure profit. You have to account for electricity/fees. 4. Short-term ROI depends heavily on timing Joining mid-cycle vs start of cycle made a noticeable difference. ⸻ Current take: • Not a scam from what I’ve seen • Not “free money” either • Works best if you actually treat it like a system, not just buy-and-hold ⸻ If anyone here is using it too, I’m curious: • What TH are you running? • Are you focusing on Miner Wars or just daily BTC? Happy to share more detailed numbers if people are interested. *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.*

HSuke

Also Tom Lee: * [Predicts $250k BTC before end of 2025](https://www.coindesk.com/podcasts/coindesk-podcast-network/tom-lee-predicts-usd250k-bitcoin-and-usd15k-ethereum-here-s-why-or-markets-outlook) * [Predicts that BTC will climb from $88k to new ATH within the single month of Jan 2026](https://www.coindesk.com/markets/2026/01/05/tom-lee-calls-for-a-new-bitcoin-ath-in-january-while-warning-of-a-volatile-2026) * [Predicts $250k ETH price](https://decrypt.co/353585/tom-lee-predicts-250k-ethereum-price-bitmine-adds-13-billion-stash)

Express-Economist-86

If you could divide all the bitcoin in the world evenly between everyone, they each get 0.00258 BTC. How many people’s entire life’s worth of it do you want to keep? I don’t sell it.

Adventurous-Let-3623

Please reign in the wishful thinking on this point... you've confused "bitcoin could theoretically run on stranded energy" and framed it as "bitcoin runs entirely on stranded energy"... The MOST generous estimates I've seen for Bitcoin's use of stranded energy is about 10% of total hash-rate (most academic estimates I've been able to find suggest the low single-digits). If you lump renewables, off-peak, and stranded into a single pile you're still looking at well less than half for Bitcoin's energy footprint. The majority of the network's hash power isn't coming from randos hooking their old laptops up to cooling ducts in some off-grid factory. They're commercial mining companies/pools with servers in major data-centers running hundreds of $30,000 H-X GPUs with dedicated contracts with power companies. They will pause hashing if electricity prices spike or (more BTC's fiat exchange rate falls to way below average operational costs), but they're absolutely not using stranded power. A lot of their overhead is hardware and infrastructure costs, so they're running 24/7 when possible and absolutely not relying on intermittent power supplies. I'd love for BTC to rely more on stranded sources (and off-peak renewables), but I'm not about to pretend that's what's currently happening. If you're finding a credible source that states that a majority of Bitcoin's energy consumption is stranded electricity, please post a link because I'm certain that you're currently spreading misinformation.

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Post is by: Low_Pineapple7832 and the url/text [ ](https://goo.gl/GP6ppk)is: /r/CryptoMarkets/comments/1s6kt9u/the_moment_i_realized_retail_traders_arent_late/ A while back, I was watching what looked like a clean breakout setup on BTC. The structure was obvious, resistance level tested multiple times, then finally broke with strong momentum. On a chart, it looked like a textbook long entry. But I had access to more granular execution and order book data, and what I saw there completely changed how I think about markets. A few minutes *before* the breakout candle: * Aggressive market buys started hitting the ask consistently * The order book on the sell side began thinning (less passive liquidity) * A large sell wall that had been capping price suddenly disappeared, not filled, just pulled By the time the breakout actually printed on the chart, the move had already been initiated by larger participants. That’s when it clicked for me: retail traders aren’t necessarily late because they hesitate, they’re late because they’re relying on price as their primary signal. And price is just the *result* of order flow, not the cause. Most indicators (RSI, MACD, even volume profiles) are derived from price. So if price is already lagging the actual intent of market participants, then everything built on top of it is lagging too. What institutions and large players interact with is different: * Liquidity (where orders sit and disappear) * Aggression (who is crossing the spread) * Imbalance (pressure building on one side of the book) Retail mostly sees the aftermath. Since then, I’ve been working on a detection system to track these microstructure signals in real time, and the biggest takeaway is this: The “edge” isn’t predicting direction better, it’s seeing participation earlier. Curious how others here think about this, do you consider order flow essential, or do you think price action alone is sufficient if used correctly? *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.*

ThatInternetGuy

BTC ETH SOL are the most used networks. But let me warn you that meme coins and shit coins are taking over crypto space now, and it's just tokenized gambling and will decimate your balances.

Aveniquee

Yeah, rough week indeed. BTC holding 66k like a champ while everything else bleeds. Watching 65.6k closely - if it breaks, it’s gonna get ugly fast. You holding or adding on this dip?

Wobble_bass

Damn, I did not expect this level of hate from the BTC community for modifying "worthless" fiat in a way that "is against federal law" and "renders them useless" (all incorrect) Shows who is really here.

Mr-Intense-5

What’s you goal to “invest” into crypto here? Are you looking for a quick flip? Were you expecting BTC to double over night and it hasn’t so now you’re stressed?