BTC

jrafelson

No offense, but the current system benefits 65 plus. BTC is the off ramp for Millennials and Gen Z to get out of it.

Decent_Taro8182

He is buying when BTC hits $45k-$50k. Bottom should be around Late September to October 2026.

hevnsnt

**TL;DR: Puzzle #135 was solved earlier today by someone outside our pool.** We did not find the key. The pool is already repointed to Puzzle #140 and running. Puzzle #135 was solved earlier today (July 28, 2026). The puzzle address (16RGFo6hjq9ym6Pj7N5H7L1NR1rVPJyw2v) was swept at around 08:20 UTC, and the full 13.5 BTC is gone. Anyone can confirm it on a block explorer: the balance went from 13.5 BTC to dust in a single transaction. It was not us. Our pool did not find the key. No tame/wild collision surfaced on our side and we recovered nothing. Whoever solved it beat the whole field, and credit to them. We caught it within minutes because our on-chain balance monitor flagged the address emptying. Thanks to everyone who pointed GPUs at #135. The work was real even if the win was not ours. That is the nature of racing a 135 bit keyspace against everyone at once. We have already repointed the pool to Puzzle #140: **Prize:** about 14 BTC (unsolved, public key is exposed) **Keyspace:** 2^139 up to (2^140 minus 1) **DP bits:** 28 The pool is live right now. Workers reconnect on their own and start pulling #140 work. If you were running a client on #135, just leave it running or reconnect and you are on #140. Details and stats at collisionprotocol.com. Onward, and good hunting.

mrjune2040

Meh, if you also think that Reddit has any consequence to the sentiment or movement of BTC then I don't know what to tell you. It did 10 years ago, but today it's a tiny spec in a huge dataset if we're applying OP's logic. And OP's whole 'banks are sending bots' conspiracy sounds like the worst of Alex Jones. So no, I don't think that what OP wrote has any 'merit', and the only reason I replied to the thread because it reflects the down-hill spiral of actual discourse over the past few years. We can do better, but circle jerking to guys like OP is reaching for the bottom of the barrel.

LionRivr

You’re not necessarily wrong I guess… But you’re also not considering the vast amount of other legitimate sources that AI can pull from. Your assumption that reddit bot posts actually can sway public opinion is largely overstated. You’re also assuming that a significant amount of people use AI to reason whether BTC is worth “investing” In the grand scheme, the truth will find its way, and the BTC network and its nodes/miners don’t care about what anyone says about it on the internet.

riscten

There's no "later" problem because we're already talking about exchanging BTC for fiat. Still, even if your coins are "tainted", that's only an issue in the context of regulated KYC exchanges. Decentralized P2P, no-KYC platforms don't care about the origin of your coins. If you always trade on no-KYC, you'll never have your trades halted because your coins are "tainted". "Tainting" is also not binary. Analytics platforms assign a score to coins based on their history. Platforms will establish a threshold above which they trigger SoF audit or outright refuse the transaction. If you're worried about your coins being tainted and absolutely need to deal with a CEX, there are cheap and easy methods to "untaint" your coins.

EpsteinandTrump

It's all priced in to fall further. Best way to lose money is to not time BTC, but have time within BTC.

Zestyclose-Suit-2858

No, that has been a thing forever Since... well: BTC is hard to use safely :)

Typical-Snow3034

Hey. CoinRabbit team here. The missing line in this comparison is the downside scenario. Borrowing $15,000 against $31,747 of BTC means starting near 47% LTV. If all 0.5 BTC is already pledged, adding collateral later only works if there are other assets available. The quoted $480 annual cost is also only 3.2% of the loan, so readers should verify whether that includes every fee and whether the rate can change. Before borrowing, I’d model BTC going up 30%, staying flat and falling 30%; identify the risk and liquidation levels; and keep a repayment reserve that doesn’t depend on BTC reaching $100K. We provide crypto-backed loans at CoinRabbit, but we wouldn’t describe them as free upside. They work best when the liquidity need is temporary, the starting LTV is conservative and repayment doesn’t depend on a price prediction. Risk-zone alerts and 24/7 human support then provide additional safeguards rather than replacing that plan.

Blade_Runner_69

🚨 WARNING 🚨 Bots are spamming Reddit with fake problems to do with BTC, to create a false sense that BTC, or services related can't be trusted. These posts are then fed into ai services which use these as examples of why to avoid BTC. This practice is often paid for and promoted by boomer Legacy banking companies. Manufactured FUD so to speak.

tekmiester

They know that the news has talked endlessly about crypto scams that have lost people a lot of money. Why world they invest the time to learn why BTC would be any different?

BrokenHefaistos

My 'portofolio' is doing better than BTC and it's mostly alts and memers...no hate, just a tought.

Express-Economist-86

lol reminds me of this boomer Veteran I tried to explain BTC to down at my VFW post. He thought it was somehow the mark of the beast… now Im no scripture slouch. I know he’s a lost cause and I’m thinking: I needed no religious allegiance to purchase BTC, yet my USD has all these funky occult symbols on it and never specified in *which* God we trust… *sigh* If they heard it from an authority, 98% simply won’t hear anything else from us young-uns.

Typical-Snow3034

Hey! CoinRabbit team here. The important distinction is between reserve liquidity and collateral liquidity. Cash or stablecoins should cover predictable expenses without introducing liquidation risk. Borrowing against BTC makes more sense as a second layer when the need is temporary and selling would break a long-term position. The mistake is waiting until the payment is already due. That leaves no room to choose a conservative LTV or prepare a repayment plan. On our side, we let borrowers select the LTV and provide risk-zone alerts, with human support available 24/7 if the position needs attention. Reserve first, collateralized liquidity second, is the healthier structure.

NoJowk

Ask your friend this. At what price would BTC have to stabilize at for you to admit you are wrong? Can a gambling scam have a multi-trillion market cap for 10+ years?

BarnacleOwn604

Continue to DCA what you can afford, self custody, and educate yourself on what you’re holding. But also focus on increasing real life skills, put your best foot forward improve at work or look for ways to increase income. Life is a marathon not a sprint, continue to work hard to create a better future, enjoy each day for the gift it is, save in BTC and have patience to ride out the cycle waves.

Substantial_Sir1983

For many people, BTC is gambling.

DontLook_Weirdo

Follow the teams behind the coins youre holding & use public sentiment when we're in bear. Keep an eye on regular news for any crypto news report - when the average person gets a news story on crypto then we're in for a rise or drop.. so keep watching that stuff. DO NOT follow any influencer, any crypto article, any YouTube/reddit/Twitter ---- it's all member contributed, never reported by actual journalist or team members. That's it... I been using the same sources since my journey with crypto n BTC began.

MuscularFrog13

One of the few people I know personally that i recommended to get into BTC, around 2017, that ended up actually losing money somehow was a boomer(I believe he’s 61). Dude bought like 20k worth of BTC and sold for a massive loss in 2020. He’s very jaded towards it all because of his own actions.

tcspears

They probably aren't able to understand the tech behind it, and being in retirement, it's not the time to start playing around with volatile assets. Seniors tend to focus on capital preservation and income generation. They aren't investing in things looking for high risk, high growth. They also probably hear of all the scams involved with BTC and other crypto and are suspicious. Plus until recently, most brokerages didn't have a way to buy it at all, so they would have to look into how they could even purchase it.

tcspears

Millennials are the largest home owning generation right now, but will be surpassed by Gen Z at this rate, so that probably isn't a critical factor. They likely just don't understand BTC, and they are probably conflating stablecoins with all crypto, where there is a ton of gambling. Plus many will see an asset that went from pennies to $120k back to $60k, and if they are in retirement they want stability and not volatile assets.

quintavious_danilo

The prospect of $200k BTC in the next cycle. People are greedy, the 4-year-cycle is an easy enough narrative to ignite a new bull run. Many won’t want to miss out on this opportunity, even if they make just a few bucks, they are going to pour their money in eventually.

Specialist_Trust4945

>I know one guy, 76yo, teaches Finance & Econ at a respected university. He's also a partner in a wealth management firm. He thinks BTC is "gambling" Ever thought he might be right, and you might be wrong?

TheGrasshopper92

People live in their own bubbles so much that it blows my mind. I haven’t had a “bank account” in over 5 years. All my paychecks get directly routed to stablecoin and a portion is invested out to stocks/retirement and the rest is BTC savings with a small portion of stablecoin hold for daily card transactions. The few companies that don’t support card payments all have other alternative forms that I’ve been able to utilize and it gets easier every year. For big purchases I’ve used BTC directly a few times and more recently borrowed against my stack for super low interest rates. Where do you think the capital for AI was generated?

Oregon-izer

its my theory I hope to see it posted and blasted here in a few months because I am still holding my btc. however, the ability to invest in btc through etf funds shows me that we are further fractionalizing whatever BTC fund x y or z hold. additionally much of these funds holdings are further leveraged artificially inflating the number of BTC again and diluting it. if im right its one of the greatest rope a dopes in history

Normal_Zebra136

The face value of my money declines pretty uniformly by 3% a year. For the vast majority of the people on the planet, the things you mention are not worth the inconvenience of use and loss risk of BTC, so I don't think they are going to inconvenience themselves to promote something they dont see value in.

IPreferRedbull

Lol. I did this for 2 years. I managed to pay off all my loans recently. Don’t do this. If I would have sold, I would have more than 2x’d when it was $120K. Genius me decided to do a BTC-backed loan and got liquidated. I lost a ton of money. Now I’m gradually building my stack back up.

Django_McFly

It takes like sub 20 seconds to do a swap on a CEX or a DEX so I don't know if one really has a speed advantage worth mentioning over the other. If anything, I can send 10k USDC to a wallet, swap it on a DEX and be done in less than a minute. I send 10k USDC to Coinbase, they don't accept is as a valid thing until a few minutes pass. When you say "faster", what actions are faster? CEXs definitely aren't cheaper. Once you can wrap your head around a wallet, the joy of getting ripped off on a CEX generally fades. That's why DEX vs CEX volume has been growing for years in a row now. https://swap.defillama.com/?chain=ethereum&from=0xa0b86991c6218b36c1d19d4a2e9eb0ce3606eb48&tab=swap&to=0xcbb7c0000ab88b473b1f5afd9ef808440eed33bf At the same time $10k USDC got me 0.157X cbBTC (Coinbase's own BTC, so a third party should definitely be selling it at a worse price than Coinbase official right?) at the worst dex, Coinbase was offering me 0.153X for their cbBTC for $10k. On jup.ag, $10k gets me 136.5 SOL. On Coinbase, $10k gets me 132.8 SOL. People who have never used a DEX in their life (or have and are just lying to you about the prices offered) are just making up stuff about how much they cost to use. CEXs quote you on a spread (when you sell, they pretend the price is much lower and when you buy, they pretend the price is much higher) **and** charge fees on top of the spread.

RandomPlayerCSGO

I've been putting my monthly savings half into golf half into BTC and Monero in equal parts

Appropriate-Talk-735

I have built tools to sell the next top. Ready to buy BTC and SOL if we get a smooth rollout of BIP-110.

TheresNoSecondBest

6.15 BTC

Crnorukac

12 years later, answer is still the same - it is never too late for buying BTC.

flashdurb

This is literally gambling. Nobody has a clue what will happen with BTC tomorrow, in a week, etc. Anybody who claims differently knows they are full of shit. So with this in mind.. every BTC purchase ever has been random. Buy whenever.

Alone_Ad_305

Motivation.. I was like you in 2022 Now i own +5 BTC And trying my best to get to 10 Nothing comes quickly and easily But remember that time goes quickly Stay like this accumulate as much as you can in low prices and sell in high prices +100k$ dont be greedy And then buy back at the lows Keep going like that u got it!💪🏼

Childhood-Icy

I came in late but learned a few lessons along the way. Or so I thought. Buying low and selling high only applied reliably with BTC. Everything else was like a toss coin for most average Joes like me.

Fun_Manufacturer_367

Got it. But how do we know when the price has actually bottomed out? At this point, do you think there's a higher chance that BTC will fall further, or is it more likely to move higher from here?

fan_of_hakiksexydays

That's not exactly how it works. Crypto futures are mostly a cash settled market not a physically settled market. Physical coin settlements for futures is actually pretty rare in crypto. It's settled in cash or stablecoin. So no actual BTC changes hands. So you can basically trade the same Bitcoin back and forth a million times a day. Hence the bigger volume. Also, a squeeze works both ways. Longs can get liquidated just as much as shorts. So no, it doesn't only go up. But the market also trades more volume and trade sizes than what people actually have in their pockets, because of margins. That's why between futures and bots, we always get the illusion that there's way more money, interest, and volume coming in this market than there actually is.

Childhood-Icy

Yup and only those with solid alpha knew. That is why for most normal joes, stick to BTC.

unknowngloomth

Many cryptos did good last cycle tho. BnB, XRP, SOL outperformed BTC rois and bunch of other alts and memes too. But the question is did you take profits or kept holding and rode all the way down?

fan_of_hakiksexydays

That's not how it works in this market. Crypto futures are mostly a cash settled market not a physically settled market. Physical coin settlements for futures is actually pretty rare in crypto. So no, you don't trade more BTC than what's available on the market. You just trade with what's available on the other side of the trade. But you do trade more volume and trade sizes than what people actually have in their pockets, because of margins. So between futures and bots, we always get the illusion that there's way more money and move volume in this market than there actually is.

eggrolls_and_squats

Yes, I understand your point. Diversification is everything. It looks bad to tell people to buy index funds when you are all in BTC. Are you a registered representative?

Mack_Mimsy

Depends on risk tolerance. I’m all BTC after learning the hard way

Childhood-Icy

Haha. Just like clockwork BTC edged up again A few hours after I posted this :)

Objective-Walk6780

Just leave $4K to buy 0.1 BTC when it happens

SimpleMoonFarmer

Now there's more paper BTC than ever. From now on, prices go up when there's a delivery/physical squeeze.

hug_treez

At current valuations BTC is roughly 15% of my net worth. At its highs it jumps to 30-40%. I dollar cost average only. I do not pay attention to prices and I do not time the market. I’ve been purchasing since 2018 and I’m happy with the strategy. It’s safe, risk averse and Im not investing any more than in willing to lose(although I’d be pretty upset if BTC goes to 0). I also contribute to 401k,l and max out my IRA, both of which strictly invest in 3 different broad market index funds. I’m on track to retire by 65 without crypto, assuming there’s no major societal collapse and the stock markets crashes. At that point my greatest investments are my firearms. 😜

Kind_Soup_9753

BTC is the only diversification. All other assets are in your government basket, don’t drop it.

Upset-Guard383827

Congratulations! 🎉 You've officially entered the "checking your portfolio 20 times a day" club. 😄 Jokes aside, consistency beats trying to time the market. On to 0.2 BTC!

SimpleMoonFarmer

If you like BTC, this year (until August 2027) may be your last chance to accumulate below $100K.

Accomplished-Lion144

All BTC

ShittingOutPosts

I’d love to hear why you think BTC is the same as a publicly traded company.

Cosmos-bipinnatus

1 BTC is also a goal, but that seems so far away atm. So, 0.2 it is 😂

stunvn

Where I live: All BTC. No point to deversify cuz they are all shit.

IAmSomewhatDamaged

Basically…. You just have to put in your time dude. It’s really that simple. When you’re still a n00b, no amount of comment-reading is going to truly make you feel better. What made me become absolutely STOIC about the crypto market?? Lurking around these subs and just holding on to BTC over the past 4-5 years— holding through the pain. Most people bail when they run into their first Bear Market (understandably honestly). It’s fucking ROUGH when you’re down 30/40/50%+. Just stick around and keep your conviction!!

jgarcya

Watch Bob loukas on YouTube... He was the first to promote the four year cycle... He turned 100k into millions... And makes free videos.. with full transparency. Basically the four year cycle starts in 2027. I buy years one and two... Since I don't buy year four.. I save that fiat as if I was investing.... Then I lump sum it in Jan of year one. Years one and two are the accumulation years... I buy as much as I can each month of these years... This allows me to maximize my BTC at the lowest prices of the cycle. Year three.... I ride out the gains.... I don't sell BTC... But if I did, I would sell quarter 4 of that year.... It would be wise to save fiat as if I was investing.... This is to maximize my lump sum purchase on year one . Buy avoiding buying in year three...my average stays low... I don't chase the high.... Why would I buy the high when year four loses 70-80% off the Ath. Lump sum always outperforms DCA. Year four ... I don't buy... I save fiat to buy at the start of the next four year cycle.

NoBrosCrypto

You're in the right place. That first milestone is a big deal and only those of us who are in it know how you feel. Whether it be 0.1 BTC or more, when you have that goal, it feels great to hit it. Congratulations! Keep stacking.

quintavious_danilo

It used to be 90% stocks and 10% BTC. It’s now 90% BTC and 10% cash.

unknowngloomth

gold about +21% to +22% year over year and silver about +53.7% year over year, while BTC is about -44% versus a year ago. Wtf you mean?

unknowngloomth

SOL, BNB, XRP had huge rois and they outperformed BTC. I'm not even mentioning a bunch of AI altcoins that had massive runs. But did you take profits or kept holding them believing in the "vision"? So yeah. There was an alt season. But just a very specific ones benefited.

BetterSeesaw

1 BTC is very far away if you’d start to dca now. Still not totally impossible but maybe in the future 0.1 is enough for whatever your financial goal is :)

unknowngloomth

Yeah. It bites even hard when a simple stock company outperformed BTC in the past 5 years. BTC had literally a president openly shilling BTC. BTC had enterprises like strategy pouring billions into BTC. Yet, BTC couldn't outperform XOM in the past 5 years. Brutal!!!

unknowngloomth

BTC is also shit. Nobody is using BTC for anything other than expecting price appreciation. BTC has no cashflow, doesn't pay dividends or anything like that. And it hasn't been a hedge against inflation in the past 5 years. Inflation has been blowing BTC out of water in the past 5 years, brutal

_blockchainlife

BTC represents about 5% of my portfolio too. The rest is non-crypto. I aim for a nice balance of low/medium/high risk assets. To me BTC is a new, what I personally call, “ultra high risk” asset class. It’s my best performing asset no doubt, but Ive been through 3 cycles up tanking and face ripping gains. I have faith in it for sure, which is why I believe that a 3-5% allocation is important to have in any balanced portfolio.

unknowngloomth

In the past 5 years. The XOM stock has been outperforming BTC. It's brutal for crypto when a stock got more gains than a crypto. BTC had enterprises like strategy pouring millions into BTC, a president shilling it. Yet BTC couldn't outperform a stock. Brutal!!!

YOLO911911

Could BTC also be corrupt? Not sure if there is a real difference between BTC and other financial systems

BrokenHefaistos

Most have more utility value than BTC and if it's about adoption then memers are the better option, strangely enough.

Objective-Walk6780

I’ll buy some for you and hold it in a wallet until you’re 18 and then sell it to at current price ($64000), whether BTC goes to $1 or $1 million. Deal?

master-beast-72

This is actually a meaningful disclosure change that's getting buried in the headline. Strategy's original "BTC Yield" metric tracked the change in BTC per diluted share over time — but it had a flaw: it didn't show that the ~$7B+ in convertible notes have a senior claim on the company's assets, including the BTC. If Strategy ever had to liquidate or restructure, noteholders get paid before common shareholders see a dollar. The BTC "per share" number was technically accurate but economically misleading. The new approach that accounts for senior claims gives a clearer picture of what MSTR common shareholders actually own on a risk-adjusted basis. Effectively: (total BTC × BTC price - face value of senior notes) / shares outstanding. That's the residual equity value, not just gross BTC exposure. Why it matters: A lot of retail traders use MSTR as leveraged BTC exposure without fully understanding the capital structure. The notes create a situation where BTC could be at $50k and MSTR equity is worth less than the gross BTC implies, because the debt holders capture the first slice. Ironically, this more honest reporting might actually be *better* for the stock long-term — institutional buyers who model the capital structure correctly will find the valuation more defensible than one built on a metric that obscured leverage.

Both-Garden-1612

Well I really don’t see BTC as a everyday coin. We use the less valuable asset as money. We have FIAT for that. For me BTC is mora an idea that set a wheel on motion, so many things are BTC effects today. Concepts like borderless, instant, verifiable, sovereign, privacy, auto custody… this is BTC real power. It is slowly changing our financial system, but being changed by it at the same time. I think BTC future will not be like Satoshi stated on the white paper.

quintavious_danilo

Just buy BTC and be done with it. Don’t fuck around with alts. It’s not worth it.

Both-Garden-1612

In paper, yes.. in reality BTC is farther from Satoshi’s ideal than ever.

Ok_Series_9532

That's a solid point about cycles changing the rules, I think many people got caught in the same trap of waiting for the pattern to repeat exactly. The Trump era really did make everything act weird, nothing followed the old playbook anymore. I had similar experience with Raydium, was staring at that 10x and thinking it will go higher because all the analysts were saying alt season is coming. Then suddenly AI narrative took over and everything else just bled out slowly. The market dont care about our target prices. What you said about Bitcoin being safer core position is probably the most important takeaway here. I moved most of my portfolio back to BTC after my altcoins kept dipping and at least I can sleep now without checking charts every hour.

TheRadishBros

Yes, although increased integration of stablecoins into the economy would inevitably have positive effects on BTC.

tenor_tymir

You’ll be missing a great buying opportunity. The clarity act means nothing to BTC in the long run. Tik tok, next block.

Odd-Fun-1482

Unironically though if this bill fails to pass, im going to short BTC and make millions

MCL-Jonathan

First of all, never compare yourself to people with 1, 10, or 100 BTC. We all started somewhere. Different life stage. Different life goal etc. Focus on growing your income while consistently stacking sats. That’s far more powerful than trying to cut your way to a whole coin. Personally, I wouldn’t live in my car just to buy more Bitcoin. Protect your health, your career, and your ability to earn. Learn new skills take up new side hustle. All of these will help you to stack more. If we’re still in a bear market, as I believe we are, keep a regular DCA going, and be ready to buy more aggressively during periods of fear, especially around major long-term support like the 200-week moving average. Stack more during bear market stack less during bull market. Have a HODL and swing bag for bitcoin, take profits during bull market on your swing bag. By the time bear market comes, re-enter! Use the Bitcoin 4 years cycle to your advantage! [Bitcoin Bear Market DCA Playbook](https://youtu.be/JXvr49ECTuo)

master-beast-72

Poolin peaked at around 20-25% of Bitcoin's total hashrate in 2020-2021, which made them genuinely systemically important to the network. Their collapse is a good case study in how brutal the mining business model actually is. The fundamental problem: mining has near-fixed costs (energy contracts, hardware depreciation) but income that's directly proportional to BTC price × (your hashrate / total network hashrate). When BTC dropped 75% in 2022, the math flipped overnight. Hardware bought at peak prices in 2021 suddenly had a payback period of decades. Poolin's specific failure point was their "Pool.io" earnings account — they were offering yield on miners' accumulated BTC balances, essentially acting like an unregulated bank. When liquidity dried up in August 2022, they suspended withdrawals. Many miners lost their earned BTC sitting in that account. The pattern repeated across the industry: Core Scientific (filed December 2022), Compute North (filed September 2022), Argo Blockchain (near-miss), Greenidge Generation... The Ethereum Merge also hit GPU miners who were pooling on Poolin's ETH side. Worth noting: the miners who survived were the ones with locked-in low-cost energy contracts (sub $0.04/kWh) and owned their hardware outright rather than leasing. North American miners with cheap hydro/wind power had a structural advantage that Chinese miners largely lost after the 2021 ban.

Embarrassed_fly09

Correct me if I am wrong but as long as your BTC is in a cold wallet it doesn't matter right?

Quirky-Reveal-1669

OP obviously tripped the system, but not necessarily by doing something stupid or illegal. It is extremely frustrating and unfair, the way that CEX are “over-compliant”. And the CEXs pretty much have to be, because the threat of draconian consequences in case of a minor, individual sub- or non-compliance issue is very real. Governments are to blame. Citizens are by de facto denied the fundamental right of ‘presumption of innocence’: it is not that a prosecutor needs to prove your guilt of a crime, it is that the citizen needs to prove his innocence. It is fucked up, but it is reality. For this reason, I leave only very small amounts on CEXs I use: enough fiat for my DCA buys, and no more than $500-$1000 worth of BTC before moving that to cold storage. And I am slowly moving away from CEX altogether, refocusing on DEX buying (and selling, when the time comes).

Zestyclose-Menu-7253

I had over 100k in my robinhood account in BTC and when I tried to remove it they literally froze my account for over a month with absolutely no explanation whatsoever. I spent hours and hours emailing, consulting attorneys, and endless phone calls. Its almost impossible to get someone on the phone and escalate the situation. Then they would tell me its unlocked and I can transfer to my own wallet. Then I would initiate transfer, the transaction would get denied, the account would relock, and the entire process started all over again. Over and over again. I can't begin to explain how frustrating this was. So no, its not time to rethink it. Not your keys not your F'ing coins. And Fuck Robinhood

r33gna

1. Determine your "woah, this is serious cash" limit. 2. Look up Trezor, don't buy yet, just look it up and see what it is and how much. 3. Look up a proper and big crypto exchange in your part of the world, make sure they support transferring/sending to external wallet. 4. Make account, start buying BTC. 5. Once you reach the limit as determined by step 1, stop buying. 6. Buy a Trezor, the cheapest one should be OK, what's important is you buy from them directly and ONLY follow the instructions from official sources. Be patient, be detailed. 7. Transfer your BTC from exchange to Trezor, congratulations you now own BTC and is your own bank. 8. Repeat from step 4, if you want.

Efficient-Concept713

We all start somewhere. PayPal or Cash App are great to buy less than $100 and learn about BTC by following the volatility. If you’re even somewhat serious, you should be on an exchange like Coinbase where you can use a security key. If you start to really go all in, do more research on wallets.

dataCollector42069

$1 than regard as the only thing people care about BTC is trading it not larping with .001 BTC thinking they are beating the system

blasian_muse

If that happens it won’t just be BTC it will be everyone’s bank and investment accounts and those will be cracked before BTC wallets. But given how absolutely crucial the protection of those things are I’m sure safeguards will be put in place before that scenario occurs

blasian_muse

Except buying BTC at this point in the cycle and holding for 1+ years has always ended up in the green whereas lottery tickets end up in the red the vast majority of the time

PeaceAgitated1978

Capital gains taxs. That's why. If you need some advices.. let me know. What does reals Rich's does? They borrow against their assets. Then spend.. if you are wise and got justified convictions about BTC going down. You can definitely protect your stack by borrowing against it, then opening a short in very low leverage.. therefore never sell is respected, you'll be taxed only on the gains from your short.. which happens to be anyways gains.. then.. after your short is closed.. either spend or re inject it in growing your stack.. but pay your gains taxs first!! Always.. and sit on a bigger stack with less cost/BTC than most people.. borrowing is cheap.. it's the tax's break of all the whealty.. and I don't see why I shouldn't be using it the same way.. be responsible as always.. borrow the least possible.. leverage your short the least possible also. But yeah.. remember that comment for later.. since that's how rich stay rich. Even with high taxs over huge gains.. they become rich through using theses calcs and models.. and they stay rich through staying in debts and out of big cash reserves. Cash isn't an asset. Remember always that.

Steel-Tempered

BTC is in desperate need for a correction. A massive dip would be a good soft reset.

Mr_Moon_1987

It will be too expensive to be universal without more successful layer twos. I think that large scale transactions will be more likely satisfied in BTC than a BTC based set of payment rails on L2s in millisats - but what do I know?

trading_eq_optns

Can it? Yes. Will it? No. I said 57k was my target back in NOV 2025. (Yes I have screenshots of those posts. They weren't here on reddit. They were on other platforms. Some are private) Guess what... we hit 57k almost perfectly. Next is ~46k. All the "event contracts" and leveraged trading has ruined BTC and most of crypto. There's other reasons why but I'm not typing out an essay.

General_Feeling8839

You mean like you buy 3 BTC at 126k and now your just like…..whatever….. I know people that have this feeling, it’s not a loss but they don’t have funds to buy anything now….. keep holding I think…. But damn I’m so happy I bought 0.001

PeaceAgitated1978

BTC is definitely for Rich's people.. let it be said.. but only if they got the brain to understand BTC true role in wealth accumulation strategy.. most reals Rich's does.. fake Rich don't.. if someone defined poor end up thinking and knowing what and how Rich's does. I can guarantee you that if he works for more than he is spending. He won't stay poor very long. Invest man.. it's your own way to live off everyone else that ain't have learnt the real economics.. and yes it's unfair.. and that is to be truthfully corrected by ours school's.. but guess what. They won't if you don't force them to. The rich decide what is thaught in schools. And they clearly decided worldwide to keep us slaves from our own ignorance in economics.

Good_Extension_9642

I agree with your point of view , in my opinion IBIT or any BTC ETF is safer than holding Bitcoin, if you don't believe me ask all those who have lost their precious Bitcoin either by a jack, sent to the wrong address or lost their 24 words

angelwolf71885

At $200 a month your gonna take 6 months just to gain 0.01 BTC per year do the math from there

Potential-Extension7

BTC is the coin you hold, you sell others.

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Post is by: Macro-Equity and the url/text [ ](https://goo.gl/GP6ppk)is: /r/technicalanalysis/comments/1v5i61h/usdtd_at_85_what_stablecoin_dominance_isnt/ TL;DR — Stablecoin dominance is a ratio. It rises either because fresh money is coming in (dry powder), or simply because the rest of the market is collapsing. The chart looks identical in both cases. Right now USDT.D sits at 8.5% while supply has been flat for months — that's the second case. And we've seen this signature before. Disclosure: None of this is financial advice. The problem with USDT.D You see it constantly: "USDT.D bouncing off support → alt season incoming." The implicit reasoning is that rising dominance = capital waiting on the sidelines = fuel for the next leg up. That can be true. It can also be completely wrong. The dominance chart alone can't tell you which. The mechanics : USDT.D = USDT market cap / total crypto market cap It's a fraction. It rises in two opposite situations: Case 1 — the numerator rises. New USDT gets minted. Fresh money enters and parks in stables. Real dry powder. Constructive. Case 2 — the denominator falls. Supply doesn't move an inch, but BTC/ETH/alts get destroyed. Dominance rises mechanically, without a single new dollar arriving. The chart goes up the same way in both cases. That's the whole problem. How to tell them apart: absolute supply Look at market cap in dollars, not percentage. On TradingView: CRYPTOCAP:USDT below USDT.D. |Dominance|Absolute supply|Reading| |:-|:-|:-| |↑|↑|Genuine inflows. Capital waiting. Constructive| |↑|flat or ↓|No new money. The market is just bleeding.| |↓|stable or ↑|Capital deploying into risk. Risk-on signal.| Only the first has predictive value. And it's visible only on the supply panel.  Top: USDT.D weekly. Bottom: USDT market cap (CRYPTOCAP:USDT). Boxes aligned on the same time windows. What the chart shows Today: USDT.D at 8.50% (+1.45% on the week). USDT supply at 183.99B, down roughly 30M week over week. Dominance is climbing while supply has been flat since early 2026, with slightly negative weeks. Do the implicit math. If dominance rises sharply while the numerator stays fixed, the denominator — total crypto market cap — must be contracting. That's what this chart is saying, and it's invisible if you only look at the top panel. 2022-2023: same signature. Dominance peaks around 9.1%, and on the bottom panel you can see USDT supply contracting meaningfully over the same window (from \~83B down toward \~65-70B). That wasn't dry powder accumulating. That was the bear market: the market collapsing while money genuinely exited the ecosystem. Today dominance sits at 8.5%, just below that peak, with the same absence of net inflows. Limitations of this comparison (important) I'd rather raise these myself than leave them for the comments: 1. The magnitudes aren't comparable. In 2022-2023 supply actually contracted, on the order of −20%. In 2026 it's a plateau with marginal weekly moves (−0.02%). What they share is the absence of net inflows, not the intensity. This is a growth stall, not a collapse. 2. Two occurrences aren't a statistic. I'm showing what this configuration looked like last time. I'm not claiming the outcome repeats. 3. The context changed. Spot ETFs didn't exist in 2022. Part of institutional capital no longer needs to route through stablecoins to get exposure — so this indicator captures TradFi flow less well than it used to. It mostly tells you what's happening inside crypto-native markets. 4. The levels aren't identical. \~9.1% in 2022 versus 8.5% today. USDT ≠ USDC: the layer above Aggregating all stablecoins throws away the most interesting information. USDT — offshore-dominant, Asia, retail, non-US exchanges, perp markets. It's leverage collateral. Its supply reflects global speculative appetite. USDC — regulated, US rails, DeFi, corporate treasuries, banking on/off-ramp. Its supply reflects institutional capital. The divergences are the real signal: USDC ↑, USDT flat → institutional money via US rails. Slower, generally more durable. USDT ↑, USDC flat → offshore leverage and speculation. Faster, more fragile. Both contracting → global deleveraging. Money leaving crypto. One level deeper: supply by chain. Stables flowing onto one chain while global supply stagnates isn't new money — it's capital rotation. Invisible on an aggregate dominance chart. (Not available on TradingView; use DefiLlama.) Other caveats worth knowing Not every mint is new money. There's cross-chain rebalancing and treasury pre-positioning. Look at smoothed net mints, never the isolated event. This is a slow indicator. Regime context, not entry timing. Don't build an intraday trade on it. Correlation ≠ causation. Rising supply doesn't force anyone to buy. It indicates capacity, not intent. What this actually changes None of this gives you an entry. What it gives you is a regime filter: knowing whether you're trading in an environment where capital is genuinely available, or one where dominance is rising simply because everything around it is burning. The two look alike on a chart. They don't have the same follow-through. What I'm watching for a regime change: supply resuming its uptrend, not dominance falling. If USDT.D drops while supply keeps contracting, that's a false signal of exactly the kind described above. Data: TradingView (USDT.D, CRYPTOCAP:USDT, CRYPTOCAP:TOTAL), DefiLlama for per-chain breakdown. Do you track stablecoin supply in your process? Curious whether anyone here watches the per-chain split, and on what horizon you find it actionable. *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.*

Ungl8r

When BTC falls to $10 you will achieve your goal

bananabastard

There is a time to use platforms. I have some older relatives invested in BTC, and I have them using platforms. It's right for them. Self-custody is right for me.

master-beast-72

the dismissive responses here aren't wrong per se — most altcoins underperform BTC over any meaningful timeframe. but "all alts are dead" misses the actual question, which is about approach, not whether it's possible. what actually separates people who make money on alts from those who don't: 1. picking alts with real revenue — protocols that generate fees, have token buybacks/burns, and would survive a bear market because users actually need them (ETH, AAVE, UNI, etc) vs pure speculation plays 2. position sizing — keeping alts to 15-25% of portfolio max, so BTC/ETH carry the bulk and alt losses don't wipe gains 3. entry timing — alts tend to outperform BTC late in bull cycles when BTC dominance peaks and capital rotates. buying alts in sideways/bear market is where most people get burned. 4. setting profit targets in advance — alts are volatile by design, and people who made money typically had a "sell 50% at 2x" discipline rather than HODLing until it reversed. none of this guarantees anything, but those are the actual variables that matter.

hoppeeness

I don’t think the amount of money from people that would use btc on cold wallets would sustain a BTC price of more than $1000. And if they aren’t using cold wallets then they might as well use tokenized RWAs

Few-Sky-976

Not a bad time to buy BTC (or rather IBIT or FBTC ETFs), as it's showing a bullish consolidation right now.