Reddit Posts
Do you think the people affected by the historical floods over the next five days will be buying, selling, or holding BTC?
How do you monitor positions + orderbooks across DEXs, CEXs, and other platforms?
Peter Brandt Highlights Bitcoin Price Pattern Key to Keeping BTC's Bull Trend Healthy
How do the largest hodlers of BTC store thier coins?
What percent of us do you think are hodling this way, Pros and Cons. Storage
Is it a common misconception that Bitcoins gain their value from the cost of electricity required to generate them?
BTC can't turn $1 into $10 in 2024 - yes it can, over and over
MSTR or miners for leveraged play? (and how is the halving supposed to be bullish for miners??)
BlackRock Bitcoin ETF has surpassed holdings worth over $2 billion, equivalent to more than 52,000 BTC.
BlackRock Bitcoin ETF has surpassed holdings worth over $2 billion, equivalent to more than 52,000 BTC.
Don't Get Rekt in This Bull Run: Remember the 2017 "Earn" Scams?
Don't Get Rekt in This Bull Run: Remember the 2017 "Earn" Scams?
BTCMinetrix | ERC-20 | Cloud App | Stake Tokens = Mine Bitcoin | Audited | Presale Is Almost Finished | Join Before Official Launch
Reminder: Bitcoin Was Invented to Replace the Current Flawed System, Not to Be Absorbed Into It. Stop getting excited about BlackRock and Fidelity accumulating more BTC every day, and be aware of what's coming.
I LOVE BTC logo design. Feel free to use it for any purpose. Design source files are in the comments.
Bitcoin As A Power Law: why BTC is predictable over the long run
ICYF: BTC ETFs can start advertising on Google from Today.
"Traditional" Investor here looking to diversify, should I buy a lot of BTC before the halving?
Mined BTC early, trying to figure out if recovery is possible...
Crypto Reporting (US) - Bitcoin and failing to report loses; Need help to fix this
BitcoinMinetrix | ERC-20 | Cloud Mining | Stake To Mine BTC | Audited & SAFU | Jump In Before Listing
Setting up a Node on a new N100 Mini PC, What do I need to Know?
Reminder: Bitcoin Was Invented to Replace the Current Flawed System, Not to Be Absorbed Into It. Stop getting excited about BlackRock and Fidelity accumulating more BTC every day, and be aware of what's coming.
The last deadline for an Ethereum ETF approval for the SEC is in May 2024, expect a stronger pump than the months before the BTC ETF approval
My last post was deleted: I heard you guys loud and clear
Why BTC will be sideways or downward for months..
ETF's price drop explained, and why the growing optimism!
Hey are you interested in BTC investment The BTC investment is that you will have to open a btc wallet and fund it and if you have it already then you’re already a winner What you will just do is that you will use $50-$200 $100-$300 $150-$400 $300-$500 $500-$1000 $1500-$2000 $2000-$3000
If Bitcoin Didn't Exist Where Would You Put Your Capital?
Navigating the BTC Market Shake-up: Understanding Grayscale's Move and the Dynamics of Weak vs. Strong Hands
Question about ETF -- are BTC traded or do they tend to be held?
I just saw my first Bitcoin ad on basic cable tv….
Hey are you interested in BTC investment The BTC investment is that you will have to open a btc wallet and fund it and if you have it already then you’re already a winner What you will just do is that you will use $50-$200 $100-$300 $150-$400 $300-$500 $500-$1000 $1500-$2000 $2000-$3000
Saudi Arabia to Match Satoshi Nakamoto's 1Million Bitcoin!
The previous Bull Run was pretty underwhelming.
Clarification on UTXOs / what am I misunderstanding re: consolidation?
Bitcoin Mempool Ordinal / BRC-20 / DataCarrier transaction comparison?
Have you ever wondered what Albert Einstein may have said about Bitcoin?
Have you ever wondered what Albert Einstein might have said about Bitcoin?
How long did it take you to understand why BTC really matters?
Is Bitcoin Finally Finding Firm Ground as Grayscale’s BTC ETF Outflows Calm Down?
Is Bitcoin Finally Finding Firm Ground as Grayscale’s BTC ETF Outflows Calm Down?
Joe Rogan learning BTC being the best store of value in the world 10yrs ago when BTC is 900$
1 year ago I ACTUALLY lost most of my Bitcoin in a boating accident.
BitcoinMinetrix | ERC-20 | Cloud Mining | Stake Tokens = Mine Bitcoin | Audited & Safe | Presale Is Almost Finished | Join Before Listing
Bitcoin Monthly 32 - Stay up to date with what matters
Pricing All Everyday Goods in BTC, From iPhone to Houses, Will Act as an Electroshock to Your Awareness of the Bitcoin Revolution.
Finding Remote International Jobs (Freelance or Salary) That Pay In BTC
After looking into Bitcoin for 1 month and reading A LOT of posts on this Reddit I have no clue if BTC will go to the moon or go to zero.
Does the fact that Coinbase holds custody of 8 out of the 11 spot BTC ETFs pose any risk?
Mentions
We'll see. If BTC doesn't maintain a 30% CAGR going forward then you won't get rich.
Wolf of All Street, BTC Sessions, Jack Mallers
I had the same issue a while back, ended up using BISQ and P2P exchanged BTC to XMR. Low fees, no KYC, and quite straightforward
You give them the keys to your decoy wallet. They're now the proud owner of .008 BTC and 42 bucks worth of Toshi coin
At 100,000,000 satoshis per BTC… that comic really gets around 😂
We will make it, but it will be a bumpy road… wish more people would take this threat more serious, other projects are already further on that topic (already quantum secure), think the critical issue for BTC Willie to get consensus on how to handle the lost/Satoshis coins
The Hindenburg fire took my BTC =/
You’re asking a question no one has an answer for, but BTC has a lot of longterm risks and increasing competition. It won’t survive without another hard fork, and so you’re betting on something that doesn’t exist yet.
That’s a fair take. If fiat keeps inflating, being a millionaire won’t mean what it used to, while BTC holders are really just preserving purchasing power. The real difference might not be status, but who actually maintains buying power over time.
No lawyers, I just went through the MTGox domain which the administrators repurposed to use for the rehabilitation process. It was a bit of a shit show really, they kept making you re-apply, answer things you had already answered, multiple different deadlines. I missed one, because I couldn't login in to the claims system on the deadline day, and the password reset wasn't working. At the time, they were saying you'd only get back a fraction of the Dollar value of the BTC at the price it was when the hack occurred, so it wasn't worth the effort at the time to try to contest it. Even today, using this calculator (https://blog.wizsec.jp/2021/02/mtgox-claim-calculator.html), it estimates, I'd only get back $39,000 USD (don't know if thats 2021 prices or current prices though). Not sure if it's worth pursuing. Luckily I'd transferred most of my BTC off MtGox before the hack, and only left a small amount on there to experiment with trading bots through their API, but that never happened.
I’ll give you one example of risk pertinent to this case: OP losing his keys or got hacked/scammed out of his BTC.
They have bitcoin: yes, no doubs on that Venezuela has been stealing asic miners for years They have 600.000BTC?: Nah I don't think so Just keep this news like the shorinderg cat, they exist and doesn't exist at the same time. Until proven wrong, or in this scenario until those bitcoins are move in the Blockchain If we don't see anything like that move in the Blockchain, I don't believe any 💩
Exactly, for BTC there is a discussion ongoing (BIP360), same for other major projects
yes. 4 year cycle is real. now just wait BTC to be capitulated until 50-60k then maybe we start buying a little and look out for new narratives and farm some high profile protocols in the meantime
I‘m not a tech guy, but try to answer your question from my understanding. Take BTC for example - older generations of wallets are vulnerable (sometimes depending on if already a transaction is done, but consider that encryption of all wallets from Sathoshis age can be cracked by quantum Computer with approx 2k logical qbits), newer wallets are not vulnerable from my understanding as they user different public keys per transaction. So technically speaken an individual has to Transfer his BTC only to a new wallet to Secure his Assets from quantum threat. This leaves still the blockchain vulnerable, meaning encryption of the chain is not quantum Secure, the crucial Point is, if this is not changed the First one with a quantum Computer will Hack Satoshis wallets and market will Crash. So Migration is required, new chain with quantum Secure encryption Methods to be implemented and Assets to be Transfered to this chain. This Migration is the crucial Part imho, how to deal with the lost/Satoshis coins, proposals are available, to get consensus on that it will be a controversal discussion.
Not that I'm doubting BTC will go to a million, but maybe find a more credible person to quote?
I recall reading a ton of comments like that back in April, as a bunch of geniuses bragged about selling BTC at 83-85k after the bounce from the month's low. Something about "dead cat bounce, we're still going down to 50k soon". Trying to swing-trade to scoop up percent-swings (even if you *aren't* getting destroyed by fees from the back & forth) is also a good way to get completely left in the dust.
Depends mostly on how you secure your BTC or store your gold. They are both solid options, but I think the chances that some random dude is fucking up his BTC storage is higher than he fucking up his gold storage.
Crypto is so absolutely dead that BTC Barts that used to last for a day or two now only last two or three minutes.
tldr; Speculation about Venezuela owning a large Bitcoin reserve, reportedly 600,000 BTC, lacks evidence. Blockchain forensics firms and experts have found no proof of a centralized government Bitcoin stockpile. While Venezuela has embraced crypto due to hyperinflation, with citizens using Bitcoin and stablecoins as a hedge and engaging in mining, the idea of a secret government Bitcoin treasury remains unverified. The country's crypto involvement is more fragmented and opportunistic rather than a deliberate accumulation of sovereign reserves. *This summary is auto generated by a bot and not meant to replace reading the original article. As always, DYOR.
Everything everyone has is fiat denominated. All the eggs. Except BTC.
Why do you need to heat water to mine BTC?
If you look at the charts, BTC and ETH are still in a bullish trend. Almost every single other coin in existence was basically in a bear market for the past year.
There are only around 2500 transactions per block. These few transactions do have to pay for all the hash BTC wants to have. For now, nobody is willing to pay these fees. BTCs fee market (that is actually an auction) has failed for now.
1. How is 1 BTC a small amount? 2. Why the fuck would you need an email or to involve Blockchain.com if you have the private key? Recover the yourself by importing the private key on literally any compatible bitcoin wallet.
So you have all the information yet you still keep coming back as if you are proving me somehow wrong. So if the information that equals "total surveillance" comes from exchanges that has peoples taxpayer information (only from jurisdictions that has that law and ONLY from the period that crypto was purchased from said exchanges since KYC has come into effect that last few years) then please explain to me how that is TOTAL surveillance? They have surveillance on CEX's that abide by their laws in their regions, but that does not equal TOTAL surveillance over crypto. If you had BTC sitting in a wallet from 10 years ago they do not suddenly know who owns it. That is my point, yet you seem to be arguing that because a new law has come into effect that this is the case, which is just flat out incorrect. Yet you seem to persist with some admirable chest for someone not understanding the point.
There are a lot of different scams people run, I can’t say exactly their plan, but anyone saying ‘oh I just have this small amount of 1 BTC that I can’t access’ is clearly running something. Could be something where they try to steal your identity/credentials in the process of ‘accessing’ their account. Could be something where they say ‘oh I need some small amount to verify my identity or do a test transaction, then we can split the BTC I get.’ Could be as simple as getting a conversation started with a vulnerable noob who gives up key info or money down the line. Either way the situation is a red flag the size of a building and everyone should stay away.
1. Unlocks are not new units increasing supply. These units already exist in the total supply count. They are generally actively traded in locked states, and considered when determining value of any chain or even company. 2. A cap to supply means nothing when the majority of L1s exist to produce revenue. You can have a *decreasing* total supply on a chain with no supply cap that infinitely prints new coins. 3. Emissions that increase total supply can be seen as negative inflation. Inflation that transfers value away from existing asset holders through dilution. **Unless**, emissions go back to the asset holders themselves. New emissions on a chain like Solana or Ethereum is *not* the same as inflation like USD experiences, because the emissions are sent to the staked asset holders themselves. If you are the one receiving the new emissions. You aren't being diluted. Unlike when USD gets printed. You, as a USD holder, won't receive that newly minted USD. 4. Bitcoin is different from the model of most chains. It exists as currency. You can not capture revenue by holding BTC. It does not act like a stock, does not target value capture and or try to transfer that value capture to base asset holders. It's max cap to supply is more meaningful because the asset literally does nothing but exist as a currency. There needs to be a cap or dilution for holders. 5. It's more important to understand supply dynamics than simply checking if something has a cap. Pretend Hyperliquid had no cap to supply and continued to inflate at 1% per year forever off initial supply count, but those emissions went back to HYPE stakers. **You**, as the HYPE stakers/long term holder, will receive that 1% inflation back in full. A net wash. At the same time, the chain is generating more in revenue which causes more buybacks and burns than emissions can even mint. This means: You're holding an asset that's **NOT** diluting your ownership **while** the total supply of HYPE is going **down** every year. Occurs even though the chain has no max cap and continues to mint new HYPE. Max cap by itself is meaningless. Especially, when most POS models send any new emissions right back to the holders, like you. Instead you look at: - Cap - Yearly emissions and if those emissions get sent back to all long term holders through mechanisms like staking or if only sent to a privileged wealthy minority such as Bitcoin miners (A minority that technically doesn't even need to hold the asset). - Chain revenue & how that revenue is distributed. - Chain revenue that is used to decrease total supply through burns. It's not about caps. It's about your ownership over network not being diluted while the L1 uses revenue to decrease supply and or distributes that revenue to you.
As a beginner with 130 bucks, I’d keep expectations low on quick profits. Short-term trades are basically gambling, especially if you’re new. BTC and ETH are slower but way more predictable long term. SOL can move fast, but it also drops hard, so be ready for that. If you do pick SOL, maybe just park it and learn instead of trading. Also once you’re not using an exchange anymore, a simple wallet helps, I use Solflare for SOL stuff since it’s pretty straightforward. Main advice is don’t rush, treat this first buy as tuition, not a money printer.
your going to be at it for a long time that way. I learned that you have to go hard in the paint and I mean hard. That means way more than 70 bucks a day. Your going to have to put a check or two a month into sats. it's going to take building up your conviction, your discipline, and if your not carrying any debt ,possibly taking some on to do so. I am in no way trying to discourage you. Just as someone who makes 80 -100,000 a year and carried no debt before I started my journey to 1 BTC . I think I have an idea what it takes. I started in 2024 because the Blackrock etfs helped set my conviction into stone. and I never looked back. no flower, no eating out no more waste. just discipline that has only made me stronger. I did take on a personal loan to stack hard when we had a nice retracement in 2025. this allowed me to gain sats at a price that I didn't believe we would be at in the future. Go hard my dude. Stack sats and save on the block chain. it's the boycott of all boycotts. Its an act of non violent civil disobedience that you can do while taking a shit. SATYAGRAHA!
I am not OP, but for my education, how would be the scam work here? OP selling his wallet ID for real money? Or trying to route his BTC through my wallet somehow?
The revenue is up simply because the price happened to be up later in the year. Now BTC price is down, so the miners will make less money, probably will show losses galore for 4Q
XEQT or IVV and chill + some BTC and you’ll be fine bro
BTC increases in supply at roughly a 1% annual rate...so if demand/adoption increases at say 2% or more annual rate, right there is the supply/demand imbalance, that should cause the price to rise over the years. Not only that, said rise will cause a positive feedback loop, so demand may rise at not 2% annually, but maybe close to 5% or more annually...now we have a rocket ship.
since you asked "how": Spot crypto ETFs (like Morgan Stanley's BTC, ETH, and SOL) directly hold the actual cryptocurrency. The trust buys and custodies real Bitcoin/Ether/Solana on behalf of shareholders. so when trillions in institutional money flows into these ETFs (hello morgan stanley's client base + advisors recommending allocations), they have to go out and buy massive amounts of the underlying asset to back the shares. that's direct buying pressure on the spot market which means institutions "wanting in" by accumulating YOUR favorite coins at scale. which also now adds real selling pressure during bearish periods, and of course with the billions of value these banks and ETFs now hold (BTC ETFs alone at \~$120B), their effect on the market is way more amplified than retail ever was.
Remain in denial then, it only hurts you... and BTC.
A ‘small amount’ of 1 BTC? You should at least update your scam description to a more believable number given current prices if you’re going to try to pull it off
Bitcoin is still way overvalued, since no one uses it for anything anymore besides speculation. It's been crippled by banks and the core devs and other cryptos have taken over the actual original purpose of BTC (fungible digital cash).
I'd never leverage myself in a way that could create a margin call on my BTC stack. Doing so could set me back a decade. What I have done is get leveraged using secured loans (401K/Home Equity) that can't be called. This of course requires the cash flow to service the loan. Another idea would be to pickup some MSTR shares, and let Saylor & his team manage their debts and grow BTC per share.
Post is by: Animalverse and the url/text [ ](https://goo.gl/GP6ppk)is: https://animalverse.social/community/p/29691/ Satoshi Nakamoto remains the largest Bitcoin holder with ~968K $BTC (4.6% of supply), followed by Strategy at 672K $BTC and the United States at 328K $BTC. https://animalverse.social/community/p/29691/ *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.*
Post is by: peter7goat and the url/text [ ](https://goo.gl/GP6ppk)is: /r/CryptoMarkets/comments/1q7rdc4/my_profit_or_loss_trading_crypto_2022_to_2025/ I’ve been involved in crypto trading and investing since 2022, and honestly, the journey hasn’t been pretty, at least not at the beginning. I came into crypto like a lot of people: excitement, big expectations, and way too much confidence for someone who didn’t really understand the market yet. I thought watching price charts for a few weeks and reading Twitter was “research.” Spoiler: it wasn’t. 2022–2024: Learning the Hard Way 2022 was mostly random trades, FOMO entries, panic selling, and holding bags longer than I should’ve. I didn’t track things properly, but I knew I wasn’t doing great. 2023 was when the losses became very real. I finished that year down around $12,000. Some examples: Bought SOL at ~$38, sold at $24 out of fear Bought APE at ~$5.20, watched it bleed, sold around $2.90 Overtraded futures without proper risk management (huge mistake) 2024 somehow managed to be even worse. I ended the year down another $15,000. This was mostly because: I kept chasing pumps I didn’t stick to stop losses I traded emotionally instead of logically At that point, I seriously questioned if crypto just “wasn’t for me.” 2025: The Turning Point 2025 is the first year I actually became profitable, and the difference wasn’t luck — it was education and discipline. At the start of 2025, I made a decision: either I take this seriously, or I stop completely. I started actually studying crypto: Watching podcasts almost daily YouTube videos focused on market structure, risk management, and psychology Reading articles and researching projects before investing Journaling my trades (wins and losses) From March 2025, I also subscribed to Salvatore Crypto Signals. The signals themselves were solid, but honestly, the biggest value for me was education. I used their 24/7 customer support constantly asking about setups, why a trade worked or failed, how to manage risk, and even basic crypto questions. It genuinely felt like having a private crypto mentor, and that changed everything. Some 2025 Trades That Made the Difference Here are a few actual examples: Bought BTC at ~$41,800, sold at $53,200 Bought ETH at ~$2,250, sold at $3,450 Bought SOL at ~$62, sold at $118 Smaller alt trades with strict stop losses instead of “hoping” I stopped trying to get rich overnight and focused on consistency. I risked less per trade, stopped revenge trading, and accepted losses quickly instead of letting them destroy my account. The Result By the end of 2025, I finished up $26,000. After being down for three years straight, that number meant more to me mentally than financially. It proved that I wasn’t just gambling anymore, I was actually trading. *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.*
nobody knows what will happen. For price to fall, there will have to be some bad news, like Strategy liquidating, or another major exchange folding. Likewise, rapid growth will require some positive news, like new legislation or acceptance by some large corporation (e.g. Vanguard ETF or Amazon accepting payments in BTC).
The Bitcoin design mattered. BTC’s current trajectory prioritized price and custody over usage and incentives. That is where the divergence happened. Monero would not exist without the groundwork Bitcoin laid, but it is carrying forward the parts BTC left behind.
I think it did change the world! And Monero is carrying on the legacy Bitcoin started. Money that no state can control. I'm not certain that Gawker one was the article for me, but I found out about BTC in a similar way. Changed my life completely, and I've never used illegal drugs or a DN market in my life.
This article is how I found out about bitcoin. https://web.archive.org/web/20160407165324/http://gawker.com/the-underground-website-where-you-can-buy-any-drug-imag-30818160 The good old days. BTC could have changed the world.
If you’re just starting with $130, focus more on learning than chasing quick gains. Want “safer” large caps → BTC is the simplest long-term hold, ETH adds smart-contract exposure, SOL has higher upside but also higher volatility, so expect bigger swings. Don’t invest money you might need soon and don’t expect fast profit. Pick one or two, hold, and keep adding slowly. Whatever you buy, use a reputable exchange to purchase and then consider moving to a self-custody wallet for storage (something like Solflare is beginner-friendly). Biggest rule: avoid meme coins, avoid leverage, and only invest what you can afford to forget about for a while
Hi! I see a lot of people advocating for dollar-cost averaging (DCA) in Bitcoin and a lot of opinions that the market is unpredictable. I'm not saying they're wrong! DCA works and the market can be unpredictable, however, I still believe that Bitcoin is cyclical and that we're in a bear market until after the summer of this year. I follow Benjamin Cowen's thesis, you can find it on YouTube. He himself says he could be wrong and that things could change this time, however, there are many factors that point to his thesis that BTC is still cyclical being correct. Purchase price? I couldn't tell you how low Bitcoin will go. I personally am going to try to wait until it drops to 60k and then get my first 0.1 BTC. There's nothing wrong with trying to predict the market. If you manage to buy the dip, you can profit greatly. Good luck ❤️
A Bank can change their central cyphers and algorithms in a day If they want. BTC needs a hard fork that the majority of miners will back. And everyone needs to convert their wallet afterwards. As soon as a wallet with old encryption ist compromiseable anyone can update it into "their" new one, and the former owner lost the content, can not get them back and cannot even prove it was once his in the first place. With a bank, the stolen bank account contents can be reverted, new access or new cards can be issued to the known, provable former customer. Despite a inherently unsafe four digit pin you usually need a card as well to compromise a bank acccount. Or a signature on a cheque or bank transfer order. Other than in BTCs case, a once compromised access to a bank account is not game over. Which means dormant wallets will most likely be problematic, but anyone elses wallets that have not been switched over to the new, quantum safe fork by the time attacking the algorithms becomes feasible are likely gone as well.
Is there such a thing as over-investing in BTC 😏
Yes. Stablecoins suit their needs better than BTC.
Hi guys, You can nou get €50 free in BTC at Bitvavo as a welcome bonus, you can use mine code! Use the code FD4201FED4. Happy trading! 🚀
I'm not very techy yes but how am I confused. If there is no max supply, the guys running the chain can always mind new tokens. One of the main reasons why BTC grew so big was exactly the 21 Mio Cap argument!
Dude, that makes no sense at all. What you described is not the whole purpose. The whole purpose for me is to make an investment decision that produces yield higher than the S&P 500 over time while mitigating risk while knowingly being in a risky asset. Also, I highly doubt Black Rock will make the wrong decision and choose the wrong path if BTC forks or something for whatever reason (if that is what you are saying). Of course no system is perfect and I'm not a huge fan of Black Rock but I am a pragmatist.
BTC is literally sideways and rangebound for a while now. The market doesn't feel either bullish or bearish to me lol If I had to guess, I would say most folks are just bored and don't know what to talk about
Update: Pay1040 was going to charge me the "Paying by commercial credit or debit card" fee 2.89% rather than the usual 1.75% when using the Coinbase One American Express card. I used ACI Payments instead, which charged their normal 1.85% fee. Coinbase sent a notification stating I'd get the full BTC reward.
Good lord lol, these dailies get flooded by so much overwhelmingly-bearish garbage on a day that BTC only had a 2% trading range from the last closing, and is barely -0.5%. It's honestly sad how bleak & doomish some people are in here... though more than a few of them **only** show up on days that are even marginally red, as if spreading doom & gloom is their only hobby. *This is a normal trading range*. Plenty of assets like stocks can fluctuate 2-5% in a single day, and do so nearly *every day*. Stop looking as though a green day means "it's only up from here!" and a red day means "it's all been a fakeout after all, crash incoming."
For the record, [it appears to be over now.](https://www.paypal.com/us/campaign/cryptosweepsterms) I just hate connecting contests or the like to BTC because it just encourages gullible people to get scammed when bad actors imitate the legitimate events.
Kraken also has had and continues to do bitcoin sweepstakes "From Dec. 4-Jan. 5, every eligible client who opts in and trades $1 (or its equivalent in another currency) will earn one sweepstakes entry to win 3 BTC." [https://blog.kraken.com/product/promotions/win-3-bitcoins-holiday-2025](https://blog.kraken.com/product/promotions/win-3-bitcoins-holiday-2025)
The ATH question and the TradFi integration concern are kind of separate things and I'd push back on linking them too directly. On the ATH question, nobody knows. Anyone claiming certainty about BTC price in 2026 is selling you something. The macro setup with potential rate cuts, ETF flows maturing, and post-halving supply dynamics all point toward bullish conditions, but crypto has a way of doing the opposite of whatever seems obvious. Our clients doing portfolio work treat BTC price predictions as entertainment, not analysis. The TradFi integration trend you're describing is interesting but I don't think it's a liquidity drain concern. If anything it's the opposite. Exchanges offering stocks and gold are trying to capture wallet share from people who would otherwise move funds off-platform to trade those assets elsewhere. They're keeping users in the ecosystem rather than losing them to Robinhood or traditional brokers. The money wasn't going to sit in BTC anyway, it was going to leave. The narrative dilution argument is more philosophical. Yeah, Bitcoin started as an alternative to traditional finance and now exchanges are becoming one-stop shops that include TradFi. But Bitcoin's value proposition doesn't depend on exchanges being crypto-purist. It depends on Bitcoin's own properties, the fixed supply, censorship resistance, settlement finality. Those don't change because Bitget lets you trade gold. What I'd actually watch is institutional allocation trends and on-chain accumulation patterns, not exchange product roadmaps. The people moving serious capital into BTC aren't doing it through the same platforms retail uses for gold speculation. The maturity framing is probably right. Early crypto was ideological, current crypto is financial infrastructure. That's just how adoption works.
Both, but mostly leverage risk compounding overconfidence. The "insider" reputation thing is dangerous because it creates a feedback loop. Guy makes some good calls, builds a following, starts believing his own narrative about having an edge. Then he sizes positions based on conviction rather than risk parameters. Works until it doesn't, and when it doesn't the leverage makes the loss catastrophic instead of manageable. The actual lesson isn't that insiders don't exist or that information edges are fake. Some people genuinely do have better information or pattern recognition. The lesson is that even a real edge doesn't mean every trade wins, and position sizing has to account for being wrong regardless of how confident you feel. What I've seen with our clients doing quantitative work is that the best traders are almost boringly mechanical about risk. They'll have strong views but the position size is determined by volatility and max drawdown tolerance, not by how sure they feel. The "I'm confident so I'll size up" mentality is how you blow up accounts even with a genuine edge. Crypto specifically punishes this harder than traditional markets because the volatility is insane and liquidation cascades can move price against you way past your stop. A position that would be reasonable in equities becomes suicide with the same leverage on BTC during a volatile week. The narrative thing is real too though. People convince themselves the market "has to" go a certain direction because of halvings or ETF flows or whatever, and they forget that markets can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent. Price doesn't care about your thesis being eventually correct if you get liquidated before it plays out.
This is the most likely death spiral for BTC. Rewards don’t have to go to zero, they tend to zero over time. And transaction rates are so low due to it not being a currency that fees will have to be so high that it will only reduce transactions further. Ultimately miners don’t care about BTC they just want to make money. And so they go out of business or move to something else, maybe even AI data centres. Without them the network dies.
Sure - every Technology will have issues, centralized banks as well as decentralized blockchains. I think BTC has a good migration path with BIP360, tricky part will be to come to consensus on what to do with Satoshis/lost coins, interesting to follow the discussions on that in the next months
BTC halvening was in 2024. Next one is 2028. 4 year cycle
For me, I want to have options for any possible senerio. I like BTC becuase as an asset it had performed well and i believe that it will continue to do well. Id like to have a cash stash for buying dips and situations where you need liquidity. USD is not as strong and on the way out. But its sti viable medium of exchange. You are right though, it is wild.
A religion is a belief system that, among other problems, causes its adherents to act irrationally and get upset and lash out defensively when the belief system is critcized... so here we are. >But what is this ‘desired state’ you speak of? Can you articulate? No, because an ideal state cannot be described, as reaching an ideal state is impossible. Any improvement is an increment *towards* an ideal, not the ideal itself. If we attempt to describe an ideal, time reveals that the description is flawed in some way. By asking me to "describe an ideal" you're asking me to predict the exact challenges BTC will face in the future that will cause it to fail. That's not possible, because those challenges and that future state are not realized yet. But improvement can be described. That BTC has a group of maintainers and has code updates just proves my point, that BTC *is not* the end state - if it were, it wouldn't need to be touched. Let go of your religious beliefs about BTC, they cloud your reasoning.
You’ve read an awful lot into my ‘bollocks’ there. BTC will be superseded one day but doubtful (in my view) in our lifetimes. But what is this ‘desired state’ you speak of? Can you articulate? But your assessment of its problems and likening it to religion it what caused my outburst. So yes, bollocks, but not for the reasons you insinuate. Over…
Eth still above 3k BTC still above 90k everything’s fine this is fine
> I believe a select few of us will still be around only if BTC money help them growing immortal
I think so, we're currently rising to 100k before falling again. I'm already preparing with cash to buy BTC and maybe some altcoins.
Bringing a whole new meaning to 'Proof of Work.' It’s great to see fitness apps integrating actual BTC rewards instead of just internal tokens.
Apparently you are young and no experienced in investing. If you continue, you'll get more experience and will learn some lessons. If $3k is all you have to invest, sure, but it into Bitcoin and forget about it. If you and going to continue investing as a life long activity then you want some diversification. Think in terms of maybe something like QQQ, BTC, some in a money market and a house one day, at a minimum.
You should have other assets. Precious metals, stocks, real estate. Don't put all your money in BTC.
I buy every Wednesday night through CashApp. If you set up direct deposit with them you can put a % of your check for ZERO FEE’s!!! This is how I DCA. I will buy BTC through an exchange if there are there are big dips. Other than that, I don’t worry about the price. Just keep stacking😎
Nah, we started with 1000 BTC , currently with 1 BTC….
By true adoption I believe he means for BTC to be used like standard legal tender to buy and sell everyday things and services like we do today with credit/debit or even easier hopefully. Right now it is not there yet and it’s only used/utilized as he described.
No new ATH for BTC tho this year. Alt pump for a little while more while big daddy tops soon
BTC is no longer falling to 60 units, that's over.
Great, then I can enter again to buy all BTC
definitely yes.. BTC has no ceiling as long as fiat has no bottom. the fed is warming up their printing machine..
It's really great, I'm so happy!!! So many people are still thinking about diversifying into fiat products!!! That tells me I'm very early with BTC... early with Bitcoin!!! People, everything can be multiplied indefinitely, the stocks, the SX, everything rises just because inflation is rising!!! Fiat is worthless and infinitely expandable, everything, really everything. Gold and silver are still 90% in the ground... Bitcoin is limited to 21 million... If you're really scared, buy a house and a few toys, the rest in 99% BTC, 1% ETH, SOL, and BNB. You'll all get as much money as you need!!!
Elon already has BTC nodes in spaced on satellites sucking direct solar power. Wait till that news comes out.
CAGR would be 59% by 2030. BTC has beaten that 1/2 the years so not even remotely impossible. Improbable maybe.
I retired year ago and had to cut my every Friday morning BTC buy in half. So I did. Still stacking and still sleeping sound at night. I understand the temptation, but all you can do now is resume the regular purchase plan and move on.
Why would you resort to emotion with BTC. Just go look up the facts. This is a dumb post.
It’s on track for 450-500k in 2030 and 1M in 2033. Anyone that says hopium doesn’t understand crypto markets and what’s currently happening. Look up the CAGR for BTC and you’ll see it has beaten the market since inception. The longer you wait, the further behind you’ll be.
1 million BTC maybe in 2045 or something
Kraken's GOLD bundle - 50, 50 BTC and GOLD Check out GOLD bundle on Kraken! https://invite.kraken.com/JDNW/owtlmnsf
Oh, so nothing can ever be better than BTC in any way, for any reason? It will never be surpassed? What an interesting claim.
# Key Insights from the Cryptocurrency Market Report * **Bitcoin (BTC)** maintains its dominance with a market cap of **$1.79 trillion**, despite a **2.37%** price drop in the last 24 hours. * **Ethereum (ETH)** faces a **3.63%** decline, with net ETF outflows of **-$98.3 million**, indicating cautious investor sentiment. * **Solana (SOL)** shows rising interest in derivatives with a **1.92%** increase in open interest, even amidst a **3.06%** price decrease. **Explore insights on Bitcoin, Ethereum, Solana, and more!** [Report](https://askfocal.com/focal/workflows/reports/13933?is_legacy_report=false&utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=organic&utm_campaign=marketintelligence&utm_content=mi-0108)
>You can pick any stock that did better you want, but that's only relevant if you actually bought that stock at the right time Also, "only quadrupled" assumes you bought BTC at the exact wrong time in 2017 and at no other point in between.
I’ve been full port BTC for almost a decade. No regrets. It’s like we’re investing in the internet or cell phones in the 90’s. There’s SO much upside long term. I feel 100% comfortable because I fully understand the tech behind it, educate yourself if you’re unsure. If you want to make crazy money fast, BTC may or may not work for you. If you want a space to save long term that guarantees amazing returns, it’s definitely the best option IMO
If you stick to BTC it’s good for me too
Most those assets in that list will have higher market caps aswell in 5-10 years, I think 1m BTC will take more than 5 even 10 years but it will get there, it doesn’t even necessarily need to overtake anything there just needs to be more USD in circulation
You don’t sound dumb at all — this is a very normal question. What you’re seeing is usually a mix of **liquidity loosening + risk-on sentiment**. When BTC and ETH start moving, money often rotates into alts, so it *feels* like “everything is pumping at once.” The tricky part is that **price going up ≠ good entry**. A lot of people lose money by buying simply because things are green. If you’re unsure, learning *while* being lightly exposed is often better than going all-in or staying completely out. Holding small amounts of ETH is already a solid way to learn how cycles and volatility feel in real time. Instead of asking “what coin should I buy,” it can help to ask: * What problem does this project solve? * Does it have real users or revenue? * Is it infrastructure, an app, or just hype? There’s no rush. Markets will always give you another opportunity. Protecting capital matters more than catching every pump.
Exactly. Many just assume that BTC is the only option people can choose. It might be one day but that’s not how a lot of investors see it right now. Shhh, don’t mention gold…