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What if institutional owners buy almost all Bitcoin (let's 99%) from individuals one day?
Crypto trading bots are not popular anymore, why not?
Been DCAing into Bitcoin daily since the December dip how’s everyone else doing?
Metaplanet bought another 1,000 BTC and become 2nd largest corporate Bitcoin holder with 44,000 BTC in total holdings
is it possible Satoshis wallet was designed so no BTC can be transferred out of it?
Trump just said "he's gonna inflate away the US national debt". No one owns enough BTC
What are your expectations for the next alt season? Are we gonna make up for the lack of one last cycle? Is it gonna be a specific niche? Or is it gonna get even more disappointing?
Bought BTC at $109k and feeling the boredom. What's your long term strategy right now?
AI +8.7%, memes green, low caps starting to move, what are you watching?”
Built a model to predict $100+ BTC moves for Kalshi hourly contracts. Backtests look good, so what am I missing?
The BTC Power Law Curve from Beginning to 10/1/2026
I wanna know everyone's luckiest and unluckiest BTC experiences
Since somebody just posted a completely completely wrong list of past halvening cycle highs and lows, I decided to ask Chat GPT to give the real numbers. Here they are.
Bitcoin’s narrative may be flipping - its about time
Redone BTC Power Curve Using Data up to 2020 for the Confidence and Prediction Intervals as Requested
We opened a bar in Vilnius where you can only pay in crypto. Lightning works. No cards, no cash
I generated hundreds of crypto trading strategies and open-sourced 416 of them with full reports. Only 10 passed a brutal 7-stage validation
BTC is at $76K right now. Can it get back to $100K by Christmas?
Buckle up boys, rocket ship incoming!!! (I sold)
Advice for starting a long-term investment
Why is the IMF obsessed with El Salvador not adopting Bitcoin? They previously forbade them from making it legal tender, accepting tax payments in BTC and from using their government-sponsored BTC wallet, amongst other things.
The truth of Bitcoin & the cryptospace as a whole right now!
For 7 hours and 41 minutes in March 2013 the Bitcoin network was split in two
Properly getting into Bitcoin — where do I even start? 😂
I tracked a full week of Bitcoin mining with 200+ TH/s — here’s what surprised me most
Next week we're publishing the list of everything Bitcoin has been "called" that turned out wrong (Ponzi, tulips, only for drugs, boils the oceans). What are we missing?
Update on my weekly NEXO/USDT technical analysis
what is BTC doing wrong ? why dont they fill the whole block first and then calculate the merkle tree
Strategy Acquires 1,665 BTC and Repurchases $152 Million of STRC
Bitget Resumes Withdrawals In Phases After Security Incident
$100 a week for a year buys about 0.063 BTC. For that to be worth $1M, Bitcoin needs to hit ~$16M. So why do people stack small?
What are you guys doing right now with the crypto market?
Discussion: Best exchanges for buying BTC and your preferred wallets?
bitcoin is in the midst of an aggressive uptrend when priced in gold, its only true competitor
A clean, fast Bitcoin-only dashboard — no altcoins, no signup, always free
I built Visualize Bitcoin: Bitcoin explained as a live 3D machine you can walk through
Poor Canadian Retiree - I would like your thoughts.
Built a small Chrome extension to check BTC and other altcoins without opening another site
Bitcoin is up 38% since Jim Cramer said he was selling. On August 3, 2026, Cramer said he was selling his Bitcoin over quantum computing fears. BTC was trading around $63,000. It has since surged to $87,000, a gain of $24,000 over the past 49 days.
Ledger Nano X Was Offline for Over Six Months — Yet My BTC Was Still Transferred Out Ledger Could Not Tell Me Which Device Signed the Transaction
Technical analysis actually works
Uptober: BTC has closed green in 10 of the last 13 Octobers. But we've got a potential Fed hike on Oct 27 and 10Y yields over 5%. Does the pattern hold this year?
Bitcoin is (again) running ahead of retail attention
Bitcoin art built on Bosch's Garden of Earthly Delights
"Shielded Bitcoin" Whitepaper just legitimized Zcash as a threat to Bitcoin
Is your BTC actually accessible to your family, or just theoretically theirs?
If one wanted to convert their BTC into ETH, is there a difference using CEX like Coinbase vs doing it on a DEX for tax reasons?
Your "fair share" of Bitcoin cost about $323 at the October peak. Today it's about $215. Same 256,000 sats.
Looking for help recovering an old Hotmail account and an old Bitcoin wallet (2009–2011)
I think I was hit by a scam on Electrum that I have never seen before
Complete beginner. Want to learn crypto trading but terrified of losing money. Where do I even start?
Only 20 of the top 50 alts have beaten BTC over the last 90 days, so I don't think this is altseason yet.
I bought BTC and ETH very early. Then I discovered leverage and gave it all back.
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That will only ever be attempted once it's common sense that Bitcoin is the default savings mechanism. At that point, the individual person needs to refuse to work for any currency except BTC. Once these institutional investors begin to think about cleaning their own homes, fixing their own cars, or doing their own taxes, that's when 2nd wave of distribution begins.
He’ll ‘make money’ in year 3, but the problem with this approach is that he’ll miss out on the opportunity to deploy that capital to simply buying BTC at what will most likely be a lower cost (today) than the average cost of mining it through that 27 month period.
>BTC centralization Mate, **your solution brings centralization and eventually a capture of Bitcoin**.
It will take a minimum of 27 months (that’s the ‘kind’ calculation tbh) to pay off your capital costs (8.7k), assuming rising difficulty which roughly doubles over a two-year period, and not including any downtime hours and repair costs, so let’s assume 29 months at the minimum. So it’s going to be a long time before you’re in profit, and when you do get there that profit line will descend every month from then onwards. The price you bought them at is ok, but simply buying BTC would probably have been a most efficient use of time and money as it is with solo mining 95% of the time.
Would be better off buying BTC but this sounds like a hobby to me. So enjoy that you are generating income with your hobby.
the criteria are solid but "market sentiment & narrative" is doing a lot of heavy lifting here, that factor alone can move a coin two tiers in a cycle. curious what made you bump ETH to B+ after the fact, was it a tokenomics thing or just the BTC pair chart looking less rough.
Governments will collect the BTC through excise taxes, sales taxes, VATs, tariffs, fines, anywhere they can establish choke points in the physical world.
Or individuals will put their BTC into institutional custody to make sure their families can get it.
Short term, whether you’re trading BTC, Apple, Nvidia, Walmart, or some shotcoin, you can be right but also lose money. Think some macro event or announcement could happen in your favor, well markers can stay dumb longer than you think. Only play the long term. BTC goes up because people have been fleeing fiat money for decades and it’s getting increasingly bad.
Surely BTC holders are not motivated by the latter!
Bears get $30k BTC tomorrow! Wow! so smart. Very big brain 😩
ETH right this minute has half the price of BTC
people probably bought the top of BTC like four times last weeks and are now angry
I frame investment decisions based on investment portfolio % i.e. I'm comfortable with 5-10% BTC exposure
At least he didn’t sell the bottom of BTC
Then do a comparison of BTC one year ago and today! These types of comparison is ridiculous.
I think the trend will continue...or BTC has bottomed earlier this cycle than all the other cycles
Many things wrong with this post. There are valid imperfections with BTC. To write off anything that's at any point in time been mentioned by a group you overall don't agree with, is vastly unproductive. Don't you realize that the reason the knots campaign had any success at all is because it played on real grievances? real issues? Their solution and execution were not good and proper, again why I no longer support it. But to write off any ideas of BTC centralization because it was said by someone you disagree with is just playing politics. See further than the political cultish game you're so indoctrinated into. I came into this sub with this post to generate honest innovative discussion and its mostly just been salty folks attacking anything I've said. While I've maintained a neutral stance here. Anyways. As long as this attitude prevails, there will one day be a massive issue for Bitcoin. As I've aggresively learned about BTC over the last couple of years, I've seen how it was in the early days. You can go back and review the forum posts. They're still there. Technical discussions, philosophical discussions, honest discourse, all with good intent to make a sound product. Apparently those days are over. And if so, this crowd is just as cooked as the Knots crowd. It seems you're no better than the ones you despise.
So where do we count Sats in all this? We Stack Sats, that’s the unit of measure for your average holder, because most don’t even have a single BTC
If you send it all to another address today and then do absolutely nothing until the day you need it, how exactly do you get taxed on BTC in a hardware wallet? If someone sends BTC to a hardware wallet address for their kids, then gives that seed phrase to their adult child that knows how to manage crypto assets very well, because you taught them, then how does a government in the future tax that?
Ok well I personally don't beleive in a scenario where essentially all the BTC is owned buy just institutions hoarding it. Also, that’s the part that doesn’t follow. Owning the supply doesn’t eliminate demand. Demand comes from anyone who wants BTC but doesn’t currently own it, including other institutions, companies, governments, funds, or individuals. If 99.99% is already held and not for sale, that means the available supply is tiny. If anyone still wants Bitcoin, they have to bid for that tiny amount. The price only collapses if nobody wants Bitcoin anymore, and that’s a completely separate assumption.
What price would BTC be at if that happened 🤔
I can recommend Bitbox02 BTC-only edition.
BTC bull run starts in 7-10 days from now. Don't fomo
False idols? I don't know I would love to have nearly that much BTC lol
True, but scarcity alone doesn't tell you where BTC goes next. My publicly available rule-based tracker focuses on market regime instead, which I find much more useful for shorter-term context.
95% of BTC was mined in 17 November 2025.
I’d watch BTC more than SOL itself here. My publicly available rule-based system only tracks BTC/ETH/BNB, but regime usually matters more than guessing one exact SOL level.
lol what in the heck is going on. Equities and bonds going crazy. Inflation still sticky. I agree, own more BTC! Feels like the right hedge!
Let's be honest, we'd go back to 2009, buy 10,000 BTC and sell it all at $10 in 2011 feeling like geniuses
It’s a graph of BTC value over time with a rainbow over it. It’s completely meaningless and has zero predictive value.
From 2013? Now if you had 32 BTC from today, but back then it was worth nothing.
I’m more curious to see whether this actually turns into a regime shift than whether $87k simply breaks. I’ve been tracking BTC with my own rule-based regime system, so transitions like this are the interesting part for me. Price targets are easy to make; seeing whether the underlying market state actually changes is more useful.
So what happens when the miners all turnoff for BTC? Electricity is getting expensive and it’s getting more lucrative to data mine for AI(SI).
Just open a company and place the BTC inside. It will avoid the tax unrealized gains and it has more advantages. Like, you can invest it "agio", enabling you to withdraw it in the future without taxes (the amount you invested) and setup your childeren (if any) to be part of the company to avoid taxes when you die.
Post is by: woztrades and the url/text [ ](https://goo.gl/GP6ppk)is: /r/CryptoMarkets/comments/1wyf2z8/crypto_trading_bots_are_not_popular_anymore_why/ hey folks! I've seen a wide array of crypto trading bots, from bots that focus on a single exchange, to grid bots like the ones 3commas used to offer, to scammy orgs that sell "Bots That Work" for $50k one-time payment promising riches. Feels like these were 2017 era things. I also heard that 3commas has turned down their V1 platform. They raised like $30m+. So I'm curious, why are these bots less popular than they used to be? Has interest in crypto just waned or are people building their own in the age of AI? I don't use any crypto bots personally, just wanted to see what you guys think. Is everyone who's in now just hodling BTC? *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.*
I think it's horse shit to just flat out said it's not or is a bad store of value, it completely depends on how how plan to use it If you plan to store this value for 5/6 years before considering to use it, then BTC is not volatile, it would of always gained value. If you may need to use it within a year or two it's probably bad yea
as adoption is making more and more progress such OG values as decentralisation in no way translate to value anymore. I mean everyone was praying for BTC ETF lol. It's a joke.
I saw the opportunity to short, which is in profit and it's high probability BTC goes down to $83-$84k
Clearly not good since he has no BTC 🤣
Hope so. BTC can turn fast in either direction so I would rather see how the day develops than try to call it early. Anyone trading with leverage needs to keep size under control too, whether it is on Moon or anywhere else. Staying in the game matters more than getting one move right.
Post is by: Gold-Dog5999 and the url/text [ ](https://goo.gl/GP6ppk)is: /r/CryptoMarkets/comments/1wycf0t/analyzing_multitoken_dividend_yield_models_how/ Hey everyone, I’ve been looking into different tokenomics models that distribute real yield from platform revenue rather than relying on inflationary token emissions. One example I came across is BFG, the native token associated with BetFury. According to the project, a portion of platform revenue is distributed to BFG stakers in assets such as BTC, ETH, BNB and USDT. From a tokenomics perspective, I find the model interesting because it creates a different risk and reward structure compared with traditional DeFi staking. Non inflationary yield: The rewards are tied to platform activity rather than newly minted tokens that increase the overall supply. Multi asset rewards: Stakers can receive major crypto assets instead of receiving only the native token, which creates a different exposure profile. Locking versus liquidity: There is also an interesting tradeoff between locking BFG for higher potential rewards and maintaining liquidity during periods of high market volatility. I’m interested in hearing how people here evaluate this type of model purely from a tokenomics perspective. Do you prefer yield models based on platform revenue sharing or traditional proof of stake rewards? How sustainable do you think revenue based tokenomics are during extended bear markets? And what factors would you look at when deciding whether a platform backed yield model is sustainable over the long term? *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.*
I mean, the man did pull off one of the best trades in history with his 0 cost collar. That one trade garnered enough respect for him for me personally that I don't care that he sold BTC. He also bought it for about $5,500 a coin and sold it at over $70,000 a coin. He still made more than a 1,100% profit. That's a pretty far cry from "Worst investor of all time."
It has to be measured against something. The reason people buy BTC is because they think it will go up relative to USD. Universally almost everyone measures BTC against USD.
I had no problem selling my BTC for dollars to buy a house.
Ive been investing in BTC for quite some time and believe in its wealth creation like most, but to say you'll always win in the long run is wrong. No one knows.
Wait until you try to convert BTC back into dollars so can buy a house 😂
Will b more than his thanks to BTC
What they mean is that even if bitcoin is a perfect store of value, the economy that BTC is measured against still changes, and the relative value of BTC against the economy changes too.
Will 1.44 BTC meaningfully change this person's life? I hope so but I don't think so. Even if he only paid $1, it's still only $124,773.01 :( Sorry.
I’ve been doing it for years and yes you need to manage your LTV with good discipline. I do let it expand (sometimes as high as 60-75%) but I always keep a lot of dry powder. If BTC dips and you have a lot of cash set aside, you can just buy the dip and lower your LTV Easier said than done, but with the right discipline this has worked incredibly well for me
Pisses me off that people like Mark Cuban can be smart enough with money to become a multibillionaire but think it's a good idea to sell after BTC takes a 33% dip over less than a year. It's like if Jeff Gordon didn't know how to parallel park or something
If I had invested $100 every Monday into BTC for the last 6 years: 💰 Total invested: $31,400 ₿ accumulated: \~0.51 BTC 📈 Current value: \~$44,000 💵 Profit: \~$12,600 🚀 Return: \~40% Are we close?
That’s interesting. I’ve heard of people borrowing against BTC instead of selling, but I’d be worried about liquidation risk if BTC drops hard. Do you keep your loan-to-value really low when you do it?
That makes sense. I like the idea of having a target BTC allocation instead of just buying forever. Interesting that you’re shifting more toward MSTR for the short-term upside too. Hope you hit that magic number by the end of the month🔥🔥
I’ve been doing this for years. DCA’ing in combination with collateralized lending has made me fabulously wealthy in Bitcoin. DCA consistently and when you need cash, borrow against the BTC. Just stay patient and don’t lose your stack and you always win in the long run
I don't know for sure yet. I buy BTC and MSTR every month. My current plan is to stop buying BTC and instead continue buying MSTR with a significantly smaller amount, as I see more short-term upside potential there essentially, I want the smaller capital to work more effectively. My BTC holdings will be complete by the end of the month when I’ve reached my "magic number" and intend to hold those assets forever. I might add to my position during the next bear market, but not before then.
Bitcoin's price is determined at the margin by buyers/sellers in liquid markets, driven by liquidity conditions, regulation, ETF flows, leverage, sentiment etc.. A supply schedule variable can't capture any of that. It misses the demand side, which is hugely important for BTC. S2F models also work far better with assets that are consumable.
Appreciate it, I’m just trying to stay consistent. €5k a month is serious commitment I like that you increase your buys when BTC is cheaper too. Once BTC goes above $100k, are you planning to stop buying completely or just reduce the amount?
Because in the year 4591, IF a node still runs, 1 BTC will still be 1 BTC.
holders doesn't expect its going up forever. true OG doesnt. volatile is an additional advatages because if its too stagnant, its not good for newer people to get more value in terms of dollars. 1 BTC = 1 BTC we hold without really looking at price in term of usd every 4hr, we see decades, that's why DCA is introduced even by the early people in Bitcoin (development and stuff). Some are just too scared to hold something that is controlled by one entities or government. yes they can control it short term but the end always uncontrollable by my POV. "If you don't believe me or don't get it, I don't have time to try to convince you, sorry."
No one will give the opportunity to buy BTC under 60k
You must be fairly new to BTC? It could tank 20k next week and another the week after that
Are you able to travel? Able to get cash from credit card? Go to neighboring country pull cash start bank account. Or use a VPN start a cashapp or paypal. You can buy BTC on either of those and send to whatever crypto wallet you have.
Damn, sorry you had to deal with that. Taking care of yourself comes first BTC will always have another entry. Hope things are getting better for you now.
Post is by: barbosik007 and the url/text [ ](https://goo.gl/GP6ppk)is: /r/CryptoMarkets/comments/1wy928c/i_checked_every_150k_bitcoin_call_from_crypto/ Bitcoin's highest daily close this cycle was $124,659 on Oct 6, 2025. I went through transcripts of crypto YouTube videos and pulled every call where the speaker said BTC would reach $150k or more \\\*\\\*by a deadline they named themselves\\\*\\\* — "by the end of 2025", "this year", "in 12 months" and so on. Rules, so it's fair: \\- Only the speaker's own words. Quoting Tom Lee, Arthur Hayes, Peter Brandt or a "power law model" doesn't count. \\- No "if" calls ("if we break X, then 200k"). \\- Only calls whose own deadline has already passed. Result: \\\*\\\*32 calls from 13 channels. None hit.\\\*\\\* Median target: $200k. On Dec 31, 2025 BTC closed at about $87.6k. Channels with the most of them: | Channel | $150k+ calls due | Highest target | |---|---|---| | Crypto Zombie | 7 | $500k | | Crypto Love | 6 | $400k | | Carl (The Moon) | 5 | $300k | | VirtualBacon | 4 | $300k | | Crypto Hustle | 2 | $150k | One each: Crypto Casey ($200k), EllioTrades ($160k), InvestAnswers ($276k), Michaël van de Poppe ($250k), Bitcoin Daily ($200k), Rob Wallace ($200k), Financial Freedom ($200k), Ben Simpson ($150k). A few in their own words: \\- "My average target for Bitcoin by the end of 2025 is about $200,000 per coin." (Nov 2024) \\- "We could easily see the price of Bitcoin double to $200k just this year in 2025." (Jul 2025) \\- "And I believe this year, Bitcoin will go to $300,000, maybe even $500,000." (May 2025) It's not over: 16 more $150k+ calls have deadlines before the end of 2026 (median target $190k). BTC is around $86.1k today, so it needs +74% to reach the lowest of them. Not saying nobody can call tops — some channels did call the drop (that's in the same dataset). Just that "150k by year end" was the consensus on YouTube, and the consensus was wrong 32 out of 32 times. Happy to share the full list with quotes, dates and video links if anyone wants to check a specific channel. Disclosure: I run Oracle Check, the project that logs these calls. No link in the post; I'll drop it in the comments if anyone asks. *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.*
The numbers are crazy when you think about them but people don't seem to care much. It's also ironic that they will call you lucky for buying BTC early, once Bitcoin becomes a necessity.
I did the same. Read about it when it was new, downloaded it to have a play, didn't look at it again for a couple of years. I have a wallet.dat that I don't know the password to but I can't bring myself to delete because I'm pretty sure I tried out a few of the faucets that used to hand out free BTC back then.
We don't want bitcoin to mimic the dollar with a 2% inflation target. We want it to be a hard asset with a fixed supply, so it doesn't get devalued through dilution as time goes on. I personally could get behind a tiny inflation target just to keep an incentive for the miners to keep mining when bitcoin emissions go to 0, but 2% would be way too high. Maybe something like 0.5% would be reasonable, it depends on the value of Bitcoin in the future. 0.5% would be 105k newly added BTC per year, then if we assume BTC is valued at $1M dollar in the future that's 105 billion dollars per year miners would be earning (plus transaction fees). I'd say that's more than enough to secure the network. And if BTC will be valued at $10M they're already earning over a trillion dollar per year, which is too much imo. So it's very tricky to set a reasonable inflation target for BTC, you definitely don't want to set it too high. In any case this won't be needed within the next 50 years at least, it will only be implemented when the network gets into danger because of low BTC block rewards and not enough transaction fees to secure the network. Perhaps it will not be needed at all if transaction fees provide enough incentive for the miners.
Clapp BTC Savings provides u that layer of cashflow over ur holdings. Flexible for easy access or Fixed for a higher rate. In every sense of the word, ur BTC earns interest while u hold it.
Aww well. Let them all panic buy 0.01 BTC for extortionate prices in 5/10 years. You get the price you deserve.
Blah blah word salad and throw in BTC. This applies to nearly every asset and stock. What this should be about is utility ALTs like xrp, HBAR, chainlink, quant…the ones actually tracking doing the lifting of the AI agents.
First, I'm sorry for your loss. 😔 I hate even more that it makes you doubt bitcoin. You know this, but BTC is working as intended. It just sucks that the world is changing so fast that people are able to hack ANY basic password. Over time, this is going to happen with most technologies. With whatever your choice, good luck.
Limited upside maybe, but then it would make little sense to have BTC in S-tier.
“Everything was offline” but your computer got hacked. I’m sorry to see you leave Bitcoin. I hope the BTC price affected to much with your departure.
But but, they said BTC was the most decentralized?
There’s no one-sat-per-purchase requirement; sats can circulate repeatedly. Lightning can account in millisats too. The bigger constraint is how many payments the network can settle, not how many BTC units exist.
Priced in BTC, that ticket gets cheaper every single year
The whole advantage of DCA is that you stop needing to decide whether this particular price is too high or too low. Taking partial profit is completely reasonable if you have a reason but then you are adding a timing decision back into the system. I use Moon as well when I want to express a shorter term BTC view and that makes it easier for me to leave the long term accumulation side alone instead of constantly tinkering with it.
I think the distinction is what you are actually trying to own. If you only care about price exposure in a brokerage or retirement account, the ETF solves that pretty cleanly. Self custody solves a different problem, which is controlling the asset without a custodian. I tinker with Moon as wellfor shorter term BTC views sometimes but I keep that separate too. Price exposure, self custody and betting on price moves are three different goals even though BTC sits underneath all of them.
You are right about pump. I just checked its PUMP/BTC chart and the structure and momentum look very strong right now. At least for short term. Im not sure about long term because memes are very seasonal. Avax was primarily put in A tier by me because of its strenght against BTC and other alts in the past 4 weeks
Chicks are immature teenage girls, BTC gets mature women and I bet she's under the table!! Who are you kidding
That explanation doesn’t add up. Simply holding BTC on an exchange shouldn’t create continuously accumulating “holding fees” that require Bitcoin to stay above a specific price for a week to recover. Ask him to show the actual transaction history, current BTC balance and fee records — not screenshots of the price chart. Verify the records, not the story.
I buy as much BTC as a can afford with my spare money
You can have regret, but don't forget how treacherous it was holding Bitcoin back then. Exchanges failed or were hacked on a regular basis. It was very possible to lose your self hosted wallet info or suffer some exploit. There's no guarantee that even if you knew the future would have incredible price returns that you'd be able to make it out with the same amount of BTC that you bought.
OP, I looked up the address you gave as yours. https://mempool.space/address/bc1p502znh2pjyywvu5etrulytzvpm3mskaw26f6vhvggh5sf3fn23ashmmdj0 Balance is over 9.4BTC and this was active up to 1 October. I’d say, if anything, there’s a lot of address reuse. Have you mistyped your passphrase? This would open a real wallet but you’d see a zero balance.
Ethereum doesn't even need L2s to be successful. It's an incredible offer if you think about it. You get the massive security of ETH, arguably the best in all of crypto with the possible exception of BTC, without having to think about any of the complicated aspects of blockchain management, decentralization, validator clients etc. and all it costs you is a very moderate fee, several orders of magnitude below the cost of an L1. Ethereum is fine with that offer just being out there. Whether base or robinhood succeed doesn't really matter, that's their problem. In the future we won't even talk about L2s being on Ethereum, where else would they be? It's the only game in town and it'll be basic infrastructure.
That address has 9.5 BTC. It’s still there.
1. i can barely understand what you type because it's in jumbled english that seems to be paired with various auto-correct mistakes 2. i don't know what happened to you im a stranger on the internet 3. but i can tell you just because you had a virus on a completely different PC a decade ago doesn't mean the person that ran that virus was the BTC thief from 5 days ago, especially if you've long since replaced devices and changed and used new passwords since. 4. i can also tell you your password for the btc wallets secret phrase wasn't brute forced because the average time to do so would be MILLIONS of years now, what COULD have happened: if you were infected with a virus, changed passwords on that PC first, THEN replaced the pc, your new passwords could have been compromised immediately as you would have used them on the already infected PC. if you did that then sure, someone could have been watching your accounts and linked them to enough to be able to get access to however you stored your BTC. Again, i don't know what happened but your account wasnt brute forced, and even if it was (it wasn't) there's no reason to imagine there's a lone hacker running malware from a decade ago whos been sitting and watching you become a millionaire for a decade then pulling the trigger to brute force your password with future tech that doesn't exist yet.
The price at which you buy BTC is completely irrelevant.
Technically yes, you can make coins unspendable, but Satoshi's are sitting in normal outputs anyone can check. Whoever has the keys could move them tomorrow. Fun exception: the first 50 BTC from the genesis block really is unspendable, thanks to a quirk in the original code. Ironically, Satoshi's coins use an old format that a future quantum computer could crack, and some devs have proposed freezing coins like that. So your theory might come true, just 17 years late.
what you're describing is standard malware from 10 years ago, nothing special. there's no scenario where an infection from 10 years resulted in 1 million in lost BTC after you've changed addresses and replaced computers and gone a decade into the future with all new passwords and hardware. if your story is true then then whoever did it is unrelated to a virus you had 10 years ago on another PC with old passwords you long since changed.
Good points, cocacola0102. Allow me to expand on your thoughts: When BTC hits $1,000,000, I wonder how many of the socialist leftists in this forum (and there is no shortage of them) would be willing to share their BTC with other unfortunate people who never did invest in BTC. They love confiscating other people's money and hate parting with their own, all the while claiming it is fair and righteous to strip others of their wealth. And when that $1m day happens, the argument will be, "You only paid a small fraction for BTC, and look what you are worth now compared to others without BTC. You are rich already, and you don't need that much. We want the government to confiscate the BTC you paid for and redistribute it to others."