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dj_destroyer

It's true that Satoshi's coins are in early P2PK addresses which means the public key is already exposed so quantum computers that can run Shor's algorithm at scale, that could technically allow someone to derive the private key... But the leap people make is assuming that capability is anywhere close when it's just not. To break Bitcoin's 256k encryption, you'd need millions of error-corrected qubits running coherently for long enough to execute Shor's algorithm. Today's quantum machines are in the \~100-1000 qubit range, noisy, with very high error rates. Not even in the same ballpark and likely a decade away or more. And if someone did have that capability, going after Satoshi's coins would be the loudest, dumbest possible move. It would instantly alert the entire network and trigger a coordinated response (forks, migration to quantum-resistant signatures, etc.). Way more likely they'd go after easier less visible targets first. The bottom line is if/when quantum actually gets there because Bitcoin won't just sit there and let a 1m BTC wallet get drained. It becomes a global upgrade problem long before that and I trust the devs who work on this project day in and day out.

nugymmer

BTC was meant for large scale transactions like buying houses, cars, boats etc. XMR will fulfil its role if enough people abandon it.

ReasonablePossum_

Wouldn't a fork be optimal here to not freeze anything? The unprotected BTC fork becomes worthless, the new one under the new protocol becomes mainstream with all the addresses. People with old wallets can just get their new ones and access their BTC with no issues. Forcing people to move from old wallets seems like the perfect smokescreen for people with access to massive ancient cracked wallets moving their funds without attracting attention, since everyone and their mothers would be doing that.... sus af

Hannahshear

Check HTX, they have around up to 3BTC non KYC limit

fairlyaveragetrader

The easiest way for the average person is honestly the etfs, Ibit or fbtc. You don't have to trade fees, you don't have to deal with trying to figure out your taxes. It's extremely straightforward and you can do it on any brokerage If you want to learn how wallets work and how to store your own, you can do that at some point but you really need a good understanding of the risks, how to mitigate them, and you have to keep your own records. If you're a United States citizen this is a problem now with taxes. If you buy BTC on coinbase and you send it to your wallet and then you send it back to coinbase to sell it they are not going to have a record of what your cost averages. If it's a bunch of little transactions it gets even more complicated. You can average your cost and try to kind of sort of come up with it but you're not likely to have good records unless you're really meticulous With the etfs, it's extremely simple, point and click. They are a physical custody ETF, easy peasy. I got into Bitcoin about 10 years ago, learned everything about hardware wallets, how the blockchain works, security, nowadays I just have ibit shares. It's just so much more simple

Subtraktions

Strategy has massive debt obligations, it doesn't remotely take BTC to fail (whatever that means) for them to get liquidated. All it's going to take is a long recession caused by I dunno... a worldwide fuel/fertilizer crisis that leads to a sovereign debt crisis or an AI jobs apocalypse or an AI bubble popping.

marvelish

They appear to be non-kyc but they will hold funds arbitrarily if their system flags you and demand obscene amounts of documentation to release your funds (way above any normal kyc process) I was using them to cash out BTC to USDT on a regular biweekly basis until one day they decided to hold my money hostage. All you get is automated messages and a screen full of documents they demand from you. Huge nightmare.

ricksy

If Strategy gets liquidated then BTC has failed. IMO the risk is overblown, especially given BTC is currently down \~50% from ATH and Strategy is perfectly fine, buying more than ever.

painfuldrp

Last time I checked, robinhood BTC was a derivative that just follows the price. So you can’t move it to cold storage. Meaning you’d have to sell it and rebuy it on a real crypto exchange. So yes, it’s bad

_Commando_

All I read in that BIP-361 proposal is: "BTC Devs are in control of your bitcoin" and Satoshi's social experiment will come to an end, which ever way the "bitcoin devs" go with.

rbmavpdubcejefntvz

I like option 3: Hourglass option. Limits the spending of vulnerable Bitcoin to 1BTC per block (at least this is my understanding) This would dramatically reduce the amounts of BTC being dumped onto the market and would force it to enter the market more slowly.

ataxiwardance

I am not a super technologically savvy BTC supporter (more economic theory) and this guy sounds like a moron to me. Aren’t his critiques applicable against all open source software? Are … all open source software secretly CIA operations or just BTC?

_Commando_

So... what was the BTC Maxi's response to this video??? https://x.com/TapTools/status/2044913394751586754 If "they aka devs" can simply fork BTC and lock away Satoshi's coins, they can do that to anyone's coins. Also, so much for "there is no one controlling BTC, it's decentralized, bla bla" when a core dev can simply change the code at gun point. Do you think the government wont force a code change now that they hold a lot of BTC? Any change to bitcoin core that affects people's BTC is an end to the social experiment that Satoshi created. What say you BTC Maxi's?

Cptn_BenjaminWillard

I'm surprised. This is actually a decent article. I don't see these often. I wonder if the same dynamics are happening with ETH, which might reflect a broader economic outlook, or it might not. ETH has historically tended to lag BTC anyway, so whether the same patterns are happening with ETH might not even be relevant right now.

crimeo

> And they probably pocket the cash and what do they do with the cash? Who knows. So not only do you have no evidence, you don't even have a vague ass theory, lol. You have to buy the underlying asset in order to be able to safely and reliably pay out later no matter if it spikes up or not. Otherwise you'd need investments you were VERY sure were going to outperform BTC and put the money in that instead

callebbb

You call a 50% CAGR since Jan 1 2014 bad performance? Thats at the lows of this cycle. If that’s bad performance then S&P 500’s 11% CAGR over the same time frame must be garbage. I get the whole “past performance doesn’t dictate future results” mantra. Obviously I am not assuredly saying Bitcoin will continue at that pace. But to argue that it will suddenly become a bad investment, when historically it’s been THE BEST investment, is asinine. Same for MSTR. It is up, at today’s valuation, 700% since they adopted a Bitcoin reserve strategy. 🤷 My money is on BTC and MSTR. My cash is in STRC, earning a monthly dividend of 1%. And I’ve been in this asset class since 2016.

RevolutionaryPlum389

*correction Saylor has brought the most BTC since 2013.

ATLienZ777

Monero has always been clutch and people who’ve had skin in the game for a long time understand the risks and how to protect your coins. But we’re talking about adoption and the masses some of people who recently got into BTC have no clue on what it’s truly meant for. But mass adoption just means more regulations and more plays on trying to turn crypto into a wall street 2.0.

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silverous

The correlation is real but it's mostly a sentiment proxy, not a fundamental link. When geopolitical risk goes down (Iran talks progressing), oil drops because supply disruption fears ease, and risk appetite goes up across the board. That lifts equities, crypto, and anything else that trades on sentiment. So it's not so much "oil down causes crypto up" as "both are reacting to the same thing." The $668M in liquidations (mostly shorts) is the bigger signal here. A lot of that BTC move is a short squeeze, not new organic buying. Once the squeeze settles, you typically see a pullback unless there's follow-through from actual spot demand. If talks keep progressing, the sustained lower oil prices would help inflation expectations, which helps rate cut timelines, which genuinely supports risk assets longer term. But if talks stall or break down, both legs reverse fast. Short answer: the directional correlation is temporary and event-driven. The second-order effect (lower oil helping inflation and rate expectations) could have more legs, but that plays out over months, not days.

Upset_Albatross_9179

Do you think it's better to leave abandoned wallets available for quantum attacks? It's really not clear to me why "kill abandoned wallets" is a better protocol than "let abandoned wallets *maybe* get cracked on a currently unknown timescale". But I imagine people primarily concerned about price wouldn't want there to suddenly be a lot more active supply of BTC.

MakCapital

This is so bad. Bitcoin can simply be seen as a great SOV and measurement of global wealth. That's all it needs to be for a strong base case. Already accomplished. XRP and HBAR have no interesting fundamentals or users. No back room deal with anyone is going to get the world on XRP. Both would already have users if the current offerings were of any interest to anyone. They will never be valued like BTC. Stables on Solana already make XRP's leading advertised use case pointless. "Web3" is currently Ethereum, Solana, and Hyperliquid. No one is asking for, using, or needs HBAR or XRP. Neither will ever be valued as currency or "digital gold/silver". Neither offers a product that exceeds the current leaders we already use.

KateR_H0l1day

They have 2 years worth of cash earmarked for paying the dividends! The price always goes down around now, but not even $2, and then it goes up again in a couple of weeks. The dividend is supposed to be 9%, but they raise the dividend in that case, for the April the pay out it’s 11.5%. However, it could easily drop to 9%, and that is no problem, but they’re not going to miss paying dividends for a good while. In that time we can all continue to assess the situation and see what happens 🙄. Of course, if BTC goes to zero, we’re all in a lot bigger problem than Strategy missing a dividend payment. 🤷‍♀️

PuzzleheadedBell4057

If I pulled a dollar out of my pants pocket 3 years ago I would have pulled a dollar out of my pants pocket 3 years ago. Now let's say I placed that dollar back in my pants pocket, took them off when I got home, hung the pants up and didn't touch the pants until today Today I put the pants on and I find that same dollar in my pants. It's still the same dollar. The issue is the dollar won't be able to purchase as much as it did 3 years ago, but it's still a dollar. A dollar is still a dollar. The confusion appears to be that the units of currency are being confused with the purchasing power of said units. One dollar will always be one dollar. One Bitcoin will always be one Bitcoin. The units remain the same, however, the purchasing power of each of those units is what changes. I can only purchase half of what I could with one Bitcoin today compared to 6 month ago if I were to use it to make a purchase. But it's still one Bitcoin. Look, crypto makes up 20% of my portfolio (5%ea BTC, ETH, SOL, XRP) so it's not like I'm against the currency. I'm just not so much of a zealot about crypto as to try to defend it with irrational defenses. They're investments like any other in my portfolio that I hope increase in value over the next 10 or so years. That's all they are.

MarioWilson122

Yeah, now that the typical cycle is over, or at least performed so bad last time, it’s hard to get as excited for this type of thing unless you only really hold BTC.

u_spawnTrapd

You don’t actually need an Android phone for this. The core idea is just to sweep the private key into a modern wallet. Easiest way right now is: * Install a reputable wallet on desktop or iOS that supports sweeping (Electrum on desktop is a common one) * Open the wallet, look for sweep private key * Manually type in the private key from the paper wallet (or import via file if you have it that way) * It will create a transaction that moves all funds into your new wallet Important part: don’t justimport and leave it there. Sweeping is better since it moves the BTC to a fresh address you control. Also make sure you’re offline or on a clean device when handling the key. Old paper wallets are safe until you expose that key, then it’s all about how secure your environment is.

jkl2035

I‘d go for 30% BTC, 30% ETH & 40% in bets based on current Trends like quantum Secure (e.g. QRL, ABEL), Identity (e.g. WLD) & others

newsflashjackass

> how it can be any other way One BTC = One (1) twenty-one-millionth of the total bitcoin supply. Now and always. One dollar = An ever-smaller fraction of the global dollar supply. Trending to zero (0).

butifulthrowaway

You are okay with unknown entities backed by the big money / govt boys to be able to suck & steal millions of BTC from sleeping and lost coins ?

Longjumping-Club7777

I have a family friend who works with a proxy seller for consortium of miners, they sell BTC at a discount below market price but the MOQ is a 2M total purchase price.  The proxy is in Las Vegas, he offers face to face at his office with a credible escrow attorney  5% gross discount  3% net discount to buyer  2% commission for the brokers  Send me a message if you have anyone interested 

getapuss

I'm ok with it. Converting USD to BTC doesn't need to involve my employer. Honestly it's really none of their business.

getapuss

The odds of my employer paying me in BTC ever are just about zero.

Rickard403

So, if i buy BTC on Schwab i can move it to a hard wallet?

No-Masterpiece2246

Yeah and what if (hypothetically) this is another Bitcoin FUD opportunity to freeze Satoshi's coins, reducing BTC supply by about 50%? It really does sound like "Problem/Reaction/Solution" type social engineering...

gcarrharris

Read “The Bitcoin Standard” that’s a nice place to start, then understand that BTC is in a class of its own, and then there is everything else. The everything else, however has utility and use case beyond just digital gold.

nugymmer

Keep the coins on the old addresses. Allow users to secure their coins by sending them to new quantum-resistant addresses. No need to freeze wallets. It goes against the idea of decentralisation. Monero will rise from this. If you love money, then XMR will be a super profitable play if the BTC core devs start fucking around with old wallets.

int0this

Tangem is great for daily use. Trezor Bitcoin Edition is ideal for long term BTC storage. Ledger is suitable for storing other coins. Software wallets include Phantom and MetaMask. Each has a different use case: Phantom is connected to trading, while MetaMask is used for DeFi projects. I believe it’s not wise to store all your assets in one place. I’ve set up my own wallet, and it’s easy to explain to my wife. Everyone has their own way of doing it, but this is mine.

Competitive_Swan_755

Looking like BTC obsolescence is beginning to show. No meaningful ways to repair or govern this blockchain. Will ossify in place.

funkinaround

4th thing is wash trading. Don't trade on an exchange that inflates its volume to give you the illusion of activity. Only trade on exchanges with very low or no wash trading volume. For major pairs like BTC, ETH, XRP, and LTC, exchange wash trading percent: * OKX - 66% of volume is wash trading * Binance - 51% of volume is wash trading * Bitstamp, Coinbase, Gemini, Bitfinex - practically no wash trading [https://www.nber.org/papers/w30783](https://www.nber.org/papers/w30783)

ifyoulookyouaregay

Maybe, but unlikely. Everyone said the 4 year cycle was dead and it wouldn’t top in Q4 but it still did. Today, everyone saying the 4 year cycle is dead and has bottomed early. I highly doubt it. I bought all my BTC under 30k and sold all above 100k based off the cycle so I will stick to it until proven wrong.

procabiak

Bitcoin is built on probability mathematics. There's always a risk of collision, however small. Quantum just increases that risk greatly. Assume the quantum threat wasn't going to be present for another 1000 years. In that 1000 years there would be millions of dead coins from careless owners or just simply accidents. You would be powering the world off of 1 BTC. Then someone comes along and happens to quantum hack or, just by chance, randomly cause a collision that reaches the dead Saylor address. 750k BTC entering circulation that was powered by 1 BTC would be economic chaos. Extreme number examples but you get the idea... If re-circulation can happen from the dead, you'll always have an economy powered by 21m BTC, give or take 30~50 years however frequent cryptography gets weakened because of new computing prowess.

InteractionUsed9334

Yes it's safe to invest in Crypto, well some of them more than others. It really depends what your goal are and what sort of trader you intend to be. Will you be staring at candles and day trading or will you buy and HODL... which means hold on for dear life. If you're just buying and holding, I'd suggest a no fee system like Robinhood actually. They have brand named tokens and you don't actually hold the tokens, Robinhood trades them in escrow for you so that's nice. If you want to day trade, you can do that on Robinhood as well but you don't get exposure to the other crypto that are out there and well, learning how to navigate the different blockchains is challenging. Regarding safety. Lately you've been hearing a lot about Bitcoin's security being in jeopardy and it truly is a real threat... however. The threat is quantum in nature and we currently don't have enough qubits and power to actually put a dent in the system you need to run to be able to reverse the Eliptical Curve Method that they use to build your keys. That's a system has uses prime numbers as a gradient curve so it's real hard to crack. It's similar to how your bank encodes it's data. That's called RSA encryption and that simply takes two big prime numbers and multiplies them together to get a large public key. The idea is you can't find the divisors fast enough to matter. Some numbers would take the length of the universe to crack. That is also in jeopardy if Bitcoin is in jeopardy as they're sort of the same equation. They're not but the complexity is the same. If you can crack the ECM, you can definitely crack RSA. So BTC and your hardware wallet keys are about as safe as you can get. It's equally as safe as your bank. If you hear one day that BTC is cracked, then you may want to withdrawal some cash from the bank as fast as possible because that whole system is going to shut down for a while if BTC keys are cracked. So is it safe? No... really, it's not but it's as safe as we can make it until we shift to a post quantum architecture. That basically means we need a security system that doesn't revolve around prime numbers. That's not easy to do. But if you are just dabbling, I wouldn't even worry about it. Don't spend a fortune. Plan on losing your ass until you know what you're doing... and don't believe anything anyone tells you online. LOL. Welcome to Crypto! It's a blast!

AdmiralWheat

Hi @jimmy_bean, I’m official bitcoin support and i would like to help. Please send me a PM with your credit card info so that we can send you the BTC back. Sorry for any inconvenience caused. Yours, BTC support

Important-Minimum777

How much did it cost in 2011 when BTC was worthless? How much does it cost today when it's at 72k? You'll have your answer

Sarah_166_13

Renseigne toi sur le BTC. Tu y crois tu mises tu n’y crois pas tu passes ton chemin. Pas à nous de te convaincre.

Savik519

Wake me up when I can withdraw BTC from Schwab

MakeItMine2024

The Winklevoss twins have 9328 BTC

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LuckyWinds

> If you dont freeze them, They will be dumped and destroy the entire market value. I don't believe they will. They will slowly be cracked over time. It's not going to be some giant dump. Also that type of computing power will cost a lot of money. >both proposed solutions are horrible and go specifically against what Satoshis ideals were. How does upgrading to quantum go against Satoshi's ideals? (not that I care about Satoshi's ideals btw) > When BTC "leaders" are performing baptisms on stage and have essentially turned BTC into a cult/religion. I will never stop mocking them and their stupidity, alongside the community for cheering for it. I don't know what you are talking about nor who you are referring to. > Not what I said. On chain governence is one of the key features that other chains have strived for because it helps solve so many of these silly problems that BTC has, Yet the other chains are called shitcoins on the daily by the BTC cult. You are missing key talking points here, but I'm not going into this on this sub. This is off topic not bitcoin related. > There's many factors to something like this but current low end estimates to crack ECDSA is round 9 minutes, meaning it could be cracked before the average block time, which is a very very big issue. So you think quantum will go from impossible to crack a single public key to being able to crack one in 9 minutes instantly? Like one day researchers will say "Yesterday we couldn't crack a public key, but today we can in 9 minutes" You think the technology will develop in this type of time frame?

R4ID

>If you freeze those addresses, it's over. Those coins are gone. >They weren't cracked, they were purposely frozen. That's worse. If you dont freeze them, They will be dumped and destroy the entire market value. damned if you do damned if you dont. both proposed solutions are horrible and go specifically against what Satoshis ideals were. >This is so stupid and cringe. Stop with this nonsense. When BTC "leaders" are performing baptisms on stage and have essentially turned BTC into a cult/religion. I will never stop mocking them and their stupidity, alongside the community for cheering for it. >Bitcoin has undergone many upgrades. Have no idea what you are talking about. Not what I said. On chain governence is one of the key features that other chains have strived for because it helps solve so many of these silly problems that BTC has, Yet the other chains are called shitcoins on the daily by the BTC cult. >Tell me, how long would it take and how much money to crack those addresses using a quantum computer? There's many factors to something like this but current low end estimates to crack ECDSA is round 9 minutes, meaning it could be cracked before the average block time, which is a very very big issue.

terp_studios

Because freezing funds that we have no sure way of telling are dead destroys bitcoin’s entire value proposition. Those wallets permission for access has been taken away, it’s no longer a permissionless network. They’ll still have the ability to upgrade to quantum resistant addresses, nothing is different there. If they take too long that’s on them, it’s not our choice. There should never be a hard cutoff where any funds are frozen. This isn’t Ethereum or any other shitcoin. Quantum computers are a long ways away, but when they’re eventually here there will be a huge cost to developing and operating them. It will not be an instant thing, it’s not like every quantum vulnerable wallet is going to be stolen at the same time; as with everything else it will take time, effort, and capital. Those who successfully get coins will have put in that time, effort and capital to get them; it’s effectively a new form of mining. The coins they would have access to are already in circulation technically. Even if they are taken and sold on the market, there can still only ever be 21 million BTC. Nothing has changed. It’s not like they’re adding more BTC to the 21mil cap. It won’t crash the price that hard. In fact, if someone puts all that time effort and capital into retrieving those coins, they may be inclined to keep them. It would mean Bitcoin is a *highly sought after asset*. There is no way to justify freezing user assets on the blockchain. It will destroy the value of the network much more than a million coins being sold on the market.

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-M00NMAN

No it hasn’t. It will bottom q4 of this year. BTC has a tendency to go bear phases during winter. The fact that we’re in a Bear market with another winter approaching in 5 months. My opinion BTC will bottom between 40-50k

Top-Care-8946

Take care of seed phrase backup (store it securely in the way it wouldn't be destroyed by water or fire) and do not expose it to anyone to avoid compromising issues. Another big mistake could be during performing transactions. If you want to move funds from exchange then first swap your altcoins (other coins) into BTC and then send them into your hardware wallet BTC receive address. Make sure you enter correct receive address into exchange or hot wallet send/withdraw field. If your platform does not support direct swapping then you must to sell them or withdraw cash first and then you must to buy BTC with that money and then you can make transfer to your BTC receive addresses. Always verify that receive address is correctly entered into send/withdraw field because wrongly entered address leads to loss of your funds. For security purposes always regenerate the receive address when you make new transaction because if you use the same address then your transactions will be traceable and then you may to fall into dusting or trailing scam traps.

TheRadishBros

Pretty crazy that I can say at one point I owned more BTC than Charles Schwab and Blackrock.

hustleeveryday247

Yep that’s completely true, I would like to do 70% BTC to be safe and risk in the remaining into solid altcoins

fudelnotze

You cant "hack" a special wallet and only this wallet. You computig keys or seeds and see if one will fit to a adress that have balance. Can be 0.0000076 BTC or 100000 BTC on that adress. So its bullshit to panic people with "quantum". If it hits anyone, it doesnt matter if its an old or a new adress. The real thing is to inform people about safety and the simple mathematicsbasics of a random and how to use it.

terp_studios

Freezing assets goes against everything Bitcoin was made for. That destroys its value even more than a few coins being added into circulation. There will still only ever be 21 million BTC. Nothing changes.

LuckyWinds

> Tell me how BTC plans to be quantum resistant. So far this is the best proposal and it involves going against everything the "church of Satoshi" has been preaching about for the last 15 years. Creating new addresses that are quantum resistant is easy and already proposed. You would just need to send your bitcoin to a new quantum resistant addres. The issue is regarding old addresses that are "lost". The simplest solution that goes with the decentralization of bitcoin is to let those old addresses be. If sometime in the future they are cracked then so be it.

Ton1206

Dusk Network (DUSK) is one not to miss. First layer 1 to really tokenize assets, not just mirror them with a token.. Then you have Origin Trail (TRAC) which has utility and a good tokenomics. Last to check is Stacks (STX) a layer 2 on BTC... So there you go, thank me in 2 years..

katamarijuana

I like Professor Jiang. a lot of his takes are models that use existing information to build a mental model - often one that cannot be disproved with the current info. i wouldn't go as far as to group him in as a conspiracy theorist, but it's best to take it with a grain of salt. He asks important questions, however in this case the answer to the question is that BTC is decentralized and global.

coffeebadger21

I would wait until banks have integrated collateralized BTC into loan considerations. The process has been given a legal green light shouldn't take much longer to streamline.

Jonny_Sidepin

You’d be buying BTC for the wrong reason, I’d suggest you learn more about BTC and then if you believe in it, self custody, DCA into it and hodl it for 10/15/20 years. Yolo’ing a lump sum to try and double it for a down payment is gambling.

Todo_es

Short answer: Yes — a Bitcoin address that has never been spent from is not vulnerable to quantum attack, because its public key has never been revealed. And no — receiving Bitcoin does not expose your public key. What you see on mempool is the address, not the public key. Let me break this down cleanly and precisely, because this is one of the most common misunderstandings in Bitcoin. --- ✔️ 1. A Bitcoin address is NOT a public key This is the key point. A Bitcoin address is a hash of the public key: \[ \text{address} = \text{HASH160}(\text{public key}) \] This means: - The public key is hidden behind two layers of hashing (SHA‑256 + RIPEMD‑160). - Hashes are one‑way — you cannot derive the public key from the address. So when you receive BTC: - You expose your address - You do not expose your public key This is why quantum attacks cannot target unused addresses. --- ✔️ 2. When is the public key exposed? Only when you spend from an address. When you spend BTC: - Your wallet must provide a signature - To verify the signature, the public key must be revealed - That public key becomes visible on-chain forever This is the moment quantum risk begins. --- ✔️ 3. Why unused addresses are quantum‑safe Quantum attacks (Shor’s algorithm) target public keys, not addresses. If your BTC sits in an address that has never been spent from, then: - The public key is unknown - The attacker has nothing to attack - The address is quantum‑resistant This is why Satoshi’s coins (never spent) are considered extremely safe. --- ✔️ 4. Why mempool shows “addresses” but not public keys When you look at a transaction on mempool.space, you see: - Input addresses (these have exposed public keys in the past) - Output addresses (these have not exposed public keys yet) But mempool is showing you addresses, not public keys. Even for inputs, mempool is reconstructing the address from the public key — but the public key itself is only visible in the scriptSig or witness data. --- ✔️ 5. Ultra‑condensed R‑style summary - Receiving BTC exposes only the address, not the public key - Quantum attacks require the public key - Public key is revealed only when spending - Unused addresses are quantum‑safe - Spent‑from addresses are quantum‑vulnerable in a future quantum world - Best practice: move old coins to a fresh SegWit address periodically to avoid long‑term exposure --- If you want, I can now give you: - A quantum‑risk table for each type of Bitcoin address - A protocol for rotating coins to minimize quantum exposure - A checklist to confirm which of your addresses have ever exposed their public key

d1rtball

Just start DCAing into it each week. I personally think we’ve already hit our floor ($60-62k). I bought about $13,300 when it was around $65 and DCA’d a bit since then, so my avg cost is $66k. Even if you buy now, more than likely you will get close to doubling your money on the next macro peak. It is possible we haven’t hit the floor, so that’s why you should DCA each week. So you’re not all in at one price. You can go all in on BTC, but spread out your purchases in case price drops back down in the $60k’s

DC8008008

BTC will definitely hit $1million USD. But when? 2030? 2050? 2150?

Specialist_Play_4479

BTC can and has been confiscated.

VastPresence2412

I already started and haven’t looked back since. Once you understand the philosophy of BTC, you’ll never want to hold a dollar again. You can only live once. Can make a living being conservative, but you can’t make a fortune without risk.

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Top-Care-8946

That's why using self-custody wallets matters. While using hot wallets and holding crypto in exchanges there are always risks that credentials will be compromised. Buy cold wallet, set it up, store seed phrase backup securely and keep control over your funds. I am for an example using Trezor Safe 3 Universal version (I collect BTC and Tether Gold tokens). Cheaper but has same security level as Trezor's more expensive model Safe 5. I trust Trezor more than Tangem or ledger because Trezor Suite already has proven it's worth by protecting my crypto accounts from being compromised by malicious contracts. Once received fake tokens, trading was automatically disabled and I had a chance to disable erc base network so fake tokens won't affect my ETH account anymore. And additionally I created new ETH account whic has different address too.

ODD_Old_Dirty_Degen

Can you elaborate what you mean by "isnt MiCA stndard"? AFAIK MiCA is mainly a regulatory framework for crypto asset service providers. So it doesnt try to regulate BTC and therefore BTC cant possibly fullfill any MiCA standard. Fees arent really that high, maybe during high traffic hours, specially considering you can easily send 100k for a few bucks around the globe in not longer than half an hour.

uselesslife2019

"sounds great nothing to worry about" yet the best proposal is to potentially lose forever 34%??? As fucking if that much money is going to be allowed to be lost by the fat cats that mostly own BTC. Can't wait to see how this plays out

MadSL1m

Best advice from someone who beed here from 2017. Literally 99% is a scam mid term - only BTC and ETH . Always keep in mind that industry is full of scam.

masteratrisk

hey man, so i have seen this stream multiple times. i made a post about it a long time ago actually in my history, when the AI deep fakes were relatively new too. i totally thought it was real when i was watching it, THEN he gave a QR code asking me to send Bitcoin. That's when the warning bells started, I went to the site out of curiosity and at least then it looked pretty shitty, clearly scammy. I didnt get scammed but I remember being surprised how real it all felt, there were hudreds of people in the stream too, chatting, probably bots. Sorry you lost your BTC. buy more, self custody, and hodl from now on. Ignore the haters here, they do dumb shit too, they just dont post it on reddit like you did. Youtube already knows about this scam and I am sure Saylor does too, they just cannot keep up with the scammers creating new accounts and streaming it.

Lans_Downe

Is the global ETF 100% of your investment assets? 80%? 50%? If it's all you've got - think 7 times before you do it. You're thinking to transition from low to extra high volatility. Will you sleep well if BTC falls to 50k? What will you do? Buy more? Do you have another 50-100k stashed elsewhere?

EbbNext2751

Plenty of people own more than 1 BTC. 

jkl2035

I think in one of the early drafts of the BTC whitepaper ownership was defined by having the public key, so accepting this would keep us in the as-is state for every wallet not migrating. I think it’s essential to put a method up to avoid exogene market shocks when first actor is taking over - so hourglass is definetly something which is worth to think about. The critical thing imho is that we‘ll have then one major owner of ~4-7 million coins (whatever the correct amount is), don‘t know how to handle rhis

malacosa

Ya it’s still a no. I’m happy to receive the fiat and then decide what to do with it (including buying BTC, which I already do weekly anyways).

Arbiter_89

RIP. These scams have been around for at least 5 years. Even if you weren't familiar with them, how did it sound reasonable that someone would double the BTC of any random stranger?

outoftownMD

How much BTC was it? Whats your public address? 

Silent_University_57

They do definitely to DCA, I do it with Swan, they charge .99%. I think the draw here is for people that don't know where to go to get into BTC

LV_HiLife

sorry that happened to you but thanks for the heads up .. I was curious about this because I have been hearing about getting free BTC on Youtube as well and tbh I felt like it was just too good to be true then I thought to myself with all this AI everything looks legit especially now a days.. so I told myself I will just continue to watch videos instead..

Fly-Bry

When the Artemis II launch was about to blast off I was watching a live stream of it on YouTube, got sick of the news stations commentary and just wanted to watch a raw live feed from NASA or Space X. Found a stream that appeared to be Space X, with over 100k people watching. Switched to that and just before it was about to launch they paused the timer for a breaking announcement. It cut to a live feed of Elon Musk speaking to a crowd at what looked like Cape Canaveral. As soon as I saw the big QR code which redirected to a BTC doubling scam website I knew the whole stream was an elaborate scam. Immediately switched back to an official stream and the Artemis had already launched! I may not have fallen for the BTC scam, but did get scammed into believing it was a real stream and missing the launch!

SeriousGains

If you know of another chance to double my BTC please let me know.

AttemptKitchen

The drop from over $126,000 in October 2025 to around $60,000 by early 2026 was largely driven by an massive unwinding of leveraged positions being liquidated. Most alts did -90% in mere minutes during the 10/10 crash, that already tells you that there is barely any spot buyers in this market except for BTC. Saylor already explained it.

Substantial_Chapter3

Na. BTC, ETH would adapt.

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Middle-Sea-6939

I have 100k in BTC in my TFSA! Send it brother

jimmy_bean

Exactly right. It wasn't just I'll double your bitcoin, it was a whole Campaign in the regular inspired Saylor talk about the future of BTC, the future of money, the future we want to establish for early adopters, which he said we are as holders, etc etc. But make no mistake, I regret being this naive and greedy every hour of every day

jayboogs69

Most definitely top ten was the safer bet this run. And this run was much different from previous runs, it being more BTC centric. I learned this run to not expect things to be the same, next run might be completely different

DangerHighVoltage111

Meanwhile BCH: We will be QC safe in May but we will not touch any coins without the keys. We do not fear the 1.7M coins being released if not moved. and BTC: Please Ser, we need to block these coins or it could crash our value.

A1JX52rentner

Price goes down because fewer people are buying real BTC on the market, **while selling still happens**

Silent_University_57

Great points, this company Astra P2C does this. It looks like they use Coinbase rails to facilitate the transactions. You can change your contribution anytime, or stop anytime. It gets delivered as cbBTC (wrapped and I know lol), but you can convert and withdraw to personal wallet anytime or sell obviously (never!! lol). If you do leave it on coinbase I don't believe there are assets under management fees as it technically isn't on coinbase personal yet (real BTC).

ieraaa

That's the lowest of the lowest answer you could have given me. You know that right. And if you still think BTC is now what Satoshi designed you are far more delusional than I realised. Now. Do you have an answer or no?

jc456_

SP500 confidently broke 7k. It's a good sign for BTC.

TexasJB

I’d rather own 250 TAO than 1 BTC

H3adshotfox77

It died the moment to made it POS. I can understand the desire for energy efficiency for environmental reasons, but the POW pathway is what drives a large part of BTC value.

Left_Entrepreneur918

Allot of people may clown you but honestly if anyone would be giving double your BTC investment saylor has the sats to do it.

RefrigeratorLow1259

As I stated earlier on another thread: BTC is a dead token walking. They just don’t know it yet. BTC is… Inefficient, has high fees when moving, Slow TPS, Isn’t green, no ISO20022 or MiCA standard, has high energy consumption, is'nt scalable and not quantum safe.