BTC

DudeWhatThe

Not yet you mean. What about if BTC hits a million a coin? You don’t think dark web is going to be selling this as a hit list?

lazoras

btc being the currency ai uses makes so much sense. any processing purchased through btc makes sense and converting fiat to BTC to buy it makes sense... you could buy computing from any nation with capacity!

devCheckingIn

Miners need to pay their bills, after all. They mine over 3,000 BTC a week.

SkidMarkShark

Self-custody spreads ownership and removes counterparty risk, making the system more resilient and aligned with Bitcoin’s design as permissionless money without trusted intermediaries. Centralized ETFs and exchanges concentrate coins under a few custodians. That adds systemic risks from failure, seizure, or regulation, weakening the network’s antifragility even though the protocol and hashrate themselves remain unchanged. Putting capital into [$MSTR](https://x.com/search?q=%24MSTR&src=cashtag_click) (and ETF products) funds BTC purchases held with a few institutional custodians rather than individual self-custody. That concentrates counterparty, corporate, and regulatory risks instead of spreading ownership, reducing the network’s antifragility the same way ETFs and exchanges do—even as it supports demand and accumulation.

SomeGuyInOz

Where was the BTC sent FROM? The sender is the one who would have set the transaction/miner fees and the entire amount was spent on those fees, leaving 0 BTC for your wallet to receive.

BTCGlobeLive

Nobody in this thread has said the thing that reframes it: **that transaction is seven weeks old.** I pulled it off my own node just now. It confirmed on **26 June 2026 at 14:24 UTC** and it has **6,925 confirmations**. So if you were sitting in your wallet this morning watching something confirm, it wasn't this. Either you pasted an old txid out of your history, or the thing you're worried about today is a different transaction entirely - and that's worth settling before anyone diagnoses Cake Wallet. What it actually is: **1 input, 115 outputs, 0.969 BTC total.** That's a service or exchange paying 115 people in one go. It isn't "your" transaction - your coins are one output among 115, and the median payout in it is 0.00156874 BTC. That also explains why it looks strange on an explorer. Now the useful part. **Of those 115 outputs, 113 have already been spent. Exactly two are still sitting untouched:** - output #65 - **0.00304888 BTC** - output #84 - **0.04170628 BTC** If either of those is your amount, **your money is right there and has never moved** - the coins are fine and the problem is entirely display-side in the wallet (rescan, or the wrong derivation path). If your amount isn't one of those two, then your output was spent, and the next question is *when* - which you can answer without trusting anyone here. The check that settles it, on any node, no wallet involved: bitcoin-cli gettxout 632188193a9ea4f445891c3280707557cd8d1e694e87d1d319d2e3c0a827025d <your output number> Output comes back - unspent. Nothing comes back - spent. That's the entire answer, and it's the same command I just ran. One thing I'd want ruled out before relaxing: if your output *was* spent and you didn't spend it, that isn't a Cake Wallet display bug, it's a compromised seed, and reinstalling the app is the worst possible response. Find out which of the two cases you're in first.

brando2131

It shows on a block explorer that once you received it, you (or something) immediately spent it, [https://blockstream.info/tx/1ff8742b770f75fd16310f63033c74867278c4e6ba1b5891df7b42222e4aebc7](https://blockstream.info/tx/1ff8742b770f75fd16310f63033c74867278c4e6ba1b5891df7b42222e4aebc7) The output is 0, everything went to the transaction fee/miner (0.00489635 BTC), which is unusual. Maybe someone else knows why.

Timely-Fig2030

BTC is not advanced tech. It's very simple tech. But it was the first one to utilize blockchain financially, so i give credit to that and always will recognize it at the first one. It's like in climbing you wouldn't call Edmund Hillary as the most advanced climber by modern standards. But the climbing community will always respect him for being the first to reach the summit of Mount Everest and being on the sharp end of many other expeditions.

f2pool-CSR3

There was a real-life case in China where the government froze all of a prisoner's bank assets; yet, by the time he was released from prison, he had become a multi-millionaire. This was because he still held a significant amount of BTC in his wallet—so, you get the picture.

uuewy

I think it is good. institutions will have to rely on real money and will benefit less from USD debasement. BTC adds transparency.

CryptoAngelo

Hold BTC for long term, do not try to search x100 with memecoins or other projects, you will just waste time and money. Nobody knows what project will outperform others. You can also check ETH and SOL for long terms, but not too exotics shitcoins..

ImProbablyHighh

If you understood it you wouldn’t give a damn about influencers and what they’re shilling, BTC is the advanced tech.

tenor_tymir

You don’t need the physical wallet to access your BTC, you just need the keys, though I wouldn’t recommend taking them with you when on holidays. You could trust someone else with your keys and retrieve them from there but I wouldn’t recommend that either. There’s not much you can safely do when your country goes to war whilst you’re on holiday and your house is inaccessibly bombed to the ground.

LTCistheFuture

We'll see how it plays out. China also holds some. I don't know. It's getting really institutionalized which might be good for the price of BTC but I do not know if it is good for the core BTC idea

semanticweb

Better to stick with BTC and ETH and call it a day.

Babad00k123

There is only a handful of crypto you can touch. BTC, XMR and maybe USDC/PayPalUSD - not sure what the point would be to hold a stablecoin though. Thats it. Sell the rest and lick your wounds.

Big_Percentage_7541

Well, trading the news is mainly a latency game. I have zero edge over there. About buy and hold. It was indeed worked when BTC was younger. Unfortunately I can’t ignore the fact that in the last 4-5 years there was a wild USD printing spree, yet somehow the price of BTC is not holding up,plus halving plus scarcity and it’s still not behaving as it used to. So I feel I’m missing an important part of the puzzle.

Lexieewitt

BTC Go up with 3,4 month.. possible touch 126000$

Efficient_Range1156

I hate that i can’t downs BTC at more places but I understand that we are still early and most normies either don’t understand bitcoin or outright hate it because they feel it is alienating and that they are too late. I suspect this will change rapidly, BTC/USDT is use growing rapidly in the developing world where banking is not accessible. I will be spending more time in these places because whichever country develops the best bitcoin infrastructure stands to gain the most in terms of quasi of life as capital flight from other countries.

Lexieewitt

Possible BTC touch 126000$>> With 3,4 month.. I say yes.

Remarkable-Opening69

Gold is in many products in my home. BTC is only on my phone on an app.

GreenStretch

If BTC dies, this will shrink into a marketwide version of pump.fun.

Significant-Field232

Just open up a BTC chart and if you look over the years there is an undeniable pattern.

Romanizer

What underlying value or utility have you seen before leading you to BTC?

btwwhichoneispink

Sell AI > Buy BTC?

georgejetsonn

In 2010 BTC was used as a functional medium of exchange, as it was originally intended. That's how I also used it in 2013 as well. The passive store of value narrative came much later

Suspicious-Holiday42

Isn't that exactly what blackrock is offering, you send them your BTC and they give you the ETF

graceface2131

You may or may not be aware of this story but in 2010 a guy paid 10,000BTC (around 41$USD at the time) for two Papa John's pizzas, today that is worth $632.9 million. If your having a rough time with trading just keep this in mind.

ImProbablyHighh

How is it misinformed to be bullish on BTC? You think AI agents are going to be using fiat? Lmfao

ihavenotimeforgames2

Bitcoin will go up because of institutional adoption. If Blackrock fails, we have bigger problems than worrying about what the price of BTC will be.

Suitable_Acadia_190

Its a thing with a fixed supply in a pair agaist the USD. Thats the mechanic that I'm referring to So if you'd like to see comparisons of things still being priced in their infancy globally with massive volatility that also continued higher over time, that is my only point in the prior reply, aside from all other pairs are not fixed in supply so can be and are diluted so in turn become weaker over time vs the USD. Whereas BTC is finite making it mathematically stonger and also more volitile as the elastic doesn't get weakened when stretched in this instance.

iz_raymond

TLDR; no one want to spend BTC hence BTC won't replace Fiat.

iz_raymond

And? U expect the Bitcoin maxxers want to spend their BTC? 😂 See, the maxxist ideology of Bitcoin itself is the Achilles heels of BTC adoption. Which back to my earlier statement; no one belief or want BTC to replace Fiat..everyone want to make money off it, not use it as money. It's almost like asking Warren buffet to buy Yatch with his stock — he sell stocks at profit to get fiat then use fiat to buy yatch

IBAN-IBON64

BTC HODL DCA . Fin de Bear dans 3 mois

hoppeeness

Yes it is finite…gold already outperforms btc. Now it will be able to be possibly more secure than btc and available to all ages and locations. BTC isn’t the most secure.

hoppeeness

I mean link isn’t going to tokenize anything but yes I get it as important infrastructure. BTC is going to be dead once RWA’s are tokenized. It won’t be able to hold enough value for people to use as a store of value.

ihavenotimeforgames2

Wish there was an option to convert BTC to an ETF so you don't have to deal with the bullshit of cold storage.

DescriptionAware2961

Historically BTC has seen structural support at its 2WK 200 EMA. Currently this level is at 51280. (I have a chart image but I don’t think I’m allowed to share it yet?) I theorize that price will make another move down to meet it before we encounter another bull cycle. This is optimistic speaking; hoping we’ve already seen the worst that the current administration will do to the US economy. this proximity to support could be the reason for the recent tight volatility and price coiling

Useful_Calendar_6274

I don't know a lot about BTC but something ridiculously simple like 2FA built directly into it would have prevented the coldcard attack and any unwanted transaction unless the hackers compromise that too. There are open source things for it, it's not all microsoft authenticator

donnieplath

Wait so if interest payments double in 10 years, do you think that forces the Fed to print even harder and that's what actually sends BTC parabolic?

archm1chael

I’d start by looking for large communities that resemble past winners in the space like XRP, ADA, DOGE, SOL, BTC. you’ll want to identify that are fanatical and their onchain data backs up what they say on here or X. ideally the coin has bottomed against its btc pair months ago.

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digital__bits

"If isn't BTC, is a 💩coin" mentality Yeah, that's why Bitcoin market dominance has fallen below 60% since 2017 and never came back to it. BTC created his own tomb. 

AffectionateYam624

I click nothing in my inbox regarding banking or anything finacial related. I will not click a coinbase email. I would think someone with 24.6 BTC would be smarter than me. Sorry man. Hope you get your coins back.

wheresabel

Yeah I made a lot of money but I started to exit my position this year. I donated a few BTC to my DAF and sold some to invest in stocks which has been much better investment.

Remarkable-Opening69

Prediction market made BTC less attractive. It’s literally a gamble now.

anonymousopsec1337

The main part of the hack I’m interested in is how they scouted the initial round of whales. I wonder if any BTC chain websites got a shot load of queries from a handful of IP addresses within the month before the hack from the hackers API connections. Might be worth looking at. I don’t query the block chain en masse but I’m sure there are some API limits in place where you need to be using a registered account or pay $

loud1337

I got you fam, I'll hit ya with the real advice. Unsubscribe from here and go subscribe to Personalfinance and Bogleheads. Read the wiki and get moving on having an emergency fund, max out healthcare, and then retirement. For retirement accounts I recommend a simple target date retirement fund from Vanguard. Once you are doing that reliably and on track to max out the accounts, I recommend using up to 1% of your net worth to put into crypto or wallstreet bets. If you don't like this advice and still want crypto, fine. Start buying BTC and ETH once a month on a set budget. Still not enough risk for ya? Send me $100 a month and I'll turn it into $10 and send it back in 2 months.

wheresabel

A get rich quick scheme for 20 year olds stuck holding the bag. Source: I made 7 figures and exited being in BTC early. The price does not need to rise to keep providing value to the world.

Chance-A-La-Mer

I’m confused here, so the argument is that spam is ultimately difficult or even impossible to filter out so we should be OK with bitcoin core running rough shot over the community by pushing through a contentious change that makes spamming the chain easier? To the extent that BTC is permissionless unstoppable money (not sure I really buy that narrative anymore), how does making to easier for people to embed arbitrary non monetary data on chain for all time help with that thesis?

Chance-A-La-Mer

I’m confused here, so the argument is that spam is ultimately difficult or even impossible to filter out so we should be OK with bitcoin core running rough shot over the community by pushing through a contentious change that makes spamming the chain easier? To the extent that BTC is permissionless unstoppable money (not sure I really buy that narrative anymore), how does making to easier for people to embed arbitrary non monetary data on chain for all time help with that thesis?

Even_Routine5011

I didnt show my BTC holdings or even say what was in my main Trezor wallet. Posted this so other people don't freak out like I did. Recent Cold Card incident has me on edge I am sure im not the only one.

magus-21

> Still doesn't make it a good decision. Only in hindsight. By your logic no one should have bought anything in June 2020 because BTC had just pumped from $3k. They should have just waited for the next "low." Except the next "low" wouldn't be until 2022 and would cost $16k instead of $9k.

sssssssssssssss5s

But where can you spend your BTC?

Left_Entrepreneur918

Damn really, I thought in 2022 the day after FTX, this shit is done. BTC was at 15,500 and well under the last market high of 20k. I remember I had half of my inheritance left and thought. You’ve lost money on everything so just do the opposite. I became a whole coiner that night. But if you are talking Alts, yeah technically it’s been a bear since 2021 lol.

magus-21

>If you put 100% of your capital available for investing into an asset that was already about 2x it's previous all time high, and didn't sell a significant amount when it went up, or didn't buy more when it was down 50%, then that's on you for having a poor trading strategy. Read what I said again. If you sold ~10% at the cycle high, then later used those funds to rebuy at the cycle low, you'd still only be ~20% of the S&P500 but with **significantly** more volatility. > But with your example, if you bought at where we are in the current cycle (about a year after the previous peak) then you'd be buying in at around $3500 in january 2019, Except that my whole point is that from now on it's diminishing returns. >or $16000 in january 2023, which are both significantly lower than the $35000 in january 2021. No, I accounted for that: "If you bought $10k of BTC on Jan 1 and you sold 10% of your stake at the 10/21 $71k ATH, **bought at the $16k low on 12/22**"

Hfksnfgitndskfjridnf

> But that is materially different from saying the STRC already issued is permanently a loss today. Even using your own numbers and your own attribution methodology, the worst tranche has not yet crossed the irreversible threshold. And if the worst tranche has not crossed it, the blanket statement is even harder to make about the later STRC issuance, which started with substantially better economics. Thanks for agreeing with most of what I’ve said. There are a ton of moving parts and trying to get a truly accurate depiction of what exactly is or is not attributable would take more time than it’s worth. If you’re going to hang your hat on the fact that only 89% is gone after a year instead of the full 100%, I would say that is rather foolish. I will concede that they technically aren’t in an irrecoverable position quite yet, I’ll let you do the math on what CAGR Bitcoin needs to salvage the situation, I’m guessing triple digits. It’s clearly a disaster and I don’t see how a reasonable person could say otherwise. MSTR would be in a much stronger position today if they hadn’t issued any STRC. But this is the issue with STRC, it’s not that BTC just has to grow faster than the dividend rate, it also depends on the path it takes getting there. And having to keep years of dividend coverage makes that hurdle even higher. And the fact that structurally they are designed to buy tops because that’s when they have the most access to capital means it probably won’t be that great of a funding mechanism going forward either.

effdanwo

They've sure as hell nailed down all the exits to tax you on BTC, though

CommercialDuck7496

I think your historical math and data is mostly reasonable, but I don’t think it supports the conclusion and claim you started with. I’ll grant your framework for the sake of argument. The original STRC IPO bought 21,021 BTC, which you calculate represented roughly 10.9 million MSTR share equivalents of additional gross BTC exposure. You then estimate roughly 2 million MSTR share equivalents have been consumed by dividends already paid, and allocate another roughly 7.6 million shares of reserve building dilution to that original STRC tranche. That gets you to about 9.7 million shares of attributed dilution against an original benefit of about 10.9 million. But notice what your own calculation says: 10.9 million minus 9.7 million is still positive by roughly 1.2 million share equivalents. In other words, even under your attribution assumptions, the original July 2025 STRC IPO ... * the worst tranche by fsr*, because it was issued at a discount, bought BTC around $117k, and has accumulated the most dividends ... has still not crossed into negative attributable gross BTC/share. That matters because you’ve now clarified that your actual irreversible threshold is gross BPS going negative. On that specific point, I agree with you: if a particular STRC tranche has genuinely caused gross BTC/share to fall below the no-STRC counterfactual while the STRC senior claim still remains outstanding, then Bitcoin simply going up cannot make its net-BPS contribution positive. As BTC rises, the BTC-equivalent burden of the fixed-dollar claim approaches zero, so net approaches gross from below. If gross is already negative, BTC appreciation alone cannot push net above zero, sure. My point was, we arent there yet. We are closer than I thought for the OG tranche, but the others are substainally better. But by your own numbers, that has not happened yet, even for the original IPO tranche. So the statement you have been making throughout this discussion, that “the STRC they have already issued is permanently a drag on shareholders regardless of what Bitcoin does,” is stronger than what your own calculation establishes. What you’ve actually shown is that the original tranche may have consumed roughly 89% of its initial gross BPS benefit under your allocation methodology. Losing 89% is NOT the same thing as crossing below zero, and that difference is critical here. I also think the 7.6 million share reserve allocation needs to be treated as an estimate rather than a fact. Allocating 19.3% of reserve building issuance to the original STRC tranche because it currently represents roughly 19.3% of covered annual obligations is a reasonable simplifying assumption, but it is still an assumption about the counterfactual. The USD reserve is pooled across preferred dividends and debt interest, the capital structure and STRC outstanding balance changed throughout the period, and the exact percentage of the marginal reserve requirement attributable to the original July 2025 tranche was not necessarily 19.3% at every point when those shares were issued. A truly precise calculation would have to reconstruct the liability mix and reserve requirement through time rather than apply one current percentage to the entire period. There is also a potential accounting issue we should be careful about before simply adding the 2 million historical dividend share equivalents to the 7.6 million reserve shares. If some common issuance was used to replenish the USD reserve after reserve cash had already been spent on dividends, then counting the historical dividend separately and then allocating the replenishment issuance as additional reserve dilution can double count the same economic cost. You would need to follow the reserve cash flows and distinguish cash still sitting in the reserve for future obligations from cash that replaced prior distributions before adding the two buckets together. And there is an important distinction between gross BPS and economic value here. If you are strictly calculating gross BTC/share, then yes, cash in the reserve gets zero credit by definition and the additional common shares reduce gross BPS. I have no disagreement with that. But if you move from “gross BPS fell” to “that amount of shareholder value has already been permanently destroyed,” then the cash raised by those shares cannot simultaneously be treated as worthless. It remains an asset until it is spent. Gross BPS deliberately ignores that asset; an economic or net value analysis cannot. Most importantly, future Bitcoin and MSTR prices still matter until the tranche actually crosses your negative gross threshold which has been the thing ive been trying to get across FROM THE VERY START. STRC’s dividends are fixed dollar obligations at a given dividend rate. If MSTR remains depressed, servicing those obligations can consume a lot of common shares and eventually erase the remaining gross BPS benefit. If Bitcoin and MSTR appreciate substantially, the same dollar obligation can be funded with far fewer common shares. So whether that remaining ~1.2 million-share equivalent cushion ultimately gets consumed is not predetermined today. Even tho we woule probably both agree that it most likely will. I think the strongest version of your argument is: “The original STRC IPO has already burned through most of its initial gross BPS benefit, and if the cumulative servicing dilution eventually exceeds that initial benefit, then BTC appreciation alone cannot repair the resulting negative gross BPS.” I agree with that. But that is materially different from saying the STRC already issued is permanently a loss today. Even using your own numbers and your own attribution methodology, the worst tranche has not yet crossed the irreversible threshold. And if the worst tranche has not crossed it, the blanket statement is even harder to make about the later STRC issuance, which started with *substantially* better economics.

Lacklusterspew23

Mostly garbage political drivel having nothing to do with the security of BTC. 1. Hard drives continue to grow in size. This won'r be a problem. As someone who buys BTV ASICs, the storage cost is maybe 1/100th of the price and will continue to be a deminimis cost. 2. Stop trying to impose your political censorship views on BTC. Whatever someone posts as a message is on the chain. Deal with it. If we allow people's political views to change BTC, it is worthless garbage. Only absolutely necessary security updates should be made. Your other points are predicated on falsehoods about consensus, so I won't respond to them. Basically, if garbage like BIP110 passes, the next stop is removal of the cap. and BTC becoming worthless.

sssssssssssssss5s

From what? Who controls the energy? Who makes the chips? Who do you pay with BTC to get your groceries? Freedom from having to think, I guess.

bollocksgrenade

BTC has only been around since January 2009, so…

TheCodifiedTrader

I thought crypto wasn't centralized and that was the point? Which is why it's never going to work. Look at all the people who lose on ColdCard and even others who sent to wrong address off by a single character. Crypto, BTC, NFTS, all the same shit.

magus-21

>All I'm saying is if you buy now and sell in two years you're gonna (most likely) beat the S&P. Yeah, I did the math. If you bought and held $10k of BTC with no buys or sells on Jan 1, 2021, then as of today you'd have $19k. Your portfolio low would've been $5k in 12/22. If you bought $10k of BTC on Jan 1 and you sold 10% of your stake at the 10/21 $71k ATH, bought at the $16k low on 12/22, and then sold 10% again at the 7/25 $116k ATH, then you'd have $24k now, and your portfolio low would've been $6k in 12/22. Otherwise, if you had simply held the S&P500, you'd actually be beating the "Hold BTC" strategy with $20k, and your portfolio low would've been $9,821 in 10/22. But even with your perfectly timed buys and sells, you're still only looking at a benefit of an extra 20% over five years. Substantial? Yes, but considering the competing strategy is literally **doing nothing** while also having far FAAAR less volatility, it's not exactly a compelling argument.

AdmirableSock192

I don't try to decide if today is a good day. I keep some cash aside and buy more when BTC gets further from its ATH

magus-21

> Welllll it kinda has been a reliable strategy so far. If you try it on a short timeframe then yeah that's when you lose. But if you're patient and buy somewhere near the obvious lows and sell somewhere near the obvious highs then you'll beat any other traditional investment strategy. It's been a "reliable" strategy because BTC isn't even old enough to get a driver's permit. People are looking at that chart and seeing diminishing returns leading to value flattening out, but it could just as easily be an arc that starts going down. > And of course i didn't sell everything at the top and re-buy everything at the bottom Then your actual gains are actually much less. I just did a quick Excel sheet that simulated what would happen if you sold 10% of your holdings at the top, held it in cash until the low, and then used all that cash to rebuy at the bottom. Then I compared it to simply holding in the S&P500. Interested in the results? * Start date: Jan 2021 * Starting investment: $10,000 in S&P and $10,000 in BTC * Key checkpoints: * BTC Cycle 1 Monthly ATH: $61,309 on 10/2021 * BTC Cycle 1 Monthly Low: $16,537 on 12/2022 * BTC Cycle 2 Monthly ATH: $114,048 on 9/2025 * BTC Cycle 2 July 1 Price: $62,875 So based on these checkpoints: * Starting investment: $10,000 on 1/2021 * 10/2021 ATH: * Portfolio value: $18,518.01 * Sell and bank $1,851.80 into cash * Allocation: * $1,851.80 in cash * $16,666.21 in BTC * 12/2022 Low: * Portfolio value: $6,846.77 * $1,851.80 in cash * $4,994.97 in BTC * Buy $1,851.80 of BTC @ $16,537/BTC * Allocation: * $6,846.77 in BTC * 9/2025 ATH: * Portfolio value: $34,447.31 * Sell and bank $3,444.73 into cash * Allocation: * $3,444.73 in cash * $31,002.58 in BTC * 7/2026 Current: * Portfolio value: $22,435.70 * Allocation: * $3,444.73 in cash * $18,990.97 in BTC Meanwhile, the $1,000 S&P500 investment, with no sales or buys, is now worth $19,804.94 So congrats, you gained 10% over the S&P500 over 5.5 years measured as of today. But with significantly more volatility and risk, and assuming perfect knowledge of when to buy/sell. Now, if you sold more, you'd have proportionately more gains over the S&P, e.g. if you had sold 25% of your holdings at the ATH, you'd be ~40% ahead of the S&P now. But 25% is a large chunk of change to liquidate. >I'd be incredibly surprised if BTC doesn't hit $100k again within that timeframe.

DiamondHandsDarrell

With respect, this is a terrible take. At any moment in time they could just remove the app and prohibit it from being installed. Centralized control of a wallet that controls BTC is the antithesis of what BTC is: which is that no one authority can turn it off. You'd literally be handing them control of your money.

Numerous-Annual-721

are you seriously asking if it's a good time to buy BTC on a Bitcoin group?

Hfksnfgitndskfjridnf

Go ahead and look up the historical numbers. When STRC IPO’d they issued 2.8 Billion notional and bought 21,021 BTC with it. Based on their Bitcoin per share that was the equivalent of 10.9 million MSTR shares. Since then they’ve paid out $10.94 in dividends on those STRC shares (through July 31), which if you go by the MSTR share price at the time paid (which is how you have to do it because they issue the shares the week of the dividend payment) equates to 2 million MSTR shares to cover just the STRC IPO share dividends. Now since the start of June they’ve issued 39 million more MSTR shares to build the USD reserve. The STRC IPO accounts for 19.3% of the dividend obligations so if you attribute that ratio to the shares issued you get an additional 7.6 million MSTR shares attributable to STRC IPO. (I’m even ignoring the BTC sales fyi). This means in total they’ve issued 9.7 million MSTR shares to pay for the STRC IPO dividends and USD reserve. So they have lost 89% of the gross BTC yield from the STRC IPO and are still on the hook for 330 million in yearly dividend obligations forever. I’m not saying future STRC issuance can’t or won’t be accretive. I’m saying the STRC they’ve issued so far is a massive negative for shareholders. They’ve given up essentially all gross Bitcoin yield already and the dividends will continue to be a drag forever. Once the gross Bitcoin per share attributed to the STRC issuance goes negative, it does not matter what Bitcoin does subsequently, they are already at a loss. The company would have had more gross and more net Bitcoin per share if they simply hadn’t issued any STRC period.

na3than

Prove it. From what I can see at https://bitinfocharts.com/top-100-richest-bitcoin-addresses.html, there are fewer than 90 *addresses* holding 10,000 or more BTC. If you have some special ability to see *wallet* totals and can see how many wallets hold 10,000 or more BTC, please elucidate us.

Timely-Fig2030

Agree until the btc maxi bullshit. Once BTC has a bad season, finally we won't need to listen to this annoying maxi talk any longer.

ViolaSwampp23

Switched my BTC out for GOOG and Amazon 6 months ago and happy with that. So many people who don’t understand BTC bought at 100. I’m not waiting for ANOTHER 4-8 years I was up 220% that’s good enough.

ptrnyc

I very much doubt that BTC mining ASICs have any use for AI.

kdoughboy12

Welllll it kinda has been a reliable strategy so far. If you try it on a short timeframe then yeah that's when you lose. But if you're patient and buy somewhere near the obvious lows and sell somewhere near the obvious highs then you'll beat any other traditional investment strategy. Trust me I've made TONS of bad trades trying to chase maximum gains. And of course i didn't sell everything at the top and re-buy everything at the bottom. It's a learning process, I've been in crypto for about 10 years now. All I'm saying is if you buy now and sell in two years you're gonna (most likely) beat the S&P. I'd be incredibly surprised if BTC doesn't hit $100k again within that timeframe.

unknowngloomth

Nobody can give you advice, dude. As nobody knows shit about fuck. Plus. We don't know you and we don't know what's your risk tolerance. But yeah, bagholders will shill their favorite shitcoin and BTC maxis will be "BTC only bruh" tho the rois will be likely be conservative at best.

Deto

Even if you believe that fiat value itself doesn't matter, the price in fiat is a proxy for what you could actually buy with bitcoin. at $65k, one BTC gets you a nice car at $10, one BTC gets you an ok sandwich This matters.

NorthHaverbrookNate

Tldr at bottom, my middle school English teacher once said I was "too wordy", and she was right. As in what do I think about where BTC and crypto generally are in the lifecycle, or something else? I think it's hard to say for certain whether something novel like a decentralized and globally available currency is early or not, and harder still for me than people here or in related subs. I have been looking at crypto from a social sciences standpoint rather than tech, and it's quite possible the tech is not yet been appreciated or applied in a way that will bring crypto into maturity. I think about the gap between the invention of the metal food can and can opener a bit in relation to this, something that has a lot of utility but the tools to make it accessible to the broader public didn't exist. It seems possible that crypto has not had that (things like Trezor/Ledger and Binance/Coinbase seem to move things in that direction, but not enough if the broader plan is a decentralized and practical currency for general consumptive purposes. Personally, just opinion and not opinion based on data but more feel and conversations with folks in, to use the parlance of the late 90s/early 00s scifi action series The Matrix, the real, I think crypto is no longer early and the general share of the public with active participation (the not your keys/not your coins and longtime exchange trader groups, rather than loose ETF holders at Schwab who have it as novelty relative to the rest of their portfolios) is probably about at the largest share it will be. Again, this is not based on anything rigorous, except maybe some observations about the number of active wallets over time, but I just don't see many people talking about crypto in real life and those I do tend to be pretty skeptical. As a caveat, most folks I talked to fall into three broad camps - my coworkers who work in Democratic (the American political party) campaigning, generally conservative (again, American political sense) guys (mostly men) in places like gun ranges, tobacco shops, etc, and people in the service industry, mostly bartenders, front of house staff at restaurants, and a couple people in security. Disclosure - for my last I only hold a small amount of BTC and a bit less of some alts (we're talking real small, I think the current value collectively is ~$80) Tldr I don't think it's early, and while I think it's likely the "peak" (adoption, not pricing) has passed I don't know what I don't know, and I don't know for sure if the use case has not been demonstrated yet.

ForeverLaca

never again in history, or short/mid term? If it is short mid term, I agree. But saying that never again in history it's the same as saying that BTC is dead.

TrixoftheTrade

irrelevant, 1 BTC = 1 BTC. the value of bitcoin measured in an arbitrary fiat currency does not devalue the inherent value of bitcoin. whether 1 BTC = $1, $100, $10,000 or $1,000,000 is irrelevant.

flangarky

BTC market cap is only 1.2 trillion, not trillions.

Clean_Difficulty_225

Always the same with you bots/shills. Can’t form a proper or coherent argument at all, just dismissive attitudes which are really just ad hominem logical fallacies. What exactly makes this absolute nonsense, what actual evidence or rebuttal do you have using any factual economic data at all? Your opinion is worth about as much as BTC, hint that’s worthless.

Nervous-Plantain-788

Expect something great to happen? Its like going to the casino, who knows. Learn what btc does and who you are lending your money to. If you have not already invested 90% into index funds you should do that first. BTC is highly speculative

Dense-Permission8346

And everything rotated into gold, silver, and AI. It’s 1 of two things. 1. For the first time in crypto history we had no blow off top/euphoria phase of the bull run. 2. That blow off top is delayed because everyone rotated into what i said above. If BTC is sitting around $80k on September 1st we are very likely headed to a blow off top later this year.

chainglance_cm

No one knows for sure. And by the time it's clearly a bull run everyone's already in and the easy money's gone. The quiet phase before that is honestly more useful to pay attention to than trying to call the run itself. A few things I look out for: \- BTC dominance starts dropping but the total market cap isn't really moving yet. That usually means money's quietly rotating into alts before the price shows it. \- Stablecoins sitting on exchanges start piling up, that's dry powder waiting to be deployed. \- And DEX volume creeps up even while prices are flat. This could be people positioning before the move. None of it's exciting and that's kind of the point. You won't catch it just glancing at price on one app, you gotta actually be checking across your positions regularly, which is why most people miss it till it's already obvious

Clean_Difficulty_225

Yup, I mean we're about to experience another 1929/1987/2000/2008 type of macroeconomic bear market. What is BTC worth in that type of liquidity crunch? Anyone long-term bullish BTC is either a bot/shill or just plain misinformed. Note that the sell-off of speculative assets already started, that's why BTC is down 50% already. All these poor people have been trained like pavlovian dogs to be the exit liquidity during these upcoming events, and they don't even realize it yet.

kdoughboy12

Lol maybe that's the case for you. I sold around $55k at the ~$60k peak and around $120k at the ~$125k peak. If you are using money that you may need for an emergency then that's just poor planning and not how you invest. Regardless of that, even if BTC underperforms compared to previous cycles, we are currently close to the bottom. If you buy now and sell at any point between 1 to 3 years from now you'll most likely beat the S&P.

magus-21

>Well even if the next cycle has zero gain (from peak to peak) that's still a 100% gain from the current price in the next 2 or so years. I don't think that is worse than investing in the S&P right now. You're only looking at the peaks. Why don't you take a look at how long BTC stayed at its ATH before crashing back down, and then figure out *when* in that cycle you're most likely to sell to fund some emergency.

goldvenetianmask

If Satoshi every rises again, to sell all of his BTC it’ll be to remove crypto as a viable technology lol

martianfrog

Could be a year or more away, we'll see, but I don't see BTC going down much in the mean time. My best guess right now.

UrbanGrower187

All I know is I’m up a lot on BTC over the years …. Best of luck to everyone I honestly don’t care if ppl DYOR or not invest or don’t invest but regardless whatever you do know that BTC will always outperform in the long run.

AromaKachu

Yeah, still plenty of room to grow. The next phase could be less about price and more about expanding how BTC is actually used, from payments and lending to native staking and other financial use cases....

AromaKachu

Yeah, more than price... I think the utility side is still massively underexplored. BTC can be money and still have other uses like collateral, lending, payments, etc. We already have native staking, and TBVs are getting closer to becoming available too..

arveena

It's funny how you can tell people who are young and that a market crash in stocks is imminent. Its like if people forgot the stockmarket can crash and burn as well. I am no gold maxi or bond maxi but BTC obviously gets his value by an asset class that does not need insane amount of storage and is decentralized to a degree thats its IMPOSSIBLE to recreate. Also its deflationary. The stock market is cool at the moment but its way too hot. Like crypto was 2021. Or the stockmarket in the dotcom or housing bubble.

anonymousopsec1337

Same issue leaking data, closed source code, the fact they pitched ledger live to people to online backup seeds, constant firmware updates, no BTC only option like Trezor has

BorrowOnBitcoin

I posted this on a different BTC mortgage thread but the answer is multifaceted on when to use BTC in conjunction with a mortgage or to pay off a mortgage. We have lots of articles and guides on this but in the spirit of how to make a decision on selling your BTC for mortgages, we have a guide below (with math) [https://borrowonbitcoin.com/articles/sell-bitcoin-to-pay-off-mortgage](https://borrowonbitcoin.com/articles/sell-bitcoin-to-pay-off-mortgage)

BorrowOnBitcoin

There was some talk on older threads about selling BTC to pay off mortgages. We put together a guide that links in personal cash flow, market cycle timing, and rates. There is math in there too if you want to look. Personally, i think when the BTC market is bottoming, thats the right time to take out a mortgage loan against your stack. [https://borrowonbitcoin.com/articles/sell-bitcoin-to-pay-off-mortgage](https://borrowonbitcoin.com/articles/sell-bitcoin-to-pay-off-mortgage)

oliver_jay_dev

There’s only one way I recommend storing BTC for the long term and it’s none of those suggestions. Albeit more technical, it’s worth the piece of mind 1) Generate seedphrase (search iancoleman BIP on Github) and download then run in offline mode 2) Buy cryptosteel, or cheaper alternative and put your letters for the seed phrase into it 3) Store in a safety deposit box The advanced version of this for the super paranoid would be to: a) have AI triple check the repository for any issues before generating keys b b) run the wallet seed phrase generator on a new device which has never touched the internet (ideally a mac, transfer software via Airdrop from another mac) c) split the keyphrases into say 3 parts where you need 2 of 3, keep one in safety deposit box, one with family, one at home. And whatever you do, never actually password protect your wallet, because you can forget it! Rely on physical security. Finally, if this scares you enough to not proceed, ignore everything and just use Coinbase :)

CommercialDuck7496

You’re right about one narrow point: if we freeze Strategy’s BTC holdings and common share count today, Bitcoin going back up does not magically repair gross BTC/share. Gross BPS only changes when the BTC numerator or common-share denominator changes. Where I disagree is your conclusion that this means STRC can never become economically accretive, or that its maximum accretion is the company’s 1.7% gross BTC yield. That 1.7% is the aggregate gross BTC/share result of everything Strategy has done this year. It is not the isolated contribution from STRC. STRC itself does not issue common shares; when Strategy sells STRC and buys BTC, gross BTC/share mechanically goes up because BTC increases while the common denominator does not. Strategy explicitly notes that non-convertible preferred issuance used to buy BTC increases BPS while simultaneously creating senior claims that gross BPS does not capture. What subsequently dragged gross BPS down was largely separate common issuance, including common issued to build the USD reserve. If you want to argue that some of that dilution should be charged back against STRC because the reserve exists partly to service STRC dividends, that’s completely reasonable. I’ve already agreed that it raises STRC’s break-even materially. But you have to actually attribute the dilution and compare the counterfactual; you can’t look at the company-wide 1.7% gross yield and declare that STRC itself was only 1.7% accretive. Also, ‘gross is the upper limit of net’ does not mean gross BTC yield is the upper limit on the percentage increase in net value. Imagine gross BPS is 1.00 BTC but senior claims reduce net BPS to 0.60 BTC at a depressed BTC price. If BTC rises enough that those fixed-dollar claims become relatively tiny, net BPS can approach 1.00 BTC. That’s a roughly 67% increase in net BTC-equivalent exposure without gross BPS changing at all. Strategy explicitly says its gross BPS metric does not account for the senior claims created by preferred financing. So there are two different statements here. ‘BTC going up alone cannot increase gross BTC/share’ is correct. ‘Therefore BTC’s future return cannot determine whether STRC was a profitable financing for common’ is not. STRC exchanged a fixed-dollar preferred claim and ongoing cash dividends for BTC. Whether the BTC purchased ultimately appreciates enough to exceed the issuance discount, dividends, and any common/BTC sacrificed to service STRC necessarily depends on Bitcoin’s return, which has been my whole entire point from the very first comment. If BTC never recovers, STRC can absolutely have been a bad trade. If BTC rises enough, the incremental BTC purchased can become worth far more than the fixed-dollar claim and cumulative servicing cost. That does not retroactively increase gross sats/share; it makes the financing economically profitable despite its carrying costs. Those are different concepts. And importantly, Strategy itself warns that BTC Yield/BPS are not measures of intrinsic value or stock-price performance. They are specifically gross BTC-per-share KPIs. So I’m not conflating gross and net. My entire point is that you cannot use gross BPS alone to answer whether STRC ultimately created or destroyed economic value for common.” Your statement “gross is only +1.7%, therefore STRC can be at most 1.7% accretive” is not valid. The 1.7% is the net result of multiple transactions pulling gross BPS in opposite directions. You could have STRC contribute +10% gross BPS and common issuance/reserve building contribute −8.3%, leaving +1.7% overall. The +1.7% aggregate number by itself tells you nothing about STRC’s isolated contribution.

hoppeeness

Why hold BTC when you can hold tokenized gold?

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