BTC

LeRubanBleu

200USD in BTC in 2010! Ouch! And you sold them…you must be so sorry

Smooth_Imagination

Because gold, silver, other rare metals and AI are currently up, and they are up mainly because they are expected to continue going up.  I've seen charts showing that BTC naturally lags gold, so if that is the case a low price of BTC will trigger rotation when those conventional asset classes lose momentum, at the same time BTC pulls back because smart money was focusing on gold. 

inShambles3749

I know quite a few places in Berlin Zürich, FFM that take BTC if you want. And xmr obviously on black markets. But BCH? No where

Flamboiant_Canadian

Same goes foe my BTC or any other cryptocurrency. I even mentioned it to my like-minded friend tonight and he didn't even understand it.

FromThePits

Bitcoin is whatever you want it to be for you. Some people day trade (good luck with that). Some people use and accept it as plain currency (my business does) Others, also like myself plan to hold it for the next 4 generations (hail Mary) Here is a list of released new BTC through rewards every block (approx. every tenth minute) Block reward after halving (from 2024 onward): 2024 — 312,500,000 sats 2028 — 156,250,000 sats 2032 — 78,125,000 sats 2036 — 39,062,500 sats 2040 — 19,531,250 sats 2044 — 9,765,625 sats 2048 — 4,882,812 sats 2052 — 2,441,406 sats 2056 — 1,220,703 sats 2060 — 610,351 sats 2064 — 305,175 sats 2068 — 152,587 sats 2072 — 76,293 sats 2076 — 38,146 sats 2080 — 19,073 sats 2084 — 9,536 sats 2088 — 4,768 sats 2092 — 2,384 sats 2096 — 1,192 sats 2100 — 596 sats 2104 — 298 sats 2108 — 149 sats 2112 — 74 sats 2116 — 37 sats 2120 — 18 sats 2124 — 9 sats 2128 — 4 sats 2132 — 2 sats 2136 — 1 sat ~2140 — 0 sats (subsidy ends)

Annual-Carry6558

As BTC is below 90k currently.

Currentshop333

The “0.1 BTC” framing comes up a lot in long-form Bitcoin podcasts because it’s more about mindset and time preference than short term price. I have noticed sentiment around this idea gets more conviction driven during certain cycles and tools like AudioAlpha make it easier to see when podcasts lean into that long term narrative versus pure hype.

DryMyBottom

how many times did BTC die in 2025?

nomorelosses1

I think I’m going to buy some cheap BTC later this year

jup1t3rr

Yeah alts only pump when BTC goes down hard ive noticed.

jirat_jarate

Well This time the gap between 3 up 1 down doesn’t look so swing. BTC kinda looks stable though

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topofmigame

I swear BTC is the the primary catalyst for heart diseases

SuperiorFarter

I love how he has exactly 10.00 BTC

Minisfortheminigod

Anything outside of BTC is pure gambling.

DangerHighVoltage111

Aka price manipulation. Aka something they once steadfast told everyone they would never do. Same as they told everyone that they were 100% backed. And people still think BTC "won" the blocksize wars because of "the market".

PowerFarta

BTC treasury strategy = our business is failing Prove me wrong

SavingsDimensions74

The cycle is definitely a bit weird. But BTC hasn’t topped so good alts should run based on speculation and utility. Of course I could be completely wrong, so you all should sell and I promise I won’t buy at bargain base prices 😉

Jason_Bourne6023

Scam - delegate the message & change password in your BTC account - Pronto..

PirateSKB

I still have some BTC back from sub-10k I really don't care as much as I should lol

Flamboiant_Canadian

BCH is actually functionally used as a currency. It's reflected in the price (why it's so low compared to BTC). Who do you know that actively uses BTC for purchases/bills/etc? That's the entire premise of the BCH community. Actually using it, like Monero. 

Gingerholic803

I’ll take the BTC. I didn’t have my kids in 2010 and I don’t want to experience the Covid bs again either lol! Although I could get in early on the toilet paper and face mask stocks🙄

meccaleccahimeccahi

51% at loan time, but I’ve paid some back so it’s currently 44%. Distance to liquidation is currently 49%. It costs me ~$3k per year to have that loan, and that’s assuming I make no payments. Pretty damn sure I’ll make more than that from BTC

Flamboiant_Canadian

When you factor in that half of the Top 100 cryptocurrencies aren't even cryptocurrencies, the whole Top 10 topic become moot. If you exclude memecoins, stablecoins, numerous shitcoins, and BTC/ETH derivatives, Top 100 becomes a Top 30.

fan_of_hakiksexydays

Keep in mind that last April when BTC dropped to $74K more than 80% of the people in here thought BTC would never go back up this year and we were entering a bear winter. 2 months later BTC hit a new ATH, 1 month later alts had a big rally, then 3 months later BTC hit $126K.

Street_Outside_7228

Most alts were overvalued to begin with. Market overshoots up then it overshoots down like it willl again next year. Anything more then light DCA in these conditions is foolish imo. Some new folk want to borrow to pay near ATH prices on BTC, I wouldn’t tho.

maverickLI

Matic is gonna pass BTC?

110010010011

The fakest thing about this fake portfolio are the precise coin balances. Everything is a nice even number, like 10.00 BTC.

StickyRibbs

I never understood this logic as you can buy Satoshi units of BTC. If Bitcoin 10x in 10 years, doesn’t matter if you buy $10, $1000 or $1 million. 10x is 10x your buy order.

Impossible-Weight852

We need big institutional buyers. The little guys have trouble scraping enough together to buy 0.1 BTC, if that was some magic number, but I’ll use that since everyone online throws out that number. Unfortunately, companies like MSTR are tapped out, and is only raising cash to make interest payments for the loans they have outstanding. I highly doubt any government is going to establish a bitcoin reserve to pump it up. It will only be used for holding confiscated BTC. If history is any indication, you’ll be in for downward and sideways action until the next halving is around the corner.

TripsterX

Good man Someone in this comment section will probably try to downplay you but just remember, having $1000 in BTC puts you ahead of about 98% of the population keep stacking brother. 🙏🙏

HumanNo109850364048

American financial engineering is risky. All this financial engineering and management execution risk for an extra boost to gains is a bad tradeoff. Just buy BTC

Shibinator

No, no need for a captured hijacked BTC. Good for people who made price gains. But a lot of them are lost in the sauce and completely gave up on the original vision of a p2p cash system. Now you see the BTC industry rife with shilling "treasury companies" and all kinds of other nonsense, so glad not to be involved in it.

Hot_Philosopher3199

Oh man. So as we can see the ETF's are an avenue to offload BTC very quickly. Yeah they have been great but if cascade selling begins, the average ETF investor will bail. Look at the outflows already.....

BosSF82

BTC was down 6% in 2025. SPY was up 16% in 2025.

Hot_Philosopher3199

Happened like clockwork. Bull Cycle was over late Sept early Oct. And yes, I did sell for the first time in multiple cycles. I'm not saying it will go down 70%, I'm just saying I wasn't willing to round-trip it again. I rotated to TSLA. I'll rotate back when appropriate, but for now, my BTC/TSLA rotation is worth 22% more BTC.

bin-noddin

Why do they do anything? Like seriously you see where we are going right? I do not understand why this is so unbelievable I wouldn't say it imto just say it when did you get into crypto? Like it's significantly harder these days to do anything worth doing in crypto you can buy and you can sell but that's not what it is for ...they took away trading....and added all these new crazy fucking stipulations.....they have always had a full spectrum view of BTC but now they have it by name it's really been a thing for years the only platforms you can even use in the states are ones that are completely fed boot licker places all the good exchanges opted out and said fuck it we won't serve Americans then it was not worth it to them but we get basic bitch services (which I guess is another rant) but why wouldn't they? They are getting into everything....

Illustrious-Boss9356

Happy New Year everyone. Take a look at the USDT 1 month chart. Concerning for the ecosystem, USDC seems to hold the peg better as of late. Think it's wise to be $CRCL on shocks to crypto. That and continue to stack BTC. Good luck in the new year all! May it bring health and prosperity to you and your loved ones.

Django_McFly

I think all of your years need to have a 1 added to them. BTC was $16k in 2023, not 2022. It was $42k in 2024, not 2023. It was 94k in 2025, not 2024 and that $88.9k which I assume is the current price should be for 2026, not 2025.

FrozenRain1038

With the knowledge you have know, you could sneak around your parents to buy the 10BTC yourself

HumanNo109850364048

I struggle to understand why people would want to invest in pure play (no revenue) BTCTCs when they can just buy BTC directly. Buying directly eliminates all of the risks associated with these middleman platforms

Medium_Change4574

Last time to see BTC green YTD. Ok enough bearishness, let this new years be the reset we deserve!

Dumbest_Degenerate

Never understood it but if people believe it then it gives it some credibility. However, the last one lined up with the market crashing. This one has shown a strong disconnect from the market. Not just the stock market but even with commodities. You’ve also got a larger make up of traditional investors and passive flows. If this is what front running for the bottom has done, what’s going to happen if people realize and believe the 4 year cycle is broken? It can start with positive action, ATHs, and continue ripping. You’ve got the catch up trade narrative, beta to the market, and momentum that can push it up. Idk if it’s broken or not but I think it’s a good bet to take that BTC will run in 2026. With the 4 year cycle narrative being a big part of it.

Seattleman1955

Either the cycle is broken or BTC isn't a very good investment anymore. Beyond that, the cycle is based on the having but the having makes very little difference any more.

Patient-Bumblebee

Using AI to accumulate BTC through [Everstrike](https://everstrike.io). It works like this: * You define a prompt (when to accumulate) * You submit the prompt * It auto accumulates for you based on your prompt I've got several dip buying prompts running currently which I refined through weeks of trial and error. They mainly use TA but also some statistical data like funding rate and open interest.

Charlie-boy1

I feel the only reason why people are saying this is because bitcoin hit an all-time high before the halving. showing a potential first sign of a broken cycle. Another theory is that Everybody and their mom is hoping that there is a potential BTC ETF 8 year bull run, comparing it to gold ETF 8 year bull run.

northcasewhite

BTC is up 0.14% YTD. ETH up 0.28%. Bull rally for 2026 confirmed!

Leynnox

Yea that's where we're not the same, I actually don't want btc or any coin in my portfolio to pump and pump and pump, because I'm not rich, I need to buy way more so I need time. Having a red year is good, but for me prices aren't even low enough, so I just buy now and then, but if BTC could go deep and touch the 50-60k, that's where I'd make lot of money in 5-10 years. Those are just opportunities, when the liquidity will rotate, it will be the worse time to buy.

HumanNo109850364048

Just read Strive’s Nov’25 deck. How is generating cash to fund their dividend and fund additional BTC purchases?

dataCollector42069

BTC was at a $1k spread, LTC $10 spread on coinbase

VariatCA

BTC's already up $100 and is currently green YTD now, ya love to see it lol

FewCinnamon

I don't have any BTC. Waiting to buy in at 120k

Motor-District-3700

> cryptocurrencies are tailor made to be currency and yet they aren't. I think you have trouble with words. A chair is not a weapon, and it never will be. At best you can say it's used as a weapon, but it's not a weapon unless you change the meaning of words. BTC is not a currency because it's not used as a currency, and in its present state couldn't be. It doesn't matter how you try and reframe that chair to be a weapon, it's just a chair.

GoMiningCow

I would stick to BTC as well but also check out GoMining utility token.

Pitagrec

Until it doesn't happen, like his 10 last predictions, and he'll come up with another excuse why it didn't happen. His own fundstrat crypto strategist is selling to their customers that BTC (and crypto) will go down significantly in Q1. Make of that what you want.

Odd_Basis_6876

No. The wealthy are buying it to create ETF’s so they can charge fees for trading. They don’t care if they make money on BTC. They will make the money in fees while gamblers watch it rise and fall. The rich got in bc they see the chaos and figure they can make a buck off of every change. And boy are they right. Eventually it will hit near zero and stay there. We have peaked. Maybe it goes up 10-20k. But it will hit 30k before long. And 10k when people do the math on their terrible gains. A 401k will outperform BTC growth from here on, unless you just gamble really well.

PinkUnicornNow

So true, BTC to 500K here we go...

Business-Average-977

how so? Two months ago we put in an ATH on BTC....

ilouiei

I'm not sure what I was looking at before but I double checked and my sell fee was only $40, I don't know why I thought it was much higher. I sold my BTC to cancel out 17k in short-term gains from SOL/ETH which would've resulted in me paying 4k in taxes. Appreciate the reminder.

SpecialistMattress21

Same here, bought and sold 100 BTC for a $20k loss instead of holding for a 10M gain.

StatisticalMan

I sold all my BCH when the split happened and got about 0.2 extra BTC per BTC held. My guess is dunces like OP were on the opposite side of that trade. They traded their "worthless" BTC for FIVE TIMES as much BCH. Whomp whomp.

tooandto

Yup, Flippening and death spiral incoming lol 0.13 BTC on day one. When it was free. Pumped to almost 0.5 in 2017 during the absolutely criminal fork rollout manipulation at Coinbase. Imagine holding that until now. OUCH!! The pain hahaha

PirateSKB

Last few hours left in the daily till 2026, we might even get a god candle at the last few seconds of 2025 and hit 1 million BTC It would be the biggest most godliest candle evar

Choobtastic

Usually, when they print money, BTC goes up.. so I’m wondering why I didn’t this time that’s all pretty simple question

Ravenn00

If you decide to go back to 2010, and then arrive at today, do get asked again if you want to go back or the BTC?

Bred_Slippy

Considering the very low BTC inflation rate now, the halvings are unlikely to be material in of themselves anymore. It's really more a phycological effect now, which could make it self-fulfilling, but is easier to break than those early high block reward years. 

SeriousGains

According to Tom Lee January is about to be the best month for BTC since May 2017 when it did 161%.

heinzmoleman

Iranian Rial has fallen 40% and people are protesting in the street because they've seen their savings wiped and people want to sell BTC for Fiat????? Insanity.

Leynnox

Because s&p is a safe asset while btc like all cryptos is a high risk asset with very high volatility. If you don't understand how to love this volatility for making money, then it's better to stick to safe assets. BTC can loose or gain that in a single week, that's the difference.

mdnz

Instead of being smug can you explain why BTC underperformed the s&p by 26% this year? Literally everything else pumped and this stayed in the dumpster. Don’t give me any BS about “cycles” please.

richardto4321

Yep. The S&P has more than 3x in the last 10 years. Only aiming for double in this timeframe makes BTC a very poor investment, relatively.

Comfortable-Word9957

I see big institutions DCA'ing from their positions from when the BTC ETF's we first created. I see a lot of liquidity staying in the market from Black Rick and Michael Saylor, but we will see. I speculate the bottom being anywhere from $50-70k.

megaman368

If I go back in time that far I won’t meet my wife or have my kid. I’ll take the BTC.

bin-noddin

That could be said for anything really I would say a bank if I wanted to focus souly on Bitcoin...come in get your coin...lend your coin for coin, borrow coin, sell coin I mean that right there is an idea that makes like..... progression I think the golf course in and of itself would have to be playable enough to want to deal with the hassle of working with BTC in the first place

Comprehensive_Tip310

Crazy thing is I owned 50 BTC in 2010, but it only survived up to the mtgox hack xD

nugymmer

BTC would have started tanking despite any tweets. Markets move when they want to based on liquidity and capital inflows and outflows.

nugymmer

Also the alt coin market has basically failed one way or another depending on the token. 99.99% will fail. BTC is the only one worth investing in long term. There is too much ambiguity with any other crypto. BTC is the only one. Simple.

nugymmer

Fiat has a bottom. Zero. BTC has a top - the basket of goods that people own in their lifetime, food, goods both durable and consumable, and other capital assets. BTC does indeed have a top but it is likely much higher than what it is today.

nugymmer

EXACTLY. The value of gold or BTC depends on a BELIEF that it has value. If everyone agrees that gold and BTC are valuable then they are. Dead simple really.

nugymmer

No shift in fundamentals. Just a few ETFs. The underlying asset will do whatever it wants. It is down to only 2 things: Investor capital inflows both institutional and retail due to a belief that BTC is valuable, and the dwindling mintage of new coins. Simple. Those two things have not changed and will not change for a long time unless the dollar suddenly collapses, and that really doesn’t change fundamentals either - it just massively speeds up capital inflows.

Leynnox

Where do you think the liquidity is from when BTC pumps if it's not from regular market making money first?

nugymmer

Wrong. Markets do what they want regardless of government intervention. If BTC wants to soar to 150k it surely can do that without any government involvement. All it takes is massive capital inflow.

AgnewTheModHamster

Saylor is sitting on over $2B in cash now from sales of MSTR ATMs. His obligations on his preferred stocks means that he can pay dividends out thru late 2027, and that is his largest capital obligation, larger than his seneior convertibel notes. It doesn't matter what BTC price does as long as he can meet those obligations, so I am afraid we are stuck with Saylor, he can't be forced out of the market. That being said, is there a time of reckoning for Saylor? I believe so, but it will more like a move like GBTC's where Barry Silbert was forced out of the CEO seat with Goldman Sachs installing its Global Head of Growth as CEO. That can happen with a serious drop in MSTR's mNAV and with his current dilution in Class A, Saylor would lose control of the Board of Directors. He just made his 1st Annual dividend payment on his preferreds today, I don't think MSTR price will dump out here, but at some point, if BTC price stumbles, MSTR will perform worse and with the annual shareholder meeting for MSTR in May, an attempt to dump Saylor out of control of his stack could come in March or April of 2026.

Motor-Astronaut-4045

Gonna be a long time before there’s enough adoption to make up for the leveraged players and the derivatives that can artificially suppress the price. BTC was better when the big boys stayed out of the way

DryMyBottom

the 3 months BTC chart shows a middle finger after another

BoringPrinciple2542

Microstrategy is a key reason people think BTC has value. MSTR will eventually collapse due to its increasingly absurd balance sheet but it won’t be a shadowy cabal doing it; just the inevitability of being over-leveraged against a speculative asset.

Mister_Erium

Mining 2025 details: Total Supply: There were over 19.9 million Bitcoins in circulation at the end of 2025, accounting for more than 94% of the maximum supply of 21 million. Reward: Miners continued to receive 3.125 BTC per block after the 2024 halving (where the reward was reduced from 6.25 to 3.125 BTC per block), which happened approximately every 10 minutes. Slowdown: The annual rate of new Bitcoin creation decreases due to the halvings, making Bitcoin “digital gold” and increasing scarcity. Example numbers: Early 2025: approximately 19.65 million BTC in circulation. August 2025: approximately 19.91 million BTC in circulation. October 2025: approximately 19.94 million BTC in circulation. Conclusion: An additional 290,000 to 300,000 Bitcoins were mined in 2025 (from ~19.6 million to ~19.94 million), with the majority of the newly created coins being created in the first part of the year before the rate had a greater impact due to the halving in 2024.

Successful_Flamingo3

Great explanation! You’re right. Give me the 10 BTC

fuzzydunloblaw

That'd be bananas to have 1% of BTC currency. 1% of USD in circulation would be ~23 trillion dollars, for comparison.

PirateSKB

I'm trying to find that legendary gem for 2026. I have plenty of BTC, Eth, and lots of other bags i've collected since 2016 lol

VariatCA

Whatever altseason/memeseason you're waiting on isn't going to be led by the alts or memes themselves. It's going to be predicated and charioted by Bitcoin's recovery. Individual coins may rarely make their own moves in a vacuum that are desynched from the general flow of the crypto market, but in practice the only one you need to keep an eye on is BTC. Money flows in & out of crypto based on not only Bitcoin's strength, but *also* macro-economic stability. This second condition is why alts/memes suffered hard this year even while BTC was trending with the stock market and logging new highs; economic stability was always in jeopardy, and alts are a much more severe speculative risk than Bitcoin.

Unusual_Stick3682

Congratulations. But remember you don't have $1000 you have 0.00###### BTC

baIIern

How is BTC doing in 2026? If it went up for you I'll just buy it here in 2025 and get rich

23_skido-o

"No man, now you can totally use your BTC through a pass through entity to get some shitty fries from Steak and Shake--what more adoption do you need?"

Mockingjinx

So BTC peaked in 2024 and it’s all downhills now?

No-Anybody2826

$70 B pumped in by the FED yesterday and today. Over $200 B printed globally by central banks. Sooner or later this liquidity is going to start trickling into BTC.

BlueskiesBlkD

I thought China Banned Bitcoin in 2013 & then banned it 3 or more times. Usually when they send out a ban noticed BTC has reached a NEW high 😆 2017,2021

Flashy_Passenger5062

Sell? I bought a bunch of BTC. How to celebrate the last day of the 2025

northcasewhite

Look at the RSI. It's bullish. BTC might go lower in the future but I don't think it is about to crash now.

Key-Plant-6672

Sure thing bud! I will go but/store some canned food and bottled water, not /BTC..