BTC

PureCod9290

Crypto is dead. Liquidity is concentrating in BTC as the last man standing. The latest "cycle" has showed meagre returns. 15+ years and the only real "use case" is crime or theft. If there's no utility there's only speculation and if there's less interest there is less capital...

Useful_Calendar_6274

It doesn't work for payments, takes too long. Idk if BTC cash is a real solution, is it a fork or a protocol on top? I don't even care I just know it takes too long. Without a country legalizing it and making people sign contracts that both parts will deliver it can't be used as a currency.

TheresNoSecondBest

>Why aren't satoshi's early mining efforts considered "premining? Permining is when a scammer, let's call him Vitalik, for example, creates 72,009,995 ETH in the Genesis block, before letting anyone else to compete with their hashrate. >Presumably He mined most of the first million BTC unopposed That's not true. I believe Dustin mentioned [in this podcast](https://stephanlivera.com/episode/314/) how the first node (possibly Satoshi) was waiting for another node before it started mining. And even if Satoshi wouldn't wait, there still was competition from other users. Half I believe tweeted his legendary" Running Bitcoin" about a week since the network started. So have many others. Some turned the mining off, some believed in the network or wanted to support it and kept mining. One way or another, Satoshi was competing with other users/miners, burning his energy that was more costly than the mined coins generated.

GesturalAbstraction

You seem to be new to crypto. Crypto is currently in a winter cycle, which is why token value is low. Crypto has 4.5 year cycles that coincide with BTC’s halving events. The last halving event was about two years ago, and the major run up for the crypto space usually takes place about a year afterward (last year). Following that year is a “crypto winter” which is what we’re in the middle of right now - everything slumps. If you’re smart this is a great time to start accumulating for the next bull cycle (probably about 2-3 more years). Alt coins are doing terribly and may not meaningfully recover. However BTC and ETH are still relevant - BTC as a long time store of value with programmed scarcity, and ETH network being quietly used to build the infrastructure layer for RWT. Good luck and have fun

404eol

BTC has 1.29 T market cap and is the 12th biggest asset on this world. Are you irrational or is the market irrational?

scrandlle

Wall Street could exert plenty of pressure on BTC if it decided to. It just doesn't care enough.

bigcoumbe

$10 a day. Goal to get to 0.2 BTC. That’s it. Low bar

scrandlle

Is it money if no one spends it though? BTC currently operates more like a collectable than a currency.

etaoin314

Well if they can update, and the update changes the fundamental tech, how can you be sure there will only ever be 21million BTC; couldnt't they just "update" that number...checkmate /s

Nice_Actuator1306

Funds were received into my wallet via the Lightning Network (L2 protocol), but they are not reflected and cannot be used in the Bitcoin mainnet (on‑chain). All transactions made through Lightning are recorded solely as balance updates within open payment channels and are not written to the Bitcoin blockchain until those channels are closed. As a result, I cannot: · Send the received funds to an external wallet that accepts only regular Bitcoin transactions (e.g., a cold wallet, an exchange without Lightning support, or a counterparty not connected to Lightning); · Use these funds outside the Lightning network (e.g., to pay invoices that require on‑chain confirmation). The funds legally belong to me, but technically they are locked in an open channel and are only accessible for internal Lightning operations (sending to other L2 nodes, paying via Lightning‑compatible services). To gain access to these funds on the mainnet, I need to close the channel (recording the final balance on the blockchain) or use a third‑party swap service (submarine swap) to exchange Lightning BTC for on‑chain BTC. Both options incur additional fees and time delays. Key limitations: · Funds in Lightning are considered "received" but are not an on‑chain asset until final settlement; · Closing the channel can take from 20 minutes to several hours (depending on network congestion and the channel partner's policy); · If the channel partner is offline or unresponsive, forced closure may be delayed by several days (due to timelock mechanisms). Thus, even a successfully accepted Lightning payment does not provide immediate liquidity in the Bitcoin mainnet, which creates additional difficulties for business processes that require instant on‑chain settlement.

404eol

I think you're mixing Bitcoin itself with the ecosystem that grew around it. Yes, 17 years ago Bitcoin was mostly a cypherpunk / nerd experiment. And yes, the asset has become heavily institutionalized in terms of **price exposure, custody, ETFs, exchanges, etc.** But Wall Street does not get to decide Bitcoin's consensus rules, monetary policy, code, or who is allowed to transact. They can participate in the market; they don't own the protocol. KYC is also not something Bitcoin introduced. It's the consequence of regulated exchanges integrating Bitcoin into the existing financial system. Bitcoin itself still allows P2P transactions without asking JPMorgan, Coinbase or a government for permission. That's exactly why parallel P2P markets and merchants accepting BTC can exist. And the "you need a greater fool to buy after you" argument is basically just a simplified description of market demand. Every asset needs someone willing to hold or buy it at the prevailing price. If nobody wants stocks, gold, real estate or Bitcoin anymore, their prices fall. The actual question isn't whether another "fool" will buy it. It's whether people will continue to value a scarce, globally transferable, censorship-resistant monetary asset with a fixed supply. "This works until it doesn't" applies to basically every market. And if we want to reduce economics to that level: someone also needs to be the "fool" working today to finance somebody else's pension. :D

Typical-Snow3034

Hey! Lower BTC volatility could help certain use cases, but it would not automatically send capital into altcoins. Institutions may prefer Bitcoin precisely because of its liquidity, track record, and relatively simple risk profile, which could concentrate capital rather than spread it. From the CoinRabbit side, lower volatility may reduce the frequency of collateral stress in crypto-backed lending, but it cannot remove liquidation risk. Altcoins would still need independent demand, sustainable token economics, liquidity, and actual users. Maturity in one asset does not create quality in another.

404eol

But with wrong info about the block size. It IS a problem with decentralization. If the block size gets bigger and supports 500 TPS, that would add roughly 2–4 TB to the blockchain PER YEAR, and you would need dedicated hardware for the nodes, which would have to be more powerful. So there is no possibility for the same level of decentralization, since fewer people would be able to run a full node. This was already discussed and considered bad for Bitcoin during the "Blocksize Wars." Bitcoin is good as it is now. Miner fees will become more relevant long before the year 2140 because the block reward gets smaller with every halving, but there are still many decades to see how the BTC price, fees, mining efficiency and difficulty adjustment balance this out. There is no reason to sacrifice decentralization now for a problem that can be observed and solved over time. And after the fork, the market clearly chose BTC over BCH.

dershodan

Nix arbeitet einwandfrei. Ganz besonders nicht BTC xD

brkinard

The business cycle dictates BTC price...not the halvening event. That is what the charts show.

Remarkable_Sleep_944

What the fuck is a gas fee? You just outed yourself as a charlatan, pretending you know BTC.

CryptoAnarchyst

Should have done this a while back, not at the dead bottom of the market where the ALT/BTC is at an all time low. Good luck to you

Ar0war

You know there has been many updates to BTC right? Do you believe bitcoin 15 years ago is the same as bitcoin now? Either i am understand wrong what you are implying or you don´t understand it.

derbyfan1

It could be sold p2p or you can purchase a wide range of giftcards - most of which require no KYC at all - You would be amazed how many things you can purchase with your BTC. There are also a few companies that accept BTC in certain countries, thats where adoption comes in to it. There are a lot more uses for Btc other than illicit use.

ODD_Old_Dirty_Degen

Depends on what you want to achieve with this knowledge. Do you want to financialy capitalize on it or do you just want to understand it? The most important fundamental is how BTC works/the BTC whitepaper imho.

satysat

I’d sell all my shit to buy BTC, not sell my BTC.

AdOk1101

BTC long term trading trends clearly indicate stalling growth, and not because of current market.  Thats not even the thing that concerns me about BTC.  The thing that actually concerns me is how many people have put all their eggs in the BTC basket up until now.  Corporations are not going to do business over BTC due to clear and obvious technical limitstions....due to BTCs lack of robust network protocol features.

georgejetsonn

Maybe all those were real issues in 2008 when BTC was created, but today most everyday banking is digital, and many transactions can be completed almost instantly

magicmulder

So I can pay quickly with BTC everywhere? So I can get credit approved with BTC? What exactly is this promoting?

AdOk1101

Moving everything to BTC doesnt solve the problem you think its solving.  BTCs days are numbered due to its lack of contemporary technical features.

iKarma_com

This ad would have been great before the banking industry incorporated all the innovations that BTC pioneered. B+ for effort and a D- for timing.

AdOk1101

Most, almost all, so called "alt coins" are no more technologically robust then BTC.  Crypto currencies are not litteral money.  They are network protocols that enable capabities.

Far-Department-4196

Not once was I ever referring to Fiat. Nor do I ever want it to be used like Fiat. If you think BTC was created for you to stack and chill till you die with it, I think you’re greatly mistaken.

Iapetus404

>When the block reward gets small enough the price of BTC will be much higher...so even a few hundred Satoshi will be worth much more. Even when the last BTC is mined......miners will get paid by transactions fees.

FallenDeathWarrior

Are they as valuable as BTC?

Xxshark888xX

I'm all pro for bitcoin, but this video is clearly not a true depiction of reality. I never had to wait for a transfer, today internet banking app are much quicker than bitcoin and easier to use (money can be sent and received 24/), this is the big difference between BTC and a banking system, BTC => slower and mining fees, even when sending to own address. N.B: I live in Europe, maybe in the USA the banking system is slower and worse?

Mammoth-Charge

For sure. If I was just going to self custody BTC then that makes sense. That said, I am interested in generating some yield on the asset and understand generally the risks of DeFi protocols, so I'm just looking for a sensible way to invest the assets for the long term.

No-Librarian9605

Been in it since 2015, and will be til I die. Fiat is a corrupt system used by the controllers. BTC is the only truly sovereign decentralized money/hope for the future. Plan accordingly.

RealAndroid_18

The idea here is cool, but it doesn't work that way. Why we pay gas fees for transactions? Why you have to pay YOUR BTC to transfer YOUR BTC to YOUR ACCOUNT? It has a reason, and so does the question asked in the video. Cool video idea thought.

trooftooth

What exactly would have to happen for BTC to 2x-3x? Would that amount of fiat being poured signal a world in collapse? How would you buy a coca cola with your btc, either today or in this post apocalyptic world where you’re a millionaire from your gamble? If making a small purchase is expensive or prohibitive, how can BTC see the mass adoption required for any real multiplier from its current price? I think the technology is awesome and bulletproof, but these questions bother me.

thegodpopper

Just move it all into BTC

BuiltToSpinback

Same. Then swapped the rest of my ETH for BTC a while back, too

Laurenfc10

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Longjumping-Link-455

It's 15% of my total porofilio. I have my Roth IRA and 457, emergency fund and a taxable brokerage. My 15% allocation isn't on purpose. I just calculated it out to figure out bc I didn't actually know. I started buying around 2019 and slowly increased my DCA when possible. BTC is my satellite, after my bills and other investments are funded. I do my DCA and what every is extra. If anything is over my checking threshold after bills and expenses, I carry over to BTC.

iamimproved

I am holding SOL longterm, I don't really have much ALT Coins that i believe in. I strongly believe in Solana because I interact a lot with defi protocols and RWAs on the solana blockchain and spend my crypto in real life. So I can already see that it's the future of ALT coin based on it's utility. A part from that, I am all in on BTC.

mj_callen

why wouldn't you just use the BTC as collateral for a loan? it's the bottom of a bear market. idk strange decision imo

Tai9ch

The technical design is nice. The political / social design is broken. It turns out that when you have a bunch of people doing stuff in a coordinated way that's a political coordination problem and the basic premise that you can avoid that with the structure that BTC provides has been falsified.

Sir_Renity_Now

• 1.008M BTC (4.8%) - yet to be mined How old are these numbers bro

quintavious_danilo

I switched from 100% VOO to 100% BTC during this bear market and keep buying regularly. Opportunity is too good to let it slip away.

thatsadmotherfucker

I'm waiting on BTC below 60k. I know it will come, just gotta wait a little longer

Slajso

Just google basic questions such as "What is Blockchain?", "How does BTC transaction work", and go from there. Also, Rule #1: Do **not** answer DM's. It's all a Scam, and especially when it doesn't seem like it.

Elf_Maeve

one company owns 840k BTC? Bitcoin living up to its promise of being a decentralized currency for everyone lmao

fan_of_hakiksexydays

I don't know if there's even enough interest and fuel left for a fakeout to $76K. I really thought we had the legs for $70K when BTC was heading towards $67K, back when the market had a lot of tail wind. It was having a nice bounce back. Had real momentum. Plus we had fuel from the Iran peace deal looking like it could be finalized, markets were pumping like crazy, it looked like rate cuts could still be on the table, plus the news was talking about the Clarity Act being set to pass. But now we have none of that, and we have Saylor selling more and more BTC.

hpaynecrypto

Disclosure, I am a Casa employee. One thing that I encourage everyone to do, Casa client or not, is to create a burner Proton email for any financial service they use that handles sensitive data (Coinbase, Casa, Chase, Fidelity, etc). It's free to set up and you can assign one unique email (totally random like [14lso912408y08y8qr3245@proton.com](mailto:14lso912408y08y8qr3245@proton.com) or whatever <= just mashed my keyboard rq). Another thing you can do with Casa is pay in BTC (something I do as an employee), so you can pay in BTC, create an account w/ a burner email, and stay completely anonymous. The idea of no-KYC/privacy was really important to me when I started here and I think one of the biggest selling points for me when I took this job as I think lots of these services that are offered today are literally gigantic honeypots for PII (literally as we have seen w/ Trezor and SafePal today). You might be saying to yourself "I already signed up for Coinbase/Casa/Chase/etc with my one email I use for everything" and my biggest mitigation recommendation I tell everyone is to go and update your emails to new ones from the first step above (and make sure you have 2FA on every single one). Hopefully, with a lot of these providers, they only store data for 90 days max, and if you rotate out your old email w/ a junk one, it can help break the link in the event of an inevitable breach. Here is a really helpful article talking about general email security (while we are talking about the idea of a Honeypot of PII) and how to protect your own data. [https://x.com/bc1gui/status/2029665673127837787](https://x.com/bc1gui/status/2029665673127837787) Our head of marketing (same guy from the article above) put together this really good article on X on how to scrub your personal information from places like Amazon (also a large honeypot for attackers) and is worth the read as it touches on how to handle the physical delivery/address portion of removing personal information as well as the credit card PII part that touches our everyday lives. [https://x.com/bc1gui/status/2059608477824057598](https://x.com/bc1gui/status/2059608477824057598)

logavulin16

When you find yourself in a position that you don’t like, the answer is not to panic, it is to rebalance. Forget about P&L, forget about recovering your losses or anticipated gains, simply imagine you inherited your positions and rebalance them according to your current understanding of the market. A good strategy should include traditional ETFs and majority BTC understanding that alt coins never outperform BTC long term and are very much a short term gamble.

Difficult_Letter_607

Because you are buying the CFD, not the coin itself. See it has buying BTC outside the 21M coins available. That is what you are doing

discusking

Meanwhile BTC was $120,000 last year and is $64,000 now. Ya’ll are dumb as hell.

Gamer_Grease

It is, but I’ll say I’m someone who is generally not a crypto booster and who thinks using fiat money and mainstream finance for all of life’s financial needs is best for most people. But there are fringe cases where several thousand in crypto or gold can be a really helpful advantage, and many millions of people live in those “fringes.” Unstable currencies, authoritarian governments, limited financial liberties or even access to legit financial institutions, unstable political situations. These people can actually get some mileage out of an asset like Bitcoin. So while it’s a pain, it is a use case. That just wasn’t a very attractive argument during any of the past BTC price booms. Everyone wanted to talk about buying a McMansion in Florida with BTC. That was never going to happen. But buying a new life for someone with much smaller dreams? Absolutely possible.

Gamer_Grease

Well, some people live in places where it’s kind of difficult to get ahold of cash, and when they get abroad their cash isn’t necessarily worth as much as it is at home. Additionally, Bitcoin all being online means you don’t have to answer awkward questions at the border about why you’re moving with so much gold and cash on you. I’m not a Bitcoin/crypto maxi type of guy, just an amateur monetary enthusiast, and I think the above makes a decent case for BTC.

logavulin16

Yes but all have consistently bled to BTC. I too have always liked LTC. It’s the kind of coin you send cash to your friend to pay for a pizza delivery. That being said, the market has essentially proven that this is not a particularly useful technology to do so. There are other ways to send $20 to a friend, or pay for a tank of gas that are more familiar and convenient, and there is little to no improvement on this with LTC or other CC. BTC however offers sovereignty and store of value with the greatest security the world has to offer. It is the #1 most secure asset in the world. My point being, early hypotheses about technology are often wrong. The technology is invented, then the use cases are discovered along the way.

OkRadish2611

Garbage. Another useless ALT. BTC only, maybe little ETH

Objective-Walk6780

I have some non-KYC BTC bought years ago. But these days I just use exchanges and cold storage

lobhater

There are 420,069 schrute bucks per BTC so with that knowledge you should be able to extrapolate

xaviemb

Thanks for sharing. Stories like this are incredibly valuable to people who are newer to Bitcoin. Most people can only develop conviction and resolve through their own experiences, but learning vicariously from someone else’s lived experience is a rare and underappreciated skill. There’s a reason that people who have lived through a full Bitcoin cycle often come out of it with a very different perspective. Over time, the obsession with timing entries and exits tends to give way to patience, perspective, and a much longer time horizon. They become more stoic, more financially secure, and, perhaps most importantly, less consumed by the need to constantly predict what comes next. Meanwhile, those who remain focused primarily on timing the market and maximizing the “number go up” can spend years trading away their Bitcoin, often losing in BTC terms over the long run, while accumulating stress, complexity, and the temptation to chase whatever comes next. One of the more profound things Bitcoin can teach is that the game changes once you stop treating it merely as an asset to trade and start understanding what it is actually trying to teach you about money, time, risk, patience, and human behavior. Cheers.

lobhater

You've got to assume the keys to Satoshi's holdings are gone forever. If even 1 of those BTC so much as moves there will be a massive sell off. To the point I bet there are many scripts setup to watch those addresses and the moment anything happens large blocks are sold off at market afap

AvailableTie6834

if you have a HW that accepts LBTC, then yes, if you send LBTC it receives LBTC. If you want to do the peg-out from LBTC to BTC onchain, then you will receive BTC onchain.

IAmTheNorthwestWind

Whats the ratio of BTC to Stanley Nickels?

Fragrant_Change_2497

You've made a good profit, so take 50% and invest in BTC, BNB, or ETH.

JakobBowser

It would be better for that BTC to get stolen, rather than frozen. Freezing wallets would destroy the thesis of BTC

awohio1

Forget BTC, We are down to about 140,000 giraffes in the wild, and probably 2000 in captivity. This points to a bull market in giraffe futures. That works out to only 1 giraffe per 58,000 people world wide. If just half of those people want to buy a giraffe, the price will go TO THE MOON!

Argyrus777

When a miner mines BTC, are they also validating at the same time? Or can they simply focus on finding a block? If so which one is more lucrative?

Fabulous_Bus_9772

This is basically my whole thesis in one question. In stable economies, holding is rational, you don't need BTC to get through the day. But in high-inflation countries people DO spend it, quietly, because the alternative is a currency melting in their hands.

Laurenfc10

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xaviemb

IBIT, MSTR, and similar vehicles can accumulate as much Bitcoin as they want. The Bitcoin network itself doesn't care who owns the coins, how many coins a particular entity owns, or what financial structure sits around that ownership. Ownership concentration is not, by itself, a protocol-level attack. What matters to the network is whether those coins ultimately resolve on-chain and whether the participants involved continue to operate within the consensus rules. You can build ETFs, corporations, custodial structures, treasury companies, derivatives, or any number of financial abstractions around Bitcoin. None of that inherently damages Bitcoin. The line is crossed when an entity attempts to exert control over the protocol itself... to centralize authority, alter the monetary policy, change the supply cap, censor transactions, or introduce some arbitrary rule that benefits the entity at the expense of the network. Simply buying and holding a large amount of Bitcoin does none of those things. In fact, there's an important distinction here: these structures can potentially distort the *financial representation* of Bitcoin without changing Bitcoin itself. They can create instruments that give people exposure to Bitcoin, or that allow them to play the USD/BTC “number go up” game, without changing the underlying protocol or consensus system one bit. The network doesn't need to care whether MSTR owns 1% of the supply or 10%. Bitcoin doesn't become more centralized at the protocol level simply because ownership becomes concentrated. The coins remain governed by the same consensus rules, and the network remains indifferent to the identity of their owner. The real question, then, isn't whether these entities are “Bitcoin” in some metaphysical sense. It's whether their claims on Bitcoin ultimately correspond to Bitcoin that exists and can resolve under Bitcoin's rules. That's a very different question from whether their accumulation of Bitcoin somehow threatens the network itself.

outoftownMD

I have BTC +/- exposure to it indirectly spread across the top 4.

Efficient_Range1156

NW is about 75% BTC. It’s only that high because Bitcoin is the most performant asset I’ve ever owned and I refuse to rebalance 😂

yeezy_boost350v2

Outside of BTC I still grab ETH for stacking

ychuck46

Quite confident my BTC holdings will now go up due to your selfless action. Thank you for your sacrifice.

ForeverInYourFavor

And yet almost all of Europe and North America have been stable since the last major war? Of all the concerns I have, as someone who is invested in GBP or USD, the currency failing is not one of them. The probability that BTC would help me if the dollar collapsed is close to 0. I'd need a bunker and cans of food, not a string of random numbers of a computer.

renba7

Im not sure that it needs to scale with conviction. You can be assured of a thing and still realize it is speculative. I think BTC is a fantastic concept and I am pretty convinced of that. It is about 6% of my networth. That feels cozy. Another way to think about it is: if I have my entire networth in cash and owned nothing so could start from 0, how much of that would o want in BTC?

closem1

I acquire some everyday, regardless of price. The % of my portfolio to BTC fluctuates as the price fluctuates, but I treat it as savings/retirement, so I don’t plan to sell for many years.

S1eeper

Bitcoin is reliving the old debate between Austrians and Keynesians over whether money should be deflationary or inflationary. Deflationary money (BTC) incentivizes people to save it and not spend it, since it will have a higher value and increased purchasing power in the future. Inflationary money (fiat) is the opposite. Keynsians argue inflationary incentivizes people to spend and invest, increasing economic growth. Austrians argue that people still invest deflationary money, but have a higher bar for their investments, and inflationary money causes mal-investment by contrast.

PrestondeTipp

Stock the cash reserves  But only do it when your stock is near it's all time low And when your BTC holdings are deep in the red

Mammon84

Gold has te biggest market cap of all assets and yet it almost tripled it previous ATH. And we are most likely midway in the gold bull market, i highly doubt the bull market is over. And BTC could not even 2x its previous ATH. And yet people are still screaming for 1 million BTC by 2030 🤣

Kristof77

You have 0.0004BTC. Wise move! When the rest of the shitcoins go to 0.

injectionsiteredness

Blue wallet or sparrow ( desktop only). You probably don’t want to use a software wallet for large amounts of BTC. It’s sort of like walking around with cash in your pocket.

fan_of_hakiksexydays

This is never good news. That means he either sold more BTC, more stock, or diluted shares. In this case he dumped more MSTR.

powni_

It has been clear for some time now that the fee market is basically on the road to nowhere . Even at the last ATH, total daily fees were only 5 BTC. Currently, the median fee is 1–2 sat/vB, and demand for block space has steadily decreased over time and is now at an alltime low, as can be proven. The fee market is bascially doomed because, self-custody is a pipe dream. Btc is mostly managed by custodians, with everything settled internally via IOUs and UTXOs consolidated as cost-effectively as possible. Even Big Players choose custodians because of the asymmetric risk of self custody — No significant fees OTC trading — No fees Lightning — Basically no fees and highly parasitic Stuff like Ordinals, caused extremely short-lived fee spikes and no permanent fees Stupid narratives like “store of value” also no fees... people don’t want to use BTC because it’ll be worth more tomorrow. ETFs are parasitic, effectivly no generation of fees while billions get moved around and Blackrock has basically zero exposure to the risk of Btc but earns a ton with it. There is no killer app or killer marketplace that would or could generate strong demand for blockspace — no fees. BTC has now burned through all the narratives ... multiple times. Nothing real remains. Security budget problem will kick in soon.

damiracle_NR

How much BTC do you hold with that?

Acrobatic-Sea-7514

ETH and BTC are fine, my alt coins are essentially down 95%

mickeyDisneyMouse

I have a substantial portion of my saving in BTC but I just buy IBIT and FBTC. They custody at coinbase and themselves respectively. There is way less risk compared to trying to be your own bank. I just buy and sell at will on E\*TRADE.

Objective-Walk6780

In the past I would would do 100% cold storage like Blockstream Jade. These days, I buy Bitcoin related stocks like MSTR and IBIT (30%) store some BTC on RobinHood (20%) and cold storage the remaining 50%. Trust me, this is the best way.

Objective-Walk6780

Already sold at 115K. Now buying back in. If you bought BTC above 30K don’t bother HODLing lol

RoscoRoscoMan

It has a name. It's called inventory management. Market makers do it. You reinvented it on your own, which is fine. The problem isn't your loop. The problem is what you're counting in. Every number in your post is dollars. Your average is in dollars. Your profit is in dollars. "Back in the green" means green in dollars. So the machine you built has one job: **turn Bitcoin into dollars.** And it's probably doing that job well. Flip it around. Don't trade Bitcoin to get dollars. Trade dollars to get Bitcoin. Same loop, same mechanics — but the scoreboard changes. Your average isn't $98 anymore. Your position is measured in sats. Your profit is measured in sats. Cash is just the tool you use between coins, not the prize. And here's what that changes: **A trade only counts as a win if you end up holding more Bitcoin than before you started.** That's it. That's the whole test. You sell 0.1 BTC at $100 and buy back 0.11 BTC at $90 — that's a win, you made 0.01 BTC. You sell 0.1 BTC at $100 and buy back 0.1 BTC at $95 and pocket $500 — you made nothing. You had 0.1 BTC before and you have 0.1 BTC now. The screen said green. Your stack didn't move. And if it never dips back and you buy 0.09 BTC at $115? You just lost coins. Doesn't matter that your dollar PnL was positive. You paid tax on that "profit" too. Now, fair warning: **this is much harder than what you're doing.** Trading for dollars, you can win by accident. Bitcoin goes up over time, so almost any sell above your entry prints a green number and feels smart. Trading for Bitcoin, there's no free ride. Every sell is a bet that you'll buy back more coins than you gave up — and the asset is trying to run away from you the whole time. You have to be genuinely right, not just eventually right. Most people can't do it. That's exactly why the scoreboard matters. So run the check. Ten minutes: 1. Go to your first buy. 2. Add up every dollar you've deployed since. 3. How much Bitcoin would that have bought if you'd just bought and held? 4. Now count what you actually hold, plus all your realized cash converted back to Bitcoin at today's price. 5. Subtract fees and tax. Compare. If yours is bigger, post the numbers — I'll shut up and take notes. If it's smaller, then every clever winning trade you made was shrinking your stack, and you couldn't see it because you were measuring with the wrong ruler. **Stop asking "how many dollars did I make." Start asking "do I have more Bitcoin than I did last year.

Mountain-Data-5758

In 2023 i had 10 eth and 0.5 btc, now I have 30 eth and 1.2 BTC, sold in November bought in July

Mountain-Data-5758

Crypto is moving in 4 year cycle on the dot. Looking at these comments it rly looks like ppl adopted the "Buy High Sell Low" mantra perfectly. You do not buy when everyone is happy, you buy when there is "blood in the streets" and sell after seeing the 10th aricle about BTC going to 2x of the current top after already being 3x in a year. Im just amazed at ppl selling crypto now to buy AI stocks, just for them to fall in a couple of months, then ppl will be doing the opposite.

Aeschbacher15

How do they handle transations? If I spend BTC using one of these payment cards, do I have to pay a transation fee on the BTC network in the bacground or not?

Squirll

Unfortunately youre speaking the truth nobody wants to admit. Why did currencies need to be controlled in the first place by any government? Greedy fucks. BTC and the crypto that was developing in its wake had its potential but its a uncontrolled currency so the people with money moved in and gamed the system to have control of it. Truth is the real use of BTC is not one anybody with the ability to move the system wants, its just become another commodity to hoarde.

Additional-Channel21

Your $63,100 example is actually a good one. If my step is 5%, then I’m not interested in a tiny move from $63,100 to $63,200. I’d be looking more like around $66k to sell part, or around $60k to add. If price keeps dropping and I buy again lower, my average cost drops too. That means the next recovery doesn’t need to go as high as before for me to sell part of the position above my average. If BTC goes straight up 2x, HODL can absolutely outperform because I’ll probably have sold some along the way. But in a market that moves in waves, this approach gets more chances to buy lower and sell higher. And on the time/energy part — I did this manually for years. Eventually I automated the rules for myself because I didn’t want every move to become another emotional decision.

JakRenden2

Most of my holdings are in BTC. I only use about 10% of my portfolio for altcoin trading and investing. Best decsision I made since I got into crypto

Illustrious-Option-9

Past is not a sure indicator of future performance. 17 years go BTC was a nerd's toy. Then it continued to grow in popularity as more and more people were drawn into the idea of 'decentralised banking', 'be your own bank', 'fuck JPM'. Then this idea started to disappoint as more and more exchanges introduced KYC. Then crypto bros found another carrot - 'store of value'. This still holds to certain extend, but it's getting eroded year by year as people realize in order for the 'value' to be kept, more fools need to continue buying (and hold) bitcoin. This works, until it no longer works.

PiDigitsOfPi

BTC, and the code of BTC, is much more popular and reviewed than Coldcard. Thousands of times more.

foxyevolution

Sounds like you already answered your question if you ask me. I make the assumption you are not following the narratives and use cases for the various major alts. BTC over time is the more stable and risk adverse option if you want to sleep well at night. The best way to make money in crypto is to keep up with what is happening in the space. Notice I didn't say news. If you are seeing it on YouTube you are already late to the party.

SuspiciousMix31

it's your choice to mix those two systems. You don't have to. You can keep your BTC and use it peer to peer, as it is designed. If that's not enough for you, maybe crypto isn't for you and you probably just wanted to have it because "numbers go brrrt" sometimes.

polymath_uk

WTF? Its exchange rate is 64k USD. Mostly everyone that holds BTC at the moment is holding it purely because it's a store of value. Seriously??