BTC

Sea-Development-8046

A long, long time ago I bought a pizza for 10k BTC.

Gate9Psychopath

Dude stop trying this shit. I did it too and no one listens except maybe 1 person. You what though? At the ens of the day better for me, more money for me, more BTC for me, less awakened people and still more sheep. Let them stay asleep, this makes my come up and yours easier. 👌🏽

MemeyOreos

honestly this is pretty solid for mainstream adoption. gold bugs can dip their toes into BTC without fully committing and vice versa. LSE listing gives it that legitimacy traditional finance people need before they touch anything crypto related. fees gonna be the real deciding factor tho

xanokothe

92k BTC aaaaahhh its gone

Benzo_Head

Even BTC/Gold is a great chart to look at (not looking great right now)

Benzo_Head

Are you looking at BTC/Turkish Lira because my BTC/EUR chart shows that it’s down -30% from its all time high

yoyodark

I believed in BTC before John McAfee spoke so openly about it. Not a fan of John at all. He was a murderer and a complete nutcase. It wasn't a good look for BTC to have him as a spokesman. With that said, may God rest his soul.

Mekka_Siekka

This is so shitty and karma farming. At this point this subreddit is just an echo chamber for folks trying to convince them that no matter what we are win win win. It's OK, but some arguments and plots are just pure retardium. POS: 0.66 BTC.

elixon

I understand that. But I wish we could use BTC for payments - e.g. not long-term speculation only.

elixon

1. You can barely buy anything with BTC. 2. Just 80 addresses control over 10% of all bitcoins. 3. It is now an asset used almost exclusively for speculation, and nothing else. I would not call it a scam - I have never called it a scam. It is a very transparent unregulated market for speculators where small investors are greatly disadvantaged. That's it.

MajorFantastic9498

Bruh if someone's offering you $1000 worth of BTC for $250 that's not a scam, that's just straight up robbery with extra steps

Tuny

Tether is obligated due to the use of USD. BTC would've prevented this

OregonBroncoNix

Been into ONLY BTC since 2021. I have purchased my home with cash (500k+), paid off two cars (5 series BMW and Subaru Outback) and retired at 51 two years ago. I take profits every 3 to 6 months on average. Taxes friggin suck, but I still am heavily invested BTC. This is a patience game and I am being 100% honest. I look at the price maybe once a month or two.

Bobster_O

Still feels crazy to be that BTC (most of the world still has yet to own) is already no.8 largest asset in the world. I guess prices are programmed to go up right huh

dweeegs

Nah, most of the money comes from straight up issuing MSTR stock at the market. A smaller percentage comes from issues the STR* products, mainly STRC. He isn’t using BTC as collateral It’s in their 8-K they file every time they do this https://assets.contentstack.io/v3/assets/bltf8d808d9b8cebd37/blta7da64f7ebf6312a/69645ea3818dc30008b31ebb/form-8-k_01-12-2026.pdf

dweeegs

He’ll keep shitting shares out until the company is worth way less than the BTC they hold and then they’ll get bought it. That’s the nice thing about the commons, the shareholders get dumped on and there’s no repayment No idea why you would think there’s going to be a giant implosion. The company might suffer but he won’t have to dump. He’s issues how many tens of billions of shares and he’ll keep doing it while the shareholders left say thank you

Bobster_O

When you're pessimistic, see the adoption rate for BTC in the past decade!

quintavious_danilo

If i only had a dollar for every dead BTC cycle i’d be rich

Efficient-Writer-906

If someone had over $20,000 in BTC would it make sense to sell some for at a loss and put a portion of that money into STRC and buy back into BTC with the monthly dividends?… asking for a cousin.

cheeseitmeatbags

It's $150 BTC equivalent per year. Has a few quirks since it's kinda shady and a low budget company out of India and you gotta use certain hardware like a firestick. Only use this website, there are fakes if you google for it. A VPN is highly recommended. It gives you ALL the channels worldwide, movies and streaming. PITA to set up, but worth it IMO. https://apollogroup.tv/

graytleapforward

FTX was an absolute gift to me. Bought BTC near the panic lows and sold half of it near the recent ATH. Couldn't care less if my shit coins are worthless now, they'll be handy tax write offs.

ReplacementBig7068

I bought a couple of pizzas back in 2010… cost me 10,000 BTC 😱

Quirky-Reveal-1669

Financed a house renovation/upgrade and extension project with it in ~2018. I am still not quite back at the amount of BTC I once had. 🤦‍♂️😬

ninjaheartbeat

I bought bitcoin when it was $1500 in May of 2017. 3 coins to be precise. I sold one coin at $25k as a way to hedge my bets if it all came crashing down the next day. Dumb move. I never forgot selling that coin and when it began to rise after $25k (along with some dips) I kept purchasing little by little for the next 5 years until I clawed my way back and got the coin I sold. I’m now at 3.35 coins and have no intention to ever sell at least not for the next 20 years. Patience and knowledge. Patience because it takes time for an asset to mature and grow. Like a lot of time. Knowledge because people still don’t get the fact that in order for BTC to thrive it needs infrastructure. It’s going to happen. In the future you’ll use BTC to purchase food at McDonalds, buy movie tickets, buy a car and whatever else you want to do.

Bitcoin-Revolution

I stopped trying to convince people too. It’s like fishing — if you hold the worm between your fingers, the fish feels the tension. You need an invisible line and a hidden hook. You don’t chase the fish. You let them come to you and ask the question. People don’t care about arguments. They get curious when they see someone calm and optimistic about the future of finance, especially when that calm comes from BTC.

Clean_Difficulty_225

People holding BTC, etc., take note.

Emergency-Warthog-56

What spread price and fee were you charged because at current prices, you should have received around 0.0011 BTC

WrathofTitus

If it wasn't for stable coin farming and BTC, 2025 would have ended in the red for me.

Azoth424

It appears likebit shoukd have been 2 seperate fhings as u see the color change on the top path from green to the bottom left where its the gold/yellow color. So yes, sloppy, but I can understand what it was intended to show. One side is just showing he sent the 10 BTC that LED to the other path whwre the price grid is and the dates like 2017 etc show the prices in those respective years. The top path way of the sending of 10 btc needs to not be a pathway. Just a statement. Or it is aligned with the bottom pathway, not seperate.

flying-fox200

Congrats!! Don't forget to move it to a wallet you control once you reach ~0.01 BTC. BlueWallet on iOS/Android is good for starting out. For significant sums, get a [hardware wallet](https://trezor.io/).

Sin-City-Sinner

Ok yea you’re right but we are only a couple weeks in. I started a year ago and I’ve seen BTC pump from 70k-124k (lucky me!) I took profit right off the very top (again, lucky me!) and IMO it will go to the moon, it’s just a matter of time so just stack and hodl. And yes I’m only in the market a year but that year was dedicated to learning crypto, I spent the last year 7 days a week and anywhere from 8-16hrs a day so I’m not exactly new, but for arguments sake I technically am..

asherlevi

January ‘25 to January ‘26, BTC down almost 4%. Compare to the S&P being up 20% during the same period. So, at year end, folks looked at their portfolio and said ‘let me get out of this position’. This is a post about ETF liquidity, and that’s why ETFs holders are dumping right now, it’s not been a good investment over the last 12 months.

Rare_Rich6713

For me it eventually came down to time horizon. If I’m holding BTC long term anyway, I felt okay exploring staking as long as it didn’t involve custody, wrapping, or bridges. That’s why I ended up trying Babylon. Not saying it’s for everyone, just fit how I already think about holding BTC.

SettingFriendly4339

It’s not wrong, it’s just concentrated. If you believe in BTC long term and big swings won’t mess with your head, that’s really the test. Most mistakes come from emotions, not the asset. It all comes down to whether your conviction holds during drawdowns.

macetheface

4 year cycle happened to be 4 year cycle because the overall economy was doing well at the top and not well at the bottom. This is evidenced by [ISM/PMI](https://www.tradingview.com/symbols/ECONOMICS-USBCOI/). Anything under 50 and economy is not well; been in decline since August. I believe BTC and most other risk on assets will follow this. There is some cyclic nature to all markets with the presidential elections; perhaps some of the halvening stuff initially but not anymore. To get things going again with crypto, we'll need a serious jolt to the economy and start seeing quite an uptrend past 50. The neat thing though is even though it's essentially ranged since 2023, BTC still managed to put in an ATH. I think if ISM/ PMI had gotten to ~60, we would have seen over 200k end of last year.

dunksbx

What reason would the cycle have to be continuous? None. Have fun waiting for that dip until youre paying double for your BTC.

North_Difference328

Interesting I thought the entire point of BTC was to be outside.gov control. You're proving my point that it shouldn't have been an ETF and is papered

NOneHOne

Yeah, I stopped trying 3 years ago when BTC dropped to like 17k. Told everyone that now is the time to buy, etc... Most people didn't listen and then came to me when it hit 100k. Told them again to buy when the bear market started and it dropped below 100k. Not sure if anyone is listening. Not my problem... lol

riscten

Absolute slop lol. Why is the initial value at the lower left corner, and then Satoshi sends 10BTC to Hal at... the end of the timeline? Is Satoshi sending Bitcoin to Hal in the future? 🤣 And what's with the nonsensical dates in the calendar? Why is the initial transaction somehow connected to 2017? Why is the value graphic completely off the real price? And why does it also stop at 2017? For the record, I love AI, I just hate slop. Either clean your stuff in Photoshop or get better at prompting. This is an absolute mess.

yoyodark

DCA every week or month, even if it's $100. Take a pass on that fancy coffee or going out to eat a couple times a month and use it towards increasing your Sats. Every little bit counts. 0.0005 BTC is better than NO BTC!

Codebender

There's an outside chance that if you contacted every exchange it could be, they could use the Tax ID to find the account, and authenticate him as the owner with the standard KYC process. Looks like that might have been 4-5 BTC, so easily worth the effort of trying. Don't get your hopes up, though.

Abject-Stretch-1187

What an idiotic take. Are we talking about the same gold that added 10 BTC market cap in two years? That manipulated one? You conspiracy nut jobs with high time preference. What a dangerous combination. 

pentapous

This graph is purposeful misinformation. Not accounting for the definitional change in M1, yet displaying its effects on the graph tells me that at best whoever put this together is either deeply unaware of the data they are portraying and most likely is purposely doing so to bolster support for an asset they are heavily invested in. There are dozens of great reasons to support BTC without relying on manipulative graphs.

Tutancamon_Crypto

He didn't send it to any wallet because he left it there because I convinced him to buy it since I didn't work, only him, and I didn't have any money either. I kept watching videos about BTC, so he bought it, but it asked for an email and I think a CPF (Brazilian tax ID number). I don't remember the name of the exchange, nor does he. I only remember that he bought 150 reais worth of BTC, and the BTC was worth 13 dollars. After a while, we both forgot about that money. Only later did I realize how much it was worth.

FuckM0reFromR

Good point, they have much bigger problems. But for anyone getting out, taking your BTC is much safer than cash or jewelry.

FuckM0reFromR

BTC is also up 2,573.49% against the USD, the only difference is the time frame. *\*tapsbrainbox\**

Iksf

This is a dumb take tbh "As such, Buterin urged the developers of decentralized stablecoins to build on more resilient indexes. He pointed to the global commodity index, energy, and a basket of goods as a better purchasing power in the long term." Except nobody cares about the price except against USD, and then perhaps barely against some of the other major currencies in the world. Imagine the liquidity on BTC/some made up thing. And demand is part of the business model for decentralised stablecoins, the collateral used to back them up is poorly used if there isn't any demand for them, so then you have volatility on the side of the collateralisation which leads to volatility in the stablecoin, its a whole mess

pentapous

The graph is purposeful misinformation. The spike is majorly due to a change in the definition of M1 money. OP purposefully did not include this information or note it on the graph because they have a personal stake in people buying more BTC. They are lying for personal gain.

North_Difference328

There farming us for liquidity. I expect it to follow tax cycles. Pump throughout the year until about tax time, sell off for profit then rebuy. I know we were hoping for ETF's to take us to the moon but I think it just helped paper BTC like paper gold.....manipulation

Crypto_CTX

That’s conviction, but skipping a guaranteed 401k match to go all-in on one coin is a *huge* risk. Love the XMR thesis, but a safer move is: take the free match, then DCA Monero with whatever’s left—same belief, way less “one bad drawdown ruins me” downside. Also, “outperform BTC in the far future” might happen, but nobody knows—size your bets so you can stay in the game even if XMR nukes 50%+ again.

vhooz

do you have your name and address tagged to your ETH and BTC addresses? cuz i dont. it okay to debate.

Admirable_Seat_1466

You have privacy with ETH and BTC? This is no longer a conversation 😂

vhooz

chill my friends haha dont get me wrong good for your investment im happy for you really. but to me is not worth it,. i like my privacy and full custody which I already have with ETH and BTC. This on the other hand is about anonymity built to hide money like a criminal literally and I bet my ass it was built for that. so from a utility point of view, I do not like it.

vhooz

chill my friends haha dont get me wrong good for your investment im happy for you really. but to me is not worth it,. i like my privacy and full custody which I already have with ETH and BTC. This on the other hand is about anonymity built to hide money like a criminal literally and I bet my ass it was built for that. so from a utility point of view, I do not like it.

Alfador8

Monero is the only alt I respect but I'm glad I traded mine for BTC back in 2017

IllustriousCamera285

I feel pretty calm this time around. I just trade BTC perps on BYDFi exchange to hedge when things look shaky.

tontot

Yup . Watching religiously in 2021 on trends , new coins , TA etc Now I am just boring with 90% BTC 10% ETH

Crypto_CTX

rue — the friction scares off normies, but anyone who really wants XMR usually just routes BTC → XMR and calls it a day. Only thing is: “doesn’t take much” depends on where you live/exchange access/fees, so for some people it’s still a hassle.

Impossible-Weight852

It back to $91K. These small moves mean absolutely nothing. Stop watching the price every hour/day. BTC only makes a few big moves per year. Most of the time it is dead. The influencers that post constantly are mostly morons and do it for income.

nicholasCageSucks

3 billion dollar purchases adn BTC barely budged. pretty clear Saylor is propping up BTC at this point.

MortalMorals

Been hodling what little I have since 2021 and haven’t bought or sold any since. I’m convinced that, in a decade, BTC will crest over $1 million. So just buy up while it’s at whatever price it is and don’t touch it. It will naturally grow over time.

d8_thc

1. How is millions of dollars a day in buy pressure 'not helping BTC'? 2. The prefs dividend are tiny, miniscule in comparison to what is being raised. He literally raised 2.2 billion dollars in about 3 trading days two weeks ago via MSTR Sales to have a fiat reserve to pay dividends in case of extended BTC drawdown. Literally, nothing at all. Nothing.

Whackjob3434

It’s too premature to make this claim. Last cycle, BTC peaked at $69k in November 2021. It then lost about 35-40% of its value 3 months later by February 2022 falling to $41k then rebounded to $45k. This cycle, BTC peaked in October 2025 at $126k, then lost about 35% of its value 3 months later down to $81k, then rebounded slightly to $94k. It appears that BTC is following closely the same 4 year cycle as the last time in 2021-2022 both in time and percentage drop. The next few months the will be telling. If we get a new BTC wave higher taking us to new all time highs, then the original poster will be proven correct. If we get another huge drop and prices fall down to the $60k’s or lower, and remain down for months, then it will prove that the 4-year cycle is fully in tact.

rgnet1

Another fun way to demonstrate this stat: 1 Iranian Rial -> 0.000001 US Dollar: 1 US Dollar -> 0.000011 BTC The rial is about as worthless in dollar terms as the dollar is in bitcoin terms. And bitcoin is and will always be mathematically scarce, at a fixed, decreasing rate of supply.

mercistheman

We're not sure how long USD will be an international reserve currency. Future BTC/USD prices is difficult to predict as there are so many variables... New regulations, corporate & financial adoption, countries using BTC as a reserve currency etc.

SpontaneousDream

Near zero. Chainlink has seen decent adoption yet it's still near all time lows against BTC.

EcstaticCell1511

I started buying in 2019 average is under 30k. Over 90% of my networth is in BTC. Logical thing is to diversify out as being 100% in anything is pretty stressful. Still mega bullish on BTC and will hold half forever so its a win win.

Fit_Trifle2469

This is why I believe bitcoin was engineered to keep governments and their monetary policy in check. Period. Look at the BTC price in Turkish Lira too.

JarOfNightmares

It doesn't matter to me anymore no matter what happens. I am fully cashed out. I bought that BTC at 12k, I've made plenty of profit on it and I don't want to stick around if things get too spicy. Good luck!

CryptoCenterDot

Transak to Revolut usually takes me anywhere from 1 to 24 hours.. Even if the BTC moves fast, the bank transfer (often via SEPA or Faster Payments) can get held up in Transak's batch processing. If it hits the 24H mark, definitely reach out to their support..👌🏻

LargeSnorlax

Litecoin is part of Coinbase pay, which is BTC, ETH, USDC, DOGE, LTC and SHIB (for some reason) so it'll be most traded by default. When people use payments, they'll use one of those. LTC tends to have the lowest fees so by default it'll be used.

No-Magician-2257

You are preaching to the choir. I am a BTC maximalist so think all is shit except bitcoin. However, even on legitimate exchanges (as far as we know) like coinbase, LTC is a top traded coin. Always in top 20, often in top 10. How? Why? What are the reasons?

SpontaneousDream

This was the cause for the recent BTC pump, imo. The writing is on the wall. Whether it's now or later, we are clearly getting much lower interest rates. When that happens, you can kiss the value of the USD goodbye. RemindMe! 1 year

BTC_is_waterproof

Nah man. BTC will be around for 100+ years. And POW is the reason.

WorkerPlayful4192

If someone keep coins in more that 10 years, they know something that we doesn't. BTC value will go up instantly? 🤔

Tommygun194

If you choose BTC, you’re on the right..

hmiamid

It's weird. Why is the previous price so low? Anyway, the real market price is closer to 132,951,500,000 IRR/BTC

Relentlessbetz

Dang 2028 isn't that much far away if you think about it in BTC years lol. It almost feels like 2024 was last year lol

FeedNo1628

My understanding is that zcash’s zero knowledge and an anonymous sender/receiver is why it’s been pumping, as opposed to something like BTC that has a fully public ledger.

KateR_H0l1day

And that’s where we differ, I think the company is fine, best regulatory compliance of any exchange. Used the card for years, as has my husband, and still the best around. However, it’s like anything, need to understand what’s good and bad, work around it and utilize the best parts for your individual needs. Plus, any crypto goes up and down, but it’s all about when you buy/sell, so many jumped on the CRO bandwagon in 2021, then locked up their CRO for the card expecting it to go up forever, they’ve spent the last 4 years complaining and never done anything about it. They made the mistake and just blame CDC, hubby and I have had the card for years, both of us are extremely happy with it, but obviously I can only speak for ourselves. Everyone needs to do their own research and make a decision that’s good for them, absolutely no difference to people buying BTC over $100K in reality.

harrigan

It already has: https://www.google.com/finance/quote/BTC-IRR?window=MAX

LaurentDuboi

look at the amount of gold every 10 minutes, BTC is more scarce

BiMuscleJock

Supply is not shrinking it's almost all out already and BTC is worthless.

EyesFor1

I often think about how a multi billion (possibly hundreds of billions) dollar global BTC mining industry will be competing for Sats. Makes me wonder how much the price will appreciate if all that expenditure is worth it for Sats.

Most-Being-7358

You’re not alone, we all tried at some point. You’re right most people can’t see it, and that’s ok, let them be. Keep this to yourself and like minded people. Those people you tried to convince will be the same ones banging on your door asking how to buy when BTC surges

The1WhoDares

I have a good amount of ETH & over to BTC’s… I probably should’ve held on. But I couldn’t. Still have all my ETH. Sold 3/4’s of my BTC. IMO… as soon as Trump elects a new FED chair. That individual will make crypto go PARABOLIC due to his policies & quantitative easing. BUT… that ‘parabolic’ upstream will be felt SO F’n hard. Markets will TANKKKK like go lower than they were in the 08 mortgage crisis crash. & THAT will be a little bit scary for EVERYBODY

Cheap-and-cheerful

How is supply shrinking when 90% of it is in circulation, not counting lost BTC? The rate of BTC mining is shrinking, sure. But the halvings I don’t think will have as much of an impact going forward as people think.

Cptn_BenjaminWillard

Because a lot of consumers are not savvy enough to be able to keep their coins secure. An ETF takes care of that for you. Sure, I wish everyone in the world held actual BTC rather than ETF's. But I also wish that it wasn't so easy for non-technical people to get scammed.

dusttwo

MSTR currently has a debt-adjusted mNAV near 1 (it was around 3 just months ago). So you basically don’t pay more for your BTC by buying MSTR instead of BTC right now. I don’t know if you have ever bought BTC on a crypto exchange, but between fees and exchange rates, it gets expensive.

ShwenKay

I’m not sure how BTC phishing works but this seems like the phishiest phish

JohnnyStrides

I think people have learned to stop wasting their time on shitcoins and that accumulating and holding BTC is the way... maybe some ETH. Alt season never came, and probably won't ever again. If it did Youtube crypto views would be sky high.

FOMOmeterCrypto

“Cycle is dead” plus “BTC 250k to 1.5M this year” is peak narrative, not analysis. If you need “this time is different” to justify that range, you’re already in FOMO.

djscoox

I have no idea. It's been stuck there for months and it's getting boring. I've rotated a lot of BTC into Monero.

CrimeSceneCleaner197

BTC is the lubricant for our dreams to become reality. Congrats.

RetiredAvocado

That's the company that controlled some of Bitfinex keys in their multisig setup and let 119,756 BTC walk out the door back in 2016.

Neat_Helicopter_1418

True non-KYC BTC cards are rare and usually come with tradeoffs. I keep spending small and separate from storage, and I am watching newer travel focused tools like TRAVLS to see if this gets simpler over time.

guinessReeB

Can it mine other coins. Not much BTC left to mine

j4_jjjj

I mean, sure, but 401K is barely owning anything as it is. Anyone looking for exposure to BTC should just buy some. Finally, CEX isn't the only way to acquire, its one of many.

DC8008008

I own about 0.21 BTC. Gonna hold for 20 years and see where we're at.

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