BTC

jwinterm

Working for me, tested grin, wow, and BTC

PsychologicalBit803

That’s awesome if you have customers willing to pay you that way. If the kid is mowing the yard of some 75 year old lady she isn’t paying him in BTC. Let’s be realistic.

Fit_Psychology_1536

People are expecting BTC to moon -- which is exactly why it wont...yet.

Remingde_Hughes

Turns out the “crypto president” can’t executive-order global liquidity 😅 Macro ate the narrative, leverage did the rest, and tariffs became the surprise boss fight. Honestly this cycle taught me that *time* is the real risk nobody priced in. Long lockups + political whiplash = emotional damage. That’s why stuff like **Prophecy Vaults** started making more sense to me ...short timelines, defined exits, less “trust me bro, just wait till Q4. We still got real progress (regs, BTC reserve, less SEC jump-scaring), but yeah… bull runs don’t care who’s in office. They care about liquidity. Always have. At this point I’m less “wen moon” and more “wen stability for more than 48 hours.

KIRKDAAGG

I don't have to pay capital gains either on the BTC I bought at 119K even in the US!

TheMaharishiEffect

Why? Cheap sats. You must be new here. If you're gonna buy BTC, expect to hold it for 10+ years. That's where real wealth is made. Worrying about small fluctuations is not a good way to invest. Get your mind set switched to "I can buy more sats now so I can have more wealth in the future" Every dip you should be happy that you have the opportunity to buy more for less. Soon it will go to 200-500k and you won't be able to buy much. Only mega corps would be able to at that point, in which you failed one again to save yourself from a shitty monetary system. Learn about the scarcity aspect of it... you'll realize why you shouldn't ever sell your BTC, borrow against it. Good luck!

Bkokane

LINK/ADA/ONDO/VET, just buy whatever’s been beat down the hardest. Even shitters like DOT will probably go back to $10 (6x from here) fairly quickly if BTC recovers above $125k

jotunck

>If you subscribe to using RSI as an indicator; it looks like 68k-75k is a likely target for an oversold signal. This largely concurs with Power Law, BTC's next low based on Power Law is also around the 70k region.

PeopleNose

First line, yes The second line, bad Third line... huh... weird coming from a BTC sub

ihavebeenmostly

Fair but not a constant. Is it the volatility difference in XRP when compared with BTC that makes it attractive?

phillydecat

So fact or fiction I don't care. But the way crypto works. If you own a lot and you cash out the price goes down. If you do in fact own a lot where the price would fluctuate you are better off using it as collateral the way the super rich do. Basically taking loans against your (BTC/Value) for what your needs are, then repay the loans selling a bit as the value increases. That's how the rich stay rich. Look at how Elon got the money to buy twitter he borrowed against Tesla shares, he owned.

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MoistAbuelita

You broke the rule “Thou shalt not let anyone know you own Bitcoin” - BTC 3:16

AncientMoth11

Would love to see some BTC flow my way

Misanthrooop

Of course this is a poor try of Karma farming, but if it would be real : everybody who hides 55 BTC in books at home with no other backup should not cry a single second about it.

Iamtutut

Big BS post. BTC was not tradable before 2010.

IanFoxOfficial

Easy. 10 BTC. Why? I met my wife in 2011 and we have a 5 year old son.

Berg_turdler

Turn on the BTC faucet again, plz.

e07f

BTC getting super duper REKT in EUR/GBP terms. BTCGBP down 22 god damn per cent in last 1 year. let that sink in...

RedKe

Have you looked at the details of Hedera? As a developer I think you would appreciate its tech. I like Chainlink also and they are a member of the Hedera governing council. I would drop DOT and decrease some of your other positions so you could have at least 20% in HBAR. My top 3 are HBAR, BTC, LINK.

Weak-Inspection1198

As much as this is the long term play, I would wager most are curious about the impact this has for this impending cycle (or if the era of cycles is over). With a massive delay for alts, we may end up not having a true alt run. Everyone knew institutions would be getting in eventually. That’s not news. The implications were always a) when was regulatory clarity going to happen, b) at what speed do tutes enter crypto, c) at what volume do tutes enter crypto, and d) what market dynamics come into play when this occurs (who are the real winners). That’s all. My guess is the winners will be very small for the short term: BTC, ETH, XRP, SOL, HBAR, XDC, ZBCN, and Canton.

ILCARNE1991

10 BTC is always good 😂

PatMu5tard

Yep, BTC EUR down on the day

illcrx

Bitcoin isn't the save all that people make it out to be. It had its day, its not today. Gold has been winning, have you noticed Gold prices and Bitcoin prices the last year? Ya. In regards to all the life stuff, I understand where you are coming from I have a 15 year old and I'm thinking of opportunities for him. There are a few things you can do that can help ease you. 1. Realize that YOU control your destiny, unless we have a full blown world war then life pretty much goes on as normal. 2. If the US Dollar demonetizes you will have to be more frugal and save more. If you don't have a job, get one and work 24/7 and save, you are 19 so you have no excuses and if you want to be lazy and comfortable then you will get what the world wants to GIVE you, if you decide to go GET it then you have a lot more control. 3. If you wan to go next level save your money in Gold. If Bitcoin starts rallying you could diversify into Bitcoin. I'm not against BTC at all, but the evidence in the markets in the last year says Gold. 4. For career you can do a few things but know this. The service industry is very understaffed and if you are in college you can be an electrician, easy. It takes minimal algebra if that and just work hard and learn as much as you can and do the best work you can. 5. If you don't want to work with your hands then just chose what you like to do, coding will be difficult due to AI coming in and it is already replacing lower level developers so if you aren't a top 5% coder then maybe pivot. 6. In the real world that are people all over the place with small businesses in boring industries doing very very well. You don't need crazy schooling to be successful you just need to work hard and pay with cash. I think going forward doing things with Gold will be good, if you want to save in a brokerage account then you can buy GLD, its a stock symbol for gold. That way its easy, you can get a debit card likely associated with it and if you need something you sell GLD and then you can likely use the debit card. But start to read about these things, go into a bank or call customer service and ask your questions. Never, ever be afraid to ask questions at 19 you have everything to learn. Don't be scared, get prepared, take action and you have nothing to worry about.

juicemin

Little late to the party but yeah I think you're right about most people thinking that. I had that thought process when I first starting buying Bitcoin. 4 years later, my thought process has changed. The more time I spent investing, watching youtube, reading, I realize its something that you will actually be able to use in the mainstream in the future, and something that global institutions and governments will use to exchange with one another. Bitcoin functions as an investment no matter how you look at it, because you have to exchange fiat for it. That will likely always be true unless some crazy shit happens and it becomes the primary world currency and USD gets measured in BTC instead of vice versa.

BrocoliAssassin

I feel like the articles are going to get pumped all over the media that gold is the must buy thing now..all the regular people will put money in it, and then the rich will dump. Then if BTC fell enough,they could just throw it back in there. Rinse and repeat.

mattriver

Personally, I’d maybe put $2k in BTC and $1k into SPY (S&P 500) stock.

RedditTooAddictive

Heyyy the only ICO I participated in, was a pretty cool project Made a bunch of BTC on it to top it off

hindermore

Not much, what's happening with you? 1 BTC = 1 BTC

dylanbeck

NFTs just like ICOs were always rug pulls. Crypto had some very interesting stuff going on on 2016 but its dependent on Ethereums development. ETH will take its time, but depending on that will be the answer to OPs question. Most likely, BTC is doomed. ETH is unknown. Everything else is irrelevant and should be assumed DOA.

No_Swordfish4545

Sounds like you’ve got a solid plan with BTC and ETH as the core. For long term holds, a lot of people also consider projects with strong staking ecosystems, it’s a way to earn yield while holding, though it’s still exposed to market risk. You’ll see sites like p2pstaking mentioned as a resource for delegating to validators safely.

NashDaypring1987

Are people who make these types of videos just trying to encourage people to buy BTC? Buy BTC you'll be better off than most people :)

BacchusAndHamsa

You're making a mistake projecting your actions onto others. Yes, lots of people "invest" for a day, a week, a month a year. If you daily sell half your mined coins for ETF then guess what you invested for a day and took whatever gains or loses happened since mining, lolz. BTC isn't preserving capital for anyone who bought and is losing at the tanking prices that just went below 88K while I watched making more whoopie cushion noises. I'll wait until BTC goes to $60K or even lower, which will happen. Then sure it'll probably rise and I'll make some coin, until the next bust part of cycle. 1 year chart means a lot for thing that dived into the crapper, very relevant for investors. Sure mining is a bit different.

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creativeainsfw

About BTC? It's all about the chaos provoked by Trump, he has severe investments on crypto, that could be the reason of the actual fluctuation in the price range. About the man in the hecking car, I dunno how he doit, you need to be a familiar of Trump to ending messing up the easiest task 😂

cryptofriday

# if BTC dip below 50K I will Sell the Flat !

Itur_ad_Astra

BTC can't pump $500 without people running for the exit, it's hilarious really. Don't worry guys, you'll have time to dump it for Silver the next time it pumps a bit.

Impressive-Reply-244

Bitcoin isn’t dead, watch the haters cry once BTC flies past $125k in a few years.

charliedayismyhero

Brooooo!!! I owe you!!! I haven't looked at BTC price for months!! Buying now!!!

DizzyKoalaUnit

Starting young gives you a big time advantage, and putting consistent $3k/month into BTC could really add up-but maybe consider keeping a small safety net just in case.

TripsterX

Youre kind of in the position i was in when i was 21 (5 years ago) whilst I had a good income throughout lockdown. This is when I started having the same thoughts as you. Now is my chance to use my good circumstances to make my future a little easier, and good on you for thinking like that. That mentality is far ahead of your years, which you'll come to realise by the time your my age. Im now 26 holding predominantly BTC, supported with a couple of stocks, and its only because of the decision I made when I was in your position that I have the investments now that I do. Honestly something that will save you alot of stress in general, which is wished I did at your age, I didnt start until a couple years ago when I was 24, build a little emergency fund. Open a separate account with your bang, a high interest saver. They usually limit how much you can out away, for example 120 per month. This is perfect. It'll take you a little while to build, but because its only 30 a week its not very noticeable, yet because youre limited to how much you can put in, it really discourages you from dipping in. Im thats a bit off topic but alongside your investing, definitely do that. You WILL thank yourself. Its nice to have a separate pile of safety money that if the situation called for.it, qould prevent you having to dip into your investments to get your hands on cash. That in itself is a worthy investment :)

RoyalMushroom6202

Learn a trade. Buy BTC and gold.

Inmemoriam7

On this particular case, Sounds to me that Coinbase saved him of losing his BTC, because he could access his account 10 years later, when he wasn’t consciously hodling, and it is highly probable that he could have forgotten the passwor on self custody.

IAmSixNine

ME reading sold everything to buy dip, seeping pic of table and chairs, realizing i have been lied to. Sold ALMOST everything. LOL I was going to sell my silver to buy more BTC but no body is buying at its high price.. So nice i can sell BTC at any price but cant sell my silver at $107 (current spot)

biophysicsguy

You can probably get another 0.005 BTC for that table and chairs.

Maniiic_

I’m aiming for 0.10 BTC.

Just-Complaint-2094

Yes most crypts are doomed. Some will survive with the projects and technology attached to them and BTC will be around but not so much. We will be lucky if Bitcoin stays on pace with the S and P over the next 20 years. If governments adopt blockchain and crypto for transactions they will choose their own project not use and existing one.

Objective_Muffin2760

Im on my way to reach 1 BTC buy gradually stacking thru DCA

ComprehensiveOne2122

How do you get to 1 BTC and not 0.5 or 2? Mind sharing your calculation? 

jbm747

Anybody feel like BTC price is being suppressed like the banks did with silver over the last 50 yrs? Would this be accomplished in the same way as the silver price, with shorts on BTC? Also makes sense that the first tradable securities for BTC were highly levered instruments not the current ETF products that must hold the equivalent underlying asset.

Crypto_4_Cash

Excuse me? My plan? I'm a musician, and have been since before college, and for 16 years since college. I studied classical guitar and jazz piano at Julliard, but make my money by producing and recording artists, as well as a side-hustle in crypto (BTC swing trading and memecoin trenching). But if I had a teacher who told me to go to trade school, I might have, and then I would have missed out on my calling and my dream. You cannot tell your students to go to trade school without exploring the more educated options first. I understand if this was specifically catered to your difficult students, but you didn't say it was. You said "I'd tell my kids to go to trade school." From a person who went to school and college in NYC, I am thankful that none of my teachers ever said what you told your students. I'm honestly baffled right now.

DryMyBottom

I love when BTC gifts us all with this unexpected little green dildos

tenuousemphasis

OK, so let's assume you have a receive-only taproot address with 1 BTC. Quantum computers can now break ECDSA. The race begins to secure bitcoin from quantum computers.  Your coin cannot be stolen from your inactive wallet, true. But you also cannot safely transfer or spend them. As soon as you broadcast a transaction, you reveal the very information you so carefully kept secret. The attackers can afford to pay higher fees than you to replace your transaction with their own. 

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richardto4321

I had over 200 BTC at one point and sold/traded them way too early. No need to dwell on it or have regrets. Just gotta keep charging forward and learn from the past.

Downtown_Feedback665

Of the best performing assets of the last 10 years, BTC and gold have beaten the S&P. YTD charts mean little to nothing with something as volatile as crypto. Also nobody invests for just one year. The entire point is that this is a debasement trade. If we print more dollars, and demand stays equal for BTC, BTC is guaranteed to go up. I make about $200 a day @ current BTC prices mining BTC. I sell half per day into S&P ETFs, so I’m not against S&P, they’re two different things. BTC/Gold is for capital preservation. Stocks are for long term compounding growth.

HereForTheSmug

Vegas is too expensive nowadays.  I'd have to sell some BTC to go there and I'm a staunch HODLer. 

Life-Republic2311

Bro.. just DCA in.. imagine being the guy nickel and diming BTC at 90k.. and then it hits 250k or 1MM.. the fundamentals haven’t changed.. who cares buy the dip

ieatvegans

I saw silver pulled back a little bit today. That's probably people rotating back into BTC, right? (LOL)

SnooPredictions6107

But market barely moves. OTC desk buys or what..Paper BTC...

V0idScribe

Let's see if it still works according to plan in 5 years.. but I think it's dangerous to BTC. one man shouldn't have that much holdings, cos sooner rather than later, he'll be tempted to offload some bags

lilbearjetski

They already have a word for people who are going to lose their jobs to AI and it’s “non essential workers” if you physically can I’d get into a trade because machines are never going to be running wires in a house or fixing pipes. You can start making money right away and put a small amount of that money into BTC. Start small, only put in money you are okay with losing or never seeing again and keep studying Bitcoin

SeemedGood

Completely corrupt BTC and divert it from becoming a money into being just another speculative financial asset which is completely controlled by the Banking Cartel (which financed Blockstream for that purpose).

Itur_ad_Astra

The only thing more shitty than the USD at the moment is BTC.

Itur_ad_Astra

BTC losing 1% in an hour every market open net you 10% with a safe 10x short. It will stop eventually, but you only need it to succeed a dozen times to make bank, and it has been happening for months already.

stuckInACallbackHell

Ofc I buy BTC and does fuck all for an entire year.

Glyzzza_

Bold move for sure! For MicroStrategy, dips are opportunities, not danger, because they’re playing long-term. For most investors, that much BTC would be risky.

word-dragon

33 BTC wouldn’t have bought one slice of pepperoni from that pizza!

goshagi

what is a BTC expert?

goshagi

100% in BTC

8vomit

Sir, will that be BTC or cash then?

semanticweb

In 2021 it was btc, now it is gold. It will be BTC soon...

8vomit

Hey I have a start up too. Send me some $$ or BTC. It's a complete scam and you won't get anything back, but at least I'm up front about it.

Bubbly-Garlic-8451

I am not interested in a feature like this, but even if I were, I would not pay for it since I assume there are plenty of sites that already include this functionality (i.e., exchanges, where I assume you would anyway go if that information was relevant to you). However, I have two questions: * How robust is it against volatility around a target? Will it spam hundreds of emails to my inbox if I set 90k as a threshold and BTC goes above and below multiple times over a short span? Do you have any settings to control that? * How does it deal with sudden crashes followed by a recovery? Will it still notify me, even if the threshold is crossed very briefly and by the time I check, the price is back to its previous level? I am assuming manual operations, since people wanting something like this for automated trading will probably just query some exchange/block explorer API directly from their bot. Even if I am not interested in your service, good luck with your product!

AdFast1121

Remember when BTC was a borderless store of value to hedge against fiat? Now its even more vulnerable to US monetary policy than the stock market.  This is a fundamental problem for bitcoin that everyone's ignoring and pretending its still 2022. 

Salt-Neck-5305

You should think BTC as your retírement. Buy a little every month, no hurries.

dankbaabe

My theory is that it won’t cross the ATH ever and BTC Will trap all the long investors. Eth and altcoins can support the rally.

BarbaraW_Matthews

Tokenized gold isn’t competing with Bitcoin, it’s competing with ETFs and paper gold. BTC is for people who don’t want permission or custodians at all. Different audience, different use case.

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kirtash93

I love buying BTC when Bitcoin is dead narrative is ATH 

AlpinSean007

Come on dude…are you an OG? Everybody who bought BTC in the last 2y has every reason to be concerned compared to gold and stocks!!!

el-hermit

If this isn’t a BTC buy signal, I don’t know what is.

Real-Technician831

More accurately BTC as inflation hedge narrative is dead, buy that won’t stop people blabbing about it. BTC is dead if it crashes to zero and stays there.

kurvix2000

Anything can trigger the fall, Trumps tweet alone could make BTC swing up or down by $5k. Relistically, ETFs used to be buying more BTC that was mined in some months, they're big players and move a lot of money in BTC ecosystem, plus with institutions, companies and goverments buying BTC, the institutions and street money panic less and HODL more. No big panic, no big sell offs, no big crashes if ETFs and the street are holding on to their BTC which seems to be the sentiment.

FromThePits

This is what I do. I don't even accept fiat currencies anymore. BTC only.

NaiveMercury

It's gonna happen, but because with time BTC stays less volatile and we see diminishing returns and diminishing losses it's not gonna be that volatile this time around Can we see it dropping to like 40k? Perhaps, but not much more than that

Godex_io

The less BTC you have, the more paranoid you become. True decentralization starts at 0.1

DBRiMatt

Not even BTC made it to my predicted price, and I thought 130k was more on the conservative side! xD

FromThePits

Alternative suggestion : Airdrop it to your grandchildren. 90 years from now, those BTC will take +1000 days to be mined by all miners worldwide. Block rewards after 2116 is 0.00000037 BTC. New bitcoin released daily : 0.00005328 New bitcoin released monthly : 0.0015984 Note : transfer fees are old BTC being circulated, not new. A free DIY tutorial how to airdrop to all your descendants here : Www.thegreekchain.info/the-guide

OpinionDude5000

You literally invest in BTC to turn it into fiat one day! 🤡

ThatInternetGuy

Liquidity is the most desirable thing for many people, because it allows them to convert said assets back to billions of dollars without moving the price down much. BTC has this ability, where the investor could hold billions of dollars worth of BTC and can convert all back to USD at will. If the asset is illiquid, the value of the asset doesn't really matter, because any attempt to sell any meaningful amount will push the price to zero.

Spitipoti

How is an individual stock lottery but BTC isn't? That's cherrypicking at its finest.

BobBLight12345

Send your BTC two or three years Dagestan and forget

inphenite

While I agree w the others to not put yourself in a situation where you cant cover your costs, I’d rather support the idea. If shit does hit the fan, and you have to sell some BTC with a net 20% loss or whatever (considering a period of DCA with increases and drops), I’d consider that a “cost of business”. If you live sober and DCA in serious amounts, that’s usually how people become insanely wealthy over time (think 10+ years, not 3.) Source: I work with ultra high net worth individuals.

SingularityXZ

It tears me up hearing such an empowering story. I myself used to be a poor English teacher, earning $4 an hour in Vietnam. Through a colleague, I discovered BTC and decided put in $100. Then I watch it grows, it was a shift of my conventional mindset, just get a high paying job bro they said! That's no longer work in the current economy, so I learn to live humbly, no dating with fine dining, no extravagant spending on the things I don't need that just make me look cool to others. Keep on honing my skills to teach IELTS and save to DCA when I have extra income. I bought clothes and shoes once a year. Voila! It unlocked something inside me, and now fast forward I am financially stable. Having one foot in gold and the other in crypto, I actually feel more confident against the upcoming storms. I thank this community for its people posts and advice. I wish you luck and prosperity brother!

Electrical_Horror978

This is why I have nearly 50% invested in ETFs, I currently live with my parents and my biggest expense probably is fuel because of work, saying that I know once I start a family these expenses will multiply. No doubt when the time comes Ill take the money out of ETFs and priorotize keeping my bitcoin, but that being said Its not guaranteed that this money will be enough. That being said, in 3 years time its very unlikely that BTC will be at a lower price than it is now. I will need emergency savings once I live with and provide for my family, but right now if i lose my job i still have a roof to live under and food.

user_name_checks_out

> I had a bunch of BTC. Like over 35 at one point, but once I realized what I had I only had two left. I feel like you have skipped over some important parts of the story.

xiskghferx

It's not the price of 1BTC, but current value of 1000$ purchase in 2018...

DiamondHandsDarrell

I heard or read that the reason gold is up is because even if two countries are going at it, e.g. Ukraine and Russia, they don't touch the gold reserves in the vaults of the other countries. So people buy into gold because it's "safe," which is why it hit a record. However, what's to stop the US from just taking someone else's gold from their vaults? And that's where BTC gets interesting because no one can take it from you unless you send it to them. Assuming it's properly secured. Just another reason BTC is the future in so many ways.

flying-fox200

No one who has held BTC for more than 4 years has lost out. However, short-term volatility is potent, so I would not recommend putting money into Bitcoin that you might need in 2-3 years. BTC could be in a bear market when you need to sell it, and you'd realise a big loss. Only buy BTC with money that you won't need for at least 10+ years.