BTC

Alotuyo95

De todas formas creo que a muchas personas le vendría bien 30 € en BTC solo por registrarse con mi enlace de referido es BTC gratis, no todos los echangues hacen eso

Alotuyo95

Como va a rastrear tus BTC ? No inventes amigo donde viste esa película y si es cierto explicate mejor, si fuera verdad como sabes eso ?

JimmySki6166

Stay away from Ledger at every cost!! I had a Ledger, had some issues with it locking up and not letting me into it. They have no phone # or customer support team. Have to email them, and get a call 6 days later. When I was able to get back into the wallet, all of my BTC (42k worth) was gone. No explanations, or anyone who can help. Spoke to the security director, and he asked me for my seed phrase several times. Asked to speak to a manager and he disconnected the call!

Prior_Parsley3960

I have said it time and time again. For most people (even crypto people), Fidelity BTC is their best option. \*very few are equipped for self custody given current conditions Fidelity has been in crypto for a long time and is one of our largest institutions. If they fail, we have much larger problems to deal with

DontLook_Weirdo

No sarcasm.. but you said it st the very beginning - "*very new to memecoin trading*" You didn't trade meme, you gamble. In crypto, you trade utility, gamble meme, hold BTC & ETH. When you gamble meme, you're looking for a good/strong meme, a good easy name, liquidity with less than 10% of the supply being held by the Dev team. Exit when it's mooning, don't hold for the top. And most importantly, only gamble what you're willing to lose.

RockHardTen11

I hope you are debt free now. Thats the best scenario for anyone to be i.e. debt free. Once you are, stack them BTC and dont worry about it after that.

never_safe_for_life

Nothing because it’s never gonna happen. BTC is the original sound money invention. BCH is just sad cope

ExtremeHobo

He's making me glad he lost his BTC

92sheran

I’m 90% crypto (BTC mainly) 10% 401K

JimmySki6166

Been purchasing at least $500 a week of BTC for almost 5 yrs now. Some weeks I double it! Best asset one can purchase in my opinion

DiamondHandsDarrell

My main cc is the coinbase black Amex with 4% BTC back. Living the dream!

Silver-Diamond-1715

If Satoshi sells his BTC

feltusen

Lightning doesn't eliminate Bitcoin's limitations. It moves them into a more complicated system. You can have plenty of BTC and still be unable to make a payment because there's no sufficiently liquid route to the recipient. Then you need channels, inbound liquidity, rebalancing, routing, LSPs and constant liquidity management. So much for "just send Bitcoin instantly to anyone." It's fast when the plumbing happens to be there. **The plumbing is the problem.**

JimmySki6166

If you purchased BTC at 250-300, I’ll give you 2k for each one! Will be a great profit for you 😂🤷🏼‍♂️

iloverunning11

That’s utter nonsense. Bitcoin is worthless if we consider solely real value. On the other hand most assets hold real value because they help satisfy humans’ essential needs be it food shelter etc. BTC is a novelty but without speculators its market cap would be smaller than AnF market cap

lathiat

Yeah, this is a real risk with these. I purchased one of these way back in maybe 2013? I forget the name, was different to yours. BTC was like $50 or something at the time Somehow I sadly lost the physical card. I can only assume someone nabbed it from me, though I don't have the public key to see if the BTC is still on it! Was "only" 1 BTC.

YellowCore

Has had 0.78 BTC thru their wallet in past 4 years.

JimmySki6166

BTC is the best asset I can purchase! I’ll keep purchasing weekly for generational wealth, and if it drops, I’ll just keep purchasing more! I’ll bet the whole farm it will never drop to zero!

Mobe-E-Duck

If every other currency goes to infinite and nobody buys more BTC.

MC_SKWAIRD

As long as I’m alive BTC will never go to $0

Evening_Let_2930

Cryptopia had 300 BTC too plus a ton of other coins

Disastrous_Fee5953

So the loser in the picture invested $600 in BTC in 2011 and then didn’t work for 6 years? What the gell is this comic even supposed to mean? He still sold for a profit and got to enjoy a car he couldn’t afford otherwise. When you invest you learn never to look back after selling for a profit.

bitusher

Nonsense . BIP110 failed to convince most people as it was flawed Here is a breakdown of the power dynamics in bitcoin when it comes to the rules of the protocol. Ultimately economic users hold the most value and determine the immediate outcome in a Hard fork split. **Miners** have invested a lot in infrastructure , but have tight margins and typically have electrical and rental contracts where they cannot afford to mine coins that are unprofitable for long due to the community rejecting it. **exchanges** Have a lot of influence upon the naming of tokens or at least their ticker and act as somewhat of a large investor. This is another reason among many that we advise you to store your BTC yourself because we want users to be in control and not large centralized exchanges. They can also help predict an outcome of a split with future trading pairs. **Merchants and payment processors** give legitimacy to a chain , increase its network effect and influence more users to use that chain in the long term **Developers, specialists and Oracles** They cannot force code upon the users and since nodes don't self update economic users can reject their proposals with as little as inaction. These people indirectly influence economic users indirectly because the whole ecosystem depends upon them for security fixes and updates. Many developers are extremely large stakeholders due to being involved in Bitcoin since 2010 and 2011. **economic Users** have the most control. Ones that validate the rules with a full node cannot be coerced into new rules even with 100% of hashpower deciding upon something. Since miners have such high overhead they will typically quickly follow the lead of these users because they buy their product and it is quite costly to ignore their wishes. Not all economic users are equal however and there are different types of economic users. 1) **Spenders** tend to use bitcoin for its utility and buy it just to spend instead of long term investment. These cannot influence HF split outcomes much because they typically do not have many BTC at any given time thus aren't awarded many BTC split tokens to wield their influence with 2) **Hodlers / Investors** These individuals have a great power since they are given both sides of the coin in HF they can quickly determine the outcome in a speculation war . These people tend to be conservative IMHO with scaling as they have greatly profited from the years of stability and have a lot to risk by any proposal that damages bitcoins key characteristics or security. With every passing year the amount of large whales will drop and BTC will become more evenly distributed. In reality we want bitcoiners to be both spenders and investors and there is a spectrum in the two above with how much one fits in each category

No-Masterpiece2246

For uncensored free speech there is 4chan etc. Nobody looks at the BTC blockchain for messages. Bitcoin wasn't created for the 3rd world, and by now the 3rd world can't use it anyway, the fees are too high. Bitcoin is Peer to Peer Digital Payment Network, read the whitepaper. This uncensorable speech nonsense was shoehorned into the narrative by rBitcoin Maximalists, don't listen to it.

Any_Context1

Not really. I’d say handing over literal cash is easier. Yes, cash derives value from a gov entity, but BTC derives value from the market, which is dominated by a handful of big exchanges. And the vast majority of BTC holders aren’t doing P2P.

Tcash9

If you have at least 1 BTC (definitely if you have more) do Multisig with a service like casa.io where you can use your Ledger as one hardware key👍

Unlisted_User69420

I’m glad you retain your BTC, just on high alert after the recent losses

Logical_driver_42

That’s just not true my BTC is on my cold card

Ok_Reputation9512

He's waiting for BTC to hit $1 mill before selling anything. He's the new Warren Buffet (drives a sensible car) style crypto Billionaire.

JimmySki6166

BTC is a bargain purchase every day in my opinion! Small fractional amounts, all add up!

Silver-Diamond-1715

It's always good time to buy BTC!

JimmySki6166

There is a true story that when BTC first came out, a man ordered pizza to be delivered. He tipped the delivery person 2 BTC! One expensive pizza!!

dasysk

Repeat after me: software nodes are not economical nodes. Some dude with 0.01 BTC can run 500 software nodes in his basement, while a single software node can represent 100,000 BTC (eg. an exchange or large business representing large transaction volume and thousands of people). Software nodes are basically meaningless to judge community or economical support. The truth is BIP110 never had community support outside a tiny minority of poorly informed plebs. BIP110 didn't even actually solve the problem it set out to solve. It just made spam slightly more expensive and impossible to prune. A problem which is actually not even a problem. Bitcoin has had data transactions for 15+ years and is doing just fine. Please stop getting your information from delusional and disingenuous people like Luke.

No-Masterpiece2246

What does this trilemma have to do with quantum attacks? Almost like you had to say it to reassure yourself about your BTC Maximalism.

jjwmonsta

Just remember. No ONE controls BTC. As long as that is the case it will be decentralized.

CloutiersHelmet

Hahahaha I bought weed on the Silk Road for a depressing amount of BTC.

jaimepasmonpseudo

I did the same but with a peak of 700 BTC in 2011 :'(

No-Masterpiece2246

But literally every other blockchain has 100x more block space than BTC. So BTC is precisely the worst for messages. And precisely the opposite of what Satoshi said is the purpose of Bitcoin. Furthermore there are things like IPFS and immutable social media blockchains that excel at storing data. Whoever fed you this crap about messages on BTC is a Maxi retard. They're just trying to keep the BTC fees high when hardly anyone is using it. I suppose you like ordinals and rare sats too? It's for dummies.

marcusmv3

Go look at the BCH/BTC chart and cry

BTCGlobeLive

Yes, it's possible, and I ran it. The answer isn't what you're hoping for, but I think it's more interesting. I pulled every output at the burn address and filtered to your two windows. **14 July** (blocks 957,922 to 958,076): 137 outputs, **0.0445 BTC** total. **28-29 July** (blocks 959,902 to 960,172): 589 outputs, **0.15321171 BTC** total. So 726 transactions across both avalanches, adding up to **0.1977 BTC**. Not 100. Under a fifth of one coin. Here's the part worth knowing. I decoded the OP_RETURN of all 726 of them, and 724 start with the exact same three bytes: `X2[`. That's `0x58 0x32 0x5b`, which is the Stacks 2.0 magic prefix — someone else in this thread spotted that too. The remaining 2 have no OP_RETURN at all and are dust. That's not a person. It's the Stacks proof-of-transfer protocol doing automated commits, and those consistent 20k/30k/40k sats amounts you noticed are the mining bids, not donations. The "avalanches" are just periods when the Stacks chain was busy. The rest of the payload after those three bytes is binary consensus data, which is why it looks like garbage when you try to read it as text. So the German message and these hundreds of transactions are two completely unrelated things that happen to share an address. That one was 546 sats and a sentence. These are a robot paying its own bills. If you want to check any single one yourself: bitcoin-cli getrawtransaction <txid> 1 Look at the `vout` entry with type `nulldata`, and read the first three bytes of the hex. `58325b` means Stacks, and you can stop reading there.

DangerHighVoltage111

Only an ignorant person or a person only interested in price would say that. Obviously BTC is much more visible since it got the branding but BCH attracts people and builders and it builds the base for a worldwide p2p cash system, while BTC infights over Apes on chain and doesn't scale a single bit. >Until then, it's all moot, isn't it. Yes, but don't cry when you are late.

dmsrt

Good question. The 5 BTC was accumulated over time with the idea of paying debt with the gains along the way, which happened. It’s the wanting to make it back after repaying the debts that caught me.

DangerHighVoltage111

Dude you lost. I gave you the option to drop this braindead take and you missed it. If you go by adoption than go back into the warm, convenient lap of the dollar, because this adoption dwarfs BTC and BCH. But we are here for sound p2p cash and only BCH provides that. So we do what Bitcoin already did once: Start from low adoption and grow it. What good is BTCs "adoption" if it is only about holding and selling it later for, maybe, more dollars. It's the anti-thesis to Bitcoin.

DangerHighVoltage111

Dude, I literally sent you the prove. Forks don't create new chains, they create forks or branches. >Fork(s). Hundreds of them. I appreciate your concession that your preferred and arguably irrelevant fork obviously isn't the same as the original. You know I'm talking about BTC. Segwit, taproot and all that shit where not in the original chain. >So we'll agree to disagree that bitcoin cash is the True Successor to satoshi's vision It is one successor and objectively the one keeping closest to Satoshis idea of Bitcoin as a p2p cash system. >. Imo you failed to make a compelling case Nope, you are just a very dishonest conversational partner

Ok_Entrepreneur_dbl

I too did the same bought BTC and then took profits and with it bought more crypto . The difference for me was it was new and as my portfolio dropped and my stocks were taking off, I sold all crypto and bought stock. Never too late to reboot!

chona_Yu

Can't argue with the Cramer indicator. But the quantum part is still worth paying attention to, regardless of what BTC does next. I've seen a few projects already working on this, and QVM is one of the more solid approaches I've come across.

RockHardTen11

If you had money to accumulate 5 BTC, then why didn't you use that money to pay debt first? Then you could have accumulated thereafter.

anonymousopsec1337

If you’re closing your business and having liquidity problems you probably shouldn’t be DCA into a speculative asset. My btc is < 5% of my portfolio. I will probably keep it under 3%. I keep more in cash than that. I do BTC/cash/metals instead of buying bonds. This way my stocks are 99% growth and riskier.

magma_lakes

Mullvad VPN. BTC + BCH + XMR + Lightning

DangerHighVoltage111

That's why Bitcoin Cash. It's the coin Satoshi started, it has the potential to rally everyone around a second push for p2p cash after BTC got hijacked.

Ok_Entrepreneur_dbl

I think this represents the thing that person likes BTC. 69 and 420. Clever in my opinion!

iloverunning11

I will wait for 35k€ and then will buy 0 BTC because I am dumb af but actually know how to invest and I’m patient so trash like BTC is a no no

Overwatch_1ightning

Dude I mined 5 BTC or something when I was a kid on my PC. Ended up wiping it several times for video game space. This shit has happened and will happen over and over. That's the thing about volatile assets, no one knows shit about shit and anyone who says they do are either scamming you or just talking shit.

No-Masterpiece2246

lol makes no sense. If BTC blockchain is to be used for messages, the blocks should be bigger.

your_unpaid_bills

No. Each fork retains its total supply. For instance, when the BCH fork happened, people who had X BTC prior to it ended up with X BTC on one side and X BCH on the other side of the fork. The new BCH could be accessed (and transferred/sold) using the same private keys, independently since it lived on a new blockchain (and, as a matter of fact, many/most people eventually sold their BCH). Of course, this is only possible as long as the other chain hasn't died off already, cause in order to transfer the coins that live on the forked chain, it needs to be actively mining blocks (and there must be someome wanting to buy those coins, clearly).

No-Masterpiece2246

They probably should've changed the difficulty adjustment algorithm. This was all just an exercise. BTC price went up. I guess confidence increased as the fork neared. And maybe Iran bought more BTC, lol.

No-Masterpiece2246

Two wrongs don't make a right. Taproot is utter shit to begin with, as is every other new Core "feature" for the past 5 year. Enabling tracking of BTC outputs is not a feature most people want. Covenants could be cool but nobody will use them. Tiny blocks are retarded to begin with and Segwit is 20k lines of technical debt shitcode. Lightning nodes getting haxxed left and right. So yeah. Keeping Core on their toes is exactly what happened. There are other devs who can change the course of BTC development. Toothless Luke is obviously a terrible example, but the point was made.

MF_Price

We're not talking about just cold storage mishaps, all BTC lost from self custody. Your list only added up to a little over 1.1M BTC. Even the low estimates of self custody losses are 1.5M.

abitofcoinOTC

There is a persistent customer service issue with financial institutions, especially in cryptocurrency, that goes beyond actual regulations. There is a lot of activity that just isn't serviceable on exchanges anymore. If you're using cryptocurrency as actual currency, for example, you're almost guaranteed to get your accounts closed due to blockchain analysis. All it takes is someone who buys the alpaca socks you're selling to pay you with BTC with a 5% taint from a mixer, and bam, you're permanently banned from Coinbase. It's a big issue, actually, that using bitcoin how it was intended to be used will almost certainly eventually get you barred from most of the major exchanges.

abitofcoinOTC

Exchanges want you to leave your money there because they get to continue making money off of you. Every time you buy or sell, any time you use any of the interest-earning features, and it also increases the value of their company generally when they have more assets on the platform. Both deposits and withdrawals are operationally expensive for the exchange. Users who send money or crypto to an exchange, trade it, and then withdraw are at far greater risk of having their accounts closed compared to a user who just leaves their money there. Users who deposit and withdraw without trading at all will almost certainly have their account closed at some point. None of this suggests they are running a Ponzi; it's just the business model of the exchanges. If they charged users 1% for deposits and withdrawals (some major exchanges, like BTC-e, have charged users in the past for deposits and withdrawals), this might change how they're earning revenue.

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Purple_Mud9417

Most people loose money when trading. I advise you to start studying BTC and DCA monthly, it is not late for you to succeed. Just bitcoin, forget the shitcoins.

fan_of_hakiksexydays

No, BTC hit its last ATH after the halving. Exactly in Q4 of 2025. So yea, once again proving cycles have continued to follow the same pattern.

blaziken8x

Hey man, aren't stocks pretty much always at ATHs? You could have made the statement "stocks are at ATHs" pretty much any time like last 10-15 years. I have both stocks, etfs and crypto. (plenty of XLM too, but I'll still shill BTC and diversification)

MRJohnson1997

Blue pill, even if I couldn’t buy any BTC. Imagine how much you could make on sports betting

blaziken8x

I held from 2021 to 2024 while being down 50-60% for a couple of years and today at the alleged bottom of the bear market I'm still plenty in profit. (BTC can drop even more, I don't care). Hopefully if you're at least holding some of the top 20 cryptos and not some random shit, you should probably be fine when BTC starts going up again.

Ink0gnit0

Congrats im at 0,071 BTC at the moment an stacking more as much as i can

blaziken8x

Never think about what could have been, because you'll always think about the best possible scenario and not about the realistic scenario that would have happened. I could have won like 10+ mil eur on a lottery, but I only got one number correct and missed every other number by 1. Silly, hypothetical, best case scenarios will just give you anxiety. You could have dumped 10k into gold and almost 3x your money, you could have dumped 10k into eft following S&P 500 and 3x your money. you could have dumped 10k into basically any large stable company stock and doubled your money (lets say coca-cola for example). Heck, you could probably go back to live with your parents today (if you have good relationship with them I guess) to save on rent, and invest that rent money into stocks, gold or BTC at today's prices and it will probably be worth significantly more than it is now in 5 years.

diradder

In practice, I've had way more delays/issues on THORChain than on ChainFlip personally (mainly trading to acquire BTC). On a technology/market level, THORChain pools pair every supported asset with RUNE (a BTC-to-ETH swap effectively passes through BTC/RUNE and RUNE/ETH internally) when Chainflip executes swaps through its virtual just in time AMM (automated market marker) where orders are processed on its State Chain and settled using native assets held in protocol vaults. As I said before I had a better time on ChainFlip in terms of delays, and fees remain reasonable but I've mainly used them through ShapeShift which generally has lower fees than ThorSwap (and supports both chains, and more).

DerkleineMaulwurf

Have you seen the Tesla or even more bizarre, the Spacex "valuation"? 1 Million per BTC is a very conservative take.

TheresNoSecondBest

>We need people willing to fight for BTC original idea. The nature of Bitcoin is such that once version 0.1 was released, the core design was set in stone for the rest of its lifetime.  Because of that, **I wanted to design it to support every possible transaction type I could think of**.  The problem was, each thing required special support code and data fields whether it was used or not, and only covered one special case at a time.  It would have been an explosion of special cases.  The solution was script, which generalizes the problem so transacting parties can describe their transaction as a predicate that the node network evaluates.  The nodes only need to understand the transaction to the extent of evaluating whether the sender's conditions are met. https://satoshi.nakamotoinstitute.org/posts/bitcointalk/126/ >The big miners are now fully centralized which makes the node runners less important. No bip would ever fix that, nor spinning Sybil nodes like the 110 gang did. Stratum V2 helps tremendously. >So if you want no one standing up for regular BTC holders rights keep it up and keep running down good people who do good things for the space. People spreading lies just to push their non working solution into Bitcoin are IMHO the opposite of "good people".

Frequent-Ad-6048

​As I was saying, there are many consecutive transactions going back from July 29th that share the same message type as the one I mentioned at the beginning. Can you check on your node how much BTC has been shared since the famous 107 BTC donation? Is that possible? Those transactions share the same message format and seem to be related to one another. There are hundreds upon hundreds sharing donations of 20,000, 30,000, 40,000 satoshis, some of 60k and 80k, but there are hundreds, one after another. There is a huge amount of these transactions between July 28th and 29th, and another avalanche around July 14th, also sharing the same amounts and message format in the transactions. There must be many more than the ones I looked at, but there really are hundreds and my browser freezes when scrolling. I would like to know if it's actually possible to calculate the sum of all these transactions, because it makes me think that there really is a "German" who has burned 100 BTC across hundreds of transactions averaging around 30k satoshis.

Beginning_Health9584

"Fine-print lawyering" nails it — and I've got a live one right now. I keep a log of public BTC calls with their settle rules fixed up front. One comes due tomorrow 01:22 UTC at a level price crossed two hours ago; it's sitting 0.33% above the line with ten hours left to hold. At that distance the wording does all the work: which venue, close versus touch, the exact timestamp. The forecast is arguably fine either way — the criteria alone decide whether it goes in the book as right or wrong. Which is why I now write the settle rule before the clock starts and never touch it after. Doesn't make anyone better calibrated; it just makes the record honest enough to be worth measuring. Curious whether you see vaguer-criteria markets trade at a systematically wider spread. I'd expect sharp money to price the ambiguity in, but I've never seen it quantified.

BitPulse_

Waiting for $75 is risky because MSTR's valuation moves with its BTC reserves and mNAV. Tracking this on my model (**BitPulse** \- www.bitpulse.digital), MSTR vs BTC sits at a **Z-Score of -1.19** (historical equilibrium/discount zone). BTC actually leads MSTR on a 5Y view (+41% vs +30%, R=0.930). If deploying $80k, I’d use a hybrid plan: • **30% now** (mNAV at fair value) • **40% reserved** for deeper discount (Z-Score < -1.5) • **30% dry powder** Focusing on mNAV bands beats guessing fixed stock prices.

Frequent-Ad-6048

If you read the main message, that transaction refers back to it, but a few days earlier—for several hours—there is a huge number of transactions, vast amounts of them, that share the same message type and seem to be related to one another. I made a brief attempt to tally up the total BTC, but there are simply too many

Jubilee572

how is everytime the same? BTC hit an all time high before its next halving. But good luck buying higher though. I’ll sell when you’re buying at the top. lol

harvested

You literally just said: "more lost in self custody even with those." and I can't ask for your source? Fucking clown sub. - Mt Gox (2011–2014): ~850,000 BTC - Bitfinex (2016): 119,756 BTC - FTX (2022): ~80,000–100,000 BTC-equivalent shortfall - Bitcoinica (2012, three incidents): ~102,000 BTC - Linode breach (2012, hit Bitcoinica/Slush/others): ~43,554 BTC - QuadrigaCX (2019): ~26,500 BTC - Bitfloor (2012): 24,000 BTC - Bitstamp (2015): ~19,000 BTC - Cryptsy (2015): ~13,000 BTC - Picostocks (2013): ~13,100 BTC across two hacks - Bitcoin7 (2011): ~11,000 BTC (reported) - Zaif (2018): ~5,966 BTC (plus other coins) - Binance (2019): 7,000 BTC - Mintpal (2014): ~3,700 BTC - Poloniex (2014): ~97 BTC - Flexcoin (2014): ~896 BTC

Zestyclose_Ad2462

Props for posting this OP, really took guts. I've been in BTC for less than a year and seen a lot during that time. Big runup to its ATH, followed by 50% crash and now this Cold Card mess. Your warning here is good Karma IMO. It's because of people like you I didn't fall victim to that game. By paying it forward here, good fortune awaits you.

TheresNoSecondBest

>I do know that I’ve learned more about BTC from his channel than any other place on the internet. Then you probably have never seen u/andreama videos nor read any of his books. Look up "Mastering Bitcoin", "Mastering the Lightning Network", or "The Internet of Money". Or visit https://youtube.com/user/aantonop

PaintingLeft565

i went through something similar but maybe more painful. I was able to stack more than 7 bitcoins during 2019-2021 period. I sold literally a week or two before it had the crazy run form 10k to 69k. I invested a lot during the period where bitcoin was still a lot more volatile than today (10-20% move during intraday wasn't uncommon), and during this time, there was zero regulatory clarity. Very very few people actually believed in BTC long term. It was too much stress for me and with pressure from family to sell, i gave in.

BTCGlobeLive

Welcome, and that's a better first post than most. I counted it on my own node, since you said you hadn't. That address is sitting on 809.42504341 BTC across 390,874 outputs. Nobody can spend from it, so that number is also everything that has ever been sent there. Almost none of it is big burns though. Only 9 outputs are 1 BTC or more, and together they come to 152.39 BTC, the largest single one being 40 BTC from back in 2015. The other 657 BTC is spread over 390,865 tiny outputs, and 10,912 of those are 1,000 sats or less. That's the message traffic people are describing above. On the 107 BTC someone mentioned: on my node all five of those landed in the same block, 950962, timestamped 25 May 2026 13:59 UTC. And the German one you found is in block 960524, 1 Aug at 06:46 UTC. It put 546 sats at the burn address. The input was 2,311 sats, of which 1,337 came back as change and 428 went to the miner. So the epitaph is real but the funeral isn't. Whatever the 100 BTC refers to, it didn't burn in that transaction. If you'd rather count it yourself than take my word for it: bitcoin-cli scantxoutset start '[{"desc":"addr(1111111111111111111114oLvT2)"}]' Took about 80 seconds here, and it hands you the total plus every single output.

mrjune2040

Lol- and that’s exactly what I wrote. You’re reaching because I used the word ‘crypto’. We made more or less the same comments to OP, I don’t have time for BTC purity tests mate, get off your high horse.

MillerBlade2

Well long term BTC is most definitely not the only crypto that has utility, use, or value. You just played the short game and got spanked

Orwind

Lucky me I did this mistake in 2017 when I bought my first BTC and tried to make more gains with alts and ended up losing everything and having my dust BTC worth more than everything I invested at the start

JimmySki6166

Alt coins are for hype only, they have no use case! Only a handful of crypto has a use case. I used to hold meme coins years ago, when I was new to crypto. Once I learned about it, switched everything for BTC only and I couldn’t be happier. Still purchase amounts of BTC weekly!!

Conversation-Quiet

BTC is store of value. Just hold onto it and don't touch it.

MrStarrrr

Same story for alts with me. Luckily transferred into BTC before most of them zeroed. Some were dead already. Lost a good bit and now stacking sats still and only. Need to diversify somewhere else still.. maybe some kind of mutual fund.

mrjune2040

Meh- anything can be gambling, if you’re short-term trading BTC then that’s gambling too. Let’s not get caught up on some irrelevant purity test.

Professional-Trick14

Sure, with the benefit of hindsight, but the grave of speculative assets that are now worth a fraction of their peak is far larger than the ones at ATHs or that will EVER surpass their ATH, and that could include bitcoin for all we know, meaning even now, BTC may be a terrible investment and you won't know for sure until you know for sure. It's gambling, welcome to the casino.

mrjune2040

This isn’t even about BTC. That’s called a gambling problem. Anyone that has one or has the tendency for one needs to work that out before even thinking about touching crypto imo.

Sweet-Celebration498

Kratter has admitted that he threw the towel in too soon. Not a deal breaker for me. I do know that I’ve learned more about BTC from his channel than any other place on the internet.

KitchenPreference287

That “risk of not having Bitcoin” idea makes sense. BTCFi could add another layer to the treasury strategy if companies can put their BTC to work while still holding it.

KitchenPreference287

Getting institutions to hold BTC was one step. I'm more interested in what they can actually do with it now, and TBVs are a great start if you're interested in what BTC can do beyond just price and holding.

mcpickems

If you started out with stating BTC and ETH was 90% of your portfolio my response would have been differenr

KitchenPreference287

I get that, but I think the story is getting bigger than just buy and hold. There are now ways to actually put BTC to work, which changes the conversation a bit, like native staking....

KitchenPreference287

Fair point. Though I'm curious whether BTC having more productive use cases could eventually change that dynamic.

KitchenPreference287

What part of his strategy makes you see it that way? The buying is obvious, but I'm more curious about the influence he's had on how companies think about BTC.

Pitiful-Assistance-1

I bought a pizza for 3 BTC

Otherwise-4PM

Honestly, I’m sitting on cash because I think the Clarity Act will be postponed. Then, in autumn, not only should we be near a bottom based on previous cycles, but the midterm outlook for Republicans should become clearer, following the “buy the rumor” principle. I’m thinking the end of September could be an ideal time to buy BTC and SOL, but I’ve been wrong about things before.

iothewispp

lol does it matter? BTC + ETH still like 90% of my portfolio and these altcoins are just optional profit, i really dont care if they are "red"