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is it possible Satoshis wallet was designed so no BTC can be transferred out of it?
Trump just said "he's gonna inflate away the US national debt". No one owns enough BTC
What are your expectations for the next alt season? Are we gonna make up for the lack of one last cycle? Is it gonna be a specific niche? Or is it gonna get even more disappointing?
Bought BTC at $109k and feeling the boredom. What's your long term strategy right now?
AI +8.7%, memes green, low caps starting to move, what are you watching?”
Built a model to predict $100+ BTC moves for Kalshi hourly contracts. Backtests look good, so what am I missing?
The BTC Power Law Curve from Beginning to 10/1/2026
I wanna know everyone's luckiest and unluckiest BTC experiences
Since somebody just posted a completely completely wrong list of past halvening cycle highs and lows, I decided to ask Chat GPT to give the real numbers. Here they are.
Bitcoin’s narrative may be flipping - its about time
Redone BTC Power Curve Using Data up to 2020 for the Confidence and Prediction Intervals as Requested
We opened a bar in Vilnius where you can only pay in crypto. Lightning works. No cards, no cash
I generated hundreds of crypto trading strategies and open-sourced 416 of them with full reports. Only 10 passed a brutal 7-stage validation
BTC is at $76K right now. Can it get back to $100K by Christmas?
Buckle up boys, rocket ship incoming!!! (I sold)
Advice for starting a long-term investment
Why is the IMF obsessed with El Salvador not adopting Bitcoin? They previously forbade them from making it legal tender, accepting tax payments in BTC and from using their government-sponsored BTC wallet, amongst other things.
The truth of Bitcoin & the cryptospace as a whole right now!
For 7 hours and 41 minutes in March 2013 the Bitcoin network was split in two
Properly getting into Bitcoin — where do I even start? 😂
I tracked a full week of Bitcoin mining with 200+ TH/s — here’s what surprised me most
Next week we're publishing the list of everything Bitcoin has been "called" that turned out wrong (Ponzi, tulips, only for drugs, boils the oceans). What are we missing?
Update on my weekly NEXO/USDT technical analysis
what is BTC doing wrong ? why dont they fill the whole block first and then calculate the merkle tree
Strategy Acquires 1,665 BTC and Repurchases $152 Million of STRC
Bitget Resumes Withdrawals In Phases After Security Incident
$100 a week for a year buys about 0.063 BTC. For that to be worth $1M, Bitcoin needs to hit ~$16M. So why do people stack small?
What are you guys doing right now with the crypto market?
Discussion: Best exchanges for buying BTC and your preferred wallets?
bitcoin is in the midst of an aggressive uptrend when priced in gold, its only true competitor
A clean, fast Bitcoin-only dashboard — no altcoins, no signup, always free
I built Visualize Bitcoin: Bitcoin explained as a live 3D machine you can walk through
Poor Canadian Retiree - I would like your thoughts.
Built a small Chrome extension to check BTC and other altcoins without opening another site
Bitcoin is up 38% since Jim Cramer said he was selling. On August 3, 2026, Cramer said he was selling his Bitcoin over quantum computing fears. BTC was trading around $63,000. It has since surged to $87,000, a gain of $24,000 over the past 49 days.
Ledger Nano X Was Offline for Over Six Months — Yet My BTC Was Still Transferred Out Ledger Could Not Tell Me Which Device Signed the Transaction
Technical analysis actually works
Uptober: BTC has closed green in 10 of the last 13 Octobers. But we've got a potential Fed hike on Oct 27 and 10Y yields over 5%. Does the pattern hold this year?
Bitcoin is (again) running ahead of retail attention
Bitcoin art built on Bosch's Garden of Earthly Delights
"Shielded Bitcoin" Whitepaper just legitimized Zcash as a threat to Bitcoin
Is your BTC actually accessible to your family, or just theoretically theirs?
If one wanted to convert their BTC into ETH, is there a difference using CEX like Coinbase vs doing it on a DEX for tax reasons?
Your "fair share" of Bitcoin cost about $323 at the October peak. Today it's about $215. Same 256,000 sats.
Looking for help recovering an old Hotmail account and an old Bitcoin wallet (2009–2011)
I think I was hit by a scam on Electrum that I have never seen before
Complete beginner. Want to learn crypto trading but terrified of losing money. Where do I even start?
Only 20 of the top 50 alts have beaten BTC over the last 90 days, so I don't think this is altseason yet.
I bought BTC and ETH very early. Then I discovered leverage and gave it all back.
Would anyone be interested in a small Bitcoin brainwallet puzzle challenge?
0.5 BTC Reward (~USD 40,000) for Recovering the password (hashcat)
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This made me immediately buy more BTC, and send it to my hardware wallet. The US is fucked.
no bro. OMFG I am so sorry :((( But if u believe like me that BTC will be 1.000.000 in the next years, them get in again!
Assuming the price of Lamborghinis remains static, you only need BTC to hit $433,655,000 to be able to afford one. You might be checking the chart for awhile.
They couldn't and didn't. Pizza was bought with dollars. The one guy sent another guy all that BTC. The other guy bought pizza with a credit card or something. The first guy gets the infamy credit. But no one talks about the Chad who got 10000 btc.
Not inherently. Yes BTC likely continues to be worth more dollars if the fed keeps printing. But those dollars buy less and less the more the printer prints. What you really want is your purchasing power to go up (which it absolutely might with btc, but it won't be because the fed is printing money by itself, btc is just a hedge against that really). Basically, if btc becomes $1M a coin, but $1M is about the average annual salary because of inflation, you haven't really gained anything.
BTC bottomed in late 2022 after inflation had already peaked and the Fed had begun slowing the pace of hikes. During 2023 the Fed only delivered four 25 bp hikes, compared with 425 bps of tightening in 2022, and markets increasingly anticipated that the tightening cycle was approaching its end. Markets are forward looking. When Treasury yields are near zero, you’re sacrificing almost nothing in yield to speculate on BTC. When safe government debt pays 5%, that opportunity cost is materially higher.
You could argue in this case most even somewhat well off developed country citizens only need 0.25 BTC to hedge this.
Anything with scarcity. BTC, gold, real estate, and equities (which also tend to rise with inflation). The funnymoney has to be invested into something.
Some people seem to have a hard time understanding that tulips are more akin to USD, not BTC. One day they’ll learn, or not because the same people often have a difficult time admitting they were wrong about something.
bybit charge fees every day for leveraged positions (depends if you are long or short and what the funding rate is at that moment) They dont charge fees if you bought the BTC outright and unleveraged and are just holding it.
It’s all but guaranteed it will eventually pass $300k and on up even past that with time. Just a matter of when. It’s not only finite with 21M tokens but 1M are gone with Satoshi forever off the market, and every week 100’s of people lose or break a thumb drive with 0.001267BTC and another hard drive gets corrupted losing more forever. In 50 years we will likely only have 5M actually on the market even available and most will be with blackrock and Saylor. When that happens they will set the price and it won’t be a volatile market anymore. I mean, how many 100’s were just thrown away every week back in 2008-2009 when it was “worthless internet money”
He is scamming you. Even if there are fees, the price of BTC being maintained for several days wont magically get those fees back. He stole your money and thinks youre an idiot. I would get the law involved.
It’s because BTC itself isn’t good enough it wouldn’t work without the other layers for this use case
In all seriousness. If BTC was to hit $1 million. Realistically what is the inflation of everything else’s? Would 1 million feel like 1 million then ?
>Electricity is consumed not just in mining but also in every transaction This is wrong. The on-chain transactions are written in the new block but they don't require extra energy. The transactions on r/thelightningnetwork use about the same amount of energy as your Reddit comment or an e-mail. >if BTC gets 1000X more expenses, It'll be not only the most decentralized monetary network in the world as it's today, it'll be bigger than the housing market and the economies of western world combined. I would expect more people would want to throw their energy on it.
Alts are done. Pile all that cash into BTC and watch it explode. First ones in BTC win the most.
My very first BTC Receive transaction was less than €30 and now it's value has increased ca €10. (With current price of the same transaction costs €39.25. According to Trezor Suite transaction details this transaction made +39.8% of profit compared to the original purchase cost.
I've kind of done some of that leveraging my credit line. I think that is better because BTC loan interest is paid in BTC as a % and then it can cost a lot.
This isn’t a bitcoin thing and I hope this doesn’t turn you away from learning about it and learning how to use it. Your friend scammed you! Here is what likely happened. You gave him that money and he played three hands of blackjack on stake.us. Busted twice and dealer hit 21 the third hand. It was probably all gone within the same day you gave it to him. God I hope this doesn’t turn you away from BTC but for sure away from that “friend”
You spent one BTC for that? What a ripoff haha
Take a look at what had the best 1 month gains on CMC. Those will likely gain momentum once BTC crosses 100k again. Many former coins or projects have lagged behind despite some recent gains. The AI niche, such as FET, TAO, etc will see some love just like RWA as others have mentioned
Electricity is consumed not just in mining but also in every transaction, and if BTC gets 1000X more expenses, then an even greater percentage of global electricity production will be consumed to maintain and transact in BTC.
Approx 80% of BTC ETFs owned by non-institutional investors
No way to tell because in their eyes if everyone could do that they could duplicate their BTC , the anonymous nature of addresses gives them not way to prove whether it was you or not
I'm sorry this happened to you, but have you not researched much about bitcoin? NOT storing your seed phrase in email and on a notes app is like the very first thing you should know before buying any BTC. Seed phrase should be completely offline and only us a cold wallet. The other option is to just buy an ETF through Fidelity if you don't want the hassle of self-custody
OP put his grandma's birthday check in BTC so he is super excited.
A hardware wallet cost ~$50, and will keep your seed phrase safe. If the cost of the hardware wallet is small compared to the value your BTC investment, buy one. Hot wallet are only suitable for "coffee money".
Don't think about BTC, think about how to increase your income. Btc isn't going to make you rich, its going to help you get there.
Money will rotate for sure. In fact, charts already showing clear money rotations from BTC to alts. The big narrative will be AI agents I believe. I'm positioned in FET.
Have you looked at just borrowing against the BTC over selling it? Just thinking in two years when it’s most likely going back to a new ATH or been there you’d be better off still owning it.
DCA and make sure you have life beyond BTC
Been hearing this since 2019. So glad I sold off the crap and put it in BTC. Made way more money that way
Holy crap, all those old projects are dying off and if you said this a few months ago, massive downvotes, but what will be left? BTC and ETH. Vechain still my biggest mistake but not because it's half dead if not dead, but I didn't sell at the top and panic sold it just before on pandemic day dive.
When I first heard about BTC I laughed and thought what a stupid idea!
>how to adequately handle never ending FOMO? The FOMO stops once you reach exactly 6.15 BTC* ***Scientifically proven.**
BTC ETH LINK These 3 can literally do it all, and they have the market cap and history to weather a storm
Where is the meme of the dude with a stick poking BTC to do something?
Not thinking BTC's a bitch is a good start.
I’ve been purchasing $1k of BTC weekly since 2022, regardless of the price! Holding for my daughters future
>Bought BTC at $109k and feeling the boredom. I bought BTC at 120k. Also at $110k. Also at $100k, and $90k, and $80k, and $70k, and $60k and not feeling any boredom at all. >What's your long term strategy right now? To buy some sats at $1m. Also at $10m, and $100m...
Luckiest and unluckiest. I inadvertently bought 1 BTC in 2012 when I just wanted to donate money to a site. Had no idea I was buying bitcoin. However , found out 12 years later an old email with a wallet address and managed to enter my correct password and discover I still had some left
So how will you spend BTC without electricity? It will always require electricity to run and maintain the ledger; otherwise, it is unusable.
It's not a buy and forget: you people don't seem to understand zero-sum games so I'll break it down for you -- BTC is not an 'asset.' It is not physical nor does it produce anything of value. The people on here trying to get rich on the 'buy and forget' strategy are about to figure out a mathematical certainty: for every buyer -- there is a seller. For every profit generated there must in the end be a loss due to the fact that you're depending on someone else to buy the virtual 'coin' that you're holding. I'll let you figure out the rest but you should look into the Tulip craze which happened a very long time ago. You're going to disagree with me on this, but you guys are partaking in exactly the same thing :)
There will be some fees but not holding fees just transaction fees when you buy and sell, BTC has been down from 86k during that time but he could sell now and get you most of your money back if not all now at this point unless he spent it or sold it early a while back
Plot twist: Daddy sold his soul for 1 BTC
2 more days until the bears get the $30k BTC capitulation
Your account is 100% closed by the AML team for potential gambling facilitation. This kind of BTC deposit from high risk exchanges (such as gambling web sites) and you probably tried to send out to other exchanges or withdrawn them to any other account is the reason. Legally if you prove your source of funds, you should be able to get em out and never work with Coinbase...
Too many VC funded projects. I'm happy they went to AI now. It's great that Ergo is still building and it's bridge is connected to a lot of chains (BnB, BTC, doge, Ada, Eth, btc runes, and Firo) and will connect to more. (Monero).
It got front run. BTC went from 60k range to 80k range just before Oct arrived. What more do you want?
Right now my rule-based regime tracker still has BTC, ETH and BNB in a sideways regime. I’d rather wait for an actual regime shift than assume a rally from a calendar pattern alone.
I think ONLY SAYLOR owns BTC, and the rest temporally holds (trades) in CEXes..so it is with poor people..
This is the entire point of wallstreet.. they are trying to get AS MUCH BTC AS POSSIBLE into their little ETF wrappers, so that THEY control the bitcoins, ughhh im sorry to hear it man, such a tough decision.. maybe move to isle le man if you can? I know of a very prominent bitcoiner that lives there.. just gotta find a tax haven to keep those private keys in the jurisdiction of
BTC isn't the only flavor of Bitcoin
This guy knows that BTC is slow and expensive to transact. 7tps won't be the highway for agents
Se lo gastó, está esperando q suba BTC 124k para recuperar
This is a good point but it’s breaking my brain trying to think it through. The majority of that 900T is Real estate, Land, and the bond market. The bond market being literal Debt. And a significant percentage of real estate being debt. Aka not real money just a claim against something to be paid back with interest. And then we have stocks, which people only put fiat into because their currency is being debased. Wouldn’t BTC directly attack each and every one of those asset classes by nature? My brain literally can’t connect the dots but your comment has me thinking. All of those stores of value, wealth preservation/accumulation and FIAT games only exist because people are running away from holding the dollar. Under a BTC standard you would have to think the ratio of currency to asset global wealth changes drastically. And it feels like the only way that doesn’t happen is if BTC only becomes a store of value instead of an actual currency. If it stays a store of value people will paper over it like gold. If it becomes a global currency where people earn and spend in Bitcoin doesn’t it have to by nature become the largest percentage of global wealth by far? Maybe I need to go back to sleep lol
so all they need more printing machines to run the non-stop print.. Already eveyone is paying higher price of every action taken by Govt., so what power people have, save in gold, platinum BTC or another form?,
Well, it's not black Market, BTC was always intended to be peer to peer by people to people and not over exchanges
Same price but somehow it feels expensive only after you had a year to think about it. This is why I keep long term BTC separate and use moon for the short term up or down itch. Mixing the two turns every flat year into an identity crisis
Unfortunately, as many have comments already, you friend no longer has this money. If you don't feel confortable enough to buy BTC in the regular fashion, you should take advantage of different ETF in the market. Some below and there are more * **iShares Bitcoin Trust (IBIT)**: Managed by BlackRock, this is the largest and most liquid Bitcoin ETF on the market. * **Fidelity Wise Origin Bitcoin Fund (FBTC)**: Offers deep liquidity and uses Fidelity's own institutional-grade custody setup. * **Grayscale Bitcoin Trust (GBTC)**: One of the oldest Bitcoin funds, though it carries a significantly higher fee (1.50%) than its competitors.
My aha moment was realizing that owning BTC and betting on its price are completely different things. Bitcoin is the long term asset while a quick up or down call on moon is a capped wager. Once I separated those two the whole space made more sense
Yeah I guess thats an issue that cant be solved though, for example I've bought a couple of hardware wallets over the years, and was in the ledger leak, and theres no going back and hiding that now! I mean I'm a small fish in the scheme of things, so Im not too worried. I just realised my opsec was not really great and I should sort it out. I am going to move to a BTC only wallet, and was wondering...I read somewhere that if you send everything to an exchange first, then to your new wallet, essentialy you sever the link between old wallet and new. This seems like a good thing, as anyone who was possibly watching the old wallet could just think it had all been sent to an exchange to be sold. But i'm unsure about all this i'm not planning to do Multisig currently. I'd say the amount I have is probably pretty insignificant to a lot of people, so I doubt I'd be a target. But who knows, over time as value increases. Also, I just want to get security and privacy sorted and forget about it, rather than always wondering if I should have done things differently All of this was triggered by the Cold card thing, which freaked me out!
Did you get 0.0017902 BTC? Thats about €135 at the current price, so you paid a premium.
Correct but you have to post 2.5x the downpayment loan amount and cannot get your collateral back until you pay off the entire mortgage. With a mortgage (through a loan officer that knows how to handle crypto) and a btc loan you only have to post 2x collateral (save the other .5 for if you do get a margin call), you have no payment on that portion of the loan (significantly lower monthly payment than better x coinbase), and you only have to pay off the BTC loan amount to get all your collateral back. On top of that it has come out that Coinbase is able to rehypothecate and most BTC loan options do not.
İf you are buying to hold for at least 2-3 years, then just buy now. No guarantee a dip will come and even if it does, you may then wait for a bigger dip and miss out. There's plenty of people who missed out on buying 16k BTC in 2022 or 3k BTC in 2019, because they were waiting it to did 20-30% more.
It's wrong to call it a "tax." In reality, that is the true market price of BTC. Exchange prices are discounted, you pay the difference by handing over all your private info to them and to all the criminals who breach their systems (including those who are legally authorized)
I get the feeling your buddy thought he was a trading genius, fucked around with leverage, ended up getting margin called and essentially lost all his money. Probably shorted BTC right before it blasted off or something.
Exactly. A friend would have said, “let me help you open a crypto exchange account and purchase the BTC in your account to hold.” And they would probably explain a hardware wallet and watch you not use it and just leave it on the exchange. That’s a friend helping you invest into crypto. A friend would refuse to take your money to invest into crypto. It’s unnecessary. Too easy to have someone invest it themselves. Plus, taxes. Who wants other people’s money in their name that will go up significantly, now your taxes apply to their money. They will want all of their money and not pay taxes. You will be stuck paying their taxes if they are pushy enough and argue you down.
there were OGs unloading BTC10,000 in single at-market sales during the peak last year, they don’t give a fuck, but this is bitcoin and greed is the #1 incentive which is fine until these whales sell out and the supply is more evenly distributed amongst holders, these OGs will be the **primary influencers of bitcoin’s price action**
I bought a stock that tracks BTC. I only bought 2 shares for now. I I’ll grab slowly and surely, but don’t know my future in the army right now :(
Easy, sell BTC buy bitcoin ETF
Well yeah, that sucks. Unless.... You don't tell NL that you're storing some BTC, and you come in another country to sell it (when you'll want to). I do live in a country with like 0 taxes on crypto market, they only ask my ID for AML, and drop me cash when I sell. With no limits
When BTC is at $100k, you’ll wish you purchased at $85k!
1 BTC has been 1 BTC ever since I can remember. Thats pretty damn stable.
LINK und BTC HODLn. Also dasselbe wie gefühlt schon immer.
If your friend bought BTC on any reliable exchange (BYBIT is very good) it is immediately available and only needs a small transaction fee for withdrawal. It sounds a little like he used your funds to enter a futures trade and is currently in drawdown until the market returns to his entry price (or more realistically a little higher since there are fees depending on how long he has had this trade open for). The only other way possibility for his poor “explanation” (I can’t really make sense of what he’s trying to say) is if he staked (fancy term for earning interest on your crypto) the BTC and it’s locked for a certain period (I think the shortest is 45 days). Hope this helps.
This is my 12th year in BTC so I got in a few years after you. Ive held strong for all these years without selling ( only sold about 0.1 during that time). This next bull run is going to be insane and it’s where I’ll begin to diversify and make the lives of my family better. I know people say HODL forever, but you gotta take reward for your patience as well. Saying that, never sell it all.
So you do not pay fees to hold bitcoin anywhere, if anything people pay you to hold your bitcoin with them. Same as any type of savings. But did you ask him to buy bitcoin for you, or to trade bitcoin for you? It’s a big difference. You should really just ask ChatGPT about this. Sounds like he was using your money for leverage to trade for more and he go hit. You should just ask him to explain exactly what happened and then ask ChatGPT to make sense of it for you, then decide. I bought crypto for a family member before and after a while he panic sold and it was really stupid but he couldn’t understand the situation and got scared that I was scamming him so he pulled the plug. I gave him his money back. He sold BTC at 6k
Clapp used for this kind of setup, basically letting you keep holding BTC while earning some yield on top, with flexible access or a fixed option if you’re okay locking it for a better rate
BTC does not pay dividends; however, it is possible to earn yield on it through savings products.
100% BTC is a play of conviction. Diversification minimizes risk but also minimizes upside.
Sounds like futures trading, so hi has not BTC, he opened a LONG position, so is paying funding fees. It crashed so he was underwater, now maybe breakeven (- fees). If it continues going up he will make a profit and maybe give your money back. So, he is just gambling with your money. Good luck.
who told you that? Use a proper BTC wallet like Blue Wallet or Blockstream Wallet.
Man, the comments here are evenly bearish than OP is bullish. However, on the main BTC chart, we actually are in a bullish pattern right now.. Also with the golden cross.. However, anything van happen in this space... Long story short: We must wait and see!
>Does anyone here actually put their BTC to work to generate yield? Run a well connected node and earn routing fees on r/thelightningnetwork Here's a good inspiration: https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/1tggi5t/amaa_bitcoin_lightning_node_operator_authenticity/
As BTC doesn’t inherently generate value, I’d be hugely skeptical of any platform that tells me I can earn for staking it.
In that case, paying in dollars, instead of buying BTC is "basically selling bitcoin" too.
They'll want the store of value and limited externalities of BTC
The whole thing is ridiculous. I feel for you. I am Scottish, but currently a tax resident of The Netherlands. The situation is causing me nightmares. I cannot believe I moved to the one country that thinks this punitive behaviour is remotely acceptable. I am an academic, I still have a (modest) property in Scotland - I am planning to move back there, taking my expertise and my BTC with me. It will cost me my job, which is bad enough.
Your money is gone. Bybit is easy. Yoi can download the app and learn it then ask him to open the app and show you. He probably lost it all on futures. Move on. When u wanna buy BTC, do it yourself.
That money is gone, regardless of what BTC is doing it sounds like he had zero intention of returning it.
SOL and LINK would probably be my strongest holds from that list. I like SUI and PYTH too, but I'd personally add some BTC/ETH as the boring core and maybe ONDO for RWA exposure. I'd probably trim CRO before adding another L1 since you're already pretty heavy there. Category-wise I'm watching RWA, oracles/data and AI/compute the most. I keep most of this kind of mixed bag in Tangem too, mainly because once you're holding across this many ecosystems having it in one place becomes pretty useful. Also 90% guarantee is brave 😂 nothing in crypto gets that percentage from me.
Because they simply don't want people to trade BTC.