BTC

Substantial_Ad2185

"My biggest concern is sitting on a large cash position until October or later, only to see BTC much higher by then. " that's why you do DCA because you can also see it for 40k and you bite your fingers you didn't do DCA it removes regret, we don't gamble here or wait for it be higher or lower you do saving and it is through a plan

ALPHAETHEREUM

👏👏👏 this is the way. It goes down buy more to use, goes up dont care still using it. Almost all in Crypto saying they want to beat the system yet they buy and dream to enrich themselves in flats. Those who bought and lost, you deserve to loose all your coins. If you have kept it to use it, then 1 BTC will always be 1 BTC.

PiskAlmighty

Esp if the OP is the account of a BTC trading app...

ChasTopFollower

The idea behind crypto is good The 191615373828 project people build in the sole purpise to make money : ofc they're scam. There's a reason why BTC is still going while many other are dead

csgotraderino

The block reward was initially 50 BTC and halves every 210000 blocks. This is a geometric series that sums to 21M where half of all Bitcoin was mined in the first 210000 blocks (commonly approximated as 4 years as that many blocks are mined in 4 years with the intended 10 minutes between them on average). 50 BTC is 5 billion satoshi. One satoshi is the smallest denomination, and the Bitcoin protocol keeps track of it as an integer. After a few halvings the reward will be 9765625 sats. This is not divisible by 2, so the next reward is rounded down to a whole number.

Legitimate-Key-3044

I don’t see 100k EOY. If I were a betting man I would say we will see 50k before we see 80k again. …but Iv been around long enough to know not to short BTC. Still bullish long term though. New ATH in 2029 again.

Gangaman666

For a cat you sure seem to know a lot about BTC!

kampalt

Coinbase pro users can use their BTC as collateral to buy a house...

No-Wrap3568

I guess its completely normal to feel paranoid about protecting a seedphrase especially when it's the key to all your funds. Imo best option is to go with a hardware wallet that supports Shamir's secret sharing, nothing comes close, that is what I'm using, the device is cypher rock X1 BTC-only. It generates a seedphrase which you can see whenever you wish to but normally it keeps the seedphrase split into 5 parts in 4 cards and 1 vault. This means even if you lose upto 3 parts of the device, you will still have access to your funds, good part being no part contains the full key. Dual independent- sources for TRNG and non-custodial inheritance support. Bitkey too is a decent option, one thing that makes me not recommend is the recovery procedures, never understood it well enough.

totoin74

Since those coins are scattered to 20k plus addresses, it will be the proof needed to confirm that BTC cryptography has been cracked. From that point on, aside from some money gathered from a few early exits, you would pretty much left with nothing.

sylsau

Bitcoin is about to fork again. At **block 964,000**, Paul Sztorc’s eCash experiment plans to copy Bitcoin’s history, activate Drivechains, and send the network down a second path. If you control BTC before the fork, you may effectively wake up with coins on **both chains**. But that’s the easy part. The hard part begins at block **964,001**. Can eCash attract miners? Can Drivechains work under real economic pressure? Will anyone value the new coin? And can you inherit Bitcoin’s history without inheriting Bitcoin’s credibility? That’s the brutal truth about Bitcoin forks: **You can copy the code. You can copy the UTXO set. You can copy the 21-million scarcity. You cannot copy the network effect.** Bitcoin has survived this test before. Now Drivechain finally gets its turn in the arena. **The fork happens at block 964,000. The referendum starts at 964,001.**

hodler1992

I think I won't sale anyway. I'm here for the long-term play. I believe in BTC reaching one million one-day. I won't bother with timing tops and lows. When it's cheap I will buy more and save it all for retirement

Syrion1984

I bought BTC at $120,000, at $58,000 in the latest dip and everywhere in between. My firm belief is that BTC will go to $1,000,000 and beyond. I've employed a tried and tested strategy in which I purchase BTC at regular intervals at the current price, no matter what it might be. It's called dollar-cost-averaging and does exactly what the name implies; over time the median price you paid for your BTC averages out. That way you don't have to stress trying to find the absolute BTC bottom.

Laurenfc10

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MarioWilson122

Well, in previous runs being a holder mattered more, even outside of BTC, but who knows, now it might only really be BTC for the most part while gambling on others.

hodler1992

It's absolutely possible that we dip to $50k from here. That's what I'm waiting for and then I'll buy another 0.1 BTC

tom_murray_nw

I don't think there's anything wrong with trading Bitcoin if that fits your strategy. Different assets can have different jobs. For me BTC and ETH are long-term holdings, but I wouldn't pretend the smaller positions have the same level of conviction behind them.

tom_murray_nw

That's pretty much how I look at it too. BTC and ETH are the core holdings, then the smaller positions have a completely different job. Do you keep crypto as its own allocation within a wider portfolio as well, or is crypto your main focus?

Thu212

Why still hold BTC , a genuine q

Timely-Fig2030

At some point BTC won't stay first. It will always play a role but it won't stay nr.1 forever. It happens over and over again in history. BTC is only 18 years old. IBM used to be market leader for 30 years until the 90s. Then more modern companies like apple overtook them. IBM is still here. But it's not the king anymore.

Lavayo

Never $70B. I was thinking about the 100BTC mentioned in the post above.

ZealousidealMonk1728

You are comparing bull market to bear market. If you bought BTC in 2020 or 2022 you would be way up. If you want to compare the current bear market price (64k) to last bear market (16k) the picture is completely different.

905647cl

Good you sold. BTC can be stolen even with a cold wallet. Nothing is safe. Atleast you got a house now 😆

AlternativeHunter543

Tangent on the "structure doesn't care" part, since it's something I measured recently instead of assuming. I took 9,000 hourly ETH candles (about 375 days) and grouped every candle by hour of day. Average absolute move per candle is nowhere near flat: loudest hour (14:00-15:00 UTC) 0.66%, quietest hour (10:00 UTC) 0.31%. That's 2.11x between them. Same test on the others: BTC 2.09x, SOL 2.04x, XRP 1.94x. The absolute volatility of those four is wildly different, but the ratio between their loudest and quietest hour is almost identical, which suggests it isn't a property of the coin. It's the same participants showing up and leaving at the same times. Where it bites on structure reads: a level tested at 10:00 UTC is being tested by roughly half the activity of one tested at 14:00 UTC. It can look respected on the chart and just be a thin sample. Same line, very different amount of evidence behind it. I split the year in half and re-ran it on each half separately before believing it, and the two loudest hours held in both halves.

WinkMartindale

Elvis Presley invented BTC moments BEFORE creating the Intranet. Not to be confused with the Internet which would come MUCH later.

Significant_Phase467

I refuse to invest any sizeable amount of money into Bitcoin. I'll go with riskier meme coins, or other coin such as Solana. Even if BTC does hit 10x eventually, I'm not that interested.

Braddles14

Bitcoin does have a discrete total supply and it will have a 0.00BTC block reward after the last reward around 2140

Euphoric-Language695

If those get stolen, trust in BTC will plummet and it will crash.

NeedCaffine78

Down 95% from cost basis or ATH? I bought around the bottom of last cycle, sold enough BTC on the way up to pay for everything, leaving me with 1 BTC, some Eth, Xrp and alts that’s now gravy if it does well. If not, no great loss

iz_raymond

To those that is working on quantum proofing BTC, I'd like for them to use their resources to try to hack Satoshi's legacy holdings. If it crack, it would be better by them first rather than malicious entity later on

Linnun

Don't worry, it doesn't cost 100 BTC to hunt you down

iz_raymond

Really, u did not think of the bigger implications than that? If someone manage to steal Satoshi's BTC, the entire cryptocurrency itself will collapse, let alone BTC itself. Maybe not going to 0, but it's gonna be the end of crypto as we know it today. I can assure u that

Aazimoxx

Yes but this is with the benefit of hindsight, with the knowledge that those transactions are all part of a larger heist. There are already almost 100,000 BTC transactions every day between 0.01-1 BTC, and the initial wave was about 500 transactions to a single address. If instead that initial wave had been 500 transactions to 500 other addresses, it wouldn't have been a blip on the radar. Even if someone was specifically analysing for movement from dormant addresses, well that may cut that down to say 100-200 of those CC addresses (depending on parameters), but then still hardly enough to grab attention unless someone was very specifically looking for this exact thing. Most such 'dormant watch' efforts would be concentrated on an order of magnitude larger than what was dealt with here - watching wallets of 50-100 BTC+, and dormant for 10yr+. There also isn't any rush if you *don't* consolidate, since no-one's writing a news article and posting on Reddit about a few people randomly reporting that their coldcard is empty. In isolation, people screw up all the time and get ripped off by people close to them, or munge a passphrase, or commit a major opsec mistake somewhere between 'today' and 'many years ago' which ends up with them getting drained, or.. simply lie about losing the funds, for tax/scam/divorce/attention/whatever purposes. It's literally not becoming widespread news at all without that consolidation, until likely many months later.

LazyLifeguard

I would be rather scared to hunt anyone down with this stack. Sliding 100 BTC to some john wicks to hunt me down is no big deal for them.

themindspeaks

Actually I don’t think it’s even a flaw of the system. I think it’s working by design. Inflation is the feature, and it’s a “tax” that we pay. BTC is a way to escape from that system

sugarkissedxx

Nobody really knows the perfect entry, so I’d avoid trying to time the exact bottom. If you’re learning crypto anyway, it’s worth understanding how places like Gamdom use it beyond just buying BTC.

InvestmentSorry6393

Maybe measure from the 2022 bottom. Solana was like $8-11, BTC 16-17k, eth was around 1000-1200 bucks. I think that's a more fair comparison.

Lengthiness_Candid

Can you explain exactly what the halving algorithm is? I think of a two for one stock split but in that case there would be 40 million BTC not 20.

logan-807128

BTC private key space is 2\^256. From the private key, you can calculate the public key, and then you transform the public key using SHA256 and RIPEMD160 and along with some encoding you derive the BTC address. Nowadays you use the seed phrase (12 or 24 words) to create a 512 bit master key where half of it is used to create the private key and the other half is combined with the private key to generate multiple receiving addresses (HD wallet addresses). In the end, both public key and private key are 2\^256.

CryptoTradersChat

I don't know about BTCFi, I haven't traded it myself. I can't see why that wouldn't work. Does it get the same sort of movement as BTC?

somatt

This, and merge mined for green POW N2M 1 Mdoge is way more rare than 1 BTC yet similar price point

somatt

Not to mention it is green POW because merge mined. OP is dumb as a bag of rocks. 1 Mdoge is way more rare than 1 BTC There are way more sats than doge

somatt

Max supply of 2,100,000,000,000,000 Bitcoin actually doesn't exist, only sats do. 1Mdoge is far rarer than 1 BTC and won't catch up for hundred years or so. You are retarded.

Think-Application-14

BTC is a shitcoin, my coin has 65K in locked stablecoin liquidity and a 330K marketcap, you're just another butthole for Saylor to slide his c\*ck into. Call me when you need a real man for a role model.

fchw3

I have a buddy who bought BTC & memes after the Covid drop. He put over 50% down on a house, got a Tesla, charger and solar panels. In hindsight, he could’ve made a ton of $ by holding… but his wife & kids are happy, he doesn’t worry about gas prices, and has a super low overhead. He chooses to work part time in the education system to get extra spending cash + take up some of his time.

DC92T

Like many others, 5 years ago was when you should have bought BTC and BTC only.

JellyfishDull8726

Honestly, yes, the maturation of BTC seems inevitable. I've just been quietly stacking sats through automatic [Bipa.app](http://Bipa.app) buys and no longer stress about the altseason.

fuenfsiebenneun

i sold everything at around 100-110k in january 2025. every single bit. BTC and ETH from 2018 and onwards aswell as SOL from around 2022 i think. always kept DCA‘ing until 2024. i kind of lost the conviction of this space and sold it all. put everything into index funds. and a bit into pokémon cards for the lulz. it has been liberating. letting all that shit go was actually freeing as fuck. not worrying anymore about wallets, exchanges, hacks, suspicious links, you name it. just boring index funds. i love it.

arveena

That's just such a troll post. If you really would be in the game for the last 10 years you would be in the green unless you dont own any BTC or even ETH. So i call BS. You probably bought high if you are 90% down in the last bull and are now crying.

OedipusPrime

No, this is the pigeon hole principle - multiple seed phases map to the same BTC address.

filenotfounderror

>His are just random numbers between 1 and 2^256 All addresses are random numbers between 1 and 2^160 not 256. Seed phrase address mapping space is 2^256... which tells us that the seed phrase address space completely encompasses the BTC address space.....so all BTC address will have a seed phrase. Regardless if they were made before or after seed phrases were a thing.

1pt21jigglewatts

Hate to break it to you guys but the banks are adopting ISO20022 tokens not BTC

Old_Efficiency2445

Except it's that for each of his 50 BTC increments.

JimmySki6166

Always the right time for BTC.

filenotfounderror

the "extra" seed phrases are "collision addresses". so some BTC addresses have more than 1 seed phrase.

Jsn7821

Commenting cause now I'm curious to understand this too Side question to throw into the mix: if there are more seed phrases than BTC addresses, does that mean there are invalid seed phrases? That also makes no sense

JimmySki6166

Put it all in BTC! ETH & SOL have dropped the past year or so, ETH was over 4k and Sol was close to $275. Look at them now.

IInsulince

He doesn’t have one, he has misplaced anger at prediction markets on BTC thinking that *is* BTC.

ProperSyllabub8798

Give BTC on could storage to malicious state backed entities from north Korea and Russia. They can they purchase/transfer clean money

filenotfounderror

Youre stating that without providing any counter factual argument about why that would be the case. There are MORE possible seed phrases than there are BTC address, which means every BTC address should map, at a minimum, 1:1. Not only should every BTC address have a corresponding seed phrase (whether you derived the address before, or after seed phrases were a thing - or with out without knowing the seed phrase at the time of address creation is irrelevant), some BTC address in fact have more than 1 seed phrase. Im going to need to provide some kind evidence for what you are saying if i am to be convinced.

anymonero

Doesn't Dogecoin actually have less features than BTC? As far as I know it's basically a 2016 Bitcoin and doesn't have SegWit or Taproot.

longonbtc

Bitcoin didn't have seed phrases back when Satoshi Nakamoto was still around. Electrum wallet started using their own seed phrases in 2012 and BIP39 was introduced in 2013. There are nearly twenty thousand bitcoin addresses that each still contain 50 BTC from back in the early days and each one of them has a corresponding private key. And there is no proof that Satoshi Nakamoto owns all of those coins.

filenotfounderror

Yes, but i think your wrong on the second point? the search space for 24 word phrases is actually larger than all possible BTC address. So not only does every BTC address map at a minimum 1:1 with a seed phrase - it is in fact possible that 2 completely unique seed phrases map to the same BTC unique key. in reality this event has a probability so close to zero that it will never happen in the lifetime of the universe, but its theoretically possible. a Bitcoin talk thread on this i found here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5467010.0

mynutsrbig

Why did this Pu$$y just disappear and hasn't cashed in? CIA created BTC 100%.

NotAMeatPopsicle

Consider the fallout to BTC and all of crypto if even a fraction of a coin left that wallet.

GentlemenHODL

>The issue with that is as the hash power reduces, the network security decreases as well. If the security decreases while the value of bitcoin remains high, it could become economically viable to attack bitcoin If this is what happens then it means Bitcoin already failed and it's in its death throes. Such is life. We don't need to prop it up with a weekend at Bernie's style BTC. Just let it die.

IIIBryGuyIII

I try not to scroll down on reply chains. But wow are you a special customer. If BTC is the line in the sand you drew….. WTF is your opinion on FIAT.

opDimitri

24 words guarding 70 billion seems easy for that guy, ehh? If every single person on earth (over 8 billion) generated a random 24 word BTC seedphrase every single second, it would take the entire globe 441,543,909,978,574,259,289,502,069,055,534,780,422,943,709,515,857,893,772,871 YEARS to get Satoshi's keys. For reference, the universe is only 13,800,000,000 YEARS old. Some people have absolutely no idea just how secure BTC can be if handled properly.

Somening

Where do i read about BTC/ETH and alt coins ?

wembenbama

People downvoting when you can literally gamble on the price movement every 15 minutes. It’s just a vehicle for gamblers. Anyone who still thinks BTC is some fiat replacement hasn’t been paying attention since 2018.

jekpopulous2

People will never spend enough BTC to feed the miners… the only long-term solution is to remove the hard cap on supply and use the newly minted coins to fund the security budget. Nobody wants to hear that but it’s the truth. Alternately 90% of miners stop mining after the next halving and we end up with the last pool standing controlling the entire network. Things have been headed in that direction for a decade now but Bitcoin purists will gasp at the thought of 0.5% inflation. Now we’re two years away from the next halving while panic is setting in over quantum computers and there are no solutions to any of these problems on the horizon. Bitcoin needs to make major changes at the protocol level to survive and we’re running out of time.

Vipu2

What I said that if core adds tail emission or something similar so it goes in Core version 40 whatever, then anyone who doesnt support that have to fork off. More and more people have got into BTC that have no idea anything about BTC, just buys some etf on exchange and forgets about it. So imagine btc core adds tail emission and removes hard cap. Now you and rest of us "normies" are the BIP888 people who want to fork off. If the big money companies, miners, ETFs with most of peoples money stay in core and dont fork off how is that different? Sure there would be bigger fight in X and reddit about it but it would not be big enough that ETF and big money would see or care about it, they just want to buy BTC and see numbers go up, not to fork off to something weird that those others talk about.

filenotfounderror

Can someone explain to me. Satoshi's address have a public key and a corresponding private key, as do all wallets. Why wouldn't you (given infinite computing power, infinite time, etc...) be able to derive a corresponding 24 word seed phrase. is the search space for 24 Factorial words less than all possible BTC address?

longonbtc

Bitcoin didn't have seed phrases back when Satoshi Nakamoto was still around. Electrum wallet started using their own seed phrases in 2012 and BIP39 was introduced in 2013. There are two thousand one hundred and some addresses that still contain 50 BTC from back in the early days and each one of them has a corresponding private key. And there is no proof that Satoshi Nakamoto owns all of those coins.

IndependentSpeck

You are incredibly dense. OP, do not reply to this guy, he is a waste of your time. To answer your original question, you can stack BTC using a DEX after you have a little bit of no-KYC Bitcoin saved up to buy more. Look into Robosats and Bisq if you have a way to transact using fiat of some sort. You can typically use Amazon gift cards to buy BTC on both platforms, but again, you'll need a bit of Bitcoin for escrow to start.

futon_potato

I said nothing of market volatility. I said that the "average person" won't be in play during the next run. Institutional investment may have kicked off the last rally but it was retail frenzy during covid that drove it to the parabolic highs. I didn't need a crystal ball for this because my soccer team, mother, brother, friends and their spouses were all of a sudden asking me how to setup wallets and what exchanges to buy BTC from during the last big rally. Almost all of those people got fleeced in one way or another: \* Many ended up buying BTC just to buy shitcoins which then dumped to zero \* Some bought into the FOMO and bought BTC at record highs only to sell at a loss \* Some bought NFTs (lol) despite my warnings Not a single one wanted BTC to *do commerce with.* For each one, it was a greed-driven gamble to try and capture the parabolic hype cycle and make easy money. None of them have expressed *any* interest in crypto since. Especially now that we have 'legalized' prediction (gambling) platforms for gamblers to try and make a quick buck. So where will that demand come from to drive the next bull cycle?

Embarrassed_Elk_6480

Wow, selling all your BTC before the halvening bull run is heartbreaking. Why did you do that? You would have made 10/ of thousands of dollars!

MathW

You're doing it wrong, you have to cash in on your father's name to sell worthless non-BTC tokens to his cult

final_lionel

Always display BTC price in dollar. Otherwise you add forex change. I'm from EU and never display btc in euro

ek_am

I'd say something like circle's USDC is probably better just because they're better regulated and audited since they're a public company. I would take some and put it into a HYSA app like Axal to earn yield on it too so your money is working for you. You could also buy BTC or Gold (axal has yield on these too) and if needed Eth/Sol/Hype for riskier investments.

Electronic_Quote399

People will allocate different amounts, they'll tell you to go all btc or drop one or the other, but it's a good start, its all the basics. I would personally drop xrp, but you probably wont lose money buying it at these levels IMO. I'm not an xrp fan but I grabbed a tiny bit myself because I expect Ripple to throw everyone a bone here pretty soon. Its tokenomics suck, and its heavily manipulated, the company control a lot of the supply. But, as long as you aren't one of those guys who just goes all in, all xrp, all the time... it should be all right. Myself I don't even have any BTC, I'm about 35% sol and 35% ether. If you want a moonshot, consider a little keeta (KTA). I've done very well this year with it. I'm leaning on it pretty heavy right now with 11% of my portfolio, i'm really betting on a short term bounce. I would definitely recommend adding HYPE to your list, though its probably a little too high to buy in right now in my opinion. Throw $10 in, monitor it. If that $10 drops down to about $7.50 or $8, I would say that's a better buy in point. Personally, if I dont own a little, I wont monitor the price, which is why I say grab $10.

TheRealCerealFirst

Bitcoin is less scarce than its ever been…. Its undergone a massive financilization which means thet spot bitcoin demand now shares liquidity and capital with derivatives. These derivatives represent a huge draw on the demand that would otherwise be on chain / organic demand for spot bitcoin. Yes bitcoin itself might be scarcer than its ever been but 9/10 dollars chasing around bitcoin exposure can get it, in a more capital efficient way through options, futures, and paper ious inherantly connected to ETPs wheras none of this existed further back than the last few years. I firmly believe that this is far more detemintal to the price / future of bitcoin than almost any other factor as it completely removes scarcity from the equation except for those that 100% believe in the undeniable strength of the original thesis of P2P cash as most of the growth of bitcoin during the last few years was due to the financialization of the asset but now institutions who want to sell exposure to BTC can without ever owning any bitcoin to begin with. I dont know the extent to which this destorys the future demand for bitcoin but I know its a non zero percentage,

Mr_Footies

Bought BTC at 2017 ATH.

Dehyak

Almost exactly what I did lmao. Sold BTC and bought a house, upgraded my entire gaming set up and everything is in SCHD/VOO

justcurious3287

So, Barron Trump is worth $150 million from crypto. I regularly buy BTC, and I don’t have $150 million. Am I a bad investor?

Johnny_cross8

£20/month is plenty to start. I’d keep it simple — BTC/ETH, learn how wallets, fees and volatility work, and ignore the “100x” hype. Treat the £20 as tuition while you learn..

PrestondeTipp

Nope *** IPO STRC at $90/share Use the $90 to buy Bitcoin at $118,000. $118,000 BTC is now worth $64,000, 45.7% loss Original $90 is now worth is $49.50 Pay $11.42 of dividends in this period. Repurchase STRC for $94 Spending ~$145.42 to have access to $90

MrKillerKiller_

It’s an alt coin. Yes. People trade alts. The alt market is dead until BTC pumps off sudden large gains and goes sideways for an extended period of time. Wait til the bear market is over and BTC changes behavior suddenly surging above MA’s and shows a healthy pullback. Signs of strength would increase these dismal probabilities of what we the market is about to go through.

Gears6

> c) I think the costs aren't really small, they're just incorporated into the price. Often charged to the business which eats up profits which incentives the business to raise prices. For example, if you're selling your goods at a 20% margin and paying 3% in fees (on revenue) that's like 18% of your profit. I should clarify that it is negligible compared to the benefit of increased purchases. Cash makes people less likely to buy and they can always pay it "later". As a former business operator that dealt with a lot of that, it's not negligable and we by par prefer people pay with debit cards or even cash (despite the handling). > Also for the "sent and done" property. I don't think there's anything stopping networks from building this into a network. But I guess it either hasn't been asked for or networks that have built this haven't succeeded. It's a double edged sword for businesses too. It's not a technical challenge, but a business and operations challenge. Somebody has to decide if it's okay to cancel transactions. The whole idea of crypto is, nobody is in charge of that. So to implement something like that, we're suddenly no different than the existing systems ruled by the banks. It also means, the government can demand payments be stopped. > So definitely some pros and cons but the credit card model seems to be working pretty well in general. It works out of a necessity to strike the balance between convenience, oversight and profit for the middle men. For people like me, we take advantage of it, and try to profit by maximizing our cashback. The system doesn't care, it charges everyone else a high interest. Which to me at least means, everyone else is paying more than me. > It's a huge risk, not just for crypto. Agreed. It's also a relatively small risk right now, but who knows with AI. We're having huge breakthroughs in science and mathematics due to AI. > There's a ton of pros and cons for and against crypto but it hasn't proven itself as a global payments system i.e. It hasn't replaced Mastercard and Visa. It's great in third world countries. But that's mainly an access thing, rather than because it's a better technology. It likely never will replace MSC/VSA by the simple nature that the value addition that MSC/VSA adds is the real secret sauce of why consumers use them. It's not that it's electronic payments, because let's face it, there's debit cards with a PIN which is quite common in Europe. In fact, I rarely saw credit card transactions in my businesses. It was always, slip the card in, type in your pin and a receipt pops out approving it. Basically, crypto can't be a global payment system until there's some layer on top that solves the business and operational problems that MSC/VSA and the banks have solved. Until then, it's better as a money store and digital gold for those investing. > but I don't think it's necessary in their interest to make crypto payments better than Fiat payments. I think they're more just riding the wave. We'd probably need some big names like that to build more tech for crypto payments to gain more trust and adoption. Anything that tries to solve those issues, likely will need the same operational and business processes that MSC/VSA and banks have. Essentially we're back at the current system. The other aspect is the high cost (or should I say energy usage) of operating BTC. It's still a huge factor and yes, there are other crypto that is based on proof of stake that solves that, but we're in BTC sub. 😜 From a practical standpoint, I believe ETH is much better suited.

Hash_Rate_Hunter

The 21M hard cap isn't just a feature of Bitcoin; it is the entire foundation of its economic model and its value proposition as pristine collateral. If you introduce tail emission or remove the cap, you destroy the absolute scarcity that separates BTC from fiat currency. We already have thousands of inflationary networks with continuous emissions; we don't need to turn Bitcoin into one of them. The security budget needs to be solved through Layer 2 fee velocity, not by diluting the supply.

Scottex99

Revolut is great for a beginner but do your trades on RevolutX for much better fees But £20 of BTC per month and see how it feels GL

Otherwise-Cupcake427

rhymes with many other stories, OP was banned. not sure if there's some sort of spam/scam thing going on with these posts (hoping people get their public address and send BTC?), but it's odd at least.

TheBestintheWest11

BTC gona do what BTC gona do

Visual_Ad_8061

Hold off as wait for 50,000 levels on BTC.

shpeucher

LMAO is to ROFL like BTC to crypto. One survived and is the big dog, while the other is barely used

DontLook_Weirdo

Don't ask reddit. Seriously, just take your research off of reddit and look for 'how to start' Avoid YouTube crypto influencers and reddit advice.. some of it is decent but you'll mostly get bullshit answers. It's not something you learn in 1 reply, that's why I'm not going to bother. You need to read up on alt-coins and BTC/eth. Avoid memecoin/shitcoins, those are literally just for gambling. You don't want to read white papers? That's perfectly fine but at least try to understand what crypto is and what it's for. 3yrs is the time we have left before Coinbase claims there will be a great crypto reset because of quantum computing.. so that's very good reason to avoid crappy coins and go after tangible results in coins, now more than ever. Have fun in your research, and prepare to lose money before you start to get the hang of things

Lavayo

Me too. I started in 24 after the ETF run so I'm slightly in loss with BTC ATM because I always kept my DCA. Alts... let's not talk about it. Luckily I always preferred BTC, also back then. My allocation to BTC went from 75% to >95% without selling anything ever. Most my alts are Sol and Eth and it simply does not make sense to sell them now. Use potential wins to DCA BTC in the next bear.

Always_working_hardd

BTC is a scam, now gimme all you got.

blaziken8x

You could buy BTC and if you're lucky you double your money in 5 years, or you could buy some other crypto and you're down 95% in 5 years.

Dry-Helicopter-3000

Most retarded sell since the guy who bought pizza for 10000 BTC