BTC

Cold_Respond_7656

Is BTC back over 120k and no one told me Otherwise 0.01 ain’t buying you the new 18 pro

dj_destroyer

I can get the iPhone 18 Pro for 0.01 BTC? Damn, that seems like a no brainer

martinbogo

No, it didn’t. The value of Bitcoin is in the exchange and earn rate. In 2016, I would earn 0.114 BTC/hr ( yes, I got paid in BTC ) and would spend about 40% of that on various daily needs like rent and such In 2026, I earn 0.00121 BTC/hr ( yes, still being paid in BTC ) and I still spend about 35% of that on various daily needs like rend, food, and such So, assuming your estimate is correct — in 2016 I’d have to work 12 hours to pay for it … realistically, that would be closer to 30 hours because of the spend/save split. In 2026, I have to work about 8.3 hours, and realistically that’s loser to 20 hours to pay for it. I do earn more now ( fiat about $95/hr equivalent ) but it’s about a wash for the total number of hours I need to work to purchase, even with inflation. BTC is only worth something if it moves around, does things… it’s not just an investment vehicle, it’s a living exchange of value. Without ME earning and using BTC daily it’s worth … honestly .. nothing more. Get it?

ubermensch1001

If in 2027-2029 we actually get a lot of euphoria into the crypto market ADA will ride along with it. 2024-2025 we essentially had no alt season and it was entirely BTC, with a select few alts doing very well; Solana and XRP in particular. ETH really didn't do anything during this time, summer of 2023 it was trading at a similar price to where we were until this pump in the market in August. Let's say we see BTC hit a new all time high and go above 200k in 2028, alts for sure will rally hard. Seeing ETH at 5k+ will be very easy and I think this is when we actually see the alt season everyone was hoping for in 2025. If ETH gets to 8k+ it's not at all unrealistic to see ADA back to $1+. We can speculate all day as to whether it will go to it's ATH of $3 or well beyond, but the point is that EVERYTHING will run hard if we do in fact see an alt season. ADA right now at 20 cents is at a place where huge gains can be made WITHOUT even needing to be anywhere near ATH.

jimmytug

Not exactly, it is one type of self custody. Self custody could be a piece of paper. If you don't understand how, study up on BTC.

ChainFolioAi

Sorry, that's a rough way to learn it. For anyone hitting the same wall — the problem is usually the withdrawal minimum, not the balance, and there are normally two things to try before going anywhere near gift cards: Convert the dust into whichever asset has the cheapest withdrawal network on that exchange. Minimums are set per asset and per network, and the gap between BTC on mainnet and a stablecoin on a cheap chain can be an order of magnitude. Check whether the exchange allows internal transfers to another user on the same platform. Those usually have no minimum and no fee, so someone else's account can get the funds out and hand them back. Gift-card resellers are the worst option on the list: you pay in crypto so there's no chargeback, and if the code comes back already redeemed you have no way to prove who redeemed it. That's the part with no recourse — not the exchange. Did coinsbee take card at any point, or was it crypto the whole way?

Illustrious_Ant_9242

It's correct. The earlier you mined and the more machines you had, the more Bitcoin you would get. For example, a buddy of mine had 4 upper tier GPUs and mined about 200 BTC in 4 months. His dorm room was steaming hot.  With every month, it was getting harder to mine Bitcoin, so rewards would be lower

RetiredAvocado

50000 BTC was mined every week by the entire network. It's unlikely that any one entity had a sprawling mining farm of PCs. Bitcoin was basically worthless and there was no incentive to set up hundreds of computers to mine. GPU mining was not big until late 2010 or so. It was a tinkerer hobby, with many people doing some mining here and there. Maybe some people abused their work owned hardware, or school PC labs to mine more than others. Most people did not have dedicated rooms full of GPUs mining because it was not worth doing. Not until later.

Infinite_Raise8611

Well by pure return vs BTC Eth underperformed, SOL absolutely destroyed BTC, AVAX underperformed, XRP underperformed but hardly, XLM basically same return, and Zcash obliterated them all. I sold all near top and have reentered and am very confident in my allocation heading towards this next cycle. Would be shocked if ETH/SOL don’t outperform BTC this next cycle.

Satoshiman256

I could almost guarantee that if you hadn't bought any of those alts and only got Bitcoin, you would have been way better off. If you have a crypto tracker, don't compare against USD, compared against BTC.

ubermensch1001

I would just let that bag ride, it's a decent size to where if it does well you can make a good amount of money but it's not so much where you should consider reallocating these funds into something else. It's a little over 2k right now, less than 1 ETH and about .025 BTC. However, it's incredibly low right now and could easily make very large returns, getting to just 40 cents is almost a 2x from here. Not saying you should buy more of it, but I wouldn't really consider selling unless you don't have much $ to throw into the crypto space and this is a major part of your portfolio.

Secret_Operative

That actually sounds right to me. In 2011 I did the math for GPU mining and it was something like a 3 month timeframe to mine enough to pay for the GPU. And that was with free electricity. I think to get 50k BTC it would take a lot of GPUs. Hundreds of GPUs. But in 2010 you could just stick $20 in an envelope and send it to someone, and they would send you BTC. /shrug.

bemyantimatter

This is self custody. I am literally attempting to remove BTC from the exchange to a hardware wallet and being blocked by Coinbase.

Asz12_Bob

Half the sub hates him but he's done more than anyone to bring awareness of bitcoin to the public. If we were at $190K now they would all be singing him praises. If you believe in BTC, just hodl it and shutup.

StPeir

I remember doing that too but it was always like a dollar of this or a dollar of that…. This mother fucker thought he had mined enough BTC to justify coming here from an app that looks like it’s an IOS game with micro transaction. Cryptoville new player bonus now 90% off unlock it for only 5000 diamonds! 💎 💎 💎

adler1959

I mean you can’t hodl if you pay with your BTC so kind of make sense from his POV

Prestigious-Buddy539

Honest to god how you guys can be positive about BTC when Luke/Mechanic/Krazy Kratter Blake coin is sucking up all the liquidity!!!! 😂😂😂

indapinda1

Is it possible to start a class action lawsuit against Trezor/google for having so many loopholes for hackers? I lost 1.6 BTC on a fake website that came up from My google search. Are there other victims out there?

Detailed23

That's because BTC is utter trash.

SeparateCommon2363

OP most likely pointing out Saylor doesn't care that its BTC, he would shill for any asset he can package up and sell up to any potential buyer, he doesn't care about utility usage, blockchain, decentralization etc. So of course Saylor wouldn't accept his money making asset as payment when all he wants in the end is more fiat USD not BTC

NeuralFantasy

It's amazing how many people here think cherry-picking 8 things to a basket gives a better indication of inflation than CPI which (AFAIK) tracks over 200 categories of goods and tens of thousands of individual items. Sheesh... I get that people love BTC and hate Fiat money but this just ridiculous.

xaviemb

I find it fascinating that so many people are dunking on a man who literally acquired \~170,000 BTC by way of his company this year (so far) at an average entry price of $77,000 \[talk about DCA the dip\] To be clear just how hypocritical this kind of post is... You collect a salary in USD... do you demand your salary in Bitcoin? You pay for groceries in USD... do you seek our grocery sources who accept Bitcoin? You buy your shoes on Amazon (just a guess)... have you moved that commerce to Bitcoin only companies? But you take the time to post this dunk on a man who is doing more for Bitcoin adoption... than any other human on earth this year. It's a fascinating human psychology to find a bad guy... every cycle bottom requires it, I guess.

PeteyPab305

and thus the reason BTC payments and general crypto application will not succeed til boomers are gone, and the nitwits are weeded out. Natural selection accelerated at the speed of broadband.

PeteyPab305

You almost had me? You never had me - you never had your BTC..

Chaoticsinner2294

I never payed too much attention to saylor but when I listened to him I liked him. Until he gave an interview this year where the guy asked if companies sole business model was holding BTC and saylor just attacked him the whole rest of the interview. Has struck me as a total charlatan ever since

Pleasant_Maybe_5523

This is the part of Bitcoin people in stable economies often miss. If your bank works and your currency is stable, BTC can look purely speculative. But ask someone dealing with capital controls or a currency losing 30–50% of its value — suddenly permissionless money makes a lot more sense.

NilNow

its especially weird for it to be doing it before BTC is back in price discovery. it seems to be largely due to institutional moves by DCG, grayscale, winklevoss twins, etc that can have have a big impact with its relatively low market cap, along with every VC, influencer and shiller out there pushing it. my guess is eventually they run out of steam and capital, so we'll see if retail really picks it up or not. but if that does happen then in theory, even the $20B market cap its at now could have a LONG way to go.

ir88ed

In another comment I said "ETF is a fire-and-forget promise to give you paper for your BTC" and the phrasing was intentional. ETF is a promise. Exchanges promise to give you your coins or cash back. I think ETFs will likely be fine long term, but they are still just a promise.

No-Confusion4519

The bigger signal here isn’t BTC price, it’s crypto being used as settlement infrastructure when traditional rails are constrained. We’ve talked about that use case for years — now we’re seeing it tested at sovereign scale.

Infinite_Raise8611

I don’t disagree at all- my crypto portfolio comprised of 60% BTC 18% ETH, 15% SOL/some AVAX/XRP/XLM and rest alt moonshots. I just don’t believe in the industry wide hype wave up again. It’ll be isolated projects w solid fundamentals along w random meme coins. Had little bit of Zcash but dumped it on pump- hope to reenter at some point

Traditional_Most105

The point is making profits. Some do it by putting their money in BTC which is more safe and with less upside, others try to identify some coins that are more useful than others and could go up in the near future with higher upside... for sure altseason might not come again but that doesn't mean that some alts won't be successful in their own way... you just have to identify them before they do... Also BTC cycle might be different this time or it might not... there are many people who believe in the cycle and so they invest the time they base it on the cycle so the cycle and eventually altseason could be a self fulfilling prophecy as well... it's speculation at it's core.

Hobophobic_Hipster

The inflation the BTC bro won't tell you about.... \+78,180.25 (17,220.70%)all time

AutomaticJob5692

The corporate wrapper adding leverage risk is the whole point ppl miss about MSTR. Direct BTC ownership doesnt have preferred dividend obligations

riplin

> They definitely have the leverage with 46 million dollars worth of BTC siting there. Yes, using that leverage is commonly referred to as extortion.

PsychologicalCap5770

No convincing me that BTC wasn’t developed by CIA

unknowngloomth

5k? 🤣 This BTC maxi wishing misfortune upon on me. Wow. That's not nice 😉

raj6126

Exactly Iran is using BTC how it’s was developed to be used.

Shadowrak

If I ever do stupid things like a random app that gives BTC for playing a shitty game, I certainly generate a new wallet.

unknowngloomth

So mad. I'm just replying to your BTC maxi bullshit. Just recommend BTC to the guy, dawg 💀

unknowngloomth

I mine TARI and now I mine Zkas. I'm not a hurry to sell them. Plus I hold HYPE bought it around $10. Bought ZEC around $200 also hold BTC. Bought it around $16k. I'm massively in profit 😌

Icy_Giraffe_21

Could very well be a white hat. He found an exploit and wants to be compensated. They definitely have the leverage with 46 million dollars worth of BTC siting there.

unknowngloomth

Did you buy Zcash when it crashed to 200? Did you buy hyperliquid at $10? Did you buy Venice when it crashed to $10? Let me guess. You just holding BTC. Yeah listen to this guy BTC with a market cap at 1 trillion. Buy ETH bruh.. 🤣

xaviemb

Here let's make this really simple then... \[a House valued at 5BTC\] vs. \[Holding 5 Bitcoin\]... and as you say: >"Bitcoin was the only currency and everything else disappeared" Then your house remains one house... but the value of 5 BTC when it replaces all fiat (as you stated)... goes up about one third of a million percent (not an exaggeration. Point being... you're saying Bitcoin becomes less valuable when it replaces fiat... which is a false premise. Things stay the same value... but in a deflationary world, Bitcoin gains value as humanity productivity and growth expands (which is an assumption with time and population).

Awkward_Potential_

We need to get Gladstein in front of more liberal/progressives. If AOC spent a week in a room with Alex I'm convinced she'd come out of that room with a new perspective on BTC. 

DiamondHandsDarrell

Yes 100%. Not financial advice: I feel DCA is the way to go. There are people documenting and sharing this on reddit that has proven it's the best long term strategy for most. Lump sum can work great or burn you depending on how the market swings. I've read about exchanges from the start, so you can imagine my skepticism to use any that aren't established. That being said, I was suggested to use Coinbase and I've been with them for about a decade now. Sure I've had issues, but they're relatively minor (have to re-upload ID and other small things) but never make issues. I've moved crazy amounts of money (for me) and never had an issue. I've read a lot of complaints about them, but they haven't failed me once. I also have their black Amex credit card and get 4% BTC back on the first $10k monthly spend, after that I get 2% BTC back unlimited. And being a coinbase one member, I get I think 3.5% back in USDC or BTC for holding USDC which pays for the monthly fee. And they also give you discounts for being a member to tax management and filing applications. This is the most useful part!

hoppeeness

OG Crypto (BTC) was based on giving individuals freedom and obscurity from the govt and oversight. Not talking about utility blockchains that actually add transparency. Very confused why it was never talked about that the same would apply to the people and organizations in power and why that wouldn’t be way more detrimental. Now here we are and people are surprised.

unknowngloomth

Did I tell you to put huge amounts? So play with the money you're 100% to lose. Anyways. Stick with BTC. You can't handle volatility and it shows

xaviemb

If the off ramp from the failing fiat is Bitcoin... those 9 billion people on earth will spend an average of less than 0.0017 Bitcoin on an average house... not 6 BTC. That adoption curve is why the number is going up, not just the printing of fiat (USD) below it)... both are tailwinds forcing the value of Bitcoin higher over time.

tekmiester

Coin scarcity doesn't solve supply and demand. If there are 8 billion people on Earth competing for resources today and 9 billion in a few years, prices will go up. If a house in your area costs 5 BTC today, and more people want to live there tomorrow, it's still going to go up to 6 BTC. Coin scarcity doesn't solve the fundamentals of supply and demand. When governments lose control of monetary policy, they will be less able to balance growth and inflation which means more recessions. Remember when Greece collapsed a couple of decades ago? It's because they lost control of their currency (by going to the Euro). That is the future you are proposing.

xaviemb

A lot of people tend to gloss over the fact that pizza guy had lots and lots of Bitcoin... 10k was a smaller portion of what he held, at the time. But it's a viral sentiment to consider just how much value that was in today's BTC value... so we sort of stick a "how foolish was that" model to it... as if he was "a regular guy" From what I know, he had all of that Bitcoin because he was one of the earliest miners when Satoshi was just hoping others should take on the mining role from him while he was stacking so many of those early blocks.

palmdata

early 2010 was still mostly CPU mining, and the usable GPU tools showed up later that year. 50 BTC per block made the jackpot look huge, but 50,000 BTC wasn't a normal result. that took serious uptime and a lot of luck finding solo blocks.

palmdata

hashprice around $38/PH/day puts a 216 TH box at only ~$8.20 gross/day. a 3.7 kW box burns ~89 kWh/day, so 6¢ power is ~$5.30 before pool fee, cooling and downtime. the wall meter and a 24h hash report tell you more than the BTC price headline.

Mysterious_Ice_199

Wasn't the pizza guy just some regular dude who bought two pizzas for 10k BTC? The ASIC shift was more like 2013 I think, before that it was GPU mining already making CPU useless

xaviemb

If by puzzles you mean hashing/math calculations... yes, we could win 50 BTC (block reward at the time) with a laptop while sleping in 2010.

KateR_H0l1day

She's been banging this drum and the BTC reserve for quite a while now, neither has happened, nor am I seeing any evidence of either happening any time soon. It's just a wish list, and one I'm sure she'd love to happen, but there's not enough support, so I'm just ignoring the continual churn! It'd be nice, but it's not essential, BTC will continue to drive forward regardless 😉

Szangalar

FBI, NSA and other entities you mentioned and not are centralized, so effectively it will be easier for them to adapt and "flip the switch". Microsoft, Google Cloud and Coudflare are aiming at 2029 to go to PQC (at least in the critical areas), with others like US administration and NIST up to 2035. My question is: how will Bitcoin do this? What about lost BTCs in old wallets, which won't change to new signature schemes? We "just burn them" (as if in "it's your keys, but not your BTC"?). Putting any changes to the core protocol in Bitcoin have proven not easy, which is one of it's strenghts, but also makes it less adaptive. I hope to live and see how it is dealt with, but hoping on "Bitcoin will also adapt" without any broad consensus on how and when to do it seems a bit delusional.

Crypto-Bets

If you’re going somewhere with BTC/USDt rails, then it’s good to keep a stash on your wallet and gradually convert to local currency.

StraightPromise3596

not sure for regular folks like me. But if he's trying to sell 100k BTC, which is almost 8 billion dollars, I believe he would have a lot more options than just selling

blaziken8x

I just look here https://coinmarketcap.com/charts/fear-and-greed-index/ I've been buying BTC in november 2025, february 2026 and june 2026 and I'm pretty happy with the purchases. Can't go wrong buying when market is afraid, if you believe in the investment long term.

VettaQ

What you're describing is close to how systematic desks use beta screens: a coin that 'should move but doesn't' is just a near-zero residual vs its BTC beta over some window. Making it explicit helps - estimate beta on the last 60-90 days, then flag names whose residual stays flat on big market days, instead of tracking it by feel. Two traps though: (1) selection bias - you remember the saves and forget the sleepy coin that stayed sleepy straight into a dump; (2) a no-reaction signal decays fast once everyone watches the same thing. In my experience it works best as a veto filter ('skip this long') rather than an entry trigger, which sounds like how you're already using it.

RetiredAvocado

All hot wallets load keys in clear text to work with them. Using closed source wallets like Exodus is not recommended. That's an added risk on top of everything else. Hot wallets are pretty convenient and serve a secondary function as well. Why would you trust a PC/phone to do your social media, shopping, healthcare, banking, taxes, but not trust it with a few bucks in BTC? I have separate hot wallets on all my devices as somewhat enticing honeypots. None of them run Windows. None of them had anything stolen. If your hot wallet BTC disappears it can be a cheap (or expensive) indicator that you cannot trust that device for anything else.

crumb_bums

Once again, I already agreed on the banks/fiat. But this is BTC. Not fiat. Banks do not apply for this article. at all.

ContentBlackberry0

Just send all the BTC back to yourself like once a month or so to consolidate them. Do this when fees are low

OkDifficulty1605

Bikes are not extremely error prone with even experts and technically-versed people making extremely costly mistakes. Bitcoin has a difficult UX which makes it inherently likely to go wrong when sending transactions. Everyone thinks it can never happen to them - the other people are just careless, dumb, tired, etc etc I guess Luke Dashjr - the bitcoin core dev who lost 200 BTC - just doesn't understand bitcoin well enough to use it properly.

nipapoo

I was able to spend in Bangkok. Also steak and shake in the US. Always looking at BTC map but usually can't find anything

Time_Basis2535

When BTC is on $ALE throw what ever extra you can at it

erjo5055

I'm not. I've done this in 2017, 2021, 2024/5, it just isn't good investing. I've done far better with BTC/ETH and just being patient. My shit coins are mostly all down 90-99%. Only 1/40 is up and it barely outperformed BTC for way more risk.

Optimal_Jump_8395

💯 Exactly. BTC is a viable long-term savings account. It's not going anywhere.

dj_destroyer

Nah every time I balanced my portfolio, BTC grew to the point of doing it again and dwarfed all my other investments. Eventually I just decided to leave it all in Bitcoin. Fuck diversification.

mattimeoo

50BTC block reward was up untip four years after launch in 2009.

LeRichelieu

Yes this one is a scam. The 0.1 BTC threshold to withdraw was a cue here. Always test withdrawals first, to a transition wallet, before really considering it. They aren’t all scams, but many are, or offering very little return. I make a couple of bucks a week on most I use. Some are subscription-based and other require you to buy a miner NFT (rights to part of it hashing power), usually requiring at least one year to cover investment before any profit, while hoping the company doesn’t pull the plug. There is only one that has produced interesting results so far (investment repaid and $1000+ profits made) after 2 years and a significant investment first, as well as daily ads viewing to keep the hashing power (that how they make money) from degrading. Sadly the payback was cut in half after 10/10 and did not come back to its previous state. Not sure there are any that offer that kind of return anymore…

newMoneyStyle

Keeping 600 BTC as a bounty does feel excessive without seeing the actual talks. Bounty terms usually get agreed on before funds move, not after.

unknowngloomth

I hold BTC too. Guess you've never heard the saying "diversify your portfolio and you have options" 😉

Impossible-Buyer6389

I'll stick with BTC thank you very much

chuckrabbit

Really? Because my BTC isn’t FDIC insured. So how are they at all similar to a normal bank’s insurance?

crumb_bums

You can transfer money from one bank account to another. Buy crypto on exchange. Get that money back.  Also, how does this apply to this case specifically. This man had a cold storage wallet. The other alternative is an exchange, where you can force someone to send BTC to any wallet , anywhere. Irreversible.  The top comment is trying to villianze cold storage which is the dumbest god damn thing ive ever heard. Has this place gone mental? You WANT to have exchanges hold your coin now?! Fucking bonkers

chuckrabbit

Banks can reverse transactions with a simple police report. Can you do that with BTC? Of course you’re getting down voted. Have you never used an American Bank before? It’s clearly different.

Steel-Tempered

Buy it on a legit exchange like Coinbase (US) or Kraken (anywhere else), and then after the buy transaction is confirmed and finalized by both Coinbase and your personal bank, transfer the BTC it to a hardware wallet (not Cold Card) and hold it. And of course, use strong unique passwords for everything, 2-factor, protect your wallet seed phrase OFFLINE, and just HOLD. Nothing is taxable until you sell, so there's nothing to report to the IRS or whatever. Also, if you're not planning anymore buys or sells, download your exchange transaction history, save it for your future tax cost basis calculations, and then close your Coinbase/Kraken account. You can always open a new account in the future if you want to transfer anything back to cash it out, but you'll want to hold it for a few years and let it gain value (hopefully).

KateR_H0l1day

We had a new ATH before the halving, that’s never happened before, so yes we have, and it’s a fact you cannot get away from. The ETF’s and the numerous new BTC-TC’s have had an effect this cycle, so there’s simply no guarantee that it’ll follow the same pattern this cycle through the end of the year. That’s not to say it won’t go down in October, because it might, but not because it’s blindly following a pattern. 🤷‍♀️

Secure-Jelly-3802

This is the type of use case I find interesting too. Using BTC for everyday things feels more practical when it fits into services people already use. I've seen shipping labels come up as one example, where platforms like USPostage. io let people pay for something that already need without first moving funds back into traditional payment methods.

qzvxyr

Lender terms decide this way more than token choice. PAXG and XAUT both track spot close enough that it's noise. What actually matters is whether the platform does independent custody attestations, how their liquidation logic works (hard threshold vs some cushion), and what LTV band they'll actually give you on a gold-backed token vs BTC/ETH, since a lot of platforms quietly cap it lower for RWA collateral

unknowngloomth

Luck? It's called doing research..take TARI for instance. You can mine this coin. It's a privacy coin. It's an obscure coin right now.. but you can mineit and you don't need a high specs GPU for it. Also Zkas. Also Arthur rays is launching some coin and he will drop an airdrop. But I doubt anyone of this sub is taking advantage of this. You all are saying. "Shitcoin this, shitcoin that, just buy BTC, bruh" 😉

molicechinogy3

Start small, stick mostly to BTC and ETH while you learn, and never invest money you might need soon. DCA beats trying to time every pump. Keep your seed phrase offline, ignore every helpful DM, and do a tiny test transaction before moving larger amounts. Boring habits will save you more than chasing the next 100x.

muepaptyops

For Georgia I'd pay more attention to the withdrawal side than the actual buying fees. Check whether you can get GEL or EUR to your bank without jumping through a bunch of hoops, and what their KYC limits are. Also definitely test a small withdrawal first before moving a serious amount. And yeah, whatever exchange you use, I'd move long-term BTC to a wallet you control.

LeoIsLegend

This sub is always right. I’ve opened a x50 short on BTC. Thanks for the heads up.

Extra-Effective-2554

You’re not missing anything obvious. The terminology often gets explained separately, while the part that connects everything gets skipped. Think of Bitcoin as a public record of spendable amounts. Your wallet does not contain the bitcoin itself. It holds the private keys that let you authorize spending certain entries on that record. Your 0.1 BTC balance might come from one transaction output worth 0.1 BTC, or several smaller outputs that add up to 0.1 BTC. These are called unspent transaction outputs, or UTXOs. Your wallet scans the blockchain, finds the UTXOs controlled by your keys, and adds them together to display your balance. If you send someone 0.05 BTC, this is roughly what happens: 1. Your wallet selects enough of your UTXOs to cover 0.05 BTC plus the network fee. 2. It creates a transaction with a new output for the recipient. 3. If the selected input is larger than the payment and fee, it creates another output called "change" that remains under your control. 4. Your wallet signs the transaction with your private key. The key never needs to leave the wallet. 5. Bitcoin nodes verify the signature, confirm that the inputs exist and have not already been spent, and check the other protocol rules. 6. The valid transaction waits in the mempool until a miner includes it in a block. 7. Other nodes verify the block. Each later block adds another confirmation. So the 0.05 BTC does not travel through the network like a file. The blockchain record changes. Your old output becomes spent, and a new output appears that the recipient’s private key can authorize later.

ButchersIyaki

Imagine saying that about BTC in 2011

minimalist_me

Keystone 3 Pro is one of the best wallets on the market. Three seed phrases, air gapped, biometrics, etc. Their native app is the drawback because it’s very limited with what alt coins you can view. For XRP it’s great but you have to use a third party wallet to view any ERC20 or any decent SPL tokens. If you hold BTC it’s perfect. The best wallet for alt coins is OneKey Pro. Expensive, not for newbies, and you need to figure out the awkward native app but man their hardware is a beast. Four EAL6 secure elements! Air gapped, biometrics, quantum-ready architecture, etc.

tenor_tymir

BTC does what BTC does. Why are real world events important to you? Just buy when it’s low and hold it sell when it’s high. That’s all there is to know.

MobilePenguins

Why would any service give you more in BTC than you paid into it with USD? These services offering BTC mining are so dumb. If you want the exchange of your money for BTC yield, that’s called just buying BTC 😆 which you can do on Coinbase or any exchange.

Mattyh81

I buy and sell 100k of BTC weekly on Revolut x its no big deal

Meybll22

If u already had BTC, then u would be moving to borrow against it instead of selling.

Bettie9

The first investment I ever made was buying BTC.

jsh63

The retirement isn’t dependent on BTC.

Crazy95jack

A bad solar flare and we get a much bigger hassle of accessing 0.01BTC ... OP whats your point here? Golds physical, we can wear it, eat it, crush our enemies with it.

Volgrand

If you had 100k BTC, assuming btc was on average 50k each (lets go for a low stimate there), that means you have a net worth of 5.000.000.000usd! You don't want to simply sell: You want to diversify to stocks and other investments so your net worth doesnt go down due to inflation, and to get a worth monthly income from it. Just a 1% monthly profit would get you 50k usd per month.

TheRadishBros

We don’t actually need any more adoption for BTC to be successful. The ETFs will become how the average person interacts with BTC in the future.

csgotraderino

This app even shows 13 digits after the decimal point. The smallest amount is 0.00000001 BTC. They couldnt even get that right.

Flippenator6900

Trading is pushed on every one (by the trading platforms) and almost no one makes reliable money trading (except the trading platforms). As someone who has been in crypto from 2018, my opinion is that only reliable way to make money in crypto is to 1. Dollar cost average BTC in bear markets and hold for dear life. 2. If you want to buy alts find some category leader that has held up relatively well in the bear market and has similar winning characteristics as BTC/DOGE/XRP etc. (multi cycle winners): organic hype, loyal community, outrageous/delusional price targets, cult status. And then hold that also for dear life. A good indicator is that the less some coin has trader TA posting around it and the more it has insane sounding "conspiracy theories" or people flocking around it as a community/identity the better.

Crypto-Bets

🤡 ZEC has no actual infrastructure, it doesn’t have thousands of payment rails like LTC/XMR/BTC DarkFi has already chosen LTC & XMR. They’re never abandoning the legacy payment rail in exchange for ZEC. ZEC is going to remain speculative, it’s never going to be used for DarkFi & it will never be used as a mixer.