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The_Real_Opie

It's just dumb anyway. An human that dies with his keys is functionally identical to a robot that never sells. There's no difference. It's dead BTC.

Zarigis

USDT has the advantage of trading 1:1 with USD on Bitrefill. In contrast, if you use BTC then they're going to charge you based on the current BTC/USD market rate, and the rate they give may not be great. Note, however, that Tron fees are comparatively pretty high. If you can get it on an L2 chain like Arbitrum or Polygon then you'll save money (both are supported by Bitrefill).

Hfksnfgitndskfjridnf

What money? They’re spending all their money to buy BTC. Why would they stop doing that? Why are they going to become a lender when they are a huge borrower?

Sinister_Tuna

Please take a look at the weekly BTC/USD chart from either Bitstamp or the CME, whichever you prefer. I’d appreciate it if you could point out specifically where you see a bear market developing, because from my perspective the recent movement could still fit within a broader upward trend. At the moment, there’s no clear indication that the larger bullish structure has been invalidated. It’s understandable to compare the current price action to what we saw in early February 2022. In that period we did get a bounce, but the price eventually continued downward, which effectively started a weekly bear market. My point is simply that our minds tend to look for familiar patterns — especially ones that happened recently — but the market doesn’t necessarily have to follow the same path again. So while there may indeed be bearish behavior on the lower timeframes, the medium- to long-term trend still appears constructive, even if several moving averages have been broken along the way.

tomatalez

Okay let's go back in time a lil bit before I own all BTC, price is going up like crazy because some big whale is buying even if price goes up. Does it go up to infinity or will it drop before I own all the coins.

NinjaChore

Congratulations, you own all of BTC, everyone now uses ETH, your BTC is worth nothing

FJ1989finance

Not immediately. The CFTC approval means Bitcoin can now be treated as eligible collateral inside regulated systems, but that doesn’t automatically mean that every platform offers it to users. Coinbase could allow BTC to be used as margin in the future, but today most platforms still use cash or stables until risk models and internal approvals are updated. So the permission exists, the actual usage will phase in gradually.

amanj41

Guess how much it costs to ship $4B in gold… BTC never was going to make it as a day to day small transaction settlement layer. Great store of value and cheaper and faster to settle physically than large amounts of cash or precious metals

lebastss

130 million is a lot of gold. Is it physical or paper? Did Harvard say they prefer BTC over gold or did the article draw this conclusion. It's incredibly difficult for private institutions to get their hands on physical gold.

terp_studios

Ah, found the idiot thinking they know what “satoshi’s vision” was. Wall Street adopting bitcoin was just as inevitable as people adopting it. You can’t have one and not the other if you want it to actually get anywhere. Nothing about the network has changed; anyone can use it anywhere they have an internet connection, there will only be 21 million BTC, and the only way you can get some is through purchasing at market price, or mining them. All the same as it was back in 2009, just with more security and liquidity.

Confident_Section568

Well I assume they cant just ask their money back But people can sell their MSTR and then how is he gonna deflate it even more? Will his BTC stack make it profitable to buy then Even if you can buy BTC yourself Well BTC has to dump below $75k for that Maybe the 4 year cycle is truely over but never seeimg $50-75k again I aint buying it... maybe im crazy

Confident_Section568

Piramide schemes are always stable untill they are not FTX looked stable untill it wasnt TERRA LUNA looked stable untill it wasnt I know its not the same but you get my point The whole idea of Microstrat is just weird Companies making profit buying BTC is a whole different story

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Arbiter_89

Part of it would be speed. I can drop $1 in a homeless man's cup without breaking my stride, which is way faster than pulling out my phone, aiming at a homeless man's QR code, setting how much I want to send, then clicking approve, then clicking approve again. I'm all for saying BTC is superior to fiat, but even I can admit that in some instances cash has some advantages.

Neat-Finger197

Sure, some OGs sell into strength in bull runs, this is nothing new. If I had 5000 BTC and sold 1000 as “lifestyle chips” who wouldn’t consider doing that? Those coins are then back on the market to be further “democratically” spread throughout the market, which drives further adoption. Your comment is normal investor behavior

sajnt

Yeah, apparently it’s worth about 53 billion and they have approximately 443 million in BTC now

Confident_Section568

So wait he created another stock and that will pay out dividends based on BTC's yield? And where is this money being paid out coming from If he doesnt sell BTC

Aromatic-Contact610

Yes! In that way you can use it - as something that swaps to USD during a transaction for a moment. But like as THE currency - no one would ever spend it. I sure don’t spend my BTC. If I use it for a transaction I immediately replace it with new BTC

VariatCA

I should clarify that Strategy (#MSTR) doesn't pay a dividend on their common stock, but they do pay dividends on their preferred stock STRC. They basically sold and diluted their common stock to raise & secure cash funds to pay out this preferred-stock dividend for STRC through basically all of 2026. I'm not in here trying to argue merits of buying their stock at all, and I own none of their products. The intent of my original post was just that with pressure reducing on them, confidence can return to BTC buyers that Saylor won't flood the market with cheap Bitcoin in a pinch.

the_Guy1996

Best thing about BTC is that you are always right as long as you are willing to wait. BTC to 60k? Sure. BTC to 150k? Also yes

epic_trader

Everything you say about BTC and mining is correct, yet you're completely missing the point. If the hashrate drops, the network is less secure. It becomes cheaper to attack the network, there's more mining hardware sitting idle on the sidelines which potentially could come back online to attack the network. Do you get it? The fact that the difficulty will adjust itself based on the hash rate or that you know the issuance schedule does absolutely nothing to make the network more secure. >In fact the less valuable ETH is the more transactions can be done on it, and the more value the apps that use it are! That's the entire point of Ethereum, that I think everyone is missing. This is nonsense and I don't know why you brought this up anyway (I mean I do know, but it's not relevant here). The cost of using the network isn't relative to the price of ETH, it's based entirely on demand for blockspace.

piggleii

Alts outperforming BTC in the last day tho. Alt season?

ChillGuy383

If you ask this.. you know nothing about BTC :)

VariatCA

And publicizing that you've got no necessity or intention of selling for years because you can cover your dividends with an established cash-reserve is a great way to get the target *off* their back for a while. It's saying "yeah you can try to keep up short pressure, but can you keep it up for *years* while I'm still leveraging my financial products to buy more BTC and simultaneously paying out my dividends without having to sell Bitcoin?"

Confident_Section568

The guy is still a scammer check his history in dot.com bubble And what he lost there and how Okey this is BTC but it still feels/looks like a pirmide scheme Why would you buy this give me 1 good reason

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dj_destroyer

You're worried about price, he's worried about quantity. Who cares what price he bought at -- I'd rather have 660k BTC.

VariatCA

MSTR holders definitely aren't out of the woods yet either, yeah, still down around -60% from July's high. Though compared to Bitcoin their investors also have to deal with dilution / debt / dividends / insolvency concerns. I'd imagine that some of BTC's recent downturn revolved around de-risking from the asset over MSTR concerns of potentially being forced to sell to cover expenses. If one was worried they would start saturating the market with BTC sales, they would sell first prior to that affecting the price. If concerns over them having to sell BTC are silenced, that can allow confidence to return to the market in that regard.

Typical-Split9803

Some of the posters here are the biggest idiots alive and don't even understand the basics of how a capitalist economy runs. Are we socialists now or what happened? Those governments are by law not allowed to hold these assets nor should any government just sit on assets idly. Especially not a criminal department. This a central banks job. And why would a government do that anyway? A government works completely differently to a private household and you can't compare that. Any government spending is money that is injected into the economy. If they start withholding money from the economy and keeping assets, that will be your spending power just sitting there not pushing the economy forward. What do you think will happen to bitcoin and stocks if the government is storing and keeping liquidity withheld? Ever heard of quantitative tightening? Do you actually want the government to do quantitative tightening besides a central bank? One entity removing liquidity is enough. So now, you want two? Here's the deal. In any capitalistic society, it is our job to grow our assets, because we are the one's who pay taxes. The government doesn't pay taxes; they receive them. Their job is to run services and to spend that money which brings it back into the economy where you have access to it. If you have any sense, you would want to have access to as much liquidity as possible. In any capitalist society, a government is not supposed to sit on money. YOU are supposed to sit on money. So why in the hell would any sane person want that a government bunkers BTC? Unless you are a communist or a fascist who thinks that the government should melt with the private sector in some way...

JcTrismegistus

Reddit isn’t a diary, it’s a feed. When the topic changes or escalates, a new post makes sense. If you don’t like seeing the posts, that’s what the scroll wheel is for. And yes money, inflation, and political lies are 100% Bitcoin content. That’s literally the whole point of BTC.

dormango

I wonder which out of BTC or the ECB, will attain irrelevance first?

turbo5vz

If you think about it, after years and countless dev commits, BTC effectively does the same thing and has the same user experience as it did a decade ago.

inkandpaperguy

M2, the end of QT (QE usually starts shortly afterwards), the extended ISM/ business cycle. Also. the 4 year cycle will likely be extended. Look at the massive level of regulation and institutional sentiment change in the USA. The SEC will be dropping rates as of Wednesday December 10th at the FOMC meeting. The Americans want to be the leader in the crypto markets and they intend to run their economy "hot". Countries are adopting BTC and crypto, banks are going to adapt or suffer. The world has changed.

Dull-Assumption-964

Today Bitcoin $90,805.45 per BTC, since 2010 the percentage gain is over 113,500,000%. 

Zigxy

Nobody can know for sure if BTC will continue to break ATH. Multi-year stagnation or even declines will happen eventually.

Lazy_Intentions

I’m using river and strike. Similar set ups for both. I’m leaning toward River because of the 3.5% interest on any idle cash (paid in BTC).

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But you seem to be implying that fiat/USD is a 'usable currency', because it's not subject to this problem of lost opportunity - but that doesn't seem to follow, in a world where it's relatively trivial at any given moment to turn X amount of fiat into the equivalent in BTC 🤔

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ClonedY

**Wait a few more years and you'll get it below 1 BTC.**

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tldr; MicroStrategy has purchased an additional 10,624 Bitcoin for nearly $1 billion, increasing its total holdings to 660,624 BTC. Despite market pressures and Bitcoin's price volatility, the company continues its aggressive Bitcoin acquisition strategy. However, concerns are growing over its reliance on leverage and equity dilution to fund purchases, as recent fundraising efforts have weakened. Analysts warn that this approach may become unsustainable, especially if the company's stock value falls below the net value of its Bitcoin holdings again. *This summary is auto generated by a bot and not meant to replace reading the original article. As always, DYOR.

VariatCA

It's been a mild relief seeing Strategy crawl its way up from the lows last week. Pressure appears to have at least temporarily subsided as they unveiled that their ability to pay their dividends are secured through at least 2026. It's anyone's guess what percentage of Bitcoin's recent turmoil was related to uncertainty in the world's biggest BTC holding company struggling, but hopefully that relief can exert and reflect more confidence in BTC/Crypto moving forward. MSTR even posting a green day like today while stocks/BTC were slightly down has been a very rare sight lately lol.

Pal3-Assignment

3 years is the absolute minimum time before we see 125K BTC again

mrjune2040

Sure, in the worst case the risk a complete loss of funds relative to any liquidation proceedings. Many many centralised lenders have gone under, so it’s not like Kraken would be the first. However the odds of Kraken going under are probably pretty low as they’re moving towards their IPO and reporting standards are going to need to be more transparent once they’re public. That said- I keep zero funds on exchanges. The sole exception was Celsius years ago- but I was lucky on two parts, firstly that it was a very small portion of my total crypto holdings (I intentionally de-risked) and that I actually made money from the bankruptcy because most of my holdings were stables and we were paid out in BTC and ETH which then quickly appreciated. My advice- everything kept on an exchange should be an amount you’re willing to lose in the worst case.

Steezy_Steve1990

You realize that they have enough assets to last 10 years even if BTC was 20k the whole time? You all talk like you know anything but you don’t even know what reserves Strategy has. This is just FUD like how Tether has been supposedly going bankrupt for the past 8 years.

Happy_Discussion_536

Edit: and just to be clear they will have zero problem paying off all debt either through conversion, massive profits or regular dilution as long as BTC doesn't have a 5 year bear market What your missing is that it's no different than AI companies raising debt to fund the chip and CapEx cycle. If the Fed keeps printing MSTR will easily find new debt. And as long as fiat keeps being debased it will work. If you're so confident US will stop going into debt and printing. Short it BTC. See what happens lol.

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lebastss

I never argued that. But the argument made by CZ is that it's easy to fake and scam gold. That's just untrue. That's what my comment is really about. Both gold and BTC are very secure methods of ownership. I prefer the anonymity of gold and that's why it's my preferred asset. I had some BTC early on for the digital gold promise. Did a transaction with someone in my community and then suddenly everyone knew how much wealth I had in BTC. I immediately exited the space because of that. If people knew how much gold I had they'd treat me much different. No thanks. I prefer to blend in with the middle class and for my kids to live a normal life.

flsurf7

It's odd because ETH never really set a new ATH in this last "cycle". Something funny is happening between ETH/BTC, just not sure how significant it will be.

Notoriousrb

Not a ponzi in the traditional sense due to security laws. But definitely ponzi-like with a pyramid structure. He cannot keep buying without new money. Mstr generates zero income. They actually lose money. If BTC does not keep going up indefinitely they are fucked. He's almost already below average cost basis.

Happy_Discussion_536

You'd have to believe halving is totally broken for the bear thesis to be correct. If BTC literally does nothing in 4-5 years sure they'd have to sell. Hence it is a levered bet on BTC. But really dumb regards act like it's a ponzi or definitely going to blow up.

Happy_Discussion_536

If BTC literally does nothing in 4-5 years sure they'd have to sell. Hence it is a levered bet on BTC. But really dumb regards act like it's a ponzi or definitely going to blow up.

Important_Ad7149

BTC survived and thrived before Saylor and will do after him as well. This isn’t your average $100 BTC buys. What’s available BTC on exchanges are very limited compared to total supply so yes he cannot buy just like you and me without raising the price

Notoriousrb

And if it doesn't? They have to dilute which they can't when mnav is less than 1. So forced to sell BTC?

Happy_Discussion_536

I literally said it? Converts have super long duration and they turn into shares only when BTC performs extremely well.

Notoriousrb

Yes. He needs to pump the BTC price so his share price doesn't tank. The only way he can keep doing is to infinitely dilute. Eventually he can't and Saylor is cooked.

TemporaryGap8488

BTC is Halal. To the moon!

outoftownMD

Possibly What’s more likely since I know some of them, is they bought and had a good pretty good sense of when the peaks were ending and then they would buy back at a lower price. They were really good at that especially early on. They were really good at not buying to hope. They were also first access to many ICO that would then pump that they would then sell from that currency back into ETH or BTC. So they didn’t have to touch any of their stacks, and in fact accumulated a lot more.

PapiMak

Go 80/20 on BTC/ETH and just dca for a few years and forget about it, treat it like a savings account.

Fun_Equivalent8716

Don't put money into DOGE and shit like that, it's a meme coin. Put it into BTC instead.

XLinkJoker

Gonna be apprioximately .21 BTC in 2030.

iwakan

Your own chart shows ETH doing pretty well against BTC in the long run. Up more than 10x vs BTC since its inception ten years ago (because your chart is actually wrong, the ratio was 0.0023 this day in 2015, not 0.008). If you want to make extraordinary claims like "alt/btc bleeding being the only guarantee in crypto" you better actually provide some evidence, which whatever you posted certainly falls short of being.

Steezy_Steve1990

It makes 100% sense. These people don’t think on days, weeks, months. They think about years and decades. If BTC keeps appreciating in value longterm then the borrowed fiat that devalues due to money printing will become worth less and BTC will become worth more. Also, you misunderstood what I said. They will give you money using your Bitcoin as collateral.

crypto_enjoyer88

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Steezy_Steve1990

He is creating a Bitcoin bank. Bitcoin isn’t going anywhere and if you zoom out you’ll see that everyone who has held BTC for more than two years is in profit throughout the history of Bitcoin.

Aazimoxx

That makes no sense though, since if you're implying that spending fiat doesn't carry the same 'problem', you're ignoring the possibility of spending that fiat to buy BTC instead 🤷

Kontrav3rsi

The real question, why is someone moving 30k BTC unless to sell it?

bbqyak

Nothing like the morning BTC dump to start your morning with a hot cup of coffee

imfuckinglying2u

ETH is not a shitcoin. ETH is *the* shitcoin. Daily cope here and at r/ethereum are hilarious. If crypto somehow survives, it will be through BTC.

biba8163

Remember ETH Maxis made a site mocking Saylor for buying BTC over ETH and even created a site to expose his foolishness... > MICROSTRATEGY (MSTR) BTC HOLDINGS $ 2.679 billion > IF THEY HAD BOUGHT ETH INSTEAD, THEY WOULD NOW HAVE $ 5.596 billion https://np.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/ylroaa/what_if_microstrategy_had_brought_eth_instead/ ...and they started looking really stupid > MICROSTRATEGY (MSTR) BTC HOLDINGS Invested: $ 30.360 billion, currently worth: $ 45.652 billion (50 %) **(2025)** > IF THEY HAD BOUGHT ETH INSTEAD, THEY WOULD NOW HAVE $ 31.455 billion (4 %) https://web.archive.org/web/20250221180630/https://www.blockchaincenter.net/en/there-is-no-second-best/ So that Website now directs to a site that tracks MSTR buys/holdings lol

Alex-Man

I have almost completed my building with these 2 percent loans. I am not sure yet whether I should repay them or sell BTC.

Femto87

If you are willing to take out that loan, and you can comfortably afford to pay it back, go ahead and buy if you believe in BTC. 10 years can be a period where you can get great returns if BTC keeps growing

Mysterious_Most9667

Congratulations! Keep on buying and hodling! Never sell BTC!

b1mm3rl1f3

Bernstein: "In view of recent market correction, we believe, t**he Bitcoin cycle has broken the 4-year pattern** (cycle peaking every 4 years) and is now in an elongated bull-cycle with more sticky institutional buying offsetting any retail panic selling. Despite a \~30% Bitcoin correction, we have seen less than 5% outflows via ETFs. We are moving our 2026E Bitcoin price target to $150,000, with the cycle potentially peaking in 2027E at $200,000. Our long term 2033E Bitcoin price target remains \~$1,000,000." Bernstein updated BTC price targets while all of reddit is in shambles. A big tittied blonde with me to the islands, thank you

originalgainster

now it's more like 3.5 BTC

Vipu2

Satoshi mentioned gold, gold like properties and to escape inflation so nothing have changed, people just imagined BTC was gonna be some worthless fiat like thing but clearly Satoshi knew its value gonna keep going up if its successful because of its properties.

Singularity118

My mom bought me one around this time. I can’t remember where from or exactly when or if it was even a real one, but it’s crazy to think that is possible she bought me some BTC without knowing it 😂 and I don’t know if it’s still in my stuff or gone forever 😂 but I remember thinking when she gave it to me “man it’d be so cool if there was bitcoin on here somehow”. I still wonder lol

Cartosys

No he didn't. This idea has been BTC maxi cope for a decade at least.

StepWright28

In terms of security, this is a superior form of BTC. Everyone expects "normies" to take private keys seriously but if anyone ever onboarded a friend to crypto they know exactly what I'm talking about

wooshceptiontime

Yeah I’m glad we share the same vision, about BTC, why don’t you mine?

HoopNhammer86

Why not take the loan out, do a DCA of $200 a week (buys 30k over 2 years) and then you use cash portion of the loan to repay it. Once you hit about 2 years and you're cash is all BTC, then you start selling some sats each month for loan servicing. That way you DCA into it, have capital for the loan payments (later on, if btc tanks, you can always sell some sats). Also, look at what your monthly budget would look like if btc went to zero and you were repaying 320/mo for ten years. (unlikely, but it is the worst case scenario. You're trying to buy an appreciating asset with debt in an inflationary economy. Many have become very wealthy with the same strategy (a lot have also gone broke).

Bugpowder

I tipped bartenders with the 1BTC ones... Oooooooof.

Playful_Judge_9942

It could work out but investing with money you don't have is generally a bad idea. Not only are you paying interest on something that is not guaranteed to increase in value you are also more likely to make emotional decisions due to the added pressure of paying back the loan (aka sell at a loss). Instead I would recommend just using the money you would have used to pay the loan to DCA and just buy more BTC gradually.

sajnt

BTC is 0.85% of its endowment

Happy_Discussion_536

Wrong. They are able to issue debt like this because the debt is convertible if the price of BTC goes high.

Happy_Discussion_536

Just because he can't control the price of BTC does not mean he can't successfully predict its direction. If he successfully predicts its direction with very safe leverage, yes he would end up being pretty smart. This isn't margin loans, he's mostly long duration 0% debt.

Happy_Discussion_536

There is no margin to call. The debt is 0% at super long duration. Obviously if BTC dies by then so does MSTR. But if he's right about the direction of BTC he prints.

kobriks

Don't worry once BTC drops to $0.001 I'm buying all of it, so that's as low as it can go.

Regular-Signal228

Question is: would you take a personal loan to buy BTC if BTC is -60/70% from ATH?

biba8163

Innovation is just crypto hype to sell you a bunch of shitcoins that make the founders and VC rich. The Use Cases are that are being adopted are clear: - Store of value = BTC - Payments, transfers, remittances = Stablecoins - Rails for Stablecoins = Ethereum, Tron, Solana, ETH L2s, etc. - Privacy *(Very little wide level public interest but honorable mention here)* There has been little innovation of anything that can provide real world value and adoption outside BTC. - Stablecoins were the result of the Omni Layer created on top of Bitcoin that allowed custom token ownership and transfer in the network which allowed for the creation of ICOs and the launch of Tether on the Bitcoin network. Other networks like Ethereum and Tron now provide the rails for Stablecoins instead of BTC which functions as a decentralized store of value. Smart Contracts have NOT proven to provide any type of real world value except for trading, leveraging, gambling, lending and yield farming shitcoins on DeFi casinos. The market is maturing and consolidating. **The Total Altcoin market is shrinking (-35% over 4 years) not growing over a 4-year period period for the first time in history.** *BTC and Stablecoins are provide the main growth. This is the market maturing and consolidating:* - BTC Marketcap 5.6X since 2017 BTC ATH - Top 4 Alts Marketcap 4.3X since 2017 BTC ATH - Total Alt Marketcap 3.4X since 2017 BTC ATH - Stablecoin Marketcap 320X since 2017 BTC ATH | | Dec. 2017 | Nov. 2021 | Dec. 2025 |:-----------|:------------:|:------------:|:------------:| | BTC | $0.32T | $1.23T | $1.80T | Top 4 Alts | $0.163T | $0.8123T | $0.70T | Total Alt | $0.282T | $1.52T | $0.97T | Stablecoin | $0.001T | $0.11T | $0.32T | Total Crypto| $0.603T | $2.86T | $3.09T | **Top 4 Alt Dom. over Alts**| **57.80%** | **53.44%** | **72.16%** | **BTC Dom. Over Top 4** | **66.25%** | **60.23%** | **72.00%** | **BTC Total Alt Dominance** | **53.16%** | **44.73%** | **64.98%** **Any dominance indicated is measured excluding stablecoins*

Happy_Discussion_536

You're using circular reasoning. "I am right it has no value therefore I am right." The entire argument hinges on whether BTC is going to be legit long term. Obviously if you think BTC isn't going to be around then MSTR is a terrible investment. But if you think BTC will appreciate it's business model is sound.

sinovesting

I mean, BTC has dropped over 50% and came back from the dead several times in its history already.

Happy_Discussion_536

It's a little more complicated than that. They issue debt at 0% which only converts when the price of MSTR goes extremely high. This in turn allows them to keep buying BTC and making money on it. As long as Fed keeps printing (QE3 is almost guaranteed to start soon) and credit markets remain extremely liquid, this strategy will work.

Scottex99

Where’s your BTC pal

KeleneJohnson14

Can't rely on $BTC only. Need to play it safe & also look at other good coins. I am also checking out memes on #GalaPump and so far $BENE $FEARZ & $GONA has got my attention.

wooshceptiontime

BTC is truly a legend, and DCA is such a solid strategy. I’m also trying to stack as much BTC as I can, I’m mining, and I’m earning a nice return on the portion I’ve invested. I’ve set up my portfolio so that I earn in both bearish and bullish markets, which really helps keep things steady. What’s your strategy?

DangerHighVoltage111

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gold#Monetary_use >Hard money stayed in vaults and its paper substitutes became the real currency in circulation. And with Bitcoin this can finally change, yet the first round goes to the custodians who managed to cripple Bitcoin to make this impossible on BTC. This is why Bitcoiners forked bitcoin to be able to scale it.

Aerocryptic

BTC is building a weird looking range. That's the best we can get to see a relief rally in the coming weeks. Not a fan of the bear flag shape tho

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How? They are borrowing money to buy BTC. You think they’re gonna start doing the opposite? Lend people money to buy BTC? That makes 0 sense.

TheDadThatGrills

Fees are less, transactions are faster, platforms are more adopted by traditional finance. State pension systems are choosing to hold BTC on their balance sheets and you can't see how this is progressing from 2015? This is such an obvious statement to me I feel stupid having to explain it to you.