BTC

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.

No-Anybody2826

Way more than what it is now. In 10 years one USD will have the same purchasing power as 25c today. We will be $70 T in debt, yet the size of BTC pool will be the same, 99% of all coins mined. It will be the most sought after and stable currency in the world.

No-Anybody2826

For more people to believe in BTC, they have to believe less in the status quo, which is mainly US Dollars and Fiat overall. Unfortunately devaluation and inflation isn’t visible from one day to the next, but slowly the trust erodes away

DiamondHandsDarrell

2010 checking in here 🙋 Back then, it was new. Most people didn’t know about it, so mining was easier than you could possibly imagine. Honestly, it was so easy compared to today that it’s hard to even explain without sounding like I’m making it up. The first barrier to entry was literally just knowing Bitcoin existed. That was it. The second was being curious enough to actually learn about it. There weren’t millions of YouTube videos, influencers, ETFs, companies buying Bitcoin, or people talking about it everywhere. A few people were talking about it, and a lot of the reaction was basically, “What is this magic internet money?” That was pretty much my reaction too. I was curious. I wanted to see what it was about. Then came barrier number three: downloading the Bitcoin client. Back then, Bitcoin Core wasn't just something you ran as a node. You could mine directly from it. So I downloaded it, put it on an old laptop, let it run, and almost immediately it found a block. I remember basically thinking, “Okay, cool.” That was it. 😂 There was no giant mining operation. No warehouse full of ASICs. No $10,000 setup. Just an old computer running this weird new internet money experiment. And yes, eventually I sold a lot of it when Bitcoin was somewhere around the $300–$400 range. I was able to do that because before exchanges, my only option was to send someone BTC and they promised to send me a cashier's check. What are the odds of someone actually coming through for that I thought, so I just held all those years. And no, I don't regret it. People always look backward and say, “But imagine what it would be worth today!” Sure. But at the time, that money changed my life. That's the part people forget. I've told bits and pieces of this story on different forums and subreddits over the years, and sometimes I honestly get the feeling people don't believe me. It's also why I'm probably more defensive than most people when conversations come up about exchanges, especially the exchange I've used for years. People will tell me how terrible or dangerous it supposedly is, and I'm sitting there thinking: man, I've been doing this since before most people had any idea what Bitcoin or crypto even was. I've moved more BTC through them than most people will ever be able to own. And they've done right by me. They helped turn what was once basically worthless magic internet money into real things in my life. Cars. Trips. Dodgers season tickets. Trips and experiences for my family. And plenty of other things over the years. So when people wonder why I'm still so into Bitcoin after all this time, that's why. I've literally watched this thing go from something almost nobody understood, that I could mine on an old laptop, into an asset that's had a real impact on my life. I'm 100% in. Without a doubt, I believe this is the future. If I would have held everything to peak BTC, it would have been worth $13,400,000 And the little bit I still had left after all of that has actually become really interesting too. Because I've been watching this market for so long, I've developed my own way of handling it. I mostly hold until things start getting absurdly high, then I start selling little by little on the way up instead of trying to guess the exact top. Then when it comes back down, I start buying little by little on the way down and laddering back in. And somehow, cycle after cycle, I can end up with more Bitcoin than I started that cycle with. I'm not talking about rebuilding the original amount I mined back then. That's long gone. 😂 I'm talking about taking the smaller amount I had left and gradually working with that over time. That's where it gets really interesting. Then there are the taxes. Taxes on all of this are really interesting and really complicated. Keeping track of what you bought, when you bought it, what you sold, your gains, your cost basis, long-term versus short-term gains... it becomes its own project. But, hey, that's the kind of problem you have when you make money. 😂 So when people wonder why I'm still so into Bitcoin after all this time, that's why. I've literally watched this thing go from something almost nobody understood, that I could mine on an old laptop, into an asset that's bought real things, created real experiences, and had a real impact on my life and now, your can even get a BTC backed mortgage! I'm 100% in. Without a doubt, I believe this is the future.

insert_smile

If you send me 1 BTC I'll send you 2 BTC 😉👍

hinkingchoxodle

The 81 yes from smart money is the part that catches my eye. Small sample, sure, but that gap versus the broader market feels worth watching. I still wouldnt treat it as a free edge though. BTC can humble everyone fast, so Im keeping position sizes sane and treating 85k as a probability, not a promise.

superdesi_

Thank god they realized now. I thought they were doing potato in and BTC out till now

tiddererium

No existe refugio seguro en tiempos de guerra. BTC es una apuesta interesante en esas épocas? Si. E su a buena inversión en esas épocas? A veces.

temptinglyx

BTC isn't automatically safer just because it isn't tied to one country, and recent Middle East volatility has shown it can move with broader risk sentiment, while gamdom is a completely different way crypto gets used.

temptinglyx

If it passes, I’d see that as a positive regulatory signal rather than a guaranteed BTC pump, especially with gamdom showing how broad crypto usage has become beyond investing.

Remarkable-Tax6464

You claim LTC and BTC don't compete because Bitcoin is a store of value and Litecoin is a payment network. But BTC entire premise is that **value accrues to scarcity, network effects, and security guarantees, NOT transactional convenience**

Michael-Ryder

50k BTC sounds insane now, but with a 50 BTC block reward that was “only” 1,000 blocks. For someone mining very early with a decent share of the network hash rate, it was possible — but definitely not something every random PC would just accumulate automatically.

MrExCEO

BTC loves inflation and war

FewUnderstanding2214

BTC went down when the war started?

MiaTaude589

Ouch, that sounds like a cloud-mining app, not BTC mining you actually controlled. Save screenshots and transaction IDs, contact support through the official app listing, and don't send any extra “verification” payment. If there was never an on-chain withdrawal to your own wallet, assume the displayed balance may not have been real.

LowerStranger9021

It’s trading like a risk asset these days and not a store of value. If you believe in the long term opportunities of BTC then some downward movement in the short term becomes a sale. I’ll be a buyer if it drops. I’ll be a buyer if it doesn’t.

snatchdaddy69

Downvoted with no reason as to why buying BTC a better move than holding Solana. Nice lol

MaybeACultLeader

It also means that 1 BTC is worth about 15.77 USD. Right, OP?

tta82

Vibe coded app or screenshot - really don’t think it is real what OP posted. How much would he otherwise have had there, 14 BTC? Lol - no, I don’t believe it.

MundiKing

It’s not just the value they showed on the screen or on the transaction record. It’s simple math to determine how much usd worth of BTC you got after a transaction using the spot price from other exchanges to verify it’s real. If you want to keep using coinbase and getting raped on fees, then go for it, but I’m telling you coinbase is the absolute worst. That and Robinhood are the 2 worst exchanges out there to buy BTC on. They are screwing everyone

Interesting_Loss_907

You misunderstood what I was saying. I was not doubting that what they showed on the transaction and the value at the price they stipulated showed you that on your screen. As an example, when I did it about an hour ago, the central spot market price was around 78,450/BTC. When I clicked on **Buy** then the BTC price it showed for the txn was 79,605. That was on Kraken about an hour ago. (see details in my other comment.)

ilovesaintpaul

Honestly, I've never understood how this gal keeps her job. It's not like ARK has that great of a track record. I've listened to her nonsense for nigh a decade. Besides, she as well as I or anyone else doesn't know shit about fuck what's going to happen, especially in this casino. (I'm pro BTC, by the way.)

Saibazz

Right now BTC is around $78K, after recently reaching about $82.2K. Reuters noted that a sustained break above roughly $82.8K could open the way toward $90K

MundiKing

They def did give me $4985. I had nothing in the exchange prior to the transaction, Transfered $5k from my bank acct, and used every penny to buy BTC. And I took the BTC spot price from 2 other exchanges and multiplied by the amount of BTC I bought to make sure the exchange rate was showing correctly. They may have skimmed $1-2 on the bid-ask but it’s virtually nothing at that amount of money and I had $4985 worth of BTC when the transaction was completed. Coinbase is a sham and rips everyone off terribly bro. I’ve been doing this a long time.

Interesting_Loss_907

Just did a very quick test on a Prospective *Buy* only. Did not use Coinbase advanced, and did not use Kraken pro. Just used standard for each. (on Coinbase advanced you generally use limit orders only to buy and sell, and I wanted this to be apples to apples.) Current central spot market BTC price as of this moment: $78,450-ish Entered a small Buy order on each app for $400 worth of BTC. I did not complete the buy on either app, so admittedly we do not know the final, bottom line cost. However, this is interesting: For USD 400.00 3 minutes ago: Kraken 0.004975 BTC ($79,605) Coinbase 0.005047 BTC ($79,241) So Kraken here had a significantly higher bid offer spread as their ask price for BTC was more than $1100 over the central spot market price, while the Coinbase spread was a bit better, and their ask price is only about $750 over the central spot market price. IDK the amount of the transaction fee for either as I did not go confirm the order on either at the moment.

Fun-Analysis-182

Exactly right. Bitcoin's own chain and rules were never touched, the bug was entirely in Liquid, a separate federated sidechain running its own software. The real BTC only moved because Liquid's code got tricked into approving a withdrawal that looked valid to it.

Interesting_Loss_907

IDK. Good to know, & I’ll try Kraken again to test it. To know Kraken’s spread you would have to simultaneously try to sell $5K worth of BTC & see what price they would give you for selling your BTC. I’m certain of one thing: they would not pay you 4.985K for your 5K worth of BTC at the central market spot price. But definitely it’s worth doing a test like that and to try it out both on Coinbase and Kraken simultaneously (without going through with the transactions, you would not have a true test of the bottom line cost, but you could at least gauge the bid offer spread on each exchange at the same moment.) when I did that, they were definitely about the same. Now I do use Coinbase advanced, and it seems to be priced better than using Coinbase standard. But I think you’ll find for each of those exchanges that the bid ask spread on BTC market price right now is around $1K+ apart.

Numerous_Ruin_4947

The collectible argument does not make Bitcoin unique. I treat every crypto asset in my portfolio as a collectible: I hold it because it is scarce and I expect its value to rise. Bitcoin was simply the first crypto to capture enormous mindshare. That explains its current advantage; it does not make that advantage permanent or exclusive. Bitcoin is constantly mentioned by the media, which reinforces its dominance. I want Ethereum and other assets to receive comparable attention. When legislation such as the CLARITY Act concerns the broader crypto industry, Bitcoin should not automatically dominate the conversation. I do not own BTC, so watching everything wait for Bitcoin to rise does nothing for me. Zcash’s use case did not suddenly improve when its price began massively outperforming Bitcoin. What changed was demand, scarcity perception, attention and momentum. That is my point: use case alone does not determine price. And no, using an asset does not necessarily mean selling it - usage can create demand through fees, staking, collateral and other mechanisms. But usage still does not guarantee appreciation. A heavily used asset can stagnate if demand is matched by selling, while a collectible with limited practical utility can soar when buyers outnumber willing sellers. Price ultimately depends on supply and demand, not merely whether someone can list a “use case.”

ProgrammerNo3139

Haha, how much BTC do you have?

Unlisted_User69420

If/when I pass 1.0BTC i’ll probably move some/most to cold storage. Diversify heheh

luddiangflart

I like this perspective because it shows how easy it is to underestimate how long BTC can spend grinding through a cycle. Longer rounding bottoms would make sense as the market matures, but I wouldnt treat the pattern as a clock. Im just stacking sats, keeping dry powder, and letting time do its thing. Hope patience pays off again.

tegaetivewate

I think Bitcoin would survive a major global disruption better than most crypto, but the weak link is still electricity, internet access, and functioning mining infrastructure. Nodes can come back online and reconcile later, so temporary outages arent fatal. In that sense, self custody and geographic decentralization are a pretty solid hedge, even if BTC obviously cant solve the underlying crisis.

ArtichokeOwn6685

Yea when alt and mem coins became mainstream. 99 percent of alts will fall to BTC and good luck finding that 1 percent

molicechinogy3

For me the best strategy is boring: DCA into BTC and ETH, keep a small slice for higher risk stuff, and never invest money I might need soon. I also take profits in chunks instead of trying to nail the exact top. Staying consistent and surviving bad markets has worked way better for me than chasing every new narrative.

ContentBlackberry0

You can just keep like $1k or so on an exchange then send to your wallet. Every year or so consolidate by sending the BTC back to yourself

DiamondHandsDarrell

So now we have all this BTC and you want us to sell and pay taxes on gains when I can just hold AND buy a house???

studiopixie_ldn

As a BTC Maxi, do you stake your Bitcoin anywhere, if so which places are the best?

neverenoughammo

I stopped randomly buying guns. I just buy ammo mostly.22LR for keeping my skill sharp with practicing other than that yeah I keep repricing everything in bitcoin in my head and seeing what else I can save on to buy more BTC.

thrifty-ananas

I don’t buy it on an exchange, I have a service where I do a bank transfer and they send me BTC at my address.

No-Masterpiece2246

2019 take. Every coin EXCEPT BTC is pumping

No-Masterpiece2246

BTC backed mortgage sounds like precisely the type of shit Bitcoin was designed to get away from. This debt pyramid doesn't need to get any bigger.

No-Masterpiece2246

But on the flipside, the global monetary order is being disrupted as we speak. Fiat electronic currencies are in a crisis, and trust in banking is at lows. Central banks print like wildfire and inflation is running away. That's why gold is almost $5k/oz still. Crypto may be overvalued, but every day it gains more users. This increases network effect, which increases the utility of crypto. Mainstream acceptance also creates more trust. Each time governments and the bankers convulse and try to limit crypto adoption, they create more pain for normal people who just want to make money and life comfortably spending what they've earned. Ramping up all of these identity features to banking is making it worse and worse to use. Who wants to do biometrics and have their face scanned every time they buy something? It's idiotic. But this is their vision which is being enacted in China, EU, and USA. Crypto represents and alternative. Bitcoin BTC is probably capped out at $100k since Wall Street is now speculating on it and more or less controlling the price. When they profit they lessen opportunity for other investors and hamper the coin from having more organic growth. That's why other coins like SOL, ETH, XMR and BCH are running.

King-esckay

You are missing nothing I have done this twice now As I said though this time maybe a bit slower And naturally it may not happen at all. I may have to sell some of my holdings The advantage is more in what you buy I buy business assets or pay business expenses those things are tax deductible or come off the bottom line. Right now with the amount of interst I have paid BTC would need to be at 390k for me to use interest only to repay the loan Each month though as I buy more BTC the price it has to reach gets less Loan interest is also tax deductible if it used for investing purposes This morning the hot water for the office stopped working and I borrowed another 6k USD transferred 8k AUD to my bank Which increases the amount that BTC would need to rise for interest only to cover the loan The loan itself has a high interest rate but no repayment schedule which both helps and hinders because interest charged componds but cash flow is easier ro manage without forced payments.

lovechia93

Been holding SPX6900 for a while and I'm still here. Technically a meme coin, sure, but at this point it feels more like a social movement: one dead simple thesis (hold until we flip the stock market) and a community that never gets tired of repeating it. I was convinced long before the bear, and the bear only confirmed it: it held where others folded. You can't buy that with marketing. The onchain metrics back it up too: supply is accumulating faster and with a higher share of diamond hands than BTC and ETH showed at the same age. Could still go to zero like anything here, but the conviction of the base is hard to ignore.

brandon0809

When everyone thinks BTC is going to go down, it goes up, whenever one thinks it’s going up, it’s going down. I’ve learned the inverse investing on BTC is the way forward, it’s almost like the market is being manipulated to shake those people put constantly.

No-Spread-5650

Buying any crypto outside of BTC or Ethereum. Although I made good money on DOGE a while back.

Izautrin

"One mistake, and you've made a mistake." And you made it twice. The first, bc1q0c6rj9..., isn't in my dataset. Not one of the 35,189 addresses in the published CSV. I never listed it, so you called the research flawed over an address I never touched. The second, bc1q34vfdu..., is mine, with exactly two transactions on-chain: 0.26555205 BTC in on 2021-04-30, the same amount out on 2021-05-11. That's the drain, in 2021. The 2026 activity you're tracing sits on the addresses that received those coins afterward, not on this one. You followed the money forward and blamed the wrong hop. You went hunting through my data to call it flawed and got both wrong. That tells me more about the intent than about the data.

MundiKing

Interesting. I’ve always paid close attention to the unannounced fee that’s skimmed on the bid-ask, and it has always been practically nonexistent for me in Kraken. With Coinbase, the bid-ask skimming was always larger than the announced fee for my transactions. I recently bought exactly $5k usd worth of BTC in Kraken. The transaction netted me exactly $4,985 in BTC. The last time I made a purchase that size in coinbase, I netted less than $4900. Maybe it’s bc I’m using Kraken Pro instead of the regular version. Not sure, but the fee difference is substantial.

No-Masterpiece2246

Mostly dumb people fall for ad hominem critique. Douchebags can be factually accurate, and often are. You're likely emotionally indoctrinated into the BTC cult. The truth hurts.

lambdasintheoutfield

BTC be catching people lackin since 2010. People need to load up their bags.

HSuke

I'm not sure what there is to be impressed by. The lessons are super short and basic. There are plenty of free crypto lessons online already that go over topics in more detail. It's just a gateway to advertise for their virtual BTC mining product. You pay $21.99/TH for a 1 TH entry level miner. And the way your purchase these is by buying one of their NFTs that represents a purchase contract. I'm certainly not touching this. https://academy.gomining.com/articles/gomining-vs-cloud-mining

FillaChill

Real adoption isn't paying for coffee with BTC. It's people holding USDT on L2s so their monthly salary doesn't melt by 20% before rent is due

Legrosbelge

BTC =/= crypto

Xennenial

I wouldn't say that it dies from here, but if it dips hard from here before we get back into a bull run I wouldn't be surprised. While I think eventually we get back to new all time highs, the short term price action could easily be negative. I keep my crypto activity simple, I buy the bear markets and sell the bull. If BTC dips hard from here I buy, it it keeps pumping I'll wait patiently until the time is right to sell.

Olivia_878

It looks like the BTC sitting in my cold wallet is starting to get restless.

MakotoBIST

Bro 99% of the people in crypto are here to make money by dumping the ponzi on the next buyer. And BTC is proving to the ignorant why deflation+no rules is terrible and regulations are put there exactly to protect the average investor. Something that finance knows for decades. The tech is good tho in theory.