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Beware of Monero bots/dark web groups shilling and downvoting Zcash! They did this 9 years ago against BTC too to sucker folks
Will SL be hit during high market moments?
anyone else noticing weird order book depth on perp venues during recent volatility?
I own a tiny bit of BTC, but somehow my confidence is enormous 😂 Please don’t ask me how much I own.
People Tune Out When You Talk BTC. They Lean in When You Talk About Why Their Money Keeps Losing Value
Bitcoin GPU mining: our measured performance gains and how Hybrid Solo rewards work
Is Crypto Still a Safe Haven for Investors in 2026?
Bitcoin perp experiment starts soon with 3x leverage
BTC stuck under $82K resistance again, Fed hike odds above 60%, oil spike on Iran, this is not a "sell into strength" market
Dollar Devaluation - Bitcoin as the Gold of 1933 Roosevelt Play
Is home Bitcoin mining really over, or is its purpose changing?
Drew some lines, decided BTC dies from here. Either I'm a genius or I'm funding a long's Lambo.
For people in high-inflation countries: do you actually spend crypto, or convert to a stablecoin and just hold?
I think the coins that refuse to move are more useful than the ones pumping
RWA perps just passed $2T this quarter and I barely see anyone talking about i
🚨 BTC SCAM ALERT Never send Bitcoin to someone promising to “double” your BTC. If they guarantee profit, assume it’s a scam. #Bitcoin #BTC #ScamAlert
What needs to happen for ETH to break 4K in the next few months?
Strive buys 1,375 Bitcoin, increasing holdings to 24,532 BTC
Where is all the Kaspa community today as the price dips
Every rounding bottom BTC's ever had took longer to build than the move that followed it took to play out
I feel like I’m missing something really obvious about Bitcoin
I feel like I’m missing something really obvious about Bitcoin
Introducing BTC PoW Lab Pool: Hybrid Solo rewards and an interactive mining dashboard
Introducing Find Mining Pools: compare Bitcoin pool terms with their sources
YTD Performance Split: BTC (-12.5%) vs S&P 500 (+11.5%) with +$227M ETF Inflows. What’s your take on current risk levels?
YTD Performance Split: BTC (-12.5%) vs S&P 500 (+11.5%) with +$227M ETF Inflows. What’s your take on current risk levels?
Is AI actually a Bitcoin risk, or are people mixing up different threats?
7 miner wallets from the Satoshi-era moved BTC after 16.5 years
ADA & BTC - tech value vs. perceived value.
Do you use a specific alert system to time the Bitcoin/Altcoin rotation?
Bitcoin sentiment right now: FOMO is running 10 points ahead of FUD (25% vs 15%) in the last 6 hours, but nobody seems fully convinced either way
Native BTC payments vs gift car middlemen, Are we adding unnecessary friction?
Liquid Network hit by ~$320 million Bitcoin exploit
Bitcoin near $79.5K, three straight weeks of ETF inflows, and a Fed week that could decide which way this breaks
Whats happened to Bitcoin every time after Gold pumps again...?
Is this Crypto portfolio too aggressive for a 20-year-old?
Which kind of exchange do you mainly use?
STANDARD OPERATING PROCEDURE (SOP) FOR BTC OR ANY OTHER CRYPTO TO EURC, USDT, USDC, SWAP *Via Bank CryptoHost Platform*
[SERIOUS] I reconstructed the Coldcard RNG losses on-chain and it came out bigger than the public numbers (2,052 seeds, 35,189 drained addresses)
Correction / Update: I was mistaken, this was my mistake, not NeoxEX's
Liquid Network appears to have been stalled for 5 hours and had 4,000 BTC moved without authorization.
If you had 20k to throw into the crypto space what are you buying?
[DISATL crypto folks — would you buy groceries/fast food and electronics with crypto if local shops took it?
I reconstructed the Coldcard RNG losses on-chain and it came out a lot bigger than the public numbers (2,052 seeds, 35,189 drained addresses)
bitcoin price down but ETFs pulling in nearly $1B this week?? make it make sense
Mando btc a ≈86500 y luego continuar bear market
Bitcoin Developers Are Preparing for the Next Fork War Before It Starts.
Privacy coins are rotating as a sector, not just Zcash
"History doesn’t repeat itself, but it does rhyme" side by side.
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When my friend asked me if I was going to sell my BTC today to cut my losses.
US Govt to depeg all inc BTC once everything is on chain
Seeking blockchain tracing help — 3 BTC taken from Casascius coins on September 3, 2026
Everyone’s talking about the ZEC short squeeze—but the position that’s still open is what I can’t stop thinking about
ZEC and ARB are pumping, but honestly this doesn't feel like a real altseason yet
BTC traders are staring at charts while a pretty nasty macro cluster is forming.
I backtested buying BTC at 30%, 40% and 50% drawdowns vs weekly DCA
We still aren't out if the woods for BTC
2013 Bitcoin suggestion by Davinci Jeremie
[SERIOUS 2] Results of reproducing the MK3 weak-RNG search: 1157 weak wallet roots reconstructed and evidence the hack extended to ETH.
Just Over 50 BTC Rescued During the ColdCard Entropy Crisis
Any real experience using crypto exchange aggregators for BTC swaps?
El Salvador told the world it bought 1,090 BTC. The IMF now says no public funds have gone into bitcoin since June 2025.
$1T Fidelity International says Bitcoin could "just soar" as macro risks escalate. Calls BTC an "insurance policy."
Do you only hold blue chip coins (btc, eth) or also mess with DeFi stuff (alts/memecoins/LP/yield farming)?
Do you only hold blue chip coins (btc, eth) or also mess with DeFi stuff (alts/memecoins/LP/yield farming)?
Can BTC price crash if sanctions are removed from Russia, Iran, NK?
BTC, no I need more time. Hope it dumps
Bitcoin to 80K next? This is someone who has really helped me learn crypto
I mapped the main no-KYC Bitcoin options available to Europeans in 2026
Does anyone have any meme/videos of Saving Private Ryan BTC memes?
Rejected 3 times, then the impulsive BOS broke through and it became the floor. Wyckoff named this over a hundred years ago.
What software or plateform has a good Depth of market for trading BTC perpetuals ?
BTC crosses $80K - Me losing all ability to behave normally
BTC crosses $80K Me losing all ability to behave normally
BTC at $80K officially killed Bitcoin Beach.
Clarity Act = Buy the Rumor, Sell the News?
Mentions
You can sell some to me, I need some BTC rn
BTC and ETH. AXGT for a utilty token, and HOLD for meme token. If you want, ask and I'll give you contract addresses for AXGT and HOLD.
With 100 BTC surely you can afford a keyboard with a working period key.
I heard the US government lost a ton of BTC because Elon fired a few guys who held the security keys.
Maybe so but they got a money printer. BTC is finite.
It's kinda like saying I see food at the store, I eat food from store, I cook food, I don't know cows that get slaughtered, I don't know about viruses that spread due to no inspections, I don't follow politics and know of orange mango that removed said inspections. WAIT WHY DID I GET SICK FROM EATING THAT STEAK. So yeah fiat, gold, stock, goods, real-estate - they all have value, it's good to be 99% in BTC, makes you feel safe, you don't have to worry about the market - you can just DCA and you will get rich and sleep soundly. OR you can take on a bit of risk and get EVEN MORE RICH at the price of sleeping less soundly.
Are you sure you are not an AI bot ? If you think that in 2029 when BTC hits $200k you can't sell your BTC temporarily and then put some shorts - you CAN choose 1x leverage - which means basically your full stack, so you would only lose money if the price goes to $400k. But in the other case where BTC might retrace back to $125k, you can make $75k per each BTC you are short, if you are short even 1 BTC, that's an extra $75k you made from it going down, now you can buy like 0.5 BTC more and have 1.5BTC, previously you had only 1. Now if you are SUPER sure that the usual BTC cycle will happen, you can do 1.5x or 2x leverage, then you can potentially make even more money, but if BTC goes to $300k you are gonna be at a loss. If you use 6x leverage, you are playing with 6btc, you can be wiped out by even small 10% movements up - so just be ULTRA sure if you want to do stupid stuff like that - I don't recommend, this is more akin to gambling than investing. And just to be clear my fiat holdings are negligible compared to my stock/crypto portfolio - lol.
"Having 100 BTC won't change who you are." That is a hypothesis. But I am willing to test it. For science.
I wish there was an app that accepted crypto for QR code payments in Asia I know know TrueWallet has BTC giftcards but really only works in Thailand
Having 100 BTC won't change who you are. Things won't magically happen. Work on you. If you don't like your life, work out what needs to change. Don't wait on 100 BTC. Get professional help if needed. Good luck.
so in other words you stole BTC and now asking reddit how to escape from your crimes lol?
Love the commitment to the bit. That vault screams "I've got 0.0003 BTC in cold storage and I'll guard it with my life"
This happened a while ago. They stole a bunch of BTC and were like "Oh my God" the whole time. Didn't impress me at all. Bunch of thieves.
Why aren't we seeing new addresses with newly transfered BTC in the millions.
Then government auctions off said BTC..... Ultimately profiting from stolen goods.... Then people in government steal the stolen profit.... All "legally" of course.
>They found an exploit and wants to be compensated. They definitely have the leverage with 46 million dollars worth of BTC siting there. How about a ~~dognapper~~ dognapping consultant? they discovered your good boy is vulnerable and wants to be compensated. They defintiely have the leverage with your dog currently in his basement
Government lets young foolish hacker steal BTC. Government confiscates BTC.
They used very simple social engineering techniques. The victim somehow had 4,100 BTC with zero clue how to secure it.
Imagine selling that much BTC for a fuckin watch
Outside of BTC, the main alts are ETH, XRP, Sol, ADA and Link. You probably could add Tron there as well. The whole point is that if you are still holding ADA right now it makes absolutely no sense to be selling near the lows here lol, which is exactly what retail did back in June after the yoroi wallet hack.
The only thing that I don't like about ADA is that "A LOT" of the activity is actually "off chain" at least 50+% of it via their partners and bridges, which is why I always keep seeing comments like "oh Cardano is dead, no activity..." but in reality it's quite the opposite. I mined ETH when it was $3, also mined BTC when it was sub $60 so I've been around for a while and know ADA is holding a great set of cards. As the old saying goes "Good things take time".
Look at the price of BTC 5 years ago
It’s been a weird day. My Coinbase debit card is also declined at the grocery store and target. I called Coinbase so that I could use the debit card which is USDC and they say that the whole account is locked up until the 72 hour verification related to the BTC transfer is complete. Once again, the BTC transfer was $100 transfer from Coinbase to a hardware wallet that is in my possession. I don’t see why that should affect my debit card at all.
How can I make myself more vulnerable to a 5 dollar wrench attack? I know, I’ll wear BTC branded trainers everywhere
Is BTC back over 120k and no one told me Otherwise 0.01 ain’t buying you the new 18 pro
I can get the iPhone 18 Pro for 0.01 BTC? Damn, that seems like a no brainer
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?
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.
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.
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?
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
This is self custody. I am literally attempting to remove BTC from the exchange to a hardware wallet and being blocked by Coinbase.
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.
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! 💎 💎 💎
I mean you can’t hodl if you pay with your BTC so kind of make sense from his POV
Honest to god how you guys can be positive about BTC when Luke/Mechanic/Krazy Kratter Blake coin is sucking up all the liquidity!!!! 😂😂😂
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?
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
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.
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.
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.
You almost had me? You never had me - you never had your BTC..
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
The inflation the BTC bro won't tell you about.... \+78,180.25 (17,220.70%)all time
The corporate wrapper adding leverage risk is the whole point ppl miss about MSTR. Direct BTC ownership doesnt have preferred dividend obligations
> They definitely have the leverage with 46 million dollars worth of BTC siting there. Yes, using that leverage is commonly referred to as extortion.
No convincing me that BTC wasn’t developed by CIA
5k? 🤣 This BTC maxi wishing misfortune upon on me. Wow. That's not nice 😉
Exactly Iran is using BTC how it’s was developed to be used.
If I ever do stupid things like a random app that gives BTC for playing a shitty game, I certainly generate a new wallet.
So mad. I'm just replying to your BTC maxi bullshit. Just recommend BTC to the guy, dawg 💀
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 😌
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.
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.. 🤣
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).
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.
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!
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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 😉
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
Once again, I already agreed on the banks/fiat. But this is BTC. Not fiat. Banks do not apply for this article. at all.
Just send all the BTC back to yourself like once a month or so to consolidate them. Do this when fees are low
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.
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
When BTC is on $ALE throw what ever extra you can at it
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.
💯 Exactly. BTC is a viable long-term savings account. It's not going anywhere.
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.
50BTC block reward was up untip four years after launch in 2009.
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…
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.
I hold BTC too. Guess you've never heard the saying "diversify your portfolio and you have options" 😉