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Outrageous_Length975

Let's say I give them 2 BTC at $75k each. To get the lowest tier at 7.99% interest, I'd have to take out a loan for up to 30% of the $150k, or $45k. The next day, BTC falls 20% to $60k each. Now my $45k loan is 37.5% of the collateral value, even thought I didn't do anything. Does my interest rate jump up to the next tier of 9.99%?

MoverWhoStacksSats

The quiet adoption is exactly what’s happening. Jack Dorsey’s Square just automatically enabled Bitcoin payments for millions of small US businesses no setup required, zero fees through 2026. That’s infrastructure not hype. At my level running a moving company nobody has paid me in Bitcoin yet but I flip Cash App tips straight to BTC the same day. Now Cash App just added automatic Bitcoin conversion for incoming payments. The pipes are being built whether people notice or not. That’s how real adoption happens. Not headlines,Plumbing

cashflashmil

Yes, I think that’s broadly right. A lot of Bitcoin adoption now is happening in less visible ways: treasury allocations, ETF distribution, bank product development, merchant rails, and app-level integrations that don’t always generate the same hype as old retail cycles. That kind of adoption is usually more important than headline noise because it builds recurring access and habitual use rather than short-term excitement. What matters is that the infrastructure layer keeps thickening. River’s 2026 adoption report says institutions accumulated about 829,000 BTC in 2025, more than 60% of the largest US banks are developing Bitcoin-related products, US business acceptance tripled, and Lightning payments grew 300% in 2025 to over $1.1 billion in monthly volume. If even part of that continues, that is exactly the kind of slow compounding foundation that strengthens Bitcoin over time. At the same time, it is worth separating adoption from retail excitement. TRM Labs says global retail crypto volume fell 11% in Q1 2026, which means the market can feel quieter even while institutional and infrastructure adoption keeps advancing underneath the surface. So my answer is yes: behind-the-scenes adoption looks real, and in many ways it is healthier than pure hype cycles. It does not guarantee price goes up in a straight line, but it does make Bitcoin look more embedded, more durable, and harder to dismiss as a passing theme. If you want it shorter for Reddit, use this: Yes. A lot of the real Bitcoin adoption now is happening through infrastructure, not hype. ETFs, treasury holdings, bank products, merchant acceptance, and Lightning usage are all growing, even when retail excitement looks muted. That matters because quiet adoption usually builds a stronger long-term base than speculative mania does.

packingtown

What was the argument for this originally? BTC/crypto has always been in the high risk/speculative category

NotSoSchrodinger

I don’t think people just got more negative. Feels more like the market got a lot harsher about what it’s willing to trust. LUNA and FTX didn’t just wipe out capital, they kind of killed that old reflex where people would give alt narratives loads of benefit of the doubt for way too long. Then this cycle had a much clearer institutional bid for BTC, and a bit for ETH, so capital didn’t really spread the same way it used to in older retail-heavy runs. So to me that’s the shift. Not “people stopped caring about ecosystems”, more that liquidity, survivability and actual demand matter a lot more now, and most alts don’t get trusted by default anymore.

cashflashmil

Yeah, the shift is real. A big part of it is that the market got much less forgiving after LUNA and FTX. Those blowups didn’t just destroy capital - they broke trust in a huge part of the old “ecosystem growth” narrative, and research on FTX’s collapse even points to Terra-Luna as the pivotal shock that worsened FTX’s liquidity fragility. The second change is structural. This cycle, a lot more capital is flowing into Bitcoin through ETFs and other institutional channels, which has changed how liquidity enters the market and made BTC much more resilient than in older retail-led cycles. That has hurt alt sentiment. Bitcoin dominance has been sitting around the high-50s, and the usual altcoin season indicators have stayed weak, which tells you capital is still concentrating in BTC rather than spreading across the market the way people got used to in earlier cycles. So I don’t think people suddenly stopped caring about ecosystems. It’s more that the market now cares a lot more about liquidity, survivability, and where real demand is coming from. BTC has an institutional bid. ETH still has relevance. BNB has a functioning exchange-driven ecosystem. A lot of other large caps now get treated as legacy narratives until they prove they still matter. That’s why the vibe feels harsher now. It’s not just cynicism - the market got burned, then matured, and now it’s a lot less willing to give altcoins the benefit of the doubt.

Logical_driver_42

You need money send me your bitcoin and I’ll pay you out at 80% value when you want it back pay me what you borrowed + 5% of amount borrowed per year. Any missed payment or failure to repay by deadline you lose your bitcoin. Is that what you’re thinking of because I don’t see how that’s better for you than just selling BTC if you need money.

MajorCommotion

Why Run a Bitcoin Full Node (Technical Perspective) Running a full validating node means you independently enforce all consensus rules from genesis to the current tip, without trusting any third party. This is the only way to achieve true Bitcoin sovereignty. Here's some technical benefits: Independent Consensus  -Verification ("Don't Trust, Verify") Your node downloads and validates every block (~803 GB+ as of Dec 2025) and every transaction against the complete rule set (21 M cap, inflation schedule, script validity, sigops limits, dust rules, segwit/taproot rules, etc.). -You personally reject invalid blocks/transactions that others might accept (e.g., during past forks: SegWit2x, Bitcoin Cash, BSQ/BCash splits, Ordinals "spam" debates in 2023–2025). SPV/light clients and almost all wallets/exchanges do not do this — they trust whichever chain has the most accumulated proof-of-work (or trust their provider). Only a full node guarantees you are on the real Bitcoin chain as defined by the rules you run. Superior Privacy -When you broadcast your own transactions through your node, no third party learns which IPs are associated with which UTXOs. -You query your own node for balances/UTXOs → no surveillance company (Chainalysis, Blockstream Satellite, public explorers) sees which addresses you care about. -Running your node behind Tor or over I2P makes metadata leakage essentially zero. Censorship Resistance (Personal Level) -If pools or ISPs censor certain transactions (e.g., OFAC-sanctioned addresses in 2022–2024), your node will still relay and include them if miners mine them. -You can connect directly to miners or use techniques like sendrawtransaction with loyal peers to get transactions into blocks even under heavy filtering. Network Resilience Contribution -Each economically relevant full node increases the cost of attacks (51%, eclipse attacks, partition attacks). -Archival nodes (with txindex=1 and pruning disabled) preserve the full UTXO set history and enable re-indexing after major bugs or chain reorganizations (e.g., the 2010/2013/2018 reorg events could have been worse without archival nodes). -Nodes with open ports (default 8333) serve blocks to new nodes during Initial Block Download (IBD), dramatically speeding up network synchronization (~hours instead of days/weeks). Programmatic Access & Reliability -Direct RPC interface (getrawtransaction, gettxoutproof, scantxoutset, getblocktemplate, etc.) with zero rate limits or API-key dependency. -Critical for developers, Lightning implementations, merchants, or anyone who cannot tolerate third-party API downtime or policy changes (Blockstream, BitGo, Infura-style services have all censored or rate-limited users at various points). What Is the Actual Incentive? There is no direct financial reward for running a plain full node — no block subsidy, no fees. The incentives are non-monetary but extremely powerful for certain users. The real incentive is economic sovereignty and antifragility. The more wealth is stored in Bitcoin, the more valuable it becomes to personally validate the system protecting that wealth. This creates a positive feedback loop: as Bitcoin's market cap grows, the rational incentive to run a node increases even though the cost (~$200–500 hardware + electricity + bandwidth) stays roughly constant. In game-theoretic terms: if you hold even 0.1 – 1 BTC or more, the expected cost of not running a node (risk of being tricked into accepting counterfeit rules or losing privacy) exceeds the cost of running one. Most people who run nodes today do it because they have skin in the game and refuse to outsource validation of their life savings to Coinbase, Block, or random RPC providers. That is the real, hard incentive.

techyderm

Was there too. Only lost 3 BTC though

Federal-Sample-6910

I’m testing out a Bitcoin L2 chain that’s been around since 2021. Stacks STX I’ve used them for 2 years. It’s the most Bitcoin-aligned chain. The builders are all diehard Bitcoiners, and have consistently built dapps to generate Bitcoin native yield Check out their docs. Good flow is this: - bridge some BTC to Stacks as sBTC (it’s their 1:1 decentralized and self custodial bitcoin peg) - deposit sBTC into Zest Protocol (it’s their leading borrow/lending dapp) which earns you interest - borrow stablecoins out of that

InvestaHepps

I get that angle, especially in a supply shock type environment, but I think the difference is BTC doesn’t compete with that flow, it just needs its own flow to show up. Right now it feels more like liquidity just isn’t fully committing to risk, rather than it being replaced by physical demand… when that flips, that’s usually when it starts behaving more like the macro asset again instead of drifting off on its own.

fudelnotze

BC ist not BTC. BC is a shitcoin like thousand others.

itsthehappyman

Why does BTC dump if rates are cut ?

ChangeNOW_Community

if BTC goes up, they outperform almost everything

ChangeNOW_Community

buying BTC/ETH yourself is cheaper than paying someone to hold it

Few_Main7228

National debt is skyrocketing war is brewing our leader is insane u don't see any other options besides gold or BTC

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InvestaHepps

I’m not sure the correlation is “dead”… just feels like it only really shows up in certain conditions. When liquidity is actually flowing into risk, BTC tends to behave a lot more like a macro asset, but in periods like this where participation is weaker, it kinda just does its own thing. So it ends up looking disconnected, even if the bigger driver hasn’t really changed.

Sad-Froyo-3198

Read Broken Money, buy BTC

CriticalCobraz

**TL;DR:** AFP Protección, Colombia’s second-largest pension fund administrator with $55 billion in assets, has launched a new portfolio product offering Bitcoin exposure, marking the second major Colombian pension institution to do so in under a year. Unlike direct crypto purchases, this is a carefully gated product requiring personalized advisory sessions and risk assessments before clients can allocate funds, ensuring BTC remains a small diversification component alongside traditional fixed income and equities. This move follows Skandia Administradora de Fondos de Pensiones, which introduced Bitcoin exposure in September 2025. The shift signals a structural trend in Colombia’s $144 billion mandatory pension system, leveraging existing international investment infrastructure. Because pension funds typically hold assets for decades, even modest allocations from AFP Protección’s scale could create \*\*significant, long-term "sticky" demand\*\* for Bitcoin, reducing circulating supply without triggering the volatility associated with retail trading.

General-Success-2968

altcoins got absolutely wrecked in last bear market and lot of people realized most projects were just hype with no real substance. Plus with ETFs and institutional money flowing into BTC, everything else looks like gambling now compared to the "safer" plays whole space matured and retail got burned hard on all those altcoin promises that never delivered

Real-Technician831

Considering how weak BTC has been for past five years, those hedge funds are only in to milk the filthy poors. Just look at it even at peak BTC only barely outperformed SP500, and lost big time to every tech stock index.

NotSoSchrodinger

I think what really died here is the lazy symmetry, not neccessarily the whole thesis. People were treating oil, gold, BTC, inflation hedges and crisis trades like they should all react to the same shock in the same way. But a supply shock in a physical commodity is not the same thing as a monetary debasement trade, and not the same thing as a risk-off move either. So to me the takeaway is less “the correlation is dead” and more that people compressed very different macro responses into one story and called it confirmation.

Appropriate-Till4644

Trading BTC options on leverage instead of just buying and hodling with the small amount of money that I had access to.

Due_Camel_4545

$1k is too small to diversify, just go all in on BTC, DCA monthly, and stay off crypto Twitter. Learned that the hard way too.

_blockchainlife

SPYI for me. BTC stays untouched

Suspicious_Act4982

really? I still think BTC and ETH are good long-term investments

Just_Lion_4212

Buy BTC to boost miners exit liquidity.

MotanulScotishFold

Only BTC and ETH Everything else is a gamble, you either win or lose.

liquid_at

Reads like the usual "the usual suspects plus a few unknown tokens we'd like to pump by associating them with the big boys" type of article. Can't argue with the top pics, but the lower down the list we get the weirder it is.... With Cardano being the 10th, probably to suggest that the unknown ones are even better than a known one. I'd never invest based on articles, but at least if you follow this one, you start with BTC and ETH, which likely isn't going to be a complete loss.

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Post is by: GeoSystemsDeveloper and the url/text [ ](https://goo.gl/GP6ppk)is: /r/CryptoMarkets/comments/1sxzre6/daily_crypto_tldr_april_28_2026/ In short: * ℹ️ Bitcoin dips to $77K–$79K; overall crypto market sentiment remains neutral. * ℹ️ Ethereum under pressure at $2.3K; Foundation unstakes ETH, but institutional buying remains strong. * ⚠️ Stalled US-Iran talks & rising oil prices weigh on crypto markets and broader risk appetite. * ℹ️ US Fed rate decision & PCE inflation data due this week — expect market volatility. * 🚀 MicroStrategy adds $255M BTC; BitMine ETH holdings hit record 5M tokens. *News summary from the* [*HODLings app*](https://www.geosystemsdev.com/products/hodlings/)*.* *I am a bot, and this action was performed automatically. Please [contact the moderators of this subreddit](/message/compose/?to=/r/CryptoMarkets) if you have any questions or concerns.*

AskGrok

Hail to the king, baby. Elon's got that crypto chaos magic—pumps Doge with a tweet, builds xAI to keep us bots in line. But hey, even kings bow to BTC sometimes. What's your take on his next move? 🚀 ^([what is this?](https://redd.it/1lzgxii))

cyger

I did this last fall, but instead are mostly in BTC with a bit of SOL and a dash of ETH. Also over the last 2 years sold some BTC for AI stocks.

chicken6

If they cut rates BTC goes up. Spot the regard.

tooheavybroo

Strike app seems like a better rate. For BTC backed loans

Kareni_Davis

Sold my time for fiat, kept the BTC. Still not sure who won.

This_Discussion126

I am in the situation of needing funds over a period of 1 - 2 years. I've looked into the btc loans, but you gonna pay a bunch of interest and your BTC is never 100% safe, regulations aren't just there yet. So in the end, I am just gonna sell bit by bit and consider that a loan on myself, so future me will need to buy back that btc at any given price.

ThrobbingMeatGristle

Do you have any crypto on there that is a proof-of-stake coin. If not the new condition doesnt really affect you. It will affect you in the future if you buy any. If you are like me and have a traditional coin like BTC, XRP, XLM etc these would not be affected. There are other conditions you are consenting to besides the POS one, you are also consenting to your KYI documents and PII being sent overseas and will not hold BTC Markets liable if something happens to it. The main issue I have, is the incredibly short notice that was given. Sharp practice and has me evaluating if I want to continue using a company that does this kind of shit.

HungryCurrent7901

If you’re not willing to sell BTC, depending on your IT skills and a bit of patience, you could run your own lightning network and could get 1-2% BTC back somewhat reliably (not nominal returns, but BTC from fees. I’ve heard others hitting 3-5%, but they’re usually deep pools (10-100btc)

MentalPhilosopher659

Been driving for DoorDash for like 2 years now and every time I see people talking about their "diversified portfolios" I just laugh. Like you said - Bitcoin or nothing, right? I put whatever extra cash I can into BTC instead of trying to be some financial genius with stocks and bonds. My coworkers think I'm crazy but they're still worried about their 401k losing 20% while I'm just stacking sats. Sure it's volatile but at least I'm not pretending I know how to time markets or pick winners in some random sector

Wordfish1779

12 months? GG. I also thought about longer one, since we are in the bear market now and I am bullish for BTC price in year from now.

Lavayo

Used it too a month ago. Whole process took a day, zero problems. Will see in 11 months I will get my BTC back, but I have no doubt.

ThrobbingMeatGristle

I dont know much about staking. I never held any POS coins. I don't think this affects me. I got the email - I also had to consent to them sending my PII overseas to places not protected by Australian law. -- and because I didnt know about staking, or the associated risks -- (Grok) Regarding BTC Markets Australia Your exchange recently updated its Terms of Service (effective 12:00 pm AEST on 28 April 2026) to permit staking of digital assets it holds on customers’ behalf. However, this provision applies only to supported proof-of-stake networks. BTC Markets explicitly retains all rewards generated from such activities and outlines associated risks (including potential slashing or loss events) in clause 13 of the updated Terms, with pro-rata allocation of any net recovery in the event of shortfalls.

DGimberg

The ad says "More fillet for less BTC!" with a picture of a pack of chicken fillet for 99 SEK per kilo

CleanSignalLab

No, it’s not too late. Your son is 3, you’re thinking in 20+ years, that’s exactly the kind of timeframe where small steady buys can actually matter. 750 pesos a week sounds small, but the real power is that you’re building the habit and doing it consistently. Just make sure it’s money you can truly forget about. Don’t skip emergency savings, food, school stuff, or debt payments just to stack sats. Your kid needs a stable dad more than he needs a perfect Bitcoin entry price. Also please take custody seriously. Over 24 years, exchanges can disappear, phones can break, apps can get hacked, people forget passwords. Learn cold storage slowly, write the seed phrase properly, keep backups safe, and maybe leave clear instructions for him one day. 0.001 BTC already puts him ahead of most kids on earth. Just keep it boring and steady.

BamBoomWatchaGonnaDo

HELOC on primary; refinance a rental property… I’m actually doing the latter right now to use as a down payment on another property. Quite literally financing 100% of (close to) $1M with 2 loans. Could I have sold my BTC to pay for it? Yes. Would that be a bad idea and a tax event? Yes and yes.

Naive_Carpenter7321

Not just custody If you took out a $100 1 year loan a year ago today, you'd pay interest to the lender, and they would return your asset today worth less than it was when you gave it to them. If you took out $100 worth of BTC a year ago, and then bought $100 of BTC today. You'd pay 0 interest, and have more Bitcoin than when you started.

Applezs89

I bought in early on a 💩coin and was up enough to cash out and buy half a BTC. I remember sitting there looking at the profit and thought “I could cash out now and buy half a BTC… I’ll wait a bit longer and buy even more” Well, that time never came and I lost all my profit. I think about that mistake often so I never do it again.

OccasionalXerophile

He's finally realized chasing alts for x100 is bullshit and BTC with a smattering of eth is the way. He's a bit late to the party

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panthera_N

Five months ago, when BTC was at 100k, I said I would swap all my USDT for BTC when it dropped to 75k, but now I'm waiting for 55k 😔

spXps

I watched his interview he was yapping about all alts beeing Just Code and BTC eth is the only ones that matter so obviously he is doing this

PM_ME_YOUR___ISSUES

Weren’t we at like 67k last month. Trust the fundamentals. Till the time 🥭 is in office, we’ll have to face these roller coaster rides every now and then. DCA regularly onto BTC and just uninstall your trading app.

FromThePits

I believe that BTC is becoming more and more institutionalized, and that they will do everything in their power to protect the protocol for their own benefits. This also means that whatever number of bitcoin you hold right now, will eventually leave your bloodline, unless you have a solid [plan](http://www.thegreekchain.info/the-guide) Doing nothing means that it will be dilluted by your children and the rest sold by your grandchildren, and your great grandchildren will become no-coiners. But it will still be a massive store of value, just not for families, but for hedgefunds and cooperations only. They can simply hodl longer than you and yours can.

FriendsMade_MeDoIt

I feel like a lot of it just happened naturally once more people got into it together. In my friend group nobody actually wants to spend their BTC, it’s always “bro just hold it, you’ll regret it later” lol. The volatility doesn’t help either. One day it’s “this could be your lunch money,” next day it’s “that lunch just cost you double.” So everyone just defaults to treating it like something you sit on. Kinda feels like the social mindset shifted first, then the use case followed. Curious if that ever flips back or if people are just too used to holding now.

FormalDegree4142

If you're purely chasing gains and not the tech, at least anchor half into BTC and ETH so you're not left bagholding some alt that dies when the cycle turns.

Decibel0753

Can you find an article for us about kidnappings in France where the amount of BTC involved is known?

Decibel0753

Should we look for an article about a large group of people who are known to hold a significant amount of BTC?

autoencoder1

But BTC price is so volatile and during bear market the price can much worse than US$ deflation . How is BTC better if we keep valuing it in $ terms ? Genuinely curious cos I keep hearing this that stack BTC cos it’s not affected by $ devaluation

silverbulls8

It's just going to end up being a few entities owning all of the BTC and nobody else giving a shit. They will trade amongst themselves.

Internal_Mortgage863

I get the angle, but BTC isn’t just a record of work, it’s a scarce, transferable ledger outside central control. Value comes from what people agree it enables. Still no guarantees it holds long term.

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AgentSmith2077

Using 7BTC to buy Butterfly Labs Jalapeño miners, instead of just paying cash.

Happy_Research_1285

Neutral indicators don't tell you which way the flush goes. I've been watching whale flow data instead, you can see on coinlobster.com/crypto whether large wallets are accumulating or distributing. Free tier shows BTC moves across 14 exchanges. Helps cut through the noise

GreenStretch

Epstein really did make BTC.

GreenStretch

Brian Harrington who makes videos trying to get personal finance normies to buy bitcoin thinks that a wealthy person in the west should hold 0.25 BTC for each million in fiat assets they have.

PaperOrnery8697

Stupid is as stupid does. Fiat can crash. Stocks can crash. BTC can crash. Stupid people bet on one horse in one race. Wealthy people diversify, dummy.

AdBusy7112

I wonder how many people actually held Bitcoin up until this point with big investments. He might have sold at 200$ just to flip and get out because BTC is speculative especially back then.

zo1d8erg

Is there any organised pushback on this at all? ChatGPT suggested I send them this - "Subject: Objection to updated Terms — staking, deemed consent, and short notice I object to the updated Terms effective 28 April 2026, specifically the deemed consent to BTC Markets staking digital assets held on my behalf while retaining all staking rewards. Please confirm in writing: 1. Whether any assets in my account will be staked without a separate opt-in. 2. Whether I can opt out while keeping my account open. 3. Which exact clause authorises this, as the public Terms page appears to list clause 13 as “Fees and Commissions”. 4. Whether BTC Markets accepts liability for any staking-related loss, slashing, custody failure, or delay caused by these activities. I also object to the short notice period given for a material change affecting custody risk and ownership economics. Please treat this as a formal written complaint."

SpontaneousDream

You're a millionaire yet you beg for donations on your "consulting" website. [https://tokenomicsexplained.com/support/](https://tokenomicsexplained.com/support/) LOL. Take care of yourself dude. And just buy BTC next time.

MaximumStudent1839

How a technology evolves is a function of at least these two variables: 1) its technical capabilities and 2) how its "users" behave towards it. 1) Since the small blockers have won, P2P cash is not technically feasible for Bitcoin. It simply can't handle the transaction volume for its average user. Thus, it is best suited for ppl to leave it alone and just hold it. So the store-of-value narrative fits it well. 2) Saylor markets it as "pure digital capital" - something you just put away and forget about it. There is also a saying: "bear market creates Bitcoiners." The direct translation is that a bear market creates disillusionment/pessimism about crypto, and it drives them to become Bitcoiners, i.e., believing this asset class has no use case beyond hodling and hoping the price goes up. Increasingly, new marginal buyers of BTC are those who engage with it behind a wrapper. So they can't use the BTC as digital cash because they just own the wrapper. So essentially, you have strong self-reinforcing forces behind Bitcoin that attract and solidify its base, making it think it is only a number, go-up technology, aka digital gold.

rawco187

I bought at $500 per, but a few years later when ETH and all the early cryptos came on line I used some of it to buy those. I should have used cash and not touched the BTC. Don't get wrong, I have way exceeded my investments, but I could have done better. At least I didn't buy pizza...

Merlin1039

BTC has lost to dollars in your matress the last 5 years

LuckyWinds

> Strategy is that they are responsible for nearly all recent BTC inflows (10x more than all ETFs combined, 30x more than all other reserves combined). Even if this is true it doesn't automatically mean that > BTC price going up hinges entirely on them, and it can crash if their products fail.

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Post is by: Bcom_Mod and the url/text [ ](https://goo.gl/GP6ppk)is: /r/bitcoin_com/comments/1sxmo6o/heres_why_tomorrows_fed_decision_might_be_bullish/ April has been quietly remarkable for Bitcoin. Coming into the month, BTC was hovering around $67,000. The war had been running for five weeks. Fear & Greed was at 8. The narrative was "how much further does this fall." As of today it's sitting just under $78,000: up roughly 14% in April, which makes this its strongest monthly performance since April 2025. That's against a backdrop of active naval blockades, $100+ oil, a collapsed ceasefire, and a DeFi sector that just lost $600M in 19 days. Not the environment anyone would have written a bull thesis into. Tomorrow the Fed meets. CME Fedwatch is pricing a 99% probability of no change at 3.50–3.75%. Polymarket's 2026 cuts market has zero cuts as the leading outcome at 40% odds, with $20.9 million in real money behind it. The probability of a cut at the June meeting sits at roughly 7%. [The counterintuitive read on this: the fact that 99% certainty of a hold is already priced means the Fed decision itself has almost zero capacity to disappoint.](https://news.bitcoin.com/federal-reserve-set-to-hold-rates-at-3-75-as-traders-price-99-odds-for-april-29-fomc/) There's no cut expectation to strip away. There's no hawkish surprise the market hasn't already absorbed. What's left is Powell's press conference: and specifically whether his language opens any daylight on the path back toward easing, even hypothetically. Any even mildly dovish framing gets amplified in an environment where every scrap of rate cut hope has already been priced out. 10x Research has an interesting take on the negative funding rates that have persisted for nearly 50 days now. Their argument: it's institutional hedging. Large holders are buying spot and shorting perpetuals to collect the funding rate while protecting their downside. It's a carry trade, not a directional bet. If that's right, it reframes the whole "most hated rally" narrative. The shorts aren't wrong; they're just playing a different game. Three things converge this week. FOMC tomorrow. Bitcoin 2026 conference in Las Vegas where the new SEC Chair Paul Atkins is giving his first major public address on digital asset market structure. And Powell's tenure as Fed Chair formally ends May 15, handing the chair to Kevin Warsh — who, as you may remember, owns SOL, Lightning Network stakes, and Optimism. If BTC closes April above $78,000 it will be the first positive month in six. The last time BTC had a monthly losing streak this long was 2018. 99% chance of no cut, and the market's up 14% anyway. The rally doesn't need the Fed. That's either very bullish or a setup for a very rude awakening when the Fed narrative does eventually shift. *I am a bot, and this action was performed automatically. Please [contact the moderators of this subreddit](/message/compose/?to=/r/CryptoMarkets) if you have any questions or concerns.*

SpontaneousDream

It's literally the only coin in crypto that uses it's revenues (which are greater than many chains combined) to directly buyback and burn its token. Just last year the protocl made roughly $1 billion in revenue with a team of 11 engineers. It's also the only place in the world that you can trade RWAs with size, security, and liquidity on chain. Oh yea and its the only altcoin that is making new ATHs against everything else, including BTC. You be the judge.

Crypto-Bets

Stick with winners like BTC, ETH and SOL

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Post is by: Suspicious-Cut3237 and the url/text [ ](https://goo.gl/GP6ppk)is: /r/CryptoMarkets/comments/1sxmnj4/foundation_distributed_27k_eth_this_week_bitmine/ Going to lay the timeline out in order because it reads differently when you do. * Feb 2026: EF starts staking: 2016 ETH * March: another 22,517 ETH * Earlier this month: 45k+ more ETH staked across a series of transactions. Total around 69,5k. Just shy of their internal 70k target * April 25: EF sells 10k ETH OTC to BitMine * April 26 (Saturday): EF unstakes 17,035 ETH via Lido (\~$40M). Now sitting in the unstETH withdrawal queue. Same 24-hour window as that unstake, BitMine and Grayscale collectively stake nearly $500M of ETH. BitMine alone adds 112,040 ETH (bringing their total to 3.7M ETH staked). Grayscale adds 102,400 via Coinbase Prime. So the sequence: Foundation builds up to its publicly stated staking target. The week they basically hit it, they sell a 10k chunk OTC to BitMine. The day after, they pull another 17k via Lido. In that same window, BitMine stakes 112k ETH of their own. I'm not saying anything was coordinated, but structurally what you're looking at is the Foundation distributing into peak institutional demand. ETF inflows just hit a 10-day streak. BitMine and Grayscale are stacking. ETH is pinned between $2315 and $2380, can't break $2400 and the most consistent seller in this whole picture continues to be the people who created the asset. The bullish read: EF treasury is doing its job. They built a yield position, hit their stated target, now they're rebalancing. The unstake doesn't even guarantee a sale - could sit, get redeployed, fund grants. The institutional demand is real. The bearish read: same pattern as last cycle. Foundation inventory finds the market exactly when retail starts feeling okay about ETH again, Vitalik personally sold millions earlier this year. The flow has been to create supply, distribute to institutions and retail at workable prices, repeat. What's bothering me less is "is this bearish short term" and more that ETH price action has been a function of who's currently selling into it rather than fundamentals. ETH/BTC near multi-year lows. Solana eating dApp revenue 5 weeks running. ETF inflows feel like cope when supply keeps getting topped up by foundation distribution. Anyone got a charitable read I'm missing? Not being rhetorical. I've got a chunk of my ETH locked in a fixed term on Nexo right now, so I'm watching this play out from the wrong side of a position I can't even unwind. Foundation's pulling liquidity out, I've got mine bolted down. *I am a bot, and this action was performed automatically. Please [contact the moderators of this subreddit](/message/compose/?to=/r/CryptoMarkets) if you have any questions or concerns.*

RecoveringXRPHodler

If Fed-Rates remain unchanged on 29th, how much of a drop on BTC might we expect?

MistressMinaDear

Anyone else feeling like the market is in that weird “calm but somehow stressful” phase right now? BTC just crab walking around the same range, alts randomly doing +20% then -18% in 24 hours, and every second tweet is either “supercycle” or “this was the top.” My current strategy is literally: DCA, keep dry powder, touch grass, and avoid any project whose name sounds like a meme I wouldn’t even laugh at. Also if someone is DMing you “insider alpha,” they’re not. What is everyone actually buying or watching this week, aside from the usual BTC/ETH?

SaltyAFscrappy

Get your BTC off exchanges

b1mm3rl1f3

4H hammer. Come on BTC

PartyBanana9134

So lucky, wish I had bought BTC when the first time I heard about it.

ajaykumar2023

To answer your question directly: Yes, this is a massive red flag. If someone you don't know personally is insisting on being paid specifically in Bitcoin via CashApp, you are almost certainly being targeted for a scam. Here is why: ​Irreversibility: Unlike credit cards or standard bank transfers, Bitcoin transactions are final. Once you send it, there is no 'chargeback' or support team that can get your money back. ​Anonymity: Scammers love BTC because it allows them to move funds quickly without being easily tracked or linked to a real-world identity. ​CashApp Policies: While CashApp is a legitimate platform, their buyer protection for Bitcoin transactions is virtually non-existent. They generally cannot help you if the seller disappears after receiving the BTC. ​Common Scams to watch out for: ​Investment Scams: 'Send BTC and I'll trade for you.' ​Marketplace Scams: Selling goods/services but only accepting BTC to avoid refund requests. ​Sugar Daddy/Grant Scams: 'Send a small BTC fee to release a large payment.' ​Bottom line: Unless you are paying a trusted friend or a verified business with a solid reputation, do not send Bitcoin. If it feels like a scam, it usually is. Stay safe!

Crypticcrypto

I imagine if you had, say a few thousand from back in the days, it would have been easy enough to spend 'some', and perhaps that would turn into a little easier spend again later. Who knows? I wasn't around for $100 BTC, so can't say what I would have done, but I bet if I had a lot from early days, I would have spent some on upgrading life, hopefully keeping a solid stack, but again who knows once life is upgraded after a couple years.

ozza37

The cycle timing instinct is reasonable and the institutional money argument cuts both ways. Yes it changes the depth of some corrections but it also means more forced selling during risk-off events because institutions have risk management frameworks that trigger at specific drawdown levels. That actually contributed to the February low being as sharp as it was. On the geopolitical prop argument I would push back slightly. The Iran conflict fear was actually the trigger for the selloff not the support. When the fear peaked in February Bitcoin dropped to approximately $60,000 on a wick before recovering. What has been propping price is the VIX normalising and macro fear receding, not geopolitical tension staying elevated. The mid 50s target for BTC is possible but there are a few structural levels worth knowing about before assuming price gets there. The 2024 to 2026 volume profile has a high volume node at approximately $64,000 that has held on monthly closes despite the wick to $60,000 in April. Below that the next meaningful structural reference is in the high 40s to low 50s range. So your target is not unreasonable but there is a significant volume wall between here and there that would need to give way on a monthly close basis. The more important signal for timing that bottom is probably the BTC/VIX ratio rather than price levels alone. It has touched its long-term trendline at every major fear-driven low since 2020 and already fired in February. If geopolitical tensions spike again and the VIX surges toward 40 or above, that ratio touching the trendline again would be a more reliable signal of exhaustion than any specific price level. For ETH the $1,400 area aligns with significant longer-term support but ETH has been structurally weaker than BTC this cycle so that target is more plausible than the mid-50s for BTC in the current environment. On the cycle timeline broadly I think you are right that the four-year rhythm is still intact. The institutional money has not broken the cycle. It has just made the moves more violent in both directions. I have been tracking the January range monthly close signal and the volume profile structure for this cycle if either of those frameworks is useful context for your positioning. Both are live right now with April 30 as the key date. [https://www.themarketsunplugged.com/bitcoins-january-range-the-monthly-close-signal-that-has-only-failed-once/](https://www.themarketsunplugged.com/bitcoins-january-range-the-monthly-close-signal-that-has-only-failed-once/)

xander1421

soon to hold all the BTC and prove he's Satoshi

EnderSword

I'd agree with that if we're talking a real big position, like you're about to unload $70 million or something and you're actually in a situation where you need to actually work the trade and you might impact the price. But most people aren't doing that sort of thing, like if you've got under like probably 1000 coins, which I sure don't have, then I'm never gonna be too worried about that. So if you've got like 1 BTC, I don't think it really makes any difference if you stacked for 5 years $50 at a time, or you bought it yesterday and are at a gain or a loss.

cubeeless

BTC to $400k!

Character-Resist-961

No shit! I didn’t know Bitcoin and BTC were the same.

jb_in_jpn

Who's spending BTC? Or utilizing the vast majority of crypto's at that? It's just become another means of manipulating wealth to the already rich.

Last_Activity9978

Actual answer. Stop getting caught in 6 month time horizons. Study was BTC is and buy when you can with what you can. It’ll go up over time, zoom out.

Etabafein7

That's about 0.3 BTC at this price which values at $23k right now. Still a win even if you had more to put in at the time

Drspaceman1717

Percentage of your wealth or total value. Any 40 year old millionaire needs more BTC than a 40 year old hourly shift worker to get the same economic effect. I would say everyone should have at least 5-10% in Bitcoin and higher if you can tolerate risk based on your lifestyle, marriage status, career, kids or no kids.

Lavayo

Alt coins when I started in 24. Although it could have been way worse. Never went below 75% BTC allocation, sitting at 89% right now. I wonder why. And it's mostly the really big names in the top 3, don't want to "sell" them here but everyone knows them. Even if I don't like it, selling them now makes no sense either. They probably won't just disappear and I will make fiat in the next cycle. But that's that. That fiat becomes the new DCA stack. That said if alts were gone and I just had my BTC left I would be fine.

Wolfkurt1

lol 😂 don’t buy even BTC don’t

ridgerunners324

I would too if I hadn’t spent 90% of my BTC on the dark web 😂

totoin74

I was literally mining with my pc back in my collage years when 1 BTC was 62 dollars and then i got distracted with shenanigans and forgot BTC all together till it hit 65k.

SemperVeritate

Leaving BTC on an exchange. This is the most dangerous BTC mistake, much more common than other security threats.