BTC

snakesntings

Fixed. BTC. I accidentally said cash

snakesntings

My fault. Not BTC cash. Just BTC

mercury_fred

It is also far more of a “sure thing” now than it was at 10k. The amount of institutional investment really legitimizes BTC in the long term. Buying at 10k was far more risky than buying today. 

Illustrious-Boss9356

I've been saying this for years as a BTC maxi, but at somepoint the coinbase subsidy will be so small that tx fees will have to supply most of the miner rewards. With the way adoption has happened, this seems unsustainable without a real change in use case. If everyone holds their BTC via ETFs or uses it as a reserve (not transacting it regularly on-chain), the security budget will be too low. Sure the miners can continue to mine at a loss to preserve the network but relying on altruism is a bad strategy. We're still 2-3 halvings away from this issue but my guess is that the negative impact will occur years ahead of time as people REALIZE this will be an issue not when it actually becomes an issue. A few things can fix this, a vote to increase the 21m limit amongst others. Sure increasing the limit is something no one wants to do, but it's better than being 51% attacked.

brewmasterlite

I bought a little BTC, figured why not

9shadoweye9

I'm a BTC kid, waiting with hope.

thinkingperson

Is BTC or BTC cash? If the latter, you should post on r/bcash ?

ConfuciusYorkZi

I don't understand your question entirely, you say risk in BTC, BTC has no immediate risk now... Like the network/cryptography, hashrate, quantum computer, Macro/Usage. I think theres a checklist or sth for this ... But the real risk is in fiat, Iran Rial collapsed to 0 last week. There are many ways to hedge against the dollar. Gold, Silver , equities and BTC. I just find the best Hedge BTC. BTC is the native currency and the native store of value of the internet... By 2060 there will only be 1 BTC fresh supply per day. So yea, when you say risk in BTC, there is none... Its a protocol, a network, a set of rules for people to exchange services and information backed by energy...

JumpedUpPantryBoyy

Maybe don’t take all of them drugs before sending your BTC and you wont cock it up. Check this guys post history.

Escapement_Watch

My top two BTC/fart Because far coin is the new paradigm of money The hot air rises to the top and that's something everyone will realize in a violent way one day

BluemewSmogon

I had 1.5 BTC (average of 20k). I also regret selling early but I started to average $30 per day (specially now since is below 100k) I know it will go to 200K someday, I will be patient this time... 

funny-tummy

Despite the fact that uncertainty and volatility exist in BTC, I believe the bigger risk is having a zero position. I’m not advocating for you to YOLO your life savings here, but I would recommend getting off zero.

Maddcapp

It wasn't the tariffs , it was a whale moved a large amount of BTC to Binance, which means it's getting dumped. At least that's what the other article I read claimed.

Cannister7

It makes me laugh how people don't get this. I think it's like they think, oh if you bought 1 BTC and it became worth a million then you wouldn't care what your cost basis was (at least when $1M was enough to retire happily) ... which is kinda true, but they forget that not everyone is buying a whole coin, let alone 10

Abject-Stretch-1187

And you think you know better on such a small dataset? lol plus there are no BTC cycles, it’s mostly correlated with the business cycle. 

Hatty_Hats

Man, that is rough 😞 A few common ways this kind of thing can happen, even if you never manually entered the key anywhere: If bitaddress.org was used online (not from a downloaded, verified offline copy), there’s always the chance the site, your browser, or your machine was compromised and someone logged/generated the same keys. If the paper wallet was ever photographed, scanned, copied on a printer, emailed, backed up to cloud storage, or written in a note app, that’s another potential leak. Some early paper-wallet generators and fake clones have been found to use weak/random or even pre-generated keys, so attackers just sit and monitor those addresses and sweep anything that ever hits them. Physical compromise is still possible too. Anyone who ever had access to that paper (housemates, movers, cleaners, etc.) could have quietly copied the key and waited. None of that gets the BTC back, but it does explain how it can be drained without you ever “using” the key. These days, a hardware wallet + properly backed-up seed is a lot safer than old-school single-key paper wallets. Answer generated using Perplexity. Hopefully this helped a little.

MungerCH

I do. We are ahead of the curve. I have 0.01 BTC and I fell lucky

Due_Lengthiness_2214

When BTC hits a million, the difference between buying at 10k or 100k is like arguing if you snagged the yacht on Black Friday discount or paid full price… bro, you still got the yacht. the real L is not hopping on the train at all

Carbuncle2024

HAHAHAHAHAHA.. Don't you wooks read the news? Europe declared war against the USA bc DJT attacked them with tariffs.. interest rates are jumping..the dollar is crashing.. US Treasurys are crashing...no one wants BTC bc no bank will cash them out.. better Sell now for liquidity later.. or I could be wrong. 🫣

JustSomeChillDud

Let it drop anyway that bag is really just for hold like actually. I don’t know when but I am confident in years maybe decades BTC will hit 300-500k so that bag is untouched specially in the 5x zone

zusite_emu

Been waiting for this, will add BTC to my portfolio once it dips below 80K

PaulWTF

I just have a question about UniSwap. It appears the only valuable coins are limited (BTC, ETH, and maybe a few more), but UniSwap is solely for the swapping of thousands of valueless shitcoins, so, what's the point of it?

TheJohnRocker

Thank you for your contribution to burning BTC.

Street_Outside_7228

Just DCA lightly on the way down and prepare for true bottom all-in around Oct or roughly 500 days before the next BTC halving. Not really worried about what the price will be then but my estimate is $70-40k zone.

7777777King7777777

BTC

Whole-Reserve-4773

BTC just made the same fucking move upwards a few days ago. Look at the monthly chart.

SnooLemons398

HBAR will take over BTC

Rickard403

Maybe BTC hits $100-105k but i think we're heading back down after this temp rally.

BlackberryPi7

Crypto Market does not mean just BTC..

Odd_Copy_8077

“Flash Crash” BTC down 2%

Unlucky-_-Empire

Untraceable? Hardly. Open blockchain you can see any transaction tied to a wallet. Private? Maybe? A bank may not audit you but a KYC will verify you for purchasing BTC, and more importantly when you sell. And the IRS will want to know (if US). What it IS is immutable. Once the transaction is cleared, the blockchain cannot be reversed. The funds are moved. And gone. Forever. Nobody can reverse it, or get it back for you without physical apprehension of the scammer & their crypto keys.

devCheckingIn

Heaven forbid! Let me rush to sell my BTC.

ILikeTuwtles1991

I bought my weekly BTC a couple of hours ago, so that's my b, guys

Clear_Tomorrow1403

Every 4 years before or after halving the price adjusts by more than doubling and then drifting around that point up and down until the next halving approaches and the price adjusts again. Since this has happened each time BTC mining rewards have halved in the past one can reasonably predict the future price of BTC fairly fay into the future. While history can never guarantee the future there is no reason to really doubt this will occur far into future. Of course there are a million things that could go wrong. There could be nuclear war or another world war. There could be financial catastrophe and stock market crashes, large bank failures etc etc etc. but there is no way to predict. If you buy, buy in confidence. If you mine, mine in confidence. If you live, live in confidence. Or stick your head in the sand if you choose to.

KaiEspina

BTC not being volatile for a couple of days honestly felt scarier.

noviwu97

Every successful traders has their way of doing things. My strategy is leaning toward having "controversial" opinion. When something seems incredibly bullish, I sat down and think whether there's a reason to be bearish. Just like when Trump launched memecoin, everybody said it's going to be hyper memecoin season. But I thought what could be better than the US President launching memecoin? So I sold most of my SOL above $250 and most of my Fartcoin above $2. Then on September 2025 everybody was bullish. But any serious traders would have tracked MSTR and BMNR mNav and it's been down only. So I sold most of my BTC above $110k and shorted ETH because I no longer hold ETH. And it's indeed has been going down since then.

Turbulent-Winner-902

I bought $10,000 worth BTC 30 mins ago, you’re welcome come

JG87919

Very much. If you bought close to 100k it’s only a 10x at 1 million. That’s not that good unless you have ALOT of money to buy in with and a lot of balls to do it. If you invested 10,000 when it were 10,000 per coin that becomes 1 million if BTC hits 1 million per coin. If you got 10k in at 100k per coin it’ll only be 100,000. VASTLY different if it ever gets to 1 million.

ffaillace

12 years ago would have been 2014. BTC didn't break over $15 in in 2012. This article is AI trash.

SolVindOchVatten

Well, I do. But there are like 5 things that should crash the world economy. Which one do you mean is crashing BTC?

Comfortable_Yam4137

They hate BTC. Bubble burst, Bamm. Down $3k

SpanglerBQ

Let's say you put $5000 in at $100,000 BTC and I put in my $5,000 at $10,000 BTC. When BTC hits a mil, I have $500,000 worth of BTC and you have $50,000 worth. Yeah I think it matters dude.

CasualRedditObserver

That transaction completed 8 hours ago. It appears that 0.00102257 BTC was spent, with 0.00000306 BTC going to the transaction fee and 0.00101897 BTC arriving at 1P4tEtkrB8hWKiEFVTdkmnLTTuvnjYDfEp. Were you the sender or are you the receiver? If you were the sender, how do you know the receiver hasn't gotten it (maybe they're lying to you?). If you're the receiver, have you confirmed that address is actually a wallet address of yours? What wallet software are you using?

spirax919

Saylor will soon own 700k Bitcoin in about 12 hours time. By the end of 2026 MSTR will be sitting on 1 million BTC all to themselves

devCheckingIn

Memes are being obliterated right now, and they always front-run BTC. So be careful.

Numerous_Ruin_4947

What 4-year cycle are we even talking about at this point? Only BTC and BNB meaningfully broke their 2021 ATHs. And even then, BTC didn’t go up nearly enough to offset the reduced block rewards. With issuance dropping from 6.25 BTC to 3.125 BTC, price needed to more than double just to keep miner economics neutral - that implies BTC at $140–150k, not where i peaked in 2025. Meanwhile, most alts have effectively been in a bear market since 2022. ETH alone had nine red months in 2025, plus multiple red months in 2024. That’s not a healthy bull cycle by any stretch. If you actually want crypto adoption, you can’t keep rooting for lower prices in an asset class that’s already massively underperforming stocks and metals. That narrative kills confidence and scares off new participants. If you truly believe in crypto as a store of value, you should advocate for it the same way Peter Schiff does for gold - consistently, unapologetically, and without rooting for collapse. You don’t grow adoption by talking your own market down.

No-Zookeepergame9542

This entire forum needs to start listening to Benjamin Cowen. I’ve never seen him be wrong and I’m not paid to say it. BTC may rally the first half of this year, especially on an unexpected catalyst, but no where near $250k until at least late 2026 (or later). Likely much lower first. https://youtu.be/Z2maHj5YVeU?si=plfTLhR47pL-6qA1

otherwisemilk

Sounds to me like Both BTC and ETH are shitcoins.

CUbuffGuy

I’m probably jinxing it, but BTC held up really well during CME open for ES selling off almost a full 1%. Feeling really good about this overnight session

WrathofTitus

Everyone? All the normies are buying gold and silver at the top like they always do. I sold all my silver a month ago and bought more BTC & SOL. You're blaming President Trump for liquidity cycles. The Fed is on the cusp of printing more money and with a new Fed chairman coming in May, money is about to be very cheap and assets are about to be very risk-on.

Seattleman1955

This forum's name should be changed to "the daily Bitcoin affirmations and cliche's" forum. We are still so early. Be a whole coiner. 1 BTC = 1 BTC. Never sell. There is not enough BTC for every millionaire to own 1 coin. Generate generational wealth. You get Bitcoin at the price you deserve.

MinimalGravitas

When ETH launched you could get 1,000 ETH per BTC. The person in the OP had 5,000 BTC, which would have got them 5,000,000 ETH... if they sold it today it would be worth $16.5 Billion.

Numerous_Ruin_4947

These KOLs aren’t just bearish on junk alts. They’re calling for major dumps in BTC and ETH, the two most established chains in the entire space. Many of their "subscribers" dumped their coins based on the comments. There’s a big difference between being cautiously realistic and actively undermining the very assets that give crypto legitimacy. When gold, stocks, and real estate are sitting near ATHs, and crypto influencers are out here predicting 50–80% nukes for Bitcoin and Ethereum, what message do you think that sends to outsiders? From the outside, it looks insane. People see that and think: “Why would I touch this market if even its biggest advocates think it’s going to collapse?” That’s the issue. You can’t grow adoption while constantly telling people the floor is about to fall out. That’s self-sabotage. Many coins never even went to their 2021 ATHs. ETH did not even touch its inflation adjusted 2021 ATH. There’s a massive difference between saying “volatility exists” and openly rooting for the top two networks to crater. One is honest analysis. The other kills confidence in the entire asset class.

Local_Economy

ETH rarely outperforms BTC its just been longer than usual since they had their moment

Numerous_Ruin_4947

Thought of the Day: These “analysts” and crypto influenzas never stop to think that maybe they should promote crypto the way Peter Schiff promotes gold. He’s **never** bearish on **gold. Ever**. Same with me and ETH i I’m never bearish. ETH is always undervalued in dollar terms, so I never sell. But somehow KOLs and retail want prices to crash so they can buy back lower. Pure greed. Meanwhile, in a world where literally everything else is going up because the dollar is being devalued, they’re actively making crypto look like a losing asset class. That kills their own business model. You can’t nuke retail portfolios and then expect people to keep buying your BS trading courses on YouTube. Ben Co~~w~~pen, Ivan on ~~Tech~~BTC, C~~ryptos~~BTCRUS, the A~~lt~~BTCcoin Twink Brothers - none of them seem to think about that angle. It’s terrible optics telling everyone crypto is going to dump another 50–80% because “4-year cycle” while gold, silver, and stocks are at ATHs. If crypto is always “about to crash,” why would anyone new ever buy it?

dsetarno

This discussion is a big load of speculative bollocks frankly. Noone knows for sure that's it ever reaching 500k let alone 1 million. Values are on their ass despite the rise in institutional adoption and the next big crash will wash away whatever gains we make till then. Don't get me wrong, I see the merits in BTC but envisaging anything like the numbers quoted above is wishing apon a star. 

OkSeries5363

You are right about splits, but they actually solve a technical problem that doesnt exist in crypto. In the stock market high prices create real physical hurdles. On many platforms you cant easily set limit orders or interact with the order book unless you buy whole units.  With Bitcoin the tech is natively divisible. You can buy 0.0001 BTC on any exchange just as easily as 1 BTC. Thats why its a math failure. In stocks you might actually be priced out of a trade. With Bitcoin this isnt the case.

HumanNo109850364048

How is BTC going to overcome future quantum risk? Clearly a real risk, and this will keep institutional capital away in the present. Needs to be resolved

nugymmer

You’ll stay a BTC maxi. Too much disappointment and anger with alts. Not worth the stress.

nugymmer

It’s not a BTC-only market, as there are still plenty of alts that made great gains from their bear market bottoms in 2022/2023. But BTC is the only thing I’ll be buying from here on in.

some_privacy

Whatever works for you, can be 50$ a month if it has to. That's still \~10% of your salary. Before investing into BTC you should just see how much it takes you to **comfortably** live for a month. That means rent (if you don't own a home), food, utilities. Try not to spend that much on going out and similar, but don't restrict yourself too much. Then, you see how much money you'll have for investing. Out of that money, I'd put 50% into BTC and forget about it for at least 3-5 years, and the other 50% I'd keep in gold or in cash if you ever need it, for example: your car breaks down, you need to buy something quick, whatever basically.

Responsible_Smoke711

Bitcoin mining is miners doing highly complex tasks to get BTC as reward, when in reality they are just guessing a complex number until one gets lucky

coinfeeds-bot

tldr; A Bitcoin whale, inactive for over a decade, sold half of its 5,000 BTC holdings, originally purchased in 2012 for $332 per Bitcoin, securing a 31,250% profit. The sales, totaling approximately $265 million, were conducted methodically over several months. The wallet still holds 2,500 BTC worth $237.5 million. This significant activity from a long-dormant holder has raised concerns about potential market impacts, as Bitcoin's price hovers near $100,000. *This summary is auto generated by a bot and not meant to replace reading the original article. As always, DYOR.

binary_quasar

Hmm, should I trust the most secure network in existence thats permissionless, decentralized, and deflationary.... OR Did I live through 2008 and see how much banks will happily fuck every one of us over and are currently still doing so because they know they will be bailed out again? Or how they squeeze us for as many horseshit fees as possible, then tell me how and when I can spend my own money, and can just freeze my money anytime they feel like it? The second there is adequate and trustworthy infrastructure in place(my employer will not pay me in BTC or stables, I asked. And I have a mortgage) i cannot fucking wait to be bank less. I feel like these GenZ kids were too young to truly understand how quickly banks can destroy your fucking life the second the littlest shit hits the fan. 2008 was by no means little, but it took a matter of days for Silicon Valley Bank to go from okay to "we are fucked we need the FDIC." The FDIC cannot cover any kind of legitimate bankrun type event.

Jaded_Badger9008

I believe we are in a bear market and we are going to drop further. BTC will drop to around $65-69k, this is just going by historical charts. I think by March we will see a crash, black swan maybe, or something to cause a crash. And if we do we will be in a bull market my end of year or early next year. That’s my prediction. Just going of charts and some TA.

Darth_Mushroom

Hoping to accumulate 2 to 2.5 BTC if I can. Dollar value irrelevant.

devCheckingIn

It looks like Saylor made an even bigger BTC purchase this week, perhaps putting Strategy over the 700k mark. [https://x.com/saylor/status/2012874594613416217](https://x.com/saylor/status/2012874594613416217)

Pop-Bard

A blockchain is an immutable, self governed, big accounting book. On the BTC chain you can trace transactions that happened since it's inception, and you can trace every coin that was ever mined. That's why you have people 15 years later checking wallets from 2010 that haven't moved ever since. It's just that interesting. I dare you to trace a bill that was printed in 2001. It's just not possible. Throughout the years, crypto has certainly been used to obscure money, illegal transactions, and whatnot. Not because the tool facilitates it, but because it wasn't regulated and understood. But that's like saying matches where made to burn houses. The tool is as useful or as dangerous as the user. If a 100% government implemented blockchain built for accountability and to make government transactions traceable, it'd be a massive step towards a better future. But there's two things that make it not feasible, it's more expensive than current methods, since you would have to implement massive processing power to run the blockchain, or give a monetary incentive for people to pledge their processing power to keep the blockchain running (That's why crypto has value, if it didn't, nobody would pledge processing power to the network and you wouldn't be able to record transactions) And the second is, that i doubt any government wants 100% accountability, it's just not good for business.

Hatty_Hats

What's interesting is that gold, silver, AND Bitcoin can all rise together in a crisis scenario. They're all hedges against currency debasement. The harbinger he's talking about could actually validate Bitcoin's use case as digital gold. The real question isn't gold vs. BTC, it's fiat vs. hard assets. https://i.redd.it/7n6cii1h86eg1.gif

FlagFootballSaint

Nah. Fiat is still king. Even BTC is measured in fiat

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Aggressive_Corgi1289

That's why I buy BTC via iShare's ib1t... Yeah, curse me, but it's so much simpler.

FromThePits

One of the main characteristics of BTC is the ever dwindling supply and circulation. More and more bitcoin is frozen in time by multi-international conglomerates, that stores it in their balancesheets for leverage against each other. When your great great grandchildren in the future goes shopping for bitcoin, they will have to pay millions for a single block reward (0,00000596 BTC in the start of the next century), and they will probably wonder why their great great grandparents didn't save just a little for them, back when it was much more affordable. It is definitely not going to be spread out in any meaningful way, although I agree that you will always be able to purchase bitcoin. It will just only be fractions of a satoshi by then. (through lightning or similar second layer)

Layer-2

Im good with ai, ive also written custom scripts for the 1000 BTC challenge. DM me. I am in the UK

jc456_

Yep BTC, gold and SP500 for the most part.

MakCapital

Not about claiming utility. If an L1 captures and distributes revenue you're good. Up to you to determine fair current value based off current and potential future value capture from monetizing user activity. Hyperliquid native L1 token not comparable to Arbitrum governance token or Nvidia on Solana. All other tokens are just ownership over something else. From L1s, stocks, commodities, etc. Everything is now a token. Far superior for issuers, owners, and traders. Tokens you need to do extra due diligence on: Tokens that have ownership over protocols built on L1s. Depending on the token design, this is where things can get murky. Any protocol reliant on admin keys really needs investor protections, through regulatory guarantees, to ensure voting power isn't just a promise that can be easily waved away. This is coming. Why these tend to underperform even when decent rev is captured. That and concerns of US political landscape shifting anti Web3, again. Everything is crypto. Everything is a token. Everything not already a token will become a token. Up to investors to determine what is worth holding, and how to categorize each asset type. The only crypto token that gets to ignore all common sense rules is BTC. Unique to BTC. Unlikely to ever repeat. Anything that tries to compete as a better Bitcoin will bleedagainst BTC long term.

FacePoka

Yes, exactly that. Lost 7 BTC in total, bought at a move lower price today and probably would have 10x

fan_of_hakiksexydays

Why tomorrow? It's already yesterday's news. And since BTC has been doing more often the opposite of stocks lately, if stocks dump on Trump tariffs, that's more reasons to believe BTC might rally more.

FromThePits

Listen WinterWind Go to my page www.thegreekchain.info and fill out the form. Include your BTC public key. I will compensate you for your good feedback, okay

Anxious_Noise_8805

Ah yes Peter schiff, the guy who had every chance in the universe to buy BTC since it was $10 or so but instead he just talked crap about it the whole time

ChummySpider

It IS worth investing in. Especially coins with good hype like XRP, Doge, Shib, PENGU, Pepe (even BTC or ETH-though the others are more affordable). I wouldnt invest ONLY in it because its subject to wild swings. Buy stocks too. I keep my crypto investments to less than 20%, and the. As long as people buy this stuff (and they do-I certainly do), there will always be a liquidity cycle to play, and if there is some utility along the way, great.

btoned

The million and one crypto pump n dump "projects" are dead; BTC is not.

raj6126

BTC isn’t an American thing. America just came on board with Crypto Trump fought it this first term.

No_Giraffe_4647

Crypto is a new tech that offers lots of opportunities but it is still soon to invest unless you see something really big emerging with a chance to get closer on the very long run to BTC or ETH. Until then only these ones as well as SOL are the ones leading the market. The real issue is that there are too many projects and not enough investors as things need to be squared by regulators. My guess is that the ones with a real world purpose, with most active and largest delopper communities may progress and get XX multiplier. For the other coins it is just hype over influencers and marketing strategy which is creating a FOMO effect on short term, then the rug get pulled at some point.

aGochoGuy

Thanks you all for the advice! I already put those $150 on BTC, but I'm open to other forms of long-term investing, but maybe next month and with the money I can save

Agitated_Patience_75

Aren’t there only like 20 mill that can be mined? Also, as far as i know not all bitcoins were mined. So how come all those million people own BTC? Because if they own 0.00000000002 then it’s worthless lol

aGochoGuy

Like a pet lol hahaha I already put the money in BTC but I'll take your advice for next month. The inflation is eating my savings.

adheretohospitality

He's not wrong. There is room at the top. BTC, Silver, Gold

Next-Town1842

I also had a friend that told me to buy BTC. He is financial expert and he told me I will regret it if I didn't but I was young and ignorant. I think you did the right thing by not borrowing. It could have backfired and could have caused more damage than good and could have forced you to sell the bitcoins and still pay interest for the loan.

twendah

Holy shit, all in BTC. Thank you for news!

DearPollution3447

ETH seems to want to go a big higher, but BTC has performed way better this run. So I think BTC.

WiseSilverWolf

Buy BTC only, even governments are buying BTC.

Cachemoney23

It is just another asset class under control. Banks are heavily invested (they always were aware of BTC), I tend to agree with the original principles of BTC but it has been compromised through firms/banks. However it would be wise to have some exposure as we do not know where the digital world will end up. IMO

SteveW928

Yeah, the meme gets absurd. Many take it too far (if they even understand the point of it in the first place). If you need to USE your BTC for life.... that's like the whole point of it! Perfect money. Money isn't a Tamagotchi. There is zero point in just forever HODL'ing Bitcoin. But, the opposite is the point. There's never a time to trade or sell just because. Pretty much anyone who does that, doesn't understand what they have or have gotten into.

SuiWhale

The best way to come up with your own written rule. Let's say , when my price target hits - I will cash out .% into stables . And just I have been in crypto for a VERY long time . It can go both way , too early is bad/too late is worse ... Profit is profit . If it makes you feel any better , this guy here took profit on BTC at 1500, thinking he made it 🙃 It's always good to leave part of position alone , and take profit in stages . I just dumped dash a few weeks ago, and now it doubled . You just never know . Did I make profit ? Yes . Sisni miss out on a lot more by dumping most of position? Absolutely.

PirateSKB

Bitcoin (abbreviation: BTC; sign: ₿) is the first decentralized cryptocurrency. Based on a free-market ideology, bitcoin was invented in 2008 when an unknown person published a white paper under the pseudonym of Satoshi Nakamoto.[4] Use of bitcoin as a currency began in 2009,[5] with the release of its open-source implementation.[6]: ch. 1  From 2021 to 2025, El Salvador adopted it as legal tender currency before revoking it.[7][8][9] As bitcoin is pseudonymous, its use by criminals has attracted the attention of regulators, leading to its ban by several countries.[10] Bitcoin works through the collaboration of computers, each of which acts as a node in the peer-to-peer bitcoin network. Each node maintains an independent copy of a public distributed ledger of transactions, called a blockchain, without central oversight. Transactions are validated through the use of cryptography, preventing one person from spending another person's bitcoin, as long as the owner of the bitcoin keeps certain sensitive data secret.[6]: ch. 5  Consensus between nodes about the content of the blockchain is achieved using a computationally intensive process based on proof of work, called mining, which is performed by purpose-built computers.[6]: ch. 12  Mining consumes large quantities of electricity and has been criticized for its environmental impact.[11] Reference : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitcoin

redditisnotus

The saddest bitcoin thing I've ever read was the guy who sold I think thousands of BTC to try and save his wife who was dying of cancer and it didn't work. It was a while ago, and I think I remember reading about him when BTC was already in the thousands. He said he didn't regret it. I think about that post from time to time and wonder how that guy is doing.

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Cycle volatilities dampen as BTC matures—less retail and more institutional HODL'ers.

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I, like you missed the boat. In 2009, a good friend of mine came to me. Just give me €250 to buy this thing called Bitcoin. I worked in construction and lost all sources of income because of the recession. I was struggling to make payments on mortgage and not getting any assistance from government. I was totally broke. Told him I could not afford anything. I should have borrowed, but had no means of repayment. I have over time gotten to the 0.1 btc. I don't know how I will compound that, but will try when I can. That €250 at the time would have fired me from debt. I still have the mortgage and loans, but I pay them to the bank that owns everything. We are just fish in a massive barrel. To become the shark in your own financial pool, I believe BTC, Bitcoin is the gold standard of doing this.