IMO

callebbb

Oh yeah, a 10x of my savings is totally useless! /s The haters are probably nocoiners, and they just wanna shit on people that save in an asset that appreciates. I will admit, some of the hyperbole around generational wealth is pretty braindead. That being said, if you could take 111k today, buy a whole coin, and sell it 17 years from now for $13million, that’s generational wealth IMO. I could easily grow that, never “work” 9-5 again, and find myself with more money for heirs than when I started. So it’s not all hyperbole.

Few_Response_7028

For your facebook marketplace, that's quite easy, just offer an address. for the website, the reality is that its pretty complicated and more challenging than most people on this thread let on. for a truly hands off solution you need lightning with liquidity management, you will need to hire a developer to integrate this into your shop. IMO, it's pretty tough out there for small businesses integrating lightning. I couldn't justify it with my new web application, but plan to do it in the future when the barriers are lower.

Bitter-Sprinkles5430

I appreciate this is not a serious post, but I'd be interested in seeing a real-estate to BTC index of some description. $ value doesn't tell the whole story IMO.

Starfish_Croissant

Rate cuts will exacerbate the inflation problems. Unfortunately, they are pretty critical for RE Developers at this point. There is no easy way out IMO. Don’t raise rates and RE Developers (commercial and residential) start to slow down even more or fold, which ripples through the economy in big ways, and inflation still goes up because of tariffs. Cut rates, RE developers are happy and projects get unstuck and start to move again….as cheap money drives inflation. Meanwhile, consumers are making other arrangements to replace our exports (farm goods), we are not set up to manufacture anymore and that is not a quick fix, we are WAY behind the 8-ball on energy production increases (moving backward), and infrastructure has been at a standstill for 20 years because public money is funneled into pet projects in Washington instead. I don’t personally see a way out of this where we in the U.S. are not left behind, or playing intense catchup for the next 10-20 years to stay in the game.

GIGAbtcHodl

Economist Alex Krüger is super confident we're not at the end of the cycle, predicting a crypto reversal soon. He points out altcoins are stabilizing and expects volatility until the FOMC meeting mid-September, with the real bull run possibly continuing into 2026. We also believe that traditional cycles are over, it won't be this volatile in the future as it used to be IMO

MichaelAischmann

ETH tripled as exchange reserves dwindled. IMO this trend is likely to continue. A supply shock is not an event or something that gets announced. It happens gradually especially for very divisible assets like crypto.

Icy-Aardvark-1158

Hold wolf longterm is a no-brainer IMO, dyor and put your wolf on a cold wallet!

TheLastofEverything

BTC or ETF the rest is speculation and not worth the risk IMO

Alfador8

>Is there anything on the blockchain connecting these two transactions together, or are only the individual addresses generated by the wallet tracked? The 2 addresses cannot be linked just because they were generated by the same wallet. That being said, you have to be very careful not to mix KYC with non-KYC when sending coins, otherwise your private coins are no longer private. IMO it's better to segregate them into different wallets just to be safe.

MichaelAischmann

IMO the move is about spreading the risk to multiple addresses, not actually about making it 'quantum-safe'.

lxlmandudelxl

Maybe, I bought at 0.57 and sold 20% of my position at $2.90 to get my cost basis out, the rest I'm going long on. It's #3 in market cap at this point and worth a small position in your overall portfolio IMO 🤷‍♂️

rumi1000

The issue is inheritance. Easier to do securely with multi sig IMO.

cube3x3

For any bull trend to bust it needs either a major black swan, or significant weakness in the economy (where printing fiat is also not useful) or loss of trust in the asset. If you think any one of them has happened then yes - the bull market is over. IMO - I see weakness in the 3rd one in the last month or so after Bessent said that there won't be a Bitcoin reserve - to be precise - govt wont be buying Bitcoins. Since then I haven't heard any influencers talk about state adoption or purchase of Bitcoins. This is a yellow flag that can turn into something big if we don't see any course correction soon. And I don't think there has been any black swan or major weakness in the economy right now. Its been rough 6 months in the US, and all other countries are basically recovering from their inflation period and new tarrifs, the most likely outcome in the next 12 months is the more money printing - which will fuel the next wave of asset price inflation. When you see euphoria like 2021 in the market then it will be the top and time to GTFO. Right now just ride the waves, they go up and down but overall moves you to a better place.

Illustrious-Boss9356

The whale who sold ~20k BTC that still has like 190k is like to sell the rest IMO. There's very few reasons to sell such a portion of one's stack. Bitcoin is binary IMO, you either believe it's the best or that it's not. We'll see but think we'll see this month be a tough one. Keep stacking!

AdOk1028

If btc hits 90 That’s no good for this bullrun. There will be a fake out pump to 115k ish and dump Hardddddddd after so if that happens be a bear after a pump higher. Likely btc will hold 100k plus before big end of cycle move. Be patient and buy link at $20 dollars if we get down there. This isn’t financial advice but it’s very good advice IMO.

OrangePillar

It’s unlikely to be substantially below its current level at any point in 2026, IMO.

theMonkeyTrap

what I dont get is that the only real risk for bitcoin ever was the regulatory uncertainty in the on/off-ramps to fiat. that is largely resolved or should have been considered resolved when market cap hit 1T or so because .. well money dictates politics (maybe at a slower 4 year cadence, but it does). other than that govts cannot control bitcoin any more than they can trading with chickens or tulips. So at this point it really should be a no-brainer. maybe its just that ideas need time to disperse through society and establish via a steady performance record. In any case $1M btc is kind of a given IMO, question really is when and a second order question is at what point bitcoin becomes like a Bond like a really long term treasury bond thats backed by multiple treasuries across world. my gut feel is around this time BTC will start the diminishing returns phase and people will just use it as a risk free asset in their retirement portfolios. I do feel at that point a good index like S&P or NASDAQ will start beating it again. till that happens its basically a no brainer to be heavily allocated to BTC.

TT_________

To me this is the final cycle. IMO Nov-dec will be the top 130-150k. 2026 will be the bottom 60-80k After that we will see less big swings and have a super cycle. I've been in it since 2017 my original btc holdings had increased by 10x. Not the value but the actual btc amount. Best thing to do is check the charts and see what you think is the top then sell on the way up, don't wait and sell when it reaches the target. Same thing when rebuying start rebuying before it hits your bottom price. I also keep at least 20% ratio of btc or cash.

TT_________

To me this is the final cycle. IMO Nov-dec will be the top 130-150k. 2026 will be the bottom 60-80k After that we will see less big swings and have a super cycle. I've been in it since 2017 my original btc holdings had increased by 10x. Not the value but the actual btc amount.

TT_________

To me this is the final cycle. IMO Nov-dec will be the top 130-150k 2026 will be the bottom 60-80k After that we will see less big swings and have a super cycle.

TT_________

IMO 1btc is probably enough for someone to retire but that is in 20 years time. The insane gains we see in btc will slow down.

dear_mr_dilkington

IMO if you understand how and why bitcoin works and you have conviction, then there is no way you can have conviction in holding XRP.

IAmSomewhatDamaged

I prefer “dip.” Dump is what happens after this cycle IMO.

MichaelAischmann

**Good new IMO**. People should know that it is not audited & that there are censorship resistant stablecoin alternatives.

abigguynamedsugar

I want to tell you all what I thought was extremely healthy yesterday. BTC crashed to 107, and ETH wouldn't move too close to even 3300. Something is happening. IMO September pump.

rkquinn

Last time daily RSI was this low was back in April and BTC price was down in the 70k range, ultimately consolidated there for a few weeks and had a 4 week run up of 50% to just under 112k. A similar consolidation and run up from the current price range would put us at in the 144-155k range mid to late October. IMO daily RSI below 40 are great times to accumulate.

The_Realist01

I’ve never owned Monero, but come on. It’s the only thing that’s literally so private you can’t tell how many coins there are. IMO, It’s more important than 99.9% of all existing alt coins.

Series7Trader

IMO. "Alt Season" has morphed into "Alt Sessions". The bulkier crypto infused EFTs become and the more conventional markets and governments adopt crypto products, the less chances there are of alts making a run off on their own like prior. But they for sure will go along for the rides (up and down) with the high cap alphas.

aleikmiklean

DCA is the way. All in is a little bit too risky IMO

steve_b

THE FUTURE? IMO, BTC's role in the near future, besides as speculation, is the old "store of value" device. Over time, BTC/$ volatility will drop, with it eventually, hopefully, growing at a rate that corresponds to the dollar's inflationary decline, and becoming a "perfect" store of value, but that's a long way off. Theoretically, it would be perfect for all the reasons BTC advocates say - fungible, not possible to counterfeit, efficient to transfer (as long as the transfers are relatively infrequent and high in value). Who needs this? Entities with mountains of cash. There are all sorts of entities (corporations, governments) who find themselves with piles of cash that they need to move around or sit on for a while, before they move them somewhere. Banks hold a lot of this, but not all of it. A lot of the worlds bond market fills this niche. BTC has can grab a big chunk of this bond traffic. There's the crazy part: Back when interest rates dropped very low, there were points where bond were being issued that had negative rates. Why on earth would someone buy a bond that will return you less when you redeemed in, in an inflationary currency, no less? Seems like madness, no? Here are some reasons: [www-dot-schroders-dot-com/en-gb/uk/intermediary/insights/six-reasons-why-it-can-make-sense-to-buy-a-bond-with-a-negative-yield/](https://www.schroders.com/en-gb/uk/intermediary/insights/six-reasons-why-it-can-make-sense-to-buy-a-bond-with-a-negative-yield/) FTA: \> deposit insurance schemes only protect bank deposits up to a value of €100,000, so are not suitable for large institutional investors. \> Physical cash would be another option. However, there is a cost associated with storing and handling cash. For larger investors they would need to hire a vault, with associated costs and security needs. For many investors this is too impractical to be a realistic option. Basically, entities are willing to actually lose money on their cash holdings, because it they would literally lose even more money if they just "kept it under the mattress". People need a place to park wealth, even if it's going to "do nothing". Now suppose you have an asset that is 100% guaranteed to never inflate, because there is no more of it to create. There will be no new "mine" of BTC suddenly discovered in Australia. The CEO of Bitcoin isn't going to suddenly be connected to Jeffrey Epstein. It's just there. At that point, BTC becomes the perfect store of wealth. But it's going to take decades to get there.

kironet996

ETH printed 465% gains for those who bough it in bear market. Buying both is good IMO, not 50/50 though, maybe 80/20 or 70/30.

BitcoinHurtTooth

Yessir. Funny Reddit will downvote you for talking about Trump even in a crypto sub talking about using it to make money lol. Reddit is infested with lib bots that make it hard to have discussions. But yeah also track Liberty Finance because they publish their holdings and they also have an inside edge into policy. Trump family is like the Nancy Pelosi of crypto. IMO both are pretty safe to blindly copy.

Available_Win5204

ETH is a much simpler and straight forward bet IMO, especially given recent administrative moves. You have to believe in some cyberpunk dystopian narrative to truly buy into BTC long term. ETH has similar qualities with the added pitch of utility. 

trimbandit

As of today, BTC scores low in two properties of money. Acceptability: Money must be widely accepted by people for the exchange of goods and services.  Stability: its value should be relatively stable over time.  It wont gain acceptability until it becomes more stable. This may happen is the asset continues to mature. IMO you can have either huge gains (and drops) or acceptability. I don't think you can have both.

PostalAzul

Thanks for the suggestion! I know it’s only a matter of time before Trump Media finally dumps. The question is not ***if*** but ***when***. My rule is to hold, but I know the clock is ticking as well. I also think we’re still way too early for an alt-season, far too early IMO.

tacocat_-_racecar

Start out as a BTC maxi. If you grab a few random alts you might get in on an alt season, but being new I would not advise. LTC is another good choice IMO. But if I were you I’d seriously do research and just observe this market and go in the next bear. That way you won’t feel hurt when your portfolio drops. Definitely invest in a cold wallet. And a good one that is BTC only, like Bitbox

tallguyclark

Yes. 401k rolled over to a standard IRA after I left a previous company. It’s a pre-tax account just like a 401k. It allows for the flexibility to choose your own investments, like FBTC vs rolling the 401k over to your new employer’s 401k where you’re locked into their plan and their limited offerings. Roth IRA is great, I’ve just always done the 401k for the company match. Roth is better if you don’t get a match IMO. Make sense?

btc_set_me_free

Safe IMO

Scared-Recover-4634

A meme coin with real potential and a family like community.. That’s a powerful combo. IMO

libretumente

Anything but PoW is a joke IMO

Epileptic_Fridgeboy2

A 'bear-like' market is still probably the biggest likelihood for 2026. Perhaps not the full-fat bear market some are expecting though. A much more interesting question is what's going to happen in the next 2 months IMO... because there's too much noise at the moment with global politics/US economy. A lot of people are expecting a new ATH, but there seems to be a lot more variables at play right now...

Neat-Emu-8731

IMO, ADA is like dead money unless something drastic changes Secure profits, let compounding work & leave lotto tickets for fun, not the core stack

Xremlin

Oversimplified IMO

morganpriest

if you want exposure to RWAs IMO link is the best play

whataboutbenson

Still plenty of supports and MAs below us IMO.

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Starfish_Croissant

100% this. In many cases, a major exchange is better for DCA or buy and hold than a paper or hardware wallet IMO.

MichaelAischmann

The business of youtubers is entertainment and affiliate marketing. Even if they are educational, don't forget that. IMO investment advice shouldn't come from social media but from financial advisors & your own due diligence.

adiabatic_storm

100%. You can really get a sense of how new someone is by the language they use. Lots of crash, slide, etc comments lately when BTC moves a point or two in price. Clearly none of those folks were involved a cycle or two ago when 10-20%+ fluctuations were common and expected. IMO the volatility is good and has always been part of each cycle.

godofleet

the talking heads like this keep saying "they" ... like its some kinda mysterious conspiracy. pair that with the word "bitcoin" (which many people inherently perceive to be a conspiracy or some kinda spooky money for criminals) and you get a compounding negative perception... who are "they" ? if we just discussed this more clearly, i believe it would help people think about the corruption of fiat and efficacies of sound money / bitcoin. IMO, "they" are the cantillionaire class ( [https://www.adamsmith.org/blog/the-cantillion-effect](https://www.adamsmith.org/blog/the-cantillion-effect) ) ... "they" aren't really organized (though maybe you could argue project 2025 / the heritage foundation is part of it) "they" are actually just the wealth class, ultra wealthy and powerful people, nearest the money printer... executives and economists, politicians and lobbyists... lawyers and so on. "they" influence and manipulate the markets/economists and ultimately the central bankers. the goal is rate reductions. "they" stand the most to gain with their access to vast credit and their position nearest the newly printed money (loans, grants, subsidies, tax cuts) ... "they" use this money to invest in productive or appreciating things/commodities/assets/property, consolidating their wealth/power while everyone else bears the burden of the inflation 3-6 months later. it's been happening for decades, all the money printing during covid, the wealthy got wildly wealthier, and now, trump's admin actively damaging the economy and then begging for powell to lower rates. the thing is, **this is just how fiat works** ... it's inherently corrupt and wielded by those in power / with wealth against anyone/everyone else... despite what all of most economists argue, it's not even "designed" as much as it is the natural effect of inherently greedy humans abusing each other via a soft and corruptible system. Bitcoin is TRUTH, it is hard / sound money. it incentivizes honest behavior at all levels of the economy/monetary system. it forces everyone onto the same playing field where no one is above the rules / able to print money (human value and time) from nothing.

DaetheFancy

Not your keys blah blah blah…transfer off for passive investment strategy, or if you’re ok with transfer fees back and forth (like LARGE sums of $$). Otherwise actively trading is far more accessible on exchange. IMO, My 350 in BTC isn’t worth holding in a wallet

bestjaegerpilot

i suspect what matters more is the percentage you buy when an unexpected coin rips thats when you get a better return but yep if you want to look in profits, rebalance a little bit. IMO might be too early for that though

ec265

Much sooner than that IMO

Warriorslost3-1lead

I would only consider taking a loan deep into the bear IMO

beanbalance

start of the dump yes. Whne it goes down 50-80% then it will be a DUMP and time to buy IMO.

BitcoinIsJesus

Lets go back a few years: "why would anyone buy above $20k. I simply do not get it. This is going down big time IMO"

beanbalance

I mean, I already wrote it: it pumped 10x in just 2 years! Why would big whales or institutions , the ones that "control" or dictate the price keep buying now? to pump our bags lol? they are exiting now and will buy once the total panic and capitulation sets in... and this cant be when it pumps so fast 10x... zoom out to 1month or 6 months charts.. those are crazy rises.. bu that is just IMO, so so what you think is right.

beanbalance

it blows my mind that people still are holding, let alone buying BTC after it pumped 10x in just 2 years (or like 25x in 4-5)... why would anyone keep buying now above 115 or 120 , I simply do not get it. This is going down big time IMO.

codemajdoor

people need to understand for every trade there is a buyer and a seller. unless you are talking about super long term hodlers everybody sold to somebody. that IS what gave the bitcoin legitimacy and meaning. it was the first experiment in decentralized value exchange & it worked DAMN WELL. Honestly it is off putting how much emphasis people have on price like anyone had a crystal ball. I mean seriously if you did then why not mourn 'loss' of all the lost power-ball winners ticket numbers or all FB/GOOGs like unicorns. Frankly up until very recent pro crypto legislation the fate of crypto was still hanging in balance due to lack of legal clarity. IMO people need to calm-TF down with this retro-fomo bs.

Any-Neat5158

My crystal ball doesn't work any better than anyone else's. My SWAG (scientific wild ass guess) is that it will continue to see healthy growth over time. I also expect it to be very volatile. More important (IMO) than exactly what the value would be is to speculate on what the overall feeling towards BTC will be, how it will be adopted and or used... etc. I don't see it overtaking any fiat currency (maybe poorer countries, I think Zimbabwe already adopted BTC as it's official currency) and I don't think anyone ingrained in the USD will be so eager to shift. Why? Because your average people don't own any BTC, and it's days of being "cheap" to get in are gone. I have about 30 years left in my working career to hit a traditional retirement age in the US. Without any consideration for BTC, I was likely going to retire as much as 5 years early for the heck of it. My five figure investment (2021 ish) will probably be worth at least 7 figures then. A very substantial boost to my retirement portfolio. I don't plan to ever just cash it all out either. Only use it slowly over time as I need it. I think at that point in time, accepting payment in BTC will be an every day thing and will have had been for a long time.

Nice_Assumption_6396

The only think to worry about (which probably wont happen) would be people dumping even larger amounts possibly causing a larger crash of 20-30% but that would honestly just be an opportunity to get in IMO 🤷‍♂️

ProductKooky4897

Sell now, pay the IRS a third of your profits, and hope to reload at a lower price in the future? Probably not a high percentage probability play IMO.

iwakan

I don't see how not. Bitcoin IMO is a pretty bad blockchain by modern standards, staying on top from brand name recognition alone. But I don't see how that can continue indefinitely. Just like smartphones made all kinds of specialized equipment redundant, general purpose blockchains will make all blockchains that can only do one thing redundant. The only way I can see it not happening is if blockchains never actually gain a proper use case, instead just being used as a gambling/speculation platform forever, and in that case brand name recognition will remain the most important thing for valuation.

iziKO

Avax and litecoin IMO

xxs0raxx

IMO a pump up expecting rate drops. Sell the news so a dump then we going up Oct Nov.

GavinF83

Is crypto not at its core about price though? Would you really choose to buy something that makes you less money because you prefer its utility? This whole thread is about what you wouldn’t touch and personally I’d rather touch something that put more money in my pocket, but you do you I guess. In terms of the network I think it depends on whether you’re considering L2s or not. If we’re comparing Eth mainnet to Solana I prefer Solana. Eth is too expensive and isn’t immune from its own performance problems. However there are L2s I think are a better experience than Solana. To be fair to Solana since they put the upgrade in to fix the stability issues it’s been fine. Whether that’ll be the case long term we’ll have to wait and see. I definitely think Solana will be the next ETF product and I think we’ll see it soon so it certainly will be interesting to see how it performs…. For the record I hold both. I expect Solana to make me more money from this point onwards and that ignores its considering up on Eth so far this cycle already. This sub is very pro Eth and anti Solana though. People need to do what makes them happy and confident though. I wouldn’t hold either long term though. Only long term holding is BTC IMO.

PKSammyxo

Belgium. You won't find anything decent (IMO) under 300K. Even apartments are 280k.

TheAudacityofHopium

Not an expert but I'm pretty savvy now with how it works. Bitcoin is so much more valuable than all the rest because it is truly decentralized and secure. You can't recreate digital scarcity. You can give any other coin a market cap thats really high but those other coins will always trend to zero. Think for a moment. Why would that be the case? Answer: it is because anything new that pops up, including a fork of Bitcoin, cannot by definition be scarce. People will spend years coming to grips with this fact. There is no second best. Either you have a scarce asset or you don't, and because all the other coins can simply pop into existence and exist as digital tokens at the whims of their creators, they tend to trend to zero. If a new fork of Bitcoin came out tomorrow, it could be better in every way and still fail against bitcoin, because scarcity does not exist when any authority can simply modify the blockchain at will, or create new tokens for free. Does that answer your question? By tge way...IMO Ethereum switched to proof of stake to survive. That was the only way to compete because ETH was dying and needed to distinguish itself by being more "environmentally friendly." But as we are seeing, Bitcoin tends to encourage use of green energy because its just too expensive to mine otherwise. So again the entire purpose ETH still exists is diminished.

readywateron

With inflation going up, doesn't really make sense to cut rates IMO. Powell only said they’re considering it to get Trump off his back for a while. Besides Powell isn't the only one who decides, it's the entire board

HesitantInvestor0

It's still not conservative IMO. The NASDAQ companies generated immense wealth during the last 20 years, and it did about a 10x in dollar terms. To outperform that kind of streak by 20x would be quite a feat for an asset this size. If you think that's conservative, I don't know what to tell you. That's not to say it's impossible. If that's conservative what would the bull case be? A 500x? 1000x? Come on.

---Imperator---

You did the right thing. IMO, you should always prioritize paying down your debt first. BTC is likely to go up over the long-term, but had you lost your job, and BTC suddenly went way down for a year or two, you could have been screwed.

V7751

Attack which ended up a failure. The attacker never had more than 35% of hashrate, which might be a lot, but nowhere near 51%. Ultimately any coin is vulnerable to such attacks, but xmr withstood the test quite well IMO. The only real vulnerability of xmr is its market cap, but there's reason to believe it will massively improve, especially with the recent push by regulators against privacy and freedom.

karbonator

Percentages aren't the thing to look at for this measure, IMO - the institutions are starting to come around, and have a lot more ability to purchase than an individual. If the number of institutions buying Bitcoin goes up, it's logical that the percentage of individual purchases would go down.

xxs0raxx

If we see 5.5k-6k eth im 100% out and buying back in when it’s sub $3k. If crypto ever taught me anything it raises fast but also goes down fast. I could see btc back at $90k range. IMO as long as you’re below MSTR avg you’re in a good spot.

Sector__7

IMO, you have more risk from not owning Bitcoin than anything. Sure, you don’t see the number go down but the constant inflation in everything nowadays is bleeding your purchasing power. It’s more of a silent approach to losing your money than seeing your brokerage account go down 5% in one day. Be wary of the silent killer from the money printer!

jaylanky7

They went from no rate cuts to maybe we should after receiving new economic data. I wouldn’t plan on this rally lasting honestly. The dollar fell an entire 1% today. Down 10% on the year. Jobs slowing down. Inflation climbing back up. This doesn’t bode well IMO

choicehunter

Everyone is so excited about rate cuts, not realizing that it just means monetary inflation and a synthetic price that isn't actually increased value in the long run. Just devalued dollar incoming. IMO that's something more to be mourned rather than celebrated and excited for. 🤷 Be excited when the inflation adjusted price skyrockets or the price against gold sky rockets or better yet, the exchange rate against the Global M2 money supply increase sky rockets. Rate cuts just mean fake price increase inbound... Granted that's the whole reason Bitcoin was created, to mitigate this nonsense. But it was with the understanding that monetary inflation is bad and synthetic rather than a party.

Extreme_Today_984

Makes sense. People are looking for a hedge against inflation, layoffs, the weakening dollar, and the coming recession. Crypto SHOULD do well in the very beginnings of the recession. However, eventually people will deplete their savings, and they'll be forced to withdraw crypto to pay their bills. Job creation has been slowing for months, and layoffs are already beginning. We are close to this cycles top IMO.

SpecialDonkey6563

45% sounds high. But you are young. If in 8 years Bitcoin is a bust, you will still be young and will still have 55% of your portfolio and whatever you grew it to. If you are right and Bitcoin does a 10X in 8 years, you will have a much bigger portfolio than most your age. IMO Bitcoin still has a lot of growth. Public institutions and businesses and banks and governments still have a lot of buying to do, which will push the price up. I personally think it can 20-30X in the next 20 years. But really it’s up to you and how you feel. If I was 25 I would take that bet and put 45% on Bitcoin. But I’m just a random guy on the internet. I could be totally wrong.

kilo6ronen

IMO Ada is either solidifying its spot or this cycle would be its nail in the coffin as the chain that made meaningful tech that never was Imo an etf won’t influence its price much Got in at 0.03 cents and sold off for other coins that captured the space with more hype (vs super slow development that kind of lagged behind new comers in usage/adoption). I’m curious to see if it goes to $5-6 or if it struggles to set an ATH

Suspicious_Bath_7403

0.5 is more than enough if btc actually does what all it promises to do sov, reserve currency and so on. It will either go couple millions or zero so 0.5 is enough IMO

Neat-Emu-8731

Pure insider pump, Kanye name just bait for exit liquidity IMO

mllewisyolo

I would just buy. Once you understand what bitcoin is and what it's used for (Read: Bitcoin/Fiat Standard, Broken money, internet of money etc.. There is never a reason not to buy at any price. IMO. I buy whenever I have spare income.

jackisabear

I’ve never been a fan of polygon. It was overhyped last cycle and the charts speak for themselves. Pretty dead IMO

nbiz4

Sol already lost the battle IMO

Senior-Profit-1626

IMO $112,000 is the launchpad for S&P500 entry into Uptober. ($140s) Likely little else other than typical tariff effects. Also some positioning by the greater forces at large. I’m really just looking towards the year end. $180s to $200s. Remember Saylor prefaced the volatility indicating that it was a known known.

Available_Win5204

Agreed. Even bitcoin is a security IMO. This whole space is just mental gymnastics.

SolanaToTheMooon

That’s crazy to see the Top 10 have been negative YTD and it’s technically a “bull market”. But apparently it’s only a bull market for BTC and ETH IMO, with institutions and MSM in the crypto space now, we’ll see less volatility, less moonshots, and an overall concentration to the Top 5 maybe even Top 3 We know so far that BTC and ETH are the chosen 2 but I wonder which crypto will solidify itself as the #3

CloKey3

I wish we had done this. I’m 31(f) and husband 33(m). We had 5 bitcoin last year and both had high paying jobs (around 200k each). Used 1 bitcoin to help with house down payment and kept 4. Did renovations with personal loans because our income was great. Decided I would be a stay at home mom while our kids are little in February and quit my job. Well.. my husband decided options with MSTR and MARA would make us wealthy fast (it could’ve.. but mostly gambling IMO). Agreed we’d use 1 bitcoin on that. Turned into an addiction of some sort for my husband and he spent remaining 3 bitcoin behind my back. Could’ve easily paid off all debts and be living financially free in early 30s. Instead our savings are gone and I wish we had the bitcoin back more than anything.

FamiliarAmoeba7442

CEX IO is beginner-friendly IMO

Dangerous_Warthog603

Your portfolio should be diversified. IMO you should be holding both in a percentage that you are comfortable with. 90/10 or 10/90 or something in between - it's your call.

Proper_Mastodon324

I can't say for certain what the "top" signal was... But the day it all started dipping from the PPI, stocks recovered quite well vs. crypto. I sold my ETH that day at about 5% down on the day, but I still am very happy because I ended up selling at 4,520 vs what it is now. IMO, it was quite obvious that the good news yet to come was already priced in and any shaking of the market (the PPI report) would cause a big sell off because the market was driven by pure euphoria. It definitely helped and started with the big institution money of ETFs and stuff, but people were fomo'ing. They're panic selling now.

ilak333

IMO it’s best to not even mention BTC initially but instead explain how the fiat system is essentially the root cause of a lot of problems in society today and then talk about possible solutions.

Aggressive-Ship2270

Don’t put your $$$ all on red or black but the thing to do is increase your chances! The BEST narratives in crypto usually win. IMO it’s three categories. AI, DePin & RWA’s! Low cap coins are risky as hell and a lot of the time you’re going to lose 50% of your money BUT when things hit the HIT🔥🔥🔥 I’ve had a several 4x-7x by doing this. I’ll take that bet all day as long as I pick 6-10ish coins! Right now I’m in VertAI, GPU, TaoBot, HashAI, 0x0, PalmAI, Nosana & ZKML. Just keep an eye on those and wait for an ugly RED day to buy! A handful of those should easily 3x to 10X and the others might go to zero but who cares! That’s how you play the casino and win😎

Frustrated_Bettor

It has a powerful community, similar to DOGE. And more upside than XRP IMO

whatatimetobealive22

try using both, I gaurentee you'll be hooked on solana. Most of the activity is on solana. There has been a big shift from eth to solana Ive been watching the activity since 2020. IMO Solana is the clear winner

word-dragon

That’s not quite accurate. The difficulty factor is adjusted bi-weekly to maintain this average rate. The hash rate goes up, so does the difficulty factor. If the hash rate goes down, it would self-adjust down. The halvings don’t always come spot on every 3.995 years, but the adjustments should keep it fairly on target. Not to minimize your point, though - it is true, as you correctly point out, that if the hash rate constantly increases, it will keep a little ahead of the 6 per hour rate - the adjustment factor will assume the next two weeks will have the same hash rate as the last two weeks, and the hash rates may increase during the next two weeks. If the hash rate starts falling - for example, as a result of the dwindling reward/block approaching zero, and leaving the miner with block fees only - the reverse will happen. If you look at the charts for median time between blocks, its actually starting to stabilize as time goes on. You would expect this with higher hash rates, as adding and subtracting hash sources will have less impact. What does this actually mean using real data? Looking at this last year: As of 12AM this morning (8/18/2025 - US eastern daylight time), the last block was 910550. The same time last year, it was 857282, which translates to a block rate of 6.08082 blocks/hour - about 1.34% higher than the target. I didn't mention the small error Satoshi left us with in the difficulty calculation code, but the impact of that is miniscule. Still, if you assume that acceleration won't get worse - and it looks like it actually gets better as the hash rate goes up - it puts us out of new coin maybe a year or two earlier than originally predicted. But probably after 2135. That's close enough for me - I don't expect to be alive much past 2120 lol. So I think, as long as I can check in on the block height periodically, I can make do with the math. Lot's of good reason's to run your own node, but making sure the math works is probably not one of them, IMO.

KGB4L

I think it’s more of a wishful thinking. IMO, BTC still has room to grow, but at one point it will stagnate. I’ll become what gold is nowadays, pretty much insurance against inflation. Like BTC can’t just keep growing and growing without any sort of dividends to holders. BH stock is at 500k and is the most successful stock in human history and it doesn’t pay dividends. But it reinvests everything in order to grow. My uneducated opinion is that BTC around 500k is realistic in the near future, everything beyond will be a growth on par with inflation.

TheSypHunterGeneral

I'm not sure i understand, but IMO the “this time is different” crowd are generally Twitter/X degens aurora farming.

HardllKill

IMO I wouldn’t it. DCA and wait till next month.