IMO

bjjfan23113

IMO, demo trading is genuinely underrated for building discipline before going live. Bitget's demo is probably the most beginner friendly right now realistic feeds and easy to switch to live when you're ready. One thing worth thinking about alongside the trading side though is what you do with holdings you're not actively trading. Been keeping the idle stuff on Nexo, earns yield while it sits fr. Keeps the non trading portion working rather than just dormant and I'm not that stress anymore like before lmao.

BaconGreaseShot

IMO BTC is the solution through the crisis phase of this fourth turning. You're spot on with your observations.

FractalEnemy

I used to frequent this sub but the mods became trigger happy with deletions and bans. It wouldn't surprise me if they are actually no-coiners. To your question, if the bear market pattern repeats then the price should dip below the 200w moving average before establishing a bottom. That hasn't happened yet. IMO there is another leg down, but the timing is unclear. Many are calling for an October bottom, but Bitcoin has a habit of bucking consensus.

KateR_H0l1day

Therefore, a good time to enter the market, rather than chasing through FOMO. Just IMO of course 🤷‍♀️

Rare_Rich6713

Yeah I get it, that's why there is a testnet coming up soon, that should do IMO.

Ok-Vegetable-8900

If you’re coming from stocks and thinking long-term, I’d stick mostly to majors and only take small bets on smaller caps. My core watchlist right now: Bitcoin – still the cleanest macro bet. It’s basically becoming digital gold with strong institutional flows and ETF demand. Ethereum – backbone of DeFi and smart contracts. Upgrades are improving scalability and keeping it relevant long term.  Solana – higher risk but strong growth in apps, trading, and user activity. Feels like the “high beta” play in this cycle.  For smaller caps, I’d only look at projects with real infrastructure use cases (like oracles, DeFi rails, etc.), not hype narratives. IMO the edge isn’t picking the perfect coin, it’s position sizing and not overexposing to speculative stuff. Most people lose by going too far down the risk curve too early.

isaacvictory

ETH and SOL are pretty solid picks IMO. The others you listed still have active ecosystems, but like all alts they depend a lot on market cycles and adoption, so I’d treat them as higher-risk plays and diversify rather than going heavy on one. Been checking CoinDepo lately 24% annual interest looks solid. On top of that, they’re giving up to $15 bonus per $100 in new assets, and they roll out new offers pretty often. If you’re holding coins anyway, stuff like that can be a decent way to earn while you decide your long-term positions.

Reyeslgdr

I think it depends on what people are actually buying. Find a platform like fomo family that lets you copy trades of the people making the biggest moves or to just watch out for the trending ones. IMO It's a more honest way of tracking what's trending that isn't hype listening.

user_name_checks_out

> IMO BTC growth & adoption acceleration would be best served by converting to measuring in Satoshi. IMO there is no need to grow or accelerate the adoption of bitcoin. Bitcoin already serves its purpose perfectly well. Everyone buys bitcoin at the price they deserve.

TridentTradingTech

Crypto is helping the unbanked people of Nigeria and that leads adoption there IMO.

3DigitIQ

Again a thing blockchain was going to change, just to bad it's gone this way IMO. Nearly indistinguishable from the stock market and it's shenanigans.

Romanizer

Basically, yes. That's why it's not really applicable here. Intrinsic value comes from said cash, while cash doesn't have any intrinsic value on itself. That argument doesn't really lead anywhere, IMO.

word-dragon

I’m always amazed when people want to take simple problem and make it complicated. One bank box for $1000 per decade is much simpler to manage than 2 law practices (which may retire and pass you on to another one), IMO. And safer, too, I think. KISS is always my path,

Romanizer

Since stablecoin yield is offered, Bitcoin grew at an average of 37% p.a. Stablecoins yield up to 10% through combination with lending. However, you could also lend your Bitcoin for 6-7%, both very risky IMO. Therefore my point stands, holding Bitcoin is better than holding stablecoins even at maximum yield.

AutisticGayBear69

You’re not missing anything IMO. It’s a thing for many North Americans though.

KateR_H0l1day

No, I don’t mean as a currency, in my way of thinking we mainly buy for the future where we can increase the value of what we bought. Whether we sell it, leave it as part of our inheritance to others of our choice, we are at the end of it all basically looking to improve our financial position. Yet among this mentality there are some things that we can obtain, use and enjoy, while simultaneously increasing the value. I like a new car every so often, my husband refuses to buy a new car, we use them virtually daily, my car has lost value every year, my husband’s car has gained $20K in value over the last two years. It’s like buying art, it can be an investment and something you can visually appreciate every day. But, of course not all art goes up in value, nor do people tend to sell, it often becomes part of that inheritance, but you can have had years of enjoyment from it before that happens. I’m not comparing BTC to things like cars or art, but there’s lots of things beyond currency and hard assets like gold. Some people invest as a means to get a second home or a larger home due to children for example. I’m only comparing it as a means to an end, we each individually have our own end goal. But, what I do know is that if I look at the value of currency, say the USD 5 years ago it’s actual value has gone down every year. I think I can accurately predict that it’ll go down for the next 5 years, so I know I have to live with that as a fact of life. There are so many things we can choose to do to help protect ourselves from this fact, most come with risk, it’s a question of risk assessment. But, I firmly believe it’s about looking to the future today, in regard to what I can do about continually loosing value every year. And, I don’t believe BTC will ever be a real currency in my lifetime. But, of course that’s just IMO 🤷‍♀️

GIGAbtcHodl

Would not care that much on the timing in your case. The important thing is that you DCA, that's the only important thing IMO

Romanizer

Hey OP, I have summarized a few points you could use for that discussion, all bearish on XRP: 1. Heavy dependence on a single company: Ripple still holds a large share of XRP supply and releases tokens from escrow periodically. This creates the perception that XRP is not fully independent but economically tied to one company. Critics argue that a “corporate-adjacent” asset contradicts the decentralization narrative many crypto investors expect. 2. Questionable tokenomics: All 100 billion XRP were created at launch. Unlike Bitcoin, there was no mining process distributing coins gradually. The large founder allocation and ongoing escrow releases create a persistent supply overhang that some investors see as structurally bearish. 3. Ripple’s success does not necessarily require XRP: Ripple provides multiple payment and infrastructure products. In several cases, institutions can use Ripple’s network without actually using XRP. This leads to the criticism that Ripple the company could succeed while XRP the asset does not capture proportional value. 4. Bank adoption narrative vs. actual usage: For years XRP has been promoted as a global bridge asset for banks and cross-border payments. Skeptics argue that if this thesis were truly dominant, XRP would already be an unavoidable part of global payment infrastructure. 5. Regulatory history damaged credibility: The long SEC lawsuit reinforced the perception that XRP’s original distribution model sits in a regulatory gray area. Even though Ripple achieved partial legal victories, the case left a reputational scar. 6. Missing early ledger history (biggest trust issue, IMO): The XRP Ledger lost its first 32,569 ledgers early in the network’s history. While the network still functions technically, this creates a permanent gap in the earliest transaction history. Critics argue that a financial ledger missing its earliest records undermines the “trustless” blockchain narrative. 7. Persistent centralization concerns: Ripple’s large token holdings, its influence over the ecosystem, and the strong branding overlap between the company and the token lead critics to argue that XRP is less decentralized than many other major crypto assets. 8. Strong competition in the payments narrative: Stablecoins, faster banking rails, and other blockchain networks are competing for the same cross-border payment use case. If stablecoins dominate global settlement, the need for a volatile bridge asset like XRP becomes less clear. In Summary: The core criticism is that XRP sits in an unusual middle ground, not fully decentralized like Bitcoin, but also not a traditional equity stake in Ripple. For skeptics, that creates a structural question about whether the token truly captures long-term value.

islandfool

Because it has been proven that people with insider knowledge are making millions though the site. If you want to gamble - cool. I even like the idea of a site where you can gamble on random and benign stuff. But once we get to wars and some of these particular bets, then the platforms should be shutdown IMO. It’s like Roblox - you let the predators go unchecked and now it’s a huge hunting ground for underaged children. No one has to agree obviously. I just think that if patterns start to show themselves and go unchecked over and over then maybe these platforms need to be shut down, even temporarily.

homeless9uy

Bitcoin before institutions… fluid. After institutions… hyperbolic. The largest amount of whales are located where? The USA… all republican related organizations. “Shell companies”… yeah, how about putting your bitcoin into the hands of a larger corporation with mass amounts of extremely hard to audit trails of money. Let alone allow it to be on etf’s and 24 hour trading through multiple unregulated exchanges. IMO… it’s run by the elite right and the plan is to continue tanking the dollar… and then bring those funds back to the USA after foreign countries value has shrunken and we coerce them into take Pennie’s on the dollar in debt from us. Then BAM those digital assets are sent back into the funnel for the elites to prop the dollar up again. Let’s just see if their plan works… THE FOURTH TURNING. if you haven’t read it, then you don’t know what Steve bannon had already advised Trump on as a strategy. Makes chaos look pretty planned to me

OrangePillar

A bitcoin business isn’t more susceptible to this risk than a cash-based one, IMO.

KateR_H0l1day

It’s almost impossible to time the market bottom and top, if you get one of them, you’re extremely lucky. Your plan is good, having a strategy to critical IMO, however you need to do “what if’s”. For example, what if we’ve already seen the bottom, what if it only goes down to $55K. What will you do in those circumstances, will you be missing out and buying nothing? Is your plan to buy with a lump sum, or have you allocated a portion of your salary for weekly or monthly buys? If lump sum, is it an amount you’d be willing to lose, do you have other investments outside crypto, if so, what percentage of BTC do you want to own compared to TradFi? What is your risk level at, for example are you buying BTC from an Exchange/DEX, where will you hold it, do you have a cold wallet already. Or, are you buying an ETF, which one, why, you could buy MSTR with more risk, and bet on it beating BTC, or buy STRC, less risk, get 11% now rotate monthly earnings directly into BTC/MSTR, so many options to decide on!! I don’t think from your OP, or comments, that you have a plan/strategy, you have an idea, but you need to take it further and flesh out the strategy to achieve the desired goals 🤷‍♀️ I honestly don’t think we will drop into the $40K band, that’s my idea, and I’ve built a strategy around that, which is in place today. But good luck 🍀whatever you do

seand26

That's not greed. That's common sense IMO. What's everyone's take on tokenization? I do have concerns about the "you will own nothing" aspect of it. Coupled with the Save Act's digital ID, the runway is set for that mass surveillance system.

never_safe_for_life

IMO, the real concern is counterparty risk. For instance, Coinbase Lend is through a 3rd party company and I don't know jack all about them. Could be the next Alex Machinsky running that shit and spending my Bitcoin on yachts. Said product required an 85% reserve, meaning I'd have to put quite a bit of Bitcoin in their wallet to pull out enough to ride through this bear market. Just not worth the risk.

ChillerID

$QRL. It's built entirely on NIST-standardized post-quantum cryptography, already running in production. It also provides financial-grade digital signatures and audit trails that remain secure even when quantum computers break today’s encryption. Great potential IMO.

BlubberWall

Bitcoin, projects come and go in this space but BTC is king. Getting a nice base of it built up before considering other projects is the way to go IMO

heyheyshinyCRH

We are making our way to send a pin through or close above the daily 50 EMA, currently sitting at 73.2. If we snap up to it now then there will be more downside IMO. Ideally price will pull back before we tap that EMA and we don't touch it until it gets into the 60s. When that happens we usually will blast right through it so hopefully we range from high 50s to low 60s before that happens, that would be a good sign for a legit reversal

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FilmDazzling4703

IMO there seems to be two categories of meme coins. First being hype projects that are trying to ride a wave, either a popular meme or like this a public figure who is getting attention. It seems like this is the majority of the meme coin space and I’m not surprised they burn fast and bright. The second are pure belief assets. Not claiming to have any use case as p2p cash or future utility. Just purely about collective power of individuals and conviction. There are less of these projects, and most of them don’t find a hold in the zeitgeist well enough to establish themselves. But imo the ones that do like SPX6900 are the best options in the meme coin space

minorthreatmikey

The idea is, the interest you pay is less than bitcoin’s average yearly appreciation. Mathematically it makes sense, but mentally, most people won’t be able to do it in practice. IMO, these loans are still WAYYYY too high of an APR. If you take out a loan and the loan is over-backed by your bitcoin, you should be paying 1 or 2% as there is essentially no risk to the lender. However we are not there and Bitcoin isn’t considered prestige collateral yet. That could change over the next decade, just keep stackin for now.

Many_Income_2212

Aside from scammers, if you don’t know how to do it, you **will ** get hit by AML - anti money laundering laws going on in almost every country right now. Meaning you won’t see that 100k. Better off going via a crook and a 10/15% cut IMO

Decentralization-God

Yep … Full agreement on this. Memecoins, Trump coins, Saylor madness, I think crypto or Web3 suffered some heavy reputational hits. It again is mainly Charles who openly talks about how retail people were screwed … Who else is talking like that? I mean critics to its own industry. This is a sign of authenticity and also builder mindset. But if Vitalik somehow restarts Ethereum then sure, I wish him all good too. 2026 and 2027 will be IMO decisive years for this industry. It will either step up or collapse …

wetokebitcoins

I hope she can get this done before she retires. IMO the deminimis is a REQUIREMENT for bitcoin to grow into the role of currency.

planetpluto3

You investment horizon is too short and adds risk. At 3+, it becomes almost risk less. But you have to stomach being in the red for some of that time. IMO, the bear market isn’t done. If you plan to buy and hold for longer, feel free to DCA. The “perfect” lump sum day isn’t here yet.

KateR_H0l1day

Yes it will, but there’s a choice of when to buy and at what price to maximize profit, because the buy in price is always the most critical point in any investment. The Preferred’s offer an alternative now, many are seeing this as an easy low risk at this moment in time, but that will change for many. But, many who don’t like volatility and risk will just keep going for the steady “guaranteed” returns. I personally believe that having this choice was an excellent move by Strategy, financial engineering where it wasn’t known, impressive move! Just IMO of course 🤷‍♀️

KateR_H0l1day

It’s the 🐻market driving people to STRC, once it starts turning 🐂, people will sell and buy BTC/MSTR directly. Just IMO of course 🤷‍♀️

BlackDog990

IMO the cycle exists (in some form) at this point because people think it does. Basically a self fulfilling prophecy at this point. Technically the halvings really don't matter a ton anymore since most btc has been mined. It's all about how traders behave.

roswellralph

HUT has a 10GW total pipeline capacity and is about to start building a 1 GW location in Texas. There is a lot of volatility, but the company is still wildly undervalued for the long term IMO.

Professional-Push680

Hold on tho - what if their situation isn't contextualized as you assume? It could be that he should thank his lucky stars she hasn't run for those same hills. Spending = an action that reveals one's priorities. IMO, everyone should get some personal, private funds to spend at their discretion, but what if he's burned thru that, they're close to broke, and their cats need fed? Bet you didn't think about that, did ya?

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The best model they tested completed 24% of tasks autonomously. That's the best one!! And if you assume even 95% reliability per step, a 20-step workflow has about **a 36% chance of finishing without error**. Can't imagine trusting that with my portfolio. Meanwhile at Consensus Hong Kong this year, Bitget's CEO said the quiet part out loud: current AI trading bots are trained on limited historical data and fall apart when markets do something genuinely unfamiliar - like the 10/10 liquidation cascade. In these cases, the ones where your whole P/L is decided, human intervention is still fully required. **Here's what I think almost everyone in this space gets wrong:** They're trying to build agents that make trading decisions. IMO, that's the wrong problem to automate. The decision is the hard part. It's the part that requires judgment, risk tolerance, conviction, and context that no model actually has about your specific situation. Delegating that to an agent is how you get blown up. The right problem to automate is everything around the decision. The research, the monitoring, the risk math... the pattern recognition across your own trade history. The stuff that a serious trader does (or should be doing) but that takes hours and is brutally tedious to maintain manually. **Think about what a firm like Bridgewater does.** They don't have a magic algorithm. They have investment theses that research analysts refine over time and pressure-test against current conditions. A risk desk optimizing risk-return profiles. Analysts providing inputs to all the above based on their reading of current events. It's not a crystal ball - it's disciplined analysis compounding over time. That's the gap agents should be filling. Not replacing your judgment - augmenting your operation so you can make better calls with less manual overhead. Decision support, not decision making. 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Ok-Significance-1399

I like to be open minded, so I can partially agree with you. However, we have to compare, motorola was the first mover for handheld phones. IBM made the first smart phone. They are still alive but behind the competition for providing phones nowadays. If Bitcoin came first, and that is literally it. Then I cannot convince myself that it won't turn out to be like motorala or IBM, aka outdated. I don't think Bitcoin will be outdated, I think there is more to bitcoin than being the first of it's technology. Yes, it has the benefit of the network effect, but a new born in the 2026, will eventually grow up make money and buy bitcoin in the future, that has more to do with the first mover tech, or network effect. Bitcoin will last longer than motorola or IBM IMO, so I had to justify it in a philosophical way, which tech guru's and economists hate, a monetary behavioral phenomenon.

LoveSexDraems

You don’t stat trading with crypto IMO. Good luck!

HesitantInvestor0

It depends on the pathway and the reason. If Bitcoin shot up to 250k this year in a wild run where the macro was tepid, I'd likely sell half my stack. If it took a more gradual path, or if the macro picture changed substantially, I'd probably hold. I don't think it's smart to have only a number in mind. The number doesn't give you enough information IMO.

AkimboPiccolo

Just more fuel for the fire IMO, hope they get eviscerated obviously.

ConfidenceNo6318

Ease of use, air gapped, connects just by holding to back of phone, comes with a back up..extremely safe IMO

FrankSlipHelp

>\\\*\\\*Consider what we know:\\\*\\\* Ok I’ll expect credible sources then. >1. How it’s used to conduct cross-border payments Plenty of info direct from Ripple on this. >2. Ripple owns the majority of shares, primarily (IMO) so they can control the price Coins, not shares. XRP is not a share of stock of Ripple, Ripple did not issue XRP, XRP ownership does not transfer to Ripple ownership. How would owning a majority of coins control price? Look at the daily, weekly and monthly trading volume and explain what price control Ripple’s monthly escrow or other OTC sales could possibly happen. The math doesn’t math. Ask your favorite AI agent to do the math for you. >3. The goal is worldwide adoption/to replace SWIFT Credible source on this? Ripple has stated that they expect to take some marketshare from Swift due to the nature of the technology and banks wanting to have faster cheaper payments without holding nostro vostro accounts, but nowhere have I ever read that the software RipplePayment’s was intended to replace swift. Swift is a secure messaging platform, Swift does not move value, RipplePayments moves value, it is also a secure messaging platform. >How will smaller and mid-size banks adopt the technology if they can’t afford to buy the large amount of xrp needed in their reserve to conduct transactions? They don’t need to hold XRP in reserve, RipplePayment’s is a software suite and when ODL (on demand liquidity) is used no nostro / vostro accounts are needed. >XRP is intended to represent an amount, the amount of money being sent, as I understand it. It would be stupid if it was worth $50 where the dollar is worth $1, right? No. This post is from David Schwartz. >It can’t be dirt cheap. That doesn’t make any sense. If XRP costs $1, they’d need a million XRP which would cost $1 million. If XRP cost a million dollars, they’d need one XRP which would, again, cost $1 million. >Except that higher prices make payments cheaper. Right now, you can buy a million dollar house with bitcoins. When bitcoins where $300, it would move the market too much and be too expensive to be practical. So higher prices make payments cheaper. ~ David Schwartz recently retired CTO of Ripple and co-creator of the XRPL and XRP ~ https://x.com/joelkatz/status/932748963526066178?s=61 Slippage is real, and why moving the market makes payments more expensive, in order to not do that a higher value coin helps with keeping payments cheaper. >Does ripple control the price because THEY HAVE TO in order to KEEP IT LOW to operate as intended? Ripple does not control the price. Let’s use critical thinking here. If this was the case, wouldn’t that have been discovered during the 5 years that the SEC had full access to every financial document Ripple had? Wouldn’t that have been a ‘gotcha’ for the SEC? No, and they know what you don’t, Ripple does not control the price, has no means to control the price, and there is no evidence they have controlled the price. >Is xrp essentially a “hybrid” version of a stable coin (I know it’s not one technically). But it just seems like it has to remain stable or it can’t function as it’s intended. Your logic used here is false, it may ‘seem’ this way to you, but I don’t know where you derive your assumptions from, but from what I have read from you i’d say you need to get info from the source and not 3rd party. XRP is a country neutral crypto currency that has no central authority, stable coins are issued by companies and under regulation by the jurisdictions they are used in. >CAN SOMEONE PLEASE TELL ME IM AN IDIOT AND EXPLAIN WHAT IM MISSING? Not an idiot, but you don’t know what you don’t know. Same for everyone until due diligence is done and even then there is always more to discover about what you don’t know and learn.

Fro3en_Cornchip

OP I think you have missed the boat to take profits when it bounced to 97. I think we can expect more rallies now after a few red months but probably lower highs. Forget your profits this year and just hold and stack more. Right now your DCA amount should be at max chickens IMO and be prepared for some aggressive buying if we hit the 50s and 40s. I’m not sure why people think a multi year bear market. The cycle is still playing out so no reason to think it’s any different. Meh at the end of the day all our opinions don’t mean shit anyway.

-Xaron-

You're right that the exit is where the money is made, NOT the entry. $250k is quite a stretch goal IMO.

FocusFlukeGyro

IMO, investing more than you can afford to lose would be unwise because of the volatility. Then as well as now. That being said, investing a reasonable amount of money, into an investment you believe in, is generally fine.

nightwind_999

I get that, IMO the fees youre paying rn for loading up stables is pretty fair, unless you're doing some bulk institutional order, i think it's hard to go beyond 1%.

Dubb18

There are some investors who won't put money (directly) into the sector because of the lack of regulatory clarity. There's some legal restrictions. Someone who covers TradFi awhile ago explained it while talking about ETFs. Regulatory clarity allows for things to open up to a degree. IMO, that doesn't mean BTC to $1M like some of the bulls have been saying, but a rally to some degree.

Dubb18

There are some investors who won't put money (directly) into the sector because of the lack of regulatory clarity. Someone who covers TradFi awhile ago explained it while talking about ETFs. Regulatory clarity allows for things to open up to a degree. IMO, that doesn't mean BTC to $1M like some of the bulls have been saying, but a rally to some degree.

JashBeep

If you've been following along this long, how is it possible to still think you've missed out? Doesn't that necessarily mean you think it is close to the highest value it will ever have? Wasn't that exact same thought true in 2014, 2017, 2021.... Do you really believe it won't continue to accrue in value from here? I mean, you have to think in terms of percentage changes, not dollar values. But that's pretty basic stuff. Have you 'missed out' on the nasdaq now that it's at 22k? Or do you think over the long term the nasdaq will grow in percentage terms? I mean, the way you described bitcoin gives me no confidence you think it is fundamentally a valuable thing, so it seems you're kinda capped at thinking about it in terms of a speculative play. So it's probably for the best that you haven't bought it anyway. IMO, bitcoin will still be here for you later on if/when you need it. So I guess that's ok.

busterbythelake

Sure, you can do whatever you want. If diversification is your goal, ideally you’d want some allocation to Bitcoin. Depends on whether or not you can stomach volatility. I recommended starting with 5-10% and see how that goes. IMO, the greater risk is not being exposed to an asset that has outperformed most equities. My advice is to do a little bit of studying on why Bitcoin will disrupt the system and go from a risk asset to a flight to safety. This will take a long time but that’s the opportunity. You get to be extremely early. Here are two books I’ve read and it changed my whole perspective on what money is and how the system is rigged against us. 1) The Bitcoin Standard 2) The Big Print

automatic_taco

BTC value behaves like an aggregate of most global markets, IMO, after watching it for 12 years.

thebestname1234

Holy shit- Reddit is toxic. Why would anyone buy Bitcoin when no one is willing to offer a little bit of advice, at least to steer them in the right direction… Here’s at least a little to get you started. IMO what most people don’t understand about Bitcoin in this sub and outside of it needs to be your starting point for everything- the goal of Bitcoin is to become a universal way to protect your purchasing power as governments debase the currency. The people who own Bitcoin are placing their bet that this will become true over time. We know governments will spend, the question is can anything protect our purchasing power? The world is already beginning to agree that we need to get back to a method for this again and a lot of people are saying gold will regain this title. The thing is- gold already has failed this test and hence why we have the dollar system in the first place. The failure of gold literally led to the dollar system taking over. The more you dive into why gold doesn’t work, the more you learn why Bitcoin is the only thing that can work. Will it, well- we think so and by the time people are sure- it will be unaffordable to ever own a whole coin. Most people then start to argue that gold has industrial use cases, which also means that they don’t truly understand the underlying thesis. Gold didn’t double in value due to industrial use suddenly,it is more because of governments overspending. Of course much of the price increase this year is also just speculation on price with no true reason. But that leads us back to the point that gold cannot be the future for the same reasons it failed in the past. So the question is, at what point do people realize this? When kids can’t ever own a house? When people try to redeem gold and get turned away? When a new Bitcoin payment system makes it easy to pay at every store? When selling stops being taxed? Again- the time is unknown but we don’t see any other way to beat the debasement. Beyond that- there are many amazing things about Bitcoin and some things that are not so amazing that get presented on news stations. Remember Bitcoin is not bad, people can be. In time it will evolve, so should you own some today? That’s for you to decide in time.

Affectionate_Lack709

For what it’s worth, I was really pointing to the “who” that will profit from this war, not the general fact that people profit from war. That’s a talents old as time. Based on your question and our current back and forth, are you arguing in favor of democratizing the ability to profit from war? If the rich do it, we should too? If we’re talking about a question of morality, thinking like that leads to a society that is more favorable towards utilizing violence instead of diplomacy to resolve conflict. Thinking like that is IMO immoral and makes the world a more dangerous/less stable place. I bought some crypto during 2021 and like the rest of the cryptos out there, it turned out to be a scam. Luckily it was only a couple of hundred of dollars and not my life savings. The crypto world is clearly filled with people who are lacking in morality (or create their own moral codes to justify their actions/belief systems). It’s interesting to me that you turns to this subreddit to ask about morality because I bet the nature of the responses here are pretty different than the responses that you’d find on other subreddits.

bytewitco

"Monitoring the situation" LOL. Actually, the sunday nights' signals will give some directions IMO.

-Xaron-

IMO fundamentals don't play a role in crypto as there is simply no underlying fundamentals, no value, nothing.

Background-Call2711

Too bad Citi sucks. (IMO)

OpticallyMosache

IMO - You're a fool if you're waiting for the 200WMA and below. If you think you'll time the bottom before you make you're first buyback, you're gonna miss it. Also, buying $67k on the way down (if it keeps moving down) is the same price you'll be buying on the way back up. But by buying it on the way down, you're increasing your chances of buying the low.

NilNow

I mean loading up on a centrally controlled coin with super concentrated ownership for your treasury is next level regarded IMO. Will the treasuries who bought XRP complain if Ripple which owns at least $40B worth decides to sell some?

niddess

I'm not looking for excuse, I really am trying to find a good robust option. Yeah KYC is more revealing, but name, last name is already way too much IMO. Meeting people is only possible in big cities or the offer just does not exist, sending money through mail is just too risky, bitcoin ATM without KYC is for very few countries. Only option left is WU/similar, I'll dive into this to see if there is something rotten with this method, or if it's the golden one

lxlmandudelxl

It's a decentralized and borderless peer-to-peer medium of exchange that can't be inflated or manipulated. That's the simple answer IMO

JerryLeeDog

Haha "ended" No, dont believe this. This not my first cycle. We could hit $50s before it over. We COULD have seen the bottom but not likely IMO

FlyinDanskMen

Don’t cash it out early and take tax hits to do that. Some 401k will let you invest in crypto holding companies, which is a better bet on protecting the tax status. IMO shouldn’t be more than 25% crypto, especially at your age. I’d lean closer to 15%. Which is still about 2 bitcoins. If it still goes to the moon you’ll ride it high. But the stock market is going crazy and probably will in the future too.

No_Knee3385

Rejecting worldcoin is about rejecting centralization IMO. What use case are you concerned about? EVen if you spin up 1 million accounts and buy enough tokens to overtake a DAO, you're still at a gigantic financial risk

According-Order-4035

20k 😂 be lucky to see it under 50 ever again. IMO

Langstudd

Why not just invest in a BTC fund through your 401k? If not currently available, it probably will be within a year. Not worth all the withdrawal fees IMO.

BlazingPalm

Hyperbitcoinization is happening before our eyes IMO. Probably one of the most common remarks here is “zoom out” for a reason: This asset class is still a baby! Also, forget about Alts, BTC IS the class. BTC has been around for ~16 years now, not counting it’s very early days. Market Cap is outrageous for something so new. Anybody ever hear the phrase, “power is not given, it is taken”? The power that govts and banks and fiat wield over the global population is immense and unyielding. There has not been an easy light switch moment because of the power and wealth struggle going on right now and it’s still heating up. So, month to month, crazy shit happens in finance, war, politics, policy. But year to year and eventually, decade to decade, the trend is clear. It doesn’t seem like a straight line up, but it kinda is.

TommyV8008

I am very much agree with you. There is at least one company that is working diligently at this and they have made amazing progress, IMO.

Logical_Lemming

Their official stance before was that staking their ETH could be seen to compromise their neutrality or give them undue influence in the event of a contentious hard fork. That's... still pretty true, IMO. But they way people complain about their selling.... it's hard to say what the right decision is.

Machine7272

Bitcoin has to be understood as a volatile asset and knowing you will never truly time the highs and lows for entering and exiting the asset. I learned from the last market and sold my BTC at 115K. Didn’t time it perfectly but my cost basis was 33K and was happy with the return. This time won’t be different IMO, good time to dollar cost average into it and sell at the next peak

nightwind_999

If you see gold for instance, it has a huge historical track record of being used for trading for who knows centuries? Anyway, for something which is this old and the times it has gone though, there gets attached an inherent trust - it's just human psychology. Fast forward to the modern era, we got equities and bonds and what not to trade, they have utilities, they can serve their purposes but that didn't diminish the value of gold (as i said the trust that this commodity has accumulated is immense and should be respected) so when the times are bad, folks turn to this one damn thing which has helped our great grand ancestors thrive in their times. The same is BTC: it's the oldest, has survived times and hence looks battle hardened, IMO it shall always be the gold standard of crypto industry. New equities might come and go, you may earn good fortune but eventually when the times are bad - nothing replaces BTC.

trimbandit

I sold at 120 knowing it might go to 145 and being ok with that. You can't be greedy and try to hit the exact top IMO.

ygzok

Maybe you're right. But not seeing those numbers short term IMO.

KPTA-IRON

Good man. IMO risk on will go to nano and small cap miners to complete the metals cycle. Why would people risk on useless alts when they can pick up junior explorers and developers at these metal prices

they_call_me_tripod

IMO is failed as a currency, and the comparisons to gold don’t hold up anymore either. Pretending this downturn is the same as the past is naive. Not saying it can’t go back up, but the arguments made in the past down hold up anymore.

evnsbn

Bottom is near. Already seeing 'crypto is dead" clickbaits on youtube. I keep eye on the supply in profit %, its getting there. Below 50% Im buying. Crypto market is rigged, now more than ever. I dont believe drug lords are the reason for the price going lower. Markets work in cycles. Big money avoids risk. Greedy leveraged investors get wrecked as stop losses are triggered, and big moves happen suddenly because of this, its a cascade effect. IMO, market must and will go much lower, capitulation is near, but we're not there yet. We still not seeing blood on the streets. Its only the beginning. Some say: all in below 50k. It could go to zero in a flash only to wreck leveraged money and flush the market, then shoot up again. Unfortunately, money is a magnet for crooks. So, we're playing along on a market that is run by them. As the game evolves, they evolve, so must we. Crypto isnt being hammered, its being recycled.

NilNow

This is an important point. When a tweet can move btc down 5%, it can also do the reverse. Can think of any number of things the orange man could tweet (even if completely untrue) that would send us up to $75k instantly. Not saying he will, but the despair here is absurd and IMO totally buyable.

FidgetyRat

IMO about as realistic as they made out having “AI” everywhere changing our lives.

Botlenose

Both are stores of value. I like gold bc it has been accepted for thousands of years. I like bitcoin because it’s portable. I like that Bitcoin is entirely its own financial system and I can send money anywhere anytime as long as I’m connected to the internet. So yea, I like them for different reasons. Gold is good, but really IMO Bitcoin does certain things better.. it’s the tangibility that bothers a lot of people that don’t understand it.

Sparky14715

Hurting children is a whole different level. IMO

Botlenose

I agree it doesn’t work as a currency in a world dominated by fiat. Why spend something that goes up long term relative to fiat currency? IMO it is a long term secure store of value. That’s my opinion and people can disagree all they want. It’s volatile but its scarcity will drive it up over the long haul. In 10 years it’ll crash from 1 million back to 500k and people will say it’s over all over again.

ScholarPrize1335

BTC is no longer driven by individual speculation. It's driven by big money and big institutions and how do they justify holding a speculative asset with bond like yields for the last 5 years? No fund manager can eat the opportunity cost of having investments that don't perform for that long. Also IMO anyone with a investment license not at a hedge fund is violating their ethical duty to follow modern portfolio theory. BTC is nowhere near the efficient frontier. Especially when the non-fait competition has been golden.

AkimboPiccolo

Meaningless for price but pretty important overall IMO. If it actually follows a power law it really strengthens its position as fundamental infrastructure. I have no idea if it actually follows power law though, I think the floor should be like $68k at the end of the year so we might have our answer then if its chilling below that. Either way power law is interesting.

ComplexWrangler1346

In 40 years maybe….i have money in bitcoin don’t get me wrong , but my biggest bags are in alts …unless you are a whale , Bitcoin will never give the normal Joe life changing money IMO..i am not in crypto to make a quick buck , I am in it to make life changing money if I can ….bitcoin won’t do that for me

SteveW928

Sure, there will always be both, at least until one day if Bitcoin either fails, or eventually succeeds and settles down into being primarily just a solid currency everyone uses. At that point, most of the speculator/investor class won't care, and move on to other things. But, there is a mathematical sense in which if it doesn't die, it can't help but go up against an ever expanding fiat supply. While economics is a social-science endeavour (hence the people-behaviour and trust aspects), I don't think it will be possible to suppress that overall movement through the volatility. I can't blame everyone currently. Even a Bitcoin maxi, if they have several hundred or thousand BTC is likely to start spending some of that at points. If they've been waiting to try and catch a peak (and who wouldn't?), we'll always see some sell-off at perceived high points. I don't think it necessarily indicates a shaken trust. Then there is the underlying macroeconomics. The world has been quite a crazy place in the last months, and at the center of it, Powell and Trump have been locked in battle over starting up the printer. USD liquidity is tight. Bitcoin is largely not understood. People are probably going to sell it out of their portfolio first, if things aren't great or are tight. So, I wouldn't agree it relies on trust and nothing else. It is a near-perfect monetary instrument that is worth a lot. Don't believe the 'no intrinsic value' people. The best money won't, and even gold isn't worth that much in terms of 'intrinsic value' if you strip away the monetary aspect. At the core, nothing really has intrinsic value... it's all determined by people and markets. The real breakthrough, IMO, is when start seeing that ability for Bitcoin to change the world, or watching people flee countries WITH some of their wealth, or surviving bank freezes/seizures, or funding a protest the gov't is trying to stop. Or, when you recognize all the prosperity and productivity gain the fiat system has stolen, or all the damage 'endless' fiat money produces in the hands of the gov't. This is when you flip from an investor, to a true Bitcoiner. It becomes like fire, the wheel, the printing press, or the Internet. Once you see that, you can't un-see. 'Laser eyes till fiat dies.'

ConBroMitch2247

IMO just open a Fidelity crypto account. The ETF fees are insane for bitcoin.

Worried-Low4580

IMO tether is a huge weak point in the crypto market. For being the largest stable coin (materially) and not having full audits or reserve disclosures… that could come back to bite us catastrophically

shleebs

The new easy version of BISQ isnt that complicated IMO If you really care about P2P i would spend a little more time reading the docs and figure it out

Seattleman1955

It's largely now just a self-fulfilling thing. People think there will be a "crypto winter" and therefore they sell and the price goes down. The supposed reasons for the cycle change every time. The more important question, IMO, for you to consider is why are you buying BTC? At this point, IMO, it's fairly mature and will perform about like gold performs. No one is obsessive regarding gold so why do you want to buy Bitcoin?

Laakhesis

IMO, get to at least 1 BTC, especially when you're young. Then move to traditional investments like broad market index funds.

PuzzleheadedFly1381

IMO, mega and eclipse kinda a huge flop and extraction. Beta may have legs? Monad is early, tech and is very exciting. This post is gonna rage bait some people, lol.

Mean-Interaction5017

XNO is the future of money! I swear once you DYOR and start using Nano you don't ever want to have to use one of the other cryptos again....XNO is Instant and feeless - the way all digital payments should be IMO💯

pass341

I mean, I would take any bullish outlook from a website called “time to buy bitcoin .com” with a grain of salt 😅 IMO, and I’m no analytical expert, but it seems like they’re conflating models used for stock analysis with this. Bitcoin is a purely speculative asset, there’s no price it “ought” to be. Its price is purely sentimental.

blvrg

Not ofc, that scenario would be highly harmful and it’s really not the case. We are good. BTFD IMO

blvrg

Not ofc, that scenario would be highly harmful and it’s really not the case. We are good. BTFD IMO

Life-Republic2311

IMO they’re a bit scammy.. If you’re newer to crypto, I’d give CB a try, real easy to use, and their wallet isn’t bad either

JustStopppingBye

IMO, it’s a step backwards. Layerzero and Pyth are vastly inferior to chainlinks network. Pyth doesn’t even provide the full data feeds that the US government is putting on chain, chainlink does. They’re seriously handicapping themselves from future growth by doing this. Chainlink has no real competitors, it’s past the point of no return for companies like Pyth and LZ. The only thing their competitors can offer at this point is a cheaper integration, which is what we’re seeing here. They don’t offer any competitive advantages.