NOT

SnooCookies8207

DO NOT GET THIS CARD! you earn rewards but cannot withrawl until you have $10,000 in your coinbase account!

CyanDew

screw “crypto” im stacking Bitcoin gang. shit is NOT the same

Xnove

NOT YOUR DICE ROLL, NOT YOUR COINS! i guess

SwimOld5053

You’re talking out of your ass on the AI claim. Neither Binance nor the FBI has publicly confirmed that the attackers used AI. Blockaid said it used AI to **detect** the theft. That is NOT evidence the hackers used it.

aprx4

No, ETFs are NOT "custodied by the fund". Same Coinbase is the custodian for the ETFs.

saggy777

Half in exchange he will certain lose, it's a matter of when. Half of HW wallet he may lose IF NOT careful and aware.

barcodemerge

It’s true. I love digital currency, it is NOT A SCAM!

DollarMarathon

Brother, this isn’t a debate. Research it. Firstly, he’s describing blockchain NOT crypto.

6DeliciousInches

exactly. and because of this financial structure that binance is forced into by the financial protocol driven by crypto/blockchain, the funds had to EXIST. but a bank DOES NOT HAVE THE FUNDS THERE. if a bank were COMPARABLY HACKED. it would be COOKED. binance TOOK IT TO THE FACE. thats my point. people keep coping and crying in the comments its nuts. its reddit i guess.

Fun-Combination-Arna

Then, you write a thesis and wait if markets validate ir OR NOT. My two cents, this is not a forectast, this is a thesis that could or could not happen. https://preview.redd.it/c3areoumvzyh1.png?width=1714&format=png&auto=webp&s=b6a9084353c197e35ab2083a3bf0b38be963bb06

Sin-City-Sinner

They will be bored when your on your yacht! I’m 47, and OH BOY do I wish I was 21 just starting out investing, if I listened to a friend in 2010-ish I would have got into BTC super early and he made off with a cool million dollars and i believe only invested $500, well I know i would NOT have held onto it once it became so valuable, not knowing how high it actually went and will go. BUT, at least I would have got into crypto back then, I feel like now that’s its main steam and there are governments involved, it’s just not the same as it was and omg I’ve made, and wasted SOOOOOO Much money in my life, I know I know have made a fortune because I had a lot more capital to invest than most, especially back then. Idk if talking to other people your age is going to do….. something for you or not but your better off talking to the older people, the OGs, you’ll learn more as long as you don’t listen to the wrong person, lotta people wanna see you lose especially online so be careful! ✌️ 🐶 😂

AlamoSimon

If IP records show them originating in NK, that would not reflect well on the hackers. Who would NOT use a VPN for this.

Ill-Assist-5246

I am reading this thread today and I find it interesting to read the thoughts (and speculations) from 5-6 months ago. Since those postings Strategy has "bought back" a fair amount of STRC ("defending its par price of $100") and despite this past week's massive hack on Binance STRC has more or less held its value above $99, while Bitcoin took a 5% hit. If STRC can survive this sort of event, it would seem to me that it is destined for success. Of course, ALL of this is predicated on Bitcoin continuing to increase in value over time and, as I frequently say, "If you think Bitcoin is going to zero you should NOT own any STRC or any Bitcoin." I am also curious how those same posters (from 5-6 months ago) now view STRC and what their thoughts are today, relative to their prior posts?

Competitive_Swan_755

.....goes on a complete rant and DOES NOT name the crypto.

JGuevara9

Funds were indeed NOT Safu

errezerotre

This is NOT a stupid statement

jeremyfto

Are you stating North Korea doesn’t have AI or the capability to use it to assist in their cyber attacks? Are you for real? Sure they aren’t using Claude or OpenAI but you are an idiot if you don’t think they don’t have their own home-brewed AI. Not using an autonomous bot is NOT the same as not utilizing AI to assist.

ebliever

Like I said, learn the basics of crypto security. As mentioned I have been in crypto almost 13 years. Never used a hardware wallet, and never will. You are inherently trusting someone else with such devices. Bad idea. NOT YOUR KEYS, NOT YOUR COINS. And with a hardware wallet you are essentially trusting, without knowing, that the keys are solely in your hands. Bad, bad idea.

Goldtacto

Im seeing an immense amount of misinformation in this thread from either people who don't understand the very basics of crypto or bots. Binance is an exchange. It is not a bank. People are lazy or don't want to pay the transaction fee to move their crypto to their wallet. When we see 6B of crypto get stolen like this, it's NOT a result of crypto being hacked. The blockchain is working as intended. The problem is people dont have their assets. When you send crypto to an exchange, you are signing a transaction to give your crypto to the exchange. The "hack" is likely done by attaining login information of your account on binance or reaching the backend of Binance to essentially already be logged in and initiating a large scale movement of funds by starting a transaction to an unwarranted blockchain address. Don't store your crypto on an exchange. Its that simple. Additionally exchanges don't have the same security requirements as a bank.

Disgusting_Slime666

>“Taxpayers poured hundreds of billions of dollars into the financial system in 2008 to assist financial firms that were struggling from the collapse of the mortgage market. “ Yeah, dumbass, that's what TARP was. Try focusing harder when reading. The original claim that you responded to was as follows: >Banks have FDIC insurance. No American has ever lost all their money because it was sitting in a bank. Now, "ever" isn't true, because the FDIC hasn't existed forever, but since the FDIC came into existence, no American has lost a single penny under the insured limit. Any insured money that was paid back, was NOT paid back by taxpayer funds. Period. Objective fact. You responded to this objective fact by trying to suggest that taxpayers were the ones that took on the burden of repaying people who lost bank deposited funds that were FDIC insured. Objectively false. You're trying to pivot to 2008 now, without understand what happened in 2008. FDIC has nothing to do with the mortgage crisis. People weren't losing their bank deposited funds in 2008. People were losing their jobs and mortgages. Banks were bailed out with TARP. Banks not only repaid every dime of this, but they also returned more than was borrowed. You are lowiq.

EverythingIsFnTaken

>HOW COULD ELECTRUM NOT PUT DOWN HIS OLD VERSION AND LET THIS UNACCEPTABLE BREACH KEEP GOING? Electrum 4.8.3 fixes this vulnerability. It was released 6 days ago, 4 days prior to your transaction.

pigeonwiggle

NOT YOUR KEYS - NOT YOUR CRYPTO. if you aren't self-custodying your crypto, it's not safe.

Disgusting_Slime666

You understand that you're just demonstrating how you're financially illiterate here right? The fact that you think your claim here refutes the initial claim just gives that away. Objective facts incoming: Nobody has ever lost a dime over the insured deposit limit since the FDIC came to existence. That fund is paid for by premiums charged to banks, not taxes. You seem to completely misunderstand what happened in 2008. To put it very simply, people may have lost homes because of mortgages they couldn't pay, because of jobs they lost, but they DID NOT lose deposited money in their bank accounts. TARP is completely unrelated to any of the claims made here, but regardless it was paid back with a profit by the banks to the Fed.

wanderingmanimal

It wouldn’t have happened if they didn’t store their BTC on an exchange FFS. Even then if they didn’t do their due diligence they may have ended up ordering a cold wallet from a 3rd Party supplier rather than the manufacturer, and that’s on them also. The whole thing is about responsibility, and people do NOT want responsibility around their money. That’s the last thing they want to worry about while worrying over every day issues. So why will BTC not be mainstream for a while? Lack of self responsibility is the primary answer here.

TexasBoyz-713

At this point it’ll be a huge feat if you manage to **NOT** have your funds stolen before the next halving

boforbojack

They are NOT insured. Binance has publicly said the funds would be reimbursed with zero evidence beyond that. I do imagine they will, this is a small enough sum for their business, but had it been larger, enough to bankrupt the business, it would be gone gone. They say they have $3B of the transfers locked down so they’ll probably just cover it on the assumption they’ll collect a good portion of it back.

Sin-City-Sinner

No, I had a loaded gun, I was waiting for the closest thing to a perfect shot as possible, I got lucky mixed with knowledge but luck was most of it. And I get what your saying but I was NOT panicking I was dong what I planned to do if the situation presented itself, dump the mag of my loaded gun into the tokens I wanted, and wanted more of, at a much better price/DCA.

Sin-City-Sinner

Geezzzzzzzzzz! Some of y’all are NOT very quick on the uptake!!!

wipppzi

Thanks for explaining what I already know. Doesn't matter at the end of the day. I'm not this huge crypto fanatic, I just hate U.S Dollar and the FED. Most of my money is held in silver, stocks, and cash (yes ik very counter intuitive from my argument) but like I said before, I live In the U.S and don't have an option to NOT use it. I don't care if the $2500 worth of BTC I have gets hacked because I don't buy speculative assets without knowing it could simply crash to zero without warning. Spread your assets out and invest WHAT YOU'RE WILLING TO LOSE on a speculative asset and pray it goes up. BTC has done me solid and kept me afloat for a while and I simply don't see it going away any time soon. Night bud

IdiotTurkey

I think this is *technically* not true. I dont fully know the details but there have been Fintech companies which supposedly kept funds in FDIC insured banks, and then when the Fintech company went under, NOT the bank, the people lost their funds even though the funds were technically kept in FDIC insured banks. Basically, it just goes to show you shouldnt keep your money in Fintechs like Chime or whatever, although I think they've improved the system to where the FDIC is passthrough now or something like that but I dont understand it fully.

FatUglyCunt69

The majority of stolen funds have NOT been frozen. They know of 6.8 Billion that's missing so far. That's just what they know of.

Astronaut6735

Buy it directly from Trezor, NOT through Amazon or anyone else. Then yes. The product is called Trezor Safe, and there are different models depending on the features you want and the price you want to pay.

jaapi

Efts are NOT insured.  A trading account is insured but the ETF is NOT. You are spreading misinformation by implying security where there isn't. Every ETF has multiple risks which can include holding in custody, counterparty risk,  massive swings, etc. We are absolutely going to hear about an eft get hack, going under, and holders at best getting pennies on the dollar. I have a bunch of etfs, but people should understand that they have risk. If you need convincing, go look at blackrocks comment when hyperliquid was doing mass liquidations...

pigeonwiggle

say you sign up for an account on binance. you transfer money from your bank account to your binance account. 2000 dollars. you now have 2000 cash dollars on binance. or rather - they are holding your 2000 dollars. you tell binance "convert all 2000 to bitcoin!" and they do. (supposedly). you now hold 1900 dollars worth of bitcoin (sorry, there are transfer fees) bitcoin goes up and you now own 2400 dollars of bitcoin - great! but binance gets hacked and they rob all the accounts. you now own 0 dollars of bitcoin because binance got hacked. aww, that's sad. binance isn't a secured insured financial institution so you're fucked and can't get your money back. sorry. "how does one stop this?" well, once you have 1900 of bitcoin in that account - you transfer it to your own personal "cold storage wallet." little digits that nobody knows how to access - because i'ts in your own custody. they would have to hack you somehow instead of binance - and nobody's coming for your (wow, it went up!) 2400 dollars. then when you want to convert back to cash to buy GTA6 and online vbucks or whatever - you send it back to your binance account, convert back to dollars, and send back to your bank account. voila\~! cash! the people's purchaser of choice! binance isn't great. when you convert to bitcoin they don't give you keys or anything. honestly, it's entirely possible they don't even have the bitcoin to sell and are basically just floating you an IOU. this is why in many locations, binance is NOT recommended. but yeah, ANY trading platform, you shouldn't hold all your cash/coins with them. they're not insured and if they go bankrupt or get robbed, you're not getting your money back.

TCr0wn

First thing: DO NOT ANSWER ANY DMS, you will get them from scammers trying to scam you again. No one can recover your crypto sadly. Best thing to do is file a police report

JustStopppingBye

Bro what are you even arguing? The link I provided states that CCIP is one of the integrations. The link you provided states that only data feeds/streams have been integrated NOT ccip. The CEO of DTCC is speaking at Chainlink’s conference tomorrow. I’ve been following this far longer than you, and honestly, I’m not even sure what you’re arguing. DTCC plans to integrate multiple blockchains, Canton is already integrated, with Stellar and Arc next. But Chainlink is the infrastructure integrated directly into DTCC’s platform itself. The additional blockchains are just individual components of a much larger tech stack and their functionality is largely interchangeable.

Ill-Assist-5246

"Tax Headache" - NOT SO! If you inherited someone's Bitcoin (or for that matter ANY OTHER asset), you get what is called a "Stepped Up Cost Basis" for tax purposes. What this means is that whatever price that Bitcoin was on the date-of-death THAT price becomes YOUR cost basis. Example: Grandpa bought 1 Bitcoin for $100 10 years ago. Gramps dies today and that 1 Bitcoin is worth $80000. Gramps left that 1 Bitcoin to you. You effectively inherit that Bitcoin with a Cost Basis price (or income tax purposes) of $80000! So, if you sell it today for $80000 you owe ZERO income tax on that 1 Bitcoin!

Murky_Following_461

my condolences to you and your family. \#1 please don’t sell any bitcoin unless you absolutely need the cash. keep it invested. \#2 don’t answer any DMs, they’re likely scams and DO NOT give away the seed phrases.

angelwolf71885

I won’t say how much i have…but im NOT a cooked shrimp

canada11235813

You're asking for opinions, and I haven't read any from others yet... but this might not be the place to ask. The answer is that it's an awful idea for many reasons, but I fear you might be guided differently by the TO THE MOON! crowd here. You won't get an objective opinion from the very cheerleaders of BTC. The tl;dr is DO NOT DO THIS... because, while it could be pay off spectacularly, it could just as easily entirely derail your life to a point it'd be difficult to recover from.

rgnet1

Sigh. Do you know who invented the internal combustion engine? It doesn't matter because the specifications are 100% known and replicable. Nobody said, "I'm not getting in that car" because they didn't know who the original engineer was. Or they probably did and they're as dumb as the people saying the same thing about bitcoin today. Bitcoin is open source software. That means it DOES NOT MATTER who wrote it. It is the epitome of irrelevant. Bitcoin is a network of machines running the same open source software. Anyone can audit the software. This is so fundamental. It's also such a stupid concept to become attached to with software written by a known entity. Like, Microsoft Word, people can trust because it was ... written by thousands of engineers over decades, mostly shoddily, a frankenstein mess, full of known vulnerabilities, and completely closed source. Yeah, no risk there!

CricketVast5924

_I assure you sir, we take our services seriously and you're in good hands._ When I hear them, I know my problem is _NOT_ going to be resolved today 🤨

bfr_

Which exchange does NOT have a limit order?

Sin-City-Sinner

That’s right, you have to buy high and sell low first otherwise the run will NOT be strong like bull!!🐂

PickForward5864

Do NOT talk to anyone in your reddit messages about this. They will steal your bitcoin. Do not talk to any through DMs as I am sure that you are receiving quite a few messages of 'friendly' thieves. I would hold onto it until 2030. And spend the next four years learning about it. I would also protect the secret phrase and the wallet. I would not do anything yet and would not talk to strangers on the internet or even people in person about it until you learn it for yourself. You have to be extremely careful right now.

thefrickenAJP8

Bro do NOT answer any DM’s

Djtdave

Rule #3 DO NOT TALK ABOUT BITCOIN.

beats_time

Rule #2 DO NOT SELL YOUR BITCOIN

CleanBaldy

This is a question for your own ChatGPT. When it comes to crypto, you cannot trust anyone. You could have it stolen from literally the other side of the world following advice. There are people out there stealing millions of dollars of others peoples crypto as a full time scam... Seriously, just go discuss with ChatGPT, stick with a trusted exchange like CoinBase. Let ChatGPT take the emotional decision out of it for you. Explain the situation, explain what you have and where it is. You are NOT in a rush to cash it out, take a few deep breaths and take your time. .

M45K3DG4M3R

January 28th 2021 will no longer be known as they day they stole our buy button... But as the day where the apes of the world declared in one voice! WE WILL NOT SELL QUIETLY INTO THE NIGHT! WE WILL NOT SELL OUR SHARES (OR COINS) WITHOUT A FIGHT! WE'RE GONNA HODL ON! WE'RE GOING TO THE MOON! TODAY WE CELEBRATE OUR DIAMOND HANDS!!!!!!!!!!!!!! WOO-HOO!!! YEAH!!! FUCK YOU HEDGIES!!!!!!!!

DevilDrives

Yes. Bitcoin is NOT currency.

toniistheworst

Alts always were struggling against Bitcoin over the long run. Pretty much every altcoin, when measured over the last 10 years, was outperformed by Bitcoin. Let that sink in, almost every single one. Which is why holding altcoins for longer periods of time has a 99,9% chance of being absolutely disastrous. The best case I can think of right now is XRP, since it's roughly worth the same amount of Bitcoin as 10 years ago, so about on par. But durably doing better than Bitcoin is something not a single altcoin has managed to pull off. Just to be clear: Do NOT invest in altcoins. They're not an investment, they're speculative assets and are only worth it on very rare, short-lasting occasions where they actually do outperform Bitcoin for a few months. But you know, good luck with catching that and not the endless bleeding that happens the other 99% of the time.

shaolinpunks

NOT that I believe OP. But contacting Tim Cook's executive relations team was a common way to get things resolved at Apple when lower tiered levels of support weren't able to resolve it.

asda_case

MY MAN! 😂💀 You’re still missing the point! Society does NOT mandate my grandad use email! He hates it, writes letters and still uses the postman. Slower? Yes. Does he care? NO! Email and postal services COEXIST! 📮 And your history lesson is spectacularly wrong! **Email was invented in 1971.** By 1995, a whopping **24 YEARS LATER**, only 10% of American adults used it! By 1999, just 35%! Widespread adoption developed through the 2000s. Bitcoin launched in 2009. It’s only 17 years old! By your own comparison, it still has roughly another 7 years before reaching email’s 1995 age, when 90% of American adults weren’t using email! Meanwhile, Bitcoin recorded **808,860 blockchain transactions on 20 October 2026 ALONE!** And that’s before counting activity through Lightning and internal exchange transfers! People already use Bitcoin for payments, international transfers, investment and self-custody. Some businesses accept it, and some people receive payment for their work in it. Now imagine 2050. What if countries adopted Bitcoin as legal tender, or governments agreed to settle international trade using Bitcoin? What if banking apps made it as ordinary as sending pounds today? **You cannot establish that those possibilities will never happen simply because they haven’t happened yet!** And here’s the real flaw in your argument: Bitcoin doesn’t NEED to replace fiat currencies to be useful. It can coexist with banks just as email coexists with the postman! You’re demanding universal adoption, mandatory usage and complete replacement of existing systems before acknowledging a technology has value. **That’s a test you’ve invented, not a requirement for technological success!** By your logic, my grandad has disproved email, I’ve made helicopters obsolete, and the postman should have been unemployed decades ago! 🚁📮💀 You absolute walnut! 🌰🤣

SouthernHoliday7620

Bitcoin is NOT energy.

eruv

Bro backed a president that is paying out money to NOT build wind farms

mvds74

If you search long enough, you can find reports of issues with any brand. And don't forget that people often tend to blame the hardware for their own mistakes. You'll see a lot of "omg my wallet was hacked" while the message often should say "omg, I was so stupid to leak my recovery phrase" (this was NOT the case with the Cold Card hack, obviously!)

curiousjosh

It’s a DUSTING attack. DO NOT INTERACT IN ANY WAY! Even to move or sell. A dusting attack is a malicious contract with hidden functions. If you even try to approve the contract to even move or sell the token, it can drain your wallet.

RedKe

Cryptocurrencies are NOT their own financial systems on the blockchains. Their products and cases lead to investment gains. ARGUE ME ON THIS!!!

lus1d

Risk management is key. Leverage used properly is a way to reduce your risk. (Eg if FTX didn’t offer leverage I would have needed to have my entire trading bag on the platform for equity. Leverage meant I only needed 5% of my bag on the platform to take on a 1R or 1.5R trade) In 2018 CryptoCred did a great YouTube video on Risk Management (incl using leverage) and it’s likely your mate would still have his coins if he had watched it and closely followed the practice. (The trade I proposed above is NOT following Creds risk management system)

slop_drobbler

On the odd chance someone reads this and heeds my advice: an old exchange called BitGrail is relaunching - DO NOT USE IT. This exchange was 'hacked' (AKA someone on the inside with access to the wallets stole funds) and lost a load of their customer's crypto (specifically RaiBlocks/Nano) back in 2018. It was most likely an inside job. Do not use the site!

na3than

The ONLY other thing? Really? Block height is guaranteed to go up forever. Storage required for an unpruned node is guaranteed to go up forever. The number of public keys that have been exposed to the world through the blockchain goes up forever. Hashrate is NOT guaranteed to go up forever. If the world loses interest in Bitcoin, hashrate goes down. When enough participants lose interest in mining for profit, hashrate goes down. I know people like to make profound-sounding posts here, but take a moment and think about what you're saying before you post it.

zendrovia

Do NOT come on here in a few weeks bitching and slandering when you get closed / suspended for avoiding KYC.

JimmyWhatever

I let Strategy buy the Bitcoin and make more money selling covered calls on MSTR than I ever did while working. NOT for everyone..

b1mm3rl1f3

I spent 32 hours in the last 2 days trying to figure this out and I finally got it. You first test single sig addresses, send in and out, then pair them into multisig. Do not send funds out of that multisig address. You can test the signing keys on multisig by building a transaction in sparrow, but do NOT broadcast it, as broadcasting exposes you. Build the transaction and put your signing keys in, sparrow will show a blue button and that’s good enough. It shows the signatures are valid. When you eventually spend from that multisig, move the remaining funds to a new multisig with new seeds

United_Weight3580

100% scam, you money is gone for good. DO NOT ANSWER any personal messages on reddit. Delete your account and move on. Also block all their Whatsapp numbers and emails

PotentialMillionaire

Do NOT pay any more money. You are 100% being scammed and not getting any of it back. Every single part of what you described is a classic textbook Advance-Fee / Pig Butchering Crypto Scam.

FunWithSkooma

it 2026 and people DO NOT USE ADBLOCKERS

MasterDave

The easy answer is that's not how the system works either for crypto or normal banking. When you move $10k+ in anything, it automatically triggers a SAR, which is a suspicious activities report whether the source of the money is legitimate or not. Generally, the banks and money processors do not want to do anything, it's extra work and auditing and liability if they get it wrong or fuck it up. The 10k is also aggregate, so if you get 10 $1k transactions in a certain time period, that will trigger the automated report. The report gets forwarded to the US Secret Service / Office of the Treasury / OFAC and they inform the money processor whether or not something has been flagged. The banks aren't required to keep a sanctions list active for every single name on the list, but they are required to act on a return from the Treasury saying they did business with a known bad entity and have to immediately quarantine the funds. I'm not sure you're understanding how any of this works if you think the government is "in bed" with removing money from circulation when it comes from a known/declared terrorist organization or sanctioned nation. Other countries follow the same guidelines, it's a very much widespread standard, just that for the most part all of the companies moving money around the world happen to be based in the US for all of the reasons you'd do that sort of thing. The rules are honestly fairly lax all things considered, which is why binance doesn't do any forward action. They're in compliance with the law, not aggressive about going after people and triggering false positives is my guess. Also read the reply, it's very clear that the funds came from a sanctioned entity which in this context looks like a Russian source but they're not allowed to literally say it came from Sergei The Terrorist. The treasury department is under zero obligation to reveal anything without a court order, so yes if you deal with a sanctioned entity you should probably retain the services of a good lawyer as there's likely a pretty fuckin bad reason you're getting popped for taking money from someone on the bad list from the US and US agencies share information and if you're a US resident and you get money from a sanctioned entity it would be entirely unsurprising if the FBI or another law enforcement agency was putting their own investigation in motion for discovering the purpose of the money. Also also, North Korea and Russia aren't "supposedly" sanctioned. They're very much known and public information: https://ofac.treasury.gov/sanctions-programs-and-country-information/russia-related-sanctions https://www.consilium.europa.eu/en/policies/sanctions-against-russia-explained/ plenty of companies have been punished in various ways for allowing customers to transact with Russians. https://ofac.treasury.gov/civil-penalties-and-enforcement-information the tl;dr is don't fuck with OFAC. Even gigantic banks can't get away with it. The government agencies that go after this stuff are NOT partisan locked entities that look the other way if someone's Trump's piss buddy, and while Trump can pardon someone, once OFAC takes the money even Trump can't get it back.

Due-Candy-8929

It is NOT backed by energy… it took a LOT of energy to mine… the energy isn't preserved and doesn't add any value to it… it is slow, expensive and has less utility than a lot of other crypto. However it does have first mover advantage and is likely to hit a new ATH before alts start to run

TheresNoSecondBest

>No, Bitcoin is NOT for everybody. >does not mean it is for them **Bitcoin is open to everyone, even the people you don't like**. Sorry if you thought the most decentralized monetary network in the world would behave different than you want but THAT WAS ALWAYS THE PLAN.

Mike_Lagas_Foul_Ball

I am really tired of hearing this nonsense. No, Bitcoin is NOT for everybody. Bitcoin is for the masses who want to fight against government corruption and economic tyranny. Bitcoin is for people who want equality and fairness in the world of finance. Just because Bitcoin is able to be hijacked by government and by the rich does not mean it is for them. Fuck off with that bullshit

ibaralf

DO NOT USE a centralized exchange if you are from a restricted location. Actually don't use a CEX at all. Unlike a bank, there is no way to complain or file a report if they lock your account. Sad, but that is the truth. I had a friend who lost $18k, supposedly his account hacked. He was so careful, very technical guy, he wasn't hacked they just stole it.

TheresNoSecondBest

That's good advice for someone who understands Bitcoin, NOT for someone only joining.

TheresNoSecondBest

Congrats on the move, it's never too late, [despite new people thinking otherwise](https://old.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/rskpuf/i_have_only_600_bitcoinsi_missed_the_bus/). ONLY INVEST MONEY YOU CAN AFFORD TO LOSE. Invest in your knowledge, learn about Bitcoin as much as you can. The Bitcoin Standard book is a must read. So is Broken Money by Lyn Alden. Also, **don't reply any DMs**, emails, private messages on other social media, promising to buy Bitcoin from them or get rich quick by investing into some website. They all are scammers. Even the hot Asian chick, he's a scammer too. **Price wise, nobody knows what the price will be tomorrow, next week or at the end of the year.** **Try "Bitcoin ONLY" strategy for at least the first 210,000 block cycle**, you'll sleep much better. Newcomers lose so much money, holding tokens just because someone on YT told them to. If you don't like losing money in [failed coins](https://www.coingecko.com/research/publications/how-many-cryptocurrencies-failed), avoid. DCA is probably the best approach. Once a week works best for me, but I'm getting paid weekly. This [DCA calculator](https://21vox.com/dca-calculator) might help to decide what will work best for you. In a few years, even $10 dollars a month can make a massive difference. This [DCA blog](https://er-bybitcoin.com/) is pretty interesting too and compares buying bitcoin VS stocks. Now, don't buy some fake bitcoin at a spot ETF place or similar, **get the real thing** that you can withdraw anytime you want. Register at a proper exchange and buy real Bitcoin. Any of these will do [https://bitcoin-only.com/get-bitcoin](https://bitcoin-only.com/get-bitcoin) Install (or buy - in case you're getting Bitcoin in Thousands of $) one or more of these wallets. **Good wallet choices:** [https://blockstream.com/app/](https://blockstream.com/app/) \- Top Security Features, Open Source and Non-Custodial [https://bluewallet.io](https://bluewallet.io/) \- excellent, easy to use wallet, Open Source and Non-Custodial [https://www.sparrowwallet.com](https://www.sparrowwallet.com) - top desktop wallet [https://electrum.org](https://electrum.org/) \- Solid choice, Open Source and Non-Custodial, one of the oldest and most trusted Bitcoin Wallets. I prefer the desktop version but it works on mobile too. **Lightning wallets** to consider (cheaper and faster transactions, great for small amounts): [https://phoenix.acinq.co/](https://phoenix.acinq.co/) \- Phoenix - very good wallet, uses Tor for extra privacy, easy for anyone new [https://blixtwallet.github.io/](https://blixtwallet.github.io/) \- Blixt - great UI, fast and clean. The app runs a full LND node on your phone and you have the ability to easily open channels to whatever nodes you like. [https://zeusln.com/](https://zeusln.com/) Zeus - impressive wallet with many features, can even generate Nostr keys There are also custodial LN wallet but I would honestly avoid using them because you have to trust the wallet operator not to steal your money. Their only advantage is that they are incredibly easy to use, although it might cost you big one day. To keep up to date with spending wallets, visit r/TheLightningNetwork at least once a while and perhaps r/RGB in the future. **Hardware Wallets** (to store larger amounts): [Trezor](https://trezor.io/) \- Easy to use, no matter how new in Bitcoin you're. If you can afford it, opt for Safe 7 (**air-gapped**) and use the Bitcoin only firmware as it's safer than a multi coin software. [BitBox02](https://bitbox.swiss/bitbox02/bitcoin-only/) - another great little device, opt for the more secure Bitcoin ONLY version (less coins = less code = less chance for a hidden bug or a backdoor). Sadly, this device is **not air-gapped**. [Jade](https://blockstream.com/jade) - air gapped, fully open source, Bitcoin only, great features. There's a newer version called Jade Plus, it has much better camera and overall is a better build. I would go stateless instead of using their servers. You can even [build it on your own](https://github.com/Blockstream/jade/), if you feel adventurous. [Seedsigner](https://github.com/SeedSigner/seedsigner) - another DIY, fully open source, air gapped, Bitcoin only hardware wallet, not for you if you're just starting up but something to consider later. [Krux wallet](https://selfcustody.github.io/krux/) - one more DIY hardware device, I love this one for many reasons. Similar to Seedsigner, it's fully open source, air gapped, Bitcoin only hardware wallet, that is not for you right now if you're just starting up, but something to consider at a later stage and/or to up the security of your bitcoin. There's also Ledger, but I wouldn't recommend it as it's not fully open source, keep and already leaked customers' details, recently said they're capable of sending customers' keys out just with a firmware update, making is an expensive hot wallet. The opposite of what you want from a cold wallet. **Stay away**, save yourself a headache in the future. The same goes for many other hardware wallets that are too new or filled with too much of unnecessary shitcoin code. Stay away. There's also ColdCard, great features but recently had a massive duckup, I would wait until all of their code is fully open source, preferably rewritten by the community before touching it. Whatever wallet you'll decide to buy, purchase DIRECTLY from the manufacturer, no eBay, no Amazon. Make sure the device is NOT preset, and you will generate your own seed words. Write them down on any piece of paper as well as the receiving address. Now wipe the wallet and generate a new wallet. If the seed words are different from the first set, you're safe to use it. Find an option to set a passphrase and use it. This will boost the security to another level. Never store the seed words and passphrase together. Use a different medium if possible. If somebody finds both, they'll be able to steal your coin. This little device will hold the keys to your money, that's the reason why you have to be a bit more careful. Also, no worries, if it breaks, you can replace it - as long as you keep your seed words and passphrase(s) safe. Welcome to the rabbit hole and don't hesitate to ask if you have any questions anytime during your Bitcoin journey. Also, [check the sidebar](https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/about) that's filled with lots of great info and if you have any questions, visit r/BitcoinBeginners or r/Bitcoin and look for the answers.

mushykindofbrick

Do they have such a list, or do they only claim they have it? If they have such a list, what is written on it? Are the funds actually connected and if so how? Did the person know it, or buy them through a completely legitimate exchange and they got mixed up by mere coincidence? A judge would ask such questions, and there are regulatory mechanisms and ways to challenge it. I DO NOT say, that success is guaranteed or even likely. I make NO statement about the chances of success at all, whether they are good or bad. I ONLY said, that if 12k disappeared, and someone comments on this with a reddit one-liner "that its gone" and hopeless, that this is unfathomable stupidity and intellectual handicap. With 12k, you should at least put a reasonable amount of thought into this, and not dismiss it with a one-liner. Like what the actual fuck

Puzzleheaded-Ice-573

Jesus Christ people. Gold is NOT backed by "Physics Law" whatever the fuck that is supposed to mean. The intrinsic value of gold from a physics point of view is mostly related to it being a good conductor of electricity. The actual market value of gold is tied to emotion: it is valuable because we believe it is valuable.

Ok-Jury-6161

Once people truly understand market caps and the true nature and value of things, Bitcoin will make it's move and it's NOT turning around, NOT EVER

Itchy_Exercise3343

The problem is all you guys who believe in these MOON SHOTS, especially on XRP, are going to be VERY dissappointed and might even lose a lot of money. This bad information is coming from Influencers like Jake Claver, Crypto Sensei, and others. Why would anyone take seriously these complete jackass's that refers to himself as the Crypto Sensei or a guy that looks like a used car salesman, on major financial information. There are so many Macro Ecomical factors involved right now that even the most experienced/educated financial person can NOT even come close to any accurate prediction. For one, do they know when this Iran conflict will come to an end which is the primary cause of our energy issues which directly affects the markets? NO! When they start using desperate maneauvers like the 589 BS. Wake up people!

TheresNoSecondBest

Congrats on the move, it's never too late, [despite new people thinking otherwise](https://old.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/rskpuf/i_have_only_600_bitcoinsi_missed_the_bus/). ONLY INVEST MONEY YOU CAN AFFORD TO LOSE. Invest in your knowledge, learn about Bitcoin as much as you can. The Bitcoin Standard book is a must read. So is Broken Money by Lyn Alden. Also, **don't reply any DMs**, emails, private messages on other social media, promising to buy Bitcoin from them or get rich quick by investing into some website. They all are scammers. Even the hot Asian chick, he's a scammer too. **Price wise, nobody knows what the price will be tomorrow, next week or at the end of the year.** **Try "Bitcoin ONLY" strategy for at least the first 210,000 block cycle**, you'll sleep much better. Newcomers lose so much money, holding tokens just because someone on YT told them to. If you don't like losing money in [failed coins](https://www.coingecko.com/research/publications/how-many-cryptocurrencies-failed), avoid. DCA is probably the best approach. Once a week works best for me, but I'm getting paid weekly. This [DCA calculator](https://21vox.com/dca-calculator) might help to decide what will work best for you. In a few years, even $10 dollars a month can make a massive difference. This [DCA blog](https://er-bybitcoin.com/) is pretty interesting too and compares buying bitcoin VS stocks. Now, don't buy some fake bitcoin at a spot ETF place or similar, **get the real thing** that you can withdraw anytime you want. Register at a proper exchange and buy real Bitcoin. Any of these will do [https://bitcoin-only.com/get-bitcoin](https://bitcoin-only.com/get-bitcoin) Install (or buy - in case you're getting Bitcoin in Thousands of $) one or more of these wallets. **Good wallet choices:** [https://blockstream.com/app/](https://blockstream.com/app/) \- Top Security Features, Open Source and Non-Custodial [https://bluewallet.io](https://bluewallet.io/) \- excellent, easy to use wallet, Open Source and Non-Custodial [https://www.sparrowwallet.com](https://www.sparrowwallet.com) - top desktop wallet [https://electrum.org](https://electrum.org/) \- Solid choice, Open Source and Non-Custodial, one of the oldest and most trusted Bitcoin Wallets. I prefer the desktop version but it works on mobile too. **Lightning wallets** to consider (cheaper and faster transactions, great for small amounts): [https://phoenix.acinq.co/](https://phoenix.acinq.co/) \- Phoenix - very good wallet, uses Tor for extra privacy, easy for anyone new [https://blixtwallet.github.io/](https://blixtwallet.github.io/) \- Blixt - great UI, fast and clean. The app runs a full LND node on your phone and you have the ability to easily open channels to whatever nodes you like. [https://zeusln.com/](https://zeusln.com/) Zeus - impressive wallet with many features, can even generate Nostr keys There are also custodial LN wallet but I would honestly avoid using them because you have to trust the wallet operator not to steal your money. Their only advantage is that they are incredibly easy to use, although it might cost you big one day. To keep up to date with spending wallets, visit r/TheLightningNetwork at least once a while and perhaps r/RGB in the future. **Hardware Wallets** (to store larger amounts): [Trezor](https://trezor.io/) \- Easy to use, no matter how new in Bitcoin you're. If you can afford it, opt for Safe 7 (**air-gapped**) and use the Bitcoin only firmware as it's safer than a multi coin software. [BitBox02](https://bitbox.swiss/bitbox02/bitcoin-only/) - another great little device, opt for the more secure Bitcoin ONLY version (less coins = less code = less chance for a hidden bug or a backdoor). Sadly, this device is **not air-gapped**. [Jade](https://blockstream.com/jade) - air gapped, fully open source, Bitcoin only, great features. There's a newer version called Jade Plus, it has much better camera and overall is a better build. I would go stateless instead of using their servers. You can even [build it on your own](https://github.com/Blockstream/jade/), if you feel adventurous. [Seedsigner](https://github.com/SeedSigner/seedsigner) - another DIY, fully open source, air gapped, Bitcoin only hardware wallet, not for you if you're just starting up but something to consider later. [Krux wallet](https://selfcustody.github.io/krux/) - one more DIY hardware device, I love this one for many reasons. Similar to Seedsigner, it's fully open source, air gapped, Bitcoin only hardware wallet, that is not for you right now if you're just starting up, but something to consider at a later stage and/or to up the security of your bitcoin. There's also Ledger, but I wouldn't recommend it as it's not fully open source, keep and already leaked customers' details, recently said they're capable of sending customers' keys out just with a firmware update, making is an expensive hot wallet. The opposite of what you want from a cold wallet. **Stay away**, save yourself a headache in the future. The same goes for many other hardware wallets that are too new or filled with too much of unnecessary shitcoin code. Stay away. There's also ColdCard, great features but recently had a massive duckup, I would wait until all of their code is fully open source, preferably rewritten by the community before touching it. Whatever wallet you'll decide to buy, purchase DIRECTLY from the manufacturer, no eBay, no Amazon. Make sure the device is NOT preset, and you will generate your own seed words. Write them down on any piece of paper as well as the receiving address. Now wipe the wallet and generate a new wallet. If the seed words are different from the first set, you're safe to use it. Find an option to set a passphrase and use it. This will boost the security to another level. Never store the seed words and passphrase together. Use a different medium if possible. If somebody finds both, they'll be able to steal your coin. This little device will hold the keys to your money, that's the reason why you have to be a bit more careful. Also, no worries, if it breaks, you can replace it - as long as you keep your seed words and passphrase(s) safe. Welcome to the rabbit hole and don't hesitate to ask if you have any questions anytime during your Bitcoin journey. Also, [check the sidebar](https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/about) that's filled with lots of great info and if you have any questions, visit r/BitcoinBeginners or r/Bitcoin and look for the answers.

Redivivus

Come join us at Tau.net. They have a new computer language w/ formal verification and are building a forkless evolving blockchain developed by it's users with a next generation DAO. They are a decidible, logic based AI capable of reasoning. NOT an LLM. 100% correct output in software synthesis. Recent US patents. Decentralized compute market. Currently in Alpha testnet.

Full-Atmosphere-4818

It's impossible to lose 100% when "trading" Bitcoin in a range of $60-86k.... unless one was using leverage or on Polymarket, which not only is NOT trading Bitcoin, but not "trading" at all.

NoBrosCrypto

Take the lessons, learn from your mistakes, find a trading simulator, play with fake money, learn to control your emotions, buy low sell high, DO NOT use leverage.

TheresNoSecondBest

Congrats on the move, it's never too late, [despite new people thinking otherwise](https://old.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/rskpuf/i_have_only_600_bitcoinsi_missed_the_bus/). ONLY INVEST MONEY YOU CAN AFFORD TO LOSE. Invest in your knowledge, learn about Bitcoin as much as you can. The Bitcoin Standard book is a must read. So is Broken Money by Lyn Alden. Also, **don't reply any DMs**, emails, private messages on other social media, promising to buy Bitcoin from them or get rich quick by investing into some website. They all are scammers. Even the hot Asian chick, he's a scammer too. **Price wise, nobody knows what the price will be tomorrow, next week or at the end of the year.** **Try "Bitcoin ONLY" strategy for at least the first 210,000 block cycle**, you'll sleep much better. Newcomers lose so much money, holding tokens just because someone on YT told them to. If you don't like losing money in [failed coins](https://www.coingecko.com/research/publications/how-many-cryptocurrencies-failed), avoid. DCA is probably the best approach. Once a week works best for me, but I'm getting paid weekly. This [DCA calculator](https://21vox.com/dca-calculator) might help to decide what will work best for you. In a few years, even $10 dollars a month can make a massive difference. This [DCA blog](https://er-bybitcoin.com/) is pretty interesting too and compares buying bitcoin VS stocks. Now, don't buy some fake bitcoin at a spot ETF place or similar, **get the real thing** that you can withdraw anytime you want. Register at a proper exchange and buy real Bitcoin. Any of these will do [https://bitcoin-only.com/get-bitcoin](https://bitcoin-only.com/get-bitcoin) Install (or buy - in case you're getting Bitcoin in Thousands of $) one or more of these wallets. **Good wallet choices:** [https://blockstream.com/app/](https://blockstream.com/app/) \- Top Security Features, Open Source and Non-Custodial [https://bluewallet.io](https://bluewallet.io/) \- excellent, easy to use wallet, Open Source and Non-Custodial [https://www.sparrowwallet.com](https://www.sparrowwallet.com) - top desktop wallet [https://electrum.org](https://electrum.org/) \- Solid choice, Open Source and Non-Custodial, one of the oldest and most trusted Bitcoin Wallets. I prefer the desktop version but it works on mobile too. **Lightning wallets** to consider (cheaper and faster transactions, great for small amounts): [https://phoenix.acinq.co/](https://phoenix.acinq.co/) \- Phoenix - very good wallet, uses Tor for extra privacy, easy for anyone new [https://blixtwallet.github.io/](https://blixtwallet.github.io/) \- Blixt - great UI, fast and clean. The app runs a full LND node on your phone and you have the ability to easily open channels to whatever nodes you like. [https://zeusln.com/](https://zeusln.com/) Zeus - impressive wallet with many features, can even generate Nostr keys There are also custodial LN wallet but I would honestly avoid using them because you have to trust the wallet operator not to steal your money. Their only advantage is that they are incredibly easy to use, although it might cost you big one day. To keep up to date with spending wallets, visit r/TheLightningNetwork at least once a while and perhaps r/RGB in the future. **Hardware Wallets** (to store larger amounts): [Trezor](https://trezor.io/) \- Easy to use, no matter how new in Bitcoin you're. If you can afford it, opt for Safe 7 (**air-gapped**) and use the Bitcoin only firmware as it's safer than a multi coin software. [BitBox02](https://bitbox.swiss/bitbox02/bitcoin-only/) - another great little device, opt for the more secure Bitcoin ONLY version (less coins = less code = less chance for a hidden bug or a backdoor). Sadly, this device is **not air-gapped**. [Jade](https://blockstream.com/jade) - air gapped, fully open source, Bitcoin only, great features. There's a newer version called Jade Plus, it has much better camera and overall is a better build. I would go stateless instead of using their servers. You can even [build it on your own](https://github.com/Blockstream/jade/), if you feel adventurous. [Seedsigner](https://github.com/SeedSigner/seedsigner) - another DIY, fully open source, air gapped, Bitcoin only hardware wallet, not for you if you're just starting up but something to consider later. [Krux wallet](https://selfcustody.github.io/krux/) - one more DIY hardware device, I love this one for many reasons. Similar to Seedsigner, it's fully open source, air gapped, Bitcoin only hardware wallet, that is not for you right now if you're just starting up, but something to consider at a later stage and/or to up the security of your bitcoin. There's also Ledger, but I wouldn't recommend it as it's not fully open source, keep and already leaked customers' details, recently said they're capable of sending customers' keys out just with a firmware update, making is an expensive hot wallet. The opposite of what you want from a cold wallet. **Stay away**, save yourself a headache in the future. The same goes for many other hardware wallets that are too new or filled with too much of unnecessary shitcoin code. Stay away. There's also ColdCard, great features but recently had a massive duckup, I would wait until all of their code is fully open source, preferably rewritten by the community before touching it. Whatever wallet you'll decide to buy, purchase DIRECTLY from the manufacturer, no eBay, no Amazon. Make sure the device is NOT preset, and you will generate your own seed words. Write them down on any piece of paper as well as the receiving address. Now wipe the wallet and generate a new wallet. If the seed words are different from the first set, you're safe to use it. Find an option to set a passphrase and use it. This will boost the security to another level. Never store the seed words and passphrase together. Use a different medium if possible. If somebody finds both, they'll be able to steal your coin. This little device will hold the keys to your money, that's the reason why you have to be a bit more careful. Also, no worries, if it breaks, you can replace it - as long as you keep your seed words and passphrase(s) safe. Welcome to the rabbit hole and don't hesitate to ask if you have any questions anytime during your Bitcoin journey. Also, [check the sidebar](https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/about) that's filled with lots of great info and if you have any questions, visit r/BitcoinBeginners or r/Bitcoin and look for the answers.

dragonrider108

No. Trading is NOT GAMBLE. however, it is gamble for those who believe..... it is gamble. It is requires real hard work to understand ....without hard work, you are not going nowhere, it is all about how you think.

awohio1

I was going to say that funds held at brokerage firms are protected by SIPC insurance... That is true for registered securities like stocks, bonds, mutual funds, etc. But NOT for crypto. (Note SIPC insurance is not insurance against trading losses or loss in value of assets, only against losses by the the brokerage). I'd still say that Fidelity is way more capable of protecting coins than your typical BTC owner. There is also much better legal recourse in the event of a failure in their practices.

fittes7

>As a user, you have no way to check that an app is actually from the developer it claims to be. Probably gonna be hated for this comment but as a user you also should NOT insert your seed / transfer your money to an app just because the logo looks cool and you loved the name. In centralized finance you have ways to verify and charge back, but in decentralized finance you don't. And thats the whole point I feel sorry for your loss and I'd be angry and frustrated as you if this happened to me but don't blame Apple, read and research before you download.

Honu_Daze

From my lamen understanding, you have to have 2 accounts w/ Fidelity. 1 as cash management (your interception account) & then you can open a Crypto account - as the latter requires the former for transactions. They do not permit only having a crypto account, as of this writing. BUT because I’ve come at it differently than you find yourself positioned - your BEST bets are: 1) to either head over to their sub, which they directly monitor & participate in to ask your question there 2) or better yet directly contact them & inquire - so they can provide the best & safest answer to you I began experimenting with my confidence in migrating to BTC back in 2021, shortly after Fidelity announced it would be in the crypto space. Having already been an account holder w/ Fidelity, I had gained some trust in their platform & overall the company’s ability to manage money. I then opened a crypto account through Fidelity and began to slowly stack sats. Entering into it w/ the knowledge that anything I invested I MUST be willing to never see again. After all it was a bet. All the while I furthered my education on what BTC is, how it works, and gained wisdom about this shiny “new to me” thing I was slowly rolling money into. Once enough knowledge had been gained I started minting coins (that I really wanted to not only see again, but wanted to make gains on). Its performance could not be denied, but the volatility certainly took psychological adjusting. I kept pestering Fidelity (with phone calls & on their sub) about *when* they would allow for coin transferring. As they kept hinting it was in their crypto “road map”. Inspired by my learning, I conceded to the belief of “not your keys, not your coin”. Yet the rabbit hole of learning about cold storage, pass phrases, keys doubled down w/ current & future threats w/ AGI, cold storage hacks, and the tightened security measures the latter demands, found me still keeping my BTC parked w/ Fidelity. In the last 18mo’ish Fidelity FINALLY rolled out the ability to migrate coins. As previously you’d have to liquidate your coins to fiat to move those funds. Hope this helps you. Fidelity uses cold storage for coin, and my guess is they have people who are more akamai than I w/ overlapping security protocols to keep users coins vaulted. It very well is a gamble, but my menopause brain occasionally stops me from putting my car keys in the fridge. So I have humbly recognized that I can not be fully trusted to manage actual cold storage keys/phrases and the like😂 Lastly as of this writing Fidelity does NOT allow you to assign beneficiaries to your crypto account. I have worked around this with my executor (my daughter) - who I’ve given authorized access to my fidelity accounts. On top of assigning TOD/POD in my other Fidelity accounts. So when my body dips out, she can move those coins probate-free & do as I’ve assigned her to do with them. I hope she keeps them in coin & doesn’t liquidate to fiat - but at that point it is hers & my other heirs to do what they wish with. That is if I don’t cash out & spend every last cent before i cross over to the next.😉

TheresNoSecondBest

I read your entire proposal, mate. It's ridiculous. **What is stopping the North Korean government to spin 26,000,000 nodes up and change the Bitcoin code???** Definitely NOT your proof of human idea.

Sic_Sic_Six

You missed the entire point. It is NOT profitable today. Back when the 3090 launched though, it was very profitable.

ubermensch1001

They would know that you had bought a ledger but would NOT know what you have bought or are holding. Some examples of this though would be the Celsius bankruptcy case, creditors that were involved with that had their holdings on there leaked. For instance, Matt has 100 ETH and 3 BTC at time of bankruptcy, they'd be able to see how much Matt would have gotten back with distributions but would NOT know if he had sold or bought. Same here, they know you have a Ledger that you bought but for all they know you could have $100 in BTC or $1,000,000. A bigger risk, like in France, would be those who have sold and had their capital gains taxes that showed this.

chirpier

Here's my scheduled hourly Claude task: Measure current Bitcoin news sentiment and record it in ChirrOp. Steps: 1. Use the WebSearch tool to find the latest Bitcoin news. Query for something like "bitcoin news today <current date>" (include today's date). If needed, run a second query such as "bitcoin latest news" to gather enough material. Collect the 10 most recent distinct headlines/articles about Bitcoin (ignore duplicates and non-Bitcoin items). Do NOT use reddit.com or x.com/twitter.com — they are blocked. 2. Assess overall sentiment of those \~10 headlines toward Bitcoin (price outlook, adoption, regulation tone). Produce a single integer score from -100 to +100: +100 = uniformly positive, -100 = uniformly negative, 0 = neutral/mixed. Interpolate proportionally (e.g. 7 positive, 3 negative ≈ +40). 3. Send the score to ChirrOp using the chirrop MCP server's send\_logs tool with: agent "cowork.news", event "bitcoin.sentiment.score", value = the integer score, meta = { "headlines\_sampled": <count>, "summary": "<one-sentence sentiment summary>" }. (Event ID eea95d7b-1f80-4308-9b0e-ab30e24bc869 already exists.) 4. Confirm the log was accepted (sent:1, failed:0). If send\_logs fails, retry once. Output: one short line stating the score, e.g. "Bitcoin sentiment: -35 (bearish — geopolitical tensions, ETF outflows). Sent to ChirrOp.

ReggieCorneus

And the topic was about the whole practice of designing to be used once and then scrapped entirely when there could be other ways to design our hardware. And your argument has been the whole time about how small of a problem it is, and now it seems that it is also that "even if it is bad bitcoin is a good thing so we CAN NOT TALK ABOUT RECYCLING HARDWARE". I think you know what you are doing is wrong but don't want to be reminded of it. This is why you want me to be gone, when for fucks sake: the environmental effects of cryptomining is exactly the kind of topics that should be discussed in cryptocurrencies subreddits! "We can not talk about the damage fossil fuels do in the oil business". That is now your argument. Like i said: you are not actually a good person. Maybe you want to be but you know you are not at this very moment.

ReggieCorneus

Your line of arguments has run its course long time ago. Your only thruline has been "it is so small of a problem that we don't need to do anything" when EVERYONE ELSE IS TALKING ABOUT E-WASTE IN GENERAL and how our devices are not designed so that we cuold re-use parts and have made recycling more difficult. Your whole point was moot from the fucking start and you are the ONLY ONE who has not realized it. That by definition, is sign of having below average intelligence. Is that so, i don't know but that is at the moment what you are doing. Everyone else is discussing about the WHOLE and you came in and started talking about ONE thing... and even then it makes no fucking sense. "There are lot of holes in this ship so THIS ONE DOES NOT NEED PLUGGING". You haven't even talked in favor of plugging holes, which at least is somewhat logical. It is "always a bigger fish" fallacy but it has some logic but dude... You have argued against plugging holes so far, how do you think you are the one dominating this? And the value of bitcoin is very debatable, my honest opinion is that it is a net negative, waste of money and resources. Burning trees to make money is stupid.

nugymmer

Which should NOT be happening if they running up to date OS and browsers on a decent machine with a TPM chip. DBSC should be enforced on all socials, emails, etc.

Dancing-Wind

🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️ Again - THESE ARE NOT GPUs - THESE ARE ASICs!!! Bitcoin has not been mined on gpus for at least a decade... why are you doubling down on stupid? 60s of google would have prevented a lot of public embarrassment...

TheresNoSecondBest

>Ledger also has backdoors to extract your seed which most people aren’t aware of. Ledger is just a fancy hot wallet, marketed at newcomers because they can load in thousands of different shitcoins. NOT FULLY OPEN SOURCE. >Cold card had bad gen. That was a horrible duck up, thanks to the fact Coinkite didn't want anyone else using their software. Should they do full FOSS open source, the issue would be discovered and fixed by a different manufacturer pretty soon. NOT FULLY OPEN SOURCE. >Trezor recently had database hacked and device tampered with. People are trying to attack Trezors since a decade ago. Even the company keeps saying you should use a strong passphrase in addition to the seed words. Nothing new. >Tangem has just been hacked. I have never thought there would be a worse hardware wallet manufacturer then Ledger. I was wrong. Tangem topped up Ledger's bad reputation within very short time. Hey, it's a shitcoin wallet after all. When I'm looking for a new cold, REALLY COLD wallet, it has to be **fully open source**, **Bitcoin only**, and **air-gapped**. Can I build it up myself? Even better. SeedSigner and Krux are IMHO the best and the least talked about true Bitcoin cold wallets. Yes, you can create a cold wallet on your own old PC or mobile phone. Yes, it's easy to get bitcoin in while staying offline by using a watch only wallet or copying the receiving addresses on the go. Spending the bitcoin is much more difficult. That's where a hardware wallet excels. Hardware wallets are IMHO really great addition to security, the problem is, people jump on the first one, some rando on the internet mentions, and these people end up using a shitty device like Ledger or Tangem. Worse, they'll buy a ColdCard but let the device to generate the seed words instead of using dice, because of "what if something goes wrong".

Prince_Hedgehog

Most important thing do not dm with anyone privately texting you here and DO NOT click on any links!

Working_Salt_Mine

You do you man, man. Don’t listen to the brokees here. What most folks don’t realize is that inflation also drives up asset prices. As long as you are invested in the market, broad-based index funds, your portfolio also rises. Inflation only affects those who are NOT invested in the market. VTI and chill with house money. BTC is just Vegas money, to have fun on the side.

Capable_Swordfish_30

The last word is NOT a checksum, it is just a number of bits in it. For instance, with 12 words, only the last 4 bits in the last word are the checksum, which means only 16 words are possible.