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effsixtyfour

I just want to validate you here. I had a very similar experience in Canada with RBC. It seems that most traditional banks (at least outside of the USA) are pretty antagonistic towards bitcoin. Or at least with a more charitable interpretation, all these bankers seem to be taught that BTC is a scam and to dissuade their clients from buying it.

coldfisherman

I'd say anything that is PoW is going to have a catastophic end. The moment someone is able to use a quantum computer and targets crypto, it's over. PoS may stay longer, but I think, in people's minds, they are inextricably linked. So ETH, et al, will probably come down too. I'd say we've got 4yrs..... then again, if this country continues down this path of absolute and utter stupidity with zero thought to the long term investment, both politically and economically, bitcoin is going to the the least of our problems (both in the USA and abroad. consequences cascade)

Chefmaster69

There's literally people eating dogs that could not leave I highly doubt that anyone can do worse than that and the only thing the puppet has to do is to allow USA invest in the Oil company of Venezuela and that's it

Decent_Procedure2981

Sorry meant "it's hard to not spend" esp where I am at in life. Yes student loans are atrocious. That's what makes it hard. Although HODL'ing forever could outpace the 7% interest rate the loans are at (standard for USA as they are from the government:( ). Still a good mentality to have to try to just hold. It sounds you should get BTC or DCA and not think about it at all for 10-15 years and live life. That's hard to do for me as well but seems best.

Decent_Procedure2981

That's brilliant.It's cool that you are willing to work toward car/house and save BTC. That implies you have to have some money to afford lifestyle. I like that you will hold out for better though. A lot of people I think would sell earlier but then they lose out. So it is "greed" in the sense it is "long term gambling." The longer you hold the more it is worth (most likely). I imagine this holds through until retirement age, around 65 in the USA people will cash out.

flipyflop9

A country like USA is doing way worse things without anyone doing anything about it. Stop dreaming.

baIIern

>Bitcoin is the first time our generation has been given an asset that isn’t already hyper inflated.  Yeah guys it's literally a baby with \*checks notes\* $1,809,241,914,421 in market capitalization even though it doesn't have any industry behind it to support its intrinsic value. That will be our ticket to financial freedom and we'll all be rich! At 500k we will see almost one third of the USA's GDP so that's at least something. With some potential of course.

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Post is by: nitroacid411 and the url/text [ ](https://goo.gl/GP6ppk)is: /r/btc/comments/1p8lwe9/black_friday_bull_or_bear/ I've been wondering if anyone has gathered the same information in the past week? I could be off a bit and maybe the data is inconclusive and dated? Is it safe to share with the community? I'm on a limb but here's what I've read and discovered. Help me if I'm wrong? *** Current News (1 to 7 days) *** - 3.2 trillion market cryptocurrency cap exceeded - $90,000 k Bitcoin - Gold (perspective) - $3,000 k ETH - Silver (perspective) - China/USA trade tariff deal - Russia/Ukraine war peace deal Artificial Intelligence AI: - Nvidia down $195 -> $170 20th-25th November - Remember Deep Seek fears from China competitor - Nvidia challenged by Google Gemini buyers from Meta data centers - Big 7 AI are opening up more companies and this will not continue to be the only 7 in this stock market Federal rate cut: December 10th: - November rate cut no effect on cryptocurrency - USA bonds backing BTC - Cheat Sheet in 11/26 (Greater > 6.5 trillion is the number) - Jobs - Cartels were liquidated last week and during the month of November - Drop 30% - China #3 worldwide miners of cryptocurrency - China eyeing opening the ban since 2021 - Russia open for cryptocurrency - Russia sold bags to pay bills - can't pay soldiers Public moves: - Andrew Tate liquidated 700k+ - Baron Trump longs opened 50m+ - Garrett Jin longs opened 200m+ Imagine the people NOT showing their cards in poker? How many of these people are you or connected to your investments that are silently setting up puts for longs and shorts silently? - Michael Saylor holding even at a close 74k topple and explains the 12 year cycle not 4 year - Tommy Lee holding ETH on the dump and going 15000 long ETH - Robert Kiyosaki is not a crypto investor - A real estate mogul yes, not crypto, he sold - JPMorgan Chase - Bitcoin bond What have you seen in the past 1 to 7 days. Ask yourself? Ask your team? Time to invest or sellout? Watch those %'s and gains or loses. It's showing a lot of data. *I am a bot, and this action was performed automatically. Please [contact the moderators of this subreddit](/message/compose/?to=/r/CryptoMarkets) if you have any questions or concerns.*

Spl00ky

Ah ok the global M2 is up 8%, not the USA's M2. Since January 2025 bitcoin is down 2.74%

Lord_Alamar

Daily reminder that this failed cycle is **ENTIRELY AND THE FAULT OF THE USA**

FlagFootballSaint

That‘s stupid. Nothing cracks. They rule the USA as Kings and can do as they please

Extreme-Direction-78

Everyone needs to be PROSECUTED according the the USA constitution!

kneebeards

So your argument is that bitcoin is worthless because the USA won't accept it as payment for taxes? Or maybe we extrapolate that to 'btc is worthless because it doesn't do all of the things fiat does'? I would respond with that it is a different financial technology altogether. The economy is large, diverse, and complex and there are many mechanisms at play. Bitcoin functionally fills the niche of being an immutable ledger. That is its "real" worth. A service. P.S. That's literally not what the word "literally" means.

Nafrayuu

Impossible to say it really depends on your situation and federal tax regulation. Some European country don't have an exit tax meaning that if you leave the country and establish in another country, you'd pay your taxes there. Some other places like USA or Canada or France I believe, will charge you an exit tax when you leave the country so it's impossible to legally avoid getting taxed on it.

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Automatic_Toe_782

Si je peux me permettre, moi j'ai 28 ans bientôt 29. J'ai commencé à investir vers 2021. Je suis toujours entrain d'apprendre, chaque jour. La seule chose que je peux partager c'est qu'aujoourd'hui je suis en profit. Est-ce que j'ai encaissé vous vous demandez ? Eh bien la réponse c'est non. Je n'ai pas "encaissé" les pofits, mais le bassin que j'ai me permet d'avoir des horizons plus larges pour commencer à m'investir ailleurs. Une chose que j'ai compris avoir lu quelques livres (Père Riche, Autouroute Millionaire, Fils Babylone, Psych de l'argent...) c'est que dans la vie si tu veux réussir pour de vrai, tu dois prendre le risque. Ce risque, corrélé à la chance évidemment est comme son nom l'indique, un "risque". Si je perd tout je suis cuit. En fait presque, tant que je suis en vie, que je gagne de l'argent et que j'ai du crédit à disposition eh bien rien ne m'arrête. En tout cas, c'est plus facile de le dire que de le vire j'en conviens. Pas plus tard qu'hier j'ai fait une transaction sur blockchain de 2k et je croyais avoir fait une erreur j'avais envi de me suicider, mais cette fois c'est bien parc que c'est une erreur stupide de ma part que j'aurais pu éviter à 100% en étant plus patient. Pour revenir au Bitcoin, c'est un peu différent. Je le vois comme l'opportunité d'un siècle, l'opportunité d'investissement. Si je perd, d'autres perdent et encore plus que moi, car je ne considère pas avoir quelque chose d'important je ne suis pas un "whale". Bref, l'avenir semble prometteur. Je ne sais pas si je suis séduit plus par l'idée, par l'euphorie, par l'excitation que ça me procure (je vous rassure, je suis très conservateur pas du tout le profil gambler), mais quand même, je remet constamment en question mes choix et mes décisions. Je continue à croire que c'est un bon investissement. Je ne vois pas en quoi ça ne l'est pas. Steve Jobs à tout mis sur Apple, idem pour les autres philantrope. De plus, étant un étudiant en histoire, je comprend une chose dans cette vie: Seule les voleurs s'en sortent! Eh oui, il ne faut pas être naïf les frérot, Van Der Built et co "les Barons Voleurs" de la moitié du 19e siècle, au Armaturges francais des premières plantations, rien n'est bâti et ne fonctionne sur la "morale". Ca c'est pour la société, jamais pour l'élite. Bref, je ne veux pas m'égarer du sujet car je peux sauter du coq à l'âne comme vous le voyez. J'avais simplement envi de partager mon point de vue sur ce que je considère être une chance en or , la Ruée vers l'Or du 21i siècle. Elle coche toutes les cases. Technologie Blockchain (on s'en ligne vers la tech, pas les pierres). Secondo, indexer de la monnaie papier à l'Or ca ne fonctinone pas, demandez à vos grands-parents aux USA ils vous l'expliqueront mieux que moi. Ce système est désuet dès lors qu'IL EST POSSIBLE DE CRÉER DE L'ARGENT. Personne ne peut calculer mathémathique, rapidement, fluidement le nombre d'or corrélé à son papier. Mais avec une .equation matthématique incorruptible, A PRIORI, soit la transaction passe soit elle ne passe pas. J'écoutais un asiatique parler sur youtube, il à fait une analogie tout à fait intéressante, il a dit: Le Bitcoin d'aujourd'hui et le SP500 d'hier. C'est incroyablement... vrai . Pourquoi? Allez jettez un coup d'oeuil sur le graphique Trading View de SP ou de n'importe quelle action. C'est n'import quoi? Je ne vois pas du profit. Je vois de la dette. Je vois un dollar inflater, c'est tout ce que ca représente. Une monnaie-papier qui ne vaut rien. Alors mon objectif à moi c'est de posséder des commodités dans una venir proche. Pour s'y faire j'ai besoin de capital. Je ne peux pas épargner 100k en 5 ans de travail acharné. C'est quasiment impossible pour un mec lambda. Or, l'investissement devient inébvitable, malheureusmenet et malencoutreusement devrais-je dire car c'est les concours de ciconstances qui nous determinent à être la aujourd'hui en 2025, une cinquantaine d'année suite à 1971. Bref, bref bref, les frérot, je vous conseille d'étudier l'aversion à la perte, le risque et de plongez. Le pire qui arrive vous perdez. Mais sinon, les gains sont juste fabuleux et on va pas se mentir, personne n'a envi d'être riche à 67 ans, avec un diabète un cancer diagnostiquer et une pénurie de médecins dans des hopitaux bondés et un traffic insupportable sur la route. Il faut profitez aussi de sa jeunesse, de sa santé de ses amis de ses relations. Donc, ménagez le chou et la chèvre n'est pas facile et je pense que le Bitcoin va simplement servir de multiplicateur. Bref, je pourrais écrire encore longtemps, j'espère ne pas vous avoir découragé, ni encouragé. Vous êtes maitres de vos décisions, mais la vie est courte et vous ne voulez pas savoir que vous auriez pu mais que vous ne l'aviez pas fait.

CRPTM_ONE

Crypto Tax Crash Course (USA) — Easy & Clear Here’s the quick version of how crypto taxes actually work in the U.S.: 1. Selling or swapping = taxable. Anything that counts as disposing of crypto triggers taxes. Even swapping BTC → ETH is treated like selling BTC. These all go on Form 8949 as gains/losses. 2. Income-style crypto gets taxed the moment you receive it. If you’re earning tokens through things like: • Staking • Mining • Airdrops • Referral bonuses • Play-to-earn • Yield farming / liquidity rewards The IRS taxes them at their fair value the second they hit your wallet. Then when you eventually sell them? That’s a second taxable event. 3. Moving crypto between your own wallets is NOT taxable. Just make sure you mark it as a self-transfer so your tax software doesn’t treat it as a sale. 4. NFT taxes are basically the same as crypto. • Buying an NFT with ETH/SOL = taxable, because you’re “spending” crypto. • Buying with USD/stablecoins = not taxable. • Selling an NFT = capital gain/loss. • Minting is usually not taxable unless you immediately receive something with clear value. • Royalties = ordinary income. 5. DeFi taxes can get messy. Here's the simple version: • Swaps on DEXes = trades → taxable. • Providing liquidity (when you get an LP token) = considered a trade → taxable. • Removing liquidity = also a trade → taxable. • Rewards from pools/staking/nodes = income at FMV the day you get them. • Bridging is usually non-taxable unless the bridge gives you a new wrapped token. 6. Cost basis is everything. Your cost basis is what you originally paid for each asset. If you lose track of it, the IRS may treat your basis as $0 — which means they think all of it is profit. That can lead to a huge tax bill. 7. Please use a tax tool. A proper crypto tax tool will: • Auto-sync exchanges + wallets • Track cost basis correctly • Identify self-transfers • Handle DeFi + NFTs • Generate Form 8949 and full reports It saves you hours of cleanup — even if you only trade occasionally. Crypto is fun when you’re trading. It’s only stressful when tax time comes and nothing is tracked. Tax season isn’t the enemy. Bad records are. Hope this helps someone. Happy filing.

FrankSlipHelp

>My source is their own ledger: They unlock1b tokens a …….. No, I meant what is your source that what is relocked is what people won’t buy, where is your source for that claim? That what is relocked is ‘what nobody will buy’? It’s BS >You’re buying from a whale who pre mined 80% of the total tokens. If you don’t see my point you never will. Ripple did not premine XRP, XRP was minted nearly 2 years before Chris Larsen came around and started up Ripple Labs. Ripple has never distributed XRP, I have never bought a coin from Ripple, neither have you, Ripple does not sell to you or I, they do not sell to retail. >It’s decentralized but they can move 50m coins OTC?? Have no price action on the ledger and it doesn’t exist. If it wasn’t decentralized they would need permission to move 50m coins, but since it is a decentralized network and there is no central authority over the network and XRP, yes anyone can move coins OTC, but the coins exist, but no price action exists because that movement was never on an orderbook, never on an exchange, I could send you 1 million coins to your wallet, it wouldn’t affect price. >Do you even hear yourself. Like cmon bro. You’re protecting a whale of a company for no reason Protect them from what? Why would I be against Ripple? They were gifted their XRP in exchange for a commitment to develop and foster growth on the XRPL, Ripple didn’t sell XRP to fund it’s startup, they had angel investors and venture capital investment rounds, Google invested in Ripple’s startup, so did Andreessen-Horowitz, and many other very smart money people, if they bet big on Ripple do you think I am not going to notice and follow their lead?? Or I should listen to you tell me I am protecting a whale. Come on man….. don’t YOU see? >while I get freshly minted BTC from clean energy. Unless you are mining yourself with 100% renewable free energy and have minted a single coin for yourself, this is not reality, the closest you could ever get to this fantasy of yours is if the coins you had were minted in Georgia where the whole country’s electrical grid is hydro. >You’re better off mining BTC than buying XRP. But you’ll never see it that way. I first mined BTC nearly 13 years ago, I have seen much, BTC used to be like the change in your car’s center console, I now hold zero BTC, BCH yes and still buy, but no more BTC for me. >Pre mined coins minted from thin air, that you’re buying at 20000000% increase from a company lol. That’s what you choose. I am not buying XRP from Ripple, again they don’t sell to retail and Ripple does not set the price, the market does. >When I buy BTC, I buy from miners, who used energy to get rewarded. No, you are buying sats that were mined and sold to an exchange >My money is being dispersed amongst millions of node validators. No, your money is going to the exchanges >And I also hold ETH, the ETH foundation 100% tells you when, how much, and who is buying the ETH. Hard stop right there. The naivety of complaining about pre-mined when you support a coin that came from an ICO, a coin whose value came from an initial release, a foundation that was funded by bad actors on the world stage, that’s some fraud right there. Go and support the Ethereum Foundation, I don’t, why would I support the chain whose very beginning has deep close ties to foreign adversaries of the USA, why would I support the Ethereum Foundation whose leader flew to North Korea and met with their leaders to help them bypass US sanctions by using ETH, and when he flew back and touched American soil he was charged, he was convicted in court and he was sent to prison, why would I support that? Why would I support an ICO dreamed up by Steven Nerayoff? @TheBoringSleuth has uncovered onchain exactly who and what was behind Ethereum’s first wallets, no thanks. >Also did you notice that they didn’t drop $2b worth of liquidity onto the market during 1 month? All year the foundation has maybe sold ETH for $100m Ok, and why would they? Ethereum is not a chain used for remittance and ETH is not a bridge currency, it would make zero sense for them to do that, but what you don’t understand obviously is why a remittance chain and it’s native bridge currency would do that, you do not understand the deep pools of liquidity needed for a remittance chain. >Ripple sells 200k+ coins a month valued at $2 each. Forcing $2b of liquidity onto bag holders when they unlock 1b XRP a month. Onto bagholders? Do you even understand what 200k coins represents on the daily volume chart for XRP? Dude, you don’t, because if you did you’d scratch your head wondering why you thought it was ‘so much’ liquidity ‘dumped’, it’s not, plain and simple, and that 200k is nothing compared to the daily volume even if the monthly escrow release hits the market all on the same day, BUT IT DOESN’T…… because Ripple does not sell to retail, Ripple does not programmatically sell to exchanges, the onchain numbers don’t lie, your assumptions are regurgitated words you don’t understand because if you did you would see through them. Respectfully, your arguments are moot, understand the framework and it will make sense to you why what you are saying is foolhardy. >Ripple is scummy for not disclosing any transaction compared to other foundations. My dude, they release a quarterly XRP report with all these numbers, they have been doing this going on 8 years. You don’t know what you don’t know.

nitroacid411

Here's some data on why I believe this is possible and support this based upon the past week. *** Current News (1 to 7 days) *** - 3.2 trillion market cryptocurrency cap exceeded - $90,000 k Bitcoin - Gold (perspective) - $3,000 k ETH - Silver (perspective) China/USA trade tariff deal Russia/Ukraine war peace deal Artificial Intelligence AI: - Nvidia down $195 -> $170 20th-25th November - Remember Deep Seek fears from China competitor - Nvidia challenged by Google Gemini buyers from Meta data centers - Big 7 AI are opening up more companies and this will not continue to be the only 7 in this stock market Federal rate cut: December 10th: - November rate cut no effect on cryptocurrency - USA bonds backing BTC - Cheat Sheet in 11/26 (Greater > 6.5 trillion is the number) - Jobs - Cartels were liquidated last week and during the month of November - Drop 30% - China #3 worldwide miners of cryptocurrency - China eyeing opening the ban since 2021 - Russia open for cryptocurrency - Russia sold bags to pay bills - can't pay soldiers Public moves: - Andrew Tate liquidated 700k+ - Baron Trump longs opened 50m+ - Garrett Jin longs opened 200m+ Imagine the people NOT showing their cards in poker? How many of these people are you or connected to your investments? - Michael Saylor holding even at a close 74k topple and explains the 12 year cycle not 4 year - Tommy Lee holding ETH on the dump - Robert Kiyosaki is not a crypto investor - A real estate mogul yes, not crypto, he sold - JPMorgan Chase - Bitcoin bond What have you seen in the past 1 to 7 days. Ask yourself? Ask your team? Time to invest or sellout? Watch those %'s and gains or loses. It's showing a lot of data.

Long_Tackle_6931

If the seed code inside works I probably wouldn’t move the BTC for many a while. I’m pretty rich myself outside of crypto anyway like $10m+ type, so I’d spend a year or 2 planning what I want to do. Too many consequences from tax, being targeted by USA China Russia cia kgb ccp, entire underworld after me, will be being exposed tank the market because I’m a nobody, would I be accused of theft etc. So no I wouldn’t touch it for awhile and map things out very carefully

nitroacid411

Here's some new and data recently to help back your calls. *** Current News (1 to 7 days) *** - 3.2 trillion market cryptocurrency cap exceeded - $90,000 k Bitcoin - Gold (perspective) - $3,000 k ETH - Silver (perspective) China/USA trade tariff deal Russia/Ukraine war peace deal Artificial Intelligence AI: - Nvidia down $195 -> $170 20th-25th November - Remember Deep Seek fears from China competitor - Nvidia challenged by Google Gemini buyers from Meta data centers - Big 7 AI are opening up more companies and this will not continue to be the only 7 in this stock market Federal rate cut: December 10th: - November rate cut no effect on cryptocurrency - USA bonds backing BTC - Cheat Sheet in 11/26 (Greater > 6.5 trillion is the number) - Jobs - Cartels were liquidated last week and during the month of November - Drop 30% - China #3 worldwide miners of cryptocurrency - China eyeing opening the ban since 2021 - Russia open for cryptocurrency - Russia sold bags to pay bills - can't pay soldiers Public moves: - Andrew Tate liquidated 700k+ - Baron Trump longs opened 50m+ - Garrett Jin longs opened 200m+ Imagine the people NOT showing their cards in poker? How many of these people are you or connected to your investments? - Michael Saylor holding even at a close 74k topple and explains the 12 year cycle not 4 year - Tommy Lee holding ETH on the dump - Robert Kiyosaki is not a crypto investor - A real estate mogul yes, not crypto, he sold - JPMorgan Chase - Bitcoin bond What have you seen in the past 1 to 7 days. Ask yourself? Ask your team? Time to invest or sellout? Watch those %'s and gains or loses. It's showing a lot of data.

nitroacid411

Been a good week. Here's some current data trending *** Current News (1 to 7 days) *** - 3.2 trillion market cryptocurrency cap exceeded - $90,000 k Bitcoin - Gold (perspective) - $3,000 k ETH - Silver (perspective) China/USA trade tariff deal Russia/Ukraine war peace deal Artificial Intelligence AI: - Nvidia down $195 -> $170 20th-25th November - Remember Deep Seek fears from China competitor - Nvidia challenged by Google Gemini buyers from Meta data centers - Big 7 AI are opening up more companies and this will not continue to be the only 7 in this stock market Federal rate cut: December 10th: - November rate cut no effect on cryptocurrency - USA bonds backing BTC - Cheat Sheet in 11/26 (Greater > 6.5 trillion is the number) - Jobs - Cartels were liquidated last week and during the month of November - Drop 30% - China #3 worldwide miners of cryptocurrency - China eyeing opening the ban since 2021 - Russia open for cryptocurrency - Russia sold bags to pay bills - can't pay soldiers Public moves: - Andrew Tate liquidated 700k+ - Baron Trump longs opened 50m+ - Garrett Jin longs opened 200m+ Imagine the people NOT showing their cards in poker? How many of these people are you or connected to your investments? - Michael Saylor holding even at a close 74k topple and explains the 12 year cycle not 4 year - Tommy Lee holding ETH on the dump - Robert Kiyosaki is not a crypto investor - A real estate mogul yes, not crypto, he sold - JPMorgan Chase - Bitcoin bond What have you seen in the past 1 to 7 days. Ask yourself? Ask your team? Time to invest or sellout? Watch those %'s and gains or loses. It's showing a lot of data.

excelance

Used Grok to answer your question since I didn't want to type the entire thing out myself: Bitcoin mining in 2025 is basically solving complex math puzzles to validate transactions and earn newly minted BTC plus fees. You do this with specialized hardware called ASICs (Application-Specific Integrated Circuits) that crunch the SHA-256 hash function nonstop. The network difficulty is extremely high, so solo mining with anything you can buy as an individual is effectively impossible—you’d win a block maybe once every few centuries. **What to buy (realistic home/retail level):** * A modern ASIC miner: Bitmain Antminer S21, S21 Pro, or MicroBT Whatsminer M60S series (200–350 TH/s, 3,500–6,000 W power draw). Expect to pay $2,000–$6,000 new, less on secondary market. * Cheap electricity (under 6–8¢/kWh) or you’ll lose money. Good cooling/ventilation (these things are loud and hot). * A decent power supply (PSU) if not included, and a mining-friendly wallet. **Pool or solo?** Always join a pool. Pools combine thousands of miners’ hash power and pay you tiny fractions of every block proportionally (e.g., Foundry USA, AntPool, F2Pool, ViaBTC). Solo mining today is like playing the lottery with one ticket while pools give you steady, small payouts (think salary vs. hoping to hit Powerball). Even with one S21, a good pool will pay you $5–20/day before electricity costs (at \~7¢/kWh you might break even or slightly profit, depending on BTC price). Bottom line: Unless you have access to very cheap power (<5¢/kWh) and can handle noise/heat, mining at home is usually not profitable in 2025. Most people buy Bitcoin directly instead.

tutan-ka

You are right. USA system is way better. If you have money you can get any healthcare you want, if you don’t, just die, who cares anyway. Oh, but make sure you have pocket money because if you rely on an insurance they can just deny your claim and let you die.

nitroacid411

Support is in this week. Check out some interesting changes. *** Current News (1 to 7 days) *** - 3.2 trillion market cryptocurrency cap exceeded - $90,000 k Bitcoin - Gold (perspective) - $3,000 k ETH - Silver (perspective) China/USA trade tariff deal Russia/Ukraine war peace deal Artificial Intelligence AI: - Nvidia down $195 -> $170 20th-25th November - Remember Deep Seek fears from China competitor - Nvidia challenged by Google Gemini buyers from Meta data centers - Big 7 AI are opening up more companies and this will not continue to be the only 7 in this stock market Federal rate cut: December 10th: - November rate cut no effect on cryptocurrency - USA bonds backing BTC - Cheat Sheet in 11/26 (Greater > 6.5 trillion is the number) - Jobs - Cartels were liquidated last week and during the month of November - Drop 30% - China #3 worldwide miners of cryptocurrency - China eyeing opening the ban since 2021 - Russia open for cryptocurrency - Russia sold bags to pay bills - can't pay soldiers Public moves: - Andrew Tate liquidated 700k+ - Baron Trump longs opened 50m+ - Garrett Jin longs opened 200m+ Imagine the people NOT showing their cards in poker? How many of these people are you or connected to your investments? - Michael Saylor holding even at a close 74k topple and explains the 12 year cycle not 4 year - Tommy Lee holding ETH on the dump - Robert Kiyosaki is not a crypto investor - A real estate mogul yes, not crypto, he sold - JPMorgan Chase - Bitcoin bond What have you seen in the past 1 to 7 days. Ask yourself? Ask your team? Time to invest or sellout? Watch those %'s and gains or loses. It's showing a lot of data.

baIIern

That's a market cap of 1.155 Quadrillion USD or almost 40x the GDP of the USA. That would make so many people Billionaires/Trillionaires, there just can't be enough money to keep the buying pressure. Don't think that's even near possible.

potificate

Then you don’t know what rich is. “Rich” in the USA, in Dubai, etc is a completely different number to “rich” in a third world country.

TONNAGE1975

If Bitcoin is “confiscation-resistant” How does the USA have $14 Billion in seized Bitcoin? https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c70jw436n0yo

ZT0141

Being honest, I don’t think BTC can replace gold. The USA alone has trillions of dollars worth. Other countries are rapidly buying gold too. The two will co-exist in our lifetime

mizhgun

Really? Wtf Seguridad Social then? Spain spends on healthcare about 16-17% of budget, comparing to the same 17-18% in ‘evil’ USA and 20-22% in UK. It is fucking myth about god-level fucking healthcare in Spain.

diradder

Shouldn't have taken you 4 days to come up with a wrong stat... The CPI was never at 10% in his term, but it raised to 9.1% (June 2022) due to a literal global supply chain crunch in the midst of a global pandemic. Note that I've literally commented on this too, I'm talking about the way Bitden got the USA out of this situation and made the it one of the countries with the best recovery (when Biden left office other large countries were still around 4-5% inflation, the USA was around 3%). So again, more of the same, pragmatic and working policies. Not isolationism and deporting a lot of the people working to make your economy great just because they are brown.

pop-1988

ACH transfers are slow because of the transaction reversal risk. This is a problem specific to the USA. FedNow was supposed to enable instant bank transfers, and retire ACH, but the Fed is deliberately slow and restrictive about approving banks to participate in FedNow. What are they afraid of? Customer convenience?

road22

The old system is dying. If the USA can get their shit together and get congress to pass the clarity bill, then we might stand a chance. Regardless, all you need to do is store your own BTC on a cold wallet. Memorize your 24 words as a backup ONLY.

nitroacid411

8% has been thrown around in every sub. Copy paste. The fed is shooting for at least .50 if not higher. USA is pumping the economy right now with Black Friday and holidays events. What are you guys scared of?

RosieDear

1. The world is a big place. 2. Most of it is corrupt in one way or another. 3. Even the USA, under current admin, said they weren't gonna care much about crypto theft. 4. Just because you CAN, doesn't mean you DO. The botton line is that no one really cares if your 3m life savings, most of which you "made" in Crypto, ends up in Myanmar. No one is gonna assign a crew to get it. Also, imagine how hard it might be to trace to the first actual people involved....then assume they moved it a few times. I have had stuff stolen from me and they found the perps but the 2nd person in line said "I didn't know it was stolen" and I never got it back.

Fl0riduh_Man

But...I can't purchase anything with BC, cash is accepted anywhere in the USA.

Notrustjustverify

Yes I do on a daily basis, here its better to transact in BTC as our currency has been devalued massively by the government, if I hold onto my currency I can barely afford food month to month on top of living expenses. BTC is a ray of hope for us, I know its not the same in the USA because dollar is still valuable there, but for us we have no choice.

nitroacid411

Calm down. The longs are up. The patience of rekt sellers have realized the cycle will repeat. We have some big moves being made in finance, thus ignoring a China deal, fed cut, 3 trillion crypto market. What have you noticed in the past 1 to 7 days? Upswing are good signs. How much money is enough for you personally? Are you holding long to cash out or are you using it for a loan or collateral? Pay attention to the past week. Black friday this week. Lots of commerce happening in the USA. People will buy. There's just too much money and cash.

LeopardNo6060

Norway is ranked 7th in happiness! The USA is 24th.

nitroacid411

Checklist: November 27th China and USA trade peace deal. November 27th Russia and Ukraine war peace deal. December 10th Federal USA rate cut. Cartel got liquidated throughout the month of November. Long were obliterated. Russia got obliterated on their BTC holdings. I do not think they can pay their soldiers wages anymore? Andrew Tate got liquidated last week. Baron Trump opened longs last week. Tommy Lee is still holding ETH. Michael Saylor is still holding BTC. Robert Kyiosaki is a slumlord not a BTC OG. Peter Schiff sniffs gold in his sleep. Invest in gold per Peter Sniffer. What have you seen in the past 1 to 7 days. Ask yourself? Ask your team? Time to invest or sellout? Let's go.

madladchad3

But you can’t access that safe without physically being there, so a person in USA cant transfer what’s inside that safe to a person in England on a sunday afternoon.

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LooseSpot4597

I was lucky to be born in the UK but my childhood was awful by UK standards both in terms of money and the general quality of it. Obviously much better than third world but I definitely had it far worse than someone born to average parents in USA like most Redditors. I think people underestimate how far just being willing to graft really hard, not being a total pussy and being smart gets you. From my experience being "privileged" seems to be very helpful for getting into an elite uni or a career like medicine, law, finance etc but it simply doesn't matter much for achieving true outlier level success. I couldn't agree more with the last part. First £1k was way more satisfying than £1 mil. I suppose it is better but it is less satisfying and hard to relate to anyone anymore.

LooseSpot4597

Lol I know full well $1 mil in mid twenties is extremely rare cause I've met one similar person in my entire life. $1 mil at 40 in USA, yes you'd have a point.

LooseSpot4597

By the time I'm 30 I think I'll have a net worth of $4 mil which with basic 10% returns from an index fund would grow by $400k a year. A $250k salary (in USA would be $500k-$1 mil) would be like $150k after tax in UK, so I would be earning close to 3x more just from investments. It's borderline pointless financially and will only get worse with age.

LooseSpot4597

Working though I'm not sure how much longer that will be for. I have an "elite" job but it only pays like $250k max and this is by 30+ (salaries are total shit in UK compared to USA) and imo by 30 I'll be earning way more than that just sitting on my ass. Kind of sad when I like my job just not this much.

ProjectStrange3331

Yeah the world outside USA relies on the dollar and us treasuries. And no matter where you live, bitcoin is a hedge against debasement of the DOLLAR — the American minded US dollar, lol! Deal with it.

tobia78

I live in the USA, I have 5000 Bitcoin, and I can only buy one pizza with it

uncapchad

consumers pay in Bitcoin on the Lightning network, merchants have the option to either keep it or convert to currency or automatically convert up to 50% of their daily card sales into Bitcoin. All with zero fees until 2027. Their services include wallets and tax tracking. This is rolled out across USA and 8 other countries with more to come next year including online payments. This makes it easier for the many merchants out there who want to accept Bitcoin or already do accept it but face technical and other challenges. You see posts in this sub all the time across a variety of sizes of businesses, self-employed etc. IMO, Block wouldn't have done this if they felt the adoption level would be low. Also if they didn't feel that changes in regulations regarding taxes (in the US at least) weren't coming. According to their research, cryptocurrency payment users in the US are expected to grow by 82% by 2026.

Ok-Brilliant-5498

They make the guy sound like a monster and he’s selling safe product, I mean he helps Trump make money by fueling the stockbroker’s with their “KIND” of coffee aka YeYo… They got $130M in Crypto that he had in wallets….. Cocaine is the next Cannabis, give it 10 years imagine the tax they’ll get off that!!!.. If YeYo is bad and warrants the government to seizure your crypto, if they’re into that all you gotta do is find the tech bro’s fuel and then the USA Government can collect all their coins too, but then he’d have to confiscate Don Jr for sure lol

Morbid_Necrolatry

Not Canadian. The USA has ceased production of pennies November 12, 2025. Canada stopped in 2012.

Spl00ky

>The central technology of socialism, central banking, did capture the entire planet.  Then why does capitalism exist? >Why haven't we abolished it yet, or why hasn't someone else done capitalism? That's like asking why people labored under kings and tyrants for thousands of years before the Renaissance. As capitalism would dictate, the superior technology would be so evidently better that it would take over quickly, and yet no nation has used bitcoin after 16 years to become a world superpower if it is that much better. >It's a tragedy, but we havent given up on fixing it. That's why bitcoin exists. If you don't get it, or want to live in denial, why come here at all. How am I living in denial when I can see quantitative data that suggest the USA has the world's greatest economy based on fiat money? Where is your evidence this isn't the case? Why are stocks are at all time highs and capitalism is thriving as the USA leads the world in the AI race? I can understand if you don't live in the USA and maybe in a developing country. >Just go about your day being a dollar slave. Bitcoin might save you anyway. If you don't want your dollars, I'll take them. I already own bitcoin as a speculative risk-on asset.

ThEpOwErOfLoVe23

Let me guess you would have blamed the Jews for the black plague by poisoning the wells and burned them at the stake in the name of Christ too? Christ was a diehard Zionist and Jewish. I bet when you spill the apple juice, you blame it on the juice as well. Everyone wants a scape goat. It's clear that you don't know much about how the system works. All the tax money that is given to Israel is a voucher discount that has to be used to buy USA military products. It actually boosts the USA economy but you buy into fear mongering. Israel puts more into the USA economy than whatever is taken out in tax money. Every year, Israel invests around 20 billion into USA companies on top of the additional stuff it buys with military vouchers. If Israel bought military gear from another country I'm sure you'd be complaining about that too. You support American products? America committed a real genocide against the Vietnamese population and dumped agent orange all over their agricultural to starve them. Vietnamese children are still born with birth defects. The USA killed millions of Korean civilians. In Iraq, 1/10 killed was a militant and the rest were civilians. In Afghanistan it was 1/7. The West used food as a weapon of war against Iraq, ISIS, Yemen, and Syria. UN sanctions directly led to millions going without food. Do you hold every other country to the same level of standards? Or whenever it doesn't fit your world view, you just blame it on Israel? Israel is no angel, don't get me wrong but neither is the rest of the world.

OutlandishnessLimp25

If you’re in the USA most states allow the use of River. (www.River.com) Great team. You can speak with someone personally. I’d definitely recommend sending it off exchange into a cold wallet for longterm hodl. Good luck!

Best-Butterscotch767

Japan increasing interest rates decreases the liquidity. From 2023-2024 hedge funds borrowed yen and converted to USD and bought risky assets like BTC which pumped. You can argue that now USA is cutting rates. But interest rates will not fall due to inflation. So BTC will touch 50K for sure before July 2026. And Stocks will come down, then fund managers will buy bonds and yields come down. And then interest rates will come down with inflation. Inflation comes down becoz trump will take uturn slowly cutting tarrifs on daily consumer goods. Save this comment.

Caliak

The interesting thing is that the usual Sunday “pump” happens in the early evening (Eastern USA time) and it started about 12 hours before that this time.

uncapchad

Square has already enabled Bitcoin as a payment option on all their terminals across the USA (except where forbidden) with 0 fees until 2027. They have also rolled outside the USA to 8 countries, incl UK, France, Japan and plan to keep going. These are for in-person settlements but they will be rolling online payments too. [https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20251008033341/en/Square-Brings-Bitcoin-to-Main-Street-With-First-Integrated-Payments-and-Wallet-Solution-for-Local-Businesses](https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20251008033341/en/Square-Brings-Bitcoin-to-Main-Street-With-First-Integrated-Payments-and-Wallet-Solution-for-Local-Businesses) [https://coinlaw.io/square-bitcoin-payments-live-zero-fees/](https://coinlaw.io/square-bitcoin-payments-live-zero-fees/)

Amber_Sam

Square recently introduced Bitcoin POS upgrade to their vendors. That's IMHO quite solid adoption new right there. Even without square, I'm using Bitcoin almost on a daily basis. Buying groceries, paying for meals, taxis, domains/hosting, VPN... Spend and replace is usually the name of the game so no, I'm not spending bitcoin while saving in cash. If you're thinking about spending some, here are my favorite directories: http://lightningnetworkstores.com/ https://btcmap.org - awesome map, you can even add your local vendors in, once you orangepill them. https://acceptlightning.com/list.html https://spend-sats.com/ https://spendabit.co/ https://directory.btcpayserver.org/ There's also an option of buying gift cards https://thebitcoincompany.com/ https://bitrefill.com https://www.egifter.com/buy-gift-cards-with-bitcoin - this one's least fave because they use a shitty custodian for payments but are handy for a few cards. Spend and earn some sats back: https://foldapp.com - save up to 20% Starbucks, Uber, Target , whole foods , Dunkin https://www.lolli.com – save up to 30% by spending BTC anywhere but primarily USA stores https://satsback.com/stores-list - save up to 20% by spending BTC anywhere but primarily Europe stores.

ignominiousDog

USA here. I cant imagine paying capital gains for a Starbucks

Lolalamb224

I truly don’t know why people are trippin. There’s no liquidity in the system. QE is coming. Powell is out by next spring. USA is going to try to spend its way out of debt via war and possibly even direct payments to citizens. Fundamentals remain unchanged.

Notrustjustverify

Yeah that’s the point, and their only way out is currency debasement which is very obvious next move with USA increasing their gold reserves and also initiating a strategic bitcoin reserve. But as I said, govt has done a great job in enslaving people and selling a lie that dollar is forever, people are blinded, and when it happens they’ll only have enough toilet paper to clean morning poop with.

bleudefact

Nonsense! Only MDs can legally own Medical practices in USA. Creating a Fake Management company no longer is allowed. He is lying. He is selling like everyone else so they do not have to list all their wallet addresses next year and move into ETFs mid next year when the USA Central bank starts printing $$$$ like it is 2021 all over again! 60% of Americans can not afford food and basics, while more trillionaires are minted every month!

Shift_Tex

Yea and that want us met by printing more dollars making dollars worth less. It’s fine if it’s 2-3% target rate a year but we doubled the global money supply in the last five years. 10x the target. You and I don’t get a say in that. Neither does the President of the USA. Bank for international settlements, headed by one man, controls that. They can’t control BTC. 21M now and forever.

PlasticTreeonaHill

No average Joe holding even close to that much in btc is worried about the next investment lol. My bet is the USA is behind bitcoin.

ecnecn

Bitmine Immersion, **Las Vegas**, USA ... all you need to know

Spl00ky

>The shit did hit the fan. Ww1 and ww2 were needless wars caused by fiat. There were countless others. If people never fell for the fiat scam the world would be decades in the future. Maybe centuries. Irs impossible to exaggerate for evil fiat is.  Cool story bro and yet the USA still emerged out of those to have the world's greatest economy based on fiat...

TylerDurden6969

A rare bit of wisdom in this sub. Well said. Money is meant to be spent, not hoarded. This includes digital currencies. As we are rolling into a recession in the USA, I expect crypto prices to continue to decline. It makes sense to diversify investments during bearish times.

BoldCrunchyUsername

Now who is burying their head in the sand? In USA, there are tens of thousands of retailers that accept bitcoin for goods and services. They all love not paying those 1-3% to the credit card cartels. What will your excuse be when the hundreds of thousands of point of sale systems across the globe come online? I think I’ll head to Steak n Shake and spend (and replace) some 2014 sats while you tell me how no one uses bitcoin as a currency and you really do prefer a middleman to take a portion of value from each transaction you make.

Ill_Turn6934

Do you know if this can be done in USA? Great job by the way. Was saving in 529 college education fund but want to add BTC exposure.

Unusual_Pirate_2727

I do not see a bear market, I see manipulation at its finest, Money printer in USA will turn on pump incoming. IMO

Daryltang

Because news is entertainment in USA

Emergency-Warthog-56

I appreciate you taking the time to go in detail. River does sound great but for me, Strike has been perfect for what I do. I use DCA daily and here in USA the spreads are super close to spot. I only use the platform for purchasing though. I don't store everything on their platform. I transfer to my Trezor Safe 5. Transfers are free also as long as you pick the 24 hour sending option. Usually that option takes 12 - 14 hours.

bumtametje

Historically USA was a trusted partner. Now it's no more than an extremist country with a mentally sick president and a losing influence on all metrics.

bumtametje

That was another USA idiot. Stop dreaming the USA doesn't mean anything for Europe anymore. Betrayed of Ukraine and NATO.

Internet_Crab

Nobody outside USA cares about bitcoin. Keep bagholding

Spl00ky

>You realize central banking is literally plank 5 of the communist manifesto. It sounds like you are a communist for supporting it. If that were the case, then the Federal Reserve wouldn't be independent from Congress or the White House. Moreover, commercial banks wouldn't be thriving in the USA. >And no, communist banking, a thieving parasite system of fraud, does not get credit for America's economy. That's like crediting plague rats for building a city. Again, you've missed the point that fiat money really isn't that bad since the world's greatest economy uses it. >If America's economy way good, it did so despite the parasites. Imagine how much better things would have been without them. If using something else than fiat money was so good, then another nation state would have used it by now to surpass the USA or at least to propel itself as a world's super power. >Two fewer world wars to start. We'd be in the space age. The Cold War was the reason for the USA to go to space...

RosieDear

He really has no talent. The biggest scammers usually had SOME. Like Barnum and Bailey, etc - most had areas they excelled in. Trump is literally the worst person in the world. That is his talent. It just so happened that many others are terrible people inside and they love to see it "flower". I only met one person in my life that was like Trump. When he opened his mouth for 2 sentences I was done with him (it was at his wedding - his to-be wife, a distance cousin, ended up killing herself....you can just imagine what this guy was like". So that is his talent. To make the world and people all be their worst possible versions. The only way an educated or reasonable person could think anything else....is that they are ignorant of the facts. Or, they just see themselves....in which case they are not educated or reasonable. There are some people I know who spout their real opinions...rare, but they exist. I remember asking one about a certain Female candidate "Yeah, I'd fuc\* her" was his answer...which is what millions were thinking. Same person definitely supports Trump because he figures he'd be in the pants and wallets of everyone he met if he had the same "freedoms" as The Don. It's a sad statement on History and the USA - but look at the bright side. Maybe we will learn something without a full-on "Germany" experience?

Thorsten_Speckstein

Many, just not Binance and Mexc. I would recommend Bitget, but as a resident of the USA, you cannot use Bitget.

lumpxt

Do keep in mind that not everyone lives under the rules of the USA and it's IRS.

OverlordBluebook

I invest in real estate also but I can tell you I wouldn't go by your advice at all. 100% it's a taxable event the rates may be like real estate but not how it's handled. I Had to pay crypto taxes last year on some gains part of the deal. It's not worth trying to make assumptions and not put it on your tax returns. They can see much more than you think and have full access to your accounts in the USA.

kironet996

Yuck, USA didn't sell...

bumtametje

I'm Dutch and with 15 btc I can buy USA, as it stinks and nobody else is interested

Spl00ky

Seems to have worked since the USA has the world's greatest economy and is home to the world's largest and most profitable businesses on the planet.

nomoney110

Imagine if the USA had a strategic altcoin reserve.

Spl00ky

>Printing money hasnt meant physical paper notes since 1913. Sure and commercial banks aren't responsible for that, the central banks are... >Why are you here shoveling lies to defend the most evil system in all of human history?  Are you a communist? Because it sounds like you don't like capitalism which has allowed the USA to have the world's greatest economy and is home to the largest and most profitable businesses on the planet. That doesn't sound like an evil system to me. >Every loan they make is fraud, by definition. Ah right so if that were the case then every country on the planet could become like the USA just by printing money. It's that easy right?

Amber_Sam

>A grandmother in Zimbabwe knows she can't save in her local currency. But should she trust some unknown Satoshi or the USA? This I believe will change over the next decades. The grandmother will be GenAlpha or GenBeta and she will understand the consequences of trusting governments.

LazyLifeguard

It must be stressful as fuck doing anything crypto related in the USA is what I gather here. I get it why everyone wants to hold there forever.

mjmeyer23

this is the evil genius of stable coins backed by fiat treasuries. they allow fiat central banks to compete with Bitcoin for hearts and minds who are trying to escape local currency debasement. A grandmother in Zimbabwe knows she can't save in her local currency. But should she trust some unknown Satoshi or the USA? fiat is all a race to the bottom. stack. hodl. thrive

judasthetoxic

Neither Ethereum or Bitcoin are USA assets, so wtf NSA has to do with the subject?

Ok-Brilliant-5498

Can anyone help me?.. I bought bitcoin in early 2015 and I bought $62 and got .07859 BTC, at the moment it’s $9169.00 at the USA markets… should I sell or keep?…

TurkishBitcoiner

1 ) Better jobs 2) Rate cut might not happen in december 3) Inflation is not low and is a bit higher , thus rate increases might happen 4) Liquid Cash is low , low liquidity = people sell assets 5) The whole world stock markets are down quite a bit, especially USA with sp500 and nasdaq being down trillions of dollars and almost back to their august prices. 6) Leverage liqudations 7) Fear of the 4 year cycle, panic, fear kicks in

bizaroo933

Burgers completely destroyed the cycle. Shit performance by BTC, no altseason, scammers can do what they want, constant selling pressure. USA shit country thank you for ruining everything!

Svv-Val

The US debt being untenable is a bullshit that USSR and Russia use in their propaganda. If it was untenable then USA would’ve collapsed. The economy is shit, but the fact that money printer will start printing will hurt the general public and it will hurt crypto much more then money printer will help.

AccomplishedBed2737

Funny how nobody talking about Asian markets when btc is nuking vs all the hate USA gets when it does the same thing.

bucketzBro

Because the dip isnt over... im holding out for the USA civil war before I start investing in BTC

SeaworthinessSad7300

ok break it down for me? You sell IBIT and buy BTC and the IRS dont consider it to be buying the same thing. Maybe USA is more loose but here in Australia the ATO will look and see if its effectively the same thing. They would consider an ETF of gold to be the same as buying gold bars. I have read their content on this and if its effectively the same underlying asset they wont let you get away with it

nikikins

Depends on where you are. Not everyone is in the USA or wherever you are.

2capshanker

You’re not wrong there, there are some stupid people around that’s for sure. But most people are good, and I’m just gonna keep hoping good things prevail…BTC is global so no matter how much the USA screw things up for themselves; a lot of people are catching on to sound money. I hope the best for you

diradder

Biden's fiscal and economical policies were great, I'd do more of the same. They literally got the USA in the top countries after COVID in terms of job growth, economic recovery and control of inflation... despite the situation he inherited from Trump.

RadiantHedgehog2850

There is not one, you cannot analize any markets, it's manipulated... [](https://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/?f=flair_name%3A%22ADVICE%22)WHY??? Well. Extreme fear is gripping the USA and BTC is suffering for no reason. IF it is self custody, then it is NOT attached to any other markets, just because the US stock exchange drops BTC should NOT AT ALL. It should go up this is just like the massive crash in 17, so why the fuss and panick sale and drops? It has been manipulated by Blackrock I KNEW ETF's should NOT be involved we are here to be our OWN BANK Bitcoin should not be played in the financial markets this is an outrage! They are actually trying to take down BTC so they can have there mighty dollar in control leave BlackRock alone! Here we go again hold on to your britches because these pants are gonna fall down!