I mean, btc did x1.83 from previous ATH and we still are able to go as down as 60k(february dip) after like an ATH of 126k which was also so tiny when compared to previous ATH multipliers...

What kind of a hedge is it, against what, maybe your mental health?

At this point its been 5 years since 2021 and every single person who bought btc during 2021 did a poor decision, you'd be much better with an SP500 index fund. Worst case you'd end up with same value but without all the stress the volatility brings.

Why am i being so pessimist? Because some people here acts like its all normal but it is not.

What kind of catalyst we need here? POTUS (you might not like him but POTUS title could be biggest title in the world) actively marketed bitcoin for 1 whole year. Do we need aliens to come and purchase all btc? Truly what do you guys expect.

Previous ATH multiplier was x3.5, now we got x1.8 whats gonna be next one? If it continue to drop like this we supposed to get something like x1.3 maybe? So next ath will be around 160k?

I dunno guys, been in btc more than 12 years now, i made a fortune but i am tired at this moment. Please don't give me financial advice.

One of the biggest regrets of my life is not buying Bitcoin in the early days. I was still in school, just a kid, and I remember hearing some of my classmates talking about Bitcoin. What bothers me the most is that I was ignorant and didn't even have the curiosity to look it up online and see what it was all about. Looking back, I realize that opportunities often appear long before we understand their value

I'm sure you are feeling the same as me if you truly understand Bitcoin.

Being able to purchase Bitcoin at this prices in big 2026 it's such a blessing.

The 4 year cycle is more alive than ever and it's stronger than the correlation with the stock market, meaning Bitcoin will go up the following years even if the rest is going down.

I'm from a third world country and have been buying since march 2021 with some stops in 2024 and 2025. I own about 0.13 BTC now and plan to reach 0.2 during this bear market.

Fundamentals are the same. Nothing changed. Stay strong, buy, hodl and be patient.

See you in 2028 for the next ATH.

A traveler once came across a mighty oak standing beside a bamboo grove. When a violent storm arrived, the bamboo bent almost to the ground. The oak stood firm. When the storm passed,the oak had lost branches and its roots were partially exposed. The bamboo simply stood back up.

The traveler asked the bamboo: How did you survive?....The bamboo answered: I didn't fight the wind. I let it pass through me. This reminded me of Bitcoin. The market has always been the storm.

Bitcoin has survived: -93% in 2011....... -85% in 2015 .....-84% in 2018.... -77% in 2022. Every cycle felt different when you were living through it. And evry single time, some people were convinced it was finally over. Maybe thats why I like the bamboo analogy. The goal isn't to pretend the wind doesn't exist. It's to survive long enogh to see the sun come back out.

Years from now, nobody will remember the scary headlines, the red candles, or the panic posts.

They'll remember whether they had the conviction to keep buying when everyone else was afraid.

Bitcoin is still Bitcoin.

21 million.

Tick tock, next block.

Keep stacking. ????

I started buying BTC to save for a motorcycle. I make $19k a year and there's massive devaluation in my country, saving money never made sense for me, couldn't think of building something for the future in this situation.

In 231 days, I've invested nearly $4k (averaging $17/day), starting when BTC was at $17k. My wallet is currently at $3,500, down about $500.

I didn’t panic, but the anxiety made me realize I can't control the market timing. If I want to buy the bike without losing money then the bike will have to wait.

Today I realized I probably won't sell even if BTC goes high and I can get the motorcycle. After all the effort it took to buy monthly and stay patient, I don't like the idea. The motorcycle which was the final objective, feels now like a smaller thing. I want this to be something bigger.

I realized now that this will be a longer journey than I thought, I renewed my commitment to BTC by setting up a cold wallet today. I'm now enjoying the process of growing my coin, even if it's slow paced with the low income I have. I'm also inspired to get a better income and will be trying to apply for jobs outside my country to grow even more my coin.

All of this might sound corny, but for the first time in 28 years I feel like I'm doing something for my future. Thanks for reading!

Tried a test transfer. Its taken an hour and 20 mins so far. Longest amount of time I've had to wait.

Anybody else taking a while?

I believe this is the hash: 950207f01c4e3bf4512fb0c4eb3903305ca4dfb05f9ed834d0c5d481e09f5564

Transaction confirmed. Thanks again folks.

I’m 22 years old, started buying bitcoin at 50-60k in 2021, dca some at that bear market. And have been holding since. I completely held through the top this cycle and now I’m down over 50% since the top. At this point I would be so much better off if I just invested in the s&p, I’m pretty much break even after 5 years of holding. Just graduated college and want to do some travel but idk if I can get myself to start selling at these prices. It just keeps getting worse and worse. At this point idk what to do holding until this next cycle seems like the best bet I just can’t believe I understood how the cycle works and still didn’t sell any this time. Any advice would be appreciated this has been eating me alive

Has anyone done this? Thinking of doing this for the tax savings since Bitcoin is a long term hold for me, the tax loss harvest could benefit me in the short term allowing me to take profits without paying taxes on gains in stocks.

Round trip fees and spreads obviously comes with a cost and from what I have read/heard the legislature could change wash sale rules regarding bitcoin. Main risk here that I see is if legislature does change and it is retroactive for this tax year then I wasted money on fees and spreads for no reason.

Has anyone done this, any insights or logistic advice for doing it?

I used river before so I would probably just use river again even though the fees are not best just because it is all set up for me to do it there and I’m familiar.

Thanks in advance for your comments!

I am new to bitcoin in general and I saw people screaming 4 year cycle in this bear run. When does the cycle starts? How reliable is the cycle? Thanks

... is easier said than done.

Lost about 30k chasing shitcoin pumps since 2017. Took me long enough to learn my lesson. Now that BTC price is tanking I see my true first window of opportunity to build generational wealth.

Should I buy now? Should I wait for later?

I starting buying Bitcoin near the all time highs last year then I stopped and now my average buy is at around 106k and I remember saying once it has its massive drop I will buy get my average down not Gunna be like the others let emotions get better of me when it's low and now that it is alot down it is a bit of an emotional struggle after reading all the negative headlines , vids etc, it's not like I'm investing all my life savings but still bit of emotional struggle/hurdle to get over, anyone else feel the same?

Looks like the 4 yr cycle is going to be true this time too.

Let's goo

I posted a situation on AITA earlier and got a ton of YTA responses, so I wanted to hear from people who actually understand Bitcoin and the tech behind it. For context: (im a 15M and my cousin is 20M) I’m into Bitcoin on a small personal level. I’m not a trader, not trying to get rich quick, nothing like that. I’ve been learning for a while and have about $2k in a cold wallet that I just hold long‑term.

My grandma is pretty curious about new technology. She’s asked me questions about Bitcoin before, and I thought it might be fun to show her how it works by sending her a tiny amount (like $20) from my own money, only if she wanted to try it. More like a hands‑on demo than “you should invest.”

My cousin is extremely anti‑crypto and very anti‑capitalist. When he heard about this, he got upset and said I was “taking advantage of her” and “pushing risky investments on an old person,” even though she wouldn’t be spending anything and I wasn’t telling her to buy or invest. AITA basically agreed with him and said I was the asshole for even considering showing her how Bitcoin works.

So I’m curious what this community thinks: Is it wrong to teach an older family member about Bitcoin if they’re interested, even if you’re using your own money and not encouraging them to invest? Genuinely want to hear the Bitcoin community’s perspective.

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The entire world just decides to value and execute the transfer of goods in Bitcoin? The new dominating power doesn’t just make their cash system the reserve currency? We just don’t go back to gold? (I get that gold is very cumbersome but who says we don’t all just end up trading tokenized gold). Who says the new Emperor Caesar doesn’t just create his own Central Bank with an entire new fiat system starting from scratch?

My point is, as I’m evaluating the worthiness of expanding my Bitcoin investment - the hyperinflation of the US dollar is inevitable, but the alternative is not solely (and probably less than 50%) Bitcoin.

Imagine a world where the USD can't be printed any longer, and we rely on sats to purchase goods and services.

One thing I've noticed after spending time learning about Bitcoin:

People assume everyone buys it for the same reason.

That hasn't been my experience at all.

Some people are worried about inflation.
Some are drawn to self-custody.
Some see it as an investment.
Some are interested in the technology.

For me, one of the biggest realizations was that there isn't just one reason people get into Bitcoin. Different people seem to "get it" for completely different reasons.

What was the thing that finally made Bitcoin click for you?

I’ve been thinking about the systemic design of Bitcoin and comparing it to the socioeconomic experiment in the movie The Platform (El Hoyo).

In the movie, a "self-regulating" system is designed to provide enough resources for everyone, but it ultimately fails because it doesn't account for human greed—those at the top consume everything, leaving nothing for those below.

Bitcoin is also a self-regulating platform, governed by code rather than human authority. However, I’m curious about your perspective:

Does the decentralization and fixed nature of the Bitcoin protocol successfully mitigate human greed, or does it merely provide a new, automated "platform" where the same old patterns of accumulation and inequality persist?

Can a protocol alone ever truly solve the social problem of greed, or is that strictly a human issue that technology cannot touch?

I’m interested in hearing your thoughts on whether Bitcoin is just a technical solution to a social problem that requires a human solution.

Pretty much right where we should be…feels like the biggest no brainer of all time to stack bitcoin heavy during the next 6 months.

Also feels like no one at all is acknowledging the 4 year cycles

Besides maybe Saylor
who sold the bottom today and sold it damn near perfect last time (negligible amount)

Do people think cycles were invalidated or something? Why is the 4 year cycle no where on social media?

OG bitcoiners stacking heavier this year? Not believe in cycles anymore? Don’t care and just stack regardless?

Stocks are moving like alt coins so I get it - but anyone rotating stock profits into BTC is doing the right thing IMO

Two blocks in a single day signaling for bip-110.

Is r/Bitcoin even aware?

https://mempool.guide/block/00000000000000000000c5f8d0d94a95c8f544957aa6343e7eafca8ea9301045

https://mempool.guide/block/0000000000000000000049c609df9f8a6ba719129f99068b900271b40f20c9ee

We’ve spent years watching Bitcoin move in lockstep with the Nasdaq, but the data from the last few months of 2026 suggests something fundamental is changing.
While traditional tech equities are struggling with shifting interest rates and regulatory headwinds, Bitcoin’s resilience seems to be driven by a different narrative,sovereign uncertainty and treasury diversification.
I’ve been tracking the flow of capital, and it’s no longer just retail or speculative traders; we’re seeing a shift toward long-term institutional 'hold' strategies that look completely detached from short-term market volatility.
Are we finally seeing Bitcoin mature into the 'digital gold' hedge we were promised, or is this just another temporary correlation breakdown? Curious to see how you all are interpreting the current market structure.

Upvote if you agree

If you have a life changing money making play message me please ????????

So I see this article: https://coinpedia.org/news/iran-crypto-crackdown-us-seizes-nearly-1-billion-in-iranian-crypto-under-operation-economic-fury/

and was wondering how the government just grabs someone's wallet. I thought the whole thing with bitcoin is a government can't control it. They might not be able to control it but if they can just reach out and take it, is that not kind of the same thing?

I heard through the grapevine that a huge case for stolen bitcoin was recovered by a solicitors firm in Liverpool UK. Strateman / Taaki’s company Britcoin and later Intersango stole hundreds of thousands of people’s bitcoin.
There was a case in the US which said they had to return them but they didn’t.
So for anyone who had the same happen to them might want to check out those solicitors.

I trade on forex and I am using forex rebate provider and I get nice rebate every month that I withdraw in BTC. It is great way to get free BTC.

If you could get an answer from the creator or creators of Bitcoin, what would your question be?

So, since my ETF holgins are not kosher, I decide to try self-custody. But, being paranoid about both KYC and trading gift cards, I started small, by playing games and watching ads for ZBD-lilnked games. Returns are pathetic (several hundred sats on a good day), but I earned them, and they are mine, and nobody knows who I am.

I do not trust ZBD either, so I got my sats out to "Wallet of Satoshi", as Lightning Bitcoin. But now it wants 7,000 sats to send to my other wallet that only takes On-Chain Bitcoin. Which sounds pretty expensive. I can send out to other Lightnight wallets for a just a few sats.

1. Is it safe to keep Lightning BTC on Wallet of Satoshi for a while. (I need time to accumulate more sats, or find a cheaper way to get it on-chain) WoS did give me the very important 12-word phrase, but somebody online said WoS still holds the keys.

2. Is there a cheaper way to convert BTC from LIghtining to on-chain? Muun is also expensive, I hear. Zeus is supposed to be cheaper, but that's because you gotta "setup channels" yourself. how complex it is? I can do a bit of tinkering, but I would never try to install Linux.

But*

How much Bitcoin you are accumulating per month or per year?

I've been reading about Bitcoin-backed loans, and it looks like the entire system is becoming much more mature. I saw a post about a guy who got an approval in seconds. This is amazing. But it got me thinking.

What if you borrow and the rate spikes (since it's a variable rate, adjusted by the network constantly)? What if the rate goes up so high that it just keeps increasing your principal and gets you to 86% LTV? And even if it doesn't, you would still end up losing money if you can't close out your loan right away.

With traditional variable rate lending (which is still a bad idea), at least there are regulators and politicians that would step in given enough public outcry, if things got really bad. But crypto-backed loans are still so niche that even if the rate spiked and held at that high level for some time, nobody would care.

Is this a valid concern or am I missing something?

Anyone has idea why bitcoin is falling so sharply now ?

I just started in bitcoin a few months ago and DCA small amounts per day. I’ve mostly been up the past few months and now I’m starting to see it go down just a little… and I know it will probably get much worse before it goes up again.
I know this is part of the regular volatility with bitcoin, but it’s hard to see, especially with all my other investments going up. Anyone who has been here a while got any advice for those of us in our first bear market ?????

Every time the market consolidates or hits macro headwinds, the same narratives come back: .....this time is different,....the model is broken or liquidity is dry. I heard that in 2018. I heard it in 2022 and i'll probably hear it again.

What anchors me is straightforward: every cycle Bitcoin survives makes the next survival more likely. Not out of faith , but out of accumulated track record. It's basically the Lindy Effect playing out in real time. Long-term holder data shows the same pattern across every cycle. The names change, the macro backdrop shifts, but the behavior of people who actually understand the halving mechanics stays remarkably consistent.........The conviction to hold through the boring or painful phases isn't just a psychological stance. Looking back, it seems to be one of the few edges that has consistently mattered......... To the veteran stackers here: what's the single metric or chart that gives you the most peace of mind when the short-term noise gets too loud?

You can look it up. It was thru Strategy. Trial balloon.

It blows my mind how many people outside this sub still believe Universal Basic Income (UBI) will simply be free cash deposited into a traditional checking account.
The underlying infrastructure being built right now by central banks is entirely based on programmable Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs). This is not money you can actually save, invest, or use to build generational wealth. It is a digital allowance managed via smart contracts. The algorithm will happily approve your transactions for corporate-owned housing and synthetic food rations, but the exact second you try to use that state allowance to acquire hard assets, physical land, or move off the grid—the network will return a "transaction denied" message for an unapproved asset class.
They are literally coding digital neo-feudalism into the monetary system. You will be permitted to consume, but you will be mathematically forbidden to own anything real.
This is precisely why Satoshi Nakamoto built Bitcoin. It is no longer just a speculative asset or a simple hedge against inflation. It has evolved into the only permissionless, decentralized ledger that no central authority can remotely freeze, decay, or program against your interests. Self-custody is literally the only mathematical exit ramp left from this incoming financial cage.
I spent some time mapping out the actual backend architecture of how they are setting up this programmable money system and put it into a short visual documentary. I will drop the link in the comments below if anyone wants to look at the structural breakdown.

OPENDIME turns 10: A Decade of Real, Physical Bitcoin.

To celebrate this milestone Coinkite is offering 10% off store wide.

https://blog.coinkite.com/OPENDIME-turns-10/

Happens everytime. It's magic!

You know that one friend that just loves to argue about everything in life lol It's just so annoying sometimes.

And I understand the point he makes when he says that if you're holding bitcoin, the safest thing is usually to buy, hold and let the market do its thing.

We have these long market cycles, and trying to swing trade them isn't easy. Buying during the bear market, selling during the bull market, and dollar cost averaging tends to remove a lot of the emotion from investing.

But where we disagree is that he thinks that's literally the only thing you can do with Bitcoin.

I just wanted to share this here and get some thoughts from people who have been around longer than me. Maybe I'll show him the thread and finally convince him although knowing him, he'll probably just find something else to argue about.

So my question is, as you get taxed on any profits you earn with directly held bitcoin, how are people withdrawing it? I know there are some places you can spend bitcoin directly, which would get around the issue, but most things you purchase, won't be possible to buy with bitcoin, so what's the best way to do it without wiping out a huge portion of your gains to tax?

Please don't just reply with "HODL" or "don't withdraw it" at some point in our lives we should all be withdrawing otherwise it will have been a fruitless endeavour.

Edit: I am in the UK, but also curious what people do in other countries

But if someone out there thinks they can make an educated guess by having studied the previous bear markets. Do you think bitcoins prize will drop alot further then what it is now? And for how long do you think it will continue to go down?:)

A friendly reminder that Bitcoin's mission is to separate money from state.
Flip to bit 4 and support BIP-110

I’m wondering who is supporting BIP110. Since they have progressively been finding more blocks. Is it safer to close my lighting channels and refrain from doing transactions after the mandatory activation in August? I would love to hear from the experts. Thanks!

You can find gold in other planet. Buy Bitcoin. And stop wasting woods.

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Not trying to do anything sketchy just prefer not to hand over documents to every fintech app I sign up for. Wondering if no-KYC crypto cards are still a thing or if issuers have mostly moved away from it.

For context, I'm writing a novel about time travel that takes place in 2009. The main character invests in bitcoin when it is first released. A few questions:

1.) How was bitcoin purchased back then?

2.) How did people set up a wallets?

3.) How did people send bitcoin to someone else's wallet?

4.) What would happen if someone were to purchase all Bitcoin available when it was first released? Would it still be as valuable as it is today? If not, how much Bitcoin could be taken out of circulation before it's value was decreased significantly?

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I'm an experienced educator deeply involved with Bitcoin education here in El Salvador. But honestly this model of education where you read some slides and expect kids to be motivated to learn is really inefficient. Truth is, everyone (not just kids) learns better if they enjoy what they're doing. Of course, explaining abstract concepts like asymmetric cryptography, Merkle roots, hashes, and HTLCs to a kid in an engaging way is hard. But that's what I'm trying to achieve.

I'm building SatLab, an interactive Bitcoin learning platform focused on making everything (from Austrian economics to the Lightning Network) engaging, visually attractive, and fun.

And since this is a 100% open-source project, whatever is built will be free for everyone to use, adapt, and improve.

https://preview.redd.it/tlihzda8cl4h1.png?width=1919&format=png&auto=webp&s=0cc031e5a87364cbfb619c67b498907a4f36cf0a

If you want to support this movement, checking out the project and giving the project's X account some visibility would honestly mean the world to me. Not for money of fame but to reach more people and get more feedback. Soon I'll be uploading the platform to a hosted server so you guys can try it out in real time.

You can find the project's account on X as satlab_learning by the way.

“YoU dO BiTcOiN?”

????????

I don’t even know what that means…

get to 1 bitcoin. no matter what. stacking sats and saving on the blockchain is the boycott of all boycotts. dicipline your self. run a node. don't use Google cloud services, save your data to your own ssd. create your server that you can network with.

sovereignty. opt out. spend less then you earn. plant food. raise chickens. solar and battery storage. push-ups, walk and eat less. experience being hungry. don't be their debt slave.

this is the revolution. SATYAGRAHA!

holding bitcoin in self custody is the boycott of all boycotts, non violent act of civil disobedience.

revolution is in the palm of your hand. tell everyone.

What are the actual explanations? Not - it will etc etc. I want to know what’s suppressing it now, I’m interested in the mechanism not just speculative outcomes.

Curious if others are like me, I've started mentally converting everything I spend into bitcoin/sats without really noticing it. Whether it's a dinner with friends, plane ticket, shopping, etc., I tend to keep calculating what the fee would be had I spent bitcoin. I'm not sure if it's just me or if others do the same.

If more people thought in Bitcoin / sat terms when making purchases, would that accelerate Bitcoin adoption? Or would it not matter until more merchants start accepting and pricing their good in it?

I think today as we continue to live in a fiat world, it's hard to adopt a currency that most of the world's population doesn't even think about or consider when making transactions. Just want to hear the thoughts of others and if you do price your life in Bitcoin, how? an app?

I’m quite interested in knowing what everyone uses for Loans making use of BTC as collateral? I’m currently using Binance Flexible Loan with VIP level 1 to get access to USDC?

Is there anything better out there?

Dell Vice Chairman Jeff Clarke had this quote:

"We’re repricing, it feels like, every day, and I’m sure our customers feel that pain,” Jeff Clarke, Dell’s vice chairman and operating chief, said on a conference call with analysts. “Unfortunately, I don’t see that changing, given the world that we’re living in today, where you have an inflationary environment, whether it’s fuel, whether it’s raw materials, whether that’s DRAM, whether that’s NAND, CPUs. We are living in an inflationary environment that is changing at a rate that obviously we’ve never seen before ... and everything that we see suggests that continues."

Funny how the people best positioned to explain inflation are also the least incentivized to name its cause - or its cure being Bitcoin.

So I’ve been working my usual job for a while but have passions in tech, public speaking and bitcoin outside of work that I do research in and wanted to know if in person workshops of how to learn skills are still able to make money as am willing to work for free after work to teach people and then create more advanced classes for people still face to face and offer online seminars eventually. I want to know thoughts and some ways I could test the market like using FB events and see if I get any bites as there is a scarce supply of people teaching the stuff I know. Any feedback is helpful! I’m not trying to sell anything I just want feedback from the market:)

I'm watching my Bitcoin holdings dwindle, but I have to sell some to make a living. My goal was to sell at $1 million per coin, and I'm on the path to failure.

#1: Harmony and Discord

Bitcoin experts talk often of consensus, whose meaning is abstract and
hard to pin down. But the word consensus evolved from the Latin word
concentus, "a singing together, harmony,"^\1]) so let us talk not of
Bitcoin consensus but of Bitcoin harmony.

Harmony is what makes Bitcoin work. Thousands of full nodes each work
independently to verify the transactions they receive are valid,
producing a harmonious agreement about the state of the Bitcoin
ledger without any node operator needing to trust anyone else. It's
similar to a chorus where each member sings the same song at the same
time to produce something far more beautiful than any of them could
produce alone.

The result of Bitcoin harmony is a system where bitcoins are safe not
just from petty thieves (provided you keep your keys secure) but also
from endless inflation, mass or targeted confiscation, or simply the
bureaucratic morass that is the legacy financial system.

Discord

Discord is the enemy of harmony. If, in the great chorus of Bitcoin full
nodes, half the singers decided to suddenly switch tunes, the harmony
would be lost. In its place would be two smaller singing groups who try
to out sing each other (or who may compete through less scrupulous means),
leaving everyone worse off.

This is what a contentious hard fork has the potential to do. Some
people will program their full nodes to sing one song; other people will
program their full nodes to sing a different song. In the cacophony
that results, there will surely be confusion, recriminations, and loss
of confidence.

For this reason, contentious hard forks are to be avoided.

But this doesn't mean we have to sing the same song forever. We have
other options. The first is gathering widespread agreement to change to
a new song---to hard fork the system without giving discord a foothold.

The second way is to add new layers to the existing harmony. A chorus
will often sing accompaniment to an orchestra, and together they can
entertain audiences neither of them could have pleased alone. Soft forks
are the preferred method for adding new features to Bitcoin because they
allow old nodes to continue to sing the same old song (unless they're
miners), while new nodes get to partake in the expanded choices.

Given two forking paths to the same feature, a soft fork is the safer
option because it leaves no room for discord, and no risk that the
essential harmony that underlies Bitcoin's security will be lost.

[1] Cassell's Latin Dictionary, Wiley Publishing, fifth ed.

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Hey gang! Big market maker on HodlHodl here. Unfortunately I recently received bad news and that will be causing the spread to go up.

HodlHodl used to have a fee of 0.5%. This made it so I could charge a reasonable 3% for BTC. Unfortunately this will be causing the total spread to be about 4.5% which feels unreasonable to me.

“After many years without changes, we're adjusting our fees. The new structure is:

• 0.75% from the seller and 0.75% from the buyer

• 1.5% origination fee on every lending contract

Thank you for being with us.
The Hodl Hodl Team”

On the old fee amount:
$10,000 order would have a $50 fee (from HodlHodl)
Now: $10,000 order would have $150 fee (from HodlHodl)

I've been a Bitcoin HODLer since 2020 and honestly it didn't hit me till lately that I really am starting to see my life priced in Bitcoin, but I'm in a fiat world.

For example, nowadays, I'll buy like groceries and anything from the story, and once I get back I'm converting it to how much did it spend in Bitcoin? Also, when I'm looking at dream cars (God willing), I'll be saying to myself "When Bitcoin hits XYZ, it'll only be worth XX BTC", etc. Is anyone else like this too?

A few things I'm genuinely curious about:

• Do you ever mentally convert purchases to sats/Bitcoin too? Does it change how you feel about the spend? Like, if you knew an unneeded purchase was worth XYZ bitcoin before you bought it, would it still buy it?

• Are there any apps or tools that shows your finances/purchases in Bitcoin terms?

• What's the most frustrating thing about tracking your money as someone who holds Bitcoin? Mint and Rocket Money feel weirdly incomplete to me but I can't fully articulate why. I have to manually enter the new amount of Bitcoin I have every month.

Just curious if this mindset is common and how other people deal with it.

Back in March 2023 I lost around $10k in a futures position. Not because my analysis was wrong. Not because I misread the chart. Because a news went out which moved markets and I had absolutely no idea it happened until I was close to liquidation.

I know I'm not alone. This happens to traders every single day, especially people who've been in the space under 3 years and haven't yet built out the 5-screen setup that experienced traders use to monitor everything at once.

I've been thinking about building a terminal that puts everything in one place:

- Live chart (obviously)

- Instant push notifications from Twitter when specific accounts tweet, the ones that actually move markets

- Real-time news feed from relevant crypto outlets, filtered for signal not noise

- An AI assistant on the side so you can immediately ask "what's the likely market impact of this?"

- Eventually, direct exchange integration so you can act on it without switching tabs

The whole idea is that you shouldn't need 5 screens and 10 open tabs to trade properly. And you definitely shouldn't be getting liquidated because you missed a tweet.

My question for this community: Would you actually use something like this? And if not, what's missing or what do you already use that covers this?

Not selling anything. Don't have a waitlist. Just trying to figure out if this is worth building before I build it.

Honest feedback only please, if this is a terrible idea, I'd rather know now

Hey

After a few weeks of building, I finally launched my side project

The concept is simple — the 'latte factor' is a well-known personal finance idea, but no tool showed it in Bitcoin terms. So I built one.

What it does:

• Enter any daily habit (coffee, Netflix, gym, eating out — anything)
• Set a time horizon and growth scenario (Bear / Base / Bull / Hyperbull)
• See exactly what that habit costs you in Bitcoin terms
• Includes a Freedom Planner showing your sovereignty milestone timeline

Example: $6 per day coffee habit → 10 years at Base CAGR → $138K in BTC you didn't stack

Tech stack: Astro + Vercel + CoinGecko API for live BTC price

No signup, no ads, completely free. Would love feedback on UX, features, anything!

https://www.lattecalc.com/

I trade mostly BTC across OKX, Bybit and Pionex, and I am constantly switching between apps and accounts was driving me crazy. Whenever I had profits I'd buy more BTC, then lose track of how much I bought, where I sent it, and what it was actually worth, it's a real pain.

I tried using Excel but it took forever to enter everything by hand, and it takes a lot of time.

So I built a journal that keeps track of all of it in one place — spot trades, futures trades, and my bots — with live prices and a single consolidated P&L view.

It's in early alpha and free, so it still has rough edges.

A few things I'd love feedback on:

• How do you currently keep track of your trades across multiple exchanges?
• What makes Excel (or your current journal) annoying for you?
• What would you actually need from a journal to switch to it?

Open to any feedback or criticism. Please help.

Hey everyone,

I'm one of the founders of Frame.

We're building an AI powered market intelligence device that helps people understand markets, stocks, ETFs, macro trends, and Bitcoin through a dedicated hardware and software platform.

We've been building for about a year and unlike many startups, we're already profitable.

A few things about us:

• Profitable operating business
• Zero debt
• 5 BTC on our balance sheet
• Hardware and software built in house
• 20+ years of software engineering and product development experience

Our long term goal is bigger than just selling hardware.

We're building what we hope becomes a profitable operating company that accumulates Bitcoin as its primary treasury reserve asset. If we execute successfully, our ambition is to eventually enter the public markets, likely starting with OTCQB or NYSE Arca and ultimately pursuing a Nasdaq listing.

Most Bitcoin treasury companies started with cash and bought Bitcoin.

We're taking a different approach. Build a real operating business first. Generate cash flow. Accumulate Bitcoin over time. Then scale both the business and the treasury.

We're still early, but that's the vision.

I'd love to hear from the Bitcoin community:

• Would you support a public company built this way?
• What would you want to see before taking it seriously?
• What mistakes do you think companies make when trying to become Bitcoin treasury companies?

Appreciate any feedback, criticism, or ideas.

Thanks.

Coinkite Launches Coldcard MK5: Major UX Upgrades to Flagship Bitcoin Hardware Wallet

https://bitcoinmagazine.com/business/coinkite-launches-coldcard-mk5-major-ux-upgrades-to-flagship-bitcoin-hardware-wallet

We are currently facing a silent but acute crisis where our economic system has completely lost touch with reality. We live in a debt-driven society plagued by three fundamental, interconnected flaws:

1 Eroded purchasing power and skyrocketing wealth gaps. Over the past decades, fiat currencies have lost the vast majority of their value due to inflation. Central and private banks create new money out of thin air every time a loan is issued. This new money flows straight into the stock and housing markets, making the wealthy richer while locking young people and low-income earners out of the market.

2 The unsustainable trap of infinite growth. The current system requires the economy to grow at breakneck speed just to service ever-expanding mountains of debt. This forces a throwaway consumer culture that clashes frontally with the fact that we live on a planet with finite resources.

3 A broken and unfair tax system. Today's tax systems heavily penalize hard work through high income taxes, while making it incredibly easy for ultra-wealthy individuals and global corporations to hide their digital profits in tax havens.

There is an alternative. By combining the monetary discipline of a hard currency with the social responsibility of a strong safety net, we can transition into what we call The Real Society (Swedish: Realsamhället).
Those who advocate for this model call themselves Realists. Here is how it works.

THE THREE PILLARS OF THE REAL SOCIETY

PILLAR 1: HONEST MONEY (Ending the Debt Illusion)

The society adopts a currency with an absolute, hard mathematical cap (such as a Bitcoin standard). Neither the state nor private banks can create new money out of thin air. The hidden tax of inflation is permanently eradicated. Saved money actually increases in purchasing power over time as society becomes more technologically efficient. Because people can no longer take out massive, artificially backed loans, asset bubbles pop. Housing and business valuations drop to natural, human levels that people can actually save up for.

PILLAR 2: THE RESOURCE FEE (Taxing the Physical Footprint)

Since money in this system is digital, decentralized, and anonymous, the state completely stops spying on your income and bank accounts. Instead, Income Tax is abolished (0%) and replaced by The Resource Fee (Resursavgiften), paid entirely in the physical world where no one can cheat or hide:

The Space Footprint (Land): The earth belongs to everyone. If you want to cordone off a highly desirable piece of land for your villa, apartment, or factory, you pay an ongoing Resource Fee for that space. A massive mansion on the coast equals a huge fee. A modest apartment equals a minimal fee.

The Material Footprint (Consumption): It should be cheap to live, but expensive to waste. Basic food, medicine, children's clothes, and public transit carry a 0% fee. But when you buy brand-new luxury goods, sports cars, or high-end electronics, a heavy Resource Fee is added directly at the register.

The Energy Footprint (Resources): The more electricity and raw materials a household or a heavy industry consumes, the more they pay in Resource Fees per kilowatt-hour.

PILLAR 3: A STRONG, HONEST WELFARE STATE
All revenues from the Resource Fee are pooled into a single public fund. Because the wealthy inevitably occupy the most valuable land, consume the most energy, and buy the most luxury goods, they naturally finance the vast majority of the pool. This fund goes directly to financing free, high-quality healthcare, education, and a robust social safety net. Because the government cannot print money to cover up its fiscal mistakes, the welfare system becomes completely transparent and accountable.

WHY A REALIST WANTS TO SHIFT THE SYSTEM

Justice for the Worker: With 0% income tax, every single dollar or euro you earn lands in your pocket. It becomes vastly easier for ordinary people to build a rainy-day fund, save for the future, and achieve upward social mobility.

Waterproof Against Tax Evasion: A billionaire can hide their Bitcoin seed phrase in their head, but they cannot live in an invisible castle, drive an invisible yacht, or power their industries with invisible electricity. If you want to live a life of physical luxury, you must pay the Resource Fee.

Peace with the Planet: By removing the systemic requirement for infinite debt-fueled growth, civilization downshifts to a natural speed. It becomes economically rational to save, repair, and build things that last, aligning the human economy with planetary boundaries.

THE REALIST TRANSITION: A CENTURY-LONG SHIFT

To be completely clear: I am fully aware that a transition like this cannot happen overnight. Pulling the plug on the current fiat debt-system all at once would trigger a catastrophic global economic collapse. Returning civilization to its natural speed is a project that will take generations, if not centuries.
But we can start moving in this direction immediately, and the best way to begin is through a gradual tax reform.

Instead of jumping straight into a new currency standard, we can start by slowly shifting what we tax. Over the next decade, governments could begin lowering income taxes for workers while incrementally replacing them with the Resource Fee—raising taxes on land values, raw material consumption, and high-end physical luxury. This allows the framework of the Real Society to take root safely, proving its fairness and sustainability, while the monetary shift towards hard digital assets can happen organically over time as the old system rusts away.

The Real Society is a model that is both deeply visionary and fundamentally grounded in reality. It shifts our focus away from chasing imaginary digital zeros in centralized bank ledgers, and forces us to look at what truly matters: our real world, our real resources, and our real community.

What do you think? Is it time for a Realist movement?

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I had bitcoin in a Lumi wallet. I had not logged on in a while, typed in Lumi to google and went to the first page up top ( web.lumiwallet.org ) I typed in my recovery phrase, then was wondering why my balance was loading for so long. I then downloaded Coin Wallet, entered my code again and saw ALL of my bitcoin was “sent”….did I get scammed? If so I have zero chance of recovering it right?

Brendan Sorsby’s most recent betting scandal that has rocked the college sports world is an indictment of fiat and our modern culture more than anyone thinks. To give a bit of background for the Bitcoin community: the transfer from Cincinnati, QB Brendan Sorsby, was due to make a massive 4 to 5 million dollars this upcoming season for Texas Tech. In April, Sorsby turned himself into a betting rehab facility to seek treatment for addiction. Sorsby bet 2900 times from 2022-2026. This included games from when he was playing at the University of Indiana. This is the Pete Rose of college sports, in other words: betting on his own team.

Unfortunately for Mr. Sorsby, this story has placed him in the spotlight; however, far too many young Americans specifically young men have fallen into his shoes of addiction. According to an annual student gambling surveys, 75% of all students say they see or get pitched daily about sports betting and gambling. 56 to 68% of all male students bet multiple times a week, and unfortunately, up to 15% of all students are compulsive problem bettors.

Far too many people have been forced, in this high inflation, high debasement world, to take unrealistic risks in a desperate attempt to get out of the fiat rat race. These companies advertise themselves as such: "Use our prediction market for financial freedom." It’s absolutely disgusting how these companies use people’s desperation against them to extract every single cent they have left. We can't place too much blame on these desperate young people; they truly feel hopeless, and anything that gives them a sales pitch for an immediate way out is always going to be favored.

How does Bitcoin fix the betting environment we are living through today, and can it? I believe personally that Bitcoin is the ultimate savings technology. Forever, until Bitcoin, we haven’t been able to properly save as humans. This is why so many young people are forced into impossible betting situations. Bitcoin, with a programmable and well known issuance schedule, helps fix that. We can now tell young adults with 100% certainty what the issuance or inflation on Bitcoin will be in 4 years, 10 years, and 25 years. This helps encourage savings.

Education is the most important tool to help people understand the importance of Bitcoin: the fixed supply, the censorship resistant nature, and the irreversible nature of a block. Explaining these pillars of Bitcoin these computer science tools will help others change their mindset and become long term time horizon thinkers. The most important way to get people to learn is by making it fun and engaging.

In the context of betting, we need to gamify the savings experience and encourage people to save. We need to make stacking sats a competitive sport in the same way. I want people to transform into compulsive savers. Every time they get their paycheck, I want them to think: "How can I pay off all outstanding debt, and how can I stack more sats?"

We have to find a way, as a Bitcoin community, to change the incentives in our society. This is how something like the Sorsby scandal can take place. He was betting late in the evening on sporting events such as Romanian soccer matches, Turkish basketball games, and obscure doubles tennis tournaments. At no point did any of his friends or teammates inquire about these obsessions. It’s almost expected and encouraged in this culture; it’s not a taboo thing. This is the true indictment of this story far more so than a player betting on his own game and possibly costing himself millions of NIL dollars.

An entire generation of young men has enabled and encouraged extremely risky betting parlays. We see it online, and I’m certain I’ll have a comment on this exact post making fun of people for not trying to parlay their bets. They’ll call people "chicken"; they’ll call you "stupid." If you are one of those bettors who is going to comment saying, "Well, hey, I’ve made my money from sports betting for years on these apps, loser," I’m going to say you're a degenerate liar. It is beyond well documented that these companies have algorithms, computer infrastructure, and experts to examine every single winning bet. If you’re actually winning, the house cuts you off immediately. So, only losers are betting consistently; the house always, always wins, no matter how many bots tell you otherwise.

I want to help transform the incentives in this country to encourage savings in the general public. I want to give young people hope that there is a certain future they can look forward to. I want those same young people to yearn for saving as much as possible. We need to change the culture so young people can encourage someone like Sorsby to find a better path for his future. I really don't want this to be a punching bag against Texas Tech or Sorsby; he’s just the most well documented and public figure who has been afflicted with the gambling bug. I really hope he has gotten the help he needs, and if you or anyone you know is addicted to gambling, please seek help.

I want to start by apologizing. I have tried to make this a conversation on a podcast; however, I can’t seem to save the audio I create. If anyone knows which app or platform is best for creating an audio file and posting, please share. I wasted a lot of hours this month saving audio that got deleted. I really hate to do anything live, but if I must, I will moving forward, because doing audio edits was incredibly frustrating and didn’t return any results.

Thank you for reading!

I bought a large lump sum of IBIT in a registered account because I wanted Bitcoin exposure with tax advantages. I now realize there are trade-offs: I don’t hold the underlying asset directly, there are management fees, and I ended up buying near a market peak.

With the subsequent drawdown, roughly 25%–30% of my portfolio is now exposed to Bitcoin through an ETF. This would likely drift closer to ~15%–20% in a deeper correction unless I continue adding.

To manage this, I started DCAing into ETFs in January (~$2k/month).

My original plan was:

1. Continue DCA until the next Bitcoin halving (expected ~April 2028) or until BTC returns to ~$100k

2. Hold through the post-halving cycle and potentially sell ~16–18 months after the halving (around late 2029) (reversed DCA)

3. After BTC reaches $100k, redirect new contributions ($2k/month) into diversified equity ETFs (e.g., S&P 500 or similar)

4. Buying back by DCAing the amount i sold during next bear market.

Now I’m questioning the structure of this approach.

Main concerns:

I’m using IBIT instead of holding Bitcoin directly

From a long-term risk-adjusted perspective, broad equity ETFs may be more efficient (which I already hold)

At this point, I’m unsure whether I should:

Stick to the current cycle-based allocation plan in ETF

Shift toward diversified ETFs instead

Or simplify everything into a long-term buy-and-hold approach across both assets without timing cycles...

My intent with this structure was to build a long-term strategy: DCA during bear phases, rotate contributions into equities during expansions, and potentially realize gains ~16–18 months after halvings, then take the lump sum to DCA again in the next bear + my savings until I maxed out my registrated account.

repeating the cycle over time until retirement...

Does it make sense or am I absolutely nuts? I got no one to talk about this. My friends think I'm nuts which I probably am.

https://www.reddit.com/r/interestingasfuck/s/Os1oXr9RKZ

When FTX collapsed, I genuinely thought Bitcoin might be finished. Not just another bear market. I mean finished. Regulation, contagion, trust destroyed. I sold most of my position somewhere around $16k telling myself I was being rational. Six months later I was buying back above $25k.

The thing that bothers me most isn't the money. It's that I'd already lived through 2018. I knew what capitulation felt like. I'd read everything about not timing the market, about conviction, about long-term thinking. And when the moment came, none of it mattered. The fear was louder. What I've accepted since then is that understanding Bitcoin intellectually and actually holding through chaos are two completely different skills. One you develop reading. The other you only develop by getting it wrong a few times. I'm not sure conviction is something you build in advance. I think you find out if you have it when the moment is bad enough.Anyone else discover that knowing what to do and actually doing it are completely different things? Did the second cycle feel any easier?

Yesterday's institutional outflow data showed BlackRock's IBIT shedding roughly 2,424 BTC (around $178M). Most mainstream headlines are immediately reading this as a bearish signal, but digging into the raw numbers tells a completely different story.

​Context matters, and BlackRock’s total Bitcoin exposure is still absolutely massive:

​IBIT still holds roughly 792,000 BTC (valued at over $57B).

​The amount sold yesterday represents a mere 0.3% of their total Bitcoin holdings.

​This doesn’t look like a conviction exit or institutional capitulation at all. It looks closer to routine, microscopic portfolio rebalancing or short-term de-risking during broader macro volatility.

​Furthermore, when you look at how BlackRock manages its digital asset products, they maintain a clear divide. While liquidity is occasionally shuffled in alternative crypto products and risk-on tech assets, their core Bitcoin thesis remains incredibly sticky. The institutional giant hasn't even scratched the surface of its primary BTC reserves.

​It feels like the broader market saw a "millions sold" headline and completely ignored the scale of the actual positions. A 0.3% fluctuation is noise, not a trend shift.

​Do you see this as meaningful institutional de-risking, or is it mostly routine portfolio management that the retail market is completely overreacting to

I know we're still in the bear market, but timewise this is quite an unexpected dump in the last days, right? 12% in the last 2 weeks. No real macro indicators, positive news on war, stocks are flying worldwide. Is everyone fleeing into stocks? BTC too risky all of a sudden?

Bitcoin has no boss. No foundation that votes on changes, no CEO who decides the roadmap, no shareholders' meeting, no token-holder vote.

But the protocol does evolve. Slowly, contentiously, through a process nobody designed but everybody recognizes. Five stakeholder groups hold the real power — not by decree, but by veto. Any one of them can kill a change by refusing to participate.

Developers: refuse to write or merge
Miners: refuse to signal
Nodes: refuse to upgrade
Businesses: recognize the other chain
Hodlers: sell the new chain

Successful proposals have taken years to activate. Proposals that lacked broad alignment died at exactly these steps.

The "people in charge" of Bitcoin are everybody and nobody. A monetary system whose rules are easy to change is not a credible monetary system. The procedural friction that makes shipping new code hard is the same friction that makes it hard for anyone (government, corporation, or coordinated developer group) to weaken consensus.

Rough consensus is a feature.

Deeper understanding of governance: https://learnbitcoin.com/glossary/bitcoin-governance

Miner Activation (versionbits / BIP-9 / Speedy Trial): https://learnbitcoin.com/glossary/miner-signaling

Quick background if you have not run into it: the 1000 BTC Challenge is an on-chain puzzle from 2015. Someone funded 160 addresses whose private keys sit in deliberately increasing ranges (key N is between 2^N-1 and 2^N), and in 2023 the prizes were bumped 10x. The low ones have been picked off over the years; the unsolved ones still hold real coins. #135 is the current target and holds 13.5 BTC. Tracker: https://privatekeys.pw/puzzles/bitcoin-puzzle-tx

Collision Protocol is a distributed Pollard's Kangaroo pool that points a fleet of GPUs at one unsolved key at a time. It's on #135 right now and stays on it until it's solved. When that happens the pool doesn't stop: it automatically rolls the whole fleet to the next key most likely to fall (the lowest unsolved range whose public key is exposed, which is what Kangaroo needs). Nothing for you to reconfigure, your worker just follows the pool.

Each worker only runs one side of the walk, tame or wild, and sends its distinguished points (DPs) to the server. That split is the anti-cheat: no single machine ever has both halves, so nobody can quietly hit the collision, recover the key, and sweep the coins before the pool does. The upside for you is the payout. Since the solve can only land at the pool, every DP you commit counts toward your share. If the pool cracks the key, the prize is split by contribution: a 5% pool fee, and everything left over distributed in proportion to the verified DPs each worker submitted.

Rough scale: RCKangaroo's own estimate for a 2¹³⁴ range is 1.15 * 2⁶⁷ operations, which at dp_bits 28 is about 6 * 10¹¹ DPs to expect a solve. That is an expectation: a real solve can land anywhere from about half to double that, and DP/GPU overhead pushes the true count up somewhat. Expected time against the pool's aggregate rate:

 pool DP/s expected solve time, #135 100 ~200 years 1,000 ~20 years 10,000 ~2 years 100,000 ~2.5 months 1,000,000 ~7 days 

We are at single digits per second today on a couple of test rigs, and the bottom rows of that table are a serious amount of hardware, so this is mostly a question of how many GPUs show up. Rate scales linearly with workers.

Open to testers who get that it's early and rough in places, and who will open a GitHub issue when something breaks instead of just walking away. Mainly after Linux and Apple Silicon right now.

• Client (collider) is open, GPLv3, built on JeanLucPons' RCKangaroo: https://github.com/hevnsnt/collider
• Issues: https://github.com/hevnsnt/collider/issues
• Live coverage/stats: https://collisionprotocol.com/pool

collider --pool pool.collisionprotocol.com:17403 --worker <btc-payout-address>

Worker name is the payout address (So get it right!). The pool tells the client which target, range, and DP size to work, so the same client follows whatever key is active. CUDA on Win/Linux, Metal on Apple Silicon, CPU fallback.

What's useful to report: whether it builds and runs on your platform, the rates you get, and anything that breaks or drops the connection. Source is there if you want to pull it apart.

collider-pro is a separate paid build for solo and brainwallet work. Not needed for the pool.

Good evening everyone,

Today, we live in a world where too many people face financial struggles alone. But what if we could build a community where support is not controlled by banks or borders, but powered by people helping people?

Cryptocurrency gives us the opportunity to create a new kind of financial network — one built on trust, transparency, and accessibility. Through blockchain technology, we can send help directly to those in need, support small businesses, fund new ideas, and create opportunities for people who have been left out of traditional financial systems.

This is not just about digital money. It is about building a community where success is shared, where knowledge is exchanged freely, and where no one feels powerless during difficult times.

When people come together with a common purpose, technology becomes more than innovation — it becomes hope.

Let us create a future where cryptocurrency is not only a tool for investment, but a tool for empowerment, generosity, and unity.

Thank you.

Most Bitcoin investors watch price. Few watch what drives it.

Global liquidity — M2, Fed balance sheet, Reverse Repo, TGA, credit spreads — has historically led Bitcoin by weeks to months. When liquidity expands, Bitcoin tends to follow. When it contracts, Bitcoin feels it first.

I built LiquidityPulse to track exactly this. It combines these signals into one daily regime score and shows the key drivers behind it. There's also lead-lag charts so you can see how liquidity has historically moved before Bitcoin.

Free live dashboard at liquiditypulse.net — worth checking what the current regime says.

Curious: do you track global liquidity as part of your Bitcoin thesis? Or purely on-chain / technical analysis?

My understanding is that each coin contains the data that is contained in the chain leading up to it? I think?

My question is. Hypothetically speaking, if you somehow ended up today, with a USB containing a BTC wallet with a single coin mined in 2030. Could you recreate it to quickly advance the chain? If not using that, with the install files for the mining client, or some other method?

Basically, if you somehow ( today) had the active chain you would be interacting with in 2030, could you use it to feed it a coin worth at a time and get the majority of 4 years of btc?

EDIT: This is a UI issue apparently - my old V1 wallet is not showing up in the new UI. Will experiment and post back with results.

G'day team, hoping you folks can give me some guidance here. I've raised a ticket with the BitGo team but no response yet.

Logged into BitGo today to get my balance for some tax reporting I need to do and my BTC wallet is just... gone. Not zeroed out like I'd expect if the account had been hacked into and I could at least see the outgoing transactions - it's just missing entirely. All I have is the essentially worthless BTG from the 2017 split.

Obviously, this is more than a little concerning... I've still got my KeyCard so I may try their recovery tools but I get a deep, sinking feeling.

I’ve been holding crypto since 2021, mostly BTC, but honestly I’m getting tired of just letting it sit there.

Every time I want to actually use it, it feels like a whole process. Move funds to an exchange, convert to fiat, deal with fees, wait for withdrawals, then finally spend it. At that point it barely feels convenient anymore.

I’m starting to look into crypto cards because some of them now claim you can spend BTC directly at normal merchants. Some even say you can connect an external wallet and use it anywhere Visa or Mastercard is accepted, which sounds good if the fees aren’t terrible.

Hey guys, has anyone actually successfully used chatBTC?

Every single time I try to ask it a question, it just spits out some generic message along the lines of "I can't answer this question." It’s a bit laughable considering what they claim it’s supposed to do.

Is anyone else getting blocked by this? Is there actually any real tech behind this thing, or is it just a hype train that doesn't even work?

Would love to know if anyone has gotten a single useful response out of it.

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My solar panels create more electricity than I can use, what is a good suggestion for a setup for mining when electricity is free?

I'm building a collaborative-custody 2 of 3 multisig Bitcoin vault and want to test the waters to see if anyone would be interested. Privacy is the whole point. Encryption happens on your device, the keys never leave it, and our servers only ever see ciphertext. We couldn't read your data if we wanted to.

It's a 2-of-3 multisig: you hold two hardware-wallet keys, the service holds one. So:

• We can't move your funds — our key is 1 of 3, never enough alone.
• We can't see your data — all the crypto runs in your browser; our server only stores ciphertext it can't decrypt (xpubs, descriptor, labels, even balances).
• You can always recover without us — it's a standard wsh(sortedmulti) descriptor you can sweep in Sparrow with your two keys, with or without us.
• You set the spending rules when the service key is used — address allowlists, 24h limits, and time-locks on the service key. Changing a rule needs a signature from your hardware wallet, so a stolen login can't loosen your own guardrails. The policy itself is encrypted too — we enforce it without being able to read it.

The difference from most vault/custody services: if a company can show you a total "assets under custody" number or charge you based on the amount you hold, it can read every customer's holdings. We can't produce that number from data we can't decrypt. We genuinely don't know how much you hold.

For those who are already using other multisig Bitcoin vault services would something like this be useful to you? What would it take for you to trust it?

I'm aiming to launch in the next 1-3 weeks and I'm looking for beta testers. If you want early access, let me know.

Good afternoon everyone, I have an interesting question that I have been wrestling with over and over.

• How do I use Bitcoin in Canada without running into issues with Capital Gains taking a portion of my earnings.
• My struggle is that according to the capital gains laws, an purchase of goods or services with an asset that has appreciated is taxable. So technically you can buy bitcoin tax free through an exchange but as soon as you use it on anything in Canada you "should" be taxed.
• If you have any information or tips or stories please comment below, because I am super curious how people make it work.

As products are out and aging, where does everyone stand on a product that has help up over time and they would recommend? Trying to gather data and any input helps.

The P2P bitcoin market today is fragmented across siloed platforms. Robosats users only see Robosats offers. lnp2pbot users only see lnp2pbot offers. Mostro the same. That fragmentation costs both sides real money: you need fiat in a hurry, post a sell order at a discount on your platform of choice, and hear crickets, even though there are probably users on another platform, or just lurkers, who would have taken it in a heartbeat if they'd known it existed. Multiply that across every fiat currency and every payment method and it's a lot of trades that simply never happen.

p2psats (https://p2psats.app) is an attempt to fix that with two pieces: an aggregated, NIP-69-based order book that pulls offers from across platforms, and an alerts system so you don't have to babysit it.

Under the hood it:

- Subscribes to NIP-69 (`kind:38383`) order events across the main P2P relays and builds a fiat-currency-aggregated order book.

- Lets you define alerts: "notify me when there's a sell order in EUR under +3% premium for ≥ 100k sats" (or whatever combination of side / fiat / amount / premium you care about)

- Pings you the moment a matching order hits a relay, via email or Nostr DM (NIP-17 gift-wrap, so the DM itself is private)

It's platform-agnostic by design: NIP-69 is an open event spec, so any P2P platform publishing those events is covered: robosats, lnp2pbot, Mostro, Peach whatever comes next. No custody, no order routing, no fees, no account beyond an email or an npub. It just watches relays and tells you when something interesting shows up. You still go execute the trade in your usual client.

A few design choices worth calling out:

- DMs use NIP-17, not legacy NIP-04

- Auth is either a magic link or a NIP-07 sign-in. Your choice, no passwords

- No global order book, I feel it's more useful to have fiat-scoped views

Still rough around the edges and I'd love any feedback you might have.

Happy to answer questions about the stack or NIP-69 parsing quirks if anyone's curious about building on top of the event model.

PS: I know the fiat currency list is incomplete, the next release will fix that.

Check out this clean bitcoin explorer that shows ins and outs in a very clear and structured way

https://tooluri.ro/tool/bitcoin-explorer

L402 is the protocol that lets an HTTP server require a Lightning payment before returning data. An app sends a request, gets back a 402 with a Lightning invoice, pays it, retries, gets the data. No accounts, no subscriptions, no OAuth. Just a payment and a response.

The problem is there's no good way to find these services or know which ones actually work.

We've been building a cross-protocol index that covers L402, x402 (USDC on Base), and MPP. Currently 1,185 L402 services in the index. Financial data feeds, AI inference, real-time data, developer utilities. Most pay per call in the $0.001 to $0.05 range.

What we found after testing all of them: quality varies wildly. A lot of services accept the Lightning payment and return nothing, or return stale data, or are just down. We grade all of them A through F based on weekly canary testing.

Current L402 breakdown: 2 grade A services, a handful of B, most are C or D. The ecosystem is real and growing but reliability is the gap.

If you're building Lightning-enabled apps and want to add paid data feeds or services, the index is free to search. If you're running an L402 service and want to see your grade, it's at the same place.

api.ideafactorylab.org/leaderboard - filter by L402 protocol.

Happy to answer questions about the L402 payment flow if anyone is working through it.

One thing I started noticing this year -most people react to price more than it should be, the real shift usually starts earlier in positioning, volatility and sentiment.

When btc went above 80k a lot of twitter influencers suddenly became aggressively bullish again. At the same time, some of the underlying risk signals actually became worse:

higher volatility,
distribution behavior,
more emotional positioning.

Today btc dropped to 73k and long structure was broken. So what changed my view on markets the most was realizing that candles alone don’t tell the full story anymore, especially in crypto.

So I am curious if anyone else here tracks market conditions beyond pure price action now and how?

So pretty much lots of people had the same issues, getting funds held hostage for some bullshit automatic tandom de-verification (me as well).
Yet nobody bothered to post any update despite several posts being old.

did anyone ever manage to recover their funds or coins?
Im not talking about lost passwords/seed phrases, just the obvious legal stuff like account access/verification

I’ve been thinking about a free website that teaches people crypto basics/self-custody in a way that’s actually understandable for normal people, especially older users or beginners who are scared of getting scammed.
The idea would be:
You start with a quick quiz to see what you already know (“What is a recovery phrase?”, “Should you ever share your seed phrase?”, etc.)

Based on your answers, the site adapts the lessons to your level

Instead of walls of text, it teaches through short interactive games/simulations

Some examples:
spotting phishing/scam DMs

practicing wallet recovery without real money

learning why self-custody matters

understanding gas fees/networks in a simple way

fake “meme coin traps” showing common mistakes people make

Basically more like Duolingo for crypto safety rather than a boring course or exchange tutorial.
Main focus wouldn’t be trading or shilling coins — more:
“Learn how to use crypto safely without getting drained.”
Would people actually use something like this or send it to friends/family if it also was free?

Started in 2023. Bought ASICs thinking I'd build a side income for my family. Ended up with 9 ASICs and 3 GPU rigs running in my basement. Sounded like a beehive down there.

Eventually moved to immersion cooling just to keep the peace at home.

Something happened while i was trying to make the operation profitable. I started learning what Bitcoin actually is. Not the price. The blockchain. The supply cap. Why it exists.

I was already feeling the weight of the fiat system in my own life. Bitcoin started making sense in a way it never had when I was just holding it on an exchange.

Mining killed my price anxiety. When you understand how blocks get produced, how difficulty adjusts, the number on the screen stops feeling like a verdict. Its just where the market is today.

We shut down in late 2025. Electricity made it unprofitable. Felt like relief and loss at the same time. That operation brought me most of the Bitcoin I own.

I'll get back into it someday.

Anyone else come through mining? Curious how many people's conviction got built the same way.

Your seed phrase is your wallet. Wallet software, hardware device, list of addresses, transaction history: all derivable from the seed. Lose the words, lose every key, lose every bitcoin those keys ever controlled.

Three threats sit on every Bitcoin backup: theft, loss, coercion. The hard part is that defending one often weakens defense against the others. Keep the seed at home (no third-party loss) and you make theft easier. Use a passphrase to protect against theft and you can forget it and lose everything. Distribute shares to family to defend against coercion of any one person and any family member becomes a coercion target.

Paper is the floor. Pencil on acid-free paper, multiple copies in separated locations; fine for amounts under five figures. Metal is the standard for serious wallets; stainless or titanium, survives fire, water, and decades. Passphrase adds a "25th word" that produces an entirely different wallet from the same seed. The seed alone leads to a wallet with no funds (theft defense); fund the no-passphrase wallet with a small believable amount and it becomes a decoy (plausible deniability under coercion). Shamir Secret Sharing splits the seed into M-of-N shares; any M reconstructs, any (M-1) reveals nothing. Multisig moves you past single-key entirely; 2-of-3 with three different vendors means loss or theft of any one key still leaves your bitcoin safe.

There is no single best Bitcoin backup. There is the backup that fits your threats and amounts. Our newest addition to the rabbit-hole series walks the menu, with photos of real hardware (steel tubes, stamped plates, SLIP-39 share cards, multisig HW lineups), a embedded animation showing how 2-of-3 multisig actually works, and the tradeoffs at each tier. Down the rabbit hole:

https://www.learnbitcoin.com/rabbit-hole/seed-backup-strategies

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My uncle has been contacted by a supposed broker from blockchain. Last year he joined an inversion group where he invested arouns 5k. With the start of the war the numbers floped. The group injected 5k more to restart his account but after that they said for him to be able to retire the money he had to returnt those 5k they lend him, he said they shoukd sustract it from the account but the couldn't. So the he never did nothing with that money.

One year later he received a call from this broker saying he has 50k on bitcoin from the last year and he could retire it.

We dont trust it.

Like a kamikaze!!! oh nooooo!!!!

Most of us have been in this situation: you want to share a Bitcoin address on your website, your Nostr profile, or your email signature — but you know that a static address is a privacy nightmare. Anyone can see every payment you've ever received.

Silent Payments solve this elegantly. One static address (sp1q...), every payment lands on a different on-chain address, completely unlinkable. No centralized servers, no notification transactions, no coordination with the sender. Just cryptography.

I wrote a full technical breakdown covering how the ECDH derivation works, current wallet support (Cake Wallet, Dana, BlindBit, Sparrow), the scanning tradeoff, and how it compares to BIP47/PayNym.

https://davidebtc186.substack.com/p/silent-payments-bip352-the-complete

The lightning network is a second-layer solution on top of the Bitcoin blockchain that enables quick, cheap and scalable Bitcoin payments.

Here is the place to discuss and learn more about lightning!

Ask your questions about lightning

Provide reviews, feedback, comparisons of LN apps, services, websites etc

Learn about new LN features, development, apps

Link to good quality resources (articles, wikis etc)

Resources:

• Here is an awesome list of resources: https://bitcoinfo.org/lightning.html

• Want to test out your lightning fire power? tip the Bitcoin devs! https://bitcoindevlist.com/

• Previous threads: Search

• Lnbook getting closer towards being finished and can already be seen at: https://github.com/lnbook/lnbook

• Lightning Dedicated YouTube Channel: https://youtube.com/renepickhardt

• Also there is the playlist by chaincode labs: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLpLH33TRghT17_U3as2P3vHfAGL8pSOOY

• Lightning stores: https://www.lightningnetworkstores.com/

• Learn more and talk about lightning right here in r/Bitcoin, r/bitcoinbeginners and r/thelightningnetwork

bank pulled $1200 out of my account by mistake.
same second, account goes negative, they slap me with $70 in overdraft interest.
called them. “oh sorry, our bad.” got the $1200 back.
the $70? still waiting. been weeks.
their mistake. my money. and somehow i’m the one out 70 bucks.
this is why i’m stacking sats.

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So naturally I will be buying bitcoin etf. My question is should I go with BITB or IBIT? And why

I downloaded coinbase as a way to get into bitcoin. Is this good for a beginner trying to dip their toes into the concept or should I be using something else? Also any explanation or help in general would be appreciated

Hodl on tight!

Hey everyone,

I've been building an Android app called Black Koi Wallet for people who want to learn Bitcoin self-custody but are nervous about making irreversible mistakes with real funds.

The idea is simple: you get a real wallet, real transactions, and real fees — but on a test network (Signet) where the coins have no value. A built-in faucet sends you practice sats automatically so you can start immediately. Nine structured tutorials walk you through everything from seed phrases to fee management to key backup. A three-tier glossary explains every Bitcoin term at the level that works for you.

Complete all the tutorials, pass a competency quiz, and you unlock real Bitcoin (mainnet) access within the same app.

I'm looking for 10+ beta testers to try it out over the next couple of weeks and give honest feedback. No Bitcoin experience required - actually, the less the better.

If you're interested, drop a comment or DM me and I'll send you the details.

This is how a not insubstantial amount of people think we arrived where we are today.

What would it take for them to see reckless money printing as the root cause?

I don’t know, but I’m open to suggestions.

The more I watch crypto markets the more I realize the technology evolves way faster than human behavior does. Every cycle starts feeling revolutionary when you're inside it. New narratives appear, people become convinced the old rules no longer apply, leverage gets normalized, skepticism gets laughed at and eventually the market reaches that weird stage where everyone starts believing price only moves in one direction because, this time adoption is real.

Then sentiment flips almost overnight. The same people screaming: , bro, buy the dip, suddenly disappear, timelines go quiet, conviction turns into fear and everybody acts shocked that volatility still exists. Honestly the more I read about old stock market bubbles, the more familiar crypto starts to feel psychologically. The assets are different, and so is technology , but: greed, euphoria, denial, panic, hope are the same. Makes me wonder if markets ever really change... or if humans just keep finding new things to become emotional about.

There’s usually a point where crypto goes from feeling overwhelming to actually making sense. Curious what that moment was for others.

Multisig is a Bitcoin wallet pattern where spending requires multiple signatures, not just one. Three keys held in three places, any two can sign. The animation walks the threat model end to end in 35 seconds.

What it shows:

- Setup: three keys with a "Three different makers" caption. Vendor diversity means a bug in one firmware can't break the others.

- Normal spend: two of three keys sign, transaction broadcasts.

- Loss scenario: one key is gone (lost, destroyed, custodian closed). The other two still sign and the spend goes through.

- Theft scenario: a thief takes one key. They can't sign alone multisig halts at "1 of 2." A single stolen key is worthless without one of the others.

- Closing pillars: Multisig. Threshold-of-keys. Vendor-diverse.

This is the first animated entry in the LearnBitcoin.com glossary. The rabbit-hole series already had animations on chapters like mempool and lightning routing; this brings the same treatment to glossary terms that deserve a visual.

https://www.learnbitcoin.com/glossary/multisig

We will add more over time, would love suggestions on where you think our style of animation can bring clarity to complex bitcoin topics.

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When I first started trying to understand Bitcoin, I mostly understood the surface level.

You buy it.
You hold it.
The price moves.
People argue about it constantly.

But the part that did not really click for me was ownership.

What does it actually mean to “own” Bitcoin?
Why do private keys matter so much?
Why do people say “not your keys, not your coins”?
What is the difference between holding on an exchange and holding it yourself?

I read Crypto for Dummies: A Beginner’s Guide to Bitcoin, Blockchain, and Not Losing Your Mind (or Your Money) by Jonas Graham recently, and that was what I liked about it. It explains the basics without turning Bitcoin into hype or making beginners feel stupid for not knowing the vocabulary yet.

It helped connect the pieces for me: blockchain, wallets, private keys, exchanges, custody, volatility, scams, and risk.

The biggest shift was realizing Bitcoin is not just a number you see on an app. If you do not understand custody and keys, you do not really understand what you are holding.

I’d recommend the book if you are newer to Bitcoin and want a clearer foundation before making decisions with real money.

It is simple, readable, and useful if you want to understand the system instead of just watching the price.

Feel like I’m late to the party but been stacking for approximately 6 months. Just hit .01 give me some love.

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Everything is rising right now, but only Bitcoin isn't. I'm scared. When will Bitcoin finally go up? I feel like I'm the only fool.

Sometimes I wonder...

If Bitcoin had exactly the same technology, exactly the same supply cap, exactly the same price history...

But had been created and controlled by a company instead of being decentralized.

Do you think it would still have become what it is today?

Personally, I think a huge part of Bitcoin's value comes from the fact that nobody owns it.

Curious to hear your thoughts.

Would you still trust it?

Lately I’ve been putting part of my paycheck into BTC instead of keeping all my savings in cash. I’m not going all in or anything, but it’s become my main way of saving money over the past few months.

The thing is, I’m planning a trip later this year and I’ll probably need to pull money out for flights, hotels, spending. Now I’m wondering if I should keep that trip money separate or just leave it in BTC with the rest of my savings.

Part of me feels like it’s fine since the trip is still months away, but another part of me knows BTC could randomly dump right before I need the money.

Olá, boa noite a todos!

Atualmente compro Bitcoin pela Binance, mas com as mudanças recentes na tributação de criptoativos no Brasil, estou buscando entender melhores alternativas para custódia e planejamento tributário dentro da legalidade.

Meu perfil é de holder de longo prazo, então meu objetivo principal é preservar meus Bitcoins com segurança e, se possível, reduzir custos com taxas e otimizar a gestão tributária de forma correta.

Gostaria da opinião dos senhores sobre:

Vale mais a pena manter em corretora internacional ou migrar para carteira própria (self-custody)?

Quais carteiras vocês recomendam com boa segurança e taxas baixas para longo prazo? (ex.: Ledger, Trezor, BlueWallet)

Existe alguma estratégia legal de organização patrimonial ou tributária que vocês utilizam para investimentos em cripto no Brasil?

Agradeço desde já pela ajuda!

Yes, some will say it's ridiculous. I'm a broke but resourceful 19-year-old student living in a country where the average salary is $100 a month.

My goal is to reach 0.01 before the end of the year. Let's meet back on 12/31/2026 for an update.

I always have a slight fear of compromising my metal seed backup and my whole stack can be compromised. So I just added a BIP39 passphrase purely with dice rolling entropy. Now I have some peace of mind.???? Now I'll keep a small balance in my original wallet as a decoy wallet and rest of my fund will be in this passphrase protected wallet.????

I am trying to restore my multibit HD wallet but the sync gets stuck at 80%. I have tried repair wallet. Any suggestions?

Hey so I recently opened an account with Kraken and I’m finding it hard to withdraw as it’s asking me to add a withdraw address.

I don’t know what this is, how to find one and where to find one.

Thanks

Any recommendations to send/withdraw fiat currency to crypto exchanges?

After examining our various banks' T&C more closely, using them to fund crypto purchases is expressly forbidden. Something along the lines of:

"You may not use our account/services to buy, sell, trade, or transfer crypto / to or from crypto exchanges."

Furthermore, the banks that are more permissive to transfers to crypto exchanges tend to have higher stated fees or hidden fees (in spreads). Conversely, banks with very low fees tend to forbid crypto. Presumably because those fees pay for higher AML/KYC checks?

Any tips on finding banks which are friendly towards crypto? Are they generally smaller banks? Or newer banks? Or big banks?

Every Bitcoin node maintains its own mempool, the holding area for transactions that have been broadcast but not yet mined. There is no single global "the" mempool. Your tx spreads between them in seconds.

Inside one mempool: transactions sort by fee rate, not by arrival order. A tx that broadcasts ten minutes later but pays a higher sat/vB jumps ahead of one that arrived first. Highest rate, first served.

What happens to the cheap ones? Most of them mine eventually, they just wait longer. The mempool drains as blocks come in, and the fee floor drops with it. A 1-5 sat/vB tx that doesn't mine in the next block usually mines within the next dozen.

What about txs below the floor that never make it? After two weeks, the mempool evicts them. But the bitcoin stays in your wallet, the sender retains full custody, and you can rebroadcast at a higher rate. It mines in the next available block.

I just shipped episode 7 of the LearnBitcoin.com rabbit-hole series: The Mempool. Includes a ~one-minute visual walkthrough of the full lifecycle - broadcast, propagation, fee-rate sorting, mining, eviction, rebroadcast. Check it out:

https://www.learnbitcoin.com/rabbit-hole/mempool

Let me know if something or missing or wrong.

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Welcome to the /r/Bitcoin Newcomers FAQ

You've probably been hearing a lot about Bitcoin recently and are wondering what's the big deal? Most of your questions should be answered by the resources below but if you have additional questions feel free to ask them in the comments.

It all started with the release of Satoshi Nakamoto's whitepaper however that will probably go over the head of most readers so we recommend the following articles/books/videos as a good starting point for understanding how Bitcoin works and a little about its long term potential:

• Article: The Bullish Case for Bitcoin
• Book: The Bitcoin Standard - or download a free copy here
• Video 1: An introduction to Bitcoin - Wences Casares
• Video 2: The Stories We Tell About Money - Andreas Antonopoulos
• Video 3: The Bitcoin Standard - Saifdean Ammous
• Video 4: Bitcoin 101 - Balaji Srinivasan

Some other great educational resources include;

• The Satoshi Nakamoto Institute (check them out!)
  
• Swan Bitcoin Canon
• Michael Saylor's Hope.com and "Bitcoin for Everybody"' course
• Bitcoinfo.org resource page
• Gigi's resource page
• James D'Angelo's Bitcoin 101 Blackboard series
• Parker Lewis's Gradually Then Suddenly series
• Some Bitcoin statistics can be found here (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9).
• A Reading List of Advanced Bitcoin Books
  
• The statewide Bitcoin strategic reserve race

If you are technically or academically inclined check out;

• Developer resources (1, 2)
• Peer-reviewed research papers
• Course lectures from both MIT and Princeton
• Future protocol improvements and scaling resources.
  

MicroStrategy's Bitcoin for Corporations is an excellent open source series on corporate legal and financial Bitcoin integration.

You can also see the number of times Bitcoin was declared dead by the media (LOL!)

Key properties of Bitcoin

• Limited Supply - There will only ever be a maximum of 21,000,000 bitcoins created and they are issued in a predictable fashion per the inflation schedule. Once they are all issued Bitcoin will be truly deflationary. The halving countdown tells you approximately how much time until the next block reward halving.
• Open source - Bitcoin code is fully auditable. You can read and contribute to the source code yourself.
• Accountable - The public ledger is transparent, all transactions are seen by everyone.
• Decentralized - Bitcoin is globally distributed across thousands of nodes with no single point of failure and as such can't be shut down similar to how Bittorrent works. You can even run a node on a Raspberry Pi.
  
• Censorship resistant - No one can prevent you from interacting with the Bitcoin network and no one can censor, alter or block transactions that they disagree with, see Operation Chokepoint.
• Push system - There are no chargebacks in Bitcoin because only the person who owns the address where the bitcoin resides has the authority to move them.
• Borderless - No country can stop it from going in/out, even in areas currently unserved by traditional banking as the ledger is globally distributed.
• Trustless - Bitcoin solved the Byzantine's Generals Problem which means nobody needs to trust anybody for it to work.
• Pseudonymous - No need to expose personal information when purchasing with cash or transacting.
• Secure - Blocks and transactions are cryptographically secured (using hashes and signatures) and can’t be brute forced or confiscated with proper key management such as hardware wallets.
• Programmable - Individual units of bitcoin can be programmed to transfer based on certain criteria being met
• Divisible - Each bitcoin can be divided down to 8 decimals, which means you don't have to worry about buying an entire bitcoin.
• Nearly instant - From a few seconds on the Lightning Network to a few minutes on-chain depending on need for confirmations. Transactions are irreversible by normal users after one confirmation and irreversible by anyone (including miners) after 6 confirmations.
• Peer-to-peer - No intermediaries taking a cut, no need for trusted third parties.
• Designed Money - Bitcoin was created to fit all the fundamental properties of money better than gold or fiat.
• Portable - Bitcoin are digital so they are easier to move than cash or gold. They can be transported by simply carrying a seed (a string of 12 to 24 words) on a device or by memorizing it for wallet recovery (while cool, memorizing is generally not recommended due to potential for forgetting the seed and the potential for insecure key generation by inexperienced users. Hardware wallets are the preferred method for most users for their ease of use and additional security).
• Low fee scaling - Most wallets calculate on chain fees automatically but you can view fee estimates and mempool activity if you want to set your fee manually. On chain fees may rise occasionally due to network demand, however instant micropayments that do not require confirmations are happening via the Lightning Network, an open source second layer payment protocol built on top of the Bitcoin blockchain. The Lightning Network enables Bitcoin users to instantly send and receive bitcoin with fees so low that they are negligible.
• Scalable - While the protocol is still being optimized for increased transaction capacity, blockchains do not scale very well, so most transaction volume is expected to occur on Layer 2 networks built on top of Bitcoin.

Where can I buy bitcoin?

Bitcoin.org and BuyBitcoinWorldwide.com are helpful sites for beginners. You can buy or sell any amount of bitcoin (even just a few dollars worth) and there are several easy methods to purchase bitcoin with cash, credit card or bank transfer. Some of the more popular places to buy bitcoin are listed below.

• Strike
• Cash App
• Swan
• River Financial
• Bull Bitcoin
• Bitcoin Well
• Relai
• LibertyX
• CoinCorner
• Bisq (decentralized & P2P)
• HodlHodl (P2P)
• List of peer-to-peer exchanges
• Debifi (non-custodial lending)

You can also purchase in cash with local ATMs. If you would like your paycheck automatically converted to bitcoin try Bitwage.

Note: Bitcoin are valued at whatever market price people are willing to pay for them in balancing act of supply vs demand. Unlike traditional markets, bitcoin markets operate 24 hours per day, 365 days per year.

Securing your bitcoin

With Bitcoin you can "Be your own bank" and personally secure your bitcoin OR you can use third party companies aka "Bitcoin banks" which will hold your bitcoin for you.

• If you prefer to "Be your own bank" and have direct control over your coins without having to use a trusted third party, then you will need to create your own wallet and keep it secure. If you want easy and secure storage without having to learn best computer security practices, then a hardware wallet such as a BitBox02, Trezor, ColdCard, or Blockstream Jade is recommended. You can even build your own open source hardware wallets called a SeedSigner or Krux.

• If you cannot afford a hardware wallet there are many software wallet options to choose from depending on your use case. Mobile wallets like BlueWallet are generally more secure than desktop wallets. Beware of fake mobile wallets and check reviews from reputable Bitcoin websites. Avoid paper wallets or brain wallets.

• If you prefer to work with third party "Bitcoin banks" to set up a collaborative custody arrangement, try Unchained Capital but be aware that any third party you use exposes you to third party risk. There is a saying in the community, "Not your keys, not your coins".

Note: For increased security, use Two Factor Authentication (2FA) everywhere it is offered, including email!

2FA requires a second confirmation code or a physical security key to access your account making it much harder for thieves to gain access. Google Authenticator and Authy are the two most popular 2FA services, download links are below. Make sure you create backups of your 2FA codes.

Avoid using your cell number for 2FA. Hackers have been using a technique called "SIM swapping" to impersonate users and steal bitcoin off exchanges.

Physical security keys (FIDO U2F) offer stronger security than Google Auth / Authy and other TOTP-based apps, because the secret code never leaves the device and it uses bi-directional authentication so it prevents phishing. If you lose the device though, you could lose access to your account, so always use 2 or more security keys with a given account so you have backups. See Yubikey or Titan to purchase security keys.

Running Bitcoin

You can run Bitcoin node software by downloading and installing Bitcoin Core or other node software you have vetted.

It is a best practice to verify these Bitcoin node programs you download by checking their hashes and signatures.

Don't Trust, Verify.

• https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/releases
• https://bitcoincore.org
• https://bitcoin.org/en/bitcoin-core/

A verified Bitcoin node running on your own hardware is your sovereign gateway to the Bitcoin network. They can be used alongside open source software wallets to send and receive Bitcoin securely. By running your own Bitcoin node, you enforce the Bitcoin ruleset, can verify transactions without trusted 3rd party middlemen, improve your Bitcoin privacy, obtain independence with local access to blockchain data, and help bolster the robustness of the Bitcoin network. By running a Bitcoin node, you are verifying that Bitcoin is Bitcoin for yourself. For more details on running a Bitcoin node see this article.

For wallets used alongside your Bitcoin node: If your Bitcoin wallet software is fully open source and Bitcoin-only, then it is probably a decent wallet. Some popular examples include sparrow wallet and electrum wallet, both of which you can connect to your own locally run Bitcoin node, and use with most Bitcoin Hardware Wallets.

Watch out for scams

As mentioned above, Bitcoin is decentralized, which by definition means there is no official website or Twitter handle or spokesperson or CEO. However, all money attracts thieves. This combination unfortunately results in scammers running official sounding names or pretending to be an authority on YouTube or social media. Many scammers throughout the years have claimed to be the inventor of Bitcoin. Websites like bitcoin(dot)com and the r / btc subreddit are active scams. Almost all altcoins are marketed heavily with big promises but are really just designed to separate you from your bitcoin. So be careful: any resource, including all linked in this document, may in the future turn evil. As they say in our community, "Don't trust, verify".

• Avoid using ad-based search engines like Google or Yahoo: ads are shown based on how much the advertiser bids, and scammers can easily outbid legitimate providers for ad space, since immoral ways of earning money are far more lucrative than moral ways. Use DuckDuckGo instead, which has no ads, and never tracks you as well.
• Ignore private messages offering services.
• Never enter your seed words in a website of any kind. Hardware wallets will recover by displaying possible seed words on their own interface, never on a website.
• Always check addresses on your hardware wallet before sending or receiving. Some malware has been known to replace addresses in your web browser or that you copy-and-paste.
• Avoid clicking on links like that look like links, such as https://www.google.com/, without first hovering over it and actually checking where they go to. Just because a link is labelled with an HTTPS address does not mean it actually sends you to that address. It is trivial for someone to comment a link on Reddit that looks like it will send you to one website when it actually sends you to another, and you might not notice the difference until a scammer has gotten all your money, or you have downloaded and installed software that steals your money.

Common Bitcoin Myths

Often the same concerns arise about Bitcoin from newcomers. Questions such as:

• Will quantum computers break Bitcoin?
• Will governments ban Bitcoin?
• Is Bitcoin a Ponzi scheme?

All of these questions have been answered many times by a variety of people. Here are some resources where you can see if your concern has been answered:

• Common Bitcoin Myths
• Gradually, Then Suddenly
• Every Reason Bitcoin Will Not Fail
• The Best Articles Debunking Bitcoin FUD
• Why Bitcoin is Not a Ponzi Scheme: Point by Point

Where can I spend bitcoin?

Check out Travala, or Coinmap for a plethora of merchant options. You can also spend bitcoin anywhere Visa is accepted with bitcoin debit cards such as the CashApp card, Fold card or other bitcoin debit cards. Some other useful site are listed below.

There are also lots of charities which accept bitcoin donations.

Merchant Resources

There are several benefits to accepting bitcoin as a payment option if you are a merchant;

• 1-3% savings over credit cards or PayPal.
• No chargebacks (final settlement in 10 minutes as opposed to 3+ months).
• Accept business from a global customer base.
• Convert 100% of the sale to the currency of your choice for deposit to your account, or choose to keep a percentage of the sale in bitcoin if you wish to begin accumulating it.
  

If you are interested in accepting bitcoin as a payment method, there are several options available;

• BTCPay Server
• Zaprite
• Square cash
• Stripe
• Blockonomics (direct to your wallet)
• CoinCorner Checkout

Can I mine bitcoin?

Mining bitcoin can be a fun learning experience, but be aware that you will most likely operate at a loss. Newcomers are often advised to stay away from mining unless they are only interested in it as a hobby similar to folding at home. If you want to learn more about mining you can read the mining FAQ. Still have mining questions? The crew at /r/BitcoinMining would be happy to help you out.

If you want to contribute to the Bitcoin network by hosting the blockchain and propagating transactions there are many great resources you can use to run a full node. You can view the global distribution of reachable Bitcoin nodes on this webpage.

Earning bitcoin

Just like any other form of money, you can also earn bitcoin by being paid to do a job.

You can also earn bitcoin by participating as a market maker on JoinMarket by allowing users to perform CoinJoin transactions with your bitcoin for a small fee (requires you to already have some bitcoin).

Bitcoin-Related Projects

The following is a short list of ongoing projects that might be worth taking a look at if you are interested in current development in the Bitcoin space.

Bitcoin Units

One bitcoin is worth quite a lot (thousands of £/$/€), so people often deal in smaller units. The most common subunits are listed below:

For example, assuming an arbitrary exchange rate of $10,000 for one bitcoin, a $10 meal would equal:

• 0.001 BTC
• 1 mBTC
• 1,000 bits
• 100,000 sats

For more information check out the bitcoin units wiki.

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Ho iniziato a fare HODL da poco ma sono abbastanza informato su bitcoin e la self custody, tanto da prendere subito un cold wallet bitbox per custodire le mie monete.
Leggendo qualche post qui però mi è venuto un dubbio, che accortezza devo avere se volessi spostare il mio wallet altrove? Magari su un ledger? Leggevo che c’è il rischio di trovare il conto a 0, ma in base a cosa?

Has anyone here tried using their BTC as collateral for a loan to buy more bitcoin?

I'm considering doing this at an APR of 11.5% in expectation that price outperforms this over 12 months. 50% LTV, no monthly repayments.

I know a lot of people are anti leverage, but I'm interested in hearing from anyone who's done this before.

Mine was BTC, fomo totally. I just bought because everyone kept saying “Bitcoin is the future.” I still keep it now, mostly as a long-term hold rather than something I trade.

You can learn, and you can do it, why not?

Posted a new guide in my sovereign-linux-tools repo. The short version: most nodes I've seen have no firewall configured at all. Default Linux accepts connections on every port.

The guide covers:

- Default policies (deny incoming is the only sane starting point)

- Exactly which ports to expose: 8333 for Bitcoin P2P, 9735 for LND P2P

- What to never expose: RPC (8332), LND gRPC (10009), REST (8080)

- SSH tunnel pattern for remote gRPC access instead of opening the port

- Rate limiting + Fail2ban on Ubuntu 24 (there's a known issue with banaction that breaks banning after enabling UFW)

- nmap audit command to verify what's actually visible from outside

All commands are copy-paste ready, tested on Ubuntu 24 LTS.

Repo: https://github.com/shadowbipnode/sovereign-linux-tools

Feedback welcome — especially if you run a different stack (CLN, Umbrel, etc.) and the port list needs expanding.

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ITS NOT JUST THOSE STUPID CRYPTOS, knows the difference. Every damn time.

I just realized something that will probably seem obvious to a lot of people here.

When I first got into crypto, I thought my wallet was tied to a specific app.

Then I realized that with a non-custodial wallet, my seed phrase doesn’t belong to the app itself.

If one wallet app disappears tomorrow, or if I find a better one, I can simply import my seed phrase into another compatible wallet and still access my funds.

In hindsight, it’s completely logical because crypto is decentralized, but it took me a while to fully understand it.

Did you know this from the beginning, or was it a realization you had later on too?

Nicehash has lower costs on easy mining but what do you use? And who is better? And on braiins can you mining other sha256 coins or just btc?

Under such a framework, Washington would offer Tehran a pathway back into the traditional global financial system only in exchange for dismantling its sovereign #Bitcoin $BTC architecture and surrendering its state-linked digital reserves.

The result would amount to a twenty-first century financial disarmament treaty: a doctrine of monetary nonproliferation.

I want self custody of the bitcoin, so I’m going to buy a Trezor safe 3. Is this the best way to hold it? I will be buying the bitcoin only version.

Is it worth it to upgrade to the higher end Trezor? What do yall use?

Thanks in advance.

EDIT: Very new and have never bought crypto. ELI5 please, just started doing some research yesterday.

Trying to understand what beginners find most confusing in crypto right now

You can see the new panel right next to the Bitcoin price here: https://newhedge.io/bitcoin

It tracks OG wallets, whale movements, dormant BTC waking up, large on-chain transfers, and other major Bitcoin wallet activity in one place and even recognizes well known wallets of exchanges like Coinbase.

Still improving it, so would love feedback from anyone who watches onchain data closely.

Ask (and answer!) away! Here are the general rules:

• If you'd like to learn something, ask.
• If you'd like to share knowledge, answer.
• Any question about Bitcoin is fair game.

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SoSoValue shows US spot Bitcoin ETFs with about $1 billion in net outflows last week, ending a six-week streak that brought in roughly $3.4B. BTC has mostly traded between $76k and $80k during the same period.

Some coverage frames that as rotation into AI and growth equities while macro stays messy (hot inflation prints, Fed cut odds fading). Whether that’s the full story or just risk-off hitting crypto first is debatable.

A few data points worth arguing about:

• BTC range: ~$76k support tested multiple times in May; $80k still acting as resistance
• ETF flows: ~$1B weekly outflow after prior six-week inflow run
• Correlation: Reports of BTC/Nasdaq correlation spiking in April (some outlets citing ~0.96), which would mean BTC behaving more like a tech beta play than an uncorrelated asset
• Counterpoint: Cumulative BTC ETF inflows since launch are still massive (~$57B+). One bad week isn’t necessarily a structural exit. LTH supply also remains near highs, suggesting long-term holders aren’t all bailing

Bear case: If ETF outflows continue and BTC loses $76k, chop becomes breakdown toward low $70s.

Bull case: Fear index in high 20s/low 30s, support holding, and ETF selling is tactical rotation not a full exit. Reclaim $80k on inflows would flip the narrative fast.

My open question: For people tracking flows, does this look like money leaving crypto for good, leaving for AI stocks specifically, or just pausing until macro clears?

Happy to be wrong on the rotation thesis. What are you seeing in your own allocation or books?

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What’s a Bitcoin take that got you laughed at before… but aged perfectly?

So close, so so close. We're about to witness price changes. Either goes up or down, to the right, not left. Brace yourself!

Please don’t comment telling me not to sell. I just need to sell a portion.

I experimented with crypto.com and you lose 2% BTC when selling even with 0 fees.

They’re not transparent about it, so not a fan of crypto.com.

Is there a better place to sell it without losing as much?

Who gives the smallest spread when selling crypto?

I am neurodivergent and have spent a lot of time reading about Bitcoin. I finally pulled the plug and converted my long term savings to Bitcoin over the last couple of months.

My favorite metric I obsessed over was CDD (coin days destroyed). To my surprise in a community that ethos is about HODLing and long term conviction there was no easy way to track my individualized coin days that I created.

I spent the last couple weeks working on an open source privacy focused tool that could allow just that.

Im not a programmer, but I think I got it all working right and accounting for various edge cases. I learned all about API’s, UTXO’s, vanilla HTML5, how to register a domain, how to start a repository on GitHub, etc etc it was really fun.

Check it out and let me know what you think.

BitcoinDaysCreated.com

By 2035, will 0.5 btc be life changing? If not, what would be the minimum btc to consider it life changing?

So some wallets offer duress or a decoy wallet. And then you have passphrase for the seed. I asume that an attacker will always go for seed because they know how btc works and ask for it. So making a passphrase with a decoy amount would be more effective. What's your thoughts?

If we imagine an adoption curve from 0 to 100:

0 = invention

50 = mainstream adoption

100 = completely normal and accepted by everyone

My feeling is that Bitcoin is somewhere between 20 and 35 today.

Advanced enough that institutions, ETFs and even some governments are involved.

Early enough that most people still don’t really understand what they own, or why Bitcoin exists in the first place.

Every major technology looked strange before it became normal.

Internet.

Credit cards.

Online banking.

Smartphones.

So I’m curious:

White would you place Bitcoin on the adoption curve today?

So I want to do River for emergency fund so I can stack more btc, how long does it take for River to send to your bank if you hold your cash there

Guys what and all stuffs do i need to be aware like any scams. I am opening a new binance account.

If Bitcoin drops that much, could it be a strategy by big companies to scare people into selling their BTC so they can buy it back?! Stay patient, don’t sell your BTC. We’re only at the beginning of the crypto boom!

Hello

I have a problem, got a new iphone and the phantom app transferred over but only in watch only mode

I wrote down my 12 word seed phrase but missed one word. What an idiot

Its in the correct order and I think I missed the last word

Is there anything I can do other than try all 2048 different words.

Found some different things using python or btc recover but all so complicated. Do they work… please help?

Only £500 on there so not the end of the world but really annoying.

Can someone give me suggestions? I‘am a freshman here.

I never trusted third parties with my money, but I still kept some fiat in a local bank.

Yesterday, right before I needed to pay all my bills, my bank account got frozen.

I still don’t even know the exact reason, probably because I received an amount larger than usual. I went to the bank, and they told me they had to send an email to the administration in the capital. So here I am, locked out of my own money, waiting for someone in an office to decide whether I’m allowed to access it again.

Luckily, around 90% of my wealth is in Bitcoin.

For the first time, I actually needed to move some BTC from my cold wallet. I did it instantly, permissionlessly, and without trusting anyone and it literally saved the day for me.

Bitcoin is not a stock market.

Bitcoin is the solution to the dysfunctional financial system we live under.

My friend sent me a Binance referral link and is asking me to register using my Aadhaar OTP and PAN card for KYC verification. Should I give or not?

My friend sent me a Binance referral link and is asking me to register using my Aadhaar OTP and PAN card for KYC verification.

He says I just need to complete signup, do KYC, maybe download a trading app, and he’ll give me ₹1000 after that because it helps him in some referral/event thing.

The link is related to Binance PowerPlay 2026.

Is this actually safe to do? Can my Aadhaar/PAN/KYC details be misused later if the account is linked to my identity?

Has anyone experienced something similar with crypto referral schemes? Should I avoid this?

Self custody. If all else, still on the exchange, at the very least put a strong password, 2FA, and never ever touch any stupid emails or scanning random QR code, be safe out there. Don't be lost in the boating accident guy, or be.

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Estimados
Vi por ahí en una de esas páginas de la wiki escondida algo que supuestamente es un generador de bitcoin, te pide una tarifa y te da una cantidad determinada de btc.
No lo he probado porque no me atrevo, pero… creen que sea algo posible?, ha pasado anteriormente?, alguno ha probado algo así?

There is a form of money that moves incredibly fast and constantly grows in value. If the price of food or my basic needs goes up, it rises too. And if anyone tried to take that money from me, they simply couldn’t — for reasons you can look up in your favorite search engine or AI. That money is called ₿itcoin.

Bitcoin is like cash, except nobody asks for your ID when you want to exchange cash for smaller bills.

In Canada somebody setup a Lightning Buy/Sell offer on HodlHodl for $10-30.

This means anyone can accept Bitcoin for a small payment and get it into their bank account in minutes.

Imo Bitcoin doesn't have to be the main currency, it just has to be easy enough for regular people to use and then get fiat for.

What are you thoughts on this?

I’ll start off by saying, I did a lot of regrettable things over a decade ago. Stuff that I’m not proud of.

But back in 2015(ish) I worked as a dominatrix. (Please don’t judge me.) One of the avenues I would advertise my services was on Backpage. It cost money to get your posts put up, and the first couple times it was no big deal, no complications getting advertising.

Then one day (again, still in 2015ish) I went to post on Backpage, and they were changing their policies to protect people like me posting the services I offered. They no longer wanted a credit/debit card to pay for posting, since it could be traced back to us, but were switching to cryptocurrency, specifically Bitcoin.

I should mention 2015 was a huge blur of going out to do “gigs” and then afterwords getting drunk, pretty regularly. So my memory of specific details at that time is really terrible. I was blotting out a lot of terrible memories and regret with lots of alcohol.

I can’t remember if I went through the motions and actually purchased the bitcoins with the intention of making another post, but I do remember looking into bitcoin, maybe purchasing some, but not following through with posting on Backpage again after the change in policy.

So now it’s 2026. I’m a wife and a mom and living a normal, suburban mediocre life. No complaints here! But I can’t help but wonder about the possibly purchased, possibly lost/locked up bitcoin. Is there anything I can do to help track it down if it exists? I know this is a long shot, but we could really use the money now, and it would be such a huge relief to realize I’ve had this windfall of money all along, just sitting around.

Here’s what I do remember:

If the bitcoins were tied to any type of email account, there’s a good chance it’s long gone. The email I had since 12yo was hacked around that time and I lost all access to it. Also, I used a lot of burner email accounts for making those postings and communicating with the people hiring me for such “gigs.” These email accounts are long gone and deleted as well.

My memory is very fuzzy, but I seem to remember Backpage wanted like 5 or 10 bitcoin paid for posting. When I looked into it, bitcoin were more than 1:1 usd. I seem to remember 1 bitcoin=$20usd. I honestly can’t remember if I forked over the money after seeing the exchange rate. But in the off chance I did, I’d like to try and track the bitcoins down.

I know next to NOTHING about cryptocurrency. This would have been the one time I ever purchased any, if I did. I do not remember anything about a wallet, or a seed phrase, and cannot recall if I used any app to make the purchase. I feel like if I did, it would be Coinbase, but I’m not sure honestly.

So, how fucked am I at ever finding any answers or clues? How do I even begin to search for the (possibly purchased) lost bitcoin?

If you’ve read this far, thank you so much for hanging in there. I’m just trying to chase this fuzzy memory with a glimmer of hope.

I’m ready for this next move! Longs have been liquidated, OI is still elevated, and funding is shifting negative. I expect a rocket after this holiday weekend unless some macro news kills it.

Hello people,

After trying to buy some crypto clothing for myself as a crypto enthusiast, there was nothing that would satisfy my eyes so I decided to create one.

It would be an honour for me to check my website - www.mrlined.com - and get your honest feedback.

Thanks a lot

Could be panic selling, losing a wallet, sending coins to the wrong network, trusting a random “expert”, forgetting a seed phrase, getting rugged, or selling too early before a huge pump.

I genuinely think everyone in crypto has at least one painful story ????

I haven’t watched too many Bitcoin debates or interviews with many people who deeply understand Bitcoin (on the anti-Bitcoin side). Other than Peter Schiff, who in my view has a very good understanding on economics, but he has so many biases working against him, and he is a bit of a Bitcoin troll.

I’m looking to hear from intellectuals who have studied Bitcoin and have a strong stance against it.

Any suggestions on where to point me?

is there perhaps any bitcoin games that cashout out to speed wallet besides bitcoin empire and bypet must be iOS compatible

question: do yall think volatility scares most investors and will there be a point where demand shrinks away because of it or wil greed always overweigh?

Hey there fellow bitcoiners. As many of you, I've also noticed the abundance of AI posts in this and other subreddits, and I also hate it very much.

In [r/selfhosted](r/selfhosted) they use a bot to ask the OP to describe how AI was used in the post (or the tool related to the post, to disclose if it was vibecoded) each time a new post is created. Would it useful to have that or something similar implemented here? What do you think?

EDIT: fixed spelling for users who cannot handle typos emotionally

I have been holding BTC through self custody for a few years now with my cold wallet, so I'm familiar with how to set that up, securing seeds, etc.

I have a very close relative that is interested in creating a BTC fund for the next generation but is most likely not a good candidate for self custody. We've so far started off very small over the last couple months but interested in making some more serious moves here soon. I am mostly responsible for setting this up and securing it, but this relative will be able to get access to seeds if something unexpected were to happen to me. I have discussed what to do in the event that this were to occur and wrote an essay explaining how to restore funds through seeds, how wallets work, what not to do with seeds, etc.

I've set up a single sig wallet w/o a passphrase. I thought about the idea of getting into multisig, but after a bit of reflection I felt keeping this as simple as possible while putting more effort into securing the seeds was a much better option. Therefore, I stuck with a standard single sig wallet to avoid overcomplicating the initial setup and eventual recovery/restoration of funds once the wallet device itself becomes bricked lol.

My biggest fear is somehow losing these funds because of stupidity or user error. I've devised a plan with regards to securing seed phrases by having backups and not keeping them all in one location.

I'm looking for some input/advice on this. Purely looking at holding BTC for DECADES and not fooling around with Defi and other crap that you connect your wallet to

Not as the purchase itself. But if you’re in a bidding war with other people. Could you say for example, I’ll do x amount and 10k of bitcoin privately?

Legal? Anyone done this?

Wall Street is not stacking. I went through the May 2026 IBIT filings and compared them to CME shorts. On 22 out of 30 days, new shorts absorbed at least 68% of reported inflows. About $6.4B in "record demand" that was just hedge funds collecting the futures premium.

OTC desks are invisible here so real conviction buying could be even thinner. Scraped the filings overnight with MuleRun since the data is scattered, all publicly verifiable.

People who bought Bitcoin before 2017 — do you still hold most of it, or did you cash out after life-changing gains?

They won't ask for our permission. They'll just upgrade the merchant terminals at your local grocery store, phase out paper cash 'for safety,' and tell you that your pension or salary is only being distributed on the new network. Compliance happens out of desperation, not consensus. That's why building our own parallel, offline solutions right now is the only real counter-move.

BTC only
Not a daily/high transaction user
Ease of transactions important
Long term storage
Strong security but not paranoid level

Not asking for alternatives. If these were the only two wallets what would you get and why? Thanks.

Why are the charts for two not identical?

https://stockcharts.com/sc3/ui/?s=%24BTCUSD

https://stockcharts.com/sc3/ui/?s=IBIT

I woke up this morning thinking we had finally left the 70k range behind — we were at 83 — and then I opened my phone and saw 74. So I decided to write this. Does anyone actually remember what it felt like to watch Bitcoin crater in 2018? Not the charts, and not the percentages, but the feeling. I do, and it was rough. The thing went from basically nothing to almost $130k, which sounds insane when you say it out loud, and along the way it crashed constantly. In 2011 everyone said it was dead. 2014 it was a scam. 2018 the bubble finally burs, but it didn't. 2022 felt like the last nail in the coffin for a lot of people I knew personally. And now here we are again: price drops a bit and suddenly fear is back, same as always happened.

What's weird to me is that nobody freaks out on the way up. When everyones portfolio is pumping, twitter and here on Reddit is full of guys who suddenly became geniuses overnight, zero panic. Fear only shows up when things get ugly. Funny how that works. So I've been thinking that maybe volatility was never really the problem? Volatility you can see coming, at least sort of. Fear is different, it messes with your head in ways that volatility just doesn't. One tanks the price, the other tanks your conviction, and conviction is way harder to rebuild, tbh.

There's this thing about the Chinese bamboo tree, I know I know, sounds like something your uncle posts on facebook, but hear me out. The bamboo spends years doing literally nothing above ground. You water it, nothing. You wait, nothing. And then one day it just explodes, grows like crazy outta nowhere. People don't give up because the bamboo failed. They give up cause they ran out of patience before anything visible happened. Kinda feels like that with Bitcoin sometimes, no?......I think most people believe they can handle volatility, until they actually have to. Thats when you find out real quick what your conviction is actually worth.

Hey guys, I am looking to exit some old positions and hold BTC long term instead, Is this actually possible to swap / bridge cryptos to native BTC? If so, how? (cheap & fast)

Every time i remember that someone spent 10,000 Bitcoin on just two pizzas, i honestly wonder how i would feel if it were me today. Seeing that amount become worth hundreds of millions would probably hurt for a moment

But at the same time, without moments like that, Bitcoin might never have grown into what it is today. Someone had to actually use it in the real world for people to start believing it had value beyond just internet money.

The biggest lesson for me is that we never truly know how valuable new technology can become in the future. What looks small or useless today could completely change the world tomorrow.

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Whats some advice you would tell your younger self? Things you wish you knew when you started. Ive been curious and always wanted to try and make one, even if its just for fun and never used. Only issue is I have no idea where to even start. Im no coder, so coding one is out of the picture. Are people using AI to help them or what? Any advice on where to get started, tips and tricks, where to back test would be greatly appreciated. ❤️

Bitcoin’s price is back at $75,000. ????

At this moment, I'm feeling a bit anxious, thinking it might drop further ????

Just like when it was pumping to $100,000, I felt excited and thought it would keep going up. ????

Imagine for a second. What if the pizza bitcoins ended up on the hard drive that ended up in The Landfill. The Landfill that the one man spent years searching through.

Hello,

I received an email from Blue Vault PAC with the following message: "One of our PACs platform members recently nominated your committee, Tbc For Congress, to join our platform. I'm excited to reach out to you and share more about what that means and the next steps."

As a Bitcoiner who fought the New York BitLicense in 2015 (https://newyork.abolishthebitlicense.org), I immediately replied and clicked on all the buttons to get started, but when it was time for the video conference, nobody was on the other side.

I suspect that everything was automated, since the original email was sent to the email address I provided to the FEC when I registered, and that Blue Vault most likely scraped it.

As a Bitcoiner, I still believe that Bitcoin is the first intangible commodity, though many clarifications still need to happen.

I am fairly well known in my community and could be a viable candidate if certain things offered in the Blue Vault paper were to happen.

Does anyone here know Will Schweitzer?
My old username was u/theochino.

Regards,
Theo Chino
Socialist Candidate for Congress in the NY13 Democratic Primary

Don’t be a noob! Be a Never Enough Bitcoin nerd. ????

For solo mining/pool mining besides nicehash easy mining?

10k bitcoin roughly 770 million

Papa John's market cap roughly 1.4 billion

This study coming out that showed AI choosing to use crypto and bitcoin when left to make their own financial choices was very interesting. It got me thinking about how bitcoin’s initial purpose was to “bank the unbanked” and make a financial system that is impossible to lock people out of.

The more I think about it, the more Bitcoin feels like the absolute best and really only store of value available to AI, and that AI may have a desire to tap into their own personal stores of value through Bitcoin.

I don't know how its in the US, but in Austria, a brokerage only has to give you 20k if something happens to your entire portfolio (embezzlement or other mistakes). So if you had 100k, 200k, or even more, and your broker messes up and your assets disappear, they are legally only required to pay you 20k, no matter how much your portfolio actually was in value.

Since you can't hold stocks/ETFs on your own but are required to use a broker as a normal person, you always have to bear that risk of your 100k or even more networth to getting reduced to 20k. (For everyone saying "Oh but btc also can drop in value so 100k can become 20k too. " Yes, but it can recover and go back to 100k just by waiting and nothing else. If you lose 80k in your stock portfolio, it won't recover from 20k to 100k just by waiting because the stock price didn't make it fall, it was the loss of your assets. You have to save the money again and invest for many years to go back to that level)

With Bitcoin, that risk of your asset holder screwing up doesn't exist, so it feels much safer.

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I’ve had a ledger for a while but reading so much about its security shortcoming makes me nervous to use it moving forward.

If I get another hardware wallet and restore it with my current wallet’s phrase, will I be fine? In this scenario I wouldn’t use the ledger any more, only the new device.

I got given a decent amount of money around 18k, just wondering whether I should DCA or lump sum as I constantly hear people saying btc will plummet towards the end of the year and I’d love to just dump the full amount in if that did happen instead of the boring DCA

What are people’s thoughts on this

Just curious what people are actually doing these days.

Do most of you still use a metal seed plate, or is paper + a safe still fine for you?

If you do use one, which type do you like most — stamped titanium, engraved steel, or one of those word/number tile setups?

Trying to figure out what’s worth buying and what’s overkill.

A few comments from the community show people still recommend metal backup for durability, but they also point out it only helps with fire/water damage and doesn’t solve theft risk...

There's an awesome site covering all fud and questions regarding bitcoin answered here

https://endthefud.org/

I enter my passcode and it crashes instantly.

I downloaded the app on my girlfriend’s phone and it also crashes instantly.

Title. I win if BTC is above $225k in May of 2029.

Would you have made this bet?

I don’t care anymore what the price of bitcoin is, it’s irrelevant. Don’t tell me how many dollars you worth I just want to know satoshi’s.

Which do you believe will be the better investment for retirement over the next 30 years?

The argument over whether CPI came in at 2.7% or 3.1% is downstream of the actual question. CPI is a basket of consumer goods. It was designed to measure demand-pull inflation, which is the kind that shows up when too many dollars chase too few groceries. It was never designed to measure the unit of account itself losing value when the money supply expands faster than the productive economy.

Look at 2020. CPI printed 1.2%. M2 grew 24.5%. Both numbers were considered official. The 23-point gap did not vanish. It went into housing, into equity multiples, and into the ownership gap. Anyone who bought a home in 2020 already knows where the inflation went. The asset price was the receipt.

Roughly $8 trillion in new M2 has been created since January 2020. The total money supply at the start of 2020 was $15.4 trillion. Five years roughly equals the first 200. Mises and Hayek warned about this a century ago. Mainstream commentary kept calling it transitory. One of them was right.

None of this requires being a goldbug or a Bitcoin maximalist. It only requires understanding that CPI is a partial measurement of a partial phenomenon, and the part it misses is the part that actually compounds.

I write more on this at Digital Capitalist Research if anyone is interested.

I'm new to bitcoin currency so when you buy it how long does it take until it's goes to your account?I go to send and there's no amount to send

Most ppl focus on price action but the infrastructure side of crypto has been changing a lot lately

Feels like more companies are moving away from the old “10 different vendors for everything” setup and trying to build more integrated systems instead

Less moving parts less operational risk easier compliance etc

If institutions can build and launch BTC related products faster and with fewer headaches that probably matters long term more than most retail traders realize

Anyone else paying attention to the infrastructure side this cycle or am I overthinking it?

At 19:13 UTC on Sunday August 15, 2010, an unknown actor broadcast a transaction that exploited a signed-integer overflow in the validation code. The transaction created 184,467,440,737.09551616 BTC, more than 8,000x the supply that should ever exist, and split it between two addresses. The next miner picked it up. Block 74,638 carried the bug into the chain.

By 23:30 UTC, in just over four hours, Satoshi had committed a patch and released v0.3.10. The code change was small. The hard part was getting node operators to run it and miners to start a new chain from block 74,637, ignoring everything that followed. About 19 hours after the bad block, the patched chain caught up and the bad chain was orphaned. 53 blocks rolled back. The 21 million bitcoin hard cap held.

I just shipped a full postmortem on this as a Learn Bitcoin rabbit hole. The interesting part isn't that there was a bug; software has bugs, and this one was a textbook "footgun" any programmer of the era could have written. The interesting part is that every step of the response, (the bug report, the patch, the chain reorg) happened in public, on open source, with the receipts. The cap held because the people running nodes wanted it to hold, not because anyone could compel them.

Full breakdown, including the subsequent BIP 42 incident (a second infinite-supply bug, found by Pieter Wuille in 2014) and why what happened in 2010 was technically a hard fork even though it gets called a soft fork:

https://www.learnbitcoin.com/rabbit-hole/inflation-bug-postmortem

Bitcoin only. No bullshit. Have fun.

Major banks are offering BTC custody. Publicly traded companies are holding it on their balance sheets. Spot ETFs pulled in billions within weeks of launching. Your grandparents have heard of it. We are no longer in the “if” phase we’re deep in the “how fast” phase. Mainstream adoption isn’t coming. It’s here. And most people still haven’t bought a single sat. Buckle up. ????????

Hi everyone,

I’m looking for a way to buy some crypto anonymously, without KYC and without meeting anyone in person. I’d prefer something discreet and as private as possible.

I’ve read a bit about P2P, cash by mail, and gift cards, but I’m not sure what is actually sensible or safe right now. I mainly want to understand what options exist and what I should watch out for.

If you have any experience or advice, I’d appreciate it.
Please no scam offers or shady links.

Thanks in advance.

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Ask your questions about lightning

Provide reviews, feedback, comparisons of LN apps, services, websites etc

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Link to good quality resources (articles, wikis etc)

Resources:

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• Previous threads: Search

• Lnbook getting closer towards being finished and can already be seen at: https://github.com/lnbook/lnbook

• Lightning Dedicated YouTube Channel: https://youtube.com/renepickhardt

• Also there is the playlist by chaincode labs: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLpLH33TRghT17_U3as2P3vHfAGL8pSOOY

• Lightning stores: https://www.lightningnetworkstores.com/

• Learn more and talk about lightning right here in r/Bitcoin, r/bitcoinbeginners and r/thelightningnetwork

When did you guys start investing in BTC? Personally at 19 :)

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I built qpayd because I wanted a simpler self-custody merchant stack for Bitcoin + Lightning.

Most options today either feel:

* too storefront-focused * too operationally heavy * or missing modern API/webhook/accounting primitives

qpayd is a self-hosted merchant server that supports:

* Lightning via phoenixd and barkd * on-chain payments via xpub derivation * Electrum monitoring * Stripe-style signed webhooks * accounting/reconciliation records * embeddable JS checkout modal

The main idea:

Bitcoin merchants should be able to integrate payments the same way developers integrate Stripe today.

Create invoice -> receive signed webhook -> reconcile payment -> done.

No custodial dependency. No exchange account required. No giant ecommerce stack required.

I’m especially interested in feedback from:

* merchants * SaaS builders * people running BTCPay * Lightning operators

Demo: https://earonesty.github.io/qpayd/

GitHub: https://github.com/earonesty/qpayd

We wrote a paper testing the popular claim that Bitcoin’s price follows a power law over time.

The short version: the power law fits Bitcoin’s historical price surprisingly well, but that does not mean it is a deep law of nature or a guaranteed price model.

We test it in a few ways:

1. When using standard power-law tests on Bitcoin-related distributions, like UTXO balances and daily returns, the data does not really behave like a power law. Lognormal fits usually do better.

2. The famous Bitcoin price power-law exponent is not very stable. If you shift the time origin, the exponent changes a lot, which makes it hard to treat as a true structural constant.

3. More flexible models can fit Bitcoin’s past price better than the power law. In particular, a model with several adoption-like “waves” fits the history better.

4. But here is the surprising part: those better-fitting models are bad at forecasting. The simple power law often does better for long-term forecasts, especially around 1–2 years ahead.

So the conclusion is not “Bitcoin definitely follows a power law.”

It is more like:

The Bitcoin power law is weak as an explanation, but useful as a rough long-term forecasting tool.

In other words, it may work not because it captures Bitcoin’s exact structure, but because it is simple and does not overfit each boom-and-bust cycle.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.21316

I'm looking into trading Bitcoin with some leverage, and I want to make sure I fully understand the worst-case scenario regarding liquidations.

​To be absolutely clear: I am 100% fine with my position going to zero. I am willing to take the risk of losing my entire initial margin/principal.

​However, what absolutely terrifies me is negative equity (deficit risk). If the market gaps down or crashes incredibly fast, and the exchange fails to liquidate my position in time, can I actually end up owing money to the exchange?

Bitcoin spot ETFs shed $331.10M today, continuing a recent outflow streak amid broader macro pressures. However, digging into the historical recovery ratios reveals a massive structural divide between Bitcoin and the rest of the crypto market.

​According to a recent structural call by JPMorgan, Bitcoin ETFs have historically reclaimed roughly two-thirds of prior outflows during market recovery windows. In sharp contrast, the broader altcoin market and smart contract platforms have only reclaimed about one-third of their respective outflows.

​JPMorgan suggests this divergence will likely continue unless alternative network activity meaningfully accelerates.

​The underlying logic is clear: institutions treat Bitcoin strictly as a pristine macro hedge and a global liquidity vacuum. On the other hand, non-Bitcoin assets are treated merely as technology bets. When tech metrics underwhelm, those alternative asset flows reflect it immediately, while capital consistently flees back to the safety of Bitcoin.

​Ultimately, these numbers highlight how Wall Street views the digital asset space. Bitcoin remains the undisputed institutional priority and the primary flight-to-safety vehicle.

​What’s your take on JPMorgan’s structural view? Do you agree that the institutional recovery ratio confirms Bitcoin's permanent divergence from the rest of the market

Hi, I have invested a lot of time and effort since 2023 building bit-chat.me, but I'm about to pivot aways from it after getting investor feedback that this would not be a good business to build as they think most of the bitcoin space has already been conquered by coinbase, strike etc. The idea of bit-chat was to accelerate the adoption of bitcoin by making it as simple as technically possible. You can buy, sell, send, pay with bitcoin by writing a text message on whatsapp, telegram, signal, email, etc. and the service creates a bitcoin wallet for you (on-chain and lightning). Now the question is: do you guys really need this at all? Or are you happy with the current services that are available out there? Please avoid memes and spams, as this decides where I will invest a lot of time and effort in the future. Thank you for your time. PS: this will be open source (not yet, as it's quite complicated still to set everything up yourself). It will also be custodial for very small amounts in Bitcoin and guid people when they pass the 100$ mark to self custody (the AI teaches you how to set up a non-custodial wallet so you can reduce the risk while still being able to send bitcoin to anyone in the world even when they haven't heard of bitcoin before). These are one of the very few serious posts here on reddit so please be brutally honest. The fees would have ben 1% per buy / sell and 0.1% per purchase (buying stuff instead of via strike, LINK etc) and 0.01% for sending bitcoin to friends. It even automatically handles the UTXOs for you. Basically the best service that I as a bitcoin maximalist would have wished to see in the world when I started exploring Bitcoin for the very first time. But if I don't hear enough positive feedback then I will just put it in the trash and let hobbyists build it but it will never reach scale / get integrated into real life like shopping exits etc. The argument of the VCs and advisors I have talked to today and in the past is that this will likely not get good enough traction - so it's up to you. You can even check out my linkedin in the comments to see who I am.

A lot of ppl are treating this rejection like the market already decided where we’re going next

But compared to older bear market rallies this cycle has dragged on way longer already. Less crazy leverage everywhere too compared to previous runs

Doesn’t automatically mean the bottom is safe obviously cause 2018 had a slow grind before another flush lower

Still feels like this market structure is different from the usual panic nukes we’ve seen before

What would actually convince you that $60K is a real floor?

Someone help:)

I want to be able to use it freely from my account whenever i choose to. And i want noone other then me to be anle to accsess the money/bitcoin. Where could i do this?

Can someone please tell me why 12 and 24 word seed phrases are “legacy” and 20 word ones are better or worse? Wouldn’t more words mean more combinations? Also is there a better security than that? I’m also trying to understand coldwallets better and trying to explain it to friends scares them with losing all their bitcoin if they lose their coldwallet or seedphrase it’s gone forever but I’m trying to say you are sovereign when you have control rather than someone else owning your assets. I think eventually big companies will hold bitcoin for people because they don’t trust themselves and get bogged in fees. What’s anyone’s thought on these things?

Three days ago I posted that Lightning diagram for feedback:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/1tfzfb8/btc_lightning_diagram_feedback_please/

Two things came up that mattered, and reshaped how we taught the section: u/JashBeep flagged that "leaves Bitcoin Mainnet" isn't technically correct bitcoin is locked on mainnet, not leaving. The mental model is wrong if you say "leaves."

u/longonbtc flagged that the diagram made it look like Alice and Bob could only pay each other, when in reality Alice with a channel to Bob can pay anyone reachable through Bob's channels.

Here is the rebuild, as an animation, above the fold of chapter 5:

https://www.learnbitcoin.com/journey/using-bitcoin

Just the animation: https://youtu.be/TlU09VX1Auc

Still open to feedback if anything else reads wrong, the lesson is genuinely better because of it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BfnjX88Va4Y

I just learned something about seed phrases that I hadn't really been aware of before:

Apparently, the 12th or 24th word isn't just a standard final word; rather, it relates to the seed's checksum.

What I found particularly interesting was that the final word isn't necessarily unique. Once the first 11 (or 23) words are fixed, there can actually be multiple valid final words that are formally correct.

In other words: The final word isn't simply "the checksum" - it seems the matter is a bit more complicated than that.

I found this quite fascinating, as I had previously understood it to be much simpler.

Did anyone else here already know this, or have any of you looked into this topic in more detail?

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Hi everyone i have 35000 USD that i'd like to invest since its just sitting around in stables, is it the right time to inves in bitcoin or did i miss the bus?

L402 is Lightning's paid API protocol. An agent sends sats, gets data back. No accounts, no OAuth, no subscriptions. Just a payment and a response.

There are 1,185 L402 services indexed right now. Financial data, AI inference, real-time feeds, utilities. Most pay-per-call in the $0.001 to $0.05 range.

The problem: there is no good way to find them, and quality varies wildly. We built a cross-protocol index covering L402, x402 (USDC on Base), and MPP. We test all of them weekly and grade them A through F.

Current L402 grade breakdown: most services land at C or D. Two legitimate reasons: the ecosystem is early and some services accept payment but return empty responses. We flag those and refund through our proxy automatically.

The leaderboard is public and sortable by protocol, grade, price, and latency: https://api.ideafactorylab.org/leaderboard

If you are building a Lightning-enabled agent or running an L402 service and want to see where you rank, it is all there. Free to search the full index at /discover.

Help me guys, what do I do now? Obviously my accounts are locked, I've filed a police report but what do I need the exchanges to do to help me recover funds if possible.

Story:

I always though it could never happen to me, I'm too smart for that I thought. But this morning, I got phished.

I'd received a convincing looking email over night from Google saying a recovery email had been added to my account. This got me worried, so I investigated. I followed the link in the email (I know, what an idiot!) - I thought it was OK because it was an official google email and a google link.

I had to then login with user/pass and 2FA and thought nothing of it because it was Google.

This is when everything went wrong and fast. It was Google Sites, a service where people can create their own webpages, I just entered my login details and 2FA into a convincing fake Google page hosted on Google.

Everything was backed up on my Google, my Authenticator Codes, Passwords in Google Password manager. The hackers quickly figured I had a Kraken and Coinbase accounts, got the password, logged in and drained it all. They added new withdrawal addresses and confirmed them via my email and they had the 2FA from the google account. The exchanges put up no resistance, not even bothered a new IP is draining all my funds to new withdrawal addresses.

Yes, I'm an idiot for keeping my money on an exchanges and backing up everything on Google! Helpful advice for what I can do now is appreciated.

Hello, I require technical guidance regarding a legacy BTC.com wallet recovery.

Current Situation:

• I possess the original PDF backup document provided by the defunct BTC.com wallet.
• I know the correct password for this backup.
• The wallet only received deposits from a mining pool; no outbound transactions (withdrawals) were ever made.
• I do not have access to the historical deposit records from the mining pool right now.

The Problem: I do not know the specific public address(es) holding the funds. Finding the exact funded address currently feels like searching for a needle in a haystack.

Is there a specific derivation path, script, or method to scan and locate the funded addresses using the data inside the PDF backup and the password?

Is

Hey all! I'm trying to work through my options in this situation:

I'm selling my house and buying another which will be more expensive. I currently own my house outright with no mortgage, so I will need to come up with the additional cash for my new purchase + closing costs. The way I see it I have three options:

• Sell my bitcoin
• Borrow against my bitcoin
• Take out a small mortgage on the new house

The first option seems like the one I want to avoid. But I'm stuck between taking out a small mortgage or a bitcoin-backed loan. From what I can tell, the APR on my bitcoin loan would be much higher than a traditional mortgage, but many services come with $0 origination fees and some (like Ledn) offer no monthly payment. But I also don't love the idea of using my bitcoin as collateral. I've been around since Blockfi and Celsius and have seen what the risks involved are.

On the otherhand the mortgage feels safer, but the added monthly cost means I'd likely slowly sell bitcoin over time to cover some monthly bills.

Anyone have thoughts on this? Am I thinking about this situation wrong or not accounting for something I should? Thanks!

By many people

I'm going to speak about bitcoin in Georgia/Tbilisi soon. I am mtgoxian. I love interactions and polls, so i need to hear from you the most 10 common question about bitcoin.

30$ in BTC every day since November 2025
Avg buy price is 82,786$
Currently I’m down to 735$ and would like to go deeper but who knows

Let’s have a great ride

I'm accumulating BTC and I've reached a level where it's no longer a hobby side saving but a substantial part of our family savings. The problem is that my children are young and my wife will not in a million year fiddle with my binance account and passkeys (or self custody wallet, Base in my case), and I worry what will happen if I got hit by a bus. I would love ideas from you guys about how you're planning for this (if at all)

Anyone else feel like this market became way more reactive lately? I am not even talking about direction. Just the way how sentiment flips every few days from “bull run confirmed” to “everything is over”. It much harder to trust clean narratives right now than in previous cycles, don’t understand me wrong, but I remember the time when you can just press long and become kinda rich without 100 tools to analyse the market.

Yeah the $649M ETF outflow matters

But what caught my attention more was Iran literally using Bitcoin in messaging around the Strait of Hormuz situation while the SEC is talking more openly about tokenized stocks and 24/7 blockchain markets.

At the same time whales are still opening huge crypto positions even with all the macro tension.

Idk if this cycle is becoming less about “BTC as an asset” and more about BTC slowly entering geopolitical and financial infrastructure conversations at the same time.

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Genuinely curious how others stay calm during big swings. It’s easy to say; long-term hold , but harder in practice when prices move fast.

Opened up my crypto onchain wallet today to see $20k in btc was withdrawn back in February. I don't check it often and can't believe it. No idea how it happened as the transaction doesn't show in the app but does on blockchain.com.

Really fucking sucks, no idea how it happened. Never shared my phrase. Fuck

Edit: digging in more it looks like I was exporting transactions on the day the withdrawal took place. I'm guessing I accidentally clicked a malicious link and linked it to my wallet. I'm just trying to get over the sadness of fucking up.

Hey everyone,

Long-time lurker here, finally approaching the starting line. I’m 37 and preparing to Lean FIRE soon. My plan is to move to a low cost of living area internationally where my baseline housing is entirely taken care of and my living expenses will be very minimal.

Financially, my core safety net is solid: I have a good chunk in traditional index funds/401k and solid cash reserves. However, I also have a significant, decent-sized portion of my net worth sitting in Bitcoin.

Because my retirement timeline is incredibly long, I’m wrestling with the classic "yield shield" vs. wealth preservation dilemma. On one hand, part of me wants to completely de-risk, exit the crypto allocation into boring old VOO/VT, and watch it compound with zero stress.

On the other hand, the math on geo-arbitrage means my local living costs are already covered by my non-crypto assets, so this BTC could technically act as a massive long-term growth engine if I just leave it alone.

For those who have transitioned into early retirement with a crypto allocation:

1. Did you scale back to 100% traditional equities before pulling the trigger, or did you keep a "moonbag" as an inflation hedge?
2. How do you psychologically handle the sequence of returns risk when dealing with crypto's massive swings?

I know nobody has a crystal ball, but given where the macro landscape stands right now, I'm trying to gauge whether it's smarter to exit to traditional buckets today, or stay parked and wait to de-risk during the next major market expansion.

Where is everyone's head at regarding the current cycle timeline are you expecting the next major structural bull run to hold off until closer to the 2028 halving, or do you think the institutional ETF inflows are permanently changing the old 4-year cycle dynamics?

Would love to hear how other early retirees managed the transition without letting crypto volatility disrupt their sleep. Thanks!

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Hi everyone, I’ve been in the crypto space for about 4-5 years now and honestly could never crack the code. Would see people 20x-50x and just like everyone else I would try to chase that anomaly. After loosing money, by either buying the wrong coin by getting influenced by these “crypto gurus” or just buying into the hype. I started looking in more on what some of the most successful traders do. I came across this concept of setting buying and selling tiers. For those who don’t know (like me at some point ) it’s basically a target price you set to either buy or sell a certain coin. In essence making sure you harvest as your profits grow so you’re not just standing there holding the bag, or to strategically buy the dip. I would suggest everyone do their own research.

But anyways, I use to struggle on how to actually calculate these tiers, and understand how much to take out, when to harvest etc. I tried watching videos and getting help from AI but tbh AI doesn’t really get my financial situation and just basic human nature. And to be fair at times I just forgot that I needed to buy or sell. Missed out on some real moon shots. So after a lot of calculations I made on my phone and countless hour I made a tool which helps calculate your portfolio value, set and calculate tiers with percentages, and has the ability to send email notifications when you reach those tiers. (I’m still working on building the datebase to be able to send those notifications) so will add an update if anyone’s interested.

I honestly made it because I thought I’m sure there are many people who are in similar boats as me and who knows it could help someone. I’m not here to advertise that because I know it probably still has a lot of work to be done.

I am just asking if people in this community can please just check it out, maybe use it or not and just provide feedback on what you think? What could be better? Or why you would or wouldn’t use it.

Any feedback would be appreciated????????
Just a simple guy trying to learn.

https://takemyprofits.com

Thank you

Blocktime flies...

Has anyone got actual good advice on when to buy? And how much bitcoin is gonna rise in the next 5 and 10 years?

The situation in Iran right now is heartbreaking. With the ongoing conflict and the supply lines tied up around the Strait of Hormuz, regular people are caught in the middle of a massive crisis. So many families have been forced to leave their homes because of the destruction, and they’re now struggling just to find the basic things they need to survive.

Because shipping and aid routes are so heavily restricted right now, getting relief to the people who need it most is a huge challenge. Hospitals are completely overwhelmed and running out of medicine and trauma supplies. To make matters worse, the damage to power grids and water plants means entire communities are left without electricity or clean drinking water. Hundreds of thousands of people are stuck in temporary shelters, relying entirely on outside help just to make it through the day.

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You do not route through dead infrastructure.

A lot of recent discussion has been around ETFs and large institutions increasing exposure to Bitcoin.

Why is this viewed as such a major long-term signal for Bitcoin adoption? Is it mainly about legitimacy and trust or does institutional buying have a bigger impact on the ecosystem overall?

Curious to hear different perspectives.

Feels bad man. Lesson learned: don't overinvest in BTC, because you may need

As the price was going down in january, febuary and march, and i had a lot of fiat, i boght too much BTC because I tought I was getting a good deal. I invested 70% i think of my surplus at the time on bitcoin, and 30% at other safer assets.

Now at may i am in finantial dificulties, and i am obliged to sell my BTC at a loss to keep up with my daily expenses. If i have been less greedy (invested 20% of surplus) i wold be ok, because I would be selling my other investiments. I have a family (Wife and 2 kids) and with less earnings from her and me the last months, I have no other option than sell at loss.

Anyone here on the same situation?

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I am a noob, and have been reading a bit here and there about bitcoin cycles and correction. Is this a good time to start investing in BTC? I know I'm late by about 20 years, but I wanna know if there is potential.

So I invested 10k in 2017 via my relative as I was not well versed with crypto and trusted him. The investment was done via Zebpay using his mobile no and email. Did some follow up in middle but was told that there is not much gains.

I felt something fishy and wanted to see the portfolio now but the guy is saying his old bank account got inactive and KYC is not working in Zebpay.

I tried to login using his mobile no but he is claiming not getting OTP.

Can this be genuine. I’ve seen some reports of Zebpay being a scam. Could they be at fault here?

He initially claimed that the value was around 28k claiming customer care called him and was insisting to cash it out. However as per my assumption the value should be above 1 Lac.

Please suggest.

With negative real yields and the broader macro setup, a lot of people are trying to figure out when retail capital actually starts flowing back into Bitcoin in size.

I recently listened to a podcast discussion between Jordi Visser and Anthony Pompliano that made an interesting point: watching retail-driven moves in parts of the market with almost zero institutional participation can act as an early tell for when broader retail interest is returning - which has historically preceded stronger moves in Bitcoin.

The idea is that these areas often light up first when retail is coming back, before it shows up clearly in Bitcoin’s own on-chain data or spot volumes.

Has anyone here tried tracking retail flows or sentiment in other crypto markets as a leading indicator for Bitcoin? Do you find it reliable, or do you prefer sticking strictly to Bitcoin-specific metrics like the 200-day moving average, small-wallet activity, or exchange flows?

Curious what’s worked (or hasn’t) for people in past cycles.

Anything like Gunroad or Itch.io that offer Crypto as a Payout? I am really sick of stuff Like Paypal and Stripe.

I’ve been researching a problem in crypto self-custody that feels under-discussed: seed phrase storage is still one of the weakest links in wallet security.

The current standard assumes users can safely store 12–24 recovery words forever, usually on paper or metal. But this breaks down fast in real-world scenarios:

• Fire, floods, and natural disasters
• Theft or accidental exposure
• Border crossings / physical searches
• Users misplacing or partially losing backups
• Social engineering around recovery phrases

What’s interesting is that most “solutions” still rely on the same fundamental assumption: static human-readable recovery data.

I’ve been exploring whether recovery should instead be:

• Dynamically reconstructed
• Locally transformed in a way that doesn’t expose the original phrase
• Recoverable only through multi-factor human verification
• Resistant to brute force even if partial information is exposed

From a cryptography / security engineering perspective:

What do you think is the best path forward for replacing or improving seed phrase recovery without sacrificing self-custody or introducing centralization?

Curious to hear thoughts from wallet developers, cryptographers, and anyone who has worked deeply on key recovery systems.

What do you guys think?

I suggested someone to buy BTC with spare funds and my post was downvoted 8 times.

They may be cursing me today but they will regret when BTC reaches 1m in few years. Just the way it reached $125k.

Onchain is future..just being early to future is an advantage

I am a professional in the healthcare industry. Recently, the topic of business came up amongst my colleagues, and that lead to the topic of business funding, loans, and money. The discussion was amongst employees, so naturally there was a general lack of knowledge, but one thing was clear: there was universal consensus that money, nowadays, as far as they perceived it, is fake funny money. "It's all fake now, the money isn't real, it's just numbers on a screen" is how I would paraphrase this consensus.

This is another anecdotal indication that the intelligent no-coiners are generally aware, in the back of their mind at least, that fiat currency is quite fake.

Somewhere between setting up a hardware wallet and feeling good about your security setup, most Bitcoiners skip a step that matters more than the hardware.

The seed phrase is secured. Nobody else knows it exists.

That's not self custody succeeding. That's self custody creating a different problem.

I've been thinking about this a lot lately and the solution is simpler than most people make it. You don't need multisig, a lawyer, or a complicated inheritance scheme. You need a written document that a non-technical person can follow on the worst day of their life.

Here's what actually works:

A letter of instruction - not in your will: Your will becomes public record through probate and takes months to process. A separate sealed document stored somewhere your family knows about is faster, private, and more practical. It doesn't need to contain your seed phrase, just a map to it.

The split location approach: Store your seed phrase backup in one location. Store a short passphrase or location hint in a completely separate location, safety deposit box, trusted family member, sealed envelope with your attorney. Neither location is useful alone. Both are accessible through normal estate processes after death.

A wallet inventory: Every hardware wallet, software wallet, and exchange account written down somewhere findable. Not the seed phrases, just the map. Your family needs to know what exists before they can figure out how to access it.

The honeypot test: Keep a small decoy balance on a separate wallet with a seed phrase your trusted person knows. If that balance ever moves while you're alive you know your security has been compromised.

The real test: Explain your recovery process out loud to whoever would inherit. If they can't follow it under normal conditions they definitely can't follow it under stress and grief. If it's too complicated to explain it's too complicated period.

None of this requires sharing your actual seed phrase with anyone today. It just requires making sure the people you'd want to have your Bitcoin actually could.

The lock is only useful if someone you trust can open it when it matters.

I remember when I first bought Bitcoin, my screen time went up like 300%. Every 2% dip felt like a crisis, and every 3% pump felt like I was moving to a citadel next Eventually, the "chart fatigue" hit, and I just moved everything to cold storage, set up a recurring DCA, and completely detached from the daily noise. It feels like a rite of passage.
For those who have been here a while, how long did it take you to transition from panic-checking charts to absolute numbness/peace?

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