Do you need to be rolling dice for entropy if you're using three separate manufactures hardware wallets? (Coldcard, Trezor, Jade).

Everyone talks about ETFs, corporate treasuries and nation-state adoption.
I think we’re overlooking another potential source of Bitcoin demand:
AI agents.
Not because they’ll speculate on Bitcoin—but because they’ll need a global, permissionless liquidity layer to buy and sell services autonomously.
The companies building AI payment infrastructure today aren’t trying to make AI invest in Bitcoin. They’re trying to solve a much simpler problem:
How does software pay software?
Today’s internet wasn’t built for autonomous machines.
If an application wants to use an API, it usually has to:
Create an account
Store an API key
Add a credit card
Pay a monthly subscription
That model works for humans.
It doesn’t work when billions of AI agents need to make thousands of tiny purchases every day.
Imagine an AI researching Tesla.
To complete one task, it might need:
Weather data
SEC filings
Options data
Translation
OCR
Image generation
Legal databases
Instead of paying ten monthly subscriptions, it simply buys exactly what it needs.
A few cents here.
Half a cent there.
Thousands of times a day.
This isn’t just a theoretical idea.
Lightning Labs has already demonstrated AI agents that automatically pay Lightning invoices after receiving an HTTP 402 (“Payment Required”) response. The payment becomes part of the protocol itself. No accounts. No credit cards. No human approval.
At this point, most people say:
“Fine… but won’t AI just use stablecoins?”
Probably.
I actually think AI agents will hold stablecoins.
Businesses budget in dollars.
Accounting is done in dollars.
Nobody wants their monthly AI budget fluctuating with Bitcoin’s price.
But holding an asset isn’t the same thing as settling payments.
Here’s where it gets interesting.
Imagine the future has 100 tokenized currencies:
USD
EUR
GBP
JPY
INR
BRL
Hundreds more…
If every currency needed direct liquidity with every other currency, you’d need nearly 5,000 separate liquidity pools.
That’s incredibly inefficient.
Financial markets have solved this problem before.
Historically, global foreign exchange often relied on a vehicle currency because it was far more capital-efficient than maintaining liquidity between every possible currency pair.
Bitcoin has several characteristics that make it a credible candidate for that role.
It’s globally traded.
It operates 24/7.
No country controls its monetary policy.
It carries no issuer or counterparty risk.
It’s already the native asset of the Lightning Network.
Now imagine millions of AI agents making cross-border payments every second.
A company in Japan pays in JPY.
A developer in Brazil wants BRL.
A supplier in Europe wants EUR.
The AI holds dollars.
Instead of maintaining liquidity between every possible currency pair, routing providers could hold liquidity against one neutral reserve asset.
That reserve asset could be Bitcoin.
The AI never owns BTC.
The merchant never receives BTC.
But the network itself may need enormous amounts of BTC locked in payment channels to route global transactions efficiently.
Think about the internet.
When you stream Netflix, you don’t think about fiber-optic cables.
You just watch the movie.
The cables are invisible—but they’re essential.
Bitcoin could play a similar role.
Invisible to users.
Critical underneath.
This is why Lightning is so interesting.
It wasn’t designed around human banking.
It was designed around:
Instant settlement
Global interoperability
Micropayments
High-frequency transactions
Machine-to-machine payments
Exactly the characteristics autonomous AI agents need.
Could stablecoins eventually move across Lightning?
Absolutely.
Could they eventually replace Bitcoin as the routing asset?
Possibly.
But there’s an economic question that often gets overlooked.
Liquidity providers earn fees.
Markets naturally concentrate liquidity because concentrated liquidity is cheaper, faster and more efficient.
The deeper Bitcoin liquidity becomes, the more attractive it is as a bridge asset.
That creates a powerful network effect.
Just as the internet standardized around common protocols, financial networks tend to standardize around the deepest pools of liquidity.
None of this is guaranteed.
Stablecoins could dominate.
Multiple bridge assets could emerge.
Or an entirely different payment architecture could win.
But if AI agents become a meaningful part of the global economy, I think the real opportunity for Bitcoin isn’t that billions of AIs decide to buy BTC.
It’s that billions of AI payments may require a neutral, globally liquid settlement asset underneath.
If that happens, Bitcoin won’t just be digital gold.
It could become the liquidity layer of the machine economy.
And that would create an entirely new source of structural demand—one driven not by speculation, but by software paying software.
This Isn’t Just a Theory
The most compelling part is that this infrastructure is already being built.
Lightning Labs has released AI Agent Tools that allow LLMs to send and receive Lightning payments autonomously. It also introduced L402, a protocol that combines HTTP’s “402 Payment Required” response with Lightning. An AI agent can request a paid API, automatically pay the invoice, receive an access token and continue its workflow—all without human involvement.
Alby has built an MCP (Model Context Protocol) server that lets AI agents control Lightning wallets. Agents can check balances, create invoices, send payments and purchase services as part of an autonomous workflow.
Developers have already demonstrated AI agents using Lightning to purchase API calls, premium datasets and other digital services on demand instead of relying on subscriptions.
This matters because the API economy is already worth tens of billions of dollars annually, while the broader ecosystem of API-powered services—AI inference, payments, mapping, market data, identity, translation and countless other services—is vastly larger.
If AI shifts software from subscription-based pricing to pay-per-use micropayments, we’re no longer talking about millions of software purchases.
We’re potentially talking about billions of autonomous transactions every single day.
Whether Bitcoin ultimately becomes the liquidity layer behind those payments remains to be seen.
But for the first time, there are real companies building the infrastructure to test that idea.
And if they’re right, Bitcoin’s next source of demand may not come from retail investors, institutions or governments.
It may come from software paying software.

hope is the last thing you sell.

https://dailyhodl.com/2025/06/12/winters-not-coming-back-michael-saylor-says-bitcoin-primed-to-skyrocket-to-1000000-heres-why/

Its an old article of course. But now what does he think?

Most people think Bitcoin is anonymous. It isn't.

Every transaction is permanently on a public ledger.

Companies like Chainalysis earn $100M+ per year mapping

Bitcoin addresses to real identities — paid for almost

entirely by governments.

The techniques they use:

1. Common Input Ownership Heuristic (CIOH) — if multiple

inputs are in the same transaction, they assume one owner

1. Change output detection — round numbers, address type

mismatches, transaction graph analysis

1. Address reuse — every reuse permanently links your history

2. Network surveillance — your IP before the tx even hits

the blockchain

The defense is a layered stack:

→ Never reuse addresses (free, takes 0 effort)

→ Run your own node (no third party sees your addresses)

→ Tor on your node (strips IP from broadcasts)

→ CoinJoin — Wasabi 2.x or JoinMarket-NG (breaks UTXO history)

→ PayJoin BIP77/78 (invisible on-chain, breaks CIOH)

→ Silent Payments BIP352 (public address, zero linkable history)

→ Lightning for daily spending (zero on-chain footprint)

Full guide with practical setup for each layer:

???? https://open.substack.com/pub/davidebtc186/p/your-bitcoin-is-being-watched-how?utm\_source=share&utm\_medium=android&r=4gald6

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Ok so we tapped under 60k and bounced, and I genuinely can't tell if that was the flush or just the appetizer.

I've been around long enough to know nobody actually knows, but I'm curious where people's heads are at. The takes I keep seeing are basically two camps. One says this is normal bear chop and ~55-58k holds, we grind sideways and it's fine. The other is throwing out 42-44k as the "real" bottom and pointing at the ETF outflows + everything just bleeding into AI stocks instead.

My gut says we're not done. Doesn't feel capitulation-y yet? Like everyone's scared but nobody's actually given up, which is usually when the real bottom isn't in. But I've also been wrong every single time I've tried to call a bottom so take that for what it's worth lol.

The thing that messes with me is this cycle doesn't rhyme with the old ones. Fear and greed is basically pinned to the floor but price isn't doing the violent puke we usually get down there. Slower, grindier. Almost worse psychologically tbh.

Not selling, not really buying either, just kind of sitting on my hands waiting for something to break one way or the other. Where's everyone else at — you got a number you're watching, or just vibing through it?

Remember when they said the same thing at $500, and then $15k ????

Hola comunidad,

Estoy desarrollando una herramienta sencilla en Python para ayudar con la recuperación de frases semilla BIP39.
Qué hace actualmente:

• Recupera 1 o 2 palabras faltantes (y hasta 3 con más paciencia).
• Verifica que la frase completa sea válida.
• Genera direcciones Bitcoin (Native SegWit y Legacy).
• Consulta automáticamente si las direcciones tienen saldo.
• Soporta passphrase.
• Guarda los resultados en un archivo de texto.
Uso offline/online:
• Funciona online usando APIs públicas (mempool.space).
• Se puede adaptar fácilmente para usarla 100% offline si tienes un nodo Bitcoin Core.
Todavía no tengo GitHub, estoy trabajando en ello.

Preguntas para la comunidad:

1. ¿Qué funcionalidades extra les gustaría que agregue? (ej: más derivation paths, soporte para otras criptos, mejor manejo de passphrase, etc.)

2. ¿Han tenido problemas recuperando una frase semilla o olvidando la passphrase? ¿Qué herramientas usaron?

3. ¿Qué precauciones adicionales recomiendan para este tipo de herramientas?

4. ¿Prefieren una versión CLI o una con interfaz gráfica (simple)?

5. Ideas para hacerla más segura (ej: modo air-gapped, integración con Electrum, etc.)

Cualquier feedback, crítica o sugerencia es más que bienvenida. Mi objetivo es que sea útil para la comunidad.
¡Gracias y stack sats! ⚡

"not your keys, not your coins". I understand what it means.

But "my" wallet does not have my name on it, and neither do "my" coins. I just happen to know the seed phrase, and I do my best to ensure that others don't. And I worry that my best is not good enough. Somebody could find my seed phrase, or beat it out of me with the proverbial wrench. And then they will have same rights over these coins as I do.

On the other side, the evil snooping bank does have my name on my accounts, and tries to check if it is really me using it, and actually warns me if somebody else tries to do that, and might even get police to go after them. Dark side is sure tempting ....

Im interested in buying some btc. I understand how to buy it but I cannot figure out to spend it? Can I use it to buy food/rent/everyday items or do I need to sell it to another person and use the money they gave me to buy stuff?

Hey, 21m and am increasingly open to the idea of building out a speculative side account on Robinhood with Bitcoin. I think this can help me smash the 100k goal of mine. Bitcoin, Meta, and Amazon currently seem VERY attractive to get in and hold 3+ years. To preface, I do have a main account through a different brokerage with 70k in the S&P 500, acting as the reliable engine I won't interrupt.

I could go out to bars or do other degenerate shit at my age but instead I want to drive DoorDash in every minute of my free time and shove 15k into Robinhood over the next few months. Give me 10k in Bitcoin and 5k in Meta 2028 calls. A plausible 2-3 year case, absolutely with downside potential, is for this 15k to 3x-4x. Worst case scenario I turn 23 and have some VOO shares. Will Bitcoin more than 4x?

If Bitcoin follows it's 3 year pattern once again (50%+ drop, don't hear about it as much... then slowly ramps up before going parabolic as more and more get FOMO, taking it to new highs). At the same time, Meta is trading at a forward PE of only 17?! Like what... watch as sentiment on their AI spending changes slightly and their forward PE shoots to 25. I see very little downside there, the cash flow machine of a business is very unlikely to trade more cheaply than this.

Thoughts on these positions? A more speculative account at a young age? I feel like over 500k by 30 does not seem very difficult... Bitcoin could become the primary engine ????

I only spent £200
I don’t really know what I’m doing do you think I’m doing well?

Most of the posts I've seen point the finger at who is selling and how much. Yet no one seems to look at other indicators like how you can predict a market bottom by looking at hashrate.

The price drops, and once again our little society reveals itself. Some lose their nerve, others dig in, the old hands stroke their beards and share their hard-won wisdom, and everyone’s stories start arguing with each other over the same number. I really love our little world of colliding narratives. Bitcoin is a wonderful thing to live through. Don’t you think ?

Full disclosure: I have about $1000 (as of this AM) in Bitcoin. Needless to say, I am not a big holder nor do I know shit about crypto.

That being said, help me understand all this talk about 4 year cycles, etc. virtually every post I see references this mechanism and how it’s a valid predictor.

What is this magical elixir you speak of?

Title.

Many of you need to calm down. Go engage in your hobbies, spend time with loved ones, have fun in someway. Stop stressing so much over bitcoin.

I invested a large amount of my small networth in March 2022. Not until January 2024 did I have a single day where my investment was profitable. I’d have KMS if I was staring at the price everyday. Either sell your stack or shut up, please. You’ll be fine no matter what happens.

It’s funny, when bitcoin goes down, it’s the only asset they claim has died and it’s over. Farther from the truth. 80% of bitcoin hasn’t even moved the last 6 months. 20% of bitcoin(mainly leveraged trading) is dictating the price.

MAG7 largest drawdowns
Nvidia -89% now largest company in the world
Amazon -95%
Meta -77%
Tesla -73%
Microsoft -70%
Google -70%
Apple -65%
They’ve all had multiple drawdowns 50%+

Thank you for coming to my TED talk

I have been in the space since 2017, during 2024/2025 I slowly sold off my holdings. I usually would try to sell and buy back in when prices went down but this dip had me feeling differently about buying back. I'm starting to feel like the reward isn't worth the risk anymore. When we were gambling/investing pre pandemic there was a huge risk but also a massive upside. Now that big companies, governments and ultra rich have gotten involved there isn't as much upside volitity. Why would anyone risk their money on something that maybe will go up 2X but could drop 99%. The days of 10x are gone and with that behind us the incentive to "invest" just isn't the same. Even the thought of all time high seems unrealistic now. Maybe I'm just crazy and maybe it will prove me wrong but I think it's my time to stay on the sidelines.

I am slinking into retirement and might want to isolate 1 coin and just take .04% of that every year for 25 years. I prefer to leak it quietly. How to do it?

I am mentally prepared to see a very low number - and its not even close to that yet. But thankfully Ive seen all this before. I was really happy when we hit our new ATH and now it does feel shit, but Ive kind of expected it. The only thing is I just never really know and any time I have tried to predict things and trade I have been even more miserable so I hust HODL.

So, I am the author of the original Bitcoin Rainbow Chart. As you may now, it fell > 10% below the lowest band (that was also added later).

I don't want to let it die.

Instead of blindly adding new colors to the bottom (ultraviolet anyone?), I created a new one.

This one is calculating a dynamic power law regression. with all available data and will update the chart if we make lower lower or higher highs...

The R² which measures how the curve fit the price chart is at 94,3%, which is quite good. Check it out.

Don't want to post the link so this post does not get flagged but you know how to find the "Bitcoin Rainbow Chart on blockchaincenter.net

I bought and made everyones holdings a tiny tiny tiny tiny bit more worth.

I am looking for anyone interested in working together with me on this project

I have been working on this journal for 3 months now .I am gonna release it as open source i just need a partner who can help me finish it off really quick .

New episode of the Free Cities Podcast (I'm the host). I went to Austin and got Poly across a table in person for a proper deep dive into the Web 5 / Lab 484 stuff.

The tech stuff:

• Hosting sites on your node and using the blockchain as a DNS replacement
• Running the whole thing on an Umbrel or Start9 box with a private self-hosted AI alongside it
• Off-grid spending with Fedimint and Cashu, and nodes relaying data for e-cash fees
• Mesh fallback over radio, Meshtastic and Ubiquiti when the ISPs are down

I love the idea (I can't think of a better alternative either) but i'm sceptical throughout the convo because I think it will be a Herculean task to get the public to use this. Am I too pessimistic?

Full conversation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JdKHpUS1cAs

The recent suspension of Anthropic’s Claude 5 isn't just a tech story—it’s a live demonstration of the "Digital Killswitch." They proved they can unilaterally turn off an intelligence node for entire jurisdictions overnight.
If you think this architecture stops at cloud computing, you aren't paying attention to the CBDC rollout. The illusion of ownership in the digital realm is architecturally identical to the 30-year fiat mortgage in the physical realm. You are renting your compute. You are renting your geographic location. You carry 100% of the counterparty risk.
You cannot short this matrix with just a smartphone. Bitcoin fixes the money, but to truly exit the system, you have to pair cryptographic sovereignty with physical sovereignty. We call this the "Thermodynamic Baseline."
The fiat system relies on your physical and digital dependence. If they control your thermal regulation, your food supply, and your bank account, your sovereignty is an illusion. Your stored labor (Bitcoin) must be protected across time in absolute cold storage. But that hardware wallet needs to sit inside a kinetic, off-grid shelter that you actually own, completely decoupled from the grid's remote killswitch.
Produce your own calories. Command your own energy. Hold your own keys.
I just produced a short visual documentary breaking down the macro-economics of this transition, how the digital eviction works, and the exact blueprint to engineer an exit protocol.
Watch the full macro-analysis here:

Claude Fable 5 Banned: The Digital Killswitch & Algorithm Sovereignty
https://youtu.be/c6c3of408KA

Investo in Bitcoin dal 2021.
Ad oggi, ho accumulato circa 5.000 € in Bitcoin.
Attualmente, Bitcoin rappresenta circa il 5% del mio patrimonio netto (95.000 € in contanti in banca e 5.000 € in Bitcoin).
Ho sempre utilizzato un unico exchange (Crypto.com) e negli ultimi cinque anni non ho mai avuto problemi.
A questo punto, mi chiedo se dovrei spostare i miei Bitcoin in un cold wallet.
Pensi che dovrei? Se sì, perché? Dopotutto, non ho mai avuto problemi con l'exchange.
Secondo te, a partire da quale quantità di Bitcoin conviene passare dal tenerli su un exchange al conservarli in un cold wallet?

EDIT: Ho appena comprato un Bitbox02 Nova u/Benma2

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When we blew past $80k back in early May, I took the exit and sold my whole stack. Honestly, it feels like everyone has completely taken their eye off the ball lately. The whole space is obsessed with MSTR, STRC and panicking over a supposed leveraged death spiral. Let them sweat it out. While they're busy losing their minds, I'm sitting comfortably in cash. You could see this correction coming from a mile away. Did we forget about the 4 year cycle?

Now I'm just waiting for the absolute bottom. My limit orders are locked in at $45k, ready and waiting for the paper hands to capitulate and sell me their coins at a discount.

At least you're not skeedadling and leave

it's the same exact mental gymnastics people did years ago. the headlines change but the human panic is identical. the only people who actually lose are the ones trying to over-analyze every single local bottom and ending up selling at the worst time.

if the long term thesis hasn't changed, why is everyone trying to trade the noise instead of just leaving their phone alone?

are we actually expecting it to just go up in a straight line forever without shaking people out first?

If bitcoin was originally intended to be a decentralized digital currency, why are people treating it like an investment? Isn’t the point of currency to be used as an instrument for money or a medium to exchange goods/services?

Just to spitball an example, if a small government printed money for its population and the majority decided to hold on to their money instead of using it as it was intended, consequently the government would have to print more money so the population can function and this would lead to the value of the printed money going down.

I think bitcoin is going down because people are not utilizing it the way it was intended and it’s driving the demand for its use down. Welcome to hear your perspective on this.

BTC finally dips and of course I already went all in before this move. Now I’m just sitting here staring at charts wondering if I should:

A. chill

B. panic

C. or uninstall every crypto app

People who survived previous cycles what do you actually do mentally when you’re fully allocated and the market keeps dropping?

I’ve been wondering about Bitcoin’s long-term security budget.

Is the expectation simply that fees and Bitcoin’s price eventually become large enough to sustain mining, or is the assumption that mining itself becomes dramatically cheaper over time through more abundant energy and more efficient hardware?

Or am I missing something?

Shoutout to GameKyuubi

Thoughts on the bitcoin power law chart? I understand it is just a chart so it only reads data but, its been true so far through bitcoins history. There appears to be a large support at 59k, so how could bitcoin make a new YTD Low or hit 45k or whatever yall are saying the cycle is predicting. Lemme know your thoughts.

Bitbo Long Term Power Law Chart - https://charts.bitbo.io/long-term-power-law/

Bitcoin opened deep in the red today, and I already know what's happening somewhere in my circle. There's someone who has never owned Bitcoin, (one of my best friends) never wanted to, who gets noticeably happier every time the price drops. Not because they're finally planning to buy the dip. Not because they suddenly think it's undervalued.

Just because I'm losing money.There's actually a word for this: Schadenfreude. The pleasure people feel when someone else suffers. Psychologists have studied it for decades, and what they found is a little uncomfortable. The closer someone is to you, and the more they quietly see you as competition, the more rewarding your failure can feel. It's usually not conscious cruelty. It's something much older than that: status, comparison, and the instinct to measure ourselves against the people around us.

Bitcoin makes this even stronger because it's one of the few investments people build an identity around. We don't just buy it. We defend it. We explain it to friends. We argue about it over dinner. We become emotionally invested long before we see a financial return. And when you've made your conviction that public, everyone around you gets a front-row seat to see whether you were right or wrong. The irony is that schadenfreude becomes even stronger when the person losing was genuinely convinced they were right. It's not just about the money. It's about watching confidence collide with reality.

So yeah... someone in your life might be enjoying today's price action. Not the chart, but your face when you check the chsrt.

Does realizing that change my conviction? Not at all.......It just makes me much more careful about who I talk to about Bitcoin. Have you ever noticed this with friends or family?

Question for the people here who hold a BTC position and aren't day-trading it: how do you handle the urge to check the chart constantly when structure starts feeling fragile?

When things get shaky I'm refreshing way too often - morning, work, before bed - not because I'm going to trade it, just because I don't want to be the last to know if something's actually breaking down. It's draining, and I'm not sure it even helps.

Do you have an actual rule or system for this, or do you just sit through it? Do price alerts help, or do they make you check more? And honestly - does watching more closely make you feel better, or worse?

His argument isn't really about phones but about a broader trend toward mandatory identification everywhere. Once anonymous access disappears, every data breach becomes a target list, every privacy-conscious person becomes suspicious, and using Bitcoin itself can become a red flag.

The people hurt most are ordinary users, journalists, activists, and anyone who values privacy. Meanwhile, criminals simply adapt using stolen identities and compromised accounts.

Privacy isn't about having something to hide. It's about reducing attack surfaces and protecting personal sovereignty. Worth the read:

https://nt4tn.net/FCC-17-59-gmaxwell.pdf

I've been using Strike for quite a while, appreciated the lower fees.
But because of some change with their Australian banking partner, I can't buy there anymore and its frustrating to miss out on cheaper Bitcoin.

Was hoping the issue would be restored soon, but its been about a month.

What exchange should I use now?

Hello, I just want to have insights about bitcoin copy trading. I have a friend who keeps inviting me to join since they have friends who are earning good amount of money already. I don’t have any idea of it. Is bitcoin copy trading legit?

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Every science eventually fixed its units. The meter, the second, the kilogram — we made them constant on purpose, because you cannot measure, build, or plan anything when the unit itself keeps changing under you.

Money is the one measuring stick we left flexible. It's the ruler we price every wage, house, contract, and life plan against — and it gets quietly redefined a few percent every year (more in a crisis) by a small group that happens to benefit from the redefinition and gets to use the new units first.

Imagine telling engineers the meter will shrink a few percent a year, at a rate decided by people who own the ruler factory and receive the new meters before anyone else. Every bridge gets mis-built. Every long-term plan is distorted. And over time, the people closest to the ruler factory quietly come to own everything — not by building more, but by standing nearest the redefinition.

That isn't a thought experiment. That's the monetary system.

A fixed supply isn't about getting rich. It's about restoring the one thing a complex society needs to coordinate honestly: a unit of account that nobody can dilute. You're not swapping one currency for another — you're re-fixing the ruler. And everything measured against it finally starts telling the truth.

I'M HODLING GUYS

Just a reminder that using leverage is never the way to go. If you can't afford to buy more btc leverage isn't the way to go it caused the shit storm back in October lots of people lost all their stack. Imo these leveraged positions will be the thing to kill Bitcoin if it ever does die. Downvote me to hell if you disagree or comment because I'd love to get others views

I just started crypto a month ago and it seems like everyone is freaking out about BTC. Where do I learn more about BTC. Forums and channel recommendations please ????????

I’ve been trying to rewire some of my spending habits and was curious if anyone here does something similar.

Instead of making small impulse purchases (coffee, snacks, fast food, random Amazon purchases, etc.), do you ever buy that dollar amount in Bitcoin instead?

For example, if I skip a $5 coffee, I buy $5 worth of BTC. If I pass on a $15 lunch, I buy $15 worth of BTC.

If so, what systems, apps, habits, or mental tricks have helped you stay consistent? Do you track the purchases somewhere, automate them, or just buy manually?

Interested to hear what has worked (or not worked) for others.

Edit: After reading a few replies of what people gave up to invest more, I’d like to hear others stories about what they changed in terms of their thinking and behaviors.

Besides continuing to buy, I guess there’s not much more I can do.

imo looks like we triple bottomed ????
congrats to everyone that caught some down there.
to whoever panicked... shorts got you lol

Just go with the flow and dca boys

Sad, very sad.

Reminder that Bitcoin has outperformed the S&P 500 by nearly 2%/year over the last 5 years, and is up 85% cumulatively. Bitcoin is a high reward, high risk asset. It will go up and down more than the market, and that is completely expected. It has delivered insane returns of over 13,000% over the last decade. Even at a price of $10,000, Bitcoin would be up 2,300%, which is an insane ROI.

BTC -41% Wendy’s -33%

Now excuse me as I put the fries in the bag.

Hey all! It's Brian from the Bitcoin Conference again ????

i was just thinking about this post Jack Mallers posted earlier this month: https://x.com/jackmallers/status/2062172971678990577?s=20

on days like today, I feel it's very important to come back to this and remind ourselves why we're all here, why i'm here, and why this space and community are so amazing.

maybe you'll find this useful as well, but i just had to share it :)

"We’re living through the greatest wealth transfer in human history." ????

personally, i'm staying humble and stacking sats through the highs and lows.

anyway, i definitely want to think about this more in terms of utility. i think bitcoin's fundamentals, no matter the price, are strong, concrete and transcend conversations around price tbh

how do you usually think of bitcoin on days like today and what are your words of wisdom to new bitcoiners?

I missed the last one and I'll be darn it, I won't miss it again. BTC is at this support level right now & ETF inflows are gonna be rolling in and the price will be back to near 70k within a week or so. Good luck all

I have been buying shares of ibit since nov 14 of last year when i thought it was first oversold.......my plan is to keep buying while it is at a value and then start reducing whenever it reaches what i think is overbought

It sounds like a lot just stayed along for the fall and are now crossing their fingers.......... while they could be enjoying buying it on sale with the cash they took out at all time highs.

The saying isnt "A fool and somebody's else's high interest money is soon departed". At least it wasn't.

LMAO

BTC goes below 60k

Hi all,
For context I’m from the UK
I’ve had issues depositing cash into an exchange.
I’ve been using kraken, but both of my bank accounts - Royal Bank of Scotland, and NatWest, have reverted my transfer of ~£2,000.
They told me in a text message that this would continue to occur, “Funds have not left your account and future payments may be restricted.”
I have used Revolut, but their fees are terrible, and there is a £1000 limit for transfers a day. So it takes ages to be able to send off all my cash into my cold wallet.
Does anyone have advice?
Thank you

I think most people understand Bitcoin’s limited supply and the growth in fiat money supply as key drivers of value. But demand still needs to be there.
Last cycle, a lot of stars aligned. You had an administration that was viewed very favorably by the crypto market, growing optimism around a potential federal Bitcoin reserve, and a broader sense that crypto was becoming mainstream. That created a rush of capital into Bitcoin.
Looking ahead, is there anything on the horizon that could drive a new wave of demand? These catalysts often emerge quickly and are hard to predict in advance, but it feels like some level of excitement or a compelling narrative is needed for capital to rotate back into the space. What sort of foundation is currently being put into place?

Hey all.

Going to start running my own node. I’m at that point in my Bitcoin journey.
Looking for any good recommendations. I’ve been looking at DIY options, start9, umbrel and more. What’s the best and why? Looking for quality, price, ease of use.

Would love some direction in choosing the right path. Thanks!

I can buy 24k bullion with my bitcoin. Cheaper rate than using wire or card.

I can take out a mortgage with my bitcoin.

I can take out 4-10% fiat loans with my bitcoin, completely bypassing credit inquiries and avoiding tanking my excellent score.

I can pay my friends and family back with bitcoin where electronic apps like zelle, cashapp fail to provide.

I can access liquidity almost instantly by selling my bitcoin.

The local business doesnt have credit card processors? Doesnt make enough to take a 3% loss on fees and doesnt want to hike prices to adjust? Accepts only fiat cash, but is missing out on electronically paying customers? Guess what... bitcoin.

Unbanked? Bitcoin.

Banking crisis wont allow withdrawals because they have 0% cash reserves? Good thing I have Bitcoin.

Need to send value anywhere in the world? Have the infrastructure needed for bitcoin? Use bitcoin.

There is a fucking car dealership in my state that accepts bitcoin lmao.

The list can continue. For now Ive done enough.

There will always be demand for something outside the fiat system because the system is broken. Bitcoin may not fix it entirely, but its the damned best, most modern, most secured, least confiscatable attempt in a long time.

To the haters I say: instead of criticizing... how about you invent your own method? You wont. You spend your time hating on anything that intrudes into your comfort zone that you've been fed to, and forced to bow down to, way before your existence was even thought about. Good luck with that bullshit mindset.

Have a good one and keep bitcoining!!

What the hell is happening. This came out of nowhere.

https://www.euronews.com/business/2026/06/24/europes-crypto-reset-mica-creates-a-single-market-as-hundreds-of-firms-face-exit

Most Lightning node content is "here's how to install Umbrel." Nobody writes about what happens six months later when things start breaking.

I've been running a full LND node in production and documented every major problem I hit:

- Force closes from liquidity marketplaces the moment the 30-day guarantee expires

- Top nodes (ACINQ, Bitfinex) that drain your channel liquidity completely in hours

- LND bugs that don't announce themselves — including the btcd consensus divergence and UTXO sweep issues

- Tor under sustained DDoS — CPU spikes, degraded routing, and why you still need it over clearnet

First chapter is free, rest is behind a paywall. Worth it if you're running or planning to run a node.

???? https://davidebtc186.substack.com/p/what-nobody-tells-you-about-running

Do you regret not buying Bitcoin earlier, or selling it too soon?

I’m curious how many people here have a Bitcoin story.

• Did you hear about it in the early days and ignore it?
• Did you buy, then panic sell after a small gain?
• Did you hold for years and still think you sold too early?
• Or did you avoid it completely and have no regrets?

Looking back, what was the biggest lesson you learned from your decision?

For me, the most interesting part isn't the missed profits it's understanding the psychology behind the decision. Fear, skepticism, greed, risk management, conviction... all of these play a role.

What's your Bitcoin regret (or non-regret) story?

As the title states I am a total beginner and don’t know the first thing about bitcoin or wallets.

I have no intention right now of investing. I simply wish to make a purchase online with bitcoin. So far I have signed up to crypto.com and funded my account with regular cash. There is an option to buy bitcoin but I don’t know if that is to invest/trade or for me to spend on purchases. This alone has me worried about hitting buy lol.

I believe I also need a bitcoin wallet in order to make payments for goods. How do I get a wallet that is compatible with crypto.com app.

I have tried researching myself but I just get more confused doing so ????

Please help guys ????

Why are you still buying Bitcoin even though there isn’t really the chance anymore for a really huge gain like 50x or 100x. But at the same time there is clearly the risk that Bitcoin can be worthless during the next 10 years. Why aren’t you choosing an asset that has a better cost-risk-benefit?

Sometimes I just want to read about Bitcoin only. Altcoins dont matter to me.

Please suggest even if its technical.

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Hey everyone, I’m working on a tool for active traders and wanted some honest feedback before I go further.

The idea is simple: you upload your trade history, or eventually connect your brokerage account, and it analyzes your past trades to show what is actually helping or hurting your returns.

The part I’m most interested in is the behavior side of trading. For example, it could show whether you tend to hold losers too long, cut winners too early, size up after losses, trade worse at certain times of day, or rely on setups that feel good but do not actually perform well in your history.

It would not be a signals tool or a copy-trading app. The goal is more like a clear breakdown of your own trading habits, written in normal language, based on your actual trade data.

I’ve also thought about a verified community layer later, where traders could share parts of their strategy/performance backed by real trade history instead of screenshots, but I’m not sure if that should come later or if it even matters.

For now, I’m mainly trying to understand whether traders would actually find the private analysis useful on its own.

Would you use something like this?

What would it need to show you for it to be worth paying for?

Does anyone have a trusts for their kids for bitcoin? I don’t have a ton but if Bitcoin does what I think it will do over twenty years and I keep stacking it will be worth at least a couple of million.

At what point does anyone keep it in a trust for their kids.

Anyone have a multisig setup in a trust. Revocable, irrevocable. List bitcoin in a will

Estate tax is probably nothing to consider given high exclusion but you never know if we could stack at today’s prices for a couple of years and then a god candle.

I spoke to an estate lawyer and they didn’t really have any idea.

I bought a year ago at 112 and have been holding ever since. Put most of my life savings. Now I wake up in panic thinking it's down to 30k and check my phone. My anxiety is so bad I have eczema and dandruff again, how can I relax?

Hello,

I'm hoping someone can help me understand a Bitcoin transaction that originated from a purchase made through Trust Wallet.

I purchased approximately 0.00387670 BTC through Trust Wallet/MoonPay. I did not manually enter a destination address. The Bitcoin was sent to:

bc1qq9xgfxfhazw2zqmvqswe2u6469fh7h89g9ltq0

The transaction was:

69bf9f34140a4f810bddd83378ad9eddc167bf4e2080445b806d1360b0271c13

The address received the BTC on June 19, 2026, and then on June 21, 2026, the full amount was sent out in transaction:

cd1dbea27e5e535f0e6c9855fde9b2faa962c1df83f1a18a15668bd59bed68d3 to: bc1q4f5uwlm6gw9e2z3nwphlwrpwhhhp23u2v3jz08

The blockchain explorer labels this as "Possibly self-transfer", and the output remains unspent with approximately 0.00387560 BTC.

My question is: Does this transaction pattern look like a wallet moving funds between addresses it controls, or does it look like the Bitcoin was sent to a completely different wallet? I'm trying to determine whether these addresses could have been generated by Trust Wallet and whether there is any way to identify if the destination address belongs to the same wallet.

I have already contacted MoonPay and Trust Wallet support and am waiting for a response.

Thank you for any insight.

Hey everyone,

I'm looking to sell some crypto and cash out to my bank account, but I want to minimize the fees as much as possible. I know there are a bunch of different ways to do this—exchanges, P2P, wallets with off-ramps, etc.—and I'm trying to figure out what's actually the cheapest.

And I will add more if it goes down. Thanks guys.

I know they're still around, but they went from a Bitcoin DCA company to a "Bitcoin in your retirement account" company, and now I see they're a "Bitcoin ETF" company. As a Bitcoin maximalist, I used them in their first phase a lot, sucked it up as they moved to the second phase, now using them in their current phase just feels icky.

With ETFs, public companies, and large funds holding more BTC than ever, do you think Bitcoin is gradually becoming an institutional asset rather than a retail driven one?

Introduction: Bloodless Suffocation and the Cleansing Power of Conflict

Everyone opposes cruel wars. The author and the readers of this book stand together on the side of humanity, firmly against violent conflict. Every life lost in war is a tragedy for civilization. However, look at the global economic ruins of 2026—a world shaped by the Great Depression, the Cold War, globalization, and decades of long peace. As we study this reality, a cruel and counterintuitive rule of macroeconomics emerges from history:

Absolute peace is just a fake cure-all pill. It acts like a long-term, addictive painkiller that eventually drains the life out of a nation.

Human political systems have lost the ability to use small, sharp conflicts to clear out corrupt interest groups and break down failing financial networks. When this happens, the price of peace becomes an endless, slow pain and a sense of mental suffocation for all humanity. In 2026, modern people face high housing prices, fading social mobility, exploding government debt, and currencies that rapidly lose value. These problems are actually the high interest we pay over time just to maintain absolute peace—an expense that is driving countries to bankruptcy.

True evolution requires tough, undeniable conflicts. Similarly, the financial system cannot clean itself without a sharp economic reset. This book examines the period before World War II, the financial collapse of Iran, and the broad debts of modern global powers (including the US, Russia, China, Japan, South Korea, France, and Germany). It also exposes the reality of the Western military-industrial complex. Through these examples, this book will show you a critical reality: how humanity, resting in a comfortable but temporary peace, has wasted the national credit that should only be used during major crises, finally trapping itself in a slow, inescapable decline.

The biggest enemy in Bitcoin isn’t the market.

It’s YOU.

Your fear
Your impatience
Your need for quick profit

Bitcoin doesn’t shake weak hands accidentally.

That’s the system working exactly as intended.

Stay DerpyAF

For all the heavy proponents of DCA I’m asking you specifically. During a bear market like this and BTC falling to lower and lower numbers how many of you have:

1. Simply stayed the course without adjustments to your DCA amount?
   
2. Increased your DCA amount/frequency?
   
3. Maintained previous DCA amounts with increased weekly/target buys?
   
4. Dropped DCA to place larger spot/target buys that fit your budget?
   
5. (Lame) Got cold feet, cut the loses, and backed out?

Most of the time when people post the collective response is “Just DCA the rest doesn’t matter.” Which is then echoed until the thread ends.

I’m new in BTC ownership. I passed on buying bitcoin in April of ‘20 after my wedding and honeymoon because I was afraid of it tanking to zero. Then before that in late ‘15 because I was young and poor and didn’t have a clue on how to buy and store it. This time I’m getting in on the ride down to hold until the next bear market. I hope to get some insight from people who have ridden this out for a few cycles with more engagement than just “meh DCA it new booty.” Enjoy the ride everyone!

I’m relatively new to Bitcoin and the crypto space, and I’ve been wondering how things work at the highest levels of wealth.

For most retail investors, buying Bitcoin is straightforward: we use an exchange (like Bybit, Binance, Coinbase, etc.) or buy through a P2P transaction. That’s how I got started.

But then I regularly see news headlines about billionaires, hedge funds, corporations, family offices, or other wealthy investors buying hundreds of millions (or even billions) of dollars worth of Bitcoin.

My assumption is that they don't simply log into Binance and place a market order like the rest of us. So how does this actually work?

• How do ultra-wealthy individuals buy large amounts of Bitcoin?
• Do they use exchanges, OTC desks, private brokers, banks, or specialized companies?
• Once they acquire Bitcoin, who actually holds the keys?
• Do they use commercial hardware wallets, or are there more sophisticated custody solutions?
• How do institutions handle security, inheritance, governance, and key management?

This also makes me wonder about the famous Bitcoin principle: "Not your keys, not your coins."

For regular users, the advice is usually to self-custody. But does that principle break down for billionaires, corporations, ETFs, and large institutions?

Do most of them actually control their own keys, or do they ultimately rely on professional custodians? If so, how does the Bitcoin community view that trade-off?

I’d love to hear from people who understand institutional Bitcoin custody and large-scale acquisitions.

We have put together a Rabbit Hole going through the major crypto custody failures from 2014 to 2023, because the same thing keeps happening and the details fade fast.

The short version:

• Mt. Gox (2014): ~850,000 BTC gone. Not a single hack, the coins leaked out over years behind faked balances. Creditors didn't start getting repaid until 2024.
• QuadrigaCX (2018): the founder died and the company said he held the only keys to ~CAD 169M in cold wallets. Auditors later found the wallets had been empty for eight months before he died.
• 2022: Three Arrows Capital (a hedge fund) blew up and took down the lenders that had been funding it with customer deposits: Celsius, Voyager, BlockFi, Genesis. Five collapses in about eight months.
• FTX (2022): ~$8B shortfall, customer money sent to its sister hedge fund, SBF got 25 years. The part I didn't really clock until I dug in: creditors are being made more than 100% whole, but in dollars valued at Nov 2022 prices (~$16k BTC). BTC later passed $90k, so the real recovery in bitcoin terms is a fraction.

In every case the coins were lost because someone else held the keys. The protocol never broke.

I tried to be fair about the other side too. You need exchanges to buy. Lose your seed and there's no bankruptcy court to claw anything back. Some people genuinely should use a regulated custodian. That's all in there.

Every figure is sourced (DOJ, SEC, FTC, the OSC report on Quadriga, the bankruptcy filings).

https://www.learnbitcoin.com/rabbit-hole/mt-gox-ftx-graveyard

Happy to be corrected on any of it!

I’d like to share my recent experience with Blockchain.com, because it is very similar to other reports I’ve found (for example this blog post: “I almost lost my Bitcoin wallet because of Blockchain.com” ).giuliomagnificoJ-ai-failli-perdre-mon-portefeuille-Bitcoin-a-cause-de-Blockchain.com-_-etcetera.pdf

• I have a legacy Bitcoin address 151qbpcxq7VCtNC7TUmyzF1c9fU5qdVFNA that I have been using since 2016.
• This address is clearly shown on Blockchain.com’s own explorer with a current balance of 0.01951587 BTC, and the payout transaction from 20 May 2026 (bb141aea5f72a19a7d64db3a5f9be9031d73bc7d2eb05067b28fc8170c591dc8) is fully confirmed on-chain.Peuves.jpg+1
• The same address successfully received payouts from my provider Smart IT in 2021 and April 2024, which appeared correctly in my Blockchain.com wallet and were spendable without any issue.image.jpg+1

In the current mobile app:

• Under the Bitcoin section, the sub‑wallet called “My Bitcoin Wallet 2” shows exactly those 0.0195 BTC and even the outgoing transactions I made in 2024 and 2026 (“Envoyé BTC” history is visible).image-2.jpg
• On the global “Wallet” tab, the CHF value of these BTC is included in my total balance (around 1 000 CHF).LEGACY-2.jpg

However, when I tap Send:

• The send screen only offers two empty accounts as sources: “Trading account” and “My Bitcoin Wallet”, both at 0 BTC.image.jpg
• “My Bitcoin Wallet 2” – the one that actually holds the coins – does not appear at all as a sending source.
• As a result, I have a wallet that is fully recognized (balance and history), but the new UI simply refuses to let me send or withdraw anything from it.

I tried to restore my 12‑word recovery phrase in Electrum with BIP39 and Legacy (p2pkh) derivation:

• Electrum correctly derives a set of addresses, but it does not derive 151qbpcxq7VCtNC7TUmyzF1c9fU5qdVFNA.
• This strongly suggests that this address is part of an imported / private key wallet (“My Bitcoin Wallet 2”) that is not covered by the standard BIP39 seed, exactly as described in other reports about Blockchain.com’s legacy/imported wallets.blockchain+1

I contacted Blockchain.com support with:

• the address,
• the txid,
• explorer screenshots,
• app screenshots showing the balance and the broken Send flow.

After a few generic replies, they have now been silent for more than a week, with no technical explanation and no solution.

So, to summarise:

• My BTC are clearly on-chain at a valid legacy address, confirmed by Blockchain.com’s own explorer.
• The mobile app sees the balance and full history in “My Bitcoin Wallet 2”.
• But the new interface does not allow sending from that wallet nor exporting the private key, effectively trapping the funds behind their UI.
• Other users have documented similar issues after Blockchain.com’s login/wallet changes (e.g. the user who had to find a hidden link to the old login page to recover his wallet).J-ai-failli-perdre-mon-portefeuille-Bitcoin-a-cause-de-Blockchain.com-_-etcetera.pdfrewallet

I’m posting this to:

1. Warn others who still keep funds on legacy or imported wallets in Blockchain.com.
2. Ask if anyone has successfully recovered a similar “hidden” legacy / imported wallet (e.g. by exporting the private key or using an older version of the interface).
3. Put public pressure on Blockchain.com to acknowledge and fix this bug, or at least provide a way to export the private key of affected wallets.

Any concrete technical advice or shared experience would be greatly appreciated.

Great quote from his yesterday´s podcast.

Timestamped video to that part:

https://youtu.be/MYOLVDQYRYQ?t=2185

what is the best home miner in terms of quietness (<70dB) and hash rate/size ratio?

There are mildly infuriating factually incorrect statements being spread on on the internet which doesn't make sense, and one of them is in regards to Bitcoin.

Criticisms is part of conversations and are actually very healthy and educational. One can learn new things, expand knowledge and engage in conversations with others while hearing different opinions.

But to outright make easily refutable claims will make you look misinformed and uneducated.

I'm talking specifically about the point claiming Bitcoin has no real - world usage.

By claiming it has no use, you are denying the fact you can transfer value from one corner of the globe to another SEAMLESSLY. That is FACTUALLY true. This is a 'USE' case. Without going into details like paperless, no man in middle type of transactions to keep things brief, by the definition of usage, this IS a use. You are actually DOING something.

By claiming it has no use, you are also denying the fact it's a store of VALUE.

NO ONE said it's a stable asset or proper hedge. But to deny the ability of putting VALUE online is bizarre.

Assets do not go up 63 million % if they had no use cases, it is literally mind boggling to think things move for no reason.

No one is forced to like Bitcoin. No one is forced to like anything. But please, for the sake of all humanity, form your own opinions and do not copy other random people's claims.

To address another point before some smart comment mentions it 'what backs bitcoin', i ask you, what backs up your paper money ?

Just become a government claimed it has X value, it gave you confidence to trust it? God forbid a war, government collapse happens and the person who told you it has X value is gone what happens to your paper?

Edit: It’s astounding how some people are still emphasizing it has no real use case due to volatility and their personal convictions.

Volatility might dictate adoption but NOT utility. You can STILL send bitcoin to someone EVEN if price drops or goes up. It IS a feature that can be used and IS being used daily, such as countries with failed banking systems. Some people get PAID in Bitcoin.

The network processes roughly 600,000 to 800,000+ transactions per day. That is UTILITY. Someone USED that transaction.

If you don’t ‘like’ the feature, THAT’S FINE. But do not claim it has no real use, it’s FACTUALLY UNTRUE.

When convictions start changing perceptions and morphing realities, please seek immediate medical attention.

everyone loves saying they're bullish on BTC when the candles are green, but the moment BTC drops for a few days, the excuses start coming out (this is me also xD).

like"i'll wait for a better entry"

tbh Bitcoin didn't change. The 21m cap is still there, the network still running. Miners are still mining, whethere its a big farms for solo setups or asic hosting w companies like oneminers. The only thing changing is people's confidence (i belong here) that's the funny part.

what are ur plans guys? do u still hold? or are we just here until the next red candle scares us? xD

Ok so i have a bitcoin wallet and i have the private key of that own wallet but when I try import the private key in the electrum wallet it show me the different wallet address and that address has 0 balance it not show me that own wallet address why this happen I also want to let you know that the wallet is 100% beaches this is maining wallet of 2011 and it's bitcoin core 2015 wallet

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Thought the 4 year cycle was broken because majority of the metrics from the previous bull markets weren’t hit. Guess not. In theory, what would it take to break the 4 year cycle? Is hyperbitcoinization even going to happen? Wouldn’t the current fiat system collapse if hyperbitcoinization happens too quickly?

Real hodler never panic

ive looked at networks such as bisq but theres only like 6 people on the network and i want to only buy a small quantity of BTC

Been a Coinbase user for a while. I recently was using it and a pop up came in advertising for Coinbase one. I click the ‘x’ to exit the ad because I didn’t want it MULTIPLE TIMES and it wasn’t letting me exit. So I clicked join expecting the ad to bring me to a confirmation page that actually worked that I could exit out of. Of course instead that join button did work unlike the exit button and subscribed me to a plan I never wanted without even a confirmation. I’ve been on support over an hour and a half, they can’t even give me a simple credit for their app’s faulty functionality in a timely manor. They said I have to reach back in 8 days for a refund which is bs already that I have to crawl to get my money back for something I didn’t want but the fact that it’s taken this long to also give me an additional credit on top of the refund for putting me through this and wasting an hour half on a chat to only be let go and pushed to another agent? Coinbase you really suck rn.

I've bought bitcoin about 24 hrs ago using coinflip and its been on pending for the past day. How long does it usually take for them to process and send me my bitcoin. I was just wondering what other people's experience with them is.

Hi everyone! Looking for a new hot wallet(s) to hold bitcoin preferably one that has both mobile and browser. Let me know what you guys recommend/use.

In 2017, 2020, and 2023, institutions were supposedly coming.

Then BlackRock and Fidelity launched a Bitcoin ETF.

Now Franklin Templeton is launching a dedicated crypto investment division backed by $1.78 trillion in assets under management.

At what point do we stop saying institutions are coming, and admit that institutions are already here?

Earlier this month I participated in a public Bitcoin wallet recovery challenge involving a wallet that had been untouched for around 12 years.

What I found most interesting was that the challenge wasn't about breaking Bitcoin's cryptography. Instead, it showed how quickly a large group can search a reduced solution space once enough information is known.

The wallet was recovered in about 11 minutes by roughly 300 participants working independently.

A few takeaways:

• Bitcoin itself wasn't "hacked."
• Security depends on protecting all recovery-related information, not just private keys.
• Small reductions in uncertainty can have a huge impact on how difficult a recovery problem is.
• Crowdsourcing can dramatically accelerate search and recovery efforts.

I wrote up a detailed breakdown of what happened, how the challenge worked, and why it was solved so quickly:

https://blog.flipflow.app/blog/cracking-a-12-year-old-bitcoin-wallet

Happy to answer questions about the challenge or my experience participating.

Why everyone’s strategy seems to bebjust DCA and we do not discuss other strategies to raise the amount of bitcoins owned? For example the simple strategy of selling everything near ATH and buying everything again on the next ATL?

if you bought at every single all time high since 2013, the absolute worst possible timing every single time. You are still up. not a little. massively.

the only way you actually lose is if you sell during the part that feels like this.

that's it. that's the whole game. it was never more complicated than that.

I keep seeing people talk about using their Bitcoin as collateral to borrow cash instead of selling it, and I understand the idea in theory. You keep exposure to BTC, avoid selling, and get fiat liquidity.

But I still don’t understand how this works safely in real life.

If a lender gives you money against your BTC, they need some way to recover the collateral if you default. And the only way they can really do that is if they control the coins, either through custody, a smart contract, or some kind of multisig setup.

But once someone else has control, isn’t that already the risk? If the platform freezes withdrawals, gets hacked, goes bankrupt, changes terms, or acts shady, you could lose your Bitcoin even if you did nothing wrong.

That feels like the opposite of the whole point of Bitcoin. Not your keys, not your coins.

Is there actually a way to borrow against BTC where you still keep control of your coins?

The bottom isn’t in. This place and other crypto communities is still too positive. The bottom is only in, only truly in when even the most bullish bulls are saying that it’s over. There has not been sufficient pain yet imo.

Couple things I think could be major catalysts to push price down by EOY;

1. Fed Rate Hikes. market is saying that a fed rate hike is almost guaranteed this year, and there’s a 40 percent chance of one happening in July. Kevin Warsh is a Hawk. Bitcoin has completely underperformed the smp500 for ages, all it takes is another tiny correction on the smp but for bitcoin it’ll be another big percentage down.

2. Clarity act failing. Polymarket says that it has a 48 percent chance of passing. Just a few months ago it was 70%+. Few months ago I saw a lot of bulls saying that if it happens that it’ll make bitcoin spike massively we might even break the four year cycle and go to 100k plus this year. This was the consensus. The hype was there. But you can’t just act like it goes one way. If the clarity act fails due to primarily the ethics revolving trump and his family it seems, the crypto market will react negatively. This does not seem to be fully priced in if this does happen.

3. MSTR selling more bitcoin. It looks like STRC is in really bad shape right now. Strategy needs more cash. The market crashed just a few weeks ago from saylor selling what 20, 30 bitcoin? What do you think will happen if he actually sells like a big amount. I’m not saying that this is the end of strategy and they’re going to be selling millions of coins or anything. But if the market reacted like that for just a couple of coins, let’s say saylor instead sells a couple hundred, or even a thousand coins. The market corrected so much on just a little, I’m worried what it’ll do if he sells a decent chunk.

Too many people are positive in the space right now. The bottom only truly happens when the sentiment goes overwhelmingly negative. When the thought of buying any more is ridiculous. Curious what yall think?

I've been spending a lot of time looking at the structural shifts in BTC's correlation to traditional equities over the last few years. It feels like we are completely past the era where Bitcoin moved entirely independently. Wall Street treats it heavily like a high-beta tech proxy, and when the Nasdaq or S&P 500 takes a hit on macro days, BTC usually amplifies that move down.

This got me thinking about a realistic doom-loop scenario: What happens if the AI hype cycle hits a wall, the bubble pops, and traditional equities enter a multi-year bear market?

How do you think it plays out? Does BTC get dragged down into a multi-year crypto winter by a broader economic downturn, or do the internal mechanics allow it to break free once the initial crash is over?

Curious to hear your thoughts, especially from anyone who has traded through both the 2020 liquidity shock and the 2022 tightening cycle.

The "lettuce hands" have already exited the market, losing a quarter of a million bitcoins. What idiots!

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Currently, I have about 0.35 Bitcoin. Goal: accumulate at least 4 by the time 2030 rolls around.

Why? Because I think that's the next peak. This is just my non-scientific opinion based on previous patterns.

My plan:

1. invest $500 of my monthly paycheck

2. get a second job that pays me $10 an hour, and do that about 10 hours a week ($100 extra per week to btc)

3. sell unused items on FB marketplace; acquire discarded items and sell them on FB marketplace (estimated extra $200 a month toward btc)

4. buy cheap items from China and sell them on eBay and other platforms for about $10 each, intending to flip at least ten items a month.

5. reduce wasteful spending; eliminate impulse purchases that cost me on average $300 a month

Is there anything else you'd suggest for this plan? What can I add?

Scammers love these and it is asked every couple weeks.

The resulting thread is just cut-and-paste recommendations from last week, which can be edited later to scam people. It's never a discussion about KYC, the merits of each option, nor proper opsec WRT traceability.

I would much rather see community members redirected to a wiki page with vetted links and the appropriate disclaimers about Bitcoin being super traceable.

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I recently sold a home needing a ton of repairs with a non working HVAC and many other things needed. I technically could have found people on Craigslist to pay for space but it'd be one person in the extra bedroom and one in the oversized living room in a divided space, and with my job and debts I'd be breaking even or maybe a couple hundred extra a month for another four years (until 2030) when I'd start saving 400-600/month toward the 20-30k to finish it out. The home was worth 120-150k, a small townhome.

I sold the home and broke even on the cost of repairs vs value pretty much and am renting a small apartment for a couple hundred less than the tenant scenario would cost. I've started hacking away at debt but I'm also DCAing into BTC every week. If we follow the four year cycles, maybe this idea will look great. On the other hand, I miss my old place and am also saving cash and stocks for a down payment and hopefully the RE market in the Sun Belt will continue to decline slowly so I can scoop up something in good condition.

Have I gone totally insane or is this a decent plan? Any constructive suggestions welcome.

I’m buying BTC every week through DCA, and I’ll be continuing that no matter what.
My job is commission-based, so I sometimes get extra income from sales. When that happens, I’m wondering if it makes sense to just keep my usual DCA amount steady, or increase that week’s buy with a larger lump sum from the commission.
What do you think — stick strictly to DCA, or scale up buys when extra cash comes in?

Every single video I find on youtube saying "no kyc" its a lie, same thing with crypto-news articles, If anyone could have any answers that would be absolutely fantastic. Thank you!

Just out of curiosity. I've seen a few posts about Jack Mallers being treacherous.

Can anyone shed some light on this situation?

Note: I misspelt his name, but reddit won't let me edit the title.

Buying Bitcoin now is a no-brainer.

It is well known that Elon has long had an interest in btc.

Anyone in his current situation would be foolish not to borrow against his massive holdings and lock a percent or two of his wealth in the one place that nobody can ever take it from him. In the one currency no institution controls.

There are other reasons beyond his interest.

Future AI will use BTC as currency; Elon will want his bots sufficiently liquid to do weird things and also get him out of trouble - in a hands-off, plausibly deniable, way- if he ever needs them to. Even the smallest chance that he might end up in jail, get kidnapped, need to suppress certain information, take out an adversary, etc. will justify that weapon alone.

But the real reason he’ll be buying is greed.

Quietly buying millions of coins before announcing it and pumping bitcoin through the next 10x growth may be the easiest way for him to cross the $2 Trillion mark, which of course he’ll soon want to do.

Thoughts?

Does anyone here use the 'Iron Hand' service provided by Nunchuk? If so, can I get your review?

I see a lot of people saying they are too late to bitcoin, etc etc. That’s definitely not true. While there has definitely been more institutional adoption, the average person still views bitcoin as crazy. I was hanging out with my fiancee’s friend group yesterday comprised of 12 people all 25-32. I asked if anyone was into bitcoin and not a single person said yes and all of them looked at me like I was crazy. To me this makes me feel like I’m ahead of the game.

Very few take the time to learn:
• Why prices move
• How to manage risk
• How to avoid scams
• How to protect their capital

That's why many beginners lose money before they ever make any.

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I got into bitcoin because of its philosophy tha empowered people against governments. It allows people to genuinely have a piece of the Bitcoin that they could leverage at some point financially or in many other aspects.

But: now Bitcoin is held by Blackrock and other ETFs. People are buing stocks of Bitcoin, not the asset itself. It starts to feel as useless as gold or Tesla shares.

An ETF share is a claim. A hardware wallet with your own private keys is actual ownership. That difference still matters today just as much as it did when Bitcoin was created.

I've been working on an open-source project called Conduit — a Lightning SDK that lets software agents send and receive sats programmatically, self-hosted and non-custodial.

It's MIT licensed and live on PyPI and npm. Sharing it here mainly to get eyes from people who know Lightning well and can tell me what I'm missing.

Repo: https://github.com/Jake1848/conduit

Not selling anything — it's free and open source. Just looking for honest technical feedback.

Is there any single video that explains what btc is and how it is used.

I don’t understand btc, if its purpose is to replace the regular currency why does it go up and down like a stock that’s supposed to give returns. I don’t understand what are the practical use cases and how is it being used right now apart for illegal activities.

And who even takes care of the btc ecosystem and are they just random people, the concept of ledger everything is so confusing.

Help me understand, thank you!

I’m trying to identify an old Bitcoin mining / earning website I used around 2013–2014.

I don’t expect account recovery — I’m mainly trying to remember what service it actually was.

What I remember:

• accessed through Chrome
• login with email + password
• dark UI with yellow / gold elements
• simple and clean interface (not many graphs)
• login panel was on the right side (felt small and compact)
• after login there was already a running counter
• only ONE number really mattered
• it increased roughly once per second: 123 → 124 → 125 …
• whole numbers only (no decimals)
• looked more like points / shares than BTC
• if the PC was turned off, the number stopped increasing
• after logging in later it continued again
• I remember something like payout / cashout
• no memory of creating a wallet manually
• maybe something pool / miner related
• favicon/logo may have been 2 large letters (possibly PB / BP / PM / BM but memory is unreliable)

Things that feel visually somewhat similar (but not exact):

• 50BTC
• old mining dashboards
• early mining pool interfaces

Does this remind anyone of a specific service, pool, browser miner, worker dashboard, or earning site from that era?

Not trying to recover funds — just reconstructing memory.

I stay fairly involved to Bitcoin and MSTR discussions, but I never understand the hate for Michael Saylor. I get the initial suspicion, as he was convicted for securities fraud in the early 2000’s, and that he has somewhat delusional takes, but he’s not really a short term bull. Most of his keynote speeches involve him saying that Bitcoin needs to take up 1% of global capital, but it may take the world 10+ years to get there. I find that a lot more bearish than most of what I read on the Bitcoin forums.

What he says isn’t really too crazy. If Bitcoin can get adopted by the store of value category (Real Estate, Art, Gold, etc..) than I don’t think it’s far fetched to see Bitcoin become a $10 trillion asset within the next 10 years or so. I would honestly say that most of us that hold Bitcoin would agree with that. So what’s everyone’s problem with Micheal Saylor??

I want to dive deep into crypto and Bitcoin, but honestly, the sheer amount of info out there is pretty overwhelming. Most of the stuff I run into online feels either way too technical to understand or just ends up being a sketchy sales pitch/shill for some random coin.

Does anyone have a solid list of go-to resources, websites, or video series that cover everything from the absolute basics to the more advanced stuff? I'm just looking for unbiased, A-to-Z guides that actually break down how it all works without the fluff.

Appreciate any links or recommendations you can throw my way!

I personally say no to that hamster wheel.

i started with 50% of my portfolio in btc but i lower it to 10% so far due to slow move.

"Oh he lost his hard-drive full of bitcoin" ,"Damn his usb had bitcoin he lost it years ago"
I dont get it!

Bitcoin are on the blockchain so I think they are saying hard-drive/usb as where the passphrase was located in maybe? i think im just dumb

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This is a Bitcoin subreddit, yet a lot of people seem bearish on Bitcoin. That's weird. Are you still bullish?

I put "reset to default" on settings. Now when i start it says where do i want to download everything at.

Do i have to download everything again to get in sync?

Hash# 5d85cd40611419c41b470216f42dcaaa98512fee2e5a748146089a9ae2e4c2e9

Me see green candle.
Me buy top. ????

Price go down 30%.

Me panic.

Me sell bottom.

Price instantly recover.

Me angry.

Me open 100x leverage short because "market rigged."

Price pump 5%.

Me get liquidated.

Me open 100x leverage long cause "Ooga bull."

Price dump 10%.

Me get liquidated again.

Me go Reddit.

"Ooga Whales manipulating market."

"Exchanges hunting me stop loss."

"BTC scam."

Meanwhile smart caveman:

Buy low.
Hold banana. ????
Ignore noise.
Sleep good. ????

Me?

Buy top.
Sell bottom.
Leverage max.
Account gone.

OOGA BOOGA. CYCLE COMPLETE

I truly came to understand Bitcoin in late 24 (as I'm sure many did) and would always kick myself for not putting in the work sooner. "Why couldn't I have found BTC in 2018 or 2022".

But today I realize this is exactly that moment. Fear everywhere, people asking is it over... and yet, it's still so hard to pull the trigger.

I guess it really is simple, but not easy.

Edit: FWIW, I'm 100% buying at these prices. The part that's "hard" for me is going all in, which I fear I will regret not doing in 5 years.

How to buy bitcoin as all apps I have tried won't except it due to my id being expired

From Satochi, to my small savings, and through all the narratives around the chosen one crypto I just love Bitcoin.

Genuine question, please be respectful. Is Bitcoin ever going to attempt to scale on the L1? or is it just going to count on institutions/third parties to distribute paper bitcoin to the world?

I know Bitcoin is infinitely divisible and limited in supply. These strengths make it one of a kind, but does it really matter if it can't be distributed to the whole world fairly and without censorship? Is there any innovation planned or are we forever stuck on neutral gear for the L1 from the moment Satoshi left and forever into the future?

Most people discover Nostr as a censorship-resistant social network. That's true — but it's only the surface.

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When you connect your own LND node to Nostr via Nostr Wallet Connect (NIP-47), your npub becomes a payment endpoint. Zaps hit your node directly — no Wallet of Satoshi, no Strike, no custodian of any kind.

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The flow looks like this:

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Nostr Client → encrypted NIP-47 request → Relay → your LND node

LND node → encrypted response → Relay → Nostr Client

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The relay never sees the content. Nobody in the middle knows what's happening.

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I wrote a full breakdown — what NWC is, how it works, and a practical setup example with LNbits:

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I kept seeing people (myself included) get stuck on how a Bitcoin transaction actually works — "your balance isn't stored anywhere," UTXOs, change, fees, signing. Most explanations are either hand-wavy or a wall of C++. So I built a free page where you do it yourself: tap your balance to see it's really a set of UTXOs, pick which ones to spend, watch the change output appear, drag the fee rate, sign, and watch it get mined into a block. ~10 minutes, no signup, works on mobile. Because this is and not : every step has an optional "show the real Bitcoin code" panel — the actual CTxOut / CTxIn / CheckTxInputs from Bitcoin Core, linked to the source on GitHub — so you can verify it's not an AI hand-wave. The amounts are a teaching example, but the mechanics match mainnet. It's free, I'm not selling anything — built it because I wanted it to exist. Would genuinely appreciate feedback, especially if anything is wrong or confusing: https://visualizingbitcoin.com/ 

Couldn't find a relevant previous post. I had to receive a large payment through PayPal recently. I know I can buy BTC with PayPal, but don't want to hold it with PayPal. Is withdrawal from PP dependable enough? Or am I better off moving the funds elsewhere before I buy??

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This may be common knowledge, I just haven't used PayPal in many years.

Im looking for a decentralized way to bridge BTC to another without relying on a centralized custodian

What are you guys using? Any recommendations or experiences sharing would be great- thanks

Yes, I firmly believe

I took a loan out of €100.000 from my real estate investment back in 2022. Against 3.2% interest rate. And put everything in bitcoin at $22.000.

I’m in the proces to do this again. Since my real estate investment grew again the last years. I can take out again €100.000 but now against 5.7% interest rate.

For me it’s clear: I will go forward since the renters in my homes will pay the interest rates costs. I van deduct the loans for taxes. And I believe bitcoin will go up forever (obviously in waves).

What are your thoughts on taking out a loan? Be critical…

With the ebb and flow of Bitcoin prices how are institutional hodlers managing their portfolios? Any insight?

A friend pointed out that bear and bull markets are virtually identical pattern, im wondering if this has to do with liquidity or manipulation or some sort of structural reason for this to hold true?

Dec 18, 2013. BTC is crashing hard from $1100 to $550. A hammered user named GameKyuubi logs onto BitcoinTalk to vent. He tries to type "I AM HOLDING" but fumbles the keyboard. "I AM HODLING" is born. He admits he’s a terrible trader who can't time the market, so he's just gonna sit on his stack. Fast forward a few hours, the typo goes viral. The absolute degen accidentally birthed the most iconic meme and investment strategy in crypto history. Zero coping, pure lore.

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“In early 2013, Mahboob’s Italian business partner told her about bitcoin. He said it was a new kind of money that could be sent from phone to phone without a bank account. Unlike the local afghani currency, which was steered by the government, bitcoin floated on the open market. When Mahboob first learned about bitcoin, it was trading at around $13. By the early summer of 2013, it broke $70. “At first, I did not think the girls would trust Bitcoin,” Mahboob said. “It was too hard to understand.” But her business partner encouraged her and said: “Let’s try it — what do we have to lose?” A few of the women did keep their bitcoin from 2013. One of them was Laleh Farzan. Mahboob told me that Farzan worked for her as a network manager, and in her time at Citadel Software earned 2.5 BTC. At today’s exchange rate, Farzan’s earnings would now be worth more than 100 times the average Afghan annual income. In 2016, Farzan received threats from the Taliban and other conservatives in Afghanistan because of her work with computers. When they attacked her house, she decided to escape, leaving with her family and selling their home and assets to pay brokers to take them on the treacherous road to Europe. Like thousands of other Afghan refugees, Farzan and her family traveled by foot, car and train thousands of miles through Iran and Turkey, finally making it to Germany in 2017. Along the way, dishonest middlemen and common thieves stole everything they brought with them, including their jewelry and cash. At one point, their boat crashed, and more belongings sank to the bottom of the Mediterranean. It’s a tragic story familiar to so many refugees. But in this case, something was different. Through it all, Farzan was able to keep her bitcoin, because she hid the seed to her bitcoin wallet on a piece of tiny, innocuous-looking paper. Thieves could not take what they could not find.”

Excerpt from “Broken Money” by Lyn Alden.

They control your banks. They control your employer. They control your tax rate. Insiders trade your stocks and manipulate your IRAs. With dilution/QE they can tax your savings by devaluing it and you have no control over that.

Bitcoin is like the second amendment for money. It’s about control.

I see a lot of fear in this sub. If you’re afraid, you don’t understand how money works, or you’re over leveraged.

I'm wondering, if we see a liquidation cascade, or a series of Black Swan events, would you still buy Bitcoin at $12k or do you guys think if that happens it's over for Bitcoin and we'll see 6k or 3k again?

Since I don't earn money in Bitcoin, I have this strategy that i would never exchange btc back to fiat, that's why I invest in Bitcoin money that I don't need, I live on a low time preference, my journey might be slow but steady.

I don't think the world will go on Bitcoin standard in the next 30 years. I'm in my 40s, so I guess I would never spend Bitcoin, and it will move to my children. Hopefully, the world will be a better place then.

guys who hodl and never sell, what are your plans?

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This is a message to the impatient who found Bitcoin in the past 5 years (like me):

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My question to guys without a lot of Bitcoin:

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Why exactly do you want Bitcoin to go up in fiat terms? Do you own a lot? Are you a multicoiner? No? Then why would you want a higher price? Instead of larping & complaining, you should be out there stacking harder than ever. This is a BLESSING for you, Bitcoin is very cheap right now in relative terms. DCA & CHILL.

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Second question to the ones with a larger stack:

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Are you ready mentally? What if the price jumped to $500k today? Would you spend your coin(s) wrecklessly, give up your Bitcoin in a hurry to buy stupid sh#t that will be absolutely worthless in 10 years? How much knowledge did you absorb in 3-5 years, enough to stop that urge? If not, you might want to up that, in the meantime: DCA & CHILL.

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DCA & CHILL really is the universal piece of advice for everyone here.

Except pioneers pre-2017 maybe, but those guys are on a beach somewhere in the Caribbean anyway, they're not complaining & bitching about their $500 investment going down 50% in imaginary fiat cuck buck terms.

Fellow Bitcoiners,
We’ve all felt the pain of this bear market. Prices grinding lower, sentiment in the gutter, “Bitcoin is dead” headlines everywhere again. But what if we’re staring at the generational bottom — not because of some random TA pattern, but because sovereign states are the ones about to flip the switch? 
Think about it:
• El Salvador is still buying one Bitcoin a day (sometimes more for milestones). As of mid-2026, their holdings sit around 7,500+ BTC, worth hundreds of millions, and they’ve kept stacking through the dips. President Bukele even called out buying “the other dip” recently alongside gold. They’re not stopping. 
• The United States literally established a Strategic Bitcoin Reserve via executive order in early 2025, capitalizing it with seized BTC and leaving the door open for more strategic acquisitions (budget-neutral). This isn’t some fringe idea anymore — it’s official U.S. policy, with talk of treating BTC as a core reserve asset because of its fixed supply. 
• Luxembourg‘s sovereign wealth fund (first in the Eurozone) allocated to Bitcoin ETFs. Sovereign wealth funds were reportedly buying the dip hard when BTC plunged below $90k, $80k, etc. — not for quick trades, but long-term holds, according to BlackRock’s Larry Fink. 
• Bhutan has been stacking for years (over 10k BTC at points). Other nations are watching or quietly moving: discussions about shifting gold reserves to BTC, more countries joining the holder list (reports of jumps from a handful to over 20 nation-states involved in some capacity). 
The smart ones who get it — those understanding BTC as digital gold with superior properties (verifiable, portable, scarce) — are feverishly positioning. They’re not tweeting about it daily. They’re working behind the scenes because first-mover advantage in a fixed-supply asset is massive.
Here’s the avalanche scenario: Once the first few big sovereign buys hit the tape (or even reliable leaks), the psychology shifts overnight. Institutions that hesitated? In. Other nations fearing being left behind? In. ETFs see inflows explode again. Corporations with treasuries? FOMO. Retail that capitulated? Back in. Supply is already tight. This isn’t 2018 or 2022 — nation-state demand is a new paradigm.
Bitcoin has always been about sound money winning in the long run. Governments printing endless fiat are starting to realize they can’t ignore the hardest money ever created. The bear market might feel eternal right now, but this could be the spark that ends it.
We’re early. Stack sats. Hold through the noise. The sovereign bid might already be here.

I have a ledger taproot account I want to migrate funds from into a trezor taproot account, but when I enter the trezor receiving address into ledger, it reads ''incorrect address format''?

Why?

I used to think all Bitcoiners were on the same journey. I've discovered they're not.

Some say everybody is in it to make money, which is true for some, but not for others.

After talking with hundreds of people about Bitcoin, I've come to realize there are different reasons people come to it. It solves different problems for different people, and not everyone is on the same journey.

I'm curious...

Which Bitcoin path are you on?

Been thinking about this a lot lately and I'm surprised how little solid discussion there is on it here.

Most of us have our seed phrase secured somehow: steel plate, multisig, hardware wallet... But that security works against us the moment we're not around anymore to use it. If something happens to me tomorrow, my wife has no idea how to access any of it, and honestly even if I wrote instructions down, that defeats the whole point of keeping the seed secure in the first place.

The "traditional" answers people throw around don't really hold up:

• Telling a family member the seed = single point of failure, now they're a target, and you have to fully trust one person
• Lawyer/notary holding instructions = most have zero crypto literacy, and you're back to relying on a centralized party
• Multisig with a trusted contact = better, but still complex to set up correctly and most people don't bother

Curious how people here have actually solved this in practice, not just in theory. Did you set up a multisig specifically for inheritance? Do your heirs know what to do? Did you involve a notary or lawyer, and if so how did that conversation even go since most of them know nothing about crypto?

Feels like a real gap between how seriously we take security day-to-day and how little thought goes into what happens after.

Liquidity is flowing to AI investments (this is the answer to every other post in this sub). Bitcoin goes sideways. Expect this to hold for 2026.

Two sovereign moves worth paying attention to.

Oman launched Omanhash on June 17, a state-backed mining pool that every licensed Bitcoin miner in the country is now required to use. This isn't just an energy play. It's regulatory architecture. The government now has direct oversight of the entire national hashrate; roughly 3% of the global Bitcoin network, backed by over $700M in mining infrastructure investment since 2022.

El Salvador added more Bitcoin to its national reserves the same day as part of its ongoing one-BTC-a-day accumulation policy.

Two different approaches: one building state infrastructure around Bitcoin, one treating it as a reserve asset. Both making deliberate sovereign decisions without the fanfare of an ETF launch or a corporate treasury announcement.

Kazakhstan was the first to adopt the sovereign mining pool model. Oman just followed.

At what point does this stop being an experiment and start being a pattern?

I've been in Crypto for 10 years.

Whether you take these points to heart or shrug them off is up to you.

Yes, i panic sold before. No, i wouldn't be on Reddit if i was rich from this.

But i have experiences and regrets. If one person benefits from reading this, it would make my day.

Words will not convince people that the current bear market is 'free money' opportunity.

As long as paper hands exist, hard earned cash will be given out for free.

It's just a cycle of life.

During bear markets, take note that;

1. Headlines are designed to terrorize You

This happens every, single, time. Let me repeat that.

Every bear market, people will go out of their way to terrorize you in exiting the market.

Whether 'This time it's different' news, Mt. Gox collapse, ICO bust, FTX/Luna collapse, AI, Quantum fears, MEME jokes about prices.

After all, Bitcoin died around 472 times.

STAY OFF THE NEWS

1. Dollar cost average is key

Weekly or monthly, buy a small amount without looking at price. ESPECIALLY during bear markets, and where fear & greed index is 'extremely fearful' which is right NOW.

1. BITCOIN is more hated than ever

Simply put, it's human nature. Will not go into details, but it's more reason to stay off the internet (at least BTC topics).

You have been told.

Ignore the comments, don't read the headline, stick to DCA.

Have a good day.

Hey!
A few days ago I posted my new project called Solarminer.app into this subreddit.

People kept telling me that closed source is not the way and they would nether install tools on their local server if they weren't able to look into the code.
I don't have bad intentions but its a good thing people want to verify.

So this is where we are now!
I have reorganized the code and created a github org for this project.
https://github.com/Solarminer-app

The official website: https://solarminer.app

How to contribute:
You either contribute code via pull requests

If you have a solar system installed you might also have a smart meter or inverter. In this case It would help alot if you could try out the app yourself by deploying it according to the docs via docker. Then try to create a modbus/rest api connnection for your inverter/smart meter and publish that in the config repo or the discord server!

Going Open Source was a big step for me. I hope it was worth it!
Looking forward to your contributions <3

https://discord.solarminer.app If you want to join this journey :)

Just wanted to share this announcement, buy while theirs fear in the market :D

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It is a big challenge not to fall to temptation and to keep my finance strategies, balanced, no loans no leverage, never buy Bitcoin I with money I need in the short/mid term, hodl and never sell.

Hi team, I'm getting that irresistible urge to buy. Should I wait and buy? or should i buy now and later? I'm new to panic buying but so far truly enjoying it.

I appreciate your input.

Sincerely, Your crypto bro

I've been seriously considering doing this, today I called a credit union and they estimated 8.9% apr. I did the math if I buy Bitcoin at around 65k ill need it to go to 85k to break even. I'm planning to hold onto it until 2029 or 2030 and then using the profit as a downpayment on a house- or I might use the Fannie mae loan and put it up as collateral and retain the Bitcoin. I've been looking at tons of estimates on where Bitcoin will be - bitbo, reddit, chat gpt, friends, anything I can find. My general conclusion is that it will be somewhere between 150 and 240k in 2029-2030. What are peoples thoughts on this plan? Where do people think Bitcoin will be at this time? Does anyone predict Bitcoin just flat out dies- if so how? I feel like worst case scenario it hovers around 70k for 4 or 5 years before spiking up in which case id just have to keep holding onto it. I truly believe that with enough time it will just eventually go up though. I currently own a out 0.3 Bitcoin but with this loan I'm looking at 0.75 and over the next few years I'll probably invest EVEN MORE into just to get to a whole coin.

Edit:

Credit score is 750-780 Annual income is 105-120k Living in a small apartment 750$ a month Car payment 460$ a month Student loans - PSLF program , variable payments because it's idr, between 200 and 400 a month (work pays 400$ of it otherwise it would be 800) No kids

I have a very large batch of testnet4 bitcoin and need some signet BTC. Willing to do 1:1 trades or better for large amounts.

Given this is zero dollar value and not real btc hope it’s not breaking rules.

I've been following Bitcoin for a couple years now but this is my first cycle where I'm paying close attention to the halving buildup. Every time I look at the discourse it feels like expectations are already priced in way before the event hits. Curious if people who've been through past cycles think the post-halving price action lived up to the anticipation, or if it mostly disappointed short-term holders.

My buddy lost his BTC yesterday. He Googled "BlueWallet download", clicked the first result (sponsored), and installed what looked like the real thing. It was a clone. His seed phrase was exfiltrated before he realized.

Has anyone else seen this? Google is apparently still serving the ad. How do you verify wallet apps before installing?

With the recent dip I bought btc with everything I got (after I sold it a few days ago I bought back), now I'm at 0.xx BTC. But I even used my emergency fund for it, I literally only have 1k Euros on my bank account for my rent and food, and I'm worried that I have no real savings, it feels pretty risky to have only BTC and nothing else. It doesn't feel like reliable money right now because the price can dump any day without warning, so I guess I should start saving up a new emergency fund using only my income in the nexrt months (not by selling BTC) instead of taking further advantage of the current bear market low prices. How do you guys handle having only BTC and no stocks, fiat?
I would really like to buy more BTC when it falls more, but I also want to save up an emergency fund. Its really not a good feeling when you have to choose

Thanks everyone:
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Years ago, while working on a crypto recovery project, I found Ariel's wallet among the files on a PC. It appeared that he had previously tried to recover his funds. I searched everywhere for him, but he had blocked me on every platform. Eventually, I called his workplace and managed to get in touch with him.

After obtaining his consent, I started working on the recovery. I tried to solve it on my own, but it turned out to be quite challenging. So, I opened it up to the community and invited others to give it a try. At first, I only shared the challenge on Facebook, where most people already knew me.

A year went by, and I decided to repost it. This time, I also shared it on Reddit and X, and even spent money promoting the posts (which, ironically, got my advertising account blocked...).

In less than five days, someone from the community—who wasn't even part of the Telegram group we had created—successfully recovered it.

I'm truly grateful to everyone who participated. Thank you for your time, effort, and support. I hope to bring you more challenges soon, so stay tuned and follow me!

And yes—the password was: "pera5durasnopera5lus"

FAQs:

Can they brute-force the passphrase using the .dat file?

The brute-force attack was executed using a range of clues provided by the original owner, data leaked on the dark web, and common password patterns. (I didn't find the password myself; it was a user participating in the contest I organized, on Telegram u/usermain01.)

Regarding the reward amount (0.5 BTC), it's important to note that participants:

- Are not required to be trustworthy
- Are not asked to share custody responsibilities
- Others are already working for the agreed-upon amount
- The amount is announced in advance, and everyone is free to decide what to do
- All parties were ultimately necessary to release the funds

"The industry standard rate" does not apply here

How come the person who cracked it didnt just take all the btc? didnt have the wallet.dat?

The child key (ckey) containing funds was not exposed and was encrypted with an mkey.
The master key (mkey) was also encrypted with an unknown passphrase.
The mkey was public.
A second, encrypted, and empty ckey was exposed only to allow the successful cracker to sign a message proving success without sharing the passphrase.

PD: A few days ago I made a very short post and everyone thought it was a scam, so I changed it, sorry.

I never really cared about using one of these, but now that Binance is having some troubles, I've decided I'm going to buy one.

Hey guys. I know this title suggests that this is the wrong subreddit. However this community and its open source spirit is what I need for a good discussion.

So I am currently working on this app that serves as an alternative to DIY solutions. You can hook into your solar roof and connect ASIC miners (I plan on adding support for other miners aswell) and the software dynamically adjusts the miners and their power targets according to the surplus.

There is also a lightning wallet in the program (phoenixd) where users get a BOLT11/BOLT12 lightning address for free. Of course we have ROI calculations and PDF export for your tax reports. Its pretty much the plug & play solution for people who want to mine bitcoin and have the energy but don't want to spend too much time on creating everything in Home assistant on their own.

Long story short: I have worked on this software for quite a while. I gathered many different opinions on this and now I want to open the discussion here.

First of all: What is my intent?
I am a software engineering student (currently in my masters) and I would love to work on a program / app people love to use and also earn some money with it.
But how? Especially in the bitcoin space people want to verify. You cannot verify closed source code.
People love DIY. So why even use my software if it costs money?

I have been thinking about this for some weeks now. (Should have done that earlier but when I began this project I did not know that I would even come to this point)

My "fairest" solution would be that there is a Dev Fee for the hashrate that is generated while using this program. I could also go Open Source but are people then going to remove the dev fee on their own?

Its the first software I plan to release to the public so I really need some input.

I have heard many things regarding this project. Most of them where harsh because of the dev fee model or the fact that it is currently closed source.

Let me know your thoughts please.
For reference: https://solarminer.app

I've seen comments here saying, "Stop wishing for it to go down, I put my savings in there."

But why invest if you're afraid to lose? Every investment carries risk. Whether it's Bitcoin, stocks, real estate, or anything else, losses are always possible.If you can't afford to lose the money, then don't invest it. Never put yourself in a position where a downturn could seriously impact your life.

The potential for gains exists because there's risk. Expecting an investment to only go up because your savings are in it isn't realistic.

Every time I buy BTC it plummets?

I have around $150k invested on ibit. Do I technically own ~2.5 bitcoins?

I’ve been a big believer in Bitcoin and I’ve sold very little in the last 7 years but for whatever reason this cycle has been causing me to doubt a lot on Bitcoin’s future. It doesn’t help that cycle after cycle, Bitcoin reaches a new ATH and I never sell. It’s super frustrating when you get in your head that “if I just had sold at the top and bought back in at the bottom, I’d would had doubled my stack”… I know hindsight is 20/20 but every cycle that occurs, I always think that surely this is the cycle that breaks the pattern. I feared selling at 120k because “what if it goes to 140k, 150k, 200k”. But that didnt happen.
The cycle has to break eventually and every cycle I think, “surely this is the one the breaks” but it doesn’t.

How long til we see 200k or 300k? Am I going have to wait another 10 years? If so, it’s a hard pill to swallow when you have such high expectations for Bitcoin’s performance. This cycle felt mediocre, spent almost a year at ~60k, then several months above 100k, just for in to plummet back down to 60k.

Am I going to sell at this price? Hell no. But if it goes back to ATH, I think I’m going to sell and just hope for the best. With my luck, once I sell that’s when Bitcoin will take off to 200k.

I’m just frustrated because I really want Bitcoin to succeed but I’m starting to lose hope. Perhaps my expectations were too high.

Has anyone else been having similar thoughts?

Price is moving sideways, everyone’s watching ETFs, rates, and macro stuff, but nobody really knows where the next big move is coming from.

Tbh, I don’t think sideways is always bad. Sometimes it just shakes out the hype and lets the serious people chill and stack.

But let’s be real… half the people screaming “bull run soon” would panic sell if BTC drops 10% tomorrow.

So what is it, are we actually bullish, or is this sub just full of people pretending they won’t panic sell? :D:D

Bitcoin in self storage with an air-gapped cold wallet is the only safe way to preserve your wealth moving forward. ????

https://youtu.be/1sd26pWhfmg?si=C\_-4lupHzcL7nwzC

I occasionally see on finance forums people making predictions that in the future computing will be powerful enough to break the Blockchain.
Essentially, if that happens bitcoins completely worthless .
Is this impossible? Are they full of shit?

Please I need any genuine help I can get it’s been three days stuck on pending with no txID.. what can I do Ive contacted their support countless times please help!

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I’d like to hear your stoic thoughts, and actions attributed to HODLING BTC. Many get FOMO and hear “we’re going to $1M” only for the short term price to gap down. Some may say that going “all in” is the way. So, where does stocism fit into your BTC thesis? (Preferably for those who are almost or, are ALL IN on BTC.

Maybe I’m overlooking something, but if Bitcoin is the superior savings technology, why would I spend years paying interest to banks instead of using bankruptcy laws to rebuild?

If I have the choice between spending the next few years sending hundreds of dollars every month to creditors, or discharging eligible debt and redirecting that cash flow toward savings and Bitcoin, is preserving my credit profile really worth the opportunity cost?

Every dollar going toward interest is a dollar that isn’t being used to accumulate Bitcoin. If I don’t need credit anytime soon and my existing Bitcoin is protected, then from a purely financial perspective, filing bankruptcy seems more rational than spending years servicing unsecured debt.

Many Bitcoiners talk about escaping the debt-based fiat system. If bankruptcy is a legal mechanism built into that same system, why wouldn’t it make sense to use it to reset your balance sheet and start accumulating assets again?

What am I overlooking?

Any bad news or concept of bad news, it immediately melts. To be honest when I got into btc two years ago I was hoping to hedge against the general market. Ended up getting a market multiplier (on red days). Anyone knows why? :)

Serious question. The guy drops billions on BTC and lectures everyone about adopting it, but I can't find a single public record of MicroStrategy or Saylor personally donating to Brink, Spiral, or any Bitcoin Core developer fund.

Is his take that Bitcoin is done and doesn't need more R&D? Or does he purposely avoid funding devs to stay "neutral" and not influence the protocol? Either way, it feels weird – he profits massively from the network but puts $0 into its maintenance. What am I missing?

I ran full backtests for a modified DCA strategy (~4k backtests since 2018) where the lower we go beyond moving averages, the more you buy.

In 93% of cases, they worked out better than regular DCA.

Looking at a base amount and then applying a multipler as follows:

• Below 200DMA: 2×
• Below 50WMA: 3×
• Below 100WMA: 4×
• Below 150WMA: 5×
• Below 200WMA: 6×
• Above all MAs: 0×

This system:

• Profitable in 94% of periods
• Average return percentage +248.64%

DCA:

• Profitable in 91% of periods
• Average return percentage: +166.33%

Seems like buying heavily in bear market will win out over DCA quite nicely.

As the title says I have just 6X my monthly expenses in the bank in savings accounts.

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Should I go how many months of money into bitcoin? 1x? 2x? 4x?

I finally took the turn from trading and losing a shitload of money to dca’ing. I don’t have a lot of space to put in monthly but I finally bought my first €50 in BTC. On to the next!

Thank you for welcoming me ????

https://finance.yahoo.com/markets/crypto/articles/crypto-industry-pushes-back-pritzker-114123206.html

I was looking over some details on the Fold credit card and it just didn’t seem very enticing. The example they use on their support page seems wild:

“For example: If you DCA $6,000 per month, you boost your rewards to 2.5% back on the first $2,000 of spend (1.5% Base + 1.0% Tier Bonus). If you also pay your bill in Bitcoin (an additional 0.5%), your total effective reward rate becomes 3%.”

Six thousand dollars a month DCA? How many bitcoins are realistically buying at that level month after month? And that ONLY boosts you to 2.5% back on your fiat spending? Also who tf would ever pay their bills in bitcoin? None of this seems worth my trust, loyalty, and money. Who is this even for?

Red candles gather, and now my HODL begins. It shall not end until 100k. I shall take no profits, hold no fiat, leverage no positions. I shall seek no alpha and no panic sells. I shall buy the dip and stack sats. I am the diamond hands that guard the private keys. I pledge my stack and conviction to the Bitcoin network, for this bear market and all the bear markets to come.

Energy is the objection everyone hits first, and most of what gets repeated is somewhere between stale and rhetorically engineered. Some of it is correct. Here is the honest version.

The number: Bitcoin draws about 173 TWh a year, roughly 0.75% of global electricity (Cambridge CBECI, 2025). It is a lot.

The comparison trick: "More than Argentina" (true, built to alarm). "Less than the world's tumble dryers" (true, built to soothe). "More than gold mining"; depends entirely on how you count gold, whose own estimates run 132 to 265 TWh and straddle Bitcoin's number. Every comparison is a chosen denominator, and the denominator is doing the arguing.

The energy is the security: Proof-of-work converts electricity into the cost of rewriting history. The energy bill is not overhead on the security; it is the security. "Make Bitcoin use less energy" is the same sentence as "make Bitcoin cheaper to attack."

What miners actually buy: A miner is the only industrial-scale electricity buyer that is location-agnostic, interruptible in seconds, and indifferent to when the power arrives. So it migrates to power nobody else can use: stranded hydro, flared methane, curtailed wind. It is not virtue; stranded electrons are just the cheapest electrons on earth.

The receipt: August 2023, Texas heat wave: Riot Platforms earned $31.7M mostly for powering DOWN (selling pre-bought power back to the grid + demand-response credits) versus $8.9M of bitcoin mined that month, curtailing 95%+ of its load in seconds. The load everyone calls a hog is the one that hands capacity back when the grid is about to break. Riot was driven by self interest, not virtue.

What the critics get right: The Granbury, TX noise lawsuit is real and believable to anyone who has stood next to an air-cooled mining container; not all mining runs on stranded renewables (some grids burn coal and gas); the water and e-waste critiques deserve straight answers, not reflexive "FUD." The strong forms of the critique have answers. The weak forms get called FUD because they don't.

The fallacy to retire: "Each transaction uses X kWh" is a stock-and-flow error. Mining energy secures the entire ledger and is set by price and the block subsidy, not by how many transactions flow through. Per-transaction energy is unknowable and shrinking; it measures nothing.

Full rabbit hole, fully sourced, no bullshit: https://www.learnbitcoin.com/rabbit-hole/energy

Happy to argue any of it in the comments - with real numbers.

Worth a read, so much potential in Ireland / Scotland

What are their procedures?

Who is responsible for large transactions?

Do they spread their key holders around the world in case of catastrophic events? What happens in case of death?

It would be fascinating to learn about.

Are they open about their methods? or is it highly secretive?

I haven’t really used bitcoin other then buying and selling.

If central banks hold Bitcoin as a reserve but people still transact in government-issued currency backed by it, we've just recreated the gold exchange standard. The gold standard didn't fail because gold was flawed. It failed because the settlement layer was physical and governments could suspend convertibility whenever it was inconvenient. What stops the same thing happening again? Is self custody the only real answer?

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Honest question: I already have my stuff on a ledger but am thinking of buying BTC now on Trade Republic. The last years I found it too uncomfortable to go through the hassle of sending them to an exchange to take profits. Missed out on some serious gains this way. Is there really any downside to just buying the BTC ETF via Trade Republic? I mean the funds are secured up to 100k €, and I am talking about way less to buy.
Would like honest feedback.
Cheers

1 - Accessibility How do you deal psychologically/what's your thoughts with the fact that people use a lot the orange bitcoin F7931A from the logo for a lot of websites, products, and with white text is not accessible and usually with black (Black text on orange background) is ugly?

2 - Best example of UX and UI in wallets What is your favourite reference on wallet design regarding:

• Changing from Lighting to Onchain
• Display units and changing from USD to BTC (Input of the amount you want to send). Sometimes you want to send 50$ sometimes a clear BTC amount.

Thank you.

So I've been trying to explain Bitcoin to my parents for like ages. They're not super tech-savvy but somehow they got curious after all that FTX news. The thing that finally clicked for them was comparing it to gold. I told them it's basically like digital gold with a fixed supply and that there's no central bank messing around with it.

I even showed them my cold wallet, which honestly blew their minds. They were kinda skeptical at first, thinking I was just online gambling or something. But once they saw that I wasn't just reading random internet stuff and actually knew what I was talking about, they got more interested.

Anyone else had similar experiences? Any tips for simplifying Bitcoin for the older crowd? It's a slow process but I think I might have converted them.

I used to by crypto in the past all the time, but now they require id, i dont like this, how do i buy without id verification. I dont need a large amount

The Bank of Japan raised rates to 1%, the highest level in decades, yet Bitcoin's reaction appeared relatively limited compared to what many expected.

Does this suggest that Bitcoin is becoming more resilient to major macroeconomic events or is it too early to draw that conclusion?

Wasn't a great car just an old corolla. I have a new one anyways. Put half into bitcoin and thinking of putting a quarter into schd and spy. What do yall think? Should I just put it into space x instead??

I want to ask people (traders more likely) who will open leveraged long, IF the bottom forms around October. Elliott wave theory with fibonacci tools really helps determine next moves, combined with proper reading of RSI, volume and 200 day MA as the potential ceiling.

So the question is what would determine that the bottom is in?

I use things I said, but structurally interesting fact, last cycle bottom was about -12% from the wave 3 of bigger C wave, 2 cycles back it was -46%. Not some certain 100% move we will get less than -12% so we could do 8x at least, but also would you use this probability as a fact about diminishing returns? And what are the other structural metrics or on-chain data you will use? Thanks

Is now a time that bitcoin can be bought? I don’t want to miss anything. Will bitcoin be available for purchase in the present?

What are for you the critical points, which make btc a good solution/respons?

Hi,

Really hoping someone can help me. I have just opened my Ledger Wallet to find £0 showing. And it looks like there has been a 'Sent' operation on 12th August 2025 for all my btc.

Are there steps I can perform to help understand what happened and where my btc is?

If someone could help i'd really appreciate it.

Thanks in advance.

"There are a couple of reasons why the bubble is sure to burst. The first is just that it’s a bubble, and any chart which looks like the one at the top of this post is bound to end in tears at some point....And just like demented internet stocks, bitcoins have seen busts as well as bubbles: in the second half of 2011, for instance, the value of bitcoins retreated from their peak around $30 each to a low point closer to $3. (Today, they’re trading above $140.)"

Everyone loves talking about what to buy. Bitcoin, altcoins?

But what happens after you buy?

For a long time, my entire strategy was basically Hope, Hope, Hope

If the portfolio went up, great. If it went down, I will tell myself to zoom out. Then I realized I never really thought about what the money was supposed to do for me.

At what point does it improve your life? Create more freedom? Help you reach a goal? Reduce financial stress?

I think a lot of people spend time building an entry plan and almost none thinking about what comes next. One habit that helped me was writing down a thesis

Before buying: why I'm entering, what would change my mind, and what role this position plays in my portfolio. It doesn't mean selling at every pump. It just means having a framework instead of making decisions based on emotions.

Buying is easy. Knowing why you're holding is where things get interesting.

Feels like the narrative around Bitcoin is shifting again.

It used to be digital cash vs digital gold. Now it’s starting to look more like a base settlement layer for a parallel financial system.

What’s interesting is the split:

• Institutions are treating it like a regulated asset (ETFs, custody, exposure)
• Individuals are still treating it like sovereignty (self-custody, no intermediaries)

That tension doesn’t really exist in most assets.

So I’m wondering, does institutional adoption eventually dilute Bitcoin’s original purpose, or does it actually strengthen it by making it too big to ignore?

Curious how people here see it evolving over the next few years.

Hi all. Can I first say that I’ve asked AI to generate this post so I can get all the facts of my problem down in as short a post as possible. Thanks.

Looking for advice on a missing Bitcoin deposit that I can’t explain.
I withdrew 76,961 sats from Kraken to an on-chain Bitcoin address generated from my Umbrel Lightning Node wallet.
Kraken shows the withdrawal as successful and provided a TXID. Looking up the destination address on a block explorer shows the sats arrived and are still sitting there unspent.
The problem is that I recently migrated my Umbrel Lightning Node from a Raspberry Pi to a Bosgame mini PC. During setup I restored the Lightning Node using the same 24-word seed phrase I had written down. The restore completed successfully.
After recovery:
lncli getrecoveryinfo shows recovery finished (progress 1.0)
lncli walletbalance shows only 32,588 sats
lncli listchaintxns only shows an older transaction containing those 32,588 sats
lncli wallet addresses list does not show the Kraken destination address
The 24-word seed displayed in Umbrel matches my written backup exactly
The sats are definitely on-chain and unspent, but the recovered wallet doesn’t appear to recognize the address Kraken paid.
Has anyone experienced this after restoring an LND/Umbrel wallet? Is there any possibility of a recovery/discovery issue, address gap issue, or something else I’m overlooking before I consider more drastic recovery steps?
Any ideas appreciated.

I know this is peanuts in the scheme of things but it’s my first transaction and I’m at a loss as what to do. Thanks for any help.

Hello, I am new in vexl but don’t have any contacts and no clue how to join any clubs

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It seems that 59k was the bottom.

Most people discover Nostr as a Twitter replacement. That's fine, but it's only the surface.

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When you connect your LND node to Nostr via Nostr Wallet Connect (NIP-47), something more interesting happens: Zaps hit your node directly — no custodian, no KYC, no middleman.

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The flow looks like this:

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Nostr Client → encrypted NIP-47 request → Relay → your LND node

LND node → encrypted response → Relay → Nostr Client

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The relay never sees the content. Nobody in the middle knows what's happening.

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Full breakdown here:

???? https://open.substack.com/pub/davidebtc186/p/nostr-and-lightning-the-protocol?utm\_source=share&utm\_medium=android&r=4gald6

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Hello,

I was wondering if anyone could provide some insight into this situation.

I am a US citizen, living in the US. I am wanting to send some cryptocurrency to my brother as a gift. He is a Canadian citizen and lives in Canada.

The cryptocurrency I would be sending has made a profit since I originally bought it.

In the future, if my brother sells the cryptocurrency, how is the tax situation approached in this scenario?

From some research I've done (and I could be mistaken), the IRS doesn't require me to pay taxes if sending the cryptocurrency as a gift. But, on the Canadian side, the CRA doesn't require the receiver of the gift to pay taxes on the value of the cryptocurrency they receive (unless it increases in value from the date received to the date sold, and then paying taxes on those specific gains).

So, which of us would be reporting the cryptocurrency for tax purposes in this scenario?

Thank you.

https://cryptobriefing.com/taiwan-central-bank-bitcoin-reserve-asset/

Hello guys, anyone ever used btc atm in Swiss?
Does they need kyc?

AI posts are getting a lot of traction on this sub:

"Today I found 1 BTC" - guy claims he forgot his seed phrase but somehow remembered the order because "there was a method to my madness" lol. 3k upvotes

Multiple "I built a website/app" - Both the posts and the websites are AI-generated.

"Laid asphalt for ten years. Never got ahead. Then I started mining Bitcoin and figured out why." Somehow this guy got caught, but it was obvious from the fact that he got into bitcoin in 2022 and says he was mining with GPU's which was pointless.

Years ago when I first read The Richest Man in Babylon, a lot of my thinking about money, wealth, saving, and long-term value started to take shape. Looking back, I think many of the ideas that eventually led me to understand Bitcoin were planted by that book.
I was talking about this with a friend recently—how strange it is that a book written nearly a century ago can still influence the way we think about money today.

Then the algorithm recommended a video titled something like “The Richest Man in Babylon Never Heard of Bitcoin.”
It made me wonder whether the connection is deeper than it first appears.
The book repeatedly emphasizes saving, protecting purchasing power, and thinking in decades rather than months. Bitcoin obviously didn’t exist when it was written, but some of the underlying principles feel surprisingly compatible.

Curious if anyone else sees a connection between The Richest Man in Babylon and Bitcoin.

Okay, I need to get this off my chest because I just watched it happen again.

My cousin got into crypto earlier this year. Super excited, asked a ton of questions in a few Discords and Telegram groups. Every single time she asked something, the response was some version of "DYOR bro" or "not financial advice, do your own research." That's it. No direction. No starting point. Nothing.

She ended up losing a significant chunk of money on a project. And she's not dumb. She's a college graduate. She just didn't know what to research or how to research it. Nobody told her.

And that's the thing, DYOR only works if you already know enough to know what questions to ask. If you're brand new, you don't even know what you don't know. Telling a beginner to "do their own research" is like handing someone a scalpel and saying "just do your own surgery, I'm not a doctor."

The worst part? DYOR has become a get-out-of-jail-free card. Shillers use it as a legal disclaimer after pumping garbage projects. Communities use it to dodge accountability. Nobody actually teaches anyone anything, they just point to a two-word phrase and call it wisdom.

DYOR started as genuinely sound advice, meant to encourage independent thinking in a decentralized space with no gatekeepers. But over time it's become a shield for bad actors and a heavy burden dumped on ordinary investors who are just trying to figure things out.

I'm not saying we need to hold everyone's hand forever. But there's a massive gap between spoon-feeding and just... actually helping someone understand where to start.

Rant over. Tell me I'm wrong.

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Bitcoin hit $126,000 in Oct 2025 and today its at $63,800which is down 50% from peak. Every outlet has a crash headline. and f&g index is at 13 extreme fear

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the data they are not showing you.

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2013 : Bitcoin dropped 86% from peak,people said it was over.

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2017 : Bitcoin dropped 83% from peak. People said it was over.

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2021 :Bitcoin dropped 77% from peak,guess what they said

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2026 : Down 50%. And we havent even matched the mildest correction in Bitcoin history yet.

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I think either this cycle is genuinely shallower because institutional etf floors and government bitcoin reserves changed the structure permanently or peter brandt is right and we retest $60,000 in September before the next bull cycle begins.

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Whats different this time that nobody talked about in 2018 or 2022 is that ETF inflows remained structurally positive through the entire correction and institutions are now holding Bitcoin as long term portfolio allocation.The US government holds it as a strategic reserve asset

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The reason for the crash always sounds definitive in the moment It never is.

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i have been DCAing through all of it on bitpanda because I hve seen this exact feeling before and I know how it ended

Hey, is it a good idea to take out a loan to buy btc when this bear cicle finishes?

so im at a company convention out of town and the subject of retirement and the future came up, and so did bitcoin. She got rather excited when she found out I knew about it and even asked “omg, do you have bitcoin?” (i then told her that in general, you dont talk about that), but she then told me she wanted to get involved but “i dont have enough money to buy a share of it!”

i took out my phone and opened coinbase, and showed her its possible to buy $5 in bitcoin, or even 5 cents because its infinitely divisible.

her husband knew she was interested but was rather dismissive of crypto. anyways, she asked me if i could send her a referral link for that and she’d be happy to do it through me so I get a little $20 bonus, we’ll see.

im just happy I was able to provide someone with. very elementary bit of knowledge of this asset.

TL;DR: people pay sats to put a tiny one-liner in the spot where Claude Code usually says "thinking…", and you, the dev running it, keep half. no KYC, no accounts, 10% to OpenSats + HRF. live + open source, built it solo, come break it.

A few days ago I watched kickbacks.ai go viral. It slips an ad into the little status line under your AI coding agent while it churns, and you get paid half the ad revenue. Nice idea. But it's fiat, weekly payouts, accounts.

I thought: someone's gonna do this with bitcoin, it's obvious.

Peter2Paul payments baby.

12 hours later it hadn't popped up on my X or nostr feed yet, so I built it with Claude Code. It's called Kicksats. Lightning-native, no KYC, no accounts.

How it works:

- You run Claude Code with a tiny status-line script. While the agent thinks, an ad sits under your prompt.

- An advertiser funds that slot with a Lightning invoice. No card, no account, no KYC.

- Every qualified thinking-window bills against their budget, and HALF accrues to you, the dev.

- When your balance crosses a tiny floor it auto-pays to your own Lightning address via LNURL. No withdraw button, no dashboard. Sats just turn up in your wallet.

The split, because this crowd will ask: 50% to the dev (sacred, never touched), 5% routing, 5% OpenSats, 5% HRF, the rest keeps the lights on. So 10% of every sat goes to bitcoin and open-source dev and to HRF.

Some technical bits: (from Claude, I barely understand)

- Auction is weighted-random by bid, not winner-take-all, so a small advertiser still gets impressions.

- Billing is server-authoritative and credit-gated per window, single-use signed token per impression, so a forged metrics POST can't mint sats.

- Real LND on the backend. The first outbound payouts already landed via LNURL, so the money side is not a mock.

- The client is open source, read every line before you run it: https://github.com/xoxoskeleton/kicksats

It's live today. The abuse-testing started within hours (someone rotated a few dozen client ids from one IP to probe the payout path). The caps and the payout floor caught it and it extracted exactly zero, which honestly made my night more than the launch did.

I'm one person who built this for the love of it, so I'd take any of:

- devs willing to run it and tell me if it works lol

- anyone who wants to be one of the first advertisers (it is stupidly cheap)

- a beating on the billing/abuse model from people here who think about this harder than I do

Link's in the comments.

Thanks in advance.

Allmyhomieshatethefed

I don’t know how to get access to my bitcoin wallet. It’s something I had opened a long time ago and don’t know where to start to find it…

First cycle ???? Second cycle ???? Third cycle ???? Veteran from before 2017

Comment your Bitcoin age and one lesson you've learned that every newcomer should know.

This could create a great thread for new members and experienced holders alike. ????₿

Bitcoin is on track to break its 4-week losing streak.

At the same time, ETF outflows are slowing, risk sentiment is improving, and SpaceX quietly became one of the biggest corporate Bitcoin holders.

Kinda feels like markets can look weak on the surface, while the bigger picture keeps changing in the background.

What's the bigger signal here?

Price action, institutional flows, or corporate adoption?

Buy Bitcoin

One thing I've learned from the Bitcoin community: You can kill someone's portfolio, but you can't kill their conviction. Bitcoiners always come back stronger.

Right now is very good time to make order in your UTXOs and withdraw your BTC from exchanges to hard wallets if you have anything there, because fees are so low that withdrawing BTC from Binance on-chain is only 1500sat right now.

This is the price for becoming a real owner of your asset, which is critical especially if you hold BTC for long-term, so imo this is very nice information to know :D

Is there any benefit to borrowing against my BTC over getting a personal loan that I am unaware of?

I looked into borrowing against my BTC (keeping my LTV below 20%) but most established lending platforms have high or variable rates. I can get an unsecured personal loan for a lower fixed rate so it seems obvious to me which option I should choose.

While researching my options I came across a number of comments and responses from people that appear to have decent financial knowledge sharing their experiences with crypto backed loans. So my question is, are these people choosing crypto backed loans because they cannot get a personal loan at a decent rate or is there some other reason I am missing?

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Most were right tbh, but no way I thought it would hit 10k or 50k+

Thought this was worth sharing since it was a fun small reminder/prediction thread. Fun to see how everyone had such positive outlooks for a more progressive opensource tech-space instead of everything largely being exactly the same with ✧˖°AI✧˖° sprinkled into everything.

I’ve been trading Bitcoin for 14 years. I’ve seen every cycle, every liquidity grab, every engineered stop hunt that wipes retail before the real move begins. At some point I stopped accepting it and started asking why it keeps happening with such precision.

The answer is data. Specifically, a layer of market data that institutions pay $20,000–$28,000 a year to access. It’s not secret. It’s not illegal. It’s publicly available, they just pay middlemen to aggregate it cleanly so their quants don’t have to think about it.

So I spent two years building the thing that goes and gets it directly. No middleman. No enterprise subscription. And I wrapped it inside a full Bitcoin trading intelligence platform that I’d actually want to use myself every day.

Here’s what’s inside:

Multi-timeframe technical analysis, the engine watches BTC across every major timeframe simultaneously and produces a single coherent read on market structure. No more “bullish on the 1H, bearish on the daily” confusion. You open it and the picture is already built.

Institutional report cards, instead of raw indicators, you get a structured assessment of current BTC market condition written in plain English. The kind of top-down briefing a trading desk would produce before the session opens.

AI market chat not a generic chatbot. It answers questions about current market structure using live price data. Ask it whether a setup is valid right now and it gives you a real answer based on what the market is actually doing.

Live BTC data, everything runs on real-time feeds. Nothing is delayed, nothing is cached from hours ago.

And then there’s Flows. This is the one that took the longest.

Every 10 seconds the backend opens live WebSocket connections to Binance, Bybit, Coinbase, OKX and Kraken simultaneously. It’s not pulling the price, it’s pulling full Level 2 and Level 3 order books. The actual wall of limit orders sitting beneath the surface that retail charts never show you.

At the same time it monitors the blockchain in real time, tracking large BTC movements heading toward exchange wallets before those coins ever hit the order book. That’s the tell. That’s what institutions have always seen and retail hasn’t.

The algorithm processes all of it and maps out a two-phase sequence for the next 60 minutes:

Phase 1. Where is price being pulled right now? If there’s a liquidity vacuum above current price across Coinbase and Binance, the engine calculates exactly where price will be sucked up to fill it.

Phase 2. What happens when it gets there? If a whale deposit is converging with a deep institutional sell wall sitting 1.5% above, the engine calculates the exhaustion point and the reversal that follows.

The output isn’t a chart. It isn’t a percentage probability. It’s a sentence:

“Price will rise to $62,950 over the next 15 minutes, then drop to $61,200 by the end of the hour. Short only.”

Two years of building, stress-testing and scrapping and rebuilding. It’s at a point now where I want serious traders to put it under pressure before I open it wider.

If you want access DM me directly. I’m not looking for hype, I’m looking for people who will actually trade with it and tell me exactly where it breaks.

Bitcoin is only worth what someone else is willing to pay for it. If sentiment changes, governments crack down on it, or a few large holders start selling, why couldn’t it eventually become worthless? What gives it a long-term floor of value beyond people simply believing it has value?

One thing I’ve always wondered: what if Satoshi’s wallet suddenly became active? If one person (or a small group) controls that much Bitcoin, isn’t that a major risk to the ecosystem?

Hey all. Basically anyone I talk to in rl who invests, says stay far away from BTC. I've been reading a bit, and I think Bitcoin will stick around for the long term. I am just not 100% sure what to expect from growth versus any mutual/index funds. Can someone help push me over the edge, as to why they think BTC has more potential growth than say, VOO?

I’ve talked to several people who didn’t buy at 16K because they thought it would go down to 12.5K
A few more who never bought in Jan 2024 because they thought it would break below 30K
I just talked to another friend who said it should come down to 55K, then I’ll buy.
What if it doesn’t?
If you’re one of these people, you want to invest but think you can wait till the bottom to go all in, you will miss out.
This is a great level. Especially if you don’t already own any. Invest half now of whatever your maximum investment amount is. If it goes lower invest more.
When it makes a new ATH you’re not going care if you got in at 65 or 55. You will just be happy you got in! Make the choice, don’t miss out

I am an Ugandan and I have a Bitcoin wallet with Xapo, which I opened around 2014. At the time, I
set two-factor authentication using a phone number from a telecom company that is now defunct (Sure Telecom). Because that number no longer works, I cannot log in to access the wallet.

I attempted a recovery process and was asked to send my personal details, a photo, my national ID, and a photo of me holding the national ID. I submitted those materials, but I did not receive any positive or negative response from Xapo.

When I later tried another recovery process, it appeared that Xapo may have changed. I was not sure whether the original Bitcoin wallet company was still operating in the same capacity. The current service seemed more like mainstream banking than the Bitcoin wallet service I originally used.

My main objective is to recover or re-establish access to the old wallet/account and reset the two-factor authentication method that is tied to the obsolete phone number.

I may still be able to identify the old phone number if I search my records. I would like help determining
whether Xapo still exists in a relevant capacity, whether the account can be recovered, and what legal or formal recovery steps are available.

I’ve been seeing a lot of "investment" subreddits posting memes lately, hyping up a potential SpaceX IPO while throwing trash at Bitcoin because it’s "stuck" at around $60k–$63k instead of hitting $1 million overnight.

It honestly blows my mind how short-sighted the general public is. They act as if traditional stocks or fiat currency have some magical "tangible value," completely ignoring that corporate valuations are heavily inflated and fiat is guaranteed to lose purchasing power year after year.

People completely ignore the macro perspective:

• The rising floor: A few years ago, the cycle floor was $15k. Now, the floor has established itself between $30k–$60k. That is massive structural growth, but critics choose to look away.

• The predictable cycle: We all know how this ends. Bitcoin will eventually climb to $250k–$300k in the coming years. When it does, the exact same crowd calling it "garbage" right now will FOMO in at the absolute top, screaming about a bubble while buying our bags.

Why is the average retail investor so blind to the reality of currency devaluing and Bitcoin's higher lows? Is it just pure coping because they missed the early boats?

I’m exploring ways to build products that genuinely help Bitcoiners.

What’s the biggest frustration, pain point, or challenge you face today when it comes to Bitcoin?

It could be anything from buying, self-custody, security, taxes, inheritance, retirement planning, understanding Bitcoin, or something completely different.

I would be grateful if you could briefly describe the challenge and why it’s a problem for you.

Hi, thank you in advance for your help.
I bought bitcoin when it was green wallet at the time, i just took a photo of my qr code and that's it. Then green wallet ended, and it became blockstream, so i downloaded the app last year, I scanned my qr code, I think i needed to add my pin or something, and my bitcoin appeared. I'm never checking tbh. I just noticed that now blockstream app updated again (or in between i changed of iphone idk if it's even connected) and I tried to restore my wallet, by scanning the qr code, or addind the 27 words, it does connect to it but it shows that i have no bitcoin, and no transaction. But last year when i downloaded blockstream at first, it was showing all my transactions.
Did i lose my bitcoin for ever?

thank you very much for your help, and sorry being such a noob.

Feel like every few weeks theres some macro event that either pumps or dumps BTC 10% and i never know how to think about it ahead of time.

Used to just ignore it and hold but lately ive been trying to actually be more intentional. Like the last fed meeting, the spot ETF flow data, even political stuff. Its all moving the price in ways that feel more predictable than they used to be.

Curious what other people are doing. Are you just staying fully exposed and not thinking about it? Taking partial profits before big events? Using anything to track sentiment or get a read on whats likely to happen?

Not trying to time the market just trying to not be completely blind to it

Not morbid, just something I have been thinking about lately.

Most of us have seed phrases locked away somewhere but does anyone else actually know how to access your stack if you were gone tomorrow?

Curious what people here have figured out. Are you relying on a written note, a lawyer, splitting the seed, something else? And what would actually make this easier that does not exist yet?

December 18, 2013. Bitcoin had just crashed from $1,100 to $600 in a matter of days. A forum user named GameKyuubi sat down at his keyboard, by his own admission a bit drunk, and posted a thread called "I AM HODLING."

He didn't try to fix the typo. He explained that he knew he was a bad trader, that he'd lose to people who actually knew what they were doing if he tried to time the market, so he'd decided to just sit on his Bitcoin and wait. The community ran with it. The word never went away.

"Hold On for Dear Life" was invented after the fact to explain a word that already existed. Classic backronym.

The funny thing is that his reasoning was actually solid. He identified his own weakness, and the best solution he came up with was to do nothing. That's essentially passive long-term investing applied to crypto, and for Bitcoin specifically the track record has backed it up every single time, through every crash that was supposed to be the end.

The most rational strategy in crypto came from a drunk guy who couldn't spell on a Tuesday night in 2013. Feels right.

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For the last 6 months I've been adding either 5$ or 10$ every single day of the week to DCA, I know it's not much but slowly been accumulating, I'm wondering if this is a decent strategy or if I should just start doing 20-40 twice a week or at one time every week? I just feel like with the daily buys I'm able to catch better dips though nothing crazy but I just think maybe these 1-2k price differences can add up over time and make a difference to my average. Curious to know how you guys usually add weekly and what would likely be the smarter thing to keep doing! .1 BTC here I come ????

There was a post yesterday where someone complained that their bitcoin confirmation took 26 minutes, and here is why that's an unfair assessment:

Bitcoin's "broadcast" vs "confirm" is analogous to the banking system's "pre-auth" vs "settlement", but I think that person was unfairly comparing a bitcoin confirmation to a pre-auth.

When you swipe a credit card people think it's instant but it's not. There is an initial pre-authorization that happens instantly but settlement doesn't happen for days.

Things can & do go wrong in both systems during this period to cause settlement not to happen, but the odds of a btc transaction reversing before settlement is astronomically lower than a CC swipe.

Understanding that, it's not a fair comparison to compare bitcoin's "confirmation" to the banking system's "pre-auth". It's more appropriate to compare bitcoin's "broadcast" to the banking system's "pre-auth".

With this better comparison both happen instantly, but bitcoin "settles" within minutes whereas a CC transaction takes days.

This is how you counter the "who's going to stand around for confirmations" argument people use for the idea of paying with bitcoin in a retail environment. There's no reason to wait around for confirmations. Retailers already accept pre-auth CC transactions that are much riskier than a "pending" btc transaction so it's a non-issue.

We are trying to get more perspectives for our bitcoin-backed loan comparison site, and wanted to ask the group if anyone has ever taken out a bitcoin-backed loan? If so, who did you use (Ledn, Arch, Salt, etc.) and what the experience was like?

What were the positives and negatives? Did you feel like the risks were properly communicated to you?

What's you do new in your next page like next day! But as you know i will do something special for looser because i am going to buy 500 Bitcoin ???? yes 500 ..... Can you buy one cent of Bitcoin?

Im trying to buy something with bitcoin and the bitcoin symbol on cashapp is a B with one slash through it instead of 2 and i cant find anyway to find the conversion for it. Ive never seen this symbol in my life. Any help?

Can be anything. Detail your answers in the comment section ????

I’m getting some money soon and want to buy my twin teen boys some bitcoin - what’s the best cold storage and any advice about storing the keys and security and how to teach them? Thanks all!

This is not a BS post I am genuinely offering to trade my dispensary and the land on the Oregon coast for 20 Bitcoin. Our company has zero debt has a 5 star rating and has been in business for over 7 years. Our revenue is always increasing year over year. Last year our sales were roughly 1.4Million. I am looking to trade all assets of the business and it is a truly turn key operation with excellent cash flow. Our books are amazing no debt ever on the business and we have an excellent reputation. If this is something you’d be interested in DM me and I can go into more details. Again asking price is 20 bitcoin serious inquiries only please. Thank you

How do you guys handle a Bear Bitcoin market?

I used to buy Bitcoin religiously every payday. I’d even throw some of my birthday and Christmas money into it. But eventually I stopped. My question is for the long-term holders: how do you deal with watching it go down… and then down some more?

What keeps you motivated to keep buying when the market is red for months at a time? Is it conviction, experience, a strategy, or something else? I’d love to hear how you mentally handle the downturns and stay focused on the long game. ????????????‍❄️

everyday goods priced in dollars and bitcoin since the genesis block. all 26 items, real annual data.

Can someone tell me why I shouldn't dump 50% of my savings into BTC? Its seems like a very good opportunity to buy now, no?

This github project seems to have found 129 million confirmed instances of taproot scripts that are explicitly in the script as code (not data) but were intentionally designed to be never be executed.

If true, this would be a cousin of the SQL injection hack (in reverse) where instead of disguising code as data, it's disguising data as code.

Does anyone know if this is legitimate?

https://github.com/Unbesteveable/taproot-opif

Hi everyone,

I’m completely new to Bitcoin and cryptocurrency and I’m trying to learn more about how it all works. I don’t have much money to invest right now, but I’m genuinely interested in becoming part of the community and understanding the technology.

I know this is a long shot, but if anyone would be willing to help me get started: whether that’s through advice, educational resources, etc; I would be incredibly grateful.

My goal is to learn, participate, and eventually contribute back to the community as I gain experience <3

Thanks for reading, and I appreciate any guidance you can offer.

I've noticed people tend to fall into two camps.

Some openly talk about Bitcoin and try to educate those around them.

Others follow the "tell nobody" approach, arguing that privacy and security should come first.

Where do you stand?

Do you discuss Bitcoin openly, or keep your holdings completely private?

Bitcoin sentiment has cooled significantly over the past few weeks, yet large holders continue accumulating.

Do institutions see something that retail investors don't?

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Has anyone used PayPal to purchase bitcoin?

Hey. I am just wondering about trading. I never done it before but i am looking to invest some money in it for my future. Any suggestions what shoud i buy or which app should i use? Any help would be appreciated.

With Elon Musk officially hitting trillionaire status on paper, I’m asking a classic tech question: Could a single rogue billionaire with unlimited cash just buy up enough compute to pull off a 51% attack and take over the Bitcoin network?

The short answer is absolutely not. Even if Elon freed up $20 billion in pure, liquid cash tomorrow, the laws of physics, global supply chains, and game theory would completely destroy him.

Here is the breakdown of why Bitcoin is mathematically bulletproof against a trillionaire:

1. The AI Hardware Delusion

People look at xAI’s "Colossus" cluster in Memphis (which is scaling to 1 million GPUs) and think that kind of raw compute could crush Bitcoin.

It can't. AI data centers run on general-purpose GPUs optimized for matrix multiplication. Bitcoin is protected by ASICs—highly specialized chips hard-wired to do exactly one math problem (SHA-256) at maximum efficiency. An ASIC is roughly 1.8 million times more energy-efficient at hashing than an enterprise AI GPU. If Elon pointed his entire 1-million-GPU supercomputer at Bitcoin, he wouldn't even control 0.02% of the network.

2. The Bottleneck: The Machines Don't Exist

To hit a 51% threshold today, an attacker needs to deploy roughly 926 Exahashes (EH/s) of unique power. That means buying about 4 million elite Antminer ASICs.

You can't just add 4 million commercial miners to a shopping cart. The microchip foundries (like TSMC in Taiwan) that manufacture these chips have their production lines booked out for years by Apple, Nvidia, and AMD. If Elon placed a $10 billion order, it would take 2 to 3 years just to manufacture the silicon. The entire global crypto community would see it coming a mile away and scale up their own hardware to outpace him.

3. The Power Grid Impossibility

Let’s pretend the 4 million machines magically appeared. To turn them on, Elon would need 13.89 Gigawatts (GW) of continuous electricity.
To put that into perspective:

The largest nuclear power plant in the US (Palo Verde) only produces 3.9 GW.

Elon would need to build or hijack four of the largest nuclear power plants on Earth just to power his attack.

Energy grids are heavily regulated. No government on Earth is going to let a private citizen divert 1.5% of the entire United States power grid away from homes, hospitals, and factories to attack a blockchain. The grid would literally melt.

4. The Devs Have a "Nuke" Switch: The Hard Fork

Let’s go full sci-fi. Elon secretly builds his own secret chip foundries, builds 4 hidden nuclear reactors, plugs in his machines, and successfully launches a 51% attack.

He still loses everything within 24 hours.
Because Bitcoin is software, the global community of node operators and developers would watch his malicious attack happen in real-time. Within hours, they would coordinate an emergency software update called a Hard Fork.

This update would slightly tweak Bitcoin's core algorithm (e.g., changing SHA-256 to a variant like SHA-3). The entire honest network would instantly migrate to this new version. Because ASICs are hard-coded into physical silicon to only solve one specific math problem, Elon’s 4 million machines wouldn't understand the new formula.

Overnight, Elon’s $20 billion investment is permanently transformed into completely useless, power-hungry paperweights. The honest Bitcoin network moves on, completely unbothered, while Musk is left holding a multi-billion-dollar pile of scrap metal.

TL;DR: Bitcoin isn't protected by money; it's protected by the physical limitations of global chip manufacturing, the immense energy required to run the planet, and a decentralized community that can rewrite the rules of the game if a bully tries to buy the playground.

ive been trying to learn as much as i can. i currently cant run a full archival node and pruned mine to 10GB in bitcoin core. is it still possible to run a private electrum server with a pruned node? thanks

so back story i've had this hw.1 wallet since i wanna say 2016. ive always carried it in my wallet, durring this time and life events i completely lost the phrase and forgot my pin. my family has been in btc since i guess you would say the old silk road days, and to be honest i dont even remember if i have anything on it. i was wondering what my options are. i am not stressing as like i said its just been sitting.

ive downloaded an old electrum file i believe the 2021 version which it reconized the wallet and with these wallets u get 3 attempts at the pin. which i did try 1 time that i thought it would be it and it is not. and i know if 3 attempts failed it wipes. so seeing what potential options are.

As a 'test' of sorts, I created an account, and went though all the KYC to make an offer. It took a while but I was approved. And I just made some offers.

I say "test" but in reality, I'm not wasting anyones time and am ready to make a deal if anyone replies.

But here is why I'm asking if anyone uses it... Most people, buying or selling, are offering to buy/sell at 3-6% above/below market price (if they're a buyer or seller), or even higher depending on the payment method.

I made some offers with 0% markup/discount. I got no replies at all. So then I though "Okay, everyone else is offering to buy at 2-4% below market, so I'll actually buy ABOVE market.". I did this for various stable coins. Where I offered to pay MORE than $1 ($1.03 to be exact). Still no takers.

So if others are trying to sell stables at ~$1.05, or buy them at $.95, I can't imagine they're having much luck if I'm not able to buy them OVER $1

I even listed my BTC as an offer to buy for 3% OVER market price (everyone else us 3-5% under). Not a single offer.

Anyway, maybe it's just because my account is new. Maybe I need to do some small trades with people I know to boost numbers but I didn't want to game the system. I just wanted to offer to buy BTC at a fair price from people (in person, the way God intended :)

Every single time that we are at the peak of a bull run, I tell myself, "I should have bought way more over the last bear market."

But when I see the dip, I can't help but feel a little fear. My intellect says to go all in, but the fear keeps me from buying all I want.

How do you deal with this? Is there something you do to remind yourself that everything will, logically, be okay?

Literally, i dont get it. Those who sell and the price drops, had at least 2 years to sell, to take advantage of big prices, but now they sell at 60k???

Every major Bitcoin correction seems to bring back the same headlines: "Bitcoin is dead." After all these years, do those headlines still influence market sentiment, or has the market matured beyond them?

I’m building a CEX and I have a separate wallet signer that has the keys to sign withdrawals and it works well but when it comes to watching the blockchain for transactions on my imported wallet addresses, is the Bitcoin Core enough? Do I have to pair it with something else or replace it totally?

Is anyone else experiencing insanely long transfer times??

Hi everyone,

I'm looking for recommendations for the best no-KYC service to swap USDC for BTC.

Specifically, I'm interested in services where I can:

Send USDC directly to a provided deposit address

Enter my BTC receiving address manually

Receive BTC without connecting a wallet

Avoid creating an account if possible

Have a good reputation and real user experience behind it

I'm not looking for P2P trading. I'm interested in instant swap services that people have actually used successfully.

Which platforms have you personally used, and how was the experience regarding fees, reliability, speed, and privacy?

I am running a Bitcoin Node on Umbrel (full node, fully synced) and I recently set up the "Stratum V2" app. I have a question regarding how it operates:
1 Architecture: When using the Stratum V2 app on Umbrel, am I correct that it acts strictly as a "Translator Proxy"? It takes Stratum V1 from my miners, translates it to V2, and forwards the shares to an external pool (like PublicPool).
2 Sovereignty: If the above is true, where does the "Sovereign" part come in? I am running a full node on my Raspberry Pi 5 to ensure sovereignty, but it feels like the current setup still relies on an external pool to provide the block template.
3 The Gap: Am I missing a configuration to make this a truly "Sovereign Solo" setup where my own Bitcoin Node generates the block templates locally? Or is this limited by the current Umbrel containerized environment (lack of IPC socket access)?
Any technical explanation on what is happening under the hood would be greatly appreciated. I want to ensure my setup is as independent as possible

Is there anyone who can help me understand what is happening here or explain it to me exactly? I have been using AI to help formulate these questions and I am still not clear on the technical reality of my setup

Based in the US and fine with KYC. I had always used kraken but they recently increased maker fees to 0.4% up from 0.25%.

I am an infrequent buyer, maybe a few thousand per month so most likely do not qualify for reduced rates based on volume.

i had looked into strike and river but the lack of transparency around spot pricing and order flow was concerning.

any recommendations?

With ETFs, corporations, and even governments holding Bitcoin, the market looks very different from previous cycles.

Do you think institutional adoption has reduced Bitcoin's risk, or simply changed who controls the market?

I'm curious where people stand on this.

On one hand, if someone has access to a low-interest loan and strong conviction in Bitcoin's long-term future, using debt to increase exposure could seem like a reasonable strategy.

On the other hand, Bitcoin is still a volatile asset, and taking on debt introduces a level of risk that many would argue goes against the entire idea of financial freedom and self-sovereignty.

So what's your view?

• Never use debt to buy Bitcoin?
• Only if the interest rate is extremely low?
• Fine with moderate leverage?
• Or is leverage a guaranteed way to get wrecked eventually?

Interested to hear how people think about the risk/reward tradeoff.

If you’d take literally ten minutes of your time to study previous cycles, you’d see that it always repeats itself. Yes we’re in a bear market, DCA what you can and forget about it.

Read this and give your thoughts. I know you’re probably wondering wtf does he mean by that title. I had a realization that, I could truly see bitcoin at 1-10 million a coin in that time frame. The creator is obviously gone and not selling at all. If he did sell why DIDENT he sell when his portfolio was 1M, 50million? Even 1 billion and now 100 billion? Not only that 8 billion people in the planet only 21 million will ever exist and 19 million are already out, most are gone forever and most are traded and being held. Now obviously no one knows what could happen in that large time frame but giving that it’s been out for what 18 years now, I don’t think this is going anywhere but up. I’m 22 so I have so much time that’s why I said 10-40 years because if I do hold I plan to sell at the age of 60. But what you guys think of this? Am I crazy? But looking at this I truly see something huge.

Not the price. Not the chart.

What event would genuinely change your conviction?

A lot of people know why they're buying Bitcoin. Very few know what would make them stop believing in it. Would it be a major flaw in the protocol? A better alternative? A change in regulation? Or is there literally nothing that would change your mind?

I think this is a useful question because it separates conviction from blind loyalty.

Curious where everyone stands on this.

Lately the crypto market has been reminding everyone how quickly sentiment can change.

A few weeks ago people were talking about new highs, and life-changing gains. Now after another round of selling, timelines are full of fear, bearish predictions, and "crypto is finished" takes.

I'm not panicking and I'm not trying to predict the exact bottom. I still believe in the long-term potential of crypto, but I'd be lying if I said these drawdowns are easy to watch. Seeing portfolios shrink while uncertainty grows definitely tests conviction.

For those who've been through multiple cycles, how are you approaching the market right now?

• Taking some risk off the table?
• DCA'ing into positions?
• Waiting on the sidelines for clearer direction?

Curious to hear how everyone is managing both the financial and mental side of this market.

After running a Raspberry Pi node at home that died without warning, I moved everything to a bare metal VPS on Contabo. No prepackaged solutions — just Ubuntu 24, Docker, Bitcoin Core 28.1, LND 0.20.1, and a stack I assembled one by one.

The article covers the full setup including real bitcoin.conf and lnd.conf, SSH hardening, UFW + Fail2ban, channel strategy mistakes (don't open to big nodes — learned the hard way), ZeroTier private network for monitoring without exposing any public ports, automatic channel.backup redundancy, BOS via Telegram, and LiT for auto fee management.

7 channels live, node visible on Amboss if you want to verify it's not theoretical.

Full guide (paid): https://davidebtc186.substack.com/p/how-i-built-my-own-bitcoin-lightning

Happy to answer questions here.

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For me, some Bitcoin questions were easy.

Others took months or years before I felt like I really understood them.

Things like:

• Why does Bitcoin have value?
• ETF or self-custody?
• How much Bitcoin is enough?
• Is volatility the same thing as risk?
• What makes Bitcoin different from every other crypto?

What Bitcoin question took you the longest to answer?