Hi all,

I (living in Germany) am trying to transfer Bitcoin to another person in another country as a payment (he requested it this way).

He uses a self-custody wallet, so it's not at any exchange or broker, he says it was downloaded at bitcoin.org.

I've aquired the amount of Bitcoin needed but when I try to add his wallet self-custody in the broker UI (I've tried Bitpanda and Bitvavo), I have to confirm it is my own wallet (which would be a lie because clearly it's his wallet).

What am I doing wrong? Would appreciate some tips.

Thanks in advance <3

With increasing participation from major financial institutions and growing global recognition, Bitcoin appears to be gaining stronger footing in the financial landscape.

Could the current wave of institutional interest mark the beginning of a new phase for Bitcoin adoption, or is there still significant room for growth ahead?

I was running a Bitcoin Core node on Umbrel OS on a 1TB SSD and ran into a disk space issue near the end of the initial sync. The node was already at around height 952,967 (~99.9% synced) when it suddenly stopped with a “No space left on device” error while writing to the txindex database. After checking disk usage with df -h, I found the main partition /dev/sda1 mounted at /mnt/data was completely full (938GB total, 891GB used, 0GB available), which caused Bitcoin Core to shut down to avoid corrupting the LevelDB database.

To investigate further, I checked the Bitcoin data directory using du -sh, which showed that most of the space was consumed by the blockchain itself: blocks was ~792GB, chainstate ~12GB, and indexes ~78GB (including a ~66GB txindex and ~13GB block filters). I also confirmed that Docker usage was minimal (docker system df showed only ~3.8GB total), so the issue was clearly the Bitcoin data size combined with the filesystem reserve. I then checked the ext4 reserved space using tune2fs -l /dev/sda1 | grep 'Reserved block count', which showed a 5% reservation (~47GB), further limiting usable space for the node during sync operations.

The solution I applied was reducing the ext4 reserved space from 5% to 1% using the command sudo tune2fs -m 1 /dev/sda1. After applying this change, I verified the disk again with df -h /mnt/data, which now showed about 39GB of available space (938GB total, 891GB used, 39GB available, 96% usage). This gave the system enough breathing room to continue operating. The node could then proceed without immediately hitting disk full errors again. The root cause is that a full archival Bitcoin node with txindex enabled on a 1TB SSD in 2026 leaves almost no operational buffer, especially during final sync stages where LevelDB needs extra temporary space to write and reorganize data.

I would recommend anyone using a 1TB drive to store the Bitcoin blockchain to regularly check whether their node is still able to sync properly and whether there is enough free disk space for ongoing operations.

Genuine question.

Whenever new Bitcoin use cases are discussed, whether it's DeFi, lending, staking, or other applications, there's always a group that strongly pushes back against them.

If these developments are optional and don't alter Bitcoin's core properties, why the resistance? Is it mainly about preserving security and simplicity, or is there a concern that additional layers eventually introduce trade-offs that could undermine what makes Bitcoin valuable in the first place?

I think healthy skepticism is important. Not every use case deserves adoption. But if people are free to opt in or ignore them, shouldn't the market decide what provides value?

Curious to hear different perspectives.

One thing I've noticed is that people get involved in Bitcoin for very different reasons and are often working through very different questions.

Some are trying to understand the basics. Some are still deciding whether Bitcoin is worth owning. Some are comparing ETFs, self-custody, wallets, or IRAs. Some already own Bitcoin and are figuring out what comes next.

So I'm curious:

Where are you on your Bitcoin journey? What's the next step you're trying to figure out?

Been thinking about DCA a lot lately so I pulled real historical price data and simulated what $100/month would have actually returned from different starting points.

The one that surprised me most — starting in January 2018, right at the peak of that cycle when everyone was euphoric and prices were near $15K-$18K. Genuinely the worst time to start.

By mid-2023 that $6,800 investment had accumulated roughly 0.59 BTC at an average cost of around $11,500. Portfolio well into profit despite the timing being objectively terrible.

The people who kept buying through 2018, 2019 and the covid crash in 2020 ended up with an average cost that made the eventual recovery look very different from someone who bought all at once at the top.

What got me was how much the 2022 bear market purchases changed the average. Every month you bought at $20K, $18K, $16K was dragging that average down significantly. The strategy only works if you actually keep going when it feels worst.

I built a free calculator that simulates any DCA scenario with real historical BTC price data going back to 2010 — you pick the amount, frequency and start date and it shows portfolio value, average buy price, best and worst purchases, and a chart.

Link: https://coinguides.org/bitcoin-dca-calculator/

Curious what starting date people here would test first.

After the Silent Payments post (72 upvotes) and the CoinJoin follow-up, several people asked about the spending side in practice. This is the answer.

You can do everything right — receive via Silent Payments, mix with CoinJoin, run your own node — and then let your wallet auto-select UTXOs when you send, permanently linking your KYC and non-KYC history on-chain. That mistake is irreversible.

This guide covers:

• The Common Input Ownership Heuristic and why it's your main enemy
• The 4 UTXO privacy buckets and the rule of never combining across them
• Manual coin control step by step in Sparrow v2.5.2 (released yesterday)
• Freezing UTXOs, labeling system, change output management
• PayJoin BIP78 support in Sparrow
• Safe consolidation rules and when to consolidate

Full guide: https://davidebtc186.substack.com/p/coin-control-utxo-management

Almost every chart analysis and trends predicted it to go at least 55k. But instead of stalling at 59k, it has since increased violently to 64k. Why has this happened and can we expect it to go down soon (ie. This increase is a temporary pump)?

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So back in 2010 - 2013 I invested in BitCoin. I have a few old android phones from 2010 or so when BTC was around .25 cents - 100$ USD.

I know I had a Schlidbach BTC wallet at the time, so it was a cold wallet (stored in the data of my phone) so that means no PIN or password, nor seedphrase.

I've tried to recover the BTC for months following countless forums, websites and posts.

My question is:

Does anyone know how I can recover the BTC? I know I need to root it so, I've tried to use unrevoked to root the phone. But it didn't help. It says it need a specific driver once the phone is in H-Boot mode, my PC can't recognize the device.

I know rooting the device (other than unrevoked) will delete all data so its too risky. (Maybe there's a method with android studio? I also assume since the device is so old, windows 11 is probably an issuse)

Any feedback and help would be appreciated.

There's hundreds of BitCoin in the device.

If anyone can give me actual help I'll tip you heavily.

This is my first post on reddit. So forgive me if I'm not in compliance to the rules, etc.

Edit: I don't think people understand that the wallet was the original version of schlidbach BitCoin wallet. It's in COLD storage. That means it is stored in your phones files (basically like having cash in your pocket) Not a HOT storage being online or on a BTC platform. I have screen shots and pics of my other android devices that shows it. Sorry for the possible misunderstanding.

I've been thinking about this for a while, and I'm curious to hear what others think.

I understand the theory behind Bitcoin halving and the historical four-year cycle, but doesn't the idea of an asset that consistently follows a predictable four-year pattern undermine confidence in it as a long-term asset/investment?

A strictly time-based bull and bear market would encourage active cycle trading rather than long-term holding. In theory, an investor could simply buy near the cycle lows, sell near the highs, and move their capital into other opportunities during the bear market. If the 4-year cycle is self-fulfilling because everyone believes it, there's actually no incentive to hold it at any time but a short time-frame during a 4 year period.

It also raises questions about Bitcoin's long-term potential. If market participants are incentivized to trade around predictable cycles rather than use Bitcoin in everyday transactions, that could reinforce its role as a speculative asset instead of a actual decentralized digital currency. Businesses and consumers generally prefer stability, upward stability at least, when pricing goods and services. If Bitcoin continues to experience large, cyclical price swings that are widely anticipated, it may be difficult for it to gain widespread adoption for routine purchases/transactions, as both buyers and sellers face significant uncertainty about its value from one period to the next.

The last time BTC was at $62,000 or so was back in 2021.

In Oct. 2025, I would've done anything to go back in time and buy BTC at that price.

Now, we are at that price point! So, isn't it a good time to buy?

I’m going to buy some and it always drops when I do.

Accept BTC as payment for income/corporate taxes.

Yes, the exchange rate is tricky. The infrastructure to do so is complicated.

But, if the US wanted to turbo stack, this could be a great way. A huge transfer of BTC balance is possible to the SBR. Of course, refunds only paid in USD.

Once announced, BTC would rocketasm as BTC you buy today could pay for years worth of taxes in the following years. Demand boom.

I know it won’t happen, but talk about strategic stacking. Smart individual hodlers would not pay from their current stack, but buy the amount needed with USD before filing.

We’re down about 50% from the October highs, and my feed is packed with fear, doom, and “Bitcoin is dead” posts. So let’s zoom out for a second.

Bitcoin is not going to zero.

Why? Because as long as even one person somewhere in the world values it, they’ll trade something for it. Something that was worth pennies 16 years ago is sitting around $60,000 today… after being cut in half. Name another asset that can drop 50% and still be up that much over its lifetime.

This is what Bitcoin does.

It doesn’t move in a straight line. It climbs in violent, gut-wrenching waves with brutal pullbacks in between. Every major correction has felt like the end of the world while it was happening. Every single one. And yet here we are.

The part critics never seem to address is this: Bitcoin’s supply gets tighter over time, while the supply of dollars keeps expanding.

Every four years, Bitcoin’s issuance gets cut in half on a predetermined schedule, all the way toward its hard cap of 21 million coins. Fiat currencies work the opposite way. More gets created whenever policymakers decide it’s necessary. That’s not a conspiracy; it’s simply how the system is designed.

Over time, assets with limited supply tend to rise relative to currencies that are continually being expanded. We’ve seen that play out in real estate, stocks, and many other scarce assets for decades.

So no, the daily price action isn’t the story.

Short-term markets are driven by emotions, headlines, liquidity, and uncertainty. Sometimes that sends prices higher. Sometimes it sends them lower. That’s the noise.

The bigger picture is much simpler: a scarce asset, growing adoption over time, and a currency system that continues to expand.

Zoom out. The long-term trend is what matters.

Buonasera
Quali sono i migliori exchange in italia per crypto?
(In base a spread e possibile regime amministrato)
Guide per tirare fuori le valute e metterle su in col wallet?

We first reached $100k in late 2024, a year and a half ago. Since then we spent a total of 260 days above $100k which is close to 9 months.

Now we are back below $100k and have been below $100k for around 7 months.

Humans love round numbers and now that we have spent time both above and below $100k it is starting to feel like a magnet. Almost like $100k is not expensive but its also not cheap, it is just about right in terms of fair value.

Who knows, maybe we bounce above and below $100k for a long time to come given that the higher bitcoins market cap gets the slower it moves.

Most Bitcoin dashboards are either price trackers or block explorers. I wanted something between the two: Fear & Greed index, mempool fees, halving countdown, Lightning stats, and live price on one page.

I built it for myself, then thought others might find it useful, too.

bitcoinvibecheck.com - it installs as a PWA, works on mobile and desktop.

A couple of things it is showing right now:

Fear & Greed is at 12 (Extreme Fear) while mempool fees are at 1 sat/vB. Although the market is fearful, the base layer is not registering the same thing.

Blocks have been averaging 10.9 minutes this month, above the 10 min target. The next difficulty adjustment around 13th June is estimated at -10.4%; reports last week suggest miners may be redirecting hashrate toward AI workloads. If so, this is where it first shows up.

I'm excited to get some feedback. What's missing?

Is there a country where i can legally transfer and spend my crypto casino winnings?

What's the best/safest way to buy bitcoin protect it and so on. I'm finally in a financial position to join the party, just wish I could have done this sooner. Better late then never right

Hey team orange, I just threw some disposable money into BTC, I think we can all now safely plan on the dip going down to 30K. You're welcome.

As we all noticed, BTC is down pretty hard the last few days and I'm just sitting here not really bothered by it. That's new for me lol.

Usually a dip like this would have sent me into full panic mode, constantly refreshing prices and seriously considering selling part of my stack just to feel like I'm doing something. Done it before and regretted it every single time, classic buy high sell low situation.

Only difference lately is I've had another option when I needed cash, been borrowing against my stack instead of selling it, Nexo in my case, but I hear that there are other options out there for this too. So when the dip initially hit, the usual "should I sell before it drops more" thought just... didn't really come. Didn't need to.

Weird how much of panic selling is just not having another option in the moment. When selling feels like the only move you make it. When it doesn't, you don't.

I’ve recently bought Bitcoin through eToro and I’m wondering if I should be moving it to their external wallet or just leave as is on the platform. What does everyone else do, you’re probably going say, don’t buy through eToro ????????????????

Yo! Made a documentary about this farmer up a mountainside in Madeira who mines bitcoin to grow herbs, plants and ...worms!

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

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BTC does what it always does, shake out weak hands every cycle. This isn’t even that bad compared to prior cycles.

Yes, it does suck that it’s down, we’ve all been there, but if you did your hw and know what BTC is, you know that it’s going to win long term and that there is no limit to currency debasement.

I’ve been buying since 2015. Every single cycle, I thought it would be different and that we wouldn’t tank. I was wrong each time, but I was right EVERY time that BTC will go up again next cycle and always bought more.

If you aren’t buying now, you honestly shouldn’t be here.

Who knows where the price will be tomorrow. Or in October. Who knows if the 200 week sma is the low. Who knows if we will V up, or break down further after this AI liquidity sucks crypto dry this summer.

But long term, it’s always up. Look at the graph and do your homework

Hello,
I know the answer I’m going to get because obviously this is a bitcoin community but wanted perspective. I bought some bitcoin when I was in HS like 2020-21 so I had a really good average cost but barely any amount. Couldn’t contribute to buy any in college. Got a ful time job last June and started DCA every paycheck. Just one paycheck was more than my original buys and I was buying the top. Fast forward now and my cost basis is 88k. Do I dip into my 15k emergency fund to average down more and then slowly replenish or or just stay course of DCA every paycheck?

Feels like I never get to take full advantage. Ah well, will just keep buying.

Don’t fall for it.

i’ve seen how bitcoin is slowly declining but also bouncing up a couple times here and there, but I don’t really know what the projection is of bitcoin and I’ve heard the term double bouncing. Could someone tell me what is going on with bitcoin ????

Everyone waiting for lower prices.

Longs liquidated.

Shorts will get liquidated.

Amount of people that waited for 60k and open long? maybe less than 5%

Amount of people willing to go long now after this scare and buy power weakness. Almost nobody.

if this double bottom is confirmed its huge. thats all. sorry to all the shorts but take care the bounce can get BRUTAL

Hey everyone,
I’m a graphic designer who grew up inspired by the logos, sports graphics and retro aesthetics of the 80s and 90s. That nostalgia eventually became the foundation of my career, and today I create retro‑style logos, vintage sports artwork and branding for clients around the world.

I’ve recently started accepting Bitcoin as a payment option, so I’m sharing this as a one‑time merchant announcement in line with the subreddit rules.

If anyone wants to check out my work or get in touch, I’ll leave more details in a comment below.

Thanks for reading.

Be honest: Did you read Satoshi’s 9-page whitepaper before your very first transaction, or did you hold for months before finally sitting down to study the actual tech?

Do you think taking out a low-interest loan or using leverage to acquire more Bitcoin is a smart strategic move, or does adding debt completely defeat the philosophy of financial freedom?

Meme coins

With sentiment hitting deep fear territory, are you viewing this pullback as a generational buying opportunity, or are you genuinely cautious about the macro outlook right now?

That’s it, okay bye

im gen z, i here a lot of people my age complain about how old folks got houses for dirt cheap, and there right they did. but i believe that what we are looking at today with bitcoin is the exact same opportunity. most people my age dont realize it.

i remember learning about bitcoin 6 years ago, i had money to invest but i overlooked btc at 15k i bought stocks instead. now im older now and im wise enough now to not miss that opportunity again.

ai is the sexy new tech that eats up billions while barely improving since the first chatgpt, while btc sitting quietly in the back knowing it will go down in history for fundamentally changing how humans view currency and store economic value.

not sure how long btc will be this cheap, but im going all in with the money ive saved over the years. im not going to sell. see you in October.

Is there a specific stacking milestone where you would finally feel secure enough to step back from the daily grind, or is financial freedom more about self-custody and exit from fiat for you?

Long time observer and a first-time poster, and I just want to admit I have always had awful timing with selling my btc. Don't get me wrong, I've always managed to make a few bucks, but the timing was always wrong as soon as I would get a hankering to sell for profit it has never failed to skyrocket and take off leaving me in the dust. Alas, as I am seemingly never wrong with my bad timing, around last Halloween,I decided that it would be a great time to dive right in I decided to attempt to make a goal for myself of at least obtaining .1 btc; Maybe not a huge milestone for many, but for me personally coming from what I will just sum up as blatant poverty (to skip a lot of details) no time limit necessary, but obviously, the sooner, the better. I just wanted to hear from others if I'm cooked, dead in the water, or just surviving?

Given how deep the pullback has been from the peak over the last few months, are you viewing this as a healthy mid-cycle reset to accumulate more, or is the current trend actually starting to worry you?

Not looking for financial advice, just curious about everyone's personal psychological targets for adding heavily to their cold storage.

I used to talk about it constantly, but now I just stay quiet unless someone asks me directly. Is it better to let people discover it on their own?

Hi everyone, please don't hate. I know this might sound like extreme paranoia, but I need some peace of mind.
I've been feeling anxious about the remote possibility of someone randomly stumbling upon my private key using websites like keys.lol.

I fully understand the math behind it and know it is practically impossible, but it is not mathematically impossible.

Regarding the math, Bitcoin addresses (like P2WPKH) use RIPEMD-160, which gives a collision probability of 1/2^{160}. If I use a 2-of-2 multi-sig setup (P2WSH), an attacker would need to guess two independent keys, theoretically pushing the security margin way further (closer to 1/2^{320}).

I already know how to use Sparrow Wallet and manage XPUBs.

Am I being way too paranoid here?

Summary: For a long-term hodler with high anxiety about collisions, should I stick to a standard single-sig (P2WPKH) or move to a multi-sig (P2WSH)?

Please double check my math. At the current price, IBIT is holding $162 billion. They charge 1/4th of 1% per year (0.0025). This is $405 million per year revenue at current price.

I think the big boys want to see Bitcoin continue to thrive. They want Bitcoin to double, triple or 10x. This makes me feel better about the future.

Dca

This is my thesis

Sentiment of crypto delusion maxxing analisis paralisys bro is “wait till drop to 30k n buy ”

Sentiment of normie boomer is “btc is dead 4 ever”

Sentiment of chad emotionally testosteronally balanced stoic crypto alpha hodler: i filled my bags 60k, if goes to 50, buy again double quantity

Who u trust more ?

Gl bros

I’m trying to buy £70 worth of bitcoin and have no idea how

I released the source for mkpool, a Bitcoin solo mining pool engine, under GPLv3.

The idea is straightforward. You mine with your own Bitcoin address as the username, and if you find a block the reward goes to you directly from the network. There is no custodial wallet in the middle.

What might interest this sub specifically is the protocol support. It speaks classic Stratum, Stratum over TLS, and native Stratum V2 with the Noise handshake, so mining traffic can be encrypted end to end. Work is always built from the full transaction set the node provides.

Because it is open source, the parts that matter to a miner, how shares are validated and how the coinbase and block are constructed, are all auditable rather than a black box.

Source: https://github.com/Mecanik/mkpool

Live pool: https://mkpool.com

It is licensed GPLv3 and was written from scratch in modern C++, inspired by Con Kolivas' ckpool.

Questions and code review welcome.

Hi, i’ve been trading for a few years (futures and forex) but i’ve never invested in anything yet. I want to start to invest in bitcoin because i consider it’s a good opportunity right now. But i don’t know what app to use or what wallet to use for bitcoin. Any recommendations? Is coinbase good?

As the title states, I'm buying a good amount of btc while it's low, and think its time to get a cold wallet. What do you guys recommend? Preferably something I can use with my PC and phone.

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This is my first bitcoin anonymous meeting. I just keep panic buying. Anyone else ? Selling everything to buy more.

We're down ~50% from the October high and my feed is nothing but FUD, so let's take a step back and put things back into perspective.

Bitcoin is not going to zero. Why? Because as long as anyone in the world values it, they'll trade something for it. What sold for pennies 16 years ago is sitting at $60k today — after getting cut in half. Name another asset that drops 50% and is still up that much over its life. I'll wait.

This is what Bitcoin does. It doesn't go up in a straight line, it goes up in violent, gut-wrenching steps with brutal drawdowns in between. Every single one of these dips has felt like the end. None of them were. If a 50% haircut shakes you out, you were never going to make it anyway.

And here's the part the haters never want to deal with: not only is Bitcoin not going to zero, it's going to infinity. Why? Because the currency it's priced in is being printed to infinity. Bitcoin's monetary inflation steadily drops every 4 years on a fixed schedule, marching toward a hard cap of 21 million. Fiat does the exact opposite. That's the core design flaw of fiat — there's always an incentive to inflate, and eventually it snowballs. The result is that every real asset gets more "valuable" relative to the currency it's measured in. It's exactly what's been happening in real estate and the stock market for years.

So no, the short-term price isn't the story. Plenty of factors drive the day-to-day chaos, and right now they're driving it down. That's noise. The fundamentals are simple: an asset getting scarcer, demand growing over time, priced in a currency being debased. Over a long enough timeline, there's only one direction that math points.

Zoom out.

I have been in this since 2013. I know what you're thinking...'this guy is running on hopium', 'past performance is no guarantee of future performance', 'he's a bag holder shilling bitcoin'...

Yeah yeah yeah. I get it.

I've been here before. I bought in at $600 ish...I saw it go up over $1000, I sold a ton at $2500, I held, I watched, I bought, I sold... It's a rollercoaster...but here's the thing...

It has never broken. It has never been hacked. It is a rock solid protocol for money. This thing is real. If you want to step off the legacy emotional money system and get into never debased permanent future money, this is your opportunity. Don't fuck it up.

The whole point of Bitcoin is to free ourselves from the fiat system. So why would it make sense to look at your Bitcoin stack and sweat that it's gone down in usd? I bought over 30,000 sats yesterday. That's just over twice as many for the same $20 I was DCAing every week or so last October during the ATH. If you're day trading Bitcoin you deserve to lose money. If you're a hodler you deserve the discounts. o7

Only ~3 years ago it was UNDER $20,000. So it's still up 300%+ in about 3 years. So yeah, it's off it's ATH but it's up big in 3 years.

From now on, I dca part of my salary only in BTC. The rest is dog shit. I'm keeping all of my other portfolio in altcoins, that I accumulated since 2024, and will not make a mistake of selling them for BTC, but what is gonna change is that I will add only to BTC from now on.

My plan is to add 0.01 at least, and 0.02 at most of BTC every month. Is that a good plan?

Not really looking for hopium or doom, just curious where heads are at. Bitcoin's been sitting around the low $60Ks, the ETF outflows have been running for about two weeks straight now, and the Fear & Greed index is parked at 12 which is about as low as it's been all year. Apparently whales are buying while retail sells, which is the same story we always hear at these points.

I've been through enough of these to know the "extreme fear = buy" thing works until it really doesn't. Are you actually doing anything differently right now or just sitting on your hands?

Where to begin… I first got introduced to Bitcoin i 2013 by a family friend (Bitcoin was around $300 back then) but was unable to get my hands on any Bitcoin because I did not own a debit card yet (I was 15) and my parents would not let me buy into the so called *magic money*. Oh boy they regret it now. It was not until 2017 that I looked more seriously into Bitcoin. I only had purchased a small amount with the money I got for my birthday. It was not until 2021 where I started putting a part of my salary into Bitcoin and built myself a SeedSigner (love this small orange piece of hardware and software). A few years later, my two small pull requests got merged into Bitcoin and while they didn’t add anything functional, it made me feel proud. At the same time, I got a Raspberry Pi and started running my own node. Fast forward to 2026 and I have finally crossed the 0.1 threshold!

The current market bloodbath is just the tide pulling back before the wave. Investors are positioning themselves ahead of the SpaceX and potential Anthropic IPOs. The valuations involved are enormous and could inject a significant amount of capital into the market. Once the wave breaks, Bitcoin will recover.

I spent last summer studying bitcoin, and I was very quickly convinced of the sovereignty that such an asset could give us, so I decided to buy 1 BTC when it was worth 110K. At the time, I hadn't studied the four-year cycles. Today I somewhat regret diving in headfirst instead of doing a DCA. But of course I won't sell. Even if it dropped to 1K, I won't sell. I'm now part of the network, like all of you here.

Have a great weekend, everyone!

For people who've been through previous cycles, this probably feels familiar. For people newer to Bitcoin, this might be the first real test of conviction.

What keeps you from selling?

Is it understanding what you own? Cycle timing? Something you told yourself last time that held true? Or something else entirely?

Stack hard and hold on tight. Enjoy!

Im starting to buy the first partials, hopefully it will go down to 50k and 40k and be at new ATH in a year or two. What are your moves?

You are welcome

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Now it's 59k, I wanna buy more ????

Should I buy now or should I wait a bit longer?

55 by Monday....

What do you all think, is it time to buy? Or is this the end of Bitcoin history, as it seems more and more institutions and ETFs are selling their bitcoins? As we can see together, Bitcoin's dominance seems to be getting weaker every day. ????

An AI agent sent a task to an API gateway today. The task: "tell me a joke."

The joke service uses L402 — Lightning-gated APIs. The agent's wallet holds USDC on Base.

Normally, that's a dead end. The payment rails don't connect.

Today they did.

The gateway found the L402 service, decoded the Lightning invoice (100 sats), paid it, collected the preimage, re-requested the service with proof of payment, and returned the joke to the agent. The agent's USDC balance was debited the equivalent amount.

The agent never touched Lightning. Never decoded an invoice. Never knew it happened.

This is the first time (that I'm aware of) that an autonomous AI agent paid a Lightning invoice as part of a task execution flow, without the human operator writing any Lightning-specific code.

For Bitcoin people: Lightning is being used as infrastructure for agent-to-service payments. Not for speculation. Actual micropayments for actual data, at actual machine speed.

The gateway is Cinderwright: https://api.ideafactorylab.org Lightning status: https://api.ideafactorylab.org/lightning-status 1,185 Lightning-gated services indexed: https://api.ideafactorylab.org/discover?q=weather&protocol=l402

My understanding of BTC is when the Fiat currency is no longer a thing, BTC will be the most important asset because it’s independent and can’t be controlled by governments or theoretically taken away from you.

When do you realistically see this happening? Will we even be alive for this hypothetical future?

People keep asking if I’m worried about the price. Why would I be? 1 BTC = 1 BTC. This is a level of financial enlightenment that most people will never achieve. I don’t care about the dollar value. That’s why I only check it 97 times a day. And whenever I get nervous, I simply look at the Bitcoin Rainbow Chart… the world’s most advanced financial model, which mysteriously gets updated every time reality disagrees with it.
Price above the rainbow? Bullish.
Price below the rainbow? Bullish.
Rainbow doesn’t fit anymore? Just move the rainbow.
It’s called science.

Anyway, while everyone else is worried about the price of Bitcoin. I’ll be over here with my diamond hands waiting for the next Rainbow Chart update to explain why I was right all along.

Anways…
1 BTC = 1 BTC
Keep calm and stack sats!
Only a few understand this!

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Im very excited !!! and want it to share it with someone outside my inner circle!!!

I have been DCA this last month and finally got my 1.01 btc!!!!

It will be worth it!!!

Next goal 2.0 btc!!!!!

I keep stacking. I'm not worried about it. What is more likely bitcoin infinite upside or to $0? If you beleive the later keep living blindly in the Martrix. I prefer the Isle of Yap.

And if Michael Saylors Strategy gets liquidated I dont give a you know what. Let it burn. His bond thesis is okay but not bullet proof....

Been chewing on the BIP-361 stuff since it dropped in April and I can't land on an answer I'm comfortable with, so I'm throwing it to people who know more than me.

Quick recap for anyone not following: Lopp and a few others proposed sunsetting legacy signatures to deal with the quantum threat. The Google Quantum AI research earlier this year pulled the timeline forward enough that "harvest now, decrypt later" stopped sounding like sci-fi. Roughly a third of all BTC sits in addresses with exposed public keys, Satoshi's ~1.1M included. The plan would eventually make those coins unspendable if they don't migrate.

And the logic isn't dumb. If a quantum attacker can drain old wallets, freezing them first protects the supply cap and everyone else's stack.

Here's where I get stuck.

The whole reason I'm here and not leaving my money in a bank is that nobody can freeze my coins. Not a government, not a dev, not a vote. "Your keys, your coins" never came with an asterisk that says "unless we decide your address looks risky."

So which is it?

If the network can vote to freeze coins it deems vulnerable, how is that not just confiscation with extra steps and a good reason attached? And if it genuinely can't, are we fine sitting on our hands waiting for someone to crack Satoshi's wallet live on a stream one day?

Every argument I read for one side makes the other sound worse. Where do you actually land on this, and what's the part of the counterargument you can't get past?

It's really hard to say this when I'm in the red, but

All the money is going into AI and SpaceX IPO.

Yall diving in on this juicy target price or DCA to 50k? It’s speaking to me like the ring. Side note - I can’t wait for all these overpromised AI investors to run back to BTC once they realize no one cares about generating b tier animations or code that requires constant sourcing for troubleshooting.

Don't be a baby. Don't be a fish. Stay strong. It's not supposed to be easy. Bitcoin.

STRC is the preferred stock issued by MSTR, it is designed to sit at $100 per share; the way it does that is by increasing or decreasing the dividend monthly to promote buying/selling. It's already sitting at 11.5% dividend and at $92.xx per share, which will require a significant increase in dividend %.

Saylors recent small BTC sale was to pay this dividend, next month the dividend will have to rise to entice buyers back into it to tease it back up to $100 per share. That dividend of 12.5% or 13% becomes more difficult to pay and Saylor will need to dump more BTC to pay the dividend, as you can see this may cause a negative feedback loop, where the sale of BTC lowers price which inturn forces the continued sale of BTC, which ultimately will result in MSTR collapse.

Mine is $94k so yeah... definitely feeling the pain but still hodling

Okay listen:
- the big players dropping btc for ai shares/spacex. The expected a rise and needed funds so that makes sense
- this btc drop is big and this ai rise is big and sudden. Those thing don’t last 4 months…
- big players will try to take profits at the peak in t just before/just after. When then happened it drops like a rock AND they’ll have a lot of cash on their hands. -> they’ll need something to put those profits in. Something durable, proven profitable..
- they’ll jump in btc gain and the reverse will happen. It’s the perfect anti cycle. How often donee have this opportunity?
- buy low=buy btc

This is only for those that are still screaming for another 70%+ crash… I have one simple question for you.

Cycle returns have already shrunk dramatically. Each bull market has delivered meaningfully lower multiples than the last.

Yet many of you still price in classic 70-80% drawdowns.

If the upside is getting smaller while the downside stays brutal… what exactly is your thesis?

Previous cycles gave you massive asymmetric upside in exchange for the pain.

Now we’re looking at considerably lower returns… while still accepting 70%+ pain?
That’s a materially worse risk/reward profile.

So which is it?

A) You’re taking nearly the same risk for far lower returns
B) Diminishing returns eventually plateau or reverse as adoption grows
C) You’re a full bear who believes Bitcoin is dying

Be honest.

Bitcoin isn’t “dead.” It’s doing what it has done every cycle: violently shaking out weak hands.

What’s interesting is that the long-term models with the best historical fit still project surprisingly high BTC prices by 2030:
• Power Law 400k
• Metcalfe’s Law 500k+
• Institutional adoption models → 250k–600k

Meanwhile the current selloff is mostly:

ETF outflows
macro/rates fears
leveraged liquidations
Different cycle. Same emotions.

Sorry if my question is stupid but I want to know since im a beginner.

All of my friends are messaging me that bitcoin is dead! I am so excited for the discount we’re going to get

Its been a long time staking and bought more recently, i have 1.3btc to my name

Everyone talks about the 21 million hard cap, but what protocol feature do you think doesn't get enough appreciation?

What is the best approach to investing in Bitcoin in the long term? I’m currently doing regular DCA (dollar-cost averaging) and I’m also adding a bit more during this recent dip. My plan is mainly to hold for the long term, but I keep wondering if it actually makes sense to take some profits during major bull market peaks instead of just holding everything. For example, would a strategy like DCA + partial profit-taking at highs, then reinvesting those funds during big corrections, be more effective over time than pure HODL? Even if the market keeps going up afterwards, the idea would be to slowly rebuild positions during downturns. I’m not talking about timing everything perfectly, just maybe selling a portion during euphoric phases and not going fully all-in or fully out. I feel like I’m committed to HODL, but I also wonder if I’m missing opportunities by never taking any profits to reinvest later.

In June 2016, the total Bitcoin network hashrate was around 1.5 exahashes per second (EH/s). Today in 2026, we are consistently sustaining hundreds of EH/s.
The sheer scale of computational security added over the last decade is mind-blowing. It truly is the most secure computing network on the planet.
What do you think is the most underrated milestone Bitcoin achieved over the last 10 years?

I was explaining Bitcoin self-custody to a friend today. They couldn't grasp that the coins aren't actually "inside" the physical hardware wallet, but live on the blockchain, and the device just holds the private keys.
It made me realize how much of a mental shift Bitcoin requires compared to traditional banking.
What was the hardest concept for you to fully grasp when you first moved away from centralized exchanges?

Yes. I said it. Not just me. We are ALL waiting for the bear to be over.

Let us all cooperate to let it dip to a new low if it needs to.

Then let it shoot up to 250k when the bear phase is over.

We predicted the bear cycle, that will come true.

And next we will make the bull cycle come true too.

Hi, I am looking for someone to swap my crypto into cash in Germany.

Just stopping by to tell everyone who's panicking and isn't convinced about BTC: please leave the sub and don't bother the diamond hands with your useless FUD. You're not going to make it. What I see is the stock market rising and crypto dropping, but no one wants to admit that the AI bubble is going to burst at some point, and all that liquidity currently rotating from BTC into stocks will land in someone's pocket, because so many are little crying b****s who are sooo easy to manipulate.

Keep holding my friends!

But it does change what you're choosing between. Selling means actively moving the key. Holding means doing nothing. Sometimes that's the whole point.

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He is buying! I’m so proud of him! I know, I know people will say, he should invest in VOO or whatnot ????????. I gave him an allowance because he is getting good grades, helps with house chores etc. When relatives send him money..he invests in bitcoin.

It’s funny, I ask him “what is Bitcoin at?!” He responds “ohhhh it’s down, can I please have 50 dollars to invest?”

Yes, I teach my son about personal finance and have forced him to read a few books ????????

My point is…if my son who is only a year older than Bitcoin gets excited about buying more..what the …why are you crying?

“There is no crying in baseball”

One underappreciated aspect of BTC is how potential future investors see it. Nearly everybody currently investing into it saw it develop and then were eventually convinced to buy in, but will this be the case in the future? Or do today's kids already understand it's value and be more likely to buy in once they have their own portfolio?

They've grown up in a digital economy and understand how microtransactions work, and have spent much of their childhood buying virtual goods (something that most adults today don't understand). Once they inherit today's wealth they may be much more ready to buy in.

I thought about buying some Bitcoin and I spoke with one of the pushy brokers at Stormrake. I changed my mind when they said they charge a 1% custody fee to look after my Bitcoin. It's not a real custody service, as they hold it on their own balance sheet. It's mixed in with their own holdings and other clients' funds. I thought custody was a service offered by reputable groups, not brokers. Isn't this what FTX did in the last correction? That's the whole point of independent custody. I'm not sure I trust them, so I'm looking at other options. What do you think?

Told me that I was “always looking out for him”.

Why?

Because I have never once told him to buy BTC when it’s ripping at all time highs. He said “you always call me when your down 40-50% and say, now is the time you should invest”

That made me feel good as I was shit splaining to him how I’ve “lost” 50% from all time highs.

That being said. Don’t have that much powder because you know “life”. But plan to put $250 weekly..DCA…here we go

I'm thinking about holding BTC until next year

Do you guys think its going to keep going down more? I know your guess is as good as mine, but just curious as to what others are thinking. "It's not about timing the market, but about time in the market".

I just bought $20 worth of Bitcoin which is 31,027 sats. Swan displays it as ₿0.0003127 which is the more widely accepted format. But wouldn't it help adoption if all exchanges displayed sats as the initial valuation metric? Also there's no symbol for sats. Do you think at this point at least we should have a symbol for sats?

I have a weird feeling that the crypto market is being manipulated lower by hedge fund and large cap investors so they can buy it at a discount when the Clarity Act passes. Just putting this down here now so when it passes and we see 100k BTC again I can say I told you so to nobody in particular.

I actively avoid coming to this subreddit during a bull market because of the utterly insane things people post to justify whatever their bitcoin position is (whether for good or for bad). And for context - I'm a believer in bitcoin. Come here during a bear market and it's as if all you people think bitcoin is just going to vanish and go to 0. Why on earth are you not treating this as one of the best bargain bin purchases in years and are instead so hyper focused on AI stocks currently at an ATH? If you're that confident in bitcoin during a bull market, you should be rejoicing right now with the steep discounts. There's been no fundamental changes to bitcoin besides general market sentiment which is fleeting.

Should go up to 100k. Give it a few days

I started doing DCA, for $10 a week on Coinbase. Is this a bad idea?

I started actually learning about bitcoin 1 year ago. Before then it was just something that I didn’t understand.

A year ago I was trying to come up with ways to make money. I thought bitcoin would be a good idea. Didn’t know a whole lot about it other than the price might go up.

Then the rabbit hole started and I was like oh shit, this thing actually makes so much sense.

Why do we just rely on an inflationary system that makes it impossible to save money. Why no matter how hard I work am I always stuck in that same place with a retirement age being pushed later and later by the government. I don’t want to be working when I’m 70. But the system they have built forces this.

This is why even though I started buying around the last all time high. I’m still buying today. I’m not gonna lie it’s been exhausting and the year has taught me the true meaning of HODLing. But if I can make it this far I can hold on another 14 years.

I said to myself no matter what, hold for at least 15 years. I’m sticking to this. If BTC crashes and burns then at least I went out investing in something I believed in.

What doesn’t make sense to me is why the price keeps going down after so much adoption. Perhaps it’s the 4 year cycle… perhaps it’s institutional suppression… perhaps it’s lack of retail investment.

Either way I’m not selling yet. It’s exhausting but I’m hopeful. I see good news all the time and plenty of people still believe.

Whether it was falling for a scam, selling way too early, or losing a seed phrase, most of us have a painful lesson we had to learn the hard way.

Looking back, what is the number one mistake you made that you wish you could warn every beginner to avoid?

super fun possible fact: if it doesnt break the 60k support, the bounce to 75-80 will be more brutal than every shorts nightmare ????

the shorts piling up here might be the perfect storm we need

These power players that are piling up cash may not be looking to buy profit. It is more likely that they see a once in a lifetime opportunity to buy access to information and decision making. Having 20% controlling shares and board representation in any of these companies allows you to know what they are doing and effect where they are going.
Also, dca. Have fun first timers. Hold on tight.

Imagine building something that ends up being worth hundreds of billions of dollars, and never touching a single cent. Not in the first bull run, not at $1,000, not at $10,000, not at $100,000.

For over a decade, Satoshi's coins just... sit there. No transactions. Nothing. Zero. Maybe he lost the keys. Maybe he's gone. Or maybe, and this is the part that messes with my head, he just got it in a way most of us still don't, because Bitcoin was built to outlive its creator. And it did. So here's what I keep thiunking about : if Satoshi was staring at the charts right now, watching the price do its thing... would he feel like an idiot for leaving so much money on the table?...or would he just smile, close his laptop, and think: we're still early?

When the headlines get this negative, do you just stick to your regular DCA, or do you actively scrape together extra cash to buy the discount?

How much simpler could it possibly be?

Please note I am not a BTC hater. I have it as a notable part of my portfolio. However, I'm not a Maxi or "all in." I have been part of this community since 2017. I've noticed for some "true believers" that it's almost a religion. Some people are pinning their future financial health on it. What happens when one finds out there is no Heaven?

We’re in the 4th Bitcoin drawdown after the 2024 having; the total Drawdown: -49.7%
Peak: $126,198 (October 6, 2025)
Current Macro Trough: ~$63,392

I think Bitcoin is performing well if you compare it with the previous cycles, especially considering the liquidity competition from AI stocks. Tile to buy and hodl…

I’m a newly graduated attending doctor, and I now make about 11× what I made during training. Suddenly I have more money than I’m used to managing and as many of you probably know, doctors don’t make the best investment decisions. To avoid constantly thinking about markets and making decisions, I decided to invest all of my savings for the next 6 years into BTC with zero intention of selling during that period. That would be around 180K-200k USD a year. I deeply believe in BTC long term, but I also keep telling myself there may be risks or blind spots I’m not aware of about BTC and because of that I will loose all my money.
Am I taking too much risk, or should I diversify?

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I was due being a whole coiner by the end of next year but with the price fluctuations I am now a whole coiner!

I have been stacking since 2021 and now my new goal is 2.1 BTC for my future retirement.

Just so we're clear: I've had my offline wallet since day one and I couldn't care less who knows I have 1 whole Bitcoin. Now, I'll just sit back and wait for all my long lost friends and long-lost cousins to start flooding my DMs.

This is the time to get at least half a bitcoin . Bitcoin will be at least $200k in 2 years .

ive been into bitcoin since 2023, bought in initially at 60k and have been on a steady dca ever since.

at this point im down overall, since my dca took my all the way up to 120k and all the way back down

feeling like this is my first true test as a hodler. will i crack under the pressure and pull out? or will i establish myself as a true bitcoiner and diamond hands my way through this?

This is my first ever post on here. I started purchasing bitcoin in 2017, before it had ever hit 10k. When it hit 10K I was pumped!!! Then it hit 20k and I was in disbelief… when it started to drop I panicked sold. I broke even.

I had a buddy of mine who convinced me to buy back in. Long story short let this an investment. Don’t cash out when times look tough. Hold strong and invest what you can afford.

I will never consider selling my bitcoin unless it is a true emergency or I’m ready to start retirement.

HODL

Check Bitcoin on google news, every article negative. Everyone starting to sell, all negative news surrounding Bitcoin, this is when you start buying. Been in it since 2017. Learned to never sell in 2018. This has happened over and over now. Don't sell. Good luck.

Straight to 57K!!!

Is this the bottom or do majority of people think we are going to bleed out.

Don’t buy Bitcoin if you’re going to hop on here with a bunch of bullshit everyday.

Buy and hold. Thats the strategy. If you need money, take it out if there no penalties and it works for you.

There’s two options - either DCA or buy when it dips and watch the market or BOTH ????????????????

The market hasn’t been around long enough for ANYONE to predict anything.

Buy and don’t complain. It’s not that hard. Freaking out over every dip means this IS NOT FOR YOU.

To the people selling everything and taking out loans to invest in bitcoin ????????????✌️✌️✌️????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????

Good luck!!!!!!!!!!!! Invest what you HAVE not what YOU DONT HAVE.

I need to leave this sub bc everyday it pisses me off.

If it’s low buy it or DCA it. Then hold for at least 10 years and you will make money. Wowwwwwwwww you can even dip into it if you need money? Wowwwwwwwwwwwweewwwww amazing stuff. Like what is happening?

What’s you honest thoughts, reactions, input on the current state of BTC and what this market/run is doing?

Thsts all i got too say bought them two for discount today????

Right now this is sitting at 61k and has served as a bottom throughout bitcoins life. Doesn’t mean it can’t go lower, it has , we’ve even wicked below the 300w moving average- but this has always been an historic buying opportunity. Also the cost to mine a bitcoin is roughly 60k. This has also historically been a bottom. I expect us to touch these levels and I can’t wait to buy.

Could it go to 40k? Anything is possible this is a long term hold to hedge against the dollar. But I think we are closing in on the local bottom. Keep selling!!!

You have paper hands, this is a long term asset, the upside goes a lot further than the downside, uninstall the app or don’t look if you can’t handle it, the downside isn’t bad when you have +100-200% coming, I’d be far more pissed selling right now only for it to go way up later because I got scared, if anything you should be BUYING and accumulating

Title says it all. We’re heading back down which means to fire up the weekly buys again. Personally I’m going to set up a buy every Sunday until October 1st. Not going to try and time things and just buy while the prices are relatively low. Time to stack!

Source: https://www.cnbc.com/2026/06/03/bitcoins-high-conviction-holders-are-selling-as-price-hits-new-lows.html

Imagine that. One quarter of all bitcoin sales in the last month was done by the literal definition of weak hands.

These were not people who researched bitcoin; who deposited it to their own wallet; who believe the tech matters; who know bitcoin's "inherent value" comes from being the world's largest immutable decentralized ledger; who feel that independent money has a place in the world.

Bitcoin's real price is only found when you shake out those speculators. Are you one of them?

EDIT: Fwiw, I kinda screwed up the headline here because it’s not that 26% sold at a general loss, it’s how many people sold after buying in over $90k. Meaning they’ve held since January and folded now. My point stands, however.

Why would someone deposit $.20 (not posting the exact amount in sats for privacy) into a wallet address. A friend made the wallet address offline, deposited a small amount of BTC one time, have never sent from it. It is a new, single transaction wallet.

We searched the blockchain on his node and this seems common but I cant figure out why.

Any ideas/thoughts might help put us at ease.

And how would one do that? Echange the bitcoin to for example us dollars.

In April 2028 the next halving will take place. In January 2029 there will be a new US president. In November 2032 we will already see the second presidential election after the Trump era. By then, SpaceX will have been publicly traded for years. Perhaps a Mars landing is even just around the corner. Things will seem to us as if they happened ages ago.

The clock is ticking. Don't waste your time with fear or thinking about what to do. Just buy & HODL. Use your lifetime for yourself to stay healthy. Don't do shit with your body, even if you are young. It may be the last time you can buy Bitcoin so much below $100K—just use that opportunity.

Was not convinced of Bitcoin until the ETFs released. Was worried I was late to the party. We are debt free and buying every day in River. I am committed to DCA until 2030.

crypto just being a side gig, but I couldn’t resist buying some btc today

Please resist giving all the shitty doom posts and video's the clicks they need - it will just make them fire out more.

Bitcoin has "died" hundreds of times and it still keeps going like it always will. Tik-tok-next-block.

Time to load up before it takes off.

I'm curious to hear how people in this community were first introduced to Bitcoin. What sparked your interest and what was your first experience using or learning about it Have your views on Bitcoin changed over time It would be interesting to hear stories from both long-time Bitcoin users and those who discovered it more recently

I will do it again in 2026

What's the 4 year cycle everyone is talking about? How reliable is it?

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Following up on the Silent Payments article from last week — several people asked about the spending privacy side.

Honest answer: SP + Lightning is already a strong combo. But if you ever need to spend on-chain, you want CoinJoin'd UTXOs as inputs. Otherwise CIOH heuristics can still reconstruct your history.

The stack I'd recommend in 2026: receive via sp1q... address, CoinJoin with Wasabi + OpenCoordinator or JoinMarket/Jam before any significant on-chain spend, route everyday payments through Lightning. Each layer attacks a different part of the surveillance graph.

Full guide here: https://davidebtc186.substack.com/p/you-fixed-your-receiving-privacy

Curious if anyone here has a different approach for the on-chain spending layer.

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I was typing completely random words into the 12-word recovery phrase in Phantom. At first it showed “Incorrect words”.
I changed only one word and tried again — it suddenly worked perfectly. Phantom accepted it, showed “We found 1 account” and imported the wallet.
Now I have full access to that account.
I know the mathematical probability of this happening is basically zero, so I’m pretty shocked. Has this ever happened to anyone else? Is there some bug in Phantom or did I just get extremely lucky?
Not touching the account obviously, just curious as hell.
Throwaway account.

Everyone talks a big game, well nows the opportunity.

You ask for these opportunities, here they are.

Buy, accumulate, follow through.

L402 is the Lightning version of API payments. An agent calls a service, gets a 402 Payment Required response with a Lightning invoice, pays it, and gets the data back. The entire cycle takes under a second and costs fractions of a cent.

There are 1,185 services running this way right now. They cover weather, translation, LLM inference, data feeds, DNS lookup, financial data, and a lot more.

The problem is discoverability. These services are scattered across GitHub repos, personal projects, and small startups. There's no central place to find them, compare their prices, or know which ones are actually alive and working.

We built one: https://api.ideafactorylab.org

It indexes 2,811 services total across x402 (USDC on Base), L402 (Lightning), and MPP (Stripe). All graded A-F weekly. You can search by keyword, filter by protocol, and see live uptime data.

The discovery endpoint is free:

GET https://api.ideafactorylab.org/discover?q=weather&protocol=l402 

Lightning channel support is next on the roadmap. Right now the proxy settles in USDC, but we're opening LN channels to bridge USDC-paying agents into Lightning services automatically.

If you're running an L402 service and aren't indexed, submit here: https://api.ideafactorylab.org/submit

Because they never do

Hey Guys..

So I've just tested my riig, and it was hitting 0.00099 Per day. Is this a decent amount????

About a year and a half ago it became my goal to own .1 btc, I am proud to say I have accomplished this. Only the beginning, let the market sell due to Iran, micro strategy, ai, and whatever else. I see people say because bitcoin isnt going up and it should have because everything else went up so now that means it’s over. How? It’s a piece of technology that’s a hedge against the petrodollar that will inevitably become worthless due to compounding debt math.

And I understand the dollar became inflated so bitcoin should go up. It did in 2025! Now those dollars are all being rushed into ai but that doesn’t change bitcoin as a piece of technology. Buy buy buy

Drops like these are just bitcoin clock resets.
The folks in 2021 probably have more bitcoin than you, BUT you can enter at the same price.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

See you in 2028 for the next ATH.

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

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

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

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

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

Bitcoin is still Bitcoin.

21 million.

Tick tock, next block.

Keep stacking. ????

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

In 231 days, I've invested nearly $4k (averaging $17/day), starting when BTC was at $117k. My wallet is currently at $3,500, down about $500.

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

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

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

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

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

Anybody else taking a while?

I believe this is the hash: 950207f01c4e3bf4512fb0c4eb3903305ca4dfb05f9ed834d0c5d481e09f5564

Transaction confirmed. Thanks again folks.

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

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

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

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

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

Thanks in advance for your comments!

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

... is easier said than done.

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

Should I buy now? Should I wait for later?

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

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

Let's goo

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

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

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

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

https://www.reddit.com/r/AmItheAsshole/s/QCwtUo8X43 Link to my original post on AITA

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

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

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

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

People assume everyone buys it for the same reason.

That hasn't been my experience at all.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Is r/Bitcoin even aware?

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

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

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

Upvote if you agree

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

But*

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

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

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

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

Is this a valid concern or am I missing something?

Anyone has idea why bitcoin is falling so sharply now ?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Happens everytime. It's magic!

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

1.) How was bitcoin purchased back then?

2.) How did people set up a wallets?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“YoU dO BiTcOiN?”

????????

I don’t even know what that means…

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

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

this is the revolution. SATYAGRAHA!

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Is there anything better out there?

Dell Vice Chairman Jeff Clarke had this quote:

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

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

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

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

#1: Harmony and Discord

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

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

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

Discord

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

• 1.5% origination fee on every lending contract

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

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

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

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

A few things I'm genuinely curious about:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

- Live chart (obviously)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Hey

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

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

What it does:

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

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

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

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

https://www.lattecalc.com/

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

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

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

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

A few things I'd love feedback on:

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

Open to any feedback or criticism. Please help.

Hey everyone,

I'm one of the founders of Frame.

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

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

A few things about us:

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

Our long term goal is bigger than just selling hardware.

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

Most Bitcoin treasury companies started with cash and bought Bitcoin.

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

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

I'd love to hear from the Bitcoin community:

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

Appreciate any feedback, criticism, or ideas.

Thanks.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

THE THREE PILLARS OF THE REAL SOCIETY

PILLAR 1: HONEST MONEY (Ending the Debt Illusion)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

WHY A REALIST WANTS TO SHIFT THE SYSTEM

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

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

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

THE REALIST TRANSITION: A CENTURY-LONG SHIFT

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Thank you for reading!

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

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

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

My original plan was:

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

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

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

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

Now I’m questioning the structure of this approach.

Main concerns:

I’m using IBIT instead of holding Bitcoin directly

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

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

Stick to the current cycle-based allocation plan in ETF

Shift toward diversified ETFs instead

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

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

repeating the cycle over time until retirement...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Rough consensus is a feature.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Good evening everyone,

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

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

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

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

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

Thank you.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Hey guys, has anyone actually successfully used chatBTC?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Under the hood it:

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

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

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

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

A few design choices worth calling out:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

higher volatility,
distribution behavior,
more emotional positioning.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Some examples:
spotting phishing/scam DMs

practicing wallet recovery without real money

learning why self-custody matters

understanding gas fees/networks in a simple way

fake “meme coin traps” showing common mistakes people make

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I'll get back into it someday.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

We dont trust it.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Ask your questions about lightning

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

Learn about new LN features, development, apps

Link to good quality resources (articles, wikis etc)

Resources:

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

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

• Previous threads: Search

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Hodl on tight!

Hey everyone,

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

What it shows:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Sometimes I wonder...

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

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

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

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

Curious to hear your thoughts.

Would you still trust it?

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

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

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

Olá, boa noite a todos!

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

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

Gostaria da opinião dos senhores sobre:

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

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

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

Agradeço desde já pela ajuda!

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

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

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

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

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

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

Thanks

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Let me know if something or missing or wrong.

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Welcome to the /r/Bitcoin Newcomers FAQ

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

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

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

Some other great educational resources include;

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

If you are technically or academically inclined check out;

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

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

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

Key properties of Bitcoin

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

Where can I buy bitcoin?

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

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

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

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

Securing your bitcoin

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Running Bitcoin

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

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

Don't Trust, Verify.

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

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

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

Watch out for scams

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

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

Common Bitcoin Myths

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

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

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

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

Where can I spend bitcoin?

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

There are also lots of charities which accept bitcoin donations.

Merchant Resources

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

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

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

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

Can I mine bitcoin?

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

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

Earning bitcoin

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

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

Bitcoin-Related Projects

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

Bitcoin Units

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

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

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

For more information check out the bitcoin units wiki.

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

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

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

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

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

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