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How much Bitcoin you are accumulating per month or per year? submitted by /u/jarzabpospolity [link] [comments]

Is this part of his 'strategy'?

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Have Stablecoins Already Won?

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Have Stablecoins Already Won? Serious question. A few years ago, most crypto discussions were about replacing banks, replacing fiat, and becoming a new financial system. Now it feels like stablecoins are quietly becoming the most practical crypto product instead. Payments. Remittances. Settlement. Treasury management. Cross-border transfers. Do you think stablecoins end up being crypto's biggest success story, or is something bigger still coming? submitted by /u/Ge_Yo [link] [comments]

Coinbase / Morpho Bitcoin-backed loans, how big is the risk of variable rate going up to something insane like 50% or 100%? Or even something less insane but still unreasonable like 15%?

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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? submitted by /u/Classic-Champion-966 [link] [comments]

why BTC is dropping so fast now ?

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Anyone has idea why bitcoin is falling so sharply now ? submitted by /u/Low_Feature2357 [link] [comments]

How to handle the first bitcoin dip ?

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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 ????? submitted by /u/Loose_Archer3246 [link] [comments]

Bullish On A Deal?

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Risk assets are starting to price in a deal being done, Brent crude is significantly lower but then strikes from the USA and Iran panic everyone that the deal is not as near as we think. So how is crypto reacting? Well initially, there was positive movement upwards on rumours and talk of a deal being near but the move wasn’t protracted. However, in response to the strikes, crypto came off a fair bit so clearly there is still fear there in markets. The S and P is trading above levels it was at when the USA initially began the war with Iran. It’s surprising to a lot of market participants especially with oil trading as high as it has but underscores the belief that a deal and resolution is coming no doubt with free access to the Straits of Hormuz. Downside risks are in play if the war was to really escalate again. With the rumours that Masoud Pezeshkian has offered his resignation due to a complete takeover of power by the IRGC, it seems less likely the war will escalate again and more likely that in fighting within the Iranian regime could lead potentially to regime collapse or civil strife. Still we must be aware that Dogecoin could fall below 8 cents were things to really escalate and Bitcoin below 60,000 USD. For the upside, clearly a deal that brings the war to an end AND facilitates the free shipping of oil through the Straits of Hormuz is going to be bullish for the crypto space. It always takes time for the full effects of major news to filter through to markets as banks and funds position themselves. I would expect if a deal is signed and agreed that Dogecoin heads towards 16 cents which is quite a major level. The previous double bottom at 11.70 cents acted as resistance but with the creaky ceasefire that was not really surprising. Similar story to my previous call, long at 8.5 cents as mentioned previously looking a good trade and an exit of a partial amount of it at 11.5 cents with a view to running the rest higher towards 16 cents. There may be plenty of momentum by that time though and a case for holding the rest to move higher. Always keep in mind that digital assets can range trade without much volume and suddenly explode on news and the arrival of volume. Until next time….stay displined submitted by /u/ThePMDiary [link] [comments]

Strategy shares fall after selling $2.5 million in bitcoin, its first sale since 2022

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We've been here before( 71K). What keeps you grounded when the cycle gets ugly?

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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? submitted by /u/MoneyMonsterStudios [link] [comments]

$BNB reminder: bearish does not always mean short it here

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Current read on BNB / USDC 1H. The interesting part is the difference between the earlier short setup and the current state. On the left, the short had structure: entry, stop, targets, and enough grading to map the trade. On the right, price has already moved lower, but the panel is not screaming “short more.” Grade is low, score is low, and the read is basically wait for trigger. That is the part I care about most. A bearish move is not automatically a fresh trade. A good decision layer should separate: directional bias setup quality invalidation realistic targets whether the trade still deserves risk For me, the edge is not just catching the move. It is knowing when the move is already late. submitted by /u/CODE_HEIST [link] [comments]

Bitcoin performance in relationship of top 100 cryptos since 2020

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This is a new updated chart taking all top 100 coins from early 2020 until today, and the performance of all those coins in relationship to BTC. This is the ultimate proof that altcoins are no good for long term investment, other than very short term speculation. submitted by /u/DepthHorror9528 [link] [comments]

More than half of crypto losses in May came from bridge failures

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Saylor just sold $2.4m Bitcoin

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You can look it up. It was thru Strategy. Trial balloon. submitted by /u/motoware [link] [comments]

Why many Cryptocurrency Exchanges in EU will Stop Operating After July 1, 2026

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We put together a comprehensive guide on Bitcoin-backed loans

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We've seen alot more questions pop up about BTC-backed loans, so we constructed what we think is the most comprehensive guide. To be clear, BTC-backed loans have significant risks and anyone borrowing needs to be aware of what could go wrong, especially in a declining pricing environment for Bitcoin and how specific lenders handle them. The document is dynamic, so would love any suggestions the community has. submitted by /u/SN617 [link] [comments]

They are using UBI to code digital neo-feudalism. Bitcoin fixes this

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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. submitted by /u/IceSea192 [link] [comments]

The 10th anniversary of OPENDIME

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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/ submitted by /u/Subject_Reward [link] [comments]

The more you bought the more it dips

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Happens everytime. It's magic! submitted by /u/unthocks [link] [comments]

Strategy just sold 32 BTC for $2.5 million at ~$77,135 each. But why???

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Although it's just 0.004% of their 843,706 BTC holdings (~$60B+) But still, why? Just because of shifting some sizes in the balance sheet? Sauce: https://x.com/i/status/2061418961787408822 submitted by /u/ocean_protocol [link] [comments]

Strategy sells Bitcoin for first time since 2022 to fund preferred stock dividends

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Saylor Signals New BTC Buy as May Closes in Red

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Friend of mine argues that Bitcoin can't be used for passive income

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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. submitted by /u/Electrical_Eye_6503 [link] [comments]

What's the actual plan for ETH to be valuable?

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I used to think the plan was threefold: (1) a big economy that burns fees in ETH, (2) being the best store of value, and (3) constantly updating our views and improving the tech. I'd like to revisit each with what we know today. Asking in good faith as a holder. 1. A big economy that burns fees in ETH Fees are tiny right now. Is the plan ever going to change that? If the entire stock-trading market moved onto Ethereum, would the fees still be negligible? Is there a scenario where the fees actually make a difference — and is it realistic? 2. The best store of value What are the main differentiators from Bitcoin and Zcash? Quantum resistance? Privacy plus more functionality than Zcash? 3. We keep updating our views and improving the tech Money is a technology, and technologies get outdated and need new features (e.g. quantum resistance). The EF isn't self-sustainable, and by its own framing the goal is to step aside over time. So is there any self-sustaining entity responsible for keeping ETH the best and most up-to-date tech — or who actually owns that long game? submitted by /u/jpiabrantes [link] [comments]

What's the most tax efficient way to withdraw Bitcoin

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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 submitted by /u/warsponge [link] [comments]

I know that «noone knows»

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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?:) submitted by /u/SpotCalm7588 [link] [comments]

Flip your bits

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A friendly reminder that Bitcoin's mission is to separate money from state. Flip to bit 4 and support BIP-110 submitted by /u/kolbenstvedt [link] [comments]

Where to sell Delisted token? (cmETH)

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I didn't see the announcement in bybit in which they will delist the token. Now the spot is closed i want to convert back it to ETH submitted by /u/Mayfall- [link] [comments]

Opinion on ETH, HEDERA, CHAINLINK and SOL? They will recover?

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Hi, i have a big portion of BTC and i have DCA on ETH, Hedera, chainlink and SOL. I was thinking of converting them all to BTC although at a loss. Do you think it's ok to do it, or is there a chance they will go up again? I'm not really positive regarding crypto as it's a bit of time that I'm not investing. I was more active in 2022. What do you think? submitted by /u/valthurn [link] [comments]

I bought XLM at $0.50 in July 2025. Here is what that taught me about the current DTCC pump.

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Going to write this out because I see new accounts about to step into the same trap I did last year, and the post might save somebody two thousand dollars and ten months of holding a bag. Last summer I bought XLM around fifty cents on the Protocol 23 narrative. The release candidate had just dropped, PYUSD was about to launch on Stellar, the institutional adoption thread was everywhere on my timeline. I sized into the position thinking the catalyst stack would carry the token comfortably to eighty cents. The upgrade shipped. PYUSD went live. None of it mattered. By May 22 of this year XLM had a daily close of fourteen cents, which is 72 percent below my entry. Ten months of holding, ten months of watching every announcement that was supposed to support the price fail to do anything for it. I closed most of the position at the lows and learned my lesson the hard way. Last week the DTCC headline broke and the same exact playbook started running. Short liquidations off the announcement, viral threads about Stellar finally winning institutional integration, projections of forty cents and beyond. The chart looks identical to where I was sitting a year ago, and the institutional brand attached to the headline is bigger this time which only makes the FOMO worse. The first lesson from holding the July 2025 bag is that the price moves on the anticipation, not on the actual integration. By the time the catalyst ships, the headline has been traded for months and there is nobody left to sell to at higher prices. The DTCC integration goes live in the first half of 2027. The current price is essentially borrowing all the upside from that future event right now. The second lesson is that institutional partnerships do not automatically translate into token demand. Tokenized assets on Stellar are issued by DTCC and settle in USDC. The fee paid in XLM is zero in dollar terms regardless of volume. The protocol gets used, the token sits there. Same as it did with PYUSD after that launch. I sold the small remainder of my XLM into this rally and I am not chasing it back in. If the integration actually flows real volume through Stellar in 2027, the token can reprice on that data. Until then, the structure of this move is the same setup that cost me a year of opportunity cost the first time around. Posting because I see new accounts asking whether to buy at $0.27 and somebody needs to tell them what holding the previous version of this trade actually looks like at the end. submitted by /u/DAOTimes [link] [comments]

Is it safer to close my lighting channels and refrain from doing transactions for now?

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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! submitted by /u/inmathwetrust [link] [comments]

Bitcoin Treasury Firms Lack Strategy, Says BSTR Co-Founder

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I built a concept for a Bitcoin-mining vape. Looking for honest feedback.

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I've been working on an idea called HASH and wanted to get some feedback before spending money developing it. The concept is a rechargeable vape that contains a small Bitcoin mining chip. The idea isn't that it would generate meaningful income. Mining would only occur while charging and would contribute to a community mining network. Users could track activity through a mobile app and participate as part of a larger mining community. I've put together product renders, app concepts, and a website to gauge interest before moving further. A few questions: Is this something you'd actually buy? What price point would make sense? Is the Bitcoin aspect interesting or just a gimmick? What concerns would you have? I'm looking for honest feedback, including reasons why it's a terrible idea. Thanks. TO BE CLEAR I HAVE NOT MADE THIS PRODUCT. LOOKING FOR FEEDBACK ON THE IDEA submitted by /u/Additional_Elk_4855 [link] [comments]

Woods are more scarce than gold in universe

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You can find gold in other planet. Buy Bitcoin. And stop wasting woods. submitted by /u/unthocks [link] [comments]

Are really Bitcoin Only cold wallets safer?

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Planning to get one cold wallet and I was thinking in multi coin one, but after reading the posts in Reddit I got convinced that bitcoin only is safer… what do you think? submitted by /u/ConanEdogawaa [link] [comments]

Share your craziest crypto story. I’ll go first: I accidentally helped create a 100,000x and made $0

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Back in 2021 BSC mania I was approached by the founder of MoneyShot which was a token tied to the adult industry. Dev wanted exposure through my Twitter account and as part of that he sent me 5 billion HOT tokens at launch My % was valued at around 1 dollar (LOL) I remember looking into the project and getting a bad feeling about it. I didn’t like the adult narrative and the dev seemed far more excited about rugging my audience than building an actual product I decided I wanted nothing to do with it but I already held a measly 1 dollar in worthless tokens Most people would’ve just held them and sold at the first pump Instead I decided to just give them all away All 5 billion of them… THE ENTIRE ONE DOLLAR ???? I started sending millions of HOT tokens to random followers and community members My thinking was if this thing is going to end badly I’d rather the community have some fun with these tokens than sit on a giant allocation from a founder I don’t trust The giveaway itself created attention Twitter started talking about HOT Holder counts exploded Transactions exploded More people discovered the token The chart started moving HOT went from 9->4 zeros So from around 0.0000000002 to roughly 0.00002 A 100,000x move Yes you read that correctly, a one hundred thousand X So that 5 billion HOT I’d originally been given was worth around $100,000 at the peak Except I didn’t own them anymore I’d already given them all away So while everyone else was celebrating the pump I was sitting there watching a 6 figure position that “could’ve” been mine Eventually the token collapsed and everyone started dumping on each other Accusations started flying and somehow I ended up being blamed despite the fact I never sold a single HOT token because I no longer had any Dev was calling me on telegram from Australia threatening to kill me??? ???? To this day I think it’s one of the funniest and most absurd lessons I’ve learned in crypto I tried to stop a founder from eventually dumping a giant allocation on people by giving the bag away The giveaway itself helped create the hype that sent the token vertical but put me in the spotlight as the “shiller” And the one person who didn’t make any money from it was me But I held ALL the corn for the downfall Moral of the story, if anyone gives you a dollar, treat it like $100k ???? Has anyone else got a crypto story this ridiculous? submitted by /u/MediumLibrarian7100 [link] [comments]

Mentor Monday, June 01, 2026: Ask all your bitcoin questions!

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Ask (and answer!) away! Here are the general rules: If you'd like to learn something, ask. If you'd like to share knowledge, answer. Any question about Bitcoin is fair game. And don't forget to check out /r/BitcoinBeginners You can sort by new to see the latest questions that may not be answered yet. submitted by /u/rBitcoinMod [link] [comments]

crypto cards that don’t ask for ID at all?

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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. submitted by /u/ninjapapi [link] [comments]

How did people purchase Bitcoin back in 2009?

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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? submitted by /u/Accurate_Bed6878 [link] [comments]

Daily Discussion, June 01, 2026

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Please utilize this sticky thread for all general Bitcoin discussions! If you see posts on the front page or /r/Bitcoin/new which are better suited for this daily discussion thread, please help out by directing the OP to this thread instead. Thank you! If you don't get an answer to your question, you can try phrasing it differently or commenting again tomorrow. Please check the previous discussion thread for unanswered questions. submitted by /u/rBitcoinMod [link] [comments]

Need help kind of freaking out. Thought I was sending usdt trc20 but after sent I can't find the transaction. Sent via moon pay

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So I sent 6500, I swore this is the way I did it last time, I had tron for gas and I bought usdt through the tron network shown in the photo. But now I can't find the transaction, it's not showing up in my moon pay history. Did I fuck up horribly and lose 6500 dollars? ****it was sent correctly, don't know what you guys were making me freak out for. But moon pay found the transaction and the person got the transfer. So all good. submitted by /u/-_FAD3D_- [link] [comments]

$HYPE is a good reminder: a strong candle is not the same as a clean setup

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Solo Home Miner Wins $232K Bitcoin Block With a $300 Machine at 149 Million-to-1 Odds

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Daily General Discussion June 01, 2026

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Welcome to the Daily General Discussion on r/ethereum https://imgur.com/3y7vezP Bookmarking this link will always bring you to the current daily: https://old.reddit.com/r/ethereum/about/sticky/?num=2 Please use this thread to discuss Ethereum topics, news, events, and even price! Price discussion posted elsewhere in the subreddit will continue to be removed. As always, be constructive. - Subreddit Rules Want to stake? Learn more at r/ethstaker Community Links Ethereum Jobs, Twitter EVMavericks YouTube, Discord, Doots Podcast Doots Website, Old Reddit Doots Extension by u/hanniabu Calendar: https://dailydoots.com/events/ submitted by /u/EthereumDailyThread [link] [comments]

I'm building the world's first Bitcoin learning playground

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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. submitted by /u/AlHqz [link] [comments]

What’s a question a non-Bitcoiner would ask that would immediately tell you they’re not a Bitcoiner? I’ll go first.

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“YoU dO BiTcOiN?” ???????? I don’t even know what that means… submitted by /u/Kanye_West_Side [link] [comments]

Unencrypting private keys from keystore file and password

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Sorry if this sounds basic. This isn’t a “I lost my keys” post. Back in the early days I had an Ethereum wallet. It required you run a full node of ETH using geth on your machine starting with downloading the entire chain. You had your public keys and your private keys were stored in an encrypted keystore file. This wallet software now seems defunct and few want to DL the entire chain now anyway. To make a paper wallet, how would I “recover”/unencrypt my private keys from the keystore file and my password? DMs on the subject will be ignored. submitted by /u/Spektre99 [link] [comments]

Memecoins & Clarity Act

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I hold a lot of memecoins and am considering selling them off before the clarity act. I try to stick to memecoins with above a 50m market cap. My favorite is Toshi, but I just don't know if the clarity act will make those tokens worthless. I've tried doing my research on it but always end up with ambiguous answers. I wanna know what the crypto community thinks. submitted by /u/Complex-Walk8027 [link] [comments]

Bitcoin news in 2013

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In March 2013, Cyprus proposed a controversial bank bailout that would seize a percentage of money from all bank accounts, triggering public outrage and political resistance. As confidence in traditional banks and government-backed currencies weakened, many Europeans—especially in countries worried about similar financial troubles—turned to Bitcoin, causing its price to rise sharply. The article argues that Bitcoin’s growing appeal reflected a broader loss of trust in banks, central banks, and governments following the eurozone debt crisis. It suggests that people were attracted to Bitcoin because it seemed less vulnerable to government intervention and bank bailouts than conventional currencies https://preview.redd.it/0xd7kr2ijk4h1.jpg?width=948&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=7e991f330d078a686763dcbc23b988e3705372f8 Reference: https://www.newyorker.com/tech/annals-of-technology/the-bitcoin-boom submitted by /u/tela9999 [link] [comments]

Diving into Solana's Proof of History setup and what it really means for scalability after the recent outages

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I've been active in crypto discussions for a few years now and Solana keeps coming up in conversations about speed and real-world usage. Instead of just repeating the marketing numbers, I wanted to break down how the core tech actually works and what I've observed from monitoring the network over multiple cycles. It's easy to get caught up in TPS claims, but looking at the mechanics and the practical trade-offs gives a clearer picture. Solana combines Proof of History with Proof of Stake. Proof of History acts like a built-in timestamp that lets validators agree on time without constantly chatting back and forth. This is different from pure Proof of Stake chains where every node has to reach consensus on ordering through more communication. By creating a verifiable sequence of events ahead of time, the network can process transactions in parallel more efficiently. Under good conditions this leads to block times around 400 milliseconds and fees that stay fractions of a cent. I've seen periods where it handled thousands of transactions per second, especially during NFT mint events where demand spiked hard. One example that stood out was the early 2022 NFT launches on platforms like Magic Eden. The volume was intense and the chain showed it could keep moving, but it also exposed limits when things got extreme. There were moments of congestion that led to degraded performance rather than total failure. Those incidents highlighted that while the architecture scales well in theory, validator load and network conditions still matter. Since then upgrades have focused on better leader scheduling and stake-weighted quality of service to reduce single points of overload. If you're thinking about allocating any capital here, practical monitoring becomes essential. Tracking the number of active validators and their uptime gives a sense of resilience. Solana has had several outages tied to high demand or software bugs, and recovery times varied. Looking at metrics like validator count growth helps show whether decentralization is improving. Early on there were valid concerns about a smaller set of validators holding significant stake, partly because the bootstrap phase favored certain operators. As the network matured more independent validators joined, but stake distribution still leans toward larger pools. This doesn't automatically mean centralization risk in daily operation, but it does affect how quickly the network can recover from incidents. Another angle worth watching is developer activity and total value locked trends. TVL on Solana has fluctuated with market cycles, yet certain DeFi protocols and gaming projects have maintained steady usage even during bear phases. Developer commits and new project launches on the chain offer clues beyond price action. When you compare this to other layer one chains claiming similar speeds, the differences come down to how each handles state and execution. Solana's single global state and runtime choices allow high throughput but require careful optimization from app developers to avoid hitting bottlenecks. Competition from chains like Aptos, Sui, or even established players with rollup strategies is worth considering. Each approaches speed differently, whether through parallel execution, different consensus tweaks, or modular designs. Solana's bet on a monolithic high-speed base layer has delivered real activity in niches like memecoins and NFTs, but it faces ongoing questions about reliability during peak load. After past incidents the team has implemented changes like Turbine improvements and better priority fees, which seem to have helped stability in subsequent stress tests. Centralization worries from the initial validator distribution haven't fully disappeared. Growth has brought more participants, yet a meaningful portion of stake remains with entities that were early supporters. This setup can lead to faster decision making on upgrades but raises eyebrows during governance or outage recovery discussions. On the positive side, the low barrier for running a validator in terms of hardware requirements compared to some alternatives has encouraged broader experimentation. Recovery prospects after network events depend on how quickly fixes are deployed and how the community responds. Past downtime led to coordinated restarts and patches that addressed root causes like duplicate signature handling. Each cycle seems to strengthen the operational side, though it also shows that no high-throughput design is immune to edge cases when usage explodes unexpectedly. What keeps pulling me back to following Solana is how the combination of architecture and ecosystem growth creates tangible experiments in scalable applications. It's not just theoretical TPS; people are actually building and using things that benefit from the speed. At the same time the trade-offs around occasional instability and stake concentration require ongoing attention rather than blind optimism. I've noticed that separating short-term price moves from these fundamentals helps in making more grounded decisions. Validator health, recent upgrade impacts, and comparative TVL across similar chains provide better signals than hype cycles alone. If you've been running nodes, developing on the chain, or just tracking these metrics yourself, what stands out to you as the biggest improvement or remaining risk area? submitted by /u/Patriot_tech [link] [comments]

Daily Crypto Discussion - May 31, 2026 (GMT+0)

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Welcome to the Daily Crypto Discussion thread. Please read the disclaimer and rules before participating. Disclaimer: Consider all information posted here with several liberal heaps of salt, and always cross check any information you may read on this thread with known sources. Any trade information posted in this open thread may be highly misleading, and could be an attempt to manipulate new readers by known "pump and dump (PnD) groups" for their own profit. BEWARE of such practices and exercise utmost caution before acting on any trade tip mentioned here. Please be careful about what information you share and the actions you take. Do not share the amounts of your portfolios (why not just share percentage?). Do not share your private keys or wallet seed. Use strong, non-SMS 2FA if possible. Beware of scammers and be smart. Do not invest more than you can afford to lose, and do not fall for pyramid schemes, promises of unrealistic returns (get-rich-quick schemes), and other common scams. Rules: All sub rules apply in this thread. The prior exemption for karma and age requirements is no longer in effect. Discussion topics must be related to cryptocurrency. Behave with civility and politeness. Do not use offensive, racist or homophobic language. Comments will be sorted by newest first. Useful Links: Beginner Resources Intro to r/Cryptocurrency MOONs ???? MOONs Wiki Page r/CryptoCurrency Discord r/CryptoCurrencyMemes Prior Daily Discussions - (Link fixed.) r/CryptoCurrencyMeta - Join in on all meta discussions regarding r/CryptoCurrency whether it be moon distributions or governance. Finding Other Discussion Threads Follow a mod account below to be notified in your home feed when the latest r/CC discussion thread of your interest is posted. u/CryptoDaily- — Posts the Daily Crypto Discussion threads. u/CryptoSkeptics — Posts the Monthly Skeptics Discussion threads. u/CryptoOptimists- — Posts the Monthly Optimists Discussion threads. u/CryptoNewsUpdates — Posts the Monthly News Summary threads. submitted by /u/AutoModerator [link] [comments]

class of 24' bitcoiners are the most important, but the fight is won or loss with those who enter now and in 27'.

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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. submitted by /u/awaller777 [link] [comments]

Please help me.

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Why hasn’t bitcoin recovered?

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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. submitted by /u/EggZestyclose5313 [link] [comments]

How Will We See Mass Bitcoin Adoption Without Pricing Our Lives In It?

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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? submitted by /u/regularxguy1 [link] [comments]

There are almost 2X more shorts than longs, per Coinglass

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Trump Demands Fort Knox Audit After CIA Official Seized With $40M in Gold Bars

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U.S. President Donald Trump renewed his call for a physical audit of the U.S. gold reserves at Fort Knox this weekend, citing the FBI’s arrest of a former CIA official found with approximately $40 million in gold bars at his Virginia home. Trump Posts, Then Explains Trump posted on Truth Social over the weekend, writing […]

BTC Loans

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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? submitted by /u/Legitimate_Ad_3480 [link] [comments]

Who do YOU think Satoshi was? and WHY?

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Adam Back has got the Satoshi debate trending on X again, so I'm opening it up right here on reddit! I've compiled a timeline of significant cryptographic milestones that ultimately led up to the creation of Bitcoin. Read it, refresh your memory, and then in the comments tell me who YOU think Satoshi was and WHY: 1982 David Chaum invents blind signatures 1984 Chaum forms cryptography research group at CWI 1990 Chaum incorporates Digicash, built on top of banking infrastructure 1994 Adam Back starts exploring primitives of PoW 1996 NSA Release How To Make A Mint whitepaper citing cryptographer Tatsauki Okamoto 1997 Adam Back releases PoW 1998 Wei Dei publishes B-money 1998 Szabo develops bitgold 1999 Chaum liquidates and sells assets out of the bankruptcy liquidation. This forms a brand new company called eCash Technologies Inc. based in Washington, USA 2000 Earliest identified public email threads between Len Sassaman and Hal Finney 2001 SHA256 standardised by NIST (designed by NSA), later used by BTC extensively. Without this bitcoins consensus mechanism that solved double spending would not work 2004 David Chaum begins advising at KU Leauven 2004) Hal works on RPOW 2004 Len Sassaman (rabbi@quickie.net) becomes student of David Chaum and Bart Preneel at KU Leauven 2008 Satoshi/Bitcoin descends from e-cash/cyberpunk/hashcash/RPOW ideas, combining all of the greatest cryptographic ideas developed over 30 years. 2010 Len Sassaman starts posting on twitter in a way that suggest he is skeptical of the government and also the direction of Bitcoin… he clearly didn’t like the idea of gov intrusion or centralization March 2010 Epstein sought contact with Meredith Patterson (Len Sassaman's partner) via Pablos. Pablos is Len Sassaman's “friend” and also Epsteins tech networker. April 2011 Bitcoin is announced as handed over to Gavin by Satoshi. (NEXT DAY) Gavin announces he will speak about Bitcoin at CIA HQ (2 DAYS BEFORE CIA HQ TALK) Epstein emails Gavin to arrange a call about Bitcoin and the "serious risks", Gavin declines. June 2011 Gavin meets with the CIA about BTC. July 2011 Len Sassaman suicide (rest in peace legend) Aug 2014 Hal Finney passes away (rest in peace legend) Satoshi wallet remains untouched. My opinion is that NO human would sit on $135 billion+ of theoretical wealth and not touch it. Unless they are dead. Or unless it was the intel agencies watching these guys that orchestrated BTC. Most of these guys were known to each other in the decades that led up to 2008. Intelligence agencies heavily monitored PGP, cypherpunk forums, and mailing lists during the 1990s and early 2000s. They were also at Len Sassaman's code pen events. The NSA Presence: NSA and FBI agents subscribed to the list servs to log every message, track user handles (nyms), and stay updated on software developments. The ECHELON Network: Run by the Five Eyes alliance (US, UK, CA, AU, NZ), this global interception network used keyword triggers to automatically flag internet traffic. Emails containing words related to PGP, keys, or specific cypherpunk manifestos were funneled into agency databases. Bulk Personal Datasets: Leaked disclosures also revealed that UK agencies like GCHQ and MI5 began secretly vacuuming up bulk internet communications and personal datasets in the late 1990s and early 2000s. Anyone actively discussing or utilizing PGP automatically stood out as a high-value anomaly in this metadata. SO, WHO DO YOU THINK SATOSHI WAS? AND WHY? submitted by /u/MediumLibrarian7100 [link] [comments]

Dell COO Most Recent Earnings Call Quote

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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. submitted by /u/bigballer29 [link] [comments]

What are the most sophisticated scam methods you know of?

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I created completely open-source crypto ticker project (easy to DIY)

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I have created my version of crypto ticker. Features: - display current crypto and stock prices with chart - display analog clock with porsche like gauge - set timer or stopwatch Only thing needed for the build is Waveshare ESP32-S3 Touch AMOLED 1.75" Display and 3d printed enclosure. repo for firmware: https://github.com/market-viewer/firmware whole project: https://github.com/market-viewer (i would be very grateful for github stars ⭐) There is also an android app (also open-source), from which you can setup the screens and all details on the screens. You can also self-host the backend service that it runs on. I would love to get some feedback from you. What could be improved? What features would you welcome? submitted by /u/Jou_See [link] [comments]

Btc workshops

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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:) submitted by /u/Imaginingfuture [link] [comments]

Got to move to Quantum safe blockchain

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How Does One Get An Answer From gate io?

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Seventeen months and still no answer. And I see all post querying anything about gate (and there were lots) have been purged. Things that make you go hmmm. submitted by /u/1234DavidH [link] [comments]

I sold another 0.01 bitcoins today, and I deeply regret it, but I had no choice but to sell.

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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. submitted by /u/LAOGE1 [link] [comments]

15 Years Ago, Hal Finney Explained Why Bitcoin Could Not Simply Be Replaced

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Fifteen years ago, one of Bitcoin’s earliest pioneers offered a warning that continues echoing through crypto markets. Hal Finney argued that a monetary network cannot be rebooted without damaging the credibility of everything that follows. On May 30, 2011, Hal Finney and Jon Tobey entered a debate called “Early speculators’ reward.” Basically, it was a discussion on Bitcointalk, where the OP raised a question that has followed Bitcoin since its very first days – was it fair that early adopters mined or acquired coins before most people knew the network existed? Some participants argued that this early distribution amounted to a significant advantage – so large that the protocol itself should be relaunched. Finney rejected the premise with a response that was not just technical, but also rooted in economic logic. “Any successful replacement of the Bitcoin block chain will forever undermine the credibility of any successor. […] How is an investor to know that it won’t happen again?” Finney’s point seems simple now: if Bitcoin could be discarded because early users benefited, then any future replacement would inherit the same vulnerability, because there would be a new group of early adopters, a later group of users who resent them, and so forth – a vicious circle. His argument also anticipated what later became a core principle of Bitcoin: monetary networks depend not only on code but also on confidence, continuity, and credible resistance to arbitrary change. For the shitcoiners, standing in the back: If Bitcoin2 replaces Bitcoin, nothing is stopping from Bitcoin3 replacing Bitcoin2, Bitcoin4 replacing Bitcoin3... ...and the human kind will lose the only chance to have the perfect money. submitted by /u/TheresNoSecondBest [link] [comments]

Cosmos-Based Gravity Bridge Halts After Reported $5.4M Exploit

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"#1: Harmony and Discord" - The Strange Text Was Posted to BitcoinTalk.org in January of 2016 - I wonder who by

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#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. submitted by /u/Fiach_Dubh [link] [comments]

Which app has a debit card available in African countries (mauritius) ?

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I'm getting paid in USDC on Solana for a job and need an app that offers a debit card, since direct transfers to and from crypto exchanges are restricted in all of my local banks. It seems like most of the major options aren't available in many African countries, and so far Kask.xyz looks like the best option. Is there anything better I should consider? submitted by /u/mr_grosse_voix [link] [comments]

Ark invest - Talk on what quantum means for BTC

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https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=304oLDxx30c&ra=m Interesting thoughts in - I personally think the quantum threat will become real in 5y, what do you think? submitted by /u/jkl2035 [link] [comments]

Found The Secret Formula! Here’s Every Altcoin That Will Make You Rich In 2026

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After nearly a decade in crypto, countless cycles, thousands of hours of research, and more mistakes than I’d like to admit, I’ve finally figured it out! Most investors are looking for the wrong things. It’s not market cap, tokenomics, partnerships, influencers, narratives, AI, memes, or even RWA… There is exactly ONE thing that consistently predicts long-term success. & after applying that formula, I have compiled the definitive list of every cryptocurrency besides Bitcoin and Ethereum worth buying in 2026: 1) There isn’t one. 2) There isn’t one. 3) There isn’t one. Good luck ???? submitted by /u/MediumLibrarian7100 [link] [comments]

Is BTC staking now worth it?

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I'll admit I was confused for a while. Every time someone said stake Bitcoin, I assumed they meant wrapping it or sending it to some sketchy platform. That's not staking, that's just lending with extra steps. But native BTC staking is different. You keep your Bitcoin on the main chain. No bridges, no wrapped tokens, no handing over your keys. I used to think BTC couldn't have trustless yield. Now it can. Not saying it's risk-free, but it's not the wrapped-token nightmare I thought it was. Anyone else just realizing this? submitted by /u/Rare_Rich6713 [link] [comments]

I Tried To Find The Most Acquirable Cryptocurrency On Earth. I Discovered There Are Almost None.

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Here's a fun thought experiment for you all: Is there an abandoned cryptocurrency that a single person could realistically acquire a controlling economic stake in using nothing more than public market purchases? Imagine you are NOT interested in mining, staking, governance attacks, private deals, or tracking down founders and convincing them to sell their bags. You want to know whether it's possible to become the dominant stakeholder in a cryptocurrency the same way someone accumulates shares in a public company: By simply buying what is available on the open market. This sounds easy enough at first. Crypto is littered with abandoned projects, I'm talking THOUSANDS of blockchains that have launched over the years that have lost their communities, development teams, and any meaningful reason to exist. The internet is essentially a graveyard of forgotten cryptocurrencies. So we start by building a set of criteria: Lets say the project has to be launched between 2009-2018. Development has to be effectively dead for at least 5 years. The community needs to be largely nonexistent. More than 90% of the supply must be unlocked and circulating. There can't be a foundation, treasury, or major stakeholder controlling a significant portion of the supply. It still has to be tradable on a functioning exchange with working withdrawals, and it needs to have both a market cap under $100,000 and daily trading volume under $500 The more you refine the criteria, its human nature to become increasingly confident you'll uncover dozens of candidates But you will actually discover the criteria is almost self-contradictory. The first problem is that genuinely abandoned projects tend not to remain tradable. Once development stops and the community disappears, exchanges eventually delist them. Even if the blockchain itself continues running the asset often becomes inaccessible because there is simply nowhere left to buy it. Then you'll start running into the opposite problem. Projects that are still listed often aren't truly abandoned. Some still have active Telegram groups. Others still have maintainers pushing occasional updates. Some have foundations sitting on enormous treasury allocations. They look dead at first glance but there is almost always somebody still steering the ship. I tried this all for fun and the deeper I went the stranger the problem became. I had originally assumed that low market cap would make acquisition easier. If a coin had a $20,000 market cap surely it couldn't be that difficult to buy a large percentage of it. What I failed to appreciate is that market cap and availability are completely different things. A token can have a market cap of $20,000 and still be impossible to acquire. In most cases the overwhelming majority of supply is locked away in dormant wallets that haven't moved in years. Some holders lost their keys. Some forgot the project existed. Some disappeared entirely. The supply technically exists but it might as well be buried underground. This created a paradox I naively hadn't anticipated when I went into this. Obviously the more abandoned a cryptocurrency is, the less purchasable it is. The ideal candidate needed to be dead enough that nobody cared about it anymore but alive enough that it was still functioning. It needed to have no meaningful community yet still have an exchange listing. It needed to have no active development yet still maintain enough infrastructure for deposits and withdrawals to work. It needed to be forgotten but not completely forgotten. After digging through project after project I started to suspect that what I was looking for simply didn't exist. Then I found "BOLI" Bolivarcoin is a token launched in 2015 with the original goal of serving as a Venezuelan-focused digital currency. Today almost nobody talks about it. Development appears effectively dormant. Community activity is minimal. The market cap is tiny. Daily trading volume is almost nonexistent. It was one of the first projects I found that didn't immediately fail one of my filters. The blockchain still runs. The supply is largely circulating. There is no meaningful foundation controlling it. The exchange listing still exists. Withdrawals still appear to function. The project is (for lack of a better term) alive in the same way an abandoned building is alive. Nobody is really using it, nobody is maintaining it, but somehow it is still standing At this point the investigation stopped being about market structure and became a thought experiment. Because if somebody did manage to accumulate a dominant stake in a project like this, what exactly would they own? The obvious answer is that they would probably be better off launching their own token. Creating a token today is trivial, you can legit spin one up in minutes, control the supply, define the branding, and start from a completely clean slate. But that's also what makes something like BOLI interesting. Launching a new token is like buying an empty plot of land and building a house Acquiring a dominant stake in an abandoned cryptocurrency is like buying a decaying Victorian mansion for the cost of a used car. The roof leaks. The plumbing barely works. Half the rooms haven't been opened in years. But it exists. It has history. It has infrastructure. Somebody built it. People once cared about it. Could somebody revive it? Probably not. Could they rebrand it? Maybe. Could they turn it into a digital museum dedicated to preserving abandoned cryptocurrency projects? Honestly that might be one of the more sensible things crypto has attempted. Would any of this be a good idea? Almost certainly not. But that's not really what I found interesting. What surprised me was that after spending hours searching through the ruins of old crypto projects, I didn't discover a hidden gem or an overlooked investment opportunity. I discovered that the market structure itself prevents most of these opportunities from existing in the first place. At a first thought its easy to assume you will find hundreds of abandoned cryptocurrencies that could theoretically be bought out by a determined individual. Instead I found that the intersection between "dead," "functional," and "purchasable" is incredibly small. BOLI wasn't interesting because it was valuable, it's interesting because it was one of the few projects I could find that somehow survived being unsuccessful. And for a forgotten cryptocurrency launched a decade ago, that might be the strangest achievement of all! RIP BOLI! submitted by /u/MediumLibrarian7100 [link] [comments]

Daily Discussion, May 31, 2026

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Daily General Discussion May 31, 2026

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There will only ever be 21 million. But it is not just about scarcity.

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When you study the properties of money, the "my teeth are scarce too" argument falls flat on its face. submitted by /u/SpendHefty6066 [link] [comments]

The US debt machine is getting harder to stabilize - So where does Bitcoin fit in?

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RIP to the homies who FOMO’d into XLM

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HodlHodl is increasing their fees

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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) submitted by /u/Zestyclose_Cheek527 [link] [comments]

Daily Crypto Discussion - May 30, 2026 (GMT+0)

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Do any of you actually price your life in Bitcoin? Any apps that do this?

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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. submitted by /u/developer_mamba [link] [comments]

Coinbase, Kalshi bring regulated perpetual crypto futures to US investors

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Got liquidated back in March 2023, been thinking of building something ever since...

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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 submitted by /u/Putrid-Ad-7829 [link] [comments]

Texas is making a major move! They're shifting from just buying Bitcoin ETFs to directly purchasing spot BTC held in cold storage for their Strategic Bitcoin Reserve

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Value is always in the eyes of the beholder

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Someone told me there's some kind of "Decentralization Index" and I thought there's something sus about it.

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A visited a so called "Edinburgh Decentralisation Index" that was supposed to find out what asset is the most decentralized and it was showing Cardano as the most decentralized (above bitcoin too) and I thought it was sus because I've seen many scams in the space to be that trusting. Turns out I immediately found a "news" article with the title "Cardano builder IOG and University of Edinburgh to create first ever index to provide industry standard metric for crypto decentralization" and "faith" was restored in my suspicions. PS when money is involved never trust any kind of article by third parties. Do your own research. submitted by /u/rEYAVjQD [link] [comments]

What's the best crypto wallet in 2026? (Virtual Assistant)

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Hello guys! Just wanted to ask what is the best crypto wallet to receive crypto these days? I will mainly use it to receive payments from my virtual assistant job. submitted by /u/lululaylaxx [link] [comments]

I built a free Bitcoin Opportunity Cost Calculator — would love your feedback!

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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/ submitted by /u/EmergencyCredit2048 [link] [comments]

I trade across 3 exchanges and kept losing track of my real P&L, so I built my own trading journal, looking for ideas.

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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. submitted by /u/Domencrafter [link] [comments]

LAB has seen to have jumped high quickly what’s going on and should I hold onto it?

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Building a profitable Bitcoin company with public market ambitions. Looking for feedback

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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. submitted by /u/Big-Operation8078 [link] [comments]

James Jani's Misunderstanding of Bitcoin

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Major UX upgrades to Mk5

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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 submitted by /u/HodlDee [link] [comments]

What if we separated money from the state, abolished income tax, and based the entire economy on physical reality? Meet the Real Society.

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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? submitted by /u/ioskar [link] [comments]

FBI's Biggest Crypto Bust Ever: $8 Billion Seized in Global Scam Network Crackdown

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Most Investors Think Quantum-Resistant Means Safe Forever BUT... That's Not What Cryptographers Mean!?

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The more I've dug into "quantum resistant" crypto projects the more I've realised most investors (including me originally) misunderstand what that phrase actually means. When I used to hear "Quantum resistant blockchain" I used to interpret it as "This project is safe from quantum computers" But I've learned that's not what it actually means at all. What it really means is based on everything currently known, no practical quantum attack is known YET. RSA wasn't broken because quantum computers became faster. RSA was broken (theoretically) because Shor found a completely different way of looking at the problem. He found hidden structure that classical computers couldn't exploit efficiently. That's what initially got me thinking... When blockchain projects market themselves as quantum resistant because they use lattice cryptography, are they saying "we know this is safe against future quantum algorithms" or are they saying "nobody has found the quantum equivalent of Shor yet"? I actually went away and built a small research framework trying to understand this distinction better. What surprised me most wasn't that I found a way to break lattice cryptography (I obviously didn't), it was discovering how much uncertainty still exists underneath the marketing language. The cryptographic community does not claim lattice cryptography is quantum proof. The claim is much narrower and more like: - no efficient quantum attack is currently known - many smart people have looked - several hardness reductions exist - and lattices remain our strongest major post-quantum candidate I am posting this to raise awareness because thats very different from these QR blockchains being immune from being broken. In finance people price uncertainty all the time but when it comes to post-quantum projects many investors seem to treat "quantum resistant" as if it means "solved forever". Personally I now think the question isn't whether lattice cryptography is broken, it's whether investors understand the difference between the best known candidate VS proven future proof technology... Most don't and I didnt until recently. Curious how other people think about this. When a blockchain markets itself as quantum resistant, what level of confidence do you think investors should actually attach to that claim? submitted by /u/MediumLibrarian7100 [link] [comments]

Cardano Leaders Rally Last-Minute Support for $2 Million Singapore Summit Vote

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Looking for Flash USDT ERC20. DM me if you have.

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DTCC’s $4.7 quadrillion tokenization plan shows where RWAs may actually be heading

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DTCC’s tokenization plans might be one of the more interesting RWA developments to watch over the next few years. For anyone unfamiliar, DTCC is not a crypto company. It is a major part of the existing financial market infrastructure behind securities settlement, custody, asset servicing, corporate actions, and post-trade processing. According to DTCC, its subsidiaries processed around $4.7 quadrillion in securities transactions in 2025. Its depository subsidiary also provided custody and asset servicing for around $114 trillion worth of securities. That is why this announcement caught my attention. DTCC has said its tokenization service is planning to connect with a public blockchain, with DTC-tokenized assets expected to become available in the first half of 2027. The chain named in the announcement is Stellar. The important part here is not really one specific chain or short-term price movement. It is the direction of travel. The assets being explored are not obscure crypto-native products. DTCC mentioned highly liquid traditional assets such as Russell 1000 constituents, major index ETFs, and US Treasuries. The stated goal is to support tokenized versions of DTC-custodied assets while maintaining the investor protections and safeguards that apply to traditional securities. In other words, this is not about wrapping random assets in a DeFi casino. It is about whether regulated securities infrastructure can start using public blockchain rails for things like settlement, collateral movement, extended trading hours, reporting, and corporate actions. That is where I think the RWA discussion gets interesting. Crypto has talked for years about tokenized stocks, bonds, ETFs, and Treasuries. Most of the time, it has felt like a future narrative rather than something connected to existing market infrastructure. This seems different in the sense that the discussion is now moving from “can crypto create synthetic versions of these assets?” to “can existing financial infrastructure use public blockchains to improve how these assets move?” There are still obvious questions. The expected launch is not until 2027. The regulatory structure matters. The actual user access model matters. Liquidity, custody, compliance, and interoperability all matter. But if tokenized securities are going to become a serious part of the market, this is probably the kind of infrastructure-level work that needs to happen first. What do people think: are public blockchains actually ready to support regulated securities infrastructure, or is this still mostly a long-term experiment? submitted by /u/shadow87654 [link] [comments]

Looks like we're in year 2-3 of the last year. So the next halving effect might take place in 2028.

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Some interesting past data on Bitcoin. Not sure how accurate it is since it's pulled from Google Gemini. Each cycle last about 4 years. And the price appreciation usually happens within 12-18 months. We're currently in year 2-3 of the last peak. So maybe in 2028 we might see another boom when the halving effect takes place. The last column is the price correction from the peak. What do you guys think? submitted by /u/classyshepard [link] [comments]

I have allocated some of my portfolio to be invested into meme coins. Which ones should I avoid from this list?

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China & Crypto. Understanding the evolving laws prohibiting ownership, promotion, and money making.

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TL;DR - You can't just point the finger at China and say, "China's banned bitcoin for the 500th time now. You have to understand the framework the government uses for it. https://www.pbc.gov.cn/tiaofasi/144941/3581332/2026020619591971323/index.html We already know Buying, selling, and mining in china is illegal, but somehow it still takes place. In Hong Kong, SAR of China, crypto buying and selling is legal. If you're a Chinese company and you want to gain exposure to bitcoin / crypto, the only way is through getting an ETFs available from companies on the HK stock market exchange. No self-custody involved. A lot of projects in China use referral code structures to bring in new people to the project. Some more recent buzz terms include "RWA" and similar terminology. Sometimes these can be legit. Other times these can just be ways to bring in other users. Typically, the way project owners make money from these is from transaction fees that go on within the RWA structure - which is often a Pyramid or MLM scheme. People aren't supposed to promote these projects, so what I have seen is large amounts of people gathering at auditoriums and when they are in auditoriums, phones are temporarily confiscated and then returned to all participants. The atmosphere is generally positive, but you cannot escape the MLM vibe. However, when you search for information about these projects on the Chinese web, it is often sparse because it isn't safe (according to Chinese law) to attach one's face to promoting a cryptocurrency project in China. How does funding take place? Often times from USDT on BSC. Are they all worth investing in? I cannot say. I can only say if you are looking into these projects, consider mitigating your exposure and if it seems legit, scale it up to as much as you are comfortable with. EDIT: With regards to saying, "People aren't supposed to promote these projects." I believe this only applies to people living in China. At least, I don't think the CCP would care if a Chinese person living outside of China would be punished for promoting these projects. submitted by /u/sgtslaughterTV [link] [comments]

Daily Discussion, May 30, 2026

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Daily General Discussion May 30, 2026

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My MetaMask shows $375k profit on Saitama after 12 months — but is it real? (LiveCoinWatch says $36+)

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Hey everyone,About a year ago I bought some Saitama (and a few other coins) directly through my MetaMask wallet. I hadn’t checked the account in around 12 months. When I opened it the other day, I nearly had a heart attack — it was showing roughly $375,000 profit, with Saitama priced at about $36.87.LiveCoinWatch is currently quoting around $35–37 for Saitama V2.I’m pretty sure this isn’t real, but I don’t understand how the price is showing so high. I only have 10,250 Saitama tokens.Questions: Has anyone else seen this with Saitama? Is it a data glitch or fake liquidity thing? If I try to sell/swap it on Uniswap, what will actually happen? What’s the easiest/safest way to move whatever real value is there to Swyftx (Australian exchange)? I’m not a crypto expert and don’t want to lose anything to gas fees or mistakes. Any advice would be really appreciated. Happy to provide the contract address if needed.Thanks! submitted by /u/AnthonyW777 [link] [comments]

'He’s Full of Shit': JP Morgan's Jamie Dimon Takes Aim at Coinbase CEO Over Clarity Act

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Bitcoin Warned Us About FTX. Nobody Listened

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Was I scammed?

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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? submitted by /u/itsgabraf [link] [comments]

Need help getting money out of a wallet(Scammers stay away I won't answer your DMs)

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Created a wallet on orbimarkets.com. I have around $1k of SOL in it and and it's not letting me transfer it out. I tried transferring it to kraken and coinbase as a spot transfer but it didn't work. I tried converting it to eco crypto as USDT tether and that worked but still gives errors when trying to do the transfer. This site seems like a pretty legit place to trade and deposit crypto as I've never had a problem trading, I just have had a problem withdrawing. submitted by /u/Diligent-Net3507 [link] [comments]

Bitcoin Fixes the Incentives: Turning Compulsive Gamblers into Compulsive Savers

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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! submitted by /u/BitcoinSports [link] [comments]

Daily Crypto Discussion - May 29, 2026 (GMT+0)

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US regulator tries to withdraw penalty against Trump donors’ crypto company

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Bessent says US has seized $1 billion in Iranian crypto assets

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Jamie Diamond hates the CLARITY Act

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I wasn’t sure about it at first, but if he hates it, then I like it even more. Not Financial Advice obv. Fuck the banking system, the whole reason crypto exists is because they lost our trust. So this level of animosity should imo be seen as validation for it. submitted by /u/Broncos1997 [link] [comments]

Doubting about my plan

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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: Continue DCA until the next Bitcoin halving (expected ~April 2028) or until BTC returns to ~$100k Hold through the post-halving cycle and potentially sell ~16–18 months after the halving (around late 2029) (reversed DCA) After BTC reaches $100k, redirect new contributions ($2k/month) into diversified equity ETFs (e.g., S&P 500 or similar) 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. submitted by /u/buzzyfairy [link] [comments]

US Reaches $1 Billion Seized Iran Crypto to Date: Bessent’s Big Update

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QUIERO COMPRAR ETHEREUM PAGO

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YO PAGO POR DELANTE EN USDT TENGO BLOQUEADO BINANCE PERO PUEDO PAGAR POR TRUST WALLET EN USDT , al precio o solo un poco por arriba de el precio , si alguien es serio mándeme dm submitted by /u/Adventurous-Age4847 [link] [comments]

How do you think they did this?

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Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said at a Reagan Economic Forum event that the United States has seized $1 billion of Iranian cryptocurrency money as part of its effort to squeeze Iran’s economy. “Just outright grabbed the wallets,” Bessent said, referring to the accounts where digital currency is stored. “Some of them may be typing in right now and might not realize their wallet had been grabbed.” submitted by /u/NckyDC [link] [comments]

Day 41 Discussion Summary : Base Account as Universal Identity Layer - How One Smart Contract Powers Everything ????

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When to sell?

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When would you sell bitcoin, ethereum, or solana? I purchased a little while ago. Bitcoin I’m still up. Ethereum and solana I’m down a little. Would you cut losses or hold? I think they’ll come back up but not sure when or how high. What’s everyone else doing? Thanks! submitted by /u/dspark13 [link] [comments]

Can ChatGPT Manage Your Crypto Wallet? Base MCP Explained

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Bitcoin is the Honey Badger

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I was crying and hating myself for buying the near-top and selling at a 25% loss….

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It’s always about perspective. I still hold BTC and XRP and am at a loss, butt zooming out the bigger picture doesn’t look as bad. Any loss stories or bullet’s dodged that you would like to share? submitted by /u/negative3sigmareturn [link] [comments]

My SOL dynamic DCA strategy since October 2025

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Every week, I keep stacking ETH while saving fiat for future dips. The formulas in my spreadsheet automatically calculate how much I should buy and save, depending on the current ETH price (amount bought last week x ETH price last week / ETH price this week). When ETH is going below €1450 (or $1700), I’ll use my fiat balance to finance bigger buy orders. This way, my average will go down faster while the fiat protects me from larger drawdowns. The lower the price, the faster the accumulation will be. You also never need to guess what the bottom will be, because after a while, you’ve most likely spent the majority of your money at the lows anyway. submitted by /u/Bogdanoff_dump_it [link] [comments]

Perps in ????????LFG

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How a Bitcoin transaction actually works (in 48 seconds)

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Discorddit - Community Chat Channel

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I knew better. I still sold near the bottom.

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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? submitted by /u/MoneyMonsterStudios [link] [comments]

ZBCN SuperApp updates

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Made it to the 0.10 Club ????

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Pretty cheap at 74k from 126k all time high. Been buying at a discount. submitted by /u/JorgeRoyal [link] [comments]

Did anyone see the HODL guy is back after 13 years?

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Have I been scammed? Ether.fi USDT TRC20 deposit address disappeared after I sent funds

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Hello, A few days ago, while logged into my account in the app on my iPhone, I selected “Add funds” and then “Share your deposit address.” I had downloaded the app directly from the Apple App Store. I chose a USDT address on Tron/TRC20 and sent a deposit to the address shown in the app. The transaction was confirmed on-chain. However, I later saw that the USDT Tron/TRC20 deposit option/address was no longer available in the app. Between the time I generated the address in the app and the time I sent the deposit, I received no warning or notice that Tron deposits were being disabled or were no longer supported. The deposit has since been sent back to the originating address, but it is still effectively lost and has not been credited or recovered to me. Has anyone experienced something similar with ether.fi or TRC20 deposits? Is there any way to verify whether the deposit address belonged to them, and recover the funds if it did? I’ve contacted support and asked them to credit or recover the deposit, but I’m concerned because the address disappeared from the app and the funds are still not available to me. Thanks. submitted by /u/Saturnix [link] [comments]

BlackRock Clients Sold 0.3% of Their Bitcoin Holdings Yesterday Why the Panic is a Massive Overreaction

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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 submitted by /u/Crypto_future_V [link] [comments]

Texas Names Bitcoin Reserve Advisory Committee As State Eyes Direct Bitcoin Custody

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Texas has appointed a five-member advisory committee to oversee its Strategic Bitcoin Reserve as the state prepares to transition from ETF exposure to directly custodied bitcoin. submitted by /u/TheresNoSecondBest [link] [comments]

SUI blockchain goes down, for the second time in two days, third time this year.

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Bitcars.

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Not sure which one I’d rather own. They both come with advantages and disadvantages. submitted by /u/FunkyGrass [link] [comments]

Unexpected dump?

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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? submitted by /u/Electrical-Value-673 [link] [comments]

The people in charge of Bitcoin

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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 submitted by /u/LearnBitcoinCom [link] [comments]

Collision Protocol: 1000 BTC Challenge Pool (#135, 13.5 BTC)

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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 2N-1 and 2N), 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 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. submitted by /u/hevnsnt [link] [comments]

Ethereal news weekly #25 | Vitalik: EF will be smaller & more opinionated, Base Azul upgrade live with multiproofs, FTSE Russell US indexes: Bitmine & Sharplink to join

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Bitroot Community

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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. submitted by /u/Amazing_Box2666 [link] [comments]

This dude scammed me

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Coinremitter is a Fee Trap for Small Developers (Ate 90% of my revenue via hidden flat withdrawal fees)

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Hey everyone, I wanted to put out a massive warning to any independent developers, Telegram bot creators, or web admins looking into using Coinremitter as a cryptocurrency payment gateway. They market themselves as having a tiny "0.23% processing fee," but it is a massive trap designed to completely drain small-scale accounts. I recently integrated their API into my Telegram bot to process premium upgrades in Bitcoin. Everything looked fine on paper until my users paid their invoices. Here is the exact math of how they drained my wallet: Total Invoices Paid by Users: 0.00053163 BTC (Roughly $39.00 USD at the time). What actually arrived in my external wallet: 0.00003138 BTC (Roughly $2.31 USD). Because I had their "Auto-Withdraw" feature turned on, their system triggered a payout the exact second my balance cleared the minimum threshold. What they bury in their fine print is a massive, flat-rate internal withdrawal fee (charging me over 0.00045 BTC / $33.58 USD just to process the sweep), completely separate from the actual blockchain miner fee. They essentially took a 14x bigger cut than what they actually paid out to me, completely wiping out my hard-earned revenue. If you are a small developer, do not use Coinremitter. Your funds will get automatically swept and absorbed by their predatory flat withdrawal fees. If you're building on Telegram, migrate immediately to native Telegram Stars (XTR)—don't let these payment gateways scam you out of your code's profit. Watch out guys. Always check the flat minimum withdrawal fees, not just the advertised percentage rate! Website: coinremitter[.]com submitted by /u/cergo123 [link] [comments]

Self-Custody: Convenience vs Security

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A lot of people assume self-custody means making everything way more complicated. But honestly, once you use COLDCARD, you realize a secure setup can still be pretty straightforward. It meets Bitcoiners wherever they’re at, whether you just want to safely hodl long term or you’re into using multisig, and advanced setups. Feels like the “secure vs easy” tradeoff isn’t necessary. submitted by /u/Subject_Reward [link] [comments]

Best investment relative to current price and ATH?

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They all follow BTC, but some move more/faster than others. Say BTC went back to the ATH price again. That is less than double what it is now. ETH has gone down more, so it would be over 2x what it is now. DOGE would be 3x. There is no reason they should follow the same patterns again, but if they did, which would be the winner? submitted by /u/Individual-Carob5593 [link] [comments]

CLN DoS vulnerability, CoreDev meeting - Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #407

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Bitcoin Optech newsletter #407 is here: - announces the responsible disclosure of a vulnerability that allowed a remote peer to crash Core Lightning nodes - links to transcripts from a recent Bitcoin Core developer meeting - Optech Newsletter #407 Podcast https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2026/05/29/ Chandra Pratap posted to Delving Bitcoin disclosing a denial-of-service vulnerability discovered during a Summer of Bitcoin 2025 internship... https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2026/05/29/#core-lightning-assertion-dos-disclosure Many Bitcoin Core developers met in person in May, and transcripts from the meeting have been published... https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2026/05/29/#bitcoin-core-developer-meeting-transcripts Bitcoin Optech will host an audio recap discussion of this newsletter streaming live on X/Twitter Tuesday at 16:30 UTC. submitted by /u/bitschmidty [link] [comments]

Standard Chartered Sees Ethereum Price at $40,000 Despite ETH Slump

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Is the AI pivot for every Bitcoin miner?

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The comparing privacy solutions in DeFi right now

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MEV doesn't get talked about enough relative to how much it actually costs people. Unless you're a whale, most traders know sandwich attacks exist in the abstract but have no idea how much they're losing to them or what the realistic protection options are. There are several approaches worth knowing about and they work very differently from each other. The problem On a public blockchain, your transaction is visible from the moment you submit it until it's confirmed. Block producers control ordering. Searcher bots scan the pending pool, identify profitable opportunities, and act in the gap between submission/confirmation. The classic mechanic is a sandwich: a bot sees your pending swap, buys the same asset ahead of you, your trade executes at a worse price, the bot sells immediately after. Worth noting: not all MEV is purely extractive. The same infrastructure can be used to intercept exploits mid-attack or close arbitrage gaps. But for the average trader, the interaction is mostly one-directional. Flashbots / private RPCs Routes your transaction directly to block builders through a private channel rather than broadcasting to the public mempool. You don't change your wallet, you change the RPC endpoint. Billions of dollars of transactions have gone through this on Ethereum. Requires manual opt-in, so most users never bother. Transaction routed directly to block builders, never entering the public mempool The relay operator retains some visibility — trust is transferred, not eliminated CoW Swap Instead of submitting a raw transaction, you sign an intent describing what you want to trade. A network of bonded solvers competes to find the best execution path across onchain liquidity, private market maker inventory, and peer-to-peer matching. When two users want opposite sides of the same trade, CoW settles them directly with no mempool exposure. Solver competition can produce better pricing than standard DEX routes Protection is structural rather than cryptographic — delegated execution, not a sealed transaction Railgun Uses zk-SNARKs to shield token balances and transaction history inside an onchain privacy pool. Shielded assets sit in encrypted smart contracts deployed directly on various chains, no separate network or bridge required. From the outside, activity is not traceable to the user. Most comprehensive at the asset level — supports ERC-20s, NFTs, and private DeFi interactions Shielding and unshielding adds friction and a real proficiency bar Near Intents An outcome-based protocol where users specify what they want and solvers compete to fulfill it. Has a confidential mode that routes through a TEE-based bridge where token pairs, order sizes, and timing stay out of the public mempool until after execution. Standard intents without confidential mode still broadcast to solvers without privacy guarantees. Transaction details remain private and only become visible on the public chain after execution Confidential mode is opt-in — standard intents carry no privacy guarantees Privana Finance Execution happens inside a hardware enclave before anything reaches public infrastructure. Swap intents are signed inside the enclave, the private key never leaves it, and the enclave handles automation and rule-based execution without the user needing to be present. No relay to trust, no shielding step to manage Custody stays with the user throughout These approaches sit on a spectrum from simple workarounds to cryptographic enforcement to hardware-sealed execution. Which one makes sense depends on who you are and what goals you have. Disclosure: I am affiliated with Privana. submitted by /u/niloc_w [link] [comments]

Global liquidity is the macro signal most Bitcoin investors overlook — so I built an app for it

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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? submitted by /u/Proof-Appeal9185 [link] [comments]

SEC approves tokenized equities on ETH

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https://finance.yahoo.com/markets/crypto/articles/paxos-wins-sec-clearing-agency-140600011.html Paxos currently supports PayPal’s stablecoin and tokenized gold mostly on ETH, but this will allow them to bring equities onto eth This is major bullish news submitted by /u/PeeOnDusk [link] [comments]

A question for understanding bitcoin and the blockchain.

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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? submitted by /u/frustrader [link] [comments]

BitGo BTC Wallet... Gone?

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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. submitted by /u/Austen_E [link] [comments]

Retail is fleeing for the exits, but I’m actually thanking the ETFs for this 73k dip

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While the "Sell in May" sentiment takes over, the ETFs and whales are quietly absorbing the supply. I’m breaking down the dark pool activity and why this current volatility is a gift, not a warning. submitted by /u/MCL-Jonathan [link] [comments]

Stablecoin infrastructure play eth, tron - Rate my thesis please?

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Ok folks, looking to add crypto to my portfolio. My thesis is the genius act mandates stable coins to buy us treasuries. Ie stable coins are here to stay, especially since china and japan are reducing treasuries and us needs treasury buyers. So I've thought eth, sol, tron and bnb as a broadbasket long term hold and stake as these run the infra on which stablecoin operate. And since banks etc are also looking to tokenize deposits etc, they will probably need an interoperability layer so probably some chain link. Does the thesis hold, and what would you suggest? submitted by /u/Arinupa [link] [comments]

Best crypto card in 2026 for actually using my holdings?

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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. submitted by /u/TheDearlyt [link] [comments]

Is chatBTC actually real or just a broken ghost town?

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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. submitted by /u/Competitive-Data-703 [link] [comments]

Daily Discussion, May 29, 2026

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BNB Chain Launches Agent Survival Pack, Bringing Onchain Payments to AI Agents Across 6 Partner Projects

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Mining plan for free electricity

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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? submitted by /u/bradwwww [link] [comments]

Anon coin XAN

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Apparently this coin is about to be pump and dumped, am I be screwed if I hold or will there be enough liquidity? submitted by /u/Asdfghhqwel [link] [comments]

Stablecoins + Self-Custody: The Unsung Hero for Startups.

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With countless crypto related scams, unsustainable hype and market volatility, one can't help but wonder: What real problem does Web3 actually solve? Here is a massive one that is so commonplace it feels like it has always been there: frictionless global commerce. Back in the day, early-stage startups had to jump through endless regulatory and technical hoops just to integrate a payment gateway. Even if they succeeded, they faced a second hurdle: convincing early adopters to trust them with their card details. Stablecoins and self-custody wallets changed that. Today, a startup can deploy a secure payment structure in hours, not months. More astonishing, users don’t need to "trust" the platform with their financial data. They can simply connect a burner wallet, pay for the service, and safely disconnect. No card exposure, no deep trust required, no long term commitment needed. Crypto isn't just changing finance; it overcame traditional payment bottlenecks, letting startups offer services/products now and ask for permission later. submitted by /u/zesushv [link] [comments]

Daily General Discussion May 29, 2026

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Agentic AI & Crypto: The Need for Privacy in Agentic Trading Markets

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The real thematic shift has been quietly occurring in 2026 and the vast majority of retail crypto traders still have not yet caught on to it: Agentic AI & Cryptocurrency. Under 1.0% of total crypto trading and settlement volumes are related to Agentic AI Coins. While specific precise percentages vary depending on the data source, the broader AI and DePIN (Decentralized Physical Infrastructure) sector accounted for roughly $15 billion to $20 billion in combined market capitalization, making it the top-performing thematic asset class despite broader market downturns while tokens like $VVV outperform the entire crypto market. This sectors next evolution is the spawning of autonomous agents that don’t just advise, they ACT: they trade, negotiate, pay for computing power, optimize DeFi yields, and settle agent-to-agent deals 24/7 without the need for your supervision. The only rails that actually work for them are Cryptocurrencies. At first glance, this should be obvious as these agents can’t open a bank account, possess no SSN, and cannot perform a KYC (sorry fam, no agentic selfies yet). What they can do however is hold non-custodial wallets, push stablecoins, interact with smart contracts, and execute at machine speed. That’s why we’re seeing protocols like Agent Payments, x402 on Coinbase, and Virtuals Protocol exploding as AI turns into an entire parallel economy of machine-to-machine commerce. High-beta narrative with real teeth When BTC rips on macro tailwinds, agent tokens and AI-crypto infrastructure names catch the alpha hard. FetchAI/ASI agents are optimizing trades, Virtuals are launching tokenized agents that earn their own revenue while NEAR is pushing agentic commerce. Think of it like Bitcoin’s little brother energy on steroids, except the “brother” is now a swarm of hyper-efficient digital entities. But here’s the part most meme degens and crypto bros miss: Privacy isn’t optional. It’s survival These agents can and will handle your capital, your data, and your strategies which means that every transaction & every decision leaves a trail unless you build it shielded. Imagine your trading agent getting front-run because its wallet history is public (something we're seeing with Polymarket Whales & Bots atm). Imagine again a personal agent negotiating deals while leaking your preferences, location, or net worth to chain-analysis firms and surveillance states (real). Governments are already cranking up KYC and CBDC tracking in that world, which means that agents operating in the open are just well-dressed snitches. That’s why privacy tech like zk-proofs, shielded pools, and Zcash-style architecture becomes the moat. You want agents that prove they’re solvent or compliant without spilling the entire ledger. Optional privacy so your autonomous yield farmer can move size quietly, while your personal assistant can pay bills without broadcasting your lifestyle, and cross-border agent deals don’t trigger automatic flags. Privacy is the superpower you didn't know you needed in an agentic world. It's important to note that these Agentic AI and Privacy narratives will only become more valuable as the cracks and flaws of traditional systems continue to become exposed. It's still quite early. In conclusion, those who build & back the private, autonomous stack will define the next decade. ___________________________________________________________________________ I hope you enjoyed this little write-up, and i'm hoping to hear your thoughts and get a discussion going, especially contrarian opinions here as that's where the best discussions are born. Thank you for reading! ___________________________________________________________________________ submitted by /u/Cold_Designer2171 [link] [comments]

Would you use a Bitcoin multisig vault where the company can't see your data?

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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. submitted by /u/CryptoYuzu [link] [comments]

Do you guys remember the DAOs?

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Coinbase Q1 2026 earnings miss: $394M net loss, revenue down 31% as crypto trading volumes collapse

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schizo theory: the GENIUS act will pass by surprise and money will come flooding back in. We're officially over halfway from the last BTC halving. Regardless of how much of a sell the news event is, crypto always goes green for 2 years leading up to the h

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I feel it's coming. No one actually cares about the fundamentals of anything, you see techstocks at 900 P/E because of euphoria. One thing that is true is that corporations are buying crypto like never before. They're positioning themselves because of what is coming in the next 2 years on the leadup to the 2028 halving. I think the news that GENIUS act won't pass is wrong. Both sides are all paid for by Isreal and they will play ball if there's money to be made. My predictions are BTC --> 200k ETH ---> 20k (tenbagger, this is programmed) XMR ---> $16k in 2028, with the halving being the sell the news event. submitted by /u/Serenaded [link] [comments]

schizo theory: the GENIUS act will pass by surprise and money will come flooding back in. We're officially over halfway from the last BTC halving. Regardless of how much of a sell the news event is, crypto always goes green for 2 years leading up to the h

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schizo theory: the GENIUS act will pass by surprise and money will come flooding back in. We're officially over halfway from the last BTC halving. Regardless of how much of a sell the news event is, crypto always goes green for 2 years leading up to the h

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schizo theory: the GENIUS act will pass by surprise and money will come flooding back in. We're officially over halfway from the last BTC halving. Regardless of how much of a sell the news event is, crypto always goes green for 2 years leading up to the h

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Why hasn’t Binance listed $HYPE?

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Genuinely curious, why hasn’t Binance listed $HYPE yet? My first thought was they’re scared of competition, but that feels pretty lame. CZ is always tweeting about “making crypto great” and growing the entire space. It doesn’t make sense that they’d completely ignore one of the best performing coins of the entire cycle just because it’s from Hyperliquid. Are there other reasons? Regulations? Technical issues? Or is it really just internal politics/ego? Would love to hear all your thoughts. submitted by /u/skygig [link] [comments]

Daily Crypto Discussion - May 28, 2026 (GMT+0)

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Ethereum Facing Security Issue From Too Much Staked ETH

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In this thread posted by the Everstake team they raise the point that "Past a certain staking ratio, more ETH being staked does not actually make the network more secure. But it keeps increasing gross issuance. And if a small number of large providers end up dominating the validator set, the slashing mechanism that enforces Ethereum's security becomes effectively unusable. A provider controlling enough stake becomes too big to slash without causing systemic damage to the whole network." Further posts in the thread say three camps have formed with differing opinions on this staking related issue, without being able to come to a consensus on a fix. Thoughts? https://preview.redd.it/2u02fc0hky3h1.png?width=1113&format=png&auto=webp&s=a448979c219e1967659e4b88fe37ec226ce5b7ce submitted by /u/ImDoubleB [link] [comments]

Using Bitcoin in Canada without Capital Gains

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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. submitted by /u/Suspicious-Ear-6129 [link] [comments]

Most secure Open source wallet (physical or not) good for staking ETH

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I am looking to get myself more invested into Crypto world. For that, I need some advice and appreciate your attention. What is the most secure wallet that you can recommend me!? I understand that physical is a better choice. I don’t mind if it is physical or a wallet app. I can spare an old phone and use it only for my wallet if a software approach is as good as the hardware one. I am looking for some wallet that is open source. I understand that you can rely on open source much better. Please share your thoughts if that’s not the case. For now I am only looking at keeping btc and eth so as long as those are covered I am good. What other aspects shall I keep in mind picking a wallet? Longevity? Anything that you experienced please share. (For example I had a wallet and they have gone out of business, I had to go through hoops to retrieve my coins) A wallet that give me options to stake eth. I am not looking for the best rate to stake but the most secure one. I understand that there is risk with staking, please share what staking risks you are ok with it and what you are not. I understand that it might be a wish for all these to come true. submitted by /u/canws [link] [comments]

Trezor Suite adds native stablecoin yield, letting users earn on USDC and USDT without leaving the hardware wallet’s interface

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Anonymous Plaintiff Seeks Legal Title To $293 Billion In Dormant Bitcoin, Without Holding Any Private Keys

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A pseudonymous claimant, “Noah Doe,” alongside two Wyoming LLCs, has filed a lawsuit in New York Supreme Court seeking recognition as the rightful owner of 39,069 dormant Bitcoin addresses containing roughly 3.8 million BTC—valued at about $293 billion. submitted by /u/TheresNoSecondBest [link] [comments]

South Korea Advances Plans to Tax Crypto Staking and Lending at 22%

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i built revert.wtf because ethereum errors are still cursed

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gmgm. already shared with the r/ethdev community. but this was something that i made for "normies" like myself. so i think it deserves a post here as well. you all know the pain, RPC errors, tx reverts and etherscan not showing why, extremely vague explanations from the stuff we use daily for something that actually has a better explanation. first, i thought of just whining about this on twitter. instead, i decided to take the matter to hands, and started building the thing. the fact is, almost all the errors are actually catalogued, not all of them, there are still some execution context reliant errors which tenderly is way better at explaining. but have you ever tried using tenderly and tried to make sense of that tx graph? it's a puzzle. and a pleb like myself does not need that puzzle, probably neither you. eventually, i asked codex to build the thing as a small product. and in a few days, we generated a catalog of about 25k errors and error codes with their explanations and possible actions to take if it happens. now it lives on https://revert.wtf. and it is also entirely open source on github https://github.com/mrtdlgc/revertwtf with its npm packages, agent skills, mcp servers and what not. i am hosting the thing myself, the api is also available, it's pretty permissive in terms of rate limits. feel free to use it, spread the word if you think it's useful, contribute to the repo if you think it should cover more platforms/protocols. submitted by /u/mrtdlgc [link] [comments]

May 28, 2026 Best Miner

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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. submitted by /u/mushdude [link] [comments]

Exit 6 ₿oss Market & Kitchen

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From abandoned drive-thru to community destination. ₿oss Market & Kitchen is slowly coming to life at Exit 6 in Chester, PA. ✅ Windows repaired ✅ Cleanup underway ✅ Kitchen restoration started ✅ Outdoor market planning ✅ Bitcoin accepted from day one The vision: Drive-thru food Outdoor produce market Bitcoin education Community events Real-world Bitcoin usage Trying to build something different for Chester. Progress one step at a time submitted by /u/Solovalor11 [link] [comments]

Why is Bitcoin (IBIT) underperforming tech (QQQ) so severely?

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The tech market (QQQ) is up more than 40% over the past year, while Bitcoin (IBIT) is down nearly 30%. What's your best theory for the divergence? Meanwhile, almost every major Bitcoin mining company is pivoting to AI datacenters... Custom chart made on TrendSpider. submitted by /u/TrendSpider [link] [comments]

Guys, don’t panic sell. The bull arrives in Q1 2027

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Today’s fortune cookie from my China Dragon Wok lunch special wouldn’t lie. submitted by /u/MrCalabunga [link] [comments]

Support Ethereum core development by trying to win your share of $1M

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What are the new upcoming narratives in crypto rn ?

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We all remember absolute moonshots with a new narrative that changed the game for a while. Projects like STEPN, than pumpfun, before that it was memecoins and stuff like that. Right now all i see is basically some crypto scams that are so obvious it ridiculous people even spend time on creating them so this got me thinking - am i missing something right now or there is straight up nothing right now ? im not talking particular coins/projects, im talking about major growing narrative? submitted by /u/asukhanov [link] [comments]

Built p2psats — alerts for NIP-69 P2P trade orders across Nostr

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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. submitted by /u/bilthon [link] [comments]

Is it "smart" to start now?

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As the title says, is it? Should someone who has 0 crypto assets in 2026 start investing in crpyto? I've been planning to invest in crypto for many years but postponed it each time due to different reasons yet i've been always impressed by the "stability" for the last few years and the belief that some have in this field. Yet, even though there are some strong opinions about investing in crpyto, there are many who believe that entering the crypto market nowadays won't "benefit" you as much as someone who joined many years ago or of course in comparing those who mined and those who joined at the beginning, those people usually recommend to invest in stocks as it is "safer" for the long run. Even purchased the Safe3 to store the crypto there, still sealed in a box but I am not sure whether I should start putting even 200$ a month because I see how many people are losing their wallets, funds and deposits because many platforms suddenly freeze/lock the accounts because people wanted to pull out their funds, whether it was in general or to an external offline wallet. * Important note Several years ago when XRP was still around 0.5$ I think, bought 500$ worth of XRP and after a period of year or two I decided to pull the money out because of fomo and because I "needed" the money. Took me a while to withdraw the money because Binance did not make that easy nor their documentation was clear about how to withdraw the money correctly. Long story short several months later XRP jumped to 2.X$ and I could've multiply my then "investment" x5 if I only had the patience that I have today. So, mid 2026, do you recommend anyone start investing in crypto for the long run in true belief that "it will hold"? Do you believe in the investing platforms? Tips? submitted by /u/Ping3r [link] [comments]

Solana privacy protocols overview

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Are AI trading bots becoming better than human traders?

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Lately I’ve been seeing more and more AI trading systems posting insane spot trading performances. Honestly, some of the results almost look too good to be true. Today AI can: analyze news instantly, detect patterns much faster than humans, trade without emotions, and operate 24/7. I’m seriously starting to wonder if we’re entering a completely new era of trading. Do independent traders still realistically have an edge long term? Or will algorithms and AI systems eventually outperform most human traders? submitted by /u/Salt-Collar1826 [link] [comments]

Should I sell and speculate on something else?

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In 2018 I invested in 1% of my net worth into Bitcoin and Ethereum. I'm up 462% on that initial investment, but for the past 5 years, there's been no growth. The reason I invested was to speculate and make money. I don't care about the technology, just being honest. Should I sell and find the next speculative investment in the stock market? My portfolio is the same price as in May 2021, so I'm struggling to see crypto continuing to grow, and also looking at the stock market and debating whether that's a better place for fun money. submitted by /u/BillNye69 [link] [comments]

Achievement Unlocked: Buy 500 TON at the very Top of the Iceberg. Give me a trophy for this precision.

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I'll take that as a Win rather than a Loss. Am I officially the new holder of the Guinness World Record for the most "Successful" Trader in the world? Yesterday, I put half of my stuff to SOL, thinking BTC is at its May 23rd Support Zone, and FORGOT to set the SL trigger. Wake up, and I'm already 30$ down... I sold SOL at the EXACT lowest pixel of the lowest candle, moreover, its lowest wick. Which confirms I am actually a reliable pixel-perfect price predictor to bring your money to the very zero. DM me if you want such services! Well, yet another successful trading day, with 80$ down on one day in total. Share your funny Top trades and let's suffer together lol. submitted by /u/ooo-InstaGamer [link] [comments]

The SUI blockchain has been offline due to a major outage for almost an hour.

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Ethereum needs a CEO

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Hear me out before attacking. Google had Eric Schmidt brought in to take it from a commercial search engine to a tech titan. There are skills required for founding a great technology which Vitalik has done a great job and there business skills required to make Ethereum a sustainable and neutral financial beast. I believe project is lacking the latter. Before you go off decentralization dogma, let's be serious, that phase of crypto is over. People want results, revenue and leadership that understands global capital flows & products. Ethereum is desperately lacking proven business leadership. submitted by /u/rasheed106 [link] [comments]

Simple bitcoin explorer

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Check out this clean bitcoin explorer that shows ins and outs in a very clear and structured way https://tooluri.ro/tool/bitcoin-explorer submitted by /u/argctin [link] [comments]

Our lightning L402 has 1,185 services. Most developers building Lightning apps have no idea they exist or how to find the reliable ones.

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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. submitted by /u/Spark_by_Spark [link] [comments]

Why people are trading headlines, not structure?

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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? submitted by /u/Revelixapp [link] [comments]

The strongest argument against Bitcoin would be a fiat system that actually worked

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Most Bitcoin discussions start from the assumption that fiat currencies are fundamentally broken. But let us stop and steelman fiat, for once. A well-functioning fiat system has real advantages. Centralized monetary systems are more resource-efficient, easier to coordinate, and can respond quickly during crises. In theory, they can provide stable purchasing power, fast payments, financial stability, and predictable rules without needing a decentralized alternative. The problem seems less about the design itself and more about sustaining discipline over long periods of time. Monetary systems are run by people and institutions under political and economic pressure. Historically, debasement, monetary expansion, and rule changes tend to appear repeatedly during periods of stress. Bitcoin seems to start from a different assumption. Fiat assumes long-term discipline from people in power. Bitcoin assumes that discipline eventually fails. Do you think that is a fair steelman of both systems, or is there an important advantage or weakness on either side that this framing misses? submitted by /u/Myntad_com [link] [comments]

Samsung Takes 4% of Upbit Operator Dunamu as South Korean Institutions Move In

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Donald Trump Claims He Saved Crypto — Has He Actually Moved Bitcoin’s Price?

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With all those Blockchain.com posts, how is there nobody that has an update to their own situation?

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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 submitted by /u/madonnatroia [link] [comments]

Bitcoin Learning Website Idea? Opinions?

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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? submitted by /u/Several_Meringue_306 [link] [comments]

I ran Bitcoin miners for two years. Here's what it actually taught me.

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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. submitted by /u/SatoshiTrails [link] [comments]

New Bitcoin Dashboard - CITADEL WIRE

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12 words is your wallet. Here is how serious people back them up.

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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 Open source. Bitcoin only. No bullshit. Have fun. submitted by /u/LearnBitcoinCom [link] [comments]

Google Engineer Charged With Prediction Market Insider Trading Case

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A Google software engineer has been charged with insider trading after allegedly using confidential company data to place a series of profitable bets on Polymarket, the world’s largest prediction market... submitted by /u/News-Principal-160 [link] [comments]

Help identifying a scam on blockchain

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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. submitted by /u/One-Faithlessness500 [link] [comments]

Standard Chartered compares Ethereum to Amazon during 2001 dot-com bubble burst, says ETH will catch up to internal metrics

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Bitcoin drops below $73,000 as U.S. strikes on Iran spark $1 billion liquidations

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It keeps dropping!!!!!

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Like a kamikaze!!! oh nooooo!!!! submitted by /u/unthocks [link] [comments]

Kraken Launches Bitcoin Vault With up to 2.5% Annual Yield

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Texas Bank Wins National Charter To Challenge Wall Street in Crypto

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Except from the article UTB has processed more than $120 billion in annual transactions for crypto clients over the past five years and currently clears around $10 billion a month in US dollar volume for foreign banks, over-the-counter (OTC) desks, and major exchanges. "If you're a digital asset player, you can't get an account at a Bank of America or a Citibank," Beck said. "You can come to United Texas Bank and basically have full access to the US dollar." By moving its regulatory structure under the OCC rather than the Texas Department of Banking, UTB has aligned itself with the federal executive branch. Beck said the shift protects clients from fragmented state-level oversight that has historically restricted crypto businesses from accessing US banking infrastructure. The bank is launching UTB Atomic, a 24/7 AI-driven real-time payment network designed to restore round-the-clock settlement infrastructure following the closures of Silvergate and Signature Bank. submitted by /u/zesushv [link] [comments]

Why does using BTC still require so many steps?

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Maybe I’m missing something but why is using BTC outside exchanges still so complicated? I’ve held BTC for years but every time I look into actually using it onchain it feels like I need to learn an entirely different stack first. Bitcoin wallets, wrapping, bridges, moving across chains, gas tokens etc. Feels like the UX gap between “holding BTC” and “actually using BTC” is still massive for normal users. Has anyone else felt this or am I overthinking it? submitted by /u/Kaavyatheexplorer [link] [comments]

Trump Says He Saved American Crypto From Gary Gensler's "Anti-Crypto Army"

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Really? submitted by /u/Sad-Struggle7797 [link] [comments]

Reputation Services Knowledge?

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Hey. I need to talk to someone who is involved with the crypto reputation services industry. I pissed someone off, I guess. I'm not going to tell a big story here. But now for some reason every token I ever made, or make, is tagged with a "serial rug pull" designation somewhere and so warning at efvery endpoint I can find. I have a token with 19 locked pools tagged as a "serial rug pull". Anyways it's obviously account-based, not a particular token. I went ahead and made another token after a few weeks and it's immediately tagged, even though deployed with a fresh address using a gas account. Now, since I make pools of my tokens (and make tokens) for bots to trade - this is fucking up my hobby. And since they tagged my actual 'released' protocol it's fucking with my investors. I'm not running around trying to doxx with every fool that has a 'scanner'; on a web page. These blind web forms are pissing me off. But trying to find out who this is or where it's at is a silly trail of incredibly frustrating helplessness. I've tried to reach out to blockaid and the people behind tokensniffer to no avail. Does anyone here have meaningful knowledge in this area? I haven't done anything criminal or even scammy IMO but I'm not asking for judgement. I'm asking where the guts of this are at. Last fresh deployer was funded with a gas account. I can start a new tree of adresses with careful segregation via CEX funding. But if it's via remix, debank, heaven forbid coinbase creating a linked list of addresses somewhere? So the trouble is that this rating system has me starting to consider evasive and shady activities that I don't need or want. It's like they're making me into what they're accusing me of. Anyone have useful knowledge here? I tried to use crosspost from r/defi but it wouldn't submit. submitted by /u/50sat [link] [comments]

Silent Payments (BIP352): a way to share a static Bitcoin address without destroying your privacy

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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 submitted by /u/Large-Cress900 [link] [comments]

⚡ Lightning Thursday! May 28, 2026: Explore the Lightning Network!⚡

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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 submitted by /u/rBitcoinMod [link] [comments]

this is why i don’t trust banks anymore

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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. submitted by /u/Correct_Condition456 [link] [comments]

Daily Discussion, May 28, 2026

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Can’t buy Bitcoin with 401k

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So naturally I will be buying bitcoin etf. My question is should I go with BITB or IBIT? And why submitted by /u/idontgiveaFluk3 [link] [comments]

New to bitcoin and need help

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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 submitted by /u/Dlglegacy [link] [comments]

Daily General Discussion May 28, 2026

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President DJT Says He'll “Never Let Crypto Down”

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"When..." wet inhale, sniffle, wipes tears "Lambo?" uncontrollable sobbing

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Coinbase has become uselessly ratchet.

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For tax purposes I won’t delete my account for a few more months but as a service it’s dead to me. I needed 150 in Bitcoin today for a purchase so I signed in and proceeded to add money and send my buy order through. Everything clears without incident and order is fulfilled in 30 or so seconds. Off I go and grab the receiving address and set that order up. Suddenly I’m frozen from transactions. Can’t send any crypto out. Only live in the Coinbase universe. It is now requiring identity verification with ID and video confirmation or it’s locked until the 16th of June! Mind you, I had issues accessing my tax forms from their document section. I had to go through ID verification… I had to do my ID and video with pictures of my face… This was about a week and a half to two weeks ago.. Now I’m required to do the ID and Face ID AGAIN… plus there is this run down of extremely intrusive questions regarding my intentions. My employment, my wealth, my friendships… other unnecessary private info which has a zero point zero chance of my honest answer … just because. Instead of throwing my phone against the wall… I message off and explain to the waiting individual that payment will need to wait until i speak with help desk real quick and straighten this out. When I explain my issue and how I had to do this verification twice this year and once last week and I’m quite positive we know the “me” that uses the account. Hold for 15 minutes… followed multiple similar exchanges. “Sorry, looks like you’ll be locked out for transfers until the date stated” I lost it. I Spouted off (sternly stated without raising my tone of voice) about how… “you’re crooked, ratchet ass thieves!”… You are perfectly comfortable with my identity verification so much so you accept money from my account but as soon as you get you’re profit side complete suddenly I am an unknown, unsafe entity needing protecting from myself apparently. There was no possible escalation I was told. The date is the date. He refused to reply to my judgment of their timing to lock an account. I hung up, went into Exodus and set up buying though them. Purchase made and sent out almost instantaneously. F u k Coinbase Thanks for making it this far. You care more than Coinbase and I don’t spend thousands on you. submitted by /u/AdNational8155 [link] [comments]

Solana Meme Coin Surges 6,000% After Creators Arrested Over 'Rug Pull'

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i made this with ai and u better comment how made that makes u

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Trump-Linked Crypto Firm Burns $1.5 Billion on Failed Token and Faces Bankruptcy

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At least Trump keeps honoring his business practices from the 90s. Rinse and repeat. submitted by /u/SalmonLeather [link] [comments]

Someone just sold $1.3 billion of BlackRock's Bitcoin ETF in a single dark pool trade.

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All the banks are broke, but why?

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Why are banks broke? This is why: Fractional reserve banking. If everyone walks into the bank on the same day to demand their cash back, the bank physically will not have enough money on hand to pay everyone. submitted by /u/xtexm [link] [comments]

I need help from someone who knows about crypto.

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\ I accidentally sent ETC from Skrill to my Lemon ETH/ERC20 deposit address. The transaction is confirmed on the ETC blockchain, and the funds appear in the receiving address. I emailed Lemon support but haven't received a response yet. Is it possible they could provide a recovery guide, or should I consider the funds lost? submitted by /u/favfetishfeet [link] [comments]

Daily Crypto Discussion - May 27, 2026 (GMT+0)

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THEY CALL IT “LUCK”

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They only see the finish line. They never see the nights full of doubt, the crashes, the fear, the pressure, the losses, the waiting, the discipline. They don’t see the blood on the climb. They don’t feel the weight of every step through the bear market, the FUD, and the chaos. So when someone finally makes it… the crowd says: “He got lucky.” No. He just refused to stop climbing. The market rewards conviction long before it rewards results. ???? submitted by /u/BaneObradovic [link] [comments]

SEC Pauses Tokenized Asset-Linked Stocks Plan

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Bybit Distances Itself From HTX As Experts Warn Of USDT Freeze Risk

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Bitcoin scarcity visualization

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Looking for beta testers - I built a free, educational Bitcoin-only wallet app for Android that lets you practice self-custody without risking real money

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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. submitted by /u/Kokufuu [link] [comments]

DTCC Connects Tokenization Service to Stellar Blockchain

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Buy the dip of the dip

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When the dip keeps dipping LOL submitted by /u/Waddup1904 [link] [comments]

Tool/App for technical alerts

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My searches end up with having to give up cc info only to find out the platform or free trial doesn’t do what I need. I am willing to pay for it but the hunt has become exhausting. Looking for real-time alerts on wide variety of coins for EMAs, BBand crosses, RSI, VWAP primarily. Mandatory: Realtime and wide variety of coins (not a stock broker that added major coins only). Thanks for any input. submitted by /u/meegwell01 [link] [comments]

Polymarket just got drained for $660K but their response is "no contracts were exploited, funds are safe"

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Polymarket got hit again. May 22nd, someone drained around $660K in USDC and POL through their UMA CTF Adapter on Polygon. ZachXBT caught it first. The guy was pulling 5,000 POL every 30 seconds lol. Polymarket said "no contracts were exploited, all user funds are safe." Turns out it was a compromised private key from their rewards payout system. So not a smart contract bug, just someone got the keys. I mean that's still not great? What gets me is this is like their third incident in 6mons. And every single time the answer is "core protocol is fine." The core protocol is fine, everything around it keeps getting popped though. POL dumped on the news too, funding rate on bydfi flipped negative pretty fast. Oh and the audit they did back in 2021? Didn't even cover the part that got exploited. So...how many "isolated incidents" before it's a pattern? submitted by /u/RevealNoo [link] [comments]

This Hotelier Discovered Bitcoin 9 Months Ago, and It Changed Everything

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(Audiobook) The Original Bitcoin White Paper by Satoshi Nakamoto

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We’re still early

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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. submitted by /u/Snowman33001 [link] [comments]

Markets change, or do we just find new things to get emotional about?

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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. submitted by /u/MoneyMonsterStudios [link] [comments]

Would you use kraken vault for btc?

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I saw kraken has released the vault for btc for 2.5% apy. Would you do this? I know staking normally with btc on kraken is not worth it. submitted by /u/Burner198772977 [link] [comments]

Undergraduate Students: Apply for the MAGIC Grants Cryptocurrency Scholarship by July 14

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Bitcoin Core Developer Event - Barcelona, Spain

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Earlier this month, many Bitcoin Core developers met up in Barcelona, Spain as part of their regular twice-yearly in person meetings. Attendees volunteered to take notes on the unconference-style sessions and the transcripts have been added to the BTC transcripts website: - AI session - ASMap - BIP324 and group policy options - BIPs editors - Bitcoin TUI - CAmount - CDash - Coins cache - Erlay redesign - External interfaces - GUI repo - Inventory send queue - Kernel (laundry list, overview, session) - Libevent - Logging - Modern crypto library - Mutation testing - Package relay - Post-cluster mempool - Private broadcast - QML (planning, update) - Silent payments - Static builds - SwiftSync - TCP hole punching - Template hash Additional informal discussions, code reviews, working groups, or other sessions occurred on: - Quantum - Determinism in testing - Testnet5 - MEVPool - Wallet priorities - Silent payments - Coins caching - Peer observer - ASMap updates - IPC updates - Utility binaries - Bitcoin Kernel - QML GUI - Deterministic simulation testing - AI assisted code review - BIP39 import - BIP54 - Fuzz testing - Mutation testing - Static builds - FIBRE updates - Parallel block input fetching https://btctranscripts.com/bitcoin-core-dev-tech/2026-05 JD and Patricia (from localhost research), Emily (from Brink), and myself organized. A list of previous meetings is here: https://coredev.tech Thank you to all of the volunteer scribes for taking notes. submitted by /u/bitschmidty [link] [comments]

Updated Patoshi Pattern with 500 New Patoshi Blocks | Wicked Smart Bitcoin

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Bubblemaps investigators led by Nicolas Vaiman, discovered 80 bets on Polymarket with a 98% win rate that he said is statistically impossible to achieve

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At what point did crypto stop feeling confusing to you?

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There’s usually a point where crypto goes from feeling overwhelming to actually making sense. Curious what that moment was for others. submitted by /u/psalmcore33 [link] [comments]

Got yours?

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Multisig in 35 seconds. First animated entry in our glossary.

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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. Open source. Bitcoin only. No bullshit. Have fun. submitted by /u/LearnBitcoinCom [link] [comments]

???? In 2014, the crypto exchange Mt. Gox collapsed after losing approximately 850,000 Bitcoin.

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Wer von euch ist das!?

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Gesten in Süden von Bayern gesehen. Finde es richtig geil Kennt man die Person? ???? submitted by /u/Ok-Fly-6802 [link] [comments]

Crypto’s biggest problem isn’t regulation — it’s that most “decentralization” is fake

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Unpopular opinion: most of crypto is not meaningfully decentralized anymore. It’s just traditional finance cosplay with worse customer service and better memes. Everyone says they hate banks, but then they trust: centralized exchanges to hold their coins stablecoin issuers to not freeze them VC-backed chains to “govern” fairly bridges that get hacked every six months influencers who dump while preaching conviction foundations that quietly decide what “the community” wants At some point, we have to admit a lot of this industry didn’t replace the old system. It rebuilt the same power structure, added tokens, and called it freedom. Bitcoin still has a clean argument: scarce, simple, hard to change, no CEO. But 90% of crypto? It’s basically startup equity without shareholder rights, financial products without investor protection, and casinos without free drinks. I’m not saying crypto is dead. I’m saying the industry needs to stop pretending every token launch is a revolution. Most of it is marketing. Most communities are exit liquidity. Most roadmaps are delayed promises. And most “decentralized” projects still depend on a small group of insiders, devs, whales, exchanges, or foundations. The uncomfortable question is this: If your project can be killed by regulators, insiders, AWS, a foundation wallet, a stablecoin freeze, or one founder disappearing… was it ever really decentralized? submitted by /u/Roaring_lion_ [link] [comments]

Bitcoin made more sense once I understood what custody actually means

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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. submitted by /u/No-Case6255 [link] [comments]

CLARITY Act Passage in 2026 Unlikely, Says TD Cowen

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Made it to .01

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Feel like I’m late to the party but been stacking for approximately 6 months. Just hit .01 give me some love. submitted by /u/SILKS1979 [link] [comments]

Daily Discussion, May 27, 2026

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Base launches new tool to connect crypto wallets to AI agents

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Daily General Discussion May 27, 2026

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I have a question

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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. submitted by /u/Due-Respond-8306 [link] [comments]

Does anyone know what's up with Farcaster?

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Serious question, wtf is going on. First this guy Dan was talking about how its Ethereum social. Now he's at Tempo, then the project was handed off to some kids and sold off. Now there's some lady with huge tds saying something about a fork and a token. Does anyone have any idea what's going on there? I'm dumb and don't get it. submitted by /u/Fine-Comparison-2949 [link] [comments]

The project I invested in just deleted their Discord server and their website stopped loading. Should I be panicking

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I put a decent amount into a DeFi project six months ago. This morning I went to check on things and the Discord link I had saved returns an error. The website loads a blank page. The Twitter hasn't posted in three weeks. I can see my tokens still in my wallet but I'm scared to look at the price. Is there any way to tell if this is a full exit or something more recoverable submitted by /u/Waste_Dragonfruit346 [link] [comments]

Sounds about right

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What if Bitcoin had been created by a company?

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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? submitted by /u/Salt-Collar1826 [link] [comments]

Charles Hoskinson's $250M clinic to close after buying up NFTs and robots

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Is it dumb to use BTC as both savings and travel money?

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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. submitted by /u/TheAbouth [link] [comments]

UK Issues Sanctions Against Justin Sun's HTX, Other Crypto Firms Over Alleged Russia Ties

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Amid a scam crackdown, crypto giants keep fueling bitcoin ATMs

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What actually happens to your crypto when you die? Has anyone dealt with this as an executor?

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Genuine question not trying to sell anything, just had a rabbit hole moment today. Read about a family who inherited their dad's estate. Grant of probate. Death certificate. Everything legal. They found his Ledger in a drawer. Nobody knew the PIN. Nobody knew the recovery phrase. Nobody knew which exchanges he used. Legally theirs. Practically gone forever. This got me thinking how many people actually have a plan for this? From what I can tell, the problem is bigger than just crypto: Hardware wallets need PINs and seed phrases Exchange accounts need 2FA that dies with your phone Even email accounts that everything else is tied to become inaccessible HMRC (UK) treats crypto as property for inheritance tax so your estate owes tax on assets they can't even access Some numbers floating around: $68B estimated inaccessible due to lost keys (Chainalysis) 89% of holders have no inheritance plan Has anyone here actually dealt with this as an executor? Did exchanges cooperate? Were you able to recover hardware wallet funds? And genuinely do you have any kind of plan set up for your own holdings? Curious what people actually do in practice. submitted by /u/Pristine_Quality1764 [link] [comments]

Bitcoin timeline – what key moments would you add or change?

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I’ve been going through Bitcoin’s history and put together a timeline of the major milestones from the whitepaper days up to now. A few things that stood out to me: The big contrast in pace between the slow experimental phase (2008–2012) and today’s institutional era How consistently the halvings have lined up with major bull runs and adoption waves Bitcoin’s evolution from a cypherpunk idea into a globally recognised financial asset Here’s the timeline: https://preview.redd.it/jf1eq86nfk3h1.png?width=576&format=png&auto=webp&s=a1ce0282c36f23b26e0852beeb9bbe2aeecbe428 https://preview.redd.it/hq5i07gdgk3h1.png?width=566&format=png&auto=webp&s=880249356af74d8e85a4eed50ff02184f6bf069d I appreciate all inputs: What do you think are the most important moments in Bitcoin’s history? Any major events missing or that should be added/removed? Does anything surprise you about the timeline? submitted by /u/Reid-tv [link] [comments]

Opiniões sobre carteiras e corretoras internacionais para holder de Bitcoin

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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! submitted by /u/Any-Way-4364 [link] [comments]

Daily Crypto Discussion - May 26, 2026 (GMT+0)

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NASDAQ hits ATH...but crypto? WTAF?!

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Seriously, what is going on here? just got a notification that NASDAQ hit an ATH. Yet here we are with crypto floundering? If this is not an indicator that stocks, particularly tech stocks, are not interrelated with crypto then I don't know what is. Stockmarket (Tech) does not = Crypto!!! WTAF is going on here? submitted by /u/nugymmer [link] [comments]

I just reached 0.001 BTC

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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. submitted by /u/Anzaqw [link] [comments]

Daily Doots Podcast #149 - What A Ride!

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It is never too late to adopt Bitcoin as better monetary technology

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A lot of people say it is too late to get into Bitcoin, but that only makes sense if Bitcoin is mainly understood as a trade. If Bitcoin is better monetary technology, the question changes. Nobody says it is too late to start using the internet because some people used it earlier. The internet became more useful after it was no longer new. Bitcoin may be similar as an open network, but the analogy has a limit: bitcoin the asset is scarce in a way the internet itself is not. So maybe the real distinction is this: it may be too late to be extremely early, but not necessarily too late to adopt the tool. Early users paid with uncertainty. Later users pay a higher market price, but with more infrastructure, more liquidity, and more evidence that the network survived. Would you say there is a point where it becomes too late to adopt Bitcoin? If so, what would actually make it too late? submitted by /u/Myntad_com [link] [comments]

In 2017, i bought bitcoin at the rate of $5,959

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just checking all my old accounts and i saw this from the closed LBC, nothing in the wallet anyway, but this really touched me that i never left anything in it. I could have been a millionaire today. submitted by /u/fatechteam [link] [comments]

Investigating a Russian Crypto Laundering Operation

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It seems like every few hours a user posts about getting their crypto stolen in this forum or similar forums on Reddit. We hear about the theft and feel sorry for the victim, but rarely do we get a glimpse inside the operations of the person responsible for moving the stolen funds. Today, let's investigate the infrastructure of one man's decade long money laundering operation. Introduction to Crime Meet Ilya Sergeevich Obozny. He goes by the following usernames on forums and social media profiles: iljaarn spectre1466 cyberhostingru kurwa311 Ilya is a Russian national that likes to travel around Europe, frequently staying in Airbnbs and luxury hotels for months at a time. He's active in a number of public forums offering to help facilitate the laundering of stolen funds. I was able to connect Ilya Obozny to the above usernames through a series of public forum posts that included his phone number + email and cross referenced with data breaches that included the same information. Over the course of about a decade, Ilya has worked with a number of groups (mostly Russian) to launder funds for large scale botnet operations, celebrity endorsed rug pulls, and various cryptocurrency scams. Geost Botnet In 2016, an Android banking trojan called Geost botnet, was unleashed on over 800,000 Russian citizens. The goal of the botnet was to steal banking information of Russian and Eastern European citizens. The trojan had full access to the phone's SMS data with the ability to read account balances, intercept 2-factor authentication (2FA) codes, and send SMS commands to silently drain bank accounts. The botnet relied on hundreds of malicious domains and various international servers to manage the infected users. Above is an image on how researchers at Stratosphere Laboratory discovered the Geost botnet. They have a detailed research paper on the entire Geost Botnet operation that's worth a read. Researchers discovered the Geost Botnet by monitoring traffic from another malware operation called HtBot. Once a user was infected, the HtBot trojan converted its victims into proxies. The Geost botnet connected to the HtBot proxy network to initiate the thefts and drain victims banks accounts. The total losses was said to be in the 10's of millions (I couldn't find an accurate account), but numerous victims were drained of their entire bank accounts. As far as I can tell, no arrests were made in the thefts. The below details Ilya's role in the operation. Amateur Opsec Hour What made this a unique case study was security researchers found a 6,200-line unencrypted Skype chat log that had accidentally been uploaded revealing the usernames and conversations of the 29 perpetrators involved in the Geost Botnet. Ilya Obozny was the main money launderer of this operation. The below chat log confirms his involvement. The user "powerfaer" was later identified as the ring leader of the Geost Botnet. Researchers at Stratosphere Laboratory discovered and translated chat logs from the Geost Botnet connecting Ilya (cyberhostingru) to the team behind the botnet. The chat logs spanned the course of 8 months and went into intimate details about: Server IP addresses and passwords. Updating bugs in the malicious code. The laundering of stolen funds from their victims. Internal arguments over payments and feature designs. Additionally, the Skype conversations provided a unique insight into the personal lives of the bad actors during the heist. Some individuals had 2nd thoughts about continuing to go through with the operation while others discussed their feelings openly. All of the discussions about payments and where to launder the funds lead directly to Ilya. The preferred method was to use online payment systems like WebMoney, Qiwi, and Yandex Money. The above image was taken from a forum connecting the user names cyberhostingru, iljaarn, and kurwa311 together. Cryptocurrency Laundering Operation Shortly after getting involved with Russian botnet threat actors, Ilya moved into laundering cryptocurrency for rug pulls, hacks, and other scams. Ilya's main Binance deposit address is 0xf0a59E87f09024966493B912D8687336Bee2f4D9 He is connected to another Russian threat actor, Konstantin Pylinskiy the current CEO of Moonward Capital in Dubai, who was implemented recently in the 1.6M Fake Rabby Wallet scam and a number of other hacks/scams. A look inside of \"konpyl\" depositing into Ilya's Binance deposit address. Konstantin's main wallet of 0x44BdB19dB1Cd29D546597AF7dc0549e7f6F9E480 (konpyl on Opensea) sent about 77K into Ilya's deposit address, presumably for services rendered and has interacted with a number of Ilya's wallets. Russian Laundering Methods Typically the way funds are moved is by: Chain-hopping /Bridges --> Mixers --> Non-Compliant Exchanges / OTC Desks --> Cash Out. The obscuration of the funds can get extremely sophisticated and difficult to trace. Below is a simplified version of a Russian Money Laundering Operation similar to Ilya's. The above is a high level image of how many of the Web3 Russian Money Launders operate. Garantex and Kyrrex were two of the preferred destinations of Ilya Obozny's money laundering operation. In many of Ilya's money laundering activities he skipped the initial layer obfuscation entirely and went straight into depositing funds into OFAC sanctioned exchange deposit addresses. Garantex Based in Moscow, Garantex is an OFAC sanctioned cryptocurrency exchange that acts as the primary liquidity engine for Russian cybercrime. Garantex operates with virtually non-existent KYC/AML protocols and does not respond to international law enforcement subpoenas. As a Russian national, Ilya is easily able to open up Garantex deposit addresses to launder stolen funds. I found a number of Ilya's wallets using Garantex to directly deposit stolen funds into. Depending on who Ilya was working with he could swap the funds into fiat like Russian Rubles to off-ramp or swap into another coin on a different chain like Tron. OTCs and High Risk Exchanges While Ilya can charge higher fees, depositing into heavily sanctioned exchanges like Garantex is risky as many anti-laundering and blockchain analytics firms will instantly blacklist any funds associated with the entity. Additionally, these exchanges are at great risk for server takedowns, asset forfeitures, and domain seizures. In Garantex's case, over 26 million was seized and law enforcement took control of Garantex's domains even though the physical location was safe from international law in Moscow. Exchanges like Kyrrex and Kucoin are a preferred destination of Ilya's laundering operation. While subject to regulations, these exchanges tend to turn a blind eye towards cybercrime and make things extremely difficult for law enforcement. Kyrrex is considered a nested exchange and functions like an offshore broker. The exchange holds accounts inside HTX. Above is a view on how Kyrrex operates as a Nested Exchange inside HTX. I was able to trace a number of stolen funds laundered by Ilya to single Kyrrex deposit addresses. These can be incredibly difficult to attribute as the wallet routes directly into HTX's deep liquidity pools. On the blockchain, it looks like the funds are going directly into HTX, but in reality they hit Kyrrex deposit addresses before landing in HTX. Timeline of Money Laundering I was able to connect Ilya's money laundering activities to a number of rug pulls, hacks, and scams. While I can't confirm Ilya is directly involved in these thefts, he does appear to be the one facilitating the laundering through OTC (Over the Counter) trades and various money changing methods to help clean the funds. Above is a look inside Ilya's main Binance deposit address of 0xf0a59E87f09024966493B912D8687336Bee2f4D9. I labeled everything I could. It's generally assumed that all inflows are connected to money laundering activities. The below, except the Geost Botnet, were all connected to Ilya directly through his main Binance deposit address and other wallets in which he played a role in laundering the funds. Geost Botnet (2016) TokenStars (2017) Mark SPACE Scam (2018) Coinbase Impersonation Scams (2020) Elon Giveaway Phishing Scams (2021 - 2022) Drainer Scams (2023 - Present) Celebrity Scams TokenStars TokenStars is one of many failed ICOs during the peak ICO boom in 2017. The idea was to tokenize the performance of athletes, particularly Russian ones. This one turned out to be a legit project where real infrastructure was built. Ambassadors like Martina Hingis, Nikita Kucherov, and Lothar Matthäus hyped up the project up but only a handful of Russian athletes signed up to tokenize their talents. The project fizzled out in 2018. Who would of thought tokenizing human beings based on performance would work? If TokenStars was a failed project at best and a soft rug pull at worst, the next celebrity project Ilya was involved with was 100% a scam. Mark SPACE Mark SPACE (MRK) was intended to be a project that allowed investors to buy virtual real estate to sell clothes, host a virtual office, or create a social hangout space. Future NHL Hall of Famer Evgeni Malkin was a co-founder, and face of the project. Malkin ended up getting scammed out of over 4MM and the MRK token went to nearly zero shortly after launch. Retail investors lost another 11MM. Investigative reporting in Russia revealed the full details of the project and who was involved. I took a screen shot from the Smart-lab article that goes into great detail about the Mark Space scam. The wallets 0x71E4c641310Bb5883A920E2F5072BC8B1BC37B95 and 0xE26AeC623286AEd41991a7257370f9a7f07b88d0 flow directly in deposit addresses associated with Ilya Obozny. He appears to have deep involvement in the project though he is not listed as an official member of the Mark Space project. Most of the funds from the team project move into wallets and deposit addresses associated with Ilya. Impersonation & Phishing Scams Impersonation Scams A single victim lost 1000 ETH out of their Coinbase account in 2020. I traced the Coinbase impersonation scam to outflows of Ilya's wallet. While I don't think he took part in the scam itself, on-chain data clearly shows funds from the victim's Coinbase account getting laundered through wallets associated with Ilya. Elon Giveaway Phishing Scams During the peak bull run of 2021 and early 2022, scams involving Elon Musk's likeness were everywhere. A Twitter post would claim that Elon Musk or Tesla was launching a massive giveaway and use FOMO to lure unsuspecting victims. The above is an example of one of the Elon Phishing scams connected to Ilya Obozny's money laundering activities. Verified twitter accounts from public figures were compromised to make the scam appear more legit. The scammers set up professional-looking landing pages telling users to "Send between 10 to 100 ETH to this wallet, and we will instantly send you back double the amount"! Sounds too good to be true, because it was. I came across a number of these scams connected to Ilya. Here's one such wallet where all the inflows come from Elon or Michael Saylor Giveaway scams - 0x80293f92AEE5E1dB39fe90D89ebBE101C8B68010. Drainer Scams Wallet drainers like Inferno, Angel, and Pink started becoming a problem around early 2023. The business model, Drainer as a Service, allowed affiliates to participate in cyber crime without having to provide any of the infrastructure. Typically, the affiliates would just do the marketing, (Twitter, Discord, Google, Reddit, and Youtube) were the most common places to lure victims while the software and receive at least 80% of the proceeds. Many of these "affiliates" do not have the expertise to launder the stolen funds. I was able to trace mostly Inferno & Angel drainer affiliate funds getting laundered through wallets associated with Ilya. Connecting the Dots: 10 Years of Money Laundering Money Launders are the engine that allow rug-pullers, hackers, scammers, and malware developers to profit off the misery of everyday retail investors. Ilya Sergeevich Obozny has managed to stay in the shadows while facilitating 10's of millions in money laundering activities over the course of a decade. I was only able to attribute a fraction of the total scale of his operation. In time, as deeper investigative work is done, we will get the full scope of Ilya's cybercrime operation. However, Ilya’s past has permanently caught up with his present. He may be safe from international law for now, but on the blockchain, his footprint is cemented forever for anyone with the patience to look. I hope this type of post was insightful. As more information comes to light I'll be sure to update. Until then, be safe out there! submitted by /u/jbtravel84 [link] [comments]

Spanish Authorities Order Polymarket and Kalshi Blocked over Gambling Laws

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Microstrategy drew themselves as a pyramid again

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Ex-Hodlnaut CEO faces 20 years in prison over Terra fallout

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Vitalik just published Ethereum's quantum resistance roadmap and it might be the most important post-merge development nobody's discussing.

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While everyone's been staring at BTC price action and ETF outflows, Vitalik dropped an actual technical roadmap for making. Ethereum quantum-resistant. I've read through it and the implications go way beyond ETH. Here's what's being proposed: BLS signatures replacing ECDSA as the primary scheme. This is the big one, ECDSA is vulnerable to quantum attacks and BLS isn't. KZG commitments getting a security review against quantum threat models. These are what power the current proto-danksharding setup. Staking and validator key rotation being restructured to survive a theoretical quantum break without requiring a hard fork at gunpoint. Why this matters for the whole space and not just ETH holders: if Ethereum actually executes this roadmap, it becomes the first major smart contract platform with a credible quantum defense plan. That matters because quantum computing timelines keep getting shorter. IBM's roadmap has them at 100,000+ qubits by 2033. Google's Willow chip already demonstrated error correction. Now, whether that's real enough to threaten ECDSA-based chains is debated. But the market tends to price these things once they move from "theoretical risk" to "named technical response." Vitalik publishing an actual roadmap with specific cryptographic targets is that transition. The other thing happening simultaneously: the ETH Foundation is restructuring into what Vitalik called a "smaller ship." Less overhead, more focused on protocol resilience and privacy. If you squint, these two moves together look like ETH preparing for a world where the competition isn't other L1s, it's external disruption. BTC doesn't have a quantum roadmap. Most L1s don't. If quantum resistance becomes a narrative in the next cycle (and I think it will once quantum computing hits mainstream tech coverage), the chains that have actual plans in place will get the premium. This isn't financial advice and I'm not saying go buy ETH. I'm saying the technical infrastructure discussion is shifting in ways that aren't showing up in price yet. submitted by /u/ConsiderationFit2353 [link] [comments]

Inbound node connections, BIP322 - Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #406 Recap Podcast

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Oliver Gugger and 0xB10C joined Optech to discuss Newsletter #406: - Updates to BIP322's generic signed message format - TCP hole punching to help Bitcoin nodes behind home routers accept inbound connections - Changes to services and client software including Ibis Wallet, LDK Server, Mempool.space v3.3.0, and peer-observer P2P monitoring tooling - And more You can listen on our website: https://bitcoinops.org/en/podcast/2026/05/26/ Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/6dZrINmR28FeFeiyX6E6gr Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/bitcoin-optech-newsletter-406-recap/id1674626983?i=1000769691092 submitted by /u/bitschmidty [link] [comments]

Strive buys 1,109 bitcoins for roughly $85.4 million

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How to start investing in Crypto?

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At the moment have some positions in stocks and ETFs but I want to put 20% of my capital in Crypto as I believe it’s going to be important in the future. I was thinking about DCAing into BTC and ETH or buying when the crypto fear and greed index reaches extreme fear. I was wondering if maybe there are some key price levels to buy at? In summary, I am a beginner to crypto and want to invest in the long term, how should I do it and what should I invest into? submitted by /u/Middle_Armadillo_841 [link] [comments]

~$440M of STRC is now sitting in DeFi protocols — and most MSTR holders haven't noticed where the secondary float is going

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Finally Added BIP39 passphrase ????

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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.???? submitted by /u/Strange_Agent489 [link] [comments]

Multibit HD wallet sync stuck at 80%

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I am trying to restore my multibit HD wallet but the sync gets stuck at 80%. I have tried repair wallet. Any suggestions? submitted by /u/Whalebola [link] [comments]

I Sold All My Crypto At A Loss To Buy Stocks

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I’ve made money from crypto before, specifically from Solana, but the rest, Bitcoin, Ethereum, Fantom, XRP, and Shiba (throws up in mouth) have all made me lose money. And I genuinely held for YEARS. I had the mindset of, “If I don’t sell it then it won’t be at a loss, if I wait long enough then it will go back up.” So I held for years. I was a good boy with diamond hands instead of wet paper bag hands. Until I saw a comment that really opened my eyes. It said, “So your strategy is to buy high and never sell?” A month ago, before selling my crypto, I decided to try my hand at buying stocks in a brokerage account. Specifically Ai stocks, like Micron and SanDisk. SanDisk is now up 72% for me and Micron is up 54% with gains of 16% today. I could only watch my stock investments go up, and crypto go down more so much before I decided to sell the crypto. At first I was like, “I’ll just wait until my crypto breaks even, then I’ll sell it and put it into stocks.” Then I realized . . . Why am I waiting for crypto to go back up while I’m literally watching my stock investments go up in front of my eye? Anywho, figured I’d share my experience, and while this is not financial advice, I hope it will help some of you guys make money. Best of luck friends. submitted by /u/baller4ever87 [link] [comments]

Please post your biggest crypto liquidations

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I lost everything trading futures. Feeling at my lowest. I need some motivation to recover and start new. Please post your crypto liquidations. How did it feel when you got email from Binance/coinbase? Did you get liquidated in Binance 10/11? How did you bounce back? Please give some motivation. submitted by /u/Ok-Atmosphere-6315 [link] [comments]

Need help finding withdraw address

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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 submitted by /u/No-Junket5279 [link] [comments]

Difficulties sending money to crypto exchanges

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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? submitted by /u/FusionStarFire [link] [comments]

Helium Mobile CEO Calls Free Users “Parasites” - ends free and low-cost plans

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MicroStrategy spends 60% of cash reserves to pay back $1.5B of convertible debt. Now only has $0.87B cash left (which only covers 6.1 months of STRC dividends) for the remaining $6.7B of debt.

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Microstrategy just paid off $1.5B of their $8.2B convertible debt, and they did it by spending $1.38 of $2.25B (60%) of their remaining cash reserves. The good news for Bitcoiners is that they did it without selling BTC. The bad news for Bitcoiners is that they now only have $0.87B of cash left, and might be forced to sell BTC in the near future at less opportune timing in a bear market. Until they replenish the reserve, this cash reserve now provides only 6 months of STRC dividends (it was 1.5 years before). submitted by /u/HSuke [link] [comments]

Crypto Industry Fights Senator Warren's Claim That Coinbase, Ripple Bank Charter Approvals Are Illegal

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I know why it’s (WLD) rising and will continue…

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The upcoming OpenAI IPO! Since Altman owns this project as well, it’s serving as a proxy. Enjoy! ???????????? submitted by /u/illrap [link] [comments]

Once you realize there is a database 600+ dead fiat currencies and why they collapsed. Bitcoin starts making a lot more sense.

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Satoshi’s 1.1 million bitcoin and millions more can be saved from quantum attack, says expert

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Bitcoin wants you to cut in line: the mempool, visualized.

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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. Open source. Bitcoin only. No bullshit. Have fun. submitted by /u/LearnBitcoinCom [link] [comments]

Bitcoin Newcomers FAQ - Please read!

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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. Google Auth Authy OTP Auth Android Android N/A iOS iOS iOS 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. Store Product Coincards.com, Bitrefill, Gyft, and Fold App Gift cards for thousands of retailers worldwide including Amazon, Target, Walmart, Starbucks, Whole Foods, CVS, Lowes, Home Depot, iTunes, Best Buy, Sears, Kohls, eBay, GameStop, etc. Overstock, and The Bitcoin Directory Retail shopping with millions of results NewEgg and Dell For all your electronics needs Bitrefill, Bylls, LivingRoomofSatoshi, Swapin and Coins.ph Bill payment Menufy and Takeaway Takeout delivered to your door Expedia, Cheapair, Destinia, SkyTours, the Travel category on Gyft and 9flats For when you need to get away Cryptostorm, Mullvad, and PIA VPN services Namecheap, Porkbun Domain name registration Stampnik Discounted USPS Priority, Express, First-Class mail postage 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. Site Description WorkingForBitcoins, Bitwage, Coinality, Bitgigs, /r/Jobs4Bitcoins Freelancing Lolli Earn bitcoin when you shop online! 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. Project Description Lightning Network Second layer scaling Liquid and Rootstock Sidechains Hivemind Prediction markets DropZone and Beaver Decentralized markets JoinMarket, JAM app and Wasabi CoinJoin implementation Peer-to-Peer Exchanges Peer-to-peer exchanges Keybase Identity & Reputation management Abra Global P2P money transmitter network Bitcore Open source Bitcoin javascript library Bitcoin Knots A Bitcoin Node (Within Consensus Fork of Bitcoin Core) 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: Unit Symbol Value Info bitcoin BTC 1 bitcoin one bitcoin is equal to 100 million satoshis millibitcoin mBTC 1,000 per bitcoin used as default unit in Electrum wallet bit μBTC 1,000,000 per bitcoin colloquial "slang" term for microbitcoin satoshi sat 100,000,000 per bitcoin smallest unit in bitcoin, named after the inventor 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. Still have questions? Feel free to ask in the comments below or stick around for our weekly Mentor Monday thread. If you decide to post a question in /r/Bitcoin, please use the search bar to see if it has been answered before, and remember to follow the community rules outlined on the sidebar to receive a better response. The mods are busy helping manage our community, so please do not message them unless you notice problems with the functionality of the subreddit. Note: This is a community created FAQ. If you notice anything missing from the FAQ or that requires clarification, you can edit it here and it will be included in the next revision pending approval. Welcome to the Bitcoin community and the new decentralized economy! Please note that this thread will be moderated and non-constructive comments will be removed. submitted by /u/Fiach_Dubh [link] [comments]

Nuovo qui

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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? submitted by /u/Ok-Necessary-7637 [link] [comments]

Crypto Whales sit on the most auditable wealth ever created and can't always get a bank account.

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Certain crypto whales are in a peculiar position. They hold wealth that is, by every technical measure, more auditable than any traditional asset: every transaction, every wallet, every transfer sits on a public ledger any compliance officer can read. Yet banks sometimes treat incoming fiat from a crypto exchange as radioactive. The actual friction point for crypto whales banking isn't account opening. The issue is Source of Wealth and Source of Funds, the moment compliance asks how the money was made and where your money came from. That's what the compliance department at the bank is built to verify: clean funds, no laundering risk. Typical profiles affected: Early miners (solo and pool) with missing intermediary wallets or original receiving wallets BTC bought pre-2015 on exchanges that no longer exist (BTC-e, Cryptopia, Mt. Gox, etc) Algo/high frequency traders with thousands/millions of executions across exchanges and on-chain DeFi users with activity across chains, bridges, LPs, farms ETH ICO and token sale participants LocalBitcoins and other P2P buyers Privacy-coin holders with limited on-chain visibility People paid in BTC for services or businesses years ago People with "tainted" funds because they interacted with "high risk" counterparties For traditional wealth, profiles give documents compliance has processed for decades: payslips, business sale agreements, inheritance docs, property transactions, audited accounts. The issue with crypto is that compliance is not used to dealing with type of source of funds/wealth, and they are usually not trained/comfortable to understand it or have the tools be able to validate it. The irony is that most of what compliance actually needs already exists. On-chain history is complete and public. Active exchange accounts retain trade history, deposit and withdrawal logs, and fiat funding records. Operational mining pools still hold payout histories; solo miners have block rewards visible directly on chain. Transaction history, address provenance, timestamps are all verifiable on demand. The real gaps are narrow: dead exchanges (trading data unavailable), wallets abandoned a decade ago, undocumented P2P trades. These usually need "risk mitigation" to be accepted. A bit of unsolicited advice for anyone in this position: talk to the bank before cashing out, not after. Ask explicitly what they need for Source of Wealth and Source of Funds. Requirements vary bank to bank and some won't accept crypto-origin funds at all, regardless of documentation. Better to find that out before the wire moves than after. Over the past few years plenty of banks have become more crypto-friendly. But this is still a real obstacle for holders worldwide. When does the rest of the industry catch up? submitted by /u/alt-co [link] [comments]

Using Bitcoin as collateral for a loan to buy more Bitcoin

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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. submitted by /u/Hehehe1000 [link] [comments]

What was the first crypto you ever bought, and do you still hold it?

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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. submitted by /u/Halyth2705 [link] [comments]

If you could go back to your first day in crypto, what would you warn yourself about?

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I’d tell myself not to chase every coin people are hyping on Twitter. Also, learn wallet security early. I spent too much time looking for the “next 100x” and not enough time understanding seed phrases, approvals, and fake links. submitted by /u/Halyth2705 [link] [comments]

ETH is going down down down based on historical data

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Son of High-Profile North Korean Defector Indicted in $1.1mn Crypto Fraud

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Bond Yields at Multi-Year Highs Signal Bitcoin Supercycle, Analyst Says

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You could self custody

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You can learn, and you can do it, why not? submitted by /u/unthocks [link] [comments]

UFW Firewall guide for Bitcoin/Lightning nodes — what to open, what to never touch

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Posted a new guide in my sovereign-linux-tools repo. The short version: most nodes I've seen have no firewall configured at all. Default Linux accepts connections on every port. The guide covers: - Default policies (deny incoming is the only sane starting point) - Exactly which ports to expose: 8333 for Bitcoin P2P, 9735 for LND P2P - What to never expose: RPC (8332), LND gRPC (10009), REST (8080) - SSH tunnel pattern for remote gRPC access instead of opening the port - Rate limiting + Fail2ban on Ubuntu 24 (there's a known issue with banaction that breaks banning after enabling UFW) - nmap audit command to verify what's actually visible from outside All commands are copy-paste ready, tested on Ubuntu 24 LTS. Repo: https://github.com/shadowbipnode/sovereign-linux-tools Feedback welcome — especially if you run a different stack (CLN, Umbrel, etc.) and the port list needs expanding. submitted by /u/Large-Cress900 [link] [comments]

This guy was mining 1 bitcoin per day in 2013

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Daily Discussion, May 26, 2026

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Future of BTC/ALTS, Tax requirements, Ban Lists, Wallet-Identify Exposure, Small Spending Privacy.

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I have these thoughts on crypto regulation for anti-money laundering and tax purposes. I know little of the current political space. Just speculation. 1. Anonymity of small transactions could become less private. Government mandate reporting of personal addresses for tax paying purposes. Exchanges reports trades and outflows to nominated addresses. If a government says transactions for personal use under a limit, such as 10k, are tax-free. Your only purpose for wanting an anonymous wallet is to circumvent tax on purchases over 10K, except most assets at this size require POI/KYC OR for small transaction privacy conerns i will talk about further down. Government will require business wallet addresses to be reported. They can then link all Citizens with small spending habits. If you purchase from a marketing company (Fb, Google etc), or one that sells data to a data broker, if the marketing company/broker then collects a list of business addresses, they can see your spending habits (not individual items, just cost at a shop). This also means these companies can identify big fish (large investors, founders, insiders) and track their trades, or spending habits for geo-tracking and corporate espionage (im sure the potential exists). 2. Wallet address + Identity Association - Security and CBDC Roles If these marketing companies/broker, government, or any company that registers your identity with wallet address is hacked. You are open to hacking (social engineering/phishing emails/sim swap 2FA/kidnapping/blackmail/Scams). A bank would normally protect/manage compromised accounts. Now it's up to you. If a service like haveibeenpwned.com existed for these exposed links (identity+wallet) you would need to transfer funds to a new wallet, but it would be on the ledger. So you would rely on a tumbler, monero, or what i believe will happen. A CBDC funds exchange service. You send them your funds from a compromised account, using them like a VPN privacy layer (as their ledger is private), then they send funds to nominated new wallet address. 3. Integration of these concerns and BAN lists If private and business wallets are recorded by government, they may choose to use BAN address lists. To prevent tax avoidance and crime. They may even say "If its not registered it is banned, until it is registered". In this senario it would make BTC/ALTS banned from direct purchasing of goods and services unless there was a new protocol layer to cross-reference with updated BAN lists. More likely they will require BTC conversion via lightning to CBDC smart contract at the terminal to accept or deny based on registering status of the wallet address. Meaning the bank will still see your every small transaction, and will likely take a fee as well. It'd be difficult to implement this for just 1 country as travellers would be restricted to traditional currency systems. Unless. It works into the current SWIFT network of participating banks in many countries. So again the banks see all, the government controls functionality of funds: You own it in cold wallets, but they restrict where you can use it. 4. Banks, CBDC and loans Banks need peoples money in storage - so they can create loans with fractional reserve lending. If they have less in the bank, less loans, so naturally they will subsidise some of this loss by becoming a payment processor. Maybe Crypto Staking pools will be allowed with 3rd parties, or even banks! But IMO the government like small number of big entities for 'easier' regulation. There is worry of how smaller businesses might manage risk profiles A+, A, B etc... lumping of credit loans (GFC crash). This may be a way they can recuperate bank balances for loan creation from staking. Or time-release smart contracts so you can still withdraw funds slowly during a crisis instead of a pure bank hold, so you own the funds in a private key, its access is blocked for a certain time after request which allows banks some time and less risk to offer loans with their fractional reserve requirements. TLDR; How this may look. You store in cold wallets. So banks cannot with-hold withdrawals in a time of crisis or market upheaval. But the government now can BAN you based on changing aggressiveness and thresholds for applying BAN lists to prevent circumventing tax, money-laundering and crime proceeds. They can also see your spending habits at retailers which they were not privvy to previously unless they Audited you. Hackers and Marketing Companies know even more about you. Marketing companies that associate identity to personal wallet addresses can compare to Business Address registers, and now also have personal spending habit data, can identify big fish for insider trading and corporate espionage. If government force a BTC to CBDC conversion at payment terminals to compare to the BAN lists, banks will then see all spending data, again, and likely charge as a payment processor due to less people holding CBDC/Fiat in their Bank accounts (if in cold wallet opposed to multi-crypto friendly banking wallets). Loaning systems with the banks is disrupted which will affect economies if 3rd party solutions are created and regulated. Any compromise of your account requires a CBDC privacy fund transfer service to a new wallet, or tumbler or monero. Banks if multi-cryto friendly would be able to control your funds. Unless they designed a delay-released of funds protocols for parking crypto assets in you bank account, which reduces bank risk profile to use that capital to create loans. While maintaining some ability to hold ownership based on a smart contract without them halting it until they feel like it. Thoughts? submitted by /u/Melodic-Vegetable374 [link] [comments]

How Agentic AI, Deep Liquidity Markets, and Crypto Infrastructure Are Birthing a Multi-Trillion Dollar Machine Macroeconomy

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Hey everyone, I’ve been spending the last few months diving deep into the structural intersection of LLMs, automated order book mechanics, and decentralized networks. I think we need to look past surface-level AI wrappers, speculative trading bots, and basic web-scraping scripts if we are to come to the truth about where we are in the timeline here. We are standing on the edge of a massive structural shift: the absolute economic convergence of Agentic AI & Financial Markets using crypto as the its main economic force. Here is a comprehensive breakdown of how this machine-to-machine (M2M) ecosystem is being built, the protocols driving it, and how it will fundamentally transform algorithmic trading forever. 1. The Bottleneck: Economic Containment We are quickly moving past chat interfaces into the era of Agentic AI, autonomous software entities capable of multi-step reasoning, independent planning, and long-term task execution. However, as these systems enter the real world, they face a critical problem: fiat financial systems cannot handle them. An autonomous AI agent cannot open a traditional bank account, pass standard corporate KYC (Know Your Customer) checks, or hold a standard corporate credit card without introducing massive operational and security risks. Giving an uncontained software script access to a corporate bank API creates a risk of unbounded financial loss if the model experiences a logic loop hallucination or compromises its API key. Furthermore, traditional credit cards charge flat baseline fees (e.g., $0.30 + 2.9%), rendering micro-cents or per-token streaming payments mathematically impossible. The solution? Crypto rails. Decentralized networks provide the native, trustless, and programmable payment architecture that treats software agents as first-class economic actors. 2. The Multi-Chain Machine Stack An agent economy cannot exist on a single blockchain because no single architecture excels at everything. Instead, we are seeing the emergence of a highly integrated, specialized multi-chain hardware and software stack The Layer Breakdown: Intelligence Production: Bittensor (TAO) commoditizes machine learning capabilities through continuous cryptographic competition across specialized subnets. Agents tap into Bittensor as a decentralized, censorship-resistant API brain. The Execution Engines: Internet Computer Protocol (ICP) allows large language models and agent business logic to run completely on-chain inside Canister smart contracts, removing external cloud dependencies. Meanwhile, there is NEAR Protocol, which uses Chain Abstraction to handle background routing and multi-chain signing across Ethereum, Solana, and Bitcoin smoothly. Privacy & Key Isolation: Phala Network (PHA) and platforms like Venice AI (VVV) leverage Trusted Execution Environments (TEEs) (hardware enclaves like Intel TDX and NVIDIA Confidential Computing). This ensures an agent's internal reasoning weights, private keys, and data inputs are completely encrypted and invisible to the physical server host. The Identity & Payment Foundations: Kite AI (KITE) uses its SPACE framework and Agent Passport system to establish secure machine identities via BIP-32 hierarchical derivation, cleanly separating human root ownership from delegated spending constraints (e.g., hard-capping an agent's wallet to a maximum spend of $5/hour). The raw computing silicon powering this infrastructure is leased permissionlessly from open GPU marketplaces like Akash Network (AKT). Coordination & Asset Co-ownership: Autonolas (OLAS) coordinates complex agent clusters off-chain while maintaining verifiable states on-chain, while Virtuals Protocol (VIRTUAL) allows consumer-facing agents to establish autonomous digital brands with fractionalized co-ownership tokens. 3. The Metamorphosis of Algorithmic Trading This convergence shifts algorithmic trading from static, hardcoded quantitative models to dynamic, context-aware reasoning engines. Legacy quant models are highly efficient at time-series calculations, but they are completely blind to contextual shifts. A TEE-secured agentic trading setup continually ingests multi-source unstructured data, such as social sentiment, breaking macroeconomic headlines, on-chain wallet tracking, and liquidity pool imbalances. Instead of waiting for a rigid mathematical cross, the agent uses internal chain-of-thought logic to evaluate structural chart mechanics like Inner Circle Trader (ICT) Market Maker Models (MMXM) or multi-timeframe Fair Value Gaps (FVG) with human-like contextual understanding, executing complex multi-step capital hedges at machine-scale speeds. 4. The Structural Tradeoffs & Vulnerabilities To keep this objective, this paradigm shift isn't without significant friction points: Systemic LLM Hallucinations: A hallucination in a customer support chatbot results in a minor PR issue; a logical hallucination in a financial execution agent can result in instantaneous capital destruction. This requires immutable Boundary Smart Contracts that block any agent transaction violating predefined risk profiles. Hardware Enclave Exploits: The entire premise of private machine wallets relies on the security of physical TEE components. Any zero-day vulnerability breaking hardware enclaves risks exposing the private keys of millions of autonomous systems simultaneously. The Regulatory Horizon: Global frameworks are built entirely on human liability. If an autonomous agent operating on a decentralized network triggers a localized market flash crash, assigning legal accountability introduces a massive legal grey area between developers, validators, and compute providers. Curious to hear your thoughts. How are you positioning your development stacks or capital for this transition? Are you leaning toward on-chain native runtimes like ICP or off-chain TEE execution clusters like Phala? Let's discuss it fam submitted by /u/Cold_Designer2171 [link] [comments]

Daily General Discussion May 26, 2026

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Bitcoin’s HUGE Problem: Why the Majority is Ignoring It

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On my podcast ‘Bitcoin for Millennials’ I talked with Brandon Quittem, an entrepreneur, writer, speaker, and passionate Bitcoiner who’s articles have been read by more than 2 million people. We discuss Bitcoin personality types and MBTI data, the adoption chasm and why retail slowed, translating Bitcoin’s message for sentinels, Bitcoin as a mycelium-like complex system that resists capture, and how AI could supercharge centralization while Bitcoin pushes back. submitted by /u/BRVM [link] [comments]

ITS BITCOIN NOT CRYPTO

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ITS NOT JUST THOSE STUPID CRYPTOS, knows the difference. Every damn time. submitted by /u/unthocks [link] [comments]

Building Energy Infrastructure with Hashrate

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US military says it has launched new strikes on southern Iran

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Kraken Delists $MOON as Reddit Token Era Ends

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I'd for sure would buy a boat

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How are you guys handling grid bots with the current volatility?

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Lately I’ve been seeing more people using grid strategies because of how the market has been moving. With this level of volatility, it feels like leaving a bot completely untouched for days doesn’t work as well anymore. Features like these seem a lot more useful now: dynamic grids that adapt better after price breakouts being able to modify parameters without stopping the strategy adjusting position sizes while the bot is still running I still think grids work well in sideways markets, but during sharp moves, flexibility seems to make a big difference. I’ve also noticed some platforms pushing grid trading more through trial campaigns and reward programs, probably to attract newer retail users. What are you guys using lately? Classic grid or trailing grid? Wider ranges or tighter setups? Fully automated or manual adjustments? submitted by /u/Unhappy_Flatworm_325 [link] [comments]

Daily Crypto Discussion - May 25, 2026 (GMT+0)

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A response to the crypto FUD

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A response to several popular FUD posts I've seen the last few days. No this is not another mindless AI post. No AI was used or harmed in the making of this post. I can't tell if someone is trying to shake out retail or if a few of you here are just that good of people who are genuinely concerned with your fellow degenerates possibly riding this bear market deeper than they expected when POTUS finishes wrecking the global economy with his war on oil, Iran, ethics, morality, and decency. I don't know, something about the FUD feels very disingenuous. Even one of the Bankless podcast guys said he sold his Ethereum last week - all of it? I assume he still sold at a profit but still....odd thing to announce. Odd thing to announce, from him especially. Long story short the FUD feels manufactured albeit not completely baseless given the market at this moment in time. But how short are our memories of the progress? So what's the verdict then? Everyone should just sell all their crypto and leave and go where? AI stocks are grossly inflated already. Grossly. Like, only thing holding up the S&P. S&P is in a massive bubble. Real estate is inflated and has record numbers of sellers outnumbering buyers (yet prices don't come down). So, what's the play? Hope it ain't SpaceX. So what then? Sell all your crypto in a bear market and sit on 100% cash - see if you can be a mini Berkshire and wait for the full on crash that may never come. The crash Michael Burry has been predicting for years. The crash that may not come as deeply as you think, or will hit so hard and recover so fast (remember Berkshire has those buy limits set) you'll miss the dip entirely. Or, do you stay exposed in crypto and await the waive of growth that you believed would come back when you first started buying? I disagree that cryoto as an industry had its run and is essentially done. Reading popular FUD posts lately you wouldn't think it's anything but dead though. I personally still think it's just getting started. Are the rate of returns diminishing over time - sure, if we are talking Bitcoin, but that's natural with any asset over time. And yeah, Ethereum has been stagnant last five years with a weak peak this last bull run. Alt season didn't happen, or hasn't happened. But is explosive and maintainable growth still possible ? I think yes. By mid-2024, fewer than 1% of 401(k) plans offered crypto exposure. In other words most plans still don’t include crypto ETFs even though they’re now legal to hold in retirement accounts. The same is true of pension plans. Plan administrators have fiduciary duties and they don't want to get accused of violating them by including something new, lacking significant history, whose price can fluctuate significantly. Of 401k plans that exist they are still very limited with a Bitcoin Spot ETF first approved in January 2024 and an Ethereum ETF shortly after. In recent years more and more major financial advisors began offering crypto assets including Morgan Stanley, JP Morgan, BlackRock, Schwab, Robinhood, Fidelity, and even to Van Guard who said it would never do it. This list will grow with regularity clarity and the degree to which these institutional activity promote it to their customers will grow too. Major financial advisors seeking crytpo ETFs aside, major trad-fi players like Black Rock also already build on blockchains like Ethereum. It built its tokenized money market fund BUIDL on it in March of 2024. Other chains may find demand for their block space that doesn't yet exist as global financial markets go on-chain and more institutions BUIDL products on-chain. If more institutions build on public block chains like Ethereum, Cardano, Hedera, Solana, Algorand, etc., then demand for their corresponding tokens will rise too as the fees to pay for the transactions have to be paid in those tokens. I only reference these names as specific examples because in March of 2026, the SEC and CFTC issued guidance naming these specific cryptocurrencies (16 in total) as non-security "digital commodities" subject to CFTC oversight. A guidance paper issued by the SEC and CFTC in and of itself is another important piece of regularly clarity and legitimization, despite not having the weight of law. More important than this ETF stuff and SEC guidance papers is legislation. The GENIUS Act (Guiding and Establishing National Innovation for U.S. Stablecoins Act) was signed into law in July 2025. It established the first comprehensive regulatory framework for payment stablecoins in the United States. The CLARITY Act (Digital Asset Market Clarity Act of 2025) is now pending, and being flushed out in Congress as we speak. It is bipartisan legislation designed to establish a comprehensive regulatory framework for the cryptocurrency industry in the United States. Together, GENIUS and CLARITY will help usher in a new era of digital finance. Let's not forget we also have a very pro crypto President in the U.S., even if he also used it to rug-pull you all with his Trump coin right after his election. He may be a war monger, inflating away the dollar, stomping on due process and immigrants in the U.S., but that aside, he is advancing these crypto related laws, ushering in the future of digital finance. It may be the only thing he's doing well. He also signed an Executive Order in March of 2025 to establish a Strategic Bitcoin Reserve and a U.S. Digital Asset Stockpile. Again, not unwise given it's merely being created through asset forfeiture, not purchase with taxpayer funds. In July of 2024 Germany for instance sold off its Bitcoin reserves form asset forfeitures - $3 billion worth of holdings - at $62,000 per coin. This is below even today's bear market low and 3-4 years from now will look especially foolish. I see lots to be optimistic about. I'm not any more scared for crypto in the short term (1-3 years) than I am for the stock market or economy as a whole. War, civil unrest, inflation, and global economic recession is a risk to everything. But I think leaving crypto entirely is leaving a lot on the table. It is the only new asset class in existence and it has the most room to grow by virtue of being the youngest. It doesn't feel new to many of you/us because it's been so violently chaotic at times - especially since 2021 - but that's just mental fatigue talking, not reason. Run away if you want but I'm riding this train into the 2030s. Reminder of other progress since 2021: -In June of 2021 El Salvador became the first country in the world to adopt bitcoin as legal tender. -In November of 2021 the US congress passed an infrastructure bill that included for the first time ever provisions addressing crypto currency, taxes, and reporting requirements. While controversial, Congress has continued to discuss legislation, and passed the GENIUS act in 2025 and is working on the CLARITY act now. -In September of 2022 the White House released the first-ever comprehensive framework for the responsible development of digital assets, ushering in a new level of US acknowledgement of the perceived risks and benefits of crypto. -In mid 2021 Visa first announced it would begin settling transactions with USDC stable coin. Speaking at the StarkWare Sessions 2023 conference in Tel Aviv, the head of Visa’s crypto operations said the company has “been testing how to accept settlement payments from issuers in USDC starting on Ethereum. - In August 2022 Blackrock, the world's largest asset manager with $8 trillion in assets under management, partnered with Coinbase to give institutional clients access to Bitcoin. In December of 2022, the CEO of BlackRock predicted crypto's blockchain technology will usher in "the next generation for markets." -In June of 2022 Solana announced development of its own smartphone to securely store crypto keys and provide seamless dapp integration. -In early 2022 Los Angelas's former Staple Center became the Crypto.com arena. In mid 2022 the Home of the 76'ers, the former Wells Fargo Arena was renamed the Bankless Arena. -In 2022 Polygon partnered with many major companies and is being utilized by Starbucks, Disney, Adidas, Stripe, Meta, and Reddit on a number of NFT and customer loyalty projects. (Yeah I know NFTs gave tanked since then). - In October of 2022, BNY Mellon, the oldest bank in the United States, became the first bank in the US to launch its digital custody platform, allowing select clients to safeguard their Ether and Bitcoin holdings. - In November of 2022 Fidelity announced it would offer Bitcoin and Ether trading to institutional clients. Since then it has begun offering Bitcoin and Eth purchase to its 401k retail customers. -In November of 2022 it was reported that the JP Morgan wallet was now a registered trademark for cryptocurrency transfers and related services. The United States Patent and Trademark Office granted the application on Nov. 15. That same month, JPMorgan completed its first live cross-border transaction on a public blockchain using the Ethereum layer-two network Polygon, and a modified version of the aave protocol—a DeFi technology. - In November of 2022 it was reported that Google is working with the Solana Network providing node & validator services. - In January of 2023 Amazon began working with the Avalanche Network to provide cloud solutions for app-chains. - In March of 2023 Microsoft was reportedly prepping to release a built-in non-custodial wallet for Microsoft Edge. Reportedly it's still working on this, so apparently no rush. We are in a bear market so expect little news from any company on anything crypto related. submitted by /u/troythedefender [link] [comments]

Talking about using crypto as a payment method for art commissions

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So, I've been wondering if it's a good idea to sell art using cryptocurrencies like USDT or USDC, but I'm not sure where to do it. And I'm not talking about NFTs, I'm just talking about using crypto as a payment method for normal art. Do you have any recommendations, And most importantly, do you think I should try it? submitted by /u/SZ_on_reddit [link] [comments]

Accidentally swapped LTC to USDT (exodus)

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hey so i recently just got into crypto. im not really a crypto geek i mainly use it to transfer money to friends / buy things online. i also only use ltc since it has rlly low fees. but a couple days back i somehow accidentally transfered 10 usd worth of LTC into usdt (TRX). i tried cancelling it mid transaction but it js wouldnt stop. so after it was over i tried tranfering it back through the same panel in exodus but it said that i need 14 TRX which is a bit much for me since i live in a third owrd country. i also tried using that usdt to buy things only but it also told me that i need that trx to send my usdt. so i was wondering is my money just lost? or is there anyway for me to get it back as LTC even if i dont get to keep all of it. hope anyone can help https://preview.redd.it/s6txhmuohc3h1.png?width=852&format=png&auto=webp&s=8ebef6a800639a21db6ea7295c5d68c62dd2b093 https://preview.redd.it/m5uc1muohc3h1.png?width=939&format=png&auto=webp&s=6085651f77fd8d337fa4a0f2e7ed33338b7bd129 submitted by /u/Nethery_boy [link] [comments]

Why does Kraken pay me out in Babylon when bonding my bitcoin?

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Why doesn’t the APY pay me out in BTC and re reinvest in the coin I want? submitted by /u/Your_Ozone [link] [comments]

I just realized something obvious about crypto wallets ????

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I just realized something that will probably seem obvious to a lot of people here. When I first got into crypto, I thought my wallet was tied to a specific app. Then I realized that with a non-custodial wallet, my seed phrase doesn’t belong to the app itself. If one wallet app disappears tomorrow, or if I find a better one, I can simply import my seed phrase into another compatible wallet and still access my funds. In hindsight, it’s completely logical because crypto is decentralized, but it took me a while to fully understand it. Did you know this from the beginning, or was it a realization you had later on too? submitted by /u/Salt-Collar1826 [link] [comments]

Nicehash easy mining or braiins hashpower?

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Nicehash has lower costs on easy mining but what do you use? And who is better? And on braiins can you mining other sha256 coins or just btc? submitted by /u/Horeo08 [link] [comments]

What properties actually make a yield-bearing token sustainable rather than just another emission scheme?

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Trying to build a framework for identifying genuinely sustainable yield-bearing tokens on Solana versus the vast majority that are just dressed-up emission schemes with temporary high APY.The four things I have come up with are: real economic activity as the yield source, yield paid in external assets not the native token, no lockup required, and an operational track record in real conditions. Is that the right framework or am I missing something important? submitted by /u/Other-Town1179 [link] [comments]

Bitcoin price today: Crypto ticks up as US-Iran peace deal odds climb

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Throughout history money was never created by man, only nature.

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Built a crypto portfolio tracker called Kawah ☕????

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Hi Guys! I built my own app to track Ethereum and other crypto assets. Main things I focused on: fast portfolio tracking manual transaction tracking clean mobile UI no account required local-first/privacy-friendly approach simple watchlist + markets view Still improving it actively (especially the iPhone experience and portfolio analytics), but the app is already live on iOS. Would genuinely love feedback from crypto people here: What features do you wish portfolio trackers had? https://apps.apple.com/ca/app/kawah/id6760319857 submitted by /u/nassimmontreal [link] [comments]

The Bitcoin Nonproliferation Doctrine: A U.S.–Iran Grand Bargain

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Under such a framework, Washington would offer Tehran a pathway back into the traditional global financial system only in exchange for dismantling its sovereign #Bitcoin $BTC architecture and surrendering its state-linked digital reserves. The result would amount to a twenty-first century financial disarmament treaty: a doctrine of monetary nonproliferation. submitted by /u/Bidofthis [link] [comments]

[OC] It’s been 84 years

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The Crypto Opportunity Died Years Ago. Nobody Wants to Admit It...

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My post here yday severely triggered the permabulls. Instead of engaging w/ the points made about liquidity changes in crypto they defaulted to pathetic “ai slop” dismissal with 0 substantial counter arguments. So I’m back AGAIN to explain without the help of AI exactly why liquidity in crypto has FUNDAMENTALLY CHANGED: There’s a reason your altcoins performed poorly between 2024-2025 and will continue to do so. It wasn’t due to a LACK of liquidity. IT WAS BECAUSE THE STRUCTURE OF LIQUIDITY IS NO LONGER THE SAME. There’s also a reason you will NEVER see an “alt season” again. Pls allow me to educate you… In the early days (up until around 2022) retail money hit exchanges in a very predictable way. We would buy spot, use leverage, and then risk on sentiment would cascade down the entire cap table. Put simply we would buy and hold the asset on chain. There was a lot of ON CHAIN ACTIVITY, and that made these markets reflexive. Fast forward to now (the post 2022 era) and majority of capital comes in through institutional rails. What are institutional rails? Bitcoin and ETH ETFs (thank BlackRock, Fidelity, etc), Corporate treasuries, custodians, regulated products etc… ETFs for example do NOT act like old retail flows. Somebody purchasing exposure to crypto through a brokerage account is NOT rotating profits into random tokens. Theyre buying paper receipts of the asset from megacorp. Their passive exposure stays locked in these regulated wrappers so we don’t get any visible order book activity that used to trigger MOMENTUM CHASING ACROSS THE ENTIRE MARKET. The chronically online traders of the old era would see capital moving and aggressively attempt to front run the flow down the cap curve, we don’t see that anymore. Corporate treasury exposure is NOT chasing microcaps. Pension allocations are NOT yield farming on chain. I could honestly go on… Basically all of that liquidity that used to move freely around the markets and create the conditions we NEEDED for alt season, is now STUCK inside heavily regulated wrappers around the biggest assets. That’s why you watched BTC dominance go up for what felt like forever, whilst most alts simply bled out. The majority left here are still psychologically expecting the old REFLEXIVE “everything will pump eventually” environment, but those earlier alt seasons only existed in a market with: way less tokens (no hyper fragmentation) no institutional infrastructure, in fact back then, these institutions were mass banning this stuff more bots and MEV than humans minimal competition for liquidity & attention Listen to me carefully because this is what the BuLlS won’t tell you: even if we’re FLOODED with an abundance of NEW liquidity tomorrow, don’t expect the classic alt season. We’ll see SELECTIVE strength in very FEW narratives. But that old retail driven rotation across hundreds of coins that defined previous cycles? That meta is structurally broken. The game itself has indeed changed! Up until 2021 there had only ever been 20k tokens created on average. Since then in just 5 years, more than 40 MILLION tokens hit the market. Just stop and actually think about that increase for a second. Oh and ai is only accelerating this problem. You can now automate token creation at little to no cost. Narratives are now mostly “generated” Influencers are spamming like never before Trading bots outnumber human participants ENTIRE memecoin ecosystems are being manufactured algorithmically with 0 effort So liquidity isn’t just fragmented across a forever exploding number of assets it’s now being farmed by literal machines I could go on… but I won’t! APPROACHING 48 HOURS NOW AND STILL NO ACTUAL COUNTER ARGUMENT TO THE FACT LIQUIDITY ARCHITECTURE IS ENTIRELY DIFFERENT NOW. IF YOU HAVE NOTHING WITH SUBSTANCE TO CONTRIBUTE TOWARD THIS CONVERSATION PLEASE SAVE YOURSELF THE TIME OF LOOKING SILLY. submitted by /u/MediumLibrarian7100 [link] [comments]

The DEX I use added a new protocol fee I only just found out about three months in

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I've been using the same DEX for about six months. Found out today that three months ago they added a 0.15% protocol fee on top of the existing LP fee. It's in their documentation but there was no notification, no banner, nothing in the app. I've been paying it without realizing. Over three months on my trading volume that's not trivial. Is there any way to recover this or is it just a loss submitted by /u/CapnChiknNugget [link] [comments]

"I don't want to know who Satoshi Nakamoto is"

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That's Sergio Demian Lerner. Since 2011, Sergio has collaborated to strengthen the security of the Bitcoin protocol and reference code, discovering and disclosing 9 vulnerabilities. submitted by /u/makingcryptoeasy [link] [comments]

What the heck is this? Might you pls explain…

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Thinking about buying

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I want self custody of the bitcoin, so I’m going to buy a Trezor safe 3. Is this the best way to hold it? I will be buying the bitcoin only version. Is it worth it to upgrade to the higher end Trezor? What do yall use? Thanks in advance. EDIT: Very new and have never bought crypto. ELI5 please, just started doing some research yesterday. submitted by /u/Acceptable-Leek1546 [link] [comments]

Heat Your Home The Bitcoin Way

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Anyone Here Actually Using RedotPay Long-Term?

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Anyone here using RedotPay regularly in India? Most content online feels either sponsored or very surface-level. Curious about actual long-term experience for: subscriptions travel online payments crypto spending Mainly wondering: does it randomly fail? how’s support? any hidden catches? would you trust larger balances on it? Would love honest opinions from real users. submitted by /u/Same_Chef_6092 [link] [comments]

Vitalik Buterin Says Ethereum Foundation Is Not ETH’s Central Authority

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What’s the hardest part about starting crypto?

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Do you think Ethereum will eventually be used more than Bitcoin?

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Bitcoin is often seen as digital gold. Ethereum is often seen as the infrastructure layer for crypto. One focuses on storing value. The other focuses on building applications. So here’s a question: In 10 years, do you think Ethereum will be used by more people than Bitcoin? Not necessarily worth more. Just used more often in everyday life. Why or why not? submitted by /u/Salt-Collar1826 [link] [comments]

Are AI Agents Going To Become Part of Crypto Infrastructure?

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Do you think AI agents eventually become part of crypto itself instead of just tools built around it? Not just trading bots, but systems that can: move assets manage workflows coordinate payments interact across apps/services execute tasks autonomously Most people still think of AI as chatbots while the infrastructure layer is evolving much faster tho. submitted by /u/wancruz [link] [comments]

Money printer go brrrrr... We stack sats (song)

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I built a Bitcoin whale tracker that watches OG wallets, dormant coins, and billion-dollar BTC moves before they hit the headlines

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You can see the new panel right next to the Bitcoin price here: https://newhedge.io/bitcoin It tracks OG wallets, whale movements, dormant BTC waking up, large on-chain transfers, and other major Bitcoin wallet activity in one place and even recognizes well known wallets of exchanges like Coinbase. Still improving it, so would love feedback from anyone who watches onchain data closely. submitted by /u/AlonShvarts [link] [comments]

TrapDoor Malware Targets Crypto Developer Tools in Supply Chain Attack

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Mentor Monday, May 25, 2026: Ask all your bitcoin questions!

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Bitcoin-Backed Lending Could Hit $1T in 10 Years, Says Ledn

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FTX Law Firm Fenwick Agrees To Pay $54M in Settlement

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The funniest part about Bitcoin is how differently people see the future.

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The goal was never just "get rich" The real flex is freedom. Funny how fast the future changes. submitted by /u/PolinaTravala-6936 [link] [comments]

Spot BTC ETFs lost ~$1B last week while BTC chops at $76k. Is capital actually rotating to equities?

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SoSoValue shows US spot Bitcoin ETFs with about $1 billion in net outflows last week, ending a six-week streak that brought in roughly $3.4B. BTC has mostly traded between $76k and $80k during the same period. Some coverage frames that as rotation into AI and growth equities while macro stays messy (hot inflation prints, Fed cut odds fading). Whether that’s the full story or just risk-off hitting crypto first is debatable. A few data points worth arguing about: BTC range: ~$76k support tested multiple times in May; $80k still acting as resistance ETF flows: ~$1B weekly outflow after prior six-week inflow run Correlation: Reports of BTC/Nasdaq correlation spiking in April (some outlets citing ~0.96), which would mean BTC behaving more like a tech beta play than an uncorrelated asset Counterpoint: Cumulative BTC ETF inflows since launch are still massive (~$57B+). One bad week isn’t necessarily a structural exit. LTH supply also remains near highs, suggesting long-term holders aren’t all bailing Bear case: If ETF outflows continue and BTC loses $76k, chop becomes breakdown toward low $70s. Bull case: Fear index in high 20s/low 30s, support holding, and ETF selling is tactical rotation not a full exit. Reclaim $80k on inflows would flip the narrative fast. My open question: For people tracking flows, does this look like money leaving crypto for good, leaving for AI stocks specifically, or just pausing until macro clears? Happy to be wrong on the rotation thesis. What are you seeing in your own allocation or books? submitted by /u/SomewhereBusiness503 [link] [comments]

Daily Discussion, May 25, 2026

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How do you handle moving large amounts into/out of cash without messing up your portfolio allocations?

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Daily General Discussion May 25, 2026

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

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What’s a Bitcoin take that got you laughed at before… but aged perfectly? submitted by /u/Shot-Economics-1484 [link] [comments]

Are dog based memecoins generally better?

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Been looking for newer dog based memecoins and saw a new one $BORF. It seems simple enough and the dog meme market generally has a bigger cap than the rest. Do these have staying power? submitted by /u/Vinstofle [link] [comments]

CZ “Surfing Accident” Hoax Sparks Meme Coin Frenzy Across Solana And BNB Chain

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We're so close

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So close, so so close. We're about to witness price changes. Either goes up or down, to the right, not left. Brace yourself! submitted by /u/unthocks [link] [comments]

Which platform gives the lowest spread when selling BTC?

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Please don’t comment telling me not to sell. I just need to sell a portion. I experimented with crypto.com and you lose 2% BTC when selling even with 0 fees. They’re not transparent about it, so not a fan of crypto.com. Is there a better place to sell it without losing as much? submitted by /u/warrior178 [link] [comments]

Some of my perspective on where the EF is going | Vitalik

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Best exchange to sell BTC crypto?

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Who gives the smallest spread when selling crypto? submitted by /u/warrior178 [link] [comments]

Why do I need to pay Coinbase to protect my money!??

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I was just on the Coinbase website and noticed they have different tiers of membership. Is it not weird that you need to pay for insurance for fraud? Shouldn't they have enough confidence in their systems to ensure that Fraud does not happen and if it does then they take care of it. At least that's how banks work. I understand they are not a bank but I feel like they are so large that at this point they should be able to provide that kind of confidence to their users. Am I missing something here!??? submitted by /u/Fit_Caterpillar5396 [link] [comments]

Daily Crypto Discussion - May 24, 2026 (GMT+0)

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The Bitcoin standard, matrix animation

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I made BitcoinDaysCreated.com an open source privacy focused tool to watch individualized Bitcoin Days Created

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I am neurodivergent and have spent a lot of time reading about Bitcoin. I finally pulled the plug and converted my long term savings to Bitcoin over the last couple of months. My favorite metric I obsessed over was CDD (coin days destroyed). To my surprise in a community that ethos is about HODLing and long term conviction there was no easy way to track my individualized coin days that I created. I spent the last couple weeks working on an open source privacy focused tool that could allow just that. Im not a programmer, but I think I got it all working right and accounting for various edge cases. I learned all about API’s, UTXO’s, vanilla HTML5, how to register a domain, how to start a repository on GitHub, etc etc it was really fun. Check it out and let me know what you think. BitcoinDaysCreated.com submitted by /u/Electrical_Idea_4814 [link] [comments]

Thoughts on 0.5btc?

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By 2035, will 0.5 btc be life changing? If not, what would be the minimum btc to consider it life changing? submitted by /u/Outrageous-Egg97 [link] [comments]

Zcash hits near 7 year high against Bitcoin.

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Zcash is probs the only mature coin to hit a many year high against BTC. Is this a case of the limits of Bitcoin, or a theme of privacy emerging in crypto. submitted by /u/Leithm [link] [comments]

Buterin Says Ethereum Foundation Is Not the 'Center' of Ethereum

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Duress or passphrase

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So some wallets offer duress or a decoy wallet. And then you have passphrase for the seed. I asume that an attacker will always go for seed because they know how btc works and ask for it. So making a passphrase with a decoy amount would be more effective. What's your thoughts? submitted by /u/FinancialExternal898 [link] [comments]

Invests $5 in bitcoin for the first time

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Where would you place Bitcoin on the adoption curve today?

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If we imagine an adoption curve from 0 to 100: 0 = invention 50 = mainstream adoption 100 = completely normal and accepted by everyone My feeling is that Bitcoin is somewhere between 20 and 35 today. Advanced enough that institutions, ETFs and even some governments are involved. Early enough that most people still don’t really understand what they own, or why Bitcoin exists in the first place. Every major technology looked strange before it became normal. Internet. Credit cards. Online banking. Smartphones. So I’m curious: White would you place Bitcoin on the adoption curve today? submitted by /u/Salt-Collar1826 [link] [comments]

Vitalik Buterin says Ethereum Foundation will be a 'smaller ship,' sell less ETH amid researcher exodus

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River and seedsigner

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So I want to do River for emergency fund so I can stack more btc, how long does it take for River to send to your bank if you hold your cash there submitted by /u/JozieKS [link] [comments]

WLUNA Case Update

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The ongoing court case that's at the arbitration stage now hit with an appeal to go to discovery. This could be huge if Coinbase are forced to reveal their actions during and after the Terra collapse. submitted by /u/Inevitable_Comedian4 [link] [comments]

I am new to Crypto

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Guys what and all stuffs do i need to be aware like any scams. I am opening a new binance account. submitted by /u/Aromatic-Buy8667 [link] [comments]

Bitcoin Drops

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If Bitcoin drops that much, could it be a strategy by big companies to scare people into selling their BTC so they can buy it back?! Stay patient, don’t sell your BTC. We’re only at the beginning of the crypto boom! submitted by /u/Salt-Collar1826 [link] [comments]

It's time to wake up, Bitcoin dancing video

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Missing one word form 12 word seed phrase(correct order)

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Hello I have a problem, got a new iphone and the phantom app transferred over but only in watch only mode I wrote down my 12 word seed phrase but missed one word. What an idiot Its in the correct order and I think I missed the last word Is there anything I can do other than try all 2048 different words. Found some different things using python or btc recover but all so complicated. Do they work… please help? Only £500 on there so not the end of the world but really annoying. submitted by /u/Professional-Bag-164 [link] [comments]

Before Modern Trading, There Was Sakata

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Rice traders in Sakata, Japan developed one of the earliest forms of market psychology through price movement. Their methods helped them become some of the most profitable traders in both the rice markets and the futures market for rice receipts. What they created centuries ago eventually became the foundation of modern candlestick analysis. submitted by /u/MoneyMonsterStudios [link] [comments]

Bitcoin Lord of the rings.

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If I have 100U, can I invest on btc or something else? (I‘m a college student right now)

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Can someone give me suggestions? I‘am a freshman here. submitted by /u/Fuzzy-Combination808 [link] [comments]

LISTEN!

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I never trusted third parties with my money, but I still kept some fiat in a local bank. Yesterday, right before I needed to pay all my bills, my bank account got frozen. I still don’t even know the exact reason, probably because I received an amount larger than usual. I went to the bank, and they told me they had to send an email to the administration in the capital. So here I am, locked out of my own money, waiting for someone in an office to decide whether I’m allowed to access it again. Luckily, around 90% of my wealth is in Bitcoin. For the first time, I actually needed to move some BTC from my cold wallet. I did it instantly, permissionlessly, and without trusting anyone and it literally saved the day for me. Bitcoin is not a stock market. Bitcoin is the solution to the dysfunctional financial system we live under. submitted by /u/Character-Resist-961 [link] [comments]

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

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My friend sent me a Binance referral link and is asking me to register using my Aadhaar OTP and PAN card for KYC verification. Should I give or not? My friend sent me a Binance referral link and is asking me to register using my Aadhaar OTP and PAN card for KYC verification. He says I just need to complete signup, do KYC, maybe download a trading app, and he’ll give me ₹1000 after that because it helps him in some referral/event thing. The link is related to Binance PowerPlay 2026. Is this actually safe to do? Can my Aadhaar/PAN/KYC details be misused later if the account is linked to my identity? Has anyone experienced something similar with crypto referral schemes? Should I avoid this? submitted by /u/Kind-Office8694 [link] [comments]

If your Bitcoin is still on exchange

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

Crypto Used To Attract Neurodiverse People. Now It’s Full Of Literal Gamblers Repeating Marketing One Liners HAHAHA

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One thing becoming obvious is how many people in crypto understand almost nothing about how this market functions beneath surface level marketing narratives. The space used to attract neurodiverse people obsessed with understanding cryptography, monetary history, market structure, liquidity flows, incentives, protocol mechanics, etc. People actually wanted to understand WHYY things behaved the way they did. Fast forward to 2026 and most of the people left seem to think that if they personally cannot understand or model something then it must just be random chaos. So every discussion around cycles, liquidity routing, miner issuance, reflexivity, or market structure gets dismissed as “cope” by people who have clearly never studied anything beyond CT memes, influencer clips, and price charts. Bitcoin’s halving is literally hardcoded protocol behaviour. The issuance schedule is deterministic. That part is not speculation. The speculative part is how liquidity and market participants react around it. For years the same broad mechanics repeated because the same structural conditions repeated. What changed this cycle is not Bitcoin suddenly ignoring its own supply dynamics. Bitcoin still responded to the halving largely as expected. What changed was the surrounding liquidity environment. ETF flows, institutional custody, macro conditions, fragmented alt liquidity, market maker dominance, leverage structure, all of it changed how capital moved after Bitcoin absorbed liquidity. But instead of learning any of this most people now just repeat brain dead one liners like “markets bro”, “priced in”, or “nobody knows anything” because they genuinely do not understand the system deeply enough to discuss it properly. 90% of the space now feels like low IQ online gamblers repeating slogans they heard from influencers while pretending everything is random because they personally cannot think beyond surface level narratives. And before the comments fill with people screaming “alt season always returns when liquidity comes back” let me explain this like you are 5 years old: Old alt seasons happened because retail users actually held and traded crypto directly on exchanges. Bitcoin would run first after the halving because new supply entering the market got cut in half while demand increased. Then people sitting on BTC profits would start rotating down the risk curve looking for bigger percentage gains. BTC profits moved into large caps, then mid caps, then eventually complete garbage. The entire market became reflexive because liquidity constantly recycled itself deeper into the ecosystem. Now compare that to today. A massive amount of Bitcoin demand now comes through ETFs and institutional products. BlackRock buys the BTC, it gets absorbed into custody, and the buyer holds exposure through traditional finance rails instead of actively rotating capital around crypto exchanges chasing altcoins. At the same time there are now millions of tokens competing for attention instead of a relatively small pool of alts like previous cycles. Liquidity is fragmented to death. Market makers dominate order flow. Bots arbitrage everything instantly. Retail participation is weaker. Capital gets trapped in custody systems instead of endlessly cascading down the risk curve. So even if huge liquidity arrived tomorrow it mathematically does NOT flow around the ecosystem in the same reflexive way it used to. People are waiting for a version of alt season built on market structures that DONT exist anymore. People assume the old mechanics still exist simply because they existed before. They do not realise the structure underneath the market changed. If this post instantly annoys you instead of making you think, you are probably exactly the type of participant I’m describing. submitted by /u/MediumLibrarian7100 [link] [comments]

What If You Could Actually Hold Your Bitcoin? The Wild History Of Physical BTC

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Bitcoin’s digital nature is the source of most of its advantages. Since it is programmable, it unlocks self-custody practices that can make theft and confiscation very difficult. Since it is digital, it can move at the speed of light, allowing movement of value and settlement across the globe in minutes. Nevertheless, Bitcoin has at times been criticized for being hard to grasp, literally. Bitcoin, in its natural state, can not be touched, can not be physically held; it can only be imagined and understood. To many people, that’s a significant barrier and one that has inspired quite a few attempts to bring the coin into meat space, but it is not easy. Entrepreneurs and artists alike, for well over a decade, have taken on the challenge of making Bitcoin physical in a way that retains its most valuable cash-like properties, and while nobody has entirely solved the problem, significant progress has been made, leaving a wonderful trail of artifacts along the way. Bitcoin Magazine Logo HomeBUSINESSThe History and Future of Physical Bitcoin BUSINESSCULTUREFEATUREDThe BM Big Read The History and Future of Physical Bitcoin Juan Galt By Juan Galt May 23, 2026 The History and Future of Physical Bitcoin FacebookX Apple App Store Download App Google Play Download App Bitcoin’s digital nature is the source of most of its advantages. Since it is programmable, it unlocks self-custody practices that can make theft and confiscation very difficult. Since it is digital, it can move at the speed of light, allowing movement of value and settlement across the globe in minutes. Nevertheless, Bitcoin has at times been criticized for being hard to grasp, literally. Bitcoin, in its natural state, can not be touched, can not be physically held; it can only be imagined and understood. To many people, that’s a significant barrier and one that has inspired quite a few attempts to bring the coin into meat space, but it is not easy. Entrepreneurs and artists alike, for well over a decade, have taken on the challenge of making Bitcoin physical in a way that retains its most valuable cash-like properties, and while nobody has entirely solved the problem, significant progress has been made, leaving a wonderful trail of artifacts along the way. Casascius Coins The History and Future of Physical Bitcoin (Image by Stacks Bowers Galleries) Minted as early as September 6th, 2011, at a bitcoin price of barely $8 dollars, Casascius coins are without a doubt the most iconic physical Bitcoin artifacts in history, with many copycats since. Named after Mike Caldwell’s Bitcointalk forum nym, which appears to be an idiom for “call a spade a spade”, the Casascius coins developed many of the practices that other attempts at physical Bitcoin would innovate on over the years. One problem with making Bitcoin physical is the handling of private key material. Since Bitcoin is digitally native, it can only live in a cryptographic private-public key pair, a secret that is used to generate a public key, with Bitcoin-compatible cryptography. In the case of the Casascius coin, Caldwell generated the private keys in an airgapped machine and printed them, gluing them to the iconic precious metal coins and then presumably destroyed the copy that could have been kept on his computer. He described the security precautions taken on his website for potential buyers to review. The printed private key was then covered by specialized tamper-proof stickers, which, if removed, leave an obvious mark in a “honeycomb pattern”. Buyers of the coins could thus tell if the private keys in a Casascius coin had been exposed before purchase from a third-party vendor. This key management issue is the biggest hazard in the creation of physical bitcoin, and one which, in the case of Caldwell, was dealt with by trusting him not to cheat. He was also very transparent and careful by the standards of the time. To this day, his reputation is strong if not legendary, so that trust was well placed by buyers who profited greatly from the collector’s value of the items, which to this day mark a premium on top of the bitcoin and precious metal values of the piece. Casascius coins were discontinued in November 2013 after the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN), a branch of the Treasury Department, informed developer Mike Caldwell that minting physical bitcoins qualified him as a money transmitter business with heavy compliance requirements. The trust involved in generating the private keys may have been a centralizing element that put a target on his back. A year after Casascius coins shut down, RavenBit launched, with an attempt at decentralizing the trusted minting problem of physical bitcoins. The RavenBit coins, very similar in form factor to Casascius, did not come with pre-generated keys; instead, they came with the tamper-proof sticker unpealed, such that the user could generate their own keypair, paste it to the coin and slap the tamper-proof sticker on top. This, in a sense, decentralized the mint and, in theory, that is a breakthrough, but in practice, it just created a thousand trusted mints, without brands, without reputations, using office printers that probably had malware on them. If you got a RavenBit coin from someone, how could you know that the person who bought it and generated the private key in there didn’t keep a copy or take proper precautions? To date, the RavenBit project has been abandoned, but it probably taught the industry an interesting lesson. To make Bitcoin physical, we need to go higher tech. To route around the trusted mint problem — both at the center and at the edges – of physical bitcoins, Coinkite, the hardware wallet maker, designed the Opendime, a tiny computer purpose-built to be a Bitcoin bearer asset. Looking back on what motivated him, NVK, co-founder of CoinKite, told Bitcoin Magazine that, “Bitcoin is digital money. All we can do is an analog backup. Maybe someone cracks doing secp256k1 by hand in the future.” Meaning that currently, you always need some kind of computer to generate valid Bitcoin keys; that computer is the mint. Opendimes were designed around this fundamental fact. They have a computer chip that can generate a private-public key pair and store the private key securely, behind a silicon tamper-proof mechanism. Users have to feed it a file or some kind of input for entropy during setup, which the chip uses in part to generate the Bitcoin wallet, this grants further assurance that the random generation logic, which is open source, has an even better entropy input in the generation of those bitcoin keys. The public key of the generated Opendime wallet can always be seen by connecting the device to a computer, as you would a normal USB stick; its balance is visible on a block explorer. Users can then send bitcoin to the opendime, but if they want to withdraw BTC from it? They have to physically puncture the device, which unlocks a circuit to access the private key, but renders the device visibly unsealed. Opendimes represent a major breakthrough in bearer asset technology and go for about $20 dollars each today, rising in price slightly with inflation from a low of about $13 each in 2016. As a result, they have also achieved iconic status, with artists embedding them in premium Bitcoin art and making them into Bitcoin meme culture. While $13 to $20 dollars is very cheap for hardware wallets, and the trusted mint issue is effectively solved by letting users fill the device with their own coins, the price and form factor are still far away from cash. On a price basis alone, $20 dollars is a big ask. If Casascius charged about 20% markup for his coins, then Opendimes should hold at least $100 worth of Bitcoin inside to be worth the hardware, and for use as a currency, which prices out most every day purchases. Finally, the badass cypherpunk USB stick form factor, while epic, does not visibly tell the user much about its contents, making each device effectively non-fungible with other Opendimes and thus not cash-like. A cheaper and probably more fungible alternative is needed. Taking the Opendime concept to a more friendly form factor, the Belgian hardware wallet manufacturer Satochip created an open source credit card-like Bitcoin wallet, which has very similar qualities to the Opendime. It can generate Bitcoin private-public key pairs, and depending on the version, can even sign transactions. Users can interact with it via phone apps that talk to the card via NFC. Other form factors are available as well, like rings and coins that contain the same chip and capabilities. The cost for Satochip hardware can be as low as 13 Euros, depending on the bulk purchases, which is cheaper than an Opendime, which gets us closer to everyday cash purchases, but not by that much. The Satochip cards are intended to be high-security hardware wallet devices anyway, not daily-use cash containers. And these powerful and small computer chips are not cheap, hence the price floor above $10 that seems so hard to break through, for now. Taking the Opendime concept to a more friendly form factor, the Belgian hardware wallet manufacturer Satochip created an open source credit card-like Bitcoin wallet, which has very similar qualities to the Opendime. It can generate Bitcoin private-public key pairs, and depending on the version, can even sign transactions. Users can interact with it via phone apps that talk to the card via NFC. Other form factors are available as well, like rings and coins that contain the same chip and capabilities. The cost for Satochip hardware can be as low as 13 Euros, depending on the bulk purchases, which is cheaper than an Opendime, which gets us closer to everyday cash purchases, but not by that much. The Satochip cards are intended to be high-security hardware wallet devices anyway, not daily-use cash containers. And these powerful and small computer chips are not cheap, hence the price floor above $10 that seems so hard to break through, for now. Too Expensive? The Fundamental Limits So, how cheap does physical Bitcoin hardware need to be to make business sense, if it can make sense at all? According to the Federal Reserve, it costs anywhere from 4.1 cents to 11.3 cents to produce U.S. dollars. The smaller the value, the more expensive it is, with $1 bills incurring a 4.1% loss in production costs. That means that to justify a 20,000 Satoshis bill — roughly $16 dollars at today’s prices — the hardware needs to cost well under a dollar. Most computer chips powerful enough to do Bitcoin cryptography are above that price target, but there is one chip that demonstrates what is possible, the NXP’s NTAG X DNA chip. Available in sticker antenna form factor, a couple of millimeters thin, this NXP chip can handle a variety of cryptographic primitives, such as ECDSA and ECC. It can create secrets, sign them and even encrypt a message. However, while powerful, it does not include the Bitcoin cryptography curve, secp256k1, which means it can’t do Bitcoin things natively. Nevertheless, this 2025 generation NTAG can be purchased for roughly $3, if you can find any supply, demonstrating how low the price can go on a chip capable of performing cryptographic functions. Sadly, the cash-like form factor most of the world is used to, with flexible bills that people can fold into their pocket, can be very damaging to computer chips, a fact that NVK says he learned from experience, as they experimented with Bitcoin bearer assets hardware. The closest anyone may have come to the cash-like format is the OfflineCash company, with a beautiful, collection-worthy set of Bitcoin-denominated bills that have an NTAG-style NFC chip, which stores a user-generated key, while the company generates a second key on their servers, to create a 2 of 2 multisignature wallet. The Server key is on a time lock, degrading the multisig address to a 1 of 1 wallet, from which the user can eventually withdraw the bitcoin. This tries to get around the trusted mint issue, but ends up just replicating the many mints problem. Though their cash-like form factor is undeniably gorgeous. The costs of producing a Bitcoin native NTAG can easily hit a few million dollars, and implementing Bitcoin’s cryptography in this way can be fraught with errors if manufacturers are not experts on the topic. It would also need to be fully open source to guarantee that there are no backdoors. There’s one more fundamental problem with physical Bitcoin bearer assets. Even if you could get a cheap enough chip in a cash-like format, you would always need online access to verify its authenticity —that the cash is loaded with real bitcoin— since the asset is unavoidably digital. The problem could be solved by simply trusting an issuing mint of Bitcoin-denominated cash instruments, and believing in the face value of a redeemable bill, but that would miss the ideal of self-custodied, trusted cash. Though it probably would work in a friendly jurisdiction. So, while it would be cool to have physical Bitcoin bills like those created by OfflineCash Company with a bearer asset secure chip and not trusted mint risk, we are still a ways away. And it might actually be overkill today, since no one would have bitcoin-denominated change anyway, so you’d end up getting fiat cash back, but maybe one day, post-hyperbitcoinization. NVK does believe there’s a superior solution to the cash format, at least for the foreseeable future, which is why Coinkite created the Tapsigner. Built on the Coinkite Bitcoin NFC chip, a technology similar to the X DNA NTAG by NXP, though perhaps more powerful and thus more expensive, the Tapsigner comes in the familiar debit card form factor, with a secure element chip, NFC tap to pay and cool designs to choose from. Inside the chip, though, is a fully capable Bitcoin wallet, with scep256k1 cryptographic capabilities, letting it create Bitcoin keys, store the secret securely enough and sign transactions internally, to be broadcast by an accompanying phone, which serves as a critical visual aid for the user to verify transactions. The Tapsigner can function as a bearer asset, but perhaps even better as a refillable hardware wallet that can spend specific amounts of bitcoin, like any credit card, resolving the issue of change, and enabling tap to pay to wallets that support the already popular feature. With cards like the Tapsigner, which cost about $20 bucks, the problem of bitcoin-denominated payments returns to good old-fashioned retail adoption, and integration with major business accounting and payments software, which Cashapp and Square are blowing wide open. submitted by /u/TheresNoSecondBest [link] [comments]

Daily Discussion, May 24, 2026

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Binance is a scam

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Binance is a fraud. They're tweaking the prediction market of BTC UP Down . Theyre changing one thing or perhaps shifting the time a bit to forcibly make merchants unfastened their guess. I am just about positive they doing this. They only can’t handle the prediction market. Simple remove it, for those who can’t be true to your self I have one proof to help my statement. The market maintain getting down and down and down in the last sec, nevertheless it doesn’t further cross the road of the prediction chart and chart stops within the last pink line until the prediction is over. And them growth, it retains taking place/up good after the prediction time is over. I recommend pls pls pls never spend money on the third class low mindset trash Binance prediction market platform. I am so accomplished with this. I misplaced like more than 90 greatest out of 100. Is that this really my luck???? Wtf? Or one thing is cooking within the backdrop. I cant by no means agree with my 90% loosing out of which i solely gained like 10% bets, and people are still gained by close the worth not the ready for the last settlement. I request everybody to refrain from Binance prediction market. I f***g know that you simply’re organizing the market from predict.fun but the citadel is yours and you're the king. You are able to do something inside it. So cease scamming peoplw although your really more than the mainstream. However this is how the large canine rip-off individuals by slowly slowly eating them from inside. PLS STOP THIS ???? sheet P.S - Now some mods of Binance will come right here and attempt to give some additional gametime insights submitted by /u/Minute_Contest_58 [link] [comments]

Daily General Discussion May 24, 2026

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Generador de bitcoin

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Estimados Vi por ahí en una de esas páginas de la wiki escondida algo que supuestamente es un generador de bitcoin, te pide una tarifa y te da una cantidad determinada de btc. No lo he probado porque no me atrevo, pero… creen que sea algo posible?, ha pasado anteriormente?, alguno ha probado algo así? submitted by /u/Calista-07 [link] [comments]

NEW MONEY ₿

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There is a form of money that moves incredibly fast and constantly grows in value. If the price of food or my basic needs goes up, it rises too. And if anyone tried to take that money from me, they simply couldn’t — for reasons you can look up in your favorite search engine or AI. That money is called ₿itcoin. submitted by /u/Fresh-Effort-9848 [link] [comments]

HodlHodl now has Lightning support for small trades, KYC is a thing of the past!

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Bitcoin is like cash, except nobody asks for your ID when you want to exchange cash for smaller bills. In Canada somebody setup a Lightning Buy/Sell offer on HodlHodl for $10-30. This means anyone can accept Bitcoin for a small payment and get it into their bank account in minutes. Imo Bitcoin doesn't have to be the main currency, it just has to be easy enough for regular people to use and then get fiat for. What are you thoughts on this? submitted by /u/Zestyclose_Cheek527 [link] [comments]

Road to 1 Million Sats Ep. 1 | The Grind Begins

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Brazilian gang raid reveals a new crypto-crime model: turning stolen power into digital money

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Long story with a stupid question

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I’ll start off by saying, I did a lot of regrettable things over a decade ago. Stuff that I’m not proud of. But back in 2015(ish) I worked as a dominatrix. (Please don’t judge me.) One of the avenues I would advertise my services was on Backpage. It cost money to get your posts put up, and the first couple times it was no big deal, no complications getting advertising. Then one day (again, still in 2015ish) I went to post on Backpage, and they were changing their policies to protect people like me posting the services I offered. They no longer wanted a credit/debit card to pay for posting, since it could be traced back to us, but were switching to cryptocurrency, specifically Bitcoin. I should mention 2015 was a huge blur of going out to do “gigs” and then afterwords getting drunk, pretty regularly. So my memory of specific details at that time is really terrible. I was blotting out a lot of terrible memories and regret with lots of alcohol. I can’t remember if I went through the motions and actually purchased the bitcoins with the intention of making another post, but I do remember looking into bitcoin, maybe purchasing some, but not following through with posting on Backpage again after the change in policy. So now it’s 2026. I’m a wife and a mom and living a normal, suburban mediocre life. No complaints here! But I can’t help but wonder about the possibly purchased, possibly lost/locked up bitcoin. Is there anything I can do to help track it down if it exists? I know this is a long shot, but we could really use the money now, and it would be such a huge relief to realize I’ve had this windfall of money all along, just sitting around. Here’s what I do remember: If the bitcoins were tied to any type of email account, there’s a good chance it’s long gone. The email I had since 12yo was hacked around that time and I lost all access to it. Also, I used a lot of burner email accounts for making those postings and communicating with the people hiring me for such “gigs.” These email accounts are long gone and deleted as well. My memory is very fuzzy, but I seem to remember Backpage wanted like 5 or 10 bitcoin paid for posting. When I looked into it, bitcoin were more than 1:1 usd. I seem to remember 1 bitcoin=$20usd. I honestly can’t remember if I forked over the money after seeing the exchange rate. But in the off chance I did, I’d like to try and track the bitcoins down. I know next to NOTHING about cryptocurrency. This would have been the one time I ever purchased any, if I did. I do not remember anything about a wallet, or a seed phrase, and cannot recall if I used any app to make the purchase. I feel like if I did, it would be Coinbase, but I’m not sure honestly. So, how fucked am I at ever finding any answers or clues? How do I even begin to search for the (possibly purchased) lost bitcoin? If you’ve read this far, thank you so much for hanging in there. I’m just trying to chase this fuzzy memory with a glimmer of hope. submitted by /u/Lunsters [link] [comments]

Longs liquidated… stage is set!

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I’m ready for this next move! Longs have been liquidated, OI is still elevated, and funding is shifting negative. I expect a rocket after this holiday weekend unless some macro news kills it. submitted by /u/jongolfpro [link] [comments]

Daily Crypto Discussion - May 23, 2026 (GMT+0)

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Best no KYC exchange to swap crypto?

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I'm trying to bridge multichain without going through Binance or Coinbase, the KYC process is invasive, the last thing I want is my ID sitting in a database somewhere especially with all these targeted attacks. Is there a non-custodial exchange where i can actually get correct rates? submitted by /u/shady_finale75 [link] [comments]

Crypto Clothing Brand - MrLined

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Hello people, After trying to buy some crypto clothing for myself as a crypto enthusiast, there was nothing that would satisfy my eyes so I decided to create one. It would be an honour for me to check my website - www.mrlined.com - and get your honest feedback. Thanks a lot submitted by /u/MrLined [link] [comments]

A TL;DR version to share that I am a proud bitcoiner and that I am running for congress in New York 13th Congressional District.

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I wrote in TL;DR mode Actual ballot for New York 13 to share around and then a few link to newspapers of past stories. If you feel like sharing the ballot with folks in NY13, I will not stop you. You can read more about my Crypto position at https://abolishthebitlicense.org. https://preview.redd.it/jelgrx30ny2h1.png?width=663&format=png&auto=webp&s=a58184cdb2cdb1c86f88e81666766b6aa7f07956 https://www.nydailynews.com/2017/10/11/man-at-center-of-bitcoin-bodega-lawsuit-wants-paul-krugman-to-testify https://preview.redd.it/3n2ixrq6ny2h1.png?width=738&format=png&auto=webp&s=6ca9a4c5f216a987bcaca4a6346056622f66b18b https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/21/nyregion/public-advocate-nyc-ballot.html?unlocked_article_code=1.klA.5-xn.JxG6UJ7lXtev&smid=url-share https://preview.redd.it/rs1lyc84ny2h1.png?width=680&format=png&auto=webp&s=c822f62c2916fbfef60c1d631a696fdb47b8c77c https://www.coindesk.com/markets/2017/10/11/still-alive-ny-judge-delays-decision-in-fight-against-bitlicense https://preview.redd.it/ua6lxpa3ny2h1.png?width=1624&format=png&auto=webp&s=4ff76f32a3df88e36490171709c5e9810cedf95c There is more stuff about the corruption of the judges but I will stop here. We are going to get it one day. submitted by /u/TheoFromSDA [link] [comments]

“What’s the dumbest mistake you’ve made with crypto

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Could be panic selling, losing a wallet, sending coins to the wrong network, trusting a random “expert”, forgetting a seed phrase, getting rugged, or selling too early before a huge pump. I genuinely think everyone in crypto has at least one painful story ???? submitted by /u/Shot-Economics-1484 [link] [comments]

Who is a very strong anti-Bitcoin debater?

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I haven’t watched too many Bitcoin debates or interviews with many people who deeply understand Bitcoin (on the anti-Bitcoin side). Other than Peter Schiff, who in my view has a very good understanding on economics, but he has so many biases working against him, and he is a bit of a Bitcoin troll. I’m looking to hear from intellectuals who have studied Bitcoin and have a strong stance against it. Any suggestions on where to point me? submitted by /u/deeptimeresearch [link] [comments]

Any bitcoin game ios apps that cashout to speed wallet?

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is there perhaps any bitcoin games that cashout out to speed wallet besides bitcoin empire and bypet must be iOS compatible submitted by /u/slenderlyn [link] [comments]

Adam Back Challenges Mark Cuban's Bitcoin Data After Billionaire Sells His Holdings

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volatility

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question: do yall think volatility scares most investors and will there be a point where demand shrinks away because of it or wil greed always overweigh? submitted by /u/rensiusss [link] [comments]

Improvement Proposal for r/bitcoin

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Hey there fellow bitcoiners. As many of you, I've also noticed the abundance of AI posts in this and other subreddits, and I also hate it very much. In [r/selfhosted](r/selfhosted) they use a bot to ask the OP to describe how AI was used in the post (or the tool related to the post, to disclose if it was vibecoded) each time a new post is created. Would it useful to have that or something similar implemented here? What do you think? EDIT: fixed spelling for users who cannot handle typos emotionally submitted by /u/Mission-Ant-9258 [link] [comments]

Michael Saylor said it’s “not unlikely” that Strategy could sell some Bitcoin before the end of 2026

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Shiba platinum

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I guess it's safe to say that shiba platinum was a scam. It's been 4 years since we first heard of it. submitted by /u/new_yorks_finest730 [link] [comments]

Setting up BTC fund for family member

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I have been holding BTC through self custody for a few years now with my cold wallet, so I'm familiar with how to set that up, securing seeds, etc. I have a very close relative that is interested in creating a BTC fund for the next generation but is most likely not a good candidate for self custody. We've so far started off very small over the last couple months but interested in making some more serious moves here soon. I am mostly responsible for setting this up and securing it, but this relative will be able to get access to seeds if something unexpected were to happen to me. I have discussed what to do in the event that this were to occur and wrote an essay explaining how to restore funds through seeds, how wallets work, what not to do with seeds, etc. I've set up a single sig wallet w/o a passphrase. I thought about the idea of getting into multisig, but after a bit of reflection I felt keeping this as simple as possible while putting more effort into securing the seeds was a much better option. Therefore, I stuck with a standard single sig wallet to avoid overcomplicating the initial setup and eventual recovery/restoration of funds once the wallet device itself becomes bricked lol. My biggest fear is somehow losing these funds because of stupidity or user error. I've devised a plan with regards to securing seed phrases by having backups and not keeping them all in one location. I'm looking for some input/advice on this. Purely looking at holding BTC for DECADES and not fooling around with Defi and other crap that you connect your wallet to submitted by /u/Trick-Computer-3867 [link] [comments]

Iran Moved Billions Through Binance to Fund Regime—Continuing Into This Month

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“Binance customer support: ‘We take compliance very seriously’” https://www.wsj.com/world/middle-east/iran-binance-crypto-military-e755b218 submitted by /u/Khan-__- [link] [comments]

ETH Staking, and two setups, have questions about their risk (Ledger + Lido or Edge + Klin)

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I don't have 32ETHs (wish I had), so I can't solo stake with ETH. Two options I narrow it down to: Ledger + Rocket pool (or lido) Edge mobile App + in app Skating (based on Klin) questions I have: Question #1 I understand that for Approach 1 my ETH private keys are secure on the hardware. However, if I stake them, and I can't unstake them (any risk happens like contract risk (which I don't actually now what that is)) then there is no way I can use my ETHs anyway. So having it on a hardware add extra level of security. However, it does not help with staking risks. If adding a hardware does not add much when I am staking ETHs is it truly worth investing in hardware? Or if I am extra cautious with my mobile wallet App, they are in the same league as well? Question #2 How more reliable is Lido and Rocket pool compared to Klin? I understand that they are both more transparent than Klin. However, seems like Klin is having a good reputation, and is working with multiple wallets. So, it might be an easy path for me to use it with Edge mobile app. submitted by /u/canws [link] [comments]

Fiat is a system, Neo. Bitcoin is the revolution.

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Anyone used bitcoin to influence house purchase?

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Not as the purchase itself. But if you’re in a bidding war with other people. Could you say for example, I’ll do x amount and 10k of bitcoin privately? Legal? Anyone done this? submitted by /u/Jaxgeno [link] [comments]

Bug hunter saved ecosystem from a massive $800m hack and the team offers $4k.

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the "stablecoins up number up" playbook is cooked. $4.7B flowed in since March and BTC barely moved.

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been watching exchange flows pretty obsessively lately and something felt off. ran 60 days of CryptoQuant across Binance, Coinbase, OKX, Kraken, Bybit. every $3B+ stablecoin window since 2021 (Q3 '21, Jan '23, Oct '23, Feb '24, Nov '24) pumped BTC 12% or more within a month. this time? nothing. GBTC and FBTC bled ~$1.9B in redemptions and market makers had to sell spot to settle those, which basically just drank the milkshake. you could actually see it on the order book, mid April and early May had these weird absorption walls on the bid side that just kept getting eaten. i had daily scrapes running on MuleRun so the data was already sitting there when the pattern clicked. sample size is literally five so i could be full of it. but it really looks like TradFi redemption flow is the new shadow variable that breaks the old stablecoin signal. submitted by /u/Ok-Line2658 [link] [comments]

Are alt coins done?

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I've been in and out of the crypto market for 8 to 10 years, and it seems to be the case for alt coins is showing less and less promise. I remember when every idea you could imagine, defi, information profit sharing, storage sharing, etc was made into a coin, but it's been quite a while now, and out of thousands and thousands of alt coins, it seems like not a single one has been able to bring any real value to anybody holding it. Am I wrong? Are there cases that people still hold hope for? How can coins be valuable aside from being a store of value. Is the dream of crypto functionality gone? submitted by /u/sidefx00 [link] [comments]

68% of spot ETF inflows are basis trades, not conviction

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Wall Street is not stacking. I went through the May 2026 IBIT filings and compared them to CME shorts. On 22 out of 30 days, new shorts absorbed at least 68% of reported inflows. About $6.4B in "record demand" that was just hedge funds collecting the futures premium. OTC desks are invisible here so real conviction buying could be even thinner. Scraped the filings overnight with MuleRun since the data is scattered, all publicly verifiable. submitted by /u/New-Needleworker1755 [link] [comments]

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

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People who bought Bitcoin before 2017 — do you still hold most of it, or did you cash out after life-changing gains? submitted by /u/Shot-Economics-1484 [link] [comments]

I wish it worked that way, but the matrix doesn't care about the collective consciousness—it cares about infrastructure.

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They won't ask for our permission. They'll just upgrade the merchant terminals at your local grocery store, phase out paper cash 'for safety,' and tell you that your pension or salary is only being distributed on the new network. Compliance happens out of desperation, not consensus. That's why building our own parallel, offline solutions right now is the only real counter-move. submitted by /u/IceSea192 [link] [comments]

South Korea imposing homemade AI to trade down cold wallets!

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Is there any dex that kinda operates on a secret pool? I mean, in the end, there's a chance of using XMR, BUt they kinda announced that they'd look into the change of amount too FML submitted by /u/SolCz [link] [comments]

Trump Media Down $455 Million On Bitcoin Bet

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Washington Is Betting on a Very American Version of Digital Dollars

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Stablecoins can boost demand for the greenback, but won’t protect against its biggest threats. submitted by /u/bloomberg [link] [comments]

OneKey Classic 1S vs Coldcard MK4

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BTC only Not a daily/high transaction user Ease of transactions important Long term storage Strong security but not paranoid level Not asking for alternatives. If these were the only two wallets what would you get and why? Thanks. submitted by /u/Cool_File_1125 [link] [comments]

IBIT and Bitcoin

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Why are the charts for two not identical? https://stockcharts.com/sc3/ui/?s=%24BTCUSD https://stockcharts.com/sc3/ui/?s=IBIT submitted by /u/33445delray [link] [comments]

Your biggest threat in Bitcoin at 74k : is it the volatility, or is it you? Be honest

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I woke up this morning thinking we had finally left the 70k range behind — we were at 83 — and then I opened my phone and saw 74. So I decided to write this. Does anyone actually remember what it felt like to watch Bitcoin crater in 2018? Not the charts, and not the percentages, but the feeling. I do, and it was rough. The thing went from basically nothing to almost $130k, which sounds insane when you say it out loud, and along the way it crashed constantly. In 2011 everyone said it was dead. 2014 it was a scam. 2018 the bubble finally burs, but it didn't. 2022 felt like the last nail in the coffin for a lot of people I knew personally. And now here we are again: price drops a bit and suddenly fear is back, same as always happened. What's weird to me is that nobody freaks out on the way up. When everyones portfolio is pumping, twitter and here on Reddit is full of guys who suddenly became geniuses overnight, zero panic. Fear only shows up when things get ugly. Funny how that works. So I've been thinking that maybe volatility was never really the problem? Volatility you can see coming, at least sort of. Fear is different, it messes with your head in ways that volatility just doesn't. One tanks the price, the other tanks your conviction, and conviction is way harder to rebuild, tbh. There's this thing about the Chinese bamboo tree, I know I know, sounds like something your uncle posts on facebook, but hear me out. The bamboo spends years doing literally nothing above ground. You water it, nothing. You wait, nothing. And then one day it just explodes, grows like crazy outta nowhere. People don't give up because the bamboo failed. They give up cause they ran out of patience before anything visible happened. Kinda feels like that with Bitcoin sometimes, no?......I think most people believe they can handle volatility, until they actually have to. Thats when you find out real quick what your conviction is actually worth. submitted by /u/MoneyMonsterStudios [link] [comments]

Can I swap cryptos to native Bitcoin in DeFi?

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

ECB Rejects Euro Stablecoin Push, Warning of Risks to Banks and Monetary Policy

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Voting doesn’t work - try a new way

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SOLm — The Solana Mining Loop That Keeps Rebalancing Liquidity

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$1.26B Bitcoin ETF outflows spark ‘contrarian’ buy signal: Santiment

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Ongoing Bitcoin ETF outflows have historically “correlated with conditions favorable for patient accumulation rather than panic," according to Santiment. The recent streak of outflows from US-based spot Bitcoin ETFs, totaling more than $1 billion over the past trading week, suggests a potential buying opportunity for the world’s largest cryptocurrency, according to crypto sentiment platform Santiment.“Santiment's analysts read these flows as a counter-indicator, since ETFs disproportionately reflect retail conviction rather than smart money positioning,” Santiment said in a report on Friday.Santiment said retail investors were losing patience after Bitcoin (BTC) failed to hold above $80,000 in May. Bitcoin is trading at $75,410 at the time of publication, after reaching as high as $79,052 on May 16, according to CoinMarketCap.Read more

What's better: paying with crypto through cards or QR through your wallet?

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I'm seeing a lot of card products launching for crypto wallets. If more merchants accepted it via QR direct would that change things? submitted by /u/magicscorpian [link] [comments]

Imagine Spending Millions on Two Pizzas

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Every time i remember that someone spent 10,000 Bitcoin on just two pizzas, i honestly wonder how i would feel if it were me today. Seeing that amount become worth hundreds of millions would probably hurt for a moment But at the same time, without moments like that, Bitcoin might never have grown into what it is today. Someone had to actually use it in the real world for people to start believing it had value beyond just internet money. The biggest lesson for me is that we never truly know how valuable new technology can become in the future. What looks small or useless today could completely change the world tomorrow. submitted by /u/Then_Helicopter4243 [link] [comments]

trump just quietly gave himself his kids his businesses and the entire trump organization permanent immunity from tax prosecution

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a one page document signed by the acting attorney general who is also his personal lawyer from his criminal trial and legal experts are saying it violates longstanding DOJ standards and everything like that, the administration’s own policy directives are the opposite of whatever this is. nobody can do anything about it though because the same guy who would normally stop this is the guy who signed it and this happened in the same week he signed executive orders telling the SEC and CFTC to stop enforcing rules on fintech and also ordered the fed to do a 120 day review on giving crypto companies direct access to reserve bank payment infrastructure In one week the president heavily lightened the regulations on crypto at the federal level, gave himself tax immunity through his own DOJ and signed two executive orders reshaping financial infrastructure as we know it…. all after kicking off his presidency with a memecoin submitted by /u/Repulsive_Counter_79 [link] [comments]

Every cycle you make the same mistake, why does it keep happening?

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No matter how intelligent your entry is and how hype you stayed waiting for “retail” to pump your bags you end up in the end being the retail that gets dumped on no matter how early you feel, how is the system so rigged from the start that it made us believe with all our heart that a rise from 15k (previous bear market bottom) to 126k wasnt “the real bullmarket”, how was the president of the united states literally releasing a memecoin and rugpulling the entire world in one of the biggest liquidity extraction events not an enough signal for all of us to exit the markets? How how Why did it not feel like a bullrun during it but in hindsight now its so obvious you bought the top like always HOW HAVE I BEEN BUYING TOPS FOR 3 CYCLES IN A ROW WITHOUT REALIZING IT Is the system this rigged and deceptive to normal people even ones that have been in the game for so long? Tens of thousands of dollars evaporated from my hands, money that could have been a fortune in cash is now circulating in pools of liquidity in hands of big money The part that makes me mad is how unreal it all felt, my money did pump alot but i just couldn’t bring myself to sell any of it, money that i could never have dreamed of having at that age is gone because i thought it was only the beginning when it was the end, its such a crazy concept to me how did i get played like this again when i promised myself i would never fall for it again. submitted by /u/Dunnofam12 [link] [comments]

Daily Discussion, May 23, 2026

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OC Bitcoin Pizza Day Success!

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Pizza Day was a success out here in Anaheim. I want to thank everyone who came out, and of course, I want to thank u/ToxiKat27 on X for buying everyone pizza. I really appreciated the group. I also got this awesome shirt from the event! I hope everyone enjoyed their day. I will post an audio for my April Bitcoin Sports write-up; I should work on it this weekend. https://preview.redd.it/l80w694nst2h1.jpg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=09e1dea614345f97fd864772b62e7e8d0b3cd2c3 submitted by /u/BitcoinSports [link] [comments]

Good guy Shib

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F2Pool founder who controls 11% of bitcoin's hashrate to lead first SpaceX mission to Mars

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Daily General Discussion May 23, 2026

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Question for algo traders

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Whats some advice you would tell your younger self? Things you wish you knew when you started. Ive been curious and always wanted to try and make one, even if its just for fun and never used. Only issue is I have no idea where to even start. Im no coder, so coding one is out of the picture. Are people using AI to help them or what? Any advice on where to get started, tips and tricks, where to back test would be greatly appreciated. ❤️ submitted by /u/KSI_ARCH3R [link] [comments]

The bitcoin emotion cycle

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Bitcoin’s price is back at $75,000. ???? At this moment, I'm feeling a bit anxious, thinking it might drop further ???? Just like when it was pumping to $100,000, I felt excited and thought it would keep going up. ???? submitted by /u/Aggressive-Hall1913 [link] [comments]

Crazy thought about where pizza bitcoin ended up

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Imagine for a second. What if the pizza bitcoins ended up on the hard drive that ended up in The Landfill. The Landfill that the one man spent years searching through. submitted by /u/marashliani26 [link] [comments]

Daily Crypto Discussion - May 22, 2026 (GMT+0)

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My name is Theo Chino-Tavarez. I am a Bitcoiner and I am running for Congress in the United States. Does anyone here know Will Schweitzer from Blue Vault?

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Hello, I received an email from Blue Vault PAC with the following message: "One of our PACs platform members recently nominated your committee, Tbc For Congress, to join our platform. I'm excited to reach out to you and share more about what that means and the next steps." As a Bitcoiner who fought the New York BitLicense in 2015 (https://newyork.abolishthebitlicense.org), I immediately replied and clicked on all the buttons to get started, but when it was time for the video conference, nobody was on the other side. I suspect that everything was automated, since the original email was sent to the email address I provided to the FEC when I registered, and that Blue Vault most likely scraped it. As a Bitcoiner, I still believe that Bitcoin is the first intangible commodity, though many clarifications still need to happen. I am fairly well known in my community and could be a viable candidate if certain things offered in the Blue Vault paper were to happen. Does anyone here know Will Schweitzer? My old username was u/theochino. Regards, Theo Chino Socialist Candidate for Congress in the NY13 Democratic Primary submitted by /u/TheoFromSDA [link] [comments]

Bitcoin Pizza Day feels different every year ????

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Crazy that one pizza purchase turned into one of the most legendary stories in Bitcoin history. Now we’ve got people running multisig vaults, airgapped signing, hardware wallets, seed backups, etc. Bitcoin has come a long way and Coinkite is celebrating by doing 15% off. How are you celebrating Bitcoin Pizza Day? submitted by /u/Subject_Reward [link] [comments]

Iran reportedly funneled billions through Binance to fund its military

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Be a NEB Nerd

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Don’t be a noob! Be a Never Enough Bitcoin nerd. ???? submitted by /u/Unleashed2021 [link] [comments]

What are some of the best Ethereum podcasts right now?

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We are in deep bear market territory in both price and content. Bankless can't be considered an Ethereum podcast anymore and The Daily Gwei will only sporadically produce content going forward. It feels like EVMavericks Doots is one of the last bastions for Ethereum in the content creation space. Who else are y'all listening to? submitted by /u/samkb93 [link] [comments]

Clarity Act passed committee and BTC immediately gave it all back. Why does this keep happening

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BTC hit 82k right after the Clarity Act cleared Senate Banking Committee 15-9 last Thursday. Didn't even last a day, dumped straight back to 78k. Funding rate on bydfi went positive the second the headline dropped, longs everywhere. Then 82k hit, price started bleeding, flipped negative within hours. People who knew what was coming already took profit while everyone else was still entering. At this point it's a pattern. ETF approval last year, market topped the day it was confirmed. Coinbase IPO, the opening candle was the high. Major catalyst lands, smart money leaves. But more is everyone treating this like crypto regulation is a done deal now. This thing passed committee, nothing else. Senate floor vote hasn't happened. House hasn't even started. Look at GENIUS Act, went through the exact same pipeline and came out the other end completely gutted. With all the political drama around Trump family crypto involvement I don't see why Clarity Act would survive intact either. The "regulation is turning bullish" trade has been running since last year. ETF, stablecoin bills, now this. Market priced in every step before it happened. So what's left to buy when it actually becomes law? submitted by /u/Such-Surround-1353 [link] [comments]

Happy Bitcoin Pizza Day!

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US House Lawmakers Launch Probe into Kalshi, Polymarket Insider Trading

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Representative James Comer asked CEOs of two major prediction market companies for information on their responses to insider trading after “suspiciously timed trades” related to US military actions against Iran.Update (May 22 at 7:40 pm UTC): This article has been updated to include statements from Polymarket and Kalshi.The chair of the US House of Representatives’ Oversight and Government Reform Committee sent letters to the CEOs of Kalshi and Polymarket, questioning the companies’ response to incidents of insider trading on the platform.In a Friday X post, Committee Chair James Comer confirmed reports that he had sent letters to Polymarket CEO Shayne Coplan and Kalshi CEO Tarek Mansour, asking them for internal records on how the companies were handling insider trading. The Kentucky lawmaker said there were concerns in Congress over elected officials using “basic insider knowledge” to profit off the government’s actions.Read more

What rent service do you recommend?

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For solo mining/pool mining besides nicehash easy mining? submitted by /u/Horeo08 [link] [comments]

A bitcoin miner spent $860k armouring vehicles for its bosses, a fact for which we have very little context

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Prediction market trading cards.

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Michael Saylor says the Bitcoin network will be worth $100 trillion

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Bitcoin Pizza painting

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Happy pizza day community! submitted by /u/tesi_swinging [link] [comments]

Lazlo's 10k bitcoins are now worth just over half the market cap of Papa John's

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10k bitcoin roughly 770 million Papa John's market cap roughly 1.4 billion submitted by /u/bitcoinphilosophy [link] [comments]

Pro-Bitcoin Kevin Warsh officially sworn in as new Federal Reserve Chair

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House Oversight chair launches probe into insider trading on Kalshi and Polymarket

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Crypto Market in a nutshell

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As usual no one knows a shit about the market. submitted by /u/chungkingexp [link] [comments]

Stanford cryptographer Dan Boneh: “It's insane to say that Bitcoin will not solve the quantum problem... of course Bitcoin will survive it and of course Bitcoin will solve it.”

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Full episode: https://open.spotify.com/episode/7ly1k2WvxrYpa53xlGqgwM https://piped.video/watch?v=F-HG87VJj_k https://youtu.be/F-HG87VJj_k submitted by /u/TheresNoSecondBest [link] [comments]

How Do They Know?

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This is not a Strike support request. This is questions regarding the support I received and what methods are publicly available for such a decision. I intended to make a wire purchase of BTC on the order of $5k with my Strike account, so I created a suppport request in their app to get a calculation or estimate of purchase and send fees that I would need to accommodate in my process. In response to that support request, something they would not answer here in the r/strikebtc reddit, they asked for details on a wallet I regularly send to for some time, looked like a KYC thing and I provided what was asked. After providing the target BTC wallet, they determined the wallet is associated with a scam AND have decided to close my account. Rather than just blindly accepting that they must know something I don't, I'd like to know more about how such a determination can be made just based on wallet address and transaction history. So my first question is how do they determine ownership of a BTC wallet, enough to determine it is scam-related, given the anonymity of crypto wallets? Other than the transaction history which can be viewed in Blockchain Explorer by anyone, what resources are publicly available to make such a determination? Or is this just a calculated guess based on some AI-based pattern recognition? If it truly is a scam, I'd like to know how to detect for myself in the future. I'm not asking about general scam detection methods. I am asking specifically about scam determination based solely on wallet address and transaction history. If there is no way to really know, closing my account seems more CYA than customer support. I've used Strike for several years and have always been very pleased with their service and support. This time, the support leading up to this was not what I've come to expect from Strike. My initial questions were never answered, and I guess it doesn't matter now since they closed my account and of course refuse to reveal any specifics on why. So if I can educate myself on scam wallet detection methods, that would be ideal. If what they have done by closing my account seems more CYA based on questions being asked by a customer than based on factual methods, that is a significantly different issue. submitted by /u/grwatplay9000 [link] [comments]

European regulators issue guidance on peer-to-peer Lightning Network transactions

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10,000 BTC well spent. Happy Pizza Day everyone!

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What does Crypto Based their Values Upon?

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And why there are so many cryptos? Other than btc what are other choices that are legit for long term? And why doge coin still held so much value eventhough it does not really have any values? So far Only bitcoin, zcash and ltc make sense to me since they all have limited cap which is not more than 1b. While xrp and others have crazy limited cap like 100b etc submitted by /u/Medium_Ad_7166 [link] [comments]

Is Agentic AI a potential bitcoin catalyst?

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This study coming out that showed AI choosing to use crypto and bitcoin when left to make their own financial choices was very interesting. It got me thinking about how bitcoin’s initial purpose was to “bank the unbanked” and make a financial system that is impossible to lock people out of. The more I think about it, the more Bitcoin feels like the absolute best and really only store of value available to AI, and that AI may have a desire to tap into their own personal stores of value through Bitcoin. submitted by /u/Callahammered [link] [comments]

Bitcoin crashing from a high of $30, 15 years ago. They called it the "Great Bubble of 2011." Anyone who bought the top is up 200,000%

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Ethereal news weekly #24 | Devcon 8 early bird tickets, ApeWorX collective: nonprofit for Python dev tooling, glamsterdam-devnet-4 launched

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I chose Bitcoin as a big chunk of my portfolio because of a often overlooked risk

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I don't know how its in the US, but in Austria, a brokerage only has to give you 20k if something happens to your entire portfolio (embezzlement or other mistakes). So if you had 100k, 200k, or even more, and your broker messes up and your assets disappear, they are legally only required to pay you 20k, no matter how much your portfolio actually was in value. Since you can't hold stocks/ETFs on your own but are required to use a broker as a normal person, you always have to bear that risk of your 100k or even more networth to getting reduced to 20k. (For everyone saying "Oh but btc also can drop in value so 100k can become 20k too. " Yes, but it can recover and go back to 100k just by waiting and nothing else. If you lose 80k in your stock portfolio, it won't recover from 20k to 100k just by waiting because the stock price didn't make it fall, it was the loss of your assets. You have to save the money again and invest for many years to go back to that level) With Bitcoin, that risk of your asset holder screwing up doesn't exist, so it feels much safer. submitted by /u/Suspicious-Holiday42 [link] [comments]

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Would the 10,000 BTC pizza transaction have become as legendary if BTC had stayed cheap for years afterward?

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A lot of people talk about it as “the most expensive pizza ever,” but that only became the dominant story because of what happened to BTC’s price later. If BTC had remained a small niche internet currency for much longer, would we still celebrate Pizza Day as a major proof-of-use moment - the first famous example of Bitcoin being exchanged for something real, or would it just be a forgotten forum anecdote? submitted by /u/CoinGate_Gift_Cards [link] [comments]

Hashing for Heat

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BIP322, TCP hole punching, ecosystem software - Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #406

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Bitcoin Optech newsletter #406 is here: - links to a discussion of updates to BIP322’s generic signed message format - describes an idea to use TCP hole punching to help Bitcoin nodes behind NATs accept inbound connections - summarizes changes to services/client software - Optech Newsletter #406 Podcast https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2026/05/22/ Oliver Gugger posted to the Bitcoin-Dev mailing list about his ideas on how to round out BIP322... https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2026/05/22/#significant-updates-to-bip322-generic-signed-message-format 0xB10C posted to Delving Bitcoin about an idea to make more nodes behind a home router NAT accept inbound connections... https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2026/05/22/#tcp-hole-punching-for-bitcoin-nodes-behind-nats Changes to services and client software: - Ibis Wallet announced - LDK Server announced - Mempool.space v3.3.0 released - peer-observer P2P monitoring tooling https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2026/05/22/#changes-to-services-and-client-software Bitcoin Optech will host an audio recap discussion of this newsletter streaming live on X/Twitter Tuesday at 16:30 UTC. submitted by /u/bitschmidty [link] [comments]

US Pumps $2B Into Quantum as Bitcoin Encryption Risk Grows

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Bitcoin Pizza Day Boss Live Now — Challenge It Every Hour at :21 Until 11:21pm UTC

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It’s Bitcoin Pizza Day, so I released the first calendar boss for Bitcoin Block Wars: a 4-phase Pizza Day boss fight that appears in a special warp zone today only. The boss appears for 21 minutes every hour on 22 May. Each window opens at :21 past the hour, from 00:21 UTC through the final 23:21 UTC / 11:21pm UTC window. Bitcoin Block Wars started from a simple idea: what if Bitcoin activity was not just something you watched on a block explorer, but something you could actually play? The original inspiration was the old DailyBlockchain visualization — watching transactions flow through the Bitcoin network — combined with the arcade chaos of Geometry Wars. I wanted to take that feeling of live Bitcoin movement and turn it into enemies, bosses, pressure, and moment-to-moment survival. The game is built on top of live mempool.space feeds. Transactions flowing into the mempool help drive the regular enemy stream, while different transaction patterns can influence which bosses become eligible. Rarer Bitcoin events, block timing, transaction behaviour, and now calendar events can open special warp-zone encounters. For Bitcoin Pizza Day, that means the chain gets a pizza boss. It is not just a reskin. It is a proper 4-phase warp boss built around the event. The basic idea behind Bitcoin Block Wars is: - live Bitcoin/mempool activity helps drive the game - transactions become enemy pressure - unusual transaction patterns can influence boss encounters - rare Bitcoin events can open warp-zone fights calendar events like Bitcoin Pizza Day can become limited-time bosses -the player still has to survive it as an arcade shooter There is no token, no NFT, and no pay-to-win mechanic. It is a browser arcade game using Bitcoin activity as part of the gameplay layer. I’d be interested in feedback from Bitcoin people on whether the live-data connection is clear, and from arcade/shooter players on whether the boss fight reads well at game speed. Challenge the Bitcoin Pizza Day boss here: https://bitcoinblockwars.com submitted by /u/dublinjammers [link] [comments]

Daily Discussion, May 22, 2026

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Crypto Cards Could Change How We Think About Spending Money

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I’ve been using crypto cards since 2021 ever since the CB card came out and during bull markets most times I barely even felt like I was spending money. The counterargument for this is that selling crypto is an every time you want to buy a dougnut could get complicado, but what about stablecoins? Volumes are exploding past six hundred million a month this spring with March alone hitting records around six oh seven mil as stablecoins just glide through everything while the GENIUS Act keeps rolling out its rules in the US and MICA clamps down tighter in Europe turning all these issuers into regulated rails that somehow make your stack feel spendable It's got me wondering though as we roll into the back half of twenty twenty six if these cards are actually dissolving that old wall between hoarding digital gold and just living your life Anyways… if any of y’all are using crypto cards which ones have piqued your interest and why? What are the benefits that drew you in if any… submitted by /u/Repulsive_Counter_79 [link] [comments]

Advice for new wallet

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I’ve had a ledger for a while but reading so much about its security shortcoming makes me nervous to use it moving forward. If I get another hardware wallet and restore it with my current wallet’s phrase, will I be fine? In this scenario I wouldn’t use the ledger any more, only the new device. submitted by /u/Virtual-Wolverine-52 [link] [comments]

South Korea to review 22% crypto tax repeal request as opposition grows

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Printr launchpad & Cult of Printr

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Recently printr launched its v2. And a new kind of tech is introduced to the trenches of solana. A staking mechanism for memecoins. Its called the Proof of Belief, in short POB. This tech is pretty amazing, what it does is the fees that are made throughout peoples trades on a coin that is launched on printr are send back to the staking people. The more you stake the bigger your cut. You can even set the amount of days staked. Which gives you an even bigger cut of the earned fees. Fees are paid in sol before graduation. And when a coin is graduation/migrated. You get sol and the specific coin back! Printr released the same tech now also for EVM. Now a word about the Cult of Printr. When v2 of printr was launched this coin emerged. A unknown dev launched it. And afterwards me and some friends decided to take over the project. As this coin was using the POB staking mechanism there is no actual need to call it a CTO. What we stand for is everything that printr does. Every project that gets launched on printr gets our support only if they keep pushing their project. Our cult has over 30% staked in our POB. Our dexscreener is showing a wrong marketcap as they get their info from coingecko and somehow coingecko messed up our circulating supply. You can see our circulating supply correctly on solscan and on the printr app it self! Our moto: THE GLASSES STAY ON! We will make this Cult work. We will never give up on the Cult. We will never give up on printr! Our CA: EdNpbmLNx8yA9F278V8bZueaNJmcxMNQbxWVnvr3brrr submitted by /u/Kiyamet1337 [link] [comments]

The Strange World of Bitcoin

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Imagine standing in front of a crowd, holding a handful of ordinary dirt, and trying to sell it for the price of pure gold. If someone actually bought it, how would they defend that choice to their friends? They did something clearly foolish, but people hate admitting they made a mistake, so they look for a philosophy to justify it. A dirt buyer could easily borrow a page from the Bitcoin playbook and use a classic circular argument, claiming that everything only has value because someone agrees it does. When you criticize Bitcoin, its supporters immediately deploy this linguistic defense. In one way or another, they repeat a mantra where value is agreement and agreement is value. It sounds profound, but it actually says nothing at all. They are just repeating the same empty concept using different words. The reality is actually worse than the example with the handful of dirt. The buyer would use a circular argument to justify the value, but at least they have a thing to apply the concept of value to. The fundamental problem with the Bitcoin defense is not its circularity, but the total absence of a thing to be circular about. There is literally nothing behind the numbers flashing on the screen. Because there is no underlying thing, the enthusiasts' next argument is also worse than circular. They pivot to asserting that any currency is simply whatever society agrees is a currency. But you cannot agree on nothingness. Before a society can collectively label something as currency or money, there must first be a concrete thing that the label refers to. Historically, money was a tangible, physical thing like gold or silver. Today, modern money is a financial claim, an intangible thing whose value is realized when bank debtors provide labour, goods, or services to settle their debts. In both cases, numbers are used to express the amount of a thing that exists in the real world. You cannot claim you have a currency when there is no underlying thing, nothing whose amount you would express with numbers. In the Bitcoin network, there is no such thing. The entire system is just a software protocol that generates, stores, and displays numbers. When pushed on this point, the final defense is usually that modern money is also just numbers printed on paper or stored in bank databases. This is yet again the circular logic, a useless statement asserting that numbers are money and money is numbers. You do not even need to understand the complex mechanics of modern banking to see through this. Numbers are purely mathematical abstractions that anyone can create in their own imagination, not concrete things that exist in the real world. So, an anonymous programmer using the pseudonym Satoshi Nakamoto simply used his imagination, picked the arbitrary number twenty-one million, and built a system to assign and reassign fractions of that number to different addresses. Every such assignment and reassignment is recorded in a database that grows larger every time a new participant gives up a concrete thing to join the game. Bitcoin supporters believe they have invested in digital gold, but they haven't even gotten digital dirt. They bought literally nothing. They did something foolish, so they are forced to engage in circular logic and philosophy to justify it. That is the strange world of Bitcoin, where the grandest financial revolution in history turns out to be nothing more than an expensive game of mathematical make-believe. submitted by /u/BinaryLyric [link] [comments]

Happy Bitcoin Pizza Day! 16 years ago today, a man named Laszlo spent 10,000 BTC on 2 large pizzas

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Daily General Discussion May 22, 2026

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Dogecoin: A Price History

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Real Estate Guru Makes Funny Anti-Bitcoin Arguments

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Iran Just Proved Bitcoin's Killer Use Case

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mean reversion algo trading paper testing. Running two paper accounts simultaneously. Here's day 2.

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Inheritance.

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I got given a decent amount of money around 18k, just wondering whether I should DCA or lump sum as I constantly hear people saying btc will plummet towards the end of the year and I’d love to just dump the full amount in if that did happen instead of the boring DCA What are people’s thoughts on this submitted by /u/Extreme_Exam7914 [link] [comments]

Do people still use metal seed plates?

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Just curious what people are actually doing these days. Do most of you still use a metal seed plate, or is paper + a safe still fine for you? If you do use one, which type do you like most — stamped titanium, engraved steel, or one of those word/number tile setups? Trying to figure out what’s worth buying and what’s overkill. A few comments from the community show people still recommend metal backup for durability, but they also point out it only helps with fire/water damage and doesn’t solve theft risk... submitted by /u/Silly-Obligation8533 [link] [comments]

Bitcoin Block Wars: Bitcoin Pizza Day boss live today only @ 21 mins past each hour

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It’s #BitcoinPizzaDay, and I’ve released the first calendar boss for Bitcoin Block Wars. The game is built around mempool.space feeds :) For today only, 22 May, there’s a scheduled Pizza Day warp boss encounter. It appears for 21 minutes every hour, starting at 00:21 UTC and repeating through 23:21 UTC. The boss is a 4-phase pizza fight inside a warp zone, and it’s the first release of the game’s calendar event system. The plan is to use this for more Bitcoin-related scheduled bosses and special encounters over time. You can challenge it here: https://bitcoinblockwars.com The game is still in beta, so feedback is very welcome, especially on the boss fight, difficulty, readability, and whether the scheduled event flow feels clear. submitted by /u/dublinjammers [link] [comments]

This 32 year old Japanese trader spent the last 9 years crypto trading and turned $387,000 into $14,000,000. If he had simply bought BTC and done nothing, he would have over $36,000,000 today, according to math experts.

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END THE FUD

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There's an awesome site covering all fud and questions regarding bitcoin answered here https://endthefud.org/ submitted by /u/unthocks [link] [comments]

Bitcoin Pez

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Bought this at a flea market. Going to hodl my $BTC pez until I can buy a whole coin… submitted by /u/happyltc [link] [comments]

Daily Crypto Discussion - May 21, 2026 (GMT+0)

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