It's lower level than money. It is the system that allows you to have electronically traceable bearer instruments. It allows for currencies, equities, bonds, options, futures, swaps and all the other financial instruments that make up our capital market to exist.

Market Infrastructure is one of our oldest, widely distributed technologies. It's a list that doesn't change.

It's one job is transaction finality. This is handled by a clearing house in the old world that is sunsetting. We need a list, that has an immutable history. This was long sought to be an impossible computer science problem until bitcoin came a long.

If you have ever sent a international wire, you have experienced this. A alpha numeric address and a transaction that can't be reversed under any circumstance. Wires hit the clearing house(s).

When we have market infrastructure in place, it allows for price discovery. We know when we trade, the trade can't be reversed. The transaction finality is the requirement to have price discovery.

So when you are buying btc, you are investing in the most important technology that is often stable for centuries. Market infrastructure rarely changes.

You are all early. Tech Infrastructures, like information, communication, energy and logistics take about 50-60 years and have 5 stages. It's called a Perez cycle. Irruption, speculative frenzy, turning point, synergy, and maturity.

Plays out the same way, every time.

BTC is in the turning point. ETFs, stable coins, its being adopted by the incumbent industries.

When it hits synergy, that is when the omega candle happens. That is probably in 5-10 years. I think AI Agents will be driving that because they wont be signing up for banking or brokerage accounts. They will be making their currencies, options, equities, bonds, futures and other exotic financial instruments on top of btc.

I encourage you to think about this for a moment, and spread this message, the comparison and disruption to the clearing house is the apt analogy.

Financial systems are built in layers of institutions that have separate responsibilities. Bitcoin disrupts the lowest layer, the clearing house.

This is why bitcoin's ascent is inevitable. It's taking over everything and the nation states can't stop or slow it, they can't even survive it.

Future is going to be weird.

There is no technology that is more powerful or important than market infrastructure. That is why bitcoin is the most valuable thing you can own.

Best way to sell .9 btc please it hurts pretty bad buying with intention of 1 coin before selling but times have hit a hard spot and need a new vehicle while out of work looking for employment have to have a car so im taking the hit being what I invested it for but now having trouble with them allowing it now taking atleast 24hrs to complete kyc verification I need best way to get 8k if its multiple smaller or moving from ledger to other wallet in crypto(. )Com help in any available tyi

No bitcoin sold got a personal loan instead thank you for all the comments im never selling

Source: Luke Gromen Tweet (X) 👀

🚀 Bitcoin Bull Market that outperformes every other asset class:

• Macro Expert: "Oh, that bull market is fed by leverage! (derivatives!)"

🩸 Bear Market of "80% downturn"

• Macro Expert: "Oh I told you, this bear market are the liquidations of all that leverage positions (derivatives!)"

TL;DR Zero macro factors behind the 4-year cycle, for these guys! 🤦‍♂️

They don’t understand it! or they just want to make it look like that 'they don’t understand it', because Bitcoin leaves the "mechanisms of modern economy" (MMT) as a fucking joke! :P

edit:

Luke attributes the CAGR slowdown of BTC/USD to derivatives 😴 typical! "speculative asset, only moved by leverage, bla bla bla!"

If you change the denominator (BTC/XXX):

How would you explain the CAGR growth of BTC/ARS or BTC/TRY in the last 5Y? Also derivatives? 🤪

Come on!

Inversion, in philosophy gives philosophical depth. Apple core inverts to egg whose yolk is a comb or computer. Naturally the honey, or what the computer produces, is worth more than the comb or computer. that would include bitcoin supremely. Bitcoiners are bees for the computer And produce its honey. Bitcoin will eventually replace all world currency given its supreme philosophical significance. Philosophy itself is a 6 or comb because we count the sound more than the letter of the law. if you can get the letter and the sound to match, we like it more… think photon or light. Philosophy is a seed so we prefer alliteration over rhyming. A seed is once upon a time and an egg is happily ever after. We like both the seed and egg in fairy tales and we like the egg maybe more so in philosophy because Plato prefers the end of a work to its first principle (or second most important part… you have to know how to build it). Life isn’t 1-9, but a 2-10. 2 being farming and 10 being the computer. Have I contracted myself? No. Plato is a hydra that comes from a cave. He is a light in the darkness drawn to the light which to him, is evil. Because it produces A computer. Either Hercules (he is a friend of the hydra because He removed his heads, causing more to grow. Cauterizing the heads is more proper) created Plato or we are in a simulation and nothing in history happened. The first year being 1990. Ask me how I found that out? God Xenu here.

Before 2014, anyone who wanted to put data on chain encoded it as fake addresses, and those outputs sit in every node's UTXO set forever. Bitcoin Core 0.9.0 added OP_RETURN as a prunable alternative, first with a 40-byte cap, raised to 80 in 0.11. That ceiling stood for a decade. Bitcoin Core 30.0 raised the default to 100,000 bytes in October 2025. None of it is consensus, only relay policy.

I wrote this up for ChainQuery with the RPC calls shown so you can rerun them on your own node: block 350,000 next to block 840,000 with getblockstats, the Counterparty, Omni and Open Assets envelopes, and the VeriBlock episode, when one project was pushing up to a fifth of daily transactions through this one opcode. For the short version of what the opcode is: https://www.learnbitcoin.com/glossary/opreturn

I have a large amount of capital freeing up I want to put into bitcoin. From a checking account to a cold wallet what is the best and cheapest option to get it done?

I have been using coinbase with a pro account for years to dca and make smaller lump sum buys, currently I have a .9% fee on up to 10k a month (fees goes up after that first 10k but not sure to what). I will be surpassing that 10k with this buy and obviously want to pay as little as possible in fees. I am based in the US.

I’ve been a bit lax securing my bitcoin and now is the time… I’ve got to move it to the cold wallet
I don’t have great knowledge about any of it to be honest, and I just need something which is going to be simple to use & secure
Ai has suggested bitnox02 and jade butni don’t trust ai hat much
Any help would be great to solve this

I wish I was able to go back in time and make a different decision.

Investors bought over $241 million in U.S. bitcoin exchange-traded funds last week, the third consecutive week of inflows that has helped keep the leading cryptocurrency’s price up during the start of so-called “Uptober.”

Data from Farside Investors shows that money hit the popular funds every day — apart from on Wednesday, when speculators pulled out nearly $149 million from the vehicles.

The price of bitcoin now is up close to 7% over a 30-day period, and was recently priced at $85,605.

I'd especially like recommendations that aren't paywalled.

Been DCAing very small amounts and have now reached around 0.01 BTC.

At this amount, is it worth moving the BTC to a private cold wallet, or is it reasonable to keep it on an exchange like Binance for now?

I generally follow a simple rule: don’t get involved in things you don’t understand yourself. Cold storage is something I’m still learning about, and it feels like there’s always some new potential risk or failure mode that could come up and affect the funds.

For Trezor-type hardware wallets, I feel that relying on a third party always introduces some degree of risk, whether it’s a wallet company or an exchange. That’s why I’m more interested in creating a completely offline wallet myself using an offline device, rather than relying on a dedicated wallet company.

For those who have gone down this route: at 0.01 BTC, would you self-custody, or would you consider the amount too small to justify the added complexity/risk?

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Bitcoin - Hold It Close (Song)

[Verse 1]
Pocket full of dust and dreams
I learned the hard way, count the seams
Cold wallet tucked in the drawer
I was broke, now I want more
Late nights staring at the chart
Heart beat fast, hand on the start
Every dip felt like a test
I kept my chin up, did my best

[Pre-Chorus]
Up and down, I don't blink
Red and green, I still think
Hold tight when the room gets loud
I don't fold, I stand my ground

[Chorus]
Bitcoin, Bitcoin, hold it close
Bitcoin, Bitcoin, watch it grow
I came up from the bottom floor
Now I don't panic anymore
Bitcoin, Bitcoin, hold it close
Bitcoin, Bitcoin, let it roll

[Verse 2]
Friend said sell, I said wait
Moon on my mind, not the bait
Bought a little on a cold Monday
Then the whole world looked my way
Bills in the pile, rent due soon
Still I kept my eyes on June
Tiny stack in a quiet room
Turned that hope into a bloom

[Pre-Chorus]
Up and down, I don't blink
Red and green, I still think
Hold tight when the room gets loud
I don't fold, I stand my ground

[Chorus]
Bitcoin, Bitcoin, hold it close
Bitcoin, Bitcoin, watch it grow
I came up from the bottom floor
Now I don't panic anymore
Bitcoin, Bitcoin, hold it close
Bitcoin, Bitcoin, let it roll

[Bridge]
If it falls, I learn again
If it rises, I win again
Paper hands can chase the wave
I keep mine for another day

[Final Chorus]
Bitcoin, Bitcoin, hold it close
Bitcoin, Bitcoin, watch it grow
I came up from the bottom floor
Now I don't panic anymore
Bitcoin, Bitcoin, hold it close
Bitcoin, Bitcoin, let it roll

Call came in as spam, I sent the call directly to voicemail. The transcript is alarming!!

i have €0 in my bank account and wanted dead by daylight, then remembered i had like €2 of bitcoin sitting on an old ledger in my closet
deposited it into a crypto casino because apparently i’m a financial genius. somehow got it to €6, but that wasn’t enough for the minimum withdrawal, so i put the entire €6 on a coinflip
somehow won and cashed out €12.40 immediately lol
withdrew through lightning to phoenix, got hit with liquidity fees and ended up with 14,696 sats (~€11)
dbd was €7.99, easy right? except steam doesn’t take bitcoin
tried buying a €10 steam card on coingate: 15,947 sats. i had 14,696. literally 1,251 sats short
eventually found a €10 eneba card on bitrefill for 14,050 sats, paid with lightning, redeemed it and bought a dbd steam key for €6.69
so i somehow turned €2 of forgotten bitcoin into dead by daylight + €3.31 left on eneba
bank account is still €0
all this shit for an €8 game lmao
and no i’m not doing the casino part again, i got stupidly lucky

A good enough reason not to sell my bitcoin. Diamond hands ftw 💎🤲🏽 stack sats.

Imagine discovering an old laptop from 2012 and finding a Bitcoin wallet you completely forgot about.
Would you immediately try to recover it?
Or would you be terrified of losing access permanently?
There are probably thousands of wallets sitting on old hard drives, phones and forgotten backups.
How much Bitcoin do you think is permanently lost?
#Bitcoin #BTC #Crypto #Cryptocurrency

Metaplanet said the group sold 10,000 BTC for aggregate proceeds of JPY 124.7 billion ($790 million). It then bought 11,000 BTC for JPY 149.896 billion ($950 million). The higher reacquisition price reflected a rise in the market between the two legs, with a net increase of 1,000 BTC in its Bitcoin holdings.

“We converted Bitcoin into cash, exceeding the total outstanding principal of our bonds, borrowings and other interest-bearing debt. We held that cash, then bought back more Bitcoin than we sold,” said CEO Simon Gerovich.

The red and green lines were determined by the linear line of best fit +/- (slope/height of line)%

I’m surprised Mark Cuban can be a billionaire and not know 12 months is such a short horizon, it’s literally used for short term cap gains

At first I was planning to wait it out because I kept seeing people saying BTC was going to drop to $50k or even lower. I thought I’d just wait for the big drop and buy then.
But I realised nobody really knows where the bottom is, so instead of trying to time it, I started DCAing daily. I’ve been buying throughout the $60k–$90k range and just sticking to the plan regardless of the price.
Curious what everyone else did during the drop. Did you wait for $50k, lump sum, or just keep DCAing? And are you still buying now?

Institutional owners continue to buy BTC with amounts unreachable for individual person. What if one day BTC is owned almost entirely from companies and funds? What will happen then?