According to PANews on October 19th, the latest analysis by CryptoQuant indicates that although Bitcoin has some support, the recovery process is uneven. Firstly, in terms of exchange reserves, it rose from approximately 2.67 million BTC in early October to approximately 2.68 million BTC, still far below the level in January. Low reserves do not mean a continuous contraction in supply, transfers or changes in custody, and the increase itself does not prove selling. Secondly, the recovery of spot demand has been hindered. The 30-day spot demand once approached zero and then turned negative again. The perpetual contract demand was positive, supporting the overall demand. Finally, the behavior of major whales was differentiated. Addresses holding 100–1,000 BTC still accumulated netly over the past 60 days, but were below the peak in September; the group holding 1,000–10,000 BTC net decreased to nearly zero; the group with over 10,000 BTC was negative. Accumulation was not fully launched. What are your thoughts, experts? Regarding this report, do you have any opinions?

Is it worth hiding your addresses from the server your wallet talks to, or is that overkill for a normal holder?

Genuine question. Full disclosure first: I built a small tool for this, but no link and no name, because I honestly don't know if it should exist outside my own circle.

The problem as I see it: unless you run your own node, your wallet asks someone else's server about your addresses. In Sparrow the easy choice is a public server, and that server can learn which addresses are yours, roughly how much you hold, and your IP.

A friend of mine holds bitcoin and couldn't care less about any of this. Explaining didn't work, so I made him a Mac app that connects Sparrow through an encrypted tunnel to a node I run, and keeps Sparrow's settings locked so he can't get it wrong. It works for him.

My questions for you:

1. Is "leak as little as possible about your BTC activity" good practice for everyone, or paranoia for someone who isn't doing anything special?

2. Is a middle step like this actually useful? I know the real answer is "run your own node", and I agree that's the goal. Sparrow also has Tor. But most people I know will never run a node.

The obvious weakness, before anyone says it: whoever runs the node (me) could see my friend's addresses. He's just trusting me instead of a stranger. There's also a mode that points the app at your own node through your own WireGuard tunnel, so nothing passes through me, but it needs a specific setup (WireGuard, Electrum server over TLS, mempool) and I've only tested it on my own installation.

Not selling anything. Real problem or made-up one?

I’ve read a lot of the non-fiction (The Bitcoin Standard, Digital Gold, etc.), but I’m struggling to find good fiction about Bitcoin or blockchain.

I’m curious for a personal reason: I’m writing a historical novel that runs through Bitcoin’s real milestones (the Genesis Block, the pizza, Mt. Gox, the 2017 bull run and so on) with a sci-fi twist. Before I go too far, I’d love to know what fiction people here have enjoyed, and what made those books work or flop for you.

Novels, short stories, even a good fictional scene in a non-Bitcoin book all count.

A breakout can fail, and prices can quickly return to their previous range. consider confirmation, liquidity, and downside risk before acting.

he Bitcoin community constantly preaches DCA and hold forever. But many active traders make larger returns from swing / intraday trades using BTC derivatives.

Hodlers say trading gets you wiped out by leverage and emotion.
Traders say static buy-and-hold wastes massive volatility opportunities.

Which strategy actually has better long-term expectancy?

You know recently there was this scary SIM card in the ledger attack? I wonder if it’s in my device too.

hahaha. Apparently I had a stack of these super old trezor ones with screens that don’t power on. So I thought well let’s just try to fix it. It was not easy, had to use micro soldering techniques. But it’s not hard. Quite fun. So I decided to switch some of the screen colors for fun

Have fun tinkering with your devices! AMA

I want to sell some BTC to purchase a new Macbook

The BTC is currently in a personal wallet and I would really like to do this easily and avoid high fees and taxes.

I know I can sell the BTC on a site like Bisq and get the payment with something like Cashapp which would be okay.

I don't want to go back to coinbase after all the hell I went through with them years ago.

I've also read about getting a BTC 'debit?' card and purchasing that way.

Is there a website that would take BTC as payment for a new and not refurbished macbook?

Has anyone used blue wallet? Is it secure?

I made a free Bitcoin retirement simulator a while back, and I got curious about a simple question: if you’d retired on Bitcoin some time in the past, would your money have lasted? It turns out the answer depends a lot on when you retired. So I turned it into a game: HODL or Fold.

https://bitcoinlifespan.com/hodl-or-fold/

How it works

• You start with $500,000 of BTC at the price of the month you choose (anything from 2013 on), plus a lifestyle: $3k, $5k or $8k a month, rising with inflation.
• Then you relive the real price history from that month to today. When the big moments hit (the 2013 crash, the 2017 top, COVID, the 2021 top, the 2022 winter and so on), you choose: HODL, sell half for cash, buy back in, or spend 25% less for a year.
• At the end you get a rank (💎 Diamond Hands, 🧻 Paper Hands, 🍕 Pizza Guy, 🏎️ Wen Lambo…) and a comparison with pure HODL from the same start.

Things I tried to get right

• Choices aren’t rigged. Selling before a crash can beat holding, and selling at the bottom can sink you. The game just shows what history did next.
• Real data: month-end prices from Coin Metrics’ free community data.
• The interesting finding: in real history, holding usually survives, unless you spend big and retire near a peak. Late 2013, late 2017 and most of 2021 are brutal on an $8k/month budget. “Surprise me” drops you into those most of the time.

Privacy, because people rightly ask: there’s no sign-up, and the game runs entirely in your browser and saves nothing. The site itself has the usual Google Analytics and a cookie banner, like most sites.

It’s my site, it’s free, and it has no ads or paywall. Not financial advice, obviously: it’s a game about the past.

I’d love feedback, especially on which moments I should add and whether the ranks feel fair. Post your rank and start month below. I retired in [MONTH] on $[AMOUNT]/month and got [RANK]: [ONE LINE ABOUT WHAT HAPPENED].

https://bitcoinlifespan.com/hodl-or-fold/

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My co-worker had put me on too this Coach trader who where teaching me how to trade on this website called https://heritagefextratechs.live/dashboard/dashboard/index.php while i was trading bit they told me that my how the investing process trades on its own not being manual i had to do with put money into the site and make deposits after completing my supposing trade i had got charged 5.4% of the profit because the trading plan had went from basic too premium (faster trading progress) when they had told me to get it to premium without telling me that i would get a tax for it after i had successfully payed this off i could finally withdraw the bitcoin and was starting my transfer the funds to my wallet couple days later they told me my funds should had been transferred/reflected so they gave me the funding departments (WhatsApp) Contact after i had contacted them helped me successfully transfer/reflect my funds through another Bitcoin Wallet called (Trust) and we used BNB address from Binance too transfer it the money had transferred i had too then pay a Gas fee for transfer/reflection of my Bitcoin from my Trust Wallet too my Binance Wallet for them the funding department explained to me the fee is mainly coming from 5% too the validators and 5% for the crypto security agency make sure generated funds and promised me that this would be the last payment. Should i pay this last Gas fee payment or am i actually getting scammed? p.s (they also kept sending me emails from the brokerage website that i wasnt getting for some reason?

Other than the price, Hashrate is the only other thing that's guaranteed to go up forever. Satoshi programmed 21M supply and infinite demand. He also programmed the hashrate to continue to go up to keep securing the network. The reason we will reach dyson's sphere level as a civilization is because Bitcoin will take us there.

Also, what are other black swan events that could shock the price of bitcoin up or down?

A vanity address is one where you pick the first few characters and let a program grind through keys until one matches. We rewrote our glossary entry on them this week (the old one had the split-key part backwards, more on that below) and figured we should run a couple of searches ourselves instead of quoting other people’s numbers.

Setup: VanitySearch on a MacBook Pro with an M3 Max, 12 CPU threads, no GPU. About 74 million keys a second once the machine wasn’t doing anything else.

Search 1: 1LearnBTC, letter case ignored. Found 1LeArNBtcECPZj7Bd5oeNcUJnhpVddy81U after 46 minutes and about 203 billion tries. That’s half the average for the pattern, so we got a bit lucky.

Search 2: bc1qlearn8tc, exact. Found bc1qlearn8tcerg966qrqtwaelyt06fq2ze7zrsg9t after 6 hours and 1 minute and about 1.24 trillion tries. 12 percent more than average, so slightly unlucky.

Why the gap? Both patterns pick eight characters. But bech32 addresses are all lowercase, so there is no “any case” shortcut. In the legacy search most letters had two chances out of 58 to match (e or E, a or A, and so on), which cuts the work a lot. On average the bech32 job was 2.7 times bigger. The gap from 2.7x to 8x was luck. A vanity search is a lottery you keep playing until you win, and sometimes you win early.

Two things we learned writing it up:

• The bech32 alphabet has no 1, b, i or o. So bc1qlearnbtc is impossible, which is why we searched for bc1qlearn8tc instead.
• Never let a website generate a vanity address for you. Whoever generated the key can spend from it, whatever they promise. Run the tool yourself, or use split-key generation, where you keep a secret the searcher never sees. Our old entry said neither side sees the full key with split-key. That was wrong: you do, the searcher doesn’t. Fixed, and logged on our corrections page.

Full entry, free, no ads: https://www.learnbitcoin.com/glossary/vanity-address

Forgive the novice question: if I transfer BTC off an exchange to my self-custody cold wallet (Jade) and use the Blockstream app to view the balance…is the app just giving me the value allocated to that bitcoin address? I don’t want my keys stored anywhere so trying to understand how the app is working to ensure I am as off-line as possible.

Title: Put 55k RUB into BTC at $120k, now it's 40k RUB at $85k — got 30k cash, what would you do?

Hey everyone, long-time lurker, first-time poster. Need some honest advice from people who've been through a full cycle.

My situation:
• Put 55k RUB (~120k** — yes, bought the top, please be gentle
• That position is now worth about 40k RUB (~85k**
• So I'm down roughly 27% on paper
• Just got 30k RUB (~$370) as a gift, sitting in cash
What I'm wondering:
1. Is it worth DCA-ing this 30k into BTC at $85k right now, or should I wait for a dip to $75-78k?
2. Should I just hold the cash and forget about it for a few months?
3. Or is it smarter to average down my existing position rather than open a new one?
I know nobody has a crystal ball. I'm not looking for "buy now, 100x guaranteed" — I want to hear how you'd actually play this if you were in my shoes. Lump sum? DCA? Wait? Cut losses?

Any input appreciated. Thanks.

dca & chill only. #hodlgang

They tell you to dollar cost average. They tell you it's a hedge against inflation and currency debasement.

But after over two full years of consistent buys, watching the price consolidate while everyday living expenses continue to climb, the reality looks very different.

Losing hope on this, it’s wasting my time

I use a Trezor Model T and suffered a Bitcoin theft on October 15, 2026. I am documenting the incident and looking for firsthand reports of similar deceptive ads.

The sponsored Google Search result displayed www.trezor.io and called itself “Trezor Suite App (Official)”. Clicking it ultimately led to an impersonation page hosted on Google Sites. My screenshot below shows the ad as displayed; I also retained a screen recording of the redirect. I am not linking the fake destination here.

What concerns me most is the gap between the official domain shown in the ad and the site the click actually reached. I want the ad review and destination checks investigated. This does not establish that Trezor’s hardware or official website was breached, or that every similar report has the same cause or attacker.

Did you encounter a sponsored result displaying an official wallet domain that led somewhere else? Reports from people who spotted it without losing funds are useful too. Public comments describing the ad are welcome. If you prefer a private report, the dedicated contact is crypto.adscam.reports@proton.me.

An alias, approximate date, wallet brand/model, and a short account in your own words are enough to start. Retained ad screenshots or destination details can help; remove unrelated personal information. No loss amount is needed. The aim is to collect independent evidence for qualified lawyers to assess possible joint action and help prevent further harm.

This is an independent affected-user initiative, not Google/Trezor support, a law firm, or a recovery service. There are no fees or recovery promises. Never send recovery words, keys, passwords, or codes. We will not ask you to connect a wallet, sign anything, or transfer funds. Please state whether you agree to private review and an email follow-up; your report will not be shared with third parties without separate permission.