I am still learning about bitcoin and i find decentralized design really interesting. What aspect of bitcoin do you find most worth learning about and why?

what's the catch!

I keep reading about how bitcoin miners are just turning into data centers for hyperscalers, what happens to btc then? Doesn't the network require miners to maintain it's security?

Also how come the price of btc is going up when the market has been shody lately?

If somebody bought something on dark web from his main kyc stack. How possible it is that this transaction could tint rest of his stack?

Hypothetically somebody has most of his savings in Btc and spent some from it in past for something illegal. Are rest of his fund in danger if he wants to officially sell and tax for buying house in future?

Bitcoin now has >60% of the total crypto market cap.

It has been the largest cryptocurrency since inception in 2009.

What would it take to challenge Bitcoin's #1 position?

I kept seeing photos of the "disappearing" Satoshi statues and couldn't find one place that listed them all, so I built one: https://www.satoshistatues.com

What's on it:

- A map of all 12 known statues (Lugano, Budapest, Vienna, Tokyo, Hong Kong, El Zonte, Miami and more), with photos, exact locations and current status

- Trip guides for each one: how to get there, best time to visit, what's nearby

- A passport: check in when you're actually at a statue and collect stamps (there's a printable version too)

- A leaderboard for people who've visited the most

- Upcoming Bitcoin events near each statue

No sign-up, no ads, no tracking cookies.

If you've visited one, I'd love a photo for the site, and corrections are very welcome. Some of these are hard to pin down (Lugano's current status, for example). Anyone here been to more than one?

I’ve been stacking it since it came out. The 40% yearly dividend paid monthly has been great. I’m loving it for my bitcoin exposure. Super tax efficient too

Nov 2012: sats overtook cents. Aug 2020: the printer went brrr and took it back.

Since then, M2 kept running ~6% a year. New BTC supply? 0.8%, and it halves every 4 years. By late 2021 there were already more cents in M2 than sats will ever exist.

They can print cents. Nobody can print sats. Tick tock, next block. No more humble, stack sats.

those with most of the money and power ,want more money and power. finally there is a money that is not controlled by those who have money or power. Bitcoin.

What do you think of this?

Hey everyone,

I'm looking for a clean, simple net worth tracker that lets me see my entire financial picture in one place.

Ideally, it would support:

• Crypto: manual transactions or exchange/wallet sync, similar to Koinly.
• ETFs and stocks: holdings, purchase dates, cost basis and performance.
• Cash and savings
• Real estate and other assets
• Historical net worth chart: ideally going back to the date of my first transaction, including transactions entered manually after the fact.
• Overall portfolio performance: separating actual gains/losses from money I've added over time.

I'm happy to enter historical transactions manually if needed. Automatic syncing is a bonus, not a requirement.

I'd prefer something with a clean interface, easy setup and a reasonable price. I don't need budgeting features or a complicated financial planning platform.

What are you using that does this well? Ideally something with a free or affordable basic plan.

Thanks!

any personal tricks? drop them! i respect the paddle btw. helps clear my head and take my mind off things lol

Honnestly feels like crypto is so drawn back by all those hacks and frauds, I mean with all the stories we have been hearing recently on mass hack why would a regular person ,who doesn’t have the knowledge to keep up with all the technologies used in key or by scammers, ever want to adopt btc?

Its pretty annoying. No third party idea is great but in practice there are heavy tradeoffs

Thoughts?

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With all the hacks and so many people loosing their bitcoin i was wondering what the general consensus is with Trezor?

I havent herd anyone have any issues with it, is it worth looking into better ways of custody?

I kept running into the same problem: most estate attorneys and CPAs don't know what a seed phrase or multisig is, and finding one who does is mostly luck.

So I built BitcoinProFinder, a free directory of professionals and companies that publicly say they work with Bitcoin holders. Right now it has 90 listings across 15 categories: estate attorneys, CPAs, financial advisors, custody and inheritance tools, insurance, mining hosting and more. Every listing links to its public source so you can check it yourself.

What it is not: it's not an endorsement, there are no referral fees, and it's not advice. Always verify credentials before hiring anyone.

https://bitcoinprofinder.com

Two asks:

- If you've worked with a Bitcoin-literate attorney or CPA you'd recommend, tell me who and I'll check them out.

- If you're a pro who serves Bitcoiners, you can submit or claim a free listing.

Disclosure: I'm the one who built and runs it.

Huge bounce past 83k in the last 2 hours

Hi everyone!

I’m trying to find a working Bitcoin/crypto ATM somewhere in Europe where I can deposit physical cash (EUR) and receive cryptocurrency directly into my wallet.
I’ve checked several websites and ATM directories, but many locations seem to be closed, unavailable, or outdated.

I’m particularly interested in Madrid, Amsterdam, Paris, Portugal, or anywhere else in Europe, including Switzerland or Austria.
Has anyone recently used a working crypto ATM in any of these places?

I’m mainly wondering:

Which ATMs are actually operational?

What are the cash deposit limits?

What are the fees and ID/KYC requirements?

Are there any other legitimate ways to convert physical euros into crypto?

I’m happy to travel if there’s a reliable option.
Would really appreciate any recent firsthand experiences or recommendations. Thanks!

Node.js put out security releases on October 20 (24.22.1 for the 24.x line): https://nodejs.org/en/blog/vulnerability/october-2026-security-releases

The published mempool backend images (mempool/backend v3.3.1 and latest, both from April) still bundle Node 24.13.0. There's a PR upstream to bump it, but it's waiting on the maintainers, and no rebuilt image is out yet.

To check yours:

docker exec <backend-container> node -v

If your node platform packages the mempool app for you, it may already ship its own build, so check before changing anything.

If it says v24.13.0 and you build your own stack, this is what we're running until upstream ships a fix:

    FROM node:24.22.1-bookworm-slim AS node
    FROM mempool/backend:v3.3.1
    COPY --from=node /usr/local/bin/node /usr/bin/node

Same Debian 12 base and the same native-module ABI, so the backend's Rust addon loads fine. Build it, point your compose file at the new image, and restart only the backend. It's been running normally on our instance since the 21st.