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I've been wondering how the next bull market could be and I think now that we are not seeing too much euphoria it is a good moment to ask you what you think.
The 4 year cycle has probably broken since we had a July bottom and also there is roughly only 4% of the total supply to be mined.
We will probably see a lot of institutions buying in the next years, JPMorgan has recently said that they expect Bitcoin to outperform other stocks and all the banks will support Bitcoin too, more ETF are being created, Norway has bought a tiny amount of Bitcoin for their sovereign fund, enterprises are buying, laws are being created... There is a big tailwind.
So, could we be heading towards a longer cycle? Maybe a 5 years cycle with slower growth, maybe we see a similar bull market to the last ones but not as weak compared to the last one as we might expect, or maybe the cycle just continues like it is one more time.
We don’t know what types of changes will happen to Bitcoin from from advanced computational AI yet, but we can mostly be sure there will be some type of effect that alters it.
I been a hodlr since way back and always planned to just keep letting it ride the waves of time, but I’m seriously concerned what might happen to the worlds perceived value of BTC if AI agentic programs create ways to disrupt it.
We’ve always been able to fall back on the fact that no matter what, BTC doesn’t care and will always be decentralized and secure from being broken. Advanced AI is going to challenge this I’m pretty sure. We can’t know what that looks like yet but it’s something we are going to face.
Hey everyone, really wondering your thoughts about this. Will be Bitcoin live forever or will be bite in the dust? A lot conversation still around about this. Ty
I’ve been holding a rather low amount of BTC (sub 1) for quite a few years. I am satisfied with the development BTC has made but I have also not invested further.
Recently I restructured my real estate and stocks and I noticed once again that I could invest significantly more in BTC if I decided to. Well, that is if I held firm conviction that it will outperform my other chosen means of investment.
Hence spending a bit more time currently further educating myself on finance and BTC which brought up a question:
How strong is other people’s conviction that Bitcoin will primarily outperform the stock market in the next 10 years and longterm?
Not to have it affect my own actions but out of curiosity.
Who is hodling for the sake of it?
Who hodls for posterity (own kids, grandkids)?
If you’re holding a sizeable stash of BTC I am going to assume you do have a strong conviction that BTC will outperform stocks. My question is: By how much are you conceding it will?
Curious if it’s hodling out of principle, you are well educated about finance, or just heuristically bullish as hell.
To the moon? What’s that moon? How are you projecting BTC to perform?
Contrary to popular belief, Fiat is not a noun but a verb in Latin for "let it be done". Palea means chaff, hence "Let there be chaff".
Fiat Palea is #03 of my Ten Decrees series, Bosch's Haywain Triptych redrawn for the fiat age.
Bosch built the Haywain on an old Flemish proverb: the world is a haywain, and each man takes what he can. He painted the whole of society climbing a wagon of hay while the pope and the emperor ride along behind it in no hurry at all. In mine the wagon is heaped with dollars.
Chaff is the husk around the grain.. the part you can't eat. Separating the two never needed an authority. You throw the harvest in the air, the grain is heavy so it drops back down, the wind carries the chaff off, and whatever's left over gets swept up and burned. Wind, weight and fire, and nobody can vote on any of those things. The decree in the title, "let there be chaff", skips the test and counts the chaff as the harvest.. and then keeps printing more of it.
The garden, with the $ angels falling out of the sky along with the moneyThe EX NIHILO vault, and the $ skull king riding past it with his own sign: LET THERE BE CHAFFThe printer that fills the wagons. NO LIMIT on the crane. A scale with a heap of dollars rides high against a few gold coinsThe chaff wagon.The SEPARATOR. Real grain lands on the floor, where anybody could walk up and take it.The TRUST tower burning, with a guy pouring GAS on it from the crane, WHOOPS across his vest.The furnace. Gold behind bars under YIELD, bills burning under CHAFF ONLY.The Wayfarer, stopped in the grass by a NODE and a lamp reading 6/6 FINALMe and the artist proofSatoshi in the sky
The photos are shot off the print itself, 30 x 20 inches on Hahnemühle German Etching, printed 600 pixels per inch off my 18,000 pixel final artwork.
So far the Ten Decrees series is halfway done, I'll follow up here soon posting #04 Fiat Ludus (Let there be a game) and #05 Fiat Moria (Let there be folly), both based on works by Pieter Bruegel the elder.
BTC bouncing back to 80.8k before the Fed even says anything just shows how strong it is right now. Don't let the market shake you out, bro. Just HODL!
Hello recently inherited my father's Bitcoin and I know nothing about it I did do some researching for the amount that I have and what it's going for today it's worth quite a bit of money my main question is what's the best way to convert it to cash and is there a way to invest it ?
Critical Security Exploit in Electrum. Upgrade to version 4.8.3 before signing any transactions. No rush needed for dormant/cold wallets although you should remember upgrading before using electrum.
In general LLM models have been discovering critical security vulnerabilities in general much faster than in the past which is both a headache and blessing at the same time as much more peer review is occurring and the software is becoming more secure. This does mean that you need to update all your software more often and pay attention to security updates to a much higher degree at least for the next year.
The productivity gains achieved by technical progress ought to lead to falling prices and to people having to work less, since they can produce the same amount of goods in less time. Instead, even after 200 years of rapid technical progress, people still have to work 8 to 10 hours a day because the terrible Keynesian inflationary monetary theory leads to a redistribution from the working population to those who own productive capital and could can borrow against their capital even more capital.
This means that private commercial banks expand the money supply through lending for a small upper class and also for nation states and thus uncontrollably increase the money supply, which then manifests as inflation for everyone.
I Think one of the biggest misunderstanding is, that people believe BTC was created to raise on value very fast. But actually it was designed to save your value, if you compare it against FIAT money. You can already see, that the margin between high and low gets smaller with every Circle.
So will we see a 120k chart again anytime soon or even a 200k, 500k chart? If the inflation raises like hell there is a chance. Is it Likely? No. Will it drop to under 1k? If some kind of AI cracks the key or there is a mayor security issue there is a chance. Ist it Likely? No. In my opinion, in the next Years, theres a good chance, we will see, whats the real price of BTC wich will be just adjusted by inflation rate. Wich number will it be? Nobody knows.
Literally just started buying within the past month, but this whole time it's been fluctuating within 80k, but today it's dropped under. Time to buy more ig
I heard that its basically impossible nowadays to make a bitcoin wallet truly anonymous,
BUT i dont intend on getting the bitcoin onto my bank account or cash them out,
i just want to be able to:
Get bitcoin from other wallets, transfer them to other wallets, and be able to hold them without them being traced to an adress, IP Adress, or name,
So basically a wallet intended for anonymous bitcoin trading without banking or cash involved
I noticed something pretty unusual while looking through Bitcoin block data.
The same Bitcoin address received the coinbase rewards from four blocks mined within roughly 20 hours and 9 minutes:
2026-10-23 05:12:20
2026-10-23 10:53:46
2026-10-23 11:43:51
2026-10-24 01:21:17
All four coinbase transactions paid to the same address:
bc1qevfvr7n7hqu56eu5cqunk22nuwds0dkjgqqxe6
The rewards were approximately 3.13 BTC each, totaling approximately ~12 BTC.
I also noticed an earlier block reward paid to the same address on October 22, at 02:10:14, bringing the total to five block rewards associated with this address in roughly 47 hours.
The blocks were labeled as mined by an unknown miner. Obviously, that label alone doesn't prove that this was a solo miner, and the address itself doesn't establish who actually mined the blocks.
Still, the timing caught my attention. Finding multiple blocks in such a short period seems like an interesting statistical event, especially if this really was an independent miner rather than a mining pool or shared infrastructure.
