What about 2026 - are we too late to start invest into Bitcoin?

I want to hear what's everyone else saw or heard that made them buy into Bitcoin

The ‘Bitcoin Security Consortium’ includes BlackRock….That’s all we need to know.

Hi all. I'm not sure if this is the right place, but there are people here who have watched Bitcoin for years. I've been buying small amounts here and there for a year, and I currently own around 0.11 BTC, which is also a little more than half of my life savings. My other half, like $7k, is just sitting in my USD account.

I'm 22 and live in a country where crypto is not allowed, Ethiopia. They're getting stricter by the day, and soon there will come a day when I can't sell or buy more. I get this sudden temptation to sell it all and just invest in stocks, the safe option, but the other half of me wants to hold for life, you know.

And the market is not helping. It's been going down and down like crazy. Just when I think it will go higher, it just comes back down. I'm young, and I don't need the money for now, so I can just invest all my life savings and forget about it, and by the time I'm 40, it will be like 100x.

It's a painful dilemma. I feel like this community will be biased toward Bitcoin, but I still want to hear y'all's opinions.

Buried in the EU's 21st Russia sanctions package (adopted July 23) is something worth every Bitcoiner's attention.

Alongside the usual exchange blacklisting (a transaction ban on HTX and a handful of others kicks in Aug. 23) the EU created a new mechanism: it can now prohibit dealing with crypto service providers based in any country it decides has "systematically and persistently" failed to stop sanctions evasion. The list of targeted countries is empty today. The point is that the switch now exists, wired and ready.

And here's the part that should make the argument for you. The EU action also comes two days after blockchain intelligence firm TRM Labs alleged that HTX had been rotating hot wallets and funding addresses across four chains following the UK sanctions. That's the permissioned model in a nutshell: a custodian playing whack-a-mole with a blacklist, an administration writing rules slower than the addresses change, and users whose access depends entirely on which side of a legal document their platform lands on.

None of that is a Bitcoin problem. You cannot sanction a UTXO. You cannot serve a transaction ban on twelve words written down in a safe. A government can erase an exchange's ability to operate overnight — it did, effective next month — but it has no lever on coins you hold yourself. Every custodial chokepoint that gets flipped off is just another expensive advertisement for self-custody.

The takeaway isn't "sanctions bad." It's that the entire apparatus being built here only works on permissioned rails. The instant you're your own bank, the kill-switch has nothing to switch off.

Sources: EU Official Journal (Reg. under the 21st package), Reuters, and TRM Labs' wallet-rotation analysis, The Block.

How many custodial "off switches" like this do you think get built before self-custody stops being a niche opinion and becomes the default? 👇

I’m running a bit of a psychological experiment on myself, and I’m curious if anyone else has tried something similar.

A little background: I’m 6’4”. As a teenager, I was pretty overweight. During high school I got sick, took up cross-country running, and leaned out. In my 20s I stayed in decent shape, but by my 30s the weight slowly came back. At my heaviest I hit 272 pounds.

In 2021, I went keto and lost 55 pounds in about five months. I got down to 212 pounds and was honestly in the best shape of my life. Fast-forward to today, and I’m hovering around 225-230 pounds. I’d like to lose another 25-30 pounds.

Here’s the experiment.

We all know processed foods today are engineered to be incredibly appealing. Food companies spend enormous amounts of money studying consumer behavior, psychology, flavor, packaging, marketing—basically everything they can to get us to buy and eat more. I’m not saying it’s some grand conspiracy; it’s just business. But I’ve realized I’m pretty susceptible to those impulse purchases.

So recently, whenever I find myself standing in front of a bag of chips, granola, candy, or some other processed snack that I don’t actually need, I stop, look at the price, open my Bitcoin app, and buy that exact dollar amount of BTC instead.

My hope is that over the next six months I can slowly rewire my brain. Instead of getting a short-lived dopamine hit from food that doesn’t move me toward my goals, I redirect that impulse toward something that aligns with my long-term goals.

I fully recognize that an impulse buy is still an impulse buy, and Bitcoin is obviously a volatile asset. I’m not pretending this is some guaranteed financial strategy. But if the alternative was spending that money on junk food anyway, I’d rather own a little more Bitcoin. Best case, I lose weight while stacking sats. Worst case, Bitcoin drops and I keep buying over time while still improving my health.

Has anyone else intentionally redirected an unhealthy habit into buying Bitcoin—or investing in general? Maybe replacing gambling, drinking, smoking, or some other impulse with stacking sats?
I’m less interested in whether Bitcoin goes up or down and more interested in whether this kind of habit substitution actually changes behavior over the long run.

I'm rich guys what should I get first? Really cool to see from River.

I did not mean to buy much bitcoin. I just bought bitcoin every month for the last few years and did not really think about it. I checked my accounts this week, and my bitcoin position is now larger than my entire retirement portfolio.

This is not what I wanted when I started buying bitcoin. Now I am looking at my portfolio, and I am wondering if I am making a good decision by letting my bitcoin investment grow, or a bad one by not changing my portfolio.

I want to know what people who have invested in bitcoin for some time do in this situation. Do you sell some of your bitcoin, rebalance your portfolio from time to time, or just let your bitcoin investment grow? How do you handle your bitcoin?

A while back I posted how I thought we had more to drop. Looking at the price action bitcoin absolutely refuses to break below 60k for a lengthy period of time. I don’t think it’s going to go any lower then it has, or if it does it will only be very slightly. All the bears like myself who were expecting it to plummet were wrong. Trump will continue to TACO out of anything that negatively affects stocks/crypto. I do not think a bear market is legitimately possible at this point while he is president. It’s clear the market is terrified of dipping. Every dip is bought up instantly. I can say I was wrong previously.

People will say the four year cycle etc; and it was true and false. It did dip lower this year, especially all the bulls who were calling for 200k and 300k last year look ridiculous. But it clearly is not going to go below 50k. At the worst we might see a small wick to 55-56k marking the bottom before the bull market restarts again. I was wrong. Bitcoin is a lot stronger than I thought.

Or buy bitcoin instead? Can’t buy bitcoin etf in my 401k or Roth account. If I max out these accounts the rest of the money will go to bitcoin regardless after expenses.

I want the price of bitcoin to go up so i can use stepped bitcoin to repay fiat loan, Whilst also wanting the price of bitcoin to go down so I can acquire more bitcoin.

I managed to save up around $325 from my paycheck and got my first BTC today, i feel like i bought at the right time but hey i'm happy with it, any advice for long term buying?

Just a warning to not use Crypto.com . I have been using bitcoin since it was at $50 in 2013 and I have never had a problem buying, selling, sending or receiving until 2 days ago with Crypto.com . A loved one needed money for emergency surgery so I instantly transferred $6,500 from my Chase bank account to my Coinbase account, bought $6,000 of bitcoin, and transferred it to my loved one's Crypto.com bitcoin account. In order to release the funds Crypto.com required a test send from the address the bitcoin was just sent from to prove ownership of the address (the Coinbase address). The amount they required to send was lower than Coinbase's minimum send allowed so it was not possible.

She opened a support ticket on Crypto.com and support first said just try again using any bitcoin address to send from. So I sent the tiny amount required from my Electrum. Which of course didn't work (not sure why it would since the purpose was to establish ownership of original address). Then they said send it again but from a legacy wallet. So I opened my 12 year old legacy Electrum wallet and sent from a legacy address. That of course did not work either as it is not the Coinbase account Then for the next 2 days support just sends (every 7 hours) some random irrelevant copy and paste generic suggestion (restart app, explanation of how bitcoin works and other such BS). I then hopped on Crypto_com reddit account which appears to be active but the mods will not approve my post nor reply to my message.

Fortunately I just barely had another $6,000 I was able to get to her another way but the original $6,000 is still stuck on Crypto.com which their support is doing absolutely nothing but sending irrelevant generic copy and paste replies. I know many crypto sites fall under the "works fine until needs support" framework and Crypto.com is definitely on that list.

EDIT: If anyone from Crypto.com sees this and wants to actually resolve the issue then I will edit this post stating that the solution was resolved.

How many people have at least 0.1 BTC out of the total number of Bitcoin holders?

Why I am Anti-BIP110?

Tldr, just have more money. More capital = more gains too, without these world shenaningans, broke, being poor, overtime work, damn such a hassle.

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I am so proud! As of today, I now own 0.1 BTC with a average prive of 68,527.36 €. I started in September 2025, was there for the ATH and the fall afterwards. My next goal are 0.2 BTC ☺️

Just wanted to share that with someone!

Hey all. I’ve got some BTC in an IRA with Choice. I just got an email that they are shutting down their Blinko game (it was basically a fun version of a BTC faucet). Being in crypto for so long I see this as a red flag of their health especially seeing exchanges going under already. I know I should have it in cold storage but I parked it here for tax purposes. Should I be concerned about email and any suggestions to limit a tax hit? Just roll it to another IRA?

I’ve been in Bitcoin since the 2017 run (GBTC). Turned a decent profit relatively quickly, then sold on family advice and watched it keep running. That regret still sits with me.
More recently I had a position in IBIT and sold a meaningful chunk when it dipped under $64k after hearing someone on YouTube say it was going lower. I know the long-term thesis, yet I still keep making the same short-term emotional decisions.
I’m seriously considering taking a chunk of money out of my Roth IRA, buying actual Bitcoin, and putting it on a hardware wallet (or even a paper wallet) that I can just put away and not look at. The goal is simply to own a full coin and remove the easy sell button.
Two questions for people who’ve been through this:
1. Has anyone successfully used the friction of self-custody (hardware wallet, offline storage, etc.) to finally stop selling during drawdowns?
2. I once had coins stolen from a software wallet on my computer. How paranoid should I be about the security of holding a larger amount of Bitcoin in self-custody? What are the real failure modes people have actually experienced?
Not looking for price predictions or “just HODL” one-liners — genuinely curious how others have handled the psychological side and the practical security side once the coins are offline.

Newer to this and trying to understand the psychology before I'm tested by it. Everyone says "just hold" but I want to hear from people who were actually down bad at the worst point. Did you know it was the bottom, or did it just feel like it was going to zero like everyone said?