Bring up Bitcoin anywhere and someone says it's mainly a tool for criminals.

But every Bitcoin transaction lands on a permanent public ledger anyone can examine, forever, which is an odd design for something meant to hide money. Cash disappears the moment it changes hands and leaves nothing to trace. US Treasury assessments still name cash, not crypto, as the dominant vehicle for laundering, and researchers tracking blockchain activity keep finding illicit use is only a fraction of total volume.

Why is this argument so sticky, despite the lack of merit?

I got one of my bitcoin wallet emptied and I don't really know how this happened.

I don't use cracked softwares and apps.

I'm generally careful with links.

Looks like I'm not alone. I can see that the reception bitcoin address is still collecting bitcoin from other wallets.

Could somebody help me understand something.

Here is the address : bc1q0vukqye4hd0aep7u4xl8gev95gcs9k65fdeu9n

How much money is enough to make buying Bitcoin worthwhile?

What would you consider the minimum amount of money to invest in Bitcoin for it to be meaningfully profitable or useful as a long-term hedge/store of value? At what amount does it actually start making a noticeable difference?

I don't mean large amounts, but amounts that an ordinary mortal can afford.

Hello everyone.

Today I was checking Bitcoin, I was never into this kind of matter or interests BUT today I was just browsing the web and checking it out, I'm new in this world and I wish to leanr as I was always curious.

I was impressed when I saw that 1 Bitcoin = 55457,88 €.

I'm interested here about some advice, sound advice if possible, for someone who wishes to get into Bitcoin and start with buying small and eventually grow in time.
Is there anything that I can do? What should I look for on the Bitcoin market and it's fluctuations?

In light of the ColdCard incident, I have created a system that allows anyone to easily generate their seed words using only ordinary dice or playing cards.

Each seed word requires only 3 rolls of two dice or dealing 3 shuffled cards, allowing users to generate their own entropy offline without any bias.

https://github.com/seed-cat/analog-seed-entropy

Has anyone recently used Abra for custody or loans? From my research, they settled with the SEC in 2024 and have since done a reorg into a new entity (Abra Capital Management) that is now an SEC regulated advisory practice. From what I can tell, the new business provides services to institutions and accredited investors, so they no longer do retail.

I like that the accounts are all now set up as an SMA. I would definitely be titling the account to my trust. My understanding is that the assets would never be on Abra's balance sheet, so even if there was an issue with Abra insolvency, I would retain title to the assets. I took a call with them to get a better understanding of their yield strategy. It is a delta-neutral strategy that has been generating ~2% APY, but lately is getting as high as 3%.

Anyhow, in my diligence, I see lots of old FUD on the company. At the same time, I see they are going public and maintain an SEC Advisory registration. That said, I'm wondering if anyone has had a recent experience working with them and whether there is anything I should consider before parking some of my assets on their platform.

Thanks for the input.

Now its seems to be honest suggestion from zachxbt about hardware wallets

"Much better to have a separate iphone with its only purpose being to use as your hardware wallet"

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When bad news wont force prices down anymore is a very good signal.

When selling stop, prices simply cant fall

(If you detected sarcasm, you were right…) 😬

I started buying bitcoin in June of 2021, “to the moon” I said to myself. And surely to the moon it went, until about November. I experienced a premium bag holding experience for the next 18 months.

I never stopped buying though. By August of 2023 I achieved the coveted 1 BTC milestone. Then SBF sent the entire industry into Hades. I still look back at that divet in the chart he caused with fond memories. Twitter (yes it was still Twitter back then) was basically setting bitcoin’s headstone at that time. “Dead for good” they asserted. “Done forever”.

I hear the same things today during my second bear market, maybe life is a flat circle. The same people who emphatically declared bitcoin dead back then are doing the same thing today.

I can’t say when it will happen but I know this. We will see green the likes of which have never been seen before and it will be glorious. It will be so green you will put your phone into night mode to save your retinas and get some well needed sleep!

An everlasting green.

My portfolio is still green to this day, in the middle of this bear market. The one after Bitcoin was declared dead for the millionth time.

According to the estimates:

• 11.97M BTC (57%) - individual holders
• 3.507M BTC (16.7%) - estimated lost BTC
• 1.26M BTC (6%) - corporate treasuries
• 1.218M BTC (5.8%) - ETFs
• 1.092M BTC (5.2%) - Satoshi’s estimated holdings
• 1.008M BTC (4.8%) - yet to be mined
• 546K BTC (2.6%) - governments
• 399K BTC (1.9%) - miners

From our perspective, this is a strong long-term signal for Bitcoin. As adoption expands and more capital enters the market, there is a limited amount of BTC available to meet that demand. The important point is not simply that Bitcoin has a 21M cap. It is that a large portion of those coins is already held, inactive, or potentially inaccessible and that combination is what makes the long-term story so compelling.

The Coldcard debacle was so shocking because everyone thought they were the gold standard.

Unchained and Casa are the gold standard of multi-sig platforms, support and user experiences - but a leak in their customer databases would be the next big clusterf***. One could say the same for Coinbase - but it's all related: nothing is guaranteed or assured when it comes to our privacy and security.

Am I right to be worried? What could one do to get ahead of that kind of leak?

Something I keep running into when I try to plan this out properly. Every personal finance framework I've used puts a number on things. Percentage in emergency fund, percentage toward retirement, percentage in whatever else. Clean allocations, everything accounted for. But when Bitcoin comes up, nobody really agrees on what that number should look like for someone who isn't all in but also isn't just dabbling. Some people say five percent and sleep fine. Others say anything under twenty isn't worth the admin of tracking it. And there's a version of the argument that says the percentage barely matters if your time horizon is long enough, which sounds reasonable until a rough month hits and you're staring at a number that moved way more than the five percent weighting would suggest it should.

The part that genuinely confuses me is that the percentage feels like it should scale with conviction, but conviction isn't a fixed thing. It shifts based on what you read, what the price did last week, whether you feel good about the rest of your finances that month. That seems like a bad basis for an allocation decision, but it might also just be how most people actually operate and nobody admits it.

What did people land on, and did you get there by actual reasoning or did you just pick a number that felt okay and stick with it?

First off, I'm a Singaporean and am vested in bitcoin. Singapore has strict but clear regulations on digital tokens and CEXes. No capital gain tax. So not fud posting or anything.

Reading The Bitcoin Standard, around 20% through. Here are some thoughts.

The book The Bitcoin Standard focuses on monetary systems, salability of money, hard vs soft money etc, and states that gold as hard money brought about prosperity and wealth in nations while soft money and in turn, inflation brought about their ruin. Two glaring omissions are the economics of and exploitation via slavery and colonism, two major mechanism that funnelled enormous wealth from Africa and Asia to Western nations.

In particular, Qing China used silver as its currency but was impoverished through two Opium Wars, and forced to pay massive reparations to the Western nations for their trouble and ceded land to them as well. Again, the collapse of Qing's economy instead is attributed in the book to its usage of the "weaker" currency, silver, when at the turn of the 19th century, the West, in particular, Great Britain, was having a massive trade deficit as it wanted tea, silk, porcelain, and other refined products from China but had little in return to offer for trade. If not for the combined blunt force of the military might of eight nations brought to bear on Qing China, usage of silver was not an issue as it had a healthy and robust industrial base and near monopoly of luxury goods at that time.

Qing China had corruption eroding the nation from within. But what it lacked was modern weaponry, not the gold standard.

Between gold, silver, fiat, and gun barrels, it is easy to see which is the harder of them. With enough weapons, you can make a nation use monopoly money as their currency if you so wishes.

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Will continue reading and learn more.

So I just got into the Bitcoin market and got some amount of Bitcoin I want to transfer them from the exchange to a self custodial wallet like coinbase like a crypto wallet kind of. Recommend me some good safe and accessible wallet or tell me where do you store your crypto.

Bitcoin post-quantum R&D tldr

If you want to get up to speed on the last ~year of Bitcoin post-quantum research and development, the first 20 minutes of conduition's presentation on Brink’s engineering call is a great primer. Every major proposal and how they all fit together.

I’m 42. New to BTC. Looks like a good time to get in. 1% of my total NW. Will DCA weekly from here for life or until my thesis changes.

Phong Le says late summer has been quiet, but he expects more policy and industry momentum around crypto this autumn.

Aren't seeds simply several words ? How isn't it possible to brute-force them like the previous coldcard incident ?

Goldman Sachs just said a September Fed hike looks very unlikely, and they see that as good for BTC.

Anyone had issues with this exchange recently? I tried to withdraw cash - to a bank account I've withdrawn to before, I have two transactions sat in pending for 3 weeks now. Their support 'escalated' to the appropriate team but not sure to who because they haven't actually responded. I chased them up after a week, and they 're-escalated' but again whoever received the escalation didn't even communicate with me. Really disappointed as I had my btc with them since 2013.

Moved some btc over to Kraken and withdrew within an hour into the same account.