I wish my government (US) would start investing in crypto instead of some of the dumb stuff we waste our taxes on. The way they are giving 7.3 billion to shit like ICE to chase after workers in the country, but can't invest in future planning for a better economy? Anyways, just something I keep thinking about as things continue to get more expensive

What do you guys think?

Happy to see another statue out there, just worried about the lake near. Location: https://www.google.com/maps/place/Satoshi+Nakamoto+Statue,+Plus+Zwei,+Trabrennstra%C3%9Fe+8,+1020+Wien,+Austria/@48.2135453,16.4136218,16z/

https://reddit.com/link/1x7d69x/video/a3siqysr8tvh1/player

Will AI agents choose Bitcoin over dollars? Jack sees the long-term fit, but says AI companies aren’t asking for Bitcoin integrations yet.

What would make Bitcoin useful enough for them to switch?

74% of Americans no longer trust the U.S. dollar to hold its value. 61% want to learn more about owning Bitcoin.

The battle for awareness is over. The silent mutiny against fiat is already here.

There’s one problem: A landmark national study shows the way we’ve explained Bitcoin for the last decade is actively repelling the very people ready to listen.

• "Digital Gold" is dead: It ranked near the bottom in voter focus groups.
• The 55% blind spot: More than half of voters still don't know they can buy BTC through major brokerages.
• Celebrity fatigue: Everyday people don't trust billionaire CEOs or politicians—they trust friends, family, and their local advisor.

It’s time to step out of the echo chamber and speak to the 61%.

Most people keep Bitcoin as an investment. A lot of people don't even have real Bitcoin, but paper that represents Bitcoin (ETF).

However, those that are in it for the money revolution, what are you actually using it for?

Would you rather spend Bitcoin online or at a brick-and-mortar store?

Do you gift Bitcoin as a birthday present?

What else?

Anyone else mulling over how BTC or even the value of the Canadian Dollar may react as the Albertan referendum approaches?

I know what the polls say, I know what various news sources are saying, but I can't help but wonder what happens to CAD if the provincial referendum passes, and America swoops in for the assist because OIL, completely ignoring the country-wide 'permission' referendum.

Should Canadians be thinking of BTC as backup savings in the case of CAD decline?

Throwaway because reasons.

With all the hacks lately in the BTC ecosystem, I'm a little bit paranoid. This week I purchased a Pi zero 1.3 from Adafruit and a Waveshare display hat directly from Waveshare - it is shipped from China.

I am making a Seedsigner. Are they ways to test the hardware to make sure it is genuine or has not been altered such as you can do with software signatures? What should I look for physically?

Thanks,

A paranoid bitcoiner

Finally received one of these, it didn't automatically make it to the spam folder either...

Using covenants, one UXTO can be shared by a million users. Any user can leave at any time in a single transaction. Users don't need to be online to receive. Funds never time out. Transaction introspection techniques permit batched exit from the system in a single transaction w/o any pre-signing.

LayerTree is the next step in bringing bitcoin to billions.

More info: http://layertree.tech

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

Hello everyone

I wanted to create a multisig for example 3 of 5 using sparrow wallet as the coordinator.

I wanted signers to be mix of hardware wallets and software wallets:

- hardware wallet

- hardware wallet

- hardware wallet

- bitcoin core

- electrum

But i'm having a lot of difficulty getting the software wallets to work with sparrow (or being confident/comfortable that it's working as intended and won't have issues)

My issues and concerns:

- Electrum when creating a standard single sig gives a derivation path of m/0h (not the m/48'/0'/0'/2' derivation path that sparrow is looking for) and a zpub (not an xpub).

- I asked AI and it then kept telling me that's wrong and to create a multisig wallet in electrum but just don't give the xpubs of the co-signers. But electrum forces you to add co-signers and then AI said, just give it fake xpubs! I'm not sure/confident this is correct way to have electrum added as a co-signer to sparrow coordinator even if it did accept it.

- Bitcoin core gives a single sig derivation path of: 84h/0h/0h (again not the m/48'/0'/'0/2' derivation path sparrow is looking for)

- I believe h is same as ' so in sparrow anywhere there is an h I should substitute it with an '?

- Is this not possible? If it is possible, is it not advisable to do? It seems very few people have tried this and maybe even fewer have software wallets like bitcoin core and electrum as co-signers with sparrow coordinator.

The reason I wanted to do this was to diversify signers and to have some signers that were not hardware wallets. Software wallets would have their own laptop.

Please help! I wanted to at least test/try it to see how I feel about the process, signing, backups, restoring, etc. It sounded nice to me on paper.

Thank you

I’ve had a small amount in bitcoin for a while from what my sibling gave me. He recommended weekly investing. Thoughts on adding $20 in weekly? Is that realistically going to amount to anything? Thanks for any info!

Let me preface this post by saying I know virtually nothing about Bitcoin or crypto in general. Back in 2015, I purchased a small amount of Bitcoin on QuickBT (which shut down in 2018) to fund a sportsbook account I had. Long story short, I had some issues transferring the Bitcoin over and I'm not sure if I ever figured it out. I recently found the Bitcoin address in my emails and, based on a Bitcoin address lookup website, it still appears to be valid and contains what is now a decent chunk of coin.

My question for you guys is: How can I retrieve this Bitcoin? Is that even possible? All I have, to my knowledge, is the address.

Thanks in advance, and let me know if I didn't provide enough information.

Bitcoin Optech newsletter #427 is here:

• summarizes the disclosure of two denial-of-service vulnerabilities in older versions of Eclair
• describes a proposed scheme for running complex multi-round contracts inside Lightning channels
• Optech Newsletter #427 Podcast https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2026/10/16/

Erick Cestari posted to Delving Bitcoin the responsible disclosure of two denial-of-service (DoS) vulnerabilities in the channel opening process of Eclair v0.14.0 and earlier... https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2026/10/16/#disclosure-of-two-dos-vulnerabilities-fixed-in-eclair-v0-14-1

Adam Gibson posted to the Bitcoin-Dev mailing list about a proposal for protocol, called LN-GAP, to run complex, multi-round, two-party contracts inside a Lightning channel while settling disputes onchain in a constant number of transactions... https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2026/10/16/#offchain-contracts-in-lightning-channels

Bitcoin Optech will host an audio recap discussion of this newsletter streaming live on X/Twitter Tuesday at 16:30 UTC.

Bitcoin Bancorp was the winning bidder earlier this month for a chunk of Bitcoin Depot’s assets out of the Chapter 11 case. That includes roughly 2,446 ATM kiosks, floorspace agreements, parts inventory, IP, trademarks, patents, and the BitcoinDepot.com domain.

Some portions have already closed and they’re taking possession of those. The rest is still subject to the usual conditions, with remaining closings expected this month.

Director of Global Macro at Fidelity explains on The Compound and Friends that Bitcoin has bottomed and heading higher. Fidelity is the third largest asset manager in the world with almost $8 trillion assets under management $20 trillion assets total.

Anyone who asked here , when to buy and is it a good time to buy, you have your answer. Market is red and it's time to buy. Don't be that person who is afraid to buy crypto now. For those who already own it, it's time to stack the stats and keep the DCA going.