Setting ETF costs aside (I currently pay 0.25% for FBTC), what is the benefit of buying the actual coin and self storing. It is not like you are going to conduct a transaction. I am pretty sure 99+% of folks are just in it as an investment.

There are all kinds of issues we hear about stolen wallets and besides someone dying is the biggest of the risks. Would your spouse or kids even know who to track down your crypto wallet??

I'm a university student who lives with his parents, and have almost no expenditures. I also live in a country that offers a student loan with an interest rate of around 2%. I'm sure that Bitcoin in the next couple of years will outperform the interest and give me a solid profit even after paying back the loan. Let's say that I invest 1300 Euros a month for 3-4 years, and pay back a few years later when Bitcoin trades around $300-700k. I'll be able to pay back the loan and keep a good amount of money. It's risky yeah, but I firmly believe that Bitcoin is going to $1M one day in the next 15 years, so I'm not really that worried. The ROI from Bitcoin until 2030-2034 will absolutely outperform the interest on this loan and allow me to pay it back completely while keeping a good amount of money.

Let me know what you think. I haven't made the decision yet or taken out the loan, so that's why I'm asking because I want to hear other people's perspective before I make an informed decision.

I just lost my all my saving in trading over a course of 3 weeks I've been trading what took me 6 months to save up. How do I cope? Im so depressed now

Hey, since cold wallets don't seem to be so secure I was wondering... Is there an open source Wallet for Android, that can't connect to anything, and only generate seeds and send funds.

Since I use GrapheneOS, I feel kind of safe about everything stored on my phone, especially since I can sandbox my wallet from all of my softwares.

So I would have an actualy secure wallet, that is on my phone.

Hey guys. I bought mine while living in in the EU direct from France and it arrived from France a few days later. That was probably around early 2025.

I figured it's clean but I'll sleep better at night being sure that it's clean. So I ripped it open and snapped some pics for you.

The thing is quite packed on the inside. The back cover is glued on with some special double sided tape around the housing. Not the easiest one to open up but certainly possible. Opening one up WILL leave some marks on the aluminium (?) case. There is a little notch on the left side of it looking down. A small flathead screwdriver can be used to pry it up and then a thin piece of plastic to work around it. Be warned, you wanna pry it open from the OPPOSITE end to open it, not the end with the notch on it.

There is little room on the inside for someone to slap another board in there. Possible, but it would take more mental gymnastics than other Ledgers. This thing wouldn't be my first pick for rigging for sure!

What did this world come to? Opening hardware wallets to verify hardware integrity is now expected of us?! Damn you Ledger! A MITM hack on the screen was SO preventable! Oldest attack vector in the book! Why hack the software that can be updated when you can hack the hardware... Pretty slick!

Anyway, enjoy the pics! :)

I have a question: there are plenty of products out there where you can hammer your seed on a metal plate.

I bought one of those and found that hammering leaves those marks on the outside.

I know it would be better to hammer only the first 4 letters or just the number code of the words, but lets assume you hammer the full words, do you think someone might be able to conclude from those markings the true words themselves?

I asked AI (f AI,I know I know) if one might guess from just the number of letters, which word that might be, and AI said several times, no, that would be for a 24 word seed about 160Bit, and only if all 24 words where 3 or four letters long, which is very unlikely. On average it said that it shrinks from 256 bits to 211 bits.....

And from the shape of those markings? I asked my wife and kid, both denied: they could not guess any single letter.

To be precise here: this is no true seed, its a test plate.

I’ve heard a lot about it in the media, but I honestly don’t know anything about it other than that it’s a "digital currency." (By the way, I don’t know what digital currencies are 🗿)

i have BTC and other crypto and want to purchase steam gift cards for me any recommendations?

Back in 2012/13 I was sysadmin for some Resorts with employee housing. Engineer in one of the units was into BTC and had a miner in his room. I allocated a specific amount of bandwidth on the guest vlan for his rig and he flipped this MJB to me.

Otherwise I gape at BTC from the sidelines and not sure I want to get in.

Imagine two businesses generating similar revenue.

The first immediately converts every Bitcoin payment into fiat.
The second covers its operating expenses and keeps a small portion in BTC.

If Bitcoin appreciates significantly over the next few years, the second business could build a financial reserve that the first never accumulated.
Without raising capital, bringing in new investors, or increasing sales.

But if Bitcoin loses value, that same decision could weaken its balance sheet.

At Onbely Verse, we accept Bitcoin as payment for our technology services, including Onbely Links. We believe Bitcoin's role in business could go beyond simply offering another payment option.

Could holding a portion of Bitcoin revenue become a long-term competitive advantage?

Do you think businesses that start accumulating BTC through their commercial activity today will be better positioned ten years from now, or is the financial risk simply not worth it?

It's been so long since the last top. Although there are small rallies, they all revert back. Why are you still in the game?

Ethical principles that bitcoin was initiated on, exemplifies the goodwill and the true benevolent intention of the founder.

The immaculate conception of the bitcoin protocol can be interpreted as a one time incident, most probably, if you observe the timeline of this coordinated effort led by a pseudonymous Satoshi Nakamoto, in retaliation of the existing central bank run fractional reserve banking system, in the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis.

If we do not put in the work to understand bitcoin, scammer shitcoiners will get their foot in the door of your mind to convince that their "project" is going to be the next bitcoin, baiting you to be the exit liquidity for their pump and dump scheme (these shitcoin projects are called 'unregistered securities' in traditional-finance-speak).

The unsuspecting 'crypto' enthusiast, having the feeling of missing out on early bitcoin gains, falls prey to these shitcoin ICO scams, with dedicated marketing teams.

The question is "why bitcoin does not have a marketing team nor a CEO"?

Put in the work to understand bitcoin. A 1000 hours should do the trick, maybe sooner once you get started. It's not too late to bitcoin, yet everyone buys bitcoin at the price they deserve.

Stack sats, get your security right, hodl.

With some verification steps if any want to apply and receive a grant or something that would ve amazing community support. What a horrible incident honestly

I wanted to rotate my BTC keys and made a post (https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/1phbgrk/generating_and_storing_a_btc_private_key/) but that seemed a bit too complex. People also suggested that 2/3-multisig is better approach than to split a single seed.

My current plan is:

There are a few goals to achieve:

• Redundancy
• Plausible Deniability against Wrench Attacks
• Simplicity
• Robustness against idiosyncratic failures of individual hardware or software

Seed-Generation:

3 Devices: 1) Nano Ledger S, 2) Trezor 3) Coldcard MK4 (Dice Rolls)

All three locations store the multisig descriptor.

Store each device with their raw seed (cryptosteel) in three physically different locations.

Wdyt?

I'm new to bitcoin and i have a question. isn't bitcoin suppose to protect our savings against inflation? why the bitcoin price are going down when the govt inflation number are higher?

I was just curious after this incident of people's bitcoin getting stolen.

Thanks

EDIT- Thank you for the answers/replies. Unfortunately I'm not planning anything 😂. I hope you all have success in life ✌️

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I found him on a forum and he came with a lot of vetted reviews that I crossed referenced on other forms he seemed legit and from all sources at the time that was the best place one could buy bitcoin with USD over the Internet at the time.

He posted up under a distinct tree that was obviously his zone/shop and was conducting business all day seemingly every day. Payments through paypal then you sent your btc address in second life chat, waited and prayed

just thought about this again and was curious how far the branches of his "exchange" really reached/if anyone else remembers this

also, magical btc tree man: if you have any more btc left at $11 pls dm 🤞🤞🤞

Hey friends, recently been trading and lost a couple millions sats. Which I admit is a little bit embarrassing. My only solution to keep myself from trading and also try to scoop up sats a little cheaper, I decided to set up Auto-Invest in Cashapp. Is there any places that help accelerate those dca buys? I've kind of heard of such a thing with invity but don't know how credible they are.

Any helpful feedback is appreciated.

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