The existed of Bitcoin ETF question.
Does the existed of ETFs really necessary? Because some.advisors are advising their follows to buy the real Bitcoin rather than ETF, they said one is paper and the other is the real thing, can't help but think why it existed in the first place.
Today no one is talking about them ETFs.
In my view: if people want to use them, use them, if not, not. For some people they are useful, I tell people to keep their own keys. |
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Ray Dalio says there is only one gold. Are there anyone that have said before that bitcoin is gold? I think some people do not know what it means as bitcoin is the digital gold. No one is saying bitcoin is gold but they are saying bitcoin is a store of value, one of the characteristics seen in gold. The man talked some sense though because he has said in early 2026 that people can buy either bitcoin or gold. So he sees the value in bitcoin also. But I do not like what he said about banks only acquiring gold and that gold is the second asset that banks acquired the most and relate it to bitcoin, that banks are not requiring bitcoin. Banks met gold on earth. In fact people met gold on earth, but bitcoin was just created in 2009 which is less than 2 decades. We have seen United States having laws not to sell their consficated bitcoin. There are many countries that also want to make bitcoin as a reserve asset. It can not just begin within a short period of time. But the fact still remains, which is bitcoin is a store of value. https://www.tipranks.com/news/gold-vs-bitcoin-why-billionaire-ray-dalio-says-there-is-only-one-goldYes, I think that for gold it is probably important to have some numismatic value in addition to the metal value - e.g. a Saint-Gaudens or double eagle vs just an ounce coin. Because unlike for bitcoin, there is always the chance - and it may not be for 50 or 200 years that it is possible- that someone could find an asteroid or other huge deposit of gold which would greatly impact the price. |
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Always keep learning and if your job makes you happy, then keep doing it. If not, find something that does and do that. :-)
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Greetings great and wonderful bitcoinlovers I'm a beginner from diving deep into Bitcoin basics lately, and something's been troubling me after reading about other coins,We all know BNB does those quarterly/auto burns,Binance burns some chunks of tokens regularly based on profits and trading volume, reducing supply over time Ethereum burns some gas fees too, making it deflationary sometimes.But what about Bitcoin? Is there any type of periodic burn mechanism built into BTC? ....Like fees that get destroyed or scheduled burns?
If the US Fed or any central bank prints and extra US$100 billion and then decides to destroy $20 billion of that, it hasn't reduced supply, only reduced the increase in supply. And no, bitcoin doesn't have that. |
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Came across this youtube video titled What Most People Still Don’t Get About 0.1 Bitcoin. It said in the video that Bitcoin doesn’t reward the smartest or the richest. It rewards those who one simple truth. That time always works for the patient. It basically talks about how time is being wasted every time you hesitate to buy bitcoin. It also talked about people who won’t buy bitcoin because it’s too expensive and they can’t afford it when in reality 0.1 Bitcoin is already a significant amount especially in the future when it becomes even more and more scarce. The video also talked about DCA strategy, explained the halving event, the ETFs, inflation of fiat money. If you want to convince someone to buy bitcoin, this might be the best video for it. It has been the same for 16-17 years. Even in 2010 people were lamenting that it was a fraud or too expensive or they were late. Ditto 2011 at dollar parity. |
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everyone still arguing about building from source vs binaries
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Is anyone arguing about it? I've just always built from source, to each his or her own. It is certainly easier to just download a binary but it doesn't take long to build it. :-) |
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It has been happening forever. There is always a huge group who are just involved for a short term gain without (a) being able to think in terms of 5-10-15 years, (b) not doing a lot of research, and (c) (even worse) investing using margin.
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More FUD. The correct response is: "how will the government make sure bitcoin collapses?" |
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Who is Jule Dashjr?
I meant Luke Daskjr, typo corrected. You seem to still have trouble with his name. :-) Anyway, one person's "spam" is someone else's transaction. The issue with defining all non-monetary data as spam (as was proposed on the dev list) is that it eliminates functionality Bitcoin has relied on since inception. Bitcoin was designed from v0.1 as a distributed timestamp server and ordering system, not solely as a payment processor. The genesis block contains non-monetary data, and early Proof-of-Existence uses pre-dated OP_RETURN. Time-locked contracts (nLockTime) have existed since v0.1 and underpin CLTV/CSV-based constructions, including the Lightning Network, DLCs, and off-chain adjudication. Sidechain anchoring and systems like OpenTimestamps depend on Bitcoin’s immutability as a distributed order of events. Protocol upgrades themselves rely on non-monetary signaling via version bits and miner flags. As stated in the whitepaper, the proof-of-work chain is a solution to distributed timestamping and majority decision-making. Monetary transactions depend on this ordering. If all non-monetary data is defined as spam, Bitcoin cannot function as Bitcoin. The opcodes in v0.1 clearly show that it was intended to do more than "Send X from A->B"-and they weren't disabled due to philosophical opposition, but DOS, consensus etc concerns. Please note, this does not imply that bulk data storage belongs on L1, merely that "spam is easy to define as anything non-monetary" isn't as easy as one might think. |
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One of the weirdest crypto theft has just happened with the son of the CEO of CMDSS - a platform that was awarded a contract to assist USMS (Marshals Service) in safeguarding forfeited crypto assets. Few days ago the young son of Dean Daghita named John was insulted or called out as poor in a telegram group by a fellow threat actor named Dritan, in quest to show how rich he is to everyone in the group he made transfers worth more than $40m to a wallet address tied to the $90m+ US forfeited crypto assets managed by his Father. The question which is yet to be unveiled even by the crypto investigator who shared the news ZachXBT remains that nobody knows how the boy got access to the US crypto wallet under his dad's watch. Below is a thread on X about the traces and the recorded chats of the boy being broke shamed by a fellow threat actor, and when he made the transfers. https://x.com/zachxbt/status/2014685263327351116The actual technical question for me is why anyone would assume a government contractor was using anything remotely secure in the first place. people are looking for a complex exploit when the answer is almost certainly just abysmal operational security. We're talking about forfeited assets, which means a messy collection of different tokens that were probably managed through some god-awful manual process. i'm telling you there was no 'hack'. Best case, it was a single Ledger sitting on a desk. Worst case, and what I think is more likely, it was a hot wallet like Exodus on a family computer, with the seed phrase written on a piece of paper in a drawer. the kid probably saw his dad access it a dozen times, so this isn't a failure of cryptography; it's a failure of basic procedure. i'd bet they didn't even have a proper multi-sig configuration because it's 'too complicated' for their workflow. The fact he could just open a wallet and send $40 million to prove a point on Telegram tells you everything. There were no layers of security, just a single point of failure, and that point of failure was a person. I may be wrong, of course. You are probably right and it helps prove the point that most people involved in government activities are not top-notch, but second or third rate people who couldn't hack it (pun intended) elsewhere. |
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I downloaded version 30.2 from Bitcoincore.org to recover a legacy wallet, and once the wallet was restored with the new version, it had 41 Bitcoins.
To spend them, I synchronized the FULL node.
I sent a test transfer of 20.5 to one of my wallets before finishing, but it remained in the mempool with 0 confirmations because the synchronization wasn't complete yet.
I left it finishing, and when I woke up that morning, I saw that the 41 Bitcoins were gone and 15 different transactions had been made to different addresses in the same minute that I sent my first uncompleted transaction.
And mine is canceled (in conflict).
When I checked Blockchain Transactions were done a day before. Different track record in Bitcoin Core and Blockchain.
I hope you can look into what happened.
NOTE: I was not hacked or scammed because I checked all download and laptop before. It was clear and clean.
This probably isn't the spot to ask it, but if you provide more information elsewhere (e.g. transaction IDs etc) someone may be able to explain what happened. |
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Misleading title, he didn't commit suicide because of bitcoin he did that because of his irresponsible behaviour.  I am accumulating bitcoin for almost 2 cycles so if I lose the keys to all of them then it will definitely hurt me financially and can even go broke stage but this isn't the first time for me so I will say I will find a way to come out of this and this isn't the end of the world. Lost money, it can be earned again but lost the life then it is the end. Exactly, nothing is worth taking one's own life over. You can recover from the loss of funds, but not your own life. |
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I will say it again: anyone who thinks that Satoshi hasn't sold bitcoin is naive. Perhaps not from the 2009 era wallets, but he did not stop mining thereafter so there are plenty of "non satoshi linked wallets" that could be used.
And was you point out, why do people fall for nonsense like this?
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The UI is the weakest point in many systems - look at the old MSDOS vs macOS or (now) Windows. Ditto here, the UI should help prevent problems but often it is the cause of them, or at least hides the problem so that by the time one realizes there was an issue it is too late.
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Today, BTC is hovering around $89,900–$90,000 after a wild whipsaw: it fell below $88K, then rebounded.
During the day, ~ $600–625M positions were eliminated — both longs and shorts were about equally divided (a rare case when both sides were burned). It's all because of the macro noise: Trump retaliated against tariffs on Greenland in Davos, risk appetite returned, but volatility is still low (Bollinger Bands are compressed).
Interestingly, ARK Invest in Big Ideas 2026 predicts a $16 trillion BTC market cap by 2030, which is ~$762K per BTC with 21 million supply.
Cathie Wood generally sees a path to $1M, because institutions continue to pour in, and the correction cycle has been mild.
What do you think: is this compression before a big upward move (as in the past), or are we waiting for a dump below $85K due to FOMC/inflation?
I don't think anyone knows for sure, but over time the trend has been clear: people who own bitcoin have done well if they didn't panic, didn't use margin (although there are exceptions), and just kept accumulating. As JPM said about how he could predict the stock market: it will fluctuate. And I'd add "with a long term bias towards growth." |
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HERE’S WHAT’S DRIVING THE CRYPTO SURGE RIGHT NOW:
• Binance added 10,265 BTC
• Coinbase picked up 7,881 BTC
• Wintermute accumulated 4,488 BTC
• Kraken acquired 2,537 BTC
• Large wallets scooped 21,195 BTC
Exchanges, institutions, and big players collectively grabbed over $5B in Bitcoin in a single day.
This kind of synchronized accumulation doesn’t happen by accident.
Something big is clearly unfolding 👀🔥
I guess time will tell, but how did they "add" and "pick up"? Were people moving to the exchanges or what. :-) |
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Use the precompiled binaries after checking the hash
Only using core as a full node, not a wallet anymore.
I have been building from source since 0.3.21 - I always felt more comfortable doing so, and so just am in the habit of doing it. It doesn't take long. |
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The lesson is clear. You don't own centralized stablecoins. You co-own them with the issuer. ...
Use Bitcoin. Everything else is secondary. We don't need any more examples.
Exactly. Almost every cryptocurrency except bitcoin has risks like this. Look at Eth vs classic. And not to inject anything controversial here, but this shows how "filtering" could result in "filtering" transactions - it is the camel's nose under the tent. :-) |
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It is similar to what happened in Cyprus in 2013 with the currency controls, haircut etc. Everyone should hold bitcoin because currency issues happen all too often.
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As it usual, the build from source when smoothly. I can't remember the last time it didn't, thankfully. I am curious how many people follow the instructions below and just download vs building it themselves. :-)
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