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.

Today’s sell-off is being described as a leverage flush. That may explain why the move was so fast, but forced selling and genuine demand are two different things.

Liquidations close existing positions. They do not tell us whether new buyers are entering the market. The latest U.S. spot Bitcoin ETF session also showed net outflows, so the immediate question is not simply whether leverage has cleared. It is whether anyone is replacing it with spot demand.

That seems more useful than asking whether Bitcoin will bounce. What data do you think best shows genuine demand returning?

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

I've been attending Peter Thiel's 4-part lecture series in Nashville. Night 3 moved directly from macro-history into operational statecraft and financial architecture.

While he speaks in theological terms, his analysis of international compliance grids touches directly on base-layer neutrality, state capture, and censorship resistance.

Here is the breakdown of his thesis:

1. The velocity bottleneck: Thiel argues that world-historical consolidation no longer happens through individual; charismatic conquest. Human biology and gerontocracy run out of time. To achieve global scale in late modernity, power shifts from aging political figures to non-linear, automated financial and regulatory software.
2. Turnkey totalitarianism and the enclosure net: He traces the rapid construction of an inescapable global compliance apparatus over the last 25 years:

Financial rules: FATCA, FinCEN, SWIFT tracking, the OECD's Common Reporting Standard, and the destruction of banking secrecy creating an automated borderless enforcement grid.

Universal jurisdiction: Bodies like the ICC operating above Westphalian state boundaries to restrict physical mobility via borderless legal warrants.

1. The dual-use paradox: In lecture 1, Thiel suggested decentralized software could act as protective digital katechons. In lecture 3, he concedes the structural flip side: any high-capability data or financial architecture can be inverted at the flip of a switch.

The predictive software, data-fusion platforms, and telemetry systems built to maintain order (acting as a protective katechon) are functionally identical to and instantly convertible into a turnkey compliance grid.

Full breakdown here:

Night 1: https://danielforresternash.substack.com/p/what-night-one-left-out

Night 2: https://danielforresternash.substack.com/p/the-counterfeit-church-and-the-epimethean

Night 3: https://danielforresternash.substack.com/p/the-physics-of-consolidation-velocity

Curious to hear how the sub evaluates his timeline on financial enclosure.

Last week Justin Drake's "bunker mode" post told big holders to move coins to addresses that have never signed anything. Whatever you think of his timeline, the advice is old: Satoshi told people to use addresses only once back in 2009, and the whitepaper says the same.

Tuesday we posted which wallets hold the biggest exposed keys (mostly exchange cold wallets). This is the follow-up for everyone else.

The new chapter covers:

• what a reused address gives away (your privacy, and a public key that stays visible for every coin still sitting there)
• why reuse still happens (donation pages, exchange deposit addresses, mining pools)
• the fixes: fresh addresses are free in any modern wallet, and silent payments, payment codes and Lightning handle the cases that need a fixed address
• what to do if you've already reused, without panicking

https://www.learnbitcoin.com/rabbit-hole/address-reuse

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 🗿)

Trying to follow more people that called the current bottom we have, so far I only have

Ansem(memecoin kol) and crypto currently( youtuber) is there anyone else and what is there general sentiment.

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.

On my podcast ‘Bitcoin for Millennials’ I talked with Leon Wankum, a real estate developer and author of Digital Real Estate: How Bitcoin Is Changing Real Estate Development and Investing.

We discuss Bitcoin as digital real estate, real estate’s monetary premium and demonetization, Bitcoin as collateral and balance sheet capital, institutional adoption via ETFs and preferred products, and time preference shifts leading to Bitcoin urbanism.

I used the local trader on mycelium wallet. I swapped them for cash. Face to face.

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?

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.

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.

The lightning network is a second-layer solution on top of the Bitcoin blockchain that enables quick, cheap and scalable Bitcoin payments.

Here is the place to discuss and learn more about lightning!

Ask your questions about lightning

Provide reviews, feedback, comparisons of LN apps, services, websites etc

Learn about new LN features, development, apps

Link to good quality resources (articles, wikis etc)

Resources:

• Here is an awesome list of resources: https://bitcoinfo.org/lightning.html

• Want to test out your lightning fire power? tip the Bitcoin devs! https://bitcoindevlist.com/

• Previous threads: Search

• Lnbook getting closer towards being finished and can already be seen at: https://github.com/lnbook/lnbook

• Lightning Dedicated YouTube Channel: https://youtube.com/renepickhardt

• Also there is the playlist by chaincode labs: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLpLH33TRghT17_U3as2P3vHfAGL8pSOOY

• Lightning stores: https://www.lightningnetworkstores.com/

• Learn more and talk about lightning right here in r/Bitcoin, r/bitcoinbeginners and r/thelightningnetwork

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 ✌️

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/

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 🤞🤞🤞

Im very newbie in bitcoin, i just buy some sats every week for the last year, i buy from binance and send it to a blue wallet when it stacks.

Dont know really too much about safety and privacy, but the latest update on blue wallet app has a button to buy cripto straight from the wallet, it requires an google or apple account to do it, how safe and private is to put an email on a blue wallet ? Should i do it instead from buying from binance ?

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.