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Staking Bitcoin on Coinbase (or any centralized platform) isn’t really “staking” in the traditional sense. BTC doesn’t have a native staking mechanism like PoS chains what they call “staking” is basically you lending your BTC to their internal program, and they pay you a small yield in return

More ad hominem attacks from someone who lost the argument. I couldn't care less what you think of our wonderful pro-crypto President. I'm a BTC and SOL bull, the market and our President has been great to my portfolio. Cry harder.

In 2012, a McDouble cost **\~0.07 to 0.20 BTC** depending on when in the year. Today a McDouble costs about: 0.00004 BTC

Shorting BTC was my biggest trade ever

If you are only wanting to buy and hold BTC or ETH why not use the ETF on a stock exchange. That seems safer than yoloing it with Coinbase.

Wow, simple, basic. From my experience :
**Prioritize the CPU above everything else.** RAM and NVMe storage matter, but not nearly as much.
**What does a backtesting program actually do?**
You load a file containing all your market data and you read it entirely with your program. For example, I have a 6.3-million-line OHLCV file for the year 2024 (BTC data every 5 seconds). That’s about 550 MB. So you’ll need roughly 550 MB of RAM to keep it in memory. Maybe double that depending on how you cache or parse it. What really matters is preventing Windows or macOS from compressing memory; avoiding that saves a lot of time when reading.
32 GB of RAM is already plenty. Also, if you're building a PC for this purpose, I recommend installing **Windows Server** rather than Windows 11.
**The programming language also matters a lot.**
At first, I used PowerShell… scripting, basically. Then I switched to C#. My execution time went from **6 hours in PowerShell to under one second in C#**. The language is extremely important, as are the optimizations you apply in your code.
If you want to run tests in parallel, you need serious processing power. Get a CPU with many cores—maybe even a small server. The more cores you have, the more tasks you can run simultaneously. For example, if you're testing multiple moving-average combinations, generate all your combinations in a list and run them in a parallel foreach.
Example :
List<(int i, int j, int k)> combinations = new List<(int, int, int)>();
for (int i = 60; i <= 900; i = i + 60){
for(int j = 1; j <= 10; j = j + 1){
for (int k = 1; k <= 100; k = k + 1){
combinations.Add((i, j, k));
}
}
}
That’s a lot of testing.
**Avoid using a database.** Just work directly with CSV files on your drive. Pre-compute anything you need, and then run your backtests.
Good luck!

I'm at that point also and don't know the answer. I do follow particularly BTC and if I am honest I think it's topped out wondering if stocks have also. This ai bubble thing is stopping me investing.

今日加密市場呈現中度至高度波動，主流資產如 Bitcoin（BTC）與 Ethereum（ETH）皆出現短期方向不明的情況。雖然部分市場消息造成資金流向快速轉換，但整體成交量相對活躍，提供了充足的流動性以執行對沖操作。The cryptocurrency market experienced moderate to high volatility today, with major assets such as Bitcoin (BTC) and Ethereum (ETH) showing unclear short-term directional trends. Although market news triggered rapid capital flows, overall trading volume remained active, providing sufficient liquidity for executing hedging operations.

Just buy BTC ETF from one of the big providers. As someone who used self custody for few years this is what I'm doing next time around. I don't want to keep anything on CEX, and I also don't want to roleplay as a bank.

Good afternoon!
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The technical difficulties of acquiring Bitcoin, made me miss a 100$ buy into $10/BTC....I know the pain

>**Networks as nations,**
>**For future generations,**
>**Congratulations.**
~Daily haiku until we’re at least at 0.178 on the ETH/BTC ratio or highest market caP

We’ve already seen that happen before - if BTC goes down they just say ’Oh, the recovered funds weren’t enough to make everybody whole.‘ and wash their hands of it. Look at Celsius bankruptcy - wanted to value the Bitcoin at it’s absolute lowest, then at end of bankruptcy give back a fraction in BTC and they turned around and valued it at the higher value BTC had gone up to by then. Then they sued people who had withdrawn within the 3 months before Celsisus went bankrupt - and suddenly wanted to value it in today’s BTC. So, say you had withdrawn 1 BTC, and left 1 BTC. They wanted to keep your 1 BTC, value it at like 20k in dollar terms (not exact numbers here), later give you back like 0.1 BTC but talk about it in dollar terms to make it sound like more of a recovery, then demand you give them the other 1 BTC you withdrew so they can turn around and give you back 0.1 BTC of that too. (because you owe them in BTC in their minds but they owe you only in dollars at time of bankruptcy)
Bankruptcy law is really, really, bad in most countries when it comes to valuing crypto. The wild swings let companies pick and choose their time of declaring bankruptcy to coincide with what they think is the very bottom, then they can come out of bankruptcy when they think it’s at a high and claim everybody was ‘made whole’ while keeping the excess. (And if it keeps going down they just shrug and say oh well, then pay out even less to depositors). Judges seem to go right along with whatever as well - oh you want to value things at time of bankruptcy becaue BTC was lower then? That makes sense. Oh, now you want to value things in terms of BTC for those who withdrew before bankruptcy because now BTC has gone back up? I’m ok with that too.

BTC's 365-day SMA: Bear market indicator with one exception

As long as it's BTC he'll be fine.

10 years ago was right when Blockstream was in the midst of killing BTC.
It’s been nothing but a speculative corpse ever since (which is why the Banking Cartel and their government puppets are backing and hyping it now).
Luckily, the true vision has been moved forward by others (namely BCH, XMR, and possible Zaino).

1) They shore up their reserves when prices are down
2) They connect big sellers to big buyers for a small fee and market impact if the BTC was exchanged in two transactions rather than 1

BTC is such a btch fr

Shorting BTC became my biggest trade ever

Price is insignificant. 1 BTC = 1 BTC.