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Bitcoin / Tether USD Sep 4 2024 55000.00 Call
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You don't (yet) have the psychology to invest massively... Set up a DCA... even €10 per week. If you are worried, monitor the price and make trade-offs as you go. But, frankly, what is the risk in doing this?
Final advice: do your own research and try to understand how bitcoin works. Once you understand, you will no longer have any doubt that, in the long or very term, there is no chance that BTC will fall to the thresholds you mention.

I thought that when BTC was $7

Someone actually did this recently.
A BTC whale purchased 10,000 BTC for $1.54 (probably March 2011) each and sold it for $1 billion on Oct. 4th 2025.
Also in July (2025), another whale cashed out $8Bln he paid $80,000 for around the same time.
There are some of these guys out there.....holding for a crazy TIME.

If you put $100 in Bitcoin in 2010 you would have sold it when it hit $2k. Because that is what most people did. Obviously there are exceptions amd they are the "whales" of today. But most people who were putting $100 early on sold it the first time it jumped to $200/BTC or $2k.

BTC and solana.

I imagine it's blocked because you cannot prove it's yours? That email is just telling you that BTC has increased, it doesn't mean you'll ever see a dime. Why can't you verify yourself? I had to show my drivers license, front and back, awhile ago or I too would be locked out.

If the KOLs are right, then BTC has a problem. The 2025 ATH and average price weren’t anywhere near high enough to counter the halving and the loss of dollar purchasing power. The average came in roughly $11k too low. Keep this up and Bitcoin mining starts looking unsustainable.

Mt. Gox customers received distributions of roughly 15% of the BTC they held on the platform. That will certainly be a large haircut for them however they were forced to HODL 15% of their stack from 2014 until 2024, many of them are probably doing just fine now as it’s definitely worth significantly more than they held in USD terms at the time.

At a certain point I feel like the only way to time the dip is to just buy when you think it feels cheap, whether it be you having money at the time and the price feels like a right price, or whether you feel like inflation is reaching unprecedented levels and if a pound of beef is $12, then BTC is definitely worth more than 7,500 lbs of beef. Another example - if a house in a high cost of living metro area costs $1 million, then a Bitcoin should be bought at all times until BTC reaches $5 million. That’s what I feel personally.

I looked up places in my city to buy stuff with BTC because I was curious how mainstream it was. Its a good litmus test for me. I found not much in terms of coffee shops+clothing stores (I learned places who take Square can sometimes take BTC). However, a ton of weed shops seemed to take it as payment.

> Let's be real. The "Not Your Keys" mantra is a liability for most.
Unfortunately that‘s the reality today, but
> Human Error Risk: One mistake in self-custody = money GONE FOREVER (no recourse). CEXs offer password recovery and customer support.
It does not have to be this way. There are good solutions, but not that many of them. That‘s not a technical problem, that‘s a problem of a lack of need. If there was a huge need, there would be many outstanding solutions to it. That‘s the result of a lack of adoption, not the other way around.
> Safety & Regulation: Post-FTX, regulated CEXs are insured, accountable, and often more trustworthy than your own security skills.
They‘re not safe, you‘re deluding yourself. CEXes folding and the funds vanishing is a routine CEX experience. You just haven‘t ridden trough a real crash/crisis yet to see it happen.
> Toxic Funds Risk (AML Contamination)
This problem would probably not exist with adoption because:
> It has been quaintly said, 'that the reason why money can not be followed is, because it has no ear-mark': but this is not true. The true reason is, upon account of the currency of it: it can not be recovered after it has passed in currency. So, in case of money stolen, the true owner can not recover it, after it has been paid away fairly and honestly upon a valuable and bona fide consideration: but before money has passed in currency, an action may be brought for the money itself.
— [Miller v Race (1758)](http://www.commonlii.org/uk/cases/EngR/1758/8.pdf)
This ruling is a keystone precedent establishing the fungability of money. It recognizes that the value of money lies in its utility, and that this takes precedent over the injury sustained by plaintiff, even when the money in question can undoubtedly be traced to plaintiff.
Eversince this ruling was made, governments have been busy trying to dismantle it, and they have largely succeeded. This is a great tragedy, because it enslaves the cititzens to a monetary system.
Satoshi created Bitcoin for the express purpose of financial autonomy. To remove that power imbalance and restore the true utility of money for everybody.
AML has been applied too fiat far too stringently, and its application to crypto is downright malicious. The only way this could have ever been beaten was by widespread early adoption. It was very clear that if crypto remains a neckbeard niche, then it would be very easy to subject it to the kind of hyper AMLization that we‘re seeing today.
Again the fault lies with those that aborted adoption, and started herding people into custodial solutions. Namely BSCore and BTC. This is why adoption, utility and peer to peer electronic cash matters, and why giving it up was a pact to give up crypto and go back to tradfi.

We almost have the same strategy. But since it was designed to follow trend(strong ang long lived), i moved away from pairs. I focused on Metals, Cash indices, Tesla(surprisingly very very effective here) and Apple and a bit of crypto(BTC and ETH).

I have all of the above but would only recommend BTC in hindsight. It's a wonderful thing

You can’t have BTC in your retirement fund.

Anyways, whole point of post is that institutions are signaling increase interest in BTC and we’ll find out if this is true during the weekday when institutions trade, because they don’t trade on weekends.

Clearly BTC, ETH, BCH, and DOGE.

Yep, I’ve held crypto on exchanges for almost a decade and I’d love to do self custody and have it more secure but there’s so many options and so much jargon that I don’t even know where to start. Hell I don’t even have my own bitcoin address and right now I’m only holding BTC.

I know no one will listen but you can, just don’t buy stupid stuff. I did retire in my 30s,. I think I worked only a few year out of college parlayed my knowledge of semi conductors.
I used to be in this field wrote about AMD probably 8 years ago and was buying that stock at $1.80
https://np.reddit.com/r/AMD_Stock/comments/9v1n6f/amazon_web_services_aws_pricing_amd_vs_intel/e994dka/
4/5 years ago when NVDA was under $30 (split price) I said they really have no peer in this space and it will probably be the biggest company in the world.
https://np.reddit.com/r/wallstreetbets/comments/qw9glx/im_surprised_there_isnt_more_nvda_talk_before/
https://np.reddit.com/r/wallstreetbets/comments/1bw9c8l/goldman_sachs_and_morgan_knowingly_offering_scams/
https://np.reddit.com/r/wallstreetbets/comments/1fcxevz/coreweave_the_scam_that_is_inflating_smci_and/
If I found a decent investment I’d put every bit of spare money I had to it.
DON’T waste your money on consumerism.
Drive an old Toyota 15+ years old but it has everything heated seats, Navi, power everything it probably runs better than new cars and I only pay liability.
Don’t buy stuff, people literally throw out really nice desks, TVs, computers, workout equipment, weights at my college town every end of month and definite end of semester year. I furnished my first place all with free good stuff. Old fridge, old washer/dryer they are way better built than the new ones. Free bikes. I never really buy clothes either and when I do it’s the thrift store.
No subscriptions I buy DVDs for 25 cents and watch over the air or YouTube with adblocker
Nothing in my house furniture wise was bought, it was all free and it’s all really good stuff. All that money I saved in car payments/insurance, clothes furniture, subscriptions I put into AMD, NVDA, BTC etc
I don’t feed these stupid subscriptions, I have a decent Toyota but I like riding my free bikes it’s great exercise and I rarely fill up the car.
I think I only worked a few years ~5 years, the last few I had enough money and I’d show up 1 day a week and being financially independent I pretty much gave them the Office Space FU the 1 day I did work then in my 30s I said time was too valuable to waste working.
It’s possible don’t buy stuff, the less you buy the more you can invest and if it hits. Boom you’re set no more rat race but you need a decent amount invested to make it compound to life changing money.
This isn’t a brag post most people would see my 15+ yo car, my thrift store clothes and think I’m poor but I retired in my 30s and my time is all mine, no one to tell when.where to be, no alarm, I have no idea what day it is sometimes, Monday or Thursday or Saturday is all the same, just travel the world and learn.

Ok play this game from today.
If you bought 1 BTC today. Extrapolate where it would be in 10 years

\*claps\*
Someone should have written "mind your business" on BTC to help with this situation.