Should I hold for the long run? Or sell in x amount of time?

I think the Bitcoin narrative should switch from "you are going to be rich" to "you may be more free".
Even if all the countries in the world would ban Bitcoin it would mean nothing, because the network it's going to work anyway. It's not a thing you can choose to ban in one day.

The extreme scenario is that every state would coordinate an operation to steal all the Bitcoin nodes in the world, even the small ones inside the houses of ordinary people. But how possible is this to happen?

As long as the world is going in the "right" direction (prosperity, cooperation, innovation), is fair to say the price should remain low. And now a question: could the increase of Bitcoin price show how much people put trust in the governments? Could the price of Bitcoin indicate the median "value" of the freedom in the world? (higher value/price = high chance we are going toward a dictatorship regime).

Hi there,
I put btc into my bitcoin wallet address but I think I did things out of order on bitflyer.
How can I move my bitcoin from the wallet address to a strike or Cash App account?

If there were a data leak from your exchange, or if the tax filings your government requires got exposed, would you still feel safe?

What if Bitcoin’s bull market never died? It just got delayed. After digging through the data, I think I found the real reason Bitcoin has underperformed this year, and it has less to do with Bitcoin than most people realize. In this video, I break down what postponed Bitcoin's bull market, the signs I’m watching for a rotation back into Bitcoin, and why I think the next move could happen faster than most expect.

I went to buy bitcoin today, like I always do once a month and found out my state banned them. I always took cash and bought bitcoin. What options do I have now that dont involve using a credit card/bank card ? Can you buy bitcoin with a gift card/vanilla card ?

Edit: I do not want to link my credit card/debit card or my bank to bitcoin. This is what I am trying to avoid.

I am going to use Coinbase and purchase bitcoin with vanilla card. Seems to be the easiest.

2025 marked the first time in over 50 years that the U.S. experienced net-negative migration—or at least a near-zero drop. That alone is a macro shock. But it’s showing up in an odd place: crypto narratives.abcnews+2

A lot of commentators now act as if influencers must straddle two worlds: the old 4-year crypto cycle and whatever new cycle is forming around AI, compute, and agent-driven internet activity.

Take Charles Hoskinson’s forecasts:

• By 2029, a $50B/year market for confidential compute, with ~75% of AI inference running in trusted execution environments.
• By 2035, most searches, commerce, and online activity driven by AI agents, not humans. Humans end up in a “human internet” zoo while the “real” economy runs agent-to-agent on the global internet.

Those are strong claims about compute becoming the scarce, valuable asset. And yet, we’re also seeing a historic contraction in net migration—something that should, in theory, reshape labor, consumption, and tech adoption.finance-commerce+2

From a social-science lens, that tension is awkward. Psychology usually models behavior with bidirectional strategies (stimulus ↔ response, belief ↔ action), not a clean triarchy of “migration–compute–crypto.” There’s no obvious law of conditioning that says Hoskinson’s math should map neatly onto net migration trends. If anything, the “conditioning” for his followers already ran its course; now it’s more about status, narrative control, and who gets to keep commentating while Trump dominates the immigration/“job board” narrative.

My working theory:

• Compute became exclusive through cryptocurrency (mining, GPUs, data centers, tokenized access).
• That exclusivity started affecting offline behavior—hiring, migration choices, even which metros grow or shrink.whitehouse+1
• People who arrived “late” to Bitcoin still caught up if they had access to compute. In that sense, buying compute may matter more than timing your coin entry.
• A lot of shitcoins might actually work against the long-term compute economy by fragmenting capital and attention.

That doesn’t fully explain the loss in net migration. But it raises a question: if there were enough compute (and data) to model it properly, would we see a clearer link between crypto/compute dynamics and migration flows—or is this just a convenient narrative overlay on a policy-driven shock?

I’d rather not make money on shitcoins. There are legitimate people who came to Bitcoin late but leveraged compute to catch up. Maybe the real trade isn’t “which coin,” but “who owns the compute.”

Had a reflection while I was printing some statements for tax purposes, that I was doing the exact opposite of what Bitcoin stands for. So what do you think of the future?

Do you HODL expecting to eventually sell at a profit, or do you believe that in the future it will be used as a relevant currency?

Time for a wallet upgrade. What are you’re thoughts on Passport Prime?

These lads bought at $113k, kept selling at lower prices, ready to sell the rest. Feels like Bogdanoff about to get the call.

Bitcoin buyers appear to be absorbing sell pressure more effectively around the $65,000 area, according to analysis tied to exchange flow data. The signal comes after Binance posted its largest single-day net outflow in nearly two years, with more BTC leaving the platform than entering. Onchain analytics firm CryptoQuant highlighted that Binance withdrawals have recently been running ahead of deposits—an environment traders often watch for because it can indicate reduced immediate supply on the exchange order book. Still, analysts caution that exchange outflows alone do not confirm a fresh, sustainable uptrend. Key takeaways CryptoQuant data shows Binance daily netflows have oscillated

When I first explored crypto wallets, I thought every wallet app created a completely separate account.Later I learned that what really matters is the recovery phrase.Different wallet apps can access the same wallet as long as they're compatible and you have the correct recovery phrase.That small realization made the whole idea of self-custody much easier to understand.

Was there any beginner misconception that took you a while to figure out?

Sharing this month's work, leading with the Bitcoin Core part since that's the most relevant here.

Bitcoin Core mining over IPC

Bitcoin Core's multiprocess build exposes a mining interface over Cap'n Proto IPC. mkpool now has an optional path that uses it instead of polling getblocktemplate over JSON-RPC:

• Templates come straight from the node's Mining interface (createNewBlock / waitNext), so a new template arrives as soon as the node has one, with no GBT poll loop.
• Solved blocks go back through submitSolution, and I keep the classic submitblock path as a redundant, bounded fallback so a found block is never lost.

Lower template latency and a cleaner block-submit path than scraping JSON-RPC, and it lines up with where Core's mining interface is heading. This combined with Stratum V2 gives you the fastest possible low latency way to mine Bitcoin. You can try it out today on mkpool.

Also shipped this month

• Bidirectional Stratum V2 <-> V1 translator: point a Noise-encrypted SV2 ASIC like a Bitaxe at any plain V1 pool, or point plain V1 rigs at an SV2-only pool. Tested end to end on a real Bitaxe over Noise.
• Scale-out roles (proxy / redirector / passthrough / clustering node) for multi-region and HA setups.

It stays genuinely solo: your payout address is your username, the coinbase is rebuilt per session, and a found block pays straight to your wallet. No pool custody.

Public pool: https://mkpool.com/

Repo (GPLv3): https://github.com/Mecanik/mkpool

Benchmark writeup: https://mkpool.com/blog/mkpool-vs-ckpool-benchmark

Happy to answer technical questions, especially on the IPC side. Not selling anything; the engine is open source.

I always assumed: as long as people continuously buy and hold bitcoin, it will go up because there will be more dollars bidding for less and less bitcoin.

That’s the theory… but in practice….. there are many people out there with 4,000 btc for example. This 4,000 btc wallet can get away with selling 1 bitcoin per year for 4,000 years. That’s generations and generations of the family.

The 4,000 btc guy’s sell pressure every year may always outpace the forever hodler’s buy pressure for an extended period of time….. next thing you know, btc is the same price it was 5-6 years ago, and now it’s just that the coins have swapped hands, and the new hodler is hoping future people buy to increase the value of what he bought….

My point: the existing whales have so much btc that they can dump for years and years and the hodlers will believe it will go up and continue to buy the sales…. But then 5,10 or HUNDREDS of years go by and it’s the same exact price….

I understand that: once you sell, you no longer have influence on the market and you will have to buy back in, but dude: these whales have 4k bitcoin, they can spend that for thousands of years. They don’t care about the long game like the plebs. They have enough bitcoin that it doesn’t matter what they do, they can spend forever.

We can spend our entire lives soaking up the whale sales and not see price go up because whale sales outpace pleb buys…

Passed by the State Duma yesterday (July 21). Not a rumor, not someone's translation of a Telegram post, the actual bill. Here's what's in it:

• New licensing registry for exchanges, custodians, and brokers. Existing platforms get roughly a year to register.
• Retail investors can buy the most liquid crypto assets (bitcoin is the obvious flagship candidate, the report doesn't name the full list) through a registered intermediary, after passing a knowledge test.
• Cap for retail: 300,000 rubles (~$3,900) per year, per intermediary.
• Qualified investors also have to pass a test, but face no purchase cap. Prior trading history can count toward qualifying.
• Owning ≠ spending. This bill legalizes buying and holding bitcoin, it does not legalize using it as money. Paying for groceries in bitcoin is still banned domestically, so the ruble keeps its monopoly on everyday transactions.
• Carve-outs: foreign-trade settlement, mined crypto, and some securities transactions are exempt from that ban.
• Banks are required to block transfers to anyone they suspect of running an unregistered exchange.

Timeline: first reading was back in April. Most provisions are set to take effect Sept. 1. It still needs to clear the Federation Council and get signed into law, expected, but not done yet.

The part worth sitting with: a government that's spent years treating bitcoin as a threat to its monetary sovereignty just built a formal, licensed path for its own citizens to buy it. Gated by an exam and a spending cap, but a path. That's the move a state eventually makes once it accepts it can't kill the protocol, it regulates the door instead.

Source: The Block / The Bitcoin Act

I track moves like this across dozens of jurisdictions, if anyone wants the source link or a country-by-country comparison, ask below and I'll drop it.

Genuine question for the sub: does "exam + cap to start, uncapped once you qualify" count as a country actually opening the door to bitcoin, or is it just a more polite capital control? Where's the line for you?

Hello im trying to buy btc trough binance but the app says they are nit avilable methods for me? Why is that i always buy 200 dollar everymonth being doing this 4 years and now i cant buy anymore

And they went ape shit when the price dips.

https://btc.rottenwheel.com/

- Repository: https://github.com/rottenwheel/bitcoin-only-hugo

Upstream repository is in Vue/Nuxt, it's been ported from that, to hugo and it's live in my btc subdomain.

Upstream: https://github.com/bitcoin-only/bitcoin-only

Add, modify, or remove anything on bitcoin-only? Please open an issue.

* https://x.com/rottenwheel1/status/2079639316771324104

* https://xcancel.com/rottenwheel1/status/2079639316771324104

* https://stacker.news/items/1529736

The Matrix is a system Neo, and that system, is our enemy...

I just bought bitcoin and put it into a cold wallet, after so many years of thinking it's a Ponzi scheme or whatever, but I understand it now, it's not a quick get rich scheme, it's not about being rich, I've chosen the red pill.

I'm a proud bitcoin holder.