You exchange time for money, yet the cartel inflates it out until the exchanged time is devalued infinitely, and in the long term that received paper money does not reflect real world prices, reducing the value of your limited time resource.

Which way modern man?

Props to Steak and Shake going all in on Bitcoin.

Btc is a bitch

I bought $50 worth of Bitcoin last week. I am now checking the charts every 3 minutes, reading macroeconomics news, and analyzing Jerome Powell's facial expressions.

If it drops by $2, I panic. If it goes up by $5, I start looking at Lamborghini dealerships online.

Is this what being a whale feels like? 🐋📉📈

I've been larning about bitcoin recently and some of the concepts were confusing at fast

for those who've been learning about it for a while what explanation or idea helped bitcoin finally click for you

I'd love to hear your experience.

I hope he/she/they go die in buddest ways, took my children's life away, like fuck you you dog shit cunt !

I thought I'd share my journey and thoughts. I was into bitcoin relatively early (2012) and was fortunate enough to have been a hodler into the 2017 rally and exited at the top. I've been lucky enough to make good investments from bitcoin into real estate and some startups and stocks.

Life almost 10 years later has been comfortable and all but a dream. Reconstructing what brought me here, I think it would be harder now than before despite it "looking" more attainable.

Cryptocurrency which is more popular than ever now has become this dragon investor's chase. Away from the milieu of scams and scammers, earnest investors are hoping for the next big rally but I don't see anyone really planning beyond their imagined gains in personal and public interactions.

As a true believer in the concept of Bitcoin I never sold even after the first few rallies to $1,000 even though I was up almost 80x when that first happened. I regularly bought the dips on occasion up until 2015, because I had conviction in blockchain and bitcoin, not because I just wanted to get rich. Getting rich was the consequence of the conviction.

I was a paper millionaire and still going to work in 2016.

When I sold the majority of my bitcoin, I still went to work. I didn't make any major lifestyle changes and instead did research on real estate, taxes, stocks and where to invest fiat. When I did quit a few months later it was non-climatic.

I held my stance and stayed away from the ICOs and exchange explosion and just kept watching from the distance. I wasn't tempted by any of it because I already made a plan in my last months at work and chose to stick to it. I'm certain that saved me because some of my friends who were also believers lost it all in the ruckus by chasing the dragon and thinking they'd go from millionaire to billionaire in the same way. Sometimes, most times, it just happens once and it's best to call it luck and get out. So make a plan for the one time and stick to it.

hey so i just bought my first sum of bitcoin, can yall help me on what i should do?

Around 10–11 months ago, I gave a friend approximately $3,600 to invest in Bitcoin when it was at $86K.

Ever since, whenever I’ve asked for my money back, he’s made excuses, saying Bitcoin crashed and he couldn’t return it.

Now that Bitcoin is back around $86K, I asked him again. This is what he told me:

I used Bybit. And it’s not as simple as just waiting for Bitcoin to stay above $86K. Since the money has been stuck for so long, the app keeps charging fees and adding them up. If I withdraw the money now, those fees will be deducted from the original $3,600, so I won’t be able to return the full amount. That’s why I want Bitcoin to stay above $86K for a few days or a week, so I can recover those fees and return the full $3,600.”

I’m genuinely very concerned. I don’t know much about crypto, and I don’t understand how any of this works. Does Bybit actually charge ongoing fees for holding Bitcoin? Does his explanation make any sense, or is he just making excuses to keep my money?

I’m starting to worry that he’s taking advantage of me because I’m a girl and assumes I don’t know any better.

Please, if anyone has experience with Bybit or crypto, I’d really appreciate your advice. I’m genuinely worried about losing my money. this is all i have!!

I made a little browser game inspired by Bitcoin where every move is just heads or tails.
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There's a high score board for peak wealth, longest win streak, and longest loss streak. Post your best run below, I'm curious how far people get. Feedback very welcome!

Recommended reading: "A History of Central Banking and the Enslavement of Mankind" by Stephen Mitford Goodson

A guide aimed to reach beginner investors & people who are new to the crypto space.

In May 2021 China banned bitcoin mining nationally. This reduced Chinas hash rate to the Bitcoin network from approximately 46% down to around 12% today. China is one of the most surveilled countries in the world. So how can still 12 % hashrate come from China. My theory is that it is actually the government accumulating bitcoin themselves though mining. They know what bitcoin is, and cannot risk standing on the sideline if bitcoin continues to grow and take play a bigger role. But if they openly say they buy or mine bitcoin, then it would contribute to bitcoins growth and globalization. Thats why I suspect they use cheap excess energy to mine. Its basicly free money, and insuranse. Thougts on this?

And enjoy the ride

Even though it is not a 100% certain yet, the Netherlands is likely gonna tax unrealized gains for crypto, not stocks though.

I have all my btc on a cold wallet, and i will be forced to sell as it can turn ugly real quick, i just bought a house and a sudden rise to new highs followed by a quick drop, would turn my financial situation in a nightmare, lets say i have 1 btc, and it goes from 100k to 200k, i would have to pay 36 k in taxes even though i didn't sell, now lets say btc goes from 200k back to 80 k, i still need to pay those 36 k in taxes.

Right now with my mortgage i can't risk it, i want to know what you guys think, i just want to hodl and forget, so this situation just removed all the fun from crypto for me, it was basically dca and forget.

Maby i wanna buy btc on the stock market, that isn't taxed on paper gains weirdly enough, same idea but taxed differently.

I have btc on my cold wallet because i liked the idea of it being mine, buying a stock that follows btc price doesn't feel right.

Any ideas?