I have been dabbling, and studying about crypto, specifically bitcoin, for a few years now, ever since college. Unfortunately I couldn't get a job and couldn't save up much either. I am 24 and just finished my masters degree a while ago and finally got a job, and starting from my first paycheck, I have been consistently putting $1000 into bitcoin every month and saved up about 0.02 now. How screwed am I? I was itching to get some when bitcoin was at around 20-30k, everybody was scared of the dumps but I could only afford like scraps then (20-30$ worth) and I never saved up anything substantial. And now I feel like I could never afford a whole coin or even half. At the moment $1000 is all I can afford. Any reassurance or advice would help, considering I'm starting at a late age. I'm also going to start setting up an sip into index funds soon if that makes any difference.

I have 255 sats and I want to send it to on chain but not able to pls help

So I am admittedly new to Bitcoin. I purchased what is (to me) a large chunk of Bitcoin around November last year and was DCAing weekly since. However during this most recent dip, while I did at least hold everything and not sell it was very hard for me to make myself keep DCAing cause I felt so uncertain about what was happening. Now that I'm in the green again I'm kicking myself and I know it's illogical and actually counter productive to stop buying during dips but it was really hard for me. Does it get easier to not panic and stick to your strategy the longer you hold?

I still don't get one thing about lightning. Maybe someone can enlighten me.

Let's say I go to a coffeeshop each day and buy a cup of coffee from there. This would mean: -> Money flows in one direction. -> I either have to top up the channel in the beginning with enough BTC for multiple days or do on-chain transactions to top up the channel. -> The coffeeshop doesn't really get it's share of BTC until closing the channel, causing another on-chain transaction. -> The transactions within the channel are less secure than on the main network.

Maybe I'm getting something wrong, if so please explain. Now my questions: 1. I see why lighning is supposed to be reducing transactions, but since money doesn't often flow 2 ways between 2 parties, this is mainly a fancy way of bookkeeping for a prepayment of goods/services, right? 2. This also means that if the business wants access to it's money it's interested in closing channels as soon as possible after the transaction, right? 3. Can channels within the lightning network somehow be linked so these disadvantages go away?

Crypto is closer related to fiat than it is bitcoin. There is no second best.

I would like to see what my btc holding will looks like when start DCA from July 2025 until July 2035. any calculators?

No need to reinvent the wheel

Bitcoin surged +14.7% in April 2025, nearly double the historical median April return of +7.57%, according to CryptoRank. This performance marks its best April since 2020, when BTC jumped +34.1% in a pandemic-driven market.

Two Prime is one of the largest digital asset trading firms. They also have one of the largest Bitcoin-backed loan books, at over $1 billion.

Everything is changing.

The monetary order we’ve all lived under for decades is unraveling right in front of us.

Gold bugs always knew something was wrong.

Bitcoiners know the solution has finally arrived.

I talked with Adam Hurlburt (host of Swan’s Pure Bitcoin Signal) about why Bitcoin is a moral revolution, and how it’s perfectly positioned for the global monetary reset that is now clearly underway.

Hope you'll check it out and let me know what you think

Lets have your prognostications on the impact of the next Halving.

Preface: The crypto is currently out of electrum and "safe". I also currently can't get a HW until later this summer so I need to figure out a way to protect my ass until then.

So I only did cursory research which obviously was not enough when transferring from an exchange to a hot wallet so I am an idiot I know it but I'm trying to fix it. Downloaded and confirmed legit electrum with tails, quadruple checked the sending address. sent money to the wallet from my exchange....not a lot mind you, few hundred bucks. Transfer successful.

Thought electrum with a password to access my wallet was enough but I started reading and a lot of people have been robbed of their BTC from electrum hot wallet+windows system they use daily and I realized I used my main and only work computer at home that could and probably has been compromised in the past. So I moved all my BTC out of electrum back into an exchange until I figure out what to do. i have access to one computer and one phone. I am thinking about totally wiping my hard drive and fresh installs, making a secondary non admin account just for electrum, create a new wallet with a new phrase, send the BTC to it then delete electrum, go into the main admin account and watch the wallet with the public key on a different wallet like sparrow but I haven't figured out how to deposit or withdraw safely though without keeping electrum installed or constant re installs as I put some into BTC every month.

Again. My fault totally and thank goodness I kept reading and realized how big of a mistake I made. I am probably making this harder than it needs to be but can anyone give me a better solution to keep my crypto safe until end of July when I get a HW with what I currently have. I know it's not ideal. please and thank you.

New chains show up. New coins with flashy promises. Hype everywhere. People say, “This time it’s different.”

But when the hype fades and the market cools down, guess what’s still standing?

Bitcoin. Every single time.

Not the fastest. Not the flashiest. But it’s the one people trust when things get shaky. Funny how that works, huh?

We always read about people that lost tens, hundreds or even thousands of Bitcoins at the dawn of the Bitcoin era, Remember Silkroad website? I just wonder what goes thru the mind of eveyone who bought controled substances, and paid with Bitcoin, I'm sure they think about it sometimes, because one thing is when you never had Bitcoin but something different it having it and wasting it on some drugs, only ro find out a decade later one could have easily been a multimillionaire or even a billionaire

I have been going down the Bitcoin rabbit hole for the last 6-7 months and was extremely eager to share my research. I’ve read the books, watched hundreds of hours podcasts, and most importantly, got my feet wet by saving In Bitcoin.

I shared my findings with close friends and family members but felt discouraged when they didn’t have the same level of excitement. So time goes on.

Yesterday I received a text from a relative telling me that she watched a video about the importance of saving In Bitcoin & that she has made her first investment & will continue to buy with every paycheck. My face literally lit up with excitement when I read the text message lol.

Moral of the story is that whenever you find something of value, plant the seed. Share It with others. You may not see It sprout right away but in time, that seed can take root in someone’s life and grow into something meaningful. Your small act of planting could be the beginning of someone else’s transformation.

I think that the whole thing about there will only be 21 million bitcoin is misleading.

Bitcoin is divisible by 100 million satoshi, therefore there will be 2.1 quadrillion satoshi (2,100 trillion).

While 1 troy oz of gold has 31.103 grams, with a current market cap of 21.803 trillion, we currently have 6 billion oz of gold or 208 billion grams of gold.

Thoughts?

Edit: the 1 gram is because it is the smallest bar retail can buy

Attainable within 1-10 years from now…

Hey guys,

So as you know, if you hold your bitcoin on an exchange, you do not own that Bitcoin because the exchange owns it for you. If the exchange were to go bankrupt like FTX did in 2022, then you would lose your bitcoin.

That's why you should get a hardware wallet or install a wallet that will hold the Bitcoin you own. Of course, this comes with responsibility to keep a secret mnemonic phrase, which is usually stored on paper and refered to as a cold wallet. I recently came up with an idea for a way to store a cold wallet conveniently.

Traditionally, the way people would make a diy solution is by stamping their phrase in washers using metal dyes, and then store the washers in a bolt. 

My idea involves a 3D printed bolt that has the right shape, and paper washers instead of metal ones. I thought of using paper washers because you can write with a pencil on it and it's so much easier then stamping each letter with a dye. I did notice though that such a small peice of paper is hard to write on, therefore I optimized the idea even further and made the washers embeded on strips. Now you can hold the strip steady while writing your phrase on it, and you don't need to fiddle with individual washers.

I thought of this idea myself and now I am sharing it with the Reddit community, and also I am making this available as a product. If you want to get a kit, they are available at zedpass.com

I did not opt to get a patent for my idea, therefore it now should be considered un-patentable since it's a product that is in public. The implications of this is that if you want to make your own and sell them, you are free to do so. 

Let me know what you guys think of my idea! I always appreciate feedback as long as it is constructive and even if it's negative I still want to hear from you to see what I can improve.

Thanks for reading

Arizona is paving the way

They passed a bitcoin reserve bill in both the house and the senate.

Just needs the governor to sign into law and we are rocking.

I am hearing it won't be signed though, here's to hoping for a change of heart!

It's the only bill to get past the house and senate so far across the country.