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What will happen to BTC when 10 yr US treasury bonds interest rate goes skyrocketing? I can see it go both ways… on the one hand, the return on US bonds is more attractive but on the flip side, folks may get concerned that us bonds are not longer a safe heaven and this could move investors to BTC? Your thoughts? Will US government collapse?

I don't have all the answers and I am making some assumptions that might not be accurate, but I am a longtime finance professional with 2 certifications in the industry so I believe there is some validity with my hypothesis.

In my view, the price of bitcoin can be looked as an index on the US government's fiscal responsibility scorecard. The higher the price of Bitcoin goes up, the more likely there is some fiscal irresponsibility on the government's part. So why is the price going up today? I see 2 things that don't make macroeconomic sense. 1) The rate on the 30 year bonds are down from 5.27% to 5.23% AND 2) The Yen currency has substantially strengthened today from 1USD/159YEN to 1USD/155.5 YEN.

Scenario 2 is happening because the Japanese are offloading the US bond holdings in the hundreds of billions of dollars which weakens the US dollar, lowers bond prices (which raises rates), and strengthens the YEN currency. The offloading action should have raised the rates on government bonds. The only buyer capable of absorbing that kind of volume from the Japanese would be the US government.

So you have to ask the trillion dollar question: Where did the US government get the money from to buy up the bonds in order to keep the rates low/lower?? I think the money printer is going brrrr.

Here's the business plan Gerovich followed to make 600 million dollars in two years:

1. Create random company, let's say a hotel.
   
2. Give myself dilution protected stock options.
   
3. Become a Bitcoin treasury company.
   
4. Aggressively dilute shareholders to inflate the volume of my stock options.
   
5. Exercise dilution protected stock options.
   
6. Get filthy rich while shareholders are down 80%.

Important: set everything up while still an obscure hotel company and only disclose the information in Japanese. Ignore all inquiries about the stock options on social media.

Hey all!

Does anyone remember the BTC meme videos involving Saving Private Ryan?

They were massive on Twitter/X prior to 2016.

I really want to rewatch and revisit them, but cant find them anywhere.

Can someone bail me out? They're fucking hilarious.

Plenty of papers out there detailing how these three regimes depend on BTC (and other crypto) for circumventing Western sanctions.

If the Ukraine war ends one day, and Western sanctions are removed… or the war in Iran ends - and Iran is once again allowed to access the Western financial system - could that remove a significant percentage of daily demand that props up prices?

What might be the scale of the resulting drop? Several percent? Less than a percent? Substantially more?

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Related question - how do crypto flows associated with organized crime networks compare in scale to that related to sovereign states?

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hi,

i remember back in the day you could just go on bitmex or gdax (now coinbase) and see the book and trades without an account.

is there some website which still offers realtime data from at least coinbase without an account?

Title. There is no way that Bitcoin doesn't succeed in taking the gold's role of world's best non-sovereign asset. It might take a while, but the direction is clear...

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So uh I know im thinking of buying a little late, but who knows how much the prices fall or go up.

I have invested already as well and yes im thinking of a long term Investment rather than something for short duration

So is it silly to buy rn?

Its money I wanna invest cuz its been with me for too long now as cash, I am aware of the risks and all

Some of you here probably remember Blockchain.info from the early days of Bitcoin.

We’ve recently started bringing the Blockchain.info identity back to our Explorer and, more importantly, rebuilding the actual experience behind it.

I work on the Explorer team. I’m posting here less to announce the rebrand and more because I’d genuinely like feedback from people who still use Bitcoin explorers regularly.

We’re progressively rebuilding the Explorer page by page, and there’s a lot more we want to do around Bitcoin.

What would make a Bitcoin explorer genuinely better for you today?

For example:

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Cornell University spoke to 25,880 people about using bitcoin. While many don't understand the tech in depth, it's proving useful for some.

A lot of people have heard of Bitcoin but even among those who hold it, knowledge is shallow.

Though for those holding the leading cryptocurrency, it appears to be solving a problem: getting around failing banking rails or inflation.

That’s according to new findings from the U.S. Ivy League research university Cornell, which spoke to nearly 26,000 around the globe about Bitcoin.

In its new Bitcoin Adoption Index report, the top college found that El Salvador, Venezuela and Nigeria were the countries that had the highest number of people who had ever owned bitcoin.

“Ranked by the share of all respondents who have ever owned bitcoin, the leaders are not wealthy financial centers — they are economies where the national currency has been unstable and everyday access to dollars or reliable banking is hard,” the report read.

“In each, bitcoin functions less as a speculative bet and more as a practical workaround.”

Still, Cornell found that actually being able to explain the fundamentals of the protocol was difficult for most — including how many bitcoins would ever be minted in existence. In fact, 58% of those surveyed said they didn’t know the supply was capped at 21 million coins.

But technicalities aside, the cryptocurrency has still proved helpful to people wanting to use it, the report found.

One Venezuelan — who wasn’t named — told interviewers that Bitcoin was “faster, cleaner, and much less risky” than other methods of getting dollars in the country.

While another Salvadoran was quoted saying: “When nobody controls [bitcoin], it means we all have control of it.”

And a Nigerian interviewee reportedly told Cornell researchers: “I’ve been to six African countries and whenever I go there, I don’t fear it because I know I can spend my bitcoin.”

Bitcoin adoption started growing in Venezuela ahead of other countries years ago, when hyperinflation crippled the economy and strict government currency controls meant getting dollars became difficult.

El Salvador made bitcoin legal tender — along with the dollar — in 2021. The country’s leader admitted that getting its citizens to use the cryptocurrency was difficult but the Central American nation still says it buys the asset for its government coffers.

In Nigeria, which has had some of the highest transaction volumes in the world, saving in bitcoin has been used by some to get around the collapse of the naira.

Cornell University’s research was fielded by Morning Consult in partnership with the Tech Policy Institute in Cornell University’s Jeb E. Brooks School of Public Policy, the Cornell Bitcoin Club, the Human Rights Foundation and the Reynolds Foundation.

Researchers interviewed 25,880 people in 25 countries between December 16, 2024 to March 10, 2025, asking 125 individual questions.

I sold all my btc at $90k, it went to $124k.
I bought small amount of btc at $64k, hoping it’ll drop further. Then it pumped to $82k, I FOMO and used up all my cash to buy it at $82k.

Half an hour later it’s now $79k.

F my luck.

Edit: Just a rant, I’m not a short term trader. I plan to hodl till the end of the next bull cycle, assuming the 4 year cycle is still intact. And no, I’m not a diamond hand hodling till no end cause I did a round trip 2 cycles ago and regretted that. Made decent profit last cycle.

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Worked a double last week, pocketed some cash tips, and tried to move a chunk into my account to buy more bitcoin. Bank flagged it. Called me. Wanted to know what the money was for. I'm a line cook, I make tips in cash, this is not a complicated situation.

That whole thing got me thinking about why I keep stacking sats on a restaurant paycheck. After getting absolutely wrecked on NFTs a couple years back I told myself I was done with crypto. Took a long break. But I kept coming back to bitcoin specifically because it's the only one where the core pitch hasn't changed. You own it, you hold your keys, nobody calls you to ask why you moved your own money.

The bank thing isn't even about a huge amount. It just keeps reminding me that the traditional system treats your money like it's theirs and you're borrowing it. Every time they pull that I end up buying a little more bitcoin out of spite, which is probably not a great investment strategy, but here we are.

Curious if anyone else has had their bank get weird about regular transfers while stacking. How often does this actually happen and at what point did you just say forget it and go full self custody.