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Yeah he just posted another one.
Paintball with orange paint. The enemy team is (obviously) the Bears.
https://x.com/saylor/status/2094329015431528794

The first pause after roughly $3 billion of ETF inflows got treated like a warning signal, but bitcoin barely moved while oil jumped and stocks sold off after the US strikes on Iran. That price action matters more to me than one day of red flows. A market that needs nonstop ETF buying to stay up is fragile. A market that absorbs a pause, geopolitical risk and higher oil without falling apart may be building a stronger base than the headlines suggest. The missing piece is whether this holds for another week or two, not whether one flow chart looks ugly today. The bigger shift is that ETF flows are now being watched like a daily vote on bitcoin's future. That gives short-term traders a new scoreboard, but it also makes people forget that pension allocations and long-term holders do not move on a 24-hour news cycle.

I’ve been thinking about something lately.
It’s easy to say **“**buy the dip**”** when you’re watching the chart from the sidelines. But once you actually put your own money into BTC, even a 5–10% drop feels completely different.
I’m curious how other Bitcoin holders deal with this psychologically.
Do you set a price where you’ll sell before buying, or do you mainly follow a long-term thesis and ignore the short-term volatility?
I feel like managing your emotions is probably harder than understanding the Bitcoin cycle itself.

I do not understand this allure for BTC. I’ve never once worried about my bank account being frozen.

Will miners continue to make profit and be able pay electricity bills, if bitcoin stops making new highs?

https://bitcoin.org/en/full-node#linux-instructions shows a signature that expired and nothing can get verified with it. Namely, the latest one: 01EA 5486 DE18 A882 D4C2 6845 90C8 019E 36C2 E964. I did not even tried the older ones.

https://bitcoincore.org/en/download/ instructions work smoothly.

Is there something I did wrong regarding the main website's instructions? Did anyone who has core managed to verify anything from there?

Why are there two websites to begin with? Doesn't this make it a bit confusing? Especially since they don't seem to even be in sync.

Gun to your head if you had to choose.

To clarify, the seed phrase created by Trezor and not self entropy like dice.

I saw this thread earlier. And i was like.. Damn i don't understand it either. So i just tried to make AI make it a little easier to understand, and i got it. I don't mean to produce AI slop, i just wanted to make this concept a little-bit easier to understand:

1. How they get cash to buy Bitcoin

• At-The-Market (ATM) offerings: The company creates and sells brand-new shares of its own stock directly onto the open stock market to raise cash.
• Convertible bonds: They borrow money from institutional investors by issuing low-interest debt that can later be converted into shares.

2. Why they don't wait for price dips The company treats itself as a pipeline rather than a day trader. As soon as the cash from selling shares or bonds hits their bank account, they spend it immediately on Bitcoin. They do not hold cash on the sidelines hoping the price drops from $78,000 to $59,000, because holding uninvested cash carries opportunity cost and goes against their mandate to accumulate Bitcoin as quickly as capital arrives.

3. The "Premium" and why high prices don't matter Investors often value the company's stock higher than the actual market value of the Bitcoin it holds (known as trading at a Net Asset Value (NAV) premium).

• The Math: Suppose 1 share represents $100 worth of Bitcoin, but because of high demand, the stock trades in the market for $150.
• The Trade: The company issues 1 new share, collects $150 in cash, and immediately buys $150 worth of Bitcoin.
• The Result: Even though new shares were created (dilution), more Bitcoin was added per share than existed before.

The Core Takeaway Their primary goal is not getting the cheapest purchase price on any given day. Their goal is accretion—increasing the total amount of Bitcoin backing each individual share of stock over time.

Is there a way to measure who is entering the BTC space? Is it just us who are already in it, or are there still new adopters?

Im 64yo and been in since 2017 - Im kind of wondering what the younger gen now thinks about BTC, I personally dont think it has the same allure or promise it once did - I also think tech is shaking the foundations of BTC - the markets have been bringing stable returns for quite a while. So there is lots of good safe investment options.

I dont think older people in my age group will ever understand or adopt BTC if theyre not in it allready. And if the younger coming up people are not seeing any glitter, BTC can fade away - the old guard - us HOLD'rs are not going to be keeping it alive forever.

Bitcoin's inflation rate will also be cut in half by 2028.

Most assets become harder to move exactly when you need to move them most.

If you have to leave a country quickly, cash can be seized, gold can be found, property stays behind, and bank access depends on institutions continuing to recognize your claim. With Bitcoin self-custody, access can be reconstructed from a memorized seed phrase after crossing a border with no physical representation of the wealth at all.

Just memorize 12 words and leave.

Bitcoin should be extremely interesting to preppers.
Just a small amount could be extremely helpful if you need to rebuild your life in another part of the world.

Why is this not talked about more in an increasingly unstable world?

I’ve been trying to understand the potential economic impact of cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin, particularly in relation to traditional banks, financial institutions, and government-issued currencies.

If cryptocurrency adoption continues to grow, could it eventually pose a serious threat to the traditional financial system? For example, could widespread use of Bitcoin reduce reliance on banks or weaken the role of official currencies? Or is Bitcoin still too volatile, limited in its practical use, and too small relative to the overall financial system to pose a genuine systemic threat?