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We love Bitcoin over here, just not the captured and crippled BTC implementation of it.

In addition to Trump pumping his own crypto to line his own pockets and damaging the market’s reputation… A lot of money flowed out of BTC and into prediction markets. I don’t know how this recovers anytime soon

The wallet transfer itself usually isn't the taxable part if you still own both wallets. Spending the BTC is what typically creates the taxable event. It definitely makes record-keeping more complicated if you're making lots of small Lightning purchases.

Right now 1 LTC is worth 0.000727 BTC
The LTC/BTC trading pair would need to do a 27.5x for it to return to the price of 0.02 BTC when Charlie Lee sold everything.

**TL;DR: Puzzle #135 was solved earlier today by someone outside our pool.** We did not find the key. The pool is already repointed to Puzzle #140 and running.
Puzzle #135 was solved earlier today (July 28, 2026). The puzzle address (16RGFo6hjq9ym6Pj7N5H7L1NR1rVPJyw2v) was swept at around 08:20 UTC, and the full 13.5 BTC is gone. Anyone can confirm it on a block explorer: the balance went from 13.5 BTC to dust in a single transaction.
It was not us. Our pool did not find the key. No tame/wild collision surfaced on our side and we recovered nothing. Whoever solved it beat the whole field, and credit to them. We caught it within minutes because our on-chain balance monitor flagged the address emptying.
Thanks to everyone who pointed GPUs at #135. The work was real even if the win was not ours. That is the nature of racing a 135 bit keyspace against everyone at once.
We have already repointed the pool to Puzzle #140:
**Prize:** about 14 BTC (unsolved, public key is exposed)
**Keyspace:** 2^139 up to (2^140 minus 1)
**DP bits:** 28
The pool is live right now. Workers reconnect on their own and start pulling #140 work.
If you were running a client on #135, just leave it running or reconnect and you are on #140. Details and stats at collisionprotocol.com.
Onward, and good hunting.

Meh, if you also think that Reddit has any consequence to the sentiment or movement of BTC then I don't know what to tell you. It did 10 years ago, but today it's a tiny spec in a huge dataset if we're applying OP's logic.
And OP's whole 'banks are sending bots' conspiracy sounds like the worst of Alex Jones. So no, I don't think that what OP wrote has any 'merit', and the only reason I replied to the thread because it reflects the down-hill spiral of actual discourse over the past few years. We can do better, but circle jerking to guys like OP is reaching for the bottom of the barrel.

You’re not necessarily wrong I guess…
But you’re also not considering the vast amount of other legitimate sources that AI can pull from.
Your assumption that reddit bot posts actually can sway public opinion is largely overstated.
You’re also assuming that a significant amount of people use AI to reason whether BTC is worth “investing”
In the grand scheme, the truth will find its way, and the BTC network and its nodes/miners don’t care about what anyone says about it on the internet.

There's no "later" problem because we're already talking about exchanging BTC for fiat.
Still, even if your coins are "tainted", that's only an issue in the context of regulated KYC exchanges. Decentralized P2P, no-KYC platforms don't care about the origin of your coins. If you always trade on no-KYC, you'll never have your trades halted because your coins are "tainted".
"Tainting" is also not binary. Analytics platforms assign a score to coins based on their history. Platforms will establish a threshold above which they trigger SoF audit or outright refuse the transaction. If you're worried about your coins being tainted and absolutely need to deal with a CEX, there are cheap and easy methods to "untaint" your coins.

It's all priced in to fall further. Best way to lose money is to not time BTC, but have time within BTC.

Look, Bitcoin’s next major move may come in 2026 and here is what i mean
Historically, every halving cycle was followed by a new ATH within 12-18 months, and we are entering that same window agai
For instance, daily miner issuance dropped from around 900 BTC to 450 BTC, while ETF demand continues absorbing new supply
Next, loot at the Bitcoin ETFs that have massive institutional demand, dont forget about players like BlackRock, Fidelity, and ARK who became structural buyers
On-chain data also looks strong for me. long-term holder supply is near record highs, exchange reserves are low, and MVRV Z-Score is not showing typical cycle-top signals. The main risk remains macro imo if inflation stays under control and the Fed resumes rate cuts, BTC could benefit, but renewed inflation could trigger a 20-30% correction before another move higher
wdyt?

Great critique. Thanks. Only thoughts are U.S.A. $40 trillion debt and 1.6 trillion deficit. More coming on military modernization spending. If nations see gold as illiquid and BTC as a neutral store of value it could still find its place.
And Ethereum as foundational to hundreds of blockchains with their varying projects.
But the goal of most is reducing costs to drive adoption and liquidity. That will mean lower token value.

No, that has been a thing forever
Since... well: BTC is hard to use safely :)

Hey. CoinRabbit team here. The missing line in this comparison is the downside scenario.
Borrowing $15,000 against $31,747 of BTC means starting near 47% LTV. If all 0.5 BTC is already pledged, adding collateral later only works if there are other assets available. The quoted $480 annual cost is also only 3.2% of the loan, so readers should verify whether that includes every fee and whether the rate can change.
Before borrowing, I’d model BTC going up 30%, staying flat and falling 30%; identify the risk and liquidation levels; and keep a repayment reserve that doesn’t depend on BTC reaching $100K.
We provide crypto-backed loans at CoinRabbit, but we wouldn’t describe them as free upside. They work best when the liquidity need is temporary, the starting LTV is conservative and repayment doesn’t depend on a price prediction. Risk-zone alerts and 24/7 human support then provide additional safeguards rather than replacing that plan.

🚨 WARNING 🚨
Bots are spamming Reddit with fake problems to do with BTC, to create a false sense that BTC, or services related can't be trusted.
These posts are then fed into ai services which use these as examples of why to avoid BTC.
This practice is often paid for and promoted by boomer Legacy banking companies.
Manufactured FUD so to speak.

It's just a way to divert the ponzi scheme and keep it going longer.
One day this will all fall through and Saylor will join Madoff in prison. Why buy MSTR or anything through those shells when you can just buy BTC...and even then it's based on nothing of value, just speculation.
Saylor said he'd hold forever, which means if you don't sell you don't realize a profit...that's the point of investing... Instead he buys when it's at the peak and now is selling when it's at the lowest in quite some time. Genius strategy!

They know that the news has talked endlessly about crypto scams that have lost people a lot of money. Why world they invest the time to learn why BTC would be any different?

My 'portofolio' is doing better than BTC and it's mostly alts and memers...no hate, just a tought.

also be careful with the D-N me thing, that mostly gets you people selling stuff. and switching BTC to NQ resets your sample, different pace and sizing, so you’re not 5 months in on NQ you’re a few weeks in

Don't buy BTC

That's what i kinda expected. BTC devs just expect people to run nodes for fun, like we did in 2012... to prop up their shitty L2. no thanks. I bet this all stems from removing zero confirmation transactions and converting the narrative to "store of value."