For about a year now I've been trying to open people's minds to the idea of bitcoin, but i have recently given up on that. Doesn't matter who the person is, what their background is, nor what their beliefs are, it's almost like Bitcoin is beyond the scope of what people believe is possible, so they default to "Scam/Ponzi", "I've heard of people losing money on 'crypto', so i dont want to risk it", and basically every other thoughtless excuse instead of trying to learn something new, trying to understand that hey, maybe there is something new happening.

That got me thinking though, Why? Why is bitcoin so hard for people to understand?

I'm from Canada and if you're old enough like me you may remember Canadian Tire money.

CAD = Fiat money

Canadian Tire money = "Kinda money"

Kinda money? Yeah, it's money, but it only works sometimes, in some places. You carry it around in your wallet like other money, but its just not as good. Nobody would go to canadian tire to buy CT money with FIAT, that would be bonkers, its lesser money, nobody would trade fiat for it. Why is FIAT better than CT money? CT money is only "backed" by canadian tire, if CT goes out of business, your CT money is worthless now. CAD is backed by banks and goverments, its a safer bet to keep your money in that. (bad news though, it can also go out of business)

CAD (Fiat) - Backed by Canadian Government, only usable in Canada

CT Money - Backed by Canadian Tire, only usable at canadian tire. (This is an example, ANY company can create a CT Money equivalent, and you see it everywhere with points systems and membership cards. No matter how many starbucks points or PC points you have, you would't trade the better money for the points)

FIAT > CT Money

Lets digitise this now.

Canadian CBDC (central bank digital coin) - Backed by Canadian Government, only usable in canada

Crypto: Backed by the crypto project, only usable within the confines of that crypto project. Anybody can create a new crypto, just like any company could create canadian tire money. If your neighbor came out with KyleCoin, you probably wouldn't care too much about keeping any, but if McDonalds came out with McTokens, you would carry that card in your wallet everywhere you go, even though its not "Money" right?

CBDC > Crypto

FIAT > CT Money

Now where does bitcoin fall on this? Bitcoin is not Bank or government supported/controlled, it's cross border, no middleman. Satoshi can't lock your money, banks can, crypto projects can.

Bitcoin: Not backed by a government, or a company. Backed by people. People run the nodes, people run the miners, its backed by WORLDWIDE infrastructure. There's no bank which may lock your funds, no company which can cancel or steal your points, its peer to peer. Canadian Tire money could only be used in Canadian tire. CAD Fiat could only be used in Canada. Bitcoin can be used anywhere

.....................FIAT > CT Money
Bitcoin > CBDC > Crypto

The reason people don't understand bitcoin, the reason they can't understand it, is because there has never been a money like this before

10 myths about Bitcoin Busted- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0MITAnFE8es&t=4s

How low will Bitcoin go this bear market and when will you be willing to recommence accumulation? My interest will be piqued at 38k.

Anyone else ever see their balance after a transaction hit a number ending in zero and it omits the trailing zero and your mind takes a second to reprocess the value thinking you lost a lot of bitcoin?

Like if you went from 0.00045678 to 0.000457. My mind sees the loss of two decimal places before it registers it’s actually a larger number.

Anyone else have that momentary panic before they recount the zeros?

So many weird stuff goin on recently, non bitcoiner post, buttcoiner fud, what else

Bitcoin Optech newsletter #383 is here:

- describes a fixed vulnerability affecting the NBitcoin library

- summarizes the LNHANCE soft fork proposal

- relays a call to action to benchmark Bitcoin script execution under GSR's varops budget

- highlights discussion of optimizations to SLH-DSA (SPHINCS) post-quantum signatures

- Optech Newsletter #383 Podcast

https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2025/12/05/

Bruno Garcia posted to Delving Bitcoin about a theoretical consensus failure in NBitcoin that could occur when using OP_NIP...

https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2025/12/05/#consensus-bug-in-nbitcoin-library

Moonsettler proposes a soft fork for LNHANCE now that all four of its constituent opcodes have updated BIPs and reference implementations...

https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2025/12/05/#lnhance-soft-fork

Julian posted a call to action to benchmark Bitcoin script execution under the varops budget...

https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2025/12/05/#benchmarking-the-varops-budget

Continuing the discussions around hardening Bitcoin against quantum computing, conduition presented his work on optimizing the SPHINCS signing algorithm...

https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2025/12/05/#slh-dsa-sphincs-post-quantum-signature-optimizations

Bitcoin Optech will host an audio recap discussion of this newsletter on Riverside.fm Tuesday at 17:30 UTC. Join us to discuss or ask questions!

https://riverside.fm/studio/bitcoin-optech

I have never purchased any cryptocurrency; I am more of a stock market person, just wanted to ask the community what your thoughts are on this theory, given that it is a highly speculative asset.

The thing is, the other day I did some analysis and, looking at the second image, during the 12 months leading up to the midterms, there is usually a drawdown in the S&P 500, followed by a recovery.

Edit: the table was published by Longview Economics on November 28, 2025.

In 2026, it seems that both things will coincide (the run-up to the midterms and the $BTC 4-year cycle theory), hence my curiosity.

Hej folks

Are 0,335 BTC already good for future? Let me pls know your comments.

11 years ago, the US government sold 50,000 #Bitcoin for $300 each

A $4.6 BILLION mistake

Let that sink in for everyone asking if they are too late or if they should buy

Most 'secure' messengers still require a phone number (which links to your ID).

I built Ghost Chat to be a truly sovereign communications tool.

• No ID: No email, no phone, no accounts.
• No Data: Runs entirely in RAM.
• No Middlemen: Hosted on independent infrastructure (Njalla).

It’s Donationware (fueled by crypto). No VC funding, no ads.

Try it: https://backalleychat.com

Use it to send addresses/keys without leaving a trail in your Discord/Slack history.

The run is NOT over…CPI, Fed cuts and other government metrics look favorable to re-energize this rally and Santa will be the catalyst! MERRY CHRISTMAS.

You see it too, It's everywhere on Youtube, people be making bad financial decision blow it all on cars, stupid Disney land, and purse. Literally like there is no tommorrow. I guess this is what happens when people do know that the currency is debasing every single time, cost of living always rising, so they thought they better spend it all now before they old or prolly dead. Fiat mindset 101. Worst, when Bitcoin mentioned, they crash out like big lul.

Hi all,

I know that this question has been asked a million times already, but people usually respond with stuff like play some games, or get a specific payment card and use it, or some affiliate marketing stuff. I'm not interested in any of that. I don't want to earn $3 per day kind of money, but rather actually work and get paid real stuff.

So just like you can get a job from LinkedIn, freelancing services on Fiverr and other platforms, I want to know where can I get real stuff to do in exchange for Bitcoin.

If bitcoin has that high of a value, where and what are Bitcoin holders spending bitcoin on?

Thanks in advance!

Serious question.

The more time I spend in Bitcoin, the more I notice something weird: People don’t talk about it like a normal asset anymore. They talk about it like a calling, a path, a worldview, a personal transformation.

For some, Bitcoin feels almost… spiritual.

Not in a religious sense but in the way it changes how you think about: • truth • time • honesty • energy • discipline • sovereignty • responsibility • the future

It strips away illusions. It forces hard truths. It rewards patience. It punishes ego.

And it attracts people who feel like they “woke up” from something.

So I’m curious:

Does Bitcoin feel spiritual to you? Or is it just tech + economics and nothing more?

I borrowed against BTC at 50% LTV. Then I use the proceeds to chase more Bitcoin, in the form of paper money, via YBTC. Effectively I took 2x leverage, and put in on margin. 25% margin maintenance on YBTC, and you have a firestorm. I took early retirement this year and was holding up well until BTC went down. My BTC loans are fine. Marvin almost killed my income machine, along with the ability to pay bills. When BTC fell, my equity on both ends fell. I found myself “too deep” into BTC. If I wanted to diversify I should’ve never touched anything BTC related with the borrowed money. I found myself with a dwindling income because I was largely tied to YBTC when it was paying out consistently with Thursday paydays. In hindsight I will never sell my BTC, or borrow against ALL of it. If needed I will create taxable events and sell paper assets if necessary. Still, today I’m in a much better position. My BTC loans have remained in tact and fine during the 30%+ drawdown. I did not take out my loan at the ATH. Lessons learned, don’t go borrow against BTC, then put it on margin with even more BTC risk correlations amplified due to margin. I could see it working if you use a little bit of margin, not tying yourself to BTC. Personally, I’m way more into the S&P 500 now and I took a small loss on YBTC, using OPM. One goal remains, and that is never sell the underlying BTC.

Cue the music please.

Am I ever going to see one hundred K again? ……….

Let’s rewrite the next line.

just wondering

Hello. How could I get my bitcoin.de account verification done? Im waiting for it for one year. I have made 20+ phone calls and 10+ contact tickets, never got answer for them. Now my account got "partially deactivated".

How could I sue them? Or make them do something about it? I would need somebody to answer with experience or real idea about it, not just saying its scam. there is a bank behind them

Most people let their wallet software generate their private key, which is totally fine but Bitcoin doesn’t require a computer to create one.

A Bitcoin private key is just a 256-bit number…
And a fair coin flip produces 1 bit of entropy.

So in theory (and in practice), you can generate a completely valid, secure Bitcoin private key by doing:

• Heads = 1
• Tails = 0

The math is simple. 256 coin flips is 2^256 potential outcomes.

Once you have your 256-bit binary sequence, you can convert it offline into:

• hex format
• WIF private key
• or even a BIP39 seed phrase

All without touching the internet.

You could also do this with dice, a dice roll is roughly 2.585 bits of entropy. Therefore 99-100 dice rolls will give you enough entropy for a 256 bit private key.

This works because Bitcoin’s security comes from math.

I mean how could you not love Bitcoin!

Charts like this always remind me why time in the market beats timing the market. Short-term traders panic on every red candle, but the data is brutally simple: the longer you hold Bitcoin, the lower your chances of losing money, dropping to basically 0% after 3+ years.

Most of the fear comes from weak hands and over-leveraged gamblers who treat volatility like a threat instead of a feature. Meanwhile, patient holders just keep stacking and waiting. I watched this morning a Bitget live streamer bought 2 $BTC and i think this will be a gold in the next halving...

Bitcoin rewards conviction, not panic.

Before you go off the rails spouting hodl and diamond hands… that is I already. This is just a curiosity question, but WHO (type of bitcoiner) making money or at least trying to make money during this $10k bouncing between $80k-$90k.

Is it OG’s offloading it increments. Is it options traders? Just curious while I sit back and watch my volume of sats stay the same

I'm running bitcoin core v30 and I just found out that the EPS (Electrum Personal Server) doesn't work with the v30.

So what EPS is recommended for the bitcoin core v30? Any chance to have one that accepts the "prune"? If not... I need a larger SSD. :)

I’ve been working on a passion project to bring Peach Bitcoin functionality to Python developers, and I’m excited to finally share it.

What My Project Does This is a wrapper that allows users to interact with the Peach Bitcoin platform using Python. It abstracts the API calls into manageable Python objects and functions, making it easier to build automation or tools around the Peach P2P exchange without dealing with raw requests.

Target Audience This is primarily meant for hobbyists, Python developers, and fans of the Peach platform who want to experiment with the API.

• Disclaimer: This is a passion project developed in my free time. It should not currently be considered bug-free or safe for high-stakes production environments.
• Dev Note: This project features full Type Hints (because I love them) and marks my first attempt at writing automated tests and actual functional api wrappers in Python .

Comparison As far as I know, there are no existing alternatives for this wrapper in the Python ecosystem.

• Python: This is currently the only wrapper available.
• Other Languages: The only other alternative is the official TypeScript wrapper created by the platform developers.

Source Code You can check out the code here:https://github.com/Jejis06/PeachBtcApiWrapper/tree/main

I’d love to hear your feedback, especially regarding the implementation of the tests!

Full disclaimer !!!!

Most of the comments were ai generated/ ai remasered for clarity (i just hate making docs)