Very proud of my achievement despite our poverty and lack of public transport. While proper asphalt road is a luxury in many parts of my rural cities, we believe in bitcoin.

After prolonged studies, I finally understood what's the next Bitcoin move gonna be. Nobody is gonna steal our October 🥳🍾

To the moon!!!

Bitcoin (BTC) reclaimed $81,000 on Thursday as reports suggest the Iran war could be over. Reportedly, Donald Trump’s inner circle is advising the president to declare the war officially over, as pressure over midterm elections grows.

Yesterday cashapp deactivated my account and forced me to sell .37 btc at a slight loss, no explanation of why. Funds will now be tied up for a week-ish before I can rebuy elsewhere. You can count on btc punching through +85k for sure.

Edit: I was moving it off quickly as I could, this was a large purchase and bound by limits, I wasn't keeping on cashapp for no reason.

we are fucking back

Here's the rest of the video: https://youtu.be/ShsgkmRJnsA

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.

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...

Link to article: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvgy51xlz39o

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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.