Here is a link to a YouTube Video of Martti Malmi (sirius) at a 2014 Bitcoin Conference being interviewed - and being asked what he thinks about Bitcoin.

Turn your volume way up...


 ► https://youtu.be/5i33yqSbUcc

Note the +0100 Time Stamp on his email means the email was sent from a location that is one hour ahead of UTC, from Central Europe Time.

I find this all very interesting and the mysteriousness just adds to the wonderment of it all...

Is Martti Malmi (sirius) still around? He's only 37 years old. When was he heard from last?

That 5,050 BTC is worth about $500 million today with Bitcoin priced at ~$100,000.

I see that Martti Malmi (sirius) communicated often with Satoshi Nakamoto in the 2009 - 2011 time period.

It is said that Satoshi Nakamoto holds an estimated 1.1 million bitcoins. At July, 2025 price of over $100,000 each, Nakamoto's bitcoins were worth over $100 billion.

Rumor is Satoshi Nakamoto has not transferred or sold any of his huge stash...

I read that Satoshi Nakamoto does not live in Japan as some suspect, but most likely he lives in either in the U.S. or Western Europe with Germany a favored pick.    

I presume Satoshi Nakamoto's email @gmx.com suffix was originated likely in Germany.  

Satoshi Nakamoto's email address he used to communicate with Martti Malmi (aka Sirius) ►   https://i.ibb.co/1tqvckhN/Screenshot-2025-07-26-190555.png

I get enjoyment in a lot of different ways, and one way is in the results of good investments...

Nothing planed. No intentions at this time.  At this time I have shares of FBTC ETF, but at some later time I may take BTC.

I won't ever need the Bitcoin related (ETF) assets. It's another asset in the game of wealth accumulation... 

Who here traded Bitcoin back in 2009 for $0.00099 per bitcoin?

The New Liberty Standard Exchange recorded the first exchange of Bitcoin for dollars in late 2009. Users on the BitcoinTalk forum traded 5,050 bitcoins for $5.02 via PayPal, making the first price mediated through an exchange a bargain basement price of $0.00099 per bitcoin. In other words, the price was about one-tenth of one cent.

I do not expect or encourage any member to actually reveal how many Bitcoins they own by answering in writing. That's why I provided a poll which is anonymous. And it's just a total guess of what the average members here own...

Just a guess... Much like guessing the net worth of the people in your office or members in your church, etc.    

I wonder what percentage of Bitcoin [anytime] owners have sold all or a significant portion of their holdings and regret selling it because they've missed out on the increases that have taken place?  

Clearly, early owners that bought pizzas with a handful of Bitcoins enormously regrets 'spending' them, but I strongly suspect there's a devastating number of owners that in the past few years have chosen to take profits and now beat themselves up with overwhelming regret. That common proverb - 'It's never wrong to take profit' is never always correct!    

Then we have Vanguard!

Vanguard, the $10 trillion asset manager has famously refused to touch Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies while its peers have jumped headfirst in the past year.

However, Vanguard is the largest shareholder in MicroStrategy (NASDAQ:MSTR), a firm whose value proposition is that it is the most established Bitcoin proxy in the stock market!

Vanguard owns more than 20 million shares of all of MicroStrategy’s outstanding class A shares, worth over $9 billion.

The disconnect between Vanguard’s professed cryptocurrency stance and its financial holdings primarily comes from its passive index fund strategies through funds like the Vanguard Total Stock Market Index (NASDAQ:VITSX), Vanguard Extended Market Index (NASDAQ:VIEIX) and the Vanguard Growth Index Fund ETF (NYSE:VUG).

But Vanguard also has exposure to MicroStrategy in some of its actively managed funds. Still, the firm maintains that this is not the result of conviction but the fact that those funds are comprised of stocks chosen by mathematical models.

“God has a sense of humor,” Bloomberg Senior ETF analyst Eric Balchunas told Bloomberg. “Vanguard chose this life. When you have an index fund, you have to own all the stocks, for better or worse, and that includes stocks that you may not like or approve of personally.”

What I find amusing as well as somewhat troubling is how Edward Jones Financial Services firm is handling their clients wanting to invest in Bitcoin, either holding it directly or buying shares of a Bitcoin ETF.


Edward Jones has a policy against clients directly purchasing or holding cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin, including through Bitcoin ETFs and other related investment products.

Edward Jones considers cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin to be highly speculative investments due to their price volatility, lack of underlying fundamentals (like company profits or assets), and regulatory uncertainty. Edward Jones doesn't allow clients to purchase or hold cryptocurrencies, futures contracts on cryptocurrencies, or funds (ETFs/ETNs) that directly own cryptocurrencies.

The firm's rationale emphasizes following time-tested investment principles and focuses on investments with established track records and clear valuations. They also express concerns about the potential for illicit activities involving cryptocurrency.


► https://www.edwardjones.com/sites/default/files/acquiadam/2023-07/bitcoin-cryptocurrencies-and-blockchain-ca.pdf

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At my early progress stage of understanding Bitcoin I feel more comfortable owning shares of a Bitcoin ETF instead of owning Bitcoin directly.

I am admittedly at a stage comparable to a child just recently giving up his tricycle to attempt riding a bicycle with training wheels. I fully realize many people here are so advanced in knowledge and experience with Bitcoin that they are well beyond me to the extent they are piloting turbojet aircraft while I'm still learning to keep my balance and not fall off when riding a bicycle with the training wheels removed.

While I have a fairly extensive knowledge of investing in stocks and the various investment features of the underlying asset such as option trading, shorting, etc., it is far different compared to directly owning Bitcoin. So, maybe at some point I may decide to own Bitcoin directly, but yes - I have decided that time is not now - so until that time arrives my decision to invest in a Bitcoin ETF is final... 

That's a fair question! I'm totally new to Bitcoin and I've been trying to soak up knowledge from A to Z. 

As much as Bitcoin was new to me and took me days and days of researching and digging to learn a little about mining and halving and hashing and blockchains and electricity usage and cooling and on and on - then things started making more sense and the puzzle pieces started fitting. Then I turned my attention to how me investing in Bitcoin could be promising for me. That led to learning a little about wallets, hot storage, cold storage, etc. and how a lot of people have lost their passwords or private keys or their computer harddrive, etc. Then I learned about crypto holding firms and exchanges like Mt. Gox that got hacked and people lost the Bitcoin, etc. etc. To be honest, that made me not want to be the custodian of my BTC or deal with a holding firm that could be hacked - so I started looking for a way to invest in Bitcoin but have a trusted financial institution manage the custodian of it for me.

I have accounts with three brokerages (Fidelity, Charles Schwab and Wells Fargo) and two large banks (Wells Fargo and Capital One) and a global investment management company (Vanguard). I feel comfortable with all of them protecting my investments. So, I started digging around and learned that Fidelity and Blackrock, and a couple others, had Bitcoin exchange-traded- funds - so I chose Fidelity's FBTC EFT and as you might have guessed I have already - even with my meager Bitcoin education - taken a pretty sizable position in FBTC using my Fidelity brokerage. And as you might can tell, I'm really excited about my Bitcoin investment even with it being via an ETF instead of in a wallet...                 

Is the recommendation to HODL Bitcoin, to hodl it forever, or until the owner really, really needs (or really wants) currency for something important - with the intent to only sell a fraction of the BTC your hodling and continue hodling the remaining? 

Just how do you define your hodling recommendation? Is it really forever or does it have any exceptions?   

10 Year prediction from now; 2025 to 2035. 

 Bitcoin vs Gold - Which will win the % of increase 10 Year Race?

The price of gold is often thought to be a less volatile investment whereas Bitcoin is actually expected to have some significant spurts of volatility.

Like a horse race, each might nose ahead on and off, then fall back, and then one finds its stamina to make a final burst to the finish line. 

Putting the same dollar amount in both Gold and Bitcoin when they both burst out of the starting gate for a 10 year race - which one (Gold or Bitcoin) will win the 'percentage of increase' race? 

Will there be a clear winner right out of the gates, or at the midway 5 year point, or will it be neck-and-neck down the stretch with one coming on strong at the finish line?

How close will the share price of the Fidelity exchange-traded-fund FBTC track to the price of BTC?

Today FBTC is about $100/Share and BTC is about $115,000, so 1,150 shares of FBTC equals the price of 1BTC.  Do you think this 1150:1 ratio will deviate much going-forward? 

If the predictions coming from all these crypto experts are remotely close to being accurate I don't see why there aren't more people rushing to buy Bitcoin BTC ETFs.