It was yesterday on X i knew that people truly have plenty of money to waste on this space, imagine losing $100 Million on $BTC future just in a week, the more he tried to back his trade by longing it on cross the more it went down. He lost everything and started telling people to donate to him in order to fight the market back.
In all of these i learn not to fight market back no matter what!

For over a year plus I have been an active trader's mostly I trade on derivative market, oh yeah the most risky form of trading, since you can blow off your balance to liquidation if the market goes against your position, but that is not why we are here with this topic, but let dive into it straight away.

Future derivative trading is liken to gambling since both activities have similar outcomes and results which is either you gain it all your you lose everything, but with proper management one can still make something out of this risky trading pattern but once you hit the jackpot, it becomes almost a go to point whenever you want to trade.

So the question is, can one becomes addicted to trading same way gambling can be addictive?

If yes what are the sign to know that one is becoming a trading addicts?

Recently I have started asking users who win $20 and $200 at FreeBitco.in to start posting about their wins in the forum for a small reward in addition to their prize. To keep the place clean, I'll be asking them to post it in this thread. Since FreeBitco.in has a lot more users than this forum, these posts might be from newbies but I have also asked them to post their winning seeds and a screenshot of their win to get the reward. Hopefully we get a lot more people posting about their wins now!

What the search engine does, for each user that uses esocsia and does about 45 searches 1 tree is planted,
Breakdown: https://blog.ecosia.org/tag/where-does-ecosia-plant-trees/

Ecosia has been around for 16 years, and its growing overtime.

The reasoning for the promotions, each search on other search engines like bing, or google goes to cooperate greed, where each of your search fills their pockets.
With using esosia each goes to planting trees.

Requirements: Full Member or higher

This may complete at any time, and/or price may lower at any time

To each user that does the following:

#1) https://www.ecosia.org/browser
Head over and download the brower or app

Screenshot proof imgur

#2) Attach your BTC Address

Indicators are only a signal of potential market trends, whether bearish or bullish. This is just a statistic, nothing more. When talking about statistics, it will require analysis. You must understand very well how trading strategies are carried out using the wrong indicators in predicting trends. This is certainly not the wrong indicator, but maybe our analysis is not precise enough. If you find a suitable strategy, it indicates that the market conditions when you analyze are still stable, so your analysis can be in accordance with the trend.

I can name why I fail in trading.

Firstly, I think I am impatient and quick at taking decisions. I can wait for months and years, but then suddenly take a decision to sell, because I am tired with seeing losses with altcoin purchase. I can explain this with a wish to try to reduce losses by moving into BTC when I feel like it will continue growing.

Secondly, its purchases without any preparation, without doing any significant research. Heard something and recognized altcoin name, saw its price increase, previously I used to make purchase of that altcoin.

Thirdly, I am not able to read market and make correct predictions after seeing patterns or think that it is a pattern.

This is not to be preferred. I trade when I have enough time to monitor my trade, and also, it is not my type of trading to place buy/sell options without analysis. It was not just about time, but trading in an inconvenient place could make us lose focus. And certainly it leads to losses.
Trading can wait. Perhaps we can do it after traveling. There is the right time for this, and even if you are a long-time trader, you won't do the trade without the proper location and time.

It might work for some because they believe in it but they can't say they always make profits every week that particular day, you can't always make profit everytime you trade no matter the amount of knowledge you have so you can't always guarantee profit every particular day of the week. And also having to wait till another week to trade is actually not so ideal when you don't know when your lucky will be. With the right amount of knowledge you can always trade when you want if you know what you're doing.

Just have a good trading strategy and follow it properly you don't have to always have a special day to trade, IMO you will miss out on the wonders of the market on other days. Also you have to have in mind that losing in trading is inevitable.

This topic was created simply to provide an update regarding the amount of Bitcoin ownership by large companies which continue to actively accumulate Bitcoin from time to time which they use as assets for company reserve funds and so on. Both by private companies or public companies and also by companies providing bitcoin ETFs which are also very active in accumulating bitcoin.

This actually needs to be known to see how these companies compete with each other to collect bitcoins, whether we realize it or not. So after knowing this data, I hope you can be more motivated to see the true potential of Bitcoin. So those who are accumulating bitcoin for long-term investment can be more enthusiastic about their accumulation. And it's also calmer because large companies are also competing to accumulate bitcoin.

The data I took came from the site https://treasuries.bitbo.io/ which always updates regarding bitcoin ownership by countries, ETFs, public companies and also private companies. So if friends want to see the latest updates then I suggest seeing them on that site. Because apart from being complete, we can also see when the data was last updated. I will not show data for all public companies because there are too many. I will only take the top 20 rankings for public companies from around 72 public companies listed on the site https://treasuries.bitbo.io. And it's the same for ETFs. I will only include the top 10 rankings from a total of around 34 ETFs.

And here is the data.

1. Bitcoin Ownership by Public Companies

No	Company	Amount of BTC	Estimated Value (USD)
1	Strategy, Inc. (d/h MicroStrategy)	568,840	~$58.64B
2	Marathon Digital Holdings	48,237	~$4.9B
3	Riot Platforms, Inc.	19,211	~$1.9B
4	CleanSpark Inc	11,869	~$1.2B
5	Tesla, Inc.	11,509	~$1.18B
6	Hut 8 Corp	10,264	~$1.05B
7	Coinbase Global, Inc.	9,267	~$955.3M
8	Block, Inc.	8,485	~$874M
9	Galaxy Digital Holdings	8,100	~$835M
10	Metaplanet Inc.	6,796	~$700M
11	Bitcoin Group SE	3,830	~$394M
12	Semler Scientific	3,808	~$392M
13	Boyaa Interactive International Limited	2,410	~$248M
14	Voyager Digital LTD	2,287	~$235M
15	HIVE Digital Technologies	2,201	~$226M
16	BitFuFu, Inc.	1,847	~$190M
17	NEXON Co. Ltd	1,717	~$177M
18	Exodus Movement Inc	1,300	~$134M
19	Canaan Inc.	1,293	~$133M
20	Bitdeer Technologies Group	1,156	~$119M

2. Bitcoin Ownership by Private Companies

No	Company	Amount of BTC	Estimated Value (USD)
1	Block.one	140,000	~$14.4B
2	Tether Holdings LTD	100,521	~$10.3B
3	Xapo Bank	38,931	~$4B
4	BitMEX	36,794	~$3.79B
5	Mt. Gox	34,164	~$3.5B
6	The Tezos Foundation	17,500	~$1.8B
7	Lazarus Group	13,518	~$1.3B
8	Stone Ridge Holdings Group	10,000	~$1B
9	Massachusetts Mutual	3,500	~$360M
10	Lisk Foundation	1,898	~$195M
11	Seetee AS	1,170	~$120M
12	Luna Foundation Guard	313	~$32M
13	Bitcoin Association Switzerland	14.2	~$1.46M

3. Bitcoin Holdings by ETFs

No	Company	Amount of BTC	Estimated Value (USD)
1	iShares Bitcoin Trust (Blackrock)	631,962.2	~$65.1B
2	Fidelity Wise Origin Bitcoin Fund	197,396.4	~$20.3B
3	Grayscale Bitcoin Trust	188,257.2	~$19.4B
4	CoinShares / XBT Provider	48,466	~$4.9B
5	ARK 21Shares Bitcoin ETF	47,131.2	~$4.85B
6	Grayscale Bitcoin Mini Trust	43,059.2	~$4.4B
7	Bitwise Bitcoin ETF	38,268.8	~$3.9B
8	Purpose Bitcoin ETF	25,284	~$2.6B
9	3iQ CoinShares Bitcoin ETF	21,237	~$2.1B
10	Vaneck Bitcoin Trust	14,763.3	~$1.52B

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Currently the data may have changed. Because the data listed above is data updated as of May 16 2025.
By looking at this data, it is hoped that it will increase our insight regarding the development of Bitcoin adoption, which is actually currently increasing quite rapidly. So we can predict what will happen in the future. And if you see the increase in the number of bitcoins accumulated by the above companies per month then you will be a little surprised. because they are so active.

But it is a company. How about you? are you still accumulating bitcoins? or wait for the right moment to sell?

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Reference/source:
- https://treasuries.bitbo.io/

We often see discussions here in the forum how most people see bitcoin as a store of value and not much as a currency. So I searched about what people have purchased using bitcoin. Some may seem "ridiculous" or "outrageous" while some seem fairly sensical.

1. Adult Canadian Mammoth Tusks.
The price which this was bought was $175,000 and was bought with 290 bitcoin.

2. Sriracha Bacon flavored Lollipops.
Only priced at $24 for 12 lollipops, you can taste sriracha and bacon in a lollipop.

3. Robo 3D Printer.
Priced at $799 which would be equivalent to 0.00014 bitcoin now.

4. Porsche
Was bought for 300 bitcoins way back in 2013.

5. Male Striptease show
There actually seems to be a website dedicated for those who wants to get paid in bitcoin to perform a strip show.

Anyway the point here is that you can pretty much buy anything with bitcoin. Slowly there is more and more mainstream companies offering bitcoin as payment like apple, wholefoods, and many more. What about you? What is the most bizzare (or totally normal) thing you purchased with bitcoin?

But why? You can always purchased a small fraction of Bitcoin on exchange even if the price go skyrocket on exponential level. Small fraction of Bitcoin is still a Bitcoin. We don’t need to hold 1BTC to invest on Bitcoin because even small fraction can be worth a lot in the future.

I recovered my old Bitcoin wallet with 0.001BTC few months ago while I considered this amount as dust Bitcoin way back 5 years ago.

Now it’s worth 103$ which is already huge amount for me.