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Re: [XMR] Monero - A secure, private, untraceable cryptocurrency
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cAPSLOCK
on 24/07/2025, 03:23:31 UTC
⭐ Merited by Hueristic (1) ,Trêvoid (1)
Nice work, Hueristic.
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Re: Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion
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cAPSLOCK
on 15/07/2025, 04:05:52 UTC
WO Cheers!

Bitcoin hits new highs, gains stability and scale in its institutional era: Will it last?


Nope.  (lol)
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Re: Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion
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on 15/07/2025, 04:04:20 UTC
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Re: Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion
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cAPSLOCK
on 14/07/2025, 20:35:37 UTC
Rooting for a Belgian friend

His at the final table at the WSOP
(Truly amazing his 2nd final table in 8 years at the wsop main event…. Really WOW)

I am all in for him.  God bless.

And 2 final tables in the ME in WSP is amazing.  Whatever place he finishes will be epic. ... Again.
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Re: Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion
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cAPSLOCK
on 14/07/2025, 05:08:58 UTC
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Re: Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion
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cAPSLOCK
on 14/07/2025, 00:44:59 UTC
Umm, gentlemen?

This is...
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Re: Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion
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cAPSLOCK
on 13/07/2025, 20:50:03 UTC
⭐ Merited by vapourminer (1) ,JayJuanGee (1)
OK.

I totally borked one of my (too many) nodes trying to be clever... and decided to start from scratch.

Installed Umbrel. Never have tried it.

Oh my.  So far I love the thing.. Silky smooth on a stupid little pi5.

OK... still VERY impressed with this distro/platform. Elegantly made.

But one blip and a warning.  The Umbral CLN app is DANGEROUS to run IMHO.  It works perfectly... but you do not get a seed (CLN does not REALLY work with seeds and uses an unusual scheme for them in the first place... non BIP32 comparable but azseed I believe).  Nor are there clear ways to backup your node.  It is doable manually but takes a fairly good amount of *nix knowledge to do with a non-privileged account.

I am going to close the one fat channel I made to Kraken and PERHAPS try with LND.  I think that implementation is much more built out, supported and used by the Umbral community.

That's the thing with this platform... the basic reason I suck with DIY or Raspiblitz for years... the tradeoff for ease of use is great... AS LONG as you still can do some sophisticated things...

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Re: Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion
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cAPSLOCK
on 13/07/2025, 15:01:45 UTC
⭐ Merited by JayJuanGee (1)
Layer 2 has not turned out the way we thought it would.

"We"?

I suppose that was a bit of the royal we.

And just if my point is really about lightning and that lightning instead of empowering the small individual holders, it's becoming more of an Intermediate network for large players, almost what blockstream made liquid sound like at first. They've almost switched places in a way.

But I understand the point you're making.
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Re: Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion
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cAPSLOCK
on 13/07/2025, 13:55:01 UTC
⭐ Merited by El duderino_ (5) ,vapourminer (1) ,jojo69 (1)

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Re: Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion
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cAPSLOCK
on 12/07/2025, 21:46:07 UTC
⭐ Merited by vapourminer (1) ,JayJuanGee (1)
Instead of a BTC price chart, all we really need is a green vertical progress bar that says "new generation of money loading" and when it reaches 100% we will know that everyone in the world is using BTC instead of fiat.


at a minimum you need btc for value and a shit coin like doge for p2p



https://www.blockchain.com/explorer/addresses/btc/1JdC6Xg3ajT3rge3FgPNSYYFpmf53Vbtje


look at the business done with that address

695 coins in and out a total of 80,000,000 usd today

Are you 100% certain the p2p issue cannot be fixed? I get the volatility has been a problem but it seems that it has decreased over time and might continue to decrease as more and more adoption happens. Fees and confirmation latency are the main issues currently as I understand it?

And whatever happened to the optimism for layer 2 solutions? Or atomic swaps between compatible blockchains? I do not mind swapping Bitcoin for Monero for all my microtransactional needs. Hell, I would even go for Litecoin. Even if that's just a work-around until we get a better solution.

Later, too, is doing great. Zapping people on nostr is almost foolproof and lots of value goes around there.

Aqua Wallet is an extremely interesting project that works super well.
Misty Breeze is similar to Aqua, not exactly the same. It also works quite well.

If one is technically minded, setting up a lightning node is not terribly hard, I have converted over to Umbral recently.

And Wallet of Satoshi is promising a self-custodial version that works just as smoothly as their original for the states, which is kind of awesome.

A lot of interesting work is being done with chaumian mints and those are going to enable interesting ways to do payments as well.

Layer 2 has not turned out the way we thought it would. Lightning is ended up being more of a backbone protocol for larger nodes, and then a lot of these service providers are building really cool wallets on top, many of which are fully nonscastodial and work like a charm. I really am very impressed with Aqua.

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Re: Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion
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cAPSLOCK
on 12/07/2025, 10:14:34 UTC

Hall of shame

We need another prediction “Bitcoin is never going to hit 1M!”  Smiley
And someone is never going to feel any shame for the BS they spread, and the opportunities their readers lost.

Indeed. The fudfather.
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Re: Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion
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cAPSLOCK
on 11/07/2025, 06:49:19 UTC
⭐ Merited by xhomerx10 (1)
Glad we moved out of the $112k---ish ATH
We now ATH $113k
Road to $120k is gradually becoming a reality

Haiku?  Wait?  No?

I mean...
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Re: Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion
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cAPSLOCK
on 11/07/2025, 06:33:38 UTC
CCMF





New Jersey 113.

A fantastic engine.
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Re: Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion
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cAPSLOCK
on 10/07/2025, 16:31:39 UTC
⭐ Merited by jojo69 (1) ,OutOfMemory (1)
Carolina on my mind...
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Re: Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion
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cAPSLOCK
on 09/07/2025, 21:36:06 UTC
⭐ Merited by JayJuanGee (1)

https://x.com/thomas_fahrer/status/1942401080106930663
Blackrock Buys 1388 Bitcoin

Now Holds 700,000 BTC
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Since January 2024, the iShares Bitcoin Trust (IBIT) ETF, BlackRock’s spot Bitcoin ETF, has attracted over $75.5 billion. To date, 700,307 BTC are under its control. This is 55% of all BTC held in US ETFs. Alone, IBIT even outperforms the well-known iShares S&P 500 with a +82.67% performance in six months.
https://www.cointribune.com/en/blackrock-surpasses-700000-btc-with-its-bitcoin-etf/
It is truly a huge deal that BlackRock currently holds more than 700,000 Bitcoins. The way BlackRock, as the world's largest asset manager, is increasing its investment in Bitcoin, proves how positive they are about the future of Bitcoin. Everyone should be inspired by them about the true potential of Bitcoin. Holding more than 700,000 Bitcoins is no small feat, and many other big companies like MSTR, Tesla, Marathon Digital, and also many more, they are also holding Bitcoin in large quantities. Seeing their holdings, everyone should develop a Bitcoin investment mindset. The way they are optimistic about Bitcoin now and the rate at which they are accumulating Bitcoin, they are the only ones who will achieve the greatest success in the future.

Sure. Blackrock is managing 700k BTC, and sure they have power over the coins, but in some sense they are also a fiduciary that has responsibility to backup the shares with bitcoin, yet I am not going to even presume that they necessarily have all of the coins that represent those shares that they issued and I think it still is a bit confusing to proclaim that they are accumulating unencumbered coins with other people’s money. There are probably better ways to refer to Blackrock’s supposed accumulation of BTC to represent the bitcoin shares that they have so far issued.
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Re: Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion
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cAPSLOCK
on 09/07/2025, 21:34:28 UTC
So it's interesting to watch Bitcoin tickle the top over and over again. Often the more of that you see, the more chance for going down I feel like. But I also feel like the landscape is a little different nowadays.  With the paper Bitcoin having become such a huge part of the market, there's all kinds of shenanigans we might be seeing reflect in the price.
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Re: Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion
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cAPSLOCK
on 09/07/2025, 20:02:54 UTC
This sure has made a lot of runs at this all time high, and I would like to see it click this time.
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Re: Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion
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cAPSLOCK
on 09/07/2025, 19:12:42 UTC
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Re: Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion
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cAPSLOCK
on 08/07/2025, 06:38:26 UTC
OK.

I totally borked one of my (too many) nodes trying to be clever... and decided to start from scratch.

Installed Umbrel. Never have tried it.

Oh my.  So far I love the thing.. Silky smooth on a stupid little pi5.
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Re: Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion
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cAPSLOCK
on 07/07/2025, 22:38:59 UTC

This is all very interesting. I’m not sure what to think about it. I had sort of been operating under the personal thought that this could somehow be related to mtgox. In a few weeks all the folks who got funds from mtgox will be eligible to sell and take long term capital gains. The timing to me feels like this is an American whale looking to finally cash out. I realize these coins weren’t from gox, but BTC is fungible and maybe where his new coins went is better secured. Just a thought.

It could also be a setup, just to cover up the identity of the owner of the original wallets. Pretending to "take over" the wallets by a middleman (mentioned Solomon Bros) and in turn cash out or even convert (sell than buy again elsewhere), in case his old identity is known to someone by wallet address from the old days or so.
Keeping it private in those KYC days?
Perhaps, perhaps...?

A good way to clean the corn, oh look what i just randomly found just sitting there unclaimed for 15 years, so i just take a clean possession. And hire a NYC asset manager to litigate.

Edit: and wtf did i just read? FUD of some exploit just because some old coins moved?

I think you've summed it up.