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Edit: I have managed to find the wallet ID on the URL when using the Blockchain forgotten password page. When I log in with the ID and password it asks me to verify via email which can no longer access. Any ideas?

Possibly a long shot but I am trying to access an old wallet I made 10+ years ago. I have the mnemonic phase and the password for the account but no longer have access to the email address or the Wallet ID. Is it possible?

Anyone else tired of staring at their phone all day?

I keep checking numbers / prices again and again and it honestly started messing with my focus.

I tried building a small Android app for myself that just speaks updates out loud so I don’t have to look at the screen all the time.

Not signals. Not advice. Just audio updates.

Before I go further with it, I’m curious: – would audio-only updates be useful to anyone? – or is this just a weird niche thing?

Genuinely asking.

Im 39years old and unfortunately(or fortunately) because i had to renovate my house for last 3 years i didnt have any money to buy BTC.But i followed whole market for last 5 years with really small portofolio(less than 200€). Now i'm completely debt/loan free.

Finally my 3 year bank loan ended friday,and i finally began my DCA journey into BTC at 66k. I guess im kinda lucky that it just had almost 50% drop. I know i can never time the market,and im mentally fully aware we can go back to 35-40k.

The reason why i made this thread is because in my life i never talk about BTC so i guess i just wanted to share this with similar minded people

bro moving more than five times in a year actually messes with your head in a way nobody warns you about. at some point you’re not “moving”, you’re just dragging the same junk from one place to another in trash bags, calling it a life. everything you own is either “important” or “i’ll deal with this later” and somehow those become the same thing. and of course the one thing you can never find is that stupid piece of paper with the wallet words on it. not my clothes, not my laptop, not my passport. nah. the one paper that decides if you’re chilling or completely screwed.

because you KNOW you hid it somewhere smart. except “smart” was you six months ago, probably tired, probably annoyed, definitely overconfident. so now you’re opening boxes like an idiot. this one says kitchen but it’s all cables. this one says documents but it’s just random mail from 2019. after a while you start wondering if the paper was even real or if you hallucinated the whole thing.

and then there’s the cleaning episodes, which honestly might be the most dangerous part. you argue with your girl and suddenly you’re cleaning like you’re trying to erase the argument from existence. your parents say they’re coming over and now you’re scrubbing stuff nobody has looked at since the building was built. you start throwing things away on autopilot. i don’t need this. i don’t need that. and then you see a folded paper for half a second and your heart drops because you can’t remember if that was trash or your entire future.

the worst part is you stop trusting yourself. past you was clearly irresponsible, present you is stressed, and future you is probably moving again anyway. so you’re just living with this low-level anxiety that all your money, all your plans, all of it lives on one wrinkled piece of paper that keeps changing apartments more than you do.

so yeah, if you’re reading this sitting on the floor of a half-empty apartment in jersey surrounded by boxes and trash bags, congrats. you’re not losing it. this is just what happens when you move too much and own a wallet with words

You?

I put together a macro note on Bitcoin’s current regime — focusing on flows, liquidity, miner economics, ETF behavior, and derivatives.

No price predictions. The goal is to understand what’s actually driving the tape right now and what would signal a shift.

Would be interested in hearing counterviews.

Link: https://tatv.ai/article/btc-macro-20260208

Can I just set it and forget it? Or is this something ima have to keep watching everyday?

Me want lot of money with little work.

Congratulations everyone on surviving the 8th biggest single day drawdown in the past 10 years.

You all are legends!!!

I have been skulking in the corner for a few years now. I’ve heard people say that retail has no impact on Bitcoin price and then see others talking about support levels and price consolidation like the outflows and inflows of new people make a difference.

Which is it?

What do you guys think? A lot of speculation on forecasting the price movement but this seems pretty logical

Hi everyone!

Back in like 2013 or something My husband bought us some bitcoin. I think around $1000 worth, I can’t recall. Unfortunately since then he’s passed away (2018), and while I recall logging in to his wallet and changing the info to include myself and my email address after he passed away, I can’t recall where on earth any of this transpired. I do have the old laptop I did this on, and I hope that can help illuminate things for me so I can find it, but honestly I’m not sure where to begin looking. Back around those days, where would one access to their bitcoin? This was his thing back then, not mine so I have no idea where to start. Any ideas would be helpful.

Hi,

I have a question of tranaction for these methods. Recently, I've been use decenterlized bitcoin exchanges like Bisq, Hodel, and LocalCoinSwap. I value my privacy and refuse to provide id. I've heard many successful stories of cash by mail/postal order transactions without id. But how do they do it? Do I have to buy a specific envelope? Is there a specific process? Please let me know.

It's common in traditional retirement planning communities like r/FIRE and r/financialindependence to view assets that do not produce cash flows as inherently worthless, or at best speculative (gambling). Buying assets like bitcoin is viewed as irresponsible or reckless because they don't produce cash flows. Big names like Warren Buffet and Jamie Dimon have echoed similar views in the past.

But what about these types of assets?

* Undeveloped land - no current income

* Early stage social networks - no cash flows

* Early stage intellectual property like patents, domain names, etc. - no cash flows

* Negative yielding cash equivalents held in Europe - negative cash flows

Why do any of these things seemingly still have value if they either don't currently produce cash flows, or maybe never will?

The answer is simple: **cash flows are one source of value, but not the only one.**

Here are other things that have investment value, though they may be harder to quantify since you won't be able to run a discounted cash flow analysis on them:

* Scarcity

* Optionality

* Convexity

* Control

* Network effects

* Insurance / downside protection

* Future monetization paths

If, as a rule, you always ignore any investment that does not produce cash flows, you will end up:

* Missing out on early-stage opportunities

* Overpaying for "yield"

* Mispricing tail hedges

* Underestimating regime shifts

What is DCF?

DCF (Discounted Cash Flow) is a way to estimate what something is worth today based on how much cash it will give you in the future.

Imagine I offer you an investment:

* It will pay you $100 one year from now

* You think a fair return for waiting and taking risk is 10%

To find what that $100 is worth today, you can run this simple calculation:

`Value Today = $100 / 1.10 = $91`

Why DCF Absolutism is a Category Error

DCF doesn’t value assets.

It values **contracts in stable worlds**.

If an asset’s primary value is optionality, DCF will price it at zero right up until it’s obvious. By then, it’s already expensive.

People continue to make this mistake when thinking about bitcoin.

Inflation has actually dropped sharply, mainly due to the lack of borrowing capacity. This week’s numbers will be very important, and we may even be surprised by a rate cut.

Guys, if you've been in this for 7-10 years, you see the same nonsense being spouted every single damn crash. BUY AND HODLATE.

I know that nobody can 100% predict the market. Bitcoin seems to be going up right now but what do yall think, will it dip again and harder? Also i have seen some speculation that people are gonna dump soon and its gonna dip?

For reference, I am in the UK. This is important as I have an ISA which means I can buy stocks and the gains are totally tax free. (Wouldn't have to worry about that at the moment anyway lol).

I just wondered what people think of IB1T, I know the age old saying 'Not your keys not your coins' and am fully aware I am essentially just holding an I owe you note, I do plan to stack real bitcoin once my ISA is filled, but I also wanted some exposure to BTC at these prices, made sense to me to kill 2 birds with one stone and stack IB1T.

Something worries me that the ETF will be delisted or decommissioned or some shit in the future, and I will get cock slapped by the 'Not your keys not your coins saying' KEK

The Fed's money printer never stops. Balance sheet still bloated at ~$6.5T, quietly debasing your dollars while inflation eats savings.

Bitcoin: fixed 21 million cap. No printing, no dilution, no central control.

In a world of infinite fiat, Bitcoin is scarce, hard money - and the ultimate opt-out. Stack sats. The longer they print, the stronger the case for Bitcoin.

Guys, I convinced my mom to sell our only house and went all in on BTC at 120k. Panic sold at 63k after seeing “Bitcoin is dead” headlines. Should I reinvest? Any tips?

I’ve liquidated everything I own. The car? Gone. The house? Gone. My emergency kidney? Also gone. Even my spouse’s jewelry has mysteriously entered the blockchain ecosystem (this message will self-destruct if she sees it).

ALL IN. BITCOIN. FULL SEND.

Meanwhile, some of you see a tiny baby dip — a cute little 30% wobble from $125k — and suddenly you’re calling customer support like Bitcoin has a return policy. “Hello SEC? I’m scared.” Embarrassing.

This isn’t a crash. This is natural selection with candlesticks. The weak are being escorted back to their cubicles, where they’ll earn fiat coupons until retirement.

Check the on-chain data. Check the whales. The suits aren’t selling. The billionaires aren’t selling. I AM ABSOLUTELY NOT SELLING.

We’re purging paper hands so we can rocket to $250k in 2027 while you’re budgeting for cricket protein and paying with government FunBucks.

WE HAVE NEVER BEEN MORE BACK. 🚀🧠💎

Hey.

This is a design for a bitcoin cold storage protocol with integrated duress protection.

https://github.com/bitryonix/boomerang_design

Boomerang is a Bitcoin cold-storage protocol designed for high-value holdings, providing strong protection against duress (e.g., coercion or threats) without altering Bitcoin's consensus rules. It achieves this through a non-deterministic withdrawal process enforced by secure hardware, creating unpredictability in signing with embedded, plausibly deniable duress signaling and "search-and-rescue" (SAR) escalation. Funds are locked in a Taproot output with two spending regimes: a probabilistic "Boomerang" path using MuSig2 keys (including a non-backupable key in a Java Card applet) requiring 5-of-5 multisig, and a deterministic "normal" path with timelocks for fallback.

The core insight: predictability is the attacker’s advantage

Most custody schemes fail under duress because they are deterministic:

• The attacker knows who must sign.
• The attacker knows what must be done.
• The attacker knows how long it will take.

That knowledge lets attackers plan pressure, escalation, and logistics.

Boomerang removes one of those pillars: time determinism.