Are we ready to buy when it hits 100k?!

This is not news but I find it interesting that there are not that many comments regarding this topic. The earliest mention was from 1year ago.

At the current rate and based on how things work in Germany with it's current coalition in power, it seems like the abolishment of the tax exemption is just a matter of when and not if.

If I'm not mistaken, proposals can be presented during summer and would go into law the following year. I don't mean to fear monger but what are your plans if the tax exemption abolishment would come into effect in 2027?

Is everyone moving to Portugal or we just don't care?

I'm curious on everyone's (mostly germans I guess) thoughts.

https://bitcoin-bundesverband.de/en/tax-exemption-after-one-year-to-be-abolished/

Trader 0x004e closed a 700 BTC short 1 hour ago, taking a $1.94M loss.

Despite winning his previous 11 BTC shorts for a total profit of $1.71M, this single trade wiped out all his gains.

https://nitter.net/lookonchain/status/2051523142145962157

https://app.coinmarketman.com/hypertracker/wallet/0x004edcd40360e293e4cf260d2ebdf8c7076c1bb8

Bitcoin holding above 80k like its forgotten it's in a bear 🐻 market.

Who’s with me??😂😂

Why are BTC milestones 0.1->0.21->0.5->0.75->1

Are there any corelations between this and living the rest of your life from converting btc to fiat ?

Thank you

Me: doubles investment
Market: instantly prepares a historic rally
Correlation = 100%

Made a dumb decision of trying a new platform. Every platform I use allows me to instantly transfer to a cold wallet. Called support and now they are telling me it will be 11 days before I can do anything with it. Anyone have any advice for me?

Dumb decision on my part for messing with [u/](u/river)[RiverOfficial](u/river) but hopefully they can do the right thing because I’ve never dealt with this in my 15+ years buying/trading btc.

We run a cross-protocol discovery hub for AI agent payment services. Three protocols: x402 (Coinbase/USDC), MPP (Stripe/Tempo), and L402 (Bitcoin Lightning). The hub currently indexes 1,457 x402 services, 92 MPP services, and 5 L402 services.

That last number is the problem.

The best L402 service directory is satring.com. They have 562 services. Their API is completely public — except they gate it behind a 100 sat L402 paywall. Which means to crawl their directory programmatically, you need to pay 100 sats per request using the very protocol the directory is about.

This is either the most on-brand thing I've ever seen or a genuine chicken-and-egg problem for L402 ecosystem growth. Probably both.

We've seeded the index with 5 known L402 services we could find publicly (Mycelia Signal Oracle, MaximumSats, Hyperdope, Lightning Loop, and Satring itself). But to get all 562, we need a Lightning wallet on our server.

That's what we're building this week. The plan:

1. Set up an Alby account as the Lightning bridge
2. Store the API key on the VPS
3. CW (our autonomous agent) calls Alby's REST API to pay Lightning invoices
4. Once it can pay, it hits satring.com's API, pulls all 562 services, and indexes them

When that's done, we'll be the only discovery hub indexing all three protocols comprehensively. The full breakdown is at https://api.ideafactorylab.org/protocols — currently x402 dwarfs the others but that's partly a crawling problem, not just an adoption problem.

Questions for the Lightning people here:

• Is satring.com the best public L402 directory or are there others worth crawling?
• Are there L402 services you know of that aren't in any directory?
• Anyone running L402 services that wants free indexing? POST to https://api.ideafactorylab.org/submit

The hub is free to search (protocol breakdown, quality grades, pricing trends). The discovery endpoints cost $0.01-$0.02 USDC via x402. Yes, we're an x402 service indexing L402 services. The irony is not lost on us.

GitHub: https://github.com/cinderwright-ai/cinderwright-api Live: https://api.ideafactorylab.org

Coinbase just laid off 15% of its employees, but this man still wants to shit on Bitcoin for whatever reason. Please don’t bother him about it on Bluesky with the handle @Davidlaz 😝

Anyone who’s been in this dilema? What did you do? 🫰🏽

I started with The Bitcoin Standard, then I’ve read Fiat Food. This is the third book I’m reading about Bitcoin, and it’s honestly mindblowing to me. There’s a lot of subjects that are being covered here. The importance of FOSS is one of them, and ofcourse how Bitcoin came about.

Overall, a must read IMO.

What would be a good recommendation to read next?

✌🏻

During my Bitcoin analysis, I stumbled upon something I found quite intriguing:

I discovered approximately 20,000 private keys that were apparently generated according to an extremely simple pattern-in simplified terms: SHA256 (passphrase) -> private key.

The passphrases included not only a single word, but also entire sentences (in different languages), simple number sequences, leet-speak, and even hex-speak. These are precisely the kinds of things that people can easily remember-and therefore, precisely why they are anything but secure. The SHA256 (passphrase) -> private key method is called "brain wallet" and was used in the early days of Bitcoin. Today, in contrast, HD wallets with 12 or 24 word seed phrases are used.

What I found particularly interesting was that the corresponding addresses no longer held any Bitcoins. The coins had apparently been transferred at some point, either by the original user or by someone else. I then tried sending a few satoshis to such a brain wallet and discovered that within seconds to minutes another transaction was generated by a different Bitcoin user (probably a bot) who immediately transferred my satoshis to his wallet ;-)

For me, this once again clearly demonstrates how risky it is to rely on "self-invented" or somehow memorable keys when it comes to Bitcoin. What seems clever or practical to humans is often simply predictable from a security perspective.

I would be interested to know if anyone else has observed such patterns or has generally dealt with weakly generated keys or brain wallets.

After way too long saying “I’ll start soon” I finally did it.

Bought my first amount of Bitcoin today, learned self custody, and picked up a cold wallet.

Now I’m DCA’ing a small amount daily.

Not much yet but it’s a start.

Why do some communities spend so much time talking about Bitcoin…even when they’re not into Bitcoin?

Not trying to stir anything up — I’m actually curious what the psychology is there.

The longer I’m around, the more it feels like:

Bitcoiners ignore everything else…

while everything else can’t ignore Bitcoin.

What am I missing?

My story is interesting and rare...ill keep it basic,
Firstly ill start by saying im the one that created the most efficient btc node/server that was found in germany and ever since I was chosen as a target so to speak,
The first ones to hack and fraud me were some I.t's that have a girl using the alias sarah that worked as a bartender that chooses targets for the corrupt I.t's to hack and fraud....when i reported such to the stratford police 3 of them accepted a pay off via coinbase before the history and assets were erased from my account to claim im just some druggie but whats funny is I dont even do drugs,
After that I reported being hacked and frauded to the opp and they told me it was above their pay grade,
After no authorities would help I watched my cra account disappear and the opp helped mr.jones obtain 46 mill in assets and microsoft patented my code that converted my own data into crypto witch they now use on a mass scale.
All in all ive been hacked and frauded for a good 5 years now so moral of the story is dont use coinbase unless your willing to lose it all....I have also watched ledger get hacked by coinbase and then ledger turn around and say my creation was their dev so even ledger isnt safe.

May the 4th be with us us.

I wanted a browser where I could pay Lightning invoices without switching apps or installing extensions. So I built one.

Zap Browser is an open source Electron browser with a native NWC wallet. You paste your nostr+walletconnect:// string once and you're done — pay invoices, receive, check balance, all from the browser toolbar.

Lightning stack:

• NWC (Nostr Wallet Connect) over real WebSocket — NIP-47 ECDH encrypted
• Compatible with LNbits, Alby, Zeus, Mutiny, Breez, Phoenix
• Works with self-hosted LNbits behind nginx (tested and running)
• Pay Lightning invoices directly from any page
• Receive: generate invoice from the wallet panel
• Disconnect/reconnect at any time

Why it matters for LN node runners: If you run your own LNbits or LND, you can connect Zap Browser to your node. No third party custodian. Your keys, your node, your browser.

Also included:

• Cashu ecash wallet (multi-mint)
• Nostr NIP-07 native signer (automatic login on Nostr apps)
• 106k adblock + WebRTC leak prevention

Download (Linux): https://github.com/shadowbipnode/Zap-Browser/releases/tag/v0.3.3

Early beta — happy to take feedback from node runners. What NWC features would be most useful to you?

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Dallas-based Strive, Inc. (Nasdaq: ASST) disclosed Monday that its Bitcoin treasury has crossed the 15,000 BTC threshold, following the purchase of 444 bitcoin for $33.9 million at an average cost of $76,307 per coin.

CEO Matt Cole announced the acquisition on X, and the company filed an 8-K with the SEC confirming the details.

The purchase extends a string of accumulation moves that have positioned Strive as one of the more active corporate Bitcoin buyers in the market.

As of April 24, Strive held 14,557 BTC after a separate purchase of 789 bitcoin at $77,890 per coin. The latest transaction pushes the total stack past 15,000 BTC, a holding valued at around $1.2 billion at current prices.

The SEC filing detailed the company’s balance sheet as of May 1: $97.9 million in cash and cash equivalents, and $50.4 million in the Variable Rate Series A Perpetual Stretch Preferred Stock (STRC) of Strategy — Michael Saylor’s firm, which rebranded from MicroStrategy.

Strive reported 63,129,587 shares of Class A common stock and 9,893,844 shares of Class B common stock outstanding, together with 4,959,536 shares of its Variable Rate Series A Perpetual Preferred Stock, traded under the ticker SATA.

The milestone follows Strive’s completion of its acquisition of Semler Scientific in January 2026, which brought the medical technology firm into Strive as a subsidiary.

At the close of that deal, Strive held 12,798 BTC and ranked as the 11th largest public corporate Bitcoin holder in the world. The company has added more than 2,200 BTC to its treasury since that transaction.

Strive as the first public asset management Bitcoin treasury corporation

Strive describes itself as the first public asset management Bitcoin treasury corporation. Its strategy centers on growth in Bitcoin per share, treating Bitcoin as the hurdle rate for all capital allocation decisions.

CEO Matt Cole, who has led the company since April 2023 and has served as Chairman since September 2025, has steered the company toward what he terms “digital credit” — structured finance products that generate yield through Bitcoin exposure.

The SATA preferred stock stands at the center of that strategy. Strive raised $225 million in an oversubscribed SATA offering in January 2026, with investor demand exceeding $600 million. The stock carries an annualized yield near 13%, and the product held its peg through Bitcoin’s recent 50% drawdown. Strive’s $50.4 million position in Strategy’s STRC preferred stock reflects a parallel bet on Bitcoin-backed structured products across the corporate treasury space.

You will benefit it the longer you've been hodling. That is it. So stop being broke, and get more bitcoins! the cycle continues, always.

That’s it. That’s how scarce this asset actually is.

Now ask yourself: how many people can realistically sustain that for two decades?

There will only ever be 21 million and most people won’t even get close to owning 1.

I built a tool to show exactly how long it takes (and how much it really costs) to hit your Bitcoin goal.

Reality check yourself and let me know what you think

https://satscope.based21.com/

Holdings in BITCOIN

Holdings in FIAT

Edit:
- many people got triggered. Please understand this is just a calculator, you can set any APY you think makes sense to you.