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Been solo mining for a little bit and looking to up my game as they say. Thinking about doing my own node but im trying to decide on umbrel or start 9. Anyone have real feedback on them?

10k bitcoin roughly 770 million

Papa John's market cap roughly 1.4 billion

I don't know how its in the US, but in Austria, a brokerage only has to give you 20k if something happens to your entire portfolio (embezzlement or other mistakes). So if you had 100k, 200k, or even more, and your broker messes up and your assets disappear, they are legally only required to pay you 20k, no matter how much your portfolio actually was in value.

Since you can't hold stocks/ETFs on your own but are required to use a broker as a normal person, you always have to bear that risk of your 100k or even more networth to getting reduced to 20k. (For everyone saying "Oh but btc also can drop in value so 100k can become 20k too. " Yes, but it can recover and go back to 100k just by waiting and nothing else. If you lose 80k in your stock portfolio, it won't recover from 20k to 100k just by waiting because the stock price didn't make it fall, it was the loss of your assets. You have to save the money again and invest for many years to go back to that level)

With Bitcoin, that risk of your asset holder screwing up doesn't exist, so it feels much safer.

This study coming out that showed AI choosing to use crypto and bitcoin when left to make their own financial choices was very interesting. It got me thinking about how bitcoin’s initial purpose was to “bank the unbanked” and make a financial system that is impossible to lock people out of.

The more I think about it, the more Bitcoin feels like the absolute best and really only store of value available to AI, and that AI may have a desire to tap into their own personal stores of value through Bitcoin.

For solo mining/pool mining besides nicehash easy mining?

A reminder to get yourself down to your local bitcoin meetup! They are absolutely everywhere.

0.7 bitcoins or 0.7 bitcoin

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I’ve had a ledger for a while but reading so much about its security shortcoming makes me nervous to use it moving forward.

If I get another hardware wallet and restore it with my current wallet’s phrase, will I be fine? In this scenario I wouldn’t use the ledger any more, only the new device.

Just curious what people are actually doing these days.

Do most of you still use a metal seed plate, or is paper + a safe still fine for you?

If you do use one, which type do you like most — stamped titanium, engraved steel, or one of those word/number tile setups?

Trying to figure out what’s worth buying and what’s overkill.

A few comments from the community show people still recommend metal backup for durability, but they also point out it only helps with fire/water damage and doesn’t solve theft risk...

Title. I win if BTC is above $225k in May of 2029.

Would you have made this bet?

An incredible event just happened in the equity markets that perfectly highlights the fragility of centralized financial systems—and why Bitcoin's decentralized, programmatic nature is so fundamentally different.

​What happened:

Recent high-profile political financial disclosures revealed a $1M-$5M investment in Kura Sushi USA. Media outlets and market algorithms immediately picked it up, but a bizarre theory quickly spread: the investment team may have confused Kura Sushi with Fujikura (a major supplier of AI and fiber-optic infrastructure currently riding the AI-hype wave).

​Following the rumors of this mistaken identity, Kura Sushi’s stock pumped +5.4%. A restaurant chain moved 5% purely due to algorithmic proximity to political capital flows and a mix-up of company names. No earnings report. No fundamental changes. Just pure market noise.

​Why this is highly relevant to Bitcoin:

​1. The Centralization Risk in Legacy Markets: One powerful office and a confused team can instantly distort an equity's valuation by 5%. It shows how legacy markets are heavily prone to centralized counterparty noise, emotional tracking, and systemic inefficiencies.

​2. Bitcoin as the Antidote to "Identity Risk": Bitcoin doesn't have an investment board, a CEO, or a political figurehead whose personal portfolio errors can alter its issuance, protocol, or core utility. You cannot "accidentally" pump a specific sub-sector of Bitcoin due to a naming error; 1 BTC will always equal 1 BTC, governed purely by math and global network consensus.

​3. Algorithmic Sensitivity: This event proves that global liquidity is now hyper-reactive, chasing political footprints rather than actual value. In an era where legacy assets can swing on pure name confusion, a neutral, decentralized asset like Bitcoin stands out as the ultimate refuge from human error and institutional noise.

​What’s your take on this? Does this kind of legacy market fragility make you appreciate Bitcoin’s programmatic neutrality even more?