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Been DCAing into Bitcoin daily since the December dip how’s everyone else doing?

At first I was planning to wait it out because I kept seeing people saying BTC was going to drop to $50k or even lower. I thought I’d just wait for the big drop and buy then.
But I realised nobody really knows where the bottom is, so instead of trying to time it, I started DCAing daily. I’ve been buying throughout the $60k–$90k range and just sticking to the plan regardless of the price.
Curious what everyone else did during the drop. Did you wait for $50k, lump sum, or just keep DCAing? And are you still buying now?

u/Intelligence_kiwi_ — 5 days ago
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the only randomness i trust for my private key

after the coldcard situation, I decided I really don't want to trust any company or third party to come up with "randomness" for my key, which later will turn out was not really random.

So I 3d printed every single BIP39 word to draw from, similar to a lottery. I draw one, toss it and write down the word facing up. The last word is calculated with a fully offline device.

I made the repo public in case anyone wants to print their own (should work on any 3d printer): https://github.com/davidkessler-ch/SeedLottery

edit:
- to mix them up, i first pour them into a large bowl
- it's important to put the words back and mix again, before picking the next!

u/Fiach_Dubh — 6 days ago
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This is the way

Stack sats. Get your devices, networking, security right for secure hodling and inheritance planning. Hodl with 💎🤲🏽

u/fumoneymoto — 8 days ago
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POV: your 100 BTC hard drive is somewhere in one of 12,000 trash bags (I BUILD THE GAME)

u/Lost_My_Bitcoin — 7 days ago
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What finally made self-custody "click" for you?

For me the scariest part wasn't buying, it was the first time I sent from my own wallet and stared at the address for like five minutes before hitting send.

What was the moment it clicked for you, and what almost scared you off?

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u/WorryDesigner8152 — 8 days ago
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Do I lower my S/L !?

I don’t know what to do, this is going to be a -18% portfolio loss.

u/Winter-Reserve-2727 — 7 days ago
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Recovering old wallet.dat?

just curious if anyone has ever been able to recover or get into one of the old wallet.dat files from btc core. don’t have high hopes of getting it back, but would love to pursue if it’s possible. with the help of ai, this is what I can provide for clarity. like many cases I cannot for the life of me figure out what the password is. it’s from a very long time ago. obviously dms will be ignored. I see that btcrecover is a good tool to try, any advice?

•    57,344-byte legacy Berkeley DB wallet

•    BDB BTREE v9

•    Wallet version: 40,000

•    102 unique encrypted private keys

•    All are old-style uncompressed public keys

•    1 encrypted master key

•    9 wallet transaction records

•    Earliest timesmart: June **, 2011

•    Latest: August **, 2011

•    Default key = the *.** BTC address

•    The *.** BTC address's private key is definitely encrypted inside the wallet

•    Encryption uses SHA-512-based derivation and AES-256-CBC

•    62,313 derivation iterations

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u/Ok-Opportunity-6547 — 7 days ago
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Bond yields still haven’t matched the night Limp Bizkit performed at Woodstock ’99.

That Friday close (23 Jul 1999): 10y at 5.84%, 30y kissing 6%. Today’s 10y is 5.27% — so we still need about half a point to reach that. After that it's price discovery and I think BTC will be in a handsome position

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u/Over_Regular_6897 — 8 days ago
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What's the closest you've ever come to losing your Bitcoin?

Not hacks you read about. Your own near-miss.

Mine was almost tossing an old notebook during a move. Seed phrase was on page 40, between grocery lists. Found it by luck.

Everyone talks about price. Nobody talks about how many coins are one bad cleaning day away from gone.

What was your close call, and what did you change after?

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u/WorryDesigner8152 — 7 days ago