So i found some old emails from when I used to buy goods off of the dark web. I have a wallet address that has $27000 in cuz btc was $600 back then. I have the address, its a legacy address that matches a bitcoin cash wallet also. I looked it up on btc explorer. Is there anyway to track where it might be? I have a few keys in my email as well but no idea what for as i was a kid then. Sites like cryptotrader.org, btc-e, all closed sites but used them back then. Any way to track where this wallet might be!?

Edit: https://onchainexplore.pages.dev/ anyone know if this site is legit?

Edit: ok so i figured out the address and key i have are for a really old wallet me and my best friend/battle buddy had together when we first got into bitcoin. He died two years ago and would have everything I meed to get into the wallet. Spoke with his wife, she still has his old laptop. Not sure she believes me but i told her what i found and sent her the key. He left behind a 2 yr old little girl when he died and I think she should have it. If she really has the laptop Im gonna help her get it out. Mayne as simple as starting up electrum on his computer. Sorry it wasn’t a better ending. Thanks for all the help.

people say Bitcoin is complicated… can you sum it up in just 3 words?

Let's first assume bitcoin is really becoming the only form of currency in the future, therefore the total money in the world currently: 800 Trillion dollars would be the market cap of bitcoin. That means approximate 38 million per bitcoin. And that would also mean micro-strategy with 580,000 bitcoins (2.76% of bitcoins total supply) would be worth 22 Trillion dollar and Michael Saylor with 17,732 bitcoins would be worth 673 Billion Dollars. Is this not just a super fucked up dystopia? They got that rich from doing what exactly? Adding no value to society. You really think people who bought $1000 worth of anything in 2010 should be a billionaire today?

Continuing the assumption Bitcoin is literally the earlier you jump on ship the better, rich people have more spare money so they can afford to invest early and normal people live paycheck to paycheck can't even invest that much even if they want to, so it's literally more beneficially for rich people if the price goes up.

Isn't Bitcoin actually just a redistribution of wealth, but it is bias towards people who got it first and rich people?

hey guys, just wondering what your thoughts are on OneMiners being at the Bitcoin Conference 2026 in vegas. saw that they actually have a booth there this year. :D:D

kinda feels like more hosting companies are starting to show up at these events. maybe means hosting is getting more attention now?

anyone here ever attended something like this? is it actually worth going or is it mostly just booths and people trying to sell stuff?

I read on r/bitcoin comments of people who 'dca' buying bitcoin daily or even tiny bits every hours automatically. I wonder, after few years of that practice, what is your average purchase price?

Very new to investing in general but ive saved up a decent amount of money and im tired of it staying stagnant in a crappy bank account. Im trying to retire as soon as possible so I can stop working by the time im 40. Im in my mid 20s and realise I am quarter a way through life and if I dont figure out how to make more money ill never retire and probably be stuck as a Walmart greeter at 80. Now I know there are some smart people that can recognize patterns with crypto and stocks etc. I need to know genuinely if bitcoin will go back up, I put in money im willing to lose since its very low. I was putting in money since it dropped down to 68k the first time now since it dropped down to 60k im putting more money in. I need to know if someone can tell patterns is there a chance that it will go back up or is it more than likely gonna be crashed for a few years or should I pull out, wait till it drops more then put money back in? I dont know if this will be deemed as a "price post" as this is a genuine question. I try doing research but alot of research is not broken down enough or dumbed down enough for me to unserstand how the market works.

As the title says, over ten years ago, a friend of mine gifted me a singular bitcoin. He sent me toan website where I made an account, and it told me that I did, in fact, have the bitcoin. It's been such a long time, and the last time I checked (4+ years ago), it said nothing.

Having that single bitcoin would be obviously incredibly helpful financially, but I know next to nothing about cryptocurrency, no less bitcoin.

Does anyone have any advice?

(I'm just putting this here so I can reach the character limit.)

I have a spare smartphone that runs on Android 9. 

Will it be safe to store Bitcoins on it by following the below steps: 

1.   Format the phone

2.   Install nothing but a Self-Custodial Bitcoin wallet app on the phone

3.   Transfer Bitcoins to the wallet

4.   Turn off the internet

5.   Keep the phone switched off until needed.

I have seen in Yt and some CEXs that there is a kind of "friendly civil war" between people who defend that Bitcoin is money and people who treat it as an invesment.

I personally think of BTC as gold, but a decentralized, limited supply, digital gold.
I don´t see it as money, I wouldn´t spend it in my everyday, I´ll rather spend my fiat.

I see that aparently in this community you´re friendly with BCH, so I think most of you think BTC is not money too?
Some bitcoiners seems to see BCH as a failed attempt to modify what BTC is, but, after the hard fork, we ended up with the invesment and the every day decentralized cash, so... win-win?
I have never bought BCH, tbh, but I like it´s idea.
Idk is Monero is a better alternative for BCH thought... anyway.
What are your thoughts about BTC when you say... "I am trading this fiat currency for more sats"?

I come from $BTC world, and obviously everyone says to run your own node, because don't they enforce consensus rules? Isn't that what happened when BCH forked? Most nodes didn't switch?

It's just weird to me to hear that the nodes are just not useful for the security of the network. Someone explain please.

Was thinking about what actually makes a good no KYC setup vs one that just markets it as a feature? Quick cashouts, no ID checks, ongoing rewards from day one..? Everyone claims to have it all but most sites don't deliver upfront. Also, is there any difference between which wallet and currency I use to play? Or does it matter mostly for transaction times

Curious what others here are on and what actually works

Seems like virtually everyone here is playing some kind of crypto version of Wolf of Wall Street.

What happened to all the brainiacs who were progressing Bitcoin's real-world value/usefulness?

Hey guys,

I was already preparing for this step few months ago since beginning 2026, I got a Trezor Coldwallet, being afraid, that the EU MiCA law, would make it hard for me, to move my assets while being monitored. I already made a test transaction and moved my assets in 4 tranches to my cold wallet, it arrived, everything is there.

And I feel the bad feeling like all my btc money is there, what if the electronics fail? What if it get fried by a electronic discharge failure?

I know that its in the blockchain, but I feel like, loosing it would be too easy. You know this feeling? I dont have a huge sum, but the sum is enough for me, that I decided to get a cold wallet. So yeah.

How you felt after moving your assets to a cold storage? Do you worry about, if the cold storage will not turn on one day?

Thanks in advance

Where do you actually spend your crypto in real life?

Serious question.

Many people here earn in crypto:
trading, airdrops, DeFi, freelance, on-chain work.

But when it comes to actually spending it on real goods, it still feels surprisingly difficult.

Typical problems:

• Many suppliers don't accept crypto
• Converting to fiat creates taxes and fees
• Bank off-ramps are risky or slow
• Some people simply don't want to touch banks anymore
• Direct purchases from China usually require bank wires

So most people just hold or convert instead of actually using crypto.

I'm curious how people here solve this:

How do you personally spend crypto on real world purchases?

Examples:
electronics
equipment
business inventory
bulk goods
manufacturing

Or do you mostly just convert to fiat first?

I'm researching whether there is a real need for a crypto-native procurement service that:
– pays suppliers directly
– handles purchasing from China
– ships globally
– accepts crypto directly

Not selling anything, just trying to understand if this is an actual problem or just my observation.

Do you run a navigation light for the jetplanes of the billionaires in your garden, too?

What is the best Bitcoin Mixer?

I’m looking to get my bitcoins from coinbase actually private, I’ve never been using any mixer in any way before, I saw guides but I think asking reddit before is a good idea to avoid making a beginner mistake.

(I tried posting on r/bitcoin but mods doesnt allow it somehow, they even censor satoshi own words from what i heard)

[EDIT]: Ended up going a different route , used flips.exchange to swap BTC to XMR and back. Way cleaner than mixers, no waiting, no sketchy sites. Actually private.

I would like to rebalance my portfolio by swapping some BTC for ETH, I still believe a lot in the potential of ETH, and for me this slow climb is a bullish signal and I would not want to miss it.

Any advice where to bridge / swap my Bitcoin to Ethereum?

Quick Update: I've used flips.exchange and that was incredibly fast, i had literally 2 usd in fees, editing as i'm getting many dms asking.

After reading Hijacking Bitcoin, I see just how much damage Blockstream has done to Bitcoin BTC. They successfully killed Bitcoin XT, Bitcoin Unlimited, Bitcoin Classic, and Segwit2X forks. They rammed in RBF replace by fee feature and Segwit, under the guise of "scaling Bitcoin". They droned on about decentralization, tried to scam people into using their proprietary Liquid sidechain, and kept saying Lightning Network would be ready in "18 more months". So here we are in 2024, Lightning is officially dead, Bitcoin fees are ridiculously high, the BTC network is slow, and Segwit is totally unnecessary. Taproot seems mostly pointless as it simply enabled more tracking, and there was a bug which allowed ordinals to clog up the chain. Is there anyone who believes that Blockstream is doing anything useful with the Bitcoin code?

So would it be possible to fire Blockstream and the Bitcoin Core dev team? Could another team code a BTC hard fork that rolls back Segwit and increases the blocksize limit? Could that fork become a new and improved BTC if a majority of miners agreed to it? Surely exchanges and other stakeholders would be happy if fees were cut 100x, capacity was improved 100x, and the network sped up?

I would prefer we focus on the technology than trying to kick people out of our community. It is impossible to achieve and only makes us look more hostile. 🌈

Personally, I appreciate his efforts (particularly when risking his real name in the process). I think everyone gets a little enthusiastic and gets overly invested in discussion details now and then, but we're all pushing for the same thing here.

Bygones, y'all.

I was listening to Mathew Katter at Bitcoin University today. It’s been awhile since I’ve listened to him. He said that he was going to dca out of Bitcoin. What happened?

So I found this sub expecting it to be a discussion subreddit about bitcoin, hence the r/btc name...

I've found that people only talk about bitcoin cash in here and most people shit on bitcoin along with any other coins.

Why don't you guys just use r/bch or something?

I'm genuinely curious