This subreddit hosted lively discussions and debate during the 2017 blocksize wars and the Segwit UASF.

You can dig back in my post history, because I participated in them.

Apparently, this subreddit is now perma-banning anything even remotely discussing or mentioning proposed future softforks, and non-Bitcoin-core Bitcoin implementations. This is absurd and insane.

Bye-bye. If anyone reads this and doesn't know what I'm talking about, you might want to read up on what signalling bit 4 does, and why this Subreddit has banned a developer discussing what this might imply.

Hey gang! Big market maker on HodlHodl here. Unfortunately I recently received bad news and that will be causing the spread to go up.

HodlHodl used to have a fee of 0.5%. This made it so I could charge a reasonable 3% for BTC. Unfortunately this will be causing the total spread to be about 4.5% which feels unreasonable to me.

“After many years without changes, we're adjusting our fees. The new structure is:

• 0.75% from the seller and 0.75% from the buyer

• 1.5% origination fee on every lending contract

Thank you for being with us.
The Hodl Hodl Team”

On the old fee amount:
$10,000 order would have a $50 fee (from HodlHodl)
Now: $10,000 order would have $150 fee (from HodlHodl)

Back in March 2023 I lost around $10k in a futures position. Not because my analysis was wrong. Not because I misread the chart. Because a news went out which moved markets and I had absolutely no idea it happened until I was close to liquidation.

I know I'm not alone. This happens to traders every single day, especially people who've been in the space under 3 years and haven't yet built out the 5-screen setup that experienced traders use to monitor everything at once.

I've been thinking about building a terminal that puts everything in one place:

- Live chart (obviously)

- Instant push notifications from Twitter when specific accounts tweet, the ones that actually move markets

- Real-time news feed from relevant crypto outlets, filtered for signal not noise

- An AI assistant on the side so you can immediately ask "what's the likely market impact of this?"

- Eventually, direct exchange integration so you can act on it without switching tabs

The whole idea is that you shouldn't need 5 screens and 10 open tabs to trade properly. And you definitely shouldn't be getting liquidated because you missed a tweet.

My question for this community: Would you actually use something like this? And if not, what's missing or what do you already use that covers this?

Not selling anything. Don't have a waitlist. Just trying to figure out if this is worth building before I build it.

Honest feedback only please, if this is a terrible idea, I'd rather know now

I bought a large lump sum of IBIT in a registered account because I wanted Bitcoin exposure with tax advantages. I now realize there are trade-offs: I don’t hold the underlying asset directly, there are management fees, and I ended up buying near a market peak.

With the subsequent drawdown, roughly 25%–30% of my portfolio is now exposed to Bitcoin through an ETF. This would likely drift closer to ~15%–20% in a deeper correction unless I continue adding.

To manage this, I started DCAing into ETFs in January (~$2k/month).

My original plan was:

1. Continue DCA until the next Bitcoin halving (expected ~April 2028) or until BTC returns to ~$100k

2. Hold through the post-halving cycle and potentially sell ~16–18 months after the halving (around late 2029) (reversed DCA)

3. After BTC reaches $100k, redirect new contributions ($2k/month) into diversified equity ETFs (e.g., S&P 500 or similar)

4. Buying back by DCAing the amount i sold during next bear market.

Now I’m questioning the structure of this approach.

Main concerns:

I’m using IBIT instead of holding Bitcoin directly

From a long-term risk-adjusted perspective, broad equity ETFs may be more efficient (which I already hold)

At this point, I’m unsure whether I should:

Stick to the current cycle-based allocation plan in ETF

Shift toward diversified ETFs instead

Or simplify everything into a long-term buy-and-hold approach across both assets without timing cycles...

My intent with this structure was to build a long-term strategy: DCA during bear phases, rotate contributions into equities during expansions, and potentially realize gains ~16–18 months after halvings, then take the lump sum to DCA again in the next bear + my savings until I maxed out my registrated account.

repeating the cycle over time until retirement...

Does it make sense or am I absolutely nuts? I got no one to talk about this. My friends think I'm nuts which I probably am.

https://www.reddit.com/r/interestingasfuck/s/Os1oXr9RKZ

When FTX collapsed, I genuinely thought Bitcoin might be finished. Not just another bear market. I mean finished. Regulation, contagion, trust destroyed. I sold most of my position somewhere around $16k telling myself I was being rational. Six months later I was buying back above $25k.

The thing that bothers me most isn't the money. It's that I'd already lived through 2018. I knew what capitulation felt like. I'd read everything about not timing the market, about conviction, about long-term thinking. And when the moment came, none of it mattered. The fear was louder. What I've accepted since then is that understanding Bitcoin intellectually and actually holding through chaos are two completely different skills. One you develop reading. The other you only develop by getting it wrong a few times. I'm not sure conviction is something you build in advance. I think you find out if you have it when the moment is bad enough.Anyone else discover that knowing what to do and actually doing it are completely different things? Did the second cycle feel any easier?