https://www.wsbtv.com/news/local/fulton-county/bitcoin-depot-declares-bankruptcy-lays-off-more-than-100-staff-corporate-office/O6P56Q5OS5D4XIUHDLAEP2UMFU/

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