If everyone assumes Bitcoin will drop more why don't they just sell and buy back in around October when the bottom is in

If you've been seriously following whale wallets, exchange flows, and cycle tops/bottoms for 5-6+ years: Is what we're seeing from institutional/ETF whales essentially the same distribution tactics as pre-ETF eras activation then inflows then shakeout. just executed on longer timeframes with more capital? Or has the involvement of regulated giants truly altered the mechanics like less manipulation possible, more stable accumulation windows, etc....?

I saw someone’s post earlier today asking if he could get into crypto (by buying and holding bitcoin) now. He gave this newbie vibe..

I feel like a huge majority of enthusiast are enthusiastic about using bitcoin to retire their kids. Was that the vision of bitcoin ?

I have never been a fan of HODL, because I don’t even have the patience. Instead I have been enjoying crypto by its core-utility.

Many services are offering crypto payment options, which opens border to seamless cross border transactions at cheaper fees.(well majorly for stablecoins)

Some people are on this world of crypto enjoying its utility, others are having an emotional rollercoaster with market trends.

Have you ever used crypto to pay for a service or good ?

Bitcoin is legendarily difficult to recoup once a few years have past.

Just read all the stories of countless early bitcoiners letting go of hundreds of bitcoins one way or the other, never to regain that level of wealth again.

The exact same applies to your satoshis over time.

Only entities that trancends the generational trap, like cooperations, hedgefunds and governments will end up being wholecoiners in the next century.

I plan to airdrop some BTC on the next 4 generations of my family - because I have seen how bitcoin slips through the fingers of diamond hands

Can any of you ever have enough bitcoin?

If so, how much?

Once you have enough would you buy strc for income or something else?

Lately, I've been thinking about the idea of decentralization in the blockchain. The idea of distributing governance to millions of machines worldwide. On paper, it looks like a perfect alternative to centralized currency with self-custody and immutability.

But if you look closer at it, decentralization is an impossible task. Think about it this way:

Mining rigs are distributed worldwide, meaning no central entity can fully govern the network without consequence. The ecosystem itself is distributed and so is the consensus. But at the end of the day, these mining rigs require a valid internet connection to communicate to each other. And the providers for their internet are corporations that most likely record your traffic. This essentially means that even decentralized machines are automatically centralized the second they connect to an ISP.

Additionally, it's nearly impossible to create your own wifi without either connecting to a pre-existing ISP's plan or a data center owned by that ISP.

This question has been bothering me, are we no longer able to enforce decentralization?