8 ball pool has been a massive success with 1 billion downloads but a need for a similar good quality product with real money is so big that there exist a website called winder where they play on miniclip app and upload proof to settle real money on their website similarly only very few apps exist online like 8 ball strike and some others where they use real money but it is only for US and involves friction like non crypto integration , solo games , high rakes.There is no one platform which allows multiplayer real money games which settles in crypto although few cheap quality attempts are there. I have worked out the operational details crypto friendly platform quick launch firstly for NON EU and US similarly like stake and poly market but the development has to be custom I have a technical background and have worked out the operational details attempting to solve major friction like how to develop it as an app in app store due to high regulation of real money play but in recent years due to massive tech developments there are legal ways around that I can discuss that matches the good experience and is faster another one is the security aspect of the game which miniclip has suffered primarily because it did not target real money games in the beginning and later it was too big to change the code completely but we in the starting only can focus on maximising the security of the game .I need a 50 50 transparent business partner/investor and need $400k to launch this relatively quickly without loss of quality where can I find crypto investors

And not through ETFs and 'institutional adoption'.

For years I bought Bitcoin as a speculative asset and a frictionless way to transfer value out of the USD and avoid it's inflationary tax.

But I never understood or cared about "Bitcoin". And when I admitted as much on r/bitcoin I was told that Bitcoin was not really for US citizens. I was in a stable country that didn't need Bitcoin. But imagine living in Africa dealing with 10% inflation and the reality of wanting to flee your country with a hard asset that couldn't be confiscated by your government. The Sudanese don't need anyone to explain Bitcoin to them.

Well. Here we are. You no longer need to explain Bitcoin to me.

So I was curious and did a bit of simple math and found a funny conclusion, since I'm always broke and haven't bought crypto since, jeez it's expensive. This math is dated back to May 6th, 2016 up to October 7th, 2025 and uses all notable high and low points in BTC's market value fluctuations. This assumes you travelled back in time with (or just had at the time) $1,000, and no need to worry about any costs for anything for the next 8-9 years and assumes that your purchases and sells have no impact on the fluctuations of BTC's market value (I know, not possible, but still interesting). This does not account for decimal places in the amount of Bitcoin and acts as if you bought it in denominations of whole numbers only. Funny how in just 3 years you can outright buy a car, and in 5 outright buy a pretty decent house.

May 6, 2016: $453.99 = Buy 2 BTC

December 16, 2017: Sell 2 BTC = $19,217.13

December 15, 2018: $19,217.13 = Buy 5 BTC

June 29, 2019: Sell 5 BTC = $59,469.95

March 14, 2020: $59,469.95 = Buy 11 BTC

November 13, 2021: Sell 11 BTC = $708,427.50

November 26, 2022: $708,427.50 = Buy 43 BTC

March 30, 2024: Sell 43 BTC = $2,995,677.99

September 7, 2024: $2,995,677.99 = Buy 55 BTC

January 25, 2025: Sell 55 BTC = $5,756,811.50

April 12, 2025: $5,756,811.50 = Buy 69 BTC

October 7, 2025: Sell 69 BTC = $8,577,431.40

Can any one on this sub kindly explain how the bitcoin is priced. For example, are there real shifts in demand like other commodities and how does the price adjust.

Thanks

Not Sure Where Else To Post But i have been trying to sign in to Backed.By and it doesn't seem to be loading at all was wanting to know if anyone had any luck with it.

I've been in crypto for about three years now and I noticed something weird lately. When I first started, a 5% dip would have me checking my phone every two minutes and panicking. Now, I see a 20% crash and I just... don't care. It is like I have become completely desensitized to losing or gaining money in short bursts. I feel like this space has totally rewired how my brain processes risk and reward. Has anyone else experienced this emotional numbness, or am I just becoming a bit of a degenerate?