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will swapping ever feel as easy as a card tap?
card = tap and done. swapping = find pair, copy address, send, wait for confirms, refresh status page 40 times, hope the rate holds. fixedfloat is the closest ive had to it just going through, mostly cuz the fee was on the page before i sent. everything else feels like a form from years ago. is anyones flow actually boring now or is the waiting just the product? no referral links pls
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Daily Discussion, November 10, 2026
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Miami-Dade property owners can now pay their property taxes with Bitcoin, tax collector says
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A personal story about how I found bitcoin.
I got into Bitcoin a good number of years ago.
Back then I was in high school and I learnt about it from a teacher at school. It changed the trajectory of my future forever. The way I looked at the world was completely different from that time onwards.
I am very grateful to be put in that place at that time. To think about how differently my life could’ve been… it is 100x better here. I’m very lucky.
But I also had a level of commitment… I knew I wasn’t the smartest person out there… I didn’t have anything particularly special about me that I could use. Just a regular guy. If anything below average. So I knew I had to do something. So I studied it & boom… there I was.
Also being a very lazy person this was appealing because all I had to do was stack sats… very simple. Work an average job & stack sats.
I was also the only person in that class who took away this… an entire year with this bitcoin teacher and no one else took away anything meaningful except me. I could see he knew his stuff and he was very smart so I could tell that what he was saying was far from someone talking a load of nonsense… the way he explained himself and he only really touched the surface.
I swear we would have lessons where they got derailed and we were literally just asking him about BTC. He would also make slides for us about BTC trying to teach us. He would always say “I’m not telling you to buy bitcoin, I want you to study it”. He was right. But of course buy bitcoin too. Best class of all time now…. The Bitcoin class!
Cheers… thanks for listening.
Glad to be stacking with you.
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Cashapp weekly bonus payout
I seen that cashapp is offering a 2 percent weekly bonus payout for leaving bitcoin on their app. Has anyone done this yet and what are your thoughts on it?
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What do you think will be the impact of quantum computers on Bitcoin's price?
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What would make you use crypto for everyday payments more often?
I’m curious how people here actually use cryptocurrency in their daily lives.
Do you use it to pay for goods and services, send money to friends, or mostly just hold it?
What do you think is the biggest thing preventing wider everyday adoption: transaction fees, speed, merchant acceptance, user experience, or something else?
Would be interesting to hear about real experiences rather than just predictions about the future of crypto.
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Long Term Holders Just Set a Multi-Year Record Low: Video Breakdown & Deeper Context Following Yesterday's Chart
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Jack Mallers explained the whitepaper live at Bitcoin Amsterdam as money + time + energy + information.
Caught Mallers’ keynote at Bitcoin Amsterdam on Friday. Walking through the whitepaper live on stage was ambitious, and he boiled it down to one line:
Bitcoin = money + time + energy + information
Money. Right there in the title: “A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System”. Section 2 defines a coin as nothing more than a chain of digital signatures.
Time. Satoshi couldn’t rely on anyone else’s clock to decide what happened first, because whoever owns the clock owns the history. So he built bitcoin its own version of time: blocks. Every ten minutes or so the network agrees on what happened, and nobody can wind it back. That’s section 3, the timestamp server.
Energy. Proof-of-work ties the money to something real. Every coin costs electricity and hardware out in the physical world, so nobody can just print more of it. Sections 4 and 6: Satoshi compares it to gold mining, except “it is CPU time and electricity that is expended.”
Information. Bitcoin is ultimately information, which is why a wallet can exist purely in your memory and cross any border with you. And the ledger is open by design: Satoshi wanted every transaction broadcast and everyone able to hold a full copy of the history.
Here’s the irony: every bitcoin carries its own timestamp, proof of the energy spent securing it, and its full public history, copied across thousands of nodes. It’s the most documented asset that has ever existed. Yet banks still treat it as the least documented one.
Did anyone else catch the talk?
In case you missed it here is the link:
https://www.youtube.com/live/Akcfjfhp2tw?si=XkQWKYqNfC-Uv35E&t=24325
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What's the dumbest crypto decision you've ever made?
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The house has rewritten rules since 1913. Nobody's rewritten 21 million since 2009 (Bitcoin art)
Fiat Ludus: Let there be a game. It's Bruegel's Children's Games redrawn for the fiat age, and #04 of my Ten Decrees series. Fiat is Latin for "let it be done." Ludus means game and the Romans used the same word for the schools where gladiators trained. The biggest one, the Ludus Magnus (top center building in this artwork), was right next to the Colosseum.
Bruegel painted Children's Games in 1560 with over 230 kids playing 83 different games and no adults anywhere in it. The kids made up their own rules, and if they didn't like a game they could go start another one. In mine adults are involved and every game is run by the house, skulls with a $ on them who write the rules and change them as they please.
Print, 30 x 20 inches
A tour of the whole town
HOUSE RULES
In the game hall the house posts its rules on the wall. #4, RULES MAY CHANGE WITHOUT NOTICE, is the one the dollar runs on. You don't get a vote on how many more dollars get printed next year.
Next to it, the BAILOUT arcade game is stuck on GAME OVER, CONTINUE? INSERT TAXPAYER.
1. PLAY 2. PAY 3. STAY
There's one rule the house can't touch, and a guy has it printed on his shirt: 21 MILLION.
ENROLL, AGES 5 TO 65
ENROLL, AGES 5 TO 65, EASY LOANS, APPLY NOW.. kindergarten to retirement, and easy loans are available. Hanging next to the sign is a big ₿ with BETTER MONEY, BETTER WORLD wrapped around it. If you look closely at the top right of this shot, you'll see two glass bubbles dated 1637 and 1720, and 1929 and 2008. Four of the most infamous financial bubbles in history.
$1.00 down to DEBT
The hopscotch starts at $1.00 and every square is worth less until you land on DEBT. The chalkboard to the right of it says 2% IS HEALTHY and INFLATION IS TRANSITORY, both lines I took straight from the Fed. A child writes PLAN ₿ at the bottom.
HOUSE 9 YOU 0
Down by the soccer goal there's a velvet rope line leading up to a sign that says KYC, WAIT HERE. The line is empty and the cameras are on the games. On the balcony a masked woman holds up the score: HOUSE 9 YOU 0.
MORITURI TE SALUTANT
Just above the arena it says MORITURI TE SALUTANT, "those who are about to die salute you". In the pit a $ skull recruiter holds out an enrollment form for a young man to sign. The fiat wolf is down there with them, looming over a broken piggy bank.
RESERVES ZERO PERCENT SINCE 2020
A wishing well with SAVINGS ACCOUNT engraved on it sits on top of the bank vault, and the plaque by the vault door says RESERVES ZERO PERCENT SINCE 2020. The Fed cut bank reserve requirements to zero on March 26, 2020. Two women who escaped the cells on both sides of the vault are riding a mechanical bull, facing the vault operators.
Toward the top of this shot is a set of teetering currency blocks arranged like a crooked staircase: the pound and 1931 (when Britain came off gold), the dollar and 1971 (when the US ended the gold standard), the yen and 1973, the euro and 1999, the
5 year Returns
So $10k invested 5 years ago today gets me $1500 in growth minus tax. No dividends.
Obviously early adopters rode the initial wave.
Paint me a scenario where the next 5 years sees me with more than 15% growth. I'm finding it hard to avoid an approach which sees me diversify away from a pure bitcoin portfolio.
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My dad just old me he might have 500 Bitcoin somewhere on an old laptop he lost, I think I need therapy.
Yesterday I was telling dad abt Bitcoin. Just explaining what it is, how it works, and why people are so obsessed with t. And why they trust it.
Then he casually drops something that almost made me fall off my chair.
Apparently, back around 2011, he did some work for someone and might have been paid in Bitcoin. He doesn't remember the exact amount, but he thinks it could have been around 300 or 500 BTC
I laughed. because I thought he was joking. Then he told me he might actually have had a wallet on his old laptop.
Guess what? We can't find the laptop. I even searched on his personal stuff. I searched everywhere. obviously, nobody remembers the wallet password or recovery details.
So somewhere in this world, my dad might be sitting on a fortune, or he might just have the most expensive imaginary story ever told at the dinner table.
I asked mom about it and she said she doesn't know and remembers anything abt any BTC.
I've gone from explaining Btc to my dad to potentially needing a therapist because of BTC
I might start a new journey looking for that laptop.
While my father is just chilling. I'm going crazy. I can't hold my breath anymore.
My father thinks it's just 300 or 500 dollars. He keeps saying I'm making a big deal for just 500 dollars. Even tried to show him the charts. and explained to him how much it could worth rn. He just doesn't understand and he thinks im going crazy.
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Weekly Price Thread - November 10, 2026
Please place all discussion of price and price movement here.
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UTXO management
Is 1,000,000 sats a good minimum threshold when consolidating UTXO's?
I dont want to lump all of my UTXO's into one address, so im thinking this might be a good minimum value to maintain. i.e, any addresses that contain less than 0.01btc should be consolidated into a new spend so all my UTXO's are above 1 million sats.
How do other people on here manage theirs?
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Mentor Monday, November 09, 2026: Ask all your bitcoin questions!
Ask (and answer!) away! Here are the general rules:
* If you'd like to learn something, ask.
* If you'd like to share knowledge, answer.
* Any question about Bitcoin is fair game.
And don't forget to check out /r/BitcoinBeginners
You can sort by new to see the latest questions that may not be answered yet.
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Bitcoin Cash Has Outlasted the Drama (GP Shorts)
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BITCOIN’S FUTURE
I believe as I can guess most of you do too that in time BTC will become the most valuable commodity in the world. It will beat everything conceivable that you can possibly imagine and we will see everyone try to get their hands on as much as possible.
It’s an interesting situation we are in… cause we understand this but we are simply in this long period where we are simply waiting for the rest of the population to follow along.
We see the horrors that unfold… the war, destruction of currency and elites making billions while the people at the bottom suffer. It all comes down to ‘broken money’ (not so much broken… this is the way it was meant to work). It truly is awful though.
It’s also hard to watch. We have this problem and the solution is staring you down. I bet you all feel this way. I certainly do.
I feel with the advancement in AI & with more and more hacks happening we’ll see more people flock to BTC in fear of losing their money, jobs or even lives. The demand will come through people realising that they have no choice. They need something they can verify that they own…. Something they can send in minutes. Something that can’t get taken away from you by your government, or inflated away.
There’s lots of power being here right now. It’s an exciting frontier and it will continue to become more exciting over time as education improves to the masses and we see more & more money flow into BTC and we see it beat gold, Real estate and completely transform the world of finance.
Stack sats!
Stay strong 💪 🍊
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Why Bitcoin Is The Only Money AI Can't Control (Here's Why)
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What makes Bitcoin Cash useful in everyday life?
I've been thinking about how people actually use Bitcoin Cash beyond trading and holding.
For those who use BCH regularly, what do you find most useful about it? Is it everyday payments, sending money internationally, low transaction fees, or simply having another way to transfer value without relying on traditional payment services?
I'm also curious whether you've found any practical use cases that surprised you.
Would love to hear about real experiences and examples from the community.
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LNbits urges Bitcoin Lightning server operators to shut down immediately
https://thehackernews.com/2026/11/lnbits-urges-all-operators-to-shut-down.html?m=1
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A Finnish home swapped district heating for a Bitcoin miner
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For people who are unmarried, how easy would it be for your family members to gain access to your BTC after you die?
Everything in my Fidelity account goes to my brother, including BTC and BTC ETFs. As far as my self-custody wallet goes, I hope they go through my stuff and find my seed phrase. No one knows the passcode to my Trezor wallet, and it's not written anywhere.
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ruble, and Z$ 2008, which is when Zimbabwe’s hyperinflation peaked. The won from 1997 is falling into a chute lettered SLIDE TO ZERO, and a Venezuelan bolívar from 2018 is already in it.
The TARGET 2% cauldron is in flames, with Hungary’s 1946 pengő dropping in from the chute and Weimar’s 1923 mark already in the fire. 1946 in Hungary was the worst hyperinflation ever recorded.
Down in the bottom right corner there’s a frog slowly boiling in a pot that reads 2%.
3,000 SATS
There's one price in the town square that goes down. A man sells carrots off a crate with a chalk sign: 7,500 crossed out, 5,000 crossed out, now 3,000 SATS.
Priced in sats things get cheaper over time.. that's what happens when no one can print more of the money.
WHITE PAPER and key
Out on the open ground there's a relay. One runner carries a scroll that says WHITE PAPER and the runner in orange with the ₿ on his chest is passing a key to the next one. Satoshi published the white paper in 2008, and since then, anybody can read the rules for themselves.
Me with the print
The artwork in these shots was printed at 30 x 20 inches on Hahnemühle German Etching paper, 18000x12000 at 600 pixels per inch, and a few of the close-ups come straight from the digital file. The last photo is me with the print in my studio, each one hand signed and numbered.
Feel free to use the first image as a wallpaper. You can find my full write-ups and side-by-side comparisons with the original Bruegel and Bosch pieces for every piece from this series so far on my website.
Better money, better world.
Lucho Poletti
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You Know It's Going Mainstream When..
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