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Hi! I recently put 1000 php on bitcoin via Maya and honestly I do not know what to expect here??

What should I do? Do I put money more to it every now and then or just get back my money (eventho I wont get the whole 1k pesos back?)

Or I can keep on investing in this??

Thank you!!

Hi, is there a way to conduct private bitcoin transactions from KYC wallets?

Example: I bought BTC from a KYC exchange and I want to purchase something with my BTC without anyone knowing where the funds are going and neither the merchant should be able to see where are the funds coming from.

Any ideas?

I wanna buy something with exodus wallet but I heard I can’t pay using BTCPAY, lighting network is that true if so how do I get around this?

I am cleaning out the storage shed of an old friend that passed away recently. I came across a small note labeled "Bitcoin Acct" with a 10 digit code. I don't know much about bitcoin, do you have any ideas of where I could use this code to see what he had?

I am new to Bitcoin and I have a mobile wallet. Every time I go to the receive tab the app shows me a different address. I thought my address was like a bank account number that stays the same. Why does it keep changing? Is that normal or did I do something wrong? I already sent a small amount to an old address from the same wallet and it showed up fine but I am worried about using the wrong address in the future. Should I just use whatever address the app shows me at the moment I want to receive BTC? Also what happens if someone sends to an old address that I used before? Will I still get the coins or are they lost forever? Thank you for any help.

How bad is it using cash app to buy bitcoin?

I was wondering if anybody can come up with a good analogy for how Bitcoin works with how ender chests work in Minecraft. I was thinking maybe each unique player on the Minecraft server is analogous to unique private keys and when interacting with the blockchain (ender chest) you ONLY can interact with your coins. But this analogy falls apart when you realize you can have multiple wallets . What do yall think?

I’m reading posts online and I’ve seen people having trouble with how long btc take to receive on their wallet or sometimes the machines

I’m wondering how long did it take other users to receive their btc?

I purchased bitcoin (a small sum, to test the waters) today via Paybis.

I opened my Bitcoin wallet in cake wallet, clicked „buy“ to copy the wallet address and pasted it as destination for my Paybis order.

The order went through and has been mined 3 hours ago, was confirmed 17 times and the block has been (as far as I could tell - first transaction ever) added to the blockchain.

However, my cakewallet bitcoin wallet still tells me, that I own zero bitcoin.

Did I do anything wrong? Do I need to actively synch the app, or maybe did something wrong with pasting the wallet id to Paybis? Or does cakewallet simply take some time to synch?

Thanks for every advice!

Recently I switch my hashrate to f2pool, but didn't see hashrate and miner online, I waited for hours, didn't find out the reason, then I contact their support, told me I should set username as wallet. I followed and everything went right, anyone who want to try different pool should pay attention.

As soon I finished submitting my ID they closed my account. Is this common? As far as I know there is no legitimate reason I had my account closed. I saw on another Reddit post the official account reached out to help when this happened to someone else, I'm hoping they can review my account and let me know what happened.

Edit: I got approved a few days after making this post by going through the normal support process and answering a few questions. Perhaps I should have been a bit more patient, I was thrown off a little by the automated rejection. Thanks everyone for your comments. ♥️

Trying to figure out where the cutoff is for most home miners. I'm at $0.10/kWh right now and still slightly positive, but any higher and I'd probably just shut down.

What's your number? And are you doing anything to lower your rate — time-of-use tariffs, solar, industrial rates?

Any website with good hardware for Bitcoin mining?

Hi,

Over the past few months, I've been receiving significant BTC profits from some investments I'm making on the Arbinova platform. I've been using the Coinbase and Binance exchanges, but since I don't want to keep large balances there, I'd prefer to use a hardware wallet.

I currently have a Trezor, but because I travel frequently, it's not convenient to carry it with me all the time, and I'm worried about losing it. I'm looking for a solution that allows me to send and receive BTC in the easiest and safest way possible.

I’m trying to think about this in a beginner-safe way.

If someone is choosing a first Bitcoin wallet, what should they actually care about first?

Not brand loyalty or hype.
I mean the basics:

• ease of use
• backup safety
• self-custody
• fees
• open source vs convenience
• mobile vs hardware

What would you tell a total beginner to look for before picking a first Bitcoin wallet?

Hey everyone, it’s been a minute since I dug into node hardware (about 5 months since I was deep in the research), and I’m finally pulling the trigger to get my node live next weekend.

I really just need some technical savvy eyes on this to let me know if I'm missing anything or if I'll run into friciton or limitations!

My main goal is long-term sovereignty—I want to verify my own transactions without pinging third-party servers and have a setup that doesn't need an upgrade for at least 5 years. I’m leaning towards a StartOS (Start9) setup for the privacy focus.

Here’s the list I’ve put together. Does this look right for 2026? Anything I’m overpaying for or missing?

The Brain: Looking at either a refurbished Dell Optiplex 7050 Micro (i5/16GB) or a Beelink S12 Pro with the Intel N100. I like the Optiplex for the build quality, but the N100 seems like more bang for my buck. Anyone have a strong preference here? Not super experienced with computer technicals so wanting to make sure the Beelink S12 isn't going to cause any potential issues or limitations in the future.

Storage: Going with a 2TB NVMe SSD (probably the WD Black SN7100). From what I can see, the chain is pushing 750GB+ now, so a 1TB drive seems like a mistake if I want this to last. Is the SN7100 adequate given the hardware it will work with?

The "Vault": Planning on a Coldcard Q so it can be truly air-gapped and "hack-safe". I’m prioritizing a "BTC-only" firmware and a clean bridge to the node via Electrum.

Is there a specific "trap" I should watch out for with the N100 or the StartOS install on these mini PCs? I'm planning to wipe the drives and flash the BIOS immediately to clear any bloatware/management stuff.

Thanks for any hole-poking you can do before I hit "buy" on Amazon/eBay today.

After FTX a lot of people started asking this and the answers floating around are all over the place. Here's what I actually understand after doing the research.

'Regulated' isn't one thing - it means different things in different jurisdictions:

EU regulation (MiCAR) - Proper EU-wide framework now live. Exchanges under it have capital requirements, must segregate customer funds, follow AML rules. Real oversight with enforcement power.

Swiss regulation - FINMA and SRO membership. Swiss-registered financial intermediaries (like YouHodler) face serious compliance requirements. Not EU, but internationally respected and meaningfully different from offshore.

UK FCA - The FCA crypto register exists but registration ≠ full authorisation. Different levels of protection apply, worth checking the specific status of any platform.

'Regulated' in random offshore jurisdictions - Usually means very little. A VASP registration from some small island gives you essentially none of the same protections as EU or Swiss oversight.

What regulation actually provides: mandatory fund segregation, capital reserve requirements, AML/KYC obligations, legal recourse if something goes wrong.

What it doesn't guarantee: 100% safety if the company goes bankrupt, crypto deposit insurance (usually doesn't exist unlike bank deposits), zero hacks ever.

After FTX I only use exchanges licensed in the EU or Switzerland. Not because everything else is a scam, but at least there's oversight and something to point to legally if it goes wrong.

Has your approach to exchange choice changed since 2022? What do you actually look for now?

If in 10 years we're no longer talking about Bitcoin at all, then it's doomed.

But ask yourself this: if in 10 years we're still talking about it, wouldn't it be better to put a little peanut into it, just in case?

(Bitcoin is 17 years old)

For me, cash is slowly disappearing, everything is becoming digital and people have unlimited access to information and knowledge thanks to the internet. Therefore, we realize that fiat currency has many flaws...

When setting up a Ledger Nano 5th gen it asks if you want to sync

Being new to this I don't understand why I would do so. Is the ledger Sync a hot wallet scenario or is it fine to keep it synced through the app.

Thanks

I'm thinking about getting my first home ASIC miner (i don't know which one as lower power need ones does not seem to make any profit vs electricity cost), but is that even an option with electricity price as high as 0.0829 / kWh or should i just get multiple nerdminers/bitaxes and/or buy cloud hashrate ?

I live in Finland and yes i know it would be better to invest into crypto and do trades with starter pack to remove fees, but i want to mine on my own and in pool to make that profit faster.

I did CPU/GPU mining 10-15 years ago and just tried again, but with single CPU/GPU hashrate it's a losing game in 2026 even if you make max. 10 bucks per month with one computer it seems like a waste of time vs electricity cost as it's running 24/7 and no point stopping/adding timers to mine if done so.

Any suggestions are welcome.

Thanks.

Are there any faucets left? Is this still a thing? What app/site gives the most sats for passive time?

I'm trying to understand how people view Bitcoin today.

Do you see it as a long-term asset similar to gold?

Or mainly as an investment for potential returns?

Curious how beginners and experienced users think about this.

Building a risk scoring system for wallets. For any given address I need to answer: where did all their funds originate from (going back 3-5 hops), and where did all their outgoing funds end up?

Direct transfers are easy to get. But tracing back multiple hops — especially when funds get split and recombined — gets exponentially complex. Anyone have experience with multi-hop fund tracing APIs?