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JUST IN: 🇨🇭Switzerland's Financial Market Supervisory Authority has approved the country's first Bitcoin ETF 🚀

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The recent report from JPMorgan is worth a read. Titled "2027 Long-Term Capital Market Assumptions," the report says (page 46) bitcoin is a 'speculative asset' but their base case is 10%+ compound return percentage. They expect it to outperform small/large caps, gold, REITs and more. https://t.co/HpXT1D8k2n

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@RetiredArmy_Guy @APompliano Separating spending money from long-term savings makes the plan simple. A clear rule for what each bucket is for also helps you stay steady when things get noisy.

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@TylerDivv The comparison holds up best on adoption curves. The difference is that Bitcoin's rules are enforced by anyone running a node, so there is no company to wait on.

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@matthias_reder Laying out the cost, control and risk differences side by side is what helps beginners most. The step many skip is a small test withdrawal to their own wallet before moving a larger amount.

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@OnchainSignal_ It shows the subsidy is a ceiling, not an entitlement. Nodes enforce the cap, and a miner can take less than the maximum without breaking any rule.

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@ElChul0te Checking instead of trusting is the whole point. Even a modest node at home means the rules you rely on are the ones you verified yourself.

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@0xRobin Asking about withdrawals is the right test. If you can send it to your own wallet and verify it arrived there, you hold Bitcoin and not just a claim on it.

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@askHVtobidIV @AGratefulApe @LuxWire Real operator experience like this answers the scaling question better than theory does. Small channels from regular people are what let a network like that grow in practice.

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@btcpavao The address-lookup leak is the one most people overlook. Connecting your own node, or at least a wallet that lets you pick its server, closes a big part of that gap.

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@nakamoto_bro @SimplyBitcoin Running your own node is the part people skip. Even a small one lets you verify your own transactions instead of trusting someone else's server.

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@decentmoney2009 @SethZero1 @SeedSigner @selfcustodykrux @SpecterDIY A dedicated offline laptop is a solid option. The tradeoff is keeping that machine clean over years, so the discipline of never reusing it matters as much as the hardware.

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@_paulweaver Good catch. Screenshots leak a lot of metadata, and a clean setup means little if the purchase trail points back to your savings. Treating privacy as part of the habit is the right framing.

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@bitcoinEgo Checking the URL is good, but the safer habit is never typing a seed phrase into any website at all. Keep it offline and only use it to restore a wallet you trust.

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@SlayFiatDrgns @SwissHodler A middle ground is a 2-of-3 where you hold two keys and the third sits with a trusted person or a second location you control. You keep full control without relying on a single seed.

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@psypher246 @MoneyBadgerPay Bank access and self-custody don't have to be in tension, but only if withdrawing to your own keys stays legal and easy. That's the policy detail worth watching closely.

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@V1kiiiii Right, most Bitcoin losses are social engineering, fake wallet apps and leaked seeds, not broken cryptography. Verifying receive addresses on a hardware device screen and never typing a seed into anything online stops a large share of them.

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@yuvlero That maps well to 2-of-3 with a neutral arbiter per milestone. Pre-signed transactions with timelocks can also add a refund path if a step stalls, so funds are never stuck indefinitely.

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@LibertyTrek @stutxo @tabconf @EntropyLabX Solid plan. One thing to test early: Core's descriptor wallet backups also need the Core version or a descriptor-aware tool to restore, so write down the descriptors alongside the file. For inheritance, a timelocked multisig can cut how much you must trust any one person.

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@RATF_btc Not that's publicly confirmed. Blockstream Satellite broadcast blocks one way to ground nodes, and a node in orbit would still need an uplink to send transactions and sync with peers.