In the last 30 days, Gemini has seen a substantial amount of #Bitcoin withdrawn from their reserves.
Now, one of the popular theories is that this was BlackRock accumulating for their ETF, but no one knows for sure.
Personally, I’m focusing on the moral of the story.
If you don’t withdraw your #Bitcoin from exchanges…somebody else WILL. 
There will be no next #Bitcoin.
Especially when the things claiming to be are centralized, with their outcomes linked to #Bitcoin’s success.
If #Bitcoin fails they all fail immediately, but if #Bitcoin is successful they get to fail in a slower fashion.
Don’t 💩coin people!! 
Did you know the last time volatility was this low was in January? When we were at $16k?
Price isn’t the most important thing about #Bitcoin, but it IS a rabbit that many will follow.
Personally, price doesn’t matter to me, I’ll exchange my dollars for #BTC regardless. 
A lot of smooth brains will lose interest in #Bitcoin when volatility is low and NGU is gone. Don’t follow the crowd! Instead use this to your advantage. I don’t know when they will pile back in, but I know they won’t take their time when they do. 
I like the ai art, I make it all and pay for the subscriptions necessary, I would stop but I feel like it’s a nice touch sometimes yknow? I’m also a creature of habit idk if I’ll ever stop stacking Bitcoin or making ai w my posts, I apologize!
Having a spot ETF won’t make or break #Bitcoin.
It would only butter our bread! 
#Bitcoin Whales are going long; a dip wouldn’t just provide cheaper sats, it would also wipe out leverage, which I am all for.
Sadly, I’m afraid this is big brain money, and a rally may be just around the corner.
Get ready, weak hands have been purged and strong hands forged. 
The chop couldn’t take me out at the bottom, so I laugh at the chop on a higher low.
We will melt faces in due time.
Stack #Bitcoin at these opportune levels before they’re gone! 
There’s FUD out there claiming #Bitcoin transactions are too slow and costly for day to day use, just wait until they find out about the Lightning Network.
As Lightning’s infrastructure expands; its efficiency increases.
There is no second best, because the best just keeps getting better. 
You are bullish because we will never see #Bitcoin under $15.5k again.
I’m bullish because we will never see #Bitcoin dominance below 40% again.
We are not the same. 😂 
This is the calm before the storm. people are looking too close, chop can be scary, but not having enough #Bitcoin is a nightmare.
I’ll take the chop as long as I can get it. 
A lack of #Bitcoin buyers has never affected my conviction and I don’t think it ever will.
I’m actually the reason grocery stores stopped handing out samples. As a kid I would see the delectable treats on display.
“TRY ME”
The weird thing was most people would walk right by. I however would hit every single sample bar and eat all the goodies inside.
#Bitcoin is like the free samples. I’ll ALWAYS take as much as I can get. If others fail to see and seize the opportunity, too bad…MORE FOR ME. 
I really don’t want to compete with the largest asset managers for the remaining #Bitcoin, but I might have no other choice.
My only hope relies on Brian Armstrong flying too close to the sun and botching the whole thing. So far odds seem in my favor, especially since people are getting overly optimistic on approval. 
Unless Coinbase starts moving towards #Bitcoin only; I don’t see the SEC approving their surveillance sharing agreement with any of the ETFs.
Lucky for us plebs, Coinbase seems to be moving right into the WRONG direction.
Approval or denial of the ETFs it’s a win-win. 
Sometimes I wonder if I’ll ever be able to buy $1 million+ worth of #Bitcoin in one go. I’ve come NO WHERE close so far and tbh I’m not sure how I would. Seeing whales do it is easy to envy. However, I can find peace in the fact that humble plebs, myself included, stack what they can for better days, and will see JUST the same purchasing power protection as whales relative to their size.
Even if the spot #Bitcoin ETFs get rejected by the SEC, I doubt applicants will give up on refilling and trying to comply with the SEC’s ruling, maybe this is what Novogratz meant by, “A matter of when not if”. 
Staying humble and stacking sats is the tortoise to leverage and trading #Bitcoin’s hare. Slow and steady will always win the race over the long run. 
The SEC has until August 13th to approve, delay, or deny Ark Invest and 21Shares’ spot #Bitcoin ETF.
The outcome will be helpful in signifying what to expect as a result from other ETFs that have deadlines at later dates.
The USA putting off #Bitcoin adoption could weaken our country’s economic power vs a country that adopts before us, ETF approvals are just the first steps of many to avoid this. 
The spot #Bitcoin ETF’s expectations for approval keep increasing, and I think it’s important to keep in mind; the fact the largest asset managers in the world want into the market is > the negative impact a rejection would cause.
The outcome of the Grayscale trial will be a helpful indicator as to what to expect of the SEC’s decision on the ETF’s.
The decision is expected to be made on the Grayscale trial by the end of September.
Which, too my knowledge, is also when nostr:npub1a2cww4kn9wqte4ry70vyfwqyqvpswksna27rtxd8vty6c74era8sdcw83a’s book, “Broken Money”, is dropping, AND my birthday. I feel very fortunate and excited! 🥳🧡 
While the Lightning Network isn’t perfect, it is improving. Channels and liquidity will grow, even if slowly.
Eventually #Bitcoin and Lightning will be adopted and used by mainstream merchants, merchants who run their own nodes and channels would likely save money on rebalancing their channels over paying credit card companies.
The more Lightning and #Bitcoin are adopted, the bigger the incentives to keep it running, even perfect it.
Current efforts to enable offline/async payments show this, and will be beneficial for both users and node runners.
The only options in the works for async payments, that I know of, are: trampoline relay payments, Lightning Rod, and Point Time Locked Contracts. 