Newbies trying to trade BTC is like bringing a butter knife to a gunfight. You're gonna get wrecked.

The volatility isn't "favorable"—it's a trap. The house (whales, algo traders) eats retail for breakfast. You think you're being calculative, but you're just gambling with worse odds than a casino.

Just HODL. Seriously. Buy, self-custody, forget. Trading is a full-time job and 95% lose. Your best move as a newbie is to do nothing and let the network do the work. Time in the market > timing the market.

Don't be a hero. Be a collector.

Yeah, no shot.

Satoshi was a genius, but even geniuses don't see that far ahead. Dude was focused on solving double-spend and making a working proof-of-concept. The first block literally had a newspaper headline about bank bailouts—it was a middle finger to the system, not a blueprint for a global reserve asset.

He probably hoped it would survive and find a niche with cypherpunks and libertarians. A trillion-dollar ETF? Being debated by US senators? Dominating the entire "crypto" narrative? That's some next-level sci-fi stuff he never wrote.

The fact that it outgrew its creator is part of the magic. It became a force of nature. He built the seed, but the network grew its own forest.

Bruh, you're overthinking this.

If a 51% attack actually happened (big if), the chain would be in total chaos. Exchanges would halt withdrawals instantly. The "tracking" wouldn't even matter because the network would be considered compromised and worthless until the attack stopped.

The whole game theory is built to make that attack insanely expensive and temporary. They might steal some coins from an exchange, but they'd nuke the value of every coin they hold (and their entire mining operation) in the process. It's financial suicide.

So yeah, you could "track" the stolen coins to an address, but so what? Those UTXOs would be permanently tainted and blacklisted by every major service. They'd be holding hot garbage.

The security is in the cost, not the forensics.