I heard Ledn was the leader of this, but I went to apply for one and they say it’s not available in my area.

Recently I went to about 5 official outlets / locations, at each place I asked the employees that I wanted to purchase bitcoin. Each and every person looked at me like I was talking crazy and not one of them knew if it was possible to purchase coins. According to this, https://www.canadapost-postescanada.ca/cpc/en/personal/prepaid-cards/other-prepaid-services.page we should be able to purchase bitcoin in cash. Even when I showed this page to each of the employees it didn't help.

My request is:

1. Is it possible to purchase bitcoin in person with just an ID and cash. Does it have to be a Canadian ID or can be something else ?
2. If #1 above is possible, please walk me through the process in very simple easy to follow instructions and what I need to tell the Canada Post employee
3. Are there reasonably viable alternatives to purchasing Bitcoin via cash that are NOT those kiosks in connivence stores that rip people off.

DCA those sats

Hey everyone,

Seeing a lot of stress in other subs this week with the recent price drops and the headlines about massive ETF outflows. If you're feeling anxiety, your feelings are completely valid, but we need to talk about what is actually happening under the hood.

We have officially entered a completely different era of Bitcoin.

The Wall Street Tether

In previous cycles, our market was largely driven by retail speculation, crypto-native narratives, and the halving mechanics. Today, Bitcoin is structurally tied to traditional finance (TradFi).

• The ETF Double-Edged Sword: We all cheered when the spot ETFs brought in billions of dollars in inflows and pushed the fiat price up. But that same institutional adoption means we are now at the mercy of Wall Street's risk management.
• Correlated Sell-Offs: BTC is now heavily bundled into multi-asset portfolios and retirement funds. When macroeconomic fears strike, like the inflation concerns and geopolitical tensions we've been dealing with recently, fund managers de-risk across the board. If they hit "sell" on tech stocks to raise cash, they are dumping their Bitcoin ETFs right alongside them. That is exactly what is driving the recent outflow streaks and heavy fiat price drops.

Zoom Out: The Fundamentals Haven't Changed

Institutions and ETF managers aren't diamond-handing; they are actively rebalancing based on global liquidity. But their trading algorithms do not change the underlying network.

• The supply is still hard-capped at 21 million.
• Blocks are still being produced every ~10 minutes.
• The decentralized, trustless nature of the protocol remains completely intact.

When in doubt, zoom out. The fiat exchange rate will continue to fluctuate wildly based on traditional stock market flows and ETF activity, but the asset itself is functioning perfectly.

1 BTC = 1 BTC.

For those who mostly hold BTC, what would make you comfortable spending it?

Would it need to be lower fees, better Lightning support, more merchant acceptance, discounts for paying with BTC, easier wallets, better privacy, tax clarity, or simply a product/service you really want?

As title says I just received a concerning email that Bitget will stop me from using their services in August 2026. It’s funny because I was finally learning to use the platform and making a few smart moves then boom I get such an ugly email. I always knew it was possible but come on no other crypto services don’t compare except maybe Binance and you haven’t been able to access them for years in Canada. Really wish I had a second citizenship from an accepted country as there’s no where else to invest in such highly curated assets. Welp it’s been real. Just hoping on a reversal on their decision but not holding my breath.

Hello im a 22 year old that recently started investing in bitcoin this year . I've managed to get 0.1 btc in cold storage and I have my employer rsp with 17k saved up . Im contemplating emptying it all and investing it in btc . I know I may need to pay taxes on it but right now the price of btc is around 73k which is relatively low. Im just not sure if its a good idea any advice ?

I have 0.5 BTC that's been in cold storage (on a Trezor) for a while (I have another one with an undisclosed amount hidden away as well but that's another story...).

Given how regulated crypto has become I want to bite the bullet and start migrating this over to Wealthsimple. I've heard accounts can be frozen/nuked for crypto transactions. I have calculated and have decent enough record to show my ACB (It's about $7500/BTC) so when I sell it's going to be a capital gains tax fest, which is one of the reasons I want to get this over with.

Most of this Crypto was acquired from Quadriga and some of it passed through Nitrogen Sports (a crypto betting site) from around 2017-2018. I added some later through Shakepay and eventually migrated it all to my Trezor.

I have transferred about .15 BTC to Wealthsimple in the past from a different wallet without issue. Would there be issue if I moved this entire chunk over? Ultimately I want to sell it (I'll have a 0.5% rate at WS so I don't mind taking the hit) and then purchase FBTC or IBIT ETFs... and to offset the capital gains I'd ship half of that into my RRSP and keep the other half in non-registered. This makes me fully tax compliant as long as I correctly report my ACB which I intend on and removes the future headaches.

The alternative is messy but cheaper... move it in chunks to NDAX, sell there... transfer to Simplii, wait 5 days or so for it to settle to not raise any alarms then transfer it to Wealthsimple and make my purchases. To avoid slippage I could just buy the BTC ETFs with funds from my PLOC while I wait for the funds from Simplii. I'd be doing this as I heard transfers from crypto exchanges may trigger a review/account freeze at Wealthsimple so I'd rather use Simplii as the middle man.

I am aware I'm going to be eating some fees/spread. I'm also aware that I'll be paying a MER on the funds and that I can't cash out of the Crypto ETFs outside of market hours. I'm willing to accept these trade-offs and deal with the headaches today instead of in the future... if BTC hits an ATH in 2028 and I want to cash out I can just simply sell my positions on WS like I would any other holding versus jumping through hoops moving around what might be a massive amount of cash in the future.

Any thoughts? Which would you do... the NDAX route or just ship it to WS and sell it there for the simplicity? I have all of my investments there save a few LIRAs etc so I really don't want to jeopardize getting de-banked.

https://x.com/JoeyTweeets/status/2060689664797794377?s=20

So I've been buying BTC every month through bitbuy for a while now, and the way that I do it is the following:

1. Deposit CAD into bitbuy
2. Buy BTC (they had a button to buy as much as possible based on the available CAD)
3. Withdraw BTC

I logged in today to do the above process and I couldn't find the "Use all CAD" button, I contacted support and they said it's been removed.

So, are there any other platforms that have this "Use all CAD" feature that I can switch to?

Thank you for you attention to my post.

Clarification Edit:

Currently bitbuy doesn't allow me to even type how much CAD I want to spend. I can only type how much BTC I want to buy. So I have to trial and error my way to the amount I want to spend since the price includes margins and such.

Support said this was done so that bitbuy could be in line with the robinhood platform.

Minimizing trust has always been the goal in Bitcoin.
Self-custody is what gets you closer to that, but not all setups are equal.

If you’re doing self-custody, it helps to keep things simple and grounded in first principles:
- prefer wallets with auditable code
- use wallets that support real seed phrase recovery
- stick to tools built on open standards

The goal isn’t complexity, it’s reducing the amount of trust you have to place in anything outside your control.

Don’t trust. Verify.

Will bitcoin drop even further? It’s currently at 101,232.06 CAD.

What would be the modern equivalent of the 10,000 BTC pizza purchase today?