# $BTC Catalyst Posts & Social Intelligence Recap — April 17, 2025

> **Asset:** $BTC  
> **Date:** 2025-04-17 (April 17, 2025)  
> **Canonical URL:** https://cryptitalk.com/tokens/btc/2025-04-17  
> **Token Profile:** https://cryptitalk.com/tokens/btc.md  
> **Market Rankings:** https://cryptitalk.com/rankings.md  

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## Curated Viral Posts & Community Evidence


### Post #1 by @raw_avocado
> **Author:** Alex Waltz ([@raw_avocado](https://x.com/raw_avocado))  
> **Metrics:** 474 likes · 68 retweets · 27 comments · 38.7K views  

> **Posted:** 2025-04-17T13:22:38+00:00  


> **Source Link:** [https://x.com/raw_avocado/status/1912859249455124922](https://x.com/raw_avocado/status/1912859249455124922)  


> **Visual Note:** The image shows the original Bitcoin client's Settings menu, featuring a "Generate Coins" option highlighted with a red arrow and "GENERATE COINS" text overlay, alongside configuration settings including a proxy IP (127.0.0.1), port (9050), and various checkbox options. This illustrates the historical mining function that was once built directly into the Bitcoin client before being removed in version 0.3.22 in June 2011 due to the shift away from solo CPU mining.  

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> "Did you know the original Bitcoin client had a Generate Coins button?

When activated it would use the CPU to mine Bitcoins.

It was removed with Bitcoin 0.3.22 in June 2011 as mining become more specialised and moved away from solo-miners."


### Post #2 by @dgt10011
> **Author:** Jeff Park ([@dgt10011](https://x.com/dgt10011))  
> **Metrics:** 76 likes · 5 retweets · 14 comments · 14.9K views  

> **Posted:** 2025-04-17T11:13:53+00:00  


> **Source Link:** [https://x.com/dgt10011/status/1912826848469274822](https://x.com/dgt10011/status/1912826848469274822)  


> **Video Content:** Sample video description 6  

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> "Gold is up another 3.25% since I posted, which implies an upside vol of 52

The biggest downside case for Bitcoin that nobody is talking about is a gold melt up

When gold vol > BTC vol"


### Post #3 by @ColeTU
> **Author:** Cole ([@ColeTU](https://x.com/ColeTU))  
> **Metrics:** 34 likes · 16 retweets · 7 comments · 7.1K views  

> **Posted:** 2025-04-17T18:49:22+00:00  


> **Source Link:** [https://x.com/ColeTU/status/1912941474016026719](https://x.com/ColeTU/status/1912941474016026719)  


> 
> "How to update ColdCard Q firmware. 

On YouTube now. Link below"




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