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Very common in speculative volatile markets like crypto, is to see how people become overly pessimistic once certain resistances are broken.

We have broken the January 17th bottom of low $9000, so people expect further crashing due the double bottom+recovery scenario being ruled out... now this is when people start calling wild lower bottoms, and now it's also when Bitcoin crushes the overly pessimistic shorts by deciding to start crawling back up at least expect price.

If you have held this long all the way down $20,000, just keep holding. For anyone that held from $1200 to $150 in the MtGox crash the current crash is another day in the office. So don't make the mistake of being overly pessimistic or you'll end up selling at the bottom. It's the same as being overly optimistic and buying at the peak. Keep a hold head and a strong hand, the fundamentals are good. Lightning is here. I claim we'll see Steam accepting Bitcoin payments again through LN and this will mark the start of mainstream LN adoption. Give it a few months and buy while the noobs start thinking once again that Bitcoin is dead.

This is horrible advice. What logic suggests that bitcoin will ever set a new all time high again? Why do you think it's not a problem that bitcoin is not scalable and therefore can never become a universal currency? Why is it not a problem that transaction fees are absurdly high and take a long time? What about the fact that governments are cracking down and companies are banning crypto-related services and ads?

And most of all, what about the fact that there is now much greater competition among alt coins than there ever was in the past, making the crypto space infinitely inflationary? Why are none of these things an issue? Any one of these is enough reason for bitcoin to never reach its previous highs again. Honestly this decline is more than warranted. It should continue for quite a while and I don't see any reason to think it will ever recover. This is very different from in the past for all of the reasons I mentioned above.

For the record, I owned bitcoin for years and sold my last remaining btc at $17,700.

Not only lightning, theres also MAST, smart contracts for bitcoin:

https://www.coindesk.com/inside-mast-little-known-plan-advance-bitcoin-smart-contracts/

I'm going to bleed as bitcoin touches 5k, but I'm not all-in, so no need to sell.

The problem with most people is that they put all their eggs in a single basket. They go full into crypto and dont inform themselves about the risks. Thats why we have those crashes.

On a sidenote, my QT wallet got better after I put the blockchain in my SSD. Now it is synching fast and no more sluggishness.

From now until the next all time high we're gonna be swamped with geniuses in retrospect.

What I find tiresome is the endless search for definitive moments.

Every reversal is more than likely not IT, just as every fall is not the death spiral the noob account assholes shout about.

Most of the time the next move is not epic. It'll be forgotten in a few hours.

Let it play out and go do something more productive.

The scaling problems are being addressed with new research on signature formats and second layer solutions, not to mention that for BTC to reach $100,000+ it would only require a small % of capital allocated in gold to get into bitcoin, so solely as a store of value, ignoring the fee problems, BTC has a potential of 6 figures.

Anyone that got into Bitcoin thinking that governments wouldn't attack it is delusional, crypto-related services and ICO scams being advertised are irrelevant for Bitcoin's rise.

Altcoins do not inflate Bitcoin, Bitcoin still has a 21 million coin limit supply.

Bitcoin will reach a new all time high, either as an underground stoppable store of value alone keeping people's wealth safe from corrupt governments, or as a successful currency via second layers as well.

We will revisit your post once we reach ATH.

Can't agree more. It's quite entertaining actually to see the market panic and people go full nuts on social media, and even on this forum. Main point of importance is that while people believed the $10k level to be an important support level, it was far from that in reality since it has been broken 3 times already. That's basically a perfect indication that suport levels of the past aren't really any different from regular levels right now. I haven't bought yet since I prefer to keep waiting, but will definitely pull the trigger once the market happens to tank deeper. In the meanwhile people should focus on other things as you also pointed out -- holders don't lose anything as long as they aren't selling, and traders have the time of their life now.

I think it's pretty much equal both ways, with some majority creeping in as the market swings in favour of agreeing view. This is how it works in what we already know is an extremely volatile market. I must admit I felt a little gulp logging in today to see the prices, I felt Bitcoin seemed to be quite comfortable swimming around the 10k level.

Holding bravely right now is probably what holders are thinking now. I'm still rather unperturbed, happy to be earning a little bit extra during this dip.


Perhaps we can forgive it, if we assume that the majority of posters are in fact still finding the experience new. But I agree that this endless postulating by accounts that eventually get abandoned, only to resurface months later with some victory parade celebrating their preordained moments.

I predict Altcoin slaughterhouse the next few weeks/months and BTC bottom between 3-4 k, at which point I shall buy.

Next growth cycle will start with LN, my Palantir says this summer.

If that's really your target, then you'll need a whole lot of patience, because nothing justifies the price to fall down that much. Current levels are quite a good buy, and if you choose to wait, then you'll miss out.

I honestly don't see the market shoot up significantly, but anything above the $10,000 mark seems to be perfectly acceptable for me. But I do agree on LN to be the next bull run initiator.

People should understand that red market days are perfect moments to open positions, and this seems to be the case as well. Anyone not buying at current levels is just wasting a precious opportunity.

This correction was utterly needed and is good and healthy. It has to last a few more weeks/months till all the "get rich quick" kiddies left the boat.

You are right but there are many investors that are influenced by the market, if you made a question about the future price of bitcoin in December then you could have gotten answers like 40k or 50k but now that the price has gone down for some time people are very pessimistic, however bitcoin is still strong, there is nothing wrong with the network, the reason the price is going down is mostly due to politics and not any technical aspect of bitcoin, so holding is still the best strategy to make money.

in my experience of past 4 years the "pessimistic bottom callers" are bulls who want to buy at a little lower price to make profit from the rise. almost everyone of these bullshitters who has said for example "price will fall to $6000" had their buy orders placed at $9999 and wanted to make profit from the rise back to $11k-14k. those "pessimistic bottom callers" are now fucked :D which is why we don't see any of them making any noise right now.

I doubt the fall will be so dramatic, but I agree with you on the other point. I also think that the greatest growth will be observed in Summer.

Agreed. This is the stage where it's full panic mode, especially the newbies. People will set random arbitrary numbers as the bottom bitcoin will experience, and most of the time it's going to be absolutely absurd and won't happen, ever.

For instance, I saw an article today with 2 guys claiming BTC is going to drop to $20... Crazy.

Others have some more logical predictions such as $4-5k, as a bottom. But I think that we're going to hang around $8k-12k for a while still. Don't forget the fact that just a month ago we were around $17k in price. We could easily go back up there, of course with the current scenario people won't think of that, though.

What esle do you expect from people who are only concerned about the price of bitcoin as their sole motive for being involved in it and related activities. I have even seen a thread that is rooting for bitcoin heading to $1000, some saying bitcoin end is near and a host of other pessimistic moves but for the strong ones, they are staying strong in the face it seeming impossible there is possibiktu.

Well finally a positive thing to ponder on. You shot it right in the forehead dude. Everyone seems to be stressed out by how btc is moving and doomsday peeps are shouting bubble, crash and other scary stuff. Funny how people waited for the right time to enter and then panic when its here lol

Yes, typically people that call bottoms have their orders set higher than what they are calling.

We now saw the "bottom is $7500" prediction come true, but of course, it didn't go as low as $7500, it went at $7650 Bitstamp, and $7960 Bitfinex. Notice how it QUICKLY pumped the closer we went to $7500, since the closer we got, the higher chances of missing buying that ideal entry point.

Now FOMO is going to kick in and we are going to be at $10k within hours. $7500 was a way stronger support than $10k. So out of any unlucky news with further FOMOing, we are going higher from now on. We need to break $10k once again and sustain it for a while to regain confidence

If $7500 falls it's going to be a big fail for a lot of reputed traders like Vays. Im going to give them a chance and I personally always bet at $7500 as the strongest recovery point and so far the market has panicked upwards.

Loosing ~+50% of bitcoin price value (same goes for alts) over few months is kinda shocking every new participants in the crypto-world.
I am a little bit worried about this crash but will not sell a cent.
HODLing forevah!

This is looking great. Looks like the classic recovery pattern, bounced right at the 200 day moving average and it's looking healthy. Im looking forward to see a battle for the $10k+ again. These type of corrections are very healthy, because when we go further, we will not be paranoid about never having re-touched former support lines, in this case we confirmed the long term line that touched $7500 which coincided with the 200 day moving average, which is why im very bullish now (and will be even more once we can stay above $10k for a while), coupled with the good fundamentals: lightning network has now more than 400 nodes on mainnet, and 1000+ channels:

https://lnmainnet.gaben.win/

Things are moving in a positive direction, don't get confused by the FUDed price.

Agree.

First of all bitcoin simply can't replicate the 9000% gains it's had in the past. It would require billions entering bitcoin to achieve that.

Secondly, it's a red flag that merchants are dumping bitcoin, but enabling alts. It means that the network effect is switching from bitcoin towards alts.

It wouldn't be that hard and far fetched for billions to enter bitcoin in the future if you consider the insane amount of money out there:

https://money.visualcapitalist.com/worlds-money-markets-one-visualization-2017/

Considering the huge capital sitting on completely nonsensical assets like most bonds which will not make it long term, many companies which will stop giving out dividends, or who knows if the S&P500 will get an huge correction in the coming 2 years, plus the always underperforming gold lately... there's many, many billions that are going to end up in Bitcoin eventually, and when that happens the gains we will see will make it go parabolic dwarfing previous events.

I personally don't see this as pessimism but a clamber of investments and opportunities are being created for those who wanted Bitcoins for low.
People are being scared currently by their Governments that Bitcoins may be banned, but can it ever be? There's a simple answer, No.
Smart investors are taking the advantage of panic sells and buying it at current price (who knows whether this is not the bottom yet), but they are still buying it. Some buying to make more profits while others to recover their loss, but whoever is purchasing is thinking smart instead of selling off their current stash.

Lightning network addresses transaction/scalability issues to an extent, but still has many open questions.

Why on earth would any portion of gold investment go into bitcoin to have it as a store of value when its value can drop by 20% or more in just a day? How is that storing value? Ask the people who bought at $15k+ how that is working out for them as a store of value. For something to be a store of value it should have a very long history of doing so, being physical is a big plus, it should have intrinsic value, and it should be very non-volatile. Bitcoin has none of these properties.

Altcoins give bitcoin competition and inflate the entire crypto space, thus pushing down the price of all cryptocurrencies, bitcoin most of all (since it is the current market leader). The more alt coins that get created, the more competition there is and the more spread out crypto investments become.

Bitcoin does not keep people's wealth safe. It puts it in extreme danger by exposing it to insane volatility, and potential inability to liquidate. If exchanges were banned, even if you had offline coins you could never liquidate them.

Yes please let's revisit this post.

Of course, but it's looking good, the mainnet is working fine, we are on the early days, if you want to get rich you can't get in when everything is clear, no risk no reward.


Ehh, because gold is a failure as a store of wealth, as it can be confiscated with a simple law, namely:

http://www.infiniteunknown.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/gold-confiscation-roosevelt-1933.jpg

All the government needs to do is to pass this law once again, then you are stuck with an useless piece of metal, which you will never be able to move across borders, and believe me, the government will find your gold if you attempt to hide in your backyard.

With bitcoin, you can store it and move it around seamlessly, this makes it worth $trillions alone, the world just has to catch up to this fact.


Altcoins are scams, the market has yet to realize this, once it realizes this, all the money in scams will go to bitcoin. Until then and while it's profitable, speculating with altcoins (to sell them for more bitcoins) will continue.


Yes it does. Nobody can steal your bitcoins, nobody can counterfeit it, gold can. Volatility against fiat is irrelevant, in the long term you are only going up.

All big trades happen OTC, no need for exchanges which are all scams. Also it's impossible to ban all exchanges since there are tons and sitting on different jurisdictions.


Indeed we will.

First of all altcoins are bringing the precious volume to the cryptocurrencies. Bitcoin would hardly had the current value if there was no Ethereum. ETH wouldn't have its price if there was no ICOs and so on. Sooner or later the market is gona be purged from the unneeded / scam altcoins and the situation will get better.
Cryptomarket is still very young right now and it can't be blamed for that, if you don't belive in the future of cryptos then this forum will probably be a bad place for you. Bitcoin price may change frequently but the only thing that will remain the same is the ownership of BTC. Once you have  your money on your bank account there is a chance that your acc will be blocked or withdraws will become limited due to any governmental restrictions. It is hard to believe but this still happens in the 21st sentury. While having a bitcoin you are the only one who have access to it.