I'd be happy to translate your whitepaper but first I am going to invade vacation in Crete, Greece, for a week. See you guys in a week!  
Edit: thanks for the merits, menace. I hope we will both be adopted by the same confused Armenian woman someday.

I for one, do not want a sane mymenace. You are 56% of the reason why I even go on this site for closet gays.

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I was kind of thinking about a post made by infofront a few pages back, in which he indicated that the sentiment that bitcoin prices was going to go further down had increased from a bit less than 50% in April to a bit more than 80% in recent times.    So, yeah, perhaps you could have been considered in the 80%?


I know how any of us can get caught up about thinking about our average cost per BTC, and also considering that we could have had a lower number if x, y or z, but in the end, we have to attempt to learn from our mistakes, and don't become too extreme in our betting.

If you recall Elwar had been buying into bitcoin since before 2013, and likely he made a lot of mistakes too.  If you recall somewhere in about mid 2016 (around $650), he had made a really large purchase into bitcoin with a kind of leveraging (using proceeds from a sale), and a lot of folks accused him of being crazy.  I think he was under water for a while, and it was around the time of the bitfinex hack, so people accused him of being stupid.  Anyhow, my point is that a lot of people can invest and even be underwater for a while, yet with the right strategies (especially engaging in long term thinking), end up coming out quite well.. and even with a lot of equity built up in their bitcoin investment due to just HODLing through the ups and downs and in the long run, the average price per BTC does not look as large - meaning your level of profits become more and more considerable.



Actually what matters is all of that including the past, but surely both the future and the present are important too.. because each of us still has to employ our individual strategy and even tweak our strategy in the present based on our own financial situation which can differ in terms of our cash flow, cash reserves, risk tolerance, timeline, view of bitcoin, etc..



Probably an important aspect is that you seemed to have learned from the whole way that this bitcoin invention is playing out, and a lot of us recognize that the adoption level of bitcoin remains so small, and even if the whole damned thing fails, there is a kind of ability to weigh the probabilities of success and the probabilities of failure, and figure out that it is quite wise to put some decent sized stake into bitcoin - even if it is less than 10% of your total financial investment assets.  Sometimes you might not want to risk too much but even with a relatively small bet, your bitcoin portion of your investment has decent probabilities of outperforming your other investments in the longer term.



I think that I agree with what you are saying here, because we should have some stake into bitcoin, even if we believe that the price is going lower.  So,  we do have to have some stake in the game in case the price does not go down, but instead goes up.  Accordingly, we are prepared for the BTC price to go either UP or DOWN.

Wow bcashers spinning up FUD lately, somethings in the making?

Take that for granted: Bcash will NEVER take Bitcoins position, never ever. And if you somehow manage to take it violently, Bitcoin will take your shitty Altcoin to the abyss.  No option for victory here, max. a Pyrrhic victory.

The US dollar hasn't had any real value since they went off the gold standard, the only thing that is still giving it value is the fear of their massive military.

Arthur Hayes, co-founder and CEO of BitMEX, on two separate occasions this year declared BTC will get to $50,000 in 2018

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/06/29/bitcoin-will-reach-50000-in-2018-says-founder-of-bitcoin-exchange.html

So who can see this happening?

I haven't noticed any scum here.

Many countries in the world suffers from the rise of the dollar in addition to the devaluation of its local currencies.
The dispute between USA and Turkey is political. USA is hiding a criminal clerk (Turkey point of view of course) and refuse to extradite it to Turkey. Now when Turkey detained a criminal clerk (or at least considering the Turkish version), USA is forcing Turkey to return its angel back and when Turkey refuse since the situation should be solved in the court like any democratic country, USA made sanctions to some Turkish political figures.
USA under Trump is acting like a gang more than a civilised country. I don't know until now how could he passed the medical test before becoming a president!

I'm guessing this is a Russian mistranslation of deer-in-the-headlights. A troll right out of the discount bin. This is what it's come to.

It's a chance to corner BITCOIN market, i'm sure it won't be hard to find some companies to throw few millions/yr at it to keep it at 1-5% of BTC. Kinda like playing lottery on a corporate scale, chances are practically non existent but payoff is h'UUGE!