No Bittrex IEO has been profitable for people who invested after the fund raising stage.

Yobit hurting their reputation? Even if they tried hard, they would fail because Yobit has consistently been one of the most shitty exchanges in the crypto space, but they are still up and running. In other words, as long as people are demanding from Yobit to financially rape them, Yobit will continue doing well. 

Lol. You want them to stop behaving like scammers, but you are actually the main reason they continue doing this, because of how you are thinking to join with a very small amount. Smh.

China isn't as united as it may seem. There are various government bodies with different layers of laws, and not only Bitcoin related parties benefit from that.

Most miners have started last year already to slowly migrate to other countries with how China isn't exactly that cheap anymore in terms of electricity, and this hasn't anything to do with the government(s) there. Some parts of China have been suffering from drought for quite a while now, and this significantly increases the electricity prices. If you add the bear market that made the price lose a lot of its value, it basically forces miners even more to look for alternative countries.

In the end, the mining aspect has had to deal with so much fud throughout the years, yet it has never gone through many problems at all. The problem is playing out between people's ears.

People nowadays either enter due to mainstream news coverage (mostly because the price has pumped hard for months straight), or scam ads and groups on social media promising insane returns. In that regard, it doesn't surprise me that we're dealing with a group of people that is only out to make profit, and I expect things to get worse as time goes by.

In the end, the best way for people to come to sense is to lose money. Period. If you get rewarded for doing stupid things (i.e. blindly investing in shitcoins and ICO's) in form of profits, how stupid are these things actually? Stupid things should make people lose money, and it's good to see that they do more often than not. It's obviously not cool to see people lose money, but it is cool to see people learn and better themselves afterwards.

I read a discussion on reddit a while ago where the point basically is that these so called perma bulls are bullish during a bear market to attract liquidity from dumb money so that they can have their own fund and the funds of their close ass buddies cash out. It makes sense to a certain degree, but at the same time also not so much sense considering that a lot of crypto funds have imploded last year.

In case of Tom Lee it's purely ignorance in my opinion. This dude entered during the bull run in 2017 and assumed that this was normal for crypto, which it obviously isn't.

There is no such a thing as definitely in any market. It all comes down to the state of the market when the Golden cross happens. If a market is already overbought, and near a level at which the price will face fierce resistance, the Golden cross might not lead to a price increase at all, and in some cases can even trigger sales. 

Another thing is that with how people now have had enough time to prepare themselves for certain events, the effectiveness of a specific event on the price will decrease. What you have is a price increase in the runup to the event, but a stagnant and decreasing price just before/after the event.

McAfee is a drug addict. He is on the side of anyone who offers him a nice payday.

The very fact that McAfee is threatening to reveal satoshi just shows how retarded he is. No one in his right mind pretending to consider Bitcoin to be a greater invention than the internet and agriculture (his actual words) would do something like that to satoshi. Bitcoin allows McAfee to enjoy financial freedom, else his finances would easily be frozen or even seized. Fucker.

Satoshi did the right thing to only interact with a select few people, and McAfee was definitely not part of it, or even close to the people who had contact with satoshi.

Can you name me one of the more recent articles that isn't clickbait one way or another?

It has been proven that articles with flashy titles attract more clicks than articles that don't have a flashy title. News outlets are businesses, so there is already the incentive for them to do it. It also comes down to how they optimize their titles and article content to improve their web ranking and searchability, so that's another incentive right there.

If you ran a business, you would also do everything to get the marketing aspect done the right way. I don't agree with it being a clickbait article, but I accept that you see it differently, and that's fine, but be at least open to look at the article from a different perspective (i.e. business perspective).

I don't see any point in offering CSW money to provide proof of something we know he isn't be able to prove.

All this is doing is grant CSW more relevance; in his book negative attention is still positive attention because more people get to know who he is, and what he is trying to achieve with "Bitcoin" aka BSV. If you want to punish CSW, the best way to do it is to not reach out to him in any way.

I see a problem here.

Lets say I have 12BTC that I want you to mix for me, that means I will usurp your entire reserve and people looking to mix their coins after me won't be able to do so because the reserve is empty. What is the process from here? Will you just use my 12BTC to directly send out to those who mix their coins after me without first letting your algorithm get rid of the taint attached to my coins?

I haven't been following Andreas too closely lately, but from what I have seen so far, he seems rather realistic and self aware enough to understand that Bitcoin isn't something that will replace banks and fiat.

There is a difference between people wanting Bitcoin to replace banks and fiat, and the probability of it to actually happen. I prefer Bitcoin to function as digital Gold, because you simply aren't messing with government currencies. The very fact that we have had an easy ride throughout the first decade is because Bitcoin has never formed even a remote threat to fiat, and I prefer to keep it like that.

The growth we have gone through is actually quite impressive, especially if you take into consideration that operating an ATM gets more difficult instead of easier with how regulatory frameworks are slowly but surely taking shape. On top of that, regulators are more actively enforcing their rules/policies, so the risk of operating an ATM has increased exponentially.

The good thing about more ATM's is that competition leads to lower fees, and that's definitely what the ATM space needs with how fees range from 5-10% in some cases.

Of course that's better, but people being so greedy aren't satisfied with what they already have. It's not for nothing that even when people invest/trade with money they can 'afford to lose', they still leverage their trades on platforms as Bitmex and rekt themselves in the process.

People don't find it worthwhile to scoop up profits of 0.005/0.01BTC per trade, while that's actually pretty decent money, especially if you can do that a few times per week. I usually trade with 1BTC at most, and the few % I manage to make (some times mildy leveraged, some times no leverage at all) is something I to this day am still very happy with.

Bitmex is a casino more often than not, and most people walk away with losses. Doing 100x isn't normal, neither is 50x but it has become that with how fearless and greedy people are.

Dumb money at its finest. I found it quite hilarious to see how people who joined in 2017 legit believed that crypto could only go up. I still browse through last year's social media posts where people said that $17,000, $16,000, $15,000 etc, were great dips to buy and that $50,000 before the end of 2018 is a realistic target.

The correction that we have seen happen last year made these get rich quick noobs finally respect this market more, because you are NOT an expect just because everything in a bull run is going up. Seriously, you could have bought a random shitcoin and still make insane profits.

Fundamentals didn't play a single role back then. More precisely said, the coins with the worst fundamentals actually outperformed the coins with the best fundamentals, percentage-wise. Sure, there is not all that much liquidity in most shitcoins for deep pocket investors, but for a newbie investing a few thousand it's more than enough to do the job.

Being a contrarian is a good thing most of the times, but didn't work out well back in 2017. Almost every $1000 increase was seen as the next top, and the reason for most contrarians to believe it would crash was that people (i.e. dumb money) were so excited and bullish that we would reach much higher levels.

The main reason for me not to sell so early on in 2017 is that I am a firm hodler, because a lot needs to happen for me to start selling coins. I don't really see it as an investment, it's what I consider digital Gold that offers me financial freedom, which I am not going to sell, unless the market has gone so crazy high that I can no longer resist selling a portion of my total stack.

If you think that's so, then buy as many coins as possible right now and hold them for a long time. That's the only way to not feel like that again during the next bull wave.

I remember back in 2015 that I found $500 a bit too high to dollar cost average into the market after having bought myself a good number of coins below $300, but look at where we are right now. Feeling sad about missing the boat is something you should do when we're hovering over the $100,000 level, and not at current levels if you're interested in the very long term.

Not very convincing. The figure of €10 billion is extremely high. They very likely manipulated the metrics, which news outlets love to do. They could have grabbed the total number of coins throughout the whole year of 2018 that they assumed were used in illegal activities, and measured it against the $17,000 value in January of 2018.  

The funny thing is that what they preach against, is very likely the only thing that will be able to offer a solid hedge against their own failing economy, lol.

In case of Binance for sure. It's the ideal way for them to get some mainstream media exposure while this is being covered throughout the whole world.

CZ definitely knows how to market Binance in the best possible way, which also applies to how they used the anti CSW sentiment to gain goodwill from the community, and that's something they definitely needed after all the IEO's that a lot of people lost a lot of money with.

If this continues, the donations will soon surpass the $1 billion mark. Another thing that massively contributed is how the French president is very close with the super elite there, and this is an excellent opportunity for him to show that he's using his connections for a good cause.

Ok, so the only reason you say the current price is low is because of the all time high being $20,000? Doesn't make much sense at all, especially with how little time we actually spent around the peak. It was a hype driven peak that in no shape or form reflected the actual fundamentals, and that right is more or less what we are left with now the hype is over.

From a TA standpoint, the price is quite overbought and a correction is looming. There are some things that keep the bulls thriving for now, so we'll have to see how this plays out, but purely based on the probability of a profitable trade, it makes more sense to be short than long right now.

Newbies only sell if they actually see the price go down. Most of them don't pay attention to what is being said, because if that was the case, it would also work in times where all sorts of self claimed experts throw around with bullish predictions. It all comes down to action -> reaction. Price up = people buy. Price down = people sell.

This isn't something that only applies to Bitcoin. The exact same market psychology also applies to the stock market and other tradable assets.

The mainstream media always refers to Bitcoin when there is a significant price increase or decrease.

You don't ever see them cover how Ethereum or XRP has gone up or down a lot. In that regard, the most probable search option will be Bitcoin related. Another thing is that most unregulated exchanges offer only crypto to crypto trades, and you need to buy Bitcoin first to buy whatever altcoin, so Bitcoin is the most probable search option here too.

I always found these Google trends to be extremely flawed because they lag behind the actual trend itself. By the time Google trends have peaked, the actual peak in demand for whatever coin might already have faded with how quick things can change here.