Who are these manipulators? Whales? Just because someone has deeper pockets than you doesn't mean they are manipulating the price. Instead, they are actually losing out due to the slippage they have to deal with.

They have no choice but to either 'pump' or 'dump' in order to open or close their positions. In other words, the only aspect here to blame is the lack of liquidity, and it is something that won't change any time soon.

What exactly do you mean with miners not being active? That they aren't dumping their coins anymore? If so, then you're wrong--miners continuously sell to cover operational cost, and that has never stopped.

That's not really something to look forward to considering that the market isn't doing what people expect/hope it will do. It makes sense as well, because people are well prepared in that case and will unload their bags on the way up.

2017s bull run was so powerful because it popped up in our face out of nothing, and when people aren't prepared for it, they'll fuel the bull run by fomo'ing into the market at any price just to capture that exposure.

Important note here is that you don't have to wait for a bull run to profit. It's just as profitable to buy in low and sell 50-100% higher with a moderate leverage count. Waiting till 2020/2021 is just a waste of time and opportunities....

I can remember that people were initially hyping him up, but that definitely changed after how he made himself look like a fool with his failed predictions. He shot himself in the foot, and that time on time again.

I won't take any of his predictions serious until he understands what this market is about when hype is no longer the main price driver. He will get it eventually, but it will take some time.

Being wrong each time has definitely had an impact on him and who knows, maybe he can stop being a meme and become someone who people actually value. It's hard to imagine now, but everyone deserves a second shot.

These specific domains are very short, that's what makes them attractive. A few examples here:

bitcoindev.com vs bitcoin.dev
bitcoinexchange.com vs bitcoin.exchange
bitcoinloan.com vs bitcoin.loan

In most cases these specific domains are way cheaper as well. .COMs are going for millions depending on the domain, while most of these specific domains well under the $100k mark.

Overall, domain trading is quite a shitty business to be in. People ask too much for certain domains while they only appeal to those who are looking to actually utilize it and have it become a brand.

I won't be deleting my account because they offer me BTC deposits and withdrawals without verification. Last year it was said that they will force everyone to verify themselves, but I can still freely use my account there.

A lot of people use Coinbase to move value instantly within their ecosystem, and as long as that is the case, most people will continue to use them. What alternative is there to Coinbase?

I'm sure that by the time people start fomo buying again they will sign up to Coinbase and start from scratch. If there were alternatives that were legit better, ok, it makes sense to leave, but there aren't for most people here...

Coinbase isn't as big as it used to be. It has lost a lot of market share to Binance, and I don't see anything indicating that things will change any time soon, especially with how Binance now also supports fiat trading.

Currently they only support Euro and GBP trading, but it's only a matter of time before they start offering USD trading as well, and that's when Coinbase will very likely lose its main share of dominance as fiat entry/exit point.

Are there really that many worthwhile cryptotubers doing TA on youtube? The only thing I see them do is rehash the same obvious patterns over and over again, and then just move their target lines because the market wicked above it.

I can do that too. It's not hard to draw triangles and use Fibonacci retracement and then wind up a whole story around it pointing at moving averages. Too much noise and very little signal.

It's basic understanding, but with how people don't know anything about trading at all, everyone with that basic understanding will look like an expert to you. It's not for nothing that people pay for their courses and signals....

Till the price tanks to $2000 (just an example) and you regret not having sold around $3800 when you had the chance but didn't because you considered that price to be very low.

My main point is that crypto (even Bitcoin) can always go lower in the short term with how there is nothing that prevents panic sellers from dumping. They don't care about the fundamentals, they just want to exit.

If we look at what happened so far, those who panic sold last year before we tanked below $6000 did very well even though they understandably don't experience it as such due to their loss in fiat value.

The panic sellers people tend to make fun of here did way better than all the hodlers.

They don't need it, but just want to use the opportunity and momentum to raise money, which is what I would be doing as well, and with me many others. Not creating a coin to go with it is what sucks harder.

There hasn't been an easier way for startups to raise money than to do it within the crypto and blockchain space. The sentiment here is literally: shut up and take my money! It's purely greed that dictates here.

I think the most important reason for Ethereum's pump was the reduction in block rewards from 3ETH to 2ETH. If you add that people buy what's going up, then it's quite easy to figure out that the price pumps further than it should.

Ethereum is quite complicated and requires consensus on various levels of the protocol, and when even one aspect of a certain large miner doesn't align, a split happens, and it was quite possible in this case.

Bitcoin is super simple--it does one thing, but does it extremely well, while Ethereum is trying to do multiple things well at the same time, but heavily struggles with that. It's not for nothing that they delay upgrades continuously.

I don't see gold provide that much utility to be honest. If gold was valued based on its utility, it wouldn't be worth 5% of its current value. It's all related to speculation, and the store of value aspect is part of that.

Bitcoin brings more utility to the table than gold does, so based on that we should see it gain more value there, but I doubt it's going to do much--speculation is what makes every asset have value to begin with.

People think that fiat is money, which it technically is, but the far majority of fiat is being used for speculative purposes instead of money, which is also why Bitcoin keeps pumping while people think it failed as currency.

Is the US government really watching every step of Bitfinex? They did their best to no longer be subjected to US authorities by no longer allowing US citizens to register and use that platform.

If the US government did care, they would at least dig into what's happening over at Tether, because their stable coin is listed on multiple regulated exchanges and has been accused of not having enough fiat in reserves.

Overall, I would be happy with anything that Bitfinex comes up with. If you can choose between a little or nothing at all, people will appreciate the little that's being offered to them.

What do people have to lose here? The worst that can happen is that there is no compensation, which is something you already don't have. You can't lose something you don't have, so be happy with this.

We can argue about the exact price levels, but to me it really seems that we're ranging between the 200WMA and the resistance around the $4200 mark (Bitstamp chart). The rejection of $4200 confirms that.

It's a firm range we're stuck in, and for now I do believe that we can expect more of the same until the trend shifts and we break out. It wouldn't surprise me if this continues all the way to Q4 where seasonality might cause a positive breakout.

I like the fact that I can accumulate as many coins as possible below $4000 so I don't mind it at all that we're not going up. I average in at least once, some times twice a month. I'm all set.

Similarly, I guess the market 'agrees less' with you on that. If Ethereum's fork process is done and over (around a day to go as of writing this), we might see a significant downward movement due to people not being given an airdrop they hoped for.

I strongly believe that the recent mini rally was caused solely by altcoins gaining value, and as we can see right now, and have seen in the past as well, it's not a sustainable form of growth at all.

This bear market isn't over and I don't think it will be over unless we push over 2018s support that kept the price above ~$5700 for such a long period of time, and even then, technically it could still be seen as a bear market.

It legit surprises me that they sent you your funds. Did you make clear that you have a scam accusation post on this forum against them? If so, it might have been a desperate attempt to not allow their "reputation" to get even shittier.

The bear market made sure that a whole lot less people become a victim of these scams, but I'm already thinking about what's going to happen during the next bull run. I'm sure (unfortunately) that we will replicate what happened in 2017.

There is only one option left for OP if the aforementioned option isn't viable, which is signing a statement from the address the coins were sent from. If that's not possible either, then I hope for OP the amount is very small.

I really hope it's not sent from an exchange, because that means it's officially impossible to regain access to the funds. That's why you should always first withdraw to a freshly created address of yourself, and then mix it.

I know beforehand that an exchange won't sign messages to help someone who really needs it, and even if it is possible, an exchange might not be interested to cooperate. It's time consuming and doesn't make them win anything.

I kinda understand him. He likes productive investments, and that's what made him a fortune throughout his career, so what's there to gain from Bitcoin? Everything that's not a productive asset by default gets a shit/trash mark.

He doesn't like gold either for that same reason, so it's not that he's specifically anti Bitcoin. What gets him triggered are all the fools here thinking that because of their investment during a bull market they are an expert or pro now.

On the other hand, one could say that if you don't like something, then just ignore it and don't waste time speaking out about it, because it will make you look like an idiot during the next bull run....

That's what I like about it, people continuously complain about Bitcoin's lack of privacy, but they forget that LN does offer them that, or at least, way more so than regular on-chain transactions.

Overall, it shouldn't come as a surprise that most of what Bitcoin pumps through on-chain is related to speculation, but no matter how you look at it, it's still a form of use, and one that doesn't seem to have any limitations at all.

I would prefer it to be use in form of spending and cross-border value transfers, but it is what it is, and maybe we can't expect more than speculative use with how stability is needed to stimulate actual currency usage.

Moves that don't make sense? Everything makes sense when you take into consideration that most of the trading activity is automated, so whatever these smaller movements are that you refer to, they are very likely profitable.

Right now people seem to be afraid to go in with a big stack of cash, which is why the order books are very thin and we're tanking so hard after the last rejection. People said it was manipulation, but it isn't.

Big sales trigger others to add fuel to the fire by selling even more, because that's what this market seems to be about--people fomo in together on the way up and they panic sell together on the way down. 

The price not reflecting this event comes from how Coinbase no longer is the main exchange to work with. Most of the platforms have been allowing fiat trading and selling for a very long time now.

Overall, if you want to buy a coin that isn't listed on Coinbase, people buy Bitcoin and send it to Binance or whatever other exchange to buy it. People don't let themselves be stopped just because Coinbase isn't on board.

That being said, the good news for XRP however is more fiat liquidity, which is always a good thing for crypto currencies. I however doubt it will surpass $5 million on its USD pair on a normal day.