How could that be?  Your account was merely born in October 2017.

Let's


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And say we did.   

We gots our selfies another goofie dumball here.. making nonsensical assertions based on incomplete and misleading information and wishful thinking.   

If you recall when we were at 10k pages, it took a couple weeks to go above 10k pages because peeps were dumping posts like it was funny as fuck.

I was vocally (I mean in writing) opposed to the post dumping, and I thought that it was bad for WO historical record and precedent but it did not stop the dumping from happening.

These days, at 20k, we may be more WO nostalgic, and I wonder if dumpers are going to be able to muster much momentum?  



I'm not dumping any of my posts.      

P.s.  By the way, I just did the calculation and I only have a bit more than 400 pages anyhow, so a mere drop in the bucket in the whole scheme of things.   

We should not be sensitive over the choices of others on the interwebs, right?

On the one hand it is good, and on the other hand it is bad.

motoprose be thinking: 

"Hey?  How did you figure that out?   Oh I did not realize that peeps could see merit history... Go figure?"

It seems to support the gambling theory of bitcoiners.  

Guys and gal of the WO thread be thinking, "what the fuck, it is only one smerit, and it could turn into a Lambo."  

Opinions, opinions EVERYWHERE

You might be better off eating your own dick.   

Your word choice remains off, Torquester.

It is NOT that "all markets are rigged," but instead they are subject to manipulation by folks with greater resources - however, they are only going to manipulate for as long as they can, and from time to time, markets run away from manipulators.... and in that regard, they have to go with the trend, until such point as they can regain control.  So, I am not denying your manipulation theory, but instead suggesting that you come out with these weird-ass assertions to suggest that there is some kind of overall global theory/practice and control, which surely you should not even believe that yourself, in spite of your ongoing bolsterings in that direction.   

Yeah right....        You don't give up with your market manipulation theories and your feelings of impending doom.  From a positive perspective, that is a sign of one sturdy and turdy shell-shocked bitcoin soldier.

I would not assert that there are decent predictions and predictions tools and a large number of the persons who are better at predicting do so with probability assertions rather than certainty.. So, when the outcome of a prediction ends up happening, such prediction is in line with what the predictor had asserted to be most probable.  Frequently, there is too much credit given, and even suggestions that the predictor knew something about the future.. and they don't... they are just assigning probabilities.

Remember Vinny Lingham was correct on a few of his predictions, and many people (including himself, seemingly) were beginning to assign him sorcerer status, and then in March 2017, he was all over the media preaching BTC doom and gloom in the sub $1k price territories and even seeming to strongly suggest that peeps sell their bitcoins, don't buy bitcoins (and even perhaps short bitcoin) at those prices.  Some folks got reckt to the extent they overly relied on "designated" sorcerer Vinny in those days.

A Couple of days ago, I posted a link to one of his doom and gloom prognostications from March 17, 2017.  See below:

Like you mentioned, many of the bear shills predict the same bullshit over and over and over again.  Sure, some days they are partially correct especially during periods of price correction - but they are largely wishing and spreading misinformation because a lot of opportunities would be missed if you followed their suggestion by either selling or buying less than you otherwise would during opportune price correction periods.

And Bob's statement about EVERYONE being wrong largely amounts to a whimpy-ass and emotional capitulation outburst. Sure some folks are more wrong than others, but one of the dynamics that is most predictable in bitcoin is price volatility in one direction or another and frequently overshooting expectations.  There remain ways to profit from volatility, even when the whole process of buying on the way down and selling on the way up can be painful, especially during periods of overshooting.

It seems that we are thinking about this in a similar way, but I think that if you can set your orders in such a way that it minimizes the gambling aspect, then you have yourself a system that you can follow for the long term.  But you are likely correct in your instinct that one bad trade could wipe out 10 profitable ones, perhaps.

I merited your earlier post, mostly because I appreciate an anti-sorcerer comment now and then, because sometimes it seems that guys are getting into too much sorcerer reliance.. and sometimes, want to be viewed as sorcerers, too.

Doubling every year is not a bad idea or framework, and if you are starting with $1,000 for 2017, $500 for 2016, and $250 for 2015 - even if you are  largely correct, you seem to be selectively and purposefully low-balling, especially when we have seen $20k for 2017... so you either seem to be purposefully skewing down your expectations or you are engaged in a state of unrealism.   

We are also NOT going to get linear BTC performance.. so even an average of 2x every years seems to just be a kind of stab in the dark that is not really based on anything except for a kind of dream about how the world should be rather than how it is, especially with a considerable likelihood that bitcoin is in a exponential curve which will not likely be held back by 2x (or linear) expectations. 

I had not noticed about whatever is supposedly happening every weekend.. but I did notice the "extended downtrend," if you mean that 3 months is an "extended downtrend."

That might take a while.. Seems that there still continues to be a lot of nonsense talk with those many paper tiger white papers.

I was thinking that there would be at least one more run up of alt coins and the various shit coins before a real correction comes.. but who knows?  Maybe we are experiencing the alt coin purge in this time around?

Actually people reading, participating in and influenced by this thread have entered into bitcoin at various price points between 2011 and now, and aspirations within OP and repeated thereafter have demonstrated that over time if people have engaged in a front end BTC accumulation style, the investment into bitcoin has tended to pay off quite handsomely in a fairly short period  of time and has been much better than other kinds of investments..... Even if you have screwed up various aspects of your BTC investment and you bought high, you still could have had really great profits, as long as you either just held on to bitcoin or continued to buy bitcoin with either dollar cost average investing or buying more BTC on dips.

Even though $20k was within some BTC price expectations, it was either sooner or higher than a large number of folks considered to be amongst the most bullish of expectations, even as late as mid-July 2017. I will admit for me, that BTC's price performance in late 2017 going up to $20k was about 4-5x higher than my most bullish expectations, and BTC fundamentals continue to be good and these kind of price corrections and attempts to push the price back downward are all part of price cycles, so maybe even if it takes several years to return to $20k there remain great BTC fundamentals that will likely bring BTC prices back up there.. maybe best case scenario is a few months, and not as good scenarios may take a few years for BTC prices to return to $20k... still not bad for people just entering into bitcoin now, but can cause a decent amount of patience for people who bought between $10k and $20k, and may have to employ strategies of waiting or even continuing to buy with considerations of the decent chances that BTC prices will continue to go up and BTC will likely continue to be a decent long term investment, comparing it to other asset classes.

And you little dweeb have proven to be pretty capable of fucktardedness in your seemingly inept snot-nosed wannabe patronizing efforts?