Is it just me?  Or doesn't that page load too slow and the image is TOO BIG.  I did not even read it because it was loading too slow, and just seeming cumbersome.  If you make the image smaller, sncc, that might help it to load faster and to be more manageable so then others will read the substance? 

Yes.  I appreciate that each of you recognize that I was attempting to help posters to be able to help themselves into earning more merits.  Merits will not come from predicting the BTC price, for example, or providing one liner quantity (shit) posts.

Largely, members need to attempt to engage with those who are going to read their posts and show some kind of personal insight and contribute something that causes others to think, relate or laugh.  

Members may receive some substantive merits or alternatively some charitable merits, from time to time, and I don't even mind giving a charitable merit here or there or even sending a charitable merit to sitnikov (even though it could have been better explained with a reference link) for identifying the right context for why it appears that even with the passage of time, RivAngE continues to fail / refuse to learn how to post with better substance, even though RivAngE recognized that his/her first received merit from me was received as form of charity.

Correct me if I am wrong, sitnikov, I believe that this is the contextual post that showed that my earlier merit to RivAngE was intended as a kind of inspirational charity, but perhaps subsequent evidence of RivAngE's own admission and complaining about the merit system shows that s/he is failing/refusing to learn how to post in a more engaging and constructive way?

I don't believe it.

You just switched from bitcoin over to b-cash... and started over,

And I suspect that like Roger Ver on the Alex Jones show, your devolution from bitcoin to bcash caused too much confusion amongst any possible mainstream audience.. peeps already have a hard time understanding bitcoin, and then you bring in bcash trash talk, and you completely lose anyone that has even quasi-intelligent potential.. 

You saw Ver's performance on the Alex Jones show, right?

 

In other words, you are a trying to fool udder peeps...

If you are "not that much of an expert" then why are you making absolutism like predictions about the BTC price direction?  Makes little sense.  You proclaim that the charts tell where it is going but then at the same time say that your method might not be "expert" enough.

Maybe you can reconsider your whole presentation, and recognize that technical analysis needs to be taken with a considerable grain of salt.. sure it can give you an idea of market momentum and tendency, but in the end, it should not be expressed with certainties because at best it can show you likelihoods in one direction or another and if you can express those likelihoods then you are likely on a better track than using absolutism language.. and then having to walk back your whole comment.

Poor little hurt feelings.

you guys make a good lil team.  






Perhaps you may feel exploited, but I am glad that you are working on a "me too" remedy:




Congratulations!!!!!

Oh my.  You have a royal "we" going on?    Probably in your imagination unless you and your girlfriends surf the WO like this?





 

Nice one, roachie poachie.


I am glad that you have not lost your artistic touch.   

Woops.

I see that there was some nonsense from your earlier post that I overlooked addressing.


So what?  I don't have no test.

I was responding to your other post in which you supposedly suddenly converted into your most bullish to your most bearish... all of a sudden...

Looks like this:::::    




So what?  I am not responding to you merely because you made a bear comment... and probably you were equally wrong it you were trying to sell random peeps on some kind of bullish sentiment that you felt....

Perhaps there remains an acting and speaking on your emotions (rather than your brain) problem?


Intuition does not mean anything, except in pop culture and superstition.  What do you have, woman's intuition?



Staring at charts does not bring added knowledge if you don't have any good ideas in your head... or some kind of meaningful way to interpret them besides voodoo magic.



O.k.  Now you are a sorcerer?  You must be a gazillionaire, too if you can see the future that well, right?

You want others to respect you for your supposed insight, too?



I don't give a shit if you are correct or not, but I do give a shit that you are making claims to know the future and that you believe that you are right about things... because perhaps you are smarter than everyone else?



More nonsense of a supposed sudden epiphany....  



Well, maybe that is part of the problem of giving advice in the first place.. Unless you are a paid consultant, perhaps it would be good to refrain from giving advice, especially when you don't seem to know shit and you can just let peeps come to their own conclusions.  

Likely the fact of the matter was not that anyone was asking for advice anyhow, but you just presumptively misunderstood what they were asking?  So therefore it seems quite likely that you gave unsolicited advice.



Nothing wrong with adjusting your trading set up to your new beliefs.  A problem seems to come with your attempts to evangelize such nonsense... as if you actually know something greater than others.  



You have not yet provided anything to respect, and the more you present the less valuable it seems to be.



Fair enough, yet it seems that you are not even trying to improve.. so it seems that there is not much that I could do to assist your with any of that, I suppose.



Perhaps we will stop communicating, but likely will not stop me from commenting on your spreading on nonsense, if you continue to do it.



There is not any kind of legendary team.  Anyone should be able to share knowledge and brainstorm in this thread, and their ability to do so would not necessarily be based on their forum rank.  Forum rank may, however, provide some insight regarding how long someone has been into bitcoin, but date registered and activity level will provide some of that information, too, perhaps?



Poor lil thingie-ma-jiggie..      Cannot take a bit of substantive forum interaction?      

Is this bicycle based mining something that is already in bitcoin or something that you are working on?

Maybe some of us will already have so much money that we won't be motivated in that direction?  Perhaps?


Can't we largely talk about these in terms of bitcoin?  Will these be side chains?  There are so many alt crypto projects that are merely paper tigers, and I certainly don't feel that I have time to study the extent to which some of them may actually be more than paper tigers... even though from time to time, in the bitcoin threads and articles and discussions, we do see references to some of these side projects.


Paper tiger?  Perhaps?


Rome wasn't built in a day, so I am not pessimistic regarding folks who want to make innovative efforts.


Yep, sometimes it will take a while to develop these matters, and whether it takes off in Singapore or Amsterdam or some other location, I don't doubt that there are legitimate projects and legitimate attempts and the ability of groups to learn from other projects to innovate their own projects.. and perhaps monetize them as well (oh?  Another ICO?.. hahahahaha)


Of course it is going to be interesting to witness ways in which different projects attempt to exploit loopholes  in order to avert regulations if they are describing a utility token or an investment or a currency.


I am not going to forget bitcoin.

I am not investing in these millions of other innovations because they are all over the fucking place.  I am investing in bitcoin... immutable innovative security, and these other myriad of projects are going to end up linking to bitcoin in one way or another.. likely.


Yeah, and ethereum can bring down all the ICOs when it fails through it's own security and centralization issues, right?


Sounds good to me, but I am not buying any of it.  Save it for others to develop it, because I don't need to be distracted by every project even if potentially good projects.


Some of us are already on it, and fairly focused on bitcoin.  Right?


Yes, let others get involved in those kinds of projects, if they want.


You are starting to sound like an advertisement now.  NO WONDER you have been a bit edgy recently.  You are losing your bitcoin focus and getting distracted by random thoughts of the alt project pumpers.


Who gives a ratt's ass?



NOT everyone wants to invest in a bike riding project... whether it is money or time.  But, yeah, perhaps in the alt section with the snot nosed 12 year olds, you will be able find a decent quantity of them.. perhaps?


I had to reduce the size of the rest of your salesmanship.. because I was starting to feel like this:

I think that my comments stand on their own, and your non-responsiveness to substance, and your defensiveness seems to be your own failure and refusal to attempt to engage with your assertions, but instead just to blurt out nonsensical assertions based on taro cards, perhaps?



Certainly, I am not asking for that, and your repeatedly failing and refusing to address the substance of my response and instead spending additional energies devolving into mischaracterizations and defensiveness.


I doubt that you are going to get rid of me that easily, and also I am having my doubts about whether you are going to even try to make matters clear because you seem to be emotionally inclined rather than truly intending to share information with others in this thread.



Could be word choices, I suppose.



Certainly, I am not asserting to have superior intellect, I was merely attempting to engage with you about your assertions and you mostly seem inclined towards deflection and non-responsiveness, defensiveness and distraction on seeming ad hominem irrelevancies.



Could be that you are doing the best that you can, and no one (including yours truly) is asserting that you are not doing well for yourself, so I don't really see the need for such ongoing defensiveness.



I don't know why it is necessary for me to do homework.  I am just responding to what you said as you said it... and my memory of your recent postings that were asserting pretty much the same thing about the supposed entry into this bear market that you have realized at around the time that you chose to sell a decent portion of your holdings.  No need for me to research or for you to take any of this personal in trying to get me to research into the asserted greatness of your earlier posts.

 

Who the fuck woke up on the wrong side of the bed today?

Not this cat.

I'm thinking that you may need to switch from beverages to the smokie types, in order to chill out a bit more.. y ten poco paciencia, hombre...

It could take a bit more shaking before returning to $11k, $12k and beyond... My, oh my, it is possible to take years because we cannot ONLY expect UP.. even though we still doing good.. and really there could be some alt coin shaking dynamics that continues to delay our bicycle trip that takes us to the car that takes us to the train that takes us to the rocket, etc etc...

u get urselfie a grip, too!!!!!!!    

You are off base if you conclude that I am criticizing your comments based on their bearishness rather than their bullishness... Although you are correct that personally I likely have a greater tendency to focus on bear FUDspreaders rather than bulls who are trying to get folks to buy. 

Nonetheless, my attention to you and/or your recent posts is largely irrelevant and seems to be an attempt to detract substantive discussions towards me... ridiculous.

Of course, you can predict BTC prices and dynamics in whatever you want and using whatever evidence that you want.   And, people in this thread can point out deficiencies and biases in your predictions, which is what I have been doing regarding several of your recent posts in which you are referring to some supposed "ah ha" moment that you have come to at around (or perhaps nearly after) your selling of a decent stash of your bitcoin, and because of your supposed "ah ha" moment, that does not seem to be based on much of anything beyond some kind of bare assertion, you want to share those feelings with peeps reading this thread.

 What I am doing is asserting that your BTC price prediction (and assertion of current dynamics) seems largely based upon your having had sold a decent portion of your BTC and perhaps unsubstantiated emotions rather than any kind of meaningful evidence or logic, and my responses should allow you to respond to my criticisms, but seems that the best you can come up with is to assert the thread (including yours truly) is too diluted into bull circle jerk thinking.. blah blah blah.. . and without really substantiating any of your earlier assertions beyond that you had sold some BTC and you are hoping the prices go down, now. 

Sure, you could end up being correct that BTC prices go down from here, but could be more of a result of luck rather than any kind of meaningful insight that you have shared about your views of short-term BTC price dynamics.

You come off as such a wize soul.



NOT.


This above post demonstrates your nonsensical mud, and seeming inclination to talk your book -- -yeah right.. you went from the most bullish to the most bearish just a couple of weeks ago, and now you want to tell the world about your supposed enlightened transformation.

    Get a fucking grip, book talker.... 

The administrators of the forum can do whatever they want, even if it is contradictory.  I am not advocating any change, and therefore, I have no burden to back up what I am saying.  I am just pointing out a problem with the concept of opting out  - or having a parallel system.   if you are advocating some kind of opt out system then you have the burden to show with either logic or evidence that it is practical, and you need to convince theymos, not me.

I think that the merit system is like various forms of public insurance.  

The way that the system works the best is if everyone follows the same system, so paying for an opt out system would likely not be a reasonable solution on any kind of overall practical basis - even if there may be limited ways to go with this kind of opt out in limited circumstances, perhaps?

@birr... The first part of your discussion of dollar cost averaging lends some insight to the practice because you are indicating that there is something wrong with employing an opposite strategy... however, then your suggestion largely devolves into a kind of recommendation of a reverse dollar cost average strategy.

NO matter if you are in a BTC accumulation stage, or a maintenance stage or a liquidation stage, your strategy should be to attempt to sell BTC on the way up and to buy BTC on the way down.  Of course the more you are on one spectrum or another remains a personal choice but it also effects how you may employ the strategy.  So for example, if you are in a BTC accumulation stage you might buy more on dips and perhaps sell less on rises because your goal is accumulation, but that should not cause you to sell on the way down or buy on the way up.

Usually, if some one who is employing a sell on the way up and buy on the way down is panicking because they screwed up and did not sell enough, so the strategy probably would be to attempt to make up for the screw up by selling a decent sized chunk and then returning to the strategy of buying if the price goes down with the proceeds that were generated from the sale.

Continuing to sell on the way down or creating a plan that continues to sell on the way down is not a good strategy nor is it equally good as buying on the way down... and perhaps making and emergency sell because of a screw up and then maybe even going back to HODL, if not feeling comfortable enough to buying on the way down.

You do not receive merit just because you happen to (hypothetically) be a good person (or a hard worker) outside of  the forum.  You get merit for your forum contributions and the perception of others regarding your posts, and you get negative perceptions, as you already experienced, when you attempt some nonsensical contrary principles to the merit system, and selling of merits is contrary to the whole concept of merit... and if you were a bit more insightful, you might have explored such topic in a more exploratory way, rather than attempting to impose and advocate for something that you either purposefully or conceptually don't seem to want to attempt to understand (except through attempting to apply your faulty analogies, which have already been pointed out to you through negative trust - thanks to nullius willing to spend some time in assessing the substance of your previous posts).

Exactamente - it is kind of like merit within the mind.