MatTheCat although we all have our understanding of things we all have blind spots - feel free to tell me what you think mine is as it can only help me! - and yours is that you are slightly too trigger-happy! I hope you don't mind me saying.

A great PR stunt and also why not if you want one and can afford it? Actually what I wrote sounds rude - my apologies - but it was meant for any smaller Bitcoiner who might just be glued to their screens hodling their BTC without the slightest thought of spending even a tiny fraction, while they wait for their tropical paradises and goodness know what else!

I suppose spending's not perhaps so easy to do right now - its not as if you can buy a pint of milk in the cornershop quite yet - but that's why an effort's required. Has anyone started a thread on this? What I bought today with BTC? If not I'll get one going shortly.

So let's spend spend spend. From a pint of milk to a Lambo!

Just be very, very, very slightly patient

I believe you may not be giving enough credit to simple chaos.

I know the feeling you mention but what worries me is that I might start believing in some kind of conspiracy where the top 50 Bitcoiners - those rich ones - are all in league with eachother, rubbing their hands with glee as they fleece everybody.

An unlikely scenario, I think you'll agree?

No, things are more chaotic than that. That's not to say that there aren't large whales about, but as I've said before and as has been backed up here by at least one big whale, I do not believe that generally they are in cohorts with eachother to get as much out of the market as possible.

But yes they may try to move the markets individually. But then I bet they lose out often enough when the market swings back and slaps them across the face. Just look at this weekend for example. Magic!

It's also important to note that certain large whales probably want to keep most of their coins for the long term, as by doing so they will own significant "shares" (for want of a better word) in a great global payments system. And that will count for a lot.

It might sound like a joke, but I believe that in the markets the day of the plankton is coming now. Arise plankton, with your micro-payments and your Bitcoin burgers!

As I said already in the post, we may well keep popping up as proposed by Hellork, I think to a new ATH, but then of course expect a probable return but not far relatively. By the end of next week $950 - $1000 will be the launch pad, no lower.

Actually I would prefer it if Bitcoin takes it "easy" this week at around +$20 per day!

We are moving into a time when plankton will turn on whales! Soon you will be able to watch plankton stripping a whale to the bone in a few seconds!

We break gold easily mid-week.

Get ready to watch the media circus begin! 

Thanks for the tip!

By sceptical I mean your daily pointing to a final capitulation to complete the downtrend.

No offense taken. I am myself tired but mainly from paying too much attention to Bitcoin every day!  

Actually I ask myself why I bother writing these recent rambles. It just seems quite clear to me that we are likely seeing the beginning of the final leg up, the last wave, the big bubble, the S-curve, whatever some might like to call it. Is Bitcoin ready? I don't know. But I don't think people care. And there have been many similar stories with other Internet phenomenon. But this one really is a huge beast which will go fast now.

You are a balanced person and I am sure you will say it is too early to call. But I have the strongest feeling that I've had for a long time about this. And it's not just my opinion - the circumstantial evidence is there. So I feel like I should preach "Hodling" because nothing else makes as much sense!   I know I'm annoying you now!  

If I understand it correctly you have been very sceptical of the last couple of weeks yourself though, haven't you? I ask again: at what point will you accept that your trendlines have been broken and it is time to re-plot your charts?

EDIT: I also said be "very careful" - that does not tarnish your profession. In all my posts I've been careful to point out that what many analysts seem to be doing is applying methods that would normally be sound, to a particular moment in Bitcoin's history where new factors are swaying things out of your patterns.

And how much of that is still lying about now in sweaty bear paws? Who knows?

But do you realise that there is actually a very significant chance of this happening within two working weeks? I personally think it would be a bit fast but we are not out of the holidays yet people!!

Volume coming back? On the last few days of holiday?

Be prepared for a January like you've never seen before, boys and girls! 

It goes to show that you should be very careful trusting an "expert" in a fledgling market like this.

I openly went against a TA professional who said three days ago there was a 1 in 100 chance of us breaking up from around $880.

Imagine how many people listen to that: "1:100 from an expert? No way I'm going against that!"

But his method didn't work because he wasn't factoring in simple stuff that anyone can think about. He was stuck on his "new moons" and wedgies!

Crash? For Bitcoin that's an inbreath !

Who can't HODL until at least tomorrow? That's when the real fun starts! 

Just remember, $1,000 just isn't cool any more.   We need to get away from here ASAP!  

Remember: $1000 is history, 2013, forget it. This was the last weekend of Bitcoin at $1,000. It was nice to share it with you all! 

Bye bye bears!  

What else do you expect in a bull market? And this is going to be a big bull market, watch.