Either you are in long term on the BTC game or you are out. BTC is a comercial game being runned by Chinese. You need to spend at least 50-100K on new generation gear every half a year to follow up on the farms in China, but you will never be as big becasue of power prices.

If the Chinese do not see this and react, it will evntual be the death of BTC because of centralisation, but kick me if the Chinese hasnt already seen that in the mirror.

The price did not break 480, instead it dropped to $438. That could be good for the future price as it consoiidated.

There will be a very big impact on the price during the halving. I think the price willl rise from $420 to $700.

I would call that consolidation. So the price could be very high after long term consolidation. This happened last year.

I would suggest finding some boards that should not count towards activity, as I would theorize that the worse of signature spammers both farm accounts (eg collecting potential activity by collecting activity posts by making a single post every two weeks), and spam the forum with paid signatures.

Another potential solution would be to make it so you need more then a single post made in a two week period in order to collect the (potential) activity points. It could either be setup so that you need to make at least 4 (or some other number equal to or less then 14) posts in order to collect the 14 activity posts, or so that you both need to make at least 2 (or some other number equal to or less then 14) posts and be online at least 2 hours (or some other amount of time) during that activity period in order to collect the activity points. Yes time online can easily be faked, however it is at least a small hurdle for people who are spamming the forum in order to collect potential activity points.