go to coinmarketcap or any other chart providing services, your exchange included and go to Ripple page and then continue to zoom out until you see the cycles!

the explanation is very simple, what is pumped needs to be dumped. Ripple was worth about 700-900 satoshi and when the pump time arrived for all the altcoins it went up to 3000+ satoshi and now it is coming down as everyone exits slowly and then others who bought on top and were bag holding give up on profit and sell at a loss.

and it is happening to all the altcoins and will continue to happen until they are back at normal low price levels.

define strong.
what you see is some trouble in bitcoin world that caused a lot of FUD and then as we all saw price was manipulated down to $880-$900 for a short term and panic spread throughout the market.
now altcoins used this situation and started their propaganda against bitcoin while pumping their price. but as we can see now, bitcoin is back to $1200+ and all those altcoins are declining day by day.

woah. 50%-100% you mean just being listed as an ETF which doesn't bring money into bitcoin directly can cause the price to go up to $1800-$2400. there is no way that can happen because of ETF, it it were anything else i would have agreed but not ETF!
and you should keep in mind that bitcoin has been rising 100-150% each year regardless of all this.

damn, why isn't this already in the first page. consider this as a bump.
is this the same project: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1573035.0
i have seen this a long time ago and thought of it as shady. never went through it though.
and if so why isn't anything being done about it as in removing the topic or banning the user spreading this

also it seems that OP of that topic has been tagged a while ago by gmaxwell
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=trust;u=159476

well if you had an investment then you would have known and you should have cared, and if you didn't have any litecoin then why would you even care
besides you can always open a chart and check for yourself. what he said is simply a type with a misplaced zero. price went up to 0.0109BTC (0.01085BTC on polo)


it fixes malleability problem and then it also opens up way for lightening network.
but most important of all, it is a check to see how SegWit and LN would work on bitcoin. how the network and miners are going to be affected by this and a lot more. then eventually lead to a more definite decision on bitcoin.

people usually make random speculation on this forum, you should learn not to pay attention to those who are just saying numbers without some included logic to back it up.

my logic is like this if anyone was interested, and i am not claiming to 100% right:
at the moment there is a big uncertainty about bitfinex and the fact that their deposit and withdrawals are disabled.
they claim it is because of the issue with their bank. if that is the truth (which i think it is) that should be fixed soon and things will be back to normal. there may be some fluctuations sideways because price is out of balance right now with BFX being higher than most exchanges and bitstamp being unusually lower.

if not and there are more things going on outside of our knowledge then there will be some small disturbance. this means a price drop mostly because of panic and FUD not a real threat.

your IP address is not recorded anywhere and there is no "provable" way to link an IP address to your transactions and your bitcoin.
the only thing the government can to is to close the port that bitcoin client uses (i think it is 8003) in which case the beauty of bitcoin is that you can push your transaction to the bitcoin network via any tool. even a simple website online or post it on reddit or something completely anonymous and ask someone to push it without need of a VPN and for receiving bitcoin you don't need internet at all!

as soon as you start feeling the drama is over and want to take a breath in peace you'll see another drama pop up and the community starts talking about it everywhere. don't get me wrong it is good to inform but the drama part is a unique aspect of bitcoin.

i really hope the news is actually what it seems to be. the bank blocking their deposits not bitfninex doing some shady stuff and preparing a run away plan. although they could have done it much easier and with more money back when they were hacked.

There are currently two countries in the whole world that interest me greatly. Japan and Switzerland.
Japan is the hot topic of these days and it is obvious that acceptance of bitcoin as a legal currency in that country is great.
but also Switzerland for both being a good country and also ever since i heard you can buy bitcoin from any ticket machine in the whole country i have been interested to find out more.


no, i still prefer the good old way of storing money on paper and in my mattress

yes it is possible to detect a pump and dump from the chart. and it is easy, when you open a chart and see a big rise without any reason followed by a sharp initial drop and then slow death, that is a pump and dump for you.

the real question is "can you spot a pump before it happens".
i am going to go with YES on this one too but it is much harder and needs a trained eye. for example before the pump happens, they have to have bought the coins, and that buying phase causes some disturbance in the regular charts in both price and volume.

you are confusing 3 different things:
1) trading (most probably altcoin trading and losing your money because of pump and dumps)

2) blockchain technology (which is just a technology, bitcoin uses it, altcoins use it, banks and many other fields use it)

3) crypto currencies (as a currency, for example using bitcoin to purchase stuff online and stay anonymous to some extent).

I have seen enough similar topics to say there is a good change your hate comes from option number 1. and that is right, we all hate altcoins and their pump and dumps, Instamined (no pun intended) coins, the ICOs and all the crap they pull.

one thing is for sure though, insulting everyone who replies to you is not going to solve anything and won't bring your money back.

these are not dumps, these are proving that Coinbase owners/developers are incompetent.
there was a scheduled maintenance yesterday and because of that they emptied their orderbook, closed down, did the maintenance and when they came back online the orderbook was empty with charts showing bitcoin price down to $0.06 (and i read someone that some people even dumped bitcoin because of panic on coinbase at around $1050.) i say these are not dumps because what i saw was just the price not an order being filled.

that ridiculous percentage for bitcoin and possibly for all other markets is because it is calculating it with $0.06 and $1179

litecoin is going to get pumped soon but it has nothing to do with what you are saying literary all over the forum.
litecoin will rise because of its SegWit and also because of the fact that for the past 6 or 7 days, whales have been accumulating and crushing any rise above 0.01BTC to be able to accumulate more in lower price range.

and you keep repeating the bitcoin crash which with the information that we have (without having a time machine) is impossible.
because the only issue is the issue with bitfinex bank and that is not even big. and at best that is only a possibility and nothing more. which makes your -30% a shot in the dark.

i took the effort twice now and i am still standing on what i said.

"professional money" will come into bitcoin without needing any ETF (which means direct investment not through indirect channels), and that is actually because it is decentralized and SEC or any other thing is not watching it.

and as i said from what i have understood from ETF, whoever invests in ETF is not benefiting from bitcoin, it is like investing in any other centralized bond or whatever and many professional traders won't bother with this way of investment. many regular traders might.

i think he liked the market (price) reaction to his tweets last time he did this because he is doing it again.
https://twitter.com/f2pool_wangchun/status/853047376608600065

the only good news is that despite all these tweets f2pool is actually signalling SegWit on both bitcoin and litecoin.

the only problem is that people either don't know about bitcoin or they know about it but they are not willing to spend any of it because it is their investment and they want to become a millionaire overnight by holding it tight.

otherwise if you know about bitcoin (not just know it exists but know what bitcoin offers you when you use it, like the features or benefits whatever you want to call it) you can easily find places to buy stuff you need. and even with good discounts.

the "professional money" as you call it, will come into bitcoin if it wants to and it always does it when it is smart (meaning while there is a dip like when it went down to $900 or when it was $450 or better yet when it was $200).

and from what i understand from ETF, you don't invest money in bitcoin you invest money in ETF and buy something like shares from that ETF and that has nothing to do with bitcoin.
although as i said this before, ETF approval could have been a good positive news for bitcoin.

this is such a rare thing and it probably will never happen to anyone in real life except people who publicly say "we have this much bitcoin and here is our location."

so one solution is prevention.
you never let anyone know "you" have any bitcoin, or at least never show them how much you keep in your cold storage.


that exchange service will run away and leave you wishing you never did it in the first place.

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p.s. in the scenarios you are describing, a gun to your head or a kidnapped family then just contact police or give up the money before they kill you

this guy is seriously messing with everything price related these days. and the worst (or funny) party is that it seems to be effective.

it is not yet so long after his little stunt about the litecoin and that stupid tweet (not so different than this one) about SegWit on litecoin and him not being so sure about it!

it makes you wonder how much he is making from these price swings.

if you don't have enough money you can not diversify there is no point in that since you are not getting any benefits out of it. so it is best to go "all in" in one thing that you think has the best to offer you in sense of profit and stick to it.

and "waiting around to make more money then invest" is a terrible advice in my opinion. you can use that "wait around" time to double what you already have.