My outlook has changed since my last post, lol. Now I am thinking we might even go under .007 and see some of his fellow agents, perhaps .006 or even .005. If this happens I can get into my 1500 position from my earlier sale, which I would be happy with at this point. Then it is simply a matter of waiting until the PoS phase to see if Eth ever amounts to anything.

I don't think privacy is something to be celebrated in terms of currency, that's why you see so many scammers and hacks in Bitcoin. Exchanges keep running away with their money, etc. Privacy is a delicate issue and 100% is something utopic, you may feel that you don't like being filmed in public spaces but you just have to put up with it, no other way around it. With money it's different, business must be regulated and we as civilians living under government still need to play under certain rules. I'm all for financial sensible information not leaking out if you don't want to, but if every transaction can't be traced then you are giving criminals a great tool. Decentralized and P2P currency is great, completely anonymous not so sure...

Even if it took a bad hit, I think that it will get out from the 0,009BTC zone and pass the really important 0,01BTC cap before the 3 next days !

Yep, I could see the writing on the wall yesterday after it dropped down to 0.0125. I took advantage of the later pump to 0.0135 and once I saw it hesitate again on the rise, I sold off all my remaining ETH except for a small handful.

Today I had some buy orders set for just under 0.01 that filled, but I will wait until the price is lower to replace the vast majority I sold.

Hoping to see .008 or even .007 again, so I can double my ETH holdings from where I was, but on the flip side if it goes down too low it might have a hard time recovering. I am still a bit away from my 1,500 ETH long-term holding goal, but this correction is helping me get there sooner. So I am long term bullish on ETH, short term bearish.

no, but his balls are an order of magnitude bigger

when you are thinking about dropping a million dollars of your hard earned cash into a crypto community, knowing that the lead developer has the huevos to show himself in public and stand behind his creation instead of hiding like a coward or criminal offers the potential investor a certain level of clarity that is devilishly absent from the bitcoin community.

Wow! You're full of useful links buddy ^^

That's cool. Even though I got no idea of how you make the equivalent byte/ satoshi (I mean how many bytes does my transaction take depending of the number of bitcoins i send) but it gives you a raw estimation nonetheless! Thanks!

chinese are pushing for 2MB HF, core already hinted compromise. spoken word is HF in early 2017 with several other HF implementations as well.

Bitcoin now has a rather nice flag formation after the rise from 200-500 with little media fanfare. The alt's are waking up and the halving is approaching. The only thing keeping bitcoin back is the blocksize debate which will soon resolve either by a HF with majority of miner support, or with Core acquiescing to the demands of the market and miners (3 weeks!) and fixing a 2mb blocksize HF in the roadmap.

It was at the peak roughly 0.0165 BTC and now it is below 0.0125. That is roughly a 25% decline already.

I agree with this that regular corrections on the way up are healthy, but it would need to stay above the 0.01 range, preferably sideways 0.012-0.018 range for a week or two to change my previous outlook. These quick drops and then right back on the moon express still indicate a bubble in the making and too much manipulation going on.

A healthy rise is going to inevitably include profit taking while holding support levels for longer stretches of time are the only indicator of true support. The higher ETH goes the longer these periods will need to be for people to really have confidence. If it is still holding up here by the time March gets here, I might start to change my thinking, but until then its still in bubble territory for me.

ether is for huffing and farting ... who in their right mind is going to 'invest' in something called "ether" virtual currency??

It's actually healthy but not for the faint of heart that price is correcting a little bit, an hyberbole to $10 in two days would be great but it's not real in any way or form. I think the floors have to establish a little more, I can see even going 90-95 but I don't think this is a pump, there's genuine interest in ETH and the potential is real, everybody wants to get it cheap, FOMO. Now, I do understand that placing huge money here it's very high risk though, I for one could not stomach that level of anxiety.

I think it's not only whales playing.
Can't believe they would be able to produce a 35 mil (more than 50% of BTC) volume.
Lot's of money is entering the market. There's more then only whales playing en newbs buying in with small money.

Buying from yourself over and over again doesn't require 35 mil in order to produce 35 mil in volume.

The next real, game changing currency will be one based on energy, I believe.  When battery technology improves so that several MWh worth of energy can be stored in a small cell, you'll see people exchange those instead of traditional currencies.

Polo has margin lending at rates that I've never seen anywhere else.

.15% daily on BTC = 54% annualized interest. Those guys are making bank fueling the crazed ETH margin traders.

I bought the ICO which paid off great. It's one of the only ones I have ever bought. Something about it seemed great. ETH is pretty expensive now. even if it goes to 1 billion you're only making 400% profit and such a huge gamble.

I like BTC also so I'm keeping it.

What's I'm doing is moving my USD into $EXP. It looks to be a top quality clone of Ethereum. If it could even get to 1% of what Ethereum is then that would be a MASSIVE profit! I think the odds EXP get's popular are pretty high so definitely that's what I'm buying right now. With Ethereum going PoS I think that makes it even easier for EXP to be really secure and useful.

EXP is on Poloniex and bittrex.

I have ETH & BTC already so now I want EXP.

when I tried to withdraw ~5 bitcoins the TX showed up as FAIL and I only got the coins several hours later after submitting a support request ticket. While this in itself is not a grave error it indicates poor business practices and shows lack of professionalism. Combine the latter with the fact that the exchange has a lot of attention due to the ETH bubble and has 5000 BTC in buy orders visible to everyone, it has suddenly become an exchange of the highest hack risk.

As for the ETH bubble, it seems to be popping now. Damn that poloniex did get a lot of profit from the volume. There are too many coins in that faulty exchange right now, it gets too much attention due to the ether bubble. I have some coins in poloniex and I am selling them all right now for BTC and withdrawing everything from polo because poloniex may get hacked soon. It has been hacked before and history tells us that hacks have a larger potential to happen when some of the coins on the exchange is skyrocketing. The impending hack itself may cause the eth bubble to burst.

And I used to recall (joined Jan 2014...) doomsday comments when bitcoin was $3, and no one ever imagined it would shoot up to $1200+, let alone $40.  I think I've been around cryptocurrency long enough to realize that nothing is impossible, and anything can happen.  That said, no one should put in what they can't afford to lose - that's common sense.  

First and foremost, ETH is not a currency/coin, it's technologically different and fixes many of the issues bitcoin has.  It's not trying to be another bitcoin or a better bitcoin, it's an apples to oranges comparison.  Also, the value of Bitcoin is not dictated by supply.  If that were the case, bitcoin should not have stopped at $1200.  If the claims about supply dictating price are valid, then why has the halving had literally no effect on the current price of BTC?  Even if it is 'baked into' the current value, it's only decreased.  There are far too many ways I could explain how bitcoin quantity has absolutely no bearing on the price.  

The point is, to say that ETH should not be so highly valued due to its supply is baseless.  Let's examine another asset, gold.  The world has not yet mined all the natural resource supply of gold and other precious metals, yet their values rise and fall in relation to the relative rise and fall of markets and other currencies, not due to supply.  Have you ever heard the news report that the value of gold increased because scientists have predicted the supply is running out?  Or that some big whale just flooded the market with gold so the increased supply made the price go down?  LOL.

Gold is valuable because of its use in electronics and metal properties, and therefore, I see ETH similarly valuable because it can become the foundation for decentralized applications of the future.  Essentially ethereum is the gold of the future Internet.    

One caveat to ethereum's rise is that it can be copied, and one other potential copy on the horizon is called rootstock, which will have a crowd sale in the next few months, though ETH has a headstart much like BTC has a headstart on the other 1.0 chains and currencies.  

I should note that I'm really saddened to see so many people criticize ethereum without understanding what it even is.  So many people saying it's a "blah blah coin" are making themselves look like idiots because it's not even a coin at all.  It's like comparing a car with an electric motor, bitcoin being the car and ethereum being the electric motor.  

This is just the beginning.  And those who support ethereum now will be the new elite.  Good luck with your close-minded naysaying, it sounds all too familiar.

This is the game of the whales, but this is exactly what happened with Bitcoin, it was a joke until it wasn't. I wasn't around at that time but I'm sure the comments on its way up must've been hilarious. Ethereum is not another Bitcoin clone, I don't understand much about it but no one can't deny it is completely unpredictable in its potential and that's one of the best features an investment like this could have.

Now, for getting rich, that's another history, one would really need to put in at least 10k at around 600 and wish for it to hit 10-$20 or something like that really, I don't know how much could sustain that kind of pressure.