But not this winter. This winter is different. All flu cases are marked as corona so that it looks better on the charts and makes people buy drugs and masks.


It will mutate for sure if they keep messing with it. They're already modifying it genetically to find out if how it will react. I'm fairly certain that somebody somewhere is also trying to weaponize it.

So they're turning millions into guinea pigs for pharma companies and their untested vaccines.
Someone should read them the inserts and educate them because they are obviously too scared of the virus to do it themselves. In short, companies who produce these vaccines clearly say that these were tested on a very limited number of people and can produce a number of side effects. It's also unknown whether the vaccines actually work or not and how long the immunity lasts. The manufacturers are also not to be held liable for any health issues that may result from taking their product.

I don't believe those writers are so dumb. They must know this is not an issue with bitcoin but they call it like that to gain more response and to make people read it. If they titled it "Ledger data leak" most people wouldn't read it because most people don't even know there are hardware wallets for bitcoin and you can see it even on this forum when bitcoin users ask if they should buy one and if hardware wallets are more secure than desktop wallets.
So, the journalists employ the same good old tactics, just like they did when they called ransomware "A bitcoin scam or a bitcoin hack".

Some people are making these mistakes of thinking they can't buy Bitcoin because it's too expensive above 20k, forgetting that they don't have to own a whole coin. It's like thinking you can't have a car because you can't afford a new one, straight from the dealership. It's the same with fees. You look at fees through USD, forgetting that Bitcoin is not and is not going to be used to buy a burger or a coffee. Nobody uses Bitcoin to do a $10 transaction. The fees are high because they allow you to move enough money to buy a yacht in a matter of minutes, without foreign currency conversion fees and all that crap.

I agree with the majority here. Not that I'm an expert in the case but I'm a long time holder and it really looks like this bull run is here to stay longer than the those in 2013 and 2017.
2013 was all gox bot adding fuel to the fire. 2017 was just crazy and full of FOMO and people trying to get rich on ICOs. This time it's much slower and more calculated and we're making new highs almost every week, despite many people selling. To make us break down we'd need some big negative news or a big green candle that would take us up another 10k in a matter of days. That could maybe start a correction, but now there's really not much to correct from. Going from 25k to 20k isn't going to scare anyone.

People tend to think certain levels are unreachable... Until they aren't anymore.

In an optimistic scenario we'll go to at least 50k this bull run before a correction and then possibly to 100k.
In a pessimistic one we'll end the run at 25k which for many people is a psychological barrier.

I like it when people back their statements with evidence. So, are you sure about that?
I'd say its performance throught December of 2017 was spectacular. It even went up again on January 6 2018 from 13k to 17k.

100k is possible. Even much higher levels like 500k are possible, but the time frame that you've mentioned is what matters here. If we assume that there's 90% chance that Bitcoin will achieve 100k at some point in time, if it keeps growing the way it does it could take 5 years, so another full bull/bear/bull cycle. Having 100k per coin at your disposal could be life changing for many people. In 5 years I'll be in my 40s, maybe I'll have a child... Having a few million USD in cash right now could help me more now than having 2x that in 10 years.

There are two sides of this coin. Some people will say that spending is better because you pay fees that reward miners and you reward people who offer services for bitcoin, spread the word. Others will say that when you hold you increase the price by decreasing the tradable supply. It's really hard to say which option is better. Personally, I'm a holder. I don't need to spend because I earn fiat and bitcoins every month, so I choose to spend fiat and hold bitcoins. For me it's an obvious choice, but you do what you want, it's being in the space that counts, regardless of whether you're a service provider, spender, miner, trader or holder.

Maybe it mutated because people begun to vaccinate when it wasn't needed anymore because most people already had antibodies to the previous strain. What happens when you had the virus and get injected with it again? I feel like it would be better if the governments allowed this to go the natural way, like when you can't stop a house fire and just let it go and focus on protecting the other houses in the area. Lockdowns are only slowing the inevitable.

This is what worries me. I'm quite sure of bitcoin's possibilities, its safety and all that, but if we allow private companies to produce tokens on massive scale and exchange it for bitcoins, we're taking a huge risk. If I told you now that I have a USD equivalent and I will give it to you for your bitcoins, would you believe me?
If I had an exchange and made a token accepted on my exchange, would you sell your bitcoins to me in exchange for that token?

When I put it like that most of you probably think that you wouldn't. What makes you trust people who make tether then? Those people said that they are backed and later were caught lying. Why do you still exchange your bitcoins into tether instead of choosing more transparent stable coins?

I know it and I have to say that I couldn't care less. First and foremost, they aren't attacking me personally. I don't feel obliged to defend Bitcoin from them, they can do what they want and it only makes them look stupid. The market will verify every single claim they make.
It's always important to have your own opinion and not try to fit in at all cost. My father was a great example of a naysayer. Every time I told him about my plans his answer was "don't do it, you'll get hurt" and you know what? After a while I stopped telling him. I kept doing my thing and dealing with consequences. So should you.

If you think loans are cheap you should get one. For me they are not, but it's a matter of perspective I guess. The only purpose of loans in my case is taking one to later pay it with bitcoin profits, so that I can explain to the tax office how I could afford that new house. It was all from a loan, really, no drugs or money laundering here.
Jokes aside, trading with loaned money is never recommended, just like going 20x on leverage.

He talks big how most Bitcoin investors don't know much about it and don't understand it, but he obviously doesn't get it either. It really takes an hour to learn some basic facts about the protocol and understand that we are limited to 21m. It's possible to change it with a fork, but it's not that easy to fork Bitcoin and make people choose the new chain. You can fork it, but without the community behind you you'll be like Roger Ver.
As far as the bubble is concerned, if we look at google, facebook, apple, amazon, tesla, they were all in a massive uptrend that someone could call a bubble. Doesn't mean they will suddenly go to 0.

I'll be honest with you. I probably would. There's a chance it could go higher in this cycle, but we could as well end at 50k in 2021 and enter a bear market for another 2-3 years. I have enough BTC @100k to build a house, start a business, put some money in stocks, help my friends and family with their business. I'd probably do much more in these 3 years with money at hand than I'd be able to do with more money 5 years later when we enter a new bull market.

I always thought there's a difference between a dump and a correction. A correction is within a trend, while a crash or a dump is usually the end of a trend. For instance, in November we had a correction from 19 to 16k but it was all within a bullish trend. In 2019 when a bull run ended on 2014 and kept falling we had a crash or a dump.
The correction will happen for sure but I cannot say at which level. My first guess would be 25k but if we go to 26 then sky is the limit. It could hit 30, it could hit 50.

Armstrong is already acting on those rumors and implementing additional KYC. People who traded for a long time on verified accounts are now asked for the source of their money and their line of work. I have a friend who works for a local exchange (in the EU) and he said that based on the paperwork that's coming to them from the government, he's giving us 2 years tops until they'll be asked for full client verification on all transactions, including face to face. This is so dumb that I can't find words to describe. You can take 10k USD in cash, go to a local currency exchange, throw it on the counter and get an equivalent in EUR within 5 minutes. You do a similar thing with your coins and they'll ask you for an ID and a signature. They might even ask for a source of funds...

The longest was 3 or 4 days back in 2018 when fees exploded. I send a decent fee, but the transaction was heavy, with many inputs, which decreased its priorities. A day later the average fee doubled and my transaction still wasn't confirmed. 2 days later I got worried and discovered a free tx accelerator provided by one of the pools. I had to try many times until my tx got accepted because there was so many requests, you literally had to click 1s after it opened for new requests to make it. Fun times  

1. not really. A 5% volatility we're experiencing nowadays isn't a big thing. I feel like the volatility of fees can be more annoying than the volatility of bitcoin.
2. This problem doesn't exist for me and for anyone willing to take 10 min to learn how to do it. You can go to a nearby ATM and buy there. It's as easy as buying a foreign currency with cash/card.
3. I've been in the space since 2015 and never had a single satoshi hacked or lost. If you cannot copy/paste a string of letters and numbers maybe you shouldn't use electronic banking too?
4. That's why smart people don't hold coins on exchanges. Also, exchanges aren't the only source of coins. You can by p2p, there are f2f exchanges where you can bring cash to an office and get coins sent to your address, you can use an ATM.
5. Guns enable criminals to shoot you. Should we ban gun stores around the world? I couldn't care less that someone somewhere buys drugs with Bitcoin. People do it anonymously with cash every day.
6. Like PayPal? Sure, but those are custodial services. They own your money and if they fuck up you're stuck with support tickets.
7. Just like with cash purchases.
8. Scammers existed when people were paying with gold coins, they existed when they bartered, they will exist in 2050 with bitcoin or without it.

These aren't real cons...

I wish I could go completely bankless, but for now some of my bills can only be paid via a bank, or at a post office with cash, which may be troublesome at times since it's 5km from my house. Despite that, I have at least 200x more money in Bitcoin than I have in the bank. The bank is there only as a backup for things I cannot buy with Bitcoin.