FBI probably planted it on him to see what he would do and who he would contact. Ever watch The Wire on tv? That's what the cops do to get intel. You don't think thee FBI would do that, since they are the intelligence agency of the entire country. They are ruthless as I said before.

I do believe it. FBI are ruthless group of individuals who stop at nothing to get what ever they are after at any costs.
Like the mafia but backed by their government, so unlimited funds to do what ever they are after.

bitcoinrichlist?

lol

that one always looked suspicious to me, the data never matched up correctly with the other site

https://bitinfocharts.com/top-100-richest-bitcoin-addresses.html

i hope its a reputable website!

I am 100% certain of my math. I have been tracking the largest BTC holders (accounts over 1000 BTC) for 3 years now.

Regarding what if someone moves from 950 coins to 1050 and someone else does vice versa, the net effect is zero. It doesn't matter who the big holders are as long as there are big holders. Only if all big wallets started dumping with no one buying would we see a problem.

And yes, I absolutely 100% believe its the small guys responsible for the price swings. Sure a few bigger traders might get the ball rolling with a few 1000 BTC of buy or sell to start the stampede. But its the panic buying and panic selling of the small guys that absolutely gets the ball rolling up and down. no ways big accounts are panic buying and panic selling. It's the small traders who believe they can outsmart the market, or the people who literally panic as it falls or chase it up with greed that are making these swings happen.

All that will happen in the end is 95% of those who panic buy and panic sell are going to end up doing worse than if they either just sold out of BTC completely, or held BTC with no panicking.

And I quit bitcoin because I believed no ways governments would let it continue. But in fact the opposite seems to be happening, govt seem ok with it. BTC is fine, its getting banned that is not fine. So, here I am again, for the 2nd time around.

Anecdotally, I'd say you're probably right.  Just reading forum posts from random participants, it does seem like quite a few people have invested large portions of their income/holdings in what is a purely speculative play with tons of price volatility.

There are lots of ways to play it. A person can do well buying low and selling high.  Some people (not me) can probably do well trading based on technical indicators.  A person can do well HODLing, probably, for the long term.  

But where people get into trouble is when their strategy isn't well-formed and consistent.  They buy, probably OVERbuy, intending to HODL.  Then they see the price go down, sometimes whooshing down, sometimes trickling down, and then they get nervous looking at (unrealized) losses so they sell.  They've changed from HODLers to panic sellers...buying high, and selling low.  If they hadn't overbought in the first place or if they just realized the nature of a speculative play, they could stay in it.

Happenings like that show me that many people seem to be over invested in Bitcoin.Otherwise I see no reason why they always panic selling. Someone who is rich and investing 1 million dollar will not care that much because he can afford it.
But someone with an average income and maybe buying Bitcoin for 1k should also be able to afford it. So this shows me that rich or not there are always a few more guys who might have taken more risk and money, might be because of hope and greed, than they should had. This results in bearish times in crazy panic selling and therefore price declining and in bullish times in crazy price explosions because of panic buying.

I agree that this is a serious manipulation at its best works. I woke up to see a price of $300 and I was very disappointed. $350 was a nice new floor if this thing wasn't manipulated but $300 tells us all in my opinion.

I mean what are we, only $50 above where we started this run from. I guess Bitcoin has much more growing up to do.

This is bad advice. Those gains are nothing, it will not change your life, going from 200 to 400. On the other hand, if you buy now and hold and in 10 years BTC is 10K, or 100K (who knows) your life will change a lot, so basically stop hoping for a perfect price and just buy. If it never goes back to 200 (which I doubt because the price looks really solid at 370-380 right no) you will hate yourself for life.

definitely not this month. i hope we manage to do it before the end of the year. that would make me happy, especially if we manage to stay above $300.

For the past few days I've been looking at the price of BTC-USD, $300 is not possible this year.
The $265 - $275 rate will remain till End of this year $280 will be maximum.

Yepp that's it.Either this baby goes moon or higher, or it ends up in oblivion.Let's hope for the first one to happen!

Even Satoshi said it that either there will be a lot of transactions in about 10 years or very few transactions. This you can translate to either Bitcoin will be worth a lot or nothing and of course either Bitcoin will be used by many or by nobody.

So this is pretty much your answer OP. I don't see it being somewhere in the middle at all!

Maybe it'll slide back to 10 dollars and then we can sell all our btc right?

We're right on track to hit the target as predicted. Place sells at 260-270 if you have not done so already. Remember we will go over 260 on or before the 17th.