anyone from bleutrade responding on this thread? i deposited some coins and explorer confirms receipt of the coins but my bleutrade deposit address still shows a pending status. how soon will my coins be available for trading?

it's a buying and selling activity. there are more sellers now. for one, it could be due to the holidays and two, holiday or not -- gainers probably decided it's time to sell and cash out and enjoy their gains. it was bound to happen. a bubble pops and everything is just chaotic. but bitcoin isn't in a chaotic state. therefore, it isn't a bubble  

hope so. bitcoin at this moment is down to $11,500. massive sell offs due to the holidays? this much of a drop is too much and could not just be because of the holidays, right?

I keep thinking, maybe all those rich people who invested in bitcoin are now cashing out - hence this price crash. It's devastating if it were that. So that's how you kill bitcoin?

very happy that it is! would be ecstatic if it finally touches $1000! Perhaps people are shifting to litecoin for its faster transaction speed and lower transaction rate.

right. my thoughts exactly. so i suppose the bitcoin devs and the community understand the consequences and would not allow anything like that to happen(?) there must be something really catastrophic that will happen to bitcoin that will trigger a so-called global ban, right? i believe nobody will want that to happen.

yes, influenced by dwindling market trust. other alts are achieving new all-time highs. it's not always true that alts take a beating when bitcoin price moves forward. for example digibyte and xtrabytes broke away from 120 satoshis. toa on the other hand, was 120 sats but tumbled and continues to tumble. i agree that former psb dev doesn't have any control over toa price movements but whoever is in charge of trading and marketing probably isn't doing a good job at building trust or a community that will help toa grow. it's turning into a coin fit for dumping -- just to produce bitcoins.

the toa dev is admirable though - in that he's doing all these PR stuff and participating in blockchain fora and setting up toa hubs/cafes to make toa a useful coin. hope his effort pays off and should reflect in toa price surging NOT plunging

10,000 satoshis is now worth about 2 usd +/- if the uptrend continues, a thousand sats would soon be worth 2 usd!!! it's amazing how good news relating to bitcoin price makes you both euphoric and wary at the same time.

guys, bumaba btc withdrawal fee sa cryptopia. nag 0.001 na ulit.

business permit siguro kung magrequest ka ng mas mataas na cash-in/cash-out limit. sa level 3 kasi up to 400k ka lang daily which is fine already. yung mas mataas na threshold scary na rin at pwede ka nang mapunta sa watchlist ng amla as money launderer kung di naman kalakihan ang business mo at di naman talaga digital ang mga transactions mo

it contributes to the hype. when one says that he's got bitcoins and sold them at a really awesome price or that bitcoin is a lucrative source of fiat currency, and posts that to facebook, twitter, forums, and other social media then it's going to get a lot of attention. there are still lots who want to get money easy, and well, bitcoin helped make money easy for a lot of people. it made it easy for hardworking people, geeks, risk-takers, single parents, grandparents, etc. it made it especially easy for scammers too, unfortunately.

if the receiving address is accepted by your wallet and returns a successful send notification then you'll most likely lose your bitcoins....

i'm with those who're saying that satoshi nakamoto is a collective and not a single person, but no one was able to tell who comprised the group or if that group had a name.

recently though, some of my friends shared an article from the internet and in that article, it is said that evidence points to the NSA as the creator of bitcoin (https://www.naturalnews.com/2017-12-10-evidence-points-to-bitcoin-being-an-nsa-psyop-roll-out-one-world-digital-currency.html)

if bitcoin was created by the nsa, then with whom did gavin anderson communicate with about bitcoin?

haven't had any problems with cryptopia thus far. xby deposits and withdrawals are working great, as with ltc, bch, and btc. cheers everyone.

it's the notion about gold that makes people think that it is better. gold does not corrode and is a precious metal and so it has been a symbol of wealth. that concept has stuck with many up to this time. also, it's tangible.

bitcoin, on the other hand, is something new. financial managers can't seem to find a proper category for bitcoin - is it a currency or a commodity? bitcoin holds characteristics of money such as durability, portability, divisibility, and limited supply.... except probably uniformity (?), and acceptability. governments still don't accept it and won't call it as such and so, it isn't a currency because the government says so. they call it a commodity because its characteristics is that of commodities - bitcoin has a global market, its price is determined by the market, and so is open to price fluctuations, and is very liquid. its value gets converted to fiat and it is the fiat value that people actually spend.

maybe it's the ancients or traditionalists who say that gold is better  . they still can't appreciate bitcoin because bitcoin is data and so, it can't be "held" the way you hold a coin. there's this notion that if you can't actually hold it, then you don't own it or that there's actually nothing and that you're just fooling yourself about having something really valuable when in fact, there's nothing.... so that must be the reason why others would prefer gold over bitcoin....

if the demand for bitcoin continues amidst all the fud circulating in the news and social media, and if there aren't any major bad news about it, then bitcoin price will keep moving up.

This ought to be moved to the altcoin section.

Planning to trade xby. How are the deposits and withdrawals now?

price has moved past 17,000 now. let's see if it goes past it and consolidate within 17-17.5

price might move lower though if the market buys into more fud in the internet. for example, cnbc has just published an article covering a bitcoin millionaire named Grant Sabatier. He recommends bitcoin newbies to NOT INVEST IN BITCOIN NOW https://www.cnbc.com/2017/12/11/bitcoin-millionaire-grant-sabatier-dont-buy-bitcoin.html basically because it's a gamble  so market could correct in response to his recommendation....

it's like how forex works. you place orders and earn from both price gains and price dips on every pip.