my grandma is 93. she has been a tarot fortuneteller for more than 50 years. this morning she called me and told me bitcoin was at $34k and that it will hit 80k before a significant pull back. this is unprecedented. in all those years that i am involved in bitcoin, she never made a price prediction. and she rarely ever calls me. (by the way: she will get her covid vaccine tomorrow)

caution! i dont know if she was referring to $ or € when she talked about 80k  

Still alive, thanks so much to everyone for your replies and merits. Good advices given that will help me get through this.

You don't fully realise the seriousness of COVID-19 until you get it. I still don't actually know if what I have is COVID-19, but symptoms point to that direction... Should do a test to find out. Until now I'm confined at home with zero contact with others.

Now on day 4 from onset of symptoms. By day 5-6, and if things get serious, I should be getting shortness of breath, at which point I should be admitted to hospital. If this does not happen, then it may be possible to fight this at home on my own. I hope so.



I appreciate the post, although it's scary as hell. As I said, you don't fully appreciate the seriousness of the situation until it happens to you. My advice to all is to not get close to people not wearing masks or wearing them improperly. If the situation is such that there is pressure on you to talk or interact with them, just say NO. You may be wearing your mask and everything (as I was), but the issue is not you, it's the ones you come in contact with! So, stay SAFE, take it VERY seriously, and REFUSE to get close to those without proper protection.

On topic, I see we passed the 27k € ($34k) mark, which is just AWESOME! I saw one big but very brief dip, which was quickly absorbed by the buying pressure. It seems that any corrections (big or small) are quickly counteracted by pumps that bring the price back to its "slow" upward course. If we keep going like this, $100k should easily be reached in 2021. Actually, predictions talk about as high as $400k, but for me $100k as a correction-stabilized price for 2021 is more than satisfactory. I'm sure many of us WOers' lives will change when this happens.

Onwards & upwards!

HoDL

#humbled #blessed #sickpuppy

Getting a bit curious just which country your from

Obviously you not need to share it

So serious question guys. Like clockwork with BTC going up again the no coiners or shitcoiners immediately cry that it's inflated by Tether, they're being investigated by the NYAG, blah blah blah.

What I can't work out, IF Tether is a dodgy entity and they are being investigated... WHY IN THE FUCK would you continue just printing Tethers with no abandon? None of those crying from the rooftops can answer that question so to me, it seems clear that Tether is for the most part, legitimate.

Am I wrong here? Am I missing something?

Sure.  But right now Grayscale poses the same systemic risk as Mt Gox.  It’s not going to kill Bitcoin but it’s enough to put you off your cornflakes.  

Interestingly Grayscale uses Coinbase Pro custody services.  If Coinbase gets hacked, all hell will break loose. 

The flipside is the price is much more vulnerable to regulatory interference.  If Grayscale has regulatory problems, the price will be adversely affected.  Putting regulatory issues aside, we can ask ourselves - where to from here?

"I don't get out of bed for less than $10,000 a day."
-Linda Evangelista

Oh yeah, well...

"Having my net worth increase by seven digits in my sleep doesn't even phase me any more."
-Bob Lawblaw

I had another chat with my friend, the gal who likes to discuss savings/stock market with me. Classical weak hands type. I wrote about her a while back, on Dec 7, 2020. Price was around the old ATH @19k . (here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=178336.msg55770951#msg55770951 )

Today she wrote me and started with a message like "Why is Bit coin rising? The government should ban it cuz launder drug money blah blah".

My first replies were curt.  "Bitcoin: one word or you'll sound like a noob. The primary cleaning agent for laundering is USD by far."

Then she said: "I am afraid, blah blah, so many types of bitcoin, how do I buy blah blah"

I was gentler. "Only one kind, ticker is XBT or BTC. The other 'types' look cheaper because they're junk. Don't touch them."

I went on - You need to open an account at an exchange. Try Bitstamp or Kraken. Avoid Coinbase if you can. You'll need to go through KYC/AML, money laundering my ass. Once you have a bunch, you'll need to make yourself a wallet and transfer them into your own possession. Bitcoiners say "Not your keys, not your coins".

Long story short, I held up to her barrage of questions and gave her a crash course. More than anything, I told her to buy and hold. I spelt it wrong, just like this: hold. She's not advanced enough yet to be taught proper spelling. I said it might go down. I'm pretty sure it will go down and you'll suffer. That is when you have to buy more. That's the difference between happy and sad in the long run.

At the end she said "Oh thank you. But you know, call me chicken but I won't."

I'm pretty sure she'll come around. She'll probably want some at 50k. What could I reply to that?

"Of course you're free to do as you please. Bitcoiners say 'Have fun staying poor' "

And where's gentlemand? He's removed his sig and not posted for a month.

If anyone knows how to get in touch with him, let him know we never stopped believing  

Hey WOers!

Have been trying to follow WO in these great times. Price is soaring, what a wonderful start of the year. We all deserve it, as our patience, perseverance and belief, are now being rewarded. 2021 should be a great year for Bitcoin, and we'll be here to celebrate it. No memes, no Carolinas, no CCMF. That should tell us something. Price is just too low for those. Perhaps at $50k or $100k...

The year started badly for me, I've been in bed for the last couple of days. High fever (up to 40 degC), diarrhea, it's fucking torture... Could be a cold, a flu, or COVID-19, I don't know. What I do know, is that I had to go to different places the last couple of weeks and most people I met either did not wear masks properly, or not at all. FUCKS! Measured my fever just now, it's 38 degC. It could mean it's subsiding. I hope so.

Lots of merit-worthy posts out there, you guys are awesome, my phone is next to my bed, trying to catch up. No merits to pass on, but that's no problem I see many of you have taken care of that.

Going back to bed, and hopefully whatever bug or virus I have will clear away soon.

Take care all.

BTW, not selling a fucking sat!

Slinky is Hairy’s partner in crime.

Reserve the Champagne for 45k. Institutional Investors are still pouring in the Capitalist Money so it will be too soon to celebrate.

Maybe we're out of Champagne, haha!

29990.

I think there are a few people that now have made serious $ or should I say serious Maybe 100+ coins

They may have decided to back off on posting like mad.

I think there are some in the 10-50 coin in holdings that now are Maybe I should shut up as my 290k to 1450k could get me hurt.

So posters with 0.5-10 coins may still be posting a lot. As they really need BTC to move to 100k or more

before they think they have decent money.