Sure, Coinbase is a 420 pound gorilla chiming into the debate, but Coinbase's action is nowhere near to resolving any of the blocksize controversy because we are likely continue to witness back and forth on the topic for quite some time to come, as some already mentioned regarding Coinbase's action seeming to rekindle a previously simmering down controversy rather than helping to keep things simmered down.

Surely it is difficult to argue that Coinbase is working to destroy bitcoin because over the past couple of years, they have become a real contending power force in the bitcoin space with the expansion and degree of their various "innovations" - love them or not.   

In essence, your prediction seems quite premature, and let's speak a little English here and get away from implied suggestions that the chinese control the price direction of the btc market or how we consider the matter in this thread.

First of all, before we even get to those $380 or $350 or $320 price levels that you suggest, we need another test of $400, which we haven't quite had yet.

I do get a sense that we will get a test of $400 over the remainder of the weekend... but $390 or $380?   hm?


I have some fiat available in case we go to those levels, but sometimes we need a bit of time to see how things are going to play out, and getting back down to $320 to end the bull trend seems quite a bit of a stretch at the moment and absent some good FUD 

Is the monkey not bullshitting us this time, as he seemed to have done the last few times?   

You are not the issue, except to the extent that you seem to purposefully attempt to make yourself the issue by your apparent various personal striving for unnecessary attention to yourself and/or your wanting to get credit.

You are correct that raising valid concerns would be an appropriate measure of whether arguments, facts and our opinions should be brought up and pursued; however, you cannot really remove sincerity from the formula in order to judge validity and weight to be given to arguments, facts and opinions.

If you are not sincere, your presentations will likely strike the wrong tone and also become selfish or self-absorbed because of failure/refusal to recognize contributions of others and/or the value of providing space for others to contribute and to have input. 

Each of us make judgements about how to present ourselves, and if we are doing so without sincerity, then we will detach ourselves from meaningful interactions.  I am not trying to be all lovey dovey about this subject, because I don't think
a person has to be lovey dovey in order to at least acknowledge and allow for varying contributions and perspectives of others and sincerity frequently becomes more important than correctness (or validity as you labelled it).


small block, large block, who the fuck cares, it is not a black or white question as you seem to attempt to frame it because we could go down either direction and experience a variety of fixes for either solution.. surely maybe one is better than the other and surely there is nothing wrong with making various arguments and/or proposals concerning the advantages and/or disadvantages of one direction as compared with the other direction and the irreversibility of certain choices... like the robert frost poem, concerning choosing directions in a road, and sometimes you cannot go back to the previous choice point, but each of the forks in the road could still potentially get you to various destinations that can be adjusted along the way and sometimes even new paths created at various points down the road.


regarding your large vocabulary point, sure, many of us grow along the way and we revise our viewpoints with increased knowledge and sometimes we can see errors in the ways of others, but sometimes (and maybe even frequently) when dealing with others we may have to still respect and/or accept the input of the other and allow them to grow out of their own immaturities (even though they may never grow out of such)

I may have used the wrong words, but part of the point that I was attempting to make was that we cannot necessarily blame the various Gox account holders for their losses, either whether they were actively attempting to remove their funds or if they were sending money to Gox...

Surely, there were a lot of variety individual situations, and surely some of the account holders knowingly were putting themselves in more risk by sending more money and BTC to Gox during the varying shenanigans (hoping to make more money because of apparent arbitrage opportunities), and many of the risk-takers did not have enough information to understand the peril and/or did not expect the level of fraud/deception that we later discovered should have provided signs that the whole Gox operation was going to vanish from active BTC space.

Yes, after the fact anything is obvious.


Possibly, you chuckled because, you feel better about yourself if you see someone else suffer, and you outrightly highlight the point more because you get some kind of pleasure in taking advantage of internet anonymity.. and getting in little troll-like digs... a kind of immaturity within yourself, if you happen to be able to understand a world beyond the walls of mommie's basement, it seems from my vantage point.

It was not so obvious.... and it is not really funny to suggest so, after the fact.

Surely, that is your choice.

I tend to value keeping down my fees, when possible, and to use either Circle or Coinbase, you do not need to keep your coins with them. 

Actually, Circle has recently implemented instant buys and sells of up to $3,000 per week through a debit card.

Circle doesn't have a fee, and their buy and sell price is the same.  Therefore, Circle fees are almost non-existent, if you use it strategically, and you can buy coins 24/7 without traveling and transfer the coins to yourself right away, if you want to store them privately.   

NOTE: sometimes, especially during high volatility, Circle's BTC rates are quite a bit above Stamp's price, so that could affect actual cost per BTC, but I would surmise that that BTC ATMs have the same issue.

Is coinbase or circle available to you?

hahahahahaha   


I know that s/he /it is here, but not every single troll-like account is lambie.

Accordingly, I thought it reasonable to ask fisheater22 if s/he / it was lambie. 

Are you lambie?   lambie used to post some variation of this over and over...

You can be a little more direct, if you are trying to get in digs in at me.


Yet, There seems to be no predictive value or "I told you so" value taking place at the moment, because i do not engage in any real specific or absolute attempts to predict the short-term price direction of BTC... furthermore your various posts predicting the ultimate downfall of BTC and its various deficiencies are also not really short-term predictions (and do not seem to be at play with the current downturn in BTC prices.

Anyhow, I stand by my earlier comments relating to your seemingly disingenuous tendencies.

We do not dump, we buy the dumps of others.  dumping to follow other dumpers is not a good practice.   

hahahahahahaha

I know that for some reason your goal is around $390, even though you keep suggesting $330-ish... yet,  even though, currently, we are on a downward trajectory, I believe that we are going to experience considerable resistance in the $420's... so really your $390 is a bit pie in the sky.

And, really, I liked you a bit better when you were mostly a bull and kind of afraid of shorting....   You were of the HODL persuasion.


OK, seriously, if you do fill this short, can you go back to being the kind and generous bull, and hand out some free beers?  The people really need some beers, after 2 years of bear market.


I may give out some beers, when the price reaches $2k+

 

Thank you for considering some variation of my current trade posture that could work for you and your situation.

of course you may need to address the quantities and the gap between action, depending on your then anticipation(s) regarding the direction of BTC prices.   currently, as I type this, i am still thinking probabilities of the next price breakout are about 65% down and 35% up... but sometimes my feelings about probabilities of price direction change, and then I change my allocations.

So far, I trade less than 10% of my total bitcoin holdings, so the value of my total bitcoin holdings go up way more if BTC prices go up as compared with BTC prices going down... therefore my current positions and trading set up is in accordance with my recent buying and selling actions and the quantities of dollars and bitcoins that I have built up in my total trading and holdings to put on each side.


Also, I do not consider my current intended plan to be set in stone, so accordingly, if BTC prices move fast in one direction or another, then I may consider refraining from any action and either lump my buys or sells or otherwise tweak my trading plan considering my anticipation of then upcoming price movements.

Yeah.... where are the free beers?


I think Adam has been too busy shorting, and he forgot about our needs for free beers.

We haven't seen too much action in recent days....


For my manual BTC buys, here's my tentative buying plan

$409.00      1.22249389   $500.00 $414.00      1.20772947   $500.00 $419.00      1.19331742   $500.00 $424.00      1.41509434   $600.00 $429.00      1.39860140   $600.00 $434.00      0.92165899   $400.00 $438.00      0.79908676   $350.00 $443.00      0.45146727   $200.00 $448.00      0.66964286   $300.00 $453.00      0.66225166   $300.00

here's my tentative selling plan, for manual sells


$464.00      $500.00       1.077586207
$472.00      $500.00       1.059322034
$478.00      $500.00       1.046025105
$482.00      $500.00       1.037344398
$489.00      $1,000.00       2.044989775
$499.00      $1,000.00       2.004008016

The trade volume has been so low over the past few days that you cannot really come to any meaningful conclusion the next break out direction.... and whether one side or another has been exhausted... in other words, either side could be holding back..

A forum is neither free speech nor democratic.  It is up to the owner's discretion, unless the forum happens to be run by a government.  In this case, this forum is not run by a government, if I understand the situation correctly.

And regarding whether BjA has been curtailed in the past does not limit forum administrators from reconsidering the matter (or even considering the matter de novo, especially if a pattern is detected or if his conduct may have changed in recent times to warrant action(s) and/or consideration(s) different from the past, if any.

I never realized that there was any such thing as an evil penquin, and I have witnessed it here with my own eyes.



I wished you would learn not to short so frequently, it's not good for your health, especially in a bull market.