they can never kill filesharing, there will always be a non stop fight between DMCA(?) and and pirates around the world. and in the middle of all this fights Kim seems to be wanting to get his share of the market and earn some money to pay his lawyers fees to fight the court for the cases they have against him.

actually they have lots to do with bitcoin price but not the way that people like OP are thinking or pretending.
Chinese like many other people in many other countries have been investing in bitcoin a great deal of money because they unlike many ignorant people have realized that bitcoin is potentially great for many things first of which is profit as an investment.
and in any kind of investment let it be bitcoin, gold or stocks of a company when prices go high this fast they are bound to come down to the normal levels.

miners sell because they have to pay their bills and keep their operation running to make money with other things they are mining. and others are either bag-holding and hoping for a rise to get out or they are trading the ups and downs for profit. nobody is waiting for miracles.

eventually yeah. but for now they are clinging to anything they can to push the price down.
- the spam bot of this board is at full capacity posting the same crap again and again.
- the shill known as kwukduck is active again
- the lies about China banning blah blah started up again.
- so much more FUD

in my experience when this situation is the hottest, there is a rise on the way and they are trying to fill their pockets more with cheap coins of weak hands.

what i think happens is that bitcoin will continue rising slowly after the volatile market ended. this is surely temporary. and there has been lots of good media these days which i think can lead to some good things if the dump stops here.

but what i wish for bitcoin is that i hope people this year stop treating bitcoin only as an investment and start seeing the other side of things too, the bitcoin being a currency side.

this is not an indication of anything. they all say the same thing, they technically say "we will think about it" only because they don't want to say no right to the face of their customer and possibly make him unsatisfied and also at the same time they want to reserve the possibility to maybe do it someday and nobody can say "they said no and came around because they are desperate."

first of all that is only a conspiracy theory in my opinion and is not even possible to do that because to buy 8 million bitcoin you have to pay a tremendous amount of money during a very long time which means buying at various prices. and there are so much easier ways to earn profit than doing something like that!

besides if we assume it is right, then it means he will pump the price to 50,000 dollar easily and sell slowly to become a multi billionaire! and everybody wins

the price of Chinese exchanges are going to always be higher and the fact that one of them has USD means the USD price will be higher also. and right now the bitcoin/CNY pair seems to be very exciting and rising for whatever reason so it is understandable that in the same place, USD value goes up at the same time too because people trading there have both CNY and USD and trade both.

yeah, sadly this part is true. the increased interest is because of the price rise and not the fact that people suddenly found bitcoin as a good currency. i wish there was a way to find out what exactly they are searching about, the suggestions google is listing at the bottom seems to be similar searches not what those searchers were interested but it is interesting that everyone has been searching about price and investment about bitcoin.

i'll admit that 2016 has been an exciting year for sure, with the halving right in the middle of the year and those dramas that happened because of it and then Craig Wright's scam.

and now the price rise which is too fast, so it makes it exciting and scary at the same time because fast rises are not stable. unlike the past where i was sure that each price such as $200-350-420-500-600-700-800 and even the $900 range i was sure that price is going to stay there no matter what but with the fast rise you can not be sure.

this is an speculative matter.
when you invest in bitcoin, you are speculating about the price and like any other investment there will always be risks and rewards at the same time. you just have to learn the basics of an investment and be wise about it to make profit and not lose money.
in other words investing wisely in bitcoin will give you profit not panic investment.

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we have reached the same price as it was in 2013 but the time is a completely different time.
at least a dozen new and big services are accepting bitcoin now such as Microsoft, Valve, Dell,... these are accepting bitcoin are real currency and as payment.
and also the trade volume is huge compared to 2013.

i think what always happens, will happen this time too.
the majority of the altcoins will get dumped real hard and their price will go down a lot. but some of them like ethereum will go down a little because as we saw recently the manipulators have lots of money to put up walls as big as 1000BTC and prevent it.

and also another group like litecoin will rise with bitcoin price as they always did in the past.

well, the thing is that i believe these FUDs and all that crap about bitcoin is dead or dying and.... will not end for the foreseeable future. and it goes both ways the hype will never end either.

for example for the past year the price has been rising with a nice and logical pace with enough time between each price point and all that time you could see a different FUD about bitcoin falling down to $200 or someone else hyping about bitcoin going to $50,000 and both are stupid.

here is an example of such days: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?board=57.1960

and i don't see them changing, there will always be idiots who try to spread these things with some weird hope to shift market in their own favor.

well yeah. so far mostly people are looking at bitcoin as an investment instead of a currency and i think that is not such a good thing because the community is going to become full of speculators who only care about fiat and want to make more fiat with trading bitcoin. and that prevents bitcoin from ever becoming a big deal!

it is not just you, there is always that chance also. but you have to measure all the possibilities and not only one of them and fixate on that. going higher is a possibility, also staying at this price for a long time, as is going up and down in a 50-100$ range.

but the analysis shows the rise has a higher chance of happening right now and any correction that may come because of people cashing out can only drop it to 900 range and then rise again.

p.s. what is the point of that last sentence with size of 5pt i keep seeing people do that. if you don't want to say it then don't say it

the questions like these will never get any answer and that is because how bitcoin is supposed to work. as an anonymous ledger that you can never tell which address(es) belongs to who and how long they plan on holding.

the only way to get your answer is to get the whole blockchain, parse it and look for oldest transactions and see if they move, and even then you can not tell if they move to someone else as selling or was it moving from one wallet to another.

you are clearly a bag holder trying to dump his coins and get out from what he has gotten himself into.

bitcoin price is too strong to fall, and even if a dump happens the resistance alongside the $800 range is too string to break.

and moreno price will rise regardless of bag holders dreaming about it or not. but i am sure you will dump your coins soon before the real price and then buy back on top before the correction and then start a new topic saying the same thing.

the problem with a demo account for testing is that you are not affecting the market whereas in real life trading every trade that you make (assuming you are not trading with $10 ) affects the market and how price moves and this is actually very noticeable in altcoin market that it has a smaller market, you can put up a wall as small as 1BTC and change the direction of 70% of the altcoins out there.