It's even funnier how fly-by investors are handing over their coins to stronger hands at a loss, making sure they'll hand the coins back to them at way higher levels later on.

Noob thinking;

Bitcoin at $15,000 = it will take over the world soon.
Bitcoin at $4000 = mwah, the end is near.

With how easy it is to shake these idiots out, and how unregulated this space largely is today, you should expect fud to pop up and affect the market, because it's too damn profitable to troll everyone here.

You technically still have to "trust" a party that's taking care of your coins. In this case it's BitPay, which is doing everything it can to destroy its reputation. You can thank Roger for that.

Another thing is that it allows governments to dig into your transaction history to see if you have been honest or not, and they will definitely use that against you if they have a strong case, which is why it's better for people to pay their taxes in fiat. It's known that the IRS uses the services provided by Chainalysis, so expect them to utilize what they pay for.

People might think Bitcoin's "anonymity" will help them remain unnoticed, but that's obviously not the case.

This isn't 2012/2013 anymore where there are two options to choose from. It's clear that we are heading upwards without there being much to stop this progress. Most of the financial instruments are being built around Bitcoin, LN is constantly growing, more of the traditional elite are willing to convert at least 1% of their worth to Bitcoin, etc.

The weakest aspect of this industry are the exchanges themselves, and then mainly how shady and unprofessional they are. As time goes by, wall street level of exchanges will pop up, and that's when you effectively counter the lack of liquidity, and thus the severe price movements we experience right now.

Even if you say it will either be worth $100,000 or an amount closer to $0, doesn't that make a $4000 initial investment a great entry point in terms of risk>reward? Your risk is $4000 but your reward is x25 if you hold through.

I think this is a pretty effective action moving forward. It's the first time I see someone having problems like this with Binance, and I am sure they want to do as much as they can to preserve their almost 'spotless' reputation in the industry. It's of course not a guarantee that it will help, but it's better than not doing it.

I'm sure that if everything checks out and you can prove that the funds are not related to criminal acitivity at all (if that's what Binance's concern is), then the odds of seeing your funds back are pretty high.

Even if it is manipulation, it only hurts those who aren't prepared for this. If you're in a market like crypto, you have to accept that these things happen. Whether it's actual manipulation or panic sellers, always have fiat ready to throw in because it will play out in your advantage, long term speaking.

I see manipulation as someone else doing the work for me, because what they do to buy lower is also something that allows me to buy lower. In the process they shake out idiots only here to dump on the way up.

People who are here for quick bucks complain these drops, while those who are here for Bitcoin and its fundamentals buy more.

I don't think there is much of a difference between Tim and genuinely bullish people with less financial resources. In the end, we all invest what we think is appropriate according to our net worth. In Tim's case it's plenty of millions back in the days, and for most people it's thousands. The percentage in allocated funds should be very similar.

I like Tim a lot, he's not using all sorts of weird and difficult to understand statements the regular folks can't figure out what they mean. He talks like you and me. He is like you and me. He went through a bear market eating through so much of his initial investment, that I can remember people making fun of him. Who's laughing now?

Analysts are lazy ass parasites. Tone Vays isn't much different. They keep guessing till they are right, oh boy, what was Tone happy with his $5000 prediction this month. Because of how the price just didn't want to drop below $6000 he was nearly at a point he would adjust his prediction upwards, and now acts like he said it would happen, lol.

I am pretty certain that the next bull run might peak out above $1 trillion in market cap for Bitcoin. That being said, we all know that reaching crazy price levels isn't a problem for Bitcoin, supporting them is. If it tanks with 80-90% again, that would be quite something. I'm not sure how many more times Bitcoin can pull off something like that, because eventually it should be able to mature in that regard.

It's easy to state the obvious with how $3000 isn't only a level that has some weight to it, but the 200WMA hovers slightly above that level as well, providing more potential buy support. 

I'm at a point I honestly don't care anymore, the market has turned into such a mess lately, that any further decrease won't be much of a difference/annoyance anymore. I'll just buy the market down, more can you not do.

Positive side is that the network managed to easily deal with the increase in traffic in the last couple of weeks. Without spam attacks network congestion isn't much of a problem at all. Fees increased marginally, still way below $0.05 for Segwit transactions.

In a market you are likely to be a loser whatever you end up doing.

I see a lot people now regret having held their coins instead of selling them, but that's nonsense talk after the price has gone down. What if you sold at $19,000 and the price kept going up to $50,000 by now? You would be dealing with the same form of disappointment. Losing money for most people is psychologically no different from losing out on potential profits by selling way too early.

People's main problem is that they are too dependent on the money they invest in crypto. It's either borrowed, or their life savings. No wonder they feel horrible.

Whales don't have to push the price up. The job of whales isn't signalling that they are a whale, but to make it seem they are not. In other words, they have their bots scooping up small amounts of coins on pretty much any level they are comfortable buying at, without affecting the market.

If you browse through the orderbooks of most larger exchanges, you see plenty of orders with similar amounts of coins, with some times very odd amounts as well. It's all bot activity.

The 'best' thing about Craig is how he is trashing XRP, which then triggers all the sensitive XRP fanboys to counter his arguments with loads of nonsense.  

I have seen more of a social media war than an actual hash war. The only thing needed was a bucket full of pop corn and a cold drink. It was top notch entertainment.

Roger Ver is a jerk as always, preaching economical freedom for everyone in form of fast, cheap, and reliable payments, yet chokes the crap out of the services he's heavily invested in just to not let coins such as Litecoin enjoy merchant support. Litecoin is BCash on steroids. That coin scares the crap out of him every single night.

The wallets exchanges generate for your deposits are basically throwaway addresses. In some cases an exchange doesn't allow you to manually change the deposit address, but in all cases, the coins you deposit will be moved out of that wallet after a couple of confirmations. Exchanges have an algorithm in place moving coins back and forth where most of them end up in hot wallets.

Most of the addresses listed in OP are cold wallet addresses, which an exchange only utilizes to either allow market makers to cash out, or to fill up hot wallets when needed.

It's not as bad as it looks. Most of the miners being sold right now are older models that just can't keep up with the newer generation miners anymore. I wish news outlets would point that out to inform people the way they should be informed, but unfortunately, they are out to sell drama rather than factual information, because drama sells, truth doesn't, or at least, not as much.

Mining is extremely competitive, if you can't compete, you are out, and the miners who have all the resources needed to compete will take over your spot and make you feel like a loser even more. Everything looks bright during a bull run because almost everyone makes money. Now is the time the market will show its true nature, and those who are here for the right reasons will stay on board. The rest who came to bank on Bitcoin will go home with empty pockets.

That actually interests me. People have been acting like they know something is brewing, especially in the last couple of years, but aside from the talk, there isn't much that people do to actually counter any potential risk coming from a crisis. It's like people are waiting for a confirmation first so they can act from that point, but that's not the smartest thing to do.

You should start right now with lowering your exposure to a system people largely argree about that it will collapse at some point. Why do you think I have been stocking up on Bitcoin throughout the years? Bitcoin is the easiest way for me to actively counter the risks the regular system exposes me to, from within Europe itself, and the US. Imagine what happens when both the EU and the US start to implode simultaneously. Disaster guaranteed.

How is it not clear? He did the right thing by keeping his private keys to himself in the runup to the fork, and later send BCH to the exchange to either trade it or cash it out.

OP's mistake here is that he underestimated the consequences of an exchange not caring about the lack of replay protection, either intentionally or unintentionally.

It's once again a sign that people shouldn't be using an exchange as Bittrex. They hide themselves behind TOS they set up in advance, and there is seemingly nothing that can be done about it unfortunately. Stick to exchanges as Kraken and Binance, which seem to be the best hybrid exchanges in the game at this point.

It depends. Getting burned and losing a lot money in the process is for people the most severe form of a punishment. If you are rewarded for your stupidity, you won't ever learn it's wrong because it's working well for you financially. Some might try it again without any understanding of what exactly happened previously, but that's more an indication of people needing professional help.

Most OG's have had a rough start and lost a large chunk of their net worth in the process, but they actually used their negative initial experience here in their advantage by understanding what they did wrong.

It's not really senseless. Back in the days it didn't matter what the stock was and its underlying revenue streams (i.e. the asset itself was irrelevant), the upwards potential during the dot com boom was what investors bought into, and the same pretty much applies to crypto. In both cases the usability of the product is what makes it become valuable, and Amazon's roadmap lead to the success it currently enjoys.

Bitcoin is quite similar, because it has a product to offer, and the more scalable it becomes, the more use it will be able to welcome. The more use it enjoys, the more valuable it becomes, it's basic economics.

The only thing is that we don't know how long it will take to reach previous all time high again. It's no longer an easy target because of where we are today. Going from $150 to $1150 is peanuts in comparison to go from $3000 to $20,000. The amount of money needed to sustain +$10,000 levels is insane.

The ETF that was approved in Switzerland is a horrible financial instrument. Rule nr 1; don't ever mix up Bitcoin with other shitcoins, which is what Coinbase did as well, and it failed hard with its institutional focused index fund. Their current fund allows you to get rid of coins you don't want, and the entry amount is peanuts, which is a step in the right direction.

We already knew her standpoint in the whole ETF situation, and it didn't help at all, nor will it help in the future.

You know what the real problem here is? People's continuous focus on events, where an ETF is somewhat of the highest possible achievement for an asset. After people sold the news, sold the rally that may or may not follow afterwards, what's left to focus on? Use is what matters, not these silly events that have an expiry date in terms of market impact.

Absolutely no need for LN? We need it more than ever before to keep gaining adoption. LN will offer people a user experience that's fast and super cheap, and that consistently, day in day out, which is something the main chain won't ever be able to offer. It's Bitcoin's killer application, come on.

People who 'forgot' about LN aren't here for Bitcoin's utility, but purely to speculate on the price. People who focus on use, and Bitcoin becoming money for the mass don't do anything other than keeping an eye on what LN's progress is.

https://www.bitrefill.com/ is one of the most popular sites accepting LN, and it works like charm. I used it a couple of times to buy PlayStore credit.

You can clearly see that OP isn't here for Bitcoin's tech, so tell me, what's there to believe in for him?

In markets there is a saying; some times doing nothing is the best option. In other words, find yourself something else to focus on. Try utilize your time in the best possible manner, because sitting here being frustrated about the price is an utter waste of time, because you'll be doing the same thing for months straight. The price won't miraculously rocket up to $10,000 any time soon.

Perhaps it will make OP feel better if he reads himself into Bitcoin. If you have a better understanding of the protocol, it could offer some mental rest, wich is something more people can use right now.