I think it just further supports the idea that it's insider trading. You don't do that kind of thing on a regulated exchange unless you want to go to jail.

People with that kind of money to throw around don't get that rich or risk that kind of money without some sort of edge. I would say he has inside information. In fact, I would say a lot of people have the information and that's why we are going to continue vertical until the news breaks.

How can someone with so many degrees be so bad at math? There can only be one coin for the whole world and it's used like cash? How, 10 terabyte blocks? Asshat!

Put me down for $64000

Reason: I think something will trigger FOMO this year. It could be an ETF or collapse of a government or the beginning of another global recession.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yxxgBJUcu18

Mastercard goes crypto?

I read some posts about IQ earlier and responses. At the end of the day, high IQ doesn't protect you from trolls. High IQ people understand the value of listening to every opinion. Occasionally these trolls are able to sway a person of high intelligence to part with a portion of their stack through social engineering and manipulation of the narrative on this forum and others. I know how hard it is, and my only advice is to leave the space all together and come back in a few years. Pursue other interests, get drunk, do something else, but for god's and for the betterment of mankind's sake, do not sell your precious few bitcoin to these manipulative, low intelligence, low moral character, low social character, lowlifes!!!! You will be rewarded for your intelligence and your fortitude but the time is not now, it is in 2020 or beyond...

I predict a huge pump incoming and a dump on 10 Aug regardless of the decision

Every single word to this supposed Segwit issue is FUD. There is no attack, even at 51%, if you don't have valid signature data for every transaction, mining nodes will invalidate your block/chain and all you have succeeded in doing is creating a fork of bitcoin with you as the only miner and a shitcoin with a value of $0.

What a bunch of BS. Break even for an S9 mine right now is around $5000/BTC. There is more to mining than electricity! By 2024, it will be closer to $500k/BTC break even.

I don't know where you are getting the ~24% projection but it isn't even close to accurate.

They all think they are genius traders who are going to buy back lower. That is all.

Actually, it is backed by the trust in it by the public. Once that trust evaporates, it will be worth nothing and war will not be possible. War is only possible with the consent of the public, either through awareness or manipulation of awareness.

This makes no logical sense (although it is taught like this in universities). Money is supposed to represent production. It can only originate from production. Creating money to "represent" debt or future production is literally creating money "out of nothing". This is the problem with the current system, it is backwards and only exists because it allows governments and corporations unlimited power to steal from producers.

Real money can only be created out of production and only after this has happened, can it be borrowed to create debt, not the other way around. The current monetary system is not real money, it is a house of cards built on decades of mind-fucking the public. There will be an awakening.

5920 and then hard rebound to 10k

Hey, if there is someone left dumb enough to sell at that price, then we need to get there and get those coins bought so we can launch. I know mine aren't for sale until we are over 100k. That could take a few years but if someone wants to sell theirs for 2-2.5, then lets get there!

Considering the USD won't be around in its current form by then, that sounds about right.

I am seeing a feedback loop. The price spikes lead to investment in mining gear and the resulting increase in hash power leads to the next spike in price which fuels the next round of investment in mining gear, etc., etc.

I understand. I'm just pointing out that the differences between left and right are only possible because of unsound money. The whole debate and the differing views can only be possible in a world of unchecked power made possible by unsound money. All of the fighting between left and right would likely be mute if the world used the same hard money.

The free market would decide the demand for government services and corporations. When everyone competes fairly for limited resources, the only way to survive as a government service or private service is to provide true value that people demand their money be used for.

Corporate power and government power both stem from unsound money. If the whole world used the same hard money (bitcoin), corporations and government worldwide would have to prove their worth to secure funding and live within their means to pay their debts.

In a world of easy money controlled by the government and corporations, human nature will always lead to corruption and greed.

The fix is coming and the fix is bitcoin as the world's single reserve currency. Any country not backing their money with bitcoin in 20 years will see their own currency hyper inflate.

It could very well be that the first countries to do so will end up being the worlds new superpowers just like the US became after the dollar became the world's reserve currency.

The difficulty increased by 634 billion which is the largest increase in the history of bitcoin. The increase in this period alone is nearly equal to the entire network difficulty 1 year ago.