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28061  Economy / Speculation / Re: Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion on: August 11, 2014, 08:22:54 PM
You've had 5 years for cheap coins. Wasn't that enough?

Not for Johnny-come-lately noobs.

They remind me of the people who wanted the price to drop to pennies back in 2012 because they thought they'd missed the boat.

Sorry. Those days are long gone. Get over it people and let's get the ball rolling again.

Of course when the price is $10k, other noobs will be pining for a return to the $600 prices they read about.

+1  Exactamente!!!!!   This is just a dynamic with what noobs are going to want... HOwever, as you indicated, they can want it all that they like and wish and pray for it.. That wishing and praying and attempting to manipulate is NOT going to change the reality that the prices can only come down so far, and they better get on the rocket or risk missing it...   b/c once this baby gets going, it moves quickly.. and does NOT wait for the whining opportunistic noobs.. who failed to act when they had a chance....
28062  Economy / Speculation / Re: Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion on: August 11, 2014, 08:17:26 PM
I was hoping it to go lil low Tongue 560 and I'm ready with lil buy order Smiley now I guess its recovering back to where it is from last couple of weeks.

So you're gonna risk losing out and probably panic buying at 600 because you want to save 20 bucks per coin?

There are buyers not only investing their allowance of 20,00$ to accumulate 1 Bitcoin. For adult investors, investing +10,000$ it is a difference. But you can't grasp it...

Yeah... we should NOT assume that posters here are adults. 

GROW UP, DUMP3ER!!!!!!!!      

Oh, you can't grown any faster than time allows... Cheesy Cheesy Cheesy    sorry about that.     Tongue Tongue Tongue
28063  Economy / Speculation / Re: Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion on: August 11, 2014, 07:58:41 PM
Come on, again? Every time that i need to sell bitcoins the price goes down hard! Why? Im a bad luck guy.

B/c you need to plan ahead... something like a month should be good.. (but you need to find what can work for you in order to cause less stress... maybe 2 weeks or maybe 6 weeks would work better for your particular circumstances).   You should NOT be so leveraged into any asset class as to be forced into buying or selling...   

With this post, you seem to recognize that you need to make an adjustment to your cushion...
28064  Economy / Speculation / Re: Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion on: August 11, 2014, 07:11:38 PM
Bring on the multi-year bear market. Let the true bit-leavers accumulate all the coins from the weak hands!

No thanks.

And please quit with the weak hands myth.

I don't get it. Last winter there were tons of people on here saying that if prices fell to $100 or $200 or whatever they would take loans out on their home equity, cash out their 401k, etc, to buy as many as possible. Don't we still want this?

Of course NOT... why would we want BTC prices to be suppressed to such a low level.. that is ridiculous to even suggest it.. b/c such a low price would demonstrate an extreme low confidence in BTC value... and as we know, we got into the mid-$300s for a a day or so, earlier this year.. for our post ATH low... and absent some extreme news, it seems fairly unlikely that BTC prices are going to see the $400s again...
28065  Economy / Speculation / Re: Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion on: August 11, 2014, 07:01:23 PM
to be honest , I am not sure what to think, the price still doesn't seem right to me and the trend is just broken, I haven't been confused like this in a long time, I remember about this time a year ago I went all in and I can still remember the confidence I had about my decision... I just don't know why I don't have that anymore !!!

You are describing yourself as NOT having the confidence b/c you are trying to frame some credible story in order to downwardly manipulate the price... but instead you are pathetic....

There are just as many (and more) reasons to be optimistic about BTC this year as compared with last year.. so stop being so selectively blind by your own book and by your having had put a large sum of your BTC into LTC... sorry about your losses, but what a stupid gamble.

In other words, you probably have good reason to be confused... b/c you seem to be a dumb ass.  Embarrassed   Cry
28066  Economy / Speculation / Re: Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion on: August 11, 2014, 06:56:15 PM
Price tanking hard again, what's up here? Any news triggering that sell-off or is it just another random dump or some miners that can't hold up their selling any longer? Not an especially beautiful sight Sad

I thought we already established that miners do NOT dump on the market.. these miners generally sell off market.. the dumpers on the exchanges are generally the manipulators.. or attempted downward price manipulators...
28067  Economy / Speculation / Re: Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion on: August 11, 2014, 06:52:46 PM
I actually hope that we stay flat like this for several more years, because each week my dad gives me $10 allowance and I like to put half of that toward bitcoin. In 4 more years, I can have 2 full bitcoin!

Hmm, that's a great model, isn't it? One can aford losing all, and can be always in a position buying when price falls.

I failed to adapt that model. Pathetically, I bot too heavy  during the peak. My remaining capital does not compensate if market falls further.

What shall I do? I've got to hodl, and buy regularly to lower my average, with my affordable allowance. Any one give me some suggestions?



Another troll like post... but i will entertain it...

Yes, a rookie mistake to buy too much when the prices is high and to blow all your wadd in exuberance... yet with bitcoin, you will get your money back, sooner or later, as long as you do NOT attempt to trade... b/c you likely do not know what the fuck you are doing.. like most traders.. and attempt to continue to buy in ... in order to keep bringing down your average buy in price.... in the end (maybe a day or maybe 2 years) the odds are pretty great that BTC prices are going to go to a new ATH.. and then you can either cash out b/c you do NOT know what you are doing.. or just cash out some or just continue to stay in BTC... probably it is good for you to come to your own judgements about this and to continue to monitor the extent to which you want to get out or to redistribute your total investment portfolio
28068  Economy / Speculation / Re: Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion on: August 11, 2014, 06:45:47 PM
I actually hope that we stay flat like this for several more years, because each week my dad gives me $10 allowance and I like to put half of that toward bitcoin. In 4 more years, I can have 2 full bitcoin!

yes... made up and logically inconsistent facts of a troll...
28069  Economy / Speculation / Re: Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion on: August 11, 2014, 06:43:48 PM
Surprised by how well the Metcalfe's law price assumption works, for example when comparing the previous "plateau" phase (~100 USD) and the current one.

Looking at number of transactions (excluding 100 popular addresses), comparing the August 2013 average (25k) to the August 2013 average (60k), we get: ((60/25)^2)*100 = 576 USD.

Close enough, no?

Wow, really? So we'd need an increase in transactions now, right? (Aren't we already seeing one for a few weeks???) But what about the prediction that according to the transactions we should be at $2k already? I guess I've seen that around here somewhere...

You should keep two things separate: how well the data is modeled, and how well the model predicts future data.

For example, you'll note that the local peaks of the transactions (early 2013, late 2013) come well after the peak in price. And how to extrapolate from the transaction graph into the future is an entirely different question, imo.

I picked the "plateau" phases on purpose. In my opinion, the price of around $100 last year was an important milestone. Took the market a while to understand that we won't go below it again for any substantial amount of time, but also that it takes some time to go above it.

Feels similar now, with 500s instead of low 100s.

(Subjective argumentation above, I know... Dismiss it freely Cheesy)

Nah, I think it's a nice assumption! I like to see how people feel about current prices and whether they think that they're sustainable or we're even about to go higher. Then the whole Mt. Gox willy bot thing needs to be addressed. We haven't seen a bubble without willy yet, and some people claim we need that bot. But who knows... I'm not sure what to believe. But remain optimistic!


Your rendition of the facts here seem questionable, namely:  "We haven't seen a bubble without willy yet."  That framing of the facts helps to support the fallacious argument that "we need that bot for a bubble."    Seems like a fairly significant distraction in order to attempt to further entice peeps (weak hands) out of their coins.  The willy bot may have facilitated that last bubble in terms of timing and magnitude... but even if so that facilitation does NOT mean that willy bot caused the bubble... accordingly, another bubble will be coming, with or without a willy-like bot b/c in the end, various downward price manipulators or only going to be able to keep prices down for so long... maybe they might be able to keep it down for another year.. but i really doubt it and probably they would be lucky to keep prices down more than another 4 months
28070  Economy / Speculation / Re: Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion on: August 11, 2014, 05:40:00 PM
This is where institutional investors come in.

Bitcoin is making fiat look so volatile recently.  I am glad to have my money in a safe currency  Tongue

Naaah, those are just some nice words flying around the forums for a week or two recently... Bitcoin is still the most volatile currency we currently have (apart from altcoins, maybe), and it still has a rather shallow market cap or order books.
But yeah, we need institutional money or money from big risky investors. I think Bitcoin may not even be big enough for that Cheesy

I agree with the overall sentiment of your post.. but the Bold statement.... seems to be out of place, somewhat?   I doubt that you really thought through that bold statement or really made a comparison between ALL currencies in order to suggest that there is some kind of ongoing negativity when it comes to BTC - b/c overall you seem to be suggesting that increasing BTC's market cap could be a partial solution to some of its volatility.


I am NO currency expert, but I know that there are a lot of small country currencies that suffer incredible volatility and frequently that volatility of those small country currencies is to the downside.... bitcoin on the other hand has had a volatility record that tends to be to the upside.. at least if we take a longer perspective of BTC.
28071  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: We already passed the tipping point of BTC on: August 11, 2014, 10:54:02 AM
Probably the only thing that will keep bitcoin alive is the illegal side of things Roll Eyes

That "illegal side" is kind of what got BTC going, but that"illegal side" does NOT seem to be what is currently sustaining BTC prices in the upper $500s.  Do you have statistics to show us?  or a link(s)?
28072  Economy / Speculation / Re: Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion on: August 11, 2014, 10:50:40 AM

Ive mentioned it a couple of times on the forum already today, but I have it through very good sources that the majority of large miner coins that are being sold are being sold off exchange for a point or two premium by hedge funds.

A large miner recently confirmed that he had had several calls put into him by hedge funds looking to buy every coin he had. If they are tracking him down, their tracking others down as well. I think this is one of the reason selling has practically dried up relative to what it used to be. Big money is desperate not to have the price run up.

I have been dwelling on this analysis from Windic and of course it makes sense.

If the miners go to market with the current volume, then they won't get the price they might from off exchange sales.

But with these sellers and the corresponding buyers both off-market, then volume dries up.  It also means the price is far more easy to manipulate by dumping a few every time it looks like creeping up and buying them back once the rise has been stopped.

This will only change if off-market demand exceeds supply.

But at first miners will just have more bidders and may just auction at higher rates, but still off-market.

The only way this situation changes will be if the large off-market buyers see the premium asked by miners as excessive and break ranks.

And these large buyers are not so stupid.   So right now we stay in this equilibrium - large miners will not change it, they get guaranteed sales at market or slightly over and predictable, optimised cashflow.

Miners not selling off-market are supplying about what the market wants right now, hence (relative) stability.

So...  what needs to change?  Probably the point where it becomes inevitable that it WILL change.

At this point miners may hold and ask a premium - large buyers see the cosy arrangement is not going to last and then they start to break ranks and just land grab on-market.

So breakouts are being stamped on - it is inevitable it MUST be what is happening. 

Once it looks like this amazing accumulation 'party' is over, the shit will hit the fan.   

The longer it lasts the faster it will turn.  And events, of course 'events' can be the calalyst for someone to blink.

And so it will begin - we will have our choo choos again.







I am all fine and dandy with that analysis... yet it seems that the time-line and stability of this arrangement remains unclear.   This arrangement could continue for days or maybe even up to 4-6 months.  .. let's say 4-6 months of about $2million per day in BTC being bought off line  (3,600 x $600) That is only about $60million per month, and it remains unclear for how many months that will be a sufficient supply for accumulators.
28073  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: We already passed the tipping point of BTC on: August 11, 2014, 10:31:54 AM
I'm of the same opinion as the OP.  It's like bitcoin is approaching a new level of growth that has yet to be comprehended IMO.  I think people need to be extra careful with their coins because the scammers are on full alert I have no doubt.

yeah... agreed... as BTC increases in value.. which is likely to continue... there will be more and more methods and means to separate peeps from their coins.
28074  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: We already passed the tipping point of BTC on: August 11, 2014, 10:27:38 AM
First things first, You have anything to hold when the average joe realizes there's a lot of money to make and the speculative bubble explodes. That's the problem when a lot of people want to make a lot of money.

Second, the next PC revolution will virtually destroy BTC, and every other crypto-currencies in the process. It will bring power to everyone, call me an optimist. The next two revolutions I'm talking about, we may be not be living to witness them, but we will be seen as the pioneers who made made them happen. Our grand children will thank us for that, not necessarily for the meaningless BTC.

BTC is nothing more than a desperate attempt for Americans to invest their savings when the petro-dollar no longer exists; fucking my word, it's all over the news.

 Shocked Shocked   You are off to a great start with your first post, here.   Roll Eyes Roll Eyes


NOT    Cheesy Cheesy Cheesy   Tongue Tongue

Wishful thinking, first post or not, great start or not, if you don't like my posts, don't respond to them. I say I said BTC is doomed, a piece of fucking shit. What you dreamed you taught me a lesson, LOL

I did not say that I did NOT like your first post, and even if I did NOT like your first post, I can still respond to it.

So, WTVER.

YOU can come and troll if you like and NOT add value if you like and people may or may NOT respond to your posts; however, those present and/or future posts turn out to be.

So far, out of the two posts of yours that I have read, they do NOT seem to add much value to our discussion; however, maybe other people or trolls, may appreciate your apparently NONSUBSTANTIVE and emotionally laden input???






28075  Economy / Speculation / Re: How many Bitcoins needed to retire in 5-6 years? on: August 11, 2014, 10:17:11 AM
I just talked to a economics Phd and we analyzed some stats surrounding BTC. We made some good/worst case scenarios and took the average of those scenarios.

Our price prediction for 2020 = 10,750 USD Wink

The known price history of Bitcoin is roughly 4 years. You're attempting to predict 16 years ahead?

I still like the prediction though but would expect something halvings to have happened and the price could easily go above 10k. Smiley



Wilhelm:   It is good that we are NOT relying upon your math....  Shocked      I calculate 2020 to be 6 years from NOW, not 16 years from now.   Cheesy 

By the way, the $10,750 estimate seems a little bearish to me, too... given BTC's history and totality of circumstances, including slipperyslope's theory of exponential growth during the adoption phase.. and NO reason to believe that we are NOT currently in the midst of adoption.... even in early adoption regarding BTC.
28076  Economy / Speculation / Re: When will the next bubble start? on: August 11, 2014, 10:10:29 AM
Maybe the November 2013 bubble was the last one. That would be a bummer, huh? Or maybe masterluc was right, and we're in for a multi-year bear market. Fun stuff!

LINK?Huh or it didn't happen.   Smiley
28077  Economy / Speculation / Re: Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion on: August 11, 2014, 09:57:43 AM
Chicken feet  Undecided


YEP, Soy Chicken feet.  I bought 10 of them, and got two bonus ones... They are yummy, and better cold, IMHBO.  I thought that you were ignoring me, Shroomie?
28078  Economy / Speculation / Re: Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion on: August 11, 2014, 03:48:34 AM
Today, I was able to confirm both the good luck and the superstition with 777

 I was in my local Chinese town to-go restaurant, and I told the gentleman behind the counter that i wanted 6 barbecued chicken wings and 10 soy chicken feet.  He was NOT sure about what I said and he asked the lady next to him to translate into chinese.  

When he weighed up the chicken wings, I saw the price came to $7.xx, and I had not really noticed the details of the price, I was just thinking, "shit more than $7.xx for 6 chicken wings."  Don't get me wrong, they were big-ass chicken wings, but still I was thinking about the price, and as the guy was acknowledging the price, he was getting really excited about how lucky I was and kept pointing at the wings and the box and going "oh, oh, oh..."  

I then glanced back at the price on the scale, and it was $7.77, and I just smiled and nodded in agreement with the guy, even though I was thinking that it was NOT such a big deal.  Then as he weighed my 10 soy chicken feet, he wrote down the price and threw in two extra soy chicken feet.. and he kind of winked at me.  Then I thought, "oh, there is something to the luck of $7.77 b/c I just scored two extra soy chicken feet out of the deal."    

Anyhow, rumor about lucky 7s is true in the Chinese community and confirmed  by experience of two extra soy chicken feet.


Edit:  BTW... I was thinking that since 6 chicken wings was $7.77, then 5 chicken wings would have been $6.66 and 7 chicken wings would have been $8.88.. just gotta get lucky, or unlucky with the exact weight of each chicken wing.


4 and 7, particularly 4, is more considered as bad rather than good in Chinese culture. "4" sounds like "die", and "7" is also related to death.

Commemorative banknote with 4 or 7 in the serial number will carry a lesser premium.

Just search "無47" (No 4 and 7) ( https://www.google.com.hk/search?q=%E7%84%A147 ) and you will find lots of ads of commemorative banknote trading

In other words, the guy in the restaurant did NOT know his proper training in superstitions...   He probably had gone to Vegas too frequently... and figured 7s were lucky... NOT realizing that he is chinese.   Cheesy
28079  Economy / Speculation / Re: Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion on: August 11, 2014, 03:15:05 AM
Today, I was able to confirm both the good luck and the superstition with 777

 I was in my local Chinese town to-go restaurant, and I told the gentleman behind the counter that i wanted 6 barbecued chicken wings and 10 soy chicken feet.  He was NOT sure about what I said and he asked the lady next to him to translate into chinese.  

When he weighed up the chicken wings, I saw the price came to $7.xx, and I had not really noticed the details of the price, I was just thinking, "shit more than $7.xx for 6 chicken wings."  Don't get me wrong, they were big-ass chicken wings, but still I was thinking about the price, and as the guy was acknowledging the price, he was getting really excited about how lucky I was and kept pointing at the wings and the box and going "oh, oh, oh..."  

I then glanced back at the price on the scale, and it was $7.77, and I just smiled and nodded in agreement with the guy, even though I was thinking that it was NOT such a big deal.  Then as he weighed my 10 soy chicken feet, he wrote down the price and threw in two extra soy chicken feet.. and he kind of winked at me.  Then I thought, "oh, there is something to the luck of $7.77 b/c I just scored two extra soy chicken feet out of the deal."    

Anyhow, rumor about lucky 7s is true in the Chinese community and confirmed  by experience of two extra soy chicken feet.


Edit:  BTW... I was thinking that since 6 chicken wings was $7.77, then 5 chicken wings would have been $6.66 and 7 chicken wings would have been $8.88.. just gotta get lucky, or unlucky with the exact weight of each chicken wing.
28080  Economy / Speculation / Re: Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion on: August 11, 2014, 02:11:30 AM
Ok, I like the occasional meme gif every once in a while, but now it's starting to get ridiculous.  Roll Eyes 

How old are we again?

A picture is worth a thousand words... and seems to be part of this thread's culture...
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