I'm sure that several of the various winners are going to want to inform people about the price that they paid.  I doubt that they would be restricted from such publicity, after they have won.

GREAT IDEA!!!!!!!!     +1  for that!     



ON another NOTE, it appears that if the weekly MACD on bitstamp closes below $575, then it will be red... and it is about to close, soon.. and it is barely below $575, as I type.

Yes, it seems strange and puzzling to have such a supposed moderator with such baggage and obsession with spreading disinformation.

Maybe I do NOT understand graphs and charts, sufficiently, but I do NOT see where in that information there is an indication of 80k new bitcoin users per day?

Perhaps, NOT... why did you snip my text? 

Most of us should realize that  wallet address on blockchain.info do NOT necessarily reflect people...   If we were getting 80k new bitcoin users per day, then that would be about 29million new users a year, and we are lucky to have 7 million users in total, at the moment.  In other words, we need some better explanation about why anyone would assert that there are anywhere near 80k new users on any given day or in any given month for that matter.  A month is more possible, but I would still like to understand the source for such info.

THEY say don't quote the troll; however, it seems really strange to have a supposed moderator spreading such FUD (from March 2014).  Blitz   - you keep posting links to that bullshit FUD article... over and over and over... And your frequent posting of such FUD article does NOT cause the article to become true, when the article is in fact a bunch of bullshit.

My lil' doggie can sense fear in the monkey.

Windjc is on the right track.  If you have enough money, then you may stagger your bids to make up to 10 bids between 80% of market rate to 135% of market rate, and you still may or may NOT win very many lots.  If you only have enough to bid on one lot and you want to win the coins, then you will likely need to go at least 115% of market rate in order to have a decent chance of winning one lot.

Wow!!!!   From where do you get your statistics? 

Maybe every month we get 80k new users (and even that may be a stretch), but every day, I doubt it.

I believe that there is considerable difficulties in measuring exactly how many people are using or holding BTC and the extent to which BTC are distributed among the holders/users and the quantity of BTC that the holders/users control.

You may be correct that I am giving too much importance to whether someone would want the candle to be red or green.

The exact numbers at this particular moment have the potential to look much different from the numbers on June 27, so I would NOT judge any likelihood to win exactly on what numbers are 3 days beforehand.  I could be wrong... but if I recall correctly there is some kind of event that will be occurring on 6/26.. that could possibly maybe have an outlier affect on prices on 6/27.  HM

You seem so certain, and for me, few things in the BTC world seem to be very certain... even though I am betting upon its long-term success.

I mean I get a sense that the current weekly MACD has been green all week, and there has been somewhat of a struggle to keep BTC prices down to a place where red weekly MACD remains reachable.    However, NEXT week seems like it would be much more difficult to keep from turning green. 

So, if I were a betting man and if I had some confidence, I would wager that we would get a red MACD for this week and green MACD for next week, yet my confidence remains so low that I would NOT bet very much.... possibly .01BTC some similarly smaller token amount.... and even if someone were to call me on the bet, I may fold and say I am NOT sufficiently confident about my prediction.

NOT quite naked.



I still have to use my imagination.      

Well, NOW that makes sense.....       I must just be dumb.         and filled with emotions, as you may be able to tell?   

Really?  The close of the Weekly MACD candle is only about two days from now, and BTC prices in the last about 24 hours have been floating between $580 and $600, and as I type at $586.

It does NOT seem that it would be too difficult to keep the price below $582-ish... I am NOT sure about the exact number to keep the candle red.  Now, I agree that next week would be another story, though.... but this week seems totally manipulable.  and doable and I think that there is going to be a pretty vigorous attempt at such.. to keep the candle red.

I think the weekly MACD on Bitstamp closes at around midnight UT on Wednesdays.  You will see a new candle form at that time.  I have been approximating the candle for Wednesday, and if BTC prices close above about $582 on Wednesday, then the weekly candle will be green, and if it closes below about $582, it will be red..   My theory is that there is going to be an attempt to keep prices below $582 by the end of the weekly candle.

I am NOT sure what you mean by TSD - b/c surely each new candle allows for the BTC price to close lower and then to turn green, so next Wednesday, the BTC price will have to be below $560 or something like that in order to remain red.... either way, the MACD weekly is surely on the cusp of turning green... and it could float in this limbo land for a little bit before actually going fully and unambiguously green.

NOW, you know.... 

That is so funny!!  He does kind of interact as if he were a bird-dog bot...   And he sticks to these various themes as you indicated... Yet,  I personally DONT think shroomy is a bot... Nonetheless, I'm sure that bots have gotten more and more sophisticated over the years.

MatTheCat:  The bolded part of your above statement is somewhat funny.. I was beginning to think the same about ADam.. that with him it is just buy, buy, buy and HODL, HODL, HODL... but he has made some sell, sell, sell statements, from time to time - though you never know for sure whether he is joking.


Your statement about Getting fiat is interesting too.  Unless, you are  very young, the longer you have been around the block, the more likely it is that you have more and more items that are invested in fiat and income streams around such fiat systems.  I have always had a considerable portion of my income dedicated to reinvesting with hopes that the reinvested money is earning interest and compounding over the years. 

Certainly, I could have been better about my various investments and even if I had found out about bitcoin earlier, that would have been better, but I tend to live well within my means and to invest in "safe" things, such as index funds.  With that I have built up a pretty decent cushion of fiat centric investments over the years.

Ever since I learned about the intricacies of BTC (only since November), I have been reconsidering my overall investment distributions. 

In recent times, also, I have been considering whether it would be feasible and/or reasonable to remove some of my fiat from my various more liquid investments, such as stock investments and to put that money into BTC.   Other investments that I have are NOT very liquid.  However, if I took some of my liquid investments, that would definitely multiply my BTC holdings - however, then the proportion of my investment into BTC would be really skewed towards BTC - and probably a lot more volatile and risky.

I tend to believe that when the BTC prices go skyrocketing upward, I will likely be saying to myself, "I should have.... ", yet one of the downsides of diversified and safer investing strategies is to NOT have all of one's eggs in one kind of basket... even though, frequently, there will be second and third thoughts about such strategies after the fact (Monday morning quarterbacking).

I think that it would look good only if you were just beginning to invest in BTC or that you had recently sold your BTC investment to buy in at a lower price.  Otherwise $330s would be seriously problematic for BTC and would delay what seems to be our upcoming, pending and seemingly imminent choo choo.