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441  Economy / Speculation / Re: Is there a regulated exchange where I can short btc? on: July 05, 2015, 05:48:52 PM
I don't see OP mentioned need for leverage anywhere. He wants to short on a regulated exchange, Nasdaq OMX is as regulated as it gets. Shorting is possible through any reputable brokerage.

Shorting IS using leverage. Selling != Shorting. Not the same thing at all

Incorrect. Shorting does not imply leverage, the concepts are orthogonal.
Shorting: http://www.investopedia.com/terms/s/shortselling.asp
Leverage: http://www.investopedia.com/articles/investing/073113/leverage-what-it-and-how-it-works.asp
442  Economy / Speculation / Re: Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion on: July 05, 2015, 05:44:03 PM
According to Varoufakis they'll get a better deal, but Dijsselbloem said friday that's out of the question and a no would probably mean Greece would leave the Eurozone.

I'd say Varoufakis was using smoke-and-mirrors, and the REAL Syriza plan was to get out of euro while pretending to be a victim of evil EU overlords. They want to shake off past debts and start printing out their sovereign fiat like all good lefties do.
443  Economy / Speculation / Re: Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion on: July 05, 2015, 05:38:35 PM
17.83% counted. 60.36% OXI

Yeah, it's most likely OXI, little doubt about it. The real question is, what now?
444  Economy / Speculation / Re: Is there a regulated exchange where I can short btc? on: July 05, 2015, 05:35:43 PM
bitstamp or bitfinex are legit exchange, you can try your way on one of those big exchange with big volume, trading futures on okcoin should be profitable too

They might be considered 'legit' but they're still not regulated and they could disappear in a puff of disaster at any moment. You're leaving yourself open to a recovery process that might result in getting diddly squat back.

Bitstamp doesn't do leverage. OKcoin have proven themselves to be incompetent liars. They still work though.

Kraken has a good rep and does leverage but it's no more legalised than anywhere else. Itbit is the most legit of them all but as far as I know the terms of their banking charter specifically prohibits leverage.

The OP may be in for a bit of a wait yet.

I don't see OP mentioned need for leverage anywhere. He wants to short on a regulated exchange, Nasdaq OMX is as regulated as it gets. Shorting is possible through any reputable brokerage.
445  Economy / Speculation / Re: Is there a regulated exchange where I can short btc? on: July 05, 2015, 05:25:20 PM
You can do it on Nasdaq OMX (ticker COINXBT, ratio: 200:1 to BTC). It's traded in Swedish krona but available through many international brokerages (including US ones).

Yeah, and good luck since you will need a lot of it...
446  Economy / Speculation / Re: Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion on: July 04, 2015, 06:55:25 AM
Remember those valiant new core developers, who were defending bitcoin against the fork that the Evil Lords Gavin and Mike wanted?  Seems that they now have a little ittyy bitty forklet of their own happening now...

6-blocks deep invalid chain due to some stupid miners not checking blocks and only using headers? Meh. Could be almost anything,  just happened to be BIP-66 specific. Blaming it on core devs is disingenuous. The situation has zero similarity with the pandora's shitbox opened by a bunch of fervent Bitcoin-XT fork promoters.
447  Economy / Speculation / Re: Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion on: June 26, 2015, 04:35:25 PM
It would be nice (for the bears  Cheesy ) to see a 4k dump soon, the wall on bfx asks for it... Cheesy

The bid walls were there for more than a week, just begging for a huge dump. The very fact that such dump didn't happen tells us one thing loud and clear: The bears have no more coins to dump, and are afraid to borrow. All their "dump talk" is just a bravado, there is nothing behind it. Looks like this bear market died a horrible death: it died of boredom.
448  Economy / Speculation / Re: Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion on: June 25, 2015, 08:18:41 AM
"Only" 12K ask wall? Used to be 20K. What happened to the finex whale?

He most likely hoped that the wall will attract some determined sellers able to fill his bids. However, it seems that there are no sellers with real coin ready to sell at this price point. So he figured 20K wall looks just to scary and removed half of it to give bears a fair chance at dropping the price. It would be interesting to see if the bears still control enough coins to fill even decreased volume of bids (or are willing to borrow the same). If not, all the "$200 by tomorrow!" bear battle cries amount to nothing but posturing.
449  Economy / Speculation / Re: Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion on: June 18, 2015, 10:31:55 PM
What if people start buying your "cheap coins" from your ask wall instead of dumping?
Psychology is always the same. Support disappears, huge ask walls come up. Doom and gloom, people panic. Even the ones that have the capacity to eat through your fake walls will be more careful if something like this happens. The trick is not to repeat that too often, otherwise you might get burned.


How can you be sure that someone didn't put up the bid wall to tempt people into buying their coins, and when people stopped buying dumped straight into whatever buy order had built up?

No need to flare a fake ask wall in this case. Just dump while you're still pumping. You know your orders, so won't hit them (or you can remove them a second before dump).
450  Economy / Speculation / Re: Gold collapsing. Bitcoin UP. on: June 18, 2015, 10:19:37 PM
If/when the Winklevoss COIN materializes, the premium should normalize toward (or below) the actual bitcoin prices with the onset of competition, and shorting.

The question though... what will the bitcoin price be by then?  Who knows how long that will take.

It's interesting that Nasdaq OMX ETN (XBT) does not have any premium, and it's trading right at Bitstamp rate. Certainly, it doesn't have CUSIP, so not suitable for 401K. However, it can be bought in US (Interactive Brokers: COINXBT)... So competition in the space is heating up.
451  Economy / Speculation / Re: Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion on: June 18, 2015, 09:56:42 PM
If yesterday's wall was just a genuine attempt to buy coins how come it was abruptly taken down and replaced with an ask wall? It seems a blatant attempt at manipulation as far as I'm concerned.

It's actually pretty easy - if you're accumulating and no one is selling you cheap coins, you can just scare them into dumping by flaring up a big enough ask wall.
452  Local / Новости / Re: Роскомнадзор заблокировал Bitnovosti ! on: May 31, 2015, 04:18:23 PM
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453  Local / Новости / Re: Роскомнадзор заблокировал Bitnovosti ! on: May 31, 2015, 03:57:24 PM
вот это прикол конечно. интересно, а кто заметил что они эту заглушку сами прилепили а не роскомнадзор им навесил ? везде в новостях про это ничего нигде не написано, только в этом топике такая информация

Потому что только в этом топике кто-то такую чушь сморозил. В оригинальной статье все написано четко: bitnovosti.com заблокировал хостер, испугавшись письма Роскомнадзора. Переехали на другой хостинг, снова все работает: http://bitnovosti.com/2015/05/27/bitnovosti-zablokirovali/
454  Bitcoin / Press / 2015-05-27 Another Bitcoin site banned by Russian Government on: May 27, 2015, 08:03:15 PM
Another Bitcoin info site was banned by the order of Russian Government today.
http://bitnovosti.com/2015/05/27/bitnovosti-zablokirovali/
455  Economy / Auctions / Re: Casascius Silver + Gold Single MS68 on: April 09, 2015, 03:48:43 PM
Payment received and tracking sent! I will close this after he gets the coin.

Got the coin, everything is as expected. Thanks, Blazedout419!
456  Economy / Auctions / Re: Casascius 0.5 BTC Silver Series-2 physical bitcoin: NO RESERVE, 30-DAY AUCTION on: April 09, 2015, 03:45:01 PM
Got the coin, everything is as expected. Thanks, Blazedout419!

Oops, sorry, this one was nubbins' auction. Wink Anyways, I got this coin as well. :-P
457  Economy / Auctions / Re: Casascius 0.5 BTC Silver Series-2 physical bitcoin: NO RESERVE, 30-DAY AUCTION on: April 09, 2015, 03:42:25 PM
Got the coin, everything is as expected. Thanks, Blazedout419!
458  Economy / Auctions / Re: Casascius 0.5 BTC Silver Series-2 physical bitcoin: NO RESERVE, 30-DAY AUCTION on: April 03, 2015, 01:54:55 AM
Thanks, ducatitalia. Seems like these higher-grade Cas silvers don't sell very often, eh? Wink
459  Economy / Auctions / Re: Casascius 10 BTC Silver Round - Auction on: April 02, 2015, 11:05:40 PM
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460  Economy / Auctions / Re: Casascius 0.5 BTC Silver Series-2 physical bitcoin: NO RESERVE, 30-DAY AUCTION on: April 02, 2015, 09:41:02 PM
Not hard to guess as the last 2 both went for 10  Tongue

Is there a thread that tracks Casascius coin sales and prices? It seems I've seen something like this a while ago, but can't find it now.
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