you can't just make up random "guesses" like this. and no chart can support your "guess" on this. for all we know tomorrow SEC approves ETF and price goes to $2000 or Chinese get back their access to their loved exchanges and start buying like mad men and push price to $2000 making up for lost time.

relevant to their business! that doesn't make sense. but one possibility might be because very few were using it. and usually services don't like having too many options. it is always better to keep the options limited to top used ones.

i have used https://www.viabtc.com/tools/txaccelerator/ multiple times before without any problem but today i have had a couple of payments that i wanted to put through this service and i couldn't do it from the morning!

obviously i assumed the 100 limit was reached but just right now ViaBTC mined block 456173 and technically their 100 tx should go back to zero and allow new submissions but it still says "submission beyond limit!"

a bank is not just offering profit, there are lots of other services they offer too. such as storing money, giving loans, giving ways to spend it such as credit cards, checks, ... some of these services would be stupid with bitcoin but many may like it.
also the volatility is not an issue when you just work with bitcoin meaning you receive bitcoin and pay bitcoin

it is so funny that all of this crap is just over 3 (or i think 5 according to coin.dance) new blocks that were signalling BitcoinUnlimited and there has been 231 other blocks out of last 1000 previous blocks doing the same signaling.

are you still saying what's her face is crashing bitcoin price? i don't think so.

don't be naive. and stop comparing bitcoin with that ether shitcoin. that was a big mistake and the developer forked the coin without anybody accepting the for so it was left with side chain!
the recent thing about Jihan Wu is mostly drama because 2 of their blocks were signalling support for BU and it is not the end of the world. and these are not the first blocks signalling BU and this will not cause a fork.

you can always easily use other methods. you don't have to necessarily use an exchange service to get bitcoin.
for example i just sold some coins to someone in my country completely peer to peer and the other party used his bank (debit) card to transfer the money to my account with zero fees. and his price was just 1-2% below the market.

well as i said above the reason for the first time this rise in price in Indian markets happened was because Indians had limitations on their bank withdrawals so the only way they could buy bitcoin was through cash and other payment methods on localbitcoins.

i actually am buying bitcoin lower than 5% above preev rates with my local currency. and we don't have any exchange like zebpay in our country even

when nobody or better say so few people knew about ETF. which means when you heard about ETF winkle twins have already invested in bitcoin and bought all the coins they needed for ETF and some more.

interesting, i remember the first time this happened the Zebpay and exchanges like that were higher but not by a lot. the high prices were mostly on localbitcoins and it was understandable since their access to their bank accounts were limited.

but do we have any reason for this difference today?

there is always good side and bad side to everything. and bitcoin is no exception. the bad can be the little anonymity that bitcoin offers and opens up some small ways for some illegal activities.
but the good is always a lot more. the good of bitcoin is the decentralization in my opinion and the fact that it opens up a whole new technology for the world, and we can see banks and lots of others are adopting the technology already.

i can't wait until 11th or at least 20th till this headache about bitcoin ETF is over and we start hearing something new. i am honestly getting tired of seeing the same thing over and over again and meanwhile it is not really a key thing for bitcoin.

sadly i cannot watch youtube from here but i have to say the rise is not going to continue on like this forever. we are in the ground floor and we are seeing big rises, at some point this will speed up if the adoption happens but the speed of the rise will slow down so you can't just extrapolate the data from these days to the data for future.
which is why i say $2000 and higher is possible but not 100K

price is too volatile right now. not so long ago it was $1250 and not it is back at $1273 and whenever things become this wild predicting becomes impossible in my experience.

although i am also waiting for a correction but i can't smell it like you

bitcoin traders are also like many other traders. they don't ever know when to buy and when to sell exactly because nobody owns a time machine or a future telling orb.

anyways it is all speculation. you analyze the market, it can be technical and fundamental analysis and listening to news and checking so many other things to try and make a best guess(an educated guess) and then act on that .

can you give us a summary or some kind of TLDR of your journey first and then go in details like you are right now with the "day 1" etc?
for example what else did you do apart from mining?
did you just mine and hold to sell now?
or did you mine, and do some more stuff with those coins and multiplied your stash?

no because things like Winklevos ETF are nothing more than a distraction to push the price higher than it normally goes and make more profit. bitcoin never needed them and it never will need it in the future which means its approval or rejection don't play any role in the future of bitcoin.

and i would be really surprised if we can ever see prices lower than $1100 or $1000 because of this (possible) rejection!

the idea of doing something like this with paper wallets is to spread the word about bitcoin not make people a wallet (private key on a paper) they can dump their money in!
and you do keep the private keys but explain how things are in the back size of the paper.

for example you put a couple of bucks in that paper wallet and on the back you explain how they can sweep the key and spend the coins using a bitcoin wallet, give links to bitcoin.org and the /choose-your-wallet page so they can download something like Electrum or others for their cell phone and spend those coins.
and for example if they didn't spend them in a month you use the private keys to spend it yourself.

well i had it in my opening post but i removed it because to be honest this looks more like a short dump to me rather than a correction. although it was a good test of the buy resistance.

"to the moon" to me is just like that meme of rollercoaster they post on reddit every damn day!
and the price has no cap, it can go up to 10K$ and then more.

also i have to say about the two things you said here, they are both two unknown events that can change the coarse of things but only temporarily. the SEC thing is just hype these days.
and the Chinese will come back to normal again otherwise people are going to continue their OTC trading and there is not a damn thing they can do about it.