The value of Casascius Coins has gotten to the point where I wouldn't even want to carry them out of a bank.  I've been wanting to sell a 0.5 Casascius coin for a while now but it feels crazy to even have that amount in your possession on a physical coin.  So crazy when you think that the original ones were given away by the thousands.  I wonder how many of those bad boys are buried under some dirt at various festival locations around the country...  Back to your comment, HOW would you sell a funded Casascius coin?

As for the thread topic, Electrum.  Free, fast, and simple.

It looks like the high might currently be from KrakenUS at $67,777.70. I expect this will likely be a moving target for a little while now that we are into price discovery territory. Most people seem to think we could get up into the $80Ks  before we see the next large correction. I’m starting to wish I had a Bitcoin ticker for moments like this.

If Coinmarketcap.com is the benchmark though, it looks like the ATH is $67,673.74 according to their site: https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/bitcoin/

I'm happy to use that as a consensus unless there's a more standard way.

Looks like the Lakers are already exploring changes on their team after the slow start...  Rumors for the day have it looking as if they are on the hunt for a new head coach.  However, the fanbase on social media is being pretty loud that they don't think the head coach is the problem.  Lakers fans are starting to make a case that Russell Westbrook should be traded in order to fix the problems on the team.  Russell's contract likely keeps that from being a possibility, and the Lakers first approach Dame to see if he'd join the team, so unless Dame has had a change of heart and the Blazers are looking to bite the bullet to help him get where he wants to be, I think we'll be seeing Russell in a Lakers uniform possibly next year as well...  Personally, I think they'll get it figured out.  Carmelo is playing better than expected and Nunn hasn't even played yet while LeBron and AD have both been having the usual injury issues... 

 

Imagine thinking that someone would have over a million dollars invested in an asset and then not follow it's development.  

It's always really weird to me when people think that if someone has some money then they must be out spending it.  That's just not how being rich works...

I was once given great advice about people.  Here it is...


If you need money, don't ask a rich man.  He didn't get rich giving away money.  Ask a poor man.  He will give you the shirt off his back.
If you need help, don't ask someone with nothing to do.  They do nothing.  Ask a busy person.  They will always find time to do a job.


I repeat this advice only to say that if someone has 22 BTC today, they have no desire to spend it on yachts.  It is clear their motivation was never about the money in the first place or they would have cashed out long ago.  You have to have a passion for Bitcoin and a desire to help change the world for the better to be holding at this point.  Otherwise you probably spent all your Bitcoin and are mad at whoever accepted it as payment to deflect from your own personal responsibility.  

As for mtgox...  No, obviously nobody has gotten their money back yet.  Although it does look like Q2 of next year is a possibility.

We got within $500 of the all time high. Pretty exciting. I suspect we’ll see new all time highs and a break into price discovery in the early morning hours of tomorrow. Then it will likely be back to the races. Miners have been holding for months now in preparation. The stage is set and the actors have taken their places. Now we watch, enjoy, and wait for the standing ovation (to run out the exit door while everyone else is clapping).

That Clippers game was something else. They finished on a 27-4 run to comeback and beat the Charlotte Hornets. After the game the coach for the Hornets said they were just missing shots at the end of the game and there was no other explanation for the breakdown… Paul George had another great night, barely missing a triple double with 20-9-8 as his final stat line.

Bitcoin back in striking distance of the all time high and moving up quickly. I’m showing its up 5.5% in the last 24 hours and within 2.5% of the all time high. I think it’s extremely likely we’ll see a new all time high in the next 48 hours as we venture back into price discovery territory. As an investor, there are few words that excite me more than ‘price discovery’ and I’m looking forward to it.

The Nets getting clobbered by the Raptors right now. James Harden is once again looking terrible. Between the Nets and the Lakers losing games, and LeBron James sitting around tweeting about football instead of his team’s struggles is definitely not where I saw this season going. I can only hope we see a good matchup in the Finals and that these struggles for both teams are temporary.

In spite of having a better record, the Lakers are 5.5 point underdogs today vs the Portland Trailblazers. This seems like it could be a turning point for them. If they win, they’ll show they can beat decent teams and improve their record to 6-4. If they lose, it’s back to a .500 team working through growing pains. It’s still early in the season, but I’d like to see them win tonight, even if they are short handed.

With some people starting to talk about double tops and calling Bitcoin’s ATH in the rear view, do you think it’s time to sell if we don’t see the stock to flow $100K target hit in December?

With other bubbles in 2013 & 2017 being in December, do you sell next month no matter what happens?

Is it different this time? Will there be no bear market?

The Clippers have been quietly riding Paul George to some victories lately. I was ready to count them out this year with Kawhi being injured but he’s playing the best he has in years. He got 21-11-6 on 4-20 shooting tonight and managed to help secure a 20 point win even while shooting 20% from the field. I honestly think the Clippers look like the best team in Los Angeles at the moment (I’m sure that will change).

I'm not sure I'd say the power is gone.  I wouldn't line up to take a punch from Mike Tyson.  Have you seen his recent workout videos?  I am 100% certain Tyson hits harder now than I have ever been able to in my entire life and I've put some people on the mat in my time...  It won't take much for Tyson to knock him out in my opinion.  The question is if he'll be able to do it before he gets fatigued, and if the rules even allow for him to deliver a knockout blow.  It's quite possible he won't be allowed to punch with all his strength.  That being said, would you trust Mike Tyson and step in the ring with him because he says he won't knock you out?  I sure as hell wouldn't.  As soon as Logan lands a nice shot Tyson will be seeing red.  I think this will likely be the last fight of Logan's career.

I don’t even know what gambling on this fight would look like. Are they going to allow knockouts even? Will a winner be announced if there is a knockout? Will a winner even be announced under any circumstance? I’m not sure if they even have the rules straight yet, but if there are stipulations to the fight, I can only assume that they’ll all be there to hurt Tyson’s chances.

Tonight it looks like we’ve got a doubleheader on ESPN. Bucks and the Knicks in the first game and then the Warriors and the Pelicans. Without Zion I don’t think the Pelicans have much of a shot, nor is that game one is want to watch. Similarly, the Bucks and Knicks aren’t 2 teams I get excited to watch. Curry has been on his game though, so maybe he’ll provide some entertainment.

The Lakers with another embarrassing loss tonight. OKC is tanking and they managed to beat them… Seeing the Lakers struggle against the worst teams in the league like this is a pretty bad sign. I’m not seeing any real improvement. I don’t understand why Dwight Howard is only getting a couple minutes a game either. It seems like they aren’t very concerned with winning at the moment.

That report is embarrassing.  It's behind a paywall and your numbers aren't really correct compared to what was stated in the report, so it's a bit misleading.  From seeing the report, it was blatantly obvious they were just throwing out numbers.  They 'basically' said Bitcoin is going to be somewhere between $30K and $200K so it might be a good time to buy or sell.  I honestly couldn't think of a more useless conclusion and the fact that they felt the need to send this to clients right now is a bit telling.  They aren't totally wrong though if you consider that they're more-less saying we're headed for a bubble, so keep in mind that Bitcoin is only worth $30K when it hits $200K and don't be a buyer.  I think you'd have to have enough knowledge about what's to come in order to understand their speech though.

I don't know if I'd say that if the listing price is in the thousands of dollars.  More likely this product is being targeted at sleep deprived crypto users with too much BTC who mistake the 1.0 description as it being loaded with an actual Bitcoin.  They probably think they're getting too good of a deal to pass up or maybe English isn't their first language and they snatch it immediately after the misunderstanding.  The seller probably discovered he can make way more money posing this as an actual crypto coin and tricking people than selling them for $20 a piece, so that's the route he's gone.  Just my guess, but probably not too far off.  

Without seeing the names it's difficult to tell if this is a man-in-the-middle scam attempt, or if you're really dealing with a questionable seller.  Either way, escrow is advised, especially if it is a $5,000 purchase (for smaller purchases it makes more sense to deal direct).  I've saved countless members here from losing funds with my escrow service, and they've all been quite thankful to lose only their escrow gift in the process (although the scammers aren't as happy to lose out and spend their lives trying to punish me through their real accounts).

So at first glance I'd say it sounds like someone is trying to pull a MITM scam on you, and you should verify that the account you're receiving PMs from is the account that was offering the sale and not a look-alike.  The change of address is a pretty good sign that it isn't the same user.  Either way, don't send a stranger thousands of dollars in non-reversible currency, especially if their reputation isn't worth that much.

From my personal point of view, you are almost better off waiting too long than not long enough to sell.  When the bubble happens, you want to be riding that wave upward with everyone else.  The gains look great now, but if BTC shoots up to $450K you'll feel like a fool for selling and cashing in the gains.  The opposite could also happen and BTC could fall to $2K and you'd wish you had cashed it out, but I think the danger currently is missing out to the upside.  If people are unsure what to do, the right move when it comes to investing is almost always do nothing.  If doing nothing isn't your style, slowly cashing out on a schedule instead of all at once is not a bad option.