This is great news. That means we can all plan for retirement now by simply by opening a bitcoin faucet and collecting some satoshi. Don't even bother buying any btc.

"bubbles" aren't supposed to be predictable. The moment this "bubble watch" started and became ritualistic was a red flag.

Yes I know too. It will be food, water, guns, and ammo.

Bitcoin will probably become worthless once people can't even afford internet access or devices and service providers shut down. Before that phase, people wil be dumping as much btc as possible so they can buy survival supplies and metals.

typically manipulation of any market is a crime. Even if it is not yet in bitcoin, these particular players probably wouldn't want to risk it. Even if it is just something that looks bad later they wouldn't want it. They have bigger things to worry about than saving $100,000 or whatever on their bitcoin purchase.

I dont know if anyone has noticed but Huobi now has 2 green bars on the 1W MACD and bitfinex has 3. I'm not sure if this is skewed by a shorter history or not.

I have no particulator solution i.e. I'm providing requirements but not analysis/design.

I don't think the people bidding on this auction are the type who want to get involved in market manipulation, or not at least for this tiny amount of money. Also I don't think the amounts involved are big enough to warrant market manipulation. It might not even be profitable let alone worth the risk of committing a crime.

I'm starting to wonder if I should be following finex instead of stamp.

The price is not determined by any one trade but by what the collective of market participants are willing to buy and sell at with what prices and what amounts. If a trade moves the price down it's because in all of the market participants, there was nobody willing to buy that amount of coins at a higher price than where the trade ended up occuring. If there were market participants willing to buy all of those coins at a higher price, it would not have been possible for that trade to occur at a lower price and it would have executed at a higher price.  

I'm a bull (At present) because long term I think it may end up at $20,000 or so  (that's over 3000% of today's prices) , but I don't think it will become the world reserve currency.

The last rally was not unexpected. It occured when a major trendline was broken after the 3 day macd had been up for weeks.  I was able to get in entirely using a stoploss order at $460 and didnt even have to watch the charts.

If Bitcoin was used as world resurve currency, it wouldn't even operate due to scalability issues. It would be too many transactions per block and might crash and the blockchain would grow to many terabytes or petabytes, not able to fit anything let alone be used by an end user. Large centralized corporate server farms would be needed to access the network and provide services to end users which would completely defeat the purpose. People would be hacking into apple, google, bitcoin distributions sites, and dns servers all the time to distribute infected wallets/apps that steal users private keys. Then someone would crack EC and steal all of the world's money.   And of course it would be banned by governments long before any of this was able to happen.

Apparently Huobi was feeling bullish about 8 hours ago and the feed is delayed by 8 hours.

Looks like btce is trying to be proactive about a drop and lead the way but its not working.

Ya I was assembling a response to blatchcorn with posts between me and repietelia and then realized it would set a bad precent and I'd always be doing all this work to prove myself to people and wasting my time, so I wont. Although I cant help but point out this chart. I predicted the exact bottom, on the exact date, though apparently I was a little too bullish about what would happen after that

So this means all of them could simply be asking if they could send a really low ball offer, just in case. "Hey I'll buy all of the coins for 10% of their value." "Is there a volume discount?" Why not?

I think the divergence pattern was obvious and didn't need any tools. The eye looking at raw price and volume is the best tool.

Also I think just using exchanges is going to eventually lead everyone into having 0 BTC until the regulated exchanges open.

Are you angry at the FBI for not hodling? They aren't exactly finance speculators you know.

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