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761  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Why Habitable Exoplanets Might Mean Humanity Is Doomed on: April 25, 2014, 11:46:46 AM
There is a possibility that no advanced alien cultures exist because they all invented high energy particle accelerators before becoming space-faring civilizations.

http://press.web.cern.ch/backgrounders/safety-lhc
762  Economy / Speculation / Re: Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion on: April 25, 2014, 11:23:01 AM
podyx. Did you move your $432 bid to $442?
763  Economy / Speculation / Re: Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion on: April 25, 2014, 04:37:38 AM
We have breached 472.50.  If we continue lower, the next major supports are at 454, 400, and 355.50.

If there was supposed to be support at 472 and it didn't materialize, why in the world would you believe other magic numbers will work?

Indeed. How well did this magic random number work out?

OK, you folks ready?  Recommend shorts close now at 492.
764  Economy / Goods / Re: Plot of land in Argentina for sale on: April 25, 2014, 12:05:26 AM
You can also get 3000 mts for 35000 U$
Please remember they are posessory rights, they dont have a title of property, i dont know how to express this in english, but here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usucaption

I have long held to the theory that a properly functioning, legally sound, land registry and title deed system is the absolute foundation of a successful economy. And a major reason Anglo-Saxon economies have long outperformed most others. A vague claim on property is not worth risking money for.
765  Economy / Speculation / Re: Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion on: April 24, 2014, 12:17:50 AM
A breakout from this 1-week softening trend is also a decisive break of the 5 month downtrend. Next stop $600.
766  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Ukrainians declared war against the 13 Terrorist European Bloodlines on: April 23, 2014, 10:24:35 PM
Tom, what are Bitcoiners expected to do with this information?
767  Economy / Service Announcements / Re: An anonymous decentralized censorship resistant crypto-currency exchange. on: April 22, 2014, 10:18:48 PM
The solution is unfinished as reflected in the list of to do items. If you trust each other then you can just communicate the trade details however Centralized and Decentralized escrow are being implemented.


Great project and smooth GUI, safe escrow is what everyone wants, but is much harder than a simple noticeboard.
768  Other / MultiBit / Re: Multibit turned out to be a scam on: April 21, 2014, 07:12:17 PM
Thanks for clarifying. Good to know this detail.
769  Economy / Speculation / Re: Final Warning for Long-term holders... on: April 21, 2014, 08:44:07 AM
It would be pretty bullish if the price were to return to a point where it was supported by buying rather than by hoarding.

Honestly, "hoarding" is just a derogatory term for "saving" and "investing". Savings give bitcoins persistent value such that an ecosystem can grow, technologists develop hardware and software, merchants accept bitcoins as currency.

http://themisescircle.org/blog/2014/02/12/im-hoarding-bitcoins-and-no-you-cant-have-any/



This isn't an ethics discussion. This is about the strength of the price. If the price is supported by hoarding, that means it's illiquid and fragile, only taking a small amount of coins to be dumped to break the mirage of the hoarded price. If the price is supported by buying, on the other hand, many more coins can be bought and sold at once without effecting the price and the decisions of a single large holder will not have an effect.

Which one of these looks like a stronger market to you?



The liquid market is much more stable, much more functionally useful, and has a much larger accessible market cap than the hoarded market. The hoarded market is a ticking bomb that could go off at any time based on the decisions of an individual.

I am looking at fundamentals, not ethics. The strongest market is that where a positive feedback loop arises from fundamentals. Your hoarded market looks exactly like the gold market, except its worse as the illusion of buy/sell liquidity is provided by COMEX and LME paper claims and derivatives. Bitcoin is liquid in comparison to gold.
770  Economy / Speculation / Re: Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion on: April 21, 2014, 01:20:36 AM
Looks like we may be headed downward soon. Huobi is slowly inching down.

I think you are looking at the price chart upside-down.
771  Economy / Speculation / Re: Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion on: April 21, 2014, 12:08:43 AM
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Only a few more weeks until Dogecoin overtakes Ripple.
http://coinmarketcap.com/


yeah, talking about marketcap with crypto is quiet meaningless to me. Real question about Ripple don't you think you may be wrong about it ? I mean well known economist are part of the team now https://ripple.com/blog/welcome-susan-athey-to-ripple-labs/
and they are still hiring and working hard on the protocol.

Bad trolling appart , what do you think ?

Yes. Saw that item about Athey, and agree that the value of XRP is not massively important. I remain unconvinced about the trust model, and the utility of its gateways. It works, but does it have the potential of even NXT or Etherium, let alone Bitcoin?  I will watch longer before investing in XRP.
772  Economy / Speculation / Re: Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion on: April 20, 2014, 11:43:27 PM
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Only a few more weeks until Dogecoin overtakes Ripple.
http://coinmarketcap.com/
773  Economy / Speculation / Re: Final Warning for Long-term holders... on: April 20, 2014, 11:06:46 PM
This thread is yet another rationalization of a projected ultra-low price so that all the people who missed the train can jump aboard.

I find it highly unlikely that a liquidator would send the whole lot to Bitstamp, type "1" into the price field, 200,000 in the BTC field and hit sell, just like I find it highly unlikely that they would sit there and sell little chunks in efforts to not tank the market.

Yep. The ultimate wet dream for clock-rewinders who want to return to 2011 so they can load up cheaply and see 5000% future gains.

It would be pretty bullish if the price were to return to a point where it was supported by buying rather than by hoarding.

Honestly, "hoarding" is just a derogatory term for "saving" and "investing". Savings give bitcoins persistent value such that an ecosystem can grow, technologists develop hardware and software, merchants accept bitcoins as currency.

http://themisescircle.org/blog/2014/02/12/im-hoarding-bitcoins-and-no-you-cant-have-any/


774  Economy / Speculation / Re: Final Warning for Long-term holders... on: April 20, 2014, 09:37:40 PM
My prediction: MK hangs onto the 200k coins using the fig leaf that they are (and always has been) his own property, not part of the MtGox/Tibanne company. He has upset too many people to give them up and lose his method of escape into a quiet and comfortable life. In this scenario the 200k is dripped into the market over years.

775  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Should core bitcoin developers freeze stolen Mt.Gox bitcoins? on: April 19, 2014, 08:30:06 PM

Finally, after wading through all the other comments to convince myself there's got to be at least ONE freaking post that can explain the ridiculousness of OP's question, finally found it and only after 5 freaking pages no less. The level of ignorance regarding Bitcoin in one of if not the most prominent Bitcoin forums is quite frankly, scary.


I was surprised at this observation so I re-read the OP and guess what? It is completely rewritten from the original! This is an argument for the quoting of an entire OP in the 2nd post, so that people who ask a question on a public forum do not waste the time and good efforts of others who answer them.

776  Economy / Speculation / Re: Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion on: April 19, 2014, 08:16:11 PM
I wish someone would take a few months to gather all the predictions made in this forum and make a list of the best nd worst predictors

Lots of funky predictions here, some of which were right!
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=193526.0
777  Economy / Speculation / Re: Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion on: April 19, 2014, 08:19:53 AM
Do I need to tell the many ways in which the private keys of a victim can be obtained by a thief?
Please enlighten us.
OK, where do I start? You know what a 'computer' is?  A 'program'?  A 'hacker'? A 'trojan'? A 'key logger'? A 'hardware patch'? A 'memory dump'? A 'covert channel'? A 'malicious wallet software'?  A 'pseudo-pseudo-random number generator'?   A 'social engineer'? A 'disgruntled employee'? A  'naive user'?

And these haven't been used to illegally obtain fiat on millions of occasions?
778  Economy / Speculation / Re: Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion on: April 18, 2014, 11:23:44 PM

I made a call after the early 2013 $250 spike for something testing the $30-is 2011 highs, and I made this call after the initial post-spike low ($60-ish)?


Interesting analysis, however I believe that the 2011 $31 peak was retested but it occurred before the $266 spike. The retest was during the mid-March 2013 chain fork which saw a sharp correction from $48. This is visible on the 3D but lost in the 1W chart.

Similarly, the $266 peak was retested on Nov 10th, visible on the 1D but not the 3D. There was an "air-gap" left in the mid $300s which has largely been filled by the recent dip to $339.
779  Economy / Speculation / Re: Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion on: April 17, 2014, 10:03:37 PM
I got my bid orders on 432

maybe it's a bit low??

Aa an EW analyst, 432 is in the range of wave one. if you ask me we will probably never see 431 again. but dont take my word for it. you need to have a breakout plan if you cant wait for your own targets.

432 is a bet on the resumption of the downtrend or a really bad news flash crash. 442 is a better bet and just may get hit leaving the uptrend in play, but only if 476 is roundly thrashed first with a sustained period of trading.
780  Economy / Speculation / Re: Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion on: April 17, 2014, 09:56:01 PM
Bid/Ask sums on stamp becoming very bearish again after a short peak.

Im guessing if we dont see $550 soon we go back down. (Still HODLING since $390)
The orderbooks are so thin that it doesn't take much to do this at all. Subtract 2K from the buy side and add 3K to the sell side.  Remember mtgox with the 200KBTC orderbooks where these types of amounts of btc were just irrelevant noise?

You are so right about the importance of volume but I am just not sure that MtGox is a valid benchmark anymore. Peter's theory that they lost most of their coins in the 2011 hack would imply that a lot of their 2012/2013 orderbook depth was, shall we say, "inflated".
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