Sure, but I wouldn't let an event as unlikely as a car crash or a meteor impact stop me from making sure that I'll live a wealthy life tomorrow, just so I can get a little bit more fucked up right now.

You can "live in the moment" and plan ahead at the same time. Either extreme on its own is probably bad.

Anyone know how safe these things are? E.g. could somebody fuck with your transactions by hijacking the signal before it gets to its destination and then altering the receiving address? Wouldn't mind one of these toys, but not sure how hot a wallet would be.

Especially coupled with the satellite streamed blockchain.

People who are into football often are into gambling on the match outcomes. eToro seems to cater to the same demographic.

Physics is why I'm staying the fuck out of "precious metals", period. Anything that can be physically produced has a high chance of seeing its production cost dwindle down this century. Too much crap going on that is directly and indirectly going to drive synthesis costs down.

XRP Cash SV Reloaded ThisTimeForReal V2.0 will come out that year.

Best thread on BTCT. Also merry Christmas.

Edit: Oh, Boblawbraw ninja'd me some merits as well. Thanks!

Not gonna lie, wish I had come up with that hat first. It's the perfect WO hat.

Would merit for attentiveness, but ran out meriting the Mic whisky taster set.

#metoo

0.15 > 0.1

thus your bid was 0.05 short


Edit: Never mind, doesn't actually say minimum increment in the OP but defines increments as 0.1 steps.

Bow to the new overlords.

Dumb for two reasons.

1. Clogs the network.

2. Cold storage. Most coins are in cold storage because people don't just randomly withdraw all coins simultaneously. So withdrawing all at once will be simply impossible because of the security measures in place that protect customers of exchanges.

In short, this looks like an attempt at a FUD attack. "OMG look these exchanges can't instantly withdraw all coins" and/or "omg look at how the BTC network crashed".

A scenario in which I'd have to worry about anyone knowing about what I bought at what time combined with somebody hacking the database and leaking it to my unlikely enemy in an already unlikely scenario is so infinitesimally likely that I still don't see the point for any practical intent. Seems much more sensible to be worried about talking around your phone and even that would be at the very least edging on tinfoil.

The new 'China bans Bitcorn'?

Economics is a joke that has, in its current form, no place at institutions of higher education.



You're conflating two things here. More below.



With no word have I said 'never'. I specifically pointed to the current state of crypto, which makes fundamental analysis (beyond mining cost) completely impossible. Hence, no obvious fundamental value that can give you any idea of where we are currently standing.



As said, you're conflating all of my post with the chart drawing you see most of in these places (crypto). The chart drawing and analysis is part of a branch called technical analysis. It tries to identify trends and shifts in market psychology.
What I was talking about is fundamental analysis, which is much more objective (to the point of accuracy of data) as it analyses underlying assets, costs, profits, revenue as well as risk and opportunity premiums and so on of a business.
Thus, fundamental analysis gives you an objective value of a company, around which the stock price fluctuates.

Technical analysis tries to quantify the fluctuations (stemming from market psychology and the implied trader behaviour).

Bitcoin's price stands almost exclusively on the emotional and speculative leg of technical analysis right now, and that won't change until we get to a scenario where "Y proportion of X market" is traded against BTC. This is also why Bitcoin went from 20k to 3k. Because technicals pointed towards that being the likely outcome (note that nothing will ever give you the exact numbers without).
If Bitcoin could be assigned a fundamental value of $10k we would've most likely not seen a significant drop below $10k, as FOMO would kick in and revert the price towards its fundamental value. Similarly, it would retrace from $30k to $20k if the latter was its fundamental value, as people would sell in order to buy back at a price closer to the "real" value.
Technical indicators give you a confidence interval for the deviation from the fundamental value as well as the speed of convergence towards it. But since that doesn't exist in Bitcoin, a quasi-fundamental value is given mostly by mining price + moving averages (technicals). Hence, it doesn't matter if Bitcoin is more "mature" until a fundamental value is near universally agreed upon by global markets and easily identifiable. It'll keep trading more or less the same until then.

P.S. The 'battle' is mostly just trading based on technicals with some people getting caught in between and making up narratives that fit the current market. Hence the odd timing of news stories and whatnot. They push trades implied by fundamentals over the edge so to speak.

Been wondering how they could donate to any and every site. Guess that's how.

Fundamentals of BTC can not be properly quantified right now, hence a market without "obvious" fundamentals.

In stocks you can calculate (or just read) almost all the data you need to project revenue and profits and thus a band for your ROI.
With crypto this is completely and utterly impossible right now. Which is also why the market is doing its usual technicals driven ups and downs with no obvious walls given by fundamental analysis.

Sure, but markets without obvious fundamentals trade the same. The absolute numbers are irrelevant here.