I will be against the huge majority and say no. Don't invest.
You have to read first. You have to find out what is this. You have to see that the update may be postponed, making the price fall (maybe shortly, maybe not). You have to see if the rise against Bitcoin is sustainable (else why not just invest into Bitcoin?). And ultimately you have to learn how the name if this coin is spelled.

Indeed, in some languages it can be tough, especially with newbies.
And it's also not easy to always write clearly "Bitcoin's blockchain" or "blockchain.com (the company/wallet!)" since one doesn't know what's in the other party's mind when discussing.

I clearly understand your problem, since the Bitcoin Support subforum gets its share of confused/tricked people.

After the halving Bitcoin is expected to go up and up; after investing into stocks and gold, the institutional investors also getting Bitcoin.
Of course "Money printer go brrr" may act as a catalyst.

I will wait it to reach 20k EUR! (j/k)

As @pooya87 said: 20k $ is just a number like any other.
Yes, for the most unlucky (who bought at ATH) this would mean finally profit. But most are already on profit at this price and if you stop to listen you can hear the party.

Some will sell (more or less), some will hold (more or less), some may just start buying (FOMO WTG!).
I don't know what will I do. I tend to believe that 20k USD is only a small stop to something much higher. Although I sell now and then tiny amounts, I may wait a little longer, so maybe I can make the bigger part of my stash actually worth something.

I'm not sure Kraken would gain enough from the fees to cover the loss of such sell. But yeah, who knows?
Although I am European and I care more about the EUR price than USD price, I don't use Kraken. For example Bitstamp also has EUR pair.

And no, EUR is far from irrelevant. Europe do have money, Europe does invest and trade Bitcoin. But for day trade, for example, if one just buys and sells and repeats, the currency doesn't mean anything (so it can be USD, where the volumes are higher).
Keep in mind that Europe is also more than Eurozone and most have to convert the earnings anyway into their local currency. This doesn't mean the orders cannot be calculated in Euro and converted afterwards to the equivalent USD price.

...Or maybe I just over-complicate everything 



Isn't just wishful thinking by chance? I mean that you have that specific candle only on the 3-day chart and it looks wonderful in all other charts, including the more usual 1-day .. 

Maybe he didn't like the videos like this: https://twitter.com/BlakePavey/status/1288818865846120449   

On the serious side, Trump is getting annoyed by this and that and he just thinks he will ban and everything will be OK.
TikTok (Chinese surveillance) is just a response to Facebook (American surveillance). So why just don't ban both?

All the news tell that Microsoft (yet another American surveillance giant) wants to buy at least the US operations of TikTok. Will Trump also ban Microsoft? Or he's just trying to help lower the price?

From what I know VISA may allow in the future crypto payments, accepting Bitcoin and a couple of major altcoins.
.. and that's all. Not something specific to Ripple. But as usual, the fanboys make (up) big news in a hope to trigger yet another pump and dump.

Keep in mind that one of the investors in that company is Roger Ver (the one selling bcash as Bitcoin).
Also, it's not uncommon in business/advertising do such (dirty) naming-to-trigger-confusion (mom's pickles, grandma's sunflower seed oil, countryside whatever product... I don't know the En/US version of them, but my country is full of such products, with basically fake names, but they're in my language..)

So keep in mind to research and never believe just a name.

Welcome to the world where many choose Abibos instead of Adidas because it's cheap.
Do you think that the newbies understand that crypto is different than the goods where buying the cheaper can be an option sometimes? Or do you think they understand that they don't buy the correct Bitcoin when bcash is advertised (there) as the real Bitcoin and comes up as the first option when one wants to buy Bitcoin?

Why would they do that? Selling this sharply means losing money.

I think it makes more sense that many Europeans sold at around 10k (a good psychological level) and that's all. Maybe this caused at some point the condition for some big automated sell orders get hit (increase over 10k then starting to decrease)?

Decades ago people called Internet Explorer (and then all the browsers) "the internet".
Now they do similar by confusing blockchain (and Blockchain.com !!) with Bitcoin
We have to live with the fact that some don't know and don't care how "the thing" they use is called.
Of course, this kind of confusion can lead to problems and money lost. But only then they may (not 100% sure even then!) to try to understand the difference

You may be forgetting that the bigger donations (as amount of Bitcoin) were made when Bitcoin was small, most probably under 200$.
Many of the spent Bitcoin may be also at low prices. This means that if you calculate everything at today's price of Bitcoin you'll be awfully wrong.

Also, as TryNinja said, quite some of the later income should be from advertising and maybe copper membership too.

The trend looks beautiful now, many have already started dancing, still, anything can still happen and we cannot foresee the future.
As long as the price goes this nicely, most will predict great future, in which 15k and 20k before the end of the year is easily possible. (I am tempted to do the same, but I won't do that yet.) Again, keep in mind that predictions mean nothing, since noone can foresee the future.

19 - NeuroticFish

Thank you.

The point also was that since it's a made up story, the "nailed" part and the use of that could also be made up (and may not be realistic enough).
But I won't interfere more.

I don't know what is SysInternals live. I've always downloaded it and kept it on my computer.
SysInternals was bought by Microsoft many years ago, so make sure you download it from Microsoft, not from some strange website.

I've said it multiple times: if you use Windows, get Process Explorer (SysInternals/Microsoft) and put it start with the system.
Also make it always visible in tray.
It will show if CPU is used too much and who is using it. It should help find this kind of malware.

Sorry, I don't believe this.
MtGox was all over the news and since then Bitcoin kept getting into the news. And its price too.
So 30-40 BTC would have been 3.5-4.5k in 2014 and from that point no way you would leave your coins unattended.

Nice SF though.

PS. Also quite interesting that basically only me and Gazeta were concerned about the truth of the story.

Let's start with the basics:
1. Are you sure your Electrum was downloaded from electrum.org ?
2. Do you have the latest version?
3. Is your Electrum connected (bottom-right big green dot)?

BTC is not "inside" the wallet. BTC is "on the network".
The wallet has only the private keys you need in order to spend those coins.
The modern wallets (re)create the private keys based on the seed.
So... if you've lost the seed, you will not be able to spend those coins. Ever.

If you make a new wallet, with a new seed, that will be a new wallet. Of course, you will still not be able to spend from the other old wallet.

I hope this answer your questions.


Now, depending on the wallet, you may be able to see the seed if you still can open the wallet. What wallet you use? How you know you have the coins, are you looking in a wallet or a blockchain explorer?
Did you write down the seed onto a paper? Maybe you can search more for it?