A very important event is scheduled to happen this April. Around April 16 or 17. It's bitcoin halving again. i.e. number of bitcoin rewarded for mining a block would be halved. It meas half bitcoin reward for equal task for miner. That would also decrease the liquidity in bitcoin provided by the miners. The miners operate on small margin and many could go on loss if they sold their reward for current price so they won't be willing to sell it unless price moves up. Bitcoin in past have seen a good price boost after the halving. And many prediction models place the future price of bitcoin into 190K.
Is 190K too humble or very generous in your consideration? What's your price plans for selling your holdings?

We'll, how come you people in your ever glorious country of USA don't do anything about it? There's always the option to elect the right people to the position of a president if you ask me so how come y'all don't do anything about that? People got the power, maybe the corporate masters try to say they own us but banding together and you'll see that they're completely wrong. I don't think that Old Joe is even the person that's deciding what's the next move for the country anymore, he's senile and a bitch as you've said so there's no way that he's ever going to be improving anytime soon, maybe you guys should learn who to put in that oval office after this disgrace of an old man.

Someone actually voted that Bitcoin would be below $19k at the end of the year. Well, it is possible and it’s only just an opinion, but unless some really negative news happens and affects the crypto market at large, I don’t believe that is possible. I’m guessing it could be $60k - $69k, maybe because it has spent too much time already in that range? But the truth is that it isn’t easy to predict because almost anything could happen.

 I think the poll should have lasted longer since it is about the end of the year (which is still distant).

Hahaha that's a ton of hope there. If its would  happen that way  I would encourage you so you would do an extra 100 minutes making it 200 minutes in total so that way Bitcoin could hit 200k   I bet Hodlers will rejoice.

Currently I guess Bitcoin won't be hitting a new all time high till after halving. And besides every one is hoping that by halving, it shoots to 100k or even more and from the boosts in price we have seen for a couple of weeks until recently I guess it will.

Anyways I guess it's quite funny how everyone hodling is happy about the halving but miners aren't that much. Imagine receiving half of your initial reward for same amount of cryptographic work. But I guess a price pump would still give them a little pump in value of their rewards.

It is not even close to being the oldest thread on the forum (even though it is surely the longest and I believe has a pretty high ranking in terms of long threads in any forum), and it even had a couple of predecessor threads that were on the same topic, but I think that there was a desire to convert the thread from a regular thread to a self-directed thread since from the perspective of the then owner adamstgBit there had been too much deviation from the topic and trolling, so he created the thread that is currently the WO as a self-directed thread rather than a regular thread.

The thread just took on a life of its own, and in that sense theymos allowed the thread to continue with a kind of "special treatment" status, mostly in terms of playing out as a kind of anything goes thread - even though regular thread participants will get pretty irritated if any members come in there pumping shitcoins, which still does happen from time to time, even though mostly the members tend to be mostly bitcoin maximalism oriented, even though there is no requirement that you have to be a bitcoin maximalist to participate in the thread.. to the extent that any of us like those kinds of labels in the first place..

Several of the regular thread members appreciate new thread participants, even though sometimes we will beat them up a bit if they seem to be coming to the thread in a trolly or shilling kind of a way or maybe seeming to have some other personality problems.. .. yet in the end, even the participation of the active members in that thread has changed over the years. .. some new members get worn out by trying to keep up with the thread, and I think that participation will go up quite a bit during high price movements.. and surely there were some times in which there were 20-30 pages added per day, even during the time that chartbuddy was not active there... so if you think about it, just with chartbuddy, there is slightly more than one page per day, since he has hourly posts - which would be 24 posts per day (when he is not broken down - which is fairly rarely, these days).


Touché    





 what you say is surely possible.  


By the way, I have not seen you in the "planking thread" recently.






You better get your pudgy lil old fat ass over there.. #nohomo hahahahaha


#justsaying if you want to make it to 93+

It's going to be interesting, assuming up in the next week or so.. or maybe it will take longer, I am not sure... but are we going to skip $70k on the way up or not?

I am kind of torn about the odds, since it seems almost too much luck to completely skip it, yet I have no problem if that might end up being how it were to play out.. . .Maybe give it less than 43% odds of skipping $70k on the way up - assuming up at some point in the near future?

If I understand the situation correctly, icopress has made a merit source application like many other members but I do not recall any of them receiving merits for the sake of helping the applicants to merit other posts.

I do not recall icopress ever asking for help at all and definitely not via merits. If he did not ask for members to merit his posts in order for him be able to merit more posts, why should any member take it upon themselves to merit his posts for the sake of increasing the number merits he can send? I am confused.

Also, if this type of generosity was aimed at just one merit source applicant while the others were not given merits, it is clearly unfair and would raise questions.

How about in another browser did you tried to access it through firefox or incognito mode?

I heard before that their dashboard is inaccessible if you are using the latest Chrome or Firefox browser they can only access the dashboard if you use an older version or use an old version of Opera Mini you can try it. Also don't forget to try accessing it through Internet Explorer.

If it doesn't work I suggest try to hard reset the unit by holding the reset button for 5-10 seconds then set up the unit again make sure to change the unit network mode from DHCP to Static with Google or Cloudflare DNS then update here if it works or not.

Just in case for reference and troubleshooting guide check the link below.

- https://www.zeusbtc.com/articles/asic-miner-troubleshooting/1768-how-to-solve-the-ebit-ip-address-cannot-be-located

how do you figure that?

that wasn't intentional. the biden administration has tried to put more controls on bitcoin than any government in any country in history i would guess. the ath is because of INFLATION of the us dollar becoming more worthless thanks to biden's bailing out student loans, supporting illegal immigrants, etc. just a side affect of a socialist regime...

i definitely agree biden does not belong running the us government. but who would you rather see in power? what person?

Im not into politics but it evident now that whoever is from the US and supports bitcoin while voting for Biden has some sort of massive cognitive dissonance of Stockholm syndrome going on, otherwise I don't get it. This people have a clear agenda to tie Bitcoin and crypto as something that funds terrorism and "white supremacy" while forgetting about how everyone that lives in countries where inflation is making everyone poor uses BTC to survive. They don't care, they are mad that people got rich from getting in early and they didn't, so now they want to ban it.

If anyone wants BTC to survive at a mainstream level, then pro-Bitcoin lobbying is non negotiable. We need people supporting BTC and miners at the political level, otherwise we are going to see Biden, Warren, AOC and co make Bitcoin unusable for US citizens and miners kicked out of the country, again, at a mainstream level. Obviously BTC will survive no matter what, but if we want huge valuations, we need institutional support. The ETFs are a good step in this direction, but don't forget that the ETFs can be used against self-sovereign BTC users that do self-custody, since they can concentrate the funds there then ban BTC from the hands of individuals. Stay alert because that is coming. It just happened in the EU.

Yes the flows are starting to get stale. Blackrock had days where it added almost $1B and lately the flows are low. So low that each day this week we had negative outflows.

Hate to say it but $74K might of been the top this cycle. Unless we chop around until the halving and start to break the new ATH sometime this Summer.

The last weeks candle close was awful. And that’s why the sell off started.

THAT was actually what the Federal Reserve should have done two years ago. Tighten aggressively, even if that causes a recession, WHILE the people still have their savings intact. Going through it would be easier because they still have their savings as a fall-back. Currently, the people have less to no savings, more debt, and high interests rates with less money in circulation. An economic collapse now would not cause a Recession. It would be worse, a Depression, and it's harder to recover.

BUT let's hope that Jerome Powell is truly in control, and that he will succeed in accomplishing the "Soft Landing".

Forgive me if I am missing something here but did Poker Player actually give any advice aimed at you? I have read his post and cannot work out why you seem to have concluded anything from his comments equating to you giving merits to icopress (or anyone else) in order to support him.

Furthermore, I cannot think of any reason why you would give merits to support icopress or anyone else. How does support even work unless you are a merit source that reviews posts and helps members rank up by giving merits and the merits are all used. In that case members might give merits to help the rank up process for worthy posts but other than that I cannot see find any valid reason.

I am curious, how do you think your 63 merits supported him?

I feel like there's a prevalent double standard when it comes to protecting identities of forum users.  

If topics existed where lots of users were posting theories and collecting evidence in an attempt to unveil the real-world identity of another forum user, I don't think such threads would be tolerated.  As per the rules, doxxing is only permitted in the case of legitimate scam accusations:


So why do we allow rampant probing and scrutiny regarding the identity of satoshi?  I don't see any justification for them to be an exception to the rule.  There's no way people would accept it if it were their own account subject to such investigations.  If someone did ever successfully identify satoshi and published it here on the forum, then they would have clearly violated the rule.  Ergo, users are attempting to break the rules every time they publicly try to link: This should not be happening.  There are inherent dangers in revealing someone's identity, particularly if they are considered wealthy.  The user in question, or even their family, could be at risk of falling victim to burglary, kidnapping, torture or other crimes (and I'm certain there are few potential targets more tempting for criminals than someone as flush with BTC as satoshi is perceived to be).  There are very good reasons why attempting to dox someone is frowned upon.  

I propose it's time for this rule to be applied properly, to end the double standard and to ensure no one is attempting to dox anyone else when there is no valid complaint of a scam.

You could gave him 50 merits that wouldn't be wrong either. But, the point is, your sending of merits shouldn't impact your and his relationship in anyway. Like if you send him 50 merits at a time, and to be honest he deserves those merits, then you may still not feel any hesitation when you may get to work with him in future.

We all are like a family on this forum, and if someone who appreciates a family member's posts or in simple words contribution then he/she can send merits to that member for his/her contribution. After sometime when the member who sent merits to a member gets accepted in a campaign that's managed by the same member then there's nothing wrong in that either.