To 9000, obviously.

Steal money from "professional" traders?

Lawl. What a joke.

Bitcoin traders are basically gamblers who are aren't smart enough to realize that it's the exchanges who make the money. Those with deep enough pockets to manipulate the market may be able to earn short-term more than exchange fees and fiat transfer costs but the real gains are made by long-term growth.

Giving your bitcoins to an exchange to hold for you is just plain stupid. Not your keys, not your coins. The prudent investor avoids the internet, "wallets", passwords, etc. Do you understand dual-key cryptography? Simply  protect your private keys. Don't put all your eggs in one basket. When the day comes that your coins are worth many times what they're worth now, you'll be glad to be able to sweep small addresses.

What about all the people who bought Bitcoin 2 years ago? How much did they earn as of now?

Those who paid over $30 in 2011 would have been way down when it was worth barely $5 in 2012. Those who paid over $1000 in 2013 would have been way down when it fell below $200 in 2015.

The smart people are the ones with the foresight to hold on to the coins they had while prices fell, and accumulate even more coins while they were cheap.

Even at the rock bottom price of $3.2k a year ago, those who bought for $1000 were doing pretty well. Those who stocked up at $5 or $30, or $200 are more than pleased with their investments.

When bitcoins are valued in 6 digits, these 4 digit prices will be seen as a bargain.

That's NOT what it means to be deflationary.
It is deflationary because the unit number is limited to 21 mil max issued and that number is already smaller and decreasing because of the losses (lost wallet, thrown away hard drive, etc.). Lost bitcoin is not being replaced. In time, total number of accessible units will be declining, hence deflationary.
However, right now it is still mildly inflationary. Currently, btc inflation is about 3.6% on a yearly basis, will drop to less than 1.8% in May.

A deflationary currency in an inflationary economic model should increase in value infinitum.

You sound a bit like a troll asking such a terse question, but for now, I will give you some benefit of the doubt, since I don't recognize your user name or having had posted in these here parts, previously.

In the short-term, we cannot always determine exactly BTC's price direction, and there is a bit of an inclination that BTC's price continues to move in the direction of the momentum that it already has until it no longer does.

Regarding BTC's medium to long term price, the pressure remains UP, and you can look at BTC price prediction models and information related to those price models which would include: 1) stock to flow, 2) four-year fractal, 3) metcalfe's law and networking effects pertaining to s-curve exponential adoption and 4) other similar models.  

If you do not understand the meaning of these models and you believe that they are purely theoretical, then likely you need to do more studying of bitcoin.  Surely there is a decent amount of truth that past performance of any asset does not guarantee future performance, and none of the price prediction models that I listed really rely on BTC's past performance, but past performance remains helpful to them in analyzing the models and where we are at in terms of those various price prediction models (looking at either time or price).

Do you have any other models or theories?  Do you believe that BTC prices are going down or going to stay flat in the coming 1-3 years?  How about 5 years?  What do you expect?

 I am frequently asserting that nothing is guaranteed, including bitcoin, but even if the price direction of bitcoin is far from guaranteed, there remains a decent amount of strong evidence that any person that takes bitcoin seriously and puts a bit of their assets into bitcoin, such as 1-10% of their investible assets are likely in a good starting place, even though individuals are going to vary in terms of some of their financial abilities or even assets that they might have available and able to invest in bitcoin.  

In any event, bitcoin seems to be a very asymmetric bet, towards the upside... so good luck to anyone who has NOT yet come around to understanding the asymmetric bet concept... you (lacking in understanding peeps) are going to need it (meaning luck).



True dat!!!   martyMC seems to have been engaging in a bit of a twisting of words, and maybe I should have restrained my lil selfie from taking the bait... I see that with some of his continued stupid-ass posts on the topic that do not really seem to add any value, just ask dumbass questions as if we were in 2011 when hardly anyone understood bitcoin, at all.    We are NO longer in those earlier days, so excuses for ignorance are NOT as acceptable... even though I do accept that there are genuinely a lot of people in the world who are quite susceptible to misinformation and disinformation regarding bitcoin because they do not know enough about the topic.

That sounds semi-retarded.
It doesn't go up, for no reason.

It remains to be seen.
I'd like to think that one of Jupiter's moon's, is the limit.

Cos it's BTC.

Had a look, clearly there is some error/bug with that report. For example, it shows I had 0 posts before the campaign which is definitely wrong as I had a couple hundreds before enrolling for it. Furthermore, my account wasn't waken up suddenly before the campaign. I am mentioning this in case it starts counting posts after a time (e.g. 1-2  months) before the start of thr campaign and not since the account creation date.


That's true, there are  still a few people that still post stuff that barely make any sense or sometimes are even totally incoherent. Just report them here or to yahoo, I am sure he will take care of them. He has banned a shit ton of people and I am impressed with how clean he has managed to keep this campaign, considering all the spam and alts he has to deal with.

-snip-
... I would rather just go up from here, but seems like there exists some short term down momentum... how low it will go remains another to be determined matter.

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No idea what's the dispute between @Vadi2323 & @Royse777 is all about but I hope you guys resolve your issue soon and yes @Royse777 is part of this campaign. He's on a private deal, you can verify that from this thread: [Signature Sold Out] Avatar Available On average 15 to 20 posts DAILY

To campaign manager

Dear Zwei,

Please take an action with your campaign participant Royse777.

In that incident, he writes in the thread a question to which I have repeatedly given an answer, ignoring my request not to use me as feed for signature spamming.

Links to his posts:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5187431.msg52561548#msg52561548
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5187431.msg52561686#msg52561686
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5187431.msg52561800#msg52561800

http://archive.md/essFF

Thank you.

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i will change signature and avatar if accepted

i think he doesn't choose based on how many merits you get but he chooses based on your post because if you see at the spreadsheet there are a few people that don't meet criteria earned 5 merits on last 120 days

I mentioned that they need to do that asap in a previous post on here. LTC Foundation has, IMHO, in the past 'tended' to kinda sit on their laurels and twiddle thumbs on

getting stuff like new versions of Litecoin Core out, in any quick manner. I hope you are correct, but they usually have a pretty big time to get it in lag, (with little followup IMHO in

between) from when they announce a protocol to when they get a protocol out. The exception was the seq witness compromise. So again, they step it up and get this out say, in the

next month or so and I'm good.

Brad

If I remember correctly the last halving Litecoin did not do much for a while, price-wise, etc. Soon after halving, as an example of the dates below.

August 2015, using the 8/31/15 date as to when Litecoin Halved, (from what I can tell) from the www.coinmarketcap.com site.

The end of August 2015 Litecoin was $3.81 USD.

From that date of 8/30/15 till say 3/1/17 the price was $3.80 USD.

That is almost exactly 1.5 years later, way after the halving!

Thus nothing really happened from the halving of any note, in that it almost exactly the same price, then the price went up, after that point in time!

So, I'd prepare for the same 'silliness' this time around. Could be whatever Litecoin price we have today is the same as the Litecoin price we will have 1.5 years from now.

Brad