I do not think some buy orders on a a single exchange is enough to be news worthy or does it need to have anything to do with some upcoming FED conference. This seems like a pretty cheap way to push out some articles while trying to use the Bitcoin community to gain traffic.

The price increases based on a number of factors and not simply cause new investors buy in. Using that analogy, if you buy at Y price and sell at a loss of $100 what would that situation be?

Bitcoin is not even a scheme at all, it is simply a digital currency with some pretty cool features. No one should get into bitcoin with the sole purpose of profiting, rather they should be interested in the usage.
And all investments grow with more adoption. If you bought facebook stocks in 2012, you were expecting it to get more popular and grow in adoption which will lead to an increase in the asset value. That is how product growth works.

Ponzi schemes are frauds, bitcoin is not,
Ponzi schemes promise returns on investments, bitcoin does not,
Ponzi schemes do not have actual value, bitcoin has real life utility.

Bitcoin does not generate value, it has a real life utility and as more people realize that, its market value grows. Ponzis depend entirely on new investors and has no product value.

Yes, I agree Bitcoin is a lot less risky than it was a couple of years ago and with the management of fiat it is becoming more prone to inflation and supply shocks making it not ideal for storing wealth, I would however not recommend investing more than you can afford to lose at a time. The comfort of holding is being able to hold through different markets, bear or bull. However, if you hold amounts you could very easily need in the near distant future, you can not comfortable hold and would have to sell to settle life issues, and it could be at a time when the price is not very very attractive.

Investors can on their judgement decide to buy heavily into Bitcoin regardless of the general advise, but that would be a personal decision and not as a result of suggestions from others.

There are other means of hedging funds besides Bitcoin and fiat.

Remember that you only lose when you cut your losses and sell off. this of course comes after you have done your research and decided on what asset to buy considering the fundamentals of the project. Many coins in the crypto market do not have an active product and are only built on hype, those may not recover when they dump.

As an investor you do not have to determine where the market is going nor can you. You simply;
- Do your research before buying any asset,
- Buy only what you can afford to lose,
- HODL!

You got the last part right about decentralization and financial independence to its users, and governments are not left out as they are free to hold bitcoin.

While there is great potential for bitcoin to grow, it is not an ideal strategy for a country to be speculative about its reserve funds. While bitcoin can grow over $100k, it can also fall below $40k and enter a bear market. It is a positive development and a move I believe would pay up, but I do not believe nations should look to bitcoin for speculative profits.

Satoshi is possibly viewing everything happening around the bitcoin space from a remote beach and wondering what the actual purpose of NFTs are or what the next trend in crypto would be.
I was discussing the topic of Satoshi a couple of days ago with a friend, particularly how "he" managed to remain anonymous all these years while resisting the urge to tell everyone who you are, I may not be the brains behind it, but i will say whoever it is, besides being brilliant in tech, they also have incredible discipline and character and a bold resolve to attempt to change the world.

I think so, the mere presence alone of the founder would give them so much influence that could greatly affect the market. Imagine some of those stashed coins attributed to their address were moved suddenly, the tabloids would have a field day spinning articles about how the founder may have lost faith in their own invention, sparking a massive sell off.

Anything that affects mainstream economy is almost certain to affect alternate assets as well, for one it would slow down investments as new investors would be very skeptical of the looming threat and would rather hold their funds in very liquid assets. it could also have a positive effect as people look to hedge their extra funds, and what better asset to do so with than one which is digital (easily moveable) and decentralized.

I however think there would be any reaction to a possibility of war as humans naturally would not react to that, unless there is some sort of action on one or both sides.

They technically do not have to discover it using their own accounts, reading through the forum and viewing other users who have a disproportionate amount of activity and post is enough to stimulate curiosity and cause newbies to ask.
On their own account, they can also notice the time gap between when activity matches up to posts.

I'll wouldn't advise hitting newiws down for their curiosity, a lot of the forum is confusing to new members and they should feel free to ask questions whenever they get confused. Merits should not even be focused on as it causes some users to write simply for that purpose.

There is no "in charge" when it comes to the bitcoin network, rather it is built on consensus rule. There is a technical head of the development team, but it is all open source and any change would need the support of the community (other devs, nodes, miners) in order to get approved. Disagreement at this stage could lead to a soft fork or a hard fork in some cases.

Bitcoin core is not an elected position, but voluntary, if you have some programming skills, a passion for improving the network and resolving issues, you can be a part of it.

Can you give a bit of backstory to this statement to this sentence, what do you mean third party transfers and what exchanges do not allow them?

AFAIK, you can only fund your exchange wallet (which you do not own by the way, as you do not have the keys) by sending the coins to the address from some other address, and there is no restrictions to that. If there should be any form of restrictions, it should be from using fiat and trying to fund your fiat wallet from the exchange using some other bank account not related to yours, or trying to withdraw in the same way.

If you are better off letting banks take care of your important stuffs, then by all means you can do that. No one is compelled to get into bitcoin and hold it and bitcoin's protocol would not change cause of trolls. What you see now is what you get; It is built on a permissionless network and is a decentralized asset, giving the holder full control, without the need for a third party.


If you hold the keys, you own the coin. that is the only form of ownership that exists with bitcoin. If something goes wrong, you learn from your mistakes and rue your loss.

While it is very possible for bitcoin to become a globally accepted reserve asset and would herald a new level of adoption, it is a development that takes a lot of time. Gold has existed for hundreds of years and has been in use for many of those, first as a symbol of wealth and means of exchange, then as a reserve asset and a hedge for traditional currencies; Bitcoin is barely over a decade, making it a relatively new asset which is still in its development stage.

Also, Bitcoin is far more resistant to centralization than Gold, so countries will be very hesitant to utilize it as a reserve currency as they cannot fully control it.

That is their idea of providing security to their customers, it might be an invasive process, but it is the current situation we are at now; Similar to how websites would ask you to confirm you are not a robot if they identify suspicious activity. A controlled system is not the direct problem, but as with the internet, one needs to have an option to keep their privacy, especially if they feel they can properly handle their security and do not trust the centralized system.

I have personally not had a personal unfavorable encounter with banks, but being able to privately hold funds and transact is a major perk of holding bitcoin, considering that money is a major tool used to control the masses. Also, being able to send money internationally and have it delivered within moments without any third party.

You misunderstood me; I wrote that the idea of Bitcoin being a bubble has all but been debunked, meaning people used to have that idea, especially during the early stages of bitcoins development, but right now, that has been debunked or proven to be false.

I also added that "...and if used now, it would likely be referring to particular points in the market valuation and not the entire network." This means that if at all the term 'bubble' was used now, it would be referring to poins in the market valuation or increases in price, rather than the entire network itself.

All these you mentioned is not limited to Bitcoin or cryptocurrencies, but are global situations that impact any area or sector. Lots of global economies reached new heights in inflation during this pandemic and lots of currencies were devalued, Bitcoin actually faired better during the critical lockdown periods, over many other assets.

Covid-19 was declared a global pandemic on the 11th of March 2020, and the price of Bitcoin then was almost $8k, the price now is $48k, after reaching a current All Time High of almost $70k. Where did you get a 20-30% dip from, except you're suggesting that's the reason for the current drop in price?

It is quite interesting, but have there been any records of it being used successfully to determine a bubble in advance before the most recent case where the warning began from Q1 of 1998?

The idea of bitcoin being a bubble has all but been debunked, and if used now, it would likely be referring to particular points in the market valuation and not the entire network.
Bubbles to identify crypto bubbles would possibly assess trader sentiments through buy and sell pressure, evaluated price increase against the actual increase in the price and other possible criteria.

I can't remember all the other boards, but I'm sure the auction board does not allow users to open self moderated threads, and as mentioned above, there are reasons why the privilege is disabled on some of those boards as it allows users to moderate their threads and prevent spam, although so many of the top threads (especially in the services section) does not use self mod option, as the OPs are highly trusted and any spam there would be easily noticeable as such.

There is also a notification of the number of replies deleted by the thread starter, which should serve as an extra warning to members.

100 weeks is a little over 2 years and is a lot considering how tumultuous the early stages of the campaign, but it has proven to be quite trustworthy.
Honestly, I was skeptical at first to apply to join, but over the months I have been here I'm quite honored to promote this campaign and the service it offers; here is to another 100 days.

It would be interesting to know if anyone actually purchased, the value was probably within that range for only a few hours or less and could have been a failed attempt from a whale to manipulate the price by selling through bot accounts; This would definitely have moved the price greatly due to the insignificant market cap, but it is possible no one actually purchased at that value.

Lots of existing coins would also be gambling and there is a huge risk of a pump and dump, just make sure you do not buy into fomo.

What part of the article said it was an online wallet? I personally doubt it's an exchange wallet, due to the nature of the transactions, but it's very difficult to ascertain.
If a whale isn't careless enough to store their bitcoins in an online wallet, an exchange would probably know that as well, especially for cold storage.

Not everyone is very private conscious, considering that the change address is always the same as the sending address in majority of the transactions (the ones I checked out). Probably, they are satisfied with being pseudo anonymous.