Yeah, well this is a forum where people can express their opinions but in this forum we have too many people that are more worried about posting crap to get paid than to actually try to understand and bring something positive into the conversation. But this won't happen to me again. Next time I open a post like this I will do it self-moderated. In this same thread, if I had self-moderated it, I would have deleted at least 4 answers. I'm quite lenient when reporting and I've only reported one, that has already been deleted. So, I'm locking the thread.

And yes, I'm enjoying the current price but I guess the shitposters, seeing the price increase, are more motivated to post crap.

I'm not surprised you do not understand my claims because...

I AM NOT CLAIMING ANYTHING.

So I'm not going to waste more time with you.

I'm not so much worried about what I'll do when it reaches $1 million as what I'll be doing while the price keeps going up. Also when there are crashes. Even if it reached that figure in 4 or 5 years, I wouldn't be able to retire, because I don't have a lot of money in bitcoin and I'm going to sell partially when some milestones are reached, so I remain invested while keeping increasing wealth in bitcoin. That and my personal wealth management in general should leave me in a comfortable position.

Am I the only one who doesn't worry about the LN anymore? Bitcoin is succeeding as a store of value, if the LN is implemented and works, fine, but it seems to me that the institutions that are buying in mass are doing it as a store of value.

According to Gresham's law, people prefer to keep valuable currency, which is a store of value, and not use it for payments.

If bitcoin ends up succeeding in becoming the best reserve of value in the world, I don't care if people don't use it for small payments, which was Satoshi's original idea, but an idea often goes beyond what its creator conceived.

Why did you reply without actually reading what I wrote? Why are you making up that I forgot anything? We are not talking about what I believe.

Next time I'm going to self-moderate the thread. The last 4 answers are simply pathetic.


@Fesatmas: I don't know if you forgot to comment something, you did it on purpose or you are too busy trying to write posts fast to get paid more but just to let you know that I've reported this crap. You've just quoted without adding anything.

Actually I understand him better even though neither of you are English native speakers. He speaks so well you hardly notice. I'm not surprised you find it difficult to understand him but he does show he has more knowledge than you because he reasons what he says and I don't think he is more worried about his views than you are about writing something quickly to get paid.

That seems to be the case. I've mentioned it in other threads. Searches are up around the world but in countries with high inflation like Argentina or Turkey they are at an ATH. Add that to institutional investors' demand and see what 2021 will bring us.

Hi, I think when you have read my message you haven't read, or haven't paid attention to, the words "at least". I've bolded them for you. You can predict $318,000 by December 2021 like someone from Citybank or $1 million in five years like someone from Goldman Sachs but to get there, $100k is still a barrier to cross.

Regards.

A politician lying and saying anything to help him win votes? Come on! That's shocking! I've never seen any politician do that.

I wish you luck my friend but your words tell me that your resolutions are not strong enough. If instead of "I would try to..." you had said "I am going to..." I would believe your resolutions are strong.

As for gambling, I want you to think that every time you gamble $1, the potential return is always lower than that, so the more times you gamble the more likely it is that you are going to lose your money, no matter how good short-term results are. I know that gambling has more to do with behavior than with knowledge but gambling to make money is to throw your money away while self-deceiving.  It's another thing if you gamble in a controlled and rational way to entertain yourself but the way you write tells me that you don't and that you play more than you would like.

I believe that the one who has legally won should rule, be it Trump or Biden. Voter fraud is not foolish and letting someone who has done fraud rule simply so that the United States does not look like a banana republic in the eyes of the world would set a very dangerous precedent. In addition, if fraud has occurred and is ultimately proven, in the future whoever is in a position to attempt fraud will think twice, so I think the reason is twofold.

After watching Sunny Decree latest video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xYkoilN4PJ4

I have been thinking about the importance that the psychological part can have in the price increase.

He gives 4 reasons:

1) Market Cycles (Institutional Phase).
2) Self fulfilling Prophecy.
3) Retail FOMO about to get started...
4) Only a small percentage of the population own bitcoin and that can only increase, thus increasing demand.

I want to focus on the second one.

Most predictions (I'll leave out the bitcoin haters and nocoiners) give at least $100k for this cycle, some quite a bit more. Then, when the price is closer to 100k, say 80k, people who are thinking of buying, even if it is unconsciously, they will think they have at least 20% potential profit. This will increase demand and help the price go up.

Something similar happened with the 10k barrier in 2017.

This is the first time I have heard this concept applied to investments and it has given me food for thought. I believe that if we reach 100k in this cycle, it will have been more due to institutional investment than to psychology but I wonder what role psychology will play.

I don't know if you've heard this concept applied to investments and how important you think it might be.

Actually, google trends shows that the general public has started to be interested in bitcoin again. Current interest is at 31% and since Feb, 2018 it wasn't at that level. We still have way to go to reach the Dec 2017 peak but it can be reached in a couple of months. That's the global interest. If you search specific countries like Argentina or Turkey the interest is very high.

Are these links fake also?

“Effect of calcifediol treatment and best available therapy versus best available therapy on intensive care unit admission and mortality among patients hospitalized for COVID-19: A pilot randomized clinical study”

COVID-19 defeated 3x faster by 420,000 IU Vitamin D nanoemulsion – RCT Nov 12, 2020
Short term, high-dose vitamin D supplementation for COVID-19 disease: a randomised, placebo-controlled, study (SHADE study)

Suggested role of Vitamin D supplementation in COVID-19 severity

“Effect of calcifediol treatment and best available therapy versus best available therapy on intensive care unit admission and mortality among patients hospitalized for COVID-19: A pilot randomized clinical study”

Vitamin D deficiency correlates with a reduced number of natural killer cells in intensive care unit (ICU) and non-ICU patients with COVID-19 pneumonia

I could put dozens of links more but you can find a summary of them on https://vitamindwiki.com/

I haven't been a long time in the forum but my understanding is that if you are banned for plagiarism, yours is a lost case. Also, if you are banned, you shouldn't create new accounts, so I think there is not much you can do.

I suppose more experienced members and/or moderators will confirm this or will tell you if there is something you can do.

In this regard, just yesterday I heard Max Keiser say that the big (institutional) players who are betting on bitcoin, like Michael Saylor, are actually betting against the central banks in the same way that Soros bet against the pound in 1992.

The only way the rats would be able to defend themselves would be to raise interest rates, but that is not going to happen in the near future.

It's as if the rats were eating poison, but with a sweet taste, and they couldn't stop.

On that same site, top right, you can click the link:

Vitamin D could have prevented 90% of coronavirus deaths

I will not go into whether the coronavirus exists or not.

What I will say is that high levels of vitamin D strengthen the immune system. People with high levels rarely get colds or the flu. Anyone can check this out with a simple Internet search but you won't see it on the front pages of newspapers or in news stories promoted by Big Pharma. Mostly because vitamin D is cheap as a supplement and it's free to sunbathe.

There have also been several studies on coronatirus in this regard in the same vein. But it seems that it is more important to sell vaccines and for Big Pharma to make many millions.

PS: A daily dose of 2,000 IU is not a high dose, as some study promoted by Big Pharma tries to make us believe. And it's not so much the dose that's important as the blood levels.

Actually, it's reached $29,200 on bitstamp. I think we get to $30k before next year . Let's see how far 2021 goes.

LOL! Well, yes, the title is misleading, but that's good news for us anyway.

Every day we have more news related to bitcoin and if the price continues to rise, it will not be long before the FOMO enters the public again. Actually in google trends it has gone up a bit.

I just saw it. It is a pleasure to see the price when it's about to beat ATH again, keep looking for about 15 minutes every now and then and finally it beats it. It has bounced down after hitting the $28,500 zone several times today but once it's broken, we'll see where it goes. It won't be long before the $30k my friends!