Development you most likely wouldn't make use of anyway, so why care?

Bottom line is that people expected moon during Bakkt's launch, but were presented the exact opposite. It's easy to trash talk a company but not do anything to make Bitcoin or the user-experience better yourself.

If we're talking about institutional products that are a flop, then it's definitely Vaneck and SolidX's Bitcoin trust; https://www.vaneck.com/institutional/bitcoin-144a/overview

The same ~64BTC has been sitting in the fund for months without a single penny in new capital, and that while the market has been super bullish for quite a while now. Too many restrictions and pretty high fees make it just not a viable instrument to gain exposure to Bitcoin.

People calling manipulation are funny. They can't back up anything of what they claim, yet they are 1000% sure that it's manipulation. How contradicting can one be?

Also, most of the manipulation callers are silent right now because of how the price is going up instead of down. They'll get back to business when we see the price go down for a couple of weeks. Those damn whales, they always want to buy lower. 

They don't care about the price crashing because they got their coins for free. All they care about is getting rid of the coins and walk away with fiat. In the end, they aren't the only large holder of Bitcoin (assuming they actually hold any at this point), so there is always the risk of seeing other whales cash out and take the price down due to the thin orderbooks.

$5000 might look low today, but might be the high of next months. Reminds me of people saying how they can't believe anyone would sell under $6000 because it was super duper low..... It turned out to be high when we were approaching the $3000 level.

In the end, if there are coins to be dumped, let the scammers dump them now because of the increased demand. This way it won't hurt as much.

Why would they touch them? It's an easy income source for the government, and one that's recurring as well because you know that the profits made by banks are far higher than whatever they end up paying in fines. Governments happy because they receive hundreds of millions in fines, and the banks happy because their profits are largely still there.

If governments were genuine, they would increase their fines to such degree that the profits made by banks would not only be nullified, but the bank actually loses hundreds of millions. The current system is set up strictly to enrich the government and allow high level money laundering to take place because they get a slice of the pie.

I wouldn't really count on less restrictive actions for a while, because when you loosen the actions taken, people will automatically start to continue living their life the normal way, thus increasing the odds of new infections. China as paranoid as they are, will definitely not let that happen so they will continue their current approach as it seems to be effective.

Looking at the current hashrate, it's fairly stable so there doesn't seem to be much of an actual impact at all. As the price continues to go up, more gear will be put to work, so whatever gear ends up getting turned off, the effect will be nullified by the gear being turned on.

It's impossible to solve from OP's side. I have seen a lot of so called experts emerge on social media during the 2017 bull run where everything they said became reality. People legit believed that the prices could only rise because that's what happened for about a year. You could blindly throw a dart on the CMC map and that alt would yield you a few hundred % in profit.

Bear markets is where those so called experts get slaughtered. Most of them deleted their accounts on social media because they were threatened by the idiots following their forecasts.

People need to stop trying to force themselves into trading by following "experts" or stupid social media trading sites. If you don't have a basic level understanding of technical analysis and thus can't trade yourself, you shouldn't trade, period.

After what happened with the crypto content creators on youtube recently (channels getting striked etc) I do believe that it will take longer and longer before those streams are taken down. Crypto related videos on youtube are getting falsely reported a lot, either by scammers or competing altcoins or content creators, which means that Google has to spend time analyzing the reports manually.

If Google yet again ends up taking (but now serious) action against those scam streams in an automated fashion by their algorithm, I'm pretty sure that they will affect even the non scammy crypto content. In other words, there will only be losers.

I still think that people just need to understand that free money doesn't exist. Sending 0.1BTC to someone that promises you to send 0.5BTC back is just retarded.

That's what I thought as well when it comes to apps on smartwatches, but it seems that I was wrong thinking so. I know a few people around me who keep interacting with their smartwatch even though I don't see why they bother wasting time on such a small screen trying to figure out the weather, price information of stocks etc, typing messages and the list goes on.

Somehow they convinced themselves that it's useful, which means that the companies behind those watches have done well marketing their product. I wouldn't buy one myself, but if people want to waste their money on those gadgets then so be it. They waste their own time and money, not mine. 

It takes me a few seconds to pull out my smartphone and properly utilize the applications. Having a smartwatch will only form a burden to my daily use.

It depends on how you look at things. Eth's all time high is a bit over $1400 so that makes its current price about 85% lower than that high. If you got in cheap enough recently you are doing fairly well, but nothing too exciting. I think the frustration of people who expected Eth to be at $500 by now doesn't outweigh the gains it booked in the more recent weeks.

I think it's safe to say that the happiest (known) Eth holder today is scammer Richard Heart. People are still sending their Eth to his smart contract in exchange for poop hex tokens. You would expect that with the upcoming upgrades for Ethereum people to think twice before sending their Eth to a scammer, but nope. 

That dude most likely doesn't know what he is talking about. Most people are repeating after what they read on social media. One day decending triangles are a thing, next day short squeezes, then golden crosses, etc.

People think that just because the market is starting to look more healthy that we will see an insane bull run, but that doesn't have to be the case at all. I personally think it's less likely to happen this year with how much resistance levels we have to break through in order to surpass even last year's $14,000 top.

In the end, the averages that mean something in terms of macro trend identification are the weekly moving averages. I see it happen all too often that people go by 4 hour moving averages, and some even hourly averages. Unless you're a trader those low time frame moving averages shouldn't be your focus.

I'll keep the sig on because there is nothing else to promote. I'm not going to advertise for casinos or altcoin crap.

Thanks for the heads up!

If the best we can offer is a con artist such as Justin Sun and a fairly ok dude such as Charlie Lee, then it's hard to think of a reason for Warren Buffett to like anything about this space.

Nothing fundamentally interesting about Tron. It's just one of the many knockoffs that we will see come and go in the forthcoming years. No large scale institution wants anything to do with such coin. I'm pretty sure that Warren Buffett felt like he wasted his time with those crypto hippies. The only thing of value Warren Buffett ended up with is the money Justin Sun paid for the charity lunch.

You can bring a horse to a water pool, but you can't force it to drink. Stop trying.

I know people are hoping for the stock to retrace that much, but I have my doubts. Technically speaking, it's severaly overbought and the major moving averages will need many months to even remotely catch up, but that doesn't mean that this stock can peak over $1000 in the coming weeks or months.

Stocks in general have no longer much to do with fundamentals and underlying revenue/profit streams with how much debt there is circulating in the market. Every recent dip in the stock market is bought up faster than Bitcoin recovers from a dip. That just shows how much money there is waiting for those dips to enter. It's usually not a good idea to bet against the trend.

It's quite funny how the sentiment in the mainstream media has changed so drastically. It was first a company that wouldn't be able to succeed, and now suddenly the stock is said to reach $5000 and higher, lol. 

It's probably a good idea to also mention that you can't withdraw crypto from etoro. It's essentially just a CFD platform. If you're only interested in trading then it might be useful to you and some other people, but being able to withdraw crypto is an extra peace of mind in case you for whatever reason can't withdraw fiat.

I have read about their interest to offer crypto withdrawals for quite some time now, but I don't think they will go that far unless there is so much demand that it leaves them no choice but to do so.

You make it seem like the whole space is hyping up Lightning, which definitely isn't the case. In fact, I have seen more people on social media platforms speak out against Lightning.

I am excited about Lightning, but also acknowledge the fact that it by far can't provide the same level of security as the main chain, but that's not even the point. Lightning's main purpose is to facilitate micro payments where security isn't that much of a concern. The benefits of instant and near free payments greatly outweighs the risks people using Lightning are exposed to.

Also, Lightning is just one second layer. I'm confident that it will be one of the many in 5-10 years where people can choose what layer they use.

Not unlikely (hey, anything is possible in this space) but we've seen similar speculation when Litecoin was about to go through a block halving. It had a sweet pump prior to he halving, but then ended up tanking hard, also before the halving. It kept tanking after the halving while people were expecting even more pumping to happen.

Two different coins, but speculation-wise, the sentiment is quite similar. No doubt that Bitcoin will breach its prior highs eventually, but people shouldn't expect a massive bull run to take place just because of the block halving. Keep in mind that the price went up from low $3000's to now nearly $10,000.... My pre-halving pump target is $12,000 at most. 

If defi grows out to become a huge industry, I'm confident that the centralized finance industry will improve the quality of their service further and reduce the fees or in some cases offer free finance to those who really need it.

In fact, it's already happening; there are numerous countries already where you can wire money instantly and for free at any time of the day, even during holidays. I have seen those memes on Twitter where people make fun of banks being closed and that Bitcoin always works, well, banks are getting there as well. Innovation triggers more innovation. Bitcoin innovated the banking sector.

Ethereum's defi ecosystem would be even better if fees could be paid directly in stablecoins instead of Ether. I know there are certain workarounds with smart contracts, but it should be made easy for the common joes who just want to use the simplest form of money.

As long as we maintain above the 200DMA and the 21DEMA, I'm pretty confident that we will get that push to $10,300 where we will face our next big resistance. If we close below aforementioned moving averages, I'll switch to bear-mode again and prepare for another sub $8000 push, and likely much further lower.

If this is the actual start of the next bull market, we need continuation of the current momentum. Failure will be punished hard because traders will try to front run each other by selling and prepare to buy the next bounce levels. I expect a reaction from the price before friday. I hope for bullish continuation, but I'm prepared of the other scenario as well.

It has to be pointed out that whenever you deposit Lightning Bitcoin on Bitfinex, it posts in your account as a seperate (LNX) token. That token has to be converted to Bitcoin on the wallet page and vice versa if you want to exit through Lightning. I find it a bit weird that they don't credit it as Bitcoin right away, but perhaps there is a valid (security?) reason for that I can't think of right now.

It might not be that much of importance right now, but when the fees see a sharp increase, most people will look for an exchange with low withdrawal fees, which the exchanges that offer Lightning support can provide. Coinbase's fees peaked over 0.002BTC back in 2017 which is nuts. No way people will swallow that again while there are much cheaper alternatives available today.

I don't see that $60 deposit bonus. These are the deposit bonuses I see on their page;

$5 but you first have to deposit 0.05BTC
$50 but you first have to deposit 0.5BTC

https://www.bybit.com/prize_page

It's not that tempting at all, no matter how you look at it. Why would anyone risk $4500 in Bitcoin for a measly $50 deposit bonus? On top of that, according to Bybit's terms (can be found in above link) you can't withdraw that bonus at all, just the profits that you make with it.