That's right, I currently have a whopping 0 merit left to give  

I have always tried to give credit where credit is due, and you can be sure that if I gave you merit you have earned it!

Eventually when I get more merit I think I will be much more selective in how I distribute it this next time only giving one at a time I think.

I think this is a nice reminder that is the prompting when you are to hand out merits:  " This is what determines your forum rank. You typically cannot lose this merit. You have 0 sendable merit (sMerit) which you can send to other people. There is no point in hoarding sMerit; keeping it yourself does not benefit you, and we reserve the right to decay unused sMerit in the future."

I think a lot of people don’t realize this. My personal belief is that if FTX didn’t defraud everyone out of their Bitcoin and pump everyone’s shitcoins then the price of BTC likely would have gone up as high as $140,000 and would have bottomed around $60,000. So while we may be in a bull market now, we should have never gotten this low in the first place.

Do you think only signature participants are willing to post here? Bitcoin is a forum where anyone can post, share their ideas and complain, people are active posting even without the paid campaign way back before. So it's not new, getting paid when posting is just like incentives. You can see them mostly in technical boards where skills and experience  are shared.

I would be really happy for it continue these small pumps, then stabilising for a bit then going up again. Feels like resistance is being built for the future. I do wonder too have miners stopped selling and are hoarding a bit before the halving. 48k by Mar tho Phil sounds more realistic , but who knows maybe 3/15 might be a better day

I am planning to sell in case we hit 45k usd to double my chance when time comes bitcoin dumped like what expected before this year ends or after January because I believe that we are lowering or correction before the halving season so yes lets have it this way and not to complete Holding.
i may have interest to invest more or maybe sell and buy ,  like what many keeps saying as continues holding is not so advisable in our days now.
because the market sometimes goes roller coaster or sometimes making difference to the time we need to sell .

On hold until 45k stamp

God candle! I like the sound of that!

So finally for a while keeping above 100% and starting to get some lead


We might snatch another positive adjustment, and with the price seemingly unstoppable I don't really know if we're going to hit a negative till the halving.
Not only is the price up but due to possible FOMO I guess fees are again up, over 200sat/vb constantly, last blocks
‎2.674
‎2.504
‎2.823

9 btc for a block at $43k, close to $400k
back two and a half months ago, under 200k per block.
So, simple math says 800 exahash in sight?  

ps
No I'm not doing the nuclear reactors thing as probably I would get a headache seeing how much would be needed!

Yes, I think a legal mixer would not only serve no purpose for most people, but it would also demonstrate that nobody wants to use a legal mixer, which would then ironically make the mixer hilariously bad as it wouldn’t get enough use to serve it’s purpose as a proper mixer. It would also end the debate on if people are using them for legal purposes, as nobody would use it…

Directions to this bridge? Kidding…

I’m sorry to hear you took a hit from a prepaid campaign. Surely you’d think they’d be willing to work with you if you made the situation clear to them. I’ve been in similar situations though. I once had a customer not pay me for almost two years and then finally give me a lump sum in BTC at the peak of the market which by the time the funds were sold on an exchange took such a big hit that it basically all ended up going to taxes. Sometimes people just don’t think how their actions effect you.

Because the 68.2 Fibonacci level is always right. Even though in 2021 we broke higher to $69K that area originally had a significant pullback. Also the $48000 area is where that pivot is which was the high on March 2022. Not investment advice but its either a coincidence or this fib level is crazy accurate.

2017


2019


2021


2023-2024

Since when did we have our bull run in and even year.. such as 2024?.. and gosh don't we need to save some blow-off top for some part of 2025?  I know some members have even suggested that the 2025 bull run needs to come earlier in the year.. and not sure about that, just like I don't buy the idea that the 2021 top was April rather than what my lying eyes told me that it was November.

I am not going to claim to know exactly when these waves might play out. .and surely the past seems to be much easier to predict than the future (even though we sometimes don't even agree about those kinds of things), and I am not even much of a stickler for the precision of the 4-year fractal.. like some of us in these here parts.. even though the four-year fractal has been playing out fairly tightly.. so far... .. but how long can that last, really? 

I doubt that I am personally affected very much whether we get our top in 2024, 2025, or 2026.... I mean a matter of whether in some variations that I might end up shaving off 8%, or 10% or 12%..... or maybe you never know I might go crazy and shave off a bit higher, but even I have difficulties imagining anything close to 20%.. that seem just crazy.. Probably not going to happen.. .  And in the end, what I do might not really end up being that big of a difference. .no matter which way it ends up playing out.. . even though surely it would be better to get some actual notice in advance.. which that never seems to happen, either... not actual and constructive notice rather than then just wannabe sorcerer notice, which surely is not very reliable in the whole scheme of things.

The ATH of ETH was also on the day when Bitcoin hit its ATH. But it's largely the price of Bitcoin that actually propelled ETH to its ATH on November 10, 2021. The ATH of ETH in USD is not its ATH in terms of BTC value. But still there's a bullish potential considering that BlackRock and other Bitcoin spot ETF applicants were also applying for Ethereum spot ETF.

Litecoin has its own halving with a different schedule. And it already happened last August 6 this year. There wasn't much effect of the halving to the price of LTC. But still when the market turns bullish next year, Litecoin might be one of those that will benefit.

Six AI chatbots forecast bitcoin to reach $45k by December 31 2023. From the  article the test was first carried out June this year which it was predicted that the price will get to $45k by the end of the 2023 year, and on the 3rd of this month of November 2023 another query test was carried out using 6 different AI chatbots to inquire what the price of bitcoin could be by end of the year and they all gave predictions that points to $45k at most. And the most intriguing thing about this which caught my attention is that it was same price prediction range it gave sometime June this year when the first test was conducted.

So I decided to bring it to the forum to know about what other forum members think about this AI prediction. Is it a prediction you can rely on or it's just one of those common bitcoin  price predictions of the decade we are used to from different angles, is there anything special about this one .

Don't you know that signature campaign can be abolish in this forum and bitcointalk will continue to exist, because I know quite well that what interests people much to the forum is the signature campaign advert that fetching people money, so let us not concentrate much on signature campaign because as theymos ban mixers it can happen one day that signature campaign be terminate, the aspect of if the signature campaign can be supportive to other social media except bitcointalk, yes, and it can happen only if the social media make a provision of display of signature campaign, so that's what I really want us to understand about it. And besides I have been hearing that theirs other places that support signature campaign.

If government wants a mixer that alerts them on "crooks", they'll have to create their own honeypot mixer.

I don't share this fear. KYC would leave only spammers with bought identities on Bitcointalk, all good users will abandon it.

I guess Newbies will get banned, and users who have something to lose won't risk testing the boundaries of the new rules.

Lol. What if they were promoting a honeypot mixer here, and now can't talk about it anymore?

From a regulator's perspective, I'd say this makes sense. If a mixer follows KYC procedures, they can either catch the criminals or criminals won't use it.

Lol. I don't think "attracting criminals" is a goal for law enforcement.

I don't get this: if you send your non taxable coins through a mixer, how do you prove it's non taxable? I like the blockchain evidence that proves those coins were old. Where I live, everything is taxable, but that's not the point here.

That's not a loophole: an URL is still an URL even if it's not clickable. So posting "abcd.mixer" won't be allowed.

Christmas price prediction: $55,000  .    okay

End of year price prediction: $65,000     okay

2024 ATH price prediction: $179,000      too low bro 222k +