I think we are in a bear market already. There's a feel of hybernation, of freezing winds.

You forgot two zeros, OP.

https://www.coindesk.com/cameron-winklevoss-bitcoin-price-40k/

Are we in a bear market, gentlemen? Seems that the market is freezing.

Uncertainty provoked by institutional funds dumping coins they pumped after october, to win bets in CBOE and CME futures markets.

And the price is closing as CBOE predicted one month ago. They are good at "predictions", aren't they?

Can you explain to me what this new and innovative chart be all about? I'm just a newbie and this chart seems very impressive trade theory.

How can this memeliott wave be applied to bitcoin, with all the technology behind it?

Bitcoin is not just a stock, its not Pajama Papers. Its a technological innovation which, if sucessful, can dethrone Visa-Mastercard oligopoly on payments.

And if we sell and goes up? What then? You lose part of your coins.

Another day, another FUD operation.

I just want a Core wallet that wont stutter when I open it.

I agree, there will be a little centralization, but LN is optional, whereas big block sizes, are not. Bigger blocks would lead to giant nodes which would only be able to run on servers, and this would be mandatory. But LN is not mandatory, you can choose to use it or not.

And since most people will move small quantities, they will opt for it, which will unclog the mined network, thus decreasing fees.

If I create a new wallet, and send a segwit transaction there (for example, to claim forked coins), which wallet need to have a segwit address (starting with 3), the one which is sending the bitcoin, or the one which is receiving it?

I tried to send to another wallet with a segwit address, but the fee was even higher than to a normal address. The recipient was a segwit address, the sender was legacy. The normal address on the recipient was asking standard fees.

My current wallet holding bitcoins is from august 2017, before segwit locked in. Should I make another legacy wallet, send a legacy transaction there, and only then create a third wallet which would be segwit?

Or can my current wallet, which was created before the lock-in, generate a segwit address (starting with 3), and then send to a legacy address in a second wallet, which would not have any segwit address?

Rumours about China banning bitcoin mining:

https://seekingalpha.com/article/4135805-assessing-chinas-bitcoin-mining-ban

It will be going sideways until LN is released.

Devs have been testing it and showing zero fees to buy coffee with bitcoin. If it is released, and turn out to be a success, price will go fast to 50k.

Right now, fees are more than 350k satoshis per kilobyte, for a one-hour confirmation. It's insane, and people would not move their bitcoins to a exchange to sell, nor will buy more, knowing most exchanges will use those same fees. Less sellers decreases the supply, but less buyers decreases the demand, that's why it is going sidelines.

The guys who were two months ago saying that bitcoin is a "bubble" or a "ponzi scheme" are the same ones who are now aiming for 1000% gains with ripple, lumen, tron and raiblocks.

Vocês ainda estão esperando o cartão TenX?

Veja por outro lado, o capitalismo implicado na reportagem poderia ser o capitalismo clientelista (crony capitalism), o qual os libertários costumam ser contra.

Yes, and I'm going to use more bitcoin to speculate in altcoin markets.

For now, it's only 5% of my stash being used for this purpose.

That's a good investment advice. Why do you not apply for a job in Jim Cramer's show?

Speaking in doge, I was thinking about PEPE CASH. Do you think is a good investment? Yes?

Most of them won't work. I saw two or three, and they didn't hold.