Still HODLing fast. Watched this latest soap opera with amusement. After 2 bubbles this latest one is a breeze. Watching all the noobs squeal with excitement and fear is a little annoying. Never thought about selling. Bitcoin honey badger. Brexit bullish. HODL ON, GENTLEPEOPLE

Feels just like the last two bubbles. Except now I'm used to it. Just checking price a little more often and feeling mildly excited.

Oh, and fielding bitcoin orders for my friends who are all of a sudden interested in throwing a few grand into bitcoin but have no idea how to do it.

Hmm, a lot of people either weren't here for the last 2 bubbles, and/or can't think logarithmically.
We're hitting $10k this year. It's a bit obvious. Hold on to your horses. 

Hodling since $13. Maybe at BTC $130,000 I'll buy a car or something similarly retarded.

Teasing $590 again and you really think the rally is losing its steam? Lol, just be patient. 

Go long & HODL strong and you will learn the ways of teh bitcoin...

HODLing. Post-halvening rally, peak $11,000, crash to $1500, stable at $4500. Mark my werdz. 

Heh what can I say, I forgot my password 

Market seems to defy the masses' expectation in strange ways. Time to get out the popcorn.

...Is that what's happening right now? The classic age-old investing advice? Everyone's buying like crazy on the "rumour" in preparation for a big dump on the news? It would have to be a pretty big dump to counter-act the sudden mining supply halving, but whatever, sentiment can be pretty strong in either direction.

 

Heheh, good point. I actually bought a wee bit yesterday. (like 0.4.)

So based on the excellent advice/speculation in this thread, I'm going to put $2k in a 3-month CD (turns out $2k is the minimum for CDs at mah bank) and THE REST, APPRXIMATELY $2k,  I WILL INVEST IN BITCOIN. w00t.  

Well aside from that bitcoin has better YoY performance than any savings account or CD here -

In the "country" I live in right now, multiple banks have failed in the last 5 years, with lots of people losing all their money (or large chunks of it, if they were lucky enough to have used an insured bank.)

Whereas Bitcoin hasn't failed once during that time! 

Hi friends, I am going to ask you for some investing advice! As this is the "speculation" subforum, and I am looking to "speculate" with some capital, I figured you all would be able to help!

Somebody recently gave me $4000. This $4000 I have to hold onto for approximately 4 months, until I am supposed to use it to buy a used car for them that will be available at that time (the seller is out of country at the moment and the buyer is leaving the country in a month.)  

Anywho, so in the meantime, I have this $4000 USD. What the fuck do I do with it?

1) Hold onto $4000 phyz cash
2) Put it in a bank account that gets something like 0.1% interest.
3) Put it in a 3-month-term CD that gets something like 4% annual interest
4) Put $3000 into a CD (the minimum), $900 into Bitcoinz, and $100 into a couple altcoins.
5) Put $2000 into a bank account with 0.1% interest, $1800 into Bitcoinz, and $200 into a couple altcoins
6) 25% in bank account and 75% in bitcoinz/altz
7) 2 DA MOON BABY (all of it in bitcoin.)
( 8 ) CUSTOMIZE YOUR OWN BITCOINASHLEY INVESTING PORTFOLIO !!!  

So things to keep in mind:

• I have enough money to replace if it's all lost, but I'd prefer not to have to do that because that would obviously suck
• In terms of risk tolerance, I wouldn't mind having to replace, say, 10% of the $4000 if Bitcoin really went downhill; as that's part of taking a risk and "speculating."
• Obviously how much might be lost or gained depends a lot on our speculation of how the market is going to do in the next 3-4 months.
• Please don't whine too much because THIS IS THE SPECULATION SUBFORUM and speculation is perfectly normal and acceptable here.
• No, I'm not being dishonest and mis-using someone else's money, because as far as they know, they're getting their $4000 back after 4 months whether or not I lost it when Bitcoin crashes after the block halving hype ends. I am financially solvent and responsible with money.

Ok go.    
 

I would recommend not using the service until OP proves to have access to the old account and domain name. Otherwise OP could just be anybody pretending to be the old service's admin.

Because (1) I bought as many coins as possible at $12 so I'm not in any rush, and (2) 2 weeks ago I was planning to buy but just got lazy

   

You say that as if it's a bad thing. Please check the title of the subforum you are in ;-) It just so happens that "speculation" is not only perfectly acceptable here, but expected as well! 

It should bounce around a bit more before the actual halving. This current rise in my opinion is a bunch of people feeling restless about the halving jumping onto a relatively small China wagon which started because of recent china currency shenanigans.

So I'll buy another $200 in a few days or a week when we see <$500 for a brief bit, then the train will resume steady uphill climb to the top of Mt. Bitcoin

 

I just bought 0.06 bitcoins when they were at $530 on Coinbase. Now it is at $525. Oh noes!  Do you guys think I am going to lose my money?   

$553 on bitfinex

I think I might buy some more

 

There, more charts with lines. NOW it's conclusive. 

Well, anything could happen. You could grow a third arm tomorrow. Gold prices could go up. (lol)

A friend just sent me this chart with lines on it, and it conclusively proves that we will be going "2 Da Moon Soon."