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April 10, 2013, 11:52:37 PM |
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It only fell to 105, and shot back to 190 within minutes. People started buying the cheap coins like crazy. Does not this promise well for the future of BTC?
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April 10, 2013, 11:52:56 PM |
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It only fell to 105, and shot back to 190 within minutes. People started buying the cheap coins like crazy. Does not this promise well for the future of BTC?
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evolve
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April 11, 2013, 12:28:38 AM |
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It only fell to 105, and shot back to 190 within minutes. People started buying the cheap coins like crazy. Does not this promise well for the future of BTC?
No. A 50%+ crash in a couple of hours does not bode well for bitcoin, even if there is a full or partial price recovery. As a side note, I was saying the same thing about the 20%+ swings a couple weeks ago....the volatility is getting worse. |
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April 11, 2013, 12:32:05 AM |
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It only fell to 105, and shot back to 190 within minutes. People started buying the cheap coins like crazy. Does not this promise well for the future of BTC?
No. A 50%+ crash in a couple of hours does not bode well for bitcoin, even if there is a full or partial price recovery. Honestly this only shows how small bitcoin is compared to the rest of the world. I'd say give it a solid year or 2 if the given trends continue fully or steadily and bitcoin will suddenly not look so small. |
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bitbit (OP)
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April 11, 2013, 12:32:57 AM |
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It only fell to 105, and shot back to 190 within minutes. People started buying the cheap coins like crazy. Does not this promise well for the future of BTC?
No. A 50%+ crash in a couple of hours does not bode well for bitcoin, even if there is a full or partial price recovery. Not a crash, just a correction. Since there are so many speculators on the boat. These corrections will get relatively smaller with time, as more and more people start using bitcoins. That is my prediction. |
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April 11, 2013, 12:36:25 AM |
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It only fell to 105, and shot back to 190 within minutes. People started buying the cheap coins like crazy. Does not this promise well for the future of BTC?
The 190 buys were tiny and mingled with sells for 140-150. I wouldn't say it popped back up. We always have small bot buys that are strangely higher than the majority of the much larger volume block sells (e.g., a stream of large block sells @ 150 and then a single teenth coin buy @ 190). It's strange.... |
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April 11, 2013, 12:36:49 AM |
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Most of this panic and BS is also due to the fact that Mtgox majorly clogs up any time there is significant activity. These mini flash crashes have happened before, this one was just larger, probably sparked by a fairly large sell order
Other exchanges were also being piles of fail from what I gather.
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April 11, 2013, 12:38:09 AM |
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Some argue that the lag actually prevents full blown capitulation. I guess we'll find out when they fix it.
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April 11, 2013, 12:40:18 AM |
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These corrections will get relatively smaller with time, as more and more people start using bitcoins. That is my prediction.
They have been getting bigger, though. A couple weeks ago these corrections were 20% drops, and a couple weeks before that they were <15%. |
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proudhon
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April 11, 2013, 12:43:52 AM |
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Yesterday - chart is parabolic = "Bitcoin isn't a bubble, it's a snowball!"
Today - price gets cut in half = "See, it's not a bubble"
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Bitcoin Fact: the price of bitcoin will not be greater than $70k for more than 25 consecutive days at any point in the rest of recorded human history.
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chiropteran
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April 11, 2013, 12:48:36 AM |
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These corrections will get relatively smaller with time, as more and more people start using bitcoins. That is my prediction.
They have been getting bigger, though. A couple weeks ago these corrections were 20% drops, and a couple weeks before that they were <15%. Don't measure as a percentage, measure in time. The correction today reverted to the bitcoin value of a week ago. A couple weeks before the corrections were the bitcoin value reverting to the value of the previous week. Basically unchanged. |
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April 11, 2013, 01:00:55 AM |
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Yesterday - chart is parabolic = "Bitcoin isn't a bubble, it's a snowball!"
Today - price gets cut in half = "See, it's not a bubble"
It works in the same ways that the bears will say "If the price goes up, crash. If the price goes down, crash." No one has substantial evidence to back up any claims, and no one has enough fiat currency to influence the market in the ways we are talking about. It's all a bunch of speculative hoo-ha if you ask me. It will be a long time before we truly see how the Bitcoin network will respond to increased user activity and potentially increased price. |
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April 11, 2013, 01:03:28 AM |
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1. The crowd of more experienced bitcoin traders have come to expect these dips after a steep rise. So, many were ready this time, waiting for it, and happily joined the 'panic'-selling knowing they would profit handsomely. This feeds it.
2. Then there are manipulators. They know many think the steep rise was too fast, and we are waiting for the 'correction'. They exploit this by putting up a big sell wall and selling a bunch of coins at an appropiate moment (this time, we just crossed $250 and Eur 200,- after an unprecedented rise). The conditions were right to trigger a panic sell.
3. Then there is gox lag and failure of all popular live tickers (bitcoinity, clarkmoody, IRC #bitcoin-market, etc). Large numbers of people are selling into the dark. This aggrevates the dip.
All good fun, really.
It does not change anything fundamental about bitcoin.
Profit from the good price while it lasts.
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April 11, 2013, 01:12:53 AM |
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My only regret this day ... I was not positioned to buy quickly ... I've learned  |
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April 11, 2013, 01:58:42 AM |
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Yesterday - chart is parabolic = "Bitcoin isn't a bubble, it's a snowball!"
Today - price gets cut in half = "See, it's not a bubble"
today is not over yet. (at least where i'm from). |
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sunblaster
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April 11, 2013, 02:00:16 AM |
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14k sell and it drops from 266 to 105 lol, what happens when someone serious sells?
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Nemesis
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April 11, 2013, 02:18:29 AM |
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14k sell and it drops from 266 to 105 lol, what happens when someone serious sells?
wow you're a retard. |
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April 11, 2013, 02:18:56 AM |
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14k sell and it drops from 266 to 105 lol, what happens when someone serious sells?
Orders were pulled and not sold into. |
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April 11, 2013, 04:52:04 PM |
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14k sell and it drops from 266 to 105 lol, what happens when someone serious sells?
wow you're a retard. Please terminate your forum account, cancel your online service and never, I said never, comeback to internet. |
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April 11, 2013, 05:17:54 PM |
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Some argue that the lag actually prevents full blown capitulation. I guess we'll find out when they fix it.
Nonsense. It turns a thoughtful slide into a full-blown rout. No-one who's trading wants their capital stuck on an unresponsive server as the price plummets towards zero. At that point, it's all-out for anyone who's not iron-clad in the gonad department. |
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