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April 03, 2017, 08:01:08 AM |
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Since we didnt see any retrace over the weekend, I wouldnt be suprised at all, if bull trap awaited us during tommorrow or day after that. It wouldnt be the first time we decide to take a plunge on monday...
Looks like indeed we have a correction going.
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April 03, 2017, 08:13:34 AM Last edit: April 03, 2017, 02:55:55 PM by JayJuanGee |
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Since we didnt see any retrace over the weekend, I wouldnt be suprised at all, if bull trap awaited us during tommorrow or day after that. It wouldnt be the first time we decide to take a plunge on monday...
Looks like indeed we have a correction going. Looks like indeed you are reading this whole situation out of context. When Okurkabinladin wrote his post, the price was floating around $1080 $1180 ( Correction). Accordingly, the price went up to nearly $1130 and then retraced back down to $1115. That is hardly a "correction" When ever you get a decent size upward price movement, you also will find pauses in the upwards movement and you will also find retraces of some or all of the movement; however those retracements do not rise to the level of a "correction" because they are mere retracements of a recent upwards price movement that does not even rule out the possibility that the price is going to continue its upwards trajectory. In other words for the moment we are experiencing upwards movement and a pause and nothing near a "correction."... not yet, anyhow... A proper "correction" would be price plunges that at least retrace the whole gamut of the price recent price increase plus adding an additional percentage on the origination price point..
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April 03, 2017, 09:21:27 AM |
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Since we didnt see any retrace over the weekend, I wouldnt be suprised at all, if bull trap awaited us during tommorrow or day after that. It wouldnt be the first time we decide to take a plunge on monday...
Looks like indeed we have a correction going. It could go up, down, or sideways. Some posters here are saying it will go up, others are saying it will go down, but nobody's saying it will go sideways. As the minority is usually right I'll speculate on it going sideways.
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April 03, 2017, 09:25:17 AM |
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When Okurkabinladin wrote his post, the price was floating around $1180. Accordingly, the price went up to nearly $1130 and then retraced back down to $1115.
Where are you getting those prices from? He wrote that 10 hours ago. When ever you get a decent size upward price movement, you also will find pauses in the upwards movement and you will also find retraces of some or all of the movement; however those retracements do not rise to the level of a "correction" because they are mere retracements of a recent upwards price movement that does not even rule out the possibility that the price is going to continue its upwards trajectory.
I know that he ment 100$ drop in 5 minutes and a double bottom, to clear things out. Look that in January you also didn't double bottom, we just wen't for an ATH. You also assume that this retracement is over, I think its just a begening. It could go up, down, or sideways. Some posters here are saying it will go up, others are saying it will go down, but nobody's saying it will go sideways. As the minority is usually right I'll speculate on it going sideways.
And you are probably right, I'm not predicting doom scenarios just a healthy 40-50$ drop.
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April 03, 2017, 09:34:10 AM Last edit: April 03, 2017, 12:04:26 PM by becoin |
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And someone didn't want to accept my statement that bitcoin is a currency and not money so I had to explain in greater detail why: Bitcoin is a currency not money. If you don't agree, YOU don't understand finance. It's a Rube Goldberg machine and nothing more. No random bullshit made up of completely arbitary variables created by humans is money. Money represents goods and services or the ability to do work. It's required to be connected to some type of commodity or energy resource if you're abstracting the system away from barter, otherwise the system is easily gamed and implodes as always.
Bitcoin is not a real commodity, it's a poor immitation like some type of tranny. The sunk cost in so called "creating" a bitcoin in the past does not transfer into delivering anything tangible into the future. It's more like a steady state system that can catastrophically fail and vaporize all imaginary "wealth" attached to it at any time - the glaring trait of all currencies past and future. One of the main reasons the noble metals are valued as money (gold and silver) are the anti-corrosive properties to defeat time itself, which guarantees you the ability to transfer that unit of account from the past to future, UNLIKE bitcoin.
The distinction between money and currency is one that is blurry and arbitrary. No. The distinction between money and currency is quite clear! Money is the monetary form itself. It is the "thing" we use as money. Its value doesn't depend on a single body or entity safeguarding its value. Currency is the certificate that certifies you have money kept in a storage somewhere else. It is a storage receipt payable to bearer on demand. The storage owner/keeper has to take care that all issued certificates are backed by adequate quantity of the "thing". In different countries and during different times this certificate was different. It had different properties, attributes, and requisites to avoid dishonest storage owners/keepers and counterfeiting. The latest reliable certificate with most current properties, attributes, and requisites was most widely used for transactions. Hence, the newly coined word "currency" describing current certificate in circulation. If we use LN we'll be using bitcoin not as money but as currency. Using currency instead of money is riskier but much cheaper. It is a trade-off. People will have a choice depending on their willingness to take small risk in exchange for much lower tx fees. And that is GOOD!
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April 03, 2017, 09:38:24 AM |
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Well ...kinda on topic in that the last 2 years I've mined LTC to BTC.....now that is being tested let me tell you..... If I continue to do so...really,really could be socking the old BTC away let me tell you ![Smiley](https://bitcointalk.org/Smileys/default/smiley.gif) But will hold LTC a bit yet till I move to BTC....when it rains gold you turn your umbrella upside down and do not move till it is full ![Smiley](https://bitcointalk.org/Smileys/default/smiley.gif) so fine..NOW if LTC as it has done in the past ...maybe this is a signal for folk to pump BTC price...well that also would be nice ...say $1,800 usd btc pump in the same manner as LTC....ie prime each others crypto pump.... (hell as long as I prayed to the LTC asic gods when LTC was $4.15 usd and the ratio was .003 ltc to btc .what the heck ..I'll try it here too) but damn.....never figured unicorn prayers falling from the sky actually will work (will now try same for btc price) sheesh.... (crypto what a silly hobby)
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April 03, 2017, 09:40:39 AM |
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Since we didnt see any retrace over the weekend, I wouldnt be suprised at all, if bull trap awaited us during tommorrow or day after that. It wouldnt be the first time we decide to take a plunge on monday...
Looks like indeed we have a correction going. It could go up, down, or sideways. Some posters here are saying it will go up, others are saying it will go down, but nobody's saying it will go sideways. As the minority is usually right I'll speculate on it going sideways. Spot on. It's been near sideways for a good couple of days with a slight uptrend and I would say that bulls and bears have pretty equal strength right now. Even the slight fall of ETH and extreme fall of DASH and other altcoins won't stop the FUD and the high fees/confirmation times.
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April 03, 2017, 09:45:57 AM |
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Is this a altcoin tpic? fine hah. Anyway DASH -50%, back to $50, going to $20. RIP dash. Time to rek Ripple next.
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April 03, 2017, 11:43:50 AM |
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April 03, 2017, 11:54:05 AM |
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Halving pump ---> New Year's pump ---> ETF pump ---> Megaupload pump?
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April 03, 2017, 11:55:05 AM |
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So this is the reason for the sudden increase in price over the last 24 hours? I was wondering what was making it go up so quickly.
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April 03, 2017, 12:23:16 PM Last edit: April 03, 2017, 12:38:26 PM by Coinnosaurus |
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Megaupload pump?
I'M READY
during the last 2 years this is the third attempt I guess So this is the reason for the sudden increase in price over the last 24 hours? I was wondering what was making it go up so quickly.
nope , pump started a lot sooner than the announcement
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April 03, 2017, 01:28:52 PM |
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It is a good publication for bitcoin but some may not accept it or even oppose it, maybe in the long run it may but people are afraid of changes once in a while.
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April 03, 2017, 01:39:41 PM |
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Megaupload pump?
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during the last 2 years this is the third attempt I guess So this is the reason for the sudden increase in price over the last 24 hours? I was wondering what was making it go up so quickly.
nope , pump started a lot sooner than the announcement Reason for the pump ![Cheesy](https://bitcointalk.org/Smileys/default/cheesy.gif)
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April 03, 2017, 01:41:34 PM |
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I'm not falling into that hype again, i'll see how it rolls out. I thought Kim was in jail and could not working on Mega2.0 project anymore ![Undecided](https://bitcointalk.org/Smileys/default/undecided.gif)
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April 03, 2017, 02:01:36 PM |
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The distinction between money and currency is one that is blurry and arbitrary.
No. The distinction between money and currency is quite clear! Money is the monetary form itself. It is the "thing" we use as money. Its value doesn't depend on a single body or entity safeguarding its value. Currency is the certificate that certifies you have money kept in a storage somewhere else. It is a storage receipt payable to bearer on demand. The storage owner/keeper has to take care that all issued certificates are backed by adequate quantity of the "thing". In different countries and during different times this certificate was different. It had different properties, attributes, and requisites to avoid dishonest storage owners/keepers and counterfeiting. The latest reliable certificate with most current properties, attributes, and requisites was most widely used for transactions. Hence, the newly coined word "currency" describing current certificate in circulation. If we use LN we'll be using bitcoin not as money but as currency. Using currency instead of money is riskier but much cheaper. It is a trade-off. People will have a choice depending on their willingness to take small risk in exchange for much lower tx fees. And that is GOOD! Your are correct of course that there is a huge difference between something secured by a single body and something that is not subject to such counterparty risk but I would again note that your line in the sand here is somewhat arbitrary. What if you have an asset that is secured not by one body but two or five or 50? Is it money or currency? What we are dealing with here is a spectrum not an absolute. There was a time when pure copper bars based on their weight in copper was money in some countries. The more distributed your risk is and the less dependent on a single actor the more solid and safe your money/currency is provided it has solid fundamentals and limited supply. Copper as money failed due to eventual oversupply of the metal. Physical ownership of metal has a counterparty risk as well as does bitcoin. Cryptocurrency is not a real store of value, though. It is basically at the same level as fiat on Exter's pyramid. Wealth is derived from resources and labor. Cryptocurrency will always be the bad money driving out good money compared to an actual resource/commodity based currency whether it's gold, silver, oil, or some other substance. The problem that it's very difficult to remove counterparty risk on things like uranium and oil always switch roles back to metals such as gold and silver instead. ...
The difference is that cryptocurrency has the potential to someday climb beyond fiat beyond gold even on Exter's pyramid. Gold can essentially be thought of as an eternal partially anonymous POW blockchain. It is mined and mining requires work limiting its supply and allowing it to be used as a store of value. Gold does have counterparty risk. The counterparty is society. The purchaser of gold takes the risk that the gold network (the network of individuals in society willing to buy and own gold) will continue to exist. Governments play a role here in that they have the power through their actions to strengthen or weaken this network but they lack the ability to destroy it entirely. The gold network has existed for thousands of years it has also survived multiple government attempts to eliminate it so the counterparty risk is lower than with anything else that exists. To displace gold cryptocurrency would need to have a counterparty risk that was lower than gold. This would require A) Demonstration of enternal nature currency would need to hold its value over several generations B) Demonstration of resilience cryptocurrency network it would need to show its ability to survive outlast and not be broken or destroyed by hostile government action. The jury is still out on whether bitcoin can meet these very high hurdles. However, even if bitcoin fails it seems almost inevitable that something will come along someday that can meet them.
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April 03, 2017, 02:07:04 PM |
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I'm not falling into that hype again, i'll see how it rolls out. I thought Kim was in jail and could not working on Mega2.0 project anymore ![Undecided](https://bitcointalk.org/Smileys/default/undecided.gif) Kim has very high accuracy of writing bullish bitcoin tweets right before a dump
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April 03, 2017, 02:08:41 PM |
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There was a time when pure copper bars based on their weight in copper were money in some countries. This isnt ancient history as the Chinese recently used copper as a proxy instead of yuan, mostly between construction firms it was considered superior due to its utility in the trade. They were actually prevented from continuing by government Good price action leading back to 1150. If price can confirm late march highs as its lows in April thats a positive going forward, possibly 2017 can be positive overall rather just volatility up and back down again
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April 03, 2017, 02:37:13 PM |
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Kim has very high accuracy of writing bullish bitcoin tweets right before a dump
I have a feeling this is just the beginning of a big price increase. Fresh money should be hitting the exchanges this week. Let's see what happens in the next 48 hours.
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