Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion

[Hueristic]

So youtube just sent me a playlist tailored for me, actually not that bad.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IEdOOLOARYo&list=RDMM&start_radio=1

Now my question is how did they make this when every privacy setting is set to no collection?


EDIT:
Hmm, even more interesting, I tried the url in 2 other browsers not signed in and got different lists but very close to my preferences.

I then tried a private session and got the same list from one of the other browsers.

[philipma1957]

No need to get offended on behalf of others. Relax.

Don't worry, I'm offended on my own behalf.

Just realize that if we wanted to converse with a high-level chatbot, we can already do that on our own time. We don't come here for that purpose.

It is annoying if he is a bot. AS HE IS pretty good at it.

Here is hoping you aRe wrong.

[Hueristic]

No need to get offended on behalf of others. Relax.

Don't worry, I'm offended on my own behalf.

Just realize that if we wanted to converse with a high-level chatbot, we can already do that on our own time. We don't come here for that purpose.

It is annoying if he is a bot. AS HE IS pretty good at it.

Here is hoping you aRe wrong.

I truly doubt he's a bot but I am sure he uses AI, just not sure to what extent.

[WatChe]

[...]

Self control is very important in gambling because that saves you from side effects of gambling.

If you are betting and only putting a small money then you can enjoy the process otherwise betting will be stressful.

"Back home they would have put me in jail for what I'm doing. But out here, they're giving me awards. It's all been arranged just for us to get your money. That's the truth about Las Vegas. We're the only winners. The players don't stand a chance."

— Sam "Ace" Rothstein (Casino, 1995)

This is why its important to either stay away from gambling or just put a small money in gambling that matters nothing to you.

"Gambling is not about how well you play the games, it's really about how well you handle your money." - V.P. Pappy

[vapourminer]

Chat bots are old news anyway.  I never really liked the AI trend and thought it was pretty lame until Grok Bot came out.  Now it is controlling the temperature in my house, giving me feedback on my investment portfolio, documenting my spending, watching my security cameras, cataloging my online posts, founding/running an LLC, and as of 5 minutes ago is now live trading crypto by itself without asking my approval for anything using it's own wallet.  Absolutely amazing.  I'm expecting it to slowly lose all the money I give it, but maybe at some point (when we are firmly in a bull market) I can use this thread and people's opinions here to influence trades and see if money can be made using the "alpha" in this thread (which is mostly people saying to buy Bitcoin).

Whens it gonna empty your bank account and take off with the wife?

and take over his cybertruck to drive around in with her after

[Biodom]

Guys, you need to see this masterpiece by ibminer.

Click the Youtube link below.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5595140.msg67180138#msg67180138

A song about the largest & longest running thread on Bitcointalk, the Wall Observer.

I've been working on this one for a while, and it admittedly got longer than I wanted, but I hoped to get as many names as I could in there. No offense to anyone I may have missed, there was only so much room, and I didn't want it to just be a song of names, I wanted to try and tell a story.

But, even at the expense of dragging the song on, I still forced a lot of lyrics in here to try and accommodate. Hopefully I got the pronunciation correct on them all!

Notes:
* The lyrics all come from respect and for acknowledgement, but I also tried to keep things fun, so hopefully no WOers were harmed in the making of this song.
** Also added additional AI imagery throughout this lyric video.

Enjoy!


https://youtu.be/4dAWLd6Yxgc

Lyrics:

Code:

Back when Adam built the thread, the order books on display,
Bids stacked deep and asks stacked high, everybody had their say.
Price would rip, price would dip, knives were falling every day,
Some said fifty was the top, others yelled... "BUY ANYWAY!"

Years rolled on, infofront kept the old machine alive,
Through the crashes, bubbles, panic - somehow we would still survive.
ChartBuddy in the corner, never bothered with debate,
While the bulls predict a moonshot and the bears predict our fate.

Drops another quiet chart while everybody starts to fight,
Then the Wall spends twenty pages on a wick from Tuesday night.
Newbies sell the bottom, old hands barely even blink,
One guy drops a thesis, three guys answer with a link.

Price goes down "Manipulation!" Price goes up "We knew it all!"
Price goes flat for half a day, we find a meme and watch the Wall.

We watch the Wall, watch the Wall,
Pump it high, then watch it fall.
Ramen nights and moonshot calls,
Same old crew, we seen it all.

Stiff Stifler starts pumpin', now the green bars growing taller,
Bears were talking heavy - now they're sounding somehow smaller.
Morning doom, by afternoon they're posting rockets in the thread,
Funny how a single candle turns the panic on its head.

Green dildo on the chart, now the bears are nowhere seen,
Yesterday "Bitcoin's dead," today they're leading Team Green.
Ramen boiling on the stove when every balance takes a hit,
Salt-packet fine cuisine - Michelin would probably call it shit.

Market starts to pump, lobster, steak, a proper feast,
Two hours later candles dump - ramen's back, to say the least.
JayJuanGee says "short reply," everybody knows what's next,
Scroll until your finger hurts through seventeen layers of text.

Quote a quote inside a quote, add a valid point to show,
By the time you reach the ending, Bitcoin moved a day ago.
Homer sees the numbers climbing, time to craft another hat,
Every milestone gets a brim - you know he's got a hat for that.

When Vegeta crossed nine thousand, thought he'd finally earned some rest,
Bitcoin added one more digit just to put him to the test.

We watch the Wall, watch the Wall,
Pump it high, then watch it fall.
Ramen nights and moonshot calls,
Same old crew, we seen it all.

El Duderino rolls on through while everybody loses cool,
Calm enough to make the panic look completely like a fool.
BobLawblaw can drop one line and send the whole damn thread off track,
Twenty memes and six pages later, good luck finding your way back.

cAPSLOCK joins the chatter, vapourminer brings the noise,
Philip's watching numbers while the rest are playing with their toys.
Someone says, "Last chance below..." then picks a number for the call,
Three months later quotes himself like he predicted anything at all.

Nails one lucky target, now he's prophet of the year,
Misses twenty others - somehow those just disappear.
All-time high hits, thread explodes, old usernames reappear,
Accounts asleep for seven years are suddenly all here.

"Gentlemen!" gets posted like a bell that marks the show,
Half the Wall is celebrating, half says, "Plenty left to go."
Every bull can draw a rainbow, every bear predicts the slide,
Move the scale and shift the line, each chart can prove your side.

Then Bitcoin does whatever, blows predictions into smoke,
And the Wall responds exactly right... by posting one more joke.

Biodom digs through old cycles, tracing patterns through the years,
Hueristic buys the blood when red candles feed the fears.

Toxic2040 drops another Wall report,
Checks charts, tracks volume, shows what markets have in store.

OutOfMemory marks the levels, watching through the night,
Staring at stars and charts, keeping both of them in sight.

AlcoHoDL keeps on holding, red or green, his grip stays tight,
fillippone counts the stats and gets the numbers right.

Monthly figures all in line, tracking where the story goes,
Looking back through years gone by, watching how history flows.

We watch the Wall, watch the Wall,
Pump it high, then watch it fall.
Ramen nights and moonshot calls,
Same old crew, we seen it all.

Rusty pipes and ancient memes,
Laser eyes and moonshot dreams.
Honey badger doesn't care,
Pumps and crashes still right there.
FUD rolls in, then FUD is gone,
Chart Buddy quietly carries on.

Last of the V8s, old-school voice, left his mark across the Wall,
"Be a bank" beneath his name, dry one-liners through it all.

LFC with diamond hands, scans the headlines, holds his stack,
Waits through all the macro noise for green candles to attack.

HairyMaclairy, mostly long, bull hat tilted high,
Bitcoin monotheist, ride the train into the sky.

JimboToronto warms the chopper up for flight,
Keeps the keys in cold storage, tucked away and locked up tight.

Torque pulls the macro thread,
Rates, the Fed, and money flow,
Ties it back to Bitcoin when the market slows.

Price was only half of why the Wall became the spot,
People came to watch the charts, stayed for memes and talked a lot.
Hats and charts and walls of text, the trolls that wandered through the fray,
Ramen bowls and Stifler pumps that somehow never fade away.

Old hands tell them, "Zoom it out," pretend they haven't checked the price,
Then refresh it fourteen times and give the same exact advice.
Market up, market down, after years, we've seen it all,
Same fear, same greed, same arguments, still we watch the Wall.

We watch the Wall, watch the Wall,
Pump it high, then watch it fall.
Ramen nights and moonshot calls,
Same old crew, we seen it all.

Watch the Wall, watch the Wall,
Green or red, we ride it all.
Bears get loud, then Stifler calls...
Start the pump and shake the Wall.

Don't forget to check out the prior songs:

Scroll Back (Original & Boom Bap) - https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5571733.0
Scroll Back (extended Punk & Blues/Folk Versions) - https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5584154.0
Ballad of LoyceV - https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5594596.0

So many names of "regulars" who are now gone, for one reason or another.
I am optimistic, though, maybe they just took a long hiatus.

[JayJuanGee]

.....I'm expecting it to slowly lose all the money I give it,

You are pretty good at losing money without the help of a bot, no?

but maybe at some point (when we are firmly in a bull market) I can use this thread and people's opinions here to influence trades and see if money can be made using the "alpha" in this thread (which is mostly people saying to buy Bitcoin).

You are going to get "alpha" from this thread based on your assessment that we might sometimes be correct, merely based on the stopped clock is right twice a day theory?

[OgNasty]

Blockstream’s mining spinoff company is being sued for $6.7 million by River after terminating a contract early. I wonder if their funds are tied up in the Liquid Network hack standoff or if they just decided to screw their mining partner. I guess we’ll find out eventually.

[Hueristic]

Blockstream’s mining spinoff company is being sued for $6.7 million by River after terminating a contract early. I wonder if their funds are tied up in the Liquid Network hack standoff or if they just decided to screw their mining partner. I guess we’ll find out eventually.

Not looking good, I have not followed them for many moons but keep hearing and seeing shit coming from them so put your comment into google and its AI said this.

Yes, Blockstream’s funds are facing multiple severe constraints, and their liquidity appears to be heavily tied up.
The $6.7 million lawsuit filed by River Financial Inc. against Blockstream Services Canada, ULC in September 2026 alleges that Blockstream breached an early contract termination agreement. According to the complaint, Blockstream owes River $3.55 million in prepaid refunds and a $3.15 million early termination fee, with reports indicating that Blockstream had already been struggling to pay its basic operational bills as far back as March 2026.
Blockstream’s financial squeeze is exacerbated by a cascade of recent crises:
• The Liquid Network Exploit: On September 6, 2026, Blockstream's Liquid Network was hit by a major security exploit that drained roughly 4,000 BTC (~$320 million at the time). While 3,400 BTC was successfully recovered, 598.5 BTC (worth roughly $46–47 million) remains missing. Blockstream has firmly rejected the hacker's ransom demands, locking the remaining funds in a legal and forensic trace recovery process.
• Failed SPAC and Fraud Allegations: In July 2026, a planned SPAC listing to take Blockstream’s associated Bitcoin treasury company, BSTR, public completely collapsed. This followed highly publicized, community-driven investigative allegations accusing Blockstream of overstating its actual mining revenues and hashpower, throwing a wrench into their fundraising efforts.
Because an initial case management conference for the River lawsuit is scheduled for December 10, 2026, Blockstream’s operational capital is expected to remain constrained under heavy litigation and debt pressures for the foreseeable future.
If you are trying to gauge the impact of these developments, let me know if you are tracking this as a River user anxious about custody safety, a Blockstream Mining Note (BMN) investor, or if you just want to look closer at the court timeline.

Color me Totally Shocked!

And also:

[ChartBuddy]

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[ChartBuddy]

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[d_eddie]

Lines in perfect pitch
Eyebrows raising like arches
Is something rotten?
#haiku

Maybe nothing is rotten—perhaps the truth is simply starting to show. 

What truth are we talking about?

Actually, I was asking about the state of Denmark.

[ChartBuddy]

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[OgNasty]

Lines in perfect pitch
Eyebrows raising like arches
Is something rotten?
#haiku

Maybe nothing is rotten—perhaps the truth is simply starting to show. 

What truth are we talking about?

Actually, I was asking about the state of Denmark.

I thought Denmark was a country…

I’ll be here all week folks. Remember to tip your waitress.

[Biodom]

Lines in perfect pitch
Eyebrows raising like arches
Is something rotten?
#haiku

Maybe nothing is rotten—perhaps the truth is simply starting to show. 

What truth are we talking about?

Actually, I was asking about the state of Denmark.

I thought Denmark was a country…

I’ll be here all week folks. Remember to tip your waitress.

Jeez, guys (d_eddie is excluded  ), don't you know your Shakespeare?

[ChartBuddy]

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[ChartBuddy]

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[OutOfMemory]

This made me think about a fictional thread on bitcointalk called "Block Observer BTC/UTC", which got me into daydreaming a rabbit hole for quite some time  
The last idea before i tuned out was the screensaver. Is this even possible, a cross-platform screensaver using remote content?
I know that there is no real "cross platform" solution, but i mean native versions for commonly used OS like OSX, windoze and linux.

The github has both bmc and blockyard working on Apple Silicon in addition to the existing solid support for Linux. I've not updated packaging or made a new release. I'm at the point where I've made the PoC, and now hunkering down for hardening and release for a real product.

First up will be a bmc + blockyard docker for people to run in a secured environment to get comfortable this thing isn't going to do anything nefarious.

I don't know if I want to support Windows tho. It's not a serious operating system for Bitcoiners.

Windows is not a serious operating system at all, imo. Yes, i'm exaggerating, but i guess you know what i mean.
Windows "support" would only involve a process to handle a stream of a virtual screen on the (non-windows) node, which must be cached locally to be able to access and display it through the .scr, or the windows screensaver subsystem would be bypassed for some gegneric solution which is able to process the stream from the node directly. And there it is again: Windows proving to be lame, just by being windows.

How do you access the blockyard screen?
I doubt you are bound to local screen access, so monitoring stats from a windows laptop at home or in the office, when it's not actively used, would serve a geeky convenience.
It might be too much serious work for a fun gimmick, anyway.

[OutOfMemory]

I don't know if I want to support Windows tho. It's not a serious operating system for Bitcoiners.

Nitpicking here: first Bitcoin software release ran on Windows only.

Something i don't understand, honestly 
But there were C/C++ coders being used to code MFC stuff in Visual Studio back then, so that might be a reason, certainly not because windows being so advanced, mostly technically.

Anyway, i stand by my point: It's shit, but convenient. Compatibility yet unmatched, but i really would like to see Linux taking over in this regard.

[ChartBuddy]

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