Wall Observer Anthology 2015: Waiting for the Bottom, Calling for the Moon
The year in the threadWall Observer's 2015 repeatedly declared the worst over, then doubted it. January's selloff forced painful choices: a cold-storage transfer delayed smashing's sale, while coinableS favored monthly purchases. Coinbase news revived hope without settling recovery's durability.
Spring brought bottom calls and wall suspicions. Norway neared break-even; cyclotronmajesty's losses mattered on a small budget. June and July revived $300 excitement and Greek speculation, without proving Greek buying caused the gains.
August's losses accompanied XT/Core disputes over capacity, fees and governance that returned in December. Autumn rallies mixed relief with reversal fears. Chef Ramsay described a difficult recovery; JimboToronto could not buy from a remote cabin. Coffee, donuts, trains and Bitcoin obituaries kept waiting sociable.
Supporting posts:
smashing;
coinableS;
Miz4r;
Norway;
cyclotronmajesty;
JimboToronto.
NotLambChop's gay porn spamming also became part of the thread's history of disruption.
bad trader complained in May about repeated images attributed to multiple accounts; in September,
Norway urged reports to moderators and described pornographic images and ASCII versions. These surviving complaints show the irritation and attempts to contain it.
Five posts with the strongest observed impactPre-merit era: any merits were awarded later. Selection remains discretionary, shaped by weights and archive coverage. Quotations measure attention, including disagreement and provocation, not approval. Precise scores do not establish objective historical importance or market influence.1. Loaded leaves one unexplained promiseLoaded promised only that something would happen soon, without saying what. Nagnagnag2 turned the ambiguity into soon-to-moon wordplay.
Observed attention:
9 people quoting,
9 quoting posts during the year; 0 merits. Impact score: 98.808/100. After the year: 0 quoting posts from 0 distinct people in the acquired archive.
2. JorgeStolfi challenges mathematical certainty about the supply capJorgeStolfi said the supply cap depended on people, not mathematics. Extra inflation was hypothetical, explicitly not a prediction; he retained a separate bearish expectation.
Observed attention:
9 people quoting,
9 quoting posts during the year; 0 merits. Impact score: 98.808/100. After the year: 0 quoting posts from 0 distinct people in the acquired archive.
3. Billyjoeallen turns the capacity dispute into a bridge parableBillyjoeallen's bridge-and-bus parable mocked alleged scaling conflicts of interest. Its Busstream-to-Bridgestream punchline proved no such conflict.
Observed attention:
9 people quoting,
9 quoting posts during the year; 0 merits. Impact score: 98.808/100. After the year: 0 quoting posts from 0 distinct people in the acquired archive.
4. Brewins asks why apparently better exchange news is not helpingBrewins asked why prices fell despite Bitstamp's reportedly improved security and lack of Gox-like losses. Those premises were his framing, not verified findings.
Observed attention:
8 people quoting,
8 quoting posts during the year; 0 merits. Impact score: 94.286/100. After the year: 0 quoting posts from 0 distinct people in the acquired archive.
5. N12 asks the thread to imagine its strongest bullish caseN12 invited the strongest imaginable bullish scenario, offering neither a prediction nor news.
Observed attention:
8 people quoting,
8 quoting posts during the year; 0 merits. Impact score: 94.286/100. After the year: 0 quoting posts from 0 distinct people in the acquired archive.
I do recommend reading this thread while listening to the above soundtrack.
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