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

[aminorex]

Poll results are crap would you buy 1 eur for 1 eur and 10 cents... ok now you will say btc is not eur... ok than I suggest that US Marshals keep buyin btc on exchanges and keep sellin it to moron bidders for 10% profit on every auction... cause btc they sell are clean and so shiny...

It would work too.  It's seigniorage.  Of course you only care if you are in U.S. jurisdiction, so saying EUR is misleading.  It's only true for USD, not for EUR.

[spooderman]

lol

http://www.dailydot.com/politics/us-marshals-leak-silk-road-bitcoins-list/

[JorgeStolfi]

If it's a list of all those who sent emails for further information then why am I not on this list? 

Well, the USMS note says "some of the individuals who"

[JorgeStolfi]

Are we even sure the winning bid price will be public?

Check in their site if there is such info about the outcome other auctions.  Should be the same rule.

[tarmi]

somebody trying to pump ltc on btc-e.

[JayJuanGee]

I think this is a nice moment to thank ChartBuddy and his chum Richy once again for all of their good work.  

Hehehehe.... That is an interesting way of Phrasing the situation.  It is like giving automony to chartbuddy, like people like to do...  



Possibly, I would have said something like, "Richy and his side-kick, ChartBuddy."  Though maybe my chosen phraseology would have given too little credit to ChartBuddy?


In any case, thank you to both, whether bots, or NOT.

How do I know you're not a bot?

I'm NOT really sure how to verify this kind of question or if it really matters, until possibly if we were to attempt to engage in some kind of communication in which the distinction matters.

Sometimes posters get offended by being accused of being a bot; however, many times the distinction may be irrelevant, unless their is some misrepresention(s) taking place.  For example, if a poster states that s/he / it had experience X in the 1990s and experience Y in 2003, and experience Z in 2007; however, such bot was only created and programmed in 2011, then NO such experience would have been had prior to 2011 (and thus various misrepresentations have taken place).

[oda.krell]

Anyone read the Eyal/Sirer proposal to fix the hashing power centralization problem?

http://hackingdistributed.com/2014/06/18/how-to-disincentivize-large-bitcoin-mining-pools/

Looks good to me (apart maybe from the 'high variance for solo mining' issue which drives miners to pools in the first place).

Anyone else got some deeper thoughts on the proposal?

[WallStreet]

I will be there ! Soonish! I´m lookin forward to it!


Small hint:

EVERYONE ! GO F.... ALL IN  BTC

We will have a great time together!

https://i.imgur.com/7drHiqr.gif

https://i.imgur.com/7drHiqr.gif

[Parazyd]

Wanna guess whose account that is? My bet's on Adam and Jorge

Oh, and IT'S HAPPENING!

[JayJuanGee]

Roger Ver launches bitcoin-based tax evaders paradise:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=654068.msg0

Misleading to the point of libel.  I don't think Roger Ver is responsible for the nation-state of St. Kitts & Nevis, or their tax and immigration policies.  He launched a web site.

OK, sorry, apologies for the heresy. 

Frequently, I get this sense that you, Jorge, are NOT really sorry for making a multitude of misleading posts b/c there seems to be a pattern of behavior in which you are frequently engaging in such misrepresentations and slants of information to such extreme levels. 

[Krabby]

somebody trying to pump ltc on btc-e.

In the troll box?...

[JayJuanGee]

Objectively, what are our chances of going lower?  I can throw in some fiat and buy some coins, but this is probably the last time I will be buying for 6 months or a year.  Ignoring the trolls, is there a legitimate chance of hitting $500?

DO NOT take any advice from anybody here! Don't ever ask other people here what to do with your money! I know you see all these lines and charts and mainly bears who act like they know it all but i can guarantee you that not a single person here knows where Bitcoin will go. Every bear here will tell you we 100% sure will see 500 again. That's because they're sad little creatures who do nothing but lie and manipulate because they want the price to go down.
The bulls obviously want the price to go up but will be a bit more modest and say we likely won't see 500 again. Either way any info you'll get is coloured and worthless.
The fact that you want to invest in Bitcoin means you believe it will be worth more in the future. If you do then you should buy. 500 or 560 is meaningless in the long run if this thing takes off. If you don't think it will take off then don't. Waiting is kinda pointless because again nobody knows what it will do.

Yes, don't listen to that advice...

Listen to all advice given here, it's is 100% factual and we can all predict the future!

NOT.... hehehehehehe!     

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qoethxOp5Kg&hd=1

Exactamente!!!!!!    I got a very big kick out of that video.

[pinky]

I will be there ! Soonish! I´m lookin forward to it!


Small hint:

EVERYONE ! GO F.... ALL IN  BTC

We will have a great time together!

OMG, Wall Street has finaly arrived to the party. We have been waiting for soooo long.  

[Parazyd]

Objectively, what are our chances of going lower?  I can throw in some fiat and buy some coins, but this is probably the last time I will be buying for 6 months or a year.  Ignoring the trolls, is there a legitimate chance of hitting $500?

DO NOT take any advice from anybody here! Don't ever ask other people here what to do with your money! I know you see all these lines and charts and mainly bears who act like they know it all but i can guarantee you that not a single person here knows where Bitcoin will go. Every bear here will tell you we 100% sure will see 500 again. That's because they're sad little creatures who do nothing but lie and manipulate because they want the price to go down.
The bulls obviously want the price to go up but will be a bit more modest and say we likely won't see 500 again. Either way any info you'll get is coloured and worthless.
The fact that you want to invest in Bitcoin means you believe it will be worth more in the future. If you do then you should buy. 500 or 560 is meaningless in the long run if this thing takes off. If you don't think it will take off then don't. Waiting is kinda pointless because again nobody knows what it will do.

Yes, don't listen to that advice...

Listen to all advice given here, it's is 100% factual and we can all predict the future!

NOT.... hehehehehehe!     

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qoethxOp5Kg&hd=1

Exactamente!!!!!!    I got a very big kick out of that video.

Watch the entire movie for more kicks

By the way, anyone know anything official about when's Bitcoin hitting Wall Street?

[edwardspitz]

WOW, LEAKED INFO ON BIDDERS FOR US MASHALL BITCOIN AUCTION


Barry Silbert, CEO for SecondMarket

Luther Lowe, director of public policy for Yelp

Malcolm Oluwasanmi, chairperson of Little Phoenix Investment Group

Fabrice Evangelista, quantitative arbitrage at BNP Paribas

Michal Handerhanm, co-founder and COO of Bitcoin Shop

Dave Goel, managing general partner of Matrix Capital Management

Dinuka Samarasinghe, investment professional

Chris DeMuth Jr., Wrangeley Capital

Fred Ehrsam, co-founder, Coinbase

Jonathan Disner, corporate counsel at DRW Trading Group

William Brindise, head investment manager at DigitalBTC

Michael Moro, director at SecondMarket

Jennifer R. Jacoby, lawyer at WilmerHale

Sam Lee, co-founder, Bitcoins Reserve

Avarus Corporation

PLUS YELP AND BNP Paribas (fourth largest bank in world)

source please. looks like a few start-up type people, and not as many wallstreeters as i was hoping for. can't complain though.

This just sample, 37 total

of which 27 are sure to go home empty handed

i'm starting to think people that said they coins might sell at a premium we're right!

I have a feeling one person is going to take the whole lot. The FAQs clarified the auction style.

I'm in the camp who suspects a premium being paid.

I have had the same thoughts. My plan was to buy right before the auction, because I speculated that bidders might end up paying more than the market value at the time of the auction:
1) Because they bid each other up (it will be an easy way to get at large stash and "clean coins" could make it more interesting for banks and other institutions)
2) because they will try to manipulate price down before the auction and push the price up after the auction.

So basically I expected that they might pay a premium at the auction because they know they will be able to get more when they sell them on. When the word gets out that they have payed a premium that will raise the price, so they wont even have to do much (if any) pumping.

I think it will be quite easy for them to manipulate the price. Especially if they work together. If they didn't know who each other are they now know thanks to the article . I guess it will be bad for the US gov if it turns out they have sold coins at half price.

I'm now thinking this train of thought may be a too speculative (also considering the auction rules), but it will definitely be interesting to what price they will end up paying.

Edit: Clarification

[empowering]

The auction was bearish. Now it's suddenly bullish?!

They've seen how much money the bidders have and now they plan to milk it all out.
Seriously, an actual bank.

Poor Jorge. This does not help his cause.

There is no helping Jorge : (

[JayJuanGee]

What is a 'weak hand'? Why is this type of penny stock terminology used in bitcoin? Does this imply that bitcoin is some type of investment scheme to hold rather than a currency to use?

It's a poker term long before "penny stocks." It means you lack confidence in you ability to play.

So it's a profit making game and not the future of money?

Is money not about profit?

Bitcoin is supposed to be about creating a decentralized network to change the way the world does finance and payments - not about getting all the bitcoin participants to be rich off of the successive waves of bitcoin participants because the unit value rose and having a contest about who made the most profits.

I invested to make money and to be able to reach some goals ( the volatility makes it easier than working hard to earn that money )... I literally don't give a fuck about the technology behind it, it is a cool innovation and all but I don't think it is a reason for to risk my life savings and be a "strong hand" when I could collect profits and not be a greedy bastard.... most of the time people here will attack you when you tell them that you are trading to make a profit or when you tell them you cashed out some of your holdings....

I attacked you because you said you went full LTC which is foolish, LTC is tanking and doomed to fail. If you are considering so, you'd better go full fiat. I have no problem with people who don't see the big picture selling their stash of bitcoins. Enjoy your life.

YES>>>>> Mmitech seems to post about his engaging in several trading activities that are quite foolish, or at least, I have NOTICED that he has a tendency to NOT provided a very clear rationale(s) as to why such a course of action would be applicable to many other investors besides himself or possibly one or two others who wants to gamble in eccentric ways.

Probably the whole behavior or practice would NOT even matter to me, if he did NOT tend to become so self-righteous about what he is describing to be his plan and seem to suggest that since he is doing X, then everyone else should do X... and then he denies that he is making such recommendations...

[ChartBuddy]

Explanation

[smiley123]

Anyone read the Eyal/Sirer proposal to fix the hashing power centralization problem?

http://hackingdistributed.com/2014/06/18/how-to-disincentivize-large-bitcoin-mining-pools/

Looks good to me (apart maybe from the 'high variance for solo mining' issue which drives miners to pools in the first place).

Anyone else got some deeper thoughts on the proposal?

In the interest of keeping it simple until proper solutions like the above can be worked out, maybe pools can just split themselves into 2 pools internally when they go over a certain percentage.  They can still keep the variance to themselves because their combined percentage would be the same, but distribute the rewards between the internal pools.

[Wary]

[trolling] Participating in the auction is morally dubious. Are you a fence? If not, after buying these coins you should return them to their rightful owners. [/trolling]