Ok, as you can see I've been waiting for bitcoin to hit $10,000 for a long time:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=424515.0What sucks is that we are SO CLOSE to being at a position to hit $10K... the only thing keeping us from that level is OUR OWN COMMUNITY. Bitcoin WANTS to go up but the uncertainty is holding the price back. This fighting and clashing of egos is doing great harm to bitcoin... and allowing other crypto (ethereum, litecoin, dash, etc) take advantage of the situation. All bitcoin has to do is survive... and AVOID a CHAIN SPLIT AT ALL COSTS. $10K/btc is my retirement plan and if we can just not let our egos make a rash decision that causes a chain split... that would be great!
Japan is aggressively embracing bitcoin acceptance with over 400 new stores that will be accepting bitcoin payments starting next week, and 260K+ merchants by the end of the summer. That is a lot of stores!
GoldmanSacks of dick released a super bullish article on BTC, you know there will be sheep who will buy anything they recommend. To receive this kind of positive press and recognition 3 years ago would be unheard of!
Crypto in general is proven itself as something that is here to stay, that will NOT become a niece. When I discovered bitcoin we could only dream to be at the level we are at now!
Ransomware = bitcoin's killer app
Possible China/Japan/Korea/India BTC ETF? Don't think it's a long shot at all, and I'm glad it's still a rumor.
US economy / stock market still hasn't hit a recession. What happens when we do, as bitcoin gains the reputation of an excellent hedge, akin to digital gold?
Things are looking good. The tides have been turning in our favor for the last 2-3 years. The ecosystem is becoming big enough to take the price beyond $10K with the limited supply BTC has. We have the tech to meet any kind of demand and competition bitcoin faces, including the above. If there is a chain split there will be one chain that will be equipped to handle the kind of demand bitcoin is about to face and one chain that won't... and both chains would lose significant value, so what is the point? We don't need to turn 21M supply into 42M and confuse the world on which one is the "real" bitcoin. Believe me, a chain split that ends up creating 2 bitcoins will not end as well as it did for ETH. I get there are egos involved that's leading towards irrational decisions.. but at the end of the day are you telling me both sides of the camp, who should be greatly invested in bitcoin's success, are willing to sink the whole ship when we are SO CLOSE to reaching the kind of demand and reputation we could only dream of even 3 years ago?? This can't be real. I AM HODLING regardless.
Exactly everyone writes so nice about Bitcoin. Goverments organize conferences. But Bitcoin holders are pussy asses and selling their Bitcoin stash. If they would not sell we would see BTC at $100k. But I guess they bought it to sell at some point. So that makes some sense.
