FUD FUD and more FUD

[fulmetal08larz]

Well, this is how FUD goes. It's like a disease spreading death attempting to erase bitcoin's existence. We might be seeing more of this in the coming year 2018 but we all know bitcoin will always prevail and what doesn't kill it, will only make it stronger.

[lei wu]

I consider that accident as 'the whale are trying to gain more of money from panic selling. those investor playing a dirt strategy to buying btc from scared people 

[nl247]

Well, this is how FUD goes. It's like a disease spreading death attempting to erase bitcoin's existence. We might be seeing more of this in the coming year 2018 but we all know bitcoin will always prevail and what doesn't kill it, will only make it stronger.

The truth is that they can really not make anything change. There has been FUD right from the start and we just cannot avoid it. Not even only about newbies, have you heard what some government of some countries are saying, or what some media guys say or write about bitcoin. Unfortunately, this keeps making bitcoin even more interesting as more awareness is created and only those who are smart enough will be able to get the best of it without being stupid enough to listen to FUDs.

[filharvey]

Was at a BBQ a few days ago and Bitcoin was a hot topic.

What had really frustrated me was when someone said "I read the creator of Bitcoin has sold all his BTC, Bitcoin is going down". I was WTF are you reading?, then i remembered the story of the founder of bitcoin.com sold all his BTC. Had to explain that he wasn't the creator of BTC. No one knows for sure who created BTC etc etc.. That, what he had ready was FUD FUD and more FUD!

Then last night, the same thing from someone else! "Creator of Bitcoin has sold all his BTC" and he started to push XRP is the way to go. That was when i really lost it! and told him to go FUCK himself.

We are losing the FUD battle! This is bullshit. It is causing potential new users to opt out of BTC and possibly into alt-coins.

Sly

These people are just idiots.They don't analyze anything and just follow whatever FUD they come across to be true and they just don't stop with that.They try their best and spend their energy to spread this FUD to many people they know.It creates a negative publicity among the public about bitcoin.

[jackhdt]

Those people who have been spreading rumors about bitcoins death are probably the ones who will do panic selling when the price of bitcoin go to a dip. They are just scared about whats happening in bitcoin.

There are those who believe, they do not at least understanding the bitcoin and only buy bitcoin as trend. Bitcoin is a hot news in recent times. many people bought Bitcoin and push prices up very high. so the FUD has made them panic. if the investor is long the volatility is too familiar story

[harizen]

Was at a BBQ a few days ago and Bitcoin was a hot topic.

What had really frustrated me was when someone said "I read the creator of Bitcoin has sold all his BTC, Bitcoin is going down". I was WTF are you reading?, then i remembered the story of the founder of bitcoin.com sold all his BTC. Had to explain that he wasn't the creator of BTC. No one knows for sure who created BTC etc etc.. That, what he had ready was FUD FUD and more FUD!

Then last night, the same thing from someone else! "Creator of Bitcoin has sold all his BTC" and he started to push XRP is the way to go. That was when i really lost it! and told him to go FUCK himself.

FUD is everywhere so don't stressed yourself about that.

Let others spread FUD because at the end of the day, it's up to community to decide on what way they will go. You can take an advantage too by riding the trend.

We are losing the FUD battle! This is bullshit. It is causing potential new users to opt out of BTC and possibly into alt-coins.

How come those new users will not understand first how crypto trading works before risking their money. If they will open their precious mind and will try to understand everything, they can take advantage of both btc and other alts without the mindset that they will opt out on BTC.

[btcone111]

Well I guess we all have to respect there are different people on different learning curves. Some are new some are experts. Its through the process of participants' learning where the market becomes more informed, mature and stable

[1Referee]

We might be seeing more of this in the coming year 2018 but we all know bitcoin will always prevail and what doesn't kill it, will only make it stronger.

Bitcoin has been subject to all sorts of fud since waaaay back in the very early years. Currently we have to deal with various camps thinking that their shitty fork coin is the "real" Bitcoin, like BCash is trying to do. From another side we have fud purely being meant to make people sell their coins and to trigger a correction, so those behind all this will be able to buy back lower. And there will probably be more reasons as to why someone would want to spread fud. It all comes down to greed in the end, and in no shape or form will it affect Bitcoin in the long term, otherwise we wouldn't be where we are right now. If fud manages to get the price to tank in the extreme short term, use it in your advantage to buy in lower.

[NavI_027]

I wonder where did they get those informations? Do they have any concrete evidence supporting that? Anyway, it's better for you if you just respect their opinions, never argue because it's a waste of time, and stay away from them.

Then last night, the same thing from someone else! "Creator of Bitcoin has sold all his BTC" and he started to push XRP is the way to go. That was when i really lost it! and told him to go FUCK himself.

This makes me laugh. They are silly to say that XRP will be the next big thing, if there is, then I'm sure that it would be ETH. (only if it beats btc although a little bit impossible)

We are losing the FUD battle! This is bullshit. It is causing potential new users to opt out of BTC and possibly into alt-coins.

I don't think so. It's expected that new users already have adequate knowledge before entering crypto world so I'm pretty confident that they already knew the power of btc and still choose it over alts because it is the thing they can surely rely on.

[nokati]

Was at a BBQ a few days ago and Bitcoin was a hot topic.

What had really frustrated me was when someone said "I read the creator of Bitcoin has sold all his BTC, Bitcoin is going down". I was WTF are you reading?, then i remembered the story of the founder of bitcoin.com sold all his BTC. Had to explain that he wasn't the creator of BTC. No one knows for sure who created BTC etc etc.. That, what he had ready was FUD FUD and more FUD!

Then last night, the same thing from someone else! "Creator of Bitcoin has sold all his BTC" and he started to push XRP is the way to go. That was when i really lost it! and told him to go FUCK himself.

We are losing the FUD battle! This is bullshit. It is causing potential new users to opt out of BTC and possibly into alt-coins.

Sly

its the same story always.... I remember when it was going from 380USD to arround 200 and everybody was calling me crazy to have so many antminers and pay for the elec....
same guys are now telling me that bitcoin is going be replaced by......"just fill in any shitcoin"
Best strategy? Just do what you really believe in based on fact and you will be win at the end

[beerlover]

well this is an ugly truth regarding bitcoin price and its market. it is filled with a lot of newbies who mostly want to get rich overnight so they sign up on places like coinbase for the ease of use to buy hold and dump at the same place. they never even know what they bought and sold! it may as well be some fake numbers on their screen...

but this is how it is. there is not much we can do to change it. as long as the market is filled with idiots, it will be easy to spread FUD and make them sell their coins cheap and generally make irrational decisions.

knowing that it is How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love FUD

And that is an issue we are going to keep seeing as bitcoin keeps being a speculative asset than a currency. Most of the newbies today really do not know anything and all they are just after like you said is to get rich overnight and that really sucks and I am looking forward to when the scaling issue will be solved so we can start getting real life usage of bitcoin than it just being an asset filled with a lot of speculation and FUD.

I want to keep as little fiat as possible, but that is just not possible because bitcoin cannot be used for everyday items. It's only good if you're buying a Lamborghini or benz....

I really hope the scaling stuff is resolved but for now it seems we are still stuck with it as no one really knows where the whole LN thing is even going right now but I am still optimistic anyway that things would change. Nevertheless, the rate at which FUD is being spread can really be annoying and I understand the OP's plight at the moment he unfortunately listened to some of those crappy talks from people who does not even know anything.

[boyptc]

I just read something on the internet about another FUD and that is about India saying that bitcoin is ponzi

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/business/india-business/bitcoin-other-virtual-currencies-like-ponzi-schemes-finance-ministry-warns-investors/articleshow/62295331.cms
http://thehill.com/policy/technology/366770-india-cautions-investors-on-cryptocurrency-likens-to-ponzi-scheme

[Herbert2020]

I just read something on the internet about another FUD and that is about India saying that bitcoin is ponzi

the India situation is very different right now. they have been trying to fuck their people over for some time now with lots of currency shenanigans they have been pulling like invalidating their 1000(?) notes.

and people over there have been buying bitcoin like crazy. at any time when you check out bitcoin price over at India you can see it is at least 30% higher than the rest of the world because there is lack of in-flow of bitcoin into the country but there is an increasing demand for the an exit out of the hands of the corrupt government.
watch this video of Andreas Antonopoulos - Currency Wars and Bitcoin's Neutrality
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ZCVQHtD2l4

of course their corrupt government is going to call bitcoin Ponzi, try to ban it and constantly attack it. bitcoin is ruining all their evil plans.

[Supercrypt]

That should be expected. There are FUDs everywhere and the funny thing about FUD is that people tend to listen to them a lot and then you will see some fools who even tend to spread them the more and feeling like they already know everything rather than just doing some little bit of research to be sure they really know the right thing.

I guess we will just have to keep living with that and experience will end up teaching them the lessons they really deserve.

[BartS]

Was at a BBQ a few days ago and Bitcoin was a hot topic.

What had really frustrated me was when someone said "I read the creator of Bitcoin has sold all his BTC, Bitcoin is going down". I was WTF are you reading?, then i remembered the story of the founder of bitcoin.com sold all his BTC. Had to explain that he wasn't the creator of BTC. No one knows for sure who created BTC etc etc.. That, what he had ready was FUD FUD and more FUD!

Then last night, the same thing from someone else! "Creator of Bitcoin has sold all his BTC" and he started to push XRP is the way to go. That was when i really lost it! and told him to go FUCK himself.

We are losing the FUD battle! This is bullshit. It is causing potential new users to opt out of BTC and possibly into alt-coins.

Sly

Stop worrying about what other people are doing and worry about yourself, I tried to get my friends in bitcoin and they all said the same thing, now they know that I have huge profits and they got nothing to show for, while I love my friends I cannot supplicate them to join bitcoin that is a decision they needed to take by themselves, now they say they do not want to join now that the price is this high and want the price to crash, so in short they are probably never going to join and are going to be left behind.

[Arkham Knight]

Was at a BBQ a few days ago and Bitcoin was a hot topic.

What had really frustrated me was when someone said "I read the creator of Bitcoin has sold all his BTC, Bitcoin is going down". I was WTF are you reading?, then i remembered the story of the founder of bitcoin.com sold all his BTC. Had to explain that he wasn't the creator of BTC. No one knows for sure who created BTC etc etc.. That, what he had ready was FUD FUD and more FUD!

Then last night, the same thing from someone else! "Creator of Bitcoin has sold all his BTC" and he started to push XRP is the way to go. That was when i really lost it! and told him to go FUCK himself.

We are losing the FUD battle! This is bullshit. It is causing potential new users to opt out of BTC and possibly into alt-coins.

Sly

Losing what? This is just normal. I remember that when btc having a dip, Jamie Dimon always try to FUD it more. In short, they are taking advantage of this situation to bring it down more but it will not work on me and those who really believe in btc.

[raven7886]

When you invite the mass of idiots to invest it is a double edged sword. They are only following the hype and they dont really even know what bitcoin is or how it works. For this same reason they will just as easily invest in whatever else is trending like Ripple and there is no way you will be able to convince them otherwise and you just end up sounding like a pretentious hipster asshole. The future is the government trying to kill crypto by having the media make everyone think something else is bitcoin - something owned by Bank of America that transacts instantly - while quietly passing regulations that make the real Bitcoin harder and harder to use.

I guess that is a war that we will have to expect from bitcoin for now and that is one that is going to be pretty hard to wave off, but I am optimistic it would pass.

It is just unfortunate that we have some gullible fellows who will just take everything thrown at them easily without even making some research and anyone who really wants to invest in XRP can go ahead and I really want to see how all their craziness and the government shenanigans lead to.

[boyptc]

I just read something on the internet about another FUD and that is about India saying that bitcoin is ponzi

...

of course their corrupt government is going to call bitcoin Ponzi, try to ban it and constantly attack it. bitcoin is ruining all their evil plans.

The same thoughts that are starting to get into my mind on what's really happening there. I'm not an India so I'm not pretty sure on what's happening there and who to believe on what's the truly happenings there and when to these FUDs for sure their government is quite scared to it.

[olumyd]

Those people who have been spreading rumors about bitcoins death are probably the ones who will do panic selling when the price of bitcoin go to a dip. They are just scared about whats happening in bitcoin.

On the other hand they could be creating the panic so people can dump for FUD and those who created the panic will buy at relatively cheap prices and have more stash of BTC. It's logical, market manipulation is the only way to stay ahead of the game. More BTC more money, after all it's BTC they are after not the 'blockchain'. So as long I don't see people's hate speech about blockchain technology, then BTC is as safe an investment as any other.

[olumyd]

When you invite the mass of idiots to invest it is a double edged sword. They are only following the hype and they dont really even know what bitcoin is or how it works. For this same reason they will just as easily invest in whatever else is trending like Ripple and there is no way you will be able to convince them otherwise and you just end up sounding like a pretentious hipster asshole. The future is the government trying to kill crypto by having the media make everyone think something else is bitcoin - something owned by Bank of America that transacts instantly - while quietly passing regulations that make the real Bitcoin harder and harder to use.

I guess that is a war that we will have to expect from bitcoin for now and that is one that is going to be pretty hard to wave off, but I am optimistic it would pass.

It is just unfortunate that we have some gullible fellows who will just take everything thrown at them easily without even making some research and anyone who really wants to invest in XRP can go ahead and I really want to see how all their craziness and the government shenanigans lead to.

It's official, people can't understand BTC, except they are tutored like KG. The misconception always arises from separating bitcoin from the anchor - the blockchain. As long as people see those two as two different entities or as only a means to an end, then they'll always end up at the rear end of gullibility.