Taproot lock-in FOMO is coming(?)

[Review Master]

it doesn't matter because there is always one pool (sometimes more) that aren't signalling for a fork. it happened in all previous forks but the majority always pushes forward.
in this case we have ALL pools except one signalling so technically that should be 99% while we only need 90% to activate.

That can't be denied as most of the pools are providing signal bits for every confirmation blocks. Lets just hope, it'll be done soon as market is recovering from correction. 

i have a good feeling that the timing is also perfect because the accumulation after this panic sell is going to be over by that time and the FOMO can start.

Indeed, market always works like this. First whales or millionaires will manipulate this market to accumulate more. When they're finished with accumulating , more and more good news will circulate to create fomo for pumping bitcoin into another high level. Samething is going on and it's sure that fomo will start soon.

to be honest, first we have to be above $42000 and then think about $70,000, so far there is still the danger of the price falling below $34000 and then who knows what kind of disaster will await us if the price drops below $30,000?

That's right, bitcoin needs to hit $42k for another rally. Though all those resistence are now becoming support level for bitcoin which was pushing bitcoin downwards. TBH, bitcoin will surge into previous position if it's able to break the resistance of $42k as 200 MA is on the level.

[BrewMaster]

When it comes to price, I don't know if you are referring to the thread from @rdbase, but those who announced that they will bring down the price, at the end of their statement say that after that the price will go to $70k very fast.

no. i didn't even know about that. the $70k price is just the next natural step that bitcoin can take. it was the price it was trying to reach before the FUD began.
there is also a massive amount of  cash waiting on the sidelines to jump back in. most of it is the money that exited the market, not just bitcoin but all the shitcoins that have been pumped during the past couple of months and made traders a ton of money.
a positive signal will ignite a big rise.

[el kaka22]

I didn't hear about this, this looks like a good amount of improvement on bitcoin when I research it but there is not a wide spread knowledge about this in the crypto world, which means that there is a chance it may not really getting the attention it deserves. I hope that this gets more popular over time because these type of things do increase the bitcoin usability and unfortunately since bitcoin is a decentralized project there is no marketing department for it to get these things out there to be known by people and get hyped by it so it gets buried under the pile of news we get every day.

Even as a person who likes to read about bitcoin every single day it is the first time I am hearing about it which means it is not a wide spread known thing, if I do not hear about it, thing about how many people haven't heard about it as well.

[Lucius]

no. i didn't even know about that. the $70k price is just the next natural step that bitcoin can take. it was the price it was trying to reach before the FUD began.
there is also a massive amount of  cash waiting on the sidelines to jump back in. most of it is the money that exited the market, not just bitcoin but all the shitcoins that have been pumped during the past couple of months and made traders a ton of money.
a positive signal will ignite a big rise.

I understand that most of those who have invested in BTC for the sake of profit (mostly in the short term) need to look at things in a very narrow range - but to me as a long term holder the next interest step is only at $100k - and not because it's my exit point, but that means people value BTC twice as much as when it was only worth $50k.

As for the continuation of the bull run, I think it's inevitable - and it could very likely happen in Q4, because I think a lot of people in the Northern Hemisphere will use this summer for travel after the pandemic subsided a bit. Of course, there is always money waiting to be invested in something, and now it is only a matter of time before investors assess that it is the right time.

[BrewMaster]

this is not yet the FOMO we had in mind which may be because of the fear that resides in the market for now.
but as the Taproot locked in status news spread the price started rising up slowly and after more than a month of dumping reached $40k again. so far we have been able to hit $40500 and volume is starting to increase with the price too.
transaction fees took a big jump to 44 MB mempool and 24 satoshi/byte too.

if this direction is continued we can slowly see the FOMO begin too. we definitely have all the signs.

[stompix]

but as the Taproot locked in status news spread the price started rising up slowly ....

Common, you know too well this has nothing to do with taproot
The past gains were made on the news from Salvador and the current pump like it or not was caused by a single tweet from Musk, one look at the graphs and it's clear as the blue sky
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1404132183254523905



You can hate the man for what he does but still, denying his influence makes no sense.
I'm pretty sure that even the Vulcano mining news, which if we start analyzing was also a lot of hype as from digging a well that started two years ago to build the plant and to use it it's a long way had far more impact than taproot, people love news like this and tweets, things that are simple. Try to explain in one tweet what taproot is to the average joe, or forget tweet, try doing it here where still a lot of users think that if you add more miners more transactions can be processed a day.

[BrewMaster]

Common, you know too well this has nothing to do with taproot
The past gains were made on the news from Salvador and the current pump like it or not was caused by a single tweet from Musk, one look at the graphs and it's clear as the blue sky
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1404132183254523905

he made the tweet AFTER the rise started. shortly after but still after it.
also you can't possibly think that him saying a big "maybe" in addition to continuing his FUD about the bitcoin energy consumption and pollution (both of which are also present in that tweet and you are ignoring them)  and saying Tesla has sold bitcoin is the reason for this rise!!!

if anything bitcoin is rising despite Elon's FUD.

[BrewMaster]

if this direction is continued we can slowly see the FOMO begin too. we definitely have all the signs.

this didn't work out the way i expected it to and my initial speculation about a FOMO after Taproot activation as we now know was wrong. there was only a small FOMO (if we can call it that) which couldn't last long enough to break the resistance and head for $70k.

watching things closely to see if next attempt succeeds.

[stompix]

As a veteran here you should have known better than anyone to not start with such predictions over a small interval, the moment you say one week , two weeks, this month is like invoking a god of misfortune that would make sure it won't happen.

And btw, one day after you posted that about Elon not mattering I did a search here, both Elon and Musk were mentioned over 180 times, taproot 12, and this is bitcointalk, not the world, but the slide that happened after clearly shows what's mattering to the masses, nobody cares about increased efficiency in CPU power of 10%, but RGB led fans...wow!  At this point, I doubt that even if we had taproot activation happening next month it wouldn't change a thing, we need something shiny and tweetable or we're heading for a bear season.

[sana54210]

for those under a rock who don't know there is a soft fork coming to bitcoin to activate Taproot and improve bitcoin scripts (smart contracts) and privacy and also scaling.
the signalling was started last month and surprising enough in this period almost all miners are signalling for Taproot activation already (370 out of 378 according to taproot.watch website which is 97.88%).

if this continues (which it most probably will) Taproot is locked-in in about 11 days.

i have a good feeling that the timing is also perfect because the accumulation after this panic sell is going to be over by that time and the FOMO can start.
2 weeks from now we could be sitting at $70k.

It is really going to be marvelous to see this done, I do know enough about it to participate right away, but I know that when something big happens and people are happy about it that usually means higher price on bitcoin and I haven't seen people this excited about something in crypto since the halving.

Let's hope that this new taproot thing could actually make people hyped about bitcoin once again, it is not something talked about here a lot, I hope that it is not an indication that only a bunch of people who are aware of it got happy and there are tons who do not even know this exists, but even if that is the case all we have to do is let it known that something improved on bitcoin and that's fine. Obviously there is still time, locked-in is not enough, we need to see impacts of it, remember even during halving we were at around 10k whereas we peaked on 64k at April or something, so it may take some time.

[cryptomaniac_xxx]

if this direction is continued we can slowly see the FOMO begin too. we definitely have all the signs.

this didn't work out the way i expected it to and my initial speculation about a FOMO after Taproot activation as we now know was wrong. there was only a small FOMO (if we can call it that) which couldn't last long enough to break the resistance and head for $70k.

watching things closely to see if next attempt succeeds.

Yes, there was not enough push because of the Taproot lock so no FOMO.

I guess the market is really on a trading sideways, lots of investors are just waiting, and trying to time the market. $40k right now is the biggest resistance, as we have been attempting to break it several times but with no avail. I wonder though what kind of FOMO will need to surface to go and reach another all time high of around $70k this year?

[Raflesia]

-skip- I wonder though what kind of FOMO will need to surface to go and reach another all time high of around $70k this year?

I think there needs to be a new trend that appears to be made into FOMO, let's see that DeFi is one of them which this year is experiencing an increase and even how many percent is growing due to this trend, one day there will definitely be a new trend that we don't know and this will be The secret to breaking bitcoin prices hit records again.
But we're enjoying a sideway phase and can't determine if this year bitcoin can hit a new ATH again like you mentioned $70k.