Wall Observer Anthology 2013: Falling Knives, Moving Walls, and the Train to Four Figures
The year in the threadThe 2013 record begins in April, with a market reeling from a spectacular fall and a new Wall Observer thread seeking focus. Its opening post asks for depth charts, technical analysis, relevant news, and room for bearish arguments. The conversation soon included missed orders, birthday dinners interrupted by financial anxiety, disputed prediction records, and jokes about remembering to go outside.
April’s question was whether the crash had finished. By May, exchange problems complicated the answer: did Mt. Gox prices reflect enthusiastic buying or customers converting trapped fiat into movable bitcoins? Disappearing walls inspired manipulation accusations and admiration for their speed. June and July prolonged the uncertainty. Some moved into fiat, others accumulated, and several admitted that selling high and rebuying low had left them with fewer coins. Technical analysis became both a shared vocabulary and a target for parody.
August revived bullish confidence without resolving withdrawal concerns. September mixed whale theories, exchange comparisons, and quiet stretches. October sharpened the conflict between fearing another crash and missing the next train. November brought four-figure celebrations and arguments over whether a large drawdown could be healthy. December returned to falling prices, leveraged losses, contested forecasts, and China-related uncertainty.
The volume of discussion and breadth of participation made the thread feel like a crowded meeting place. People quoted, challenged, and revisited one another’s ideas, keeping conversations alive beyond individual predictions. Attention did not mean agreement; participants revised their forecasts or mocked their failures. By December, gandhibt’s description of an online bar captured that social character. Wall Observer was a place to watch money move, argue about its meaning, and keep company while waiting for the next candle.
Supporting posts:
infofront;
michaelGedi;
thoughtfan;
cedivad;
thoughtfan;
UnDerDoG81.
Five posts with the strongest observed impact1. fr33d0miz3r leaves an image for the threadfr33d0miz3rThe visible text introduces something left for readers, but the unavailable image prevents identifying its subject. A reply asks whether it represents a bear trap, preserving a glimpse of the debate without resolving the picture’s contents. Its place in the ranking reflects the quotation activity recorded below.
Observed attention:
11 people quoting,
12 quoting posts during the year; 0 merits. Impact score: 100.000/100. After the year: 0 quoting posts from 0 distinct people in the acquired archive.
2. rpietila offers $25,000 and declares $95 finishedrpietilarpietila offered to buy at $100, suggesting difficulty finding sellers would support his tape-painting suspicions, and predicted that $95 would never return. Conference plans and a departure for snails and chardonnay accompanied the challenge. Its prominence reflects attention, without validating the forecast or manipulation theory.
Observed attention:
11 people quoting,
11 quoting posts during the year; 0 merits. Impact score: 99.064/100. After the year: 0 quoting posts from 0 distinct people in the acquired archive.
3. Loaded sends a greeting from ChinaLoadedLoaded’s visible message simply greets the thread from China. This brief personal update attracted enough replies to rank prominently. His purpose, activities, and any market connection remain undisclosed; quotation activity cannot establish those missing details.
Observed attention:
9 people quoting,
9 quoting posts during the year; 0 merits. Impact score: 91.795/100. After the year: 0 quoting posts from 0 distinct people in the acquired archive.
4. fourkey2001 announces a short and attacks Bitcoin’s backingfourkey2001fourkey2001 announced a short, predicted a fall, and argued that Bitcoin lacked backing or equity. He added an unsupported warning about an anonymous Japanese person taking investors’ money. The emphatic opposition attracted replies, but those quotations neither validate his claims nor establish agreement with them.
Observed attention:
8 people quoting,
9 quoting posts during the year; 0 merits. Impact score: 88.827/100. After the year: 1 quoting posts from 1 distinct people in the acquired archive.
5. rpietila sketches the characteristics of a future crashrpietilaAfter mocking panic, rpietila predicted rapid appreciation, heavy selling, leveraged liquidations, a rebound, renewed panic, disruption, and negative coverage. He envisaged a roughly 75-percent fall that would remain above the previous $266 high, blaming poor liquidity. The replies establish attention to this scenario, rather than confirmation that it occurred.
Observed attention:
8 people quoting,
8 quoting posts during the year; 0 merits. Impact score: 87.595/100. After the year: 0 quoting posts from 0 distinct people in the acquired archive.
Month by month: the five leading discussionsThe five subjects in each month retain the validated monthly involvement ranking: post volume, distinct participants, quoting posts and active days. Their order is not a pure post-count ranking. Posts can belong to several themes, so theme counts overlap.
April 20131. April’s crash, rebound, and volatile tradingApril opened with attempts to distinguish the initial collapse from subsequent trading. On April 16, adamstgBit argued that the fall near $266 had relatively little volume, whereas moves around $50–$80 attracted large spikes; he thought the bottom might be close. NamelessOne disputed the story that one enormous order caused the crash, recalling gradual selling, worsening exchange lag, and panic. Their explanations remained competing interpretations.
556 posts · 125 participants · 297 quoting posts · 15 days. Representative posts:
adamstgBit;
NamelessOne.
2. Price levels, order-book walls, and market directionWatching walls meant learning to read them and deciding whether to trust them. michaelGedi described $50 as a psychological bottom, then admitted this was his first public chart reading and asked about the green line. fitty reported an ask wall retreating from $98 toward $99, anticipating a battle around $100. giszmo warned that much of the total bid sum sat far below the market.
504 posts · 119 participants · 242 quoting posts · 15 days. Representative posts:
michaelGedi;
fitty;
giszmo.
3. Bulls, bears, panic, and competing forecastsBulls and bears disagreed about direction and caution. fitty argued that people expecting much lower prices had already sold, leaving dips as opportunities to buy back. Rampion was optimistic about Bitcoin long term but suspicious of the rebound, citing mixed indicators and a possible trap. Near month’s end, tHash interpreted narrowing highs and lows as a triangle whose eventual breakout remained uncertain.
437 posts · 115 participants · 262 quoting posts · 15 days. Representative posts:
fitty;
Rampion;
tHash.
4. Personal trading decisions, regret, and holdingmichaelGedi gave volatility a personal timetable: buying during the rise, watching exchanges fail, then attending a family birthday dinner and movie while worrying about his money. He described selling at a loss, trying arbitrage, and encountering further trouble at Bitcoin-24. Richy_T’s attempted purchase never reached the market, while Terpie regretted withdrawing bids before the drop to $50. Exchange access mattered as much as timing.
257 posts · 85 participants · 155 quoting posts · 14 days. Representative posts:
michaelGedi;
Richy_T;
Terpie.
5. Humor, memes, and forum banterApril’s humor turned uncertainty into absurd certainty. Rockford called the market Schrödinger’s bitcoin, neither conclusively dead nor alive; NamelessOne announced an Ultra Diamond Pattern leading to a $100 million prediction. Jaroslaw prepared popcorn for the spectacle. Away from charts, el_rlee presented outside as a new multiplayer game, and simonk83 praised its graphics. The thread laughed at market drama and its own screen fixation.
219 posts · 94 participants · 111 quoting posts · 15 days. Representative posts:
Rockford;
NamelessOne;
Jaroslaw;
simonk83.
Memes and running jokesTriangles predict up or down. Brushan reduced chart triangles to the unimpressive claim that price might rise or fall, making their apparent predictive power the joke.
Brushan: 3 people quoting, 3 quoting posts month; 0 merits.
Popcorn ready. Jaroslaw treated the discussion as spectator entertainment by announcing prepared popcorn. The unfinished sentence supports that reaction joke, but the attached image is unavailable.
Jaroslaw: 3 people quoting, 3 quoting posts month; 0 merits.
One-satoshi toilet paper. BitcoinAshley proposed toilet-paper sheets carrying private keys for one satoshi, joking that bears would appreciate this physical use for Bitcoin.
BitcoinAshley: 2 people quoting, 2 quoting posts month; 0 merits.
These selections are identifiable from text alone. Quotation counts indicate observed attention, not agreement; the popcorn image supplies no inspectable details.
May 20131. Exchange liquidity, volume, and price discoveryMay’s exchange discussion questioned what displayed prices meant. thoughtfan argued that restrictions on moving dollars through Mt. Gox could make its rising quotation a poor measure of supply and demand. needmorecoins wondered whether buying reflected optimism or customers escaping through Bitcoin. adamstgBit noted that apparently low coin volume represented substantial currency value compared with earlier months. Exchange friction complicated the interpretation of both prices and activity.
1,121 posts · 192 participants · 667 quoting posts · 31 days. Representative posts:
thoughtfan;
adamstgBit;
EuroTrash.
2. Walls, order-book depth, and suspected manipulationVisible orders aroused suspicion without revealing motives. underground_ watched a $114 bid wall assemble into exactly 5,000 BTC and considered that precision evidence it was fake. cedivad said the wall vanished almost instantly as price approached, speculating about low-latency trading. rpietila offered $25,000 for bitcoins at $100 and suggested difficulty finding sellers might indicate tape-painting. Observation and theatrical challenges coexisted with unverified explanations.
1,058 posts · 175 participants · 638 quoting posts · 31 days. Representative posts:
underground_;
cedivad;
rpietila.
3. Rallies, rebounds, and short-term market directionRally enthusiasm left the rebound’s durability unsettled. fitty exuberantly welcomed new bulls back to the market. Its About Sharing argued that $120 could be cheap relative to Bitcoin’s potential, answering a participant who saw resistance and a bearish pattern. By May 28, icekiss thought a large buy could briefly lift prices but admitted not knowing whether it would reverse the trend. Excitement and conviction differed.
1,021 posts · 173 participants · 593 quoting posts · 31 days. Representative posts:
fitty;
Its About Sharing;
icekiss.
4. Personal trading choices, holding, and risk disciplineRampion candidly described selling near $80.50 for a cheaper re-entry, then buying back above $90 and blaming himself for abandoning his accumulation rule. Later, he favored holding most coins and restricting day trading to play money because tops and bottoms were difficult to identify. Its About Sharing stressed the opposite danger: waiting with cash while prices escaped upward. Losing money and losing coins inspired competing fears.
912 posts · 173 participants · 636 quoting posts · 31 days. Representative posts:
Rampion;
Rampion;
Its About Sharing.
5. Crashes, corrections, and the search for a bottomSlipperySlope challenged comforting talk of coins moving from weak to strong hands: new buyers could become the next frightened sellers. He expected a prolonged bubble unwind. Another post compared the decline with his remembered Great Capitulation of 2011 and suggested the worst selling might be over. Coinseeker anticipated panic around reported news but called the bottom unknowable. Historical comparisons offered scenarios rather than reliable predictions.
695 posts · 151 participants · 472 quoting posts · 30 days. Representative posts:
SlipperySlope;
SlipperySlope;
Coinseeker.
Memes and running jokesAnyone need cleaning products?. adamstgBit joked that his wife had entered a pyramid scheme expecting riches, then pivoted into offering cleaning products.
adamstgBit: 4 people quoting, 4 quoting posts month; 0 merits.
The enormous 3.2 BTC stash. MickeyT2008 exaggerated the grandeur of a 3.2 BTC holding and asked whether it qualified for a conference invitation: a joke about status and access.
MickeyT2008: 4 people quoting, 4 quoting posts month; 0 merits.
Supernode, or superego. phoenix1 explained the supernode discussion by substituting ego for node. fitty later said another person deserved respect for being a supernode, rather than claiming that status himself.
fitty: 3 people quoting, 3 quoting posts month; 0 merits.
phoenix1: 2 people quoting, 2 quoting posts month; 0 merits.
The supernode wording is grounded in the originals, including whom fitty meant. All selections concern visible textual jokes rather than unseen images.
Posts discussed in this qualification:
fitty.
June 20131. Forecast credibility and uncertainty about market directionJune made prediction records a subject themselves. oda.krell defended recording a forecast so others could inspect it later; the quoted objection distinguished analysis from arbitrary short-term guesses. Richy_T compared boasts of consistent success to gamblers remembering wins and discounting losses. niothor read bearish forum posts as an upward signal. Participants questioned whether confidence reflected evidence, accountability, selective memory, or simply a contrarian reading of the thread.
990 posts · 167 participants · 685 quoting posts · 30 days. Representative posts:
oda.krell;
Richy_T;
niothor.
2. Personal trading decisions and investment exposurePositions diverged during the decline. SlipperySlope announced he was entirely in fiat, awaiting further bubble collapse. Its About Sharing described holding for the future and imagined a wealthy buyer accepting slippage before checking again in five years. Rampion had sold and expected lower prices, yet joked that his paper wallets looked sadly at him. Market opinions came entangled with patience, regret, and attachment to coins.
840 posts · 138 participants · 620 quoting posts · 30 days. Representative posts:
SlipperySlope;
Its About Sharing;
Rampion.
3. Order-book walls, depth, and suspected manipulationJune’s wall-watching asked what cancellation could prove. barbs recalled a large wall disappearing before a market sell and interpreted the sequence suspiciously; a reply questioned whether pulling an order and selling necessarily meant manipulation. Rampion calculated that removing a wall might enable a cheaper purchase. Miz4r wondered whether a buyer facing considerable slippage would cut losses. Order changes were visible, but intentions remained conjectural.
666 posts · 144 participants · 438 quoting posts · 30 days. Representative posts:
barbs;
Rampion;
Miz4r.
4. Bitcoin jokes, media, and forum banterThe conversation wandered beyond prices. Posting from Stockholm, Rampion objected angrily to an unwarned Game of Thrones spoiler because he had not seen the latest episode. phoenix1 praised an Argentina Bitcoin movie theme while teasing adamstgBit about drinking. derpinheimer read a graph as eventually predicting negative prices and offered to accept everyone’s bitcoins for nothing. Viewing etiquette and parody of chart extrapolation shared the thread.
679 posts · 121 participants · 369 quoting posts · 30 days. Representative posts:
Rampion;
phoenix1;
derpinheimer.
5. The June decline, bear-market fears, and recovery scenariosInterpretations of the downturn hardened without agreement. Early in June, ineededausername hesitated to compare the stability with the 2011 burst, suggesting a correction resembling late 2012. Rampion later declared the correction case defeated and expected bubble deflation, lower tests, and deceptive rallies. Near month’s end, N12 urged an exit unless holders could tolerate years of waiting and complete loss. The posts preserve changing expectations.
566 posts · 119 participants · 446 quoting posts · 30 days. Representative posts:
ineededausername;
Rampion;
N12.
Memes and running jokesThe negative-price bargain. derpinheimer sarcastically read a graph as promising payment to anyone taking bitcoins, then offered the supposedly generous intermediate deal of accepting them free.
derpinheimer: 4 people quoting, 4 quoting posts month; 0 merits.
Let’s talk about trigonometry. phoenix1 mixed rising 24-hour highs with a playful, song-like turn toward mathematics and trigonometry, combining rally excitement with musical parody.
phoenix1: 3 people quoting, 3 quoting posts month; 0 merits.
Drug lords waiting for six confirmations. needmorecoins imagined an illicit exchange stalled for forty minutes while its participants waited for six confirmations: a blockchain waiting-room scene.
needmorecoins: 3 people quoting, 3 quoting posts month; 0 merits.
The full-moon candidate attracted four distinct quoting participants, but its text alone does not establish whether the price theory was meant humorously. These selections have clearer textual punchlines.
July 20131. Bitcoin price swings, trading decisions, and market directionJuly began with impatience at the persistent decline. BitcoinAshley argued that a slow bear market was harder to accept than a crash finished in a day, while chriswilmer asked whether everyone was trying to catch the bottom. seleme objected to longtime supporters celebrating falling prices because newcomers might find it discouraging. Wanting cheaper coins raised questions about how participants expressed support for the wider project.
906 posts · 172 participants · 627 quoting posts · 31 days. Representative posts:
BitcoinAshley;
chriswilmer;
seleme.
2. Personal trading choices, regret, and risk managementPersonal accounts ranged from panic to restraint. barbs said he frightened himself into selling at $72.90. MAbtc defended setting a target and accepting a profitable exit rather than demanding perfection. thoughtfan welcomed a participant’s move toward holding while acknowledging trading’s educational value within affordable losses. He warned that readers heard more wins than losses and distinguished increasing fiat wealth from increasing a Bitcoin holding.
779 posts · 151 participants · 487 quoting posts · 31 days. Representative posts:
barbs;
MAbtc;
thoughtfan.
3. Walls, order-book depth, and suspected manipulationWalls served as landmarks and suspected performances. MickeyT2008 suggested recognizing attempts to influence traders could help someone act against them, while acknowledging that not every wall was manipulative. derpinheimer interpreted repeated large bids appearing and retreating as upward pressure. bitcodo attributed paying more to manipulation or stupidity, but a reply questioned why a major buyer would manipulate an already shallow book. Intent remained disputed.
764 posts · 147 participants · 475 quoting posts · 31 days. Representative posts:
MickeyT2008;
derpinheimer;
bitcodo.
4. Technical analysis, indicators, and chart-pattern disputesJuly’s indicator debate remained conditional. Its About Sharing discussed whether MFI worked in trending rather than sideways conditions, answering historical counterexamples. molecular described lower highs and lows and a possible capitulation sequence, explicitly calling it a fantasy he could not exclude; sideways or upward movement remained possible. Wary compared technical analysis with astrology. Patterns helped organize scenarios without settling which direction the market would take.
512 posts · 113 participants · 364 quoting posts · 31 days. Representative posts:
Its About Sharing;
molecular;
Wary.
5. Market humor, recurring personalities, and conversational asidesFamiliar voices shaped July’s jokes. fr33d0miz3r invited bears to celebrate three months since the bubble pop, noting it was Wednesday. Loozik became Daddy Loozik and declared himself always right; vokain connected feeling 1337 with playing CS. Frozenlock’s shoe-lacing request lacked the image needed to identify its full gag. NewLiberty answered a July 4 market question with a prediction of fireworks and parades.
458 posts · 118 participants · 260 quoting posts · 31 days. Representative posts:
fr33d0miz3r;
Loozik;
vokain;
Frozenlock;
NewLiberty.
Memes and running jokesWallzilla size classification. solex dismissed 100 as petty cash, classified 1,000 as a wall, and promoted 5,000 to wallzilla status: an exaggerated order-book taxonomy.
solex: 3 people quoting, 3 quoting posts month; 0 merits.
Occult trading with a chart-hissing cat. crumbs replaced failed market reading with black candles, pentagrams, backward prayer audio, and a cat trained to hiss at charts.
crumbs: 3 people quoting, 3 quoting posts month; 0 merits.
SatoshiDiceddon. Frozenlock proposed an apocalyptic nickname for an anticipated price drop. The naming joke does not establish that the predicted drop occurred.
Frozenlock: 3 people quoting, 3 quoting posts month; 0 merits.
Frozenlock’s shoe-lacing post had six distinct quoting participants, but the unspecified object and unseen image prevent identifying its full joke. The selected text-only candidates each had three.
Posts discussed in this qualification:
Frozenlock;
Frozenlock;
Frozenlock;
Frozenlock;
Frozenlock.
August 20131. August rally, breakouts and price-direction debateAugust’s advance brought delight, objections, and surprise. Loozik exclaimed at the rally, while CMMPro expected a modest retreat followed by renewed gains and dismissed attempts to talk prices down. Walsoraj objected that the rise had the wrong causes. On August 31, RationalSpeculator called it a strong breakout from gradual bubble deflation, answering crumbs’s admission that another forecast seemed likely to fail. Expectations continued to shift.
370 posts · 105 participants · 237 quoting posts · 29 days. Representative posts:
Loozik;
CMMPro;
Walsoraj;
RationalSpeculator.
2. Order books, walls, support and market manipulation claimsOrder-book scrutiny covered large walls and fleeting small orders. Tzupy distinguished coins sold into a wall from portions withdrawn and restored. DaSheep examined depth logs after an accusation that synchronized additions and removals distorted ChartBuddy’s displays; he found rapid changes and asked what was happening. samson interpreted a reinforced higher bid as artificial upward pressure. These observations did not establish a shared operator or manipulation scheme.
280 posts · 73 participants · 178 quoting posts · 31 days. Representative posts:
Tzupy;
DaSheep;
samson.
3. Community humor, personal exchanges and forum referencesAugust’s banter mixed familiarity with mockery of market reasoning. hlynur recalled Day of the Tentacle and Monkey Island through avatar references. QuestionAuthority professed extravagant affection for ChartBuddy. Walsoraj rejected graphs without the Moon and Oort Cloud. oda.krell imagined bullish analysis delivered by an enthusiastic shopping presenter, turning rises, falls, and even standing still into reasons for optimism. The jokes reflected recognizable habits of the thread.
254 posts · 94 participants · 137 quoting posts · 31 days. Representative posts:
hlynur;
QuestionAuthority;
Walsoraj;
oda.krell.
4. Mt. Gox withdrawals, deposits and customer fundsWithdrawal uncertainty complicated exchange gaps. Kazu asked whether dollar bank withdrawals took months or an unknowable time. hlynur reported successfully withdrawing coins the previous day, treating reported problems as limited cases while warning about wider disruption. QuestionAuthority grew impatient over an apparent $10 arbitrage opportunity. Participants reported differing experiences and questioned whether quoted prices were accessible; their accounts did not establish uniformly broken or restored service.
170 posts · 70 participants · 120 quoting posts · 31 days. Representative posts:
Kazu;
hlynur;
QuestionAuthority.
5. Whales, large buyers and concentrated demandThe sustained rise encouraged stories about a concentrated buyer. JimboToronto proposed that a major participant, perhaps a company, was accumulating while stabilizing prices. Tzupy disputed that motive: someone seeking cheap coins might allow declines and intervene only when necessary. JimboToronto later listed possible buyers without claiming an identity, while adamstgBit calculated a hypothetical large purchase through the book. Strategies remained speculation rather than confirmed institutional activity.
170 posts · 55 participants · 110 quoting posts · 28 days. Representative posts:
JimboToronto;
Tzupy;
JimboToronto;
adamstgBit.
Memes and running jokesEverything is bullish, especially nothing. oda.krell’s shopping-presenter parody made every direction bullish and a flat market extra bullish, mocking a reading that could never be wrong.
oda.krell: 4 people quoting, 4 quoting posts month; 0 merits.
The missing Bitcoin music-video indicator. Kazu treated the absence of recent Bitcoin music videos as bearish, awaiting songs about discounted coins or a $99 price. The videos were not inspected.
Kazu: 3 people quoting, 3 quoting posts month; 0 merits.
Infinite bids, zero asks. phoenix1 exaggerated order-book trends into bids approaching infinity and asks approaching zero, caricaturing relentlessly bullish interpretations of market depth.
phoenix1: 3 people quoting, 3 quoting posts month; 0 merits.
These were the clearest textual jokes among the more independently quoted candidates. No visual details or video contents are inferred.
September 20131. September price swings, forecasts and market moodSeptember forecasts mixed anticipation with fatigue. WeltMaster thought large purchases without a major rise suggested a temporary top, while admitting whales repeatedly overturned his theories. bobdude17 expected greater possibilities because he believed public attention and Chinese participation had expanded. TERA questioned an upward breakout, citing shallow depth and disputed volume. vps15 asked whether the move was a correction or another bear trap. No interpretation commanded agreement.
351 posts · 106 participants · 220 quoting posts · 30 days. Representative posts:
WeltMaster;
bobdude17;
TERA;
vps15.
2. Whales, large trades and manipulation theoriesLarge trades inspired competing accounts of accumulation and pumping. thezerg imagined a whale staging transfers and purchases across exchanges to limit exposure to exchange risk, contrasting that with a pump maximizing slippage. barbs saw a buy followed by an ask wall as evidence against fundamentals-driven trading. Tzupy and a quoted oda.krell disputed whether the sequence could profitably be a pump-and-dump. Traders’ identities and motives remained unknown.
318 posts · 92 participants · 220 quoting posts · 30 days. Representative posts:
thezerg;
barbs;
Tzupy.
3. Volume, liquidity and market measurementQuieter trading prompted questions about measurement. telemaco compared Chinese volume with Mt. Gox and Bitstamp. arklan argued that coin counts concealed the higher currency value of trades. Adrian-x wondered whether low volume meant coins entering strong hands or weak new demand at current prices. TERA disputed some volume figures and emphasized thin bids. Inactivity could therefore suggest absorption, weakness, or a misleading statistical picture.
176 posts · 75 participants · 133 quoting posts · 26 days. Representative posts:
telemaco;
arklan;
Adrian-x;
TERA.
4. Mt. Gox price premium and exchange-market shiftsParticipants questioned whether leadership was moving away from Mt. Gox. RationalSpeculator cited comparable Bitstamp turnover and apparent leadership as signs of Gox’s decline. FullLife thought volume still explained Gox’s appeal but expected banking problems to change that. chriswilmer asked whether a narrowing gap meant withdrawals were fixed. tarmi later described another Gox run as decoupling from other venues. Convergence and divergence complicated confident explanations.
159 posts · 67 participants · 104 quoting posts · 28 days. Representative posts:
RationalSpeculator;
FullLife;
chriswilmer;
tarmi.
5. Trading decisions, personal results and strategySeptember brought candid accounts of mistakes. MikeH listed selling near bottoms and buying near a top, calling himself a terrible trader. MickeyT2008 described selling before a whale purchase and buying back higher; losing 0.15 BTC was manageable because his position was small. molecular admitted selling from anxiety despite expecting no major drop. thezerg suggested earning money to buy coins instead of constantly watching charts.
152 posts · 60 participants · 98 quoting posts · 28 days. Representative posts:
MikeH;
MickeyT2008;
molecular;
thezerg.
Memes and running jokesThe empty Wall Observer saloon. Adrian-x answered a dramatic market crossroads with tumbleweed, an empty saloon, and imaginary music asking where the wall watchers had gone.
Adrian-x: 3 people quoting, 3 quoting posts month; 0 merits.
Profits announced, losses omitted. ardana123 teased participants for reporting profits but omitting losses. MickeyT2008’s reply made the teasing concrete by admitting a losing trade.
ardana123: 2 people quoting, 2 quoting posts month; 0 merits.
The whale only wants Jaroslaw sad. grovestr offered two speculative insolvency explanations for a large purchase, then the comic alternative that someone simply wanted Jaroslaw unhappy. The financial scenarios remain speculation.
grovestr: 2 people quoting, 2 quoting posts month; 0 merits.
The equally well-quoted post about Adam dreaming depends partly on an unseen image. The selected saloon scene and two lower-count jokes have identifiable textual punchlines.
October 20131. Corrections, crashes and downside forecastsOctober’s rise did not silence downside warnings. Walsoraj interpreted a steep climb, low volume, and insufficient ask replenishment as preparation for an epic crash. Zangelbert Bingledack argued that a substantial temporary sell-off could be normal without predicting one. wachtwoord questioned calling a roughly ten-percent correction a crash, while wobber announced Operation Bubblepop. Participants disputed both potential losses and the dramatic language used to describe volatility.
547 posts · 137 participants · 389 quoting posts · 28 days. Representative posts:
Walsoraj;
Zangelbert Bingledack;
wachtwoord;
wobber.
2. Holding, buying, selling and investment riskHolding arguments met differing circumstances. Rampion considered day trading the renewed rise especially dangerous and favored an affordable long-term position. NewLiberty planned Bitcoin education accounts for nieces and nephews. hlynur hesitated with fresh fiat, remembering April’s losses but fearing the departing train. EvilLizardApparel faced closing leveraged shorts at a loss or risking the entire position. Conviction did not guarantee the capacity to withstand losses.
427 posts · 126 participants · 274 quoting posts · 26 days. Representative posts:
Rampion;
NewLiberty;
hlynur;
EvilLizardApparel.
3. The October rally and all-time-high expectationsOctober revived debate over earlier highs and demand. Zangelbert Bingledack wondered whether weekend buying was a pump, a break in monotony, or China-driven. integrity42 confidently credited China and proposed ambitious scenarios. thezerg distinguished resistance in the old $230s plateau from the brief $266 peak. maz separated holders, traders, and newcomers by their incentives and expected lower prices. Celebration coexisted with disagreement about the rally’s foundations.
442 posts · 124 participants · 276 quoting posts · 25 days. Representative posts:
Zangelbert Bingledack;
integrity42;
thezerg;
maz.
4. Small cultural diversions, personal updates and jokesOctober’s diversions were distinct personal moments. MikeH corrected a claim about Australia waking up: he was going to bed at 5:20. NamelessOne followed tickers while moving house. Walsoraj resisted changing his avatar to avoid confusion with Jaroslaw. windjc described a purported crop circle east of Bristol; ardana123 wondered whether Satoshi would reveal himself. These remarks preserve daily life and speculation without verifying the outside stories.
442 posts · 134 participants · 225 quoting posts · 26 days. Representative posts:
MikeH;
NamelessOne;
Walsoraj;
windjc;
ardana123.
5. Order books, liquidity, whales and manipulation claimsHeavy selling prompted disagreement over manipulation. vps15 considered a reported 10,000-coin dump evidence of whales controlling the market. derpinheimer argued that shallow depth and panic could explain it. TERA reported restored asks elsewhere and demanded proof from those calling Chinese activity a fake pump. deeplink’s question about Loaded moving funds added anxiety. Visible trading or transfers alone did not establish who acted or why.
352 posts · 98 participants · 207 quoting posts · 27 days. Representative posts:
vps15;
derpinheimer;
TERA;
deeplink.
Memes and running jokesThe FBI gets Goxed. mb300sd imagined the FBI liquidating on Gox, asking why withdrawals failed, and being reminded that it had frozen the accounts itself.
mb300sd: 3 people quoting, 3 quoting posts month; 0 merits.
The Moon is under the floor. wachtwoord answered a Moon-bound Ripple remark by pointing the slogan downward during daytime: a literal-minded twist on upward price imagery.
wachtwoord: 3 people quoting, 3 quoting posts month; 0 merits.
Win a million, lose less than a million. rpietila made a wager sound attractive by emphasizing a possible million-dollar win against a supposedly smaller million-dollar loss: a deliberately uncomforting pitch.
rpietila: 3 people quoting, 3 quoting posts month; 0 merits.
Each selected candidate drew quotations from three distinct participants. Their jokes are identifiable without the unavailable images elsewhere in the pool.
November 20131. The November rally and the $1,000 thresholdNovember moved from the old $266 high to four figures. seljo asked what would happen at that earlier threshold. On November 27, UnDerDoG81 congratulated holders at $1,000, and windjc declared his countdown complete with two days remaining. kurious watched a wall below Bitstamp’s $1,000 asks, describing a battle. Celebration still allowed distinctions between exchanges, resistance, and crossing a price versus remaining above it.
2,558 posts · 382 participants · 1,337 quoting posts · 30 days. Representative posts:
seljo;
UnDerDoG81;
windjc;
kurious.
2. Exchange price gaps, regional markets and arbitrageRegional gaps made arbitrage easier to imagine than execute. bassclef described sending coins, selling abroad, moving fiat home, paying fees, and waiting; the opportunity could disappear or Gox withdrawals remain delayed. windjc later saw venues converging, joking that BTC-e was excluded. nrd525 speculated about Chinese buyers’ reactions, while derpinheimer defended Gox and questioned Chinese volume. These were rival interpretations rather than established regional behavior.
2,170 posts · 354 participants · 1,282 quoting posts · 30 days. Representative posts:
bassclef;
windjc;
nrd525;
derpinheimer.
3. Bitcoin jokes, rituals and thread cultureNovember’s rituals mixed excitement with mock discovery. gambitv announced a departing train. Nightowlace predicted Bitcoin would self-destruct at 10,000 thread pages. justusranvier named a Trogdor chart pattern, although its image is unavailable. Richy_T offered Discordianism and the law of fives as analytical tools. crazy_rabbit’s mock welcome anticipated weekend sellers regretting a rebound. The thread expressed its mood through knowingly extravagant forecasts and invented patterns.
1,986 posts · 322 participants · 962 quoting posts · 30 days. Representative posts:
gambitv;
Nightowlace;
justusranvier;
Richy_T;
crazy_rabbit.
4. Corrections, crashes and the rally’s resilienceCalling a drawdown healthy provoked sharp disagreement. Nightowlace rejected that description for $900 to $453, using a hypothetical family’s savings to illustrate reputational damage. crazy_rabbit admired recovery after heavy selling and distinguished it from April or 2011. rpietila assigned substantial probability to a bubble correction, revising his scenario through a stretched-rubber-band analogy. Their arguments concerned resilience, investor experience, and horizons; the family was an illustration.
1,588 posts · 312 participants · 1,116 quoting posts · 30 days. Representative posts:
Nightowlace;
Nightowlace;
crazy_rabbit;
rpietila.
5. Holding, selling, buying back and personal trading strategyWealth talk exposed reasons to reduce exposure. gandhibt sold portions because almost all his wealth was in coins. wachtwoord advised holding if the investment thesis remained intact and cash was unnecessary. rpietila recommended percentage-based sales into strength to acquire other assets and sleep better. ag@th0s considered borrowing to expand a position, sharing loan terms and asking about risk. Household liquidity complicated simple bullish or bearish labels.
1,305 posts · 278 participants · 829 quoting posts · 30 days. Representative posts:
gandhibt;
wachtwoord;
rpietila;
ag@th0s.
Memes and running jokesThe hearing should say buy Bitcoin. Nemesis protested the hearing ending because he wanted an explicit instruction to buy Bitcoin. The exaggerated wish does not establish what the hearing said.
Nemesis: 5 people quoting, 5 quoting posts month; 0 merits.
Dear noobs: donate your weekend-dip coins. crazy_rabbit invited frightened weekend sellers to donate their coins and prepare remorseful Monday posts after an imagined rebound, signing in the spirit of buy-and-hold.
crazy_rabbit: 5 people quoting, 5 quoting posts month; 0 merits.
Quantum Speculation. Walsoraj made walls simultaneously fake and real until tested, presenting the uncertainty as science: a named parody of arguments over whether visible orders were genuine.
Walsoraj: 3 people quoting, 3 quoting posts month; 0 merits.
The first two selections had the most independent quoting attention in the supplied pool. Quantum Speculation is a clearly named textual joke among several candidates tied at three.
December 20131. The December decline, recovery attempts, and market outlookDecember reopened the distinction between a burst bubble and a large correction. DougTanner asked directly on December 7. mmitech expected declines and bounces after an excessively fast rise. hlynur worried about reported Chinese withdrawal deadlines and disappearing inflows while acknowledging uncertainty. rpietila declared his downside targets fulfilled and anticipated an uptrend. These contemporaneous forecasts did not confirm a bottom, regulatory outcome, or lasting recovery.
2,518 posts · 353 participants · 1,620 quoting posts · 31 days. Representative posts:
DougTanner;
mmitech;
hlynur;
rpietila.
2. Trading choices, risk, leverage, and personal timingDecember’s plans faltered between screen time and sleep. seleme opened a short, waited to secure profit, then woke to a rise and accepted a loss; leverage magnified both an earlier gain and this loss. crazy_rabbit admitted buying back fewer coins than he sold. chriswilmer jokingly asked whether selling five percent made him bad. adamstgBit rejected certainty about tomorrow while describing his dollar-cost-averaging approach.
2,413 posts · 342 participants · 1,538 quoting posts · 31 days. Representative posts:
seleme;
crazy_rabbit;
chriswilmer;
adamstgBit.
3. Order-book walls, liquidity, and suspected manipulationDecember’s book supplied wall reports and suspicions. Dragonkiller noted a substantial Bitstamp bid at $950. humanitee described a wall vanishing as buying approached and suspected a script. mmitech wondered whether panic was engineered to let large holders absorb sales. T.Stuart accepted manipulation was possible but warned that frustrated traders blamed it when prices moved against them; bots and inexperienced participants also complicated explanations of the market.
1,675 posts · 265 participants · 1,049 quoting posts · 31 days. Representative posts:
Dragonkiller;
humanitee;
mmitech;
T.Stuart.
4. Technical analysis and the limits of predictionTechnical analysis provided vocabulary without resolving foresight. MAbtc distinguished volume, volatility, trend, and time indicators but admitted his bearish intuition preceded chart drawing. seriouscoin argued that charts explained the past rather than reliably predicting the future. thefunkybits saw a four-hour MACD crossing yet expected a brief rally and sought an exit. Jomppe trusted rpietila’s earlier bearish call. Tools, intuition, and personal credibility offered competing grounds for confidence.
1,377 posts · 269 participants · 900 quoting posts · 31 days. Representative posts:
MAbtc;
seriouscoin;
thefunkybits;
Jomppe.
5. Community life, forum norms, and personal storiesDecember made the social role explicit. gandhibt described an online bar, admitting he could not read every page. jojo69 comforted Adam. ShroomsKit discussed using ignore and insulted Walsoraj, while rpietila demanded recognition of his claimed holdings. mmitech opposed ignoring racist or objectionable behavior but agreed aggressive insults were no solution. Companionship and disputes over acceptable conduct shared the same gathering place as the market discussion.
1,142 posts · 244 participants · 658 quoting posts · 31 days. Representative posts:
gandhibt;
jojo69;
ShroomsKit;
rpietila;
mmitech.
Memes and running jokesSatoshi’s emergency shutoff code. proudhon presented an arrest-and-shutdown claim, then offered Chinese writing and a mention of sources as proof. adamstgBit challenged the shutoff-code story as FUD. These posts preserve a textual hoax and source-checking parody, not corroborated news.
proudhon: 6 people quoting, 6 quoting posts month; 0 merits.
proudhon: 4 people quoting, 4 quoting posts month; 0 merits.
adamstgBit: 3 people quoting, 3 quoting posts month; 0 merits.
Pumpcoin, CloneCoin, SuckerCoin. Spaceman_Spiff mocked altcoin pumping by proposing names that openly advertised pumping, copying, and gullibility: Pumpcoin, CloneCoin, and SuckerCoin.
Spaceman_Spiff: 4 people quoting, 4 quoting posts month; 0 merits.
The ticker must be mining on my CPU. spooderman turned a struggling computer and loud fans into a joke that a market ticker was secretly mining. The post does not establish that mining occurred.
spooderman: 4 people quoting, 4 quoting posts month; 0 merits.
