Wall Observer Anthology 2014: Falling Prices, Unbroken Conversation
The year in the threadThe Wall Observer's 2014 was a year of falling prices, exchange distrust, and stubborn companionship. January's optimism already faced questions about liquidity, trapped transfers, and the difference between conviction and an inability to sell. February brought Mt. Gox balances, withdrawals, and accountability to the foreground. Anger and uncertainty also produced elaborate verse mocking the exchange.
Spring's recovery attempts reopened disputes about Chinese policy, trading volume, and whether charts helped traders or merely explained yesterday. June's seized-bitcoin auction gave the thread rules and practical buying problems to inspect. Personal decisions remained central: JayJuanGee described accumulating, while mmitech said trading gains had paid debts and bought time with family.
By August, Newbie1022 described disrupted sleep and daily routines. September sharpened arguments about whether falling prices undermined adoption. October's enormous Bitstamp sell wall became a collective spectacle, although its owner and purpose remained unknown. November's rally revived hopes; December returned to accumulation, exhaustion, and Christmas greetings.
Trains, moon journeys, daily doubling, cryogenic holding, and imaginary monks kept uncertainty sociable. Quotation attention could mean admiration, irritation, or outright disagreement. The year's recurring achievement was keeping the conversation alive while its participants struggled to agree on what the market meant.
Supporting posts:
molecular;
JorgeStolfi;
JorgeStolfi;
humanitee;
gizmoh;
mmitech.
Five posts with the strongest observed impactPre-merit era: merit counts provide little basis for comparing these posts; all five selected here have 0 recorded merits. The selection and its interpretation remain substantially discretionary, shaped by editorial choices, scoring weights, and archive coverage. Quotation counts document attention, which may reflect disagreement, provocation, or repeated replies rather than approval. The numerical scores support this selection; their precision does not make it an objective ranking of historical importance or market influence.1. ShroomsKit's farewell and promised returns after further dropsShroomsKit declared Bitcoin dead, said earlier holdings had been sold, mocked buyers at 400, and promised a return after every $50 decline. The farewell led the annual selection by observed quotation attention; the replies establish neither agreement nor market influence.
Observed attention:
12 people quoting,
20 quoting posts during the year; 0 merits. Impact score: 98.034/100. After the year: 1 quoting post from 1 distinct participant in the acquired archive.
2. A bare link pointing to a proposed Bitcoin banmagicmexican supplied only a Business Insider link whose visible path referred to a senator calling for a Bitcoin ban. The article was not inspected. The ranking records attention to the news pointer, without establishing the proposal's details or consequences.
Observed attention:
13 people quoting,
13 quoting posts during the year; 0 merits. Impact score: 96.005/100. After the year: 0 quoting posts from 0 distinct participants in the acquired archive.
3. Nemesis claims the marketNemesis asked whether the situation was more fun and boasted of owning the market. The claim attracted broad quotation attention amid October's wall watching, but supplies no evidence of actual control or responsibility for the sell wall.
Observed attention:
10 people quoting,
10 quoting posts during the year; 0 merits. Impact score: 87.232/100. After the year: 0 quoting posts from 0 distinct participants in the acquired archive.
4. An image-only response attracts substantial quotation attentionTheKoziTwo's own text is empty and the image is unavailable. Reply context concerned proving that funds had been sent to Gox. The quotation count makes the response conspicuous, while the visual message remains unknown.
Observed attention:
9 people quoting,
9 quoting posts during the year; 0 merits. Impact score: 83.764/100. After the year: 0 quoting posts from 0 distinct participants in the acquired archive.
5. TERA claims a resistance call worked near 660TERA said a predicted $666 resistance had come into play at $660 and expected little further movement for weeks. Its prominence records attention to a participant's assessment of a call, rather than independently established forecasting success.
Observed attention:
9 people quoting,
9 quoting posts during the year; 0 merits. Impact score: 83.764/100. After the year: 0 quoting posts from 0 distinct participants in the acquired archive.
Month by month: the five leading discussionsThe original monthly involvement ranking combines post volume, distinct participants, quoting posts, and active days; it is not a simple post-count ranking. Themes overlap. Detailed theme counts remain in the full edition; all source links are retained. Forecasts, personal accounts, and allegations remain attributed claims; jokes are not factual reports. Unavailable images and unread linked articles have not been reconstructed.
January 20141. Bitcoin's January price swings and uncertain directionJanuary swung between relief and fear.
virtualfaqs reported panic-selling at a loss and closing charts because concentration had become impossible.
adamstgBit hoped a bottom would bring new highs;
SantaMuerte later described Bitstamp dropping from 750 to 740 within seconds.
2. Community culture, trust and forum conductmedialab101 celebrated nearly 4,000 pages with train enthusiasm, and
vpk found reassurance in hearing Trace discuss Bitcoin.
kurious instead saw discussion becoming adversarial: even a reasonable position invited interrogation. Holding roughly one-quarter fiat made that complaint personal.
3. Exchange prices, order books and arbitrageT.Stuart thought Bitstamp was taking the lead from Gox.
TERA warned that thinner depth could make a large sale much more damaging.
medialab101's report of a $15,000 BTC-e deposit unresolved after a month exposed a practical obstacle to apparent arbitrage: moving the money.
4. Bitcoin's long-term value and adoption prospectsJorgeStolfi (see also
JorgeStolfi) asked how payment activity translated into a base value per coin.
MakeBelieve expected wider awareness and a price above $2,000 within twelve months;
mestar calculated the fresh money a larger projection would require if miners sold their output. The mechanisms remained disputed. Payment use, adoption hopes, and the supply of coins for sale offered different ways to frame value, without resolving what price the market should assign.
5. Technical analysis, forecasting and statistical limitsHolliday challenged a repeatedly wrong graph.
notme argued for fat-tailed price distributions, while
JorgeStolfi distinguished confidence for one future interval from confidence for an entire month.
JorgeStolfi's later qualifications about short swings and sample size kept the mathematics provisional.
Memes and running jokesBull-conversion wallpaper.
prof7bit (6 people quoting, 6 quoting posts in the month; 0 merits) advertised wallpaper as an endorphin-releasing treatment that would convert bears into bulls. The text carries the mock sales pitch; the picture is unseen.
They will never take Rpitelia alive.
bangersdad (5 people quoting, 5 quoting posts in the month; 0 merits) gave Rpitelia a theatrical last stand: he would not be taken alive. The surrounding circumstances are unclear; no actual arrest is established.
February 20141. Mt. Gox customers, losses and accountabilityJorgeStolfi distinguished customer balances from Gox's actual assets and debts, then
JorgeStolfi condemned accepting deposits during suspended withdrawals.
magicmexican relayed a disputed account of protesters and staff harassment.
Loozik asked which balances might fare better in Japanese bankruptcy proceedings.
2. Bitcoin's price outlook, downturn and recoverymah87 asked why prices were crashing, then
mah87 declared the bubble finished.
kkaspar wanted a fall toward $200 before recovery;
TERA expected consolidation before a break through $520.
cbutters treated the bounce as a crossroads and explicitly admitted the larger trend remained unknown.
3. Buying, selling, holding and personal trading decisionsNemo1024 welcomed buy orders filled at $10 intervals and
Nemo1024 warned against chasing the lowest entry.
UnDerDoG81 regretted buying forty coins at 680 before a cheaper opportunity.
TERA's mostly fiat position brought a different fear: exchanges disappearing with the cash.
4. Small cultural, computing and everyday asidesBitChick invented an epiphany diet,
KeyserSoze recalled a childhood day lost to Atari Pacman, and
fonzie offered an unidentified weekend soundtrack.
MikeH's wish to leave Australia added personal dissatisfaction to the diversions. Exchange crisis and ordinary conversation continued together. Diet jokes, childhood memories, music, and the wish to move elsewhere show how the thread also served as an everyday meeting place.
5. Order books, walls, liquidity and market dataOldGeek watched a 300-coin BTC-e bid at 700 disappear through selling.
analytics alleged repeated placement and cancellation of large orders.
JorgeStolfi's manually collected volume tables carried warnings about errors, missing coverage, and a suspicious BTC-China burst he excluded.
Memes and running jokesJury duty requires prior murder.
JorgeStolfi (5 people quoting, 5 quoting posts in the month; 0 merits) mocked the demand to own Bitcoin before discussing it: jury service had not required committing murder. The dark analogy was a joke about firsthand expertise.
The Night Before Goxxing.
humanitee (4 people quoting, 4 quoting posts in the month; 0 merits) turned a Christmas poem into a hostile parody of broken withdrawals, slow announcements, and vanished solvency. Its imagined scenes belong to satire.
March 20141. Forum civility, moderation, and participationoctaft (see also
octaft) urged sourced, polite answers to newcomers, including for the benefit of silent readers.
JayJuanGee questioned whether every contribution was useful while stressing that he had no moderation powers. The tension was how to keep discussion substantive without shutting out skeptical questions.
2. Price levels, walls, rallies, and reversalsphatsphere watched bids shift between 620 and 625 as a 650 wall grew;
pietje wondered about breaking 700.
TERA claimed a resistance call around 666 had worked at 660. By month's end,
MoreFun wanted stronger volume before calling the fight at $500 a bottom.
3. The March bear market, bottom calls, and recoveryGreekGeek compared the downturn with 2011 and warned that fresh money might take a long time to return.
billyjoeallen doubted enough coins had changed hands for a final bottom.
windjc found rebound buying too weak for a convincing capitulation story. A bounce settled little.
4. Bitcoin charts, exchange data, and analytical toolsJorgeStolfi found missing Bitstamp minutes in Bitcoinwisdom and
JorgeStolfi warned about manual volume-table errors and incomplete venue coverage.
Richy_T proposed a daily volatility measure for ChartBuddy. Better observation depended on checking both the inputs and the construction of the statistics.
5. Buying, selling, and holding through the downturnroslinpl urged calm and possible accumulation.
JayJuanGee described being afraid both to buy and sell, then
JayJuanGee reported costly purchases down from roughly $610 without yet reaching the selling half of his plan.
bamsbamx registered to ask what HODL meant: even familiar shorthand needed explaining.
Memes and running jokesChina is a country in Asia.
Ivanhoe (4 people quoting, 4 quoting posts in the month; 0 merits) appended a sarcastic geography lesson for Americans to a report that China was moving again, turning exchange watching into national teasing.
Crypto-friendly genes meet Walmart.
JorgeStolfi (4 people quoting, 4 quoting posts in the month; 0 merits) imagined Walmart diets removing Bitcoin-friendly genes through natural selection. Gift-card shopping supplied the context for the deliberately absurd causal chain.
April 20141. April price levels, walls and trading rangesuhoh preferred a shakeout toward $300 to an immediate rise. Long-term bull
seanneko suspected a bull trap, asking why buyers suddenly wanted coins available more cheaply a week earlier.
dreamspark watched a 522-BTC wall at $475;
keithers later saw $500 becoming a psychological barrier.
2. Forum jokes, memes, creative projects and banteradamstgBit proposed freezing himself until a $1 million coin or 2020.
bitcoinsrus offered imaginary time travel to a regretful buyer,
p0peji requested a train picture, and
frienemy offered home recording equipment for a collective Rallye Song. Waiting became material for jokes and projects.
3. Order books, large trades and manipulation allegationsmmitech called Huobi walls phantom orders;
JorgeStolfi insisted that explaining how volume could be fabricated did not prove fabrication.
porcupine87 questioned repeated 115.98-BTC bids, while
CoinThinker read bid-heavy depth as bullish. The visible books did not reveal their owners' intentions. Participants disagreed over whether displayed liquidity could be trusted and what, if anything, it predicted about the next move.
4. Trading methods, leverage and risk managementchessnut warned that a day trader and long-term holder might both be right yet mislead a newcomer using the wrong horizon.
octaft cautioned against guarantees, desperate investment, and leverage.
TERA defended indicators;
sidhujag stressed emotional execution and a potentially narrow edge.
5. Personal holdings, buying and selling decisionsJayJuanGee planned continued averaging and said he could wait years.
serenitys, still awaiting verification for a first coin, feared missing a rise and asked whether the code guaranteed exponential growth.
seleme did not know when serious buying should begin. Conviction coexisted with basic confusion.
Memes and running jokesCryogenic HODLing.
adamstgBit (4 people quoting, 4 quoting posts in the month; 0 merits) made the long wait for riches literal with an imaginary freezing arrangement: thaw at $1 million per coin or in 2020. The image is unavailable.
The endlessly postponed China ban.
Hen0xyd (4 people quoting, 4 quoting posts in the month; 0 merits) proposed counting China's Bitcoin bans and their postponed deadlines, admitting uncertainty even about the starting count. Repeated finality became the joke.
May 20141. Market direction, rallies and resistancesimtal wondered whether to buy after months of waiting;
keithers welcomed a return above $500.
MahaRamana emphasized the proportional gain from the bottom.
RUEHL later watched 630 resistance for a double top or breakthrough, while
bigdave's pump-and-dump question preserved doubts about durability.
2. Wall Observer humor, rituals and community exchangesfreebit13 insisted a real pump required trains and CCMF;
JulieFig proposed a party when price passed the page count.
JimboToronto offered a personal recollection of CCMF's origins.
TERA took diversification beyond investing, imagining a portfolio of religions as insurance against hell.
3. Charts and competing technical-analysis methodsoda.krell distinguished strict trendlines from ones allowing wick violations, while
studio1one credited a three-day MACD signal.
JorgeStolfi favored external explanations for major moves.
p0peji questioned why bearish calls met skepticism while bullish Elliott Wave predictions drew enthusiasm.
4. China policy rumors and market influencewindjc considered exchange closures or offshore moves significant but allowed for workarounds past a reported deadline.
JorgeStolfi emphasized Chinese influence,
Azeh asked what drove a pump, and
fonzie asserted another month-end ban. These remained contemporary claims rather than verified policy findings.
5. Small jokes, cultural references and everyday asidesJorgeStolfi enjoyed Google Translate's versions of Huobi and Litecoin and
JorgeStolfi boasted of doubling holdings daily.
edwardspitz defended an eight-legged spider drawing;
ErisDiscordia proclaimed readers Discordian popes while forbidding agreement. Language, mock religion, and inflated boasting filled the gaps.
Memes and running jokesA diversified portfolio of religions.
TERA (5 people quoting, 5 quoting posts in the month; 0 merits) imagined spreading belief across religions to reduce the risk of hell, borrowing investment vocabulary for spiritual insurance.
Facts U Dislike. Facts U Dislike split the audience:
dropt (3 people quoting, 3 quoting posts in the month; 0 merits) disliked it,
oda.krell (3 people quoting, 3 quoting posts in the month; 0 merits) criticized its overuse, and
N12 (3 people quoting, 3 quoting posts in the month; 0 merits) defended it against dismissing unwelcome news as FUD. Repetition also drew irritation.
June 20141. June price swings, trading ranges and market directionkeithers welcomed consolidation at 650-666.
oda.krell offered two readings of a drop: preparation for another rise or an exhausted rally.
YipYip warned that losing 551 support could bring 480;
blatchcorn called a decline a bear trap. The same moves sustained competing recovery stories.
2. Exchange liquidity, order books and price discoveryIvanhoe found a 1,000-BTC ask wall appearing late on one charting service.
Raystonn anticipated closer exchange prices through better broker access.
_javi_ questioned Chinese turnover, while
CoinThinker took bid-heavy Bitstamp depth as a reason to hold. Measurement and interpretation remained intertwined.
3. Personal Bitcoin finances, risk and trading decisionsJayJuanGee considered dividing roughly $20,000 into three purchases.
mmitech said trading gains had paid debts and enabled two years with family;
mmitech defended cash for food, housing, and education.
Sandia, possibly unable to buy again for months, wanted an objective view of downside risk.
4. Technical analysis, chart patterns and indicator disputesjl2012 saw weekly MACD turn up while daily MACD turned down.
aminorex defended the long-term logarithmic trend; invested participant
nrd525 doubted its growth rate could last.
oda.krell requested rigorous testing. Exposure to Bitcoin did not imply faith in every bullish chart.
5. The Silk Road auction's rules, bidders and reported resultsgizmoh reproduced auction rules including a $200,000 deposit and separate blocks.
Youghoor considered selling beforehand;
wobber compared large auction buying with exchange slippage.
gentlemand relayed a syndicate's forty-two bidders and 186 bids, with winners still awaiting notification.
Memes and running jokesOne BTC buys the whole world.
JorgeStolfi (9 people quoting, 9 quoting posts in the month; 0 merits) asked whether one BTC would buy all world wealth by 2027.
aminorex (3 people quoting, 3 quoting posts in the month; 0 merits) extended the exaggeration to lost coins and Earth joining a galactic council.
The market hates anthropomorphism.
aminorex (5 people quoting, 5 quoting posts in the month; 0 merits) warned against giving the market human motives, then immediately gave it an emotion: it disliked anthropomorphism.
July 20141. July's market direction and bear-market outlookJayJuanGee considered $550 possible but thought $500 needed major bad news;
deadley welcomed an upward turn.
Newbie1022 stressed weak participation and fragile bids.
ShroomsKit declared Bitcoin failing. The certainty of some forecasts exceeded what the disagreement could establish.
2. Bitcoin humor, memes, and forum diversionspodyx proposed a Bitcoin song combining lows, trains, arguments, and holding until death.
Wary described aminorex's magic monkey as a personified trading indicator.
JerryCurlzzz offered liftoff enthusiasm;
jl2012 framed a future party ticket as a lottery-like chance. The forum supplied its own characters.
3. Technical analysis and prediction credibilityShroomsKit accused technical analysis of endlessly announcing decision points and
ShroomsKit criticized finding patterns afterward.
empowering defended charts as decision tools rather than guarantees.
JorgeStolfi preferred fitted lines to noisy high-low trendlines;
windjc doubted indefinitely sustainable logarithmic growth.
4. July support and resistance testspodyx offered a bet against prices ever falling below $640.
wasserman99 later hoped 590 would hold;
zby questioned a vanished 575 wall, and
drez outlined conditional defenses at 560, 540, and 515.
ShroomsKit's return to an all-in position after panic trading captured the shifting outlook.
5. Holding, buying dips, and investment riskRon~Popeil found bear markets easier for long-term accumulation.
hodlmybtc feared missing a rise by selling to rebuy slightly lower and claimed unsold losses did not count.
iram3130 warned that newcomers acted on advice. An adjacent borrowing dispute involving
wachtwoord concerned Ripple, not proven Bitcoin trading skill.
Memes and running jokesA printing press cures trading paralysis.
aminorex (3 people quoting, 3 quoting posts in the month; 0 merits) answered trading hesitation with a mock Heidelberg printing-press advertisement: imaginary currency output would eliminate liquidity worries and risk.
The permanently high page-count plateau.
justusranvier (3 people quoting, 3 quoting posts in the month; 0 merits) imagined Irving Fisher declaring the thread's page count a permanently high plateau, transferring market confidence to the forum's own growth.
August 20141. The August decline, bottoms and changing price levelsShroomsKit asked why price kept falling if cheap coins delighted everyone.
Tzupy watched bids retreat before $500 broke.
Chuckee interpreted the earlier rise to 680 as a temporary return to normal before more decline;
bigdave later celebrated being above 500 again. Relief repeatedly gave way to doubt.
2. Bear-market outlook, capitulation and Bitcoin's survivalfalllling forecast successive drops and capitulation;
ShroomsKit said he had sold his remaining coins.
Torque treated bearish sentiment as a contrarian buying signal.
JorgeStolfi read the May rise and retreat as buyers changing their minds, distinguishing serious opinion from his comic language.
3. Trading strategy, accumulation and personal exposurefallinglantern described fixed monthly purchases.
JayJuanGee suggested small weekly accumulation within one's means.
bigasic considered selling more than a hundred coins to rebuy lower but remembered being burned;
billyjoeallen returned with cash hoping for a crash. Different regrets produced different plans.
4. Trading stress, wellbeing and risk disciplineNewbie1022 described disrupted eating, exercise, sleep, and bathing.
N12 urged relief from constant financial monitoring.
abercrombie reported losses from repeatedly trying to catch a bottom, and
ShroomsKit criticized panic-buying and selling. The decline was also damaging everyday routines.
5. Forum conduct, moderation and recurring personalitiesAmazonStuff missed polite analysis;
magicmexican suggested ignoring accounts with fewer than ten posts.
BitChick challenged assumptions of pomposity about Risto, while
gizmoh questioned his castle spending. The exchanges concerned reputation and status without independently establishing motives or finances.
Memes and running jokesBitcoin at $1,000 in 3.4 hours.
adamstgBit (3 people quoting, 3 quoting posts in the month; 0 merits) extrapolated a $1 gain in two minutes into a $1,000 coin in 3.4 hours, complete with trains: a parody of tiny moves yielding enormous targets.
Adam is the entire thread.
Bittings (3 people quoting, 3 quoting posts in the month; 0 merits) imagined the entire thread as Adam talking to himself, then doubted even Bittings was real. The joke exaggerates alternate-account suspicions, without validating them.
September 20141. Bitcoin's decline, possible bottom, and price levelsChuckee judged $400 too high;
Wandererfromthenorth stressed weak volume and broken support.
Newbie1022 interpreted a rise through possible short-covering thresholds while admitting an uncovered short and prayer.
Sandia feared lower prices were harming adoption. Neither optimism nor pessimism found a settled bottom.
2. Personal buying, selling, holding, and investment riskJayJuanGee estimated a purchase average near $605 including costs;
klee listed five-coin buys at 390, 380, and 370.
Boxman90 argued that buying higher created no obligation to hold forever: current risk tolerance mattered.
adamstgBit announced selling everything without explanation.
3. Forum jokes, memes, and playful market cultureTeeBone enjoyed ShroomsKit's sarcastic catalogue of cheap coins and lift-off while criticizing delight at losses.
empowering hid bullish encouragement in binary.
adamstgBit supplied a four-lights declaration.
mmitech's gambling-site question, by contrast, was a serious inquiry within this broad humor theme.
4. Market manipulation, whales, order books, and trading mechanicsSandia blamed large sellers for triggering panic and
Sandia interpreted a 2,000-coin wall through that theory.
DutchTrades urged emotional distance from walls.
oda.krell distinguished useful same-exchange comparisons from aggregate volume distorted by cheap automated turnover. Coordinated manipulation remained unproved.
5. Bitcoin valuation, bubbles, and long-term prospectswachtwoord separated improving value from short-term price.
oda.krell invoked Bitcoin's recovery after 2011;
Wandererfromthenorth countered that a bigger market required more demand and could survive while overvalued.
Sandia feared falling purchasing power drove people away. Historical analogy offered no guarantee.
Memes and running jokesBinary buy-buy-buy.
empowering (5 people quoting, 5 quoting posts in the month; 0 merits) hid buy-buy-buy encouragement, KHM's rescue, and confidence in holders inside binary text, then teased readers for bothering to decode it.
To the moon and back before year-end.
wachtwoord (4 people quoting, 4 quoting posts in the month; 0 merits) answered complaints about a poor year by allowing three and a half months for a trip to the moon and back. The remaining calendar became a rally joke.
October 20141. Price direction, October decline and bottom callsnakaone wanted slow deterioration to end in a decisive selloff.
blade87 expected the giant $300 wall's removal to unlock movement but would not choose $200 or $400.
aclass distinguished agreement about a bottom from hope;
jonoiv supplied a timed forecast and
ShroomsKit declared doom.
2. Order-book walls and the 30,000-BTC Bitstamp episodeOn October 5,
uhoh read the 30,000-BTC wall as intimidation;
inca considered several possible motives.
adamstgBit reported over 6,000 coins bought after roughly ninety minutes.
explorer later reported the wall gone after six hours and about 30,000 coins. Its owner and intention remained unknown. The sequence gave participants a shared event to follow, from interpreting the wall to counting purchases and reporting its disappearance.
3. Technical analysis, indicators and prediction credibilityThomas-s asked about an inverted head-and-shoulders pattern, with reply context requiring a high-volume break.
mmitech warned that green MACD needed momentum;
ShroomsKit compared chart lines to dice.
jonoiv's precise forecast cited unspecified sources. Conditions and unsupported confidence shared the page.
4. Manipulation theories, whales and large sellersTorque suspected endless selling suppressed price;
ShroomsKit admitted not knowing who or why.
drakoin made wallet analysis conditional on an unproved link to the seller.
esse83 preferred ordinary supply and demand;
JayJuanGee stressed varied reasons for transactions. No seller identity was established.
5. Holding, trading and managing personal financial riskFNG defended holding through earlier bears;
TsuyokuNaritai claimed a year of holding had never lost money.
ShroomsKit's farewell promised visits after further drops.
octaft demanded a plan capable of surviving zero, especially with debt: professed risk tolerance alone would not pay living costs.
Memes and running jokesI own this market.
Nemesis (10 people quoting, 10 quoting posts in the month; 0 merits) boasted of owning the market, creating a conspicuous control gag amid whale and sell-wall theories. Quotation attention supplies no proof of ownership.
A perfectly straight rise for Shroomsy.
N12 (5 people quoting, 5 quoting posts in the month; 0 merits) asked whether anything short of a perfectly straight rise would satisfy Shroomsy, teasing recurring complaints about traders and dumpers.
Another quoted exchange combined a claim that adamstgBit's wife had left with a buy-back-lower joke; the personal claim is unverified.
Posts discussed in this qualification:
adamstgBit;
adamstgBit.
November 20141. November's rally, downturn, and market directionNewbie1022 first expected a ceiling below $395 and a return to the low 300s.
Miz4r and
AmazonStuff later found recovery signs but wanted convincing volume.
ParabellumLite argued turnover might reflect cheaper coins and trading rather than a changed mentality. The rally did not settle the larger trend.
2. Forum personalities, conduct, and moderationcriptix wondered about adamstgBit's absence before later welcomes marked his return.
lyth0s challenged reciprocal name-calling,
octaft defended moderators' restraint, and
justusranvier rejected assumptions about his background. Familiarity brought concern about regulars, but also arguments over reputation.
3. Exchange prices, China, volume, and market manipulation claimsN12 suspected fake BTC-China volume and induced arbitrage.
Phillis questioned a Chinese premium above $20;
aspa asked whether reported turnover counted trades twice. An exchange involving
ask corrected an alleged single 800-BTC sale. These were challenges to measurements, without independent proof of wash trading.
4. Trading skill, speculation, leverage, and short positionsoda.krell compared trading skill with poker;
N12 emphasized the noise in short timeframes.
Newbie1022 reported shorting at 381.
DumbWoman said a short opened at $280 had caused an almost $24,000 loss. The personal accounts illustrated rally exposure without verifying positions or their eventual resolution.
5. Price levels, support, resistance, and market structurecheekychap described two swings from roughly 320 to above 400 and back.
ejinte wanted 399;
Feri22 wanted 370 after another retreat.
hdbuck considered a break through 380 potentially bullish, while reply context feared a fake-out. Each level could be destination, resistance, or disappointment.
Memes and running jokesDoubling zero every day.
MrPiggles (3 people quoting, 3 quoting posts in the month; 0 merits) attacked the daily-doubling boast as misleading. Reply context supplied the arithmetic: doubling zero leaves zero, without establishing JorgeStolfi's actual balance.
Rockets before confirmation.
oda.krell (3 people quoting, 3 quoting posts in the month; 0 merits) mocked the thread for launching rockets and posting trains just before discovering whether celebration was warranted. Premature confidence supplied the joke.
December 20141. Bitcoin price outlook, bottoms and recoveryLFC_Bitcoin weighed holding against buying more amid boredom.
riiiiising expected prices below $100;
kenji asked about losing $300.
billyjoeallen urged patience and warned against uninformed margin trades.
dakota neat took resilience above 300 despite bearishness as bullish. Exhaustion and contrarian hope coexisted.
2. Buying dips, holding and personal investment riskN12 separated forgone unrealized gains from losing invested money.
LFC_Bitcoin posed a hypothetical $5,000 exit requiring no future purchases.
JayJuanGee defended accumulation but acknowledged that continuing falls could exhaust cash.
fonsie's theory about traders recouping Gox losses remained conjecture.
3. Forum etiquette, moderation and discussion qualityJimboToronto defended using ignore consistently;
jaredboice proposed public ignore counts and filtering.
njcarlos questioned self-moderation's limits,
jertsy wanted less Ripple promotion, and
LFC_Bitcoin questioned skeptics' commitment to posting. The boundaries of relevant, tolerable discussion stayed contested.
4. One-off jokes and short forum bantercoinableS offered escalating Christmas wordplay;
cryyptc blamed an unruly alien hand.
JayJuanGee compared CrazyRabbi's logic with a rabbit hole.
jaberwock clarified that a story about finding and arresting Satoshi came from a joke site. The exchange records satire, not an actual arrest.
5. Forum greetings, rituals and milestonesFeri22 urged Christmas attention to family while excluding bears and trolls from his greeting.
NotLambchop said good morning;
explorer asked about ChartBuddy's baldness, with visual context unavailable.
Elwar recalled earlier post deletions in a scramble for page 10,000, rather than dating that scramble to December.
Memes and running jokesChristmas crypto reeducation.
gentlemand (3 people quoting, 3 quoting posts in the month; 0 merits) imagined replacing family presents with compulsory crypto presentations, discussion, and coding, then planning more reeducation. Relentless holiday evangelism became parody.
Three Tibetan monks run Bitcoin.
grappa_barricata (2 people quoting, 2 quoting posts in the month; 0 merits) imagined Bitcoin running on three Tibetan monks with abacuses.
birr (2 people quoting, 2 quoting posts in the month; 0 merits) asked which monks;
grappa_barricata (2 people quoting, 2 quoting posts in the month; 0 merits) said in a follow-up that one was memorizing SHA-256. The dialogue is textual; its image is unseen.
