Pages:
Author

Topic: Bitcoin bubble crash @ 100$ Summer of 2013? - page 2. (Read 9216 times)

donator
Activity: 1736
Merit: 1014
Let's talk governance, lipstick, and pigs.
Bitcoin is the new Berkshire-Hathaway common stock

hero member
Activity: 784
Merit: 1000
Annuit cœptis humanae libertas
I can’t see why bitcoin would be different, we should have a huge dip when if this rally loses momentum. For long term investments 20-30$ is a good level to buy huge amounts of bitcoin.

FTFY

Quote
For the long term I think 1000$-5000$ may be a good target if bitcoin becomes a PayPal killer

And at least ~100x that amount if bitcoin ever becomes a major player as a reserve currency, or is used by major corporations to store and transfer real value.

1 BTC could trade at 1000 USD before the end of this year, given the recent activity witnessed. Of course, in truth, I don't think it's likely to rise that quickly, and it could be a major bubble if it does, but I wouldn't rule it out now either (I would've ridiculed the notion only three months ago!).
sr. member
Activity: 434
Merit: 250
In Hashrate We Trust!
I’m curious what people are thinking that are buying into an exponential price curve?
Are they expecting bitcoin to continue go up much more than other investments, or are they afraid their fiat currency (euro) may lose in value significantly?

When I’m trading stocks I prefer to buy into dips rather than just buying when something is going up. I usually do the opposite: short stocks or indices that are going up too much, too fast and take profit on the dip.

I can’t see why bitcoin would be different, we should have a huge dip when this rally loses momentum. For long term investments 20-30$ is a good level to buy huge amounts of bitcoin.
For the long term I think 1000$-5000$ may be a good target if bitcoin becomes a PayPal killer
sr. member
Activity: 260
Merit: 250
It will only crash if serious bad news comes in. Otherwise, there is no other way but up with perhaps temporary hickups or horizontal movements allowing the market to catch up with the breakneck speed.

It would take REALLY bad news. The recent problems with the fork chain didn't do it.
A gov ban on bitcoin would have some effect, but the recently issued finCEN ruling actually shows that an US ban is not imminent, providing further support for BTC going mainstream.

I really don't see any good reason it should stop at $100 or thereafter. Maybe a little delay, as we saw at $50. Then up, next stops $200 or $250 (3 weeks), then $500 (somtime in may), then $1000 (during the summer).

YES for this analysis


Quote
This doesn't make sense. Past history is not an indication of future performance. So much variables changed since June 2011. You could take all your numbers and put a random one and it would be as much precise. Try to understand why the price crashed in 2011 and what changed since then. I don't say it won't crash but history is not likely to repeat itself.

YES

Isnt it funny how all the logical arguments point to the price going up further.

All the illogical ones, about a fear of a bubble, because the rise has been too fast, because of a certain chart pattern, etc etc , point to the price falling.

As someone who aims to trade on reason and logical grounds rather than emotional, I know which side of the order book Im on right now.
hero member
Activity: 532
Merit: 500
On localbitcoins there is an individual currently willing to pay 100 already.
vip
Activity: 756
Merit: 503
If history repeats itself Bitcoin might make a parabolic rally up in the sky and make an ATH at 100$ for a day and crash 80% in the summer of 2013.

Bitcoin crashed 95% summer of 2011 so I am generous when saying that 80% crash should be enough - and we will be back at 20$.

The early ASIC-miners got a huge profit now and it seems that they just hord everything they mine, so when they begin to sell the chain reaction will give us a bottom to levels before  the 2013-rally started.

What do you think?
This doesn't make sense. Past history is not an indication of future performance. So much variables changed since June 2011. You could take all your numbers and put a random one and it would be as much precise. Try to understand why the price crashed in 2011 and what changed since then. I don't say it won't crash but history is not likely to repeat itself.

legendary
Activity: 1064
Merit: 1000


Put up a chart of population growth over the last thousand years or so... we must be in a population bubble. Watch out!

Wouldn't population growth ACTUALLY be a bubble? If we hit the carrying capacity of Earth (with respect to necessary-for-survival natural resources) before we achieve post-scarcity, wouldn't the population drop significantly AKA "bubble pop" as hunger, disease, and fighting for increasingly scarce resources increases?

Yes, unless we start exporting humans to other planets... but then you could argue the same thing about the solar system, until we start exporting humans to other galaxies... but then you could argue the same thing about the universe.

My point is that a stupid chart that shows only growth shows you ABSOLUTELY nothing, absent the context in which that growth is taking place. That's the mistake made by all the chartists.

You could've called a bubble about to pop to the growth in human population in any 500 year period for roughly the last 10 - 15 thousand years. If you just focus in narrowly on THAT PARTICULAR 500 year period, but absent the larger context of where that growth is taking place, those charts are meaningless.

So are these.

I guess any chart is like a painting then. Does not show nothing unless you already know what to see.
legendary
Activity: 2100
Merit: 1000


Put up a chart of population growth over the last thousand years or so... we must be in a population bubble. Watch out!

Wouldn't population growth ACTUALLY be a bubble? If we hit the carrying capacity of Earth (with respect to necessary-for-survival natural resources) before we achieve post-scarcity, wouldn't the population drop significantly AKA "bubble pop" as hunger, disease, and fighting for increasingly scarce resources increases?

Yes, unless we start exporting humans to other planets... but then you could argue the same thing about the solar system, until we start exporting humans to other galaxies... but then you could argue the same thing about the universe.

My point is that a stupid chart that shows only growth shows you ABSOLUTELY nothing, absent the context in which that growth is taking place. That's the mistake made by all the chartists.

You could've called a bubble about to pop to the growth in human population in any 500 year period for roughly the last 10 - 15 thousand years. If you just focus in narrowly on THAT PARTICULAR 500 year period, but absent the larger context of where that growth is taking place, those charts are meaningless.

So are these.

+1

this is why when analyzing charts of financial markets, you always look at the big, long term picture first
legendary
Activity: 1106
Merit: 1001


Put up a chart of population growth over the last thousand years or so... we must be in a population bubble. Watch out!

Wouldn't population growth ACTUALLY be a bubble? If we hit the carrying capacity of Earth (with respect to necessary-for-survival natural resources) before we achieve post-scarcity, wouldn't the population drop significantly AKA "bubble pop" as hunger, disease, and fighting for increasingly scarce resources increases?

Yes, unless we start exporting humans to other planets... but then you could argue the same thing about the solar system, until we start exporting humans to other galaxies... but then you could argue the same thing about the universe.

My point is that a stupid chart that shows only growth shows you ABSOLUTELY nothing, absent the context in which that growth is taking place. That's the mistake made by all the chartists.

You could've called a bubble about to pop to the growth in human population in any 500 year period for roughly the last 10 - 15 thousand years. If you just focus in narrowly on THAT PARTICULAR 500 year period, but absent the larger context of where that growth is taking place, those charts are meaningless.

So are these.
sr. member
Activity: 644
Merit: 250


Put up a chart of population growth over the last thousand years or so... we must be in a population bubble. Watch out!

Wouldn't population growth ACTUALLY be a bubble? If we hit the carrying capacity of Earth (with respect to necessary-for-survival natural resources) before we achieve post-scarcity, wouldn't the population drop significantly AKA "bubble pop" as hunger, disease, and fighting for increasingly scarce resources increases?
legendary
Activity: 1106
Merit: 1001

Sorry, but history would indicate otherwise.   Every bubble be it fiat driven or not follows this same cycle.  This cycle can certainly be fueled by interest rate manipulation, but is ultimately driven by emotion.

There have been, and will continue to be bubbles with Bitcoin along the way (and it is immune from interest rate manipulations).

Human nature simply does not change.

Which phase of emotional cycle are we in  Wink



wow that looks like a USD buble Roll Eyes

Put up a chart of population growth over the last thousand years or so... we must be in a population bubble. Watch out!

I wouldnt doubt that either

Cool, now put up a chart that shows population growth from the year 1000 to the year 1900... bubble... bubble about to pop... watch out!


Smartasses who can't figure out scale are smartasses  Grin
legendary
Activity: 1064
Merit: 1000

Sorry, but history would indicate otherwise.   Every bubble be it fiat driven or not follows this same cycle.  This cycle can certainly be fueled by interest rate manipulation, but is ultimately driven by emotion.

There have been, and will continue to be bubbles with Bitcoin along the way (and it is immune from interest rate manipulations).

Human nature simply does not change.

Which phase of emotional cycle are we in  Wink



wow that looks like a USD buble Roll Eyes

Put up a chart of population growth over the last thousand years or so... we must be in a population bubble. Watch out!

I wouldnt doubt that either
legendary
Activity: 1106
Merit: 1001

Sorry, but history would indicate otherwise.   Every bubble be it fiat driven or not follows this same cycle.  This cycle can certainly be fueled by interest rate manipulation, but is ultimately driven by emotion.

There have been, and will continue to be bubbles with Bitcoin along the way (and it is immune from interest rate manipulations).

Human nature simply does not change.

Which phase of emotional cycle are we in  Wink



wow that looks like a USD buble Roll Eyes

Put up a chart of population growth over the last thousand years or so... we must be in a population bubble. Watch out!
sr. member
Activity: 434
Merit: 251
Since new investors outside the Bitcoin community are entering just now
do you have any proof whit numbers and dates ?


What about 3-4k users waiting for account verification on MtGox ?
legendary
Activity: 2100
Merit: 1000
If history repeats itself Bitcoin might make a parabolic rally up in the sky and make an ATH at 100$ for a day and crash 80% in the summer of 2013.

Bitcoin crashed 95% summer of 2011 so I am generous when saying that 80% crash should be enough - and we will be back at 20$.

The early ASIC-miners got a huge profit now and it seems that they just hord everything they mine, so when they begin to sell the chain reaction will give us a bottom to levels before  the 2013-rally started.

What do you think?

implying that the same thing happens again in a  row is the most fundamental mistake.
instead, most often the second time will be very different from the first time.

it is not so easy to predict the market, and this is why it requires constant analyses all the time. it would be too easy otherwise to make money consistently (unfortunately, as this would be quite cool)
hero member
Activity: 756
Merit: 500
I have no money in bitcoin.

It looks like its increasing right now.  Staying at the top of the bollinger band.

But, yeah you need to wait for the right psychological conditions before it can crash.  It will only crash if people lose confidence in the coin.  It won't crash if people are thinking, lets get cheap coin.  It'll go up till people will stop thinking it's a bubble feeling euphoric, then it'll crash.  Currently, more money is coming in.  Also, people have not had enough time to panic.

legendary
Activity: 1064
Merit: 1000

Sorry, but history would indicate otherwise.   Every bubble be it fiat driven or not follows this same cycle.  This cycle can certainly be fueled by interest rate manipulation, but is ultimately driven by emotion.

There have been, and will continue to be bubbles with Bitcoin along the way (and it is immune from interest rate manipulations).

Human nature simply does not change.

Which phase of emotional cycle are we in  Wink



wow that looks like a USD buble Roll Eyes
legendary
Activity: 1988
Merit: 1012
Beyond Imagination

Sorry, but history would indicate otherwise.   Every bubble be it fiat driven or not follows this same cycle.  This cycle can certainly be fueled by interest rate manipulation, but is ultimately driven by emotion.

There have been, and will continue to be bubbles with Bitcoin along the way (and it is immune from interest rate manipulations).

Human nature simply does not change.

Which phase of emotional cycle are we in  Wink

sr. member
Activity: 294
Merit: 250
This bull will try to shake you off. Hold tight!

If Bitcoin really becomes the no 1 internet payment solution for millions of people it means bitcoin should be worth as much as the money supply of a banana republic.
Maybe something like 10 billion dollars = 500$/BTC.

Why banana republic? If bitcoin becomes an important currency then valuation of not 10 but 1000 billion dollar is appropriate considering USD currency in circulation is valued at 6000 billion, gold in circulation is valued at 10,000 billion. And other fiat like euro, cad, etc is also valued at 20,000 billion. Bitcoin will replace at least 10% of that currency, that means a valuation of 3600 billion, maybe already in 10 years. But let's say it's only 1000 billion in 10 years, that's replacing 3% of the existing fiat currency and gold. A reasonable estimate. This means 1000 billion USD market cap / 21 million coins = 50,000 USD per bitcoin. Coming from $70 today that means a total increase of 10,000% or 1,000% per year on average. Let's reduce that to 500% per year on average. That's what it also has been since it started trading in 2010, 450% on average.
full member
Activity: 238
Merit: 100
RMBTB.com: The secure BTC:CNY exchange. 0% fee!


I will laugh when you are here[/center]


You can laugh if you like, but I won't sell. I'm getting used to the roller-coaster ride.

The reason I sound so optimistic is because this speculation sub-forum is dangerous. ;-)

Pages:
Jump to: