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BTC already bouncing
I keep saying that central banks get one final kick at the can: they can "sell out" by purchasing bitcoins with newly-created fiat until all confidence in fiat is lost. Central banks would still have a big pile of coins to continue with monetary policy.
I wonder how many coins they could get if they started doing this today.
I'm guessing a good chunk - 1/3 of all in existence at least. A lot of people would sell their coins before it was clear who was buying them. And then it would take a bit to realize the CB's intention. It would take some very high prices before everyone knew what was happening. Over $100k, I'd guess. We could hit $10k and nobody would even suspect it was any different than previous bubbles.
the risk for them doing this would be enormous.
reputational risk would include a market perception of fear of Bitcoin and lack of confidence in USD. it would be a clear signal that they believe their future is doomed. just "being in the game" would not facilitate monetary policy manipulation which is the raison d'etre for their existence in the first place.
if ppl found out they were doing this, everyone and their mother would pile in driving the price even higher to stratospheric levels. i suppose they could find a proxy buyer to accumulate coins but if they accidentally pick a Snowden-type, they'd be screwed.
CB's aren't smart investors as far as i'm concerned. look at Gordon Brown's faux pas. during the noughts, CB's in general were selling gold for the most part. the recent buying by Russia and China, i believe, will go down in history as yet another mistake.
no, i think the CB's, especially the Fed, are "all-in" with fiat. that's not good; for them.
Cypher, I thought you believed that bitcoin could serve as a sort of reserve currency that enforced discipline. If central banks hold gold on the asset side of their balance sheets, why can't they one day hold bitcoin? If our world is truly going to transition from fiat to cryptocurrency, would this not be a natural step in the process?
To me the relationship between central banks and bitcoin is a high-stakes game of chicken--viewed together as a cohesive system, it's in their best interest to ignore bitcoin; but viewed individually, it's in each CB's best interest to support bitcoin sooner than all the others if the end game is inevitable.
In a bitcoin future, I also think they'll still be able to conduct monetary policy (albeit to a reduced extent). They'll be able to lend from their huge bitcoin reserves when the economy slows, and increase the interest rate on those loans when the economy improves. The beauty with bitcoin is that if they make poor decisions, their reserves will dwindle right alongside the notion that "wise men at the Fed" make better decisions for the economy than the free market.
the other thing is that the Fed represents the ultimate in monetary corruption. they are the banks Mothership. Bitcoin is a poison dart directed at this heart of the problem. for them to adopt Bitcoin as an asset and then claim they have any role in a future monetary system based off it is anachronistic. The Chairman represents the ultimate form of centralization. i've posted many times on here how the interest rate decisions really are made by him/her. the board is irrelevant. the banks like it this way so that they have to keep only 1 phone # in their rolodexes. yes, they still use them. how many direct phone calls, the content of which still remain a secret, went btwn the primary dealers and Bernanke during the crisis? dozens, if not hundreds.
they really need to go.
Not picking it up before USD 2.
It probably won't go that low. LTC spiraled last year until $1.50 while BTC was flat, then it followed its big brother upwards in November. The historical price connection between the two biggest coins in crypto is hard to deny--a rally in BTC usually means a rally in LTC.
Yup +1
I have my buy orders set at 0.009 LTC/BTC and I plan to at least triple my BTC invested from that point
even if it does survive by some miracle, LTC will always be relegated to a trading tool for BTC. we still can't buy anything with LTC and scrypt mining is an unsolvable problem. with that in mind, i don't think it has a chance.
Sure you can buy things with it, but the number of merchants isn't nearly as big. I do believe there is a giftcard service although I haven't tried it. After using it for awhile I do like the faster confirm times. As a trading tool to transfer value between exchanges it is useful, so for instance a LTC arbitrage bot might be more profitable deposits confirm much more quickly. Still, in the short/medium term it will rally with Bitcoin barring unforseen problems.
this is a good site. look at the all-time chart of LTC:
the unforeseen problem is already here. is this an all-time low? looks to me like the BTC/LTC relationship has forever changed to inverse.
I keep saying that central banks get one final kick at the can: they can "sell out" by purchasing bitcoins with newly-created fiat until all confidence in fiat is lost. Central banks would still have a big pile of coins to continue with monetary policy.
I wonder how many coins they could get if they started doing this today.
I'm guessing a good chunk - 1/3 of all in existence at least. A lot of people would sell their coins before it was clear who was buying them. And then it would take a bit to realize the CB's intention. It would take some very high prices before everyone knew what was happening. Over $100k, I'd guess. We could hit $10k and nobody would even suspect it was any different than previous bubbles.
the risk for them doing this would be enormous.
reputational risk would include a market perception of fear of Bitcoin and lack of confidence in USD. it would be a clear signal that they believe their future is doomed. just "being in the game" would not facilitate monetary policy manipulation which is the raison d'etre for their existence in the first place.
if ppl found out they were doing this, everyone and their mother would pile in driving the price even higher to stratospheric levels. i suppose they could find a proxy buyer to accumulate coins but if they accidentally pick a Snowden-type, they'd be screwed.
CB's aren't smart investors as far as i'm concerned. look at Gordon Brown's faux pas. during the noughts, CB's in general were selling gold for the most part. the recent buying by Russia and China, i believe, will go down in history as yet another mistake.
no, i think the CB's, especially the Fed, are "all-in" with fiat. that's not good; for them.
Cypher, I thought you believed that bitcoin could serve as a sort of reserve currency that enforced discipline. If central banks hold gold on the asset side of their balance sheets, why can't they one day hold bitcoin? If our world is truly going to transition from fiat to cryptocurrency, would this not be a natural step in the process?
i do think Bitcoin could easily serve as a reserve asset. and they can hold Bitcoin on the asset side. it's just that gold already went thru it's 10-11 yr bull market with it's peak in 2011. China & Russia are trying to add gold to their asset side but i think they're living in the past. there's no need to have 2 reserve currency assets. the internet now enables seamless communication of money whereas gold/silver never did. with such a super-money as Bitcoin, gold and silver are doomed, imo. sure, i suppose there could be a transitional, interim period where both fill that role but i think it's dangerous to ignore the peak in 9/2011.
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To me the relationship between central banks and bitcoin is a high-stakes game of chicken--viewed together as a cohesive system, it's in their best interest to ignore bitcoin; but viewed individually, it's in each CB's best interest to support bitcoin sooner than all the others if the end game is inevitable.
In a bitcoin future, I also think they'll still be able to conduct monetary policy (albeit to a reduced extent). They'll be able to lend from their huge bitcoin reserves when the economy slows, and increase the interest rate on those loans when the economy improves. The beauty with bitcoin is that if they make poor decisions, their reserves will dwindle right alongside the notion that "wise men at the Fed" make better decisions for the economy than the free market.
i see no way for CB's to conduct monetary policy via Bitcoin. the protocol replaces them and their functionality and they know this. it's a do or die situation for them.
but it seems to be on a downward trend
...just like it did from April to November of last year.If it drops below 0.005 and/or keeps going down while Bitcoin is making a new ATH, then it will be safe to call it dead.
I won't declare Litecoin dead until it clearly has deviated from its long-term pattern:
http://www.cryptocoincharts.info/v2/pair/ltc/btc/btc-e/alltime
That would mean a BTC mania with no corresponding LTC/BTC mania.
It's going to die eventually, the only question is whether or not they get another pump out of it first.
I didn't know about this site, seems pretty good. http://www.cryptocoincharts.info/v2/pair/ltc/btc/btc-e/alltime
That would mean a BTC mania with no corresponding LTC/BTC mania.
It's going to die eventually, the only question is whether or not they get another pump out of it first.
LTC price is still going down, I wouldn't say its death.. but it seems to be on a downward trend
Not picking it up before USD 2.
It probably won't go that low. LTC spiraled last year until $1.50 while BTC was flat, then it followed its big brother upwards in November. The historical price connection between the two biggest coins in crypto is hard to deny--a rally in BTC usually means a rally in LTC.
Yup +1
I have my buy orders set at 0.009 LTC/BTC and I plan to at least triple my BTC invested from that point
even if it does survive by some miracle, LTC will always be relegated to a trading tool for BTC. we still can't buy anything with LTC and scrypt mining is an unsolvable problem. with that in mind, i don't think it has a chance.
Sure you can buy things with it, but the number of merchants isn't nearly as big. I do believe there is a giftcard service although I haven't tried it. After using it for awhile I do like the faster confirm times. As a trading tool to transfer value between exchanges it is useful, so for instance a LTC arbitrage bot might be more profitable deposits confirm much more quickly. Still, in the short/medium term it will rally with Bitcoin barring unforseen problems.
I won't declare Litecoin dead until it clearly has deviated from its long-term pattern:
http://www.cryptocoincharts.info/v2/pair/ltc/btc/btc-e/alltime
That would mean a BTC mania with no corresponding LTC/BTC mania.
It's going to die eventually, the only question is whether or not they get another pump out of it first.
http://www.cryptocoincharts.info/v2/pair/ltc/btc/btc-e/alltime
That would mean a BTC mania with no corresponding LTC/BTC mania.
It's going to die eventually, the only question is whether or not they get another pump out of it first.
I keep saying that central banks get one final kick at the can: they can "sell out" by purchasing bitcoins with newly-created fiat until all confidence in fiat is lost. Central banks would still have a big pile of coins to continue with monetary policy.
I wonder how many coins they could get if they started doing this today.
I'm guessing a good chunk - 1/3 of all in existence at least. A lot of people would sell their coins before it was clear who was buying them. And then it would take a bit to realize the CB's intention. It would take some very high prices before everyone knew what was happening. Over $100k, I'd guess. We could hit $10k and nobody would even suspect it was any different than previous bubbles.
the risk for them doing this would be enormous.
reputational risk would include a market perception of fear of Bitcoin and lack of confidence in USD. it would be a clear signal that they believe their future is doomed. just "being in the game" would not facilitate monetary policy manipulation which is the raison d'etre for their existence in the first place.
if ppl found out they were doing this, everyone and their mother would pile in driving the price even higher to stratospheric levels. i suppose they could find a proxy buyer to accumulate coins but if they accidentally pick a Snowden-type, they'd be screwed.
CB's aren't smart investors as far as i'm concerned. look at Gordon Brown's faux pas. during the noughts, CB's in general were selling gold for the most part. the recent buying by Russia and China, i believe, will go down in history as yet another mistake.
no, i think the CB's, especially the Fed, are "all-in" with fiat. that's not good; for them.
Cypher, I thought you believed that bitcoin could serve as a sort of reserve currency that enforced discipline. If central banks hold gold on the asset side of their balance sheets, why can't they one day hold bitcoin? If our world is truly going to transition from fiat to cryptocurrency, would this not be a natural step in the process?
To me the relationship between central banks and bitcoin is a high-stakes game of chicken--viewed together as a cohesive system, it's in their best interest to ignore bitcoin; but viewed individually, it's in each CB's best interest to support bitcoin sooner than all the others if the end game is inevitable.
In a bitcoin future, I also think they'll still be able to conduct monetary policy (albeit to a reduced extent). They'll be able to lend from their huge bitcoin reserves when the economy slows, and increase the interest rate on those loans when the economy improves. The beauty with bitcoin is that if they make poor decisions, their reserves will dwindle right alongside the notion that "wise men at the Fed" make better decisions for the economy than the free market.
Fair enough, by those metrics I don't think it has a chance either...
But as it's the most liquid and highly-traded altcoin, I think it has another bubble
But as it's the most liquid and highly-traded altcoin, I think it has another bubble
Not picking it up before USD 2.
It probably won't go that low. LTC spiraled last year until $1.50 while BTC was flat, then it followed its big brother upwards in November. The historical price connection between the two biggest coins in crypto is hard to deny--a rally in BTC usually means a rally in LTC.
Yup +1
I have my buy orders set at 0.009 LTC/BTC and I plan to at least triple my BTC invested from that point
even if it does survive by some miracle, LTC will always be relegated to a trading tool for BTC. we still can't buy anything with LTC and scrypt mining is an unsolvable problem. with that in mind, i don't think it has a chance.
Not picking it up before USD 2.
It probably won't go that low. LTC spiraled last year until $1.50 while BTC was flat, then it followed its big brother upwards in November. The historical price connection between the two biggest coins in crypto is hard to deny--a rally in BTC usually means a rally in LTC.
Yup +1
I have my buy orders set at 0.009 LTC/BTC and I plan to at least triple my BTC invested from that point
Litecoin in a death spiral:
Not picking it up before USD 2.
It probably won't go that low. LTC spiraled last year until $1.50 while BTC was flat, then it followed its big brother upwards in November. The historical price connection between the two biggest coins in crypto is hard to deny--a rally in BTC usually means a rally in LTC.
i think the most important financial dynamic going on in the world today is Bitcoin vs Gold. yes, there’s a component of Bitcoin vs Fiat but gold has always been the real money of centuries past. the pure fiat game has only been around since 1971. that is why i was a goldbug from 2005 to 2011 and why i started the gold threads: Gold: I Smell a Trap and this one. while the Keynesian’s and major CB’s would never admit that gold still plays any importance on the world stage, actions speak louder than words. otherwise, why would India, China, and Russia continue to stock gold? why would the Fed continue to spend millions on fortified storage facilities to stockpile what little they have left? we know that at some level, they covet it. unfortunately for CB’s, they’ve never been very good at calling markets ala Gordon Brown in 2000 selling off the UK’s gold followed by the others for much of the noughts. enter gold’s Black Swan, Bitcoin.
i’m also surprised at how short memories are. we’ve already kicked out 4.5/5 legs of the precious metal story:
1. Silver: remember how all the silver bugs like Eric Sprott and Max Keiser promised us that silver would lead the gold to massive new highs? while gold was supposed to go to $35000, silver would head to $200 or something like that? simply enough, Bitcoin did a Slingshot Effect-cypherdoc past silver easily in the Spring of 2013. effortlessly, like a knife thru butter. and yet goldbugs fail to understand/remember its significance. what bigger a red flag to wave that Bitcoin is superior to metals? Bitcoin has already been Silver’s Black Swan. no one in their right mind thinks silver will ever catch Bitcoin at this point. this is an important clue to the big picture. this is also why i don’t like Litecoin; we don’t need or want a Bitcoin’s silver. Litecoin is doing a death spiral right now. imo, the only reason silver became a form of money in the first place was b/c of the high amount of friction in pm’s. gold has a limited form of divisibility despite what you’ve been told.
2. Miners: oh Lordy. this sector has been wiped out on it’s own merit, however, when compared to the performance of Bitcoin, it’s been a complete disaster. i also think Bitcoin played a big part in that; look at the for sale of the recent gold mine for Bitcoin. remember how miscreanity used to argue vociferously that miners were the ultimate leverage play on gold/silver itself? how’s that turned out? disastrously. pay close attention to that excellent analysis as to the environmental and USD costs of pm mining. that is unsustainable and undesirable. http://www.coindesk.com/microscope-true-costs-gold-production/
3. Gold itself: did you all forget that Satoshi dared to touch the face of gold in price last November? what did that tell us? answer: a hell of a lot. i dare say that the next time Satoshi touches gold it will be with his fist thru the face of gold’s price. we should get another Slingshot Effect-cypherdoc as the world realizes what the implications of Bitcoin will be. that event should re-establish the logarithmic Bitcoin ramp we’ve seen in years past. the seed of doubt in the minds of goldbugs has been planted and it will continue to blossom.
4.5. we’re seeing one after another of former staunch gold bugs convert: Turk, Schiff, Rogers, and possibly Casey and Rickards. the momentum is clear. they will be running to Bitcoin soon.
i’m also surprised at how short memories are. we’ve already kicked out 4.5/5 legs of the precious metal story:
1. Silver: remember how all the silver bugs like Eric Sprott and Max Keiser promised us that silver would lead the gold to massive new highs? while gold was supposed to go to $35000, silver would head to $200 or something like that? simply enough, Bitcoin did a Slingshot Effect-cypherdoc past silver easily in the Spring of 2013. effortlessly, like a knife thru butter. and yet goldbugs fail to understand/remember its significance. what bigger a red flag to wave that Bitcoin is superior to metals? Bitcoin has already been Silver’s Black Swan. no one in their right mind thinks silver will ever catch Bitcoin at this point. this is an important clue to the big picture. this is also why i don’t like Litecoin; we don’t need or want a Bitcoin’s silver. Litecoin is doing a death spiral right now. imo, the only reason silver became a form of money in the first place was b/c of the high amount of friction in pm’s. gold has a limited form of divisibility despite what you’ve been told.
2. Miners: oh Lordy. this sector has been wiped out on it’s own merit, however, when compared to the performance of Bitcoin, it’s been a complete disaster. i also think Bitcoin played a big part in that; look at the for sale of the recent gold mine for Bitcoin. remember how miscreanity used to argue vociferously that miners were the ultimate leverage play on gold/silver itself? how’s that turned out? disastrously. pay close attention to that excellent analysis as to the environmental and USD costs of pm mining. that is unsustainable and undesirable. http://www.coindesk.com/microscope-true-costs-gold-production/
3. Gold itself: did you all forget that Satoshi dared to touch the face of gold in price last November? what did that tell us? answer: a hell of a lot. i dare say that the next time Satoshi touches gold it will be with his fist thru the face of gold’s price. we should get another Slingshot Effect-cypherdoc as the world realizes what the implications of Bitcoin will be. that event should re-establish the logarithmic Bitcoin ramp we’ve seen in years past. the seed of doubt in the minds of goldbugs has been planted and it will continue to blossom.
4.5. we’re seeing one after another of former staunch gold bugs convert: Turk, Schiff, Rogers, and possibly Casey and Rickards. the momentum is clear. they will be running to Bitcoin soon.
Is it just me or were premiums almost double a year or two ago?
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1 oz Gold Bar - Credit Suisse (In Assay)
Any quantity only $21.99 per bar over spot!
- See more at: http://www.apmex.com/product/11950/?&RILT=Link_1oz-CreditSuisse-GoldBar&utm_source=Responsys&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Non-Purchaser%20Conversion#sthash.mR23LWlQ.dpuf
if true-->shit's on sale
I remember $45 - $55 per oz.
Litecoin in a death spiral:
Not picking it up before USD 2.
https://twitter.com/cypherdoc2/status/498889266903384064
Litecoin in a death spiral:
Not picking it up before USD 2.
Is it just me or were premiums almost double a year or two ago?
1 oz Gold Bar - Credit Suisse (In Assay)
Any quantity only $21.99 per bar over spot!
- See more at: http://www.apmex.com/product/11950/?&RILT=Link_1oz-CreditSuisse-GoldBar&utm_source=Responsys&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Non-Purchaser%20Conversion#sthash.mR23LWlQ.dpuf
1 oz Gold Bar - Credit Suisse (In Assay)
Any quantity only $21.99 per bar over spot!
- See more at: http://www.apmex.com/product/11950/?&RILT=Link_1oz-CreditSuisse-GoldBar&utm_source=Responsys&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Non-Purchaser%20Conversion#sthash.mR23LWlQ.dpuf
if true-->shit's on sale
like i said, this sideways action for Bitcoin should serve to clean out a majority of alts; if i had my way, it'd clean out all of them.
Litecoin in a death spiral:
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