I appreciate the recognition; however, during times like these, it is difficult for anyone to feel smart - even while the alt coins seem to be faring worse than bitcoin.
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No worries mate, you gave me my first merit as well, thanks for that too!
Look at me now, all grown up, wearing the hat and looking important 'n' shit.
Sometimes I suggest to newer posters (in this thread, or other forum threads) that it might take a bit of time to either fit in or for members to kind of get to know you or your angle on things and respond to your posts (good, bad or ugly) or more recently to give merits, but generally if members attempt to learn, share and stay active, then sooner or later they will find various niches that hopefully works for them....
A bit surprising how long the hat phenomena has lasted, but there has been some decent hat momentum and stick-with-it-ness to the hat-thingie-ma-jiggie, at least so far... and even has inspired merit distribution -- good, bad, ugly or otherwise?
By the way, it seems that I had one or two sell orders fill in the $5,600 price area, so I felt kind 0.k.. to have the subsequent buy orders filling in the supra $5k arena... so yeah, any of us can become either irritated or a bit bothered when BTC prices are dropping further and faster than we expected, and there remain questions about the bottom.... NO one really wants the bears or the shills to be correct with the sub $3k targets.. but sometimes, reversals will happen quite a bit before those waiting it out will get rewarded.