Hot bed for manipulation at the moment. So many clueless day traders getting burnt I reckon.
Can you imagine being a Localbitcoins day trader in the current market -
‘Buy in the morning from an exchange’
‘Quick....list for sale on LBC for 5% above market value’
‘OH FUCKKKKK, the price has dumped $1,000’
Yep, the price went up too fast, killing any newbie HODL action, then on top of that, speculators now burnt also. Hard to get traction with newbies and adoption with this kinda stuff.
Maybe enough got burnt on this BTC runup that we got some HODL'ers out of this, but I doubt it. So unless other from 2017 newbies have bought in and have the sense to HODL now,
I think it just made the whole crypto scene look stupid and manipulated (which it probably is anyway) and just turned off a lot of folks who would have ridden the price up to 12k slowly.
I guess we need a sideways price to get some folk back. Again, Bitcoin price is still 2x the amount it was on 4/5/19 at $5050 USD. So there is hope. Bitcoin is an 'evil mistress'
Brad
Frequently, you are such a negative nancy, searing.
Experienced bitcoiners realize that volatility is a part of bitcoin, and chances for actual meaningful or long lasting "stability" is mostly a fantasy, and not part of bitcoin's underlying situation - which happens to be at some early stage of an exponential s-curve adoption.
Newbies can dollar cost average or buy and hold for the long term. They should also be capable to look at charts in order to recognize bitcoin for what it is - a volatile beast - without getting their hopes up higher than they need to be by investing an amount that does not cause them too much anxiety - and DCA should be able to help with that, too.