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At least we will all be in a new world order.

It's far from over.

2019 will be known as the dark year(tm copyright 2018).

It seems we rebounded from the bottom. Fiat money are depositing on exchanges and the buy books are a lot fatter than the sell books. At this point ALL miners are at a loss, even those who pay 5c electricity because of the other expenses - rent, salary of the employees, cooling, taxes. So they have no interest in selling in such a way to bring the prices down. Besides, good news are slowly coming - bakkt (although postponed), ETF (2019 may be), the halvening 2020. Even in 2015 when there was no hope, the price almost doubled after the 85% drop from the ATH. Now we hit 80% drop. So in 2019 even if nothing else good happens, we can expect a price above 7K. After the halvening a revisit of ATH is inevitable. Until then the best is to hodl, sell only for urgent needs and buy if extra cash is available.

It could be a good signal that most panickers have finished panicking.

I had been playing around with my buy orders over the past 5-6 months, so I had not systematically reset them, sort of assuming that the price would give some warning before going down so much.    So, there was a bit of gravitation from me, too, towards running out of fiat - especially when more buy orders were filled at higher prices and left me less to work with.

So one thing that I do, when I get kind of desperate is that I won't be able to sell unless I am selling higher than I bought, so that remains one of the problems with running out of buy orders, then the range becomes BIGGER and BIGGER in that the price has to go up higher before a sell order is triggered (which is higher than a buy order).

I kind of get it, but there does seem to be a kind of way to reset the matter, just playing with smaller amounts.

I recall when I first started selling above $255 or something like that.  My amounts were so small that one of my friends told me that I was just wasting my time, so each order was like $5 or something like that.  But, my point is that even with small amounts, you can stack up positions and get back in business, even if the amounts are smaller and they build on each other.. maybe starting out with the minimum order amounts. little by little you can build back up and stay in the game...

I understand that you already decided, but I cannot resist making that point, and a bit of argument that I had with a few people that I introduced to bitcoin and showed them how to stay in the game and to practice, and they lose their attention for it, and say that the amounts are too small, and then when the BIGGER opportunities come, they don't have systems in place because they weren't practicing at all... I am not saying that you are doing that, but I am suggesting that it is good to stay in the game, even if the amounts become really small... not just for you, but for anyone who wants to attempt to accumulate BTC and use their cash flow and attempt to stay active no matter where the BTC price goes - even when it corrects way beyond expectations.  

Of course, you don't have to disclose some of the feelings of embarrassment of how little or how pathetic the situation seems, but sometimes staying active might even be a matter of spreading out allocations so far .... like currently buy amount at the seeming extremes of $2,500 and $8k, and then just slowly adding until they narrow.. and when they narrow because something triggers, you might be back in the game.. just in a really small way... then building and building slowly.




I really don't think that the situation is much different from 2013-14 - and so far this situation has been less severe, it seems to me.

Nonetheless, I understand that if you may have been playing your positions badly then you might have exacerbated, like you said, by expectations that fell out of line with what actually happened, so far.



Those things certainly make sense to me, and if you leveraged, then you are even in a worse situation.  Hopefully, you did not leverage... and you don't need to disclose too much if you don't want to....

My plan does remain to play smaller amounts when I fuck up and even to spreadout the intervals, but I am repeating myself.  Believe me I have not played all situations well, and I have been locked out of doing anything for a while because I mostly wait for the price to come to me, or at least let the situation calm down for a while before I might adjust my own position to be closer to the price in order to get back in the game, if only at a slight loss (which sometimes is moving profits around)



I know that some of the slopes are different, but overall, I still cannot see the situation to have been that different from the 2014 period... the only thing is that we have not had that additional fall from $400-ish to $200-ish.. which would be a drop to $2k ish.. which I still hope does not happen, here.



I will agree that there were a lot fewer exchanges to choose from, and likely there are more bots and more abilities to short bitcoin, currently.. but I still remain unclear about how the arbitrage was that different, just different exchanges..



I lessened the percentage amount of my value that was on exchanges, too.  I just put as much BTC as was necessary to set orders up to certain amounts if the price went up... and fiat generated from the sales.. attempting to keep fiat constant...

Likely it is an ongoing process (job) to attempt to keep your ratios in proper balance.



could be that you were preparing too much for one direction... even though I kept denying the likelihood of downfall, I continuously maintained preparation, just in case.. at least down to $3k and perhaps $1k.. but that caused me to make sure that I had enough fiat out, too... so yeah, it can be possible to run out of fiat, mostly when buying too much and not preparing for down (even if that down does not seem likely).


Well that part we should know that manipulators are going to attempt to pull all stops to manipulate as much as they can get away with.

I would not call it maturity, but I agree that there is a certain level of acceptance that it is going to be difficult for manipulators to break certain lines of support, especially when the price goes up so much and seemingly a lot of rich peeps have bought higher.. but they frequently seem to persist and use coins and information and disinformation and fud and drama and of course these various other stupid ass coins that should not even affect the price of BTC, which is also going to be ETH and its shit and stupid stable coins that are coming on the scene, too.   Manipulators going to manipulate and use the trend and get others to sell and make the low price seem inevitable which causes lemmings to jump off the cliff....

so yeah, fuck the bear manipulators, but they are not going to give up until they have no choice... which some folks like majormax (and even hairy bearie) are more strongly suggesting that more down is inevitable.. Shit I am not going to give into their inevitability conclusions, but I am going to continue to prepare psychologically and financialy for the possibility that their version of events could end up playing out.



I am thinking that it does not work out so well when you are not able to continue to accumulate and you become too BTC heavy...

Yeah, I am down to only about 4% fiat... so I do lose a lot more value with falling BTC prices as compared with rising BTC prices, but even 4% does seem to be enough to play with and keep accumulating and keep buying, at least some BTC if the prices keep going down.


actually, that part is true.

The BTC market performed about 3x to 5x greater than the most bullish of 2017 expectations, so our current correction does cause BTC prices to be around the ballpark of the price of the high of the prior expectations.  There is that.



It seems a bit greedy to me to expect to double again.

All I want to achieve is a kind of ability to have more BTC the next time around, even if that is just 10% or 20% the next time that it gets to $20k... Maybe my expectations are too low?  I don't really expect doubling of my stash, yet I am not usually too sure about the comparisons until the situation plays out, and there are some other things going on too in terms of how much fiat and ratios and maybe other valuable positionings (kind of like insurance that is stronger the next time it goes up).



Actually, I had to tweak my plans in that regard too.

Earlier, in 2015-2016, I was thinking that I would be cashing out large portions of BTC, and after the rise to 2017, I figured out that the theory does not fit so well with the practice, and there are actually good ways to accumulate a lot of cash without really cashing out large portions of the BTC.. and surely, if you know for sure about real estate or something specifically that you want to acquire, then of course, you might strategically cash out a larger portion to achieve those kinds of diversification (whether consumptive or investments).

The mempool seems to be clearing finally. Most everyone’s coins should be available on exchanges now. Perhaps a sign the near term pain is over?

Now that is just nasty.

Some people consider IXcoin a great "testnet" for Bitcoin in regards to running a blockchain, incentive for only tx fees, since all coins have already been mined.
According to the website:
"All 21 million coins have been generated (April 2011 - October 2014)"
Strangely though the chain is still generating 1 coin block reward. https://chainz.cryptoid.info/ixc/#

Except that's not happening in BTC. It is true the hashrate has remained in the same range since August and currently it is on the lower side of that range but it would need a considerable drop for that to be any "problem". Also, as soon as the hashrate goes down moderately over time the difficulty adapts. I will be worried when/if I see a sudden significant drop of hashrate. Other than that is just pure FUD.

That happened with IXcoin a while back - and it took a couple of months with virtually no blocks generated before we got the difficulty back down

Bitcoin's hash rate is dropping considerably right now.. bit concerning because it drops too fast the difficulty adjustment may never happen. Actually difficulty adjustment is an intrinsic threat.. if ever bitcoin had to go through a hard fork, that's something I'd fix (not sure I'd hard fork it though).

That's a sound plan and it is probably what I would do, except I am basically out of the trading game as my trading fiat is practically depleted. I will probably just throw it sooner than later to buy a little bit more but, it won't make any difference. As I say it is too little.

Contrary to the 2013-2014 downtrend where I was able to almost double my BTC count I haven't played my cards well this time. I was overconfident that once $10K was breached on the uptrend (something I did not expected to happen so soon, but in a few more years IF lucky) it would act as a support/bottom. More so when the ATH reached almost double than that.

So I not only sold too little from $10K to $19K but I depleted most of it rebuying on the way down to $10K. Under $10K I was already out of my plan and could only do some scrapping on the volatility here and there.

Also scrapping on the volatility was way better/easier right after the 2013 ATH than it is now, for three reasons:

- The volatility was brutal, with huge flash spikes all over the place.

- Arbitrage and bots were not as advanced, and there were a few seconds delay between huobi (where most big movements originated) and Bitstamp action. So it was possible to outrun other traders if you were quick.

- I was trading much more aggressively and with most of my stash. This time I tried to maintain my exchanges exposure to the same in fiat valuation, extracting BTC periodically to cold storage to achieve that target. I ended with only around 5-10% of my stash online and, even then, only a minor part of it in FIAT.

I did not adapt to the circumstances, or better yet my interpretation of the circumstances was incorrect.

I thought the market had already matured enough that a correction as deep as the previous was out of question. I fooled myself.

Still I have been able to "beat the market" in the sense that I end with a bit more BTC (which is always my goal) but for me is a failure.

Anyway, current price is more or less in line with my previous expectation so, in a sense, everything is going according to my plan as if the FOMO/bubble phase of the last bullrun didn't ever happen.

I only feel a bit saddened for not having taken advantage of the opportunity of, at least, doubling again and for not having done anything when I indeed knew in december that this had to implode.

My target is not to reach a price where I cash it all out but to have a stash that even when bottoming I still have enough to "retire" so I won't have to care about price shenanigans anymore. That will only be possible if Bitcoin really succeeds. So that's where my main bet is. Will try to play my cards better next time, though.  

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I was always a big woofer guy myself. Ever try an Ampeg Portaflex B-18? The extra 3" of speaker diameter really made a difference over the more common B-15. It was like having 32' bass organ pipes.

Today's acoustically coupled multiple small woofers have started to win me over though. My little Roland busker's bass amp with its four 4" speakers puts out surprising bass.

The concept of acoustically linking an array of smaller speakers is actually quite old. I was only 12 years old when Popular Electronics magazine published a hi fi speaker construction project called the Sweet Sixteen in their January 1961 edition. It used 16 5" speakers to achieve "sub-sonic" bass response of 20-30 hz, which was very good for the time.

I so wanted to build one but being in grade school at the time, it was beyond both my budget and my abilities. $50 was a  good week's wages for an adult in those days.

I couldn't find the original article but here's a PDF of a follow-up article a few months later when they added a tweeter.

https://www.jimkyle.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/Sweet-16.pdf

There's nothing new under the sun.

I am supplementing my earlier post to you, bitserve. 

More or less, I had expected that $3k would have been the extreme maximum of any BTC price correction in this cycle, and surely our price correction down to $4k (more than $2k in less than a week) has also been a bit more and a bit faster than I expected, so in some sense, I have overbought on this downward leg a bit.

I considered that it was necessary to take my own advice in my earlier post to you, bitserve, and I reassessed all of my still outstanding buy orders and the amount of fiat that had been allocated to those buy orders. 

I have now reset my buy orders to go down to $2k.

Of course, the amounts of my buy orders seem to have become more and more pathetic because I feel that I have overbought a bit out of an expectation that we would not be going here.

Nonetheless, we are here, and my reconsideration of my buy orders have caused me to feel more prepared for down to $2k and to buy all the way down, if such a bTC price drop were to happen quickly.  If such BTC price drop were to come about more slowly (that is if there were to be a drop) then I would have the ability to reassess and potentially add more fiat with upcoming anticipated cashflow - whether it were to take 3 months or a year or maybe longer (even worse case scenarios that seem quite implausible and unlikely but still have to psychologically and financially prepare)... , and of course, any radical BTC price moves along the way may cause reconsideration(s) based on plans and strategies already in place. 

I have a bit of a sense, maybe even a bit above 50/50 that our bottom is already "in" at $4k, but gosh, we can really never know how many more coins rich people might be willing to throw at this situation and hoping to take advantage of the current state of bitcoin (even while there is no real fundamental problems).. and any possible downward momentum that they believe to still have based on breaks of various levels of support in the past approximate 6 days.

 Unfortunately, xhomerx10 is on a low-carb regimen and also gets headaches at the mere mention of MSG 

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