Bitcoin back to where it was 27 days back:
What a waste of time.
Sheeit.
Aug 7th 2017 $3,638.38 usd seems the last year was but a 'dream' but still better ....not sure what to think....currently $6,335.00 usd btc.
My view is NOW it will bounce below 5K in that even big miners (data halls) can't pow scrypt mine ANY crypto BTC or whatever at these prices and not be at a loss....thus
they have bankers to pay etc. So I expect a big dump of btc and crypto. Or at least what I've been told by a couple of owners of such.
The choice is pay off the debts/banks and any loans with crypto. If it all goes tulips and the folk pull their contracts for miners or you are under water..you at least salvage the building
and shut your stuff off (hopefully for now). I'm talking 200 -500 unit data halls. Hell, I doubt bitmain is even making $$$ at these prices over costs...at least for their stuff in the states.
so, with those folk, in HODL mode, due to revenue and that revenue goes away as folk shut down....again gonna be ugly yet I think
brad
OH MY FUCKING GOD.
Lots of doom and glom on the way. Shit. Holy shit.
https://www.newsbtc.com/2018/08/08/fud-fueled-crypto-market-dumps-25-billion-in-24-hours/We're 9.5% down in 24 hours?! Is that how much we fell? REALLY?!
Once again traders and hodlers have been suckered into the FUD frenzy and are selling out of crypto. It was hardly as if this decision wasn’t expected and nothing else has really changed in the ecosystem. Total market capitalization has plunged 9.5% on the day resulting in a loss of almost $25 billion. They are currently at their lowest point in 2018 which is just over $231 billion and the bear market is still in full effect.
Aren't you able to do your own math and assessment too? Is 24 hours an important measurement? Don't we need to look at both the UPs and the DOWNs and the context before we get worked up about whether 24 hours was a 7% or a 9% or a 20% drop?
Furthermore, if we are attempting to time a little bit short term, then context becomes even more important to determine whether and how much we buy (or sell - which would be dumb) now or wait for the next price move before taking some kind of buy/sell action.
Of course, my own portfolio has been in a dominantly buying situation since the price rise to $8,500 with my first buys occurring around $8k and so far down to $6,300 with my next buys set for a bit above $6k... So if we look at the local top, and perhaps I am helping you out too much, then we might see shorter term significance coming from the period in which we came down from $8,500 to nearly $6,100, which is approaching a 30% drop - well 28.2% to be more specific.
Anyhow, part of my point remains that any attempt to quibble with numbers provided by someone else (whether in an article or in a post) is to consider the context in which the numbers are presented and attempt to determine if that context is very relevant or if a different context would be more relevant (especially for your own considerations about either what to do or how to perceive the situation).
you are correct if BTC survives in the future...myself, I see it as going down more, with miners and data halls (big guys) now feeling the pinch. Sell some coin, keep the building/etc as a hedge, seems to be the game
now. Can't count on income and thus that would keep the banker at bay. But ugly. If BTC and crypto is not FUD'ed to death after all this, again IMHO, no ETF will be allowed with the price dump of from 18,000 usd to
now $6,358 or using these figures a dump of 64% from the bubble..in less than a year. They will use the too volatile argument and pass on all ETF's IMHO, well into 2020. This likely is the reason for the dump in price
people have lost all hope on ETF's.
So that is the choice indeed. Believe in BTC and crypto and ride it out with 1) what you have 2) with what you have and add to the stash 3) bail and sell
But, the lower the price the more the 'powers that be" gov't/regulation and just plain pushback from big money....the more likely we will lose even more ground ..under 5k IMHO.
So thems the breaks/ and bets now, the above 3 choices...crypto poker as it were....1) HODL 2) raise 3) fold.
A bit too pessimistic, but certainly an accurate depiction of some of the underlying dynamics, yet I still think that there is something about the alt coin dynamics too that is affecting this whole "shaking out" situation that you did not mention in your above post. Could partly be an alt coin shake out, too, no?
I simply think that the ETF's will be 'strung out' over the next 2 years at best..before they come to fruitaion....
thus it is gonna be like 2014-2016 IMHO. A long 'slog'. There is NO reason for any bureaucrat to make an ETF under the present circumstances, with a 64% drop in value.
I HOPE it bounces back up to 6k from the above and stays there ...but again....the new window IMHO is gonna be 4k to 6k w/o any meaningful movement by institutional money
and no ETF ...no institutional money...no pump in price...so it really, really is a good time to 'buy' or it is just gonna meander sideways for 2 years.
Bitcoin has been there before and likely has returned.
Another point, I'm not entirely sure of ...I myself suspect sometime within the next 1-2 years a pretty major recesson..from my USA point of view...so the question becomes....is bitcoin and crypto
prices kept up by 'discretionary spending' ie people have extra cash..thus it goes into crypto and BTC? or will BTC act as a store of value in such a recession.. Again, myself I see this 'supposed'
recession my part as being around a 40% or more correction. (the normal view of a recession is a 20% pull back)
lots of crap ...being juggled...but just can't see any new money coming in, until more sensible regulation of some kind and/or ETF's ..I'd love to be wrong...but what I'm thinking
I'll likely HODL my BTC etc and burn my ALT's on the retirement...but, again...perhaps people should buy like hell, because even if it is a long haul to the next wave or crypto price rises and I'm 'supposedly'
correct....nothing is gonna happen till gov't and big money are comfortable...and again, they are not very damn comfortable without an ETF and with the 64% drop from the ATH of around 18k or so.
What I'm steeling myself for, in HODL mode anyway...As usual, like the rest of you, I really hope I'm full of shit...but damn if this does not seem to me like 2014-2016 with BTC and crypto.
brad
I cannot really disagree with anything that you are saying, but even given a lot of the various factors you point out, aren't you seeming to give a bit too much credit that anyone actually knows or anyone actually has a strong ability to keep bitcoin down.
Perhaps you and I really do not disagree about anything, but instead we are merely quibbling a bit about the ways in which we differently express what we are attempting to say.
For example, I cannot really disagree with you about manipulation going on and the fact that there are powers that be (PTB) forces and whales who attempt to manipulate the price down and have goals to manipulate the price down. However, sometimes there just comes momentum that is to difficult for them to keep down, and I think that we frequently witness this in bitcoin.
Recent examples seem to be the powers that be, and bear whales would have loved to have kept bitcoin below $500 in early 2016 and even attempted again in late 2016 to push the price below $500, but they were not successful, and there was a certain loss of control that came with their inability to get the price to go below $500... similarly dynamics were in place to keep the price below $3k and seeming again a kind of battle to keep the prices below $10k... but these battles are going to be lost.. it is just a matter of when, and we cannot really know exactly how the price movements are going to play out and even their ability to take advantage of momentum and get some weaker hands to get shooken from their coins.
I guess my main point remains that loss of ability to keep the price down can happen at various unexpected points, and it may not even require 1 or 2 years to play out, but it is also reasonable that it could take some time to play out before there is another loss of control of the bearwhales and the powers that be... we cannot always make any kind of meaningful assessment until a bit after such loss of control has happened (and surely we can also have a sense that it is happening or that it has already happened, but we cannot always be sure about that, either, until looking at the matter much further down the road), so in that sense it can be quite difficult to make meaningful calls while we are in the process, even while each of us has differences in hunches based on our own life experiences, knowledge and even our emphasis (or deemphasis) of the importance of the relevancy of certain factors.