But you seem to take great pleasure in trying to condescend and smack down anyone who points that out... other than yourself.
I don't actually. I don't believe the future of Bitcoin is already decided. I just believe that whenever the Bitcoin market starts to act irrational, like the entire fkn year of 2017, then I know that there's more going on than what seems on the surface.
Or in past years when out of nowhere Bitcoin started pumping to the moon for no explicable reason... there's no doubt in my mind that the pumpers already had the subsequent "crash" planned out ahead of time (e.g., 0day exploit, exchange hack, Mt.Gox DDoS, "China Bans Bitcoin", Mt.Gox insolvency, etc.)
We saw it happen in the alt market too: ETH pumped to the moon just a month or two before the DAO hack/exploit happened.
But of course you can stick your head in the sand and think whatever you want though. I care not.
Sent you some merit Torque.
personally i have some suspicions about some exchanges, and the ability to register, and what i perceive as massive market manipulation. The huge advertising campaigns that are on every website it seems, always seem to get more intense as the next bubble reaches it's peak and continues through into the bear market. Is it just me or do the adverts disappear at the start of the consolidation and forming of the next bubble. The "bitcoin millionaires" advert, I have friends that invested (first time) towards the top, despite me advising to wait.
Who pays for this? And why are they so irresponsible to encourage investment, when they know full well how markets work. Well that was a rhetorical question, but im sure there's gonna be a group of those that brought at the top that also sell at the bottom. Of course you can blame the individual, tell them it's their fault for buying at the top and also fools for selling at the bottom... but the encouragement to do that is all around us, including in this very forum thread.