Topic: Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion - page 15988. (Read 26586266 times)

Hmmm... it looks like a spanish flag! Oh dear

PS: btw the boy doesn't seem gay enough, it's not gonna succeed

Good morning Bitcoinland.

First day in almost a week without an ATH yet... currently $7332USD/$9358CAD (Bitcoinaverage).

AltCash has also slowed it's recent rise and sits at $635USD/$810CAD (Coinmarketcap).

Consolidation is good. ATHs are good too.

Let's continue on up the stairway to heaven. Go Bitcoin go.


Does Lamborghini make a limousine? I prefer to be chauffeured.

So as Bitcoin rolls past 7350 with a ho hum, I think it's time to define some standards.

For example: What is the standard Lamborghini that people put in their portfolios? The LP500S is a great car, but kind of rare-ish and wonky. Would the Diablo be a standard unit of measurement, or something else?

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Patience is key, indeed. I'm still keeping some just in case...

#archaicgrammarnazi

Ok, here's the next cool alt:

~don't you read chinese newspapers? :-D lol

I wonder if miners will be trying to sell the first newly minted coins after the fork for a big premium.....

It's even not sure how to split coins AFAICS...

This is where I'm at as well. I'm impressed that BTC is just honey badgering to new highs but I'm left wondering why as this is arguably the largest contested fork less than two weeks out. I would have figured we would have seen more clarity with signally changing but it hasn't changed that much. Then you have Jeff starting his own coin so its like, who the fuck is going to develop this thing.

I dont think enough people get that 2X isnt or might not be just another free airdrop. The only scenario that both chains survive is if replay protection is included in either one. Both sides have no plans for this, so its going to be a battle which only one side will prevail. To make matters worse, the winning conditions are not even agreed upon. One side says hash rate majority wins and the other says market cap.
To me the very fact that a battle even exists when btc is hitting records in both marketcap and mainstream attention is just baffling

You're missing that bigblockers are just a false front/astroturfing ruse to kill the last decentralized piece of the bitcoin network (nodes) so to pwn it.
And that's the least that you can expect from TPTB, who are doing that just because they identified nodes as the the weak point -and rightly so since they are just a bunch of nerds doing unpaid volunteer work with their own scarce means.

What drives it is the threat to fiat money constituted by bitcoin. If their next forking attack will fail (((they))) will try other vectors. Of this I am quite certain.

Though the article is in Chinese, it is interesting in that it includes the latest interviews from Jihan Wu of Bitmain and Samson Mow of Blockstream.

http://www.bitcoin86.com/news/17847.html

Something that I find interesting in that interview, various rumors that are denied by Jihan Wu,

1) Jihan Wu is an investor in Bithumb of South Korea (you know, where they are trading 1.5 ~ 2 million BCH at USD$1 billion volume PER DAY).

2) Bitmain's revenue is over USD$1 billion per year.  They made over $150 million profit (1 billiion CNY) in 1st half of 2017, with profit likely much higher in the 2nd half.

3) There are uncertainty concerning future China govt policy towards crypto.  They had tense relationship with some of local govt, like in Xinjiang and their Yunnan facility actually had to stop operation after electricity was cut off.

4) Jihan is going to enforce NYA in the upcoming S2X fork.  But also recognizes that he got significant hashrate from other miners and thus had to take profitability into account.  But unlike BTC.TOP and VIABTC pool, he did not come out and say that he is going to offer miners the option of mining both Segwit chain.

I see your points. And we should say to them, "Bring it on. Come and get it." And they will fail. And this will be good for Bitcoin (the original and only one), for the reasons AlexGR outlined in his post. Bitcoin will come out stronger, having proven that it can resist re-definition. Actually, this whole BCH/BTG/SegWit2x mess may turn out to be a blessing for Bitcoin. A test if you will. And it shall pass it with flying colours.

Everything Chinese is owned and controlled by the Pboc for it 's own purpose and goals.

I would even go so far to say that for some of the bad actors involved, it's not even about control. If they are secretly being state-sponsored, then it's about bringing down Bitcoin entirely. Or at least dividing it, diluting it, and undermining it so much that it gets completely marginalized in the public eye, forever seen as a chaotic niche geek thing and not seen as the serious financial game changer that it is.

It's almost like their game plan is "Well if we can't centralize control of Bitcoin, then we'll continue to try and undermine it."

Agree wholeheartedly, although subtitles are annoying and occasionally wrong and often annoying.

I have to totally agree with this, but why is the Segwit2X fork happening if it is definitely doomed to fail?  

The consortium behind it is not entirely filled with idiots, they must be hoping to gain enough hashrate to damage BTC and take over as the longer chain somehow, right?   So do they have a way of ensuring miners / exchanges work in their favour?

If you want bigger blocks, there is already BCH.  So are the people who are thinking it's simply 'free money' again right, or is there another narrative I am not seeing?

Most people in Bitcoin, given the price right now, are probably fine with the status quo.  Yes, Core has been slow to address the scaling issue, but why kill the golden goose?   This is my gut feeling - but am I missing something?

If it looks like a power grab and smells like a power grab, then it probably is one, yep.  But what drives this - is it simply because Core is THAT hated?  And if it is, will the 2X cohort have any chance of pulling this off...

I ask as I can't see why people would throw money at something that is likely to fail.  It seems the majority here assume this will not work, but it is true there are serious risks of disruption and uncertainty if miners move.  It won't be easy to split and sell 2X because of replay protection issues, so users can 't easily dump the hell out of it.  Miners are still signalling.  So, is this attack more credible than I can see, or just plain stupidity?

really a good interview !

Its always more positive to confirm a price, volatility is also represented by a rise as well as a fall.   Especially if the rise is above the overall trend which is immediately true.

I was going to say a normal fib pullback would be more like it
Downside target 6407 very bullish ranging through 6101 to 5857 for a reasonable pullback just nearterm. 5687 is top of the longer term bullish channel for this year, similar to lows for last month