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I have quite a few variations of the same story, and I only tell the folks to dollar cost average buy and to buy on dips and to develop a long term accumulation strategy that will work for them and their finances. 

Probably less than 1/10 of the persons that I make these suggestions take any kind of action to press the "buy" button, and sometimes if they do press the "buy" button, they will sell out after a 20% to 50% price appreciation because their heart really is not in long term planning or even faith in the whole bitcoin system (including that they are still getting bullshit misinformation from various mainstream sources)

Yes, I've heard this, now they listen, after missing out on 10/100/1000x. It's good when people are big enough to admit that they were wrong about something, but this sounds like a classic "top" conversation to me. Tell him to get in just as people are despairing after the next crash, between 1-2k, and wait 4 years for the next halving. It's hard to tell how much money there is to make at the moment, it might crash from here, or from 20k, we'll know in a few weeks ,probably. Bitcoin often reminds me of the princess bride

“Good night, Westley. Good work. Sleep well. I'll most likely kill you in the morning.”

"Bitfinex will implement a Chain Split Token for Bitcoin Gold. A formal announcement will follow shortly."

https://twitter.com/bitfinex/status/922488259070038019

"Bitcoin Gold/BTG futures (0.085 BTC) higher than Bitcoin Cash/BCH (0.055). http://yobit.net/en/trade/BTG/BTC … and @bitfinex adding soon."
https://twitter.com/adam3us/status/922569768770478080

"Please disregard the prior tweet about our stance on BTG. Kraken has not made an official determination on BTG. We will announce plans soon."
https://twitter.com/krakenfx/status/922493817776898049

The previous tweet was:


 

P.S. After the tweet on bitfinex, bitcoin recovered from 5700-ish to 6000-ish...  

This thread would only be half as fun without you BMB 

I used to enjoy making fun of myself. It's only money, it's a deadly interesting project, Bitcorn this and Bitcorn that. Now I don't know how I'm supposed to behave. I'm a Bitcoin elder now. Can I still call doom for no reason? Do I change my kicky pseudonym? I, too, feel the weight of responsibility. 

You are absolutely correct there  

3000

Not to mention these people have the "only buying to get rich quick" day-trader mentality. They have no intention of holding or spending their btc on something, only selling for fiat at the first sign of a rise. They don't even really care to do research to understand what Bitcoin is and why it is revolutionary and important. If the price was falling instead of rising, this friend would have zero interest in Bitcoin, just like when it was all a "big joke" to him.

No one is telling anyone to bet the farm on BTC; however, you talk about $3k as if it has some kind of high probability of happening, and apparently your portfolio does not represent such pessimism.  So maybe you should temper your language a bit to be better in line with your portfolio holdings rather than painting some kind of doom and gloom scenario as if it were pending and imminent.

Actually, I agree with your point that a 50%-ish correction is not necessarily unrealistic, but we already had a 40% correction, recently, and there still remains a decent amount of uncertainty regarding the severity of the threat of any of the upmanship attacks on bitcoin... yeah they keep upping and upping the ante in terms of their attempts for destruction and disruption, but in the end, are these threats going to materially play out in a meaningful way? In that regard, you better fucking hodl onto your coins because even if we are getting down, we may well get up before we get down... so you are going to want to sell some more priro to any potential 50% or greater correction - that may well come after a further pump - even a 2x pump.

So no one is saying that BTC is the be all end all coin.. or that these attacks are not likely to have any effect.. but it is a matter of when.. and what might happen first before the supposed calamity that you proclaim kicks in.

nope. there've been plenty of chances in the past. he didn't take any. he probably won't now.

Just thought I'd tell you this one. I'm sure you all have similar stories.

A friend of mine back in 2013 laughed and joked about Bitcoin and I was laughed too for buying it and preaching to everyone that this will be big. This friend then joined forces with other friends and we all went snowboarding in Feb 2014 and once again Bitcoin was mentioned (not by me this time) and once again it was all a big joke.

This friend asked me around 6 weeks ago how to buy bitcoin so I sent him all the information he needed but without the preaching. In my mind preaching about bitcoin is a bit 2013 for me and not something I do anymore, in fact I try not to talk about it at all. This friend said he has money saved up and was going to buy some btc (at least 1 coin, maybe more).
My reply was that's great news, someone I can chat btc with and I wished him luck.

Today he send me messages saying he didn't buy and now wants to buy some.


Do I bother to help? I feel like he is wasting my time. He's asking me when is the right time to buy and what would be a good dip to buy?

Personally I think he likes the idea of owning btc but doesn't have the balls to push the buy button.

Another issue is I don't think he has done any research of his own at all.

Who else has a similar story?

Here's 6k 

Exactly, there are all kinds of dumb shits proclaiming various low corrections, and from time to time they are right.  This has been going on since about $250, yet it has been increasingly difficult for them to be correct since $250 because we have been in a bull market since $250 and more or less confirmed when prices shot above $500 in May 2016 and have not returned below that price - even though there were a few attempts early on to attempt to get down there.

Now, $3000 has become the new $500... Sure, the fuck, $3k is possible, but it remains quite a bit of a stretch to have any kind of realistic expectation of $3k when we have considerable and ongoing upwards buying pressure.  Any little dip in prices, they say:  "here it comes."  "it is coming this time."  blah blah blah.

I have active buy orders set down to $2600, so surely, I am not Ill-prepared for the possibility of such correction; however, it seems quite low probabilities for those orders to be filled any time in the near future, and it seems even worse to actually spout out expectations that they are going to be filled - for example giving such probability anywhere greater than a 40% chance seems to be quite pie in the sky in my thinking, when maybe they have less than a 30% chance of being filled, and some of these nutjobs are talking as if the odds of such fills were in the 80% to 100% territory.

Definitely forming a nice future floor at 6K.  A double top is still not out of question but the buy pressure feels healthy.

Cool, so Miley Cyrus is Bitcoin fan.  

Yeah, I know what you mean. I won't have private conversations around my computer, phone etc.  Unfortunately privacy is not an issue for most people, including myself and once it is discovered as an issue, it could be too late.

Goodbye 5xxx. Welcome the new 6xxx floor.

LOL - I've sold my yobit stash already. The premine doens't sit well with me, current value of the premine is $46,000,000

Quote from Trex: -
https://support.bittrex.com/hc/en-us/articles/115002320451-Statement-on-Bitcoin-Gold-BTG-

Sad that I was already too long to take advantage of today's dip. 

We are already longtime there... . Take your Soma and you don 't worry too much.