Topic: Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion - page 17268. (Read 26608871 times)

Who cares as long as us average joe's are making 400-500% profits & more. Loads of us loaded up @ $200-400 & HODLED. It's the best investment I've ever made.

Yes, it is really funny. I started playing with alts only a couple of months ago because I like to trade and Bitcoin was stagnating at that moment. Had some fiat on my trading account and started "gambling". It was a small amount, like 5% of my trading funds (which is less than 40% of my long term holding on cold wallet) and it has grown now to more than 30% of my trading funds even if Bitcoin has also risen in the meantime.

I wouldn't recommend anyone to put too much into alts instead of Bitcoin (much more safe long term in my view), but I have to recognise that the gambling has paid well.

I also believe that soon many alts that are way overpriced will start bleeding big time serving as fuel for a crazy Bitcoin rally.

So why give it more airtime by quoting the guy... sheesh!?!

at this point the dip may very well be way above the current price. There has been no significant dip between $1600 and $1680, for example

also the crashes are short lived, usually don't last more than a couple hours, so unless you stare the graphs all day, chances are won't be able to buy the dip, and is really harder to hit exactly the bottom

one way or another, $99 is less than 6% of current price, more like noise than a significant move

It is crazy how these little alts I bought now factor into my price checks.

I even check on PPC which I bought just because I had some money left on btc-e

It is normal among bitcoiners that they sometimes lack the confidence and trust in BTC.
I wanted to sell large portion of my small BTC stash many times when I thought we hit a wall with progress/adoption/price.
After couple years and in retrospection, I analyzed BTC exchange activity and I learned that selling BTC is the most stupid thing you can do.
If you don't need hard cash here and now, keep your BTC intact, it will be worth 10x more in the future.

Stamp heading up again after some consolidation. 1-Hour momentum about to conclude its correction.

BAY also up against Bitcoin ! Bitcoin up, Bitbay up. Bitcoin down, Bitbay up.

Bitbay: Riding the bitcoin wave while levering it and amplifying it thanks to 3.5 year's careful and painstaking work on a unique dedicated asset trading device being slowly but surely priced in. (And it's not even on the launchpad yet)

Last orders at the bar @ 3-digit sats.

Who are you going to blame but yourself? It's your fault for letting anyone think for you.

This is true!!!

In the words of our lord prophet kwukduck; This is just another dead cat bounce!

what will happen soon :

big litecoin dump after segwit activation that will fuel bitcoin to the 2000s till the 15th May

It is called attempting to have a dialogue about price speculation based on logic and facts.. and attempting to predict.

Some logic and predictions seem to be more reasonable than others.

I get the sense that $5k would be the top of the range of the rise to $3k to $5k - and that could happen in 2017 or 2018 or later.. and going beyond $5k would either be an overshoot or maybe a product of the next hype cycle, which could take a little bit longer - but bitcoin does continue to defy logic, too, so it is possible that $5k or beyond could come sooner than previously anticipated.

I really thought we would be under $1700 when I woke up 

Gosh!!!!

You are continuing with your manipulation theory.

Yes, I agree that manipulators have more control than the average Joe, but what happens is that they can only manipulate so much, and at certain points they lose control.

For example,  they lost control at $500.  They really would have preferred for prices to remain below $500, easier to manipulate... The manipulators lost that battle.

Of course, I could go on and on about examples, yet the truth of the matter is that average Joes, like us, have some difficulties knowing exactly each of the points that the manipulators are losing control or that they have lost control - but sometimes we can look at the situation in retrospect and identify various points in which such loss of control has happened.  

The other fact of the matter is that Manipulators do much better with a smaller market cap, so they tend to attempt to manipulate down rather than up... what the fuck manipulator would want prices in the $1700s right now, when we were in the sub $1200s... so they lost control at $1200 as well (maybe merely temporary, but part of the point is that sometimes the manipulators are limited in their abilities to manipulate, and they do not always get their way.. especially with something like bitcoin that is gaining a lot of networking effects that continue to put a lot of upwards pressures on price that make it much more difficult to manipulate prices )

Well, it looks like we are back on track. Litecoin is also doing great and Monero and ETC recovering.

I am happy

I think it was mostly early adopters with more bitcoins than common sense trading experience.

I want to see some  beastly wall to reassure me that ancient whale manipulators still exist...

 ...or was it always just a ghost whale?

Hey people, Satoshi told me that bitcoin will reach $10k when this thread reaches 20k pages! Let's do it!  

Hey bro, thanks for sharing this thread's link. I already heard of this pizza trade here in Brasil like an urban legend, but now it seems so real to read it! I got a little emotional about all this. Feels like, even 6-7 years later we're still making history here.
A few months ago I was talking about bitcoin at my workplace, telling people how I managed to create a DIY hardware wallet just like i told @bitserve here in this thread yesterday and my colleagues were very skeptic about bitcoin. My boss even told me back there it was a ponzi scheme. I kinda got angry but realised it was useless to argue.
Last week the same boss came talking more interested, pretending he never called bitcoin a ponzi, and told me it was very expensive to buy nowadays. Knowing him as I do, I know something changed. I just left people aware this is something. People are starting to really look at bitcoin as a value storage, free from taxes, enable to be used anywhere in this world. I feel happy I'm helping bitcoin to grow here in this God-forsaken third world. We just got a president impeached last year and everybody fears future. We fear becoming another Venezuela.
That's where bitcoin helps us. That's bitcoin role in a free world. I also appreciate @roach's opinion, because I think that in a SHTF situation bitcoin is worthless, but I'm kinda skeptic about this severity. I fear an economic collapse, but not THAT severe to shut down internet and everything else. Anyway his opinion is valuable.

Thank you guys for every comment and tip. I'm just a third world family man trying to raise 2 kids and saving in bitcoin for their college. Even after being reckt by Africoin's irresponsibility and my own lack of good sense, I'm still here believing and fighting for bitcoin. Everything you guys write here is valuable and I hope you're aware we're still making history. Bitcoin will eventually take over the world.

I like this guy!
 
That's the kind of humor we miss here often.

 /me HODL since $80. Except for that stupid SATA controller. When Newegg started accepting BTC, I was happy! I Can Buy Stuff.

In retrospect, it's starting to look like a microscopic version of the 10,000 BTC pizza.