Topic: Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion - page 18185. (Read 26634041 times)

I'd be curious to have people's opinions on how violent a SPIKE UP could be...
What would need to happen to move the price 10x from here? 100x?

Seems like bubbles in the near future will need to be propped up by ALOT more people than in the past bubbles.

Sure, a long slow steady climb would be nice. And that is best for Bitcoin being accepted as a currency alternative. But...


it's just so damned exciting when the price is flying up by 10% a day for weeks on end...

The cup and handle charts do show a huge skyrocket though.  I feel like we are near the price we should be at (I predicted the price would be $766 on 1/1/2017 back on 1/1/2016 when the price was around $300).

Have you guys considered that maybe there won't be this huge pump, but that we just simply keep grinding upward steadily all next year and into the future?  And let me outline below why this would be a GREAT thing:

Like Tera suggested, where we are today is very different than 2013.  We have many more legit exchanges now, and with the exception of Bitfinex, they've likely all gotten their sh-- together and much more resistant to hacks and outages.

I have this theory, that all of Bitcoin's past major rallies were predicated on the pumpers having a "fall" in their backpocket, something that would guarantee a REASON for a crash (so that they could time their big short, of course). In the early years it was spreading FUD about the Bitcoin protocol itself, and hacking/crashing the early shitty exchanges. In Mt. Gox's case, it was easy to just DDOS, hack, or crash that exchange whenever the pumpers/hackers needed to, because it was so shitty and full of holes.  And of course they had siphoned off pretty much all the bitcoin and made Mt. Gox insolvent, so the FBI shutting them down was real bad news they could use to their benefit.

Then in late 2013, we got to see the effects of a major fake FUD announcement (i.e., the whole "China bans Bitcoin" or "Russia bans Bitcoin" or "51% attack imminent!" garbage).  It was effective then, but I think today that fake FUD news would no longer work like it did then because bitcoiners have become resistant to such drivel.

So if the pumpers no longer have exchange hacks to rely on, or fake FUD to use, then they would have no guaranteed "fall" in their backpocket. And if they had no guaranteed reason for a crash, then would they be even bother to pump the market to the moon anymore? It would take a LOT of $$$ and margin leverage to pump the Bitcoin market to the moon now.

I'm starting to wonder if the pumpers/hackers have simply moved on to the smaller altcoins now, as it's easy to see how these same tactics were used in both the ETH (eg. DAO hack) and Monero (eg. fake hack news) markets just recently with the exact same results.  Plus it takes less money to pump the altcoin markets.

TL; DR - If Bitcoin ever starts pumping to the moon out of the blue, be very, very worried... because bad news is right around the corner. (btw, I'm still concerned about those ~110K stolen Bitfinex coins   )

 

Gooo!

Please add

JPY1,000,000 hv_

 

LETS PUMP THIS BTC SHIT WITH FIAT

I think breaking $800 (high from June) is when we'll see the real rockets kick in

At what point does FOMO really kick in... 750?  800?  ATH?

Starting to feel distinctly nostalgic...  I am cautiously getting excited again. 

It's a fair way to go before I pop the champagne cork, though - if we do see 1000 I will for sure.   Conditions have not looked this good for a long time, but let's see.

Once again...

what with the 1000 dollars i see 750

although looks like a cup and handle fully formed, so it might double top to 1000

I followed the thread and understood your position.

I'm saying you want to guess the weighting to apply, and I'm saying you won't get general agreement with your guess.

The only way to get some agreement would be to add at least a modicum of math.

You do realize that in July/August 2015 ... the Yuan was 6.2 on the dollar... right??

And in 2016... it went now to 6.75 - 6.80 per each dollar... and 3-4 months ago was 6.50 - 6.60 ... And pointing this out... you do realize for billionaires those are F'-ing huge numbers!!!

And besides that... even if the dollar/euro/yuan... etc... crash&burn.co ... BTCitcoin usually keeps up with gold/silver since those will be the things it will be pegged to after the crashes.  

1000+ $

You seem to misunderstand me or to misread me, if you are suggesting that I am saying put your finger into the wind.


The subject came up when toknormal seemed to have been relying almost exclusively on the chinese exchanges.

I said that I believe that they chinese exchanges are a very unreliable predictor, and I suggested first to use USD/BTC exchanges, and alternatively, I suggested a kind of weighted formula to give less credit to chinese exchanges, as compared with USD/BTC exchanges.  I was not arguing any kind of random or vague scenario, because I did not necessarily want to get caught up in a lot of technical work..

I don't get super excited about technical analysis merely for the sake of technical analysis, yet on the other hand, if guys want to put in the work to attempt to apply various kind of technical analysis, then surely sometimes that can sometimes be informative... to the extent that they are able to either use it themselves or share it with others.

I usually attempt to keep up with my PMs, and I saw one from you from a bit over a week ago.  I kind of forgot about it, but I will respond, now... sorry about that.

You may well be correct if you're saying there's no better way than to suck your finger and hold it in the wind. I certainly didn't come up with anything better.
Nevertheless, you won't get any agreement amongst the people you're talking to with such a subjective guess. Everyone will have their own guess - the details matter here.

I hoped to supply some real analysis.

PS: have you checked your pm's lately?

I personally believe, at this time, that the price is going up on relatively overall low volume (or medium volume at best), but anyway the various USD exchanges are going to pick up and show their actual capabilities in respect to processing higher levels of volume once the price battle begins (in other words the price battle has not begun yet).

At this point, also, I theorize that there are three logical places in which the price battle could most feasibly begin:  1) after a price rise into the upper $700s, 2) after a price rise in the mid-$800s or 3) after a price rise into the above $2k arena.

I believe that scenario 2 above is the most likely, and I am less than 50% confident that the bulls are going to win that battle - but I certainly would like to be pleasantly surprised against my best intuitions (maybe like some others in this thread, I have become a bit battle fatigued and I remain a bit scared of the bears, since they had been successful in beating us bulls down several times over the past 3 years - even when there seems to be continuing pretty decent upwards price pressures at the moment) 

I wish. No, seriously, i want to buy in with like 3+ BTC, so i wish we crash back to $660 even for a couple of hours. Alas, i do not see why that would happen. Market behavior has changed. It is a wide spread accumulating phase now, and we can not say a thing about it.