A nice price correction. back to 700.00 would work
Topic: Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion - page 18370. (Read 26710296 times)
August 02, 2016, 06:50:00 PM
This could turn out to be a fast recovery lol
A nice price correction. back to 700.00 would work
A nice price correction. back to 700.00 would work
August 02, 2016, 06:49:37 PM
Wow. Just as I was heading out to buy at ~$600 I had to deal with a medical emergency and didn't get back from the hospital until now.
Good thing I was forced to wait. It seems Finex was hacked and the predictable dump ensued. Talk about right out of the blue.
Now we have all the loser doofuses clucking about how they predicted this as if the dump was due to normal market forces and not an isolated criminal act.
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Anyone who leaves coins or fiat on an exchange (or margin trades) has nobody except themselves to blame for their losses. Didn't we all learn that lesson from Gox? Paper wallet holders unaffected.
For most of us only our most recent purchases are in a losing position. All those coins we bought for less than $300 are still quite profitable and our double-digit coins even more so.
The price will rise again soon. Hopefully it will be slow enough to reallocate some more funds to take advantage of this opportunity. This crap saddens me but hopefully it's not as bad as some people seem to think.
Still, the people who are strutting around enjoying this can all fuck off.
Good thing I was forced to wait. It seems Finex was hacked and the predictable dump ensued. Talk about right out of the blue.
Now we have all the loser doofuses clucking about how they predicted this as if the dump was due to normal market forces and not an isolated criminal act.
_________
Anyone who leaves coins or fiat on an exchange (or margin trades) has nobody except themselves to blame for their losses. Didn't we all learn that lesson from Gox? Paper wallet holders unaffected.
For most of us only our most recent purchases are in a losing position. All those coins we bought for less than $300 are still quite profitable and our double-digit coins even more so.
The price will rise again soon. Hopefully it will be slow enough to reallocate some more funds to take advantage of this opportunity. This crap saddens me but hopefully it's not as bad as some people seem to think.
Still, the people who are strutting around enjoying this can all fuck off.
August 02, 2016, 06:49:26 PM
The real question is when do we fork off those criminal coins?
even if btc wanted too , it cant unless every single transaction on entire blockchain get reversedWell, all the transactions after the heist anyway. Ethereum has a different accounting model which makes rewriting history a lot easier. Bitcoin was set for irreversibility from the beginning.
67 BTC 
Ouch man
August 02, 2016, 06:49:14 PM
How come they lost so much? Aren't they storing cold?
No. Users had multisig addys. They didn't use hot/cold.
1 is the client
1 is bitfienx
what's the 3rd???
No. Client held no keys. One is finex. Two is bitgo. The third I think is also finex (offline). Either way is a shitty implementation.
August 02, 2016, 06:48:57 PM
I'm doing exactly nothing. Holding my coins in cold storage.
Same here.
Looking at past events, holding in cold storage and only move them if you wanna sell them or buy something with them seems like the wisest way to use Bitcoin.
I feel sorry for people who don't actively trade and still lost their coins due to unfortunate timing.
August 02, 2016, 06:46:40 PM
The Bitfinex guy told Reddit, there is no insurance for this.
August 02, 2016, 06:46:16 PM
Adam, are we in your cheap coin target now?
Should I be buying like crazy? Are you buying like crazy?
I just lost my 23 BTC from finex though.... although I don't feel as bad now after reading about the dude with 67 btc in finex... sorry man
gose without saying cheap coin target needs readjusting...Should I be buying like crazy? Are you buying like crazy?
I just lost my 23 BTC from finex though.... although I don't feel as bad now after reading about the dude with 67 btc in finex... sorry man
IDK wtf you should be doing, panic seems to be in order? my trading today has been... fucking wild... ( and i think ill be at it for a while longer... )
now if we could just get all the kids in chain to jump up and down at the same time we'd get somewhere.
August 02, 2016, 06:45:06 PM
From what I have read, there is a possibility that its bitgo's fault on the hack, and if thats the case then they do have insurance. But I doubt it will get all this covered. We will know once the company releases an announcement about it.
didn't bitpay recently fail in an insurance claim? by the sounds of it it was down to their own stupidity, but bitfinex must be a stupider company in general considering their track record. the insurance industry's job is to not pay out, but I really hope the sake of everyone who's lost out that something comes of this.
August 02, 2016, 06:43:38 PM
Basically a 100$ trezor would have prevented a 70million dollar loss.
August 02, 2016, 06:43:16 PM
@ JayJuanGee I mostly just hold in cold storage with no intent to trade any time soon. Just a bit of fun for me with a small amount of change.
That makes your earlier comments even more ironic because they seem to be somewhat out of touch with your actual practice and actions.
These days, it certainly is not difficult to make various efforts to attempt to align your BTC holdings in accordance with your view of their future price performance. I know that a lot of folks are really disinclined to sell any of their BTC and so they only buy upon dips and continue to HODL, but if they are like you, and if they really believe that there is a decent chance that BTC prices will dip into the $400s, then they should sell at least a portion of their BTC holdings in order to kind of align their investment with their views. The alignment does not need to be precise, but at least a ballparking of such.
If you are only HODLing BTC, and you have no other plans in terms of the future price dip that you expect, then aren't you feeling kind of uncomfortable with the current allocations of your BTC holdings, or do you enjoy living in such high levels of discordance in your life? I'm not trying to be judgmental of you, because my perception of the whole situation, as i outlined above, seems really strange to me.
I see it as a much bigger risk to play around with it on exchanges than being cold-storaged.
See what I mean?
August 02, 2016, 06:43:00 PM
How come they lost so much? Aren't they storing cold?
No. Users had multisig addys. They didn't use hot/cold.
1 is the client
1 is bitfienx
what's the 3rd???
No. Client held no keys. One is finex. Two is bitgo. The third I think is also finex (offline). Either way is a shitty implementation.
August 02, 2016, 06:42:54 PM
120k btc stolen + no insurance for Bitfinex
From what I have read, there is a possibility that its bitgo's fault on the hack, and if thats the case then they do have insurance. But I doubt it will get all this covered. We will know once the company releases an announcement about it. 
August 02, 2016, 06:42:49 PM
I'm buying new coins tomorrow. Got to make the best out of this mess. I'm in this for the long haul.
August 02, 2016, 06:42:15 PM
positive note: all that exaggerated halving-positivity is vapourized.
August 02, 2016, 06:42:09 PM
No, third is BFX as well, but held in cold-storage.
Thanks. 2 keys controlled by 1 party? what's the point? How does that work? (a link later would be fine).
sure but i would assume the clients keys where not the ones compromised
Spaceman_Spiff knows better than I.
What I ve read on reddit is that one key is used in a "hot" system by bitfinex, the other key is held in cold storage in case Bitgo bails/drops of the grid/whatever.
August 02, 2016, 06:41:37 PM
120k btc stolen + no insurance for Bitfinex
August 02, 2016, 06:39:53 PM
Are you guys buying or selling right now?
Anyone lost coins on finex btw?
Anyone lost coins on finex btw?
67 BTC
Damn, sorry for the loss. Hopefully you'll get back
dosnt look very good....
but the binfinex dude did confrime that not ALL the funds were lost...
a bail-in is in order...
hmm..they lost around 70m (obv depending on the underlying price), at first i thought maybe external could pump some $$$ into finex and cover those losses. but that seems too much. i guess a 50% haircut is likely.
August 02, 2016, 06:39:26 PM
Adam, are we in your cheap coin target now?
Should I be buying like crazy? Are you buying like crazy?
I just lost my 23 BTC from finex though.... although I don't feel as bad now after reading about the dude with 67 btc in finex... sorry man
Should I be buying like crazy? Are you buying like crazy?
I just lost my 23 BTC from finex though.... although I don't feel as bad now after reading about the dude with 67 btc in finex... sorry man
August 02, 2016, 06:39:06 PM
Are you guys buying or selling right now?
Anyone lost coins on finex btw?
Anyone lost coins on finex btw?
67 BTC
Damn, sorry for the loss. Hopefully you'll get back
dosnt look very good....
but the binfinex dude did confrime that not ALL the funds were lost...
a bail-in is in order...
lol August 02, 2016, 06:37:51 PM
seriously i dont even blame bitfinex, i blame everyone who is such a moron to keep his coins on exchanges. even after we had so many hacks meanwhile...
agreed, and think about why those people are storing coins on an exchange ... to earn interest from others who are shorting the bitcoin price
Lol, what exactly is so bad against lending coins to shorters. You just take them back with an interest, so the net effect is that you take some money into the bitcoin system.
If you can't handle the price dipping for a while, then your belief in bitcoin is quite frail Marcus.
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