Topic: Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion - page 29023. (Read 26609814 times)

Happy to be ignored.  I'm not here to impose my ideas on anyone, but I can't let that "war profiteering" comment slide.
 
My bet is that war is bad for business.  My task is to estimate price trajectory distributions.  If a war is likely and likely to move prices, I'm going to adjust positions accordingly.  Anything else is just doing the task badly.  If I thought doing the task well would cause anyone more material harm than being forced to trade down to a lower grade of cognac, I'd be doing something else.

Being offended by my "with any luck" language is entirely understandable.  I often use a certain kind of offensive language because I find the incongruities  and dissonances amusing, entertaining.  When using offensive language, the risk of offending is high.  I should probably do it less, at least.  It helps me to be skeptical of my own motivations, which I find useful, when I put my own behaviours in the most cynical light.

I am happily gratified that my luck appears to be bad in this case, and Russia looks likely to stand down, and assume a more constructive posture in Ukraine.  I would prefer to make more money, ceteris paribus, but if ever a loss was happily taken, any loss on SPUs due to a more congenial outcome in Ukraine is one. And ceteris is almost never paribus, although we must perforce assume it is, most of the time.  I'm still shorting SPUs through August, though:  That's a war for justice and truth, and I think I can win it without collateral damage.

You're are pretty butthurt, hm? Anything else than drugs, childporn, launder, etc to offer? For sure not

Edit: Are you the guy from the NY hearings? "It has to walk and talk like banksters!!"

For an digital currency that is used for drug trade to get into the field of legal finance is a lottery. Most of the people here have absolutely no idea about finance and maybe that's the reason why it doesn't seem like a lottery to them.
I'm not blaming anyone here, I was just making fun of the absurdity of bitcoins coin supply and you seemed to take offense. Don't be so touchy if you want to look confident about this subject.

They always do that 'big news tomorrow' thing. It's incredibly tedious. Their last bit of 'big news' was the acquisition of ZeroBlock. YAWN.

And the mass will wire money to exchanges such as bitstamp and kraken? Doubtful.

Let me translate:

I, rpietila, own that 2k ask wall. I am going to use my own USD to buy through it, probably around 10am Eastern time because that is when I expect a big announcement on bloomberg. My buy will encourage bullish sentiment. You will hear much, "OMFG, did yoU SEE THAt wall get eatEN! OMFG WTF
Very amaze. wow.