This Tesla's liquidity test sell of course a cover-up for turning Q1 to profit for Tesla. But it may have a positive long term impact on the mass adoption among the institutions. Some of them are still hesitant because of the fears of liquidity issues. Even Musk at first raised a doubt about that. And of course, SEC denied ETF's mostly because of the low liquidity of the US exchanges, which makes Bitcoin volatile and susceptible to manipulations. It is like a pop quiz in school. Now everyone has a proof that the liquidity is there and every institution may sell big amounts with a little discount. So, this is another victory on the way to the first ETF's approvals later this year.
But for me at least, there is another major reason for all what happened in the last 6-7 months. In the years of bear market I sometimes expressed regrets about these endless barts caused by the owners and close friends of Bitmex. I remember one post, when I said that the price would had reached 100K in no time if Bitmex didn't exist. I was opposed by r0ach, who claimed that prices above 10K are not sustainable because of the miners profits getting too high. Of course, no need to explain to the moron the elementary things. Coincedence or not, but on that very day, when CFTC accused Bitmex, the barts suddenly stopped. And since then I can't find evidence of derivate manipulation. As a consequence, Bitcoin has become less volatile which is quite appealing for the institutions are billionaires. I will go even further and say that Bitcoin won the war with the derivate manipulations and all these round numbers 100K, 1mil, etc. are just a matter of when, not if. In particular, one day the US government will decide to build and maintain a Bitcoin reserve, followed by governments and financial institutions worldwide. Just imagine that - almost everyone will prefer to receive their salaries in Bitcoin and people like mindrust will realize how big their mistake was. For how long peeps like that will keep refusing to use BTC in credit cards, paypal, amazon, etc.? One - two years max. And imagine mindrust buying satoshis at price around 1mil to be able to buy a vacuum cleaner on amazon? That will hurt a lot!
tl;dr. In case there are still peeps who plan to exit with most of their stash, a word of warning: It is better to sustain a fiat/BTC percentage and never exceed it. For some it is 1/99, for others 33/67 or even 50/50. But everything above 75/25 may and will turn into a disaster. Of course, the ratio is individual and it depends on the age and the plans. For peeps still far from a retirement 0/100 is not bad at all
But for me at least, there is another major reason for all what happened in the last 6-7 months. In the years of bear market I sometimes expressed regrets about these endless barts caused by the owners and close friends of Bitmex. I remember one post, when I said that the price would had reached 100K in no time if Bitmex didn't exist. I was opposed by r0ach, who claimed that prices above 10K are not sustainable because of the miners profits getting too high. Of course, no need to explain to the moron the elementary things. Coincedence or not, but on that very day, when CFTC accused Bitmex, the barts suddenly stopped. And since then I can't find evidence of derivate manipulation. As a consequence, Bitcoin has become less volatile which is quite appealing for the institutions are billionaires. I will go even further and say that Bitcoin won the war with the derivate manipulations and all these round numbers 100K, 1mil, etc. are just a matter of when, not if. In particular, one day the US government will decide to build and maintain a Bitcoin reserve, followed by governments and financial institutions worldwide. Just imagine that - almost everyone will prefer to receive their salaries in Bitcoin and people like mindrust will realize how big their mistake was. For how long peeps like that will keep refusing to use BTC in credit cards, paypal, amazon, etc.? One - two years max. And imagine mindrust buying satoshis at price around 1mil to be able to buy a vacuum cleaner on amazon? That will hurt a lot!
tl;dr. In case there are still peeps who plan to exit with most of their stash, a word of warning: It is better to sustain a fiat/BTC percentage and never exceed it. For some it is 1/99, for others 33/67 or even 50/50. But everything above 75/25 may and will turn into a disaster. Of course, the ratio is individual and it depends on the age and the plans. For peeps still far from a retirement 0/100 is not bad at all
Nice post. I myself we be selling zero to very little. I was once upon a time going to sell up to 30%, but that has now dropped down to say no more than 10% and even that is pushing it and would require a parabolic move before the sale. With the world we are going into my decendants will need every one of the bitcoin I can hold onto.
