Topic: Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion - page 8914. (Read 26608252 times)

 I tried to make china orange.  Just to be sure, avoid China with your bling hangin' out.

You can promote it, I also do it in cases where I know or trust my audience. Hell, I even gave a lecture about it to my students. But I never told anyone (well, just a select few) how many coins I have. I do it like Andreas Antonopoulos who has repeatedly said he doesn't hold any coins.

I just wanted to stress the obvious here: which is to never boast and show off your stash. You don't need to. I can understand the tattoo because I think you are a young guy that's excited about crypto and you want to tell the world about it. That's a nice thing, that's a healthy thing, and everyone should promote and advertise something that's so powerful and revolutionary as Bitcoin. Except that you must take into account that when lots of money is involved the real world can be very, very nasty and ugly and corrupt and those of us who advertise they are involved in crypto and hoDL coins may become targets. And this is expected to intensify as the fiat value of BTC keeps increasing. Back in 2015 I didn't care about this. But when we reached 4 digits things got too serious to ignore.

It's just common sense, and no, I don't think you're stupid. Just a very excited, nice, cool guy.

https://blog.trezor.io/keep-quiet-about-your-coins-crypto-cryptocurrencies-privacy-b44ad6d6c9d1

So, $100K party in Somalia?

Caps of the people who posted in this thread in the last 15 days:



It's a part of my art; can't afford to have more clarity/size in the image because there are opsec resolution issues.

 IMO it's not much different than "wearing" a nice home/car/watch.  Location is everything.  Stay out of Turkey, anywhere in Africa would also be off my list as well as most eastern European countries and all of Russia, most if not all of the Phillipines... here's a map



 If it isn't green or yellow, it isn't safe to have nice things especially if you aren't familiar with the area.  I'll make up a little niche map later for the yellow areas.  Situational Awareness is key.
I need my Bitcoin toque!

Sooooo?? What about a tattoo? How stupid do you label me? For having a rollercoaster?

To promote or believe and exploit .... why not ...

I do agree nobody should talk about holdings or whatever, and especially not those with a decent amount, but why wouldn’t the low-ballers be meeting up

Arbitrage. 

You can arbitrage positions between futures and physical.

Totally understandable.
Recently group of people were jailed in my country for home invasion on a crypto trader. They said to harm his wife and daughter (9 months old) if he doesn't give them access to his crypto exchange accounts. However, they acted and dressed like employees of a parcel delivery service and he let them in.
You guys, my wife and one of my children know that i'm in crypto. I wouldn't tell anybody, but i remind people of the opportunity to buy bitcoin and rarely even tell them that that's what i would do. I would never go out there and feel like a better person because i am hodling and act any like that. People doing that for their ego maybe even deserve the wrench, but that's beyond my "personal judgement boundaries".

Sorry, today i'm really exhausted and my english semantics module seems to be buggy.
Time to let mary j. go over me and put me into early hodlsleep (c)micg.

Limes.  Big lime volume.  

OMG! That is some crazy shit! 

Imo, it's a question of the viewpoint. We could call any buy/sell operation that ultimately has the goal to change market value, for the very own advantage, manipulation. Whereas (pure) market dynamics would be just mathematical outcome of the sum of all trading moves, over time.
Intention to impact the price, for whatever reason, would be clearly manipulation, from my point of view.


Not only for the purpose of keeping down, but to enrich themselves by triggering downtrends by hitting stop-loss-orders, breaking "support lines", to accumulate more coins at lower prices, to extend this dirty play, for whatever reason(s).
The projection would be: What if i am a whale and be evil, what would i do?


I don't believe that they are going to be more successful, but at least successful. I was raised to be good, not to be evil, annoying, selfish or whatever Karma wouldn't like. That's why i condemn any of the opposite. You're right. In the long run it doesn't make a difference to bitcoin at all, but there are victims, and i don't like that.


In contrast, i mostly believe that they drag down overall market sentiments, watch prices go down and use their liquidated Fiat to rebuy at lower prices, to milk off some money and level up their dirty game over time.

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https://medium.com/@FidelityDigitalAssets/enabling-institutions-to-access-a-new-medium-for-assets-b9d8329c8766

Exactly! Some of us may be hoDLing a decent amount of coins and/or may not want to be identifiably labelled as hoDLers. No matter how strong our passphrases are, you can be absolutely certain that a $5 wrench in the right hands can unlock our wallets. And I sure wouldn't want to be on the receiving end of that wrench...



It's for the exact same reason that I would never publicly (IRL) show off my coin stash. Even wearing clothing implying that you HoDL BTC may one day be an extremely dangerous thing to do. And if you do it today, some bad guys may remember you... Imagine yourself going out wearing a "Just HoDL it!" T-shirt when 1 BTC = $1m... To me it's not bravery, not even arrogance, it's just plain stupidity.

Some relevant news: https://www.ccn.com/turkish-police-bust-bitcoin-extortionists-who-netted-3-54-million-from-victims/

Yeah, but do you really believe that anyone, whether Masterluc or anyone else, really knows much of anything about the BTC price one year in advance?    Yeah, they might be able to provide some probabilities of X, Y or Z happening, and alternative theories of A, B or C happening, but in the end, those are probabilities that may or may not play out.  AmiNOTrite?

Sure, Masterluc has reached a kind of sorcerer status within parts of the BTC community (to the extent that there is any BTC community) because of some of his earlier BTC price predictions had come true, but so fucking what?

Shouldn't we be taking these kinds of proclamations (whether Masterluck or anyone else) with a decently large grain of salt, and shouldn't we be attempting to assess the extent to which overall factors still exist a year later and whether some factors might have changed in the interim and shouldn't we also be attempting to assess that the BTC market frequently will be purposefully manipulated opposite of what peeps expect it to do, especially in the short term, which can cause a very large amount of additional profits from those engaging and able to carry out such short term manipulations (even if they might not be able to sustain such manipulations over a longer period, the manipulations in themselves could sometimes have some kind of medium term impact in BTC price direction or even BTC price stickiness).

The rocket takes off sooner or later, those who are worried about current prices, do not have to look at prices, live life, drink, eat, fuck and enjoy.

For my part, hodl and if it goes down, I'll buy a little more.

This!!

We are not far.

 Thank you VB1001 - that is beautiful.

Masterluc's chart from nearly one year ago showed the price dipping to about the $6,500 level around this time, as a sort of final capitulation before the rocket takes off.

If you choose to mix your on-line and your personal life then that is a choice that you make, and surely you have discretion regarding how you want to do it.

Still there are opsec issues, and there are a decently large number of folks who prefer not to roll like that... and maybe sooner or later, these real life encounters are going to cause a decently large number of the encounters to become public faces in the bitcoin space, whether initially wanted to be the case or not.  

If you are willing to take chances that you might become a publicly known person in the space, then of course, you can do that and many people prefer NOT to have such a life, even though there are a lot of publicly known people in the bitcoin space, and they likely have decent lives and they may or may not have intended to go down such a road... Actually, there are people who started out having an online persona that later became public, and whether they are happy about it or not, frequently it will be harder to undo something like that than to do it.  

So all good and fun if several of you want to juggle with these chainsaws, and it is all fun and games until someone's eye gets poked out.

So, even though you have a preference to potentially go public or potentially screw up your opsec, stop trying to suggest that everyone should be making the same kinds of opsec decisions, because that is pure irresponsible to be suggesting such norms, when the world does not work like that, especially in a space in which there could be decently high risks to screwing up OPsec in unwitting ways and NOT properly personally assessing some of the negative consequences of either purposefully or accidentally creating Opsec holes.



Does it matter?  Are you attempting to suggest that there is more validity to coming out as either a public person or a quasi-public person?  Are you trying to suggest that members or lesser if they choose to attempt to exercise meaningful Opsec?  

Get real, and again, it is a bit irritating if you are trying to suggest that your chosen level of Opsec (or lacking thereof, or choices to share your relative lack of opsec) is preferable, merely because you believe that you are getting value from it and other peeps that you met in real life that happen to be WO members are also perceiving themselves to getting value from these kinds of mixing the meat space engagement decisions.

I know, but they are all made by xhomerx10

Modified spelling size error, now it is correct.

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