Topic: Where's all the optimists? - page 2. (Read 3332 times)

Count me among the optimists.  Here's something I've been considering lately.  I learned my big lesson in not trusting 3rd parties with any significant amounts of bitcoin in 2012 with the bitcoinica fuck up.  Many of us learned that lesson through that experience and others back then.  But, there just weren't that many of us.

This go around there are a lot more people with a lot more money invested in bitcoin.  And this most recent incident was enormous in scale, affecting multiple 3rd parties.  Basically, everyone just got schooled in why you don't keep lots of bitcoin with 3rd parties, and I suspect over the coming months we're going to see the bitcoin supply on exchanges drop as people withdraw their bitcoins and learn to hold them themselves.

The whole infrastructure is still maturing and VC interest is clear.  However, VCs won't tolerate the risk of investing in startups with inexperienced management teams, and, therefore, I think we're in the midst of seeing it change hands from business owners with little real business experience to more experienced managers.  My thinking is that the infrastructure is moving forward and becoming more mature and robust and more usable and interesting for end users and business integration, and I think supplies on the open markets will decrease.  Combine those two things and I think you have the ingredients for another strong bull run later this year.

Just some thoughts.

It appears we have a bear who is feeling that the bear market is done for this season and it's trying desperately to....do something...

Oh, this is concerning, as it appears to be from the same Adam who started the huge wall thr....hang on a second!!!!!!

I once was an optimist, but those times are gone.
I don´t see any future for Bitcoin anymore..

I am optimist and I always smile while other panic @ forum

Been here the entire time. I just get ridiculed by the trolls for saying I have strong hands.

I wasn't here then. 

Not sure what the numbers for 2012 were exactly but I guess I was basing it on the fact that we have had crazy growth on average for the past several years.  It would not be shocking to see $10,000.  Just saying.

Thread originators can delete posts, one of mine was deleted by repitilia

No way!!! You too? =))))))

Amazing deal to be had right now. I think it will hit 300. I have my order in. These are good times!

I've never seen a post in someone else's thread get deleted.

Perhaps you meant to say you created a new thread.

Off-topic or spammy threads (bull or bear) are often deleted.

Of course I don't buy things. I'm just in it for the Ponzi.   

patience coming to an end, and will price will suddenly explode.

I can't speak for others in the Bitcoinverse, but I simply "don't care". You want to hear me say it will go up? OK, it will go up. How about I say that it is going to tank and most of you tards are going to lose your butts selling into the freefall? Either or both could be happening right at this very moment. Do you know how much control I have over it? About as much as the Federal Reserve and US Treasury do, whish is to say NONE AT ALL And that is the way it should stay.

You want some optimism? Here you go. Can you imagine how the dollar would have fared the latest transaction maeliability issue? I think that the Federal Reserve would have kept their mouths shut about it while they figured out a way to exploit the bug with maximum efficiency. Bitcoin is not going to tank. And if I'm wrong and BTC goes back down to single digits, and some "big whale" comes along and vacu-sucks every available Satoshi, I will not care, because I know the network will crank out another Bitcoin within 5 to10 minutes.

-Oz

You forget 2012.

but you can not take your money from exchange.

Optimist checking in.    

The reason we don't say much is because most people laugh at us and shoot us down and there is no point in saying anything most of the time.

My reasons for being optimistic?

We are still at $650 after Gox "failing."
Tons of press, negative and positive, causes new interest in the currency.
Wall Street is still planning on getting involved.
More large companies are on the brink of adoption.
ATM's sprouting up everywhere.
If we get to $10,000 this year it will be the absolute slowest year ever for BTC.
We could honestly get to $50,000 this year and it would be  "normal" year.
I have lost trust in fiat.  It feels so good to have funds somewhere else.

That is just a handful of things that come to mind.

Buy? You actually use BTC to buy things? What are you, one of those fanatical nutjob koolade-drinking "believers"?

Don't you realize that Bitcoin was created way back in November for the sole purpose of speculative trading?

No more optimist, when no more chasout from any exchange.

I got an email, which I deleted.
Maybe it wasn't appropriate, or it was posted in wrong area so mod deleted it
I was just trying to pump people up, as there is nothing for people to be disheartened about.
Corrections are normal, and people should be buying not selling.