All posts made by pönde in Bitcointalk.org's Wall Observer thread
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Post 40388082 (copy this link) (by pönde) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_15.58h):
Is there any sing that the Lightning Networks are creating some real world use of bitcoin? Like purchasing some stuff from shops?
Is there any explorers to look and analyse the use of the Lightning Networks?
How about atomic swaps.
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Post 41582058 (copy this link) (by pönde) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.00h):
It has been said, that bitcoins that have and will go through segwit will be blacklisted. I think there is no need worry about. Three reasons.
First. Bitcoin blockchain is anyway transparent, so every coin can be blacklisted for any invented reason, have they gone through segwit or not.
Second. Segwit will be used anyway. So finally most, or every coin will go through them. So every coin will be blacklisted. Blacklisting kind of a looses it significance.
Third. Atomic swaps. Traders will use atomic swaps to trade for each other. Back and forth. They are not worried about are they able to use the coins on some shop where they could be rejected by a blacklist. Traders will use them just for trading. So traders do not care if coins are blacklisted.
Question about tradingview.com.
When I change the time scale like 1 day to 3 month or a year, the candle width also changes. And vice versa. Why? Like when I select three months view, a got 1 hour candles, then when I select 4 hour candles a got a one year view. Why?
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Post 41590729 (copy this link) (by pönde) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.00h):
Question about tradingview.com.
When I change the time scale like 1 day to 3 month or a year, the candle width also changes. And vice versa. Why? Like when I select three months view, a got 1 hour candles, then when I select 4 hour candles a got a one year view. Why?
Not sure I get your question.
It tries to make a decent-looking chart when you change timescale. suggest just use the candle selctor and then you can zoom in or out with the mouse wheel... drag the thing about a bit
You got it right.
The mouse wheel works. Thank you.
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Post 43938584 (copy this link) (by pönde) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.04h):
Monero has its own problems. The transaction fees hurt and supply is not fixed.
The Monero and Bitcoin transaction fees are very close to each other. There is not practical difference, exept during the high volume times Bitcoin has had actually higher fees.
https://bitinfocharts.com/comparison/monero-transactionfees.htmlhttps://bitinfocharts.com/comparison/bitcoin-transactionfees.htmlAlso, the Transaction fees of Monero will be decresed even more by 80-90% by the bulletproofs.
https://ethereumworldnews.com/monero-bulletproof-protocol/https://getmonero.org/2017/12/07/Monero-Compatible-Bulletproofs.htmlIn addition The Tari Project which is a second layer protocol for Monero, will cut the transaction fees to fractions by Lightning Networks. It will also bring Atomic Swaps, Internal assets and much more for Monero.
https://www.tari.com/The "not fixed" supply is not a problem at all. There is a fixed tail emission for Miners to have an incentive to mine. And because the tail emission is fixed, the emission in relation to existing supply will be decreasing. Also, the tail emission will be very low. 0,6XMR per 2 minutes block. That is only 432XMR per a day.
https://getmonero.org/resources/moneropedia/tail-emission.htmlAlso, the Tari Protocol will be merge Mined with Monero.
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Post 43958711 (copy this link) (by pönde) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.04h):
Bitcoin is a currency, and it is extremely disruptive, as it is not controlled by any nation-state.
You and many other are misled by the TPTB.
You and many other think that nation state is the enemy of the crypto. That is a miss conclusion. The enemy of the crypto is the TPTB.
You and many other also think, that there are plenty nation states. That is an illusion. There are just very few of such on this planet. And none of them are on the western world. The TPTB have enslaved almost all of them. By taking control of the FIAT. In United states that happened 1913. Now the TPTB is afraid for their FIAT to get rusty by the crypto, resulting to lose the control of the state, resulting to the rise of the people and to the rise of the nation state.
People, nation and nation state are not the enemy of the crypto. TPTB is the enemy of the crypto.
TPTB is the enemy of the human.
TPTB is the enemy of the nation.
TPTB is the enemy of the nation state.
TPTB is the enemy of the crypto.
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Post 44507592 (copy this link) (by pönde) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.05h):
Good site
https://coincheckup.comOnce there, click "cuztomize table" and then select "advanced" and you will have even more info.
You also can have plenty of info of a coin by clicking the name of the coin.
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Post 44517642 (copy this link) (by pönde) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.05h):
Pretty much sums up all of corporate IT jobs, except the pay is moderate to high. But still not enough to pay the bills, keep the fam going and have anything left over. Golden handcuffs.
Definitely low prestige, as your boss and co-workers all think you're just a loser nerd. Faking your personality is real, all the managers are extroverted narcissistic idiots who could give a shit about quality work or doing the right thing.
That is so true.
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Post 46186914 (copy this link) (by pönde) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.08h):
Main shit going nuts again
Do exchanges just create fake trades of XRP or are people stupid enough to buy and hold it?
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Post 46190423 (copy this link) (by pönde) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.08h):
Tether 2.0?
Yea. I was thinking that. An other Tether.
How they can maintain one Tether as one dollar? And How long?
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Post 46193029 (copy this link) (by pönde) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.08h):
Today Circle and the CENTRE open source consortium introduced a service to tokenize US dollars and use those dollars over public blockchains on the internet: USD//Coin, also known as USDC. Individuals and institutions can enroll in this service to deposit US dollars from bank accounts, convert those dollars into tokens usable everywhere the internet reaches (subject to the token’s compliance controls), and redeem USDC tokens and cash out to bank accounts.
wtf is this shit? You can use my cryptocurrency but you have to follow the compliance controls to ensure the US government can track your every move. But it's so much better because your dollars are now digital! And centralized! And not really a cryptocurrency. And not really a currency.
If the idea is to keep one USDC as one USD, so even the most stupid people will not start holding it. People would benefit this if it was possible to use it in international trade directly with online shops, avoiding the banks. But the problem is that then the banks would lose the money transfer business. Or else this kind of form of fiat money would have been introduced 20 years ago.
They announced during consensus in May, that they would issue their own tokenized US dollar. Their own "stablecoin". It's interesting to see they actually went through with it. I wonder how many people will start using it and how it will effect bitcoin.
The banks can use this as money transfer from one continent to another without fear of exchange rate fluctuations. If the fluctuations do not really happen. Which at some point is questionable.
But banks can do that with Bitcoin or Monero. Exchange rate fluctuations can be eliminated by making fiat-crypto-fiat exchange fast. Plus, because they are decentralized, there is no fear that someone will shut down the system. And in the case of Monero, the Transactions are private for sure. And in Bitcoin Lightning Networks, the transactions happen in few seconds.
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Post 46244895 (copy this link) (by pönde) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.08h):
This is a little off topic question. But I ask anyway.
Are most or all cloud mining services like
https://iqmining.com/ scams? The one year payback time sounds too good.
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Post 46245447 (copy this link) (by pönde) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.08h):
This is a little off topic question. But I ask anyway.
Are most or all cloud mining services like
https://iqmining.com/ scams? The one year payback time sounds too good.
They are. My advice is do not thouch.
Yea. Like I presumed.
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Post 46245589 (copy this link) (by pönde) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.08h):
Pump it! (LOUDER)
Like this.
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Post 46247359 (copy this link) (by pönde) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.08h):
the last high was at 6840.9 on bitfinex. will we break the last high this time?
The whole coinmarket is already reacting to the price. I hope it get close to $7000 by month end or above. Most analysis seen does not see the price going below $6000 this month or next except any big exchange was hacked or the ETF was rejected.
Some exchange could soon get "hacked". During some rally have such happened.
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Post 46468399 (copy this link) (by pönde) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.08h):
Bitcoin doesn't give a fuck what regulations we put on it. If it ever does, we'll just use Monero.
For crypto transfers, large or small, it's a good solution indeed. But if conversion to fiat is needed, it's back to KYC/AML one way or another.
You can convert to fiat without passing KYC/AML. I mean, you could potentially find someone that gives you a briefcase full of cash fiat for your crypto no questions asked. But you have not laundered anything as you end up with an "out of the system" briefcase full of cash that you can use for your daily spending but not for making a high value purchase (real estate, lambo, stocks, etc) without laundering it first.
Crypto does not solve the laundering problem nor really helps in tax evading in a significant way.
I think finally crypto will sneak in everyday trade and begin replace fiat. So need for krypto-fiat exchange will decline. First crypto will be used to buy un-tangible commodities like webhosting. Monero can already be used for it.
https://www.reddit.com/r/Monero/comments/9kk8ar/you_can_now_buy_webhosting_with_monero/Well, problems will arise if the secret police looks account book and finds out the crypto to be used. But when the systems like file sharing, computing, AI and such will begin to buy and sell resources with other such systems, using cryptos, while they are unable to handle the momentary heavy load, there is no need to give receipts or write anything to account book. So there is no way to get busted.
And these purchases between the systems can happen millions in every second and they will ultimately be so significant for the operation of technology that it is impossible to interfere with them. Mankind just depends too much of them. Too big to fail.
Also, people could buy resources from decentralized systems by crypto. Again. No receipts no account books. No way to get busted.
One of these kind on could be a decentralized twitter or reddit. People could pay for the system to store their message for some period of time. After that the message is destroyed. The max strorage time could be one month. That is long time enough to to brake down the corrupted power of centralized twitter and such. Also, this way the storage size will not increase for ever.
Are there any of this kind of a service available?
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Post 46476596 (copy this link) (by pönde) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.08h):
The really amazing part of the Petro is that for the first time an entire nation will learn crypto oriented currency. Boom or bust, this is likely to be a noteworthy turning point in financial history.
Since the Petro is a centralized government coin, it could be printed out of thin air like fiat, so I would not really hold much of them as a storage of wealth.
But it is interesting the way, that I could use it, just like Bitcoin, to purchase some stuff from Venezuela. And the banks can do nothing about it.
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Post 46476697 (copy this link) (by pönde) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.08h):
Well that just means that Petro has some functionality.
What would happen if White House applied the same rules for Bticoin?
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Post 46476875 (copy this link) (by pönde) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.08h):
Well that just means that Petro has some functionality.
What would happen if White House applied the same rules for Bticoin?
They get fucked in the ass by the biggest green dildo ever. Fact.
Lets start promote US sanctions for Bitcoin? Anyone has any good Blueprint for that?
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Post 46533323 (copy this link) (by pönde) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.08h):
Volume declines. Only 3,7 Billion dollars now.
May happen a dip down. I hope not.
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Post 46621382 (copy this link) (by pönde) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.09h):
Bitcoin's volume is now only 3,2B dollars. Since December 2017 it has been this low during just few days.
I hope the volume gets higher or some price crash may happen.
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Post 46649361 (copy this link) (by pönde) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.09h):
Usually I am afraid when the volume gets down. Now the volume has been under 4B$ for a few days, but still the price has been able to climb.
Will it go over 6700$ today? Feels good.
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Post 46995115 (copy this link) (by pönde) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.10h):
Interesting. The dude who is talking there, says Tether is beaten by the TPTB since people can park their crypto gains to Tether instead of FIAT.
Of course it risky to hold Tether, but there is a point. The more likely the one USDT is one USD, the more unlikely people would exchange crypto to FIAT. And would avoid all KYC/AML and such. If we could create a
decentralized Tether or some other stablecoin which would follow some FIAT or some commodity or asset or index or stock. Why would people hold stocks or such at all? That would be quite a pain for the TPTB.
No wonder they do not like the idea of that kind.
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Post 48054846 (copy this link) (by pönde) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.13h):
I hate to sound paranoid... but it's hard when the world is burning like this... but...
Has anyone considered this could be the overture to an attack?
Which one? The rise of LN or crash of price?
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Post 48074650 (copy this link) (by pönde) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.14h):
Hmmm... anyone else notice this about deposits from bitstamp? Timely
REST OF THE WORLD
USD INTERNATIONAL deposits are temporarily unavailable due to ongoing migration to a different service provider. USD DOMESTIC deposits may run into minor delays.
Decided to make a transfer anyway. Hopefully it goes smooth since my bank is Canadian.
Link?
Is the point that people do now too much fiat deposits?
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Post 48075142 (copy this link) (by pönde) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.14h):
The world will go back to metals again as money no matter how much kicking and screaming the banks do to try and prevent it.
I hold crypto and metals. And hope many others would too. But people are just very stupid. Just tell them to buy some real gold. The question is "What do I do with it?"
If five percent of the people used every month five percent of their income to gold and silver, the price would go up sure. The greater real demand would also make price manipulation much harder. People could use physical metals to pay each other directly. And avoid every tax and KYC/AML. But no, people are stupid.
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Post 48078216 (copy this link) (by pönde) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.14h):
The world will go back to metals again as money no matter how much kicking and screaming the banks do to try and prevent it.
I hold crypto and metals. And hope many others would too. But people are just very stupid. Just tell them to buy some real gold. The question is "What do I do with it?"
If five percent of the people used every month five percent of their income to gold and silver, the price would go up sure. The greater real demand would also make price manipulation much harder. People could use physical metals to pay each other directly. And avoid every tax and KYC/AML. But no, people are stupid.
Start your own facebook. Make it better, shinier, with more buttons. Technically better in every way. Now see if you can get people to use it.
I guess people are now slowly migrating from facebook to gab.ai. In the case of money, people are even more slow. Precious metals are something so weird money for them. They had centuries used metals, but they let TPTB to corrupt it. Now they don't even understand what metals are. Crypto is much easier to adapt. Just download the wallet.
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Post 48079206 (copy this link) (by pönde) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.14h):
The world will go back to metals again as money no matter how much kicking and screaming the banks do to try and prevent it.
I hold crypto and metals. And hope many others would too. But people are just very stupid. Just tell them to buy some real gold. The question is "What do I do with it?"
If five percent of the people used every month five percent of their income to gold and silver, the price would go up sure. The greater real demand would also make price manipulation much harder. People could use physical metals to pay each other directly. And avoid every tax and KYC/AML. But no, people are stupid.
Start your own facebook. Make it better, shinier, with more buttons. Technically better in every way. Now see if you can get people to use it.
I guess people are now slowly migrating from facebook to gab.ai. In the case of money, people are even more slow. Precious metals are something so weird money for them. They had centuries used metals, but they let TPTB to corrupt it. Now they don't even understand what metals are. Crypto is much easier to adapt. Just download the wallet.
Metal is a kind of music, right?
Yea.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sqkeuEjw7QoLike that.
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Post 48082930 (copy this link) (by pönde) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.14h):
It is all about the volume now. The volume dipped and the price came down.
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Post 48083126 (copy this link) (by pönde) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.14h):
It is all about the volume now. The volume dipped and the price came down.
Don't know what charts you're looking at but volume is as high as it's been since February.
Coinmarketcap.
https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/bitcoin/Volume rises during every crash. Then volume and price remains on some level for some time until volume dips and price follows.
Now the volume dipped to 7.9B$. Then crash.
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Post 48099226 (copy this link) (by pönde) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.14h):
It's a shithole out there man. A cesspool of sig campaigning google translate feces.
Stay in this thread. It is the only reliably decent place on the forum.
I absolutely agree with you 100%.
The funny thing is they tried to lock this thread. All the shit out there on the forum with shilling and broken sentences and
this was the thread they tried to stop.
Who tried?
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Post 48109975 (copy this link) (by pönde) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.14h):
The biggest catalyst that'd make BTC price skyrocket higher is simply move all your BTC to your PERSONAL bitcoin wallet (move off of Coinbase, Binance, Bitfinex, Square, Robinhood, CBOE/CME futures).
Fractional reserve, BTC lending, rehypothication is a bitch and can perpetually create no floor for prices by establishment market manipulators.
Plus if history is any indication, one these avenues will blow up and wreck the "holders" of bitcoin that really wasn't there because they failed to take such advice.
Take it off the exchanges and see what happens.
Well, are people able to download electrum wallet or print a paper wallet and move coins there? Most are not. Just think about some highly educated dudes with some university degrees like doctors, layers, mathematicians, geologists and so on. Are they able to hold coins by themselves. No, most of them are not. And these are considered to be the high IQ people. Better than anyone else. But they don't comprehend to do a very simple task. Download the wallet and the move coins there. What a retards.
So many people will hold coins on those centralized "services". But does it make any difference? Exchanges can manipulate price anyway. With out any coins. They just can create fake trades with fake volumes and with fake prices. Just like they wish.
I think the decentralized exchanges will better tell us the real price of the coins.
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Post 48155016 (copy this link) (by pönde) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.14h):
I HATE THIS FUCKING WORLD, EVERYTHING REVOLVES AROUND FUCKING MONEY. WHY THE FUCK CANT WE JUST ALL SHARE THE FUCKING RESOURCES FOR BASIC SURVIVAL. WHY SHOULD A FUCKING MARKET DETERMINE IF SOMEONE GOES HOMELESS. FUCKING ALL THE LAND IS OWNED BY FUCKING BILLIONAIRES , HOW THE FUCK CAN YOU OWN LAND IT SHOULD BE FREE WE WERE BORN ON EARTH. JESUS FUCKING CHRIST THE POOREST PEOPLE ARE THE HARDEST WORKERS. THIS LIFE IS FUCKED GLOBAL WARMING KILLING US ANYWAYS.
Everything goes around money because of TPTB. Google more about it.
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Post 48358408 (copy this link) (by pönde) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.17h):
The volume has declined under 6B$. Lets hope the price will not dip.
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Post 48374205 (copy this link) (by pönde) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.17h):
Price has pumped while volume has declined. Good time to buy?
And now the volume a little pumped too.
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Post 48492103 (copy this link) (by pönde) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.18h):
BOOM!
Is the December figure an estimate or only for the first five days?
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Post 48493621 (copy this link) (by pönde) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.18h):
How much the BTC futures have to do with this decline from ATH to this level?
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Post 48494652 (copy this link) (by pönde) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.18h):
How much the BTC futures have to do with this decline from ATH to this level?
In all the conversations I have read on this subject, most agree that the volume moved by futures contracts does not affect the decline from the ATH
Example of CME Group:
When compared to the rest of the contracts traded on the exchange operator worldwide, Bitcoin futures are insignificant, weighing only 0.03% of all trading at CME Group.
https://www.newsbtc.com/2018/10/18/cme-bitcoin-futures-contract-hits-volume-high-of-5053-contracts-in-q3-up-by-41/(If it is true that coincidentally, the days of descent coincide with the closing of futures.
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Is there chart of futures close and BTC price available?
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Post 48498415 (copy this link) (by pönde) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.18h):
If this is the way to print paper Bitcoin and dump the price, we need real use of BTC in real shopping, since the blockchain accepts only real BTC.
https://breakermag.com/when-wall-street-financializes-bitcoin-who-benefits/Luckily the lightning network is running.
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Post 48499281 (copy this link) (by pönde) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.19h):
forgot to say, the eth chart says it's going to 17, not 50 lol rekt. it might bounce before that utter humiliation but w/e
trouble is, 'everyone' says that^ and wants to rebuy that scammy nonsense at that level
to flip it to its retarded believers
o.k... ETH going to $17 rather than $50. Maybe o.k. for bitcoin long term, but short term aren't they all crashing together.
In other words, even if some of the alts and shitcoins are crashing more than bitcoin, aren't they bringing bitcoin down with them?
I'm fucking buying Eth at $17 for sure
If this works
https://breakermag.com/when-wall-street-financializes-bitcoin-who-benefits/that price is possible.
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Post 48501181 (copy this link) (by pönde) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.19h):
Since the whole thread is people pretending the losses are entirely temporary paper losses while under the delusion the price will be a trillion dollars per coin someday, I think the downward grind and actual capitulation number might surprise even me. At this point, from $2xxx to $1xxx will be the despair phase, and three digits will be the anger phase where random shitcoiners start sending death threats to people like Antonoplous for tricking them into malinvestments.
Do you think the decline is due to people panicing or due to TPTB, like this
https://breakermag.com/when-wall-street-financializes-bitcoin-who-benefits/and the futures?
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Post 48501279 (copy this link) (by pönde) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.19h):
That article misses one rather large thingy which is unlike gold BTC can be verified and delivered to anyone anywhere in the world at any time. That's kinda the point.
Yea. I know. That relieves me. But believe me. Most people can't make difference between the paper BTC and the real BTC. Until they go shopping, where only real BTC is valid. So that why we need LN and real world use.
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Post 48522582 (copy this link) (by pönde) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.19h):
Volume is rising. Good.
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Post 48523136 (copy this link) (by pönde) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.19h):
Volume may go over 7B$ soon.
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Post 48531720 (copy this link) (by pönde) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.19h):
still curious what all these things are gonna bring .....
Future is an agreement whereby one party undertakes to buy and the other sell some commodity at a specific price at a specific moment in the future.
Does the seller side has to have the bitcoins when the contract is made? How it is made sure the seller have them when they are needed to be sold?
And how it is made sure the buyer has fiat to buy?
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Post 48532001 (copy this link) (by pönde) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.19h):
Getting ready with some popcorns...
So when that short close? Where is the source of it?
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Post 48532089 (copy this link) (by pönde) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.19h):
Does the seller side has to have the bitcoins when the contract is made?
No. That's the whole idea behind "regulated" bitcoin markets. You don't need to have a single satoshi to sell thousands of bitcoins and suppress price.
Bankers think that bitcoin ETFs will solve bitcoin supply "problem".
When the contract expires seller has to anyway have to get the coins from somewhere to be able to sell them to the buyer?
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Post 48532361 (copy this link) (by pönde) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.19h):
Does the seller side has to have the bitcoins when the contract is made?
No. That's the whole idea behind "regulated" bitcoin markets. You don't need to have a single satoshi to sell thousands of bitcoins and suppress price.
Bankers think that bitcoin ETFs will solve bitcoin supply "problem".
When the contract expires seller has to anyway have to get the coins from somewhere to be able to sell them to the buyer?
Nope. Actual delivery of bitcoins is forbidden. Just like in gold futures and ETFs. At the expiry date profit/loss is cleared through the seller's margin deposit which is in dollars. If the seller is systemically important bank and they did the wrong bet Fed will print new dollars and will give them to pay for their loss.
The buyer side was there to buy some bitcoins. If he will not have them, what will he have? The dollars?
The contract said for example buyer will buy three bitcoins for price 3500$ per one coin which is total 10500$. But the day price is 4500$ per bitcoin which is total 13500$. So the buyer will have 3000$ for bank account?
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Post 48580899 (copy this link) (by pönde) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.20h):
Well, this at least proves that financial problems raise the price of bitcoin.
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Post 48584294 (copy this link) (by pönde) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.20h):
That indicates, that the bottom has been reached about 1 - 1.5 years before halving.
Next halving from here is about 1.5 years away.
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Post 48683536 (copy this link) (by pönde) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.20h):
Bakkt Futures to Launch on January 24, Presents Milestones Ahead
AUTHOR: GUEST AUTHOR LAST UPDATED ON DEC 14, 2018 @ 20:46 UTC
The owner of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) – the Intercontinental Exchange (ICE), announced back in August that it will be launching a global platform and an ecosystem for digital assets called Bakkt. The project is handled in collaboration with marquee companies such as Microsoft, BCG, Starbucks, and others.
Speaking on the matter at the time, CEO Kelly Loeffler said that the platform is expected to launch in November 2018, subject to review and approval by the US Commodity and Futures Trading Commission.
However, in a notice issued on October 22, ICE confirmed that the platform will launch with one month delay, pending approval from US regulators.
In yet another push-back, ICE had posted an update that confirmed the platform will launch on January 24th as a new target date, as well as other updates. The reason for the delay is seemingly the same – regulators are yet to grant their approval.
Bakkt Milestones Ahead Of The Launch
The latest update from December 12 by ICE comes with a few important milestone targets which the platform should hit before the much-awaited deadline on January 24th.
First and foremost, on December 17th, the team will have the Bitcoin reference data set up and ready for download in production.
Just a day later, on the 18th, the project should have new digital assets multicast channels, while by the 10th of January, the clearing limits can be set up in production.
Also, the recent announcement has also shed some clarity on the matter of trading the daily Bitcoin contracts. ICE outlines how the platform will handle markets for each subsequent day:
Because the Bitcoin product is a daily contract, each day there will be a new market (i.e., market id) that becomes available as tradable on the exchange. Because of this behavior, we will list two subsequent days of markets that will be available in static data, but not tradable.
Bakkt Paves the Way for Institutional Money
According to CEO of LMAX Exchange, David Mercer, Bakkt’s 1-day futures contract which includes physically delivered bitcoin is an incrementally different and particularly important addition that the market has been looking for a long time.
Additionally, CFTC-approved warehousing, as well as, enhanced security and a guarantee fund provides a much-needed custody solution. According to many, Mike Novogratz included, this is what institutional investors are looking for to get involved in the market.
I think the next move up is going to need custody from a trusting source. It’s going to need a little more regulatory clarity. […] We wouldn’t take out $10,000 without those two things because that’s what brings the institutional investors in. But we’re going to get there. – Said Novogratz
https://cryptopotato.com/bakkt-futures-to-launch-on-january-24-presents-milestones-ahead/Has this anything to do with real crypto or is this just banking cartel fake? They talk about physically delivered Bitcoin. Does that mean Bitcoin or fiat? Is this bakkt good or bad for crypto?
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Post 48745651 (copy this link) (by pönde) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.21h):
If correct we should keep rising, slowly at first, but gaining speed and volume on the way out and see 6k around Jan 12 2019. The cautious bull herd seems to be taking for granted they will get a nice long year to accumulate cheap coins like 2015 and then they can all be millionaires since they neglected to do this 4 years ago during the last great crypto winter, I dont think this will happen at all. Only 21 million(ok like 17 million) coins and its pretty pie in the sky for everyone to think they are gonna get 12 months of bargain basement prices where they can just casually collect coins for peanuts while fundamentals grow stronger by the day.
Ideal scenario (gently and slowly light up your hopium pipes for this one and take a big inhale)........
after regaining 6k in mid January, Bakt would then usher in another mini bubble to 40k followed by a quick and mild bear season testing 10k again, all before the next halving where the march to 250k starts
I don't see a long, lull in the market either. Prices are very low already and why should we be so lucky to accumulate cheap coins for 12+ months? Call me crazy, but I see the possibility for a double bubble still occurring in 2019.
You mean first bubble is 6k$ and second 40k$?
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Post 49263657 (copy this link) (by pönde) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.26h):
Yesterday Linghtning Networks capacity dropped of about 50BTC/200000k$.
https://1ml.comThe reason was those lnbig.com nodes. Drop in number of nodes and channels was not so significant.. Now the capacity is increasing again, and will be were it was, maybe in two days.
Why this drop anyway happened?
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Post 49284858 (copy this link) (by pönde) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.26h):
Mid January taxes soon to be in order, time for corporate speculation bwahaha to the moon
What is precise date when the taxes have been paid.
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Post 49385025 (copy this link) (by pönde) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.27h):
Intelligence is an overrated trait of a man. Consciousness and situational awareness are a lot more essential. They are the abilities to understand and handle time, space and knowledge.
The time, where we were, are and will be. The past the present and the future. Which influence in that order from one to an other. The space, the one that is around us and the other one beyond the horizon. The knowledge. To seek and compare information, to understand relation between reason and result and to make conclusions.
Without consciousness and situational awareness human is just a tabulating machine with no willpower. That is why many intelligent people fail. Most of these people will not understand what crypto is. Not even when they will use it. Just like they don’t understand what fiat is right now when they are using it.
And the more intelligent the mentally weak human is, the more usefull idiot he/she is for the TPTB.
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Post 50649438 (copy this link) (by pönde) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.42h):
I hope we can eventually get rid of this whole countries and borders nonsense. The internet is a good start and hopefully future space-based internet providers will eventually put an end to surface based internet filtering. And of course a global and distributed currency.
Well that’s what the EU is trying to do - get rid of borders. Of course the English want to put up more borders but never mind musn’t grumble
The EU is just shifting the problem to the edge of the EU instead of trying to make borders less relevant.
Please explain, do you mean the refugee problem?
Nevertheless borderless Europe is pretty fcking convenient, especially for someone who travels a lot. Just drive/travel from country to country without any hassle. Shengen area is a blessing.
When there is no border control on the borders, there will border control on the doors of shopping malls, schools, train stations, restaurants, hospitals, roads, highways and so on. And still people will get robbed, raped and killed for the sake of border-less travelling and free movement. So at the end the 20 minutes border control on the borders is pretty convenient procedure to go through.
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Post 50649936 (copy this link) (by pönde) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.42h):
How big percentage is the "illegal" mass of the travellers?
When there is no border control, there are no illegal travelers, just legal.
Are they wanted beforehand or do they commit crimes where they see fit?
They commit crimes when necessary.
The people who commit crimes and bring "diversity" are allowed to the (at least in Europe) countries legally. Yeah, I mean the "culturally enrichening" folk.
Yes. Millions of such people have entered to Europe since 2015 through Europe's outer controlled borders, which were not controlled. So Europe broke it's own legislation and sovereignty too.
There are criminals always and everywhere, some are just born with a brain like that. Some don't have empathy and there are always people who want to get by easier.
That is why more criminals are not needed to enter into any country and the border control is the path of the least resistance.
Closing/opening borders doesn't change much in that.
The border control is not a "closed/opened border". It is the border control. Anyone with proper documents are able to go through border.
The world is getting more and more digital every day, soon a person wanted by Iraq will be wanted by Latvia as well, with exchanging information. Oh wait, we do have interpol already?
God bless we have.
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Post 50650416 (copy this link) (by pönde) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.42h):
The last argument will make every other meaningless.
Congratulations.
Crime has dropped every single year in my country for the past 25 years, we do have open borders. I'd say that has nothing to do with criminal activities.
You are blessed. We are not so much blessed here. We have open borders too. The criminality has risen since 1995 a lot, and since 2015 like Bitcoin. And that was not surprise for me.
We have interpol, we have "face-recognition" cameras amongst things we don't know about.
Face-recognition cameras all around is one result of the borders without control. And face-recognition is far more Orwellian than the border control on the borders of the country. At least it is for me.
Having borders everywhere would just complicate things, think about international transport and trade.
The border control is not needed "everywhere". The Border control is necessary only on the borders. And like I previously mentioned, if there is no border control on the borders, then the border control will be "everywhere", on schools, restaurants, roads and so on.
International transport and trade is not disturbed by the border control. The transport and trade is done all the day around, all the time over, already. Over the controlled borders, with no problem.
I do agree we must have some lines drawn, as there are places/people who can't integrate and whose cultural behaviour will never meet the standards of others. People are just different. But in EU the Shengen area has made things much easier, not vice versa and like said, I don't know anything about risen criminal activity, please do educate me if you have any information on that.
When the first lines are drawn again on the border, there will be far less cultural behavior like rape, murder, robbery, pedophilia, terrorism and violence inside the controlled borders.
In addition. The prerequisite for functional schengen area would be the border control on the outer borders of schengen, which exists in legally but not practically.
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Post 50784716 (copy this link) (by pönde) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_16.43h):
Did the dip happen because of that Tether/Bitfinex scam?
