All posts made by Karpeles in Bitcointalk.org's Wall Observer thread
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Post 9194730 (copy this link) (by Karpeles) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_13.23h):
that time when you miss Willy bot so much and would like Gox still alive
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Post 9920392 (copy this link) (by Karpeles) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_13.40h):
I'm getting sick and tired of this 333 stuff.
Can we please skip this part and drop to 270 already?
I'm getting sick and tired of this 333 stuff.
I'm sick of bouncing off and think we should blast through instead.
I know there's a little bull inside you... let it grow. Nourish it, so it can take over. A time will come when the bear must let go.
My bull will be released around january 14th. I'll go all in, whatever price.
Why not now?
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Post 10045505 (copy this link) (by Karpeles) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_13.44h):
Bitstamp is big and profiting for years.
They can survive some million loss without collapsing like Gox
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Post 11351202 (copy this link) (by Karpeles) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_14.14h):
bulls and bears trolls all quiet.
Signs of a big sideline?
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Post 11820353 (copy this link) (by Karpeles) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_14.20h):
BTC will be 600k in same sense that today's price is 270k...
Take off the k, and you will have the correct result.
I think the bubble time is over now...
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Post 11827821 (copy this link) (by Karpeles) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_14.20h):
weekend is coming, will we see a pump or a dump?
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Post 11857823 (copy this link) (by Karpeles) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_14.20h):
And? The price just reached 300 wall and glued on it. Something was supposed to happen at 300, either a bull or a bear run. Why nothing is happening?
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Post 11890087 (copy this link) (by Karpeles) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_14.21h):
Falllling again, why?
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Post 11912905 (copy this link) (by Karpeles) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_14.21h):
is btce going under or just recovering from that fat finger market sale?
sub 270, but above 150.
I guess they recovered, but not fully
And Greece lifted some bank restrictions, so I think prices will fall
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Post 11942368 (copy this link) (by Karpeles) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_14.21h):
Can we rise $4 before the new dump?
I have some targets to hit and forget to sell yesterday
Thank you
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Post 11947382 (copy this link) (by Karpeles) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_14.21h):
Wherefore art thou Chartbuddy?
You're late. AWOL?
Even bots need some rest
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Post 11953172 (copy this link) (by Karpeles) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_14.21h):
No movements.
So boring
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Post 11954803 (copy this link) (by Karpeles) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_14.21h):
What do you think about Bitcoin price in let's say 3 years from now? In 2018?
Do you that Bitcoin has a potential to go up or to go down?
Yes.
Up or down? You didn't answer my questions dude..
It is like the joke that people studying logic hear:
Woman: Is the baby I'm carrying a male or a female?
Doctor: True
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Post 11960365 (copy this link) (by Karpeles) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_14.21h):
Is this small pump really due to bnp paribas new?
probably, but won't last long
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Post 11963424 (copy this link) (by Karpeles) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_14.21h):
I know i have been here for a long time and i see similar posts.
Where do you get these charts ?
I am really interested lol
Click in explanation. Chances are you will find a explanation about something, maybe related to the graphs
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Post 11963562 (copy this link) (by Karpeles) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_14.21h):
The winklevii already have investors ready to buy as soon as they go live. They know alot of high power people.
I don't doubt they know powerful people but powerful people are "usually" powerful as they are fairly intelligent.
Now, I am mildly semi intelligent and I know if I were them I'd buy before Gemini is launched and the price potentially rises.
Why wait for the winkles?
I am not sold on this Gemini exchange doing much at all to the price. Not moon bound anyway but............
I really hope I am wrong and everyone points and laughs at me.
There is nothing new anymore about a regulated exchange. And with the swedish ETN the Twinkletossers ETF has lost much of it's novelty. But they somehow get all the media and all the fat cats to listen to them. Often just to point and laugh, but listen they do.
Don't get me wrong. I still think a fully regulated ETF listed in NY is a big deal, just not as big as it was. And with the other exchanges, the ETN and general acceptance of BTC in financial circles, we don't need the Facepalm Bros to launch this mofo.
Agreed. The twins have been slow, I don't see Gemini pushing the price higher..
But I've read a lot of good news lately. They will get priced in, sooner or later.
The pumps need some pretext to happen, or people will realize that they are pure manipulation, so Gemini will have some short term effect on prices
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Post 11963711 (copy this link) (by Karpeles) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_14.21h):
Are we going to break 300 this time, or will we go down again from 290?
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Post 11969526 (copy this link) (by Karpeles) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_14.22h):
What's the next goal, guys? $340? I feel $340 between now and mid August is a realistic goal. We might (might? what the fuck is wrong with me!?) will be indefinitely going over $300 soon enough.
Next goal is 300.
I would prefer not see the dump if 300 is not reached. Happened twice at least this year, and was not nice to see
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Post 11969652 (copy this link) (by Karpeles) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_14.22h):
Trending up again?
no, sideways again
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Post 11975043 (copy this link) (by Karpeles) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_14.22h):
Either we will break 300 today or see an epic dump tomorrow.
The next 24 hours, again, are critical
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Post 11975485 (copy this link) (by Karpeles) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_14.22h):
The bears arent nervous, theyre gone. The bear market is over.
Tarmi was online today but hasn't posted since July 8th.
You can tell things are different now. The price is within a few dollars of a critical juncture and this place is dead. Truly this is the end of a bear market, sheer boredom whilst the price slowly rises.
do you mean: sheer boredom whilst the bear trolls are gradually replaced by the bull train and moon trolls, while the price increases
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Post 11978284 (copy this link) (by Karpeles) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_14.22h):
Everyone should do a price prediction in their 1000th post. Such a waste.
what would you propose for 5000th post?
Bitcoin giveaway, if you earned a lot with the forum?
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Post 11996650 (copy this link) (by Karpeles) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_14.22h):
we break 300 tomorrow.
or we will break sub 280 again.
who knows?
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Post 12004527 (copy this link) (by Karpeles) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_14.22h):
290 not holding anymore, be ready for the dump, cut your looooses while you can
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Post 12014855 (copy this link) (by Karpeles) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_14.22h):
The dump has begun, cut your looooses while you can. Another failed 300 break try
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Post 12018343 (copy this link) (by Karpeles) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_14.22h):
Dutch bank ABN AMRO: "The financial world is going to flip upside-down."
LoL my own home bank in my country is making a -U- turn LoL.
''Blockchain technology is out there, tested, proven and operational. However, the context in which Blockchain operates is still quite immature. If we compare this moment to the early days of the Internet,
we are in the ‘just before Netscape arrived’ moment''
Get youre position, buy youre coins now before it's to late!
https://www.abnamro.com/en/newsroom/blogs/the-next-big-thing.htmlBut but but..double digits!
blockchain ≠ bitcoin
But Bitcoin has the biggest operational blockchain at the moment, don't?
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Post 12074302 (copy this link) (by Karpeles) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_14.22h):
Are we going under?
yes, but we will go back up again soon
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Post 12120405 (copy this link) (by Karpeles) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_14.23h):
Is the exhange rate for CNY-USD they are using on BitcoinWisdom wrong or is China really more than $5 above Bitfinex?
china is more than $5 over finex, but btc-e still has a bigger gap, at least most of the times
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Post 12135201 (copy this link) (by Karpeles) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_14.23h):
One 5k market buy and we nearly hit 300.
I think we slowly lurch upwards.
I fear to ask where the price would end after a 5k sell order
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Post 12390299 (copy this link) (by Karpeles) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_14.26h):
4k to 242 on Bitstamp, 5k to 234 on Finex. Until we break either of those, we'll be going nowhere fast.Have a relaxing week-end, everybody.
In the weekend it is usually when things happen, I would not be too relaxing, unless you like being caught off guard by exchange moves
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Post 12864154 (copy this link) (by Karpeles) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_14.30h):
every penny of profit that a bitcoin investor makes can only come from the pocket of another bitcoin investor...
that is assuming the market is a closed system, but it's not.
there's constantly new buyers entering the market, who also want a share of the pie, but the pie is very limited, so the more people want a share, the more expensive the shares become.
Sure, a lot of bears lost money, which made a lot of bulls a lot of money (for the first time in years, at this scale at least), but a lot of gains also come from new investors.
Give not that which is holy unto the dogs etc. How many times must this be repeated, Jorge?
Well, my sermons do not seem to have any effect, as you can see. It will not spoil your fun.
You say it because you are sad that you got no profit with the recent bull attack because you have no Bitcoins
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Post 12907162 (copy this link) (by Karpeles) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_14.32h):
We are good
Still 370 all the problems with Huobi and the DDOSes
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Post 12907312 (copy this link) (by Karpeles) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_14.32h):
Wouldn't there be a conflict between that FOIA request and the data protection act? Any personally identifiable information is covered by the data protection act. The bidders have the right to remain anonymous if they wish to. Regular auctions are sometimes won by anonymous bidders, and they get to remain anonymous.
I am not a lawyer, but as a citizen of Brazil I consider any "property" of the Brazilian government to be my property (and of the other
205,046,327 Brazilians). So I should have the right to know who my government sold my property to -- and especially how much the guy paid for it. That should trump his right to privacy.
You indeed need some law lessons.
Public does not equals from everyone except as a figure of speech
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Post 12907635 (copy this link) (by Karpeles) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_14.32h):
Leave Jorge alone!
His home currency is doing a disruptive black swan without the help of bit-coin.
The Brazilian Real in Actual Money™.
To be fair, it's flat since august ended.
With his currency devaluating, he is could have earned both by getting more USD and by the valuation of BTC.
If he is not rich and doesn't need more money at all, I feel sorry for him
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Post 13289775 (copy this link) (by Karpeles) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_14.38h):
When will we start to skyrocket again?
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Post 13644825 (copy this link) (by Karpeles) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_14.42h):
the price is dropping hard once again i think that it means that after some time it will reach huge heights
After some time it will reach huge heights, but after how much time? Weeks, months, decades? And after how much falling?
If it is related in any way to future highs, is by testing the 350 floor level
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Post 13708354 (copy this link) (by Karpeles) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_14.42h):
let me say it again
less than 380, NEVER AGAIN.
Still stand by that call? I think there is a one hundred and eleventeen percent chance that you are wrong. I will bet my last satoshi on it.
But only the last one, none of the others. so not a big loss :-)
No matter. It's $379.98 on BFX already.Stamp and BTC-e curiously not following yet.
Finex is back to $380+ again, was just a temporary issue and now its back to normal
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Post 13921430 (copy this link) (by Karpeles) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_14.44h):
I agree with MaththeCat, we will see 430's at most as top, then we will lose momentum and prices will fall again.
In fact things are already slowing, I don't know how big we will go this time
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Post 15181013 (copy this link) (by Karpeles) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_14.52h):
Again the chinese leading the rally.
I don't want to know if it the whales are pumping, or if it is a self-fullfiled pre-halving pump, or if BTC was really undervalued, just keep the price rising more and more
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Post 15181256 (copy this link) (by Karpeles) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_14.52h):
This is looking like the pump from $120 to $1200
Will the price reach $4440 this time?
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Post 15273075 (copy this link) (by Karpeles) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_14.53h):
What I mean is, you go to a country where its laws can target you if you reveal yourself as satoshi. You decide to do it despite that but then remember that if you do it you'll have an "issue". That's not logical. It sounds like excuses for the last step of verification.
In any case, if local laws were the problem, he could have done it elsewhere...
Where could you be arrested because you are Satoshi? Except the ones where you can't enter or leave the country, like North Korea
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Post 15376020 (copy this link) (by Karpeles) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_14.54h):
Is the dream of a new ATH over?
I have a bad feeling and fear there will be a bigger pump when the halving time comes....
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Post 15449031 (copy this link) (by Karpeles) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_14.54h):
Didn't realize he's still posting (not so much in here anymore though).
Always felt he was wrong on a number of things in here, stubbornly so unfortunately, but still added the occasional insight, and quite some rigor when it came to modeling (DAE dino graphs?).
I seem to remember him being slightly more nuanced. I think the madness of the r/crowd has gone to his head.
In other news: Mavrodi's MMM collapsed 2 months ago.
http://www.fin24.com/Money/Investments/alleged-sa-ponzi-scheme-mmms-global-pyramid-collapses-20160412Now I know why BTC price increased in the last weeks, and has little to do with the halving.
Without big ponzis around there are less anti-BTC propaganda, and less BTC dumped by criminals, so there is room for rise
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Post 15486525 (copy this link) (by Karpeles) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_14.54h):
there's a storm coming which is called halving. Something is going to happen, I don't believe this trading volume will happen much longer
Yes, but it may not storm immediately. The day of the first halving was uneventful. It took a few months for the real action to start.
I'm sure by the year's end we'll see the effects of the second halving.
But at that time price the market was smaller and with less manipulation, in fact was almost nonexistent compared to today.
Now we have professional whales around and they know how it is supposed to be, dump when the event happen
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Post 15496934 (copy this link) (by Karpeles) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_14.54h):
LOL I'm gonna laugh so hard when the price gradually goes down after halving.
People think it's just gonna shoot up on halving day lmao
Clearly, being wrong has taught you no humility.
lol , no one wants to listen us , now look at the chart son
It is going down right now. From 4500+ to 4300- in minutes(huobi price)
Tendency is bigger prices long term, but in the halving event the better I can see is no more falls, so best sell and wait
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Post 15512940 (copy this link) (by Karpeles) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_14.55h):
going a bit up again this morning. halving is very close.
$600 held: now is time to see what the price will be on the very first blocks of the 12.5 bitcoin reward era
That's what matters to me, nothing else
Going up or down $70 isn't a big deal now bitcoin's gone above $600. When it was half that price or lower then $70 was a big move, but not any more. The price will probably go back above $670 for the very first blocks of the 12.5 bitcoin reward era, and a few months later the reduced reward will have moved the price higher.
I think price will be down right after the the first 12.5 BTC block is mined due to speculation and market manipulation. Then up again. In some weeks or days, I don't know
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Post 15525550 (copy this link) (by Karpeles) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_14.55h):
Where are the wild moves that people said that would happen in the halving time?
Two hours until the halving and still nothing.
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Post 15526101 (copy this link) (by Karpeles) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_14.55h):
How long until the effects of the halving will be seen in the price? Any idea
This was the biggest non-event in the recent history of BTC price
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Post 15526293 (copy this link) (by Karpeles) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_14.55h):
Only 4 blocks until the halving.
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Post 15526568 (copy this link) (by Karpeles) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_14.55h):
3 blocks until the halving
And a red dildo in all the exchanges...
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Post 15526659 (copy this link) (by Karpeles) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_14.55h):
Only 1 block! May happen anytime
And the price keeps fallllllllllllling more and more
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Post 15526893 (copy this link) (by Karpeles) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_14.55h):
Looks like there is going to be a great sell off. Bitcoinwisdom down is a bad omen.
Bitcoinwisdom is back online.
That means things won't be that bad for now. 600 probably will hold
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Post 15527042 (copy this link) (by Karpeles) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_14.55h):
Don't take blockchain.info seriously, they sometimes show wrong data for no reason, it was more or less expectable that they would be buggy during the halving.
Better do your checkings somewhere else
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Post 15593342 (copy this link) (by Karpeles) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_14.55h):
Does the low volume means no one is spending or buying coins? Also, if the volume is so low why does it not affect the price?
Does this mean people are just hodling?
Just trying to work out the whole low volume thing.
There are around 1600 BTC being generated every day, so people must buy BTC to price don't drop. The miners won't just hodl everything because they have to pay bill and taxes.
And low compared to what?
Volume is lower than before the halving because the halving was a hyped event, now things are back to normal
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Post 15603541 (copy this link) (by Karpeles) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_14.55h):
Mark T. Williams
Mark T. Williams teaches finance, risk management and capital markets at Boston University School of Management and is a
former Federal Reserve Bank examiner.
Stolfi has a wikipedia article only for himself. It seems very accurate:
Bitcoin activities
In late 2013 Jorge took an active interest in the emerging market of Bitcoin trading, and invested a substantial portion of his personal wealth in the cryptocurrency. He is assumed to be among the 500 largest holders of Bitcoins in the world.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jorge_StolfiThat's why I love Wikipedia.
They might not be accurate, but sometimes they are funny as hell.
By the way, how can we know if he's telling the truth when he says that he has no Bitcoin?
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Post 15603964 (copy this link) (by Karpeles) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_14.55h):
By the way, how can we know if he's telling the truth when he says that he has no Bitcoin?
We don't. He might might be holding a boatload of bitcoin, but wants to go broke by convincing people that it's worthless.
Dialectic thinking.
If he is wrong and BTC goes to the moon, he will be rich. If he is right and BTC fails, he will lose, but at least he can brag to others he was right all the time.
He will "win", one way or another
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Post 15608304 (copy this link) (by Karpeles) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_14.55h):
Lower, not low, for me
I still think 51,025,700 is significant for a weekend, in my modest opinion
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Post 15613824 (copy this link) (by Karpeles) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_14.55h):
We are going to the moon.
$665 yesterday, $668 today.
Hold tight, prepare to the moon, prepare your rockets
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Post 15676608 (copy this link) (by Karpeles) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_14.55h):
Why so much talk about a price collapse?
Price is in the same level than last time I checked, above 650. Hopefully will get back to 666 next week
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Post 15676640 (copy this link) (by Karpeles) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_14.55h):
Why so much talk about a price collapse?
Price is in the same level than last time I checked, above 650. Hopefully will get back to 666 next week
650 is history mate
Yes just when I commented a mini red dildo appeared in hte graphics and now price is 649.26.
But the line still is holding...
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Post 15676759 (copy this link) (by Karpeles) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_14.55h):
Come on, we are in the best moment of Bitcoin story. Don't let it fall below $640, hold the line, hold tight until the victory is ours and 650 will be the past for all eternity
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Post 15677230 (copy this link) (by Karpeles) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_14.56h):
Told you that we would recover in no time.
Huobi is back to up 650, Bitstamp is at $650, Bitfinex at $649.6, etc...
Now we can resume our blitzkrieg towards the moon
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Post 15685293 (copy this link) (by Karpeles) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_14.56h):
this thread needs more talk about the actual price and price movement, isn't that what it was supposed to be for??
But there is no price movement and everyone knows the actual price, $650 and going back to $666.
Not much to talk about this
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Post 15686988 (copy this link) (by Karpeles) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_14.56h):
Lack of $666 option in the pool.
We all know that the price will be around $666 for the next 6 months, 6 days and 6 hours
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Post 15761937 (copy this link) (by Karpeles) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_14.56h):
I'm even considering take a look in the altcoins at this boring rate.
At least the Olympic games will start soon and I'll have something fun to do
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Post 17564597 (copy this link) (by Karpeles) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_15.02h):
Trump inauguration bull run is coming today. All those people thinking its the end of the world and all that good stuff once chaos ensues in DC
Ready to cash out at 1000
more like the nothing happened day, at least so far
most significant event was the flash break of $900 then to correction back to $888
I don't see anything happening now, unless some big news come out or if the PBOC farts
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Post 17584251 (copy this link) (by Karpeles) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_15.02h):
Any reason for this $20 instant dip or is this just normal correction?
Or is it just a pre dump that people with inside info is doing before PBOC or some other other organization comes out with something?
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Post 17584448 (copy this link) (by Karpeles) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_15.02h):
That was a while ago, surely the market don't respond that slow
It is sunday, everything is slow at sundays, some people still are waking up
Also less than 1 hour ago, not really that long ago
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Post 17585213 (copy this link) (by Karpeles) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_15.02h):
The last "crash" caused by a PBOC related issue lasted less than 12hours and caused a $40 drop in the price.
This time won't be different, by Monday the price will be back to $920+
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Post 17596218 (copy this link) (by Karpeles) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_15.02h):
The last "crash" caused by a PBOC related issue lasted less than 12hours and caused a $40 drop in the price.
This time won't be different, by Monday the price will be back to $920+
Just as I predicted, the price is now back to $920 in less than 12 hours.
I don't think we are going to see prices much lower than $900 for any significant frame time anymore, so resistance probably will be around $900 for the short term
Not saying price won't fall, I just don't see any reason for a fall
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Post 17613683 (copy this link) (by Karpeles) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_15.02h):
All this doom and gloom because a $9 fall in the price? Yes, I think now we are officially sideways.
And I already sodl, waiting for the chinese new year dump to buy back and get more bitcoins
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Post 17630679 (copy this link) (by Karpeles) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_15.02h):
I lost a little less than 1%, but at least I could rest without looking to the price every 15 minutes or so fearing a huge drop because of the chinese new year or for whatever reason
I just hope this is not a mini bull trap before the fall
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Post 17651706 (copy this link) (by Karpeles) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_15.02h):
Kim dotcom the cuck
He generates all the hype, and now he delayed the new megaupload... Maybe he is speculating and trying to buy more cheap bitcoin before the real announce.
No he was already hyping Bitcache and Bitcoin reaching $2000 some time ago.He was already invested in Bitcoin.
So he might have finished his speculation, ie. he cashed out and maybe was one of the guys who dumped his BTC at the peak.
And now this is lame announcement. Check his history! That dude always was and probably still is extremely shady!
Show me one person who didn't dump at peak!
Every person here trying to get yourself a benefit....like he...and don't care to others! !!
if everyone dumped at the peak, then how the price reached sub $800 and people are still selling their coins now as I write
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Post 17689635 (copy this link) (by Karpeles) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_15.02h):
only 3 questions are important:
will this get past $1000 without a massive corretion?
why is this rise happening?
will chickun arise in the year of the chicken?
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Post 17708501 (copy this link) (by Karpeles) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_15.03h):
OKcoin crossed $1000 for a while, at least according to whatever conversion rate Bitcoinwisdom uses
It is just a matter of time until the exchanges start breaking $1000
Less than $10, after a rise of more than $90
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Post 17714507 (copy this link) (by Karpeles) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_15.03h):
my question is will 1k stay ? hopefully this time it will stays there.... a new floor for btc
the laggards from btc-e still are below $1000, so we still can't say we are 100% above $1000
but this rise seem more sustainable, because the price is rising kinda slowly, so changes of bears panicking and unloading lots of coins with no plans is lower, but we never know
my bet is that $1000 level won't be lost as quickly and easily as in the end of the year
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Post 17882215 (copy this link) (by Karpeles) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_15.03h):
Something big is about to happen... I can tell because Kraken keeps timing out
I feel that too. It reminds me of 2013 thing somehow. I would short only %50 of my position but i listened my instincts and dumped everything away from 1020.
This prices can't go forever that high. It used to be so low that miners were profiting barely, and its now more than x2 of those prices. Smells like a dump fest.
People in 2013 also thought that it is going to reach 40k$ soon but it didn't happen. Same will happen again.
2x lower with 2x less reward because of the halving, seems fair
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Post 17898982 (copy this link) (by Karpeles) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_15.03h):
number of unconfirmed transactions increasing pretty quickly, guess people will be talking about and block size again very soon
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Post 18038516 (copy this link) (by Karpeles) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_15.04h):
In the meanwhile, 73k+ unconfirmed transactions.
What was the ATH for unconfirmed transactions?
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Post 18056370 (copy this link) (by Karpeles) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_15.04h):
I'm the only one not comfortable with the recent rise while the unconfirmed transactions are about to reacj 100k and the ETF still is undefined and the PBOC and the chinese exchanges are about to pull some surprise?
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Post 18091037 (copy this link) (by Karpeles) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_15.04h):
100k unconfirmed transactions while things just get even messier with the Antpool thing.
I think something will happen in less than 1 week.
And maybe the Antpool riot will be used as an excuse for the ATF not being approved
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Post 18138872 (copy this link) (by Karpeles) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_15.05h):
Meaning it will be today. Are violins required?
they always can change their minds for one reason or another, so there is no way to be 100% sure
also they could approve by doing no announcement until the monday's deadline, would be without precedence, but Bitcoin is without precedence too.
no way to be sure until the day after monday, so the next 84 hours are critical
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Post 18138925 (copy this link) (by Karpeles) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_15.05h):
Has SEC ever gave any information during weekend? I mean is it possible that they will post update tomorrow?
no, they don't work during weekends and outside their working hours, so if no announcement until 17pm in their local time, then no announcement until monday
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Post 18139219 (copy this link) (by Karpeles) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_15.05h):
Sorry if this has been mentioned but have you seen prof stolfi has put a negative comment to the SEC
Edit. Just seen it on Reddit mega etf thread on bitcoinmarkets page
Professional Bitcoin troll, Jorge Stolfi, comments on the Winklevoss ETF
https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/4sxtw7/professional_bitcoin_troll_jorge_stolfi_comments/
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Post 18139417 (copy this link) (by Karpeles) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_15.05h):
the question: is how one can flash the number 3 with a single hand
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Post 18139773 (copy this link) (by Karpeles) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_15.05h):
A little after 4.00pm US EST time.
My bet, no info to support it whatsoever - apart from I used to live in Manhattan. I just think they will want to release it after trading hours at NYSE / NASDAQ.
35 minutes... ish.
Battle positions, Gentlemen.
Fine wine at the ready or a nice cup of horlicks and a box of tissue to mop up the tears?
We americans don't know what horlicks is
It's bloody awful
And what if ETF gets approved and then.. nothing happens? Nor the next week?
something will happen sooner or later, because more people will see BTC as a legitimate investment and there will be more investment options
also I think will take less than a week because if ETF will be approved the news will be spread in the first page of the papers all around the globe
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Post 18140013 (copy this link) (by Karpeles) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_15.05h):
almost sub $1000 in a matter of minutes
I hope that the ones that leveraged BTC sold before this bottom
I was quick and sold above $1200, so I still got some profit
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Post 18354968 (copy this link) (by Karpeles) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_15.07h):
They're supporting their desire to seize power. And no one's actually running BU.
They may be hungry but they ain't stupid. They'd signal an implementation that did nothing but make a farting noise if it got them power.
I am going to hodl from now on guys. Cant predict this price anymore. BU is screwing my mathematical calculations all over today. Rip trading, it was fun while it lasted. Huge profits but also huge losts like today. Now i only have my good old cold storage. I will dump more fiat money in it and keep hodling. Rip easy trade days.
Yes for the haters: i got rekt today like you hodlers get rekt earlier this month. But i have to go trough all the stress and switching to shitty altcoins and fiat like some crazy idiot. And for what...
And a new hodler was born.
It really hurts. I increased my stash so many times i felt like a pro. And now BOOOM! All trading stash destroyed by 1 mistake, nice. Hodling for ever is the only right choice. This means that i will become just as sassy and sarcastic like you guys? Its part of the hodling process i guess. Smeagol was also hodling his precious ring and look how he turned into shit haha
I don't get it, how can you lose your full trading stash from a 10% eth/btc move ?
I put all my btc into ethereum on march 26, switched to btc because ethereum was going down and btc was going up. After i done that, btc was going down and ethereum was goin up. They are move divergential. So i switched to ethereum again. After that ethereum was going down, btc too, but ethereum faster. So i paniced and went full retart and switched to fiat after almost 1 month. So i was is fiat, btc dumped like expected BUT that stupid Ether was going up like i mentioned. They are moving divergential. A negative correlation. So my plan could have worked but i expected Ether to crash anytime soon because Bitcoin is amost bottomed-out. They were just driving me crazy and i lost controll. 2 rules of trading; stay calm and be pacient. I wasnt because i knew the altcoin party is almost over and btc dump was almost finished too. I was too greedy and inpacient. I bought 230 ether on february, and dumped them at the same price because nothing happened and bitcoin continued to go up. After i did that Ether increased with 400% so i lost that oppurtunity too because i dont have the pacience.
Its the best to stay away and stop with trading for ever for me. There is just that one moment when you finally lose your controll and pacience and start making stupid moves.
So i will build my cold stash (trying to increase it with 250%) with my fiat money.
Ahh, I see what your problem is: It's impossible to trade an asset if you know that it is essentially crap. You should try to find trading pairs, which you are comfortable to hold to, even at a temporary loss. This worked for me in the past with Blackcoin and Monero.
But monero has the same movement as Bitcoin, but its less profitable. I just need a safe or dead coin where i can put my money in incease btc goes down. I tried tether but tehter wallet sucks. You can put fiat money and btc in a tether wallet but you cant transform it to tether. But who cares, trading days are done.
Bitcoin won't go down overnight without notice, you'll know it way before the doomsday by the price and the news and all other stuff, and all the other news. And things would not be much better with any other coin because they are all strongly related to Bitcoin.
But for me it is not much more likely than any end of world scenario
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Post 18382216 (copy this link) (by Karpeles) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_15.07h):
Good morning Bitcoinland.
Still going pretty much sideways with just the slightest upward creep... currently $1045USD (Bitcoinaverage).
We're working on our 5th consecutive green daily candle (Stamp) but it's ever so short.
At least the panicking has subsided for now but it might keep going sideways for a while longer until the altcoin fad runs its course and the money flows back into Bitcoin.
Yeah.. I had been watching the daily candles pretty closely too in order to get a sense of our recovery from the correction to $900, but still pretty early to call today's candle, since there are still 8 more hours before it closes.
At this time, you are correct that the bitstamp candle is hovering around the turning point which is about $1043 and today's candle has to close above $1043 to be green. In that regard, we had 2 out of the previous 4 candles as nail biters and 2 out of the 4 as clearly and unambigously green.
Even though we seem to be experiencing a decent amount of ongoing buying pressure at these prices, I would not be surprised either way about the direction of the closing of today's candle.
price now is 1021.08 on Bitstamp with no sign of a recovery for today. Looks like today will be the first daily candle clearly negative.
Wonder if this is a trend reversal or means more sideways
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Post 18384213 (copy this link) (by Karpeles) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_15.07h):
June is long term now?
u think price will be 4000 around june ?
gtfo
Last time I made a prediction here was june 2015, one bitcoin was $200, I said bitcoin price would be $500 by the end of october, my comment was deleted and I was banned from bitcointalk.
I was right at that time, now I think I will be right again.
It is like the doge ate my homework plus a conspiracy theory about Bitcointalk deleting posts that predict correctly the future
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Post 18406251 (copy this link) (by Karpeles) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_15.07h):
Looks like weekends are pump time, wonder how big will we be pumped this time
Also better sell altcoins for FIAT or Bitcoin, we all know that when BTC rises alts tend to dumped
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Post 18471214 (copy this link) (by Karpeles) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_15.07h):
alright everyone.. really time to get pimpin.. i mean pumpin. what everyone waiting on ??
Bitcoin and Ethereum going down because of Litecoin hype. There's something bigger than litecoin crawling up guys. Anyone of you watching ETC pattern?
Litecoin once $48, so this may be a recover. Still close to 1/5 of ATH. Other coins are mooing too, even Dogecoin more than doubled in price recently.
Also altcoins pumps usually happen when Bitcoin is skyrocketing. Are we about to launch to the moon?
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Post 18615283 (copy this link) (by Karpeles) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_15.08h):
-snip-
what do you think about this:
- bitfinex fiat withdrawals are disabled
- people fear Gox specially with everyone repeating it online
- so they cancel fiat withdrawal and buy up bitcoin on bitfinex (price goes up)
- they withdraw bitcoin to other places (mostly bitstamp) and dump there (price goes down there)
- they withdraw their fiat out of fear.
this is more buy pressure on bitfinex and more sell pressure on stamp.
Those factors make sense in terms of current and recent development in market dynamics.
Bitfinex withdrawals are not completely disabled, merely the ones that were processed through Wellsfargo services, and it seems that this is actually legitimate, and not made up by bitfinex and something that they are working on fixing.
Sure some of your description of relevant additional factors even undermines my bitstamp whale theory (I mean the theory that no one is following the supposed bitstamp whale).
With these dynamics, we may need a few more days to see how these matters play out.
Sure sometimes there can be nepharious going on and sometimes there can be factors that are merely being attempted to be figured out.. and those factors affect price dynamics and some folks know about those price factors before other folks who are still trying to figure out dynamics.
But people get scared to do any withdraw on Bitfinex because they fear they might be other withdraws may be stopped too, and buy and transfer their Bitcoins to Bitstamp.
You know, fear is more powerful than facts sometimes and the financial markets are a little over reactive at times
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Post 18678403 (copy this link) (by Karpeles) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_15.08h):
bitcoinwisdom.com is down now, they give the infamous 502 Bad Gateway
any other place I can watch the walls of all exchanges?
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Post 18933452 (copy this link) (by Karpeles) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_15.09h):
Also, if you have 12BTC on a software wallet my advice inmediately changes to: Buy a hardware wallet NOW!
What's wrong with a software wallet? Mine is password protected, stored in a veracrypt volume, which is stored on my encrypted /home partition, and included in several backups stored in different air-gaped locations and only ever connected one at a time. (and most importantly, I'm not running a toy operating system.)
Well, you are describing it perfectly. I can have better security with my hardware wallet without needing any special security measures. I could even use it on "public" computer.
I say "better security" because no matter how many layers of encryption you may be using... at some time you would need your computer to access the wallet in "plaintext" to sign the transactions and that opens an attack vector.
It's much better to have the signing be done inside a specialized hardware....
Plus it is amazingly more convenient to use.
I have been saying this same thing for four years, but I would take it a step further. Easiest and best way to secure your Bitcoin is printing your address and putting two copies in different safe deposit boxes. Then return 10 years later a millionaire.
Software wallets for even moderately competent tech people are complete jokes: passwords, veracrypt?, home partition encrypted, multiple backups, air gapped storage, military grade cement vaults, across continents, different governing body, multi sig, documented access protocol, protocol encrypted, protocol stored in multiple backup locations......OMFG
You are missing my point. Paperwallets also have its use case but... HOW DO YOU PLAN TO CONVERT THEM BACK TO BTC (MOVE THEM) WITHOUT USING A SOFTWARE WALLET?!??!!?
For god's sake, why can't people just follow my advice and buy a damn hardware wallet!
What's the best hardware Wallet? PM me please
there is a topic only for hardware wallets review
OVERVIEW: BITCOIN HARDWARE WALLETS
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=899253.0
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Post 18941316 (copy this link) (by Karpeles) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_15.09h):
Hello wall observers.
There is no bubble, and no big correction incoming.
We known that Japan is known as maybe the most digital society in the world, and we all know they save too much of their earnings, at the point the excessive savings become a problem because people just invest and don't consume stuff. And the April a certain law recognizing Bitcoin as a legal currency and valid investment has been approved, so will be easier and safer for people in Japan invest their large savings in Bitcoins.
Currently there are around 2M of bitcoiners around the world at most, and Japan's population is around 130M. If 10% of the Japanese invest in Bitcoin, then price will rise about 10x due to Japan alone, considering they put the same amount of money in Bitcoin as the current Bitcoin hodlers, but they have the resources to put much more than the current average.
So keep hodling, there is no reason for the price to fall in the long run, and plenty for a big rise.
The japanese are already adopting Bitcoin faster than expected
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1907978.0
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Post 18941921 (copy this link) (by Karpeles) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_15.09h):
japan is the most cash heavy developed society. something like 85 per cent of transctions are cash.
it maybe means more future potential but there are other places more ready made.
maybe they see Bitcoin as some form of digital cash
also Bitcoin as investment would not be used for daily transaction
I don't think the japanese hold their savings in cash, they would devalue every day and could be easily stolen or destroyed in case of fire or something
maybe they just don't like banks, so they prefer to use cash daily
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Post 19023361 (copy this link) (by Karpeles) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_15.09h):
Price is waiting the new ETF SEC be decided so it can continue it normal trajectory, hopefully towards the moon.
Also no need to tell what the result in price will be if, against all odds, the SEC gets approved.
It is time to hodl, because we are between the return of a bull market and the space ride outside the solar system
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Post 19037390 (copy this link) (by Karpeles) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_15.09h):
Then what is the deadline for a decision?
Will there be an statement or something today?
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Post 19114756 (copy this link) (by Karpeles) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_15.10h):
Bitfinex finally broke $2000, now $2030 and rising.
How long until the other exchanges follow? Bitstamp and btc-e seem not to care
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Post 19130346 (copy this link) (by Karpeles) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_15.10h):
BTC-e above Bitfinex
Where did you get that info from?
BitcoinWisdom is showing Bitfinex at $2020 with BTC-E at $2000.
Considering that Bitfinex has problems with deposits
and withdrawals of fiat while BTC-E just has problems with deposits of fiat, I would expect the price on BTC-E to remain consistently lower than the price on Bitfinex.
I
am surprised that they're that close though.
Look at the charts. Btc-e spiked to $2075, so btc-e probably was bigger than Bitfinex for some time, or at least almost the same price.
I think no one in btc-e wants to sell their Bitcoins, so no much difference in price, despite the problems with fiat deposits
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Post 19204790 (copy this link) (by Karpeles) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_15.11h):
Satoshi was a talented coder, who didn't exactly seem like a visionary in economics and finance. He succeeded perfectly in creating a secure public ledger, that brought forward the idea of innovative and effective financial solutions. Bitcoin isn't a solution itself to any important financial or economic problems. It lacks a proper identity. It's not a proper currency, because it lacks the mechanism of price stability and it's not a proper asset because it lacks much use outside of speculation. It's value is mostly fueled by greed or by financial transactions the need the increased anonymity. I don't think that these things will hold the value high for very long. I see that the future is in development through alts. First we'll see first proper assets, and then in years to come, we'll hopefully also see the coming of a proper currency. Alts have the advantages to bring forward new radical change that is needed to increase the complexity of the system. Alts can bring forward fast development, while bitcoin development is stagnant in even the simplest technical changes.
Satoshi was not a coder, was more a mathematician. He only designed Bitcoin, but didn't wrote a single line of code. Others people did it and implemented Bitcoin in the real world, and made the Core.
Also your argument that Bitcoin is like nothing that already exists so it will fail is kind of...funny
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Post 19223643 (copy this link) (by Karpeles) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_15.11h):
Just woke up, what a mess
As expected... This is the reason why Bitcoin never will succeed. People can´t trust this. Now the media shitstorm will start all over again.
It's a good thing. If you could play god and decide whether silver or bitcoin will be the main monetary instrument of the common man on the planet and get to insider invest beforehand, there is ZERO reason anyone should choose bitcoin. Metals are a better store of value, lower counter party risk, just as much or higher upside potential as bitcoin (for silver), and it's 100% inevitable if bitcoin doesn't die it would be completely co-opted by the state and turned into a cashless society slave system.
Hey R0ach, why do you always speak as if there a war between gold/silver and Bitcoin for world currency dominance, and only one could win and the other will certainly die
You know that Bitcoin doesn't have to be the main monetary instrument of common people to be a good investment, right?. There will ever be only 21M Bitcoins mined, so even if less than 1% of the people in the planet invest in Bitcoin, still will be more than enough to make most of us filth rich.
Bitcoin and metals can live happy and together
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Post 19231964 (copy this link) (by Karpeles) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_15.11h):
No, I'm the only honest person on the entire forum that doesn't make up lies claiming bitcoin is a more sound form of money than gold and silver.
Bitcoin is a more sound form of money. Can you use your mobile app to pay in gold for goods and services? Are you delusional?
I wonder how many confirmations would the local starbucks need before accepting a gold nugget as authentic and serve me my coffee... And I don't think a blocksize increase nor second layer are on the works for gold market.
In some countries you can't pay things with gold(and most stores would not accept it if otherwise), and how would be the standard low pay starbuck employee be able to evaluate the value of a gold nugget and if it is counterfeit or not?
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Post 19349484 (copy this link) (by Karpeles) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_15.11h):
It still mystifies him that Bitcoin becomes a new form of digital money and store of value because of people's belief in bitcoin's core attributes as money (i.e., permissionless, deflationary, scarce, utility, divisible, fungible, etc).
Since when is Bitcoin fungible? Since every transaction is public, coins can and have been
red flagged. Ever try to transfer coins to or from a gambling site to Coinbase?
True, and they would be fungible without such censorship. I don't approve of what Coinbase is doing (or any other exchange for that matter). They're only going to strengthen the use of tumblers and tech like Mimblewimble in the future.
But tbh, just go try selling some PMs at a coin shop without being asked where you got it from, or without having to show proof of purchase.
1. Don't use Coinbase.
2. CoinJoin or JoinMarket.
3. If you must use Coinbase, just send it to your wallet first, then bounce it a couple of times.
Or just use a Mixer for Coinbase, or send to another exchange.
I don't think Coinbase has something against mixer. Or do they?
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Post 20136693 (copy this link) (by Karpeles) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_15.13h):
Is crypto done?
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Post 20541745 (copy this link) (by Karpeles) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_15.15h):
So is anyone selling their BCH... besides the ones on Kraken?
I have no idea what to do and I'm too scared to risk 100+ BTC
BCH?
Bitcoin Hell?
Also is the announcement still true: Bcash split at approximately 14:00 UTC, but has yet to produce blocks. There are no visible Bitcoin issues, so it seems reasonably safe to transact in BTC.
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Post 22031039 (copy this link) (by Karpeles) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_15.21h):
Lol Roger ver is talking about a second split in november
Any idea's here? Whats gonne happen
"Worst"(?) case scenario we all get fork coins and the prices got dumped(good buy opportunity) then skyrocket, like happened with the Bitcoin Cash fork
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Post 22291344 (copy this link) (by Karpeles) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_15.22h):
Bitfinex already above $4100, when will other exchanges follow?
You rang? 4160
Standing on the threshold of possible reversal?
Is there any resistance before 4700?
edit: Never mind - I see some at ~4400
The orderbooks change as the prices increases and so the charts, $4400 may pass without that much resistance.
My guess is $4400 and maybe beyond in 1-2 days then a fall because of some more FUD about exchanges closing on China
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Post 22497030 (copy this link) (by Karpeles) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_15.22h):
Has China banned Bitcoin?
Or was South Korea this time?
Or maybe some big whale got bored and wanted to troll a bit?
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Post 25269660 (copy this link) (by Karpeles) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_15.29h):
I see a red dildo...
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Post 25407297 (copy this link) (by Karpeles) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_15.29h):
Finally
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Post 26162275 (copy this link) (by Karpeles) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_15.32h):
realr0ach
lol, what happened with the r0ach account?
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Post 26765039 (copy this link) (by Karpeles) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_15.34h):
How long until 300k unconfirmed transactions?
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Post 27457190 (copy this link) (by Karpeles) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_15.37h):
BTC Dominance: 34.0%
is bitcoin done?
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Post 27929452 (copy this link) (by Karpeles) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_15.38h):
not FUD anymore, but outright lying
