All posts made by bartolo in Bitcointalk.org's Wall Observer thread
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Post 18236681 (copy this link) (by bartolo) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_15.06h):
Is the "BU is going to hardfork bitcoin" the new "China is going to ban bitcoin?"
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Post 18238549 (copy this link) (by bartolo) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_15.06h):
With these prices, if problems are resolved and if bitcoin picks up good forecasts and good direction some people can double their money this year.
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Post 18295817 (copy this link) (by bartolo) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_15.06h):
So Circle company is encouraging its users to change their bitcoins for dollars because bitcoin price is going to fall down. So Circle company is wishing to buy all those bitcoins whose price is going to fall down. So Circle company is wishing to lose money just because they are Philanthropists or something.
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Post 18306475 (copy this link) (by bartolo) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_15.06h):
You will always earn more buying at 1000 and selling a 1500 than buying at 1500 and selling at 2000.
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Post 18522341 (copy this link) (by bartolo) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_15.08h):
$1215 now at Bitstamp. Letīs see if price starts the new week above 1200 and goes towards $1300 next twoo weeks.
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Post 18574811 (copy this link) (by bartolo) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_15.08h):
Maybe since bitcoin price is being stable last days some day traders are moving their funds to make some short term profit with altcoins and then re-buy bitcoin again.
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Post 18586075 (copy this link) (by bartolo) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_15.08h):
I find it curious to see the price so low in Bitstamp compared with other exchanges. I donīt know if it will have any relation to the fact that now on their page you can see highlighted the XRP / USD exchange or not.
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Post 18652129 (copy this link) (by bartolo) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_15.08h):
It seems that, even with the situation around Bitfinex, the price of Bitcoin has risen slightly these days to be placed around the 1200 dollars, although today it has lowered slightly but it is maintained by that rank. It will be necessary to see if the situation of Bitfinex is clarified soon and how it affects in such case the price.
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Post 18675784 (copy this link) (by bartolo) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_15.08h):
But the low prices are only at Huobi? Because BTCC is $1242 now and OKcoin is at $1259. Do you know other chinese exchange platforms where bitcoin price is so low or is only at Huobi?
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Post 18686772 (copy this link) (by bartolo) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_15.08h):
I think that bitcoin is simply walking the way it went going before rumors about the possible hardfork stopped its scale for some time.
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Post 18726448 (copy this link) (by bartolo) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_15.08h):
Can we reach the $1300 in coming days? If Litecoin finally decides to adopt Segwit can this affect the price of bitcoin too? Can people think that the end of the scalability debate would be closer and could raise the bitcoin price thus?
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Post 18741901 (copy this link) (by bartolo) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_15.08h):
Good to see bitcoin price slowly walking towards the 1300 mark. Let us hope that this upward movement is solid and at the same time, that there is not an excess of euphoria.
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Post 18757483 (copy this link) (by bartolo) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_15.08h):
$1300 is here, I hope itīs here to stay and entablish a a floor around this figure while it keeps climbing safely and steady, all the safely and steady that it can be when we talk about bitcoin, of course.
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Post 18757840 (copy this link) (by bartolo) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_15.08h):
Thanks. I think we will have SegWit sooner than everyone expects. Simple because people and also miners are driven my money, the highest bidder. Jihan WU and Roger Ver's resources arent infinite so they cant hold on for ever. The miners saw what SegWit implementation did with the price of the altcoins. Its only a matter of time before the miners are going to betray BU and choose for SegWit. Simply because the market wants it. Its all about the money and it looks like BU made a nice offer for the time being. Higher price = higher ROI. They will choose SegWit unless BU can boost the price whats not going to happen.
Those pockets might be deeper than we think. If he has been doing the asicboost thing then that's a stunning increase in profitability compared to everyone else.
It may reach a point where it is literally Mr Wu and his dribbling loons versus almost everyone else. That'll be pretty fucking funny to watch because you can't resist forever.
True. We can compare this whole scaling war to an old medieval castle siege. BU is camping in the castle untill their resources run out. BU is a dead man walking.
It this is the situation, Why do these two people continue to hold on to their position? Why not surrender if the majority wants another solution? What do they have to win with this?
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Post 18774939 (copy this link) (by bartolo) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_15.08h):
I like to see the price stabilizing above $1300 and slowly walking towards $1350. At the same time itīs not going up too much fast by now so there seems to be no danger of bubble at least for now.
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Post 18775523 (copy this link) (by bartolo) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_15.08h):
Nah, it's a bubble. I know I look like I'm running around spreading FUD everywhere, but I don't have enough money in Bitcoin to have a decent incentive to do that. I just think that people would be much safer if they're either holding for the long term or selling soon so that they can buy back in at the inevitable drop to under $1200, whenever that happens.
if this is a bubble then i also happen to be satoshi.
a bubble makes you shake your head in amazement every morning when you check the price. if this was a bubble there'd be talk of taking out bank loans on here and people going crazy everywhere. read this thread in 2013.
none of that is happening. there's no euphoria, no media attention, nothing. only a high price.
I agree, I think if we were in a bubble we would be seeing +50/100 during a few days in a row. If in Sunday the price is around $1500 then it could be worrying.
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Post 18775723 (copy this link) (by bartolo) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_15.08h):
Nah, it's a bubble. I know I look like I'm running around spreading FUD everywhere, but I don't have enough money in Bitcoin to have a decent incentive to do that. I just think that people would be much safer if they're either holding for the long term or selling soon so that they can buy back in at the inevitable drop to under $1200, whenever that happens.
if this is a bubble then i also happen to be satoshi.
a bubble makes you shake your head in amazement every morning when you check the price. if this was a bubble there'd be talk of taking out bank loans on here and people going crazy everywhere. read this thread in 2013.
none of that is happening. there's no euphoria, no media attention, nothing. only a high price.
I agree, I think if we were in a bubble we would be seeing +50/100 during a few days in a row. If in Sunday the price is around $1500 then it could be worrying.
Lol how could you even think that we are in a bubble ATM
2013 was a bubble.
We havent had a real leg up ever since.
This is just a slow building-up for furhter gains.
Dont fight the trend, fight the bubble.
Traders be like : oh no 2% growth in 1 day OMG it must be a bubble!!
Altcoins are in a huge bubbe ATM, 10% increase is normall rightnow.
Altcoins are now where BTC was in 2013.
It will collapse soon and altcoins will decrease with 80%
BTC already had that phase, its healty growth rightnow.
A bubble doesn't have to be a thousand dollars and completely insane investors throwing all of their money in before it falls back down, it can be any significant meaningless change in the price. Healthy growth has to have a reason, otherwise it's a bubble - can you actually
explain, with words, why the price has gone up 100 dollars?
I think the price is where it was supossed to be and if it didnīt reach this point before it was for the BU fork fear, without that I think the price would have reached these levels much earlier.
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Post 18800614 (copy this link) (by bartolo) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_15.08h):
It seems that after a small correction the price is above $1300 again, sure and stable by now, if things keep this way maybe this week we can start to approach to the $1350-$1400 range.
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Post 18829815 (copy this link) (by bartolo) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_15.08h):
After a few days with Bitcoin and altcoins growing together it seems that Ethereum and Dash have stopped rising and the price of bitcoin has taken a good leap. I think now the best would be a consolidation and continue to rise at a slower pace.
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Post 18837075 (copy this link) (by bartolo) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_15.09h):
$1463 now, even with a $100 correction the price would be above $1350. Reading the news about the bitcoin exchanges in Japan I wouldnīt be suprised if we hit $1500 soon. I guess it wonīt take much time to see the "China is going to ban Bitcoin" or "Bitcoin is going to fork" again.
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Post 18867382 (copy this link) (by bartolo) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_15.09h):
The price of Bitcoin continues to rise at a considerable pace. Even if a correction of about $ 100 would occur it would be kept at a very interesting price. I donīt know if this correction will take place, on the one hand we have accumulated many days breaking records but on the other hand itīs possible that we are simply before the effect on bitcoin of the news coming from Japan and that this wave will continue to advance.
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Post 18873177 (copy this link) (by bartolo) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_15.09h):
Nothing that wasnīt expected seeing how fast the price had been rising in recent days. The first dip has arrived, we will see if there is more. It has remained around $ 1500 which is very interesting, especially thinking about the medium - long term.
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Post 18881592 (copy this link) (by bartolo) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_15.09h):
I thought that the correction was to last longer but the price is going up again. The best thing is that the price always stayed above $1450. Now itīs closer to $1600 than $1500 agian, I always prefer when the growth is slow and steady but it seems like this is not an option now.
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Post 18910105 (copy this link) (by bartolo) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_15.09h):
All those articles about bitcoin's death are more a wishful thinking than anything else and the truth is that every time bitcoin dies it comes back later stronger than before, like the Hydra of Lerna, that when someone decapitated one of its heads , regenerated two new heads. Meanwhile, Bitcoin stays stable at a very good price around $1540, it will be interesting to see what happens when the "altcoin pump game" ends.
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Post 18944275 (copy this link) (by bartolo) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_15.09h):
Bitcoin above $2000 at South Korea exchanges, $1799 acording Coinmarketcap, 1729 at Bitstamp. Adoption growing, more money in the markets and traders selling altcoins to invest profits into Bitcoin. And all this with the scalability debate still pending. Bitcoin is still in a good upward trend.
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Post 18960740 (copy this link) (by bartolo) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_15.09h):
The interesting thing is that there is a real demand behind this scale and this demand will keep existing in next weeks. Sure there will be some corrections, dips and all the stuff but I wouldnīt be surprised if this rise lasted a few more days.
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Post 19007930 (copy this link) (by bartolo) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_15.09h):
Also, the news media articles are not mentioning Bitcoin or playing it down as the ransom payment method. Hell one article on CNN listed the ransom payment in dollars only.
I fully believe this omission on the part of the media is by design. But not for the reason that they "don't want to villify Bitcoin" or "don't want to associate Bitcoin with the bad thing" that everyone believes.
It's because they don't want to help spread awareness of Bitcoin to more Average Joes as being more valuable than fiat currency, and they want to continue to control the narrative surrounding Bitcoin.
Yes I was watching for how many times Bitcoin was mentioned, and it was very few, on a number of occasions when it would normally been mentioned in the flow of the story it was omitted. Agenda or not, the facts speak for themselves.
Maybe they do it because they donīt want people to wonder why they ask for the ramson in bitcoin. The reason is because of the difficulty of tracking the money later, especially once it has gone through a mixer. Now that Bitcoin is increasingly known, they may not want to emphasize that aspect. The IRS has already sued Coinbase requesting their user data in case they might be evading taxes, the Chinese government made a review on the exchanges, among other things, because they suspected capital flight.
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Post 19034277 (copy this link) (by bartolo) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_15.09h):
I donīt find an objective reason for this price decline except speculation, maybe sell for take profit, buy altcoins, sell, take profits and buy bitcoin again. The ETF issue I donīt think anyone had any hope for it. The other time it didnīt have as much impact, it is true that there was a drop but then almost instantly it had a rebound up again.
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Post 19083748 (copy this link) (by bartolo) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_15.10h):
This year could become remembered as the Great Fee Bubble of 2017.
With the number of unconfirmed rising rapidly now, and fees up above $1 and rising, a lot of Bitcoin could become locked out circulation, artificially shorting its supply. Even for those who wait hours and days for their transaction to go through - having the option to panic sell Bitcoin right now, without risking holding coin on an exchange for extended period of time, isn't really possible. This reduces selling pressure. The bubble would peak shortly after a scaling solution is reached (I think one will be - too much has been invested in Bitcoin to let another coin take to the top spot).
Bitcoins stuck in pending transactions are not out of circulation, in fact thery are in circulation. Anyway I donīt think these coins can affect the market. Buys and sells are made in exchanges. The network congestion can affect the adoption if it last too long but not necessarily the price, not in vain, despite the problems that bitcoin still has, its advantages are still greater than its disadvantages.
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Post 19092982 (copy this link) (by bartolo) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_15.10h):
I am remembering now the Year 2000 problem
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_2000_problem. I wonder if something will happen when bitcoin reaches $2000. Miners shouting down, blockchain broken, the end of the world and other Roland Emmerichīs apocalyptic visions.
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Post 19124239 (copy this link) (by bartolo) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_15.10h):
The question is that bitcoin is not the only coin that is rising, the main altcoins are having huge rises as well, it seems as if it was the big party of the cryptocoin and nobody would want to miss their piece of cake. This doesnīt seem to be a momentary hype but something that has come to stay. And this taking into account that there is still a way to go in terms of adopting bitcoin and solving its scalability problems.
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Post 19143247 (copy this link) (by bartolo) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_15.10h):
Bitcoin above $2700 in South korea, 2808 at korbit. In Japan $2535 at bitFlyer. If someone is able to buy at Bitstamp to sell in one of these exchanges he will be making a nice profit.
https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/bitcoin/#markets