All posts made by eric345 in Bitcointalk.org's Wall Observer thread



1. Post 2312379 (copy this link) (by eric345) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_11.01h):

Quote from: Coinseeker on May 29, 2013, 08:42:23 PM
I wish you "bulls" would put your money were your mouths are and start BUYING!!  At least we'd have some action.  As far as I can tell, that's why you hate FUD...because you're so easily shaken in your faith.

FUD is what placed Hitler to power.



2. Post 2312844 (copy this link) (by eric345) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_11.01h):

Fuck Godwin, you can play that game with any iconic figure (infinite monkey theorem?). I know that it's a slipperyslope fallacy. I'm just saying that fear is a bad advisor and that certain propaganda can be vey harmful. (Maybe I should just have said that in the first place:)).



3. Post 3396495 (copy this link) (by eric345) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_11.18h):

Quote from: theonewhowaskazu on October 23, 2013, 06:59:27 PM
Google trends image. What exactly is fueling this rally? This tells me it's old money doing the same all over.

http://i.imgur.com/KWVGz4R.png



maybe there is a service called "baidu trends"?

Zero trade fees in china is fueling this pump/fake-rally.

Zero trade fees are what's called "free market." So I have no idea why you think that would distort the market.
It's pretty easy to fake volume when there are no financial constraints to doing so. Don't you think? A single whale can repeatedly buy and sell his own coins. (That's not to say the market won't roll over him or that this is what is happening)

Sure you can manipulate volume. How will that help in manipulating price?
You don't think manipulating volume can affect price action? Re price manipulation, that would depend on how much of the coins/fiat on the exchange is controlled by the whale. Is it impossible that one could drive up the inter-exchange rate this way? Or would he just be run over by arbitrage? I don't really know, I'm just brainstorming...

No one can arb using an exchange located in a country that has capital controls!!!  Go ahead try to move fiat money out of China... and you thought Gox was hard...

I'm pretty sure people can arb. After all lots of the people who have money in stuff like OKPay & LibertyReserve were Chinese. Obviously if you can get money into those types of things you can use similar approaches to arb.

http://thegenesisblock.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/btc-usd.png



4. Post 3895428 (copy this link) (by eric345) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_11.35h):

Quote from: John999 on December 09, 2013, 12:15:21 PM

I don't think he gives a solitary fuck about any part of Bitcoin besides the price.

I don't think he gives a solitary fuck about ANYTHING besides himself... I don't like these type of guys like him. Angry

Apparently he got a lot of people into gold and silver just before the bubble popped.

I can't agree with that.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rIP4YGXo8Nk&feature=player_detailpage#t=1041

17:20 They explain that they're promoting gold&silver against inflation and, initially, bitcoin as a hedge against gold&silver manipulation.



5. Post 3910044 (copy this link) (by eric345) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_11.35h):

Quote from: Nemo1024 on December 10, 2013, 05:18:46 PM

Is it diesel or lpg for you?


Bwaahaha..   Cheesy

Nah.. seriously.. i was glad to have work to do today, because it was pretty boring in truth.

It's not funny man!!! It's a critical choice for us in Greece! Our all-knowing government (and the EU along with it) are at the brink of completely banning commuting!!!  Roll Eyes Shocked

How, huh? What?

I like to think I'm usually informed about European politics (EU uber alles! jk.), but what is this about? How can anyone "ban" commuting? Or are they cutting commuting subsidies?

Care to explain? (I have friends in Greece I could ask, but I'm too lazy to write Cheesy)

It's 1.63 per liter of gasoline here, or $8.44 per gallon of it! Do you need more explanation?

€1.63?
That's expensive, but not that much.
Norway, oil-producing country has it at ~NOK15/l (~€1.79/l)

Land of SHELL (Netherlands) it's € 1,765, or € 1,834 for super.
In Saudi Arabia it's € 0,087.
http://www.fuel-prices-europe.info/

Life must be good as a oil importer with your own refinery.
http://www.shell.com/global/aboutshell/contact-us/contact/contact-saudiaarabia.html

But, I prefer bitcoin  Grin