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Is anyone else starting to become a bit worried? mod note in first post

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Bear markets
Fud
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Wall Street manipulation
The supposed tether ticking time bomb

What are your thoughts? Have you cashed out? Have you been buying the dips?

MOD NOTE:
Its good to see healthy debate and discussion taking place and I am sure every supporter of cryptocurrency and blockchain can agree that the contrarian viewpoint is worthwhile reading, if only to act as an anchor and help prevent investors from getting carried away in an echo chamber of "everything is wonderful, just keep going"

However, there have been a few reported posts recently which I did not action as I wanted to see the thread level out itself rather than start forcing viewpoints and I have been in two minds about that decision.

I'm not going to single any posters out but I'm going to ask that all posters read the forum charter and I want to point out that it was established years ago in the Television forum, that dropping in on a forum to tell the followers of that forums topic (in that case a particular tv show) that it was all crap and only idiots watched it etc etc was the exact definition of being a dick and attempting to troll. I know this because I was the mod of the forum at the time. Now look at the forum charter again.

There is pretty much one rule on this forum : if you cannot discuss in a civil manner, and I mean discuss, not soapbox or attack, then you have absolutely no business posting here and I have no qualms about removing your ability to do so.

This forum is for people that have in interest in cryptocurrencies, blockchain and their application to financial investments. that can be positive or negative but if you really feel the need to start pulling out memes / hiding insults in imaginary hashtags / attacking personalities or just generally being a dick there are other forums you can post in where I will let the local mods determine if it is within the scope of allowable behaviour. Here, it is not.

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Kickstart1.3

On another free fall this morning. How low will this go?

grindle

Is it a freefall if it's less than 10%?

It's freefallen upwards since some time yesterday.

q85dw7osi4lebg

Kickstart1.3 wrote: »

On another free fall this morning. How low will this go?

You never know, could drop down to €3000, where it was 6 months ago. But it won't.

JJJJNR

What makes you think it won't drop, Its at 7k from 11k in 8 weeks.

Bob24

Yeah of course 3k is not impossible, but it is extremely unlikely IMO. There are many people who’d be happy to get in or accumulate more at various stages between where we are now and 3k.

It’s just based on my gut feeling and could be completely wrong, but I think 6k as as low as it can get for the time being.

q85dw7osi4lebg

Any drop near that level and currents hodlers will back the truck up so those levels would get eaten up in days.

McAfee after reiterating his $1,000,000 prediction by end of 2020. Hard to hate the guy !

Bob24

Gerald Obedient Manicurist wrote: »

McAfee after reiterating his $1,000,000 prediction by end of 2020. Hard to hate the guy !

I reserve my judgement on him to when and if the time comes to honour is commitment :-D

TheAnalyst_

Gerald Obedient Manicurist wrote: »

Any drop near that level and currents hodlers will back the truck up so those levels would get eaten up in days.

McAfee after reiterating his $1,000,000 prediction by end of 2020. Hard to hate the guy !

He’s a murderer and an all round piece Of ****. No surprise he’s liked by crypto bros.

el diablo

TheAnalyst_ wrote: »

He’s a murderer and an all round piece Of ****. No surprise he’s liked by crypto bros.

What a laughably stupid comment. Why are you even here in the crypto forum?

Dohnjoe

In fairness McAfee is a full-on whackjob. Last I heard he was sailing somewhere with a boatload of guns and booze. Cool and edgy and anti-establishment to the max like - but why people would take any investment advice or predictions from him seriously is a total mystery

el diablo

Dohnjoe wrote: »

In fairness McAfee is a full-on whackjob. Last I heard he was sailing somewhere with a boatload of guns and booze. Cool and edgy and anti-establishment to the max like - but why people would take any investment advice or predictions from him seriously is a total mystery

I was mainly referring to the "crypto bros" comment. I don't take anything McAfee says seriously.

q85dw7osi4lebg

He is an incredibly entertaining person to follow on Twitter.

Arrival

TheAnalyst_ wrote: »

Gerald Obedient Manicurist wrote: »

Any drop near that level and currents hodlers will back the truck up so those levels would get eaten up in days.

McAfee after reiterating his $1,000,000 prediction by end of 2020. Hard to hate the guy !

He’s a murderer and an all round piece Of ****. No surprise he’s liked by crypto bros.

Really curious to see you elaborate on this...

cnocbui

I'm a full time pirate, sometime kidnapper and hit-man for hire. I'm wanted in at least 6 countries. I like bitcoin and gold. Dirty deeds, done dirt cheap for a reasonable fee, plus expenses.

makeorbrake

cnocbui wrote: »

I'm a full time pirate, sometime kidnapper and hit-man for hire. I'm wanted in at least 6 countries. I like bitcoin and gold. Dirty deeds, done dirt cheap for a reasonable fee, plus expenses.

Can you be contracted to hunt down no-coiner internet trolls?

TheAnalyst_

Arrival wrote: »

Really curious to see you elaborate on this...

Tosser lads who make crytpo currency a large part of their identity and will get really defenisve if you say anything critical about it.

cnocbui

makeorbrake wrote: »

Can you be contracted to hunt down no-coiner internet trolls?

I'll PM you.

Dohnjoe

Hundreds arrested in dark web child porn investigation
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-50073092

The buyers used BTC, and the investigators tracked them, not by the BTC transactions, but with the KYC at the exchanges themselves. Private and untraceable currencies (including eventually physical cash) don't have much of a future.

Bob24

Dohnjoe wrote: »

Hundreds arrested in dark web child porn investigation
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-50073092

The buyers used BTC, and the investigators tracked them, not by the BTC transactions, but with the KYC at the exchanges themselves. Private and untraceable currencies (including eventually physical cash) don't have much of a future.

Agree, while obviously in this case it was right to track them down, these proper use cases for traceability eventually make private money indefensible and lead to easier and unjustified surveillance.

This particular case does negate the argument made by some posters her that KYC measures are just an annoyance, are not working, and serve no purpose though. In this case they were clearly key to proper and unquestionable law enforcement.

q85dw7osi4lebg

Dohnjoe wrote: »

Hundreds arrested in dark web child porn investigation
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-50073092

The buyers used BTC, and the investigators tracked them, not by the BTC transactions, but with the KYC at the exchanges themselves. Private and untraceable currencies (including eventually physical cash) don't have much of a future.

Yes, cash the only way forward so this can continue.

???????????

Dohnjoe

Gerald Obedient Manicurist wrote: »

Yes, cash the only way forward so this can continue.

I included physical cash, which is being increasingly phased out and replaced with digital

q85dw7osi4lebg

Without physical cash being outlawed it won't go anywhere soon.

Regarding traceability, once you're off the exchange and have a couple of ledgers, Bob's your uncle really.

cnocbui

Dohnjoe wrote: »

Hundreds arrested in dark web child porn investigation
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-50073092

The buyers used BTC, and the investigators tracked them, not by the BTC transactions, but with the KYC at the exchanges themselves. Private and untraceable currencies (including eventually physical cash) don't have much of a future.

Investigators have concluded that almost every criminal act is facilitated at some point by someone making use of roads. The Green coalition is now urging the government to have all public roads ripped up and removed and believes this will result in a 98% reduction in crime.

JohnnyFlash

cnocbui wrote: »

Investigators have concluded that almost every criminal act is facilitated at some point by someone making use of roads. The Green coalition is now urging the government to have all public roads ripped up and removed and believes this will result in a 98% reduction in crime.

Very poor comparison. Roads are a vital component of international transport and facilitate trade and travel.

Bitcoin is over 10 years old and has only been successfully used as a currency in dark web markets selling child porn, drugs, and guns. It’s why so many dodgy fückers suddenly became wealthy during the bubble. It’s unusable as a currency, is a disaster for the environment, and appears to only be used for speculation on what price one chancer can unload to another for real money.

Bitcoin is a very stupid idea.

Dohnjoe

cnocbui wrote: »

Investigators have concluded that almost every criminal act is facilitated at some point by someone making use of roads. The Green coalition is now urging the government to have all public roads ripped up and removed and believes this will result in a 98% reduction in crime.

This is an out of place analogy and it grossly misses the point

Private, untraceable currencies are a better vehicle for criminal activity than a traceable currency.

Bob24

Gerald Obedient Manicurist wrote: »

Without physical cash being outlawed it won't go anywhere soon.

Cash use is already dropping massively and some countries are banning its use for some not so large transactions. Also rather than outlawing cash, it’s disappearance would look more like central banks stoping to issue more of it and gradually removing the legal tender of the circulating supply.

So while I wouldn’t like it, I think we might be witnessing cash disappearance in the next 10 to 20 years.

Dohnjoe

JohnnyFlash wrote: »

Bitcoin is over 10 years old and has only been successfully used as a currency in dark web markets selling child porn, drugs, and guns. It’s why so many dodgy fückers suddenly became wealthy during the bubble. It’s unusable as a currency, is a disaster for the environment, and appears to only be used for speculation on what price one chancer can unload to another for real money.

Bitcoin is a very stupid idea.

I disagree

As a technical idea it's quite good, especially it's pioneering use of blockchain and decentralisation. As a type of currency, not so much, but as a speculative asset, it's certainly a ground-breaking type of financial instrument. We're likely to see crypto based currencies (backed by the ECB, etc) at some point in the future, crypto based assets, blockchain based assets and systems and possibly some form of decentralised (global) stable-coin that can mitigate localised economic crises and crashes

q85dw7osi4lebg

Bob24 wrote: »

Cash use is already dropping massively and some countries are banning its use for some not so large transactions. Also rather than outlawing cash, it’s disappearance would look more like central banks stoping to issue more of it and gradually removing the legal tender of the circulating supply.

So while I wouldn’t like it, I think we might be witnessing cash disappearance in the next 10 to 20 years.

Well I hope you're right.

Dohnjoe

Bob24 wrote: »

Cash use is already dropping massively and some countries are banning its use for some not so large transactions. Also rather than outlawing cash, it’s disappearance would look more like central banks stoping to issue more of it and gradually removing the legal tender of the circulating supply.

So while I wouldn’t like it, I think we might be witnessing cash disappearance in the next 10 to 20 years.

Indeed, at current rates of decline, physical cash use (in UK) would end in around 2026. Obviously it will be around longer than that to facilitate continued use (in e.g. rural communities)

makeorbrake

Bob24 wrote: »

Agree, while obviously in this case it was right to track them down, these proper use cases for traceability eventually make private money indefensible and lead to easier and unjustified surveillance.

This particular case does negate the argument made by some posters her that KYC measures are just an annoyance, are not working, and serve no purpose though. In this case they were clearly key to proper and unquestionable law enforcement.

I disagree entirely and unequivocally. KYC is a ruse to enable financial surveillance. The cost it adds to business is also something that doesn't get enough coverage. That cost has to be passed on to consumers although they may not see it directly. The friction it causes on a daily basis prevents people going about their business and is stymieing fintech development.

cnocbui wrote: »

Investigators have concluded that almost every criminal act is facilitated at some point by someone making use of roads. The Green coalition is now urging the government to have all public roads ripped up and removed and believes this will result in a 98% reduction in crime.

Agree completely.

Dohnjoe wrote: »

This is an out of place analogy and it grossly misses the point. Private, untraceable currencies are a better vehicle for criminal activity than a traceable currency.

It's not an 'out of place' analogy at all. It's exactly the point.

Edward Snowden came out and said that KYC does SFA to fight terrorism. He also stated this -> “The only world in which you can foreclose on entire avenues of human activity … is a world in which everybody’s sitting in a jail cell.”
Tie that comment back to Cnocbui's analogy. There are many avenues in which crime can be fought - but getting in the way of peoples privacy and civil liberties shouldn't be one of them.

Snowden also recently called on privacy features to be enabled for Bitcoin.