I love how btc is shaking up the industry and banks are now scrambling to either get with the program or defaming it as just a fad.
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I love how btc is shaking up the industry and banks are now scrambling to either get with the program or defaming it as just a fad.
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Think pyramid - there is no real product that drives the price. It is purely based on speculation that more and more people (downline) will join the craze.
Think money laundering - who would like to put a large sum into the system that cannot be traced or regulated?
My 2 centavos bitcoin.
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The transactions are actually quite traceable as everything is recorded on the blockchain. What challenges law enforcement is the anonymity factor of those involved in the transaction.
So forensics are now looking into better ways to catch criminals using cryptocurrencies. Even the admin of Silk Road was eventually caught through his IP address.
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Ethereum is up 20% with the announcemeny of a collab project by UBS, Barclays, Credit Suisse, KBC, SIX and Thomson Reuters.
Crypto is looking up.
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That's nice. Looks like it will be some time before the hype dies down and cryptos stabilize.
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cryptos are all jockeying for position to become the currency of the future
in the future everybody's gonna pay for goods and services and get paid salaries with some kind of crypto but nobody knows which one yet
Crypto will make forex so much easier. I will no longer need to go to a bank, wait in line to convert my peso to whatever currency I need when going on a trip.
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The best advice in crypto is don’t put in money you can’t afford to lose.
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think of bitcoin as any other asset
like stocks, real estate etc
you're buying it coz you think the price will go up
everybody's in it for capital gains
like i said, for now, it's a speculative asset
it's not a currency
it's not a currency until your grandmother is buying groceries with it
though btc price is around all time high right now, the price has stalled$11,000 - $12,000: 6 days
$12,000 - $13,000: 17 hours
$13,000 - $14,000: 4 hours
$14,000 - $15,000: 10 hours
$15,000 - $16,000: 5 hours
$16,000 - $17,000: 2 hours
$17,000 - $18,000: 30 minutes
$18,000 - $19,000: 3 minutes
those thousand-dollar rallies we saw last week didn't carry over to this week
quite a coincidence coz futures trading started sunday
seems like futures trading has tamed bitcoin
for now
The charts show that when the price stalls after a dip, it typically rallies upwards. The correction doesn't follow the same pattern tho, as it typically follows an Elliot Wave, where a clear apex is seen.
Not an expert here but just noting observations.
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considering how fast bitcoin can rally $1000 (days --> hours --> minutes) it's been 3 days and we haven't seen $20,000
that's an eternity
Last edited by uls; December 13th, 2017 at 05:35 PM.
price of bitcoin futures is 1000+ dollars more than the actual price of bitcoin (spot)
a gap that big doesn't usually happen in the futures market
coz it's a screaming arbitrage opportunity
traders would pile in
buy the underlying asset and sell futures to profit from the gap
as more traders do the same, the gap closes
but it's not happening in bitcoin
seems traders are reluctant
why?
something's holding them back