Bitcoin Price Thread

Discussion in 'Crypto Assets' started by Magna, Nov 26, 2017.

  1. Jakobsberg

    Jakobsberg

    I would like to ask holders, what is your cash out/taking profits policy?

    1. As price goes up I keep taking out profits.
    Already taken out twice original investment. Just hodl the rest until I think we have run out of late arrivals at the party.

    2. I have a predetermined target where I would get out (what is it?).
    No. Too many people sold too soon. Would expect lots of sell orders at big round numbers like 10,000 etc.

    3. I have a trailing stop loss, or I adjust my stop loss daily.
    No price is moving too quick for all that.

    4. I never cash out just occasionally spend when I need to buy something.
    The bitcoins and Ether I buy / sell in ETFs at broker account (not in US so IRS is irrelevant). Other coins on exchange. Doubt I would ever use them for shopping instead of credit card.

    5. Something else.[/QUOTE]

    Any specific reason for the interest?
     
    Last edited: Dec 16, 2017
    #751     Dec 16, 2017
  2. johnarb

    johnarb

    You haven't been whining like a baby every few hours. Everything ok with your bitcoin futures short position?
     
    #752     Dec 16, 2017
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  3. Pekelo

    Pekelo

    Maybe we should have a technical thread about BTC. Any holder care to address these?:

    "The fees will only grow, and the price of BTC will only increase, untill any of the following happens:

    1. Mass realization among the new investors that BCH s superior in every way, and mass migration, which will increase transactions exponentially, grinding BTC to a halt and freezing the price, as a nice snapshot of history (noone will be able to liquidate). Miners would follow after some time after not being able to actually cash out of BTC gains, which would transition to 2.

    2. Tether unwind, which would cause mass drop of the price of BTC and mass abandonment by miners, which would freeze block creation, making BTC change proof-of-work, thus invalidating billions of investment hardware by miners. Who would all flock to the next best thing eventually - BCH."
     
    #753     Dec 16, 2017
  4. Pekelo

    Pekelo

    How would you know, what would be the sign for that?

    I am always interested in people's mindset.
     
    #754     Dec 16, 2017
  5. Pekelo

    Pekelo

    I am not sure whom you are addressing, but since the Holidays are close and I love every cultists ponzi pusher, here is a Christmas present for you specially:

    This is how BTC fails as a currency:

    "Posted December 16th, 2017

    gpuShack accepted Bitcoin as a form of payment ever since we began operations on December 16th, 2014. Today, exactly three years later, we have deactivated Bitcoin as a form of payment.

    Bitcoin's apparent inability to scale in order to meet immediate market needs drove this decision. We are actively looking for a Digital Currency payment processor that seemlessly integrates with Shopify.com, in order to accept Bitcoin Cash, Ethereum, Litecoin, and possibly others.

    Unfortunately, the high cost of creating Bitcoin Transactions has fundamentally broken the API functionality between our preferred Bitcoin Payment Processor (Coinbase.com) and our preferred e-Commerce Platform (Shopify.com). Coinbase.com can no longer reasonably estimate when a transaction will confirm (if at all), and this has caused an unfortunate and insurmountable customer support burden.

    According to Earn.com, the average Bitcoin fee is over $20 USD, (over 50% of the cost of the most popular product sold on gpuShack) and we can no longer place the burden of this fee on our customers."
     
    #755     Dec 16, 2017
  6. Cuddles

    Cuddles

    Smart play...I did see a 7$ dollar fee on my last 200$ attempted purchase through coinbase. It got caught as fraudulent and haven't verified if it went through after approval...in any case it would be paid off by now, I do need to read up on the fee structure but my understanding is that implementing segwit will improve things a bit. I believe getting on the "lightning network" would help out in that regard as well, but don't understand how consensus or lack of could kill that decision..

    I understand the skeptical concern, but when it comes to software I've come to realize there's no problem that can't be addressed.
     
    #756     Dec 16, 2017
  7. johnarb

    johnarb



    Pekelo, I quoted a post from S2007S who said he was short the bitcoin futures a few weeks back.
     
    #757     Dec 16, 2017




  8. S2007S got stopped out.


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    #758     Dec 16, 2017
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  9. Pekelo

    Pekelo

    My apologies then. He is on my Ignore so the quote didn't show up...
     
    #759     Dec 16, 2017
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  10. Overnight

    Overnight

    In 23 hours we'll start to see some excitement I suspect. CFE's relevancy, while important, may have been short-lived.
     
    #760     Dec 16, 2017