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

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  • Registered Users Posts: 7,055 ✭✭✭JohnnyFlash


    cnocbui wrote: »
    USDT up 0.38% today - BTC up 6.6%.

    You are looking at figures in a very odd way that I can't comprehend, or entirely different ones.

    It’s not the price of it, it’s the extraordinary trading volume - every Tether is being traded almost 6 times every 24 hours for the past few days.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,121 ✭✭✭✭cnocbui


    I don't see what that has to do with anything. It certainly has nothing to do with people getting out of Tether in favour of Bitcoin.


  • Registered Users Posts: 842 ✭✭✭Hego Damask


    So BTC is a good investment again ?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,026 ✭✭✭grindle


    So BTC is a good investment again ?

    Impossible to answer. If you like the idea of potentially losing money or potentially gaining money, it's good at both of those.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,791 ✭✭✭JJJJNR


    Cashed out everything.volume is far too low imo and think the 100 milĺ spike on bitcoin a few weeks ago will cause a massive reversal.. going to sit this one out for a few weeks. Been a very good few months.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 65,881 ✭✭✭✭unkel
    Chauffe, Marcel, chauffe!


    What was your "everything"?

    Just BTC or alts as well?


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 186 ✭✭Kickstart1.3


    I noticed that the Alts are getting pasted with every move lower Bitcoin makes.
    Bitcoin drops 1% the Alts drop an average of 3%.
    Money has moved from tether and the Alts to Bitcoin more as a safehaven move. Still too many if the "when lambo" guys about. We could be looking at another drop in Bitcoin now soon.
    .


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,121 ✭✭✭✭cnocbui


    Ouch.
    Hackers steal over $40 million worth of bitcoin from one of the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchanges
    Published Tue, May 7 2019
    Hackers stole 7,000 bitcoin from major cryptocurrency exchange Binance, the platform said.
    They used a variety of methods to carry out the “large scale security breach, ” according to the exchange.
    Binance said it would cover the incident “in full” and no user funds will be affected.
    https://www.cnbc.com/2019/05/08/binance-bitcoin-hack-over-40-million-of-cryptocurrency-stolen.html


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,502 ✭✭✭q85dw7osi4lebg


    Anyone think the binance hack was an inside job ?


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,244 ✭✭✭✭Dohnjoe


    Every hack is an inside job or scam according to the internet speculation machine, wait for the facts


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,303 ✭✭✭sexmag




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,860 ✭✭✭crushproof


    sexmag wrote: »

    To say he is royally screwed is an understatement! Would not like to be in his shoes right now, foolish chap!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,829 ✭✭✭tcawley29


    crushproof wrote: »
    To say he is royally screwed is an understatement! Would not like to be in his shoes right now, foolish chap!

    Good enough for him. No time for thieves


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,860 ✭✭✭crushproof


    Very nice jump for BAT today, no idea if any news or not.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,490 ✭✭✭✭lawred2


    sexmag wrote: »

    Harsh.. garlic man got a few years for deliberate tax evasion of 3 times that

    They don't mess about with that stuff in the states


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    Heading for 7k


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,459 ✭✭✭kerplun k


    Can anyone help me out here and give me some advise? So I have X amount of BTC and alt coins. Normally I’ve just been trying to buy in dips using Coinbase and holding.

    I noticed Coinbase allows me to convert for free, so I was going to wait for what I think will be peak, and then transfer everything to a stable coin like USDcoin for free, then wait for drop and repurchase BTC, etc.

    Is this a silly idea? Or does it seem okay.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 779 ✭✭✭Arrival


    I CAN'T WAIT to laugh about all the doubters who just constantly talked **** about BTC continue to not acknowledge that they were wrong during the next bull run which IS 100% coming within the next 1.5-2 years. All you losers do is come online and try to explain how it is the next tulip mania and act like you're proving a point to people who don't care about your opinion instead of actually dedicating that time to informing yourself and putting a bit of money you can afford to possibly lose and seeing where it takes you along with the rest of us.

    To everyone else who held throughout this last horrible bear market for the past couple of years, let's ****ing have it!!!


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,964 ✭✭✭Blueshoe


    Arrival wrote: »
    I CAN'T WAIT to laugh about all the doubters who just constantly talked **** about BTC continue to not acknowledge that they were wrong during the next bull run which IS 100% coming within the next 1.5-2 years. All you losers do is come online and try to explain how it is the next tulip mania and act like you're proving a point to people who don't care about your opinion instead of actually dedicating that time to informing yourself and putting a bit of money you can afford to possibly lose and seeing where it takes you along with the rest of us.

    To everyone else who held throughout this last horrible bear market for the past couple of years, let's ****ing have it!!!

    That's the kind of talk that could back fire on someone. Especially in this unpredictable manipulated **** fest


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,966 ✭✭✭Grumpypants


    It will crash again. From 100+k back down to 25k and they will all be back telling us how we were suckers for getting nto a pyramid scheme.


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    Well, do you all still think Bitcoin is the future of money, about to take out the banks, or is it a speculative asset?

    Have people been using it to buy stuff?


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,964 ✭✭✭Blueshoe


    Well, do you all still think Bitcoin is the future of money, about to take out the banks, or is it a speculative asset?

    Have people been using it to buy stuff?

    Nobody is buying anything. All holding and hoping.
    If it rises high again some people will cash out a profit while the majority will hold on a little bit too long due to greed and end up watching it sink again.
    It's like the stock market at X10 speed


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,666 ✭✭✭makeorbrake


    Well, do you all still think Bitcoin is the future of money, about to take out the banks, or is it a speculative asset?

    Have people been using it to buy stuff?

    Cryptocurrency is the future of money, yes. Sweden is probably the closest to going cashless and coming out with a central bank digital currency (CBDC). Facebook are launching their own crypto in Q3, 2019. JP Morgan have created their own crypto.
    Where Bitcoin lies in the context of all of that remains to be seen. I don't have any time for centralised shítcoins but one of the side effects may be to condition people and educate people on the use of a digital wallet and a digital currency. This will empower them to venture into other cryptos should they have an interest.

    As regards 'about to take out the banks' - I'm not sure if anyone ever made that claim on this thread. This will be a two track thing. There will be people who are comfortable with maintaining custody of their own crypto. There will be many who won't be comfortable with that. For the latter, banking will pivot to facilitate custody of both crypto and FIAT in the one account. There are already a couple of examples of this in Europe.

    Banks aren't going anywhere. However, they may have to change their ways somewhat in the longer term. Personally, as long as people have the option of using them rather than having to use them, I'm happy. People deserve financial freedom when it comes to their own money. All this aml/kyc bs is a ruse for financial surveillance. The world will not collapse without it but peoples lives will improve (not having to be subject to it).

    Is it a speculative asset? Of course it is. My expectation is that over time - as it goes through the process of price discovery, as market capitalisation broadens - volatility will fall away to a level that you'd expect with conventional assets. That's not going to be a fast process but it's already been happening as crazy as you may find BTC volatility to be.

    As regards purely monetary transactional use, it remains minimal. The argument goes that people feel its done nothing and it will do nothing as it would have done it by now if it could. The other side of the argument is that the ecosystem is still being built and the technology is still being built (eg. lightning network). There's disagreement on whether BTC is best positioned in that regard within crypto circles - nevermind, outside of those circles. We will have to see how that develops.

    As regards store of value use case, it is slowly proving to be digital gold. Many will agree and many will disagree. The point will be made as regards how can that be the case with the volatility but again, you can't expect something (as in decentralised digital asset) to come into this sector and not be volatile until it finds it feet and truly establishes itself.

    That's Bitcoin and that's a consideration of transactional money or store of value use cases. There are other cryptos that have found use cases for a whole host of stuff across a whole host of industries. Most still in trial/pilot phase but many initial real world usages are up and running too. And strangely, it seems that even Bitcoin could have a role to play there too through secondary layer...but all of that remains to be seen.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 779 ✭✭✭Arrival


    It will crash again. From 100+k back down to 25k and they will all be back telling us how we were suckers for getting nto a pyramid scheme.

    Spot on. People like that are pretty sad. Just stand on the sidelines shouting "you're wrong" and deriving some kind of weird temporary pleasure by saying "tOlD yOu So" during the crashes and corrections -- which most people who've invested money acknowledge can, and most probably will occur again and again -- and then shutting up during the bull runs when those with actual skin in the game are in positions to change their financial lives completely. I pity them like, there are way better ways to spend your free time. Fair enough if you don't believe in the technology and use it and think it's a scam or whatever, but leave it at that, go away and stop wasting your breath just for the chance to be able to feebly say you were right (temporarily) during the crashes.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,026 ✭✭✭grindle


    Have people been using it to buy stuff?

    Used BCH to buy a subscription last night. Basically gave me a 45% discount after CGT is considered because I bought the BCH in January. Handy out.


  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    grindle wrote: »
    Used BCH to buy a subscription last night. Basically gave me a 45% discount after CGT is considered because I bought the BCH in January. Handy out.

    Does it make sense to spend it on anything at the start of the bull run?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,121 ✭✭✭✭cnocbui


    If the bull run amounts to less than a 45% increase, it certainly does. Another way to look at it is cashing out to bank some profit, though the amount 'spent' here is probably trivial.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,026 ✭✭✭grindle


    Does it make sense to spend it on anything at the start of the bull run?

    Replaced what I spent with fiat, don't worry. Just using it so I wasn't leaving any real details with some website I wouldn't trust with my scrote flakes (that's normal, right?).

    Do the same any time I'm buying beer or...beer ;) in Amsterdam.
    cnocbui wrote: »
    If the bull run amounts to less than a 45% increase, it certainly does. Another way to look at it is cashing out to bank some profit, though the amount 'spent' here is probably trivial.

    Exactly. Would've been a 63% discount ignoring CGT but the subscription was only worth $100 so I bought the sub and sold $50 worth to withdraw for the tax porpoises. Out of the cryptos they accept BCH had increased the most out of what I had - it amounted to a hefty discount & I could sub from a dummy email so it made sense.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,502 ✭✭✭q85dw7osi4lebg


    BTC $7250 how on earth


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 779 ✭✭✭Arrival


    As delighted as I am to see the price increasing, it's worrying how quickly it's going. Nice, gradual growth is always better to avoid mass irrationality


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,760 ✭✭✭el diablo


    Arrival wrote: »
    As delighted as I am to see the price increasing, it's worrying how quickly it's going. Nice, gradual growth is always better to avoid mass irrationality

    Yeah, it's all moving too fast. I'd prefer if we had slow, sustainable growth while building support along the way. Otherwise we'll have more 80%+ crashes in the future. ;)

    We're all in this psy-op together.🤨



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,121 ✭✭✭✭cnocbui


    I'll take what I can get. :)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,502 ✭✭✭q85dw7osi4lebg


    A great day for the parish.


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,913 ✭✭✭Pintman Paddy Losty


    Anyone know what has caused this spike?

    Think it has something to do with the 800m tethers created in the last couple of weeks?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,244 ✭✭✭✭Dohnjoe


    Anyone know what has caused this spike?

    Think it has something to do with the 800m tethers created in the last couple of weeks?

    The largest exchange was hacked, shortly before that Tether admitted it's now only 74% backed and another large exchange is under investigation in conjunction with that - that's all bad news

    The rise seems to be due to a positive outlook for BTC, Fidelity, one of the world's largest asset managers is apparently due to offer BTC custody in a few weeks, they will be targeting only institutional investors (a study released by Fidelity indicate around half of institutional clients are interested in digital assets directly (72% interested in products that contain digital assets)

    There have been hints that the BTC ETF will be accepted (eventually). Bakkt is still in the pipelines. "Positivity" on the horizon tends to push prices up in a purely speculation psychological market like this


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,350 ✭✭✭✭SteelyDanJalapeno


    Dohnjoe wrote: »
    The largest exchange was hacked, shortly before that Tether admitted it's now only 74% backed and another large exchange is under investigation in conjunction with that - that's all bad news

    The rise seems to be due to a positive outlook for BTC, Fidelity, one of the world's largest asset managers is apparently due to offer BTC custody in a few weeks, they will be targeting only institutional investors (a study released by Fidelity indicate around half of institutional clients are interested in digital assets directly (72% interested in products that contain digital assets)

    There have been hints that the BTC ETF will be accepted (eventually). Bakkt is still in the pipelines. "Positivity" on the horizon tends to push prices up in a purely speculation psychological market like this

    I do appreciate your genuine reply to Paddy, but he's probably baiting


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,244 ✭✭✭✭Dohnjoe


    I do appreciate your genuine reply to Paddy, but he's probably baiting

    Or considering putting cash in "for the laugh to trade some ****coins"


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,913 ✭✭✭Pintman Paddy Losty


    Lads. Take the gains you can while the market is artificially inflated. There'll be another correction soon enough I'd say.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,244 ✭✭✭✭Dohnjoe


    Lads. Take the gains you can while the market is artificially inflated. There'll be another correction soon enough I'd say.

    Quite possibly. Short it if you are confident.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,244 ✭✭✭✭Dohnjoe


    Market crashes over a year after insane bull "it's going to zero"

    Market goes up over 100% since Xmas, some top coins up 200% to 400% - silence

    Market drops 10% or 15% - "get out while you can"


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,666 ✭✭✭makeorbrake


    Dohnjoe wrote: »
    Quite possibly. Short it if you are confident.
    So much money being left on the table by podge n' rodge.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,502 ✭✭✭q85dw7osi4lebg


    Lads. Take the gains you can while the market is artificially inflated. There'll be another correction soon enough I'd say.

    Damnit Paddy wish you told us yesterday before the massive drop. :mad:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,666 ✭✭✭makeorbrake


    Damnit Paddy wish you told us yesterday before the massive drop. :mad:
    In fairness them lads tell ye every day regardless of where it's headed. Apparently, there's never a positive development in the space..


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,791 ✭✭✭JJJJNR


    Buy the fu*king dips.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,964 ✭✭✭Blueshoe


    JJJJNR wrote: »
    Buy the fu*king dips.

    Invest in bio pharma. That's where humanity itself will be changed.

    Crispr therapeutics in particular


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,026 ✭✭✭grindle


    Wow, this crypto thing has really sucked away all your sense of humour, hasn't it? :(
    Where's the humour?
    Bitcoin was going to be the disruptor, right? "Be Your Own Bank"? Yet you are quoting a fluff piece by the Chief Propagandists of the Evil Banksters to make a point? Jayzis, bitcoin, what has happened to you? :):)
    Oh right, you smiled at something you said which wasn't funny. Heh. Good one.
    Nothing you have said there makes any sense to anyone who hasnt been sucked into the hopium fueled world of Crypto. Data entry as smart contract? Are you on crack?? Automated????? WHAAAAAAT? Why on earth do I need a smart contract to capture data? Anyway, "data validation", using the canonical meaning of the term, is a task that can be handled procedurally: capturing user data and validating is not something that needs global consesus, outside of a very few rare edge cases. The fact that so many mundane tasks that will never, in a million years, require smart contracts or global consesus to achieve, validate or verify are TOP of that list shows the #1 problem with blockchain: nobody really knows what the hell its about.
    aka
    I haven't read up on any of this so it doesn't exist and isn't needed, waahwaahwaah??????W????HHHHAA?????T????
    Dear christ, just read up instead of fighting against a concept you're arguing against but in the dark about.
    You don't think automation exists? Tell that to the auto industry and call-centre marketers. Smart contracts can interact with eachother. Routine tasks can be programmed to regulatory spec across one or many contracts. Companies are always looking at repetitive tasks that humans are crap at to see if they can whittle the process cost down, and they're obsessed with traceability.
    You don't "need" a smart contract to capture data, you use a smart contract or a slew of them if it's more efficient/cheaper than human equivalents.
    Stop whinging “But WHYYYYY does it NEEEEEEED it THO?????????!?!?!?!??”
    If it simplifies a business process, is cheaper than hiring some flesh imbecile to fumble through the work and it innately increases trust, it will be used.
    That pamphlet you cited (which mentions Bitcoin more often than it mentions Ethereum, so i have know idea why you are bitching about "why u bring up Bitcoin?")

    It mentions Bitcoin as it was the birth of a workable consensus mechanism across a massively distributed network focused on value transfer. It mentions blockchain and smart contracts a lot more than it mentions Bitcoin because they’re interested in how their business processes can be refined. Ethereum is by far the leader in that space and if a company wants to work with a mature open protocol with the most dev tools and the most devs, for now it’s going to be Ethereum.
    ...in most cases, once you get into requirement gathering and more detailed functional design most of these schemes fall down. The original basis for saying "X, but with Blockchain!" falls apart, when you realise that there was never a need for blockchain in the first place. I have yet to come accross a design involving a blockchain-like component where we didnt design it out after a few weeks.
    Oh good, the “You can’t expect EVERYTHING on a blockchain” argument, as if somebody had said everything should be.
    Not everything needs a blockchain, well done. Some things will be better handled using blockchain.
    Ernst & Young and these guys must be barking up the wrong tree because you’ve done your research say so.
    i havent been that interested in Ethereum to be honest, as i said earlier. Adfter the DAO (LOL!) and the split (ROFL) and Silbert trolling you with Eth Classis for years, it was hard to take seriously. The rollback (CODE IS LAW!) and the moves to PoS, sharding and other stuff - meh. As much a Bitcoin is a madhouse run by lunatics intent on self-immolation, you have to admire the fact that its something you could (at one time anyway) buy stuff with.
    So, the DAO (a bug in a contract) and a state change which neutralised the DAO attack and siphoned funds back to the rightful owners (not a rollback, unlike the actual rollback Bitcoin had. CODE IS LAW! - erm, when it suits them) are reason enough to ignore the project. But you're "in" Bitcoin since 2014... Hypocritical and myopic, but okay. You’re as bad as Shillbert tbh, you can’t be bothered reading about what you’re arguing about.
    No. The article mentioned nothing about "testing". If you are going to pick and choose what you want to believe in that advertising flyer then we are wasting our time. Those guys were asked a question, and the majority said they were deploying private and permissioned blockchains. No need for tokens, coins, exchanges, etc.
    45% said they were working on public chains. Need for tokens, coins, exchanges, etc.
    A wise man once said “If you are going to pick and choose what you want to believe in that advertising flyer then we are wasting our time.”
    Also, testnets tend to reflect the ultimate Mainnets, so you dont test a public blockchain with a private version, do you?

    No. A database is as secure and immutable as you need it to be.
    They’re testing (and using in production within the confines of their own businesses) for their own purposes and on private chains so that they can make the mistakes they’re going to make and it won’t be publicly broadcasted. If they have a view to moving onto mainnet they can swap to testnet if they want some outside auditors to attack the contract for a bounty, that’s sensible.

    Companies, organisations and governments the world over can see the benefit of a blockchain over a database. But you’re correct, of course... I suppose you think ID2020 isn’t happening as well.
    Let me guess - “But WHHYYYYyyyyYYY do they NEEEeeDDD IiiiitTTT THOOO?????”

    There are very few business use cases where the overriding requirement is "If the majority in the deal want to randomly reverse or change a record for no reason, then they can" I seriously cannot think of any. Its one of the main reasons why, after 10 years of knocking around, the only large scale use cases are as a currency ledger (bitcoin) and some script-enabled state machine (Ethereum), where in both cases the overwhelming utility is "waiting until we are rich"
    It’s ten years in and we’re only just on the cusp of scaling properly, security and building out dev tools comes first for obvious reasons. The aim isn’t to WANT to 51% attack the network, it’s a fraud prevention technology. It's security against a fraud because the person who may think of committing it will know that everybody on the network will know of it. Fair point on Bitcoin being “wait until we are rich”, it’s a pointless & redundant speculative nest egg for now at least.
    Fizzy is a good example, Lurent did well with it. But in reality, he does nothing more than my code does 150,000 times a day: takes bets, pays out on a win. Satoshi dice was doing this years ago. I heard Laurent speak once where he addmitted that the regulatory hurdles with offering insurance in this way meant that Fizzy had to be broken into 3 parts: Business works out your odds (risk), finance creates an invoice (price) and finally the web api creates the event. But the key thing is that the payment is not directly triggered by the contract. Its handled the exact same way as before (but quicker). So not quite the trustless, "code is law" thing you might think it is. Still interesting, though. But seems strangelly redundant: I can see a world in the near future where insurance companies will be allowed to operate purely in this manner, without regulation. So, its pretty moot.
    The contract may currently rely on a “push” from AXA for the flight delay time but it will eventually use a multi-source oracle which confirms whether to pay or not. How can it be redundant if it’s automating away actions which humans previously had a part in? Your mindset is a bit like the criminals JF and PPL, you expect everything now instead of in time. So why are you "in Bitcoin since 2014"?
    Intel fixed the bug.
    So bugs are allowed to be fixed and it’s not the end of the world? Madness. Well, there are more exploits to be found, right now. It doesn’t mean Intel’s tech is worthless. Just the same as a contract bug doesn’t mean Ethereum is worthless.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,791 ✭✭✭JJJJNR




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,622 ✭✭✭maninasia


    Yes I'm worried i didn't invest enough in the near market.

    But my bags are packed. 😎


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,502 ✭✭✭q85dw7osi4lebg


    BTC right back where it was before the brief pump them drop. Lot of buyers out there.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,769 ✭✭✭nuac


    GOLD?
    I note that gold has increased in price each day over last eight days- Now at $1,333 an ounce.
    Such movements usually are harbingers of currency or economic turmoil.
    Has Trump's silken diplomacy spooked some people to seek a refuge in gold?
    Thoughts?


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