The Crypto Thread

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Thatā€™s fine, donā€™t kick yourself. People still need to do that for this to work. I cashed some bitcoin for some things too.

Not all day, but I have it open when Iā€™m online. Having an algo bot would be useful for some things but I wouldnā€™t trust it enough to not fuck something up no matter how well it was programmed.

Yeah, been playing poker online a bunch since the pandemic so thatā€™s also a real convenient time to have all this shit open.

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this is about to make me scream though:

Itā€™s nowhere near as bad as predictit on the day of the USA#1 election, but during super volume even the biggest exchange in the world fucks up.

I think Elon Musk is personally trying to fuck with me. This means war.

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worked with some great guys who went to NEAR. i admit i understand very little in what their innovation is or whether it has a future, but last i heard they had the shadiest creditors/investors, earned enough through offerings to pay them back and have some funds left for the company to sit and wait. their telegram channel is ā€œsoft launching a new memeā€. sounds as legit as ā€¦ anything else i suppose

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Wonder how many other companies are gonna start investing some cash in Bitcoin now?

The FAANGs will follow if they are smart. Even just a fraction of percent of their cash in Bitcoin is massive

And it could be 8k again next week.

Would you though? Itā€™s easy to time the market perfectly in hindsight. Would you have banked 20k, or would you have sold when that shit went to like 12 and you made a 50 percent profit? Because thatā€™s when I would have sold. Gotta have stone cold balls to hodl with some of these swings.

It would be nice if my investments ever went up so I could have to make these tough calls on when to sell

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https://twitter.com/saxena_puru/status/1358795566625349633

lol.

Bitcoin price wasnā€™t really influenced by his tweet on Dec 20 though, seems mostly flat that day

iā€™m having a hard time believing musk isnā€™t just trolling the SEC by commenting on assets they do not regulate.

I assume this is sarcasm?

Gotcha. Bitcoin and most cryptocurrencies are almost entirely speculative. There isnt much backing the actual price here, and while it can be used for an increasing number of transactional capabilities, that isnt what is driving the rise in price.

People buying it because they think itā€™s going to be worth more money. Thatā€™s really it. Itā€™s way too fucking volatile at this point to really function well as a currency. It goes through cycles of hyperinflation and deflation like every other month.

I mean, it could plow ahead to 100k and you can make a fortune. Or it can drop back down to 5k. Who knows.

bitcoin TO THE MOON

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I posted this a while back in the Stonks thread, but itā€™s worth another post in the dedicated crypto thread. Michael Saylor lays out the reasoning for its rise in value in a way that made sense to me, and heā€™s basically bet his entire company on his thesis.

Itā€™s a combination of the inflated value of all other assets and decline of the value of the dollar along with the attributes that make BTC a better alternative as a store of value if not a functional currency.

Worth a listen.

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Just took profits here and reduced my position because it was starting to get too large for my portfolio risk level. I did this already in January at 31k BTC and now am doing it again at 46k BTC lol. I wonā€™t be upset if I have to do it again next monthā€¦

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