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Is Bitcoin surge driven by paid-publicity (similar to US election story)?

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Re: Is Bitcoin surge driven by paid-publicity (similar to US election story)?

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Why does crashing the market make sense if it’s a good product?

1. Most of the market at that point is filled with 'get-rich-quick' people. 2. It's not regulated and can be gamed like above. (I understand that not being regulated is also it's biggest selling point)

It's probably like a great social network totally filled with 'tag-your-friend' posts.

Re: Is Bitcoin surge driven by paid-publicity (similar to US election story)?

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Why pay for the marketing when every major news outlet in the country will continually cover the story as the price continues to rise wildly and as major financial institutions get invested? I run multiple browser plugins to block ads on my browser, but has anyone actually seen Facebook, et al ads for cryptocurrency?

I run multiple browser plugins to block ads on my browser, but has anyone actually seen Facebook, et al ads for cryptocurrency?

Twitter is full of ads for ICOs at the moment (probably only if you are in the subset of users who are targeted).

Re: Is Bitcoin surge driven by paid-publicity (similar to US election story)?

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Well the assumption here is that general public or the dumb money can actually create a rally which increases in multiple of 1000s.

This is possible and does happen in penny stocks where stocks go from couple of cents to couple of dollars or maybe in 100s. But, in 1k or even 10ks? I seriously doubt it.....Unless there is a story behind the volume and there is some serious round trip trading going on: https://www.investopedia.com/terms/r/round-triptrades.asp

Re: Is Bitcoin surge driven by paid-publicity (similar to US election story)?

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If you can convince 1000 people to invest $100M each with just $30M in advertising, you're some kind of marketing Einstein of our generation.

I actually did not mean to spend that 30M$ to get 1000 others. But yeah how do I convince 1000 others to invest 100M$ into this is a valid question.

If I am the one with $100M, I will likely have enough connections to start the ball rolling.

Re: Is Bitcoin surge driven by paid-publicity (similar to US election story)?

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Well the assumption here is that general public or the dumb money can actually create a rally which increases in multiple of 1000s. This is possible and does happen in penny stocks where stocks go from couple of cents to couple of dollars or maybe in 100s. But, in 1k or even 10ks? I seriously doubt it.....Unless there is a story behind the volume and there is some serious round trip trading going on: https://www.inve…

It's certainly possible there are fraudulent trades driving price, it's pretty easy to do on BTC exchanges.

Re: Is Bitcoin surge driven by paid-publicity (similar to US election story)?

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> Fake news, facebook & twitter ads that influenced US elections proved that it's possible to do something like this. but Hillary lost. Facebook has identified $100,000 of ads that came from accounts associated with Russia. Clinton and Trump combined spent $81 million on Facebook. [1] [1] https://techcrunch.com/2017/11/01/russian-facebook-ad-spend/

If those 100k in ads moved the needle even the slightest then that was the most impactful 100k ever spent in the history of advertising.

Re: Is Bitcoin surge driven by paid-publicity (similar to US election story)?

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Why does crashing the market make sense if it’s a good product?

A good product for what, exactly? Fast, decentralized, small monetary transactions? Because right now BTC is pretty awful at that.

>A good product for what, exactly?

Since its inception it's an exceptionally good store of value over the medium to long term.

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