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Re: Litecoin and Ethereum buys and sells are temporarily disabled

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A lot of emotion with LTC. People are downloading Coinbase and buying LTC simply because it is the cheapest on Coinbase. This is definitely a bubble, really cant deny that anymore. All emotional, non-rational behavior.

Do you have evidence for this or have an idea of how many people have/are doing this?

I’ve owned BTC for years, ETH for a little over a year but never had LTC until last week...just a single datum but would not be surprised if this is quite common.

Re: Litecoin and Ethereum buys and sells are temporarily disabled

#32

A lot of emotion with LTC. People are downloading Coinbase and buying LTC simply because it is the cheapest on Coinbase. This is definitely a bubble, really cant deny that anymore. All emotional, non-rational behavior.

bubble or not, emotion plays a big part of the normal markets too

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post #20

A lot of emotion with LTC. People are downloading Coinbase and buying LTC simply because it is the cheapest on Coinbase. This is definitely a bubble, really cant deny that anymore. All emotional, non-rational behavior.

Do you have evidence for this or have an idea of how many people have/are doing this?

Anecdotally, this weekend I've seen 4 (non-technical) friends throw $500 - $5,000 into the three CoinBase coins this weekend, all individually. Before this weekend, they were merely familiar with Bitcoin but no interest in investment, and they did not know what alt coins were. All it takes is for someone to see the hockey-stick growth on the coins to want in. It's too exciting to pass up. The atmosphere is "If I lose a few grand, that's OK, if I miss out on 100,000, that is not."

Re: Litecoin and Ethereum buys and sells are temporarily disabled

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post #14

98% of their funds are stored offline in a cold wallet. I bet they exhausted their hot wallet supply. https://www.coinbase.com/security?locale=en-US

Why would they need the actual coins to allow trading? Only transferring would require access to a wallet.

Re: Litecoin and Ethereum buys and sells are temporarily disabled

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post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

My guess is that the there are a lot of newbies now on Coinbase (#1 app in the Apple AppStore). They are buying the cheapest “bitcoin” without actually understanding what they are buying. This has increased demand for the cheaper of the only three options in Coinbase thus increasing price.

Yes, and I've cashed out handsomely as a result of being lucky enough to predict exactly this. For clarification: I bought some $1000s worth of LTC when it was under $100 shortly after the Futures news hit. It was pure gamble on my part and I could have easily lost instead of the other way around. I also bought a few ETH coins when it was around $400 but haven't cashed those out yet. I'm predicting my LTC gains will…

christ you must have made ridiculous money with this

Re: Litecoin and Ethereum buys and sells are temporarily disabled

#37

A lot of emotion with LTC. People are downloading Coinbase and buying LTC simply because it is the cheapest on Coinbase. This is definitely a bubble, really cant deny that anymore. All emotional, non-rational behavior.

Nothing new, markets are never rational

Some are more rational than others.

Re: Litecoin and Ethereum buys and sells are temporarily disabled

#38
post #5

What is causing the sudden rise in litecoin?

My understanding is that they are making some significant new releases which will allow for very fast transaction times and support for contracts. I have been expecting a big breakout from LTC but then again this all could have happened for other reasons. I'm not sure how I could really prove that this was the cause.

Re: Litecoin and Ethereum buys and sells are temporarily disabled

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post #11

Can someone familiar explain why cryptocurrencies aren't a bubble? They both seem to exhibit similar characteristics. Clearly, are shown by the site here, these aren't nearly as liquid as fiat currencies, nor are they really used to purchase anything. So... What is it? EDIT: upon thinking about it, MLM wasn't the term I meant.

I bought BTC to use as currency for transactions not as an investment. It should be used for that purpose. MLM only has one purpose - to recruit others into it. I don't ask other people to buy BTC so I can make a profit. MLM usually has a pyramid commission structure.

If you don't mind me asking, what types of transactions do you currently use it for? Based on the current technology and fees, it is quite expensive to transact, and really doesn't make sense for me.

That said, I can see a future for it if something like lightning network ever gets released (and actually works).

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