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Crypto collapse: Bitcoin goes up

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Re: Crypto collapse: Bitcoin goes up

#5
The key point made in this article (to me at least) is that for all its apparent size, the actual dimensions of this market are way way too much subject to large actor manipulation: it's never about real world economics, except where these align with criminal intent.

If it looks too good to be "true" given other circumstances, then it very probably IS too good to be true. If you have enough liquidity to play a game and secure a large financial benefit, and if you can "hide" inside a wave you created in the first place (a wave of smaller actors) then..

So ask yourself: what real world, non-fraud, non-market-manipulating reasons exist to justify this rise in value?

Re: Crypto collapse: Bitcoin goes up

#8
View all short term price predictions (and indeed, players) with cynicism. Even, to some degree, the linked article, insofar as it may claim to present a 'master plan' for the hows and whys of market movements.

No external observer has all the pertinent info, and individuals thinking that they (or others they listen to) do reliably have that information, is the general psychological driver that moves a great deal of the money involved in these quasi-casinobanks of the fledgling crypto industry.

Re: Crypto collapse: Bitcoin goes up

#9
"We’re pretty sure the number will go back down again — if you bought in below $X, you may want to cash out while you can. You can already see bobbles in the chart where bagholders tried to cash out where they could." - Almost everyone for 10+ years.

Re: Crypto collapse: Bitcoin goes up

#10
post #7

It astonishes me that a "thing" that has no real value except speculation and "get rich quick" schemes after more than a decade is still being sold for 20K per unit. Amazing.

You should tell that to the hundreds of thousands of people in places like Argentina, Turkey, Venezuela, and Iran who rely on it

This is a never endingly week argument.

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