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Bitcoin Bites the Dust – Down $7,200 (37%) in Five Days
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| December 29, 2017
| Mike Fuljenz
Posted on 12/29/2017 5:28:20 AM PST by Kaslin
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To: palmer
can you explain in simpler terms ? Seems like searching Sahara Desert with a metal detector. If you find the treasure you get rich. But the treasure was hidden by someone who created this treasure.
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posted on
12/29/2017 6:12:23 AM PST
by
SMGFan
(Sarah Michelle Gellar is on twitter @SarahMGellar)
To: Travis McGee
“Bitcoin is only a creative computerized fiction”
Someone who gets it.
Another one: “You cant value Bitcoin because its not a value-producing asset”.
Gold is desirable for its beauty and usefulness in manufacturing. There will be demand for gold until the Sun expands and burns the Earth to a crisp. Although you can’t eat gold, you can’t eat money either.
22
posted on
12/29/2017 6:21:41 AM PST
by
I want the USA back
(Politicians willingly sacrifice White Christians to their real god: muzzies)
To: SMGFan
Yes, search the desert with a metal detector to find the lump of metal in a random location. There are 8400 million trillion locations (quite literally) and if you search them all you will find it. The current hashing power is 14 million trillion searches per second, so it takes 10 minutes to search all the locations. Mining is designed to always take 10 minutes no matter how powerful the searching is. As the searching becomes more powerful (more miners using more parallelism, faster HW) the mining algorithm automatically increases the difficulty.
In desert analogy there are more and more locations to search. But there is no person or machine that knows where the lump of metal is. The miners are searching for a new non-random random number each time. The new one, every 10 minutes, has no relationship to the old at all. Every search is brand new, from scratch.
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posted on
12/29/2017 6:23:34 AM PST
by
palmer
(...if we do not have strong families and strong values, then we will be weak and we will not survive)
To: Kaslin
Blockchain currencies are not intended to be investment vehicles. They are intended to be mediums of exchange that bypass the big-government/big-credit-card industrial complex and their skimming operations. The technology is new and will be subject to wild fluctuations until people get used to it. Eventually it will settle down.
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posted on
12/29/2017 6:28:08 AM PST
by
E. Pluribus Unum
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To: I want the USA back
Gold is desirable for its beauty and usefulness in manufacturing The manufacturing demand for gold is roughly 2000 tonnes for jewelry and 1000 tonnes for bars and coins. Manufacturing uses very little. Gold mining produces 2400 tonnes. The difference is made up by melting unwanted jewelry. The gold economy is pretty constant so the gold price is fairly stable.
With the cryptocurrencies the trading is very thin. The demand far exceeds the supply which very tightly controlled. So instead of bitcoin people have created forks of bitcoin and various other currency chains. The bubble in alt-coins far exceeds the bitcoin bubble and is growing much faster. That the writer didn't mention it shows how clueless he is. These bubbles have a long long way to go.
25
posted on
12/29/2017 6:31:18 AM PST
by
palmer
(...if we do not have strong families and strong values, then we will be weak and we will not survive)
To: Sirius Lee; Jonty30; palmer
I understand THAT just as much as I do bitcoin.
Buy cheap. Sell high.
Dont forget Fereingi Rule of Acquisition #23!
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posted on
12/29/2017 6:31:29 AM PST
by
Delta 21
(Build The Wall !! Jail The Cankle !!)
To: Kaslin
You'll never be able to do this with bitcoin!
27
posted on
12/29/2017 6:33:48 AM PST
by
WhatNot
(The Gospel doesn't promise the American dream, it promises Eternal life in the Kingdom of God.)
To: Kaslin
28
posted on
12/29/2017 6:36:34 AM PST
by
airborne
(I don't always scream at the TV but when I do it's hockey playoffs season!)
To: BinaryBoy
Cool! You’ve got enough virtual money to buy my virtual bridge!
29
posted on
12/29/2017 6:37:48 AM PST
by
Pollard
(TRUMP 2020)
To: SMGFan
“To: Kaslin
the idea of mining a bitcoin using massive computers to find one? I still do not get it.”
I am with you on this. You get paid for doing complex equations (logarithm), have yet to figure out what the math is for and who exactly is “paying” for this service. Sounds like a bad sci-fi movie to me.
30
posted on
12/29/2017 6:41:09 AM PST
by
dgbrown
To: Kaslin
31
posted on
12/29/2017 6:42:00 AM PST
by
dynoman
(Objectivity is the essence of intelligence. - Marilyn vos Savant)
To: WhatNot
“You’ll never be able to do this with bitcoin!”
Actually, yes you could. But you wouldn’t be using bitcoin. You would be using the block chain technology to securely purchase the two dinner plates attached to the tinfoil covered thingymabob.
32
posted on
12/29/2017 6:44:34 AM PST
by
EQAndyBuzz
(Delusional - Adjective, Describes a Democrat or member of the MSM)
To: KarlInOhio
33
posted on
12/29/2017 6:44:47 AM PST
by
GOYAKLA
(" Winning not Whining"!)
To: SMGFan
Doing it on your own doesn’t work now because every four years the amount available to mine halves. So it takes way more computing power. It’s the perfect scam for greedy speculators, limit the total to 21 million, halve the amount available to mine every four years. Create hype. Then sell at the top. See post 31.
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posted on
12/29/2017 6:44:54 AM PST
by
dynoman
(Objectivity is the essence of intelligence. - Marilyn vos Savant)
To: sten
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posted on
12/29/2017 6:45:23 AM PST
by
dynoman
(Objectivity is the essence of intelligence. - Marilyn vos Savant)
To: dgbrown
Bitcoin math will help bring strong AI into existence. Strong artificial intelligence is where the machine's intellectual capability is functionally equal to a human's.
When this happens, humans will be nothing more than pesky ants being stepped on at an AI picnic.
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posted on
12/29/2017 6:54:27 AM PST
by
WhatNot
(The Gospel doesn't promise the American dream, it promises Eternal life in the Kingdom of God.)
To: dynoman
You could look at that chart and say that the bear trap was Nov 2013 was the selloff and the bear trap lasted through 2015:
https://blockchain.info/charts/market-price?timespan=all That would put the recent peak at $19,500 as the beginning of the blow off phase. Would make a lot of sense. But it's probably wrong. I think it will go a lot higher. I say that as I slowly unload mine, and I am definitely not buying any now. So it's a completely self-interested statement. But I think I am correct, it will go higher due to organic demand for the store of value.
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posted on
12/29/2017 6:54:45 AM PST
by
palmer
(...if we do not have strong families and strong values, then we will be weak and we will not survive)
To: E. Pluribus Unum
Blockchain currencies are not intended to be investment vehicles. They are intended to be mediums of exchange that bypass the big-government/big-credit-card industrial complex and their skimming operations.
but the market doesn’t seek it like that.................
they see a lottery ticket.
38
posted on
12/29/2017 6:58:46 AM PST
by
PeterPrinciple
(Thinking Caps are no longer being issued but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere.)
To: sten
39
posted on
12/29/2017 7:03:09 AM PST
by
b4its2late
(A Liberal is a person who will give away everything he doesn't own.)
To: Kaslin
40
posted on
12/29/2017 7:03:54 AM PST
by
Delta 21
(Build The Wall !! Jail The Cankle !!)
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