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I would agree with you, but why now? They've had since it hit 20k to tighten the screws on it, why wait until it's nearly a quarter of its maximum? Just doesn't make much sense other than to stop their credit card holders loosing money they know they won't be able to pay back any time soon?
Don't know why now. But if you think it's to "protect customers" your very naïve - these are the credit card companies that just want your interest payments and automatically increase your credit limit when you get to 80% of your limit, and then do it again at 90% too! "Having trouble paying back your balance? nearing your sky high limit? Why not BORROW MORE!!!! Go on you know you want to! Don't worry about paying it back!, we'll get it eventually when we reposes your house"

Creditr cards. Protecting customers from overborrowing since nineteen ninety....er......no...never.
 
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Don't know why now. But if you think it's to "protect customers" your very naïve - these are the credit card companies that just want your interest payments and automatically increase your credit limit when you get to 80% of your limit, and then do it again at 90% too! "Having trouble paying back your balance? nearing your sky high limit? Why not BORROW MORE!!!! Go on you know you want to! Don't worry about paying it back!, we'll get it eventually when we reposes your house"

Credit cards. Protecting customers from overborrowing since nineteen ninety....er......no...never.
Protecting customers? That's one way of looking at it although I could say thats being naïve too ;-)

I was meaning more like the Mortgage Bubble where they lent to a load of people who couldn't pay it back and they got stung in the ass when everyone defaulted. I think they have finally admitted they know they have more customers than they are comfortable with who have used pretend money to buy... pretend money.
 

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I just presenting my crypto business model to a bunch of engineering students doing their senior projects....
it was absolutely terrifying. But my presentation I'm told was/is impressive.

Funny thing is, in the class only a handful thought they knew about crypto, only 1 of them mined, and most of them knew about the current market crash.
 

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Lol this crash is pretty bad just as @Montoya predicted i suspect alot of IT gear is going to go on sale soon on ebay and prices of PC parts will drop. It seems this is having an impact on the stock market also. Ive still got a little faith left in crypto but who knows where it's going at this point. I'm holding 400 usd in my account at the moment waiting to see if a turn around starts to happen or not. once the dust settles is this going to be worth it or not.
 

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Read this, US regulators in talks of supporting/regulating aspects of crypto (read the PDFs)
https://www.banking.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/hearings?ID=D8EC44B1-F141-4778-A042-584E0F3B9D39

"We also are supportive of regulatory and policy efforts to bring clarity and fairness to this space."

" we should embrace the pursuit of technological advancement, as well as new and innovative techniques for capital raising, but not at the expense of the principles undermining our well-founded and proven approach to protecting investors and markets"

Also, coinbase to add segwit finally
https://twitter.com/coinbase/status/960656993122844673

Anyone ever tried this pool?
https://bitclubpool.com/
Because check this out
https://www.etherchain.org/account/f3b9d2c81f2b24b0fa0acaaa865b7d9ced5fc2fb
compared to (miningpoolhub)
https://www.etherchain.org/account/b2930b35844a230f00e51431acae96fe543a0347

Also,
Zclassic totally fucked their wallets up, no external block explorer is working last few days.

And the crash isn't just bitcoin,
entire global marketplaces are in a wobble right now.
And there's cracks showing, one of them being bitcoin, another being vintage cars.
https://nypost.com/2018/02/05/dow-suffers-its-largest-point-decline-ever/

And confirmed @Montoya is not only our fearless leader, he's also a time traveler!
 
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After a 900% rise in one year this is a small correction rather than crash, not many markets you can say that about such a large fall. I still think the authorities only care because with almost no checks in the system laundering cash is so so easy and it has got large enough to be a problem. Plus of course if everyone invested in this rather than say their currency the local currency would devalue and so on.
 

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The real question is when does Montoya do a video saying "I told you so, Trust in your Glorious Leader!".

I'm going out on a limb and say when it hits $2500 - if it gets that low it's riding that wave all the way to the bottom.

EDIT -

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https://testsquadron.com/threads/video-bitcoin-crash.12913/

You can see why I didn't jump on Bitcoin.
 

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The real question is when does Montoya do a video saying "I told you so, Trust in your Glorious Leader!".

I'm going out on a limb and say when it hits $2500 - if it gets that low it's riding that wave all the way to the bottom.

EDIT -

FFFFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU-

https://testsquadron.com/threads/video-bitcoin-crash.12913/

You can see why I didn't jump on Bitcoin.
Bloomberg said that above 6000 dollars for Bitcoin, the Chinese ASIC mining farms still turn a profit. So I guess going below that for a prolonged time would cause big... consequences. Not sure if it would be the final tipping point, but it I see it as a point of interest.

I really wish that this is just a dip. It doesn't have to back all the way up.
I made about 1/3 of my invested money back (and I may acutally be able to send one of the GPUs back, since it has some problems. Almost cutting my initial investment in half. Giving me a powerful GPU I keep for 1/3 of the asking price :D ).
 
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Bloomberg said that above 6000 dollars for Bitcoin, the Chinese ASIC mining farms still turn a profit. So I guess going below that for a prolonged time would cause big... consequences. Not sure if it would be the final tipping point, but it I see it as a point of interest.

I really wish that this is just a dip. It doesn't have to back all the way up.
I made about 1/3 of my invested money back (and I may acutally be able to send one of the GPUs back, since it has some problems. Almost cutting my initial investment in half. Giving me a powerful GPU I keep for 1/3 of the asking price :smile: ).
Good luck Darth, hope you come out of it evens.
 
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The real question is when does Montoya do a video saying "I told you so, Trust in your Glorious Leader!".

I'm going out on a limb and say when it hits $2500 - if it gets that low it's riding that wave all the way to the bottom.

EDIT -

FFFFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU-

https://testsquadron.com/threads/video-bitcoin-crash.12913/

You can see why I didn't jump on Bitcoin.
Dude, if you were as good at predicting BitCoin as you are predicting Montoya videos, you'd be a jillionaire!
 

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Dude, if you were as good at predicting BitCoin as you are predicting Montoya videos, you'd be a jillionaire!
It just goes to show I know shit-all, I had no idea BitCoin was no longer GPU farmed.
 

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One thing I have been thinking about, that I think that the interest in crypto in general has been great for, is other uses for blockchain-technology.

I think that there are many interesting applications that has been pushed quicker to the market thanks to the crypto-craze.
What I figure with this technology getting bigger is possible ways to make money on some sort of hashing-power, that doesn't involve the mannerisms of the crypto market and coins.

Any one else have thoughts on this or in this direction?
 
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One thing I have been thinking about, that I think that the interest in crypto in general has been great for, is other uses for blockchain-technology.

I think that there are many interesting applications that has been pushed quicker to the market thanks to the crypto-craze.
What I figure with this technology getting bigger is possible ways to make money on some sort of hashing-power, that doesn't involve the mannerisms of the crypto market and coins.

Any one else have thoughts on this or in this direction?
Shhh! don't tell anyone or you increase your competition! You need to be first to market! ;D

Update on my end.
If I had cashed out Saturday, January 13, 2018 or even Saturday, January 27, 2018... one of my 1080TIs would have already been paid off.
My exchange account is ready, for the moment the market bounces back to liquidate to pay off one of the cards. Then just two more two go.
Not bad for 59 days so far, and I've only been recording diligent records for 39 days.
 
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We're coming back baby! $10K today

I'd like a stable-ish $12K to $20k Bitcoin.
wishful thinking
In any event, early and pre Q3 2017 HODLr's are being rewarded

@Montoya could you susplain why/what's going to happen? Assuming this isn't normal behavior for a bubble pop?


Can you sum this up for us? i don't have a couple hours to really get into this alot going on in my life. it seems today things did improve on the market luckily.
It's best you just watch it TBH. The market reacted immediately to this hearing. And has continued to climb since.
 
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