Quote from: Frink on November 20, 2018, 12:29:05 AM

It's just that because the internet has sped everything up, we've had ten years worth of growth compressed into one year.

No, that's an illusion based on a snapshot of two markets with different time scales on the X axis. The internet can't speed up investor behavior like you're thinking.

Quote from: o_e_l_e_o on November 20, 2018, 01:14:38 AM

Past performance does not predict future results, and past performance of something completely different to bitcoin like gold or dotcom definitely does not predict future results.

Agree completely, and I'm sure I've said the same thing, probably verbatim, in the past on this forum. I think a lot of people on bitcointalk are probably in their 20s and don't have much experience with markets or, if they're older, never had any education about finance and markets and haven't yet learned that past patterns tell you nothing about future patterns--in any market, not just crypto. This is why I'm anti-TA and feel like I'm surrounded by pro-TA people.

Quote from: bitfocus on November 20, 2018, 12:40:08 AM

completely agreed! big-shots are already playing in the market and in this dip they will buy more. Just like stock market games.

There's no evidence of any of that. Nobody knows who's buying what, although from the few news articles I've read it does seem like there's institutional interest in crypto these days--but I've seen no data about how much of any given coin is being bought, so it could all be hogwash.