Good afternoon, currently we have an confirmed ETA of Mid-June but no solid date in the diary. Will update you when we have a date organized. This will be on pinksale 10 days before presale starts so plenty of time.

I had found the stake had moved their applying thread to the Bounty Section.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5485761.0

Since they are not paying in Altcoin,why they moved the thread.??

They had launched the campaign and never selected anyone and move the thread to altcoin section.It seems funny 😄 😄 

It mean the stake doesn’t have a budget for new participants..?

If they doesn’t have budget for the participants either they need to delete the thread.But moving the thread to bounty section seems funny 😁

Share your opinion and hope this reach the Stake Management.

Will Michael Saylor's company be liquidated?? How will that impact the price of BTC??

If Michael Saylor's company pumped much of BTC rise, what will happen if he is taken out??

Is this it for Bitcoin, or will it come back??

I don't have all the answers, maybe the collective wisdom of the forum here does. So please share your thought with the rest of us.

Your father was kind of correct, or at least half right, it is an indirect ponzi scheme, a decentralized ponzi scheme. Why would you think its NOT a ponzi scheme?? Because its gone up?? Ponzi schemes inflate until they blow up.

It can exist as long as not to many withdraw their funds. If there is a run for the exit where to many would like to withdraw their funds, then it goes to zero, or close to it. That's what a ponzi scheme looks like and functions.

As long as you hodl it stays afloat, if you dont hodl it goes to zero, that's why everybody wants you to hodl. It's a very simple consept when you think about it really.

That could be dangerous advice. There is an old saying, never try to catch a falling knife, it will cut you going down (hard). Meaning if you buy at 35K and it drops to below 10K, you will kick yourself for taking a huge loss.

You are right on the money. The fed will increase the fed funds rate and this is hurting the entire financial market including crypto/Bitcoin. As far as I can tell this is just the start of it. The financial pain going forward will probably be much worse than most of you expect.

Not all that many use it as a currency, hardly anyone really due to high cost and being slow. Its more popular as a hedge against inflation, but then again so is art, gold, old rare stamps, old rare coins, (fairly priced) stocks, property etc.

Sure, but most "dreamers" aren't really here for best case scenario 2X, they are here for 100x or more, and they are not going to get that from Bitcoin buying at 50K, they are probably much more likely to lose money buying at 50K than to 2X.
For that matter you might just as well buy stocks if your golden target is 2X.

Some people in here are trying to feed that get rich pipedream buying BTC, the train left the station, they weren't on it.

I think back in the day, a quick pump and dump of BTC when it was say $100-$1000 range, was what brought in most people in the first place, that and it was kind of new, cool and relatively cheap(ish).

What people see now recently is that BTC is more or less flatlined. Most peopl dont play the lottery to win a few bucks, they play to win the jackpot, seems like those days are long gone in Bitcoin.

Is it just my impression or is interest in Bitcoin going down rappidly? One of the top recent threads is "Btc is boring".
Most of the other threads is mainly about hodlers trying to convince others to buy BTC, kind of reminds me of some random MLM forum rants promising riches and little to no substance.

I'll give you a few examples. The first example is kind of funny. The people who bought in at below $1000, wants YOU to buy in at $50,000 or even higher for that matter. They talk about all the money they made and now its your turn to make money. Only thing is 50k isn't the same as below 1K.
Another thing is that it's a lot harder for the market to lift 50K than 1K, try to lift 50kg and less than 1kg and see what is easier, the answer probably wont surprise you all that much.

The second example is about scale and the law of high numbers;

If the 1% (that pumped Bitcoin)were to dump their BTC holdings, because of for instance a stock or a bondmarket crash, triggered by for instance higher interest rates. If so, you would see a BTC (and altcoin) crash like not seen in many years...
Regular blue collar Joe hasn't got the kind of financial funds to replace what the 1% could pull out. Only the 1% has 1% money, and if they say i'm out of BTC, the price of BTC will adjust to what regular Joe can afford, and that wont be much in a market crisis.

Do you have other examples, please share them with the rest of us for a more balanced forum reading experience.

If the 1% (that pumped Bitcoin)were to dump their BTC holdings, because of for instance a stock or a bondmarket crash, triggered by for instance higher interest rates. If so, you would see a BTC crash like not seen in many years...

That is why.