I hope you didn't misconstrue my shared statistics as a cause for concern. -7.58% (pardon, -7.67% now, went up a bit since I posted last) hashrate drops happen all the time...

    ...well, maybe not all the time, maybe like once a year, at least...

...did I say once a year? I meant once every couple of years...

OK, I lied. So sue me.

Nothing like this happened since 2011, when BTC wasn't worth anything, and consequentially, the price *TANKED* following year. You got me!

Sorry... where was I? O yeah, nothing at all to worry about

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I hear Bitcoiners are good with computers. (good one tho. If file has a .CSV extension, it must be a harmless comma-separated file. Nothing to worry about at all, I'll just go ahead and load it right up )

Pretty tricky, Sis! The old Excel VBScript exploit

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I'll take your word for it. As i said, "or Bitcoinwisdom recorded history, at least."

You called it. Side note, Estimated Next Difficulty:    197,309,358,560 (-7.58%). The greatest hash rate/difficulty drop in recorded history (or Bitcoinwisdom recorded history, at least )

I'm a dull, unexceptional man, of slight means and modest expectations.
But in my dreams, I'm wild and free ... as a bird! to roam with my Roma clan in my quaint colorful Gypsy caravan, bewitching the burghers with my drunken Gypsy dance, befuddling them with my dark Gypsy witchcraft, and ... whoa!! where's your wallet?! Where is it? Presto magico, bitch burgher! Abracadabra. Your wallet is gone!

You think we'll break 660 today? We're kind of due for an uptic.

Blockstream is a giant decentralized stream of blocks and private individuals. You should stop thinking of it as a corporation.

Looks like 656 is the new 666.

podyx, thanks for the explanation.

You're looking at (at a glance) 15 minute bars? One bar != 1 transaction. Try 5, 3, or 1 minute resolutions here: https://bitcoinwisdom.com/markets/bitfinex/btcusd, and you'll see that 1.5k bar get broken down into a bunch of little ones.
As podyx pointed out, it's not that simple. You'll see green 1k bars from 499 market sells/501 market buys, for instance (1 BTC "ate into the ask side"). If the ask side is thin, you'll see the price shoot up.

Ah, gotcha. How does one tell if the ask side got eaten into by looking at the volume bars?

Is buying possible without selling?

Already on.
"Access was restricted in Turkey on Friday to Facebook, Twitter and YouTube shortly after news broke that the military coup was under way, according to two internet monitoring groups." https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2016/jul/15/turkey-coup-attempt-military-gunfire-ankara

But who cares, amirite?

Unhinged by grief...
Daily exchange volume: $90,606,600. Does anyone remember lower?

Your avatar. Look at it.
Don't doubt it. The only way you could have made money on that coin is by pimping the shit out of it (what you're doing here with Bitcoin), getting rubes to buy, and then dumping it into their laps. Leaving them with the bag.

Did you mention credibility?

Bitcoin CEO is out on bail, might be worth a call?

Buffett blasts bitcoin as 'mirage': 'Stay away!' www.c[Suspicious link removed]m/2014/03/14/buffett-blasts-bitcoin-as-mirage-stay-away.html
(forum won't let me post a link to that CNBC article. Google it.)
You mean some desperate dipshit like you, still pimping MegaCon, a dead shitcoin?
I'll probably go with Buffett, now that you asked

Are we there yet, OP?
I'm having a 2 for 1 sale: Buy 1 BTC for $5,000, get one free. Offer open to everyone, but only while supplies last.

The miners are businessmen, with millions invested. Trust me, they don't need to realize anything -- they know.

bitlancr; Glucose:

You just post to scratch out some change from your shitty signature ads, right? Don't bother reading first?

Look at the date of OP's post. Was it made 3 months ago?
No.

No it was not. It was made a few days ago. So WTF does a rise over the past 3 months hav to do with anything?
That's right, nothing.

Was there a price rise since OP's post?
No.
No there was not.
Was it therefore a good call, taking into account that people were promising new ATH and panic buying at the halvening?
That's right, it was a good call.
Which is what I said.

Please keep your signature spam confined to gambling/ponzi/off-topic in the futre.
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To go with your analogy, "the amount of sunshine" is not "permanently cut in half by 50% overnight."
The amount of sunshine is still increasing, but increasing at a slower rate, TooDumbForBitcoin

1. If the buyer sells at a loss, it means he doesn't want to sell at a bigger loss. See all failed alt coins; see DAO; See Beanie Babies.
If your reasoning is sound, it should work for those too.
The buyer doesn't need to "continue for ever (he is out of business at some point)." He has unloaded his failed investment, minimized his losses, now it's the next guy's problem.

2. If the buyer sells for the same amount that he bought it for, it's called "using Bitcoin as money, as intended by Satoshi."

3. If the buyer never sells, the money spent on bitcoin is simply lost money, as good as flushed down the toilet.

No, but the buyer could. And his buyer could. And so on and so on.

About 20% lower hashrate, not quite 50%.
But the price also didn't double since then (that would be ~$800).
Well no.