Your love is fading, I can feel your love fading, Gentlemen, it is fading away from me. Because your touch, your touch has grown cold, as if someone else controls your very soul. (Could it be Nyarlathotep?)

Disheartening.

You gentlemen completely restored my confidence; now I'm not worried at all

Exactly! We're probably going into 500s, but I'm OK with that

Thanks for the tip, OP, my longs just got liquidated @ $655.

Looks like it's shooting back down

>Roughly put, I would say that it is people who like dislike inflationary money.
So people who don't have a clue about economics, or why the world economy works exclusively on fiat currencies?

>there are other properties of bitcoin that some people might value, but I believe the 21M is the crux.
Feel free to invest in BBQ coin.
Or Beanies, for that matter. The value of both depends on artificial scarcity.

>not everybody lives in an English-speaking country
Sure. And that's why I see it as my noblesse oblige to educate the underprivileged.

P.S. New low hit as I type. How tragical

>somebody who is the opposite of bitcoin's economical values target audience
What's "bitcoin's economical values target audience"?
For that matter, what's "economical values"?
Did you mean "economical" as "like economic, but makes people giggle"? (Think using "tragical" in place of "tragic," e.g. "Bitcoin's tankening to $650 a few minutes ago was quite tragical.")

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Bitcoin enthusiasts stick it to The Man by alienating Big Business and needlessly making another enemy. More at 11.

^WTF was that? Why does the recorder app on my shitty phone have better production values than that ... whatever that is? Had speakers on, soon as that Benny Hill music kicked in at, like +20dB, panicked; tried to close the page, to get that helpful Clippy pop-up "are you sure you want to navigate from this page?" pop-up all the malware sites use.
Technologists! Why not at least put it up on YouTube?

Is there a TL;DR? Stupid woman says stupid things about stupid things?

Just the facts, Ma'am. I realize some parvenu douche serial entrepreneur and technologist Andreas M. Pumpendumpolos extolling the virtues of our digital gold is far more newsworthy, but I take the good with the bad

You seem to think bears are the opposite of holders, which they're not.
Real bears will do the opposite of what you think they do -- they *help* you pump the shit out of BTC, feed your mania, and only when your hysterical optimism crescendoes & BTC crests? That's the ideal entry point for shorts.

1. Never ask strangers from the internet for legal advice.
2. No, it's probably not legal, but without knowing which country you're from, it's hard to tell.
3. You'll probably be fine unless you run around in I <3 BTC T-shirts, and stopping people in the street to sell them your bitcoins.
4. Feel free to ignore (2) & (3), because (1)

Of course unregulated markets are manipulated, that's why anti-monopoly laws (i.e. intrusive government regulations interfering with free market) were created by adults NannyState in the first place.

The whole point of Bitcoin is to make it impossible for jackbooted statist thugs to interfere with the divine workings of teh Invisible Hand via threats of violence.
Bitcoin is working exactly as it was meant to, which is to say becoming a plaything of the rich expressing the will of the Economic Majority

"Gang" is such a loaded word. The miners are free to cooperate with each other and with exchange owners. No racketeering laws in Bitcoin, that's outmoded statist thinking.
If cooperation serves the miner's rational self-interest (maximizes their monetary profit$), that's what they should do.

It's sure isn't going according to what the Chinese miners thought was the the schedule.
But you're not wrong, so to speak.

Huh, looks like it's still happening.
Bitcoin Miners to Hardfork According to Circulating Rumors

Other than hodling impressive sums of BTC, what, precisely, could these people do?
I mean, they can tank the market price by dumping their coins (hurts them as much as it hurts anyone else), or order way too much pizza for the pool owners they don't like...
Anything else?

I remember something about zombies, orphans, children, orphan zombie children... I had to kill, but couldn't kill zombies...
*nix is creepy and depressing

@BlindMayorBitcorn: About 15 times. In my life (excluding stuff that I mentioned).

Are you telling me that years of whoring yourself out to gambling websites and shitting up this forum with signature spam has earned you the right to post off-topic replies & insult new users?
I respectfully disagree.

My forum rank is irrelevant. You and your alt may have been spamming up this forum for years, scratching out penny shavings (which you turn around and lose to the same gambling sites you pimp), but this don't turn your shit into Shinola.

Please stay on topic, or better still, delete your post and spam some other sub.