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RE: Cryptocurrency: the World-Changing Power of an Idea
Totally unreal! I love it lol
We blew through 10k like it was nothing. We have been blowing through bottle necks for the last 6 months. We had originally thought 5k would be the mark for end of year now we are looking at 13-15k end of year.
Its going to get real crazy come December 11th
Posted this elsewhere but relevant here:
When markets are understood, the idea that everyone can make money is not only inaccurate but impossible and laughable. Everyone making money means there is no market, because who would be taking the other side of the trade?
It is no mistake that individuals begin to like the same sorts of fashions that everyone is wearing. In a quest to change, the majority of society ends up changing together, moving towards similar desires and away from similar dislikes. Therefore, what the market is offering provides the exact thing that will lure the trader into the crowd.
For example, someone who has little experience investing wants to get involved because everyone else in their social circle is, ads are all over tv and even their nightly newscasters are talking a lot more about how the market is so good. In this environment you can be certain there will be lots of “helping hands” to welcome this investor to the crowd, teach them to be a part of the crowd and initiate them into the world of the blind leading the blind.
The market is unlikely to reverse to any significant degree until almost everyone is on one side. Which means almost everyone who joined that party late is going to lose. A bunch of people may just decide to wait, but so will the market. And if people are divided then the market will move in a ranging fashion.
People are the catalyst and without people to create an extreme the market won’t hit an extreme and reverse–remember the market does not act on its own, we…the people… are the market. In other words, the boom and bust cycles will not end. We progress and regress and then progress again.
Until almost everyone is in the trend, it won’t stop. The trend will keep going, enticing more people in, and when it reaches critical mass (which it can’t do without pretty much everyone on board) a reversal occurs. This change in fortune (for the worse) causes concern and then panic as a full reversal occurs. And as the mood of society continues to grow darker people feel more hopeless and give up fanciful notions of making money with crypto and so it will continue to drop.
In other words, the very thing which lures people in droves (big returns) ironically means that most of those people will be on the losing end of that exchange. In another ironic twist, when people clamor into the market all at once out of greed and a belief that a new era has begun, they bring about the exact opposite. @pawsdog
If we're talking specifically about speculative investors only, then your words hold true. Most markets aren't driven by a zero-sum game like you're illustrating here. They are a function of value creation and the exchange of that created value. In these kinds of value-creating exchanges, more wealth exists in the world after the transaction is completed. I think what we're seeing in the BTC trades now is a residual effect of the extreme levels of value that BTC brought to the table in the first place. We haven't reached saturation yet, so the zero sum game hasn't started yet, in which BTC becomes just a simple ledger and a great store of value.
I wish you could resteem a comment this is an awesome truth. Beautiful.
Thanks..... :)
Yep, I found truth in your words!
It does seem to be playing out, but this is not the big pullback.. this is nothing yet.. just an precursor of whats to come, a nice Bull Trap perhaps but on the small scale. Market is very very top heavy at the moment and we need some blood letting to put things back in perspective @pawsdog
I could also see this as the mythical whales testing the floor. Regardless I would see it as a warning sign to GTFO for a bit.. unless you are very experienced and want to play 15 or 30 minutes swings, or just like to gamble.
if you have a chance to talk about it- check out the mystery behind the real satoshi - this guy analyzed it all. really good.
https://steemit.com/bitcoin/@pangopango/szaboshi-nickamoto-a-clue-in-the-satoshi-nakamoto-mystery
I can't think about anything else at the moment either. I will celebrate tonight for sure