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Old 14th June 2019, 03:23 PM   #81
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Originally Posted by psionl0 View Post
Why did you post that link?

The only relevent thing there was
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consisting of, containing, covered with, or soaked with liquid (such as water)
which shows water is not wet.

Oh, unless you were agreeing with me sorry.
Thx for confirming water is not wet with your link.

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Old 14th June 2019, 08:27 PM   #82
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Originally Posted by p0lka View Post
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consisting of, containing, covered with, or soaked with liquid (such as water)
which shows water is not wet.
Water does not consist of water?
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Old 15th June 2019, 08:45 AM   #83
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Water does not consist of water?
well **** me, how did I miss that? I even quoted it. What the hell was I drinking

I could argue that it doesn't count though as it's an american dictionary, but I won't.
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Old 15th June 2019, 12:57 PM   #84
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Originally Posted by p0lka View Post
well **** me, how did I miss that? I even quoted it. What the hell was I drinking
I'm guessing it wasn't water.

Originally Posted by p0lka View Post
I could argue that it doesn't count though as it's an american dictionary, but I won't.
My main point was that it depends on the dictionary you use. For example, the OXFORD dictionary says, "Covered or saturated with water or another liquid". A nit-picker might try to argue that water is not "saturated" with water but I don't see that argument holding water.

At the end of the day, argument by dictionary is not particularly helpful.
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Old 16th June 2019, 08:48 AM   #85
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Old 16th June 2019, 08:07 PM   #86
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Originally Posted by The_Animus View Post
$9220
It's still "meh". Once it breaks the $10,000 barrier and stays there we might have something comment worthy (not that there is any reason to believe that this is imminent).
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Old 17th June 2019, 04:43 AM   #87
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Why at 10k and not let's say 9k ?
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Old 17th June 2019, 09:24 AM   #88
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Originally Posted by Dr.Sid View Post
Why at 10k and not let's say 9k ?
Because a jump from $7700 to $9000 is minuscule by bitcoin standards.
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Old 18th June 2019, 04:50 AM   #89
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Millennials are buying digital assets rather than stocks and bonds.
They are fools, and we should all remind them of how fools and their money go their separate ways.

Bitcoin has peaked in this rally in my humble opinion.
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Old 21st June 2019, 05:43 PM   #90
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Originally Posted by Samson View Post
Bitcoin has peaked in this rally in my humble opinion.
As usual, you have mistimed the peak. Now past the $10K barrier.
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Old 22nd June 2019, 01:10 AM   #91
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As usual, you have mistimed the peak. Now past the $10K barrier.
Yes fooled again.
Maybe not alone
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Old 22nd June 2019, 01:47 AM   #92
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Originally Posted by Samson View Post
Yes fooled again.
Maybe not alone
A few days ago I said that there wasn't any reason to believe that crossing the $10K barrier was imminent. So my magic 8 ball is no more reliable than yours.
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Old 22nd June 2019, 04:08 AM   #93
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It's all possible thank to me not buying
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It is possible we are obstinately refusing to make the easiest money in the history of money. As a conscientious objector I will be staunch.
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Old 25th June 2019, 10:15 AM   #95
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Yes fooled again.
I believe a pattern is emerging.

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It is possible we are obstinately refusing to make the easiest money in the history of money.
Waddaya mean "we", white man?
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Old 25th June 2019, 03:17 PM   #96
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Waddaya mean "we", white man?
A few on the thread confess to being not long bitcoin. Environmentalists and suchlike.
It appears that miners are natural sellers, and many others are HODLs.
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Old 29th June 2019, 03:34 AM   #97
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The technical picture for the most evil monetary enterprise in human history looks particularly bleak.

6000 first stop on the path to oblivion.
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Old 29th June 2019, 10:00 AM   #98
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The technical picture for the most evil monetary enterprise in human history looks particularly bleak.

6000 first stop on the path to oblivion.
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Keep predicting penny dreadful, path to oblivion, etc. for long enough and your technical analysis guessing will eventually be right.

Just as a broken clock will eventually be right about the time.
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Old 29th June 2019, 11:26 AM   #99
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The technical picture for the most evil monetary enterprise in human history looks particularly bleak.

6000 first stop on the path to oblivion.
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10.000th times the charm?
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Old 29th June 2019, 04:29 PM   #100
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The technical picture for the most evil monetary enterprise in human history looks particularly bleak.
With your track record, maybe we should be taking michaelsuede seriously.
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Old 30th June 2019, 03:49 PM   #101
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Keep predicting penny dreadful, path to oblivion, etc. for long enough and your technical analysis guessing will eventually be right.

Just as a broken clock will eventually be right about the time.
I hold the view there is infinite supply of crypto currency, and divide any number by infinity to get to zero.
Has there ever been a commodity with infinite supply in history?

No says the 8 year old.

And this distribution pattern we currently see is at a perfect retracement level.

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Old 30th June 2019, 06:57 PM   #102
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I hold the view there is infinite supply of crypto currency, and divide any number by infinity to get to zero.
No you don't. You already know that 21M is the hard limit.

You just believe that because bitcoin is "evil", any BS will do if it talks the price down.
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Old 1st July 2019, 12:48 AM   #103
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No you don't. You already know that 21M is the hard limit.

You just believe that because bitcoin is "evil", any BS will do if it talks the price down.
There is no limit for numbers of cryptocurrencies, just imagination.
Mine is to be called Samsonite.
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There is no limit for numbers of cryptocurrencies, just imagination.
Do you really think that you can pretend that this crap hasn't been rebutted time and time again?

There is no shortage of metals either but that didn't stop you being bullish on gold.
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Do you really think that you can pretend that this crap hasn't been rebutted time and time again?

There is no shortage of metals either but that didn't stop you being bullish on gold.
That is the interesting proposition, that aggregating piles of compost creates a new truth. It is irrelevant your debunking claims, they always confront the brick wall of infinity.
There is a restricted supply of everything on this planet, excepting creators of crypto currencies.
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Wow, 11,000 now.
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Wow, 11,000 now.
Is that high or low??

This particular pattern has completed the algorithm I tried to help psion and co on my technical analysis threads.
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That is the interesting proposition, that aggregating piles of compost creates a new truth.
No matter how many piles of compost you create, you are definitely not creating any new truths.
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Wow Yawn, 11,000 now.
ftfy.

Down from nearly 14,000 last week.
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Indeed, the show is over. For another year ?
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Indeed, the show is over. For another year ?
Why? Have you bought some now?
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I did here and then. Managed to avoid the biggest drop. Anyway, over that about 300% increase during these last months I made about minus 5%.
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I did here and then. Managed to avoid the biggest drop. Anyway, over that about 300% increase during these last months I made about minus 5%.
You better hold onto them if you don't want the price to jump back up again.
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Nah I think I'm really not suited for daily trading. I see patterns where they are not.
Maybe waiting for another winter ? That time when both prices and activity is low for months .. then buy, wait for next craze. Even if you'd sell after it crashes you would still make tons.
Or maybe it's just another fake pattern ..
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Nah I think I'm really not suited for daily trading. I see patterns where they are not.
You're not the only one. This thread is full of "experts" on bitcoin price movements.

The truth is that nobody knows what will happen next. Even though in the long run, most buyers who held on to what they bought have made a large paper profit, that situation could change any time between now and infinity.
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This woman Caitlin Long explains that bitcoin is systemically stable but not price stable, the antithesis of fiat currency. Is she making sense?
Probably, strong credentials, but she looks like an insider with vested interests.
I think of bitcoin as a bloke's coin, interesting to see a glamour girl weigh in.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/caitlin.../#7a31f03488b8
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I hold the view there is infinite supply of crypto currency, and divide any number by infinity to get to zero.
Has there ever been a commodity with infinite supply in history?
I suppose the US Dollar will be hitting zero soon, being there's an infinite supply of fiat currency.

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I think of bitcoin as a bloke's coin, interesting to see a glamour girl weigh in.
Just when I thought things couldn't get any stupider...
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"I think bitcoin is easily going to take out its all-time highs," Tom Lee, research chief at Fundstrat Global Advisors, said last week on CNBC, saying the digital currency could potentially run as high as US$40,000 if conditions stay favorable. "We're deep into a bull market."

hahahahahahaha

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Dropped below $10,000 in the past hour.
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Dropped below $10,000 in the past hour.
Let bitcoin never be dull
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