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Jean-Paul Shartre
Jan 16, 2015

this sentence no verb



You'd think all these folks would learn not to leave their money away from them...

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Scam Likely
Feb 19, 2021

steinrokkan posted:

The lower it drops the more people will be able to buy in

It's like trying to shovel a bunch of liquid poo poo out of a huge hole. You may be able to scoop some out, but it's so full of sloppy stinky fluid poo poo that it'll quickly resettle itself despite losing volume.

coolusername
Aug 23, 2011

cooltitletext
:argh: I’m about to sleep drat it, I want to see that 19 hit.

Another exchange just froze withdrawals https://babel.finance/article-views.html?id=50 Things are beginning to domino when it comes to exchanges, this is at least the third one going down the past couple of weeks (coinbase mass layoffs + celsius and babel both frozen) on top of ‘stablecoins’ like Luna imploding. If Tether starts really wobbling soon, the popcorn’s coming out.

Bleusilences
Jun 23, 2004

Be careful for what you wish for.

Someone has been kicking the bucket up once it reached some specified floor.

Right now I saw bitcoin kissed 20k to go back up to 20500 ish almost instantly.

I am really curious who are doing this, I would guess it's some miners?

Random Stranger
Nov 27, 2009



Cyrano4747 posted:

Another day, another 9 AM crash down $1000 for butts.

Seriously this is becoming regular.

I would have thought Friday was the day of rebound as idiots sink their paychecks in to buy the dip.

Cyrano4747
Sep 25, 2006

Yes, I know I'm old, get off my fucking lawn so I can yell at these clouds.

coolusername posted:

:argh: I’m about to sleep drat it, I want to see that 19 hit.

Another exchange just froze withdrawals https://babel.finance/article-views.html?id=50 Things are beginning to domino when it comes to exchanges, this is at least the third one going down the past couple of weeks (coinbase mass layoffs + celsius and babel both frozen) on top of ‘stablecoins’ like Luna imploding. If Tether starts really wobbling soon, the popcorn’s coming out.

Tether's going to be the absolute last one to fall. If that goes down it's all hosed. I expect to see a lot of other random crap coming before that crashes.

Vampire Panties
Apr 18, 2001
nposter
Nap Ghost
I wouldn't conflate Coinbase layoffs with frozen withdrawals on exchanges. Wells Fargo can layoff a buncha tellers while still being able to support a bank run.

notwithoutmyanus
Mar 17, 2009

Bleusilences posted:

Someone has been kicking the bucket up once it reached some specified floor.

Right now I saw bitcoin kissed 20k to go back up to 20500 ish almost instantly.

I am really curious who are doing this, I would guess it's some miners?

Could just be people with automated buys, $20k is a big mental number for people who want to see bitcoin go up so they probably put poo poo out there to auto-buy at 20k.

no_recall
Aug 17, 2015

Lipstick Apathy

coolusername posted:

:argh: I’m about to sleep drat it, I want to see that 19 hit.

Another exchange just froze withdrawals https://babel.finance/article-views.html?id=50 Things are beginning to domino when it comes to exchanges, this is at least the third one going down the past couple of weeks (coinbase mass layoffs + celsius and babel both frozen) on top of ‘stablecoins’ like Luna imploding. If Tether starts really wobbling soon, the popcorn’s coming out.

I want to believe.

WalletBeef
Jun 11, 2005

What's the best website to watch the butts fall?

frameset
Apr 13, 2008

WalletBeef posted:

What's the best website to watch the butts fall?

https://trade.kraken.com/charts/KRAKEN:BTC-USD?period=5m

kw0134
Apr 19, 2003

I buy feet pics🍆

Psychological support at price levels is a thing, even if it's fundamentally nonsensical. The flip side of technical analysis is that while it makes no sense if you dig into it, human psychology likes to see patterns and will act on it regardless. You see price floors on all sorts of instruments because people gravitate to round numbers.

nachos
Jun 27, 2004

Wario Chalmers! WAAAAAAAAAAAAA!
It’s been thrashing around 20-21k for the week since the big weekend drop. I would expected at least one big bounce back up to 25k or higher by now.

notwithoutmyanus
Mar 17, 2009

WalletBeef posted:

What's the best website to watch the butts fall?

Interesting/noisy/traditionally as degen as crypto?
https://aggr.trade/

Sombrerotron
Aug 1, 2004

Release my children! My hat is truly great and mighty.

notwithoutmyanus posted:

Without turning into a ghostty bullshit scenario, we're basically looking at a bullish rsi divergence on 4h for btc & eth based on the CME chart and there are gaps above us (27k, 35k) that may fill in the process. So yeah. I'm not really doing special technicals, just the same poo poo people use on anything else.

Thus - it's possible to see 27k, maybe 29 for a perfect tap of technical resistance (4H 200ma) and then down to 12. We could see 18k before this happens as well.

Scratch Monkey
Oct 25, 2010

👰Proč bychom se netěšili🥰když nám Pán Bůh🙌🏻zdraví dá💪?

notwithoutmyanus posted:

Interesting/noisy/traditionally as degen as crypto?
https://aggr.trade/

Ha when a trade over $1 million happens the background image is

Cyrano4747
Sep 25, 2006

Yes, I know I'm old, get off my fucking lawn so I can yell at these clouds.


I like this one better, you can select which exchange to watch. Coinbase has an order of magnitude more volume than the other exchanges, so it's the one I eyeball.

https://bitcointicker.co/coinbase/btc/usd/24hr/

Scam Likely
Feb 19, 2021

Bleusilences posted:

Someone has been kicking the bucket up once it reached some specified floor.

Right now I saw bitcoin kissed 20k to go back up to 20500 ish almost instantly.

I am really curious who are doing this, I would guess it's some miners?

I'm assuming they're propping BTC prices up with Brawl Star Gems, but when those run out they'll use Candy Crush Gold Bars, and when those run out they'll prop it up with Catan Sheep, Wheat, Wood, Brick and Stone. When those run out they'll switch to Ultima Online Gold. If that runs out they'll prop it up with Scrabble pieces, or failing that,, Monopoly Money. When that runs out they'll use Connect 4 pieces, Call of Duty points or Hungry Hippos marbles. And when those run out...

Bleusilences
Jun 23, 2004

Be careful for what you wish for.

It's like a 6 year old trying to buy candies with whatever they have in their pocket.

Fabricated
Apr 9, 2007

Living the Dream

tpink
Feb 18, 2013

Melman
https://www.wsj.com/articles/celsius-is-crashing-and-crypto-investors-are-spooked-11655371801


quote:

Celsius Is Crashing, and Crypto Investors Are Spooked


A few months ago, Mike Washburn’s cryptocurrency investment looked like a winner. Now he’s just hoping to get his money back.

Mr. Washburn, a 35-year-old plumber in Otsego, Minn., had $100,000 in an account at Celsius Network LLC, one of the largest lenders in the cryptocurrency world. Recently widowed, Mr. Washburn said he and his two children moved in with his parents, and he planned to buy a house with his savings. The Celsius account offered him yield higher than would a traditional bank account, and the company was well-known in the crypto community.

On Sunday evening, though, Celsius said it was no longer allowing customers to withdraw cash from their accounts. On Tuesday night, The Wall Street Journal reported that Celsius hired restructuring attorneys to help handle its mounting financial problems.

Now, Mr. Washburn is anxiously waiting to hear what happens to his account.

“If I don’t ever see that money again, it will set me and my children back by years,” Mr. Washburn said.

...

Matt Novak, 35, of Sacramento, Calif., first became concerned over the weekend when he had trouble logging into his Celsius account. He tried again a few hours later with no luck.

Mr. Novak said his crypto investments in his Celsius account, about 5% in bitcoin and the rest in the cryptocurrency Polygon, represented about 60% of his retirement funds. They were worth about $93,000 early last week but were down to about $28,000 earlier this week, he said.

Mr. Novak, who runs a mortgage-marketing firm, said he was attracted by the 17.5% rate of return offered on his Polygon deposits at Celsius at that time. Before this week’s crypto meltdown he estimated he had gained at least 50% on his initial investment.

“Looking back, it seems too good to be true,” he said.


Gee, ya think? :psyduck:

CannonFodder
Jan 26, 2001

Passion’s Wrench

coolusername posted:

We’ve got bitcoin all wrong, guys. We thought it was a horrible scam, but

:actually:

“The degenerate economist”
A man in a tweed jacket with leather elbow patches doing blow off the rear end of a high priced prostitute and grunting out “Von Moses” as he actuates his potential over her back.

Orvin
Sep 9, 2006





No thinking allowed. Only number up.

Hyrax Attack!
Jan 13, 2009

We demand to be taken seriously

Lol even Madoff was doing a better job of allowing withdrawals to keep up appearances right up until the end.

Klyith
Aug 3, 2007

GBS Pledge Week

lmao that a guy who runs a finance-related company looks at 17.5% interest and says "this is totally above-board and not a ponzi"


an ideal case for the Matt Levine Certificate of Dumb Investment regulations

KakerMix
Apr 8, 2004

8.2 M.P.G.
:byetankie:
People are profoundly ignorant holy poo poo

Bogus Adventure
Jan 11, 2017

More like "Bulges Adventure"
Regardless what happens, there is one thing that we all know is true:

This is good for bitcoin

FCKGW
May 21, 2006

WalletBeef posted:

What's the best website to watch the butts fall?

https://buttcoin.club

Wayback
Aug 16, 2004


I'm made of metal
My circuits gleam
I am perpetual
I keep the country clean
So seems like these guys are currently helping prop it up, as opposed to Tether this time:

https://twitter.com/usdcoinprinter/status/1537770849901715456?t=Jg5R0UN2mvqRoHZC5e24pQ&s=19

HappyHippo
Nov 19, 2003
Do you have an Air Miles Card?
"Technical" "Analysis":

notwithoutmyanus posted:

it could go up or down

HappyHippo
Nov 19, 2003
Do you have an Air Miles Card?

Wayback posted:

So seems like these guys are currently helping prop it up, as opposed to Tether this time:

https://twitter.com/usdcoinprinter/status/1537770849901715456?t=Jg5R0UN2mvqRoHZC5e24pQ&s=19

Meanwhile tether redeemed another .8 billion last night

Vampire Panties
Apr 18, 2001
nposter
Nap Ghost

Wayback posted:

So seems like these guys are currently helping prop it up, as opposed to Tether this time:

https://twitter.com/usdcoinprinter/status/1537770849901715456?t=Jg5R0UN2mvqRoHZC5e24pQ&s=19

gently caress YES

Earlier itt, I had compared Coinbase laying off employees akin to Wells Fargo laying off tellers. I was real, real loving wrong there. Coinbase gonna blow UP




:discourse: this is good for Bitcoin :discourse:

WhiteHowler
Apr 3, 2001

I'M HUGE!

Wayback posted:

So seems like these guys are currently helping prop it up, as opposed to Tether this time:

https://twitter.com/usdcoinprinter/status/1537770849901715456?t=Jg5R0UN2mvqRoHZC5e24pQ&s=19

I am blissfully ignorant of how any of this works (other than "crypto is a scam"), but... how does "printing" more coins work and what is it supposed to do?

I mean, in the real world, a government could just print more money, but it would effectively devalue all existing currency, rather than pumping it up... right?

steinrokkan
Apr 2, 2011



Soiled Meat
Can somebody explain to me, a luddite, what's the point of a crypto coin pegged to the dollar?

Astrochicken
Aug 13, 2007

So you better go back to your bars, your temples
Your massage parlors!

"assets with equivalent fair value" you say?

punishedkissinger
Sep 20, 2017

steinrokkan posted:

Can somebody explain to me, a luddite, what's the point of a crypto coin pegged to the dollar?

casino chips, except you cant actually exchange them for dollars

Mercury_Storm
Jun 12, 2003

*chomp chomp chomp*

steinrokkan posted:

Can somebody explain to me, a luddite, what's the point of a crypto coin pegged to the dollar?

It lets you buy more bitcoin to prop up the price with something that is not actually real and actually created out of thin air, and I think people are making a big assumption that USDC is not just as fraudulent as Tether, despite their claims

steinrokkan
Apr 2, 2011



Soiled Meat

punishedkissinger posted:

casino chips, except you cant actually exchange them for dollars

Oh so when you want to trade bitcoins or sell bitcoins you don't get dollars, you get MegaValue Family Funbucks? And a promise that each Funbucks is actually covered by a real dollar (no you can't see the dollar)

That's kinda genius in how blatantly evil it is

ikanreed
Sep 25, 2009

I honestly I have no idea who cannibal[SIC] is and I do not know why I should know.

syq dude, just syq!

WhiteHowler posted:

I am blissfully ignorant of how any of this works (other than "crypto is a scam"), but... how does "printing" more coins work and what is it supposed to do?

I mean, in the real world, a government could just print more money, but it would effectively devalue all existing currency, rather than pumping it up... right?

In spite of claims of decentralized control, virtually all stable coin Blockchains are owned by specific entities and they can give more money invented from thin air to anyone they want.

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dsf
Jul 1, 2004
Bitcoin will most likely bounce back a bit before the next leg down below 20k (probably around the same time the "real" stock market has a chance to recover and consolidate a bit) barring anything crazy like tether getting completely de-pegged. Crypto shills will be sure to use the intervening time to draw ridiculous charts and try to get as many people as possible back in to 'buy the dip!!!'

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