It sounds like you bought some and sold at a loss because you decided to let the market wrek you. I'm still hodling.
i did love the NYC BTC convention a few weeks ago where a bunch of kids in Lambos showed up
Bob it occurs to me you've missed the entirety of the human history. While I've thought you were alien to me, now I know you're just an alien. Get a grip on history. You think there is laundering with Bitcoin? Have you heard and or seen fiat before? You don't know money laundering until you see it legally institutionalized with banks... all day every day it's happening.
Is this current rally short-covering? A “dead cat” bounce? Finally exhausted sellers?
There is no way to know.
I do know that it is not possible to predict the price at which the sellers are finally exhausted. BTC has suffered a pretty horrific bear market for six months. But some of this rally surely is short-covering.
If BTC clears about 9,600 I think it likely is a real rally.
I have read from someone who is a real trader that he suspect internal re-arrangement before a big rally.
I will take that as an admission that you are unable to defend your sensationalist assertion that bitcoin is a "scam."
Agreed. Some people, for some reason, feel that bitcoin is a scam, but somehow fail to see that the dollar isn't backed up by anything real. Money is a reference, and only that. Value is determined by demand, which in the case of world currencies is often manipulated by banks or countries. Cryptocurrency may be the least manipulated of all. That's its very purpose for existence.
I think Bob made some bad trades. At this point I relish the thought that he got burned, as I am sick of him littering the forum complaining about Bitcoin. From here on I see no reason for FUD to be posted, the continual beratement; why not not post if you aren't contributing anything.
When Bitcoin is down it goes silent. The reality is it was the best time to buy Bitcoin miners and Bitcoin. But anything in the stock market is a risk, so is the crypto market. You didn't hear everyone that wasn't a trader or some thing talking about investing a lot in 2008, but in retrospect it was a great time to invest in a lot of companies.
The Crypto just moves way faster.