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  • Uh oh, a high US CPI inflation print. The global reserve currency is collapsing, good thing I have my Bit-

    Oh no.



    Nice selective timing you have there ser, very impartial. 

    "Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants."
  • hallmark
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    edited 14 October 2022 at 2:07PM
    It's noticeable that BTC has repeatedly dropped to 18.5k in the last 2-3 months and every time found decent support and rallied. It looks a little unnatural to me and I wonder if there are leveraged holders / institutions out there who are facing wipeout if crypto drops below a certain level and desperately buy to shore up the price whenever that seems likely. On the grounds that if they'll get wiped out anyway they don't have much to lose.

    This is total ill-informed speculation on my part but we know that the crypto world tends to be insanely leveraged and it does seem a little strange that it would keep finding support at that level.

    It was well-publicized that Microstrategy would be facing calls if BTC went below $21k and stayed there (which it has obviously) and it's fair to wonder how many others are in that same situation.
  • hallmark said:
    It's noticeable that BTC has repeatedly dropped to 18.5k in the last 2-3 months and every time found decent support and rallied. It looks a little unnatural to me and I wonder if there are leveraged holders / institutions out there who are facing wipeout if crypto drops below a certain level and desperately buy to shore up the price whenever that seems likely. On the grounds that if they'll get wiped out anyway they don't much to lose.

    This is total ill-informed speculation on my part but we know that the crypto world tends to be insanely leveraged and it does seem a little strange that it would keep finding support at that level.

    It was well-publicized that Microstrategy would be facing calls if BTC went below $21k and stayed there (which it has obviously) and it's fair to wonder how many others are in that same situation.
    There may be something to that, who knows. 

    The total addresses of people holding 0.1 bitcoin or more continues to go up every day and is well past all time highs, so I do think there are a lot of small time retail buyers buying whilst the price has taken quite a dip down (along with pretty much everything else you can put money into, except property...).

    "Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants."
  • "Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants."
  • So what was everyone's highlight of NFT.London? That Alessandro De Grandi talk was fire!!!!
  • "Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants."
  • hallmark
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    $15,737 currently.  You have to think there's an awful lot of leveraged positions / companies that won't be able to stand this level of falls very long.
  • MA260
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    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-63577783
    Binance walk away from FTX bailout. This is going tol ead to tighter regulation of Crypto Exchanges
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