Rats leaving the sinking ship?

If it was them, and obviously I'm speculating, then they could dump it so hard and so fast that no one in their right mind would want to touch it after that, especially the long term holders who would have just taken the bath of their lives.

That would be 1 sanario but the other more likely sanario would be buyers flooding the market that the fed wouldnt be able to keep up with buyers
 
The thing that scares me about bitcoin is apparently 80% of the coins are held in a minority of wallets and no one knows who owns them. If, let's say, the fed have been buying them all up, then they can crush that market whenever they want.
I would actually love for the FED to have some. Think about how convenient it would be when some sort of peg to bitcoin is announced and the FED magically already has a stash. Then if other central banks don't have any, once again, the US is on top in terms of reserve currency status, since they would have a truckload.

Yes, price can drop when a big player starts selling. It probably only takes a few thousand coins to drop price thousands of dollars, but if you believe in the future of bitcoin, then it would be a foolish thing to do as now you've gotten rid of your asset to manipulate the price, and when it slowly climbs back up again, the regret of selling will be strong. I guess if bitcoin is going to 20k, it makes sense to sell some now and buy back in, but if everyone is just hoping to buy lower, the mother of all rallies will happen.
 
I don't understand why crytpos are risky assets. Can you elaborate on that?

I was told that Bitcoin was going to the moon and its real price should be 300k, what has changed to consider them risky assets?
It is risk off, risk on meaning when volatility index is high like now, that is risk off for many people, IMHO bitcoin is riskier than FANG stocks, MSFT, AAPL, AMZN, etc going to zero is not plausible, while I cannot say the same of something that produces no cash flow, no dividends and backed by only what others are willing to pay at the moment.
 
This is poor man thinking.

The rich don't care about the price of eggs in the shops or how much it costs to fill up a tank.
They care about asset price inflation, that is the type of inflation they want to keep up with or beat.

For them cash is king when asset prices are falling.
Yes, but you need to change your name to Billionaire if you wish to take this attitude. Now being a millionaire is not that comfy as to say, 10-20 millions? Just look at prices of Real Estate.
 
As you can see this is just normal market behavior. And if everyone expects an 80% dump then most likely it will not go as low. The people getting scared and selling are making this a self fullfilling prophecy.

Crypto haters, this is your time to shine and buy at low prices. This is a chance to stop being losers the rest of your lives. Lets make some money!

This was my bitcoin call in January....

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Any informed opinion of what is going on?

Nasdaq tech-wreck continues, surprisingly BTC/ETH is far less volatile, which is quite a new change. However, much of the paper-hands have already left the ship, hence the blue-chip cryptos have only slowly sold off as holders either try to sell enough to meet margin calls on tech-stocks, or snatch up some of the equity fire-sales.

I am hoping that US equities continue to crash to smithereens next week, hence ETH will sell off some more, and then we can load-up the truck again.

Last time I got too greedy waiting for ETH to hit 2200-2400 range again, but instead it shot right back up to 3K after only getting close. Doh!!!!

Trying to time markets is not so easy. With my luck equities will be in a bull-market again next week and there goes the current-opportunity.






 
Yes, but you need to change your name to Billionaire if you wish to take this attitude. Now being a millionaire is not that comfy as to say, 10-20 millions? Just look at prices of Real Estate.

I am poor :(:(
When i created this ET profile in 2009, I had 1 million USD cash in my IB accounts mostly from trading profits during the crash of 2008. Easiest trading markets ever.I paid 20% in tax, spent 40%, and lost 20% back by 2013. Left with just 20%. No more millionaire status :(. If i include my house i am still a millionaire, but it is not the $1 million liquid cash in the bank status that i once had.
 
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