Originally Posted by BWillie:
So I have like $2,000 worth of Bitcoin, just to mess around on this small poker site that ONLY takes Bitcoins just to mess around. Never really play on it, just bought some as a terrible idea of an investment. Ever since I bought it 9 months ago it appears to keep dropping.
What should I do? Sell or keep?
Hold it. Value is waaaay down. Wait for it it climb up a little bit then sell at a value you like.
Originally Posted by BWillie:
So I have like $2,000 worth of Bitcoin, just to mess around on this small poker site that ONLY takes Bitcoins just to mess around. Never really play on it, just bought some as a terrible idea of an investment. Ever since I bought it 9 months ago it appears to keep dropping.
What should I do? Sell or keep?
I would sell it immediately while you can still get a decent price. This thing has nowhere to go but down. I gave this same advice earlier in this thread when the price was around $800. [Reply]
Now if more and more places are accepting bitcoin but you're not seeing a noticeable increase in transactions, which direction do you think that bitcoin is more likely to move in? [Reply]
To be honest there is no real use case at the moment for an average American to use Bitcoin except as a purely speculative investment. That will change with time however as there is equal monies being pumped by VCs into Bitcoin startups as there were back in the early nineties for the Internet.
Now remittances in Mexico and Asia, the unbanked in Africa and as a store of value for Argentinians & Venezuelans. There is something to watch.
This thing is bigger than most can comprehend. I really recommend doing your homework, read the Satoshi whitepaper.
Now if more and more places are accepting bitcoin but you're not seeing a noticeable increase in transactions, which direction do you think that bitcoin is more likely to move in?
what direction does that graph look like its going to you? [Reply]
Originally Posted by Pawnmower:
what direction does that graph look like its going to you?
It's a noisy data series. Draw a trend line through the middle of it and you'll notice that despite more and more merchants accepting bitcoin, you're not seeing a commiserate increase in transactions which implies that it is still a niche thing and people are holding bitcoin with the expectation that they will go up instead of spending them. [Reply]
Originally Posted by KC native:
It's a noisy data series. Draw a trend line through the middle of it and you'll notice that despite more and more merchants accepting bitcoin, you're not seeing a commiserate increase in transactions which implies that it is still a niche thing and people are holding bitcoin with the expectation that they will go up instead of spending them.
your straight edge must be different than mine
I see a fairly noticeable upward trend from around 45k to 75k when you go thru the middle, and correct the outliers etc
by the way it seems on the surface to be signifigant since the graph EXCLUDES popular addresses (the exchanges etc) and so represents mainly small user transactions, apparently [Reply]