Damn the traders and the bitcoin community shorting and magnifying the instability of the price of bitcoin. It's not ​Chinese lawmakers or ​Jaime Dimon who brought volatility to the fair value of bitcoin but the community who behave like sharks lurking and waiting for their prey.
   Listening to @ToneVays and other technical analysts prophesying the top and dip, followed by trolls of Jaime Dimon added more volatility. Are we going to feed the trolls end game? How can we foster mainstream adoption when we don't further bitcoins purpose, a stable and reliable store of value that aims to transcend fiat currencies. 
  Bitcoin will not appeal to novice investors and nontechnical people or possibly engaged interest to new users if the space is in shambles. Will they see bitcoin as a safe haven to store their hard earned savings? NO. 
   Have you any idea at all how hard it is to introduce people to this space. You have no idea. How can I defend bitcoin if all they hear in the news is bitcoin "is a fraud", "is mania", is a scam", "it's a pyramid scheme", "it's in a bubble" . . . you have no clue.
   Let us stop the hate and show respect and be more responsive. When I first took notice of bitcoin I told myself it's so easy to make money from it's price fluctuation, sell high and buy low, just follow @ToneVays but my moral sense shunned me from engaging in such activity so I just held instead. Bottom sellers are being ridiculed and vilified. We have far too much bullying going on. "Life is a fight but not everyone is a fighter".
   Every ATH we owe to the new adopters choosing to hold. Respect at the least, is what is due, to the risk they took to be in bitcoin's ecosystem. Let us not be bitcoin trolls but defenders and genuine bitcoin ambassadors for change.
   Antonio Gramsei once said "The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born." Let's overcome these struggles. In the Philippines President Duterte won the 2016 election through unity and social media defeating the oligarchs who had ruled the Philippines for several decades.
  "Unity is strength when there is teamwork and collaboration, wonderful things can be achieved." - Mattie J. T. Stepanek

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Are we the greater fool or CNBC and the people/businesses they support are the greatest fool. I'm not a writer but I have to say what I feel, I've been wanting to... I'm responding to an article written by a CNBC staff @chengevelyn Bitcoin speculators are the new day traders. 

"The overall market value for cryptocurrencies has risen from $20 billion at the start of this year to above $110 billion, according to CoinMarketCap." 
 . . . Great 90 Billion for this year (2017) alone, incomprehensible, unimaginable, unheard-of, huh... so how about 2018, 2019, 2020, 2030, 2050 and beyond... crazy huh...

"As the stock market becomes increasingly expensive for ordinary investors — Apple and Facebook shares cost around $150 each — trading has heated up in bitcoin and other digital currencies. Bitcoin can be bought in fractions..... That makes it an easy target for speculation."
 . . . What a word to use "ordinary investors" great this "ordinary investor" never had second thoughts... no, not true... I did 10x, 100x, ... was willing to risk $1,500, $2,000, $2,700, $3,000, to get a bitcoin versus an increasingly expensive Apple and Facebook share of only $150... and people were/are still willing to risk $300, $330, $350 getting Ethereum after the Ethereum Flash Crash. 

"Bitcoin can be bought in fractions as low as one hundredth of a millionth, or about less than one-tenth of a cent at current prices. That makes it an easy target for speculation." 
 . . . "Easy target for speculators" ...hmmm really, so what do you call investors of IPO's, aren't they also speculating ... "The Snap IPO: Speculation Without (Board) Representation" ... (don't get me wrong here, I'm looking into getting some shares of SNAP) ... so what's the difference? Another interesting article to read, Start Up Lessons Learned: Some IPO speculation.

"During the dot-com ​euphoria of the late 1990s, ordinary investors piled into shares of young, unproven technology companies and the day-trading taxi driver symbolized the era. But this time ordinary investors are going elsewhere, says Ian Winer, head of equities at Wedbush."
 . . . Too much of the word ordinary,​ i'm hating this word now... it's like using "seldom".... and your English teacher scolds you for using it, though I never really understood why..... wait going back "taxi driver" really... taxi driver = ordinary investor = me... only because we're not sitting in a multimillion dollar office, wearing suits... this doesn't give us the right to do smart investing/wise choices....

""Rather than your average guy or gal buying tech stocks, they're buying bitcoin or ether," he said. "I see speculation all over the place. I just don't see it in the stock market."
 . . . Average guy = tech stocks = stock market, so what are we below average.... enough of your bullshit....

"Just three addresses had balances of more than 100,000 bitcoins, or roughly $275 million, each, according to data from BitcoinPrivacy. In contrast, 16.8 million addresses had 0.00001 bitcoin, or about 3 cents, the data showed."
 . . . YESSS and that 16.8 million+ addresses/people were given the chance to participate, citizens/countries like Nigeria, Zimbabwe, Argentina, Columbia, Lebanon, India, Indonesia, Philippines, Romania and the list goes on... yes citizens of these countries can now participate.... the 17.8, 17.6, 16.8 million addresses/people are probably miners in 3rd world countries who doesn't have the money/income  to buy these coins BTC, ETH, LTC, etc.... but thru mining are given the chance to participate.

"I definitely think more and more retail investors have gone into it," he said. "There is definitely a lot of fear of missing out." 
 . . . Yesss FOMO!!!   maybe it's true and this is exactly what's driving the price up ... no different than the stock market... but wait I did educated myself and it holds true to people I know who's starting to invest/consider it . . . and ​one thing this asset class has proven is its great community support... you can't deny it....
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​"Younger investors more likely to buy bitcoin rather than stocks"
 . . . True... when the Baby Boomers are gone w/c i'm part of, born 1964, the stock market, NYSE, Nasdaq, etc. will be forgotten, just like the banks will be....

​"The next generation is suffering from the same thing that the Gen Xers suffered in the dot-com bust," Winer said. "They're playing all kind of markets that they know nothing about." 
 . . . again maybe it's true..... so guys especially the Millennials, the Ethereum Facebook community and new BTC, ETH, LTC investors, be careful, do not trade on margin buy on the dip and HODL . . .
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"The difference is this time, typical measures of overexuberance may not apply to stocks." 
 . . . hmmm... you really had to add the word over... NO!!! I think ​citizens are tired of the global corruption in government!!! 
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​"However, sluggish global growth and easy central bank policy could limit investment returns, while people remain wary about stock markets after the financial crisis."
 . . . well they should be "wary", BTC/ETH/cryptocurrency investors are hedging against the coming financial crisis, just like the Gold/Silver investors are... which I am a part of (just added BTC/ETH/LTC to my hedge) but then I got frustrated and little did I know that they were also manipulating the price of Gold/Silver just like other assets they have control of.
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​"I do believe that in a market with few attractive alternatives, speculation tends to become rampant," said Daniel Alpert, a founding managing partner at Westwood Capital. "And it almost doesn't matter what people choose to speculate in, as long as they believe there is a fool greater than they out there somewhere." 
 . . . Yessss... right... we are all fools the only difference is these fools are waking up and soon you'll be following these fools..... FOMO!!!

  Just received my bitpay debit card but I'm not really sure on how to fund it. I had moved my bitcoin, ethereum and litecoin to a cold storage which my son help me moved. I'm using Trezor which I got from Amazon. I also printed my private key.
Initial investment $$$ (starting April 17 ending May 31). Holdings as of today BTC (0), ETH (0), LCN (0). End of Friday (4pm EST) value $$$. This is outrageous, this can't be real. ​I maybe wrong or I maybe right or stupid but as of Friday 6/9/17 I'm up $$$.
My Plan to get more BTC, ETH and LCN on a huge dip or when it starts to go down. At what levels BTC below $1,900, ETH below $130 and LCN below $23. I'm waiting to see what will happen close to August 1 2017. BTC might go down or it might start to take off, my best guest a lot of buyers are on the sideline and will panic buy after August 1, 2017.
I guess it's a very hard decision to make as of this day i only know of one person who also invested my sister. 
I also plan on getting physical silver in the near future.
I'm getting more info on some cryptocurrency, like Golem, Monero and Steemit. 
Good day guys! 1 BTC should be enough.