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Once upon a time some great heads considered Bitcoin as big bubble so what? They went short. This led to massive liquidation only in upward direction by exchange power which is impregnable and shows the deal. Remember when crypto went show? Around 4,5k almost everyone were screaming sell and? They were right. Because it was plain short hunting, perhaps bankers(J.D.) fell into dellusional shorts below 3k and despite the fact if they closed yet or not ;> the propel lasted long.
So whats the thuth about Bitcoin?
At the beggining some raw facts: After passing $2000 Bitcoin started planning the real future. First of all They considered many backups, one of them is BCH - Bitcoin Cash. This split allowed them to work together at different brands, independently but on the same code. This ties them to each other if They like it or not - like in ETH+EOS+manymany others(excluding code migrations) - this makes power, not single shark. The other backups are just trusted nodes, and You my dear friends - The Holders. I do not talk there about trading, being holder means there a strong private key supplier,miner etc. or just a user.
Technically, We can see big compromise between BCH and BTC setting the support at $6000 and starting to develop BCH. With more swift partner the real buisness could began. First hurdle was obvious but harder to solve out - transaction costs. Obvious was that crypto are still in experiment phase, BTC's network refused to support high overload and transactions throttled what urged developers to dump the price. This is the reason for manipulation, to wipe out users so the team can clean, maintenance and prepare for next wave.
This is why I still don't see anything bad in Bitcoin
Bitcoin remains as beast. And I don't see any shades of weaknesses. Bart moves are so easy to paint? Let's draw hundreds! Wonderful. Still I like it. Makes sense and tells that owners are in control. This is why long term bullish view on Bitcoin and others top cryptocurrencies is reliable, although it could go beneath main support but rapid transfer to BCH would be too easy to fix for retailers, so every breakdown I would treat as big bear trap. But is Bitcoin able to hit new record highs? Since the 2018 year began, hash power started to rise. This means BTC could get more popular. Perhaps We are not yet ready to make me rich, but hey, numbers don't lie. Soon We could enter the field, where shorts start threaten whales. My advice is to look at exchange volume. Especially looking at non margin exchanges where small differences makes shape :) - BTW. Poloniex expands USDC - not margin. I assume that there are a lot of crypto holders ready to keep the price above $6000 by the exchange orders because They drive the market wisely and in my opinion, the perfect buisness plan would fit into 6-20k swings for upcoming months or years until We are ready for more.
This is the time You are no oracle. Price can spike or just crawl, but momentum is positive.
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