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I  agree Steven. It still  could  and with  good  reason  IMO.
 So you  view  it as a hedge  against  the  dollar ?   I can  see  that but  I   think  there are  better hedges  with  much less  volatility.
A little volatility today lol. There is only one true hedge against the dollar. My biggest gear in cryptos is governments and central banks. 
 "Gold is money, everything else is just credit" JP Morgan
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LOL  Yeah  just a bit  of  vol  !!
 
 
 
 Yep  I  think  the   biggest  liability  is  political
Can't help but wonder how much Elon's statement affected this  cryptos overall are down 9% over 24hrs |  |  |  
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LOL  Yeah  just a bit  of  vol  !!
 
 
 
 Yep  I  think  the   biggest  liability  is  political
Can't help but wonder how much Elon's statement affected this  cryptos overall are down 9% over 24hrs0% The media has a horrible need to ascribe reason for market movements. 
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Been looking for articles all day and finally this pops up...  Bitcoin falls below $54,000 as derivatives positions worth over $1 billion are liquidatedby Yogita Khatri
 February 22, 2021, 7:55AM EST  ·  1 min read
 
 The price of bitcoin has fallen below $54,000 from nearly $58,500 on Sunday as derivatives positions worth more than $1 billion get force liquidated by crypto exchanges.
 
 About $1.50 billion worth of open interest was liquidated by crypto exchanges in the last 24 hours, according to tracker Bybt.com. In other words, crypto exchanges liquidated traders' overleveraged positions.
 
 Traders overleverage, or trade on margin, thinking that bitcoin's price would go up and they would benefit more. But when bitcoin's price goes below the liquidation price of their positions, exchanges force liquidate or close their positions because traders cannot fulfill margin requirements of their leveraged positions.
 
 "In the past weeks, a lot of accumulation on the long side happened, so traders should expect such correction events," Bitfinex CTO Paolo Ardoino told The Block, adding that such corrections are "normal."
 
 Most of the liquidations occurred on Binance, followed by Huobi and Bybit. While in terms of crypto assets, bitcoin positions formed most liquidations, followed by ether (ETH) and XRP.
 
 Bitcoin is currently trading at around $53,400, according to tracker TradingView. Meanwhile, ETH is trading at about $1,775.
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Been looking for articles all day and finally this pops up...  Bitcoin falls below $54,000 as derivatives positions worth over $1 billion are liquidatedby Yogita Khatri
 February 22, 2021, 7:55AM EST  ·  1 min read
 
 The price of bitcoin has fallen below $54,000 from nearly $58,500 on Sunday as derivatives positions worth more than $1 billion get force liquidated by crypto exchanges.
 
 About $1.50 billion worth of open interest was liquidated by crypto exchanges in the last 24 hours, according to tracker Bybt.com. In other words, crypto exchanges liquidated traders' overleveraged positions.
 
 Traders overleverage, or trade on margin, thinking that bitcoin's price would go up and they would benefit more. But when bitcoin's price goes below the liquidation price of their positions, exchanges force liquidate or close their positions because traders cannot fulfill margin requirements of their leveraged positions.
 
 "In the past weeks, a lot of accumulation on the long side happened, so traders should expect such correction events," Bitfinex CTO Paolo Ardoino told The Block, adding that such corrections are "normal."
 
 Most of the liquidations occurred on Binance, followed by Huobi and Bybit. While in terms of crypto assets, bitcoin positions formed most liquidations, followed by ether (ETH) and XRP.
 
 Bitcoin is currently trading at around $53,400, according to tracker TradingView. Meanwhile, ETH is trading at about $1,775.
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This is why the "crypto" narrative gets pushed so much. The exchanges, VC's, shatcoin insiders, etc want clueless retail "traders" swapping 100 useless tokens, with leverage so they can reap max profit. 99.99% of people have no business trading.  Very few VC's and insiders profit from the super simple and time proven "dollar cost average buys of bitcoin only and hold your own keys" - Yet nothing in the "crypto" (cringe) space has been (or will be IMO) better than this strategy. |  |  |  
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If any of you think the stock market is any different your kidding yourself. Right. Imagine how silly our monetary system is that it requires us to prop up mega-corperations that hate our lifestyles and politics in order to preserve our wealth. |  |  |  
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Watch and see, XRP and XLM is going to create a bunch of millionaires in the coming years 
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Watch and see, XRP and XLM is going to create a bunch of millionaires in the coming yearsWell i hope it goes up, I bought a little XLM at .45 and a few more at .55. think ill buy a little while its in the 30's just so i can make up my loss. Maybe one day it will be worth a couple bucks a piece. I figure it wont hurt to gamble a couple hundred bucks. wish i had some when it was a couple cents a share. |  |  |  
 
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