The Hidden Implications of #bitcoin’s Overnight Price-Jump
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Just before bedtime, I did what no sane human should do.I checked Twitter.Marty Bent, one of my #Bitcoin follows, had posted an oblique-but-positive meme-tweet about Bitcoin’s price doing…something.I checked Coindesk and saw BTC’s price climbing a wall — and then spent the next 30 minutes meth-addict toggling between Twitter and the crypto-charts, watching numbers spike up from 8% to 13% to almost 20%. I felt that sweet glumness of simultaneously being happy the market was turning and wishing I’d bought more Bitcoin during the doldrums.Luckily for my dependents, I know nothing about trading except that I’m far too emotional for it. So — rather than late night FOMO-buying — I scrolled through a sufficient number of OMG-gifs on twitter, then went to bed.By morning, the dust had (semi) settled...There (...)
