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*Hellacious. Yes, it certainly has been. I remember a long winter after Steemit was just getting started where my earnings dropped below 1SBD per post on average and I think I was making perhaps $80 per month. 

I seriously considered quitting. But sticking at it set me up to reap the rewards last winter during that insane surge. Enduring one dry spell gives you the confidence you need to endure another.

I predict that the price of bitcoin will always go up... relative to zero.

Well, no, i take that back, technical analysis is analyzing charts from an exchange.  The rottin exchanges have a good chance of going to zero, and then the chart will be useless for charting, well because its dead.

Its so funny how the youtube shills have gone into hiding since december a few of them have tried to keep it going but eventually fell off and are all waiting for things to pick up so they can give us more botched technical analysis 

Honestly no one can predict where the price is going but statistically, the bear run cannot go on forever, in terms of when it will reverse no one really knows we all just hanging on and increasing our stakes. 

I just hope with the market bleeding cash we see more shitcoins and rubbish ICO's belly up so we can consolidate those funds into larger coins that are actually planning to be useful

Hey Brian, come visit my ranch near Cat Mountain, in the Saguoro Narional Monumnet. You can see my amazing cactus blossom photos here on Steemit. Do you have a girlfriend? I got 2 responses either: Does she have any cute friendss, or ... I need a wingman. Kind of a known dude in the Casino Del Sol poker room.

good post boss i think the market will reverse anytime... only time will tell

# Sell your votes https://steemit.com/news/@bible.com/6h36cq# Sell your votes https://steemit.com/news/@bible.com/6h36cq

I don't know what to think these days. To be honest, nobody really gives a shit about these coins if the price isn't going up. Now that bitcoin lost its hype, no one gives a shit about p2p electronic payment systems.

What can really be a catalyst for growth in cryptocurrencies is a severe scandal in the financial sector. If people are investing in coins in order to become rich or sell it at a higher price, it just goes to show that our existing financial system is adequate for most people in the world. Investing in bitcoin so that you can sell it for more USD is a statement that fiat currencies are more valuable than these coins.

@boxmining has posted several videos in the past about Steemit. I am not sure if he does these days cause I don't follow him but he is somebody that I think is reliable too.

I'm just focusing on myself and my own skills. I don't look at the charts too often anymore. My gut is telling me that we probably won't see growth for a while and it is best for me to just build other streams of income and improve on my skills.

Thank you sir good informatin is bitcoin.Thank you @brianphobos![U5drx_NFe_Q4_Nn_YGEb9rq2_V47_X6_Yk_AQsm.gif](https://cdn.steemitimages.com/DQmd4xRNdBUMmxjmjMeKMuuBeAnDjhvXZsmXFJWak479T8g/U5drx_NFe_Q4_Nn_YGEb9rq2_V47_X6_Yk_AQsm.gif)

Price isn't a good metric for what is going on the cryptosphere right now.  The trouble was it got inflated so much in December/January that people thought that was the baseline.  ERROR!

Looking at charts, the price is still roundabout where it should be if there wasnt the anomaly of Dec/Jan uber-pump.  

What is really promising is that a lot of projects - Bitcoin, Ethereum, Monero, IOTA, etc, etc - have put there heads down, kept developing their projects and infrastructure, and improving the overall ecosystem.

Sooner or later, these projects are gonna be easy to use, secure and increasingly scalable.  Then adoption will creep up.  Regulatory issues are slowly becoming cleaer.  Then more big money will start to pour back in.

@brianphobos I Trust EOS San Diego and I listen to his nightly videos about EOS and being POSITIVE...............Kent seems like a Good Guy and I like how he puts things into perspective and I am also looking forward to the $100 per Token EOS party at the Del Coronado in San Diego...........
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aIMI9weIV7w

You! I trust YOU! :p

>Manbabies. If someone doesn't have any bills to pay then their how theories on when to buy and sell aren't relevant. Obviously it would be easy to HODL if you have no bills.

Don't know if I fall into this category or not.  Back in 2008 I sold off most of what I owned because of the financial crash so I could continue to run my [software business](http://www.astrology-x-files.com).  I managed to get my bills under $800 / month.  However this decision left me homeless (I was in Las Vegas, NV area at the time).  In late 2009 I was forced into bankruptcy and because I was unsure how this would affect my business arrangements, it was around early 2010 when I first encountered bitcoin.  I was too immersed in my own software projects at the time so I thought it was just another PayPal and didn't investigate further, but a few hundred dollars invested in bitcoin then would have set me up for life.

The situation taught me how to live far below my means and I continue to do this to this day even though it's no longer necessary for me to do.  Bitcoin encourages a saving mentality, but because fiat feels like it evaporates in your hands, you want to spend it for something that holds value.  Now I'm semi-retired because of a company pension I was vested into for over 20 years and have been using the dips to buy more crypto.  I become eligible for social security in 2023 just about when the government is likely to say they have no money left.

I'm thinking longer term here.  This technology isn't going away.  I think we're seeing attempts at mass adoption.  What happened late last fall and the current aftermath seems to be like what happened in 2014 - 2016.  I have reason to believe that the next adoption attempt will be 2020 - 2021.  If the technology still isn't ready to scale, then it will drop back like it's doing now, but probably at a much higher price (maybe 10x what it is now, just as we are 10x from what it was in 2013 - 2014.  An 87% correction (about $2500 / bitcoin) as Tone Vays says wouldn't surprise me, but it won't stay down for very long.

My sense of time is not what it used to be.  Seems like everything is going by so fast.  Months pass like days.