Trending Bitcoin News and Market Sentiment, January 7th, 2020: McAfee BackTracks on $1M Bitcoin, Major Bull Signal Appears
发布时间：2020-01-08 09:17:41 发布人：TokenString
Bitcoin continues to flex its financial muscle today, picking up from where it left off yesterday just below USD 7,600 to record a new high so far at USD 7,995 as buyers in Europe look to testing USD 8,000 (CoinDesk) resistance in the next few hours.
The Americas responded rather well to yesterday’s beckonings, as did Asia earlier today in maintaining momentum, with a new support level looking to form up at USD 7,500. However, optimism will likely still be held in check, at least until current prices hold strong for at least a week.
Despite the short term outlook improving, and with Bitcoin halving due to come in May, not all Bitcoin bulls are convinced that their former price predictions will come true. We wrote yesterday about the Twitter wargoing on between Civic CEO Vinny Lingham and crypto influencer Ronnie Moas, over the latter’s failure to keep his side of a USD 28,000 Bitcoin bet that didn’t materialize.
It would appear that the reputations of crypto influencers are going down the gutter, though, as the most famous bet of them all now looks set to be nothing more than a “ruse”.
Eat my dick in 12 months?
A ruse to onboard new users. It worked.
Bitcoin was first. It's an ancient technology. All know it.
Newer blockchains have privacy, smart contracts, distributed apps and more.
Bitcoin is our future?
Was the Model T the future of the automobile?
— John McAfee (@officialmcafee) January 5, 2020
US Presidential candidate and self-exiled crypto pundit John McAfee, who famously bet that Bitcoin would be worth half a million US dollars by the end of 2019, in fact doubled down on his bet during the bull run of 2017, saying instead that Bitcoin would be worth a full million dollars. The promise then was that he would eat his private parts on national television if his prediction failed to materialize.
Unfortunately for those waiting for such a spectacle, McAfee appears to have reneged on his bet a full year before its expiry, saying on Twitter:
“Eat my d*ck in 12 months? A ruse to onboard new users. It worked.”
Predictably, the responses on his Tweet haven’t taken too kindly, with most early comments pointing out the poor attitude of the influencer in ethical conduct. Naturally, quite in line with McAfee’s own tendency to shill paying projects, many others took to shilling their own altcoins, promising all kinds of purported advantages over Bitcoin.
One user, joeldo, notes:
“Bitcoin is value reserve. It doesn’t need to be modern. Value lies upon antiquity. Trustworthiness comes from your past, not your future. A new infrastructure that connects bitcoin value to real world apps needs to be built and then btc will skyrocket. That’s what I’m doing now.”
Meanwhile, no need to wait too long for Bitcoin to skyrocket, apparently, as a very old traditional market signal suggests that the world’s largest digital asset could be about to start a path to major recovery.
— Murad Mahmudov
Bitcoin continues to flex its financial muscle today, picking up from where it left off yesterday just below USD 7,600 to record a new high so far at USD 7,995 as buyers in Europe look to testing USD 8,000 (CoinDesk) resistance in the next few hours.
The Americas responded rather well to yesterday’s beckonings, as did Asia earlier today in maintaining momentum, with a new support level looking to form up at USD 7,500. However, optimism will likely still be held in check, at least until current prices hold strong for at least a week.
Despite the short term outlook improving, and with Bitcoin halving due to come in May, not all Bitcoin bulls are convinced that their former price predictions will come true. We wrote yesterday about the Twitter wargoing on between Civic CEO Vinny Lingham and crypto influencer Ronnie Moas, over the latter’s failure to keep his side of a USD 28,000 Bitcoin bet that didn’t materialize.
It would appear that the reputations of crypto influencers are going down the gutter, though, as the most famous bet of them all now looks set to be nothing more than a “ruse”.
Eat my dick in 12 months?
A ruse to onboard new users. It worked.
Bitcoin was first. It's an ancient technology. All know it.
Newer blockchains have privacy, smart contracts, distributed apps and more.
Bitcoin is our future?
Was the Model T the future of the automobile?
— John McAfee (@officialmcafee) January 5, 2020
US Presidential candidate and self-exiled crypto pundit John McAfee, who famously bet that Bitcoin would be worth half a million US dollars by the end of 2019, in fact doubled down on his bet during the bull run of 2017, saying instead that Bitcoin would be worth a full million dollars. The promise then was that he would eat his private parts on national television if his prediction failed to materialize.
Unfortunately for those waiting for such a spectacle, McAfee appears to have reneged on his bet a full year before its expiry, saying on Twitter:
“Eat my d*ck in 12 months? A ruse to onboard new users. It worked.”
Predictably, the responses on his Tweet haven’t taken too kindly, with most early comments pointing out the poor attitude of the influencer in ethical conduct. Naturally, quite in line with McAfee’s own tendency to shill paying projects, many others took to shilling their own altcoins, promising all kinds of purported advantages over Bitcoin.
One user, joeldo, notes:
“Bitcoin is value reserve. It doesn’t need to be modern. Value lies upon antiquity. Trustworthiness comes from your past, not your future. A new infrastructure that connects bitcoin value to real world apps needs to be built and then btc will skyrocket. That’s what I’m doing now.”
Meanwhile, no need to wait too long for Bitcoin to skyrocket, apparently, as a very old traditional market signal suggests that the world’s largest digital asset could be about to start a path to major recovery.
— Murad Mahmudov
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