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      "body": "I wonder, every time you move you btc, from you exchange or coinbase, to your trezor, you have to pay their fees right?  It isn't a hugh deal i have x amount of BTC i'm just holding.  That would be the bit that sits in the wallet!  Thx for you post!!",
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      "body": "To convert Fiat to BTC I mainly use Coinbase- there are a few others but they are far smaller and less reputable; unfortunately I think we need to stick with coinbase for now, but once you have your BTC I'd suggest sending it to your own wallet or to an exchange if you want to trade or buy other alt's- coinbase is really only good for moving fiat to crypto or back if you need more fiat for something.",
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      "body": "\"if you do intend to trade do not use coinbase,\" Do you know any exchanges where you can buy BTC directly then?  I have been using coinbase and see their fees as palletable but i am fairly new perhaps I haven't looked around enough yet.  Any advice?  upvote/followed",
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      "body": "Good afternoon all, time is bitcoin so let's jump right in.  In the previous post 2 days ago we commented on the recent BTC sell off and where it found support and bounced on the chart- that level was at $2285, and we saw a violent bear market rally back up to over $2700 on Bitfinix- see chart from 2 days ago below.  ![IMG_1349.PNG](https://steemitimages.com/DQma9Jx5QZhXSfipkQPETz93H4PhN6YiHZ6gWSCmKtRUfMy/IMG_1349.PNG)\n\nWe said that we thought that $2132 was in play using our measured move analysis off of BTC's 2013 spike higher and compared it to this most recent move up.  We know there is usually a premium to purchase BTC on the coinbase network, and this spread seems to widen when BTC sells off quickly in the several exchanges that I watch- sometimes coinbase just outright crashes and they don't let anyone buy or sell BTC when the price is tanking- thats a whole separate topic that we should discuss sometime.  So 2 days ago we put a $2250 price target on BTC on coinbase and suggested that be the first bullet you fire if you're new to BTC.  Fast forward 2 days and we're rolling over again- see chart from about 3:45PST below![IMG_1353.PNG](https://steemitimages.com/DQmWfF9qwNbxb91YuvKwG7CKkPFAaCmnBuBmNhZ1eng5orU/IMG_1353.PNG)\n\nAs you can see we have just violated that previous trendline that was serving as major support, I believe there is a very good chance we will see $2132 on Coinbase and that we could even see those levels in the next 6-12 hours.  The next level of major support doesn't come into play until you reach $1725 (see chart below)![IMG_1354.PNG](https://steemitimages.com/DQmNU9ZANmYaUtmXTJyvEAvkD8aQsvoKNR798u8zsBRHj7b/IMG_1354.PNG)\n\nThis level ($1725) I think will be tested at some point in the next month, but I think its highly unlikely that we see it on this particular sell off.  I think like the first sell off from 2 days ago, we will see a violent bounce back up to our decending trendline and that we are setting up for another bear market bounce (and yes using the highs of $3003 2 days ago, BTC is in a bear market).  \n\nAs we said, we think $2132 on Bitfinix and $2250 on Coinbase represent a nice entry point for an initial BTC purchase, perhaps 10-15% of the total position desired.  Long term we think BTC will come back into the 1400-1600 range, most likely in the next month, and we would be buying aggressively at this long term support line (see chart below)![IMG_1355.PNG](https://steemitimages.com/DQmPhZsBFsfgfY3XApDtGw2TdWGEqSz9y1og7kPynihjYFp/IMG_1355.PNG)\n\nIn closing, look for an entry in the next 6-12 hours with an opportunity to sell that on a bear market bounce, but long term we think BTC still has plenty of downside in front of it.  IF YOU DO INTEND TO TRADE DO NOT USE COINBASE, transfer funds to an exchange of your choosing after doing your due diligence, as the fees and spreads are for more manageable there.",
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      "body": "This is my first post and I will make it brief and to the point.  My main goal here is to explore the steemit site and see if there is an audience for such information.  I am a financial professional that manages money for wealthy individuals, and I am one of the few people in my circles that believe in cryptos (and I am generally against the dollar and dollar dominated assets).  Yes, I am forced to work in a system that at its core I think is fundamentally flawed, however I feel that I can do a service for clients by making them aware of the rapidly changing paradigm know as cryptocurrancy and how it has affected more traditional \"stores of value\" such as precious metals and hard assets.\n\nJust to go over the #'s briefly, the total market cap of $BTC recently surpassed 48 Billion when it briefly kissed $3,000, it has recently pulled back in price and at the time off this article it is approx. 43.8 Billion- depending on what site you use to price BTC (which is another large problem with BTC price discovery, as there is still a tremendous amount of arbitrage opportunity on the BTC network between trading platforms, and candidly there shouldn't be if the BTC network worked as it should- meaning that you can send BTC anywhere almost instantly and for a few cents- which we can no longer do).  By comparison, the current market cap of the major gold ETF's- (GLD 34.86B & IAU 8.32B as reported on google finance), combine to total 43.18 Billion, a shade under the total market cap of BTC.  Now this is but a fraction of the approximate 7.7 Trillion worth of gold that has currently been mined and is in \"circulation,\" however it is the primary means by which anyone who wants to invest in said assets would do so using funds in a brokerage account.  Most individual investors don't hold the actual metal or futures contracts on such, they use an ETF or buy the common stock of a gold miner to establish exposure to the commodities' underlying price.  By this same logic, one must also include the market cap on the recently insane BTC ETF known as the GBTC, and while this trades at an absurdly stupid premium over the NAV of the actual Bitcoins it holds, it is still the primary if not only means by which one can get Bitcoin exposure through a brokerage account.  Yes, you can buy stocks like TXN & AMD given that these are the chips being used in Bitmain's miners, but these are nonetheless not a pure play on BTC.  The market cap of GBTC as of this article is 850 Million.\n\nMy point simply put, BTC (and other Alts, mainly Etherium), have recently provided substantial competition to traditional \"safety/ store of value\" investments, mainly precious metals and hard assets.  I think it is very likely that if crypto in general sees a correction off of these stratospheric highs, gold ETF's and mining stocks will benefit from such a correction.  The funds in the GBTC could easily be moved, other funds in BTC in theory couldn't be immediately invested in metal ETFs- however that being said, most major players who have any substantial exposure to BTC will also have the ability to invest inside of a brokerage account with another source of funds, as we all know, $ is extremely fungible in this day and age, so they could most likely sell BTC and be buying metals at the same time with a different source of funds, while still maintaining their overall desired exposure to alternative assets.  Again, the actual movement of those funds into the metals ETF is not what would move the underlying commodity price, those ETF's are not the tail wagging the dog, rather the purchase of the futures contracts as it relates to the overall gold market and it's 7.7 Trillion + is what matters- what I'm saying is that if BTC pulls back 50% like I think it has the potential to do, say to $1500, that environment would not be conducive to portfolio managers buying BTC, and by default I can see those funds and that exposure immediately finding its way to precious metals (and not just gold but silver and as the title of this article suggests, platinum too).  The ferver to own BTC over the last few weeks has blinded many institutions and frankly they have lost some interest in precious metals because of such.  If today's 15-20% dip in BTC doesn't wake up the new owners of BTC to  the risks here, I'm not sure anything will, and then the sell-off that I thought would be 50% could be closer to the measured move of BTC from its peak in 2013 ( just over $1100), to its lows of approx $175 a year later, and that would be almost an 85% decline.  While I think this is fairly unlikely, mostly because BTC went from just over $100 to $1100 in a few weeks back in '13, and while this most recent move has also been fairly violent higher, it has by comparison gone from just under $900 a few months ago to kiss $3000 this morning, so a little over a triple in that time (vs. a ten bagger back in 2013)- perhaps we could at least expect to see about 1/3 of the move down that we saw back in '13, so about 28-29% down.  Bitfinix quotes this morning topped out at $3003, and bottom ticked at $2284.40, for a peak to trough decline of 24%- while almost getting to our downside target of $2132 (which is 29% off of the $3003 high), the extremely important short term moving Ave (see chart below) provided substantial support at the previously mentioned $2285 level.  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I'd be more inclined to hold some XMR or DASH if I was looking to hedge my BTC exposure with other Alts.\n\nHopefully this starts a thread or conversation, I'm curious to hear what other fans of crypto and metals think!![IMG_1349.PNG](https://steemitimages.com/DQma9Jx5QZhXSfipkQPETz93H4PhN6YiHZ6gWSCmKtRUfMy/IMG_1349.PNG)",
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