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Do you have any plans for the evening Bitcoin halves?

If reading this retrospectively, what did you do the day of bitcoins halving?

I'm surely will keep staring at my screen, and seeing the price rising  ;D

I will send some bitcoins so that it will be incorporated into the 420,001st block.

I will celebrate it by buying as much bitcoins I can before price rises  ;D

ill try to aswell n ill purchase a cold beer with it

Maybe 2 'bitcoin' pizzas to go with your cold beer?? July will be the hottest month in 2016!

To tell u the truth, I expect the price to reach at least $1500 per BTC by that time and grown even more after that. So yes, those ll be some interesting crypto times.

I'm not expecting the price to change at all on the day of the halfing so no plans.

my plan I would buying some bitcoin before halving maybe 1-2week before halving then waiting price skyrocket at block halving day
also im interesting to buy bitcoin miner to start mining before block halving

maybe in the end of this year

I expect the exact opposite.  I think the price will rise before the halving, then it will stall shortly beforehand, then fall when the halving actually happens.

That happens a lot (watch the USD today if/when they increase the interest rates) because people think that they should get in late for a certain profit, but the people who got in early are then trying to cash out for profit.  Then the 'last in' people realise the price isn't rising so dump, and the price falls. (buy the rumour, sell the fact)

Even I am expecting bitcoins price to not change on the halving day. But I can suggest you to buy some bitcoins for your future savings that would be helpful in future I think. Because I have that plan.

I think alot of people have some serious mis placed hope on what Bitcoin price might be nearing the halving.

if the price fall when the halving actually happens
Im sure miners will stop mining activities due to difficulty getting up and prices began to fall
and they start buying bitcoin and hodl it

That is not the truth. The price will reach $2000 before the halving. It will drop after the halving when the party is over.

The only thing I have in mind in this moment is to follow the price of bitcoin live. This could be the best party for every person which want and have trust on it. If this price will go even higher than it is going actually (maybe doing a jump and not slowly) this could be the best party I can have. Even for the moment I have only few bitcoins because most of those are invested in various sites. The most sad thing will be the lost of those or even part of those because of possibility that the owners of the sites be scammers. Even I am having profits momentarily I am reinvesting those again. Maybe after a few time will began the withdraw to not remain without nothing if can be true the bad thing mentioned above.

Where can I read more about this halving?  I am interested learning more about this.  I will also make sure I send some BTC on that day to make sure I am in that block, but I think it will be hard since so many people are going to be in the same boat as I am.

I will reduce my BTC for the little party celebrating the New Year 2016 with the family. And after that I will be staring at the screen to see the price of the BTC will ride high (hope)  :D :D :D

yes, maybe i will take a short vacation and just watch the show  ;D - better than TV!
+ i will spend BTC all day  :D

I'd buy some BTC a couple of months before it, and then just watch it rise and enjoy.

I don't know witch day will be, and because that i don't know what i will do this day. But i'm sure that i will be looking the price all the day to see if it changes with the halving event. But i suppose that the increment of prices will be before this day.

The halving day can be estimated, here is a countdown:

http://bitcoinclock.com/

So you can know when it will happen pretty precisely, we also know when the future halvings will happen, just add 4 years to 2016-07-20.

Get a couple of beers and watch the price ticker all day long  ;D

I didn't know about this web clock for bitcoin events, i also saw interesting the count of blocks before the diffuculty changes. Thanks for sharing it.

No, but if bitcoin goes up to $2000 I'll make a hell of a party you can bet on that. Anyways, the price will be higher and a lot of people will certainly party to that!

I am not having many buddies who are interested in Bitcoin, so i am not likely to party alone but maybe i will order something nice to eat on the halving night ,iff price increases by significant amounts.

i will be looking at bitfinex trading platform with almost all of my coin to do day trading. I think price will fluctuate heavily on that day.

no. i am sure that i won't realize that the halfing had happened. i only will know that if i will read here about it.
nothing special i think. just the next step.

LOL at idiots ITT that think a price rise is guaranteed at halving.... this is exactly the reason why it probably won't happen, and then these noobs will panic and crash the market

thats why the price is rising now. a lot of buying before the halving. and then nothing will happen.

Pretty sure the price increase will be effectively built in as we get closer to the halving. I don't think for example the price would go from 500 to 1000 overnight when it's the day of the halving.

It's more likely to be a gradual increase factored in as we approach the halving.

Having people believing that the price will increase actually will increase the price, because owners of bitcoins will keep them to get better price,
and those who don't will start or continue buying. Your logic is quite strange there..

so,do you think the price gonna like wave on kuta beach?oh i will grab coffee and some cigar,and watch price movement,its like enjoy the day when bitcoin halving,beause i dont have any bitcoin for trade,just watch it,and watch out ;D

I'm probably working that night if I still have a job.  And I'll check in here for the festivities definitely.  Not sure how it's going to affect the price--that's what I'm interested in.

Once Bitcoin halves, I'll simply move on with my day, and check back on this forum (and various other Bitcoin-related media) and see all the people happy at the price increase.

I'll also be checking my own wallet and seeing how valuable it is, and probably do a little bit of shopping with it.

I am slowly building my bitcoin stash but for me the halving will hopefully be a stepping stone which might be talked about and make more people aware of the blockchain technology as well as the best cryptocurrency which is bitcoin.   

Not really. I don't have enough friends that use bitcoin to host a party or something. I will just be at home waiting for the price to go extremely high.

Your looking to continue holding BTC after a major price increase?

I agree with the price built in theory camp

When the halving happens, hopefully I will have gotten lucky on some pools and be a millionaire.  By then Donald Trump and I will be drinking margaritas and discussing options for Bitcoin startups and taking over Antarctica for the world's largest mining facility.

No.


Nothing.

I will HODL all of my BTC is the price move is gradually up, or if there is not much movement at all prior to +/- July 20.

I will HODL most of my BTC if the price rises sharply.  If it spikes to, say, $2000, I will buy some gold with BTC.

My *guess* is that if BTC is able to break through its ATH price in the $1200s by then, then maybe many others will get into it.  The more players in this game, the better...

I would try to collect as much Bitcoin as I can before the halving. As many said that the halving will increase the Bitcoin prices.

I bet most of the whales will plan to CASH OUT on or around halving day and let everyone else pay for their huge beach party. Seriously, I'd go for a party but all the price action will most likely happen long before summer. Looking at the past 2 weeks, it has already started to happen to a small degree. There will be no surprise, but if you want to buy Bitcoins you have maximum two, maybe three more months to do so. It'll hurt more and more to buy each passing month. In July price will just stagnate.

Yeah. I am probably going to buy a couple more Bitcoin in hope that the Bitcoin price will rise a lot and I will make a good profit. I am in a really good mood just thinking about the halving. LOL.

Maybe the price stands relatively stable and nothing major happens, is that possible? I think 2016-17 are crucial years on the development of Bitcoin for better or for worse.

agree with you
now is the right time to collect as much as we are able bitcoin
halving decrease reward from 25 to 12.5 and im sure price will be up from $500 to $1000  :D 8)

I think the price will increase if there's demand that is not met really, halving will impact other areas but not sure if it will translate quite literally like you said.

Personally I think that any rises will be priced in months before the rise. If I'm aware of the evening of the halving I'll get some beers in and celebrate the next step in bitcoins evolution. This thread wasn't meant to simply be about price.

Cannot wait for the party, yeah it is our party seeing Bitcoin's price higher.. I'm buying more for sure already, don't you want becomes rich?

I hate to rain on everyones (future) parade... but there seems to be a total lack of knowledge to the importance of the block size debates that are coming up in the future.  This has the most future implications for price and adoption in the future, because if you don't have a functioning system "under the hood" then you don't have a legit currency, just merely an asset that everyone jumps on board with.  I'm scared bitcoin is going to be a "starbucks" in a way, where they sell over priced items that is somewhat better than everything else... not the other way around, where in this case, have orgasmic coffee that nothing else is in comparison.

I hope that analogy makes sense, but that's the only way I can think of how to explain it right now.

The price is already rising ;) OP: I will stay awake probably all day to see what the direct effect it has on the price, difficulty, hashpower, and so on. It will be a very interesting day since it is my first block halving.

the problem with doing it, is that the price will increase much early, adn then at the halving you can possibly have a zero increase, because it happened before

so i think i will just follow the price increase without caring too much about the halving

http://bitcoinclock.com/

You can look here how much time you have left for the party. The thing is, on the last halving which was in 2013, was around when I starting reading up on Bitcoin, so I had absolutely no idea what the halving was. It probably happened as was learning about BTC while totally ignoring it.

This time im ready and have all the knowledge possible to understand the importance of the event.

Maybe it wont hit 2000 but the party is before halving for sure.

If the price increase (it will but not surely on a really interesting way), it won't wait the halving day. I think that 1 or 2 weeks before, the price will have already started to rise.

Anyone remember the LTC halving?  The price rose months before, and when halving actually occurred, nothing big happened....hope this $450 isn't all we're gonna see in regards to BTC  :o

I'd be up for getting a suite in Vegas and throwing a huge party.

I am reading through this and not understanding.  Is this like stock, it will double in the amount you have but the price will be cut in half, so there is more?  Is that what this means?  I am not understanding.  Thank you in advance.

No, it's not like that.
The Bitcoin system pays miners to create blocks, which is what secures the network.

Currently miners are paid (in total) about 3600 BTC per day. Obviously, this is split up among the various miners and mining pools.

After the halving, miners will be paid 1800 BTC per day. The result will be that there will be less bitcoin entering the market, and this reduction in supply may result in a price increase.

However, if you compare this daily amount to the total market (which is very difficult to calculate), it is not a big enough fraction to have a major effect, so the effect is really caused by the speculation of the traders. In other words, nobody knows.

Um... i would buy some pizza with bitcoins.

After re-reading my post, I realize that I should clarify that the miners are paid 3600 in new bitcoins. In addition, they are also paid the transaction fees from all the transactions in the block. One result of the halving is the percentage of mining income that comes from transaction fees will roughly double.

i think i will be watching the value go to the roof propably it will start rising days before the halving

I think after the next halving the bitcoin's price will increase as usual after each halving before this time
So i believe holding some coins till the next halving could be really a profitable idea

Watch the market and expect a big dump.

Markets will be on fire near the halving, for sure.

Sell the news

Without a doubt (assuming the direction is indeed up), we could just as easily see a massive dump a week or two prior to the halving.

I think btc will start going up a lot around 2 months before the
halving. We can already see from the latest jump people have
started to add to their investment. Not sure if its in anticipation
of the halving but i cant see how it doesnt double to make up for
the payout decreasing.

yes, we are at near half of that so why not, x100% is nothing, was already done multiple times in the past and in a very short time frame

the real challenge is expecting it to go up to 10k or crazy price like that, if we can ever do that one day, nothing will stop us

I expect the price to be over $1500 in the middle of 2016. Two reasons for that. One is the bigger block size, 2 or 4MB. The second is the halving.

I do not have any plans to celebrate for the halving
I will just wait and follow where the price will go, up or more up :-D

i found this,
Of course the main question people want to know is “will this affect Bitcoin’s price?” and the answer is “nobody knows”. There are arguments in favour of two scenarios – either the price will rise, or nothing will change. https://99bitcoins.com/bitcoins-2016-halving-what-is-it-and-why-should-you-care/
so,i will prepare and store some bitcoin,until that day,and i hope the price will raise,not going down. because nobody knows what happenon that day.

I will be too busy collecting profits.

My halving party will be after the halving, when things settle down

I think I am getting a bit confused.  Are we talking about halving like they do with stock or are we talking about halving when the Mining has mined 1.2 of the total bitcoin that can ever be in existence?

The first thing I will do is just have my popcorn and two screen at least one for watching movie.
The another screen is to watch the price of bitcoin.

People the halving has no effect on price, you should give a look to past halvings.

I don't have any plan but if i can i will try to hold as much bitcoins as i can and see if it really worths as most of the people here believe that the price will be doubled or increased after the halving period.

That's what I predict - just look at LTC halving; price rose a few months prior but nothing changed once the halving went through. 

Although I say that, I hope the current price isn't topping out now :D

from last month the price of bitcoin began to gradually rise. previously priced at $380 in the last month
now the price began to rise, I expect the price could rise to $500 before halving

now it worth 463$+
on this rate i think it can hit  the 500$ before the halfing and much more after

My plan is to have an ordinary day and just check that Blockchain is working well and transactions are confirming.

Ha, that's a severe understatement. Everyone is relatively smart around here; halving more or less means that bitcoin price will increase somewhere around 50-100%. Before the halving, everyone will try to buy as many bitcoins as they can, so I wouldn't be surprised if bitcoins reached $800 or even $1000 (because I'm thinking bitcoin might be able to reach $500-$600 before the halving as a normal price).


Whatever works for you, but just saying, bitcoin price will probably rise a ton.

I reckon the price will rise all the way to the halving and then fall within days after as all the sheepeople relize the world never ended, thats when i will be buying like a motherfooker  ;D

what makes you think the price will fall after the block halving? maybe because you think that the price will be driven to higher than reasonable price levels due to the speculation?

I will host a meetup in Brisbane hopeful around the date.

It's expected that the price will increase just after the halving date, so holding some coins till this event could be really profitable

I will sit down behind a PC and wait for the reaction of the market.

Right now i am too involved to not spend time on it. If there is a positive reaction, I will celebrate later on.

I wouldn't be able to sell I think, I admit im too scared to even think about trying to short Bitcoin because the price surges can be insane. You think you are making a great selling at the last ATH and BOOM next morning its at USD 1500. For this, I might just hold all the way up.

I think the marketplace reaction after the halving event will be increasing the Bitcoin's price as usual after each halving before this one, so holding some coins nowadays isn't bad idea

nothing is certain ,the price could just go down as fuck if people start cashing out for christmas and new years.
think about the people who bought when bitcoin was at pinnacle and which was more supportive then it is today and thought it will be best to hold.

I think 90% of the people expect the price to increase significantly. I also believe the price will go up quite a bit and possibly even reach a new ATH. As you say, the price might also take a huge dive and fall down. Barely any one expects that to happen, but there is a realistic point of possibility.

I hope so dude. for this week bitcoin prices go decline it is not a problem. hopefully the end of the year the bitcoin price shoots up
I have prepared many bitcoin for sale :D

I also think pre Xmas time might bring the price down a bit. People might be cashing out to buy presents. If not, than we re really on the right track.

If you look at LTC.

LTC was valued at $60-70 million for the first half of 2015

LTC priced in the halving between May & June & also overshot slightly (So 3-4 months before the halving.)

After the halving it has been able to maintain >$140 million with the same level of demand because it now has half the inflation.


On that example...

You would expect BTC to start fully pricing in the halving about 3-5 months from now, possibly a bit earlier and also to overshoot.

After resettling, it should also be able comfortably maintain a $700-1000 price with the same level of demand as it would then only have half the current inflation.


BTC has this year been rising mainly due to centralized currency related issues this year, (Greece, South America and now China devaluation and capital control circumvention.) So not much halving priced in yet imo.

So I expect BTC to test $1000 within 5 months

My plan is nothing,because i dont know what gonna happen when Bitcoin halving come,and i also know that nobody know what gonna happen with bitcoin price when the halving come,i just keep collect bitcoin from now and umtil the halving come.

Yes, plenty to party about! Hookers & Blow bby!  :D

I think people need to realize that the current price increase is a direct reflection of the economic slowdown in China. Bitcoin has been on the rise ever since China devalued the yuan back in August. To stabilize the markets the government step in and purchased upwards of 6% of available volume to minimize the downtrend. China has re-entered the bitcoin landscape which has caused the recent price rise. If the U.S. continues raising interest rates, quarter after quarter, the Chinese economy will pickup steam as exporting will become the main driver to restart their economy and the bitcoin market cap will begin its correction. Lets not get ahead of ourselves and fantasize about a halving taking place next July. But hey, what do I know, I'm no economic expert......wait, yeah I am.

That's a pretty optimistic evaluation. If that indeed goes true then there would be a second batch of millionaires following the 2013 boom.

Price will be factored in already so it's not like it will exploded that instant. I will be watching closely around that time though.

lol ill be doing this, and if the price doesnt rise as much as expected i might even pitch in and buy some coins lol. can't wait for the halfing.  :D

on the day of the bitcoin halfing ill be enjoying myself watching the price increase  :D that is if it does increase  :(

I wish I did have some plans to celebrate the halving of bitcoin, but I don't know that many people that have bitcoin. So I can't host a party.

Drink beer... Celebrate.

The Halvening
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axn8wRG8Fg0 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axn8wRG8Fg0)

might not be the party you imagine. But the change is inevitable, like a full moon rising.

You may be right, but the real party that is going to be organized in 2016 or 2017 after the halving consequence. The out come of party will be a clear-cut proof of the tremendous work bitcoin had done in such short span of time and a proof of its world wide acceptance by its users.

Me for sure will go to work like every day. Cannot lost the money even of only day. But even cannot understand why must do otherwise. What is the halving to be celebrated? What kind of good is for bitcoin this event? If the price will go higher cannot be within this day. At least with much probability. Other thing that can affect bitcoin I cannot see. Maybe I don't see all the picture but is a normal day for me. I am curious if the first block of halving will be produced around 2-3 a.m. what will be made but those who wait this day as a big day. What does it mean? Remain without sleeping only to see this block which will be 12.5 bitcoin. To tell the right for me it will be a stupidity to remain without sleep only for this thing. I love bitcoin but more than bitcoin I love myself.

wasn't this said about Litecoin and look what halving has done to it. Does BTC difficulty halve too? My S5 struggles with the current difficulty

The difficulty will not halve. If you turn off due to the low profit, the difficulty will drop slightly.

Neither will I spend my bitcoin nor will buy any.I would rather wait and watch.Halving can make price go up for a short time but it will eventually settle down at somewhere around $600

Lmao a party for halving :D I dont think i will watch the halving happen. I will just enjoy the raised price the day after:D

Hah, we can only wish for that. Nah, the difficulty ll keep going up, nothing else but up. This is why I say BTC home mining is about to end. Unless you have chosen DMD Diamond cloud, that coin stakes, 25% per year so that helps out a lot.

As far as I know litecoin is now 3.5 USD compared to 1.2 USD last year.

The Chinese ponzi started the rise, but halving may have helped protecting it from going back to the 1.2 level.

I dont seriously think in any way that a ponzi can alter the price of bitcoin unless its just too big one. I have seen market prices go up and down when some big sites only get scammed. But, halving would give a big impact I too believe.

I will probably be paying more attention to the BTC price a few days before and few days after the block halving.

Nope, because my family don't really use bitcoin and they are not a lot of people that I know that use bitcoin.
I think I can do some BBQ if the price after the halving will increase. That would be very awesome eating and seeing bitcoin growing.

I think the price will be very interesting to watch in the month leading up, on the night of the halving I will be happily hodling.  There should be a party somewhere in the US for all Bitcoin enthusiasts to celebrate.

Bitcoin Halving Party 2016: hilarious!  ;D
There will be no partya as I see it, there will be less BTC mined and our coins should value more hopefully. Once we also solve the block size debate Bitcoin will continue to be the best cryptocurrency around. And when we will launch the rocket to the sky then you guys may celebrate. Not before.

It'll be interesting, not sure if i'll be throwing a party because of it though.

It will do the demand very good that blocks will only contain 12.5 BTC. At this point there is a bit more supply than actual demand. It has changed right now as people are hoarding coins for the block halving. But at the end it will result in a higher price.

As the halving will be in the summer time, I have plans to travel and not give a bleep about the halving or Bitcoin. There will be no party and there will be no rocket in price just many people who have hyped suddenly realize they was wrong, or I was wrong and it rockets. Either way is good but its just another day.

imo there will be no sudden ''rocket'' in the bitcoin price but it will be a steady increase of it before and of course after the halving.
let's just wait and see  :)

We expect after this halving the Bitcoin's price will increase as usual after the previous halvings

So it's not bad to hold some coins till the next halving at least

I wonder how much will it increase. :)

change is inevitable, while i wait the halving  I'll try 'to accumulate / buy more ' bitcoin possible. Pretty sure the price will go higher

I have been sparing some amount of money and I will therefore be celebrating the party through the purchase of as many coins as i can. My aim is to get benefits from the halving party before the bitcoin price shoot to the peak which will be very expensive to acquire even one. I am therefore waiting for the day and eager that I will be able to increase my worth when it comes to the bitcoins. It is an opportunity that we should not leave to just pass as like that, let us all make good use of it. Opportunities come once in a lifetime.

I think the price will increase after this coming halving and then we can hold some coins to make some profit online

Most of us think that the price will rise before or after the halving. But can the price hold after the halving?

Sorry for my naivety, but when does the halving occur?  Can anyone share a link/infographic/etc.?

Thanks in advance  :)

Price dropping hard - what's the deal?  Related to the dips in RL economy?

Before the Halving, I will buy myself a sandwich and a Draft beer and wait for the price to skyrocket. After the Halving, I will celebrate the <Moon> price with a bottle of Chateau Lafite from 1787 and Italian White Alba truffle with some Almas caviar.

I will probably not survive the Chateau, because it's undrinkable but the truffle and caviar will be a good last meal. In reality I am not expecting fireworks and I will probably be in front of the computer watching the price fluctuate and the press blowing everything out of proportion.

I will be a party for one if nothing change and a party for many, if it skyrockets.

By the way, time is coming for halving. But is there any prediction for the date? Of course I know it is somewhen between June - August but what is the exact date?

Based on alts like Litecoin, speculation for it happens in advance, usually earlier than you think. I would guess a couple months early. When it actually happens everything will be priced in and just another day. (might suck for my mining of BTC, but I guess it will be worth more..)

I try to accumulate as much Bitcoins as I can before the block halvening event  ;D

My plan just try to continue to collect bitcoin before halving and quite curious how the highest price after halving occurred

 Prediction of price after block halving?
Mining price then?

1 month already since this thread was created already, time is flying

and Mike Hearn is already a part of Bitcoin history!!!

my overall plan is definitely not going to change and i will continue the course of my bitcoin accumulation but at the time of halving i would surely keep and extra eye on bitcoin price movements and see how the market is going to react.

I usually don't celebrate on occasions, not even my own Birthday. But I'll be excited to see the impact it'll have on the price a month before the halving and months after it. Hoping that 2016 is truly a good year for Bitcoin.

I am also very much exited to see the celebrations and consequences of halving. I guess it would be the replica of 2013 celebrations and excitements.

My excitement with this was dealt a huge blow with this recent price drop. We were in a good place before Mike Hearn decided to crash the party. Now all those dumped coins needs to be absorbed and the price brought to it's previous levels, before we will see a big impact during the Halving.

The upside to this is all the cheaper coins that are on offer before the Halving. A lot of people can now buy cheaper coins, which they would not have had the opportunity to do, if this did not happen. So it has a positive and a negative side to the story. 

I agree but hopeful Mr Hearns comments will also have jolted everyone into resolving this block size issue. I'll also try to pick up a cheap coin.

s people said,no one know what will happen when bitcoin halving come,so i just prepare some bitcoin in my wallet,and hope bitcoin price raise up when bitcoin halving party come.

In deeded. If the block size is not resolved by Bitcoin core quickly, there will be two bitcoins in the future and one will die.

There will be no 2 BTC, people stop spreading the FUD. Miners are already into BTC classic and without miners, there s no BTC. So this issue s already resolves, only some people re still not aware of it.

i guess that it is not that clear...

This could be the reason of price going up, when more and more people would think that way, not the lower reward from mining itself lol.
Some kind of self-fulfilling prophecy :D

Yes,I want to buy bitcoins with a low price before halving and sell after halving with a high price

What's a low price for you?
We are already below 400 again.Maybe start to buy a bit now and continue buying more if price continues declining.

  Minimal price that we could  expect  before halving?

I think this is just temporary, the price will rise again for sure. Plus the block size debate will more a bit quicker now.

I will be ordering pizza for the block halving :)

Bitcoin to the moon!

No one can say for sure. Judging by history of previous halvings price was always higher before halving and was dropping in value after.
However, bitcoin and litecoin were much smaller back - will this be that changing factor which will bring price increase this time? Time will tell.

So no one for sure know what will happen next, pump or dump.

i cant wait for the bitcoin halving, i think it will be one of the greatest moments in bitcoin as cryptocurrency life, i hope that the price willgrow then to the sky and that i will make a lot of money

In general, the price will rise before or after halving. But we do not know the exact timing.

yes after the next halving the bitcoin's price will increase if you holding many coin, you can party after next halving.

But we also know that there will be a lot of Sell orders once the price doubles so there will be some price dips. It may peak at double the price but we don't know at which price will it stabilize.

As long as the long term demand is higher than the supply of bitcoin, the price will rise eventually.

In the true spirit of bitcoin being online money we should have an online party somehow. I dont know how that could go down and would take some organizing but could have various different stuff like competitions, a quiz.  We could do it via a live stream or something and have a host haha.

I wasn't aware of bitcoin's existence on the previous halvings. Now, thinking about it, I think I'll celebrate being part of history with a bottle of a fine Cabernet Sauvignon  8)

Hear, hear! I was thinking the same thing about ordering pizza in celebration of the halving. Hopefully it doesn't cost us 10,000 BTC each. :)

LOL that's all I think about now when I hear the word PIZZA.

Hope someday I could buy one for a few satoshis :P

I will be just observing how the price is increasing continuously. Before I haven't experienced watching it. If I get profit or earning than what I actually expected
will go for a long drive. The party for halving might be at the top of the hills.

I'm a little unsecure about this increase in price. It seems to me that if people were really believing it would rise after the halving, price would be already starting to reflect that... don't you think?

Not really! Coz the block size debates and uncertainty of its future make the price volatile. Some ppl turn to lose confidence to it.

So, if block size debate goes on the halving might turn out to have no real  impact over bitcoin price?

The price now already has factor in the long debate of the block size. If the block size issue is solved, the price will rise a lot.

Just on my screen to see the btc price rise :P :P

as far that i can see bitcoin is going up very fast .

When is this halving actually estimated to  happen?

...

I wonder if the BTC Halving might have unpredictable effects...  The unpredictable is usually bad.

Maybe various miners would drop out. 

Perhaps the block size problem/debate might affect things.

I would be curious to read what Bitcoiners who are programmers have to say!

up.

When is the halving exactly? July 14th?

I don't drink alcohol otherwise i surely would have enjoyed it with some cold beer :D it will be a nice feeling anyway to see the price grow and grow.

seriously why does everyone think the day the block reward halves the price of bitcoin will be worth twice as much..

i mean, the 15 million bitcoins that are currently out there wont be worth ANY more just because the reward halves..

miners personally have ZERO to do with raising the price of bitcoin.. if anything the huge mining corporations that dump them on the market daily because they need to recover costs make the price go down. not up..

I hope to partake in one. I'm new to this bitcoin world  ;D

around july http://bitcoinclock.com/

It is estimated to happen in the middle of July. But the hashing rate is rising fast, so it could be early July.

I'm worried that the halving might suddenly come sooner and we could all miss the party.

Well, the prediction for halving is not accurate and it might miss by a few days or weeks
But don't worry, if you wanna join the party then just buy a bunch of Bitcoin and you can get a nice profit when the time comes ;)
I myself already bought a small amount of it and looking for the halving ;)

FYI, you can check the countdown from halving here
http://www.bitcoinblockhalf.com/

Where is this party going to be again? Or is it an online thing?

I think the price will improve according to the common sense of decreased demand increasing price, it won't be instant or necessarily after the halving since it will be factored from this time, The halving might be a reason of the current rise in bitcoin price.

Can anyone tell when is the Bitcoin halving will take place ? I mean the exact date ?
I tried to find, but could not get. Everyone is saying in mid this year but if anyone know the exact date, do let us know.
Thanks

Because finding new blocks is a probability-based event, the EXACT date and time cannot be predicted.  But, since there are so many blocks to be found between now and halving, and the fact that the system is designed for an average of 10 minutes per block (136 blocks per day), a pretty reliable date would be in July (22 July) of this year.

Here is a handy little site:

http://www.bitcoinblockhalf.com/


EDIT:  Teddy5145 beat me to it, but, yes, the site gives nice information!

it is not an exact date but an exact block height, 420,000 to be precise.

on the day the bitcoin halfing occurs, i plan on watching the price charts for the entire day lol. and if the price goes up alot ill sell most of my btc.

Sell.

Buy on news, sell on fact, that's the rule, the halving may cause a pump

I will open bottle of good beer. Only one, with bitcoin bottlecap :)

I might sell some when the halving party causing the price to triple. If the price just doubled, I will not sell.

I will also sell some if halving party just under $1000 and I'll sell all my bitcoin if prices after halving above $1000 :D

I was wondering what would be the exact date for the halving... Anyone here knows?
I guess the price should skyrocket just before the halving, that's why I need an exact date

It's already skyrocketing and on a weekend which is odd because it usually when the price drops a little bit. I'm not sure what's going on but I think it's fair to say that the accumulation before the Halving it's starting. Now, I think there will be major sells after it because it doesn't mean much, but there's expectation and that's what drives the price.

didn't you read the thread at all? ... there is NO exact date.

It happens at block 420,000 which currently is expected some time in mid July.

Yeah it is expected that price would be at different level after the halving so we all are hoping that we can enjoy the success of bitcoins and really hoping that price reaches to a maximum level.

We could celebrate and have an online party here...

I would never attend a party neither online or off. I'm just too much of a introvert that enjoys minding their own business and doesn't like people too often but if you want to party, go for it.

I plan on running a Brisbane Meetup

The predicted halving date is 1 July. But it will be earlier than that due to the hashing speed rise.

what is the best guess we have for now?

if it is true we are really close

I'm gunna get at least BTC1 when it's halving day. Will make me a decent profit too!  :P

Nothing, I'll just go on with my life, do whatever I want to do and watch the price, and wait about the news when it happens, in short, I will be in front of my computer and read...yes it is a special day, but I think its not necessarily we have to celebrate and waste our money...

What is the halving to be celebrated? What kind of good is for bitcoin this event? If the price will go higher cannot be within this day. At least with much probability. Other thing that can affect bitcoin I cannot see. Maybe I don't see all the picture but is a normal day for me. I am curious if the first block of halving will be produced around 2-3 a.m. what will be made but those who wait this day as a big day. What does it mean? Remain without sleeping only to see this block which will be 12.5 bitcoin. To tell the right for me it will be a stupidity to remain without sleep only for this thing. I love bitcoin but more than bitcoin I love myself...

I have been sparing some amount of money and I will therefore be celebrating the party through the purchase of as many coins as i can. My aim is to get benefits from the halving party before the bitcoin price shoot to the peak which will be very expensive to acquire even one. I am therefore waiting for the day and eager that I will be able to increase my worth when it comes to the bitcoins. It is an opportunity that we should not leave to just pass as like that, let us all make good use of it. Opportunities come once in a lifetime.

I have found few users speculating that halving has already begun. Does anyone has such idea. I think just because of the increase in price users believe halving has begun.

I plan to have a beer.

My wife i told that i were going to see my coins,she said you will sell them?No dear there will be a thing that may and should change the value soo makes no sense to sell it now.I believe 80%market are waiting to sell a part  of their portfolio into the halving period.

Nope, because my family don't really use bitcoin and they are not a lot of people that I know that use bitcoin.  I think I can do some BBQ if the price after the halving will increase. That would be very awesome eating and seeing bitcoin growing. I think the price will be very interesting to watch in the month leading up, on the night of the halving I will be happily holding.  There should be a party somewhere in the US for all Bitcoin enthusiasts to celebrate.

I think btc will start going up a lot around 2 months before the  halving. We can already see from the latest jump people have started to add to their investment. Not sure if its in anticipation of the halving but i can't see how it doesn't double to make up for  the payout decreasing.

I think the price will increase if there's demand that is not met really, halving will impact other areas but not sure if it will translate quite literally like you said...  ;D

it is not like bitcoin price is going to change by the time block halving happens. it is the effect of the market in other words supply and demand which is going to change due to halving effect so i am going to keep an eye out for the big upcoming price change and try to take advantage of the situation the most.

um block halving wont effect supply much..

there is already almost 16 MILLION of the 21 MILLION total bitcoins on the market..
the few thousand a day (3600?) miners make doesnt really do much to the market..

I'm gonna start partying on June 21 and keep going as long as it takes ...

The block rewards is still 25 Bitcoin at block 399,623 so regardless of what a few users say the halving has not begun and I have not missed the party  :P. Like you say it is more than likely the pricing of Bitcoin? So it currently has already priced in the halving, there is a possibility for sure.

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I have no plans to party with any Bitcoiners but that may change closer to the time and arrange to hook up with a few pals. Only one in my local area so there will be a lot of travel but well worth it at a guess. Regardless it will be summer and it will be one to remember.

I think it is the psychological effect. The 1800 less per day of the coins does not make much effect.

We know that there are already a kind of group with the most coins,soo if they stop dropping soo manybitcoin daily we will see demand and supply system start working,i believe the fact the reward start to be 50% from the previous for small owners and big miners these must do difference as they were getting around  10kblock found and with the current value they will get  half,soo  expect the impact into the price to atleast  reach 9kdollars.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IEcd_Ecntro

We should have a BitcoinTalk.org party as well on THE DAY ;)

I have plans on buying more coins because with the halving the price can get cheaper so I have to take my chances. I the halving has to happen with in a couple of weeks, so it has to b=happen this month or the next month.

Do you know what is fucking crazy?  The NEXT halfing (not in July, but the Next, Next one) is less than 5 years away!!  Think about that, soon the block reward will only be 6.25 Bitcoins!  That is fucking nothing.  Better get ready now.

count me in.


@the_poet

irc would be good.  :)

Or Telegram ;)

I just go on doing the same thing I've been doing daily like trading and promoting my faucets and other programs that are bitcoin related..

Have you made some money out of those actions? Is it possible to make a living by doing those of things?

Around this time everyone is hoping that the value of Bitcoin will be higher and that is because they already see now that the value is started to rise which that is really nice.
But some people also said that the value of Bitcoin wont even rise that much in the halving so we have just to wait and see for what will happen.

I'll have to watch that nite...I mine LTC and it is NOT halving....I guess that will tell us if LTC is linked to BTC via mostly trading and speculation (the 0.008 ltc to btc ratio it seems to like)

THEN heck....won't effect anything on my scrypt mining.

BUT perhaps the BTC halving will have the effect of BTC miners dumping outdated equipment which means maybe the network and difficulty will retract for a bit....maybe as much
as 25% some folk have said..that would maybe mean a price pull back from say 650 to 450 or so for BTC

How LTC will fare in all this I've no clue. But if LTC just continues to follow BTC as it has at the 0.008 ltc to btc ratio and on top of the fact that LTC IS NOT halving....I should be fine?

Anyway will be a watching the drama to see if Mario (BTC) crashes his go cart into a wall as Yoshi (LTC) safely stays on the sidelines and watches. :)

everybody has an opinion about bitcoin and its future these days. everyone is thinking they are speculation experts and that is why you see so many different ideas these days.
one says it is going up another says it is going down. i won't listen to anything that doesn't have any reasoning behind it

because i still have about 0.8 which i kept for days since the day i invested to some ICO. i might earn more later and will not use them til halving.
so how sure are we now that bitcoin is going to skyrocket like 1200usd+?  i wanna party. maybe asking for loan and pay after when price increase :)

no, I am not sure it will go to $1,200 such as halving the first. do not expect too much. but $700-800 it could be a party 8)

I think that we wont see any $1200 for a while. But $700-800 in the short period is possible. That is still close to 100%+ to what the price was not so long ago. I estimate that the price will decline again after the halving making it not profitable for the miners with older hardware and we will see a decline in overall hashrate.

No one knows of course, but it's interesting to guestimate whatever will come.

IRC the price to create a bitcoin without energy price costs is about $397.

If you double this, and have it coupled with the difficulty increase, it will mea n that bitcoin has to be at a minimum of $800 for mining it to be profitable

I've run my plan for halving, just buy as much as possible, and collect as much as possible. when looking at the high price I would sell it and make a party ;D

Everybody is hoping that the value of Bitcoin will be nice but the most people are telling that the halving will be not even that nice because the value has to be more.
And that is not the case now and the value was also a long time stable which that was a really bad moment for people who already have Bitcoin.

I will staying all night long and i will see the price of the bitcoin continue rising, I maybe have some treat for my self for earning bitcoin before bitcoin halving. Bitcoin halving is like christmas to us

I think that i will work, nothing special. I don't know what to celebrate this day ::) I am just happy that halving helped me to get more money, that's all.

You guys realize that these price changes going up and down and you profiting from it, costs other people their money right?
Because any money every one earning is a lost for some one else, lol now I see it's more like ponzi system that people getting paid
At the cost of others losing their money >:(

No. This is a total lie. Network effects are not a zero-sum game. When everyone benefits from using a new, more efficient technology, telephone, electricity, internet, bitcoin, highways, etc because it is cheaper to work as a network, then the total societal wealth is expanded. even if you don't want to be part of that new network you will still probably benefit in some way, but just not as much. It's called progress and please stop spreading such sneaky lies.

2016 is the time of occurrence of halving. This is very exciting because I could take a huge advantage. I save some bitcoin today and I'll sell it one day later after halving.

If there will be a halving and if the price really does indeed go up, I might actually have a party for myself with burgers and pizza and all!

Ill bring the beer!

m_of_a

Yes, that would be my take as well.

As BTC (we hope) catches on more, and as more developers create more options for buying BTC and selling stuff for it, we indeed all win (on average).

providentmetals.com (http://providentmetals.com) for me has been the big BTC game changer for me, allowing me to buy gold with BTC (even if prematurely, buying when BTC price was lower, *sigh*).

Well, bitcoin halving is going to be a great day for bitcoin. The price could really go both ways since there might be a dump after the halving as many people are suggesting now.

But yeah, I'll have a big mac and fry, thanks :D

Not really. I don't really celebrate after anything lol. It's nothing about bitcoin halving that is wrong, it's just my habits. Also, the price may drop after the halving since the hype goes off. Nothing to celebrate if it does.

But I'd always like a beer :D

For me life's been one mega party since bitcoin came into my life so many years ago. But I have no specific plan for the moment it halfs. Maybe I'll crack a nice bottle of Brandy and pour myself a glass.

NOPE !!!

i do plan to have a Bitcoin halving party in December though

If you done your research on the halving you would know why i say December, and not the halving day.

This month is everyday party, from 583 this morning went up to 630 this afternoon. Huge rally wil be expected this july so the party continues

Anybody else care for liver with some fava beans and a nice Chianti?

Only if it tastes like chicken!  ;D

Don't really have plan for now. Most people say price will be grow up.

But i think it safe to stay online and let's watch the market and decided what will happen.

Halving is now hot topic. For bitcoin users halving day like Christmas Day. Well, I think its more than that day because Christmas Day comes every year but halving comes 4 rears once. Guys, hope we will get some good time to enjoy Bitcoin Halving Party 2016!!!!

Well I got into the aspect of halving is the idea of what if halving is just the launch point?

ie you have this momentum up to halving......price shoots up.....everyone is holding ....3/4 of BTC is now in existence

even thou not as significant as the above .....now 1/2 the BTC daily being mined

well the FOMO and the drive of newbie BTC money into bitcoin SHOULD BE STRONG..

ie pump to halving then double pump after on the above senarios

anyway a poll and thread on such odds here (if you want)

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1508080.msg15173493#msg15173493 (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1508080.msg15173493#msg15173493)


Interesting times indeed :)

im not quietly familiar in halving,.. ???
can anyone explain to me or can anyone help me where i can read this halving here in this forum.
just wanna know if my thoughts about this halving is a good thing for bitcoins or can help bitcoin for the high price,
is that right? ???

Well if we are success to reach 1,4k value of bitcoin i think someone can start a party for bitcoin halving..
In my own i will pray that the price will increase more i will start my own party with my friends..

I think the price could be around $1000 to 6 months to 1 year.  For 1400 to be reached, we need very good news.

last week we have almost reach that price,and now bitcoin price going down lower,almost like last month,so i still wondering what causing this situation,even we still reach halving,but bitcoin price already raise and down so deep,anyone can explain something? and now i start rather that after halving bitcoin price will stable at more than $800

This correction is due to the small traders doing selling who have purchase the bitcoin around $400 range as per my guess. but i think from next week the boom rally will start back and this time we will see the price of $1000.

My plan is nothing,because i dont know what gonna happen when Bitcoin halving come,and i also know that nobody know what gonna happen with bitcoin price when the halving come,i just keep collect bitcoin from now and until the halving come ;)

I think something better will happen at the time of halving, now I am seeing that the price is at best level and I am trying to buy a good amount of bitcoin and hope in the coming month I will be rich with that.

I guess the party is over and the price of bitcoin is currently down. hopefully that price will come down bitcoin not exceed the price of stability ago. but, I hope there will be price increases aftershocks equipped with price stability, it would be very sweet if it really happened

Well i think its impossible right now that the price will hit in 1k value because we already seen that the price is very low right now and i think it will be back again in to normal price.. looks like we are experience fake pump and now going back to normal..

I think thats is not good event to celebrate, i don't really like all this stuff , many people just drinking and having fun cause block is halved, cmon...

I think it's pretty difficult if Bitcoin can reach $1, 4 k. Because seen from the charts right now, it's likely just a bitcoin can reach up to $ 1 k, it can only go down than I had anticipated. Because now the few people who still want to utilize the halving, so there's not enough good things in this year

The halving could only pump the price to $800-1000. We need more people to use bitcoin so that the price will be higher.

1000-2000$ can be obtain after halving or before the year ends and 2017 more and more people will have interest on bitcoin,
Cause some poeple finds bitcoin as thier source of income.

I like your prediction. The question is will it stabize there though, but I think it might. That's true that more and more people start using Bitocion as thier source of income and the price might rise because of that.

Well as the past halving portrays, that price range wouldn't hold itself for months, and the bubble would pop sometime for a few months and will not last for a year. That is what happened in the last months of 2013 and the whole 2014 where the price is stagnating, and is a pretty boring year for bitcoin.

The price could be around $800 at the time of the halving. That is almost the double of the early 2016 price.

I also have an strong feeling that price will be around $800 at halving, we cannot expect more then that as now we are close to $700, so $800 is possible at halving.

Yeah don't lose hope and keep on praying for the price to reach that and i think that it's not impossible because we can see now that the price is slowly reaching $800 and i think after halving it will be easy for bitcoin to reach 1.4k value because the mining block rewards will be half and the stocks will be fewer than before so i think it will result for a huge price increase ;D. Keep on hoping, patience is a virtue :D.

I do not pray for the price to rise. It will rise in the long term apart from the big pump in the November 2013.

Hence why people need not spend their bitcoins. Some can even save their private keys and bury them underground while still having a profit. That's the least riskiest option imo.

On the other hand, trading and investing offers greater returns, but with greater risk.

Many people can make an predict if at halving bitcoin price will get a big rising like a rocket want to fly into the mars.
I could not agree with this statement because all of this needed a process not an easily with instant way.

I am excited to know how will it affect the price of bitcoin. I have a feeling it will guve a rise to the price😀

i am mostly expecting the same price and maybe $700 tops by the time of halving. because i am expecting the next rise to require longer accumulation phase.

It's not going to rise overnight bro, it's going to be gradual

Im just planning to watch bitcoin halving happen the whole night and im planning to buy a whole.pizza and eat it my self only that thing is very good for that event

I still don`t know the exact date of the halving....and what will happen.

I have no plans of celebrating it.

Can anybody tell me when it will happen?Really,i`m serious.

Well, my plan is holding all of my bitcoins until the halving come. Many people speculate the price of bitcoin will increase so high when the halving come though.

i`ll read live google news feed and follow the cyber-party :)

Honestly for me halving for this year is good thing, but even the halving is done I still hold my bitcoin for the long term wishing it will grow more and more.

The only way for mining to not totally fall because it not being able to cover cost getting only half the reward if the price stays the same, is for it to not stay the same. The price will have to double almost immediately to get to just a break even point again, and continue to rise overtime to cover the ever increasing cost of mining.

my plan is also holding all of my bitcoins because i know that the price is going to grow a lot pretty soon thus allowing me to make some decent money out of my investment

i hope that bitcoin halving will make me some decent money, halving will surely be a really huge event that will attract a lot of new people to bitcoins and maybe more companies will get in

Same here. I do not care if the price will grow or not in the short term. As long as the price riese in the long term, it is fine.

Just a heads up that it's only 1 week to go. So time to get the supplies in and chilling.

not sure its gonna rise much more.

Seems as if maybe the price is already built in now. Cause we were sitting at 300 forever it seemed and now settling in around 600-700.

But I hope your right and it keeps going up!!!

No special plans for me though except I will definitely be monitoring the prices (maybe some left over beer from the fourth of july to celebrate)

I just plan to keep an eye on the pumps and dumps people will be doing just out of pure speculation, and of course try to take advantage of them if I can .

I will prepare my eyes to see and pat attention to the screen and prepare my hand to sell the coin when the price is high, after i sell it i will make a party to celebrate it hopefully the price will go very high

That's the right thing to do after or just a day before halving is to be ready and prepare our hands to click the mouse for selling our coins because in just few hours the price can changed faster than what we expect. Be prepare and also smart on choosing the right price to sell our coins so we will not regret the big decision that we will make.

I dont have any plans. I have plans before to hoard or store my bitcoins in my wallet but right now there are no more btc inside my wallet. I am forced to withdraw it convert to cash and pay and finance my daily needs. Right now if I dont have money shortage I Would wait for the highest price of bitcoin before selling. But everything and my plans and targets are no longer needed due to zero balance

we should all make plans to do a celebration online because bitcoin is also online and global that would let anybody to join in.

we could do it on the forum on on reddit and start many giveaways to other users of reddit for example to get more people who don't know about bitcoin into bitcoin this way.

When all together sell coins it will be mashed together and there can be great chances for price to go low, so it is good not to sell all coins at time of halving.

Sure there will be a big number of people dumping their coins and from the other side will be people waiting to get them cheap as we all believe price will go up again and we will be at the 4 digits soon or later.

I have no special plans for when the reward for bitcoin halves. Having experienced the last halving, trust me, it's no big deal. It's not like New Year's Eve or anything. I doubt if we even see a significant change in bitcoin price up or down on the first 12.5 block reward.

As happened at the last halving, I predict there will be threads saying, "WTF? Nothing Happened With Halving?" "What's Going On? No Change In Price With Today's Halving" "Why Come Nothing Happened At Halving Yesterday?" etc, etc..

yes why not i also like to celebrate the party. it will be a fun and i want to enjoy it. but we have to motivate other friends about the party. it will be a greate party of course.

went through the 1st halving. aside from a blitz of transactions so people could have a chance to get their transaction in the 1st 25 btc block nothing much happened.

gonna have a bbq here. cheeseburgers! yum!

only a few days left right now to be honest and i think that the price is going to grow really soon in my opinion hopefully in this way i would manage to make some big money

i think i will have to make a block reward halving party at my house even though most of my friends will not understand what it is, we will still have a long day partying hopefully

It'll definitely be fun to watch the price post halving. I'm a long-term bitcoin holder, thus, the near-term price fluctuations won't affect me too much whichever direction the price goes. July 9th is still a day I look forward too as it is another significant milestone in bitcoin's life I get to witness prior to global adoption of cryptocurrency adoption.

the more thrilling because of lack of halving the next few days will happen, I'm very curious to not be able to sleep.
how much halving will bring the price of bitcoin?

At halving day the bitcoin price will halve ... simply because everyone bought for that very special day, will then find out that nothing happens, and sell again.  ;)

I do not think the price would drop the half at all. even if a lot of people sell, there are already buyers are ready to buy before the price even fall $100. you are so pessimistic

a few more days the owners of bitcoin will be having a party. bitcoin prices are expected to rise very high after halving.

I sure the halving is not giving a collateral for you. but anything can happen bitcoin price drops at half? it's not only a dream man. we not a pessimistic people but we only became a rational and realistic people and not have a shitty prediction to always keep in my mind if bitcoin will never get a drop for their price.

I will sit down behind a PC and wait for the reaction of the market on the day of the bitcoin halving ill be enjoying myself watching the price increase (HAPPY) that is if it does increase I would rather wait and watch.Halving can make price go up for a short time but it will eventually settle down at somewhere around $600

Campinas, SP, Brazil

Second Bitcoin Halving Party Meeting.

https://www.facebook.com/events/1738924912985881/

And this is the photo of our first meeting in 2012:

https://s32.postimg.org/tnw7yhojp/13268559_10154291029289673_7586482623781705521_o.jpg

So there is such thing as Bitcoin Halving Party :d I wanted  to join if ever there will be here in the Philippines but im afraid not because Bitcoin is not yet that popular here in our country. I hope that it will be well known someday here so that we can also throw a Bitcoin Halving Party here :D I'm really looking forward to that :D

It is now popular in our country thats why BSP is implementing a new law which is against bitcoin, you do know that they are taking our selfies right haha.

If bitcoin rises after halving i will make a little party for myself ;)

Bitcoin has raised already i dont believe it can find a bigger value now, maybe at end the year the price will readjust to a new value being near the 800 dollars. The next halving will maybe means nothing, only big farmers will loose their power inside bitcoin, with getting less coins, soo they should pump and make huge pression to bitcoin keep growing over the years.

Well haha i will surely do something.
Probably will just withdraw my all funds from all of my wallets,and change it into fiat currency.
Then im going to collect my friends which are earning btc too,and just relaaax

By my estimate the party begins Saturday 9th at 16:10 GMT.

$800 for once bitcoin it's good, we no needed to make a big expectations about bitcoin price , we can see just for now the bitcoin price is always stagnant and not showed markings to going up. if bitcoin is not reached a lot of the people;s prediction may be many from them will getting depressed. ;D

sometimes flash dump will come before massive pump,my low line is $450, i will all in to buying bitcoin if the price down to $450 and sell my bitcoin if reach price $1000. i have some activity in halving day, maybe i will open buy and sell order, so im not lost the good momenth.

All you guys look so happy and I know why. Its because you all know sooner or later you all will be crazy rich and that time is about to be now.
Great picture!

Enough high value which 800 Dollars each coin is much. Don't need expect too high about bitcoin price because that's will only gratuitous if you don't have any knowledge about it. I means predict bitcoin is necessary but should know any recent information and news about bitcoin which can give influential to bitcoin price, including halving that potentially increase it price. Right, in 2016 happened halving for few time. It is sound good yeah.
Halving made fluctuations of bitcoin inclined go up during this year. Also that affected for other alternative coin so much. Many alternative coin's price that went down because halving made the price of bitcoin increased. But it should be.
By the way in my country bitcoin start getting place in society. It see from many new users of bitcoin in my country. Maybe after the price go up because halving, the people getting interested and think that bitcoin is profitable.

https://telegram.me/BitcoinHalving

You will see some price change. Traders will get excited and pump it, or panic and dump it. A majority of traders never seen a halving before, so its kind of unpredictable.

halving is always the best reason to celibrate and i thing we can celibrate this day atleast all the bitcoiners. i will be online the whole day to see all the activitys on my whatsapp group all of my friends gonna play their secret cards

Strange, BTC s still going down. I was hoping to see some real action just before the block halves. Well, maybe reduced supply starting Sunday will do something to the price.

i like to be a part of this party but how can i? i have no idea. can i be a part of this party online? how can i join this party  from such a distance. can i join this party through internet? i am still confused looking no solution to me. any one can tell me the procedure.

can someone donate me a bit want party too, 1DTjkCo2xh6XduXC8WR8ocaCywJuGrUfv4  ::)

Because bitcoin halving happened when I vacation then I will continue to monitor price developments and news updates that might affect the price of bitcoin. Bottom line I will continue to monitor the market and will go with the flow :) because the price goes up or down it was speculated. Thank you

What the hell dude,you are BEGGING HERE?
Jesus christ,just delete this post as fast as you can,you will get banned in a while i guess.
Im joking,do what you want,beggars wont get any donations anyway.

I'm going to buy a cake, and host a halving countdown party, we're going to count it down like a New Years celebration.  3... 2... 1... Happy Bitcoin Halving!!!

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and then what? will you quit bitcoin after that?
just let me tell you a truth if by chance bitcoin dead in future. then it will dead just because of people like you.. I see 90% of bitcoin holders are just waiting for bitcoin halving and to sell their all funds and quit.
I am really so worry about bitcoin price after halving. it will dump badly.

Come on big whales do something and make this halving a nice party. Pump the price!

Without your moves, people will just stay in their current situation. Hoping for your moves today and expecting a good price when I wake up tomorrow lol.

i'm afraid this is not going to happen. whales are now partying because price went down and now they can buy more cheap bitcoins, this is their party and then the rise is their second party.

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I am going to guess that The Halving does not have much effect on BTC prices.  My guess is that BTC relies more on STOCK of BTC to FLOW (like gold), with the added dynamic of incremental changes in demand (like we saw a month or so ago re Chinese buying sending BTC over $700).

Stock:Flow

Demand

I guess we will soon see.

But all of this is cause the whale, with a very big amount they can do anything, maybe make a manipulate and another. but this is giving a bad impact for small users just relies on the price of bitcoin.and they can make prices arbitrarily.

There's always a bigger fish (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WAuBX666PaQ)

I am expecting that there will be an organized event and it will be seen on TV. Fireworks and concerts and the like to party bitcoin halving 2016. But in our home since I am the only one doing bitcoin in our area then I will just monitor the price trend, I will wait if there will be an increase on bitcoin price.

7 hours to go. I hope you've got your supplies in.

I expected a little bit mor movement in this party.
Some ups and downs, or at least some go-go-girls.
But right now, halving day is like yesterday...

The halving is relaly close right now but there is no significant raise on the price of bitcoin. I hope the price of bitcoin will increase soon when the halving come.

I don't care much about BTC halving this year maybe next year for the reason that I don't owned or have obtained any BTC goodluck to all and God bless <3 happy halving day!!!

This is so funny. Everyone earns bitcoin and hold it just to get profit. And why not to convert it if we are in profit. I would do the same in case I had lots of bitcoins.

No no no. The halving event happens roughly once every 4 years. It's not a yearly thing xD

Looking forward to this big event.Hope I become richer ;)

Are you sure about that? I never saw the effect from halving to bitcoin in this time, and never saw the markings of bitcoin price will going up. just bot make a big deal with your expectation, better to see the reality. i sure the price is always stable on this value.

4 hours to go already hahaha :)
I cannot stand this,im so curious what is going to happen with the price,and im waiting for my friend's party
it will be surely cool :)

As expected, not important volatility before halving. And it is highly likely that after halving time we also don't see any substantial move in the bitcoin price. And I think it is not a bad thing, it is just a clear sign that bitcoin has started a consolidation stage where we will see a more convenient stability in its price, which paradoxically could make the bitcoin more reliable to carry out ordinary transactions and boost its usage on many other stores.

Dude this halving day, I think you didn't notice the headline of the home page I guess.

this halving only stabilized the price of bitcoin. nothing much had happened. is there still group of people did this bitcoin halving party? how di you celebrate ir?

People celebrate the win of their elected president / PM... today but they will only notice the effect of his plan few months later (and they will regret it as always cuz it is politics)
To say that with bitcoin you have to be patient and wait for the halving effect after few days, weeks or maybe few months? But I think that we will not regret cuz it is bitcoin

the point he was making is that if BTC holders withdraw all of their funds the price
of btc will be affected resulting to price decrease. if your goal is to only gain profits, that's fine,
but there are btc users who wants bitcoin to last long and maintain its price.

ya it is true most of the users just waiting for halving as they dream that this halving price will increase just like last time halving price increased but this time as more users are expecting same but the price did not increased .

even though the price wasnt on a huge growth i think that there are a lot of time left still and i think that the price is going to grow a lot in the near future like after previous halving

Bitcoin's value will rise eventually. All it needs is time for it to do so. We have only entered the transitional phase. We are still using the old coins mined from when the block reward was still 25BTC. Once there are enough new sets of coins mined, the price will go up. For sure. Very soon too.

the price is going to grow a lot in the future, even though nothing happened we wont need to wait a lot i think

There is no doubt about growing of bitcoin price in future, but we do not know if to what extent it will grow, that is the reason we just say a price from hour hopes and say it as a prediction, and start getting sad later when the price can't reach the target we had set in our minds.

Bitcoin doesn't always go our way. Sure, we can speculate the price ourselves but if those speculations have no basis, don't expect them to be accurate at all. With the current situation, I'm expecting bitcoins to further drop but only to a certain amount, say around $450 since BitFinex held quite a lot of volume and it's gone.

That is one of the reason bitcoin is unpredictable we dont know if bitcoin will grow more in the future or not. we are experiencing right now in crisis instead of the price is staying at 600 level the price is down back to 500 level.. this is new journey about the price price.. but i am sure that the price will recover back when the price is 600 level more price will come after this happenning..

Around this time everyone is hoping that the value of Bitcoin will be higher and that is because they already see now that the value is started to rise which that is really nice.
But some people also said that the value of Bitcoin wont even rise that much in the halving so we have just to wait and see for what will happen.

I guess the party is over, bitcoin prices retreated after halving occurs. Well, I guess halving not give effect so great for bitcoin, but I believe that it is simply a delayed effect. I believe that the price of bitcoin will rise again, and I believe, in October 2016, bitcoin prices go up, even if it rises slowly

... the party is just getting started, it's all part of the process.

Huge profits for who bought months before the event.

Unfortunatly this time halving couldn't push the prices to 1000$ as everyone including myself was expecting.As oppose to last halving this time price start going uo a month before halving and now after halving have started falling again.i dont see any positive affect of halving on prices anymore

It was pretty obvious. The same thing happened last halving, the price slowly declined after the halving. It should go up to 1k by november, though. What's concerning me at the moment is Bitfinex.

#Halvingnohype

Being a little bit busy from a while so I didn't read the news, seeing your concern about bitfinex made me do a quick search and what a great news lol the price dropped $100 at the last time I checked it because of bitfinex's hack...
Share the same concern here about its future and about the price  :-\

i was also holding my bitcoins and expecting for the price growth, however nothing happened because no one was buying their bitcoins unfortunately

the halving price effect it's just a past, and I sure you know if before the halving the price of bitcoin is increased from $400 into more than $550 in this time. I think the effect of halving it's already taken before the halving price happens.

Of course no. The price increase prior to halving is just a part of some reasons that boost the price. It was a speculation that bring the price up.

The effect of halving needs some more time to be noticed. No instant result here since drop rewards effect will surely feel by most of the miners, I think months after halving.

Interesting that there are already people making preparations for the next halving.

Nothing, I'll just go on with my life, do whatever I want to do and watch the price, and wait about the news when it happens, in short, I will be in front of my computer and read...yes it is a special day, but I think its not necessarily we have to celebrate and waste our money..

um you realize it happened already..

This party drives the price big pump, next party if halving is 2020. Let's hodl bitcoin.

Yea halving is a good opportunity for us to make our bitcoin increase in its rate so we can easily afford a party with friends became after halving we are going to earn alot. But u.fortunately I don't have real life friend with whom i can do the party, all my bitcoin friends are online friends

in that year bitcoin may have faces some problem or maybe it will be cheap so that we can use it on the store or supermarkets maybe we gonna wait for the 9th of november something are going to happens just wait it and im still earning what ever happens on bitcoin keep earning till the end of generation.

Yes i have a plan before the bitcoin halves come.
First plan is to buy some bitcoin as long as i can afford. Hold until the price is rising to the fullest.
Secondly have a party celebration with my co bitcoiners.

The past halving was very dull (at least as far as the change in exchange rates are concerned). So why should any one bother about the next halving, which is still four years away? Everyone was expecting a repeat of what happened in 2012, when the exchange rates zoomed by 10,000% in 12 months. I really doubt whether that will happen ever again.

If you consider the price in July 2015, which was about $200, and the price now is $600. That is good increase.

That is true. As long as the price double every year or every two years, bitcoin is a good investment.

I think every four years we will see a little rise in the price as we saw bitcoin go from 250 bucks to 800 then gone back to 600, so we can perhaps see a new floor every 4 years at least, so we can say it's like saving gold for long term savers I guess. Only though if more and more people use bitcoin we will see a greater rise in price.

Thinking that the btc price will increase after the halving was a big delusion.

Nothing happened after the halving and the Halving "party" is over.

The price would surely rise higher as the coins are limited and the demand will be unlimited if the community continues to increase like this, because we can see that the people are coming to a large extent towards bitcoin while the quantity of bitcoins are same from starting till now, so the more the demand increases the price will follow it.

... it ain't over until it's over chump, last time the halving party went on for about exactly a year.

This time, it might last for 4 years.

I will earn bitcoin as much as I can get, this is really big chance to get big profit, but if all people sell their bitcoin after halving in the same time what it could be? I worry about this.

Bitcoin halving in my opinion was not really good now in my opinion since there ain't so high price rise to new all time high that has happened in the past few months. It have only rised a little from 600$ to 700+$. Well I do hope that in the next having, we will see a pump like the one that has happened in 2012, so before that ill hoard bitcoins again for the next coming halving hoping that it's price will rise pretty well.

well in my opinion the halving it is not really as good as most of the people expected, but at least after 5 or 6 months the price is slowly go up, most of the user expected the price will grow directly after the halving, but i think halving is only giving advantage for early adopter, for the new user it will be a bit too expensive for them to used it

I do agree the demand rises the price also follow and rises! Well we know that now there are lot of users coming and learning and using bitcoin thats why the demand is getting higher and higher while the supply is the same and it is just distributed all over the users.

Yeah, when demand increases surely the price increase happens. But to have a sustained growth in the price continuous adoption is necessary. To have a sustained adoption spreading is important, but right now social media needs to make a big role.

People does see the halving as a profitable event, and if you are smart, you will follow the signals and last trends, this year bitcoin gaved a lesson to the speculatives investors, people were dreaming with 800-1000 dollars, and when bitcoin reached just 500-600 some people lost money, because they joined the bump some days before the halving. The lesson is always search about the last price of halving, and see why the price has jumped, if there isnt a valid reason be sure bitcoin wont hit what people does speculate.

The block halving resulted in a well increased price, but the thing that people (where you seem to be one of) don't seem to understand, is that the price has gone up in advance of the actual block halving date. That's the reason that after the block halving not much has happened with the price. The current runup to the $800 level has nothing to do with the block halving anymore. People are over that.

The price rose to $900 now. Is that due to halving?

I don't think it is due to halving only, we have seen several price pump on end of each year in past and i think this one is same. But this time growth looks stable and we may not see much dump even if price crosses $1000 on this pump.

Price may touch old ATH price really soon, hope there will be no big dump after this huge pump we are seeing right now.

The price dropped below $900 again.

I expected the fall down of bitcoin this month , And im expecting it recover its price again up to 1000$. Rising bitcoins price this month is for me too fast. Im expecting too fast dump too . But Im hoping that dump wont happen now.

The price has returned where we were last year before the jump into 900 and above, this is the stable value we had achieved, above it will require some time, but well some people had made easy money with this jump, remembet that were something like 300 dollars and 30% jump without a valid reason to happen besides maybe  the raise in the demand.

It's the hottest news for this weekand its only 883 USD via preev and the only question is that we don't know if how long this dump is, if this will stay on 800 or maybe it will go deeper to 600 I hope its not.
Just stay on hold guys, don't sell your coins price will come back on the range of 900.

I have no idea what I was doing that day. Probably getting some credits. Halving went quite well, I guess. The price fell, of course, but then it started growing and brought us to where weare now. The next halving is in the three years, so we still have some time to enjoy mining our sums of btc and having the price of $1k for some time, at least.

It is 2007 now and the halving happenes last year but this thread is still very active! I dont know if there was really a party after the halving last year. I suggest that we move on and close this thread already. It doesnt make sense anymore because the next halving will happen after a few more years.

If i remember, in the last halving, after 6 months the price pumped. Same happened last year in 2016 when halving happened in july and after 6 months we got the biggest Pump for bitcoins. but thanks to the community and trust of people, it did not dump much after reaching $1000.

... also the really big run was 11 months after halving last time, the 6 monthly one is not finished yet by my calculations .... and the one after that should be bigger again. Adoption bringing new demand is still running at an exponential rate so it is only a matter of time until price needs to slip up to the new equilibrium.

The real effect of halving was experienced throughout the year from its start. By the year ending it happened enormously and keep counting even after decrease. Same as said adoption is bringing new demand and the new equilibrium along with much increased capital and adoption can be experienced by the halving of 2020.