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Why is this happening right now? Bitcoin lost about 15% of it's price for three days. Any ideas?

wrong forum please move it :)

It's probably because people are dumb enough to take someone (Mike hearn) words seriously and also because of Cryptsy who closed or got hacked or whatever really happened .

If the fundamentals of Bitcoin are really strong, it will quickly bounce back.  :)

Ehhh no they aren't.  Which is exactly what Mike Hearn revealed to a larger audience.

if this was true, then why bitcoin did not collapsed, so long ago, there were pleny of issue in the past and none even put a dent on bitcoin ever

teh true is that they are minor issue, they would not impact bitcoin as many are saying, they are emphasize this too much imho, just to create fud on the market

Price already went down for more than 24%, i think people are making panic, the price i hope will go again back even though an employee gave up that's nothing to worry.

it might go down now for a while, but not for long, after every price fall comes large price rise

Lol not sure specifically why but probably because bitcoin is always going up and down and up and down by pretty notable amounts.

Once the price went down just due to the negative statements as well the market. Now even though the market is not stable bitcoin price has started increasing. On the days of fall also it did't went that low.

I hope bitcoin will rise again..

Yup Don't worry about these kind negativity spreaders Bitcoin is rising again now as you said. It crossed 400$ and more. We can get a good rate for bitcoin in market.
But don't sell any bitcoins just hold it for some long we can make profit more by halving.;)

It's not going down now, it's rising now pretty fast to be honest, will rise for month or more now

Another rally. Doesn't look like 500 is out of the question.

$460 - $470 is the next ceiling I believe plenty will be watching for that activity and certainly if it breaks through that then $500 is most certainly reachable  :)

It's not really going down tho... its been pretty sideways since we first hit $500 i would say (big picture)

Bitcoin going down? No, it's rising now actually, it's 20$ more then it was yesterday, i couldin't name it price drop or so, only a rise, and it will rise this all week

The price of bitcoin to day is gradually decreasing and i think it's just a nature of bitcoin.. sooner the price will rise again.. just don't panic to sell bitcoin because there's a possibility that the price will rise above 500 this week.. I hope it will happen soon or 3 days later..

Yes it's raising now and only a foolish person will say it's going down , guys be aware of scammers who are trying their best to confuse bitcoin users no way that bitcoin is going down

i was very sure about that and it does happen since several days ago bitcoin prices back to $400 above and i think we will see prices back to $450 above soon

Say what?

Since we first hit $500 it more than doubled to over $1000, fell to less than $200, went over $500 again and down to $300 before reaching $450.

Those are some pretty extreme fluctuations, hardly what I'd call sideways.

i hope your are wrong because i hate see price on position sideways. no one can take profit or benefit in sideways better if price goes down or up much be easy to trade and take some profit maybe.

There is one certain thing about Bitcoin - it will go down...way down, then back up...way up, then sideways for awhile.  Just when you think it is down it is up.  Then it seems like when I sell it goes up.

I do not care about the swings in the price. As long as it go up in price in long term. I am very happy.

The price will go up and down all the time. But the volatility has reduced quite a lot recently. Maybe the price wiill rise eventually.

The volatility is still the same as it has been years ago. I really can't see this change any time soon. The market cap is too small for stability. Bitcoin is a whales paradise.

Bitcoin will be going all over the place for a little while, there won't be any proper ways to judge the value for a while as all the investors freak out and start to sell their Bitcoin.

Wait for the full-block capacity talk to die out, and there will be movements as normal. This is just brought on my the surge of news sites claiming that Bitcoin has collapsed.

If there is no full block increase in the next few months, I think the bitcoin price will go down again.

SegWit will be implemented later this months according to the road map, so the block size might be increased.

is there anywhere i can read this roadmap with dates mentioned (i am looking for an official announcement like on bitcoin.org or something like that)

There's this (https://medium.com/@bitcoinroundtable/bitcoin-roundtable-consensus-266d475a61ff#.dqrunsvwj) - not sure if there's anything more officicial, but this was published right after the February roundtable, by the participants.

bitcoin is not going down at all, im pretty sure that the price is fluctuating as always, even if it fell like 50 dollars i would still think that it will soon start going up significantly

i think that there will soon be a pump that will make the price go up a lot and the price will surely not be dropping at all, therefore im buying a lot of coins right now with the spare money i have

Today's bitcoin price is still around $420. That is quite similar to a few days ago's price. it is very stable.

I do not think the bitcoin price will go down to 3xx again. Even if it reaches there, it will be just a flash dump.

The bitcoin price might go to 3xx in a small exchange with low volume. But that will not last too long.

The volatility is the factor which attracts more and more users. If there is no volatility people won't get profit from the trading and other forms of earning.

but as many people already been discover the uses of bitcoin popularity has been established many payment transaction and online shopping has been develop might be establishing the price and I don't believe that bitcoin will fall down again, it will stay now from it current price and make it rise afterwards.

Bitcoin is now finally getting interesting again with the price slowly going up again people are now using Bitcoin. So I do not believe that Bitcoin is going down at the moment.

Bitcoin is not going down now around this time, the value keeps stable now so that is not that bad now and of course there are a lot of people that is waiting for a good price increase but they have to wait longer.
The halving is also coming so the people with Bitcoin are also hoping that the value will rise after the halving. 

Bitcoin is going up now indeed as you can see you see that the value is indeed stable but you also see that the value is rising slowly and that is good for the people who already have Bitcoin.
And maybe the halving will be also good for us but you never know what can happen with Bitcoin.

Bitcoin is now not going down, the price is now stable so that is not that bad for the people who already have some Bitcoins because it value is not falling down and that is nice.
Many people are hoping that the value will go up soon so they can sell it in a fast time but that takes a also a longer time because it will not happen fast that the value will be high.
It will not going down soon because the halving is also coming so it is not that bad for Bitcoin and maybe it will rise in the halving.

it's not interesting at all with the volumes being this low. there is literally nothing changed so far. we have seen the price go up to these levels before and even higher before it got dumped down again. and i think the same will happen again. nothing indicates that the price will go higher or lower. market is still the same.

Yes we know that the price is not going down but is increasing and will increase with more speed to be prepared for the halving, but the OP has posted that in the month of January where the price was going to down.

The bitcoin price will increase slowly before the halving. Then it will go up very fast after the halving.

Yes the price is moving up at a moment and it will more higher when we get close to halving, so I don't think that we will see price fall in next couple of months.

I think the price of bitcoin will move to around $500 to $600 level before the halving. It will then double after.

The bitcoin block reward halving and the block size increase this year will make the price to be over $1000.

Block halving will result in the price going up a little bit more from the price today and the block size increase will just have a short lasting $50 increase at most as result. If we get to touch $600 this year then we'll be very lucky.

$600 is not too high value to achieve, I mean if everything goes fine then we can  see this price at the time of halving or  even maybe higher.

$600 is about $150 higher than the present price. It might be difficulty to reach just  before the halving.

I am not 100% sure as to what may have happened, but i am expecting the price to rise back up. Trust me. Don't worry about this short loss in price.  :) :) :)

Yes $600 before the halving is not very likely to happen.
Better to expect such price in Q3 or Q4 of this year.
Every price above that however is highly welcome. :)

Bitcoin is not going down and it was already stable for a long time so that is bad for the most people who are waiting for a price increase but you see now that it is rising slowly.
And that is perfect for the people that is waiting so they can maybe have some profit soon.

Sure there are to many who are just holding their coins. Don't hold them to long because
the coin needs to be spent by many guys will he get a nice value. So think about it money needs to roll men.

Going up, going down and going up, its a natural move, dont worry bro

Market is quite stable right now in price range of 450 to 460 and it becoming stronger day by day. So if you se 15% down or up in a single day or within one hour than that will be pure manipulation and you have to be aware to choose right move on those situations.

The bitcoin is not gonna go down at all, I even think it has a great future a head with all its upcoming events.
The halving will let the bitcoin even rise in my eyes.

The halving could double the bitcoin price from $400 to 800 in September or October. Then it will break the $1000 level.

If we see higher price at the time of halving then anything is possible at the end of the year, it may even go beyond $1k mark.

$1k is bit difficult to achieve in this year but we cannot be sure about anything, when it comes to bitcoin anything is possible.

Just a bit difficult? Or simply not realistic in any way? I go for the last option. I am not even sure we'll reach $1000 next year.

How can you be so sure about that? Are you a fortune teller? Only time will show what will be the price of bitcoin in future, and it doesn't depend on what you or I feel.

I look at facts. Currently there is more supply than actual demand, which is why normally it's somewhat of a miracle that the price kept itself at todays levels. However, that it stays relatively stable at todays prices is purely because of the block halving. After the block halving the demand and supply levels will meat each other nicely, or there will still be a gap with only 12.5BTC block rewards. Either way, there is no place for $1000 this and possibly next year.

Good luck trying to get that correct bit of reasoning across on the speculation section of bitcointalk.  This is a bullpen of men who blab on and on about where the price is going and use the woo of technical analysis and such to back up their claims.  It makes for a fun hobby--like politics--but it's maddeningly silly.

Here to speculate and get in on the blab.
After the halving the summer should see a drop but nothing to serious imo.

Bitcoin was stable for a long time and people are negative about it of course because they want to earn profit with it which that is not possible for them.
So they are now waiting for a price increase soon and that would be perfect for the people that already have Bitcoin.

After the halving, the price could increase fast. The current low price is just the consolidating of the time.

Its bad to see so much people that is negative about the Bitcoin and that is just only because the value is not rising and it was stable for a long time and it is not not even reducing.
And the halving is also coming so it is really nice if the value is rising slowly now so we can sell it maybe after the halving.

I see the bitcoin with some negativity because the block size is too small to facilliate the fast transactions.

The block size will be increased in the Bitcoin Core, or the SegWit. A 2MB block size increase will also happen.

The SegWit was supposed to happen in April. It is June now. It is difficult to say when it will be implemented.

youre worrying on the very minor things, thats been aware to the community 1 or 2 years back when this issue was on by the devs.

If we really need to increase the blockchain size per transaction it will be done by the devs.

I reckon the bitcoin price will double every year for the next 10 years. The price of bitcoin was around $470 last December. So I think $1000 is possible this year.

If the number of user increases by 10 times, the price could be 100 times year, so $40,000 is possible in a few years.

The network effect or the price rise will follow the S curve. The bitcoin price is still not on the vertical part yet.