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I know that bitcoin blocks are going to be halved to 12.5 next summer.

so how will this affect the price?

It is gonna moon!..  ;D

But some says that BTC already has priced the halving and halving will not affect the price... 

I don't think it really will effect the price very much. Everyone knows it is going to happen, and have known for years. Just like we know approximately when it will halve again.

Thinking in future of BTC is a bit depressing..

Obviusly It will impact direct to the price: Up or Down, who knows?

I'm just waiting "Stability", (to attract "big players")

Aynway.... there's 150 days left, and we will see.

Most probably the price of Bitcoin will increase. However, things might go a different way too. Just like how people predict that Black Friday 2015 will make Bitcoin price decrease but it turn out that Bitcoin price shoot up a lot. Personally, I believe that the Bitcoin price will increase after the halving. Maybe 50% or so after a month or so. I am not a good speculator.

But what if whales decide to take advantage and dump first?
Price could be back at 200$?
 I mean it is alway how you did not expected.
If i see this i know i will buy for sure! .

It's already a similar thread about bitcoin halving, anyway i think that it will have it effect to affect directly the bitcoin price maybe by doubling it.

It will be a big fat nothing. Chinese miners will go bust.

it will most probably push the price significantly up, i cant wait for this even in order to make some money and speculate about the price

I have a feeling that the price will be pumped hard before the halving period like the litecoin in the past which is known as panic buying.

i do believe that we will see the price getting pumped up to around $600-$700 before the block halving. if there is enough panic among buyers and wealthy traders that want to create massive buy walls to support the price then i think we may even go higher than $700. it's just a guess and maybe the price will move in the opposite direction and people will sell like there is no tomorrow. that's also a possible scenario. bitcoin is full of surprises.

halving will certainly effect bitcoin price not due to people holding hoping for price rise after halving but due to holding of coin by miners to sell high to recover their cost on mining it.

it will double rice, so price might be 800$, or of course it can change nothing, maybe a few dollars up or down

The price will rise, I don't think anybody can predict how much with any conviction though.

Now that Bitcoin Classic seems to be another failed experiment though the brakes have been taken off with regards to the possibility of a good price increase.

the diff will affect the price, the diff is increasing again because there was a pump from 2xx to 400

now the diff is skyrocketing and miners are almost in the same situation they were when the price was 2xx, so before the halving there is the need of another increase

I expect a gradual rise prior to halving, then a sharper rise right before, then a fall and correction.  Who really knows though?

Same I as I think your answer is, Even I am expecting same thing in block halving not only me many speculations also telling the same thing.
Maximum price is up to 1200$ So just for that and start to save your bitcoins.

I think exactly the same. I think if you buy now or have bought at lower price levels, then it's a great moment to take profits 1 day before the block halving and maybe buy back just after the halving when the price is being dumped to the ground.

it is very hard to predict how the price will be affected but in my opinion bitcoin price will go up at the time of the halving

It depends if the miners are willing to sell there new daily supply of coins cut in half for $400 still.

The halving will happen in about 128 days from now, http://www.bitcoinblockhalf.com/ (http://www.bitcoinblockhalf.com/).
It depends on what people will do with their btc, if many people decide to buy btc, then it will skyrocket.

Bitcoin will get more worthful everytime that there will be a halving, because it will be harder to obtain btc for miners.

In my opinion halving will increase the price of bitcoin, after the halving we can see a big increase because speculators will buy bitcoins to win a few % in few days. But this could result on losses after the halving. I expect that after the halving bitcoin price will be higher than now.

Just look at what happened after the last halving, there was a massive price run.

The obvious halving does less reward.

So its going to shoot up my guess $200 more? After it hits, but who knows people might just shrug and the price can be the same depending on the people whos buying it.

I personally would just hold from here on out, since its a sign for further increase down the road.

I think the price will increase as halving day gets closer and than decrease after the halving.

Halving will obviously add a bit to the price, but much less than many expect. Especially, if there is nothing else fundamentally positive to accompany it. If we are left for another speculative pump, as last November, the effect of halving will bring us to $500-600, not more.

price should rise if people will buy a lot of bitcoins just after halving, same happend after last halving, prices were high

of course it will push the price up, i cant wait for this event as it will make me some money and i will have more dollars in bitcoin

the price may rise a bit (I guess it shouldn't go higher than $500-600), but in order to get the things going quickly you would need to attract new money. Without that, the reality may bite many who dream about $1000 and beyond.

I don't think this will have a huge effect on the price of bitcoin, but if anything I would think it would cause prices to rise, right? It means that it is now harder to create new bitcoin, and therefore, all of the already existing ones become more valuable. I don't think it will have a huge effect though because it is very anticipate-able. This isn't going to take anybody by surprise... people who are going to buy are going to try to do it well before the halving. I think it will be a gradual rise and not a huge one.

It should affect for a few days. Some spikes maybe for a week, after that it will stabilize again.

I have been shouting this till I'm blue in the face and all the veins pop out north of my necktie.  How can the halving NOT be priced in?  Everyone knows it's happening so why should it suddenly affect the price?  The idea that it's not already priced in is just fucking retarded to me.  It's not how markets work.

But there will be probably a pump next to the halving dates, anyway. That is I belive what people refer to, when talking about the effect of halving.
Other issue is, that the expectation about this pump is overly exaggerated by the most.

if it won't rise price by 200$ or less, it will create panic anyway, so people will change price slightly, i'm not sure if it will go very high or very low, but it won't be same as now

I do not see this happen if, I'm honest I think there will be no panic at all the most people know what to expect from the halving that is coming this summer, I think the price will go to a high amount this year.
In my opinion this will not go to a super high amount but around the 1k is my prediction after this it will lower a bit to a lower price something near the 500 dollar range.

price not rising is not going to create any panic! that is an strange assumption. if the price goes up very little or even stays stable it will create more confidence for using bitcoin as a currency and not just an investment to make a quick buck. i don't see anyone panicking to see price be stable.

I think it will be a huge thing, the bitcoin will go to a high amount soon or later, I think it will happen when the halving has been done if I'm honest.
If the halving has been done the price will got to a high amount I'm very sure of it so I think it will the go to a really high number for a moment of course.

As suggested the price might touch the 1k border but that price won't be stable as we have stable value now, which is around 430💲. The price will decrease gradually and might get stable around 600💲.

Well price should rise, if price will be 500$ before halving then it will be 600$-700$ after halving, shouldn't rise by more than this

lots of people says that price will rise 2x, and to be honest it can, not because of halving but because of buyers/sellers and their price manipulation

but  i don't think that it will rise so high, it may rise by 200$ but not more, that's just not possible

With everyone spamming all platforms about how the halving will take us to moon since last November, it's impossible that the halving is not priced in already. If this blocksize shitstorm keeps going like this, I don't think we have a 'halving pump' ahead of us.

answer is simple, it will rise price, just question should be by how much?

and  i think that if we will have 450$ price before halving, it should rise to 650$ in first days for sure,  everyone hopes for 1000$,  i do too, just that won't happen, or we need to have 650$ price before halving, and  i don't think that we will

Halving may actually lower the price, and even make some real damage. If price does not go up, mining power may decrease. This will lead to longer time between blocks since it takes a long time to adjust. Longer time between blocks means lower capacity on the network, which in turn might lead to large backlogs being formed, especially if somebody spams it again. That's not what bitcoin needs in a time with some strong emerging competition.

The price of bitcoin will surely rise after the halving the speculation about the price will go down isnt realistic at all.
The harder for it to mine the more price it will get like the diamond for example.

as speculation goes it is expected that price will go above $800 because of the bitcoin halving. if you ask me it is very possible, even i am expecting much more than $800 it is possible to break the all time high price of $1100

halving is going to have the biggest effect on bitcoin price. apart from leading to less supply with the same growing demand there is also the expectation effect this halving has on the price. everybody expects the price to go up so they are accumulating bitcoin and creating more and more demand which will raise the price on its own.

Normally the price is to rise if miners are mining against break even> But with the next generation miners the 400 dollar mark is a good mark to miner with profit.
An potential increase is likely to happen but not mandatory for miners to keep mining with profit.

Yes haling will surely affect the price of bitocoin as it is expected that the price would rise at the time of halving and everybody is expecting that bitcoin will reach to the maximum level at the time of halving.

well, the price is not going up because of the miners. it is the market's supply and demand that will determine the bitcoin price.
and this supply is going to decrease as the block reward halves.

it's clear that the halving will lower the price, that's why you need an greater demand to face it, without this not only the miners will not have their profit, but the network will be insecure

How is this clear. If the prices goes from 400 to 250 it would not make any sense to mine. Even for the large mining farms.
With other words mining has become futile and the network won't be secure anymore.

i means it lower the value of the profit for the miners, so they need an increase in demand to sustain the mining activity for the halving

too many speculations about halving already. no one can tell which one is true and which one is not.

i guess the price is going to rise no matter what. and because of the halving this rise is going to be increased.

My opinion is quite simple :

Price will go up for at least 2 reasons :

1) Everybody expect it too go up and are affraid not to be able buying Bitcoins later. So they will buy before the halving

2) There will be less BTC sold everyday after the halving. IF demand keeps the same, price will naturally go up.

3) The miners will pump the price (if it is too low) because their reward is divided and they need to keep making money. No doubt the big mining companies have a LOT of FIAT money and will pump the price after the halving.

It lowers the block reward.
Demand for bitcoins is in dollar value. People buy $1000 value of bitcoins; they don't buy 2.5 bitcoins irrespective of the price.
Hence if demand remains the same, supply decreases, price of bitcoin increases.
Miners still might make decent profits.

yes that's for sure. bitcoin will increase the price after the halving. halving will make bitcoin supply is reduced. bitcoin has a great future after halving.

mmh you are just assuming the price going higher, but it effectively lower the profit of the miner, so they certainly need a higher demand, it does not matter if the value is in dollar euro or whatever, they still need an increase

I think the halving could double the price to around $800. But it might happen a few months later.

Most probably it will but we could not be 100% sure of that. Aside from halving, there are still a lot of factors that could affect the price of bitcoin. Considering usage, other currency, etc.

The other factor could be the block size increase. According to the Hong Kong meeting, the 2MB block size increased could be implemented shortly.

arguable that there was no impact at all...

there was but it did not happent he same day, remember the last pump from 400 to current 600+, that was the halving it's good enough

We haven't seen any pump instantly as some new traders have expected but price doesn't move like that it may take few more weeks or month to get effected. But after this halving i don't think price will be going below 600$, that can be considered as halving effect.

as i said, the price still the same

To be honest I do not know what the price is going to be like after the halving because the halving has not happened yet.
I think that the pirce is going to rise again but I am not sure of that so we will have to wait it out and see what will happen.

I think the bitcoin price has already been affected by the halving. The price rose more than 100% in the last year.

You are wrong. Sure some speculators might have bought some coins and thus front ran the halving rise. However, now the reality hits when indeed there will be less coins for sale. It might take some time since Chinese miners may not have sold yet all their coins they were mining before the halving but eventually those coins will be sold and then less coins will be for the markets. Also lower inflation will encourage people who are gold bugs, buying into bitcoin now.
I keep reminding you guys, the price is very low and bitcoin is extremely undervalued. My prediction of 60 000 usd/btc before next halving is still in force, and it is a conservative if even one major banker will buy in before it. Bankers will need to hurry and I think we should see some banks buying into Bitcoin before 2020.

I think the price rise from $400 to $788 was the result of the halving. There was no other big news.

That is right. But the price rise could also be caused by the general awareness of the bitcoin and usage.

well if there was an impact i think it was really small and in my opinion the price is only going to grow in the near future, in my opinion people are soon going to pump the price

Gradually, the impact of the halving will be smaller as more bitcoins will have already been mined in the future.

I think so. The price of bitcoin will not rise 50 times in the next 12 months like it did in 2012. The price could just rise 10 times.

It is indeed very true, but it also depends on the growth of the bitcoin. If the growth is very high and all the bitcoin user moves the wheel market or static market started up then this could well be the reason bitcoin increase. so no not may occur during it is there in the world. Stay focused to get lots of bitcoin with quick way

Yeah, that's very true. For the moment one of the growth factors bitcoin is mining halving > because while halving stock bitcoin severely disrupted and the users of the difficulty to get stock. but I am sure in the future that will dominate the price increase is the users that bitcoin is already many scattered in various countries

I do not think so. The halving did not change the bitcoin difficulty much. The difficulty just drop 5% and now it is all time high again.

Right, I also think that halving has a great part to increase the bitcoin and also its price, because of halving a huge people buying the bitcoin and i am also include of this list. But if in this time bitcoin is going down, so don't forget that it is a crypto currency, price up and down always remain with bitcoin.

Its pretty okay right now but i think that with the next halving in 2020 we can expect more because than the bitcoin would be a lot bigger and it also would be a lot more popular, more users.. in the overall.

If the bitcoin is going to half i dont think it will really affect the price of the bitcoin it is possible but we will never know becuase how do you think the
price will drop i dont that would work.

Do you really think that the bitcoin is going to half i dont think that would hapen only the maximum amount of coins are halving and that does not mean that the bitcoin price is
going to half you know.

I dont think it will affect the price of the bitcoin becuase i know for sure that the halvingf will only affect the people who are making money with the tradings you know and not the price.

Do you all really think that the halvinf will affect the price of the bitcoin i dont think that would happen becuase lots of people think that the price will affect but i dont think
that would ever happen believe me halving has nothing to do with the bitcoin price.

The next halving in 2020 will for sure have a big effect on the price I think we are going to be seeing a new all time high.
I am saving up as many bitcoin as I can for that next halving to profit from it as much as possible.

People keep saying that the price of the bitcoin is going to half becuase the bitcoin is going to half but the halving does not mean that the bitcoin is going ot half but that the amount of bitcoins are at the half!

The Bitcoin halving doubles the mining difficulty. Imagine if we never had any halving at all. Then people can simply buy a mining rig and mine a lot of number of BTC possible. That would mean a lot of BTC were already be mined as of now and more BTC in circulation means lesser price unless a group of people would hold a big percentage of the total number of Bitcoins in circulation.

Bitcoin halving makes it difficult to mine Bitcoins. That means it would come to the point that the number of Bitcoins in circulation isn't even increasing that much because of the high difficulty of mining. The total BTC in circulation would almost remain the same as day passes by and as more and more people invest in that remaining amount of BTC in circulation, the price would be higher.

maybe arround 1 year after halving will make bitcoin price rising again :)
in fact the price of bitfcoin is more stable after halving.

i thnk there is still a long time to next halving, so it is difficult to predict in advance but hope that just like previous halving for this time the price of bitcoin is going to increase and will not drop.

I don't think this is quite right, the halving is about the number of coins issued. Halving the inflation of supply is so that total number will never exceed 21million of them.

Mining difficulty is to try and keep the the rate of issuance stable. Ie if someone with better technology starts getting more then difficulty increases to compensate, if people with all the fancy hardware stopped mining then difficulty would decrease.

I've marked the two halvings on this chart. you can see what happened after the first halving. Judge for yourself what will happen after this one.

https://www.tradingview.com/x/01TkYLOp/

This is indeed the stupidest thing I ever heard but I think that it can affect the price a lot these days.
In 2020 it will happen again and we will see what is gonna happen.

halving happened this year is not positive impact on the price of bitcoin. even a decline, although not too high. but I am quite optimistic that the halving by 2020 will increase the price of bitcoin significantly.

Well right now the halving is still very far from us but in the future it will affect the price a lot and maybe even make us rich.
it can let the price go up to a very high amount.

As You Know That the Bitcoin Halving Has Been Passed So That I Don't Think That There Is any Effect On The Price Because Of The Halving Even After Halving The Price Decreased.....
I Think That the Halving in 2020 Will Make Us Rich.......

Haven't we already done this thread in another thread?

The price of BitCoins jumped before the halving and has stayed fairly fixed in the low $ 600's for a few weeks now, so this is the new benchmark.

Maybe you should lock this thread.

And you think that the price going from lower $200s to almost $800 had nothing to do with the halving? If it hadn't really, how then can you convincingly explain that it has stayed around $600 for almost two months and now trends to rise daily? What is it if not the anticipation of the coming halving prior to the actual event and the direct consequences of it when the halving finally happened?

Well, as you can see the price of bitcoin is increase so high because of the halving. Bitcoin halving is really affect the price of bitcoin, the last halving make bitcoins price up to 2 times.

but it is common in the halving a few months ago. even bitcoin prices tend to be stable and not moving at all. bitcoin price movements are difficult to predict.

its true and we can see for now, the price is really go up at least we can see the price is on $643 for high price. and i am really wish that the price will go up again until reach $650.

The halvinh chart might gonna tell all of talks here and as stated their bitcoin halving have great factor for the bitcoin price to rise up and we actually see that occurs, just what like happen back on those past month when the price rally came up but suddenly it was been killed by the bad news happen by the one exchanger who has been compromised, but as this day its like where on halving days since the price slowly climbing up.

it will happen and happen in the next few days. the trend of rising prices is currently very positive. bitcoin market showed strong back.

The halving isn't just something that happens one day and then is finished. It happens then ... stays happened ! There is no going back to how the network was before. Never again will there be the supply of new coins we had for last few years. There is a new normal of only 12.5 coins minted per block. Half what it was. This effect is still being discovered slowly and inevitably, this is an upwards pressure on price. Subtle but real.

halving does have an impact on the price of bitcoin,take a look at the price chart ,it is as simple as that,after halving the price went down because of the bitfinex hack.price will increase by the time of next halving if everything goes smoothly.

Its hard to say what is gonna happen with the bitcoin but most likely the bitcoin will get a higher price due the halving that is coming in 2020.
We just need to have some patient and I think long term investing is now the best thing we can do.

The bitcoin halving will affect the price with huge increasings, the bitcoin will be a lot bigger and due to that also already rises but if the halving will also happen it will double for sure!

halving course can increase the price of bitcoin. but in too many events that make bitcoin prices fall. one example is the hacking of the account in bitfinex. many bitcoin lost and sold simultaneously thus making bitcoin prices fall considerably.

It will affects by demand and supply when we reach the every halving period. So price will automatically rise to high value. This affects good to bitcoin's future and mining will reduce by half of the value.

I think the bitcoin price will get to a very high point maybe an all time high with the next halving cause the next halving is in 3 years so those 3 years alone give bitcoin already a lot of time to grow in value etc.

Its indeed pretty hard to say what is really gonna happen but I have a good feeling about it and I think that the halving in the future will be very good for sure!