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Guys i just want to know some opinion from you because i really don't know what will happen after halving..
What will happen to difficulty when halving is ended?
Do you think guys the price will increase more than $700?
If the difficulty will decrease and block rewards will be half into 12.5 BTC
For me the price will not rise it will the same as price today because the difficulty is the problem right now why mining is not profitable
So if difficulty will be half like the block rewards so there's no changes for the price if bitcoin halving is ended. ..
Am i right?

The price will either be dumped heavily due to incomplete increase, or get heavily increased because miners have to be compensated. Its al speculation

i think the price will slowly increase while we are heading towards the block halving with a significant pump just before it. after the halving people will most likely sell the coins that they kept accumulating at current prices, which will result in a heavy price fall. my guess is that before the halving we will see the price being pumped to $700-$800 as high for the year.

My opinion is difficulty would still keep rising after halving still ended and the price wont increase more than $700 it could take some months to even reach $500-600 because of dumping their coins. If the difficulty gets halved there will be a lot of mines blocked in a day.

difficulty does not depend on the reward but on how fast the last 2016 blocks were mined. so the halving should not affect this. but the price might. if the price is not enough to make mining profitable for some small time miners they will be forced to stop mining if they want to cut their loses. this will result in decreased difficulty unless some big farms pops out to compensate the hashrate loss.

probably. maybe. hope so.

see above.

i think if the price were to go up like the last time, it will go as high as $1000 at the very least. $700 mark is nothing in comparison with the potential of a pump because of the halving expectation.

I'm satisfied with this answer. It's always wondering to my mind that what will happen to difficulty after halving
So it's means the more miner the more difficulty will increase but if less miner less difficulty am i right?
So after halving the price will be double after halving ends..

increased/decreased network hashrate will increase/decrease difficulty, yes. and increased difficulty+less reward means it will be harder to get more bitcoins but that doesn't always means that the price will increase. the market will still be unpredictable.

It won't be very stable for week or more, big price changes, and after week it should be lile 100$ more than like before halving

If the past is any indication...

The last halving was in Nov/Dec 2012, 4 months later we saw the first bubble to 250. A coincidence? U b da judge.

Why should traders care what mining profits are? If it becomes too expensive to mine with the current setup it'll have to change. There'll always be someone who can make mining profitable.

When halving gets over, a good increase in price of bitcoin can be expected. This value can be found constant for a long time without much deviations.

bitcoin prices may be down, because people have bought a lot of bitcoin before halving. so when prices rise after halving I'm sure lots of people will sell.

because otherwise their bitcoin will be worthless, and i don't think they want this

so everyone is helping the mienrs to have their profit in their hands, i dobut those guys with 100k bitcoin want to see their coins worth 0 one day

imo, it doesnt matter what the difficulty is. the supply of bitcoin is halfed. so in result the price must also react by increasing. after the halfing is over and a couple of months have passed im sure the price will stabilize, im guessing around 500-600

November 2012 was a non-event.  No bubble leading into the halving, nothing happened after.

Having said that, 2016 seems to be getting hyped up so expect a bubble this year.  

After, or just beforehand a sell on news.

i expect a bubble too.
so the price is going to be high and if the bubble has bursted after the halving the price is gonna fall down around $500

difficulty is more depended upon the no of miners in the network so if some of the miners leave after halving if price doesn't rise than difficulty will be lowered so that it will be profitable for miners again. Bitcoin will self balance and adapt.

I think, like everyone predicts, price will rise alot, by 100$ atleast and up to 400$, so total price after rising should be around 700$

That is what exactly expected and being speculated from a long time that the bitcoin's values will be doubled during the halving process and even i believe so but we should create awareness about it so that more and more people will start using bitcoin which could automatically increase the value of bitcoin and take it to new level.

It's going to be tough for miners which I agree but this may have an affect the confirmation time as well. Will it happen that transactions would need a fee as big as 0.0010- 0.005 for confirmation?

I feel that the prices may increase but we may not reach $700 till July. It may still struggle above $500 like last year.

I don't see any reason why this would happen. confirmation time shouldn't be affected by the halving and so is the tx fee.

When halving gets over we can see price of the bitcoin very high, but soon it will
decrease and reach a price that is found to be a normal increase of the price.

Nothing can be said for sure and I highly doubt the price would be above $700 after halving. I still can't forget what happened with LTC and don't want the same to be repeated with bitcoins but I have hope since transaction volume will increase after halving and we may expect a price range of $500-$550 after that.

I feel the block reward reducing by 50% may make transactions take a longer time to confirm but that's just what I feel. With regards to the price, I don't mind if it's stable at $430-$440 as it is now as always when we reach the end of the year, the price increases unexpectedly but I don't want it to reduce after halving.

well i thought that it will rise just not to 1000$ like everyone hopes for, it might rise by 100$ or 200$, not more, halving dosen't mean that price have to rise 2 times

I think the price will be at a high amount and than slowly go back to his previous price, maybe a bit above that something above the 500 dollar and than it stays stable at that price.
In my prediction this will happen because the halving will first let the price increase and than after that it will go down because of the people just waited on the halving and sold the bitcoin.