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The moment we all have been waiting for (well, to most of us but not all!) has come. Does your excitement or expectations about halving are happening at the moment or nothing has changed?

How and what do you feel now that halving is already here? Are you happy or frustrated at this very moment?

Im happy and frustrated at this moment as you said,you may ask why?
Because i have bought btc some time and i have it ready to dump but i think that the price is going down shortly after it.

It's a gamble worth taking, im HODLING

People like you are exactly the reason why you can expect the price to dump after the halving then. If everyone has the same idea as you just to dump their coins as soon as we get any upwords movement then we arent going to get very far are we? If you have reason to beleive price is going to go down then maybe your best bet is just to dump now.

Anyway im happy we are past this milestone now and we can concentrate on segwit and blocksize increases to further bitcoin.

The problem is that people who mine's bitcoin my think about dumping because they just got some btc
so it would be  pretty logical for them,everyone want's  to book some profit's i guess.

So finally the halving day after long period of waiting, we have to wait and see if the price go up it will be very good opportunity for the Bitcoin's holders.

Not looking good, OP, SFYL.

I expect very little fireworks to happen.

All the action has happened in the months and weeks leading up to this point. If anything happens after halving, it is likely a dip due to disappointed investors.

halving day, or in other words the block that halving is going to occur at is the exciting part and yes I am excited to be part of this new and revolutionary technology.

but the expectations are not going to happen all at one, and not immediately after block reward halves!! it is going to take some time for sure, even if you are only expecting hype then that will also take some time to affect things. so it is too soon to talk about expectations.

What do you mean not looking good? We have literally just hit the halving day, Do you think as if by magic the price is just going to explode to double what it is now? Price is holding steady where its at and has been for the past weeks. Everything is looking exactly how it should be looking. Even if we drop some today or the coming days it doesnt matter, Miners are not going to notice the halving for weeks yet so its unlikely price will change over night.

i am really excited about it of what will happen how will it affect bitcoin price but it doest really affect me because i am not holding any bitcoins now...if i had some bitcoins then i would be worried a bit i think

well im just afraid what will happen if price will start dec.

Folks, Im very excited and waiting for it since 2,5 years. I have bought a lot when it was around 200-300 and I dont care if it crashes to 400 or even 200 again. Im a longterm holder and see as an investment for the next 10-20 years or even as part of my retirement. The fundamentals look great in Bitcoin and its growing steadily. This is what is for me the most important point. Im a trader and in my opinion there is nothing currently where you can put your money in. Im very positive for the future. Happy halvening to all :)

i am hoping for more volatility in the coming hours as it will allow me to make profit while i trade against the volatility. other than that there is not much to look out for, really. block rewards will go down from 25btc to 12.5btc as expected, and that's it....

we are still at the first day and halving has to happen first before we can even expect anything from it.

but all i can say is that i am excited to see the halving day and i hope to see a big rise in near future. and as always i am bitcoinhodler

Finally the event that brought predictability and uncertainty for over months has came very near. Eagerly waiting for a positive impact on price.
Happy halving day.

Happy Halving Day!

Happy Halving Day Everyone!

Bitcoin for Life
-Yoda Bitmaster

Happy Halving Day!!

Now we just have to wait for the next one! :p

2 hours and 50 minutes to go! http://www.bitcoinblockhalf.com/

That's what the blockchain technologists have been telling me, yes.  But . . . now you say they're wrong?
:(

Well, I am feeling pretty much excited about halving and it's affections on bitcoin and bitcoin's price..
every one(Including me) was expecting an huge price Increase after halving and still hoping for that. and now finally the time come out.
let's see what will happen., I am also have some coins in my wallet. and I preferred my self for loose also(which is possible)


Anything can happen.. if by DEC you mean decrease then it is also possible. price can decrease also. but it won't decrease so much.

Halving is definitely a big event in bitcoin history. The reduction of new bitcoins generated when a block is mined, the decreasing in bitcoin supply. If you are miners then you should worry about the decreasing bitcoin reward for each block, the profitability, and much more. For most of us not miners, we just worry three things, the price of bitcoin, the speed of comfirming a transaction(Hashrate) and the new supply of bitcoins in circulation. The bitcoin price is still volatile amidst the halving and maybe could rise sharply or decrease. No one knows what will happen but there is not much of changing at the 2012 halving, maybe rise? Maybe stagnant? Maybe decrease?
For the speed of transaction, the halving may cause some small mining companies the lose their revenue and shut down their hashrate. Currently 1.5 exahashes of hashrate, it will certainly decrease with the event of halving and the other miners struggle to survive the decrement of new supply of bitcoin. In the other hand most of us will trade much and it may lead to overflowing of bitcoin transaction and confirming time  increases should they shut down their mining rigs.
The time for bitcoin halving is 2 hours away as we speak so good luck and hope the bitcoin price increases for the best for us users and miners....

A few months ago I thought halving will bring price increase, but I think that already happend.
Then I thought, price will drop the nearer halving comes. Obviously it does not do that.
Now I'm pretty confident that today nothing big is going to happen.
Maybe in a few days we will see fluctuatuins.

My tail is bristling with anticipation! Who will be our next Deflationary Champion (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=128221.msg1364313#msg1364313)? ;D

No reason to crash down to 200 again because of the halving. All the halving will do is increase prices. Bitcoin will never reach 200 again, I doubt it will even reach 400 again.

Happy Halving Day :)
I was just expected whats happening now.Some people was in dream they think bitcoin will skyrocket at halving day.I sold all my coin rate at $750
more people said to me don't sell your coin rate will $5000 at halving day but I could find the reason why bitcoin price will be raised.Now am very happy to see my expected price.

As said by many, the halving was already priced in, months ago.

What can I say? I can say business as usual. Price goes up, price goes down, price goes up, price goes down. Same old, same old.

As others have said, we will not see the effects of halving until weeks later from the actual halving. Similar to how it was last halving.

Check back with me in a few weeks to months, I'll prolly have the same thing to say.

Happy halving day Folks!

Bitcoin has been growing steadily and has introduced a completely new concept into the world. With Bitcoin people are now able to fully control their own money  by becoming their own Bank. Bitcoin introduced a whole new technology enabling smart contracts and much more. Besides, it is a viable alternative to the current financial system.
 bitcoin is now mainstream and I still see it as the best possible investment to put my money in!

Honestly I am disappointed as I was expecting price to go upto $1000 but unfortunately this didn't happen.I only hope now that they stay at current price and doesn't fall down

It's never a good idea to have such high expectations from the block halving. Block halving is just the rewards being lowered 50%. The price was well below $400 for quite some time, and if you take that into consideration, then you can only be happy with the current price as it nearly doubled in value at current level. In that aspect 50% lower rewards have been compensated with a nearly 100% price increase.

I have put my expectations for the Halving at a very low end of the excitement scale, because I had a feeling that I would just be disappointed by the actual result. So far I am seeing what I predicted,

which is a price at $650 to $700.... I even think that it will go way below that, before it will pick up again and blow our minds, with record highs. The Halving will take a couple of weeks to filter through

the network... at this stage a lot of people are dumping, and this will push the price down.  ::)

it's a little bit different from my expectation. so I'm a little bit dissappointed either. I didn't hope the price will dump so high, but the price before halving is higher than now, but lucky me I have sold some bitcoin when the price is higher than now  ;D

nope halving not give any effect yesterday is not the effect of halving. for halving not happened
so it was purely as bitcoin high demand may be a result of many issues

It is the first halving to happen since I knew bitcoin so I am waiting to see the impact because it it a new experience for me. The impact will not be seen in a day or a week but in the next few month IMO

I was totally convinced that the halving would not affect immediately the bitcoin price because of the increased stability of this coin. Markets always price in any relevant event with sufficient anticipation, this is a golden rule in markets so no one  should be disappointed by this non-event day.

I think that a good number of us have thought that when the halving will happen the price will increase immediately but we can see it didn't happened, the halving effect will be seen probably at the end of this year or next year.

A Happy Halving to all!

Glad to know that the halving didn't cause too much drastic changes. I think we are doing very well. Just like the last reward halving, the real exciting time happens after... So sit tight and the show has JUST started.

Yep.  All the big talkers on this forum who were predicting a moon shot were ignoring the moon shot that's been happening.  $430-$650 is a damn good increase.  It's not exactly doubled, but it's a good rise.  I'm not disappointed and I didn't even think we'd get what we got.  Just keep holding.

yes in fact now been halving the impact has not been felt. In fact, the decline is fixed. May hold true the next few days there will be an increase. Holiday effect in my opinion is not the reason. This unexpected and disappointing traders.

It is a nice day, it is a day for which we all were waiting and now we do not will have to wait for longer , just hold and we will see the price of bitcoin sky rocketing when the effects of halving start to appear.

So there you have it, folks. Time has ticked a heaven all the way 'round the stars. I'd personally like to thank my parents, who have been there for me through all of this thick and thin business; and God, without whom no block reward would even be possilbe. Cheers, god speed, be careful the devil you know.

BMB

Hope, so as this is the Most Awaited Moment. Hope so that our expectation will be met and will not be discouraged. But it seems the price is not ready yet to take off, any updates? :)

Listen. Hear that? That's the hum and hiss of the Union Pacific, the forelorned whiste in teh distance: "Bitcorn..Bit..CORN...". You put your ear to the ground, a woman motions to her child, the hustlers prick up their pants... Be prepared to show your ticket. The train will be approaching from the rear.

Maybe the next 4 years is when bitcoin will become mainstream  :)

There will be false gods, idols of blasphamous worship, angelic flame wars in every direction, soft spots...there's no trick to it. It's just a little trick.

i'm happy with this moment, btc price around $650 for atm, its higher $150 from some months ago. But i had seen so many people said if btc price would going higher than $800 when halving happened, but their prediction isn't true.

Yeah, it's still a damn good increase for the price of bitcoin, but i'm a bit scared the price of bitcoin will decrease, because the bitcoin's price not increasing right now.

I say


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It's like New Years, was jubilant when it happened, now back to real life...

The time has come to see all our expectation this halving. whether the price of Bitcoin will rise as expected of many users or it will go down. Bitcoin future will be determine by this halving. Goodluck to us all who are Keeping Bitcoin in our wallet and waiting for the price to go up as we expected.

hehehe.
as is said we didnt see any big rise,but also no big fall,just price stood
at the same level it was earlier.
But wait 2-3 day's,it will rise so quickly,at last that is what i think. :)

LOL....Yup....Bitcoin must be broken.  Wasn't it supposed to double today?  (Smile) Calm down everyone.  Most of the buying happened leading up to this event, so much of what was anticipated has already been reflected in the price.  Everything is going as expected at this point, but I anticipate that their will be a steady rise in value over the next couple of years due to the decrease in the rate of supply.... 

Here for the ride, hodl.

I'm thinking this also, its just a matter of time its not really rising or something even with the halving that has took place.
I think we just need to wait a couple days,weeks till its gonna rise, I have no doubts about if it is gonna rise!

It's kinda funny and I'm a bit surprised that the big run up in price happened several weeks ago -- and since then the price of Bitcoin has sort of floundered sideways.  I felt like there were quite a few people waiting to cash in at the halving but I guess you'd need a higher price for them to want to do that.

So it looks like Bitcoin isn't going "to da moon!" just yet, but I'm still going to hold a little and hopefully BTC can find some sort of real, stable price point/value in the near future.

The production of new coins is slowing down, the number of people using Bitcoin, merchants accepting Bitcoin, and overall transaction volume is increasing.  Should be good signs for the health and longevity of Bitcoin but the market (and miners/holders) will have to decide the actual price per coin.

It'll be interesting to follow the price over the coming weeks.

this is right, now we have to wait to see the real effect block halving has on bitcoin economy. so far there were no effect and any change was only because of hype and people buying to the moon news but from now on the change is because of the half reward.

it is going to take some time for sure, even if you are only expecting hype then that will also take some time to affect things. so it is too soon to talk about expectations.
lay aside while you btc not affected the price now because it was not immediately instant i think one day it will increase the price .

Halving day is the day to celebrate, it marks a new milestone for bitcoin community.......
There is non significant changes in bitcoin for short term. We will face another halving, just after the year 2020. Congrats to all of us who was in the discussion of the halving day, we all are important in developing and parcipitating in the halving day.and to the ever-growing bitcoin community

Well,I'm happy about the halving event despite the  price      stablity for sometime now.I am very optimistic the rise may take place after the halving probably the next few days or months.Who knows what might happen next!Also,I think the event is most favorable for the earlier birds who bought @ 200$-300$ afterall they can make over 40% profit if they resolve to sell their bitcoin.Not a bad deal at all...

I knew this was to be expected. I mean, I know many people are very disappointed because the price didn't go up to their expectations but we should all give it time. It's not like the price is just one day going to surge for so much.

yeah this is already a few hours after halving come but prices are still stable and even decreased by 2% from the previous? is it the price will be rising or not? is it may be because demand is down so bitcoin halving effect is not felt?
yeah maybe we have to wait longer to see the effect

I'm happy that bitcoin has reached another halving and I wish there will be more halving to come. As long as bitcoin still stands is enough to make me happy, with regards to the price as long as it will not go down then it is still good. Price increase will happen sooner or later and we just need to wait. Overall I'm happy that a price increase happened a month ago and I connect it to halving.

some people feel disappointed because they make a big deal with their expectation, the thing the price of bitcoin will instantly rising. but I think better to follow the bitcoin and the situation it's can make me feeling fine with anything.

I sure the effect will take a long time because it's halving and not will happen for instantly, the rising price is a long term effect from having. we will feel it. ,maybe some people is feeling sad for that at this time.

All I can say is that I have no idea what is halving at the moment. Being new to BTC world, these things are quite new to me and my first experiences... one article I read about halving after hearing the term said that its gonna make it hard to mine bitcoin, especially for people who do not have big data center like mining rigs etc.
So lets see what happens...

I dont think bitcoin halving willngive effect to me,as we know bitcoin price not rise up,its just dumped,i think only miners who got effect from bitcoin halving.

I think price of bitcoin will is trend down after halving block for couple month because i saw last halving block price of bitcoin went down. But it is just my opinion and my prediction there are not people who know about future.

This was not so good for miners and traders, of course, but many have said that low volatility is key if bitcoin is ever to go mainstream as a method of payment.

Many people predicted a sharp in change in price on this day but unfortunately it has not happened. The moment i saw hype about bitcoin price going upto over 1000 usd, I knew people would be cautious. I have not seen any sigficant changes in the price and previous increase in price about a month ago is not even related to halving.

Well...i was exited to see bitcoin rate after halving but what is? this is unexpected price after halving than i expect.actually it's rate is constant and no changing can be seen.can anyone tell about that? was this happened before as well?

The price won't shoot up that fast. It will probably go $50-$100 or even more down for a few months, it will rise back to $650 this winter and then will shoot up to $1k in the next spring. Nobody knows, the price can be controlled anytime by the magnates.

As agreed in the opinion of many experts and analysts, halving inevitably lead to a further increase in prices Bitcoin, as demand for cryptocurrency remains consistently high, while the offer is now reduced by half.
In this regard, it was very interesting to observe the behavior of the Bitcoin course immediately prior to yesterday's event.

Our halving day have got over. Also most users expectations haven't come true, possibly I'm one among them and expect for gradual increase in price to reach $1000 by the year end.

Of course I feel a bit frustrating and yet I'm hoping this halving won't last for long and so good times are about to come)

Welp, I've already expected that nothing's really going to happen at the very day of the halving. In fact, that's actually what's supposed to be expected. It's not like the price would one day surge to whatever price you guys are expecting. It'll take days, weeks, months even, for the value to rise. Hopefully.

Thank you very much for all your reply guys! Truly appreciated it :)

I am just pretty amazed how many people are int now to bitcoin industry... I am also happy seeing many replies from awesome people in bitcointalk community...

Hopefully, all of us will be successful in any of our bitcoin endeavors... I am very proud to my self (just like you) of being part of the gestation process of bitcoin..

Cheers and more power!

It's halving day but it's like an ordinary day :(.
Don't have price increase and we already experienced a little price drop :(
I hope that in the next few days bitcoin will be stable at $700 price :D.

Ha ha ha, it is funny to see that actually "everybody" was expecting this irrelevant behavior in the bitcoin price after the greatly expected halving, when few days ago everybody was planning how to manage his new wealth after that event.

But well, I think it is just a matter of patience. I think it is imminent an amazing future in the rate of bitcoin, though it could take several months or even years.

I know. It was a funny experience of mine minutes prior to halving. I was reading chats in online casino chatrooms and other players are so excited of the price increase because they have bought bitcoins during that day. I told them that there will be no dramatic changes on bitcoins that time. They end up teasing with one another minutes after the halving though.