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Now it is more or less official who would be the next President of the US (POTUS). Short-term effect is rather evident - weaker dollar, stronger Bitcoin. But what about longer run, one-two year from now?
Opinions and charts are welcome.

Moon For btc and gold...  ;)

Sure, short-term we should test the top of 2016, i.e., $800 can be in the cards. But the question is what will happen next? Further run to the ATH or the end of story and back to the $600 handle?
I think it is a real game-changer that may spark a new Bitcoin bull. Long-term.

If this current increase is really due to the elections, then it will not last very long (not a matter of years). Nothing lasts long here in the Bitcoin world. Each increase due to a certain happening or reason gets vanished after a while. But let's say in the coming months, if the panic in the stock markets continues, then that money will either flow into Gold, or with a slight chance, there may also be a part flowing into Bitcoin. Gold will however remain by far the preferred option for people. Either way, I am happy holding right now. :)

For years China has led Bitcoin in not only mining but in trading (even disregarding obvious zero-fee trade volumes).

Do you rally think they give a shit about whether Tweedle Dumber or Tweedle Dumbest won the "election" for some figurehead presidency of some foreign country?

They don't even care about what the Bilderbergers or Bohemian Grovers think, and they're international in scope..

Sure, China leads the game no doubt about it. But having unsecure situation at the markets and a weaker dollar, smart money may look for another places to be. Gold is a secure bet at the moment, but some money may flow into Bitcoin, too. Chinese players may actually give a shit about it, as this a perfect setup scenario to pump the Bitcoin a little bit now and then hand the more expensive coins to the new hands coming from the stock market. Does it sound plausible?

As the article i read in the website much better that trump wins the crown than hillary when hillary wins the crown she said that she will gonna cut off the relationship bitcoin to us and she will closed those website where they getting bitcoins. And for the prediction for what will happen in two or three year's it will be good more gold and bitcoins to come.

Longer term i think its bad for fiat, trump wants less tax for everyone. Government will end up smaller as a result, you are out on your own.  Real assests will all grow in value.

Future pump may only come after Trump will talk about what he thinks regarding bitcoin and other virtual currencies. Actually Obama was not friendly to accept bitcoin as real money but Trump seems to support use of bitcoin. We have to wait and watch, i think lots of surprising announcement will be coming from Trump in future.

This whole Bitcoin price-Trump relation is greatly being exaggerated by a lot people opening threads today.

After a few days, people will forget about all this nonsense about Trump, and continue with looking at what surprises the Chinese pumper team will come up with.

That's a whole lot more interesting. Mainly because of the fact that Bitcoin sits in quite a comfortable seat as we have the activation of Segwit ahead of us, and maybe even The Lightning Network somewhere next year (I hope).

People will always look for reasons why something is happening and today reason for BTC price is going up is Trump victory.Like you say in few days when the situation calms down reasons for the decline or growth rates will be search in some other reasons.

If Trump have positive opinion for BTC, then in long-term that only can affect positively.We should wait and see whether he as a businessman fully recognize all the advantages offered by Bitcoin and Blockchain technology.

It's not really a question of whether trump likes bitcoin or not

I think it's more like how much disruption his policy's will cause in other markets that might drive people to bitcoin....

Of course it would be great if he was a bitcoin fanatic as well and gives it his blessing... But I think he won't even have to for btc to have great success....

Trump policy will not be helping Bitcoin or any other crypto for that matter.
He will crack down on bitcoin like it's a big crime syndicate. Bitcoin goes directly against everything Trump stands for both phylosophically and economically/technically.
Regulations will be extremely strict or it will be outlawed completely.

If yiu think otherwise you have no udea about who Trump is and what Bitcoin is.

We are starting to see the resutls, Bitcoin going up 38 dollars in the last 6 hours, pretty good rise. Now it's correcting a bit, but it will keep going up. Overall the uptrend has been solid since 2015, early year, and we have not stopped going up since that 150 ish dollar crash. That was the time to go all in, now it's also a good time to buy since we will be 1000+ next year.

Yep, that sounds plausible enough. I've been entertaining a thought along these lines for some time now.

i did not know that a political election would influence the price of bitcoin .Trump made an emphatic win that nobody predicted and the people stood by him even though all the big media companies ignored and downplayed  Donal Trump

Trump is anti tech and pro surveillance/police state.  It doesnt look good.

I'm surrounded by noobs.  Trump is gonna spend tons of money with debt based spending on public works projects, then probably also devalue the dollar to fight China and raise exports.  I wouldn't be surprised if he's the biggest spending president of all time.  He's even talked about defaulting on the debt.  

With lots of spending and inflation going on, metals and bitcoin should be up.  There's also 120 trillion in unfunded liabilities that will obviously be printed.  Honestly, the easiest way out is just to do a new Breton Woods and revalue gold to like $10k+ overnight to marginalize the debts.  I expected that as the inevitable conclusion no matter who is in charge.

For anyone that thinks Trump isn't going to spend yuge he even talked about declaring inner cities as disaster areas, and wherever a disaster area is there's big spending.

There seems to be a lot of unknown variables in play,one being if Trump is going to come through on any campaign issues at all or if he finds it a little harder of a slog once he is in the House. Long term if he holds true to his word should be interesting as the world may push back against him,since the USD is such a global currency tied to all sorts of markets.
The issue is all over the world Countries are starting to turn inward now and that will also make bitcoin more unstable.

Short term- small bump.
Long term? Who knows.

Depends on the people he puts in his cabinet (supposedly a lot of CEOs, banking execs etc)
and the policies he puts in place.
Trump may be good for the US economy long term, if he can reduce debt and negotiate good trade deals.
A lot depends on the tax policies and the infrastructure projects he has proposed. (IMO)

As far as I know bitcoin ain't about any country or world power but it is just for the people to decide the fate and how to use it or give it value.
Bitcoin is for to prevent such effects and influences in the first place.

Bitcoin is mostly about the United states

He wants to reduce debt by lowering taxes and stopping international trade.

Genius  :o

Im still not sure how he is planning to keep his ridic promises.

Btc is bound to soar next 2 years, especially when they start the impeachment against President Trump.

~17hours of trump being president and no socking news.

what gives?

if you want to better understand why trump was the correct choice for US

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o1Ho8OrBzig

i hope that will be a good for bitcoin in the long run no matter Trump now is the president of US because bitcoin not just about US but its about all country in the world but yes there is always affect that will happen with bitcoin as bitcoin itself is traded with USD and now the rate is down for bitcoin pair USD.

Does it really matter who the US president is? Right now Bitcoin is playing by a different set of rules that is mostly outside the regulated playground. So unless they find a way to really stop the darknet markets and all the other things that make up the Bitcoin economy then there would be no long term effects I believe. Maybe Trump is crazy enough to allow the purchase of drugs online using credit cards, then I would say that is really bad for Bitcoin because the darknet market comprises the largest part of the Bitcoin economy.

I think we will see a slow rise for a about 6 months and then it will level out for a while. I think many people will rush to sell USD but will soon realize Trump as president wont be as extreme as not-president Trump.

We saw another example of bitcoin behaving like gold, both spiked up on the news only to both fall back to previous levels. Bitcoin still a small niche is a safe haven and a way to avoid capital controls. Both of which will boost bitcoin and gold in coming years

Pretty hard to say what is gonna happen with the bitcoin but most likely there will not change a lot of if I have to be honest.
I just do not think that it can effect it due to the fact that the bitcoin is standing on its own right ?

No POTS works alone, and history has shown that they don't swing all things their way.  On what are you basing your opinion of Trump's stand on BTC?   Trump isn't such an outsider, he hosted SNL a few times, and The Apprentice.  He is being demonized by many but not sure for what reasons, as he clearly has a sense of humor and isn't always very serious about what he says. 

BTC jumped 3% on news of his victory.  Trump is an outsider, and BTC is a 12 billion dollar "outsider."  I would have some faith Trump cares for the average American and BTC represents a lot of average Americans.

yeah because international trade cannot be stopped, and i'm not sure what kinda of trade he was talking about, he mean goods trading or virtual trading done on the web?

That is what I think, too. My impresion is that in the long run Bitcoin price will profit from this voting. That is because of the weakening dollar.

Gold is well known for being a safe haven in difficult economical times, but I am sure that Bitcoin will get its shine in this aspect as well in the coming years. The only thing I am wondering, is how we can get the traditional people with their old fashion way of thinking to take a position into Bitcoin.


With or without Trump, the economical situation where fiat is less and less wanted, will make people look for a perfect hedge against it where Bitcoin will play an important role. People have 2 options - Bitcoin or Gold. Right now Gold is the preferred option, but Bitcoin is climbing up as well.

Rebuttal: Nope.


Honestly nothing but good can come out of trump being the president (in terms of bitcoin pricing lol). I would expect more and more increases in the future. We'll see how the wall comes along I guess and judge from that ;)

Anti-establishment my ass!

http://www.businessinsider.com/trumps-other-treasury-secretary-has-deep-ties-to-wall-street-money-2016-11

Why does everyone think that Bitcoin depends on Trump or something that he will or will not say or do? As far as I know Bitcoin is stil free from governments so american president or any other governmental institution should not have anything to do with it.
Trump can affect dollar and stock markets, which already has.

I really doubt this, the effect of recent fud about china going to limit bitcoin trading in china made huge dump rather than small and unstable pump after Trump got elected. So i think bitcoin is mostly about China right now.  ;D

No it is not. The big move in bitcoin that made it mainstream came in 2013 when Cyprus confiscated the savings of it's people to bail out the banks.

Basically countries like the USA and UK, which have had a very long period of rule of law, are not the drivers of bitcoin because the dollar and pound are trusted by their citizens. The same goes for Sweden and Denmark, they are stable countries who control their own currency.

Bitcoin is of benefit to those countries who DON'T have the rule of law and are thus very dangerous. So Argentina, Venezuela, various places in Africa and Asia, and the eurozone countries. 

The biggie for Bitcoin is March 2017, when France has it's elections. One of the candidates wants to leave the euro. Changing currency brings instability and I expect funds will rush into bitcoin, gold, the dollar, pound and swiss franc just before the election.

Who from here can predict Trump plans in next few years. With his actions he can make some chaos in this world. As corporation man he is deeply involved in almost everything so we need to be prepared for everything.
What ever he do I don't think he can effect bitcoin too much, bitcoin have its on way no matter who is president and what country is it.

Anything USEFUL about bitcoin mostly comes from the United States like developers, entrepreneurs,  users,  and business infrastructure.  The only things coming from China are daytraders, crazy fake exchanges, and massive asic mining farms that we don't need. Things like Brexit and Cyprus effecting the price is a myth from traders.  What's going on in the US is much more important in the long run and the US is the only world superpower that supports bitcoin

And who is Mr. Trump, do you know him personally or what?

I remember him threatening on multiple occurrences during all his presidential campaign to completely eradicate Obamacare, repeal and replace it, get rid of it, calling it a "big, fat, horrible lie" and a "total catastrophe". But then he meets with Obama himself as the president-elect, and now he says that he may "well keep at least two of the main provisions of the healthcare bill". I think you are mistakenly believing that Trump is stubborn like a donkey while in fact he is by far more accommodating than his competitor Clinton. Anyway, Bitcoin is too negligible and marginal to be Trump's primary concern for the time being

Donald Trump has stolen Bitcoin's thunder as the solution to centrism, corruption, a threatened dollar, impending wars, collapsing markets, burdensome regulations, and high taxes. He is going to make fiat great again.

I bump my thread, as we are now three months wiser. It looks like my short term prediction about an immediate influence of the presidential election in the US on Bitcoin was correct. Now, the question is, how long will this Trump-fear induced Bitcoin rally will last?

I guess the reality is a far cry from what you professed


The US dollar is nowhere near about being weak or weaker

The USDX keeps pretty solid above the 100 mark. The Bitcoin price surge we are seeing right now obviously has nothing to do with Trump. On the contrary, folks from the US are in fact afraid that Trump might be strongly opposing Bitcoin in his "fight with terrorism". Though I don't think that he ever touches Bitcoin in his policy (e.g. by issuing an executive order outright prohibiting it), we still can't discard such a possibility completely and yet less fears associated with it. That should contribute to prices going down instead of rising

USD is weaker in relation to Bitcoin - that was my statement, and I see it happening. I guess my initial post was clear in that regard. USDX is the relation of US$ to other fiat currencies.
Now regarding the second statement of yours. The influx of new money into Bitcoin we observe now and thus the price staying well above $1k level, may be exactly the effect of what smart money is doing: tell one thing openly and do the other behind the scenes. Once everybody in the mainstream media will start talking about how attractive Bitcoin is, it will be time to sell, not to buy it.

O'really? Your other post tells a very different story (emphasis added):


You needn't try to shift your original point now (better check your other posts as well next time). It was perfectly clear right from the start that you talked about a weak(er) dollar overall (which is nowhere to be seen so far), i.e. in respect to gold and other currencies (which is what USDX basically shows). In any case, today's Bitcoin prices have nothing to do with Trump and his policies, even if it may in fact be what smart money is doing (as you claim). Personally, I doubt that, essentially because Bitcoin has been very resilient after what the Chinese authorities did in January

I guess, being a non-English speaker, that may be a language issue. I thought my original post and the post you cite were clear that I refer to weaker dollar (in relation to Bitcoin), as a short-term effect of Trump election. For me however, the main point for opening this thread, was to hear the opinions about the long-term influence of Trump's presidency. The smart money entering now the Bitcoin scene may be one of the things I was asking about.

You overestimate bitcoin by too much.
Be realistic. Bitcoins marketcap is barely 19 billions.
And 2013 was all mt. Gox.

If there will be a black swan event in the coming years we will be lucky if just 1% of money enters bitcoin (which will give us easily a x10).