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I don't know what just happened, but when I opened this tab I got this:

https://s11.postimg.org/ky5w7pm5f/Screenshot_from_2017-04-02_21_17_32.png

This is pretty plausible actually if we get this dumb SegWit proposal out of the way and Bitcoin starts to scale on chain using FlexTrans (https://bitcoinclassic.com/devel/FlexTrans-vs-SegWit.html).

Seems more like 5487 btc

Google confused it for thousands. It's fine for me at the time of this post.
If it's still broken for you, try using the comma (,) instead.

what this mean 5 bitcoin price over 7 million euro
i think is google is wrong , if real price i want sell all bitcoin balance

Google didn't confuse. The European standard is to use decimals (.), whereas the English / American standard is to use commas.
If the conversion was into USD instead of EUR, the OP would have got the correct answer.

Nope. Tried it and I got 5000 something. Are you from the US or EU? Guessing it's EU so Google changed it for him. Or perhaps it's that's how much Bitcoin will be worth in the next century :)

I tried to google it out and upon searching the same words "5.487 btc in eur" it showed 5884.68 euro's and changing the decimal point (.) to comma (,) it showed "5884681.08" euros. I'm not from EU though.


Hmm.. maybe it's a conspiracy from google and they know the future of bitcoin?  ::)

Hyena, as others have already said. It is simple mistake at using coma.

In you picture it says: 5487 Bitcoins.

For you conspiracy theorists out there, who walk about with aluminium caps on their heads - I am sure Google of all companies would make its "scheme" public with simple search button.

well it is the mistake of the computer , hope when u refresh it you can see the problem to be fixed . well i think it is the future price of bitcoins .even if it happens ,people will sell their bitcoins at a very fast level and it might happen the price may drop at an exponential level.

This is surely a mistake by google and price of 5 Bitcoins is not that much. But if you see this screen after 5 years, who knows this price will be real and i think we are heading towards this. ;)

So, What's the relationship between doing a wrong typewriting and SegWit proposal?
It's thousands btc
Did you think if The SegWit proposal will make a wrong input and calculation from the google itself?
Interesting for watch.  ::) :D

Google's​ value of bitcoin is quite the right one. In common most of the time the price of bitcoin displayed in Google and other exchange websites were just an average of a list of exchange service providers. So now getting closer to $1150 seems to be a good growth for bitcoin after a fall.

Well let's hope the price posted by OP will be real in the future but I think us seeing it 5 years later from now is a bit too early unless bitcoin is used daily as one of the accepted payment methods when shopping by that time. I really wanted to see that though hoping in the near future, many countries will accept bitcoin as it is now.

What time did you try this? Which browser did you use? It was probably a bug from Google and was fixed a few moments later or a problem with your browser.

https://i.imgur.com/L2ecSxA.jpg

And no one has suggested that it was likely just an April Fools' Day joke (either on Google's or OP's part)

Regarding decimal point (or dot), it is used to separate the fractional part of a number from the rest, and as such it is used both in America and in Europe, so I don't see any point (pardon the pun) of arguing over this issue. It is obvious that the notation is the same in the query and reply, so if you omit the possibility of photoshopping, the only viable alternative is Google throwinga joke. In fact, I expected exchanges to come up with something like this on April 1

Never thought of this as a joke because of April the 1st. This was actually a tab in my Firefox browser that got restored from previous a session when I started the browser. And I'm not exactly sure if it happened on April the 1st anyway, perhaps a day later.

Google made a mistake and though you meant thousands of coins but anyway although that price is very far away I think anyone will like that price to be true since that would mean that to be a millionaire you will only need one bitcoin.

I initially thought it was an April Fool's Day prank too. But when I searched about google and bitcoin pranks there is no source which mention it.
So either it was so next level that no one (almost no one, considered that we are discussion it) noticed it or it was a mistake on google's part.

Or... google secretly has invented a time machine and gave us a glimpse into the future, 10 years ahead when BTC will reach that price for real!

i dont think bitcoin can go there far up if you understand the scaling issues

Scaling issue is not technical problem. It is political case, when one party is stubborn enough to block every other way of fixing problems.

It is a hot topic and flavour of the month kind of thing, not something that we will be remembering 10 years in the future.

10 years ago we didn't have bitcoin and now it is worth more than $1000, temporary scaling issue is not gonna stop the revolution.

Maybe his computer went to the future for a few seconds and when he search the value of bitcoin it is too high.
Hope google says the truth about bitcoin price in the future. ;D

I hope so ... I need about USD $11500 /BTC to break even.  (Sigh ... cloud mining ...)

Lol good luck with that. Why dont you just buy bitoins with fiat money and hodl? Much higher ROI man, and no high investment risks. Only the volatility risk what is high enough in my opinion.

Try it with vpn and use europe portal.  Probably the result is like that because you are using a different version of google than the op had used.  Anyway, I do hope that price of 1 Bitcoin will be like that.   It will make every member of this forum with at least 1 BTC in stash a millionaire.

Great expectations and positive thinking, I think 1 BTC can be appreciated as such, the ideas and concepts of the bitcoin is a futuristic so there is no reason to reject the bitcoin. I'm sure this will make the price will continue to skyrocket.

And not for a single moment you thought about typing 1 instead of 5.487 to see how much 1 single BTC is worth according to google.

And the difference between . and ,  has caused a lot more problems in the past.
I saw official documents where they typed wrong the , and the . Increasing the value 1000 times.
And it wasn't funny when those were your tax papers.

Exactly, google thought it to be 5487 BTC, but i wonder inspite of that "." after 5, how google interpreted that to 4 digit significant digits?
currently 1 Bitcoin is 1059.95€.

Yeah, what is so wrong with "," as thousand separator and "." as decimal point? I don't get why people have to create some sort of variation with the way we type numbers. Now even google is confused what to use. Instead of seeing a single digit number with multiple numbers after the decimal, it actually interpreted it as a number in the thousands. Can everyone stop using "," as a decimal point?! That is why it is called a decimal point because it has a "point"

Great idea, but nothing will change too soon.
Because we drive on the left and on the right , we have km and meters or miles furlongs yards, grams and oz, even different voltage, inches and cm, barrels and liters and ... should I go on?

Our greatest achievement was to finally have a single type of phone charger after 10 years and you think about changing the , . ?
Not in our lifetime. Certainly not mine.

Well basically I did end up holding my few BTC until they were worth something.  Although I've spent some in a lawsuit against LTCgear, which is also likely a lost cause.   Most of it I have to blame myself.  I let greed control my decisions.   If I learn not to do that, then the education will have been cheap.  

Anyway, who knows ... ten years down the rode we might see those $11500 / BTC.   Maybe even sooner.    

Maybe it is the regional settings in your computer that google uses and maybe you belong to the countries that uses period as comma and comma as period in decimal places and so google interprets your number as thousands. Anyway, one look and you know that it is not real price, not even as future price.

This is obviously Google predicting the future price.
Get your coins now. In fact, I'll be a bro and sell you coins at half price, only 5k per BTC!
Kappa face no space.

I think they just had a small glitch in the Matrix and the system did not see the comma in the conversion to EUR. If you take out the comma, you

end up with a conversion of  5 793 000 EUR, which is much closer to the amount that it should be. In a few years this will not be strange at all,

because we all know this thing is going to the Moon.  ;)

if the scaling issues are settled bitcoin can easily reach that.

Perhaps even as high as $10 million per coin or so.

But obviously it would take time.

However, the very same week or at most month the blocksize debate is resolved, the price of bitcoin will surely be over $10,000.

and prolly the altcoin bubble will collapse, so that only a couple of truly innovative alts would remain eth not being one of them. eth is like Bitcoin with proof-of-work changed to proof-of-vitalik and turing completeness for the sake of marketing but not much else

Nah even thats not going to happen, max a pump to $2500.
You cant expect to have 10 times the money flowing into bitcoin because the scaling issue is solved.
Impossible to occur in just weeks.
It wil moon for sure but to reach 10k it will take years.

Indeed, such prices will be impossible to reach within weeks in a consistent and meaningful manner

But there still might be a few spikes in pretty much that range, for example, in cases when there is not enough liquidity in the orderbooks on the Sell side, and someone deciding to buy out the orderbook till the very bottom. Obviously, that would mean nothing. That said, if you mean by scaling issues solved instant transactions implemented (like what LN or similar approaches do), it is as clear that it will take some time till these payment methods get properly tested and bugs fixed (that would require some time), but when they finally get firmly established, we may in fact see an exponential price growth and then we could get there (i.e. prices in many thousands) literally within weeks (due to explosive adoption)

And so, just like Bitcoin Unlimited, Bitcoin Classic wants their share of mining through FlexTrans?
Why is this becoming more political than an economical object?


Ah really? Is it really that easy for Bitcoins to go that far in a minimal amount of time without any efforts?
Even if the scaling issues would get resolved, are we too much into media as well as did bitcoin get the whole world's acceptance yet?
The growth that is coming is from different users coming in, but do you really think that the price may go to a million without any strong reasons?

It is unlikely that the price is going to reach 1M dollars per coin any time soon (if ever)

Unless the US dollar itself crashes that low of course, but that seems even less likely to happen (or more unlikely). On the other hand, 10K dollars per coin is quite possible within a year. With rough estimates, it means expansion of Bitcoin user base around 8 times. If disputes over Bitcoin future development get finally settled and, more specifically, in favor of off-chain transactions (since this is the only viable alternative to scale up Bitcoin in any meaningful way), we could get there pretty fast once people see the advantages of instant payments via Bitcoin with small or no fees. And that will as well put an end to endless disputes over buying a cup of coffee at Starbucks, which would also be a good thing on its own

These prices are not made by Bitcoin going up but Euro going down. Euro is one of the worst currencies out there because it's based on many member countries. Many countries mean many problems and if one of the links in the chain breaks... Euro could lose its value very fast and become worth just a few satoshis.

Really, that's the cause for this price?
Then i'm making you and offer that you can't refuse. How about I sell you 1 btc for 60 000 euros?
That's 20 times as cheap as the price above!

I'm sure you're not going to cling to that worthless euro.

I think Google collect bitcoin price from many different sites and show up it in results.It is possible that there were some error on the website where the price was collected during last price update.
Has op repeated the search after few hours and got the same results?

I said that "Euro could lose its value very fast and become worth just a few satoshis" which doesn't mean that it's worthless now, but could be and most likely will be.
I wish I had 60000 in cash and if I did I'd buy cryptocurrencies, of that I can assure you. Even if I had that much right now, why would I give it to you for 1 Bitcoin? I could unload it to an exchange and get BTC55 at current prices.

This whole topic just started because google didnt acumulate the dot in its calculations.  Google think 5487, not 5,487 btc

Five Thousand Four Hundred Eighty Seven

European et al.        5.487

American/UK et al.   5,487


If we add a half dollar of pennies/cents

Five Thousand Four Hundred Eighty Seven and 50/100 cents

European et al.        5.487,50

American/UK et al.   5,487.50


 :P  Yup. Confusing. As globalization continues, we will probably see less of this sort of thing. Kinda like the whole left/right steering wheel and side of the road stuff.  :D

I thought this was a phenomenal price and will make me rich faster, google is indeed often makes predictions that are strange but many come true.

I don't think its gonna happen.

https://i.imgur.com/6YfT16R.jpg

I think I got it right! maybe your google search fluctuate or got a bug on it or something? or google was trying to work on it first or maybe the price was changing when you are searching for it, well we can not know for sure, But I think you try to search it again maybe it goes back to normal!