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I just follow btc developments this month. I see every day btc price up and down. Which is my question, what are the factors that affect the rising price of the btc? Whether shareholders btc, altcoin, or btc users themselves? ??? ???

It is one of the best value holding coin and when other coins fall,  people buy and store btc. Could be the recent fall of ETH, or any other.

Normally its how investors react to rumors concerning bitcoins that makes the currency go up and down, and recently there were fears concerning the hard fork which was about to happen, people were not well informed on the matter and decided to cash in their bitcoins which may have driven the price down.

Besides the fact that we're waiting to see what will happen after August 1, supply & demand dictates the price coupled with hopes, rumors & FUD. The price is an amalgam of all that mate. Now it's rising since demand is raised and less people sell than those who're rushing to buy.

You want to watch the number of people you have.

The price is derived from a variety of factors, such as:
- news events
- the general situation in the world in relation to crypto-currencies.
- behavior of large market players
- technical update solutions
- general trend
- opinion manipulation

Mostly news. Watch it go down and up when they talk about forking it.

Supply (current bitcoin owners) and demand (people wanting to purchase bitcoin).  The supply is pretty straight forward, but the demand isn't.  There's a lot of fear, confidence and speculation which affects demand.  Since Bitcoin is not yet widely adopted as a method of payment, it's that much more volatile.

Whether shareholders and holders and owners what? you didn't finish your sentence, but here you go anyways, there are 2 major players in the whole crypto world, China and the USA both their governments and investors are the ones affecting the prices, if it was the central banks manipulating the monetary system now people and independent investors are involved as well, if some saying hold your coins is because if we hold them we could potentially have some impact on the market however small.

There are tons of factors that drive BTC price, and it's impossible to predict how the market will react to some upcoming events. Sometimes it rises/crashes, sometimes it stands still, sometimes it even moves in the opposite direction that you would normally expect. So, it's better to be a long-term investor, because it's very likely that the price will increase in long term, rather than sit all days looking nervously at charts and try to day trade.

I think that the law of supply and demand affects the rise and fall of bitcoin or there can be other factor as well such as if it gets so hard to mine and the price of electricity people who have earned bitcoins will hold on to their coins until such time that the price of bitcoin is high. Guess that will still fall under the law of supply and demand. This is just my opinion

Bitcoin is affected by:
- Supply and demand. When supply goes up, price goes down. When demand goes up, piece goes up. When supply goes down, prices go up. When demand goes down, prices go down.
- Recent news, events and media attention that bitcoin gets.
- The dark net, say if a site got shut down, it would impact price of bitcoin.
-Other alt coins.

It's totally speculative and depend on the demand and supply basically. If more people are willing to buy, the price goes up. The factors affecting the demand are very various and not one dimensional things.

Maybe you can see the changes of bitcoin to be honest if the holders will sell their bitcoins they like dumping their coins of vourse the price will drop also the volume and demand of every coins and alternative coins

Obviously it is because of the demand and supply of the bitcoin in the exchanges not all exchanges have a the same value of market price of bitcoin so i just it is because of the demand of a lot of people who are investing and holding bitcoin that affect the maket value.

I agree, supply and demand is a huge impact for a non-regulated currency. The users themselves affect the price. The panic selling because of FUD recently is an example, it's one of the cause of the huge price drop.

The situation on the market, the mood of investors, sociological factors too

  The price has risen 50% in the last couple days due to BIP91 activation. I could not believe my eyes upon waking up to see the price went up so much in such a short period.
  I can't recall ever seeing such a significant price increase in any market in my life. It is almost unbelievable, but such is the nature of cryptocurrencies.

News about bitcoin, like bitcoins getting banned in Germany (not true tho but just as an example)

Motsly because of rumors, news, and FUD. Especially for newbies.
Supply and demand. And now, I think that august 1st really affecting the prices.
There's also investors and lots of peope are panic selling.

And actually there's still more of it.

There are a lot of different variables and events that can affect the market value of Bitcoin, and those can stem from a lot of factors in and of themselves.

For events, which typically impact variables, you have different things like legislation, news articles, economic movements, things like that which can cause uncertainty within the market or they can cause a bull run as people try to safeguard their funds, in the case of an economic event.

This causes people to buy or sell depending on forecasts and outlooks on the market, and it all comes down to the investor's will to buy or sell at a higher or lower value. That is the number one factor and that is why any market moves. Events and variables impact investors who decide what they want to do.

The price of a bitcoin can be affected by the law of supply and demand. This means that its value will depend on what the market is willing to pay. The more people that want to buy bitcoins, the more its price increases. And if a lot if huge bitcoin investors suddenly decided to cash out their bitcoins because of security reasons for example, the price goes down. Compared to other currencies, bitcoin's value is much volatile.

The only thing that affect the price of bitcoin and other altcoins are emotions. All of the people who invest, trade or what, they all have emotion which push them to do something and because of the late august 1 split fever, most of the holders or investors just panic because they think that the bitcoin will get fucked up and that is the proof why emotion is the main factor for affecting the price.

which determines the bitcoin price is the supply and demand here when there is a hardfork issue all in a panic and trigger a demand-lowering. if the price rises that trigger an increase in demand I think could be anything including what you say which is good impact for the bitcoin itself as now the forum admins say that splits might not happen.

Of course, there are many factors that play a role in bitcoin prices, one of which may be because of the high demand for bitcoin in the market by traders, as well as the role of media is also very helpful to increase popularity and bitcoin prices.

In my conclusion about the affect of increasing the bitcoin price is the demand and supply of bitcoin. The demand of bitcoin is always increasing with a constant supply. The bitcoin price gradually increases over the long term. Bitcoin can be used in payment network, bitcoin as a currency, bitcoin storage and transfer (holding your bitcoin for a long time). Bitcoin has many uses and functions in our country so that's why the demand still increases.

I think this is the main factor that affects bitcoin prices, next is the continuous adoption by more country which help to increase the demand of every users of bitcoin. Also the continuous advertisement in the social medial has a big help for the prices.

Do you mean BIP91? Just for the update, it was already locked in and needed around 183 blocks until rejecting non-SegWit blocks.

I was to quite surprise to really see the spike in the price because of this positive news. Bitcoin price is really driven by speculation. Sometimes we will read negative news and and it will impact the price dramatically. If you guys recall, when the first  ETF proposal were rejected, the market crash, pulling the price to below $1000. Yes, its the nature of the market, its unbelievable indeed, that's how we love bitcoin.  ;D

Are you serious? What affects currencies that aren't global? Everything within that economy. What affects bitcoins? Literally everything. If some big news comes out in China it affects us all. If positive news happens in Russia you see a little rise but then 12h later if a country band bitcoins you'll see a dip.

Well most commodities are affected by supply and demand. But btc is a  mined good so it could affected on the world wide price of a currency more over a dollar. If america is losing financially then it would affect everything that has its base on dollars like there own gpd. Chances are basic items will increase then it would slowly affect its price and corporations also has to adjuct there prices accordingly. Btc is controlled by people but it also has its own pump and dump but still depends on the price of dollars/

The price itself is being identified depending on the demand and supply of bitcoin. Moreover, the demand stands for the number of user wants to buy some bitcoins and the supply is the number of bitcoins available in the market. Then here comes the law of supply and demand for the computation of the price. The demand and supply themselves is the main variable when identifying the price of bitcoin. However, some external factors affects the price indirectly. Those factors affects the demand and supply, thus affecting the price.

the main factor is because the news that published into public that makes people getting panic and sell their bitcoin with fast. they become afraid bitcoin will down too far and they don't want to see their money value is loss too. btc user is the most affect with bitcoin price because we don't know how much stronger the btc user when they are see the price is down.

It is a commodity Market as put down by legal standards in the courts of Florida last year. Research and reading actually tells you these things. Therefore commodity prices affected by market Capital, by the buy and sell prices on the various exchanges. This is not rocket science it is simple, simple economics.

Actually, there are many factors that affect the price of bitcoin to change. In addition to that, I think the fluctuation of supply and demand of bitcoin is main reason that affects the price to change to increase and decrease. However, I also think that the number of people who buy it or have it that also affect the price of bitcoin to change.

The main and direct reason that affects the price of Bitcoin is a higher supply of bitcoin in the market as compared to the volume of demand. The law of demand and supply says if the demand is higher than the supply then price of the commodity increases and if the demand is less than the supply then the price of the commodity falls so it applies to Bitcoin too. There are several other factors which affect the demand and supply in the market, the current 1 Aug event is one of them and we have already witnessed the show recently.

Bitcoin is unregulated therefore its value has no justification. Given that Bitcoin price moves violently up and down in a very short period of time clearly indicates market manipulation. This is the characteristic of anything that is unregulated.

it is about demand and supply
price will going high, when demand volume was raising but supply in exchanges limited, this happen in another condition for price going down.
these could be happen related about trend issue, technology improvement, security news, market volume investor, etc.

There are many factors and one or many of these factors can act at the same time to make market moves. One basic factor is supply and demand, when demand will be high than price will go up and when there is not much bitcoin for sale than price will go up. FUDS and HYPES also plays significant roles in moving bitcoin's price.

How about the August 1st man made influence. Do you feel it does affect the price? Don't you feel this is more about controlling the price than benefit to the BTC?

It is not about other currency in my opinion I will say that. Why ETH fall just because they see the market of bitcoin that they are implementing people are afraid to invest. So, they have drop down there prices because they are not that much trusted as Bitcoin. But watch once again it is rising and rising so there would be no problem after 1 August or before as I'm watching the market.

Let's revisit after August 1st :)

I don't believe any other factor on bitcoin price effect. The only thing is rich people who can sell or buy hundreds of bitcoin in a minute on exchange web sites. This is the main cause for bitcoin price change.

Ya I accept your words. No factor will affect bitcoin. Only due to August 1 the price may vary.But it will Not completely affect the bitcoin. Day to day the price of bitcoin is vary.But it will Not completely affect the inversing people on bitcoin.

It is not about up and down of price it is about market that what is going on. As people were afraid from 1 August but nothing were happened. So we should not say that it is about up and down of price. Now people are much interesting in bitcoin therefore the price of bitcoin is going high and the drop was just happened because of implementation in bitcoin.