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How BTC's price change? What are the factors that affect the rise and fall of the BTC?

I am also new here but based on I what have read and my own understanding, it's affected by how much people buy bitcoins and how they use it. With the transactions I think prices move that is why when people buy more bitcoins there will be less or limited count of bitcoin then prices will increase.

The factor that makes the price of Bitcoin, that is good news. When there is good news about Bitcoin cooperation, Bitcoin Prices will go up. The second factor that keeps the price down is Bad News or FUD about Bitcoin. FUD is usually deliberately spread to tackle the price of Bitcoin. So, Bitcoin is very sensitive to both news.

I often hear that the price of botcoin can be influenced by some things. Every good news and bad. As well as supply and demand market. As market demand increases, Bitcoin prices will soar and if market demand declines, Bitcoin prices will slowly decline.

The main factor that can affect the rise and fall of Bitcoin is the supply and demand. If the supply is low and the demand is high, there might be an increase in price and vice versa. The other factor is the news. Just like with the recent incident about the owner of JP Morgan. He spreaded fake news and the price suddenly collapsed. Good news will lead to price increase while bad news will make the price decrease.

Supply and demand.

Like other commodities, more demand + rare supply = High prices.

I give you an example, let's assume bitcoin as wood:
Wood in the world is a rare, but many people need it, then the price will be more expensive.
If wood stocks are overflow, and demand is normal / fixed / down, the price is definitely down and could be "brutal" as well.
*Ignore mafia game

It affects by how people mined and sell their coins, news is one of the causes why bitcoin fluctuates, for example if some news network broadcast some fake news that this year is the beginning of the downfall of the bitcoin and the government are in the move to ban the btc through their country (which is not true) then the people will start to panic selling their coins immediately making the market affects because of the demand of it, there are some factors to be considered but that is one of the major right now, how media affects us.

The answer is simple. Many people are buying so the price of bitcoins is rising. And when falling down many people are selling their bitcoins. That's an easy explanation. But there is another explanation there. Just like banning china with ICOs / Exchanger. This has caused why bitcoins have fallen. And when it comes to growth it is a good cause. An example is that bitcoins are accepted as legal money in a particular country

The good news and bad news about bitcoin is affecting has a factor on why bitcoin rise and fall. But the whales or the holders of big amounts of bitcoin I think has definitely a great factor on this. Some small holders easily panic and sell their bitcoin quickly but eventually the price goes up for not a long time.

it seems clear that good and bad news can affect bitcoin prices.
which I want to ask why is there a lot of bad news about bitcoin recently?
what is their purpose to spread the word?

There are many factors that can affect the rise and fall of Bitcoin in the market. One, it is all about the mood of the market...where there seems to be a gloomy or some bad news are creeping then you should be expecting Bitcoin to slide its value. And with Bitcoin as well as other coins/tokens in cryptocurrency, there can be drastic movements even just within some seconds. This is what we called as volatility.

Now, on the other side, when the market is feeling the upbeat mood meaning there are good news in the cryptocurrency world and many people are positive then there a chance that the value would rise. However, we have to understand that sometimes the market can be reacting the other way around from our expectations and this is quite just natural (also happening to other markets aside from cryptocurrency).

media hits do have an effect on the price, but I think the real reason the price moves so much is that whales manipulate the price on the news. what im saying is, they exaggerate the price movements by dumping on bad news, in order to influence weaker hands into waiting buy orders. the dimon situation is a perfect example of this. and the news seems compiled to exaggerate the dips as well; they seem to release bad press in multiples lately ;)

but the apparent majority of weak hands certainly doesnt help.

treat bitcoin as a marketplace, where the law of supply and demand applies. when the demand rises, also is the price of bitcoin. to simply explain this, when more people buys bitcoin, the price rises and when more people sell bitcoin, it drops. Good luck in your future transactions.

Thank you for the answers!


And thank you!

It's based on the basic - Supply vs Demand  market. The less the supply the more is the demand thus the higher is the price and vise versa, more the supply but less demand caused the price to drop. Various external factors causes this supply demand. For example good news = more demand for bitcoin causes higher price. Bad news (recent china ban on exchange) causes less demand which decreases the price.

There are a lot of situations in which the price for bitcoin may go up or may be decreased. Even the transactions fees matters sometimes. If the network fees is too high then gradually the transactions will be decreased and the price for bitcoin may go up.

In a situation where many new peoples start investing in bitcoins then the price will gradually grow up. We found a similar situation some days before after the hardfork of August 1. The price for bitcoin is unstable and can change after any movement in the digital field.

The demand of the people and the supply in the market. I think also the mining companies have some factors that affect the rise and fall of bitcoin.

For me there are two main factors affecting the rise and fall of bitcoins, first is the Law of Supply and Demand and second is thr News.

Let's say we set bitcoins as a bottled water in a desert, almost all of the people in the desert will buy it because water is a basic commodity there. If I'm the vendor of those bottled waters, I have the ability to increase its price knowing the fact that people can't resist not to buy my product (high demand). But when all the people already quench their thirst and already have the right supply of water, they will not buy my product anymore. Tendency, I have nothing to do but to decrease the price of bottled water and hope that there are still who wants to buy because of its low price. In short, if bitcoins are high in demand, its price will go up but if not, the price will go down. That's the Law of Supply and Demand.

On the other hand, News can also affect the price of btc whether if it's true or not and big or small. The best example is when the news spread that China is trying to ban ICOs in their country, the price of bitcoins are starting to decrease slowly at that time.

Your assumptions are quite true that it mainly depends on the number people buying bitcoins and how they are using it. In my opinion there are some other reasons that affect the rise and fall of prices of bitcoins as follows:
Number countries supporting bitcoins i.e. legalizing it their country.
Number of companies using bitcoins for online sale/purchase of products.

In my opinion there are 3 factors in the price of bitcoin.

1. It has lower inflation than the economy meanng it is design to rise in price
2. The price of the bitcoin like gold is relative to the trust in the banking system
3. It is highly speculative, so bubbles are a norm.

-The decisive factor is supply and demand. That is, if many users who buy bitcoin then the price will rise. Vice versa, if many are selling bitcoin then the price will go down.
- As Bitcoin Trade
The few bitcoins are phenomenal, so no wonder if many professions as bitcoin traders. This is a factor in the rise and decrease in bitcoin prices significantly.
-News Good and Bad About Bitcoin
News is one of the factors that influence the price movement significantly. Bitcoin users who hear negative news about bitcoin, will feel panic and end up selling their bitcoins to secure their assets.

Well in essence as any other freely traded asset, bitcoin's price is determined by supply and demand.

As demand grows, so does the price of bitcoin. As demand lessens, the price goes down. Now, the demand for bitcoin is mainly driven by how the media portrays bitcoin, and whether or not there are advances in bitcoin usage like a new company accepting it.

The price of bitcoin can be more unstable than other assets, as it is completely decentralized.

Two main factors are - more and more Bitcoin users, so demand is going up and new mining rigs, especially in China/Asia with low electricity. Not only China/Asia can influence Bitcoin market, but also USA market users. If USA Bitcoin users start to buy Bitcoins, price can go up.  ;D

There are lot of factors that affect the rise and fall of the BTC. But the most obvious is the supply and demand of bitcoin in the market. When there is a high demand in bitcoin but low supply, the chance is that its value will rise up. On the other hand, when supply is high (the case which we call panic selling) and low demand, then the possibility is that price of bitcoin will go down.

according to my research so far, bitcoin will always go up if supply is scarce and buyer or demand is very much, vice versa if supply lots, buyer only bit then bitcoin price will decrease.

Yes, supply and demand is the moto behind the price change. And also the use of bitcoins will lead to change in price. The more people purchase bitcoins the more price will go up and the more people will sell bitcoins, the more the price will fall rapidly. Even recently we saw the similar price pump after the hard fork of August1. And even we recently saw a price drop after the news that china is banning bitcoin exchanges.

Bitcoin has a unstable price and such news affects a lot. The more people panic about bitcoin, The more price for bitcoin goes down. Perhaps it might be the best time to purchase bitcoins when people panic.

It is all about the news that came about bitcoin and if the news is either bad or good then it will have an impact to the price and it might makes the price of bitcoin goes down or up. Bitcoin is very easy to get affected by the news and the emotion is the main factor also because emotion is one of the things that you can't control if you will not put attention to it.

you have point but i think bitcoin as currency is normal to up and down the price maybe one of the reason increasing or falling down the price value of bitcoin because of the demands, the escrow have very effected bitcoin currency up or down.

the factor that makes the bitcoin price up and down is,
when many people buy bitcoin then bitcoin will rise by itself,and vice versa when many people sell bitcoin then bitcoin price will turu,
but,I have my own idea about bitcoin,
when many people sell bitcoin I actually buy because people are afraid of the spread of issues,
for me this is the right choice to merauke bigger profit.

Yes, the news matters a lot. Recently we saw a bad news about bitcoin as you mentioned. Perhaps you were talking about the news that china is banning bitcoins. The price for bitcoin fell a lot these days after the news that china is banning bitcoin exchanges. I do not yet know the real news about this but i think this news was spread for making profits n selling bitcoins when they are high.

A small group of people can't change the price for bitcoins as the currency is now unreachable but it can be perhaps changes by a group of peoples or any association. This is the major pump and dump perhaps which would be used for making profits. The similar news was spread in 2013 about china banning bitcoins and even some peoples made a good profit in bitcoins by selling buying them at that time.

Current events and news related to bitcoins primarily affects the market also the services and availability in each country and whenever there are changes related to bitcoins each investors also took part in the rise and fall of market charts whenever they decide to hold or sell their coins.

1. Government Regulation
Each time a government releases official statements about the regulation of digital currencies, the price of bitcoin is normally affected.

2. Media Influence
The media can also influence the bitcoin price significantly. Media hype can easily lead to an increase in the price

3. Stability of the Bitcoin Network
Stability of the bitcoin network is a major factor that most bitcoin enthusiasts are concerned about.

4. The Bitcoin Demand and Supply
The price of bitcoins is largely depended on the demand and supply.

5. Wider Mainstream Acceptance
This is another major factor that influences the price of this crypto-currency significantly.

6. Large Businesses Dumping to Fiat Currency
Given that bitcoins are not widely accepted as a means of transactions or payment, not many people and institutions can accept them.

7. Market Manipulation
This is another major factor that can influence the bitcoin price.

An indication of the upcoming growth of bitcoin is the demand for and popularity of the crypto currency, as well as advertising because the more users know about this currency and about the opportunity to earn it, the more they want to invest their money in this currency.

As for the smooth decrease in the rate of bitcoin, it occurs in a downward long-term trend in small-volume trades. The speed of reducing the cost of bitcoins is affected by bad news, as well as by experienced players with large assets.

In my opinion as we are on the advancement of new technology right now i think it's because of the stock market of every companies that were into bitcoin stock market. Like chinese government did banned the function of exchange in their country that's one of the cause that bitcoin goes up and down alternately sometime..

I think, no, I'm even sure that this business game in order to get more profit. People who throw such news, just want to earn even more. Therefore, they try to bring down the course and take money from hamsters, while buying bitcoin is cheaper at the fall.

The amount of investors and supply and demand affects the bitcoin market greatly, specially since it is becoming a race until bitcoin reach its 21M cap. Ever since there is a worldwide need for online currencies and online transactions increase greatly it also affects bitcoins market chart.

Because of the demand of the people to use bitcoin and get it as an investment, you can see that the price of bitcoin is getting more expensive and soon we can easily see that the price of bitcoin will climb more because the supply of bitcoin is fixed and the demand is continue getting bigger and that will become the main cause for bitcoin to become one of the most expensive and it will also give a lot of profit or income to its investors or holders.

Since bitcoin is based on speculative market, the price could be affected by some of kind of news like the China banning of the ICO and the Dimon statement that put the price into a dip. Those negative news has really put the confidence of some of the investors causing a panic selling, pulling the price. But if you see a good news like Japan embracing and adopting bitcoin, you will notice that the price goes high as result of this news. Also the basic supply and demand. If there are new investors who wants to enter the market, and we all know that their is only a limited supply of bitcoin, the prices will obviously spike.  As demand for bitcoin increases, prices rises. Simply as that.

things that affect the ups and downs of BTC prices, based solely on demand and sales if many people ask for bitcoin then the price will go up and besides based on vendors and merchants

The dynamics of supply and demand should never be ignored. Short term fluctuations can be attributed to dozens of factors. Long term price rise can only be attributed to more buyers than sellers. As a result the long term catalyst for BTC is main stream acceptance. The more places once can use bitcoins, the more users will enter the space and that is the only way the price continues to rise.

Bitcoin prices change based on how the demand for bitcoin is going. Since supply of bitcoin is fairly constant considering the low and controlled inflation rate in bitcoin, demand is usually all we need to worry about.

Obviously this demand is shifted upwards when there are good things being said about bitcoin in the media, and demand is shifted downwards when bad things are being said.

When bitcoin gains enough adoption the price shouldn't even matter - people will view value in terms of bitcoin, not fiat.

Supply and demand, or course, which are driven by three categories of people. People who buy Bitcoin to speculate (mostly traders), people who buy it to use it, and people who buy Bitcoin to hold.

I think that, at the current state, we have more traders and holders, but not so many people using it for the daily needs.

Bitcoin is the first most popular digital crypto-currency whose price is influenced by a wide range of factors. Ideally, the bitcoin price is normally expressed as the exchange rate of the bitcoin in relation to other currencies. With an upsurge in the adoption and usage of this digital currency, the demand for bitcoins has significantly increased in the recent past. Note that because of the decentralized nature of this currency, the bitcoin price is not normally controlled by any company, organization or government. This means that before you try to predict the rise or fall in the price of bitcoins, it is important to understand what causes the same.Each time a government releases official statements about the regulation of digital currencies, the price of bitcoin is normally affected.

Of course its users will surely affect it but the main reasons behind this is I think the news behind Bitcoin and any other cryptocurrencies as they are the main basis of people on where, when, why they are investing in. And I think the other is the traders that is playing the price of bitcoin as it is so volatile when there is a big moving in the price of bitcoin.

If you take a look on the recent years of bitcoin's price you can see that it is always going high every year so I think it is wise to invest now and just trust the system if you are hesitating to do so.

Some of issue, bitcoin is changing.  Rise and fall.
Most of matter that is market demand. You can go the coin market. And see the market cap.
Sometimes it rise and then sometimes it fallen down.
☺☺ Its crypto fact.

The good ones that affect the increase or decrease in bitcoin for me are:
1. Depend on the market economy.
2. The psychology of bitcoin users if there is fraud.
3. The bitcoin market is in the United States, China, Japan. Places where many people invest in bitcoin.

I often hear that the price of bitcoin can be influenced by some things. Every good news and bad. As well as supply and demand market. As market demand increases, Bitcoin prices will soar and if market demand declines, Bitcoin prices will slowly decline, but it all depends on the ico that we follow also if ico price is expensive yes even though bitcoin price again down we can still get the coin good, that's my friend !!

it doesn't matter.
the demand is defined as the total of all these people. and so far that demand be it more traders or more holders or more spenders or anything else has been increasing which means the price is increasing with that also.

I am also new here but based on how much people buy bitcoins and how they use it. With the transactions I think prices move that is why the buyers will increase the price, so my suggestion that when the time btc again down do not have too the panit is only temporary.

Pump and dump (rise and fall) is the part of game so not to worry about it pump occurs when user demand increases when more investor invests in and then prices blow up and other hand dump occurs when the user start selling and then prices go down and all this happen both situation are in favor of user if want to buy dump is best and is want to sell pump is best.

There are only two things that influence the price of bitcoin directly. Those factors is supply and demand, the news is has contrubution to influence the price of bitcoin but it influence the supply and demand.

The global economic and financial situation is important.

When people fear about fiat money and stability, they buy cryptocurrencies.

There are many factors that affect the rise and fall of Bitcoin both technical and fundamental point of view.

Fundamental Factors: If there is any news release from a particular country or governing body just like recent china's ban on ico and bitcoin exchanges then it may affect the bitcoin price for short term or long term. The affect depends on the news and where does its comes from, who is releasing the news etc and so on.

Technical Factors: There are also some kind of technical reasons or factors that may affect the rise and fall of BTC like Loss booking, Profit booking, Overbought, Oversold and chart patterns like Head & shoulders,Double top etc .

There are many factors that effects the rise and fall of bitcoins.
Government Regulation:Each time a government releases official statements about the regulation of digital currencies, the price of bitcoin is normally affected.
Stability of the bitcoin network is a major factor that most bitcoin enthusiasts are concerned about. Most people want a secure network where they will not lose their money.The price of bitcoins is largely depended on the demand and supply. This means that high demand and low supply often leads to an increase in the price.This is another major factor that can influence the bitcoin price. For instance, traders can sometimes purchase huge chunks of bitcoins from the market so as to make the price to appear like it is rising before dumping them back to the market, hence making unheard-of profits from the same.

which I know there are several factors that can affect the rise and fall of bitcoin ,,, which affects the rise of bitcoin is by its many ICO and blockchan and also those people who join in bitcoin ,,
and which affects the decrease of bitcoin is the decrease in ICO and at least those who join bitcoin ,,
and also the standard value of dollars ,,

Bitcoin is just like the traditional stock market that is used world wide. many factors affect the price of btc for example is the law of supply and demand. When many people use bitcoin at the same time the transaction is high and the demand for it also increases. when the demand increases the value of bitcoin also rises. and current events that is spread by news greatly affects its price to just like the FUD that China has done to lower the price of btc so they can buy it at a lower price and wait for the FUD to subside then sell those bitcoins at a higher price.

The 2 real Factors are the Supply and Demand.
Where Demand, of course, varies and is dependend on a lot of stuff.
News are a solid factor regarding price of BTC.
Like the News from China a few weeks ago. This made BTC fall a bit.

Additional Factors would be the security of BTC. If some sites get hacked, people might thing BTC is exploitable.
And depending on who is thinking that the price might drop..

There are many factors that can affect the value of bitcoin but the most common reasons are some specific country may accept or ban bitcoin, some established financial instituions may support or espress disbelief on the bitcoin.
But as for the basics, the traders are the one that mainly affect the value of bitcoin, it may be the supply or demand it can also be fear and greed. Many factors can be considered but as long as butcoin retain to its core vision, it will stay in this market for a longer time that anyone can expect.

The major thing that affects the price of anything is demand and supply. If the demand is high price will definitely go up and when its low, price will reduce...

Better to analyze market data to understnad what drives markets. Supply is limited for bitcoin and demand grows daily. Prices react to this daily demand level with falling/rising during given timeframe.

According to me by seeing all the facts and readings,I think there is no one factor which affects bitcoin market,many things like selling,purchasing, economic fall in certain country,fall in other altcoins or fiat,some news or action taken by some government etc .

The core thing in the prices of market is demand and supply of it. When people demand BTC too much they are willing to pay a few cents more for it. And people who sell it will be happy to sell it with higher price so the good news affect people to demand it and sell it higher. When the opposite appears people just start to sell it with lower prices than market price and people who demand ti are not willing to pay the exact market price so the price will go down.

The factors that affect the rise and fall of Bitcoin is the government Regulation. because when government for example, releasing an official statements, about regulation of digital currencies, automatically the price of bitcoin is normally affected. even though if the actions of a certain government are not related to the virtual currencies directly, still the impact will be felt. The media can also influence the bitcoin price. their hype can easily lead to an increase in the price, and negative news can lead to a decline in the price.

i agree with you this is the best answer that i've seen because of the demand and supply so thats why the value of bitcoin is to stable, do you know why the value of bitcoin is still increasing ? because the supply of bitcoin is limited 21million supply so i see that 16 million is already mined by miners so we need to expect that the demand is high the value is going to increase more.

This could be a good news or bad news. The efforts of strong players. But Bitcoin is unpredictable basically :D

demand and supply is not the only factor that affects the value of bitcoin. some factors that may possibly affect the value of bitcoins are : whales, fud's, volatility ,  speculations, news ( fake or legit ) , countries or governments banning bitcoin or exchanges ( online and offline) etc...
but overall , the rise and fall of the price is pretty normal and it always happened all the time , not only in cryptocurrency but also in fiats or real money.

factors affecting bitcoin prices ie Volume And Spreading Bitcoin ...
Why does this volume greatly affect the movement of Bitcoin? To see the relationship between the two, we can first understand the basic fluctuations of Bitcoin that are really determined by supply and demand in the market. If many people buy Bitcoin in large quantities, of course the price will rise sharply. In fact, Bitcoin may decline if many of its owners sell in large quantities.
Because the volume of Bitcoin is not much and the circulation is uneven, the Bitcoin movement is very sensitive to the actions of the holder. When someone buys or sells Bitcoin in large quantities, then the price can be directly extreme moves. If in the future Bitcoin volume increases and the distribution is evenly distributed, then volatility will slack off by itself.

One answer; "acceptance".
Bitcoin price is driven by the demand across all the global exchanges.
If people and government really accept bitcoin such as in Japan, where you can spend bitcoin easily, everywhere and maybe can live in there without using fiat currency anymore.
But the problem today, bitcoin price rise and fall based on speculation as people treat it as investment rather than medium of exchange or currency. So, if some people say; the price increase if there are good news and vice versa, it maybe right.

hello!
bitcoin prices are determined by demand and supply. as demand for bitcoin increases, prices increase and as demand falls, prices fall. bitcoin is already circulating in number and new bitcoin is made with predictable and declining rates, which means demand must follow the inflation rate to keep prices stable.

What mostly affects the rise and fall of bitcoin in the market is the number of demands and supply there is. The higher the demand for bitcoin and the more willing the people to buy and invest, the higher the price will be. But if there are lots of supply circulating in the market and the holders had all cashed out, the price will eventually crash. It's all about the basics of the Law of Supply and Demand.

It is simply the Good and Bad news relating to Bitcoin. If the community will receive a good news, of course, more people will get interested in Bitcoin especially investors then demand will increase which result in its price increase also. When we receive a bad news mostly what happened is a panic selling which leads its price to decrease. Examples are the banning of ICO or simply Bitcoin in some countries.

Bitcoin value is highly affected by the demand "the amount of a product people are willing to buy"
and sypply "how much the market can offer" law.
Cryptocurrency market can also be affected by rumors and news announcements, we all remember the impact of rumors
when China started banning bitcoin.

Many other things can affect Bitcoin value, such as governments policies (banning or regulating),
concurrence with other coins, technological innovation...

The factors that influence the price of bitcoins are quite diverse. Some of them are slow but quite steady, such as the gradually rising supply and demand curve. Others are sentimental and violent, like the speculative trade, which influences the trading of bitcoins each day. In spite of the opposing forces, which often exert their influence on the bitcoin market, the long-term average price seems to be on the rise. Note that learning about these factors will not necessarily make the bitcoin price more predictable. However, understanding them can help you to be more comfortable with the price fluctuations and make informed decisions at the right time.

Of course it cannot be predictable because it's not being controlled or regulated by a singular body and this quality makes it decentralized and away from the hands and influence of governments around the world.

Hi there catapult! In my half year reading, investing, and trading I have notice so many factors that affect the price change, which I think the top three are following: First, when popular people talk about bitcoin. Remember when Bill Gates that the bitcoin will hit the 10k mark, the price suddenly skyrocketed; then this JP Morgan CEO talk about that bitcoin is bubble, what follow is a huge dip. Second, when government prohibit the. When the news came out that China prohibit new ICO and further processing of cryptocurrency, it also came with a huge price drop. Third, company support to bitcoin. When CME announce the bitcoin future contract plan, it sure fire the next price hype. There are other factors like influential investor advice and emotions.  ;)

It have been known that Bitcoin prices change based on how the demand for bitcoin is going. Since supply of bitcoin is fairly constant considering the low and controlled inflation rate in bitcoin, demand is usually all we need to worry about. before you try to predict the rise or fall in the price of bitcoins, it is important to understand that when more investors comes in the price will raise also there is a massive withdrawal is likely to affect the price.

The bitcoin price affect when theres more demand but less supply,that is when the bitcoin's price rises. When the holders rushes to sell their bitcoins that's the time you can buy cheaper btc,just like the newly created coins when the dumpers dump their coins the value of it gets verry low.

Factors affecting the price of bitcoin depend on the supply and demand of bitcoin. This means that when the bitcoin price increases, demand
is high. when bitcoin prices decrease,  supply is high. Most of  the decisions to buy or sell bitcoin depend on the news of bitcoin, if there is
good news about bitcoin, the bitcoin price will increase.

Actually cryptocurrency is not on anyone hand. So actually its not on anyone hand to rise and fall down. It goes on its way. Some fact having on that it can act as few to rise and fall. I think myself when the using of the currency is increased then the price generally goes up. That would be a fact. On the other hand when the selling is become so high then the price may go down. So the understanding of falling and rising depend on lot of things as well.so stay tuned with all the news with cryptocurrency we will get all of your answer about cryptocurrency pair.

I think it depends on the demand, if many people buy bitcoin definitely bitcoin will be more expensive, but if bitcoin sold a lot then bitcoin prices can go down, but the point depends on news, if there is good news about bitcoin then demand will Much more and bitcoin price will more expensive.

Supply and demand would be the main reason. Take super cars for example, Ferrari, Lambo, Bugatti, Porsche, McLaren, Pagani...etc. Aside from their trademarks, only a few units are usually manufactured. Making these cars even more expensive! Same with Bitcoin, if those 21 million BTC's are near to be mined, price will surely shoot up with more and more trying to get these last Bitcoins.

In theory demand and supply is the base idea of the price of bitcoin. Rather than demand and supply, there are also fundamental market news coming from regulator governments and FED. Every time they announce something, the price is affeced and goes into different trends.

there are many factors that affect the rise and fall of bitcoin. most of these factors are influence by human being. The news media contribute alot to the rise and fall of bitcoin. most of us read news about bitcoin on the internet daily and we act on what we read. when bitcoin news is reported negatively it might cause fall on price of bitcoin while positive new might cause the price to increase. influence from highly connected investors and ICO developers can also cause rise or fall in price of bitcoin through positive.

It depends on people are investing their money into it and how much people are holing the bitcoin in place after buying it. Sometime people will just buy it and then sell it after getting some % of profits. If this selling ratio surpasses the people holding the bitcoin then it will obviously change the matte situation and most probably bitcoin will go down.

The same is true for the reverse case, if people are holding bitcoin with full confidence for example, the current situation where we are seeing how people are holding the bitcoin and the prices are standing firm at or around 10K USD. This wouldn't have been possible if the unity was not there.

These are really affecting factors after those common factors like, demand and supply of the bitcoin. But the above reason I mentioned are the limiting factors really.

I think if the news about bitcoin is good then bitcoin prices are very stable, and if there is bad news about bitcoin automatically bitcoin prices will go down dratis, and will re-stabilize bitcoin prices if bad news has been passed.

Bitcoin is the first most popular digital crypto-currency whose price is influenced by a wide range of factors. There are various factors that determines the rise and fall of the BTC. First, supply and demand When there is more demand for bitcoin and less supply, the bitcoin price rises. Second is speculation To survive speculation, follow the trends and make sure to do this; “Buy on fear, Sell on greed”. Which means when people are rushing to change their btc to normal currency, you will be able to buy at a cheaper rate then keep it, till when people start coming back for it again. You can then sell at a high price. Lastly is  Number of Transaction,  when transaction keeps going on smoothly and is increasing, a lot more people will have confidence to buy bitcoin which makes the price keep increasing steadily

when a government releases official statements about the regulation of digital currencies, the price of bitcoin is normally affected.
Media can easily lead to an increase in the price, while negative news can lead to a decline in the price.
The price of bitcoins is largely depended on the demand and supply. This means that high demand and low supply often leads to an increase in the price.

Indeed. There are lot of factors why the price of bitcoin is always change to high and low. In addition to that, I think the main reason why it is always change is the fluctuation supply and demand of bitcoin on online market. Then, the next factor is the number of people who buy it or have it.

In short, it is all about the emotion of the people who have bitcoin and to the people who are buying and selling bitcoin in the market. Bitcoin is one of the best option as an investment but it is also a risky investment since there is no assurance that the price of bitcoin will just continue to go up because even with a small or not a big deal kind of news, the price of bitcoin will just go down very hard.

So we can actually summarise and say that its rather news that affects the price and fall of BTC and other investments like stocks, forex and many other investment portfolios. The news whether good or bad determines everything.

Ya I agree. But partially. As Bitcoin is master/prime currency among cryptomarket, that's why when people even make move to make investment to any other altcoin, then first of all user must have to buy Bitcoins. Now it may with fiat or any other cryptocurrencies demand always increasing according to popularity and awareness of Bitcoin in public.

I have personally check when IBM make tie up with stellar price of Bitcoin rise up suddenly. Equity becomes asset by converting it into cryptocurrency. Now a days cryptocurrencies have valuable stake in market cap. And if you checked analytics Bitcoin have 50% to 60% dominance in market cap. All these things resulting towards increase in price of Bitcoin against fiat currency globally.

As far as I know, supply and demand are at the heart of things in deciding which direction bitcoin takes

then we have speculation that makes people to panic sell or panic buy and usaully forks do play a role in the rise and fall of the BTC prices.

There are many factors that affect the price of bitcoin. Such as supply and demand. More and more people are willing to invest bitcoin. The price of bitcoin will go up. For example, some countries prohibit bitcoin. The price of bitcoin will fall. For example, some places announced that they will accept Bitcoin payments. The price of bitcoin goes up. :)

The limited amount of bitcoin, the fact that Bitcoin's price increase is unlimited, the transfer of Bitcoin as a payment system is possible, people's confidence is independent of the macroeconomic factors that still govern the world.

I think the major factor is panic and hype. Panic when they buy in at hype and bitcoin is at a peak point and they lose on their investment short term when it is dropping by a few 100's and they panic and are new to the crypto market and sell off their invest to reduce the loss... This creates a domino effect to all the other people who have no idea what they got into.

Another major factor is pump and dump groups who can make bitcoin crash some and make a big profit and buy in again at lower price.  

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Maybe some fellows here will argue with me, but I am absolutely sure that sometimes false information about Bitcoin that appears in mass media affects much its price. People often believe to rumors and rush to sell or buy BTC. This affects the price of the coin much also.

Like in any form of market, prices of commodities are driven by the balance of supply in demand. As the demand outbalances the supply price will go up and vice versa. In the case of bitcoin, there is too much demand regardless of its real world value thereby increasing the price in a very short period of time  by a very large percentage. This is as evidenced by its almost vertical price chart over the previous months.

There are lot of factors of rise and fall of bitcoin and you can't just make a list.
The only thing increase the price is its demand and supply. If the demand is high the price will increase also any good news relate to bitcoin cooperation can increase the price of bitcoins. The fact that decrease the bitcoin is fork when any fork appeared like Banning the use of bitcoin ( china did ).

I guess like all other commodities supply and demand is one of the main causes of increase or decrease of prices of any commodity, same goes with Bitcoin as well. Lower the supply of bitcoins higher will be the demand of Bitcoin and vice-versa. I do not see any other reason that can affect the value of Bitcoins because there are no external bodies and organizations that can manipulate the price of Bitcoins.

What for the most part influences the ascent and fall of bitcoin in the market is the quantity of requests and supply there is. The higher the interest for bitcoin and the additionally ready the general population to purchase and contribute, the higher the cost will be. In any case, if there is loads of supply flowing in the market and the holders had all changed out, the cost will in the long run crash. It's about the fundamentals of the Law of Supply and Demand.

The price of bitcoins is largely depended on the demand and supply. This means that high demand and low supply often leads to an increase in the price.Note that bitcoins have a controlled supply whereby the total number of bitcoins in circulation must never be more than 21 million. Due to the limited supply, there are speculations that the bitcoin price will continue to rise with time.

The main thing that affect the bitcoin price is supply and demand. Ask and bid.
More demand less supply mean will be high price.
More people buy, less people sell also make it higher.

You also right that number of country supporting bitcoin and number of company using bitcoin also affect in bitcoin price but i think its just include in demand. More company use is mean more demand. So all of them is remain the same.

That is what I also thought few months back but now I have a different opinion in this regard. Normally or even in this case, when the demand of something increases in the market and it is available only in a very tiny amount, it is obvious that its price will rise and when we will hear good news, more of us are going to buy it.

But if this is so, Bitcoin should actually decline more as many countries like China Band ICOs and exchanges. Still Bitcoin was able to make progress which implies there are other factors that we need to discover yet.

Some of issue, bitcoin is changing.  Rise and fall.
Most of matter that is market demand. You can go the coin market. And see the market cap.
Sometimes it rise and then sometimes it fallen down.
☺☺ Its crypto fact.

It is same a the regular market or like the gasoline price. The rise and fall depends on the demand or need. If the demand is high the price will rise. Bur if the demand is low then it will fall. Easily speaking if someone need something eagerly you will rise the price right.

It is likely that many people buy it, but few who sell it cause prices to continue rising. But do not be influenced by news in online media, they just want to confuse the atmosphere for bitcoin prices to go down, but they can not.

It's simple if a group of organized people start spreading FUD "Bad News" people will panic and sell their coins and dump it. And this is part of price manipulations of the greedy whales. Vise versa to good and informative news.

Think of it as a simple economics. Supply and demand are the main factors that affect the prize of the bitcoin. If there's more demand than supply the prize will rise and vice versa.

Though this question is repetitive but it is good to be back a lot of new comers are coming.
The biggest thing that would affect bitcoin price is the demand and supply in the market place. As we knew the trend of bitcoin is keep rising and it could automatically increase the demand on the market but the problem is that we a limited to supply in order to cover up high demand. Though a lot of altcoins might have potentials for investment but then, still a lot will in favor to bitcoin. And no wonder that it's price will goes high and high.

According to me by seeing all the facts and readings,I think there is no one factor which affects bitcoin market,many things like selling,purchasing, economic fall in certain country,fall in other altcoins or fiat,some news or action taken by some government etc .

Demand
Supply
Global awareness
Rarity
Bull/bear markets
News/Events
US gov seizures
Large purchase orders
Early adopters dumping
Exchanges getting hacked/shut down

I am sure there are a lot more...

Bitcoin's value increase from time to time, and it is due to the changes or increase and decrease in the demand of its users and consumers. The market around bitcoin has been a very big factor. Infrastructures, companies around bitcoin has been a big factor in dictating the present price of bitcoin. Another factor is the hype about bitcoin today. More and more people discover bitcoin and started using it contributing to the increase in value.

Bitcoin price change depends on it's demand, the more the people using it the more its value is increasing. This cryptocurrency is becoming popular everyday, as the day passes, they discover what is the real bitcoin is and gets interested to it, making bitcoin price more valuable.

There are many factors which affect the rise and fall of BTC, some are listed blow:

1) Government Regulation: Each time a government releases official statements about the regulation of digital currencies, the price of bitcoin is normally affected.
2) Media Influence: Media hype can easily lead to an increase in the price, while negative news can lead to a decline in the price.
3) Stability of the Bitcoin Network: Stability of the bitcoin network is a major factor that most bitcoin enthusiasts are concerned about. Most people want a secure network where they will not lose their money.

I think that bitcoin it is also affected by the peoples that how they use it.

The facts that affect the rise and fall of bitcoin differs. But let me quickly highlight some; you have market manipulation; demand and supply; technological changes and innovations, amongst many others.
It would also interest you to know that the same factor(s) that affects the currency positively, could also, in some cases affect it negatively, when the reverse is the case, which in turn could lead to the fall of the currency.

For me too, it is only the good and bad news about the bitcoins that causes the rise and fall of bitcoin's price.

price change because demand and supply change when bitcoin have huge demand price will totally rising.

also network and government can effect "they can control demand " 

Well news are a factor on how it can affect the price of Bitcoin but have you seen the price lately? Every bad news from Bitcoin being banned as a mode of payment to bad comments by CEOs of big companies seems to be brushed off as the price is still surging that it looks like the bad news doesn't really affect the price at all. Bitcoin's price surge lately makes people who commented bad things about it eat their own words, it really now depends on how the market will react to the buying and selling pressures made by our co-traders.

I think the main factor is the investors and buyers, though we can't see their names we can assume that businessmen are investing on bitcoin because of controversial it had been. It can affect the increase and decrease of bitcoin as demand and supply law.