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bitcoin slowly went down this year, from almost 20k USD last December and went down at a significant price

what might be the reason why bitcoin's price is going down?
what are the major things that can greatly influence bitcoin?
answers would be fully appreciated :)

This is nothing but the natural behavior of all the market and this is how they used to behave, and this is how the professional used to sell their stakes to the amateur traders. The price is going down because of huge selling off from the Big exchange Mt.Gox and demand & supply are the major things which really influence the bitcoin price to a great extent. If you are thinking to buy the bitcoin in the bad market situations like right now going on then you just need to eliminate the emotions and then plan your trades to face the win to win situation.

that's a good question that even me want to know it answers . but i think one of the things that affected the most the price of btc is the big amount of miners

Lots of people got scammed and existed this great industry. That s why I hate crypto anonymity and personally support any move which can end it and reduce the number of scammers around.

The public perception and the existing economic conditions affects the price of bitcoin

In Indonesia alone, Bank Indonesia expressly prohibits transactions using Bitcoin among individuals.
The reason, the prohibition of Bitcoin for financial service providers is regulated in Bank Indonesia Regulation Number 18 Year 2016 on the Implementation of Payment Transaction Processing.
Currently, common coin offers allow Bitcoin startup to obtain funding through digital tokens publishing.

I think the price of this bitcoin may fall as well as seasonal prices, as well as the number of bad news affecting selling panics, resulting in the decline in bitcoin prices.

I think most of the time, the biggest factor that affects bitcoin prices is the country's erratic policy.
If policy is friendly, the price of bitcoin will rise sharply.

1. the existence of a big bubble in bitcoin (ie $20k) and needing a burst.
2. lots of FUD that have been coming out non stop
3. lots of rich whales who have made a huge amount of money because of the bubble and they now want the price to drop so that they can buy even more bitcoin with all that money so they are manipulating the price.
4. lots of newbie weak hands who have been filled with fear and have been selling their bitcoin like crazy.
5. the altcoin dumps that forces people to sell their shitcoins to bitcoin then sell bitcoin to go back to fiat and that causes a bigger drop

There are Several factors affecting the price, one of them is media releases giving negative news about bitcoin. Demand and supply also affect the price. There are only limited supply of bitcoin, i believe not more than 20 million is available. Once the supply increased and the demand is limited, the price will automatically go up.

no one would have perfect answer for that, but I heard there is a law from US called CLOUD, which enables government to track crypto holders or something

I didn't expect to see bitcoin again on this level after a good news in G20 summit but I think scammed ICO's really affect the market.
FUD news can also be a reason why this thing's happening but still not so sure about it. Cryptocurrency have a negative image in the public until now but I hope more good news to come so investors will come in and the market will back to bull run.

When it started, it was attributed to Chinese regulations,  then Chinese new year,  then Korean crack down on exchange fees. Now I don't know what the issue is again.

From stats posted,  it is also attributed to a definite pattern which postulate that bitcoin starts at a low every year then pick up by Q3.

Its mostly demand and supply that affects the price, but when it comes to bitcoin the price is manipulated by the whales by creating two conditions according to their needs, hype and panic. By doing this they become successful in controlling the price.

I think that now there is a market manipulation. Because all the emerging news in the media necessarily try to give a negative connotation, even if they are not of the original negative color. In fact, BTC becomes faster and cheaper, other new is just a noise, it could be an official payment only in Japan and Korea and nothing changed other counties just study it and started work on laws. IMHO this is a great example of achieving a high level of recognition of the Crypto-currency on the governments level.

I think its the demand of bitcoin, im not sure but i think it is. Because if there are many people buying bitcoin the price will fall so that many people will more buy because its good to buy if the price is low. Then if theres a low demand then the bitcoin will increase. Thats what i think :)

the reason is because a lot of bitcoin withdrawal at the end of the year up to chinese new year and also a lot of news that makes bitcoin investors pull their bitcoin.

the main cause affecting the rise and fall of bitcoin prices in my opinion is the demand and stock bitcoin available. as more and fewer bitcoin purchases and stocks will make bitcoin prices rise and vice versa when demand is fewer than the available stock in the market, prices will tend to fall

Currently, there are many market participants who are doing everything to drop the BTC rate. I think those players bought in the media of negative news, call Facebook, Twitter, Google to ban any advertising of crypto. And the results of such negative work we are now seeing - quotes of all cryptocurrencies are falling every day. It seems to me that recognition of BTC as a means of payment not only in Japan and Korea, but also in other countries will help to correct the situation. But now nobody wants to do it.

There are bad news and good news about BTC affecting the price of BTC, but it seems that there is more bad news now. Both Facebook and Google have banned encrypted ads.

Mostly the news and people emotions.
FOMO and FUD affects the price greatly
But don't forget the Whales controlling and manipulating the market. They create Pump and Dump, especially in small Alts market.

A major factor affecting bitcoin is the government. Governments plays their games just to decrease the price of bitcoin by making it illegal which is it is not. Another factor that influences bitcoin are the exchanges and I am sure that you are aware of that as of now. Lastly, if you would do your research, you will see that the movement of the price of bitcoin is slightly similar than the past few years which tells us that for this moment, bitcoin is consistently repeating its trend.

The main cause affecting the rise  and fall of bitcoin prices.There are many people buying bitcoin.It's mostly demand and supply that affects the price.There are only limited supply  of bitcoin.Once the supply increased and the demand is limited,the price will automatically grow up.

First a lot of FUD. False news spreads with enormous speed in the market and plagues investors and startups in this new world, but still incipient and susceptible to high volatility

Many problems affect the bitcoin price. It's the advertising, the economic development of the world, the number of people who play bitcoin, the level of their safety ... All of that will make the bitcoin price rise or fall rapidly based on on the impact of them bad or good.

You are right, this are the reasons why bitcoin price keeps decreasing now. I just hope after all those fud, bitcoin will find its way up again in the coming months.

I'm pretty sure that the price of bitcoin is affected by the manipulators, how else to explain these corrections that occur each year,
according to one scheme.
First a lot of negative news and withdrawal of money then positive news and new injections into the market.
All these schemes are old as the world, but they work))

one thing that really affect Bitcoin is News, Bad News about Bitcoin makes Investors hesitate to buy Bitcoin. while what makes bitcoin prices up is the demand from Bitcoin suppliers. this is the main cause of the decline in the price of Bitcoin, negative news that is currently constantly appearing to make the price of Bitcoin down a lot.

There are several factors that really affects the price; spreading false news, demands and supply, panic selling huge of bitcoin. A lot of reason's actually affects the bitcoin price but these shouldnt be happens, but the usual thing is the unstable market.

yes, and today's decline is different from the previous decline. so many people are predicting that bitcoin will die this year. they panic and the last they selling bitcoins.

and also fake news to make the price of bitcoin go down. and many more factors that affect the price of bitcoin falls.

You say BTC fell down from 20k, but I think BTC had grew from 1k in the beginning of 2017 to 7k in the beginning of 2018.
On topic - I think cartel affects on bitcoin. It controls gold, uranium, oil and wants to control and influence bitcoin

don't be afraid bitcoin prices continue to fall, while we still use bitcoin, bitcoin will continue to be valuable, let the scammers sell out the bitcoin they have, and the bitcoin price will return to normal again.

Agree with that there are so many report and news back then that so many people got scam and so many scammer around more bad news we heard about crypto currency the more people also dumping bitcoin that the reason why bitcoins goes down.

I think there is massive price suppression going on at the moment. I cannot see why the price would go down like this, when

the negative news is not significant at all. The banning of Crypto currency advertisements on social media cannot have such

a huge impact on the price. There are just too much positive news to cancel out the negative news for the price to behave

like this.  >:(  ... I am not bothered with the low price, because I buy on the Dip... but the downward spiral is not natural at

all.  ???

yes, bitcoin prices are getting down lately, but I still believe prices will go up again for that I will continue to be patient.
usually that can affect bitcoin prices is that investors sell bitcoins simultaneously or investors sell them in large quantities.

Public purchasing power has a big effect on the ups and downs of prices.
The fewer people who buy an item, then the lower price of the goods tersebut.also vice versa.

The determining factor is supply and demand. That is, if many users who make a bitcoin purchase then the price will be rising up. Vice versa, if many are selling bitcoin then the price will decline.

I think that the price
is influenced by different factors because using terms like "whales" or "sharks" of bitcoins is not a fact that they influence the price. Most likely it is only our activity that affects us.

The market, usage, volume, future and many other factors which effects the price of bitcoin. The major factors are market and the evaluation according to the future prospectives. As Bitcoin is considered As future currency in the past that's why it's price is too much. As blockchain will write the new definition of the future technology. Thus one of the blockchain will definitely give neck to neck competition in the future.

It is because of some poeple which are selling their stock in the market. You cannot lose if you are patient enough  to handle the panic and stress due to some reports that has a bad impact on those investors.

The supply and demand in the market, it's the trading volume for example if the product is in demand and it has a little to no supply in the market the price of that product will rise because there are a lot of demand from it so when the price is high holders might sell some of their shares and there it is the price changes and continuously changing.

Have you missed the news? do not you know what happens to the development of crypto especially bitcoin? the results of corrections and prohibitions are the masterminds of this decline. almost three months we have seen the market is always red. maybe you should be more diligent again looking for information

You are correct.The major factor is government which influences the price of BITCOIN as well as another cryptocurrencies .But sometimes it has a positive effect and some times a negative one.

 i think one of the things that affected the most is price of btc is the big amount of miners

All I know is that, the biggest thing which affects the market demand of a crypto such as Bitcoin is the demand that it is having from the market. That's because a prixe of something in the market is dependent with the demand. Such that if one thing is in demand, surely it will have a high price. Demand changes a lot and it can be surely seen on how it reflects to the market value of Bitcoin at this moment.

I think the reason why bitcoin's price is going down is because of government restrictions on bitcoin. Aside from the regulations enforced by government on bitcoin and it's transactions, factors such as the demand, supply, positive and negative publicity from the media has an impact on bitcoin's price.

Most likely, the price is strongly influenced by the news background around the cryptocurrency and bitcoin in particular. Now it continues to ban all social networks to advertise ico. Accordingly, fewer people began to enter this market, the demand is less. (sell more than buy) hence the market decline. For good growth we need a lot of positive news and a lot of new investors)

I think that the price is influenced by different factors and it most likely could be that the price is controlled by people standing higher and bought bitcoin in large numbers.

I market the cryptocurreny price adjustment is very normal. Affecting the price of coin in the cryptocurrency market has many causes. It has the dynamics to grow. Having overcome that volatility, the cryptocurrency market will confirm its strength in the future and grow.

There are many reason that affecting the price of bitcoin. Bitcoin is volatile, means unpredictable, and i think thats normal. The bad news about bitcoin, spreading on the social media. The big whales are doing some strategy, they are using social media to manipulate the value of bitcoin, and because of that they can harvest bitcoin on panic seller, so that they can earn high profit when the value of bitcoin increase.

selling the bitcoin of people is effect with the price if you sell your bitcoin price will dump.

I think, it decreased because of more than one reasons, profit realizations of many people, being bubble/overpriced and panic sells. Looking at the market right now, in fact I can't see anything going wrong. This crash was not spontaneous.

You need to understand that crypto still is kinda new and there needs to be some regulations , so this year goverments did some corrections in law about cryptos , tax and ofcourse ICO regulations . Thats why alot of projects ask's for KYC now . But Price drop is pretty normal in crypto . When you go from 3k USD to 20K usd then thats where you need to be very careful if you thinking buying on 20k range price . Give it a time and maybe we will see 20k soon . What will happen next , nobody knows :)

Futures entering the game messed everything up. The price is highly manipulated, same as they did with the gold...

Many factors are making bitcoin down, one of which is a lot of negative news, which makes bitcoin now down, coupled with its many investors who panicked. afraid of getting big losses, and selling his assets before the price drops lower, whereas the more that sell bitcoin, it will make bitcoin prices, falling even lower.

The major impact on Bitcoin pricing is the deterioration of the governments of some countries. When the regulatory framework for the Cryptocurrency market as well as Bitcoin is not finalized, the governments of several countries issue a ban on the use of Bitcoin as a trading currency. For example: China, Korea ... That has caused bad impact on the psychology of investors. Along with a large number of investors from these countries withdrawing from the Crypto market has negatively affected the value of Bitcoin.

yes, when there has too many negative news regarding bitcoin, the demand was getting poor and also it is the reason why the price are still dump.  Actually, one of the reason are when one of some big country who has a big contribute by bitcoin was planned to ban it, the price was getting low and almost it is low.

I think, when price is decriesd totally mind is chage. one the others issue BTC no permit government., one of the reason are when one of some big country who has a big contribute by bitcoin was planned to ban it, the price was getting low and almost it is

lately there's a lot of negative news about bitcoin, maybe it's true that you talk about it, more and more investors are selling bitcoin of course bitcoin prices will decrease, now many new investors are buying bitcoins at high prices, and they believe only about negative news that leads to bitcoin, so they panicked and sold some of their bitcoin even though it was a huge loss, because they were afraid that there would be more losses.

the price of bitcoin down it does bring bad influence for its users, especially with the gosib that is not true also, then increase the unbelievers.

Many factors can affect the price of crypto. Today one of the most important factors are the news. If someone significant in world crypto said bad news, the market goes down.

There is a lot of reasons why. Panic selling, selling a huge amount of bitcoin because they think it will continuously drop. Country banned bitcoin, some country have the higher population of people using bitcoin and banning have big impact in the price and also the supply and demand.   

Market manipulations from the financial institutions,the news,the FUDs, and most importantly technicals these are the things that you should be watching out as they are going to be a good trigger for your trades,this is the butterfly effect that is why we need to be sure to our all decisions because you might see a good difference when things arent turning into our hands.

The 3 main driving force behind such price fluctuations are mainly due to:

1. CME Groups entering the crude market.
2. CBOE playing around in this unregulated space.
3. Increase in hedging by the whales (also known as market manipulators)

There's nothing really we can do about preventing it now. We either have to ride the wave by taking advantage of the sieve curves or get rekt eventually.

Panic selling mostly happened to people that is new to industry and sell their bitcoin like crazy, country is not friendly that cause the price to goes down, altcoin that sell into bitcoin then sell bitcoin to fiat and lastly is scammed, lot of people is scammers.

I think fud and scam news directly affects price.

It is the nature of bitcoin to be volatile. I think governments also play major role in this, the policie of most governments that are against bitcoin makes holders who are faint hearted to panic sell thereby resulting in this fluctuating price.

FUD may work for new ones but for old time hodlers it will just be a little chance that they will be affected by it. In fact, they might just ignore it thinking it is another fake news made by whales to get them a little more profit before buying. That will grow the number of bitcoin that they will hold and will continue to be whales that could somehow shake the crypto industry.

the buyers are so much lower than the sellers thus making the price go down as no one wants to buy it, which is explained by demand and supply theory and so many FUD causes buyers to step back from buying it.

Yes, basic theory are low price because Buy < Sell. But my opinion about this, many people are still worried to buy Bitcoin and hold it for long time regarding about what happens in Last Dec-Jan 2018. So nowadays many people takes daily trading for gain profit rather than hold without doing nothing.

Certain factors affects bitcoin price, the main thing I guess is the demand and supply which I believe could be at times manipulated by the whales. Another factor that plays role in influencing price are the scams and unpleasant news, it creates bad impact that in turn affects demand and could at times creates panic selling and lead to price drop.

A huge sell off by big whales to small traders is the main reason of a huge dump in bitcoin. Another reason of downtrend in market is less demand and high supply of bitcoin in market.

I think demand is a major factor that affects price (all other factors being kept constant e.g FUD). However, we know thaat manipulation is now the order of the day since the futures guys started bitcoin business in December 2017. But really the main factor should be demand, i did not mention supply because i take it to be almost constant since the number of people adopting bitcoin daily far outweighs the rate at which new bitcoin come into existence and with increasing difficulty rate of mining. So increase in demand keeps pushing the price higher

I think if you are in the Cryptoworld, you should be used to how the prices change within some time period. The crypto prices are controlled by the investors and the prices increase when there is high demand and decrease when there is low demand for Bitcoin.

There are several factors that may affects the prices which is some medias are realesing bad news about crypto currency or some exchanger sites are being hack that could affects the prices, maybe there are some countries are going banned of crypto currency.

In my opinion, there are several factors affecting the price of bitcoin and these are FUD and negativity news in the media.
With this, bitcoin may had affect it's price and that is a fact where it is commonly happening in the crypto market due to its volatility.

Demand and supply affect prices, but when it comes to Bitcoin, prices are manipulated by creating two conditions according to their needs, their sensations, and their panic. Since more Bitcoin purchases and shares will raise Bitcoin prices and vice versa when demand is less than the available stock in the market, prices will tend to fall.

The most influential factor, quite clear and obvious, is speculation. Bitcoin speculation can bring huge profits. The risk of this currency makes it attractive to speculators. As a commodity, the value of Bitcoin is determined based on supply and demand.

I agree with you all depends on the request.
but a clear rise and fall value bitcoin price no one set all running with the  interface systemor called p2p.

The biggest influence why bitcoin is going down is when the holder dumps their possessions in bitcoin. Also, the reason for holders dump is panic. Once they notice the value of bitcoin is going down the holder of bitcoin is easily sell their possession causing bulky supply in the market that results in the price dump of bitcoin. Once the supply is too bulky in the market and the demand is too low the results are price dump of bitcoin. This existence is not good to all bitcoin investor because price down of bitcoin is resulting in the losses of profit and capitals.

I think that's the shark's money strategy. They have made many paranoid that bitcoins will surpass $ 50k by the end of 2017 but they have been fooled.
There are a lot of people buying bitcoins at $ 20k and sharks sniffing it. Then the shark sells all its coins and makes the market go down dramatically.

I think the factors that affects the price of the bitcoin are the investors trust whether they will invest on it now that many people are taking advantage to those who are new in bitcoin so many investors somehow doubting it. Also is the negative feedback and comments of the the people about bitcoin. Another is they think that on what time will their investments more profitable so the bitcoin are being stack.

I think the crisis that facing of the countries right now and the war because having that problems can be a factor that will cause bitcoin to drag down and because there is a war no one will use and invest bitcoin because there is a lot if possibilities that bitcoin will be afraid of using it because they can ban it without hesitation.

A lot of things affects the price of Bitcoin. Some time it affect in a positive way and sometime it affects in a negative way :). The positive news about Bitcoin that is the developed countries like japan, Germany start accepting Bitcoin and many multinational company like Microsoft, Samsung, Amazon etc start using Bitcoin for their various purpose help to put a positive effect on Bitcoin's price. News about Bitcoin related with criminal activity and fraud  news about Bitcoin make a bad impression on it market price   :-[

I think the media has a great impact with the rise and  fall of its value, bad news drives the value to go down, Good news attracts investors to indulge digging just to earn good profit. Big whales are also source of fluctuations.

it can be caused by FUD and mostly at times cause by the demand and supply....

This time the market is going up and I think it's the eos that has been pouring in so much money that the whole market is going up!

If EOS starts to fall from its peak, there will be a small dip in the market!

I think it will go up soon!

the price of bitcoin right now is decreasing, i think it because the price of bitcoin in the first of year is too high, and right now the price of bitcoin being correction, right now we can see that the price of bitcoin is going up again, i hope that the price of bitcoin is getting back to normal soon

As we all know that there was a price rally in the last quarter of the last year but that was not the organic growth of Bitcoin. It was the result of the involvement of the big whales and institutional investors. However, when they decided to take the exit from the market, the price fell down resulting in a panic selling wave and eventually the correction took place. That was the main reason why we have experienced 65% fall in the price in this year. However, I believe that we are done with correction and now there will be a bull market for rest of the year.

it must be so called the market.
because if there is no price movement then bitcoin itself will be defeated by coins that are popping up lately.

Bitcoin price goes down because of negative news related to crypto. We have lot of it this year like major companies (Google , Facebook) banning crypto related advertisements.

after strong growth, a strong fall in technical analysis is expected, as well as the news background and old-timers crypts (whales)

The current situation in the market indicates a more balanced approach to trading among market participants and a relatively calm reaction to negative messages. Bitcoin can`t rise yet due to the fact that large investors have no guarantees in three aspects: predictability, investment protection from scammers and a prospect (preferably long-term). As soon as these factors become a reality, the crypto currency will begin to grow rapidly in value.

The biggest impact on the market is the volume on the market. The money taken from the market is dropping the price very quickly. Take a good look at market cap prices.
When billions of dollars are withdrawn from the market, the price plummets.

It seems to me that the price of bitcoins depends on many factors: it is small investments in crypto currency and prohibition of advertising in social networks and distrust of some companies, it is necessary to attract investors and check new companies more carefully.

The significant drop earlier this year was a factor in the exit of investors from the crypto market after a major pumping at the end of last year. I think that the drastic rise that occurred late last year is the act of whales who want big profits from bitcoin so that the correction happens very much after they leave the crypto market to take advantage.

many factors that affect the value of bitcoin down drastically. but the most dominating factor is the high sales and also many panicked sellers, even some the panicked seller is a whale.

i worried if there is still seller panic, bitcoin will go down again to $7000.

i hope that will not happen.

Many reasons that affects the price of Bitcoin. Sometimes it's goes up and sometimes down. As a result it causes panic to those who does know the reason of sudden drop. But actually one of the reason it suddenly drop it's because of the support of the people. The greater the support or the many people buys Bitcoin the greater the price but if the supply is greater the demand that's the time it drops it's price. Many speculations says that the price can be manipulated but there's no proof for this.

The things that affects the varying price of Bitcoin i think is the number of people that were engaged in Bitcoin. Also, it depends upon the time of month. You can predict if it will go up and down depending the time of day and month.

Few things that I believe affect the falling and rising of Bitcoin price are;
* forces of demand and supply
*exchange rates considering the exchange currency value
* bubbling character of bitcoin.
* different countries involvements.

Well when there is a big market for something there are big manipulators present to exploit that market.for crypto there are various reason like government policies towards it, adoption of the people of the said coin , it's own aim as I what that particular coin want's to achieve in the market and it's roadmap.there are many more but out of all of them I count these as the main reasons for it to effect the market price.

i think the government's policies have led to a drop in the price of bitcoin . bitcoin is more than $20000 , which scares a lot of governments , who believe that bitcoin will absorb all of the world's wealth , so they made some bad policies about bitcoin .

Many countries banned Bitcoin because of speculation and investors did not invest in social projects that left the nation losing significant taxes. Many criminals use Bitcoin for illegal money laundering so many countries have banned Bitcoin from influencing its price, as many investors worry that the government knows they are holding Bitcoin out of business.

Nope, government policy have not such a big affect on price of bitcoin. But it totally depend on the demand and supply of bitcoins in market. Sometime demand of bitcoin is increased too much in market due to which price get pump with a quick speed while sometime demand got down due to which price is also got down graph mean dumping. As that is the main logic behind the price pump and dump.

The law of supply is the main basis of why prices fluctuates from time to time. Demand can be affected by a lot of factor and a very good example is negative reports and articles. I think the recent dip was mainly caused by it. It resulted for hodlers to get emotional that resulted to panic selling.

The more people are aware of bitcoins the more they embrace them and the demand for them increases.

The primary reason why the price of bitcoin fell from 20k dollars is because of bitcoins overvalue. Because of this a correction happened and bitcoins value fell down to 10k$. But after it fell to 10k$ many bad publicity and unprecedented events have impacted bitcoin such as MT. GOX selling huge amount of bitcoin, banning of cryptocurrency by Google, Facebook and Twitter and lastly the paying of taxes by the exchanges.

The extent to which the effectiveness of transactions, the number of exchanges, companies, entrepreneurs who are ready to accept a certain crypt for payment, the level of security and confidentiality, the number of exchange offices in which it is possible to exchange crypto-currency for traditional money and, of course, will affect the extent to which the crypto currency is needed. same, investment attractiveness.

Volatile markets and volatile policies have always affected the price of BTC, and there are too many uncertainties.

There's too many reason that affects the price of the cryptocurrency in the market. And one of the most common reason is the lessen of the investor. Investor have a big factor in the lower the price of the crypto currency. And if the investor are more and more newcomer then the price is rising up it can maintain the price if the investor amd always present

Many factors affect the decline in Bitcoin prices this year, Bitcoin dropped the first time this year when it will enter the Chinese new year. then people assume the price will rise after passing the new year. continued negative news about Bitcoin, the price dropped again. and people assume because of this negative news bitcoin prices are going down. obviously I'm not sure why prices can go down that far, there is also a saying that the price of this Bitcoin turunya because there is a price game. as a newcomer like me, can only keep up with developments and price changes, can not do anything!

In my opinion. many factors have resulted in lower bitcoin prices such as negative issues, banning of bitcoin in various countries, banning advertisements in some electronic media, mass media, social media. causing fear and lack of confidence in investments in digital currencies.

I don't know why everybody is looking for the one why behind the price movement. There are multitudes of reasons and all of them boil down to the empirical fact that after the price hits an unsustainable heights (like the 20k the OP discusses) it must and shall go down for a correction. It is inevitable and no thinking why is really necessary nor productive.

Plenty of traders are selling including those young lads that are panicking.

News today has the biggest impact that is greatly influencing bitcoin and it's not only for bitcoin but for the rest of crypto's.

This is the result of bitcoin karna If you have Bitcoin at this time, you are one of those people who determine the price of Bitcoin. If you get there, you will sell more, then the price will move down (as the offer / offer now increases)

I think that now there is a market manipulation. Because all the emerging news in the media necessarily try to give a negative connotation, even if they are not of the original negative color. In fact, BTC becomes faster and cheaper, other new is just a noise, it could be an official payment only in Japan and Korea and nothing changed other counties just study it and started work on laws.

Many factors that make bitcoin sales value. Among them is so incessant news in mass media or electronic media that connects bitcoin negatively.
So many bitcoin holders crowded to sell it.

I'm not sure about what I'm going to say, but there's a combination of everything that floats around it.
Mainly it's because of its decentralyzed nature that keeps market floating, then you need to add every ban that got in some countries due to fear and censorship, some fake news here and there and people leaving the system because of all this negative stuff

In actual when we were in the last of year 2017 then at that time lots of fork were going on and that was greediness for many people who were thinking to make free coins earnings that comes from fork of bitcoin , so due to this reason many people bought bitcoin and that results into increase in the demand of the bitcoin buy and that leads into increase in price of bitcoin .
But after the end of the year 2017 we find that the value of the bitcoin forked new new coins are launching at low low prices that why results into many people to sell Thier bitcoin and that results into down in the price of the bitcoin .

normally bitcoin price movements are caused by very high demand and very limited bitcoin supply but for now it seems that already it is not very applicable now bitcoin prices are influenced by the news circulating, if there is good news for bitcoin and digital currency other then the bitcoin price will go up but if there is bad news then the price will go down.

The price of bitcoin depends entirely on the investor's capital. Many people will keep it in large quantities and the price of bitcoin will increase, it is also affected by the volume of the market.
If the volume is high, the liquidity will be higher and the bitcoin value will increase and vice versa. That's my understanding of this, hope it helps you.

I think demand is a major factor that affects price (all other factors being kept constant e.g FUD). However, we know thaat manipulation is now the order of the day since the futures guys started bitcoin business in December 2017. But really the main factor should be demand, i did not mention supply because i take it to be almost constant since the number of people adopting bitcoin daily far outweighs the rate at which new bitcoin come into existence and with increasing difficulty rate of mining. So increase in demand keeps pushing the price higher

I believe that the price is most affected by human greed, and other negative character traits.

I think it's because of the user so that it affect the price. When there are so many user here the price of it becomes low and that's only my opinion. Other said that the price of bitcoin is affected by the investor's but for me the major factors that affect it is the market.

One thing I am sure of the reason is because of the whales who can manipulate the rice of Bitcoin which making the price either high or low.

The price is become affected during the bitcoin faces some negative issue which leads every investors lost their trust and their faith on bitcoin. So then the direct effect regarding to the price on the market place may take its place. And then the volume of the investors decrease leading on to the price goes down low.

Things that greatly affect the price of the bitcoin is how market response against the Bitcoin is accompanied by a clear rule of law to be able to protect the perpetrators of the Bitcoin market personage who would commit fraud or any form of cheating with on behalf of Bitcoin.

I think the user is the reason so that the price of bitcoin is changing. If there are many users , the price falls down because if there are many users,  the demand is high so the price is falling which makes the price change.  I think this is the one factor.

I cant answer the question. I'll make a follow up question rather. Does the economy and status of world affect also the price?

The governments can effect Bitcoin and cause its price to go down and up.  People can effect Bitcoin price too. For example; when the number of Google searches start to decline, Bitcoin price is effected in a bad way too.

in my opinion that affect the price down is a lot of people who sell than people who buy so no wonder the price goes down
so if you expect the price to go up then be patient

Practical in the crypto market. bitcoin to me is a kind of investment, a real product. Therefore, the supply and consumption from the user will be the essence to affect the bitcoin value. In addition, the market has not been managed and controlled, and efforts to generate FUDs and distractions have always affected the market. In other words, the reaction and impact from the consumer and external influences will affect the bitcoin value and the market.

Let's compare on 2009 price and 2018's

What's affect the price ?
People's demand but why every people seek bitcoin ?

In this digital era, people prefer something fast and cheap transaction so yeah.. bitcoin is the answer and become the salvation !

I'll give you a little bit of my analysis of the bitcoin price next

2012 - bitcoin halving
2013 - moon
2014 - problems created from mtgox and others
2015 - re-build
2016 - bitcoin halving
2017 - moon
2018 - the problem is still being created
2019 - re-build
2020 - bitcoin halving
2021 - ???? you know that

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Do you see bitcoin going to the moon, somehow it happens a year after bitcoin halving, so what do you think is affecting bitcoin prices you can get a little answer above  8) 8) 8)

The price of bitcoin depends on 1. News 2. Governments 3. Whales who have a lot of bitcoin and which can influence the market 4. The faith of people in Bitcoin. Before the new year, many bought bitcoin for 16,000 - $ 20,000. And then they sold it with a minus. And they have repulsed all the desire to enter this unstable crypto currency.

when people invests money in bitcoin. than its affected to bitcoin price. in digital currency you should take patients to sell bitcoin.

just calm now has been running for half a year and in my opinion for now bitcoin prices have shown price increases so to return to the price of $ 20k again seems very easy and it will happen in the near future. at least bitcoin from year to year will create a price difference and create a record for the highest price.

Mate the reason is simply to us which we always dump our coins and less buying it.when we always dump or sell our coins the big possibility of this was the market turns into red that the value will goes down.

The usage and the acceptability of the cryptocurrencies. Once there is usage of the cryptocurrenies and compare to the emerging market, the price is bound to increase

some people with a great amount of coins may affecting the market price because they can dump the coin anytime.
they are called "whales". but this is just one of many factors that can affect coin price.

Many things affect bitcoin price ,like peoples perception,global economy,fake news,negative news.also supply and demand from user will be essence  to affect its price value.social medias fake news affect its price so much.also human greed affect its price so much.

Demand and supply, good old economics

Natural movement of prices,and normal behavior of market ..having corrections,panic sellers,whale manipulations,more fuds and fake news this are what affects the prices ..but this is not in here permanently because the trend is changing maybe sometimes tooking long before recovery and getting slow but it will.

In my own opinion, I think the things that affects the price are the investors, the people , the demand from users. If the demand is high, the price is low. When the demand is low, the price is high. The fake news also affects the price because when the fake news will spread, many investors will not invest money so the price will change.

There are indeed several factors why Bitcoin went down that huge after the 2017 strong rally. In addition to the factors that you mentioned, the correction following the aggressive surge in Bitcoin's value in 2017 was quite deep as there were definitely several dumpers. That cannot be avoided as the price was really very high at that time. But now we are beginning to recover.  

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The good news and bad news of exchanges and countries effects its price increase and decrease

Its the "demand and supply" that affects the price. The more the demand is high the price will surely high hence the supply is low. Yet if the the supply is high and the demand is low the price is will drop and that is the number one cause that price is affected to. lets us just continue to use bitcoin and I am hoping that more countries will embrace it for our own sake, and for the accessibility and convenience of it.

Bitcoin tends to go down at a sensitive time in the early months of the new year. That is not the first time.
In my opinion, the biggest impacts on bitcoin's increase / decrease are: government bans, FUDs from dump (Mtgox) processes, or panic attacks from user psychology. The most important source still is from the mining process and the demand for use in popularity.

a lot of negative news about bitcoin affects bitcoin prices, with a lot of negative news like google, facebook and twitter that will close all ads concerned with bitcoin or crypto, it's pretty influential that keeps bitcoin prices down.

Organizations, credit unions and decks are the ones who have the biggest impact and benefit the most from the market price. Another impact on price is market sentiment. Only traders lose money in this market

These are the needs of investors as well as the quality and prestige of the ico programs and do not exclude government policies and the source of electricity for digging bitcoins if they are good. will greatly affect bitcoin

down and rising bitcoin prices can still be tolerated, for now bitcoin prices around 7k to 10k because in the world of cryptocurrency the price is already high, which causes bitcoin prices down the biggest factor is news, for example news about bitcoin which causes investors fear and reluctance to invest in bitcoin and a lot of news that impressed "disfigure" bitcoin, news about the vulnerability of bitcoin security, news about applying the tax on bitcoin. then affecting the bitcoin price is supply and demand, etc.

Demand for Bitcoins, which is based on the awareness about Bitcoin, its popularity, trust among crypto community members, and even more. If the demand is high and the supply does not meet the demand, this causes a spike in the Bitcoin rate.Thus it is expected that the price will keep on increasing.That affects the price.

Public perception has a huge impact on the value of the currency. So, in the case of bitcoin, people who react positively to innovation can act as a driving force. Another incentive is that the very idea of a crypto currency is attacking a corrupt banking system, and it will not be possible to cope with an emerging competitor using traditional methods. Negative reactions can be caused by the fact that crypto-currencies are often associated with illegal activities.

As far as I can not say clearly any reason affecting the price of the BTC. They rise dramatically, no one can advance. But perhaps due to some deliberate whaling the market and the price of BTC increase and decrease as they want.

Successful hacker attacks on large crypto-exchange exchanges, such as Mt. Gox, undermine the reputation of digital currencies, adversely affecting their prices. But such innovations as increasing the security of wallets through the use of several signatures and the emergence of new opportunities for online payment can give a positive impulse to the price.

Many crypto currencies cost less Bitcoin, Litecoin or Ethereum due to the fact that they are not widely known about the masses. Many crypto-currencies duplicate the code of bitcoin, differing from its predecessor by only minor technical nuances - the number of coins in circulation, the algorithm of proof of work, etc. The degree of similarity with bitcoin without radical improvements in technology or increase in utility also affects the reputation of the currency.

many things that could affect the price to increase or even to decrease and it's not just by supply and demand and how people react because of one news. but as long as we can prepare for the worst thing, then I am sure that we are fine and we can continue to do trading in many exchanges. the most important to avoid the effects of the price, we need to have calmed down and don't panic when we hear one news, bad news or good news, so we can make a decision with care.

Factors Influencing Bitcoin Price

With Bitcoin prices soaring past $20,000, the cryptocurrency has broken all predictions about its impending crash. The price has increased over 500 percent since July 2017, which is a never before seen phenomenon in history. This has sparked warnings about it spiraling beyond control. There are several influential factors that bring about such a landmark change. Here are the 5 crucial factors that impact the price at present.

- Bitcoin supply and increasing/decreasing demand
- Regulations enforced by governments on Bitcoin transactions
- Bitcoin in news: Influence of media on garnering negative and positive publicity
- Bitcoin users and developers influence the rise and fall of price
- New technological changes to Bitcoin

it may be related to the Mt.gox event . after this exchange filed for bankruptcy , they had at least 165000 bitcoins . they may have quietly sold all their bitcoin. selling so many bitcoins in the short term has led to a bear market .

The reasons that I consider that affects the fluctuation of bitcoin price are the whales who plays in the market. Because they are the one who holds more bitcoins that's why their moves or decision really affects the bitcoin price. Another is some country who bans bitcoin. Through these those bitcoin users who are a citizen of that country will be banned from using bitcoin that may also be a factor that affects the price.

I think there are several factors that affect the prices, one is the news of the media that gives negative news about bitcoin, so make a lot of user panic sell to make the price bitcoin free fall of the highest price at the end of 2017 due to the number of sales. Supply and demand also affect the price.

I think public reaction towards bitcoin can affect it's price....

   Public reaction? Price is affected by the supply & demand! Public reaction is affected by the new`s, and
other mean`s.


   Several factor`s affect supply & demand. One person can manipulate with supply & demand. One person
can manipulate with new`s and that affect public opinion. Panic buying or selling affect higher or lower
supply & demand, that affect the price directly. Higher supply and lower demand decrease price, lower
supply and higher demand increase the price.
   Only thing that affect the price is proportion of supply & demand.

i think is is the may reason it call business, the raising and falling of price make it a business which create room for profit and loses,
with this two things the word business is not yet complete.

for the Q1 of bitcoin i dont know why the price of bticoin is down, but some people said that its because the price of bitcoin is too high and that is the time of correction, which mean that the price of bitcoin will go down. but usually the price of bitcoin is affected by the news in the public

That is happening every year I guess, maybe it’s just that, we have the highest Bitcoin price last year that's why we see the big difference of the price this year when it drops, but as what you can see right now, it is recovering after the dips. For me, let's just also consider that bitcoin has still a good price anyways.

if for now as far as I know the bitcoin is going up bit by bit and that's also a lot of bitcoiners who are excited about all this. so we should be grateful for what we hear, this news is very difficult. hopefully also the price will add up again.

The number one affects the price is dumpers, because if they see the value of their token they sell it no matter what cost is, So that the reason why the value is dump.

which I know may be a lot of investor demand and bad news bitcoin also affect the price and bitcoin value, maybe that's what little I can say expected bitcoin will keep developing in the future

The demand for Bitcoins is based on the awareness about bitcoin, its popularity, trust among crypto community members, etc. If the demand is high then the supply doesn't meet the demand, it will cause a spike in the Bitcoin rate. Fluctuation of bitcoin prices happens when there is an official statement regarding digital currency regulation. And whenever a government imposes a ban or restriction on the Bitcoin use, there is a drastic change in the price. And also negative news can cause the price to drop.

News sentiments is a major market price mover either up or down. I think the various ban and regulation encted by some countries early this year is among why the price went down. People panicked and sold off even when  they are at loss.

Too many factors affect the price, taking into account the policy of the government, to the withdrawal of large sums in fiat. Just need to take into account the news, and various crypto conferences.

Actually, noone knows the exact reason why bitcoin price is going down. But the recent downfall of bitcoin price is I think mainly because large companies such as Google and Facebook block all types of bitcoin advertisements which affects the price of bitcoin. Another factor might be the supply and demand. If a large number of people plans to sell their bitcoin, there is a huge amount of supply so prices decrease. But when noone wants to sell their bitcoin, the price will increase so that owners will be convinced to sell theirs.

Affecting Bitcoin prices nowadays, I think that because virtual currency investors are now risking the country's economy as well as many other developed countries, Bitcoin is widely supported. Their country banned virtual currency and they do not like this happening.

just calm bitcoin prices are now entering the phase of price recovery which means bitcoin prices will try to print its highest price from year to year bitcoin prices always go up and hopefully it can be more than $ 20k.

The main factor is the changes of demand from the people. Since bitcoin is all dependent on peoples decision no one can have the full control over its price. Thoigh manipulation might be done, but it will juat happen in short term period. We have heard different news about bitcoin and there is no denying that this really affect people's decison wether they will keep their investment or not. Mainstream media take also a large role on changes of price.

price can be affected by demand and supply rate and also government trying to regulate or make negative or positive pronouncement will make price to shift 

I believe that the price is most affected by human greed,because of the whales who can manipulate the rice of Bitcoin which making the price either high or low.People can effect Bitcoin price too. For example; when the number of Google searches start to decline, Bitcoin price is effected in a bad way too.

Many factors affect the decline in Bitcoin prices this year, Bitcoin dropped the first time this year when it will enter the Chinese new year. then people assume the price will rise after passing the new year. continued negative news about Bitcoin, the price dropped again. and people assume because of this negative news bitcoin prices are going down. obviously I'm not sure why prices can go down that far, there is also a saying that the price of this Bitcoin turunya because there is a price game. as a newcomer like me, can only keep up with developments and price changes, can not do anything!

Actually, the fluctuation of supply and demand of bitcoin is most common factor why the price change. In addition to that, the whales are also can manipulate the price of bitcoin and I think the number of people who buy and use bitcoin can also affect the price of bitcoin. Lastly, the supply and demand is the main factor that affects price to change.

Each time a government releases official statements about the regulation of digital currencies, the price of bitcoin is normally affected. Even if the actions of that government are not related to the virtual currencies directly, the impact will still be felt. A good example of this can be derived from the Cyprus banking crisis, where the government seized funds. This prompted discussions on whether Cyprus should adopt Bitcoins as their new currency. Anytime there are restrictions on the use of bitcoins, their price changes drastically. Another reason why Bitcoin can price can go down is that..The media can also influence the bitcoin price significantly. Media hype can easily lead to an increase in the price, while negative news can lead to a decline in the price. For instance, news about bankruptcy or hacks on bitcoin-related websites and services can cause panic and disruption among bitcoin users, leading to price dips. Negative news about government involvement and regulations as well as news on the use of bitcoins in illegal dealings such as drug transactions and money laundering tends to have the same impact on the bitcoin price.

The governments of major countries are to blame for that as they think it can be used for money laundering and fraudulent means, also they didn't want to accept it because bitcoin is not under their jurisdiction

Well it's normal though bitcoin is very volatile it can increase and decrease gradually , but then again the big whales are one of the main factors that affecting the price of bitcoin. It's not consistent but it's persistent though , and it's by the demand and supply on the marketplace.

Actually physical market and digital market always influenced by basic law of Supply and Demand (Supply and Demand). If the offer is more than the demand, then the price will fall. Vice versa.

I think that the main factor causing the price movement is from very high demand and from the total supply is very limited but now the news of cryptocurrency can also trigger the movement of coin.

actually a lot, there are some things that affect for example. The demand for goods or services increases, while the number of goods or services is limited. Future views from producers or consumers. so the price is unstable and uncertain.

So many factors contributed to the drop or to what affected the price,the Fud,government banning cryptocurrency exchange, petitions for strict regulations.

I think, Its mostly demand and supply that affects the price, but when it comes to bitcoin the price is manipulated by the whales by creating two conditions according to their needs, hype and panic. By doing this they become successful in controlling the price. but, it need a big money to controll the price

I think this is because many countries are still banning the circulation of this crypto currency. that's why I think the bitcoin price goes down.

For me the supply and demand of bitcoin in the market affects its price. Because if the supply and demand of it is too low bitcoin price has to lower their price too. And if the supply and demand is high they have to make a high price too. But it is only my opinion. So what's yours?

supply and demand of any kind of electronic money will affect its price. An electronic currency has a lot of supply, but less demand, its price can not be increased. While an electronic currency has a limited supply, it is expected to see significant price increases. To a certain extent, this particular factor is the driving force for Bitcoin to rise.

for me, the most affect the price is because people panic with the price and they don't think twice before they made a decision. and if people panic, they can do whatever they want including to fast selling their coins and this will cause the price down too deep and imagine if more than 30% trader do this, it will make the price fly to down.

It always goes slowly down at the beginning of the year. It is because ICOs and projects involving cryptocurrencies for this year are only starting. By the ber months however, we could see that the price of bitcoin rises up as seen from last year. Another thing that can greatly influence bitcoin are the investors. Most investors follow the pattern so that they can buy bitcoin at the right time.

I think that most affect the price of Bitcoin is the people that exist or play Bitcoin itself. Indeed there are influences from outside, such as bad news that he said could reduce the price of bitcoin. but I think the biggest one is the people who hold the Bitcoin itself, if they do not panic and continue to hold their Bitcoin. Bitcoin prices will not go down that far.

people who panic easily sell their btc. lack of knowledge is a big factor, knowing which one is fake news and not.

When the price of btc turn so high up to its highest peak, people really went to panic selling which really really affect the value of btc at all, because once someone is selling their coins even in small amount of btc, it affect because that is how btc working it's in every cents no matter how high or low it.

Anyway, I hope someday people will be enlighten to invest again for long term in bitcoin.

Like in any economy, supply and demand! Supply in crypto is the number of coins currently out in the market and its corresponding volume while demand is the number of players who are willing to utilize coins and invest in crypto. The influx of various alt coins made the supply volume big while demand is low because of the fewer number of people willing to invest. Also outside factors should be considered. One is the  gold price becoming cheaper than crypto making investors buy gold instead of coins since gold is non-volatile as compared with cryptocurrency.

which affects the price of cryiptocurrency among the bitcoin buyers. especially people who have large capital they can raise the price of coin in quick time.

perhaps with the issue of bitcoin issues, so its bitcoin prices are declining, people in Indonesia have not formalized the bitcoin forums.

Bitcoin prices have a lot to do on investment currencies. It has a bearing on the relationship between traders benefiting traders. There are many people who are working on the Bitcoin Forum who are earning money. Bitcoin prices are affecting in all areas.

If you take time and do your research very well, you will realize that there is no year bitcoin does not experience a deep crash. If you have bitcoin do not sell now because it will definitely appreciate. Most times it is just a malicious act by the whales and government.

Bitcoin is a decentralized currency so the price is only directly affected with the demand and supply and nothing else and indirectly affected with other factors like laws because they have an effect on the demand.

Honestly,why bitcoin price are generally affect?it maybe because it well depend upon to supply in demand to control  and defined to those whale,and  because of decentralized the  nature of this currency will affect to bitcoin price, of course will not normally controlled by any company, organization or and government,aside from bitcoin price will also affect if those proposals has been approve to create from third party under supervision of mechanism to bitcoin exchanges.

Added unto this,because of fuds thats lots of people spreading i dont know who pays for then,and the fake news on many medias..we all knew that volatility of cryptocurrency is indeed,so the small things that gives negative idea can affect the wholce circulation about all of the coins in the market s thereseally nothing we can do but to HOLD and continue support our coins on hand

These three are the 3 factors that each and everyone must know that affects the price of Bitcoin.

Bitcoin Payment Network – Bitcoin as a currency
Bitcoin Storage and Transfer – Bitcoin as a store of wealth and medium of value transmission
Bitcoin Exchange Rate – Bitcoin as a market instrument and commodity

Although Bitcoin is a decentralised currency, some decisions about how it will work or evolve need to be made from time to time. These also have an impact on the price.

The software used to verify Bitcoin transactions is created by developers and is run by miners (the global network people who verify Bitcoin transactions).

To change the software used to mine and authenticate transactions developers need more than 50% of the global network of miners to agree with that change. When they get that support they can create a “fork”.

Gold prices are based on this principle as well. Just like mining costs are primary influencing factors for gold, the Bitcoin price is determined by the need for solving certain equations, which are also termed as mining. This forms the supply part.

The other part is the demand for Bitcoins, which is based on the awareness about Bitcoin, its popularity, trust among crypto community members, and even more. If the demand is high and the supply does not meet the demand, this causes a spike in the Bitcoin rate. With Bitcoins being a finite amount that will never cross 21 million, the supply is very controlled. Thus it is expected that the price will keep on increasing.

1. the bitcoin price drops because it is an extraordinary problem that can affect bitcoin
prices eg one country forbids bitcoin, surely the people in that country will sell bitcoin
will be very cheap for fear of the existence of its not recognized bitcoinnya country.

2. the legality of bitcoin, in one country can affect it on bitcoin prices. the bitcoin
holders that hold it, the depletion of the existing bitcoin deposits can also affect
the bitcoin price itself

I agreed. Negative news about bitcoin can give bad impression to the people who wants to consider bitcoin as an investment.

the decline in bitcoin could be due to bad news about bitcoin and investor interest decreases purchasing and the demand for bitcoin weakening may be the reason but I can not know for sure

The mood of the market is the key to price impact. There are some big whale or organizations that have the ability to create FUD with the media, which has been confirmed many times in the encrypted market.

I can also understand what affects the price of bitcoin. But the conclusions that I take The problem of economic or internal problems in some big countries or in the world seems to affect the price of bitcoin. But the most obvious is that when people panic and then sell bitcoin together, it will definitely make bitcoin prices down.

A big factor in the price of bitcoin is the value of energy, it correlates with the price of the barrel of oil, and basically the law of supply and demand.

For me the roller coaster movement of the price is natural due to Bitcoin's volatility by nature. To answer your question the main reason of the market activity mainly depends on the law of supply and demand. So if the demand is high, the supply is low the price will go up and if there are more demand than supply the price will go down. this demand and supply is based on the interest and reaction of the people to Bitcoin, are they buying, selling or holding.

I believe that the price is most affected by human greed,because of the whales who can manipulate the rice of Bitcoin which making the price either high or low.People can effect Bitcoin price too. For example; when the number of Google searches start to decline, Bitcoin price is effected in a bad way too.

The most important factor of influence is the policy from different countries.

Whales affect the price..as simple as that. There are a few dozen people in the world who have a crapload of bitcoins and they pretty much manipulate the price. When they decide to dump they raise the prices so new investors enter the market out of greed. They dump their btc on them, then drop the prices so they can buy lower...then rinse and repeat.

Which affects the price of bitcoin ups and downs is caused because No leader who leads or determines the price that an control is everyone who has the bitcoin. If someone sell all his bitcoin then it will decrease lot of price and vice versa so no one can determine or fit price.

This market has a lot of causes that affect its value, but one of the main reasons is market news. When there is bad news, the market will go down quickly, and vice versa it will go up very fast.

Panic selling mostly happened to people that is new to industry and sell their bitcoin like crazy, country is not friendly that cause the price to goes down, altcoin that sell into bitcoin then sell bitcoin to fiat and lastly is scammed, lot of people is scammers.

Many things affect bitcoin price ,like peoples perception,global economy,fake news,negative news.also supply and demand from user will be essence  to affect its price value.social medias fake news affect its price so much.also human greed affect its price so much.

basically it all comes down to supply and demand. what affects those though is a whole mess of things from the news to other markets economys and all kinds of stuff. basically anything that is remotely connected to btc will affect the price .

from my experience there are lot of things that's affect the price of bitcoin . The most important one is the demand of bitcoin among the people thats affect the price of bitcoin when the demand of bitcoin increase towards the people the price of bitcoin will increase and when the demand of bitcoin is decrease towards the people the price of bitcoin will decrease . Now a days bitcoin become the number one cryptocurrency in all over the world that's also affect the price of bitcoin.

I think that the drop of price of bitcoin is just normal. In tge market price may suddenly drop or go up depending on the number of investors. Also fake news also contributes on how the price of bitcoin go down. Fake news make people be afraid of bitcoin and they began to panic sell.  But I think vitcoin will go back up again and exceed the peak that it reach before

no one would have perfect answer for that, but I heard there is a law from US called CLOUD, which enables government to track crypto holders or something

Many people will buy and sell an electronic money based on its utility. In the present context, gadgets are simply useful ones that bring something to the user. In general, the possibility that an electronic currency can bring the user is solving the problem, the more solved the problem, the more it will buy more, because a kind of electronic money is useful Is it well worth it.

I agree to this one, of all the answers. I also think that price varies directly from the law of supply and demand. It is the people that affect the price of Bitcoin. Every day, more people join and get involved into it, while the supply is very limited. That causes the changes that is happening to the value of Bitcoin over time.

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I think the price varies directly from the law of supply and demand. It is the people that affects  the price of bitcoin. Another is the fake news make people be afraid of bitcoin and they began panic and sell.

Season come and goes and so is the price of bitcoin perhaps those miners or investor himself are factors that affect the prices...and also because of the demand of the supply of bitcoin that causes changes, and those speculating news even then the only thing we can do now is to wait. 

There are many reason affecting the price of crypto particularly for bitcoin, one is the circulating bad news from social media and television destructing the image of bitcoin which is manipulated by some people who wants to buy bitcoin in low price.

Supply and demand on the market will affect the price of the altcoin.

1) Skills investors taking profits
2) Change in market sentiment
3) Regulatory uncertainty
4) Countries banning exchanges
5) Speculators buying at the top without really understanding the technology
6) Transaction speeds
7) Transaction prices
8) The worlds economy


there are probably more.

i think it is because of economic changes in cyptocurrencies.

As we all know, a lot of factors influence the market of crypto currency, and the market situation can not be the same, because there is always a decline and an increase in prices. After such a rapid growth, which was at the end of the year - this decline was not surprising.

In fact, all markets are the same. The most important factor affecting prices is supply and demand. But in the encrypted market prices will also receive a lot of media news, the market is not a mature market, all the news received a great impact.

I'm thinking about the media and hacks that were recently reported in the past months. The hacks really affected the balance of pricing of almost all cryptocurrencies out there. We also have the supply and demand which is fairly obvious because bitcoins are easily sought after by everyone.

Too many factors affect the price of bitcoin, among others, government policy, news circulating in the community up to panic sellers can affect bitcoin prices.

The biggest factor determining the prices is the money entering and leaving the marketcap. If there is a large amount of money entering the marketcap, the prices are going up. If money comes out, prices are falling. I need to do a good analysis. Keep track of your token you invest.

Honestly I do not know what affects the price of bitcoin, but from my own point of view the price value of a commodity depends on how the people value it. Truly most of all transactions or the value of  commodity depends on the principles of market and demand, the more and more people demand on every commodity and there is no enough supply to sustain that demand then the value of such commodity increases. Since bitcoin is very popular and more and more people wanted to be part of this trading, it makes the bitcoin very dependable and yet very volatile so its value and price is undetermined and cannot be predicted.

I think that the fluctuation of price of bitcoin is just normal and the number of investors  and the fake news circulated causing panic selling of investment also affect the price.

In fact, there are many factors that affect the price. Specifically:
1. Influenced by other virtual currencies: Ethereum, Ripple, Litecoin
2. Political and economic events around the world: economic activity, financial markets are always fluctuating under the decisions of a nation, and so is bitcoin.
3. Supply and demand of the market
4. Technical issues: There are some gaps in the security of transactions on the electronic platform, so the hacker has abused this and hacked.
5. Total number of bitcoins and the number of bitcoin owners
6. Influenced by bitcoin digging groups
7. Management: rigid or flexible management will negatively or positively affect the price
8. Competition: Contestants can steal the marketplace of bitcoin.

As per my opinion , i think there are various things which directly affects the BTC rate. Like dumping and Pumping various BTC dependent Altcoin , Various News around the world and the acceptance of Bitcoin in new countries etc . so many ...

A number of reasons affect the price or at the market. First and primarily is an avalanche or huge release of the coins in the market. This can be 'whales' pouring what they have kept in the vaults in order to make money. This results in the plummeting of bitcoin price. Another reason may stem from the loss in confidence from holders of the bitcoin and a general chaotic situation of the market due to poor or mismanaged information.

the price that need to adaptation with the market, because the price of bitcoin is too high increase in short time, its makes the price of bitcoin is not stable and i think bitcoin need the correction time to makes the price of bitcoin is stable, and i think it is the reason that makes bitcoin price is down right now

Market fluctuations normally happens and there could be many factors that affects its price. For instance, the of supply and demand may apply. Also the influenced of other virtual currencies as stated above and etc.

There are many things that we can considered as a reason why bitcoin price sometimes rise and rise but sometime bitcoin price is red.

The bitcoin price is depends on the number of demand in the market and the number of bitcoin user who are accepting bitcoin as payment.

I really believe that the bad news aired in social media and television is the big impact of change of bitcoin price in the market because it creates panic selling.

I think many factors that affect the price down. not only bitcoin prices are down, the price of the other crypto also a lot of down. In my opinion, it may be because of negative news and people's beliefs about bitcoin. Not a few people who do not believe and there are still governments in a country that has not legalized bitcoin.

in my opinion, except variability in trade, the price of bitcoin is influenced by the positions of different world authorities-somebody supports the crypto-currency, who, on the other hand, prohibits

What affects the price of bitcion is an interesting topic that i really wanted to know, but as far as i know, the value of  commodity depends on the principles of market and demand, the higher the demand on every commodity and if there is not enough supply to sustain that demand then the price of such commodity increases. Since bitcoin is very popular and more and more people wanted to be part of this trading, it makes the bitcoin very dependable and yet very volatile so its value and price is undetermined and cannot be predicted. Anoher thing, laws, rules and policies of controlling authorities might also affects the price of a commodity.

The main factor is the demand and the supply. Prices of cryptocurrencies are always changing due to the supply and demand in the cryptocurrency market. The capitalization of cryptocurrencyy market is continuing to grow because the demand of the people are also growing.

A few reasons you can ponder on:
1. Demand and Supply
     -  The demand for Bitcoin increases every single day which lessens the supply. And when supply decreases with an increasing demand, price increases due to the impending scarcity.

2. Seasonal Effect
    -  Bitcoin's price surged in the second half of 2017. Now one reason may be the incoming holidays. Users massively bought starting June/July towards the end of 2017 resulting to a dramatic increase in Bitcoin's price. And then they started to sell off at this rate to gain profit for their holiday expenses. Thus, the fall of Bitcoin's price. Simply said, buying results to price increase whereas selling results to price decrease.

For me, one of the reason why bitcoin has a low price now is the season, like now its summer, every summer people wants to go to beach to relax, many people use money to fulfill their needs in sunmer season, the money of bitcoin is lessen because many users withdraw their money and also because the war now, users cannot use bitcoin because they are afraid that they will caught by the terrorism orvthe government because there is a lot of countries who do not approved the bitcoin in their countries.

Any item on the market, the consumer's demand for that item is directly affecting the price, including btc or other altcoins. In addition, the information is not good and policies are also indirect factors that affect the trading market.

Well i think its because of us the users. The more users that bitcoin get the higher the value will rise. Thats the way it is. Back in 2017 bitcoins price has drastically changed and has risen in its peak. But then there goes the unbelievers who thinks at a bitcoin as a bubble since its value is so high that it may be able to attract investors and just pop out like nothing. And that caused some of the bitcoin users and investors to back out causing the bitcoins price to drop a bit.  I still have my trust in bitcoin right now since what it had did last year was very great for me and the others.

This is a natural behaviour of the crypto market as there are many other crypto coins comes to trend. This will go on rise as the best one will rise.

It seems to me that the attempts of states to control it are very much influenced. Well, the season probably also affects

Tecnically its the law of supply and demand that would determine the  price be it low or high.  But the supply would be affected by the large amount of bitcoin sales due to negative factors like media publicity and hype such as government banning or negative policies of bitcoin, market mmanipulations and panic selling.

The most likely it is a mysterious thingy called a correction, dont know exactly how it works, but guys are telling that everything will be ok

Fake news and negative news that related to crypto are the main issue that create variations over its demand in crypto market. These demand is controlling the price of each crypto,so the variations on demand make variations on its price too. It's related to the law of supply and demand.

I don't have definite Idea. I also need to know this. I dont think its depend on demand and supply. We have to know that it is mineable so its will be a cause of this price volatility.

The last down trend was due to the market correcting and had nothing to do with anything else. Also the price depends on the demand and supply of the coin. So if the demand is high than the price increases while if the demand is low than the price goes down. Its as simple as that really.

The big financial giants of the world speculate through the news and make BTC price down, Simple people are being led by this and they are selling bitcoins, so in the near future the big giants will buy BTC in a cheap price.   

This is an investment requirement as well as the quality and prestige of ico programs and exceptions in government policy and electrical resources to explore bitcoin if they can do good and will greatly affect bitcoin. 8)

And as what we can see people are tend to take bitcoin but there is a lot of negative comments and news that have been spread for other so the demand of it are may not move for and if this may move it is slowly moving.

According me The Factors that Affect the Price are...
1. News or Media- News and Media can have both postive and negative affects of bitcoin. Just look at the end of Bitcoin how hype was in media ,social media,news channel it help bitcoin to grow and look opposite the negative news when news came from south korea , china or hacking comes just look how bitcoin price drops badly. so news is a factor the affects the price
2. Rules and Regulation - Since the rules and Regulation have introduced by  government this has affect price of bitcoin a lot .
3. Market Manipulation- They are some investor who comes to market for long reason they just but huge number of bitcoin when the price is low .which adds to volume and this where people to start to buy bitcoin and when bitcoin reaches high they just sell it off. which is also called pump and dump

What i could think of is because of the good prices spike before the cryptocurrencies prices fall down in the later event. This is kinda normal phenomenon that could occur in the market. Surely when there is down, there will be up as well. also otherwise too. bearish and bullish.

I will say that only the weak hands affect the price of bitcoin as if they will not be affected by any bad news and will remain strong with bitcoin then the price of bitcoin will not decline with the massive sale off of bitcoin. If they will continue to sell with every bad news then the price will drop. We have to educate these people about bitcoin and about its future then it may affect them to not to sell their coins at lower price.

I think the user is the reason so that the price of bitcoin is changing. If there are many users, the price falls down because if there are many users, the demand is high so the price is falling which makes the price change.

we should know had an many struggle issue about bitcoin starting January 2018 bitcoin price falling down due the some reason fakes news some country ban bitcoin, some country want to regulate bitcoin because want to collect taxes, government of every country want to handle bitcoin how to control like fiat money all of these are affected bitcoin price goes falling down, but again bitcoin still strong and now going back slowly upise the value in the CMC.

There are many things to consider when it comes to the price of bitcoin, beinf affected by such factors:

• Government prohibitions on some countries decrease the number of attracting new investors and retaining new ones;
• Media has been an integral factor as it influences individuals around the world. Unfortunately, it has created this stigma which people have been skeptical into investing;

• Large trading companies and certain banks that prohibit the utilization of such since they see it as a threat rather than something that is beneficial; and
• Its overall assesment in the market since its price is primarily determines by the law of supply and demand.

For crypto there are various reasons such as government policies against it and the effect of negative issues on bitcoin, people save from the coin, the goal that investors want certain coins to reach in the market.

Many factors affect the price of all Altcoin. Recent price influences are information from the US when the national government is trying to curb the growth of Crypto and issuing some large Crypto companies such as ETH to put pressure on all investors.

The are many factors affect to the price of the cryto market. Movements from government as well as political issues are the most influential ones. Last year when China government have strictly rule on coin, there is a clear downtrend on the market.

there are probably many factors that could affect the falling price of one of its less demands than on sales and cryptocurrency I think is severely affected by bad and negative news that makes investors less interest to invest

Bitcoin is a decentralized currency so that its price is directly influenced by demand and supply and also negative news and positive news circulating in society.

I believe its Media and fake news specially on twitter not only BTC but altcoins too.

Factors Affecting Bitcoin Prices
Broadly speaking, there are several factors that trigger. Here's an explanation:

1. Bitcoin volume is still small
The determining factor is supply and demand. That is, if many users who make a bitcoin purchase then the price will be rising up. Vice versa, if many are selling bitcoin then the price will decline.

Based on data from blockchain, the current volume of bitcoin is still small. This is what causes bitcoin prices to rise or fall drastically when there is a sale transaction and buy bitcoin with a large volume.

2. The existence of Bitcoin Trading
The more phenomenal bitcoin, so no wonder if many who wrestle profession as a bitcoin trader. This is the factor of rise and fall of bitcoin prices significantly. Traders will buy large amounts of bitcoin at a low price then store it for some time, and will sell it when the price is high.

3. The result is when the process of buying, auto prices will go up and the price will come back down when the process of selling bitcoin. Plus, users who use bitcoin for other purposes are still few when compared to users who use bitcoin just as trading.

The huge demand and supply effects the demand of bitcoin as the supply increase the demand become less due to which price fall but when the demand increase more as more people want to buy the bitcoin due to which quantity of money decrease and the price become higher and design also effect the money as more and more bitcoin are made it was say that in 100 years there will be 21million bitcoin made but in 5 years 13million is made it means that in 95 years there will be only 8 million bitcoin created.

I think the media has a great impact with the rise and  fall of its value, bad news drives the value to go down, Good news attracts investors to indulge digging just to earn good profit.

The basic thing that can affect bitcoin price is the demands of bitcoin itself.
on the last december, bitcoin price keep increasing. More peoples start to wonder why bitcoin price increasing.
and they decide to join by buying bitcoin. many peoples buy causing price to spike

According to the knowledge of the main factors that can affect the exchange rate bitcoin is the emergence of bad news about the world of cryptocurrency that does not immediately subside so that problem makes traders panicked to immediately sell its assets even though the exchange rate has decreased.

There are so many reason why the market price decreases but one of the common reason is due to bad news from media that destruct bitcoin image.

Bitcoin dropped the first time this year when it will enter the Chinese new year. then people assume the price will rise after passing the new year. continued negative news about Bitcoin, the price dropped again. and people assume because of this negative news bitcoin prices are going down.

Market fluctuations is inevitable and there are many factors that affect the price/value. For instance, the demand and supply of bitcoin, the economic events, the different kinds of alternative coins and etc.

The rate of such currency as bitcoin is formed due to active demand, as it happens with other currency assets. But since bitcoins have a low overall capitalization, the bitcoin rate is strongly influenced by the mass hype and large players. Each user, who has a certain number of this currency, can raise or collapse the market, if he catches the confusion of newcomers in the market. Global demand and the fall of any e-currency occur regularly, and it depends on the willingness of users to buy e-currency. The rate of such a cryptocurrency as bitcoin grows with a high demand for any cryptocurrency. If there are players on the market who are ready to buy this currency, the rate will constantly grow. But if seen sharp spikes in bitcoin, it says, that appeared on the market pampery. Pumpers are players who have large assets, and can quickly buy up a large amount of currency, and thus raise the rate to the maximum values. As a rule, pumpers, with the General excitement, begin to buy orders. This creates the illusion that the cryptocurrency rate is growing steadily. Thus, the market begins to panic, and newcomers are beginning to buy up the currency. At the peak of trades, pumpers start dumping and dumping their assets. After such manipulations, the bitcoin rate goes down to minimum values. The growth rate of any currency depends on its popularity, as well as good news and advertising. The more people know about the features of a product, the more they want to invest money in it, or to play on the stock exchange, in addition to the bitcoin rate is influenced by the spread of electronic coins themselves. Now bitcoins are often advertised in the media, and this contributes to the growth of their course. But the sharp rate of bitcoins depends most often on the interest of major players, who are often covered by good news, invented by themselves. Bitcoin correction is a smooth increase or decrease in the rate, after a sharp increase in the rate or a fall. Such a term as a drop seems to be a drain at which the bitcoin rate drops to 7 percent. A sharp drop in the rate is when it goes down by more than 15 percent. Due to the sharp fall in the spread of bad news, panic or the ban on the distribution of bitcoins in any country.

I believe that demand plays a major role in any industry based on my classes in Economics. We all know that the price of bitcoin is volatile and it always changes and it is normal to happen so that there is nothing to worry if the price of bitcoin fall down. Furthermore, I hope in the near future it will rise again and I do believe that it will gradually go up.

The news about the crypto market is one of the things that affect the prices not only in bitcoin but to the whole industry. One of the prime behavior of bitcoin is its fluctuations in the price in the marker. And this price of bitcoin also depends on the demand. The demand for cryptocurrency is increasing with the demand of other industries especially on the last quarter of the year.

They have many different types that make the bitcoin price dump and pump. Because of the fake news the newbie will make panic selling of the holdings so the price will go down. Because of the big investors the price will pump.

For increments and Penurun is already the law is the request of the people. and the existence of positive news such as legality in the country will also strengthen for the rise of btc. actually to know it is quite easy to monitor news bitcoin which always update and make speculation

As I observed, the prices increases when more people uses and buys bitcoin. And it is more likely to drop whenever the prices are becoming to high that there are too few who can buy it. The prices feeds on the demand and the demand depends on the supply and time of the year. Because of all of these, the price of bitcoin fluctuates every moment and gives investors and traders opportunities in this industry.

Well pretty much everything , news especially- political , general, economics , trends, kappa and so on  :)

which is the main influence of bitcoin prices is from very high demand and from a very limited total supply so as to affect the movement of bitcoin prices. not only that for now news in some media can also trigger the movement of bitcoin prices.

Bitcoin price fluctuations are largely dependent on the price of the request (the person who buys) and the price of the offer (the person selling) as other currencies. In the practical language is supply and demand. So, the real reason why Bitcoin prices are more volatile than other currencies is; the absence of any entity that controls the price of Bitcoin. So the bitcoin price is determined by everyone who has Bitcoin (regardless of the amount).

The factor that affects price mostly is, Market manipulations from the financial institutions,the news,the FUDs, and most importantly, technicals these are the things that you should be watching out as they are going to be a good trigger for your trades, this is the butterfly effect that is why we need to be sure to our all decisions before making a conclusion.

Many small and medium-sized investors, even by themselves, are able to force the price of crypto currencies to creep up by increasing demand for it. In the case, when manipulators stimulate the acceleration of price growth, this stirs up a massive stir around the acquisition of this crypto currency, and as a result, growth becomes even more rapid. Price jumps due to the arrival of large investors on the market also stimulate the growth of interest in the crypto currency and the growth of its price.

Several reason is attached to the price in December  festive period and Holiday season lots of individual tends to take profit,sells was higher than the  people buying this automaticall crash  the price. This is the usuall trend every year, price tends to crash in Decmber,january and pick up Mid of the year. News against BTC  is also has  major negative impact on the price.

there are many things that contributes to the increase and decrease of cryptocurrency price in the market, one of which is the number of users/investors on the crypto, When more people invest in crypto, because of its limited supply,its value will increase. But in the past months many of the investors sold their coins. Because some people created fear by publishing fake news that lead the investors to sell their investments.

The state of overbought and a serious decrease in the price of an asset are quite normal consequences of rapid growth and normal elements of general growth. If we look at the bitcoin rate in 2017, we see that with a positive price trend over the past year, the price growth was based on the principle of "two steps forward, one step back."

The above user have said it all.

But if you were following the market you will notice it's recovering beside what do you expect after a major pump from 3k last year to 20k? A big correction that's the answer. So definitely it was just a correction and also the ban news played a key role in dipping of price.

Although we know that bitcoin prices is determine by the supply and demand, after some research i done i also believe that the how the global market perform and the governments regulations do play a big part in determine the prices of bitcoin too.

It depends on the investors who sell it because it is one example that gives a big effect on bitcoin prices. But I'm sure by the end of the year like last year bitcoin will increase again as more and more new investors are starting to invest in bitcoin. I hope to new investors in bitcoin not to drop the bitcoin price.

yeah right now the price of bitcoin is going up, maybe the price of bitcoin is going to $20000 again, or maybe makes the highest price again? maybe $30000 or more? and i hope that it will happen soon, or maybe stay stable right now

The different news in the society will always affect the price of BTC, because the good or bad news will cause the price of BTC to fluctuate continuously.

There's many reasons for the price rising and falling. The liquidity is still so low though that a single person/company can still easily crash or pump the market if they want to.

The thing that affects the price of the bitcoins is simple economics its about demand and supply bitcoins price inflate so much last December because of the demand the more demands the higher to price gets but after that people,investors and bitcoin holders panic sell their coins afraid that it will decrease in value and which also resulted in the price decrease of the coins the small market of the coins also come to play here which means that small amount of money can affect the price so much causing it to fluctuate.

Furthermore, I hope in the near future it will rise again and I do believe that it will gradually go up.I believe that demand plays a major role in any industry based on my classes in Economics. We all know that the price of bitcoin is volatile and it always changes and it is normal to happen so that there is nothing to worry if the price of bitcoin fall down.

There are many reasons affect the price of bitcoin. The price of bitcoin depends on the needs of the user. Not only that, the media also greatly influenced the price of bitcoin. I remember when the media reported that the US will prohibit bitcoin, many people confused and they sold bitcoin. Then the price of bitcoin has dropped sharply.

Yes, the crypto market is very young and has not been properly managed and controlled in terms of information as well as legitimacy. It is easily compromised by any FUDs from communication, government, turmoil and paranoia by investor and user psychology. The most basic is still dependent on the mining process versus the user needs.

In any market  what affects the price is SUPPLY &DEMAND , considering the circulation is low and DEMAND is high for brtcoin that is the most affecting factor,  news from different government actions and rumours also can affect the price up and down time to time.

Bitcoin prices have many cases to affect. firstly, It is said at one time that Bitcoin will be banned in America. Due to the fact people gave up Bitcoin. secondly ,Investors from other countries lifted their investment from Bitcoin. Moreover, the price of Bitcoin has been affected due to the arrival of other coins in the crypto market.

The price is affected by supply and demand in the market. Doing news with the FUD can be manipulated and managed by the price. Everything happens exactly in this scenario.

Bitcoin price is similar to the principle of gold price. In case of gold the price depends on the mining cost, same goes for bitcoin when it need to solve more complicated equations. Also the demand and supply another cause of price shifting. Some factors regarding govt. issues and media's bad perspective about bitcoin are also responsible for increasing the price.

Bitcon price or value is defined by demand and supply in the market. Many factors can affect the demand for Bitcoin:
https://theconversation.com/four-factors-driving-the-price-of-bitcoin-87244

Most Price affects reason is false and panic news and false rumor via media . also political and international news also affects the price most , different ,different news of the media and social media also cause of the price down.

What affects the bitcoin price is the investors who invest in bitcoin. Because that's where I see the market price is seen in the hands of investors. At this time bitcoin prices are stable also the influence of the investors.

To my own sensible conclusions, the availability of local bitcoin retail brokers is the major factor. because Bitcoin price is determined by supply and demand. Supply is well defined and well controlled. New coins only enter the system through mining. Mining generates new coins as an incentive for proof of work. This process generates new coins at a fixed rate. The number of bitcoins in circulation at any time is calculable. (One factor that should not be forgotten is the amount of bitcoin that are being kept in reserves. In velocity of money calculations these are considered out of circulation)

Yes these news are not good for the price of bitcoin but in actual that will not affect bitcoin at all if people will not rely on that and if they will keep their money in decentralized wallets and if they will do their trade on decentralized exchanges. Then none of the person will find that who is using bitcoin then even a person in a country will also use it where it is banned.

For me the supply and demand of bitcoin in the market affects its price. Because if the supply and demand of it is too low bitcoin price has to lower their price too. And if the supply and demand is high they have to make a high price too. But it is only my opinion. So what's yours?

The physical market and the digital market are always influenced by the basic law of supply and demand called supply and demand. If the offer is more than the request they want so that the price will fall and vice versa. 8)

what might be the reason why bitcoin's price is going down?
there are a lot of reasons why bitcoin goes down like ngative news, FUD (fear, uncertainty and doubt, usually evoked intentionally in order to put a competitor at a disadvantage.), tradings, panic selling etc.
what are the major things that can greatly influence bitcoin?
The  greatly things that affect bitcoin are the people that's on media, the holders and specially traders, there are the people who are on control to be more specific the people who are holding big amount of bitcoins.

The price of bitcoin in the first of year is too high, and right now the price of bitcoin being correction, right now we can see that the price of bitcoin is going up again, i hope that the price of bitcoin is getting back to normal soon

There are a mixture of reasons why Bitcoin moved too down low after it reached its all time high in December of last year. One of the reasons of course was the correction. That was expected because that $20,000 all time high was far beyond the prediction of the majority of crypto speculators and analysts. Add to this the real and fake news about Bitcoin and crypto fate in many countries. Some are implementing very strict restrictions, some are even implementing a ban.

A lot of news is emerging and is able to influence bitcoin market sentiment.

A lot of factors come play in the determination of the price of a cryptocurrency. First and foremost, the price is determined by the actors on the market, thus, the seller and the buyer. The readiness of the seller or buyer to sell and buy at certain prices for a consistent period of time determines the price at that particular time. Also, as the demand of a coin increase, it's value and price increases as such.

There are numerous factors that play to the price of bitcoin. But the most important among them are the law of supply and demand.
These two covers the other remaining factors. Why is this important? It is because supply and demand are used to differentiate a price of any economic product either be tangible or intangible.  when bitcoin supply is high and demand is low, it will make the price lower.

One of the very reason of bitcoin's recent downslide of its market value is the fact that people are selling their bitcoin holdings be it during bitcoin's price hike and much even more during bitcoin's falldown because there are people who are selling off their bitcoin due to fears, uncertainties, and doubts.

Mass media has a great effect on the price of Bitcoin and the other coins. Additionally, the whales (the richest BTC holders) can regulate the prices of the market.

There so many factors that affect bitcoin market value which range from fundamental issues like positive and negative news around the world and at the same time technical issue also has influence on the market. Massive conversion of bitcoin to dollars will also affects the price of bitcoin negatively and many others.

Yes really it happens news sometimes effect the price of bitcoin, as some people use to spread bad news about it but I don’t think we should listen to them, don’t tell others about it, just make your own decision and follow what you see in market, but I think price can be effected by demand and supply as when supply become high than demand price get down, so main factors which affect the price of bitcoin are supply and demand.

So many bad news and rumour about bitcoin. China ban bitcoin, Korea ban bitcoin, FB ban ICO ads, Twitter ban ICO ads, India ban bitcoin, Child abusive video on bitcoin blockchain. Those are the example of such news/rumours which have a high impact on btc price. 

The affect of the bitcoin price is the community and supporters a big community can help a  coin to get listed in different exchanger. A fake news is can affect the price because of the panic selling the demand is low so the price is getting low.

It is commonly happen in crypto and even in other form of investment cause some people really don't know about these. In some reason also that it could be a competitor of their investment, that's why they make some false news in order to captured the trust of the people away from crypto.

with that bad news, I think it will make btc price getting down but I still believe that bitcoin is really strong and even if there is any bad news is released, bitcoin will always back to the highest price. actually, the bad news is giving a chance for us to buy bitcoin at the lower price because after the bad news is solved, the price will increase again so we can sell it to make a lot of money. whatever is happening with bitcoin will always affect the price and the price itself will up and down as usual.

Yes I have also observed that many bad news from many bigger personalities and entities came but still the price of bitcoin is in the forward direction. These bad news affect the price at that time for a shorter time period but after a few days and weeks the price of bitcoin again start to increase higher. That is the point that we say the future is of bitcoin and it will be the global currency in the future.

Some says that this is just the normal event every year, some say it is because of the FUD, some say whales are controlling the market. Well all I can to this, is it doesn't matter, what matters is the truth that bitcoin is always work to come back after the dip, and when it starts moving to recover that is another big thing and this is the very reason why i don't panic.

The price is affected from lots of things, speculation, market move, trends, interviews, regulations, bans, government decissions, news, media, social media, TV news, venture capital news. Factors are many for the price change.

Price is affected by dozen different things. But major things are just people's desire to use bitcoin and bitcoin's calculated ease. I mean bitcoin technology project and it gets more expensive by proving its tech..

i think you need to more study about this market,
20k usd is not real price of bitcoin,
1st of all do you think from 3k-20k usd its obviously odd , isn't it?
its just a hype , people came to the market and invest there , they just bought it , but they really don't know about it.
so bitcoin needs price correction .

some bad news made it down price,
new people get involve with it and they start following the news and get panic .
panic is not good for trading.

and the other hand the price of bitcoin is rise too much , its must need to  re-correction .

Whales are definitely affecting the price of bitcoin. Pump and dump scheme is very common here in crypto world so if you are a whale most likely you will be the ones manipulating the price volatility.

Supply and demand always affect the price of bitcoin. The more supply in the market then most likely bitcoin would be cheap.

 this affects :
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3326533.0

Those people who are just following those people who sell their bitcoins they are the cause of the decreasing of bitcoin's value but these people also the one who increase the value by buying again more bitcoin. Investors affects the price rule of demand and supply must apply.

We all know that volatility is bitcoin's characteristic but maybe one of the reason is fake news that affected investor's trust to bitcoin.Because of that emotion some will result to panic selling.

I can't see any bad news now. The news background is mostly positive and price is still sinking. From that I can conclude that price is defined by market laws, and the offer now is much higher than buy. Not much new people believe in BTC now and throw their money into that. Those who'be in cryptos for a while, already have experience, so they jusy hold hold hold

Bitcoin may soar and crash, but it still keeps lead in the global market because of its high and strong potential. Factors would be the increasing/decreasing demand, regulatory moves, media influence, and the users and developers themselves. Identifying the factors that affect the price of Bitcoin can be very helpful to reduce risks and take appropriate actions when crisis emerged.

there still many bad news that makes people afraid and they are selling the bitcoin they have because they don't want to get lose if somehow the price is down too deep. and this is the major reason why the price is going to down and people become panic to see this and they cannot hold any longer. and the major things that might be influence people to use bitcoin is by spreading in many places and to many places.

For my opinion the best affects the price are the people who have btc and the miners who provides btc because their livelihood depends of the btc price .

There is only one reason for fall : Buying-Selling. So, when traders see bad news about any coin, everybody start sell all of their crypto and all of market be red.

They are investor. I think too

I think negative news can affect bitcoin prices, as many sellers become panicked, and bitcoin prices are falling, as bitcoin prices are set by the market.

People's willingness, governments, bans, market news, economical situation, american central bank, european bank and these kind of factors can affect bitcoin price and they're actually already affecting.

Bitcoin will try to print the highest price from year to year bitcoin prices always go up and hopefully can be more than $ 20k, bitcoin price just calm now entering the price recovery phase

I guess it is the people who are just get their target or their minimum profit in investing in bitcoin so they just sell their bitcoin and it has a possibility that they will buy again the probably the bitcoin's value will increase again so we will just wait :)

Traders and people who like crypto are the main forces that driving the price in the market. Then other forces come out like market treds and user behaviours. Whether or not they will sell/buy their assets.

Some claim that bitcoin's market price is affected by the whales who are moving out their bitcoin's from their digital wallet causing the market cap of bitcoin to collapse and so as with its market price too. As to people who also panic sell their crypto assets during crisis, they are also making the crisis even worse. That's how the price of bitcoin is and it's completely relying on people's demand.

I think it might be from the Bitcoin user factor that makes it a trading asset more than those who actually use it as a medium of exchange, because the relevance of Bitcoin itself is still minimal, so its use has not been spread among the wider community

Agreed, traders and users make a big contribution to the price variation of bitcoin. Apart from this there are different other factors that govern the price of bitcoin. One thing important is the positive news related to bitcoin leads to growth while the FUD generated by the large volume bitcoin holders manipulate the price upward and downward on their own needs.

I think the cause of drop of the price is because of the wrong news that spread of other people or we should say fud news that may cause of panic selling of others that not to much know the strategy in the market.

Rumors are always spread by your competitors and these are cheap market tactics for beating up your opponent. These kinds of things are many times done by technical and development teams of altcoins and I think real bitcoiners are well aware of this. The point is that we don’t deny the bad performance by bitcoin at times but they do exaggeration of the problems in order to make new investors panic hard.

negative factors such as media publicity and hype such as government bans or negative policies of bitcoin, market manipulation and panic selling. Technically the legal supply and demand that will determine whether the price is either low or high

Yes media, news really affecting the price of bitcoin and other coins. Spreading false news really affect all some noobs easily believes on it that decided them to sell their coins. Better to stop listening to false news make it to hold and beleive price can recover.

Yes, you are right. Bitcoin price decline from the beginning of the month is very drastic. Bitcoin dropped many times from its highest price. I also wonder why this decline is so drastic. Yes, it may indeed be many investors who sell Bitcoin at low prices so that the price of Bitcoin really reaches a very low value. Then I think because it is also affected by the number of countries that recently banned the use of Bitcoin.

I think that affecting bitcoin is the demand and supply in the market. If demand is so high then bitcoin prices could rise as high as in the year 2017 yesterday.

This is really a disappointing effects on people and as a long term trader my focus was really destructed by what's happening in the marketplace right now. We couldn't encourage people to be courageous, and despite of how we motivate them through positive speculations nothing will happen but panic really pulled the price off.

The most important reason Bitcoin prices can go down very drastically is that more investors are selling Bitcoin than buying Bitcoin. They sell Bitcoin because of panic Bitcoin prices go down and when they sell it only causes Bitcoin prices dropped dramatically.

This is the truth, there is an investigation going on in terms of market manipulation and majority of times the Mt Gox team is selling off the coins in huge numbers and basically there are more sellers in the market and that is affecting the price and i am sure they do play a part in this market situation, the amount the coins from their cold wallet moves there is a panic situation and people are selling off their coins fearing for another major correction.

  Demand affects the prices. A rise in the demand for a coin raises the prices and a fall in the demand reduces the prices. Both the demand and the supply determine the equilibrium position in the economy and the economy will always stay in the equilibrium when the demand and the supply are equal. People demand a particular assets only if it can give them return so return determines the demand.

The major factor is the demand of any market that affects the price of a product and in case of crypto world the coins are also demand dependent. The price will go high if the demand goes high and the price will go down when the demand goes down. This is the major factor controlling by the encouragement and discouragement of the people, if people are encouraging then price will go high and vice versa.

Bitcoin movement is very sensitive to the actions of its holders. When a person buys or sells Bitcoin in large quantities, then the price can instantly move extreme. In the future Bitcoin volume increases and distribution is distributed evenly, then volatility will slack off by itself.

The more phenomenal bitcoin, so no wonder if many who wrestle profession as a bitcoin trader. This is the factor of rise and fall of bitcoin prices significantly. Traders will buy large amounts of bitcoin at a low price then store it for some time, and will sell it when the price is high.

Bitcoin's astronomical rise in 2017 paved way for a lot of new stuffs in cryptocurrency world, such things as Bitcoin Futures -which inadvertently has contributed immensely to the below-9k price of BTC this year and even more recently, the whole FUD and heightened expectations from G20 meeting scheduled in July would be a huge milestone.

I have learned bitcoin as to why this value is not always high is the reason for those who invested in bitcoin and in addition to miners selling their bitcoin and its effects reduced the value of bitcoin.

Usually it is the FUD that is affecting the price of bitcoin. Usually when there are negative news around related to crypto the market reacts negatively and there are also speculation that maybe whales are manipulating the price of bitcoin because they have the capital to do so.

We are still waiting for the right time when Bitcoin finds positive sentiment. Various news that exist today does not show that Bitcoin will get good news. But we must still believe that the future bitcoin will get various support, as long as we continue to use bticoin then it is expected Bitcoin will continue to increase. So do not ever be pessimistic because it will make things worse. Bitcoin prices can get recover when we are getting routine use it.

The world continous oil price increase, the economic recession, worldwide market inflation, the wars against nation to nation, all of those will surely strikes bad effect to the market and currency value will depreciate and weaken, maybe some factors not mentioned yet may have impact too, but i guess these are main reasons for the market fluctuation.

In my own opinion, the only reason for the prices to be affected is due to the people who are selling their coins whenever the prices are dumping and because of that the chain reaction is occuring which leads for the price to decrease even more.

Mostly manipulators affets the price. They convince people to buy or sell at specific times. They are good at this so they continue their job. You can understand that manipulators are on their job from volatile market and steep moves.

With the number of blockchain projects emerging everyday, trying to break barriers for mainstream usages or cryptocurrencies by bringing blockchain solutions to real-world problems, if credible, can become assets with potential for true store of digital value, Just like we invest in real estate and big Corps shares. But bitcoin is still yet to overcome its outstanding problems - scalability and mainstream adoption as a currency.

is the current falling bitcoin price also affected by one of the reasons you mentioned? well, there are so many reasons why bitcoin prices become unstable. so I guess we can not guess exactly what caused it, but the main factor is sales.

Some major factors which control the price of Bitcoin that changes with the change in these factors. A little change in these factors affects the price of Bitcoin and especially the demand of people is the most powerful factor which has direct affect on the Bitcoin.

With increase in the demand of people the Bitcoin price also increases while the decrease in demand brings decrease in the market value.

Precisely! What affects the price is the increasing and decreasing of demand. Other factors I consider that affect the price are due to false news, misconceptions about the technology, FOMO's, FUD's, panic selling or the banning issues. There's no single factor that makes the price to rise or fall. What's important is we need to gain knowledge, learn about the technology, be committed, and be emotionally stable in the field of cryptocurrency.

The price of cryptocurrency can be affected in a different way, bitcoins can pump its value depending on the season, if there are people who are creating fud and it was spreading in a country then the price might decrease so it will be depending on the people because the demand in the market is important for the price of bitcoins to increase.

I will not say anything new if I assert that the mood of the crowd affects the price of any exchange-traded asset. Sometimes even the worst or very good news can not move the price in one direction or another. From this side, it can be argued that the price is not predictable. But, if you are exposed to the influence of such a mood, you can lose everything altogether. Therefore, the professionals tried to systematize knowledge in the form of various wave theories. I think all the questions on this forum are set for one purpose - as much as possible to earn money on the crypto currency market. Of course, to "defeat the enemy" you need to learn its habits, and the pros earn on any mood. You can ask any questions, I like this forum. But the most important thing is what you yourself think and what plan you will follow. After all, if there is a clear plan of action, your capital will only grow, regardless of the different moods.

The market prices are based on supply and demand so definitely, it decreasing because there are a lot of people who prefer to sell their coins more than holding it.

I think if media was scattered a bad news or make a lies about bitcoin, then there a big affect to the people that they think doubt if they invest. If there are many investors so it will indemand and the price is increase. But there is main factors that affect the price if the government ban bitcoin.

There such a lot of factors that have an effect on bitcoin marketplace fee which variety from essential problems like high quality and poor information around the world and on the same time technical trouble additionally has impact in the marketplace. massive conversion of bitcoin to dollars may also influences the charge of bitcoin negatively and many others.

There is many reason why bitcoin price goes up and down and it is only natural behavior of cryptocurrency marketplace. There is some time that many people bought, and there is also some tume that many people also sell it. In that way price of bitcoin affects with this.

There is nothing special happening, the price went up really fast and logic dictates the price will have to go down very fast as well, the price went down a little bit lower than I thought, I was predicting that we could reach the point of equilibrium at 9000 and we went down to 6000 but that is fine now the only thing to do is to wait for the price to recover again.

One of the main reasons of the last crash is that there were  a lot of people investing all that money that they could not afford, and when they saw it going down, they started to sell, and that is what caused the crash in those times, that is my theory

Factors that influencing bitcoin price.

1. Bitcoin supply and increasing/decreasing demand.
2. Regulations enforced by governments on Bitcoin transactions.
3. Bitcoin in news: Influence of media on garnering negative and positive publicity
4. Bitcoin users and developers influence the rise and fall of price.
5. New technological changes to Bitcoin.



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There's are some points that are considered what affects the price of a btc. First is when a lot of investors sell their coin therefore the price of bitcoin will become low because of the number of seller. The higher the sellers the lower the price
Next is the social media or news cast about negative side of the bitcoin due to this, some people who are lack of knowledge about it is afraid to enter the cryptocurrency world because they are scared to lose and went for nothing.

A lot of stuff is what makes the price change in a short amount of time.
The news, the fud, the hype, and all the other things that involves the decision of the people.
But i think that it is changing everytime that there are movements on the entire market.

Cryptocurrency and bitcoin are very much sensational in 2017. There were a lot of scams that this HYIP decided to deceive people. ICO which did not come to the exchange and many other schemes with hacking of the exchange and theft of bitcoins. A lot of stories turned away from young and promising investors.

The big influence on why Bitcoin price falls down,are those people who spreading false news is one of the reason why bitcoin price drop,because when they heard about it,especially those people who are new in Bitcoin they will be afraid that they might lose their investment so even if Bitcoin price is cheap they will not hesitate to sell it,and also many big investors who sell their Bitcoin,that's why Bitcoin's supply increases in the market and it's effect is the dump price of Bitcoin.

Of all the many speculations exist regarding what affects the Bitcoin's price, only one thing i know that sure it does. Its no other than the law of supply and demand. After the great fall on the first quarter of the year, the price started to become stable. Only few people are wanting to have a buy low sell high principle and most of them quits and lost faith. If the whales are still keep holding it, it would remain that way.

Yeah I totally agree with you. Your analysis is appreciable and exactly the same reasons affect the price. It seems that bitcoin is their enemy and these elements want to punish bitcoin. Those who are against bitcoin should leave this field and never come back. I don’t know why some people give such false statements. It is my choice to invest in bitcoin or not.

It is demand which is responsible for the price of Bitcoin to move it either in upwards direction or in downward direction. When the demand rate increases then its price also increases which is the favorable time for sellers as to sell coins on higher price so that to make profit. On the other hand when it decreases the price also decreases which is the favorable time for buyers to buy on low price.

It is also a reason for low price but there are some other reasons too, like low demand from all over the world. Now most investors want to put their money in Altcoin and the demand for bitcoin become down. Other reason is whales manipulation which affects the price and finally false statements and new about bitcoin. These are the reasons affects the price.

In my opinion, undecided and scared people are really the first thing that affects the price of bitcoin. Why? simply because of scared in losing there money they do the panic selling which affects the price. When they enter the world of bitcoin and start investing here some of them don't take any ideas from the seniors / successful people in this business so as a result when they experienced challenges they take action that didn't think twice. Due to this there's lot of people are against it  and spread false issues about bitcoin.

FUD can without a doubt affect the market but things are not so simple at worst the FUD made the crash a bit bigger but nothing more it did not caused the crash that we are seeing, the crash was caused by fundamental reasons, people simply invested too much money in bitcoin too fast, some people realized this and began selling, this made the price to go down and then they panicked making the price to go down even faster.

A lot of stuff, specially the FUD and what the people think about bitcoin or any other asset at the time, it all depends on how the market is going at the moment too, but i think that the price can easily be changed in just matter of minutes from one person

Yes that is right that there are so many factors which are causing the bitcoin price to increase. I think that the most important factor is the interest of the people in bitcoin. As soon as the interest of the people in bitcoin will continue increasing it will increase the bitcoin demand and so the supply will decrease which will in turn causes the bitcoin price to increase more and more.

I believe that fake news can actually affect the market price either to pump or to dump even more and that is the reason why you should always watch news that is related to cryptocurrenc, in order to determine if you will be earning profit or not.

These days, FUD is caused by the slightest negative news, and it takes a really big positive news to change the market to a bull-dynamics

well those people should not invest if they are afraid to lose money they shouldn't be investing even the safest investment carries a risk there's a chance you will lose money. if they really want to hop in to bitcoin they should be ready to lose some money like said invest what you can afford to lose.

Basically everything, however it needs to be in a row. I mean if there is one bad news or one good news that doesn't change too much (depending on how bad the news is). However if you have a ton of bad news in a row or a ton of good news in a row than you may expect some bad changes or good changes according to them. The important part usually is not the news itself its how it makes crypto viewed around the world.

When each and every aspects of crypto world ending up in affecting price levels of all leading cryptos, it would be much better only very small amounts. Taking risky beyond our capacity is never recommended. We must invest with a proper plan like converting short term into long term should not be problem at any moment.

In my own opinion, the most dominant way for the price of cryptocurrency to drop is because of the fud that is spreading on other countries which makes people to sell their coins while the market prices are still dropping.

I think a lot of negative information affect the price of Bitcoin and the other cryptocurrencies. However, nowadays t mass media is giving much positive information about BTC. That is why it is not falling more.

some of the factors I think are the reasons why bitcoin prices are falling, of which more and more countries are banning bitcoins, and then price games from whales that have a strategy to profit from bitcoin trading, and many more that can affect bitcoin prices

The factor that affects price mostly is, Market manipulations from the financial institutions,the news,the FUDs, and most importantly, technicals these are the things that you should be watching out as they are going to be a good trigger for your trades, this is the butterfly effect that is why we need to be sure to our all decisions before making a conclusion.

You're right sir, that is what we call panic selling and this usually done by new investors or beginners who wants quick result on their investments. Some of these investors easily get nervous when the price of their coins start to fall and when their emotion overcome them then the road to panic selling start. There are not well-informed when they start investing and lack of knowledge on cryptocurrencies will only to a loss in their investment and further dips in the price of the bitcoin. Panic selling, price manipulations, hacking on exchanges and events related to the coins are some of the factors that affect the price.