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Who is all expecting a price pump on that day?

I'm a newbie. Please explain why you would expect a price pump on that day?

The 8th of August is when Segwit is supposed to lock in on BTC.
As we've seen BCC/BCH is no match for BTC. The recent ATH is an indication of things to come. Expect new crazy highs...
Let it rain :)

I expect higher price than 3k :D

I'm expecting pumps on 8th August, and the days following and before.

Bitcoin is in non stop pump mode

In Bitcoin expect all the unexpected all it will happen will be positive for bitcoin as it recently pump and reach the new all time high which is $3300. As expected BCC/BCH is no much for BTC. As bitcoin is the one true main crypto currency and even altcoins is having a hardtime to prove their worth of course BCC is just another altcoin while it's price dramatically to decrease and have reach it's all time high in just few days. It will be a matter of time until it loses value in the marker and turn into a shitcoinm this shows that the community doesn't want any split.

August 8 is the day when the segwit will lock. And I am expecting a price pump on all alternative coins and also bitcoin. I am speculating that the price of bitcoin would probably be higher than $3000 (>3000). I am really expecting to get $3500 at that moment. Hopefully.

Bitcoin will break the price of $ 8000 - $ 12000 this year, and I really hope that, invest immediately before regrets later on, maybe this BCH appear to be a positive impact for BTC.

I dont think there will be a pump if its inevitably going to be locked in. The markets might have pumped the last day or so in the run up to the 8th

I was expect that it pump too much because when i saw the chart the price pump too much than before.

Lock-in threshold expected at ≈Tue, 08 Aug 2017 15:40:52 GMT.

Just braced for another ATH after this date. It can reached more than $3500-$4000. Once the lock-in threshold is reach. It will definitely pump again in Aug 1. I'm not really sure about altcoin though, but bitcoin for sure will rise.


Not that fast mate. Maybe we can see this price in the coming months or even in the end of the year. We all love to see that price you predict that we need to be patience and hope that everything and no bumps along the way.

The general trend is that once BTC goes up so do the other alts. I'm not entirely sure what specifically causes this phenomena but it seems to be a trend. It could be due to price changes in BTC positively affecting the price of the alts through the pre-existing buy orders... Whatever it is, it usually works that way.

Price is already higher than 3k  ;D

I am expecting atleast 4k+ by that date, if not $3500 looks around the corner.

But after segwit activation price might get some correction because current huge bull run looks quite weak driven by high speculation over segwit.

This date can only add to the fuel for the surge of Bitcoin. I am sure that BCH is not a factor anymore in the new highs experienced by Bitcoin right now. BCH has become nothing and its value right now is deteriorating because holders are dumping their share of BCH whenever there is a chance to do so.

While BCH is going down, Bitcoin is soaring into the sky. It has not yet been gone to the moon but can be once it can break the $5,000 wall which can be possible within this year. However, that is a very optimistic view on Bitcoin. I am personally predicting that it can be at $4,000 before 2017 ends.

I am bit mixed on this, the reason I feel is that after the comic fall of Bitcoin cash, Bitcoin took the August 8 factor and that's why it's rose to 3300+ and now I feel it shall stabilize around 3200. Then another part of me argues and says since it's a big event 3500 mark is well in sight and it could possibly happen. There are many people even talking of 4k in the short term. Honestly I am glad it's only few hours and a day away. Let the party continue.

Segwit should lock in by that time.Once lock in is achieved,bitcoin block chain will be upgraded to support larger capacity transactions.So,investors would start buying more bitcoins as a result of which bitcoin price would increase more from that date.

As the market shows in recent days, bitcoin began to grow in price until August 08. After this date, when nothing should influence him already, he, apparently, will show us very strong growth for a while. Along with this, it is necessary to expect and increase the rate of altcoyins, which are affected by the behavior of bitcoin as the leader of the crypto currency. Time will tell how long this trend will last. At the same time, one should expect sharp jumps in the rate of all crypto-currencies.

Looking forward to another bitcoin up trend on August 8. Bitcoin is still in its initial up phase, it will go much higher.

Here according to my thinking , anything may happen because factors to happen 4 possibilities are directly showing here .
At the 8th August , segwit will locked and that will result into bcc and bch coin separate , so here no any confusions will remain the fear of intermixing of btc and bcc( few users are thinking but truth is totally pure and nothing can intermix ) So people may buy the bcc coin fastly because bcc is that coin which will be independent at that date and will results into own network .
But still here another chance is that people may sell thier bcc because bcc have not much connection with btc network , I means to say that the information that will spread at 8th and people will react from which way.
Overall here my opinion saying directly bitcoin will get stability from 1 August , and we should remain ready to hold for long time because this time it can go to 4000$ easily .

I guess i would have to remain on my current tactics  ;) I will not be supporting that other altcoin that was created during the august 1 hard fork because i think that they don't deserve to exist wkakak

I think this last pump has already included that even. Do not expect another high pump, I m perfectly happy with slow BTC growth. As long as there is growth!

Bitcoin's value is already increasing and growing slowly and if things continue it can easily surpass $4000 and $5000 which I think would be much better than a sudden jump of prices because that can be just a temporary increase and it may drop suddenly as well.

this rise is mostly about 8th of August and the activation of SegWit. and it will continue to be like that. price will stay up above $3000 unless another FUD camp starts up and tries hard to break the $3000 resistance and push it down for more cheap coins before the next rise but i think it is too soon for something like that though.

for now the charts look pretty solid, we are back on track as before all this drama about "split" and BIP###
the $3200 is also showing a powerful support.

i dare say we can expect near $4000 by the end of this year too.

The recent price increase and reaching a new ATH would be an indicator that Bitcoin's price will go up again when Segwit gets locked in that day. Though it is not that certain but I believe that it is highly probable. I think we will see Bitcoin to reach the 3500 dollar mark. Let us just hope that Segwit will be as smooth as it can be in order to avoid anything unnecessary.

The current rate of growth of BTC seems perfectly ideal and it should continue in its path towards the 4k mark. With BCH not upholding as expected, there is nothing in the way of BTC and you can expect it to skyrocket in the coming days.

Probably there is gonna be a new big pump on the 8th, looking at the charts it will go to $3,5K and if things looks good it could probably break the resistance at $3,7k.
By the way, this has been a perfect year for bitcoin  ;) from $800 to $3,3k. atm it has reached more than 350% since the beggining of this year.
Big whales are expecting more than $5k at the end of the year, so this is the best time to buy bitcoins before it is gonna be pumped again.
Good luck guys

Since Segwit is going to get locked in on that day i would expect something similar to what is happening right now. If everything goes according to the plan a lot of people's doubts are going to be lifted and since bitcoin is actually going to be improved then there are going to be a lot of pumping.

How high it will go, i'm not sure. Probably at least $3500 though.

From now i think it is pretty much guaranteed that this event is going to run smoothly just like the 1st August event. There is nothing that is indicating that Segwit won't get locked in or anything like that. So yeah, i'd say prepare for another round of pumps very very soon, probably in 5 days or so but could be sooner.

Great time to buy still, if you think about it. Could easily be a quick $200 flip or so.

That is right. I think the market already priced in the lock in. So there was the price increase recently.

It's likely that it has been priced in during the last few days with the price rising so much.

I wouldn't mind another surge that's for sure, but usually the price rises before the actual event.

I expect a continuus updrive of bitcoin. The 8th of August will probably fasten the updrive once more. But I also think, that altcoins will take profit from Bitcoin's success and follow the upcourve.

price is currently on a good rise, despite now being a little bit more slow. but we can't expect a rise all day everyday. what I expect is a more smooth rise from here on out. the FUD has subsided and now we are on a better trend upwards. this can be the come back of good old days of slow solid rise with no shakeout of weak hands on big scale.

Completely agree. Big sudden pumps always scare users and look a bit suspicious too. Slow but continuous and steady rise looks much better. The situation looks very good now and I beleive that the door for bitcoin to achieve 4000$ by the end of the year are wide open we just have to be patient.

I doubt that price will change a lot. We have seen the price rise is higher than 3300 dollars. Likely to be rolled back, then the price will rise to 3500 and then again back to 3300 dollars. It's the game of speculators.

Same here. I'm pretty sure the current price increase is already in anticipation of segwit, with possibly a minor bump on monday due to fresh fiat hitting exchanges. The day of segwit activation will probably see a slight dump, "buy on the rumour, sell on the news" and all that.

Me too, absolutely. No one needs another bulb, and $8,000 - $12,000 if it happens quickly would be a bulb which can burst big and painfully for many. We definitely don't need that. If Bitcoin more or less stabilizes around $3,500 in the months to come I'd be happy with that.

What is this all about again? Do you mean there are several changes again and again? That's too much for this month since others are still trying to move on last August 1st. This is a quite tough for bitcoin. I wish bitcoin has great pump soon because I'm having a big exam this month and the more in the next month. So please grant it soon.

I only heard it now. I think nothing will happen on that day. We all believe that bitcoin has a strong market value right now and it will be good more months to come. We want to have a better future with bitcoin. So let us hopes that we will have bitcoin in our lives and it has a great value as well.

A segwit lock in.
So is this supposed to make a reaction in the bitcoin price?
It might affect a little because of the news about bitcoin and new investors might come in.
Rooting for a price hike even if now it is already pumping like crazy.
I didn't know about this until I saw this post. Thanks for reminding.  ;D

I am not sure that price will pump because the main factor is that there will happen nothing than to lock segwit  and make the separate network at all .
But after 8 August there may be chance to make because the basic idea here to give security and platform .
Here even today no wallets are available to store the bcc coin offically , so after the launch there will be sudden increase in the price .
So 8 August will not specify anything in my opinion but after that date may be new turning point will came for fir the btc and bcc coin .
So here i think we should hold in some amount so that we can make some profit easily with small fluctuations because oricr is very small and it may be perfect timing for us .

This statement  was been said a lot of time over the years and it seems that they are proven  wrong. Yet now were still going back to that old days were people is in doubt. Just think the btc price man and how that grows

I think what we need for now is bitcoin price must be stable, i'm not type p&d traders, it; After the price stable, there is a chance people will more interest with bitcoin, and if that happens then don't ask the price, cause the price will break our rooftop  ;D

When I price estimate Bitcoin it usually goes higher than I estimate, I guess you could very well be right with your prediction.

Perhaps the segwit lock-in for bitcoin has already priced in. That would explain the pump of yesterday and the reason why bitcoin broke the resistance for 3000$ so easily.

Here all about is understanding , if most of the people will think that btc and bcc is good option for the investment after or before 8 August then surely everyone will buy btc and also bch coin .
As here at 8 August bith of these two coins will work independently , so there may be chance of big pump because official launching and announcement about a particular coin always results into increase increase in the demand for that coin wallet .
So here no lack of possibilities , everyone is looking to see the perfect timing to buy .
Here i myself bought 7BCC coin with the hope that its price will increase because every coin in the cryptomarket ( except ripple ) have own official wallet , so there also be for this coin again .

Becouse people are speculating that is all : ) it is easier to pum small cap coin than BTC.
Some new money like 10% of them are nicely pumping existing alts but when price  drops if you hold alts you are getting rekt harder.
1 you lose BTC vale
2 you lose alt value
to finaly you lose 2x more
this market is like playing on high leverage exchange.
I belive that most alts have its peaks behind to BTC.
Now with segwit we should see nice $$$ flow to BTC from altcoins but there is 2x part of that and we will see how it will be playerd around.

Already some of Altcoin are pumping. But I hope 8th August or After that day all coins will pump. I am waiting for that day.

I'm expecting the pump too but I'm not very fond of it right now. There will be pump for sure after we have got experience from the hard fork that we had. But let's not get very much excited about it and put money on to it. This is the period where we should be staying normal as always we have been. I'm just gonna keep  what I have on my wallet and add no more coins on to it. I would be really happy about it. That would be profit too.

I think the price of BTC on August 8 will pump up & reach to the moon, i think that because of the rapid growth of BTC  nowadays. The BCC is no match compare to BTC some other investor ignore & sell there BBC instead so expect more increase to the price of BTC in coming days.

We are all believing that the value will surely goes up and with the segwit I think it will left bch miles away btc already been supported by traders and investors who understand the big potentials of this investment its just a matter of day now and we will see the good results.

I am waiting for the Segwit lock in very anxiously because i believe that price is going to pump high, all the users of bitcoin community were waiting desperately for this moment, hope so it will be good as we are expecting.

On August 8,the segwit will be locked in and block chain will be upgraded to larger blocks.So,more investors would start buying bitcoins which would increase demand and price would increase more,may even cross $3500.So we could expect a hike in bitcoin price.

As what many others expecting to this date, 8000$ is possible but 10,000$ this year I think is not realistic to be happen.
I know all bitcoin enthusiast are expecting bitcoin to get higher, Anyway that's good if that happen. Lets just wait and see what next to be done after this date like what happen this august 1 on BCC.

Haha but I think in next few days the price of Bitcoin still increasing and breakout more target, I will sell my Bitcoin and buying altcoin or Bitcoin Cash, because high price always not safe than altcoin still cheap but potential or the community cryptocurrency not interested it after dump to lowest price as Stellar, Bitcoin Cash, LBRY in history.

Good luck to us. This is another opportunity to take.

I do not expect some serious change, like it was on the 1st of August - in the exactly day the price stayed the same and moved forward only after couple days. So, I expect to see something similar on 8th of August.

The segwit is very important to get activated for the sake of fast network operation. This is very important to correct the blockchain problems. Once the segwit is locked for sure it will correct it and make the network problems solved leading to faster performance. So yes this will again give the pump to current bitcoin price. We can expect the price rise. :-)

nah, my coins are still going deep :(, but ill believe that altcoins will start to pump up the end of this month(hopefully). but for the bitcoin its starting to pump high so we better ride its flow and get a good profit on it.

Oh thank you for explanation. I'm also newbie and just get used to the fork on 1st of August and something new is already coming haha

Hope you are correct because its a great time to celebrate if it happens. I do expect that bitcoin will rise after this August 8 or after the Segwit lock-in, and it is good for all of us. Cheers for a greater future!

I'm expecting a price pump but not on that day in particular, everyone already knows segwit is going to activate.

I hope the final signalling of SegWit will pave the way for mass adoption and also the end of the scaling debates. The merchants can then have full confidence in this technology that it would be a good choice to accept it as one of their payment options. The excuses piled up during the scaling wars that Bitcoin lacked scaling and this should now be laid to rest.

We should prepare ourselves for mainstream adoption once this is done. ^smile^

this will be a new venture for all bitcoin holders, those who doubted at first might be regretting on what they did, but still it is not too late for them, since we all know that bitcoin have its ups and downs, and right now, bitcoin is becoming bullish, and we all know what that means, more profit for us, though it is considered ghost month already, we certainly see a very positive view for our bitcoins.

Any new fork on 8 August?

I want some free coins again

I don't think it will drop too much anyway, loads of people expected it to drop when BCH came along but if anything it has made bitcoin stronger, I think this will do the same.

That is a big amount of money for a coin, even the price of bitcoin will reach $4,000 this year i'm okay with that. It's 1 day left actually and both Bitcoin and bitcoin cash price are increasing right now. So is 8th August will be good for bitcoin or bitcoin cash or both ? My hope is bitcoins price will stable on that price but i accept it if it increase lmao.

BIP91 lock in pushed the price a bit up, so we might see the same now with BIP141 locking in.

Segwit activating will probably push it over 3600$.

I also think that there will be an increase in price. But most likely before the price increase, we will see a small decline. It will be a great time to buy coins.

Well, I just hope that this news will not provoke new panic among newbies and people will keep their founds. As many others I think the price will continue to climb up, but i don't expect any serious move right on 8th of August. We will see new change only few days after the event.

I am expecting a huge pump on 8th of august. Bitcoin might surely cross 3400$ this time for sure, it will go with a rocket speed after it. Bitcoin has already became unstoppable, but anytime it may give us any heart breaking news. But we can trust bitcoin and keep buying them :)

no there is no reason left for a decline. all the reasons for negativity are now well over. there is only rise ahead of bitcoin and price will continue to go up only.
remember though a price drop after a big rise is not a decline exactly. for example when price goes up to $3250 and comes down to $3190 it is called a correction and it is already over.

The serious pump of bitcoin above 3000$ was due to the hardfork.
Even after august 8, we might get a serious pump after the segwit activation and also the blockchain may be improved to get some faster transactions. The all we can do is just to wait and watch until August 8.

I think market has largely priced in "segwit lock in" news. Buy on expectations, sell on news as it often happens.

Well, it is now that the segwit was very confusing for me. Because these effects are now given from the presence of very segwit have no impact is insufficient and I saw a coin that appears due to the segwit now this is just a transition that doesn't give a huge impact. because of this very bad price now and give a lot of losses.

Really many members are expecting these pump, many people are waiting for a big price increase in Bitcoin. People who are holding Bitcoin will now celebrate the increase in the Bitcoin price.

Well, the Aug 8th is tomorrow, so there's not much time to wait until we can see what happens. Meanwhile Bitcoin is rising, slowly, step by step, but rising. It's $3,257 right now. Who would've guessed that the price of Bitcoin will go so high one year ago, when the price was around $600?

I believe that SegWit is already priced in. But then again, Aug 8 is an important milestone that will result in increased media coverage, attracting fresh money from new investors.

I have a friend who said that since it is ghost month there is a possibility a price pump will happen. Don't really know if it is going to happen but some chinese investors do believe in superstitious belief and we'll never know some of these investors are also holding on to some of these coins and might be the whales too. But that's just my opinion though, I'm not a superstitious person but I do always expect the unexpected.

What about the November hard fork? It seems to have major support from miners and businesses, so I think a major split is possible if they go through with it.

It makes me nervous that everyone expects the price to pump on this "news."  Usually that means the opposite will happen. :-\ BIP91 has been stable for quite some time, and the price started pumping ever since miners started signalling it. Perhaps Segwit is already priced in, given that we are already pushing to new all-time highs in the last couple days.

There is no exact date for the pump in the price of bitcoin because it will pump if there will be a huge demand in the market and it doesn't have exact date to pump. The only thing that we know about bitcoin is, it will pump in the future and we should be ready for that event by having a lot of bitcoins that are saved up.

Yes its good the technical aspect of bitcoin  that would aid mass adoption is being developed and getting it locked it is something to be happy about but at the same time we should not just be over joyous with that because there are still other factors that come into play for merchants to accept the coin among which include to be on the right side of law which is key at this time considering the various court cases and agencies involvement in recent times.

Exactly. The price will probably rise,  however probably not much because it seems like that everyone is already positive that segwit is going to be successfully locked in anyways, and therefore resulting in the result few crazy pumps that we have seen.

But even though it is probably going to be locked in on the day it's not 100% certain. There may be a few shorters out there that are betting on bitcoin prices dropping due to somehow Segwit not being implemented/not having a lot of support. Shorters might just be betting on this being the ATH and it's all downhill from here.

So in that scenario, on 8th August aka tomorrow or day after depending on where you live things will probably get more clear regarding Segwit, imo price is going to rise. Now these shorters i mentioned will probably be forced to liquidate their positions due to the fact that they are tarding on leverage + price rising so much, resulting in a short squeeze, pushing the price up even further.

The pump will probably happen before the date because of anticipation of the effect of segwit. I am not expecting too much rise from the current price. Maybe after the effect is felt, then there will be more price hike.

What's wrong with that date? Is there something special in that day?
All definitely expect bitcoin prices will continue to be pumped but I'm curious, what's wrong with August 8th?

You are so optimist dude.. It's good enough to see it around 4000$ this year.

There's nothing left to be expected the btc price is pumping already and have just seen new ATHs. I think it's going to go up and up a few more days. I agree with those who like it to go slow but it's something doesn't have to do with individuals liking or disliking. The demand for bitcoin has increased immensely after hard fork and it's going to be like this for more days so we are surely going to witness higher btc prices than we have already witnessed.

healthy grow is the most precious

we will see in next 5 years rise to 20k $   

I do not think so, the maximum will rise to 5000-6000

Why is it that when the value of btc goes up, almost everyone screams, "pump"?

Perhaps some people value btc higher than the current price, so buy according to their subjective value, thus value appreciating.

Oh, just because it goes down a bit, it doesn't mean, "dump."

If by pump they mean hyped-up pump made by a group of conspirators I disagree with them. The price is rising naturally, in my opinion. More and more people are into Bitcoin nowadays and that's why the demand is rising.

Now it's 8th of August, and the price is around $3400. We now should only wait and see what will be the way forward. As the whole crypto world is slowly coming out of the shades, the prices should rise continously, with some smaller-bigger dumps, but that's life. As biggest banks and a lot of other companies (Microsoft, Dell, etc) are investing in crypto, sooner or later we should reach the point when the crypto world will be big enough to fail, but it needs time.
Short term goal is now $4000 :)

I've actually been amazed by the increase of BTC and ETH and I can't see any end in sight anytime soon.

To $5k and $500 it seems

Does anyone know what time the SegWit announcement is supposed to be made for the Bitcoin fork?

My friends and I are wondering, so we can know whether we should buy in or not. I think either way, over the long haul, the price of Bitcoin will go up towards $10,000 and then maybe even into $100,000.

4001$ will be the ATH for 2017  ;D

SegWit had been locked in. 2 weeks to activation. Major buy signals and institutional wall of cash about to hit.   

Segwit has locked-in on August 8th, and bitcoin price increase to $3445 right now, pretty good.
Now, I am wondering what will happen next, whether bitcoin price will be pumped or has steady-slow increases.
We know what will happen after big pump, many people will cash out immediately after it reach certain point.
Pumped to over $4000 and fall down below $3000 isn't a good thing for bitcoin environment, but hopefully it won't happen.

i thin now people do not care for such kind of dates but they are investing money in bitcoin in fact they are too much confident about the price of bitcoin that bitcoin price will continue increasing for a long time.

The price has steadily increased over the past week or so and i think that this is only going to be accelerated by the fact that segwit is being locked in today.

Currently there has only be a small pump today, of less than $50. And pretty sure the ATH set a few days ago hasn’t been broken yet(correct me if i’m wrong).

It’s not going to be something like the 1st August event in my opinion which the price of bitcoin just completely blew up instantaneously, as soon as it happened. It is probably going to be more of a prolonged pump that will last until the end of the month or maybe the start of next month before slowing down or going down.

Either way, Segwit being locked in is great news for bitcoin, finally this has happened :)

Now, That's has been more than 3k . I expect more than 4k , is it possible? Just wait, I think one or two week later the price will be more than 4k.

SegWit lock-in this period? YES!
47 blocks left before technical lock-in.
ETA ≈Wed, 09 Aug 2017 12:21:19 GMT

https://www.xbt.eu/

Looks like we are just a few blocks to be officially and technically lock-in for Segwit. I think the price is now sustainable in the range of $3000-$3500 now. I'm not expecting a big pump big rather sustainable growth for the next coming months or so. So expect a steady phase starting today. So for those members just continue to hold as the price will grow again.


I usually follow this site https://www.xbt.eu/ so see realtime how many blocks are remaining before the official lock-in. Speculation around this event is that the price could likely go upward. But we can't really tell what the ceiling for it. I think if you are thinking of getting it, now is the best time before everything blows to $4000-$5000 next or even $10000 as you have predicted.

You can buy bitcoin for >$5500 in US.

I'm not sure where we'll go from here. In time, I'm confident that we will see $10,000 and even $100,000. But I'm also prepared for the market to troll us. Especially given the November hard fork. I think that Bitcoin Cash was just a little sideshow experiment. The 2x hard fork is where I think miners may really flex their muscles, and it'll be interesting to see where users stand.

I'm hoping we see significant pushback against the hard fork, personally. If miners and businesses really push forward with it, there will definitely be a network split. And it'll be a lot bigger than with Bitcoin Cash.

Not a very big effect on BTC price but Zcash got a very nice pump right after segwit activation. Just coincidence?