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If you are an active trader in the world of digital currency and indeed take advantage of extreme price movements Bitcoin to seek profit, Bitcoin prices are fluctuating, of course, brings its own happiness. But it's different if you use Bitcoin as cash or fiat money. If you redeem your one million Bitcoin and intend to spend it on an online site, you certainly do not want your Bitcoin value to decrease as Bitcoin prices suddenly drop. Bitcoin you have now cannot pay for the Hard Disk 1 Terra you want and eventually, you have to buy extra Bitcoin to cover up the shortcomings.

Fluctuating Bitcoin prices have become a daily complaint of Bitcoiners around the world. Actually what factors affect the rise and fall of Bitcoin prices?

It will be continue in the future as well; there are always some negative news around the bitcoins which resulted into the panic selling by the short term investors in the fear of loosing money. People should trust the bitcoins and avoid the panic selling which will help to stable the bitcoin price.

The active traders you mention in the OP actually have a significant influence on the value of BTC and other crypto. They contribute to sharply rising prices during so-called bull runs and subsequently cause a drop in value when they sell off their profits. This causes impressive ups and downs in the price although the trend is upwards because more people and organizations actually invest in crypto.

Events like exchanges being hacked / going offline also have an effect, although less significant in recent years. FUD (negative comments) from prominent persons have negigible effect.

The rise and fall is ultimately going to be effected by the the traders of Bitcoin, now these people do take a lot of thing into account when making these decisions to buy, sell, hold, leverage on certain positions, and so on  and so forth. Some of the many thing that these people put into account is the current minds of the miners, on what they want to do with bitcoin, what the developers want to do with Bitcoin, current news on regulation from governments, and so on and so forth.

Also, the Bitcoin price is flucutating due to the fact that there isn't really a wall of buyers and sellers holding the price within certain margins. People who traded Bitcoin are trying to make as much money as they can, they don't care for the actual users in the least and what they think about the currency.

there are no factors behind it,because it's manipuated by peoples.
indeed,
the volatility is a problem for active user(for them who's implemented it as their payment point and the buyer who's using this).
some people owned more than 1%,that is why the price can be manipulated by them easily.
just sell some of their belonging,they can trigger 'the weak hands' and then the declining starts.
but slowly if the demand keep increasing and the price keep increasing,in the next few years later on we should see the its real 'value' and slowly stabilize itself in there.
goverment will try to regulate it and step by step we should can see how it works and how it goes.
and they can not manipulated it again as their wish because they will monitor it.
for now,
volatility is a charateristic of bitcoin,and because of it many people intrested to join and learn about it.
so,for now like or not we should accept it that Bitcoin price is fluctuative.

No one is complaining, and if there's one, they would be the ones who haven't used bitcoins in their life and are afraid by these price movements. Millions of traders all around the world are involved in these price movements, so I wouldn't be surprised myself if I bought a burger that's worth $20 in bitcoin and the next day it will be worth $25. Lastly, no one is forcing someone to buy using bitcoins, so why the need to complain if in the first place you aren't obliged to use it if you're hesitating?

the market cap is too small

as the market cap grows, it will take much more to move the price

the fluctuation of bitcoin is now a day every one use bitcoin and invest their money in bitcoins.

one of the reason can be that the users of bitcoin are increasing from time to time. more and more people are accepting bitcoin and are trying to get the opportunities to invest money in bitcoin and  get some profit. While those people who have invested money in bitcoin some time before and they can get some profit in present time, so they try to sell their bitcoin and secure their profit. some time we also experience so bad news related to bitcoin which is also responsible for the price fluctuation of bitcoin.

I'm not sure it's as much of a complaint as you think, but the driver of the fluctuations are supply and demand. More specifically, demand since supply growth is controlled.

Where as in the early days of bitcoin the competitors were fiat currency, the price could be more stable unless big news events happened. Now the competition is much greater, there are about 10 mainstream cryptocurrencies that people are trading in and out of. There's also more mainstream news about bitcoin and the blockchain. And adoption is slowly increasing (at least among the investment minded folks.)

The environment has changed and created more drivers of buy/sell decisions...and this directly influences demand and its fluctuations.

Even in real cash is increasing its value or decrease value.. The difference in bitcoin is that bitcoin is increasing value much or decrease value too low.. and its depends in the demand and supply that is why the price of bitcoin was decrease and increase..
The price of bitcoin can be increase its value in the future.. Expect and wait for the next blockchalving the supply of bitcoin can be decrease more since bitcoin users was getting more popularity expect that after block halving we will see more price increase .
Bitcoin is unpredictable because there are some people are satisfied what the price is. or they are already made a profit and they are waiting again for the price drop to buy bitcoin again its a basic method to make profit..
There is no stable price of bitcoin and compare the price from past years ago bitcoin today is really high compare before so if you not invest your money for  bitcoin you are losing  opportunity to make any profit in the future.

Bitcoin market is driven by speculation.  This is the reason why Bitcoin price is so fluctuating.  It has no central government to control and manipulate its price.  Supply and demand is the one governing the price.  If there is more people willing to buy the coin then it will go up and if there is people wanted to sell their coin then it goes down in price.

There are several factors. The most obvious is the volume of demand both selling and buying. Then, good news / bad about Bitcoin that will make the price fluctuate.

Hopefully I don't come across as an ass here, but misinformation is dangerous. This quote below is 100% incorrect.


Market capitalization (market cap) is not a driver of price fluctuations. Price is a driver of market capitalization. Market capitalization is simply the size of the value of the currency (or stock, etc.)

Market Cap = the number of shares (or coins) outstanding x the price per share (or coin)

Any thoughts that market cap size influences price volatility is really a hunch (just a hunch) that investor behavior is influenced by the price of the stock/currency. If that hunch is correct it's not the market cap that's driving behavior but the price per stock/coin.

Because it is out of government control and only depend on supply and Demad low so that prices change fast of any good or bad news

That is not the only reason. Its market capitalization is more than $70 Bn. There are a lot of companies who aren't valued at those levels. Still Bitcoin is much more volatile.

Market cap doesn't even drive price. Market cap is a consequence of price. Market cap is not a reason why the price fluctuates.

There are many factors can fluctuate the price, news, more users adoption, whales but when market will become more mature it will be less volatil.

The way I look at this is as if it's a stock price. When you take a look at a stock, say Paypal (which is worth 66.05 USD at the moment of me writing this), you notice that there are fluctuations that range from around +-1$. When you scale the stock price up, like Berkshire Hathaway Class A, you see the stock price being much higher (in the 100,000s), and the fluctuations as +-600 dollars. These fluctuations I believe come from the buy/sell orders that are available on the markets.

I don't think Prince8 argued that market cap is driving the price. I think his point is that the larger the market, the more money it takes to move (or manipulate) the price in a meaningful way. Buying / Selling USD 1 million worth of BTC now has a lesser impact on the market than it would have 2 years ago.

Well, it's not all the Bitcoiners are complaining about the fluctuating prices because as you said, traders are taking advantage of it.
And about your question to what factors affecting it, it mostly the traders themself. It falls on the supply and demand same as how commodities' prices increases when the supply is low or the opposite. FUD mainly affects the demand but I think it must be the "bitcoin uses" that should be affecting it.

Like the real-world stocks, bitcoin's price is based on the public trust and sentiment worldwide. Where stocks are mainly country specific so it is easy to speculate on that. But bitcoin is an international asset and hence it is not easy to guess the public sentiment towards bitcoin. There is no specific factor behind the bitcoin price fluctuation so I won't be able to tell you about any single reason.

However, if you see that a big financial company is talking ill about bitcoin, then you can expect the price may go down a bit. On the other hand, if you see a country is giving out licenses to a bitcoin exchange or legalizing it, the price may go up. But these are all general assumptions. There is no rock-solid factors behind it.

Oh, yeah, that's a great point. I suppose that also means as Bitcoin becomes more widespread as an investment there is less money "on the sidelines" available to be invested AND each new dollar (as you say) doesn't have the same impact on price as the dollar before it did.

Currently the bitcoin price movement very volatile and very difficult to predict, but it makes traders take advantage from it to make a profit. But this highly volatile price is still complained by bitcoin hunters around the world. I think there are two things that affect the price of bitcoin, including:

1. Small volume of scattered bitcoin
Bitcoin prices are determined in absolute terms by supply and demand. If many buy Bitcoin, then the price will go up and vice versa.
2. The sale of bitcoin on large scale at the same time
when the price of Bitcoin increases, then most people will sell their Bitcoin and if this happens simultaneously and involves many people, the bitcoin price will drop again.

and there are still many other factors affect by bitcoin prices.

because bitcoin is the same as gold or stock, every time can change but bitcoin is more profitable and promising for the future, because bitcoin price increases so rapidly compared to gold and stock, so if you want to invest in the future better bitcoin even though bitcoin price fluctuating , but bitcoin prices more often than decreased.

A lot o factors affecting its price in the market and we can't control its fluctuation.
Supply and demand are the 2 major factors that could contribute a lot on its fluctuation. Because bitcoin have only limited supply in the market  but it is highly in demand because of many investors are getting in, that could affect the price and it goes up.

I guess the major factor is still the most basic of all, that is, the supply and demand. It is the most determining factor in any asset which is being traded. Once the demand rises, the value will also be rising. But once the demand dwindles down, it will be expected that the value will also decrease. But aside from this very basic factor, I am considering the whales' manipulating moves as well as FUDs, and other crypto news and development. 

well,The price of everything fluctuates is like US Dollar, price of gold, stocks, bonds on an on. The question is why does Bitcoin price fluctuate so much? The answer is because the price of bitcoin has no underlying basis. The price of stocks can be related to the underlying value of the firm they represent. In the case Of course supply and demand determines price, price being basically where the supply and demand curves intersect. What makes the price go up and down is that the slope of these curves (and hence the point where they intersect) changes depending on the market environment of bitcoin.
so the point is  supply and demand. Volume. Just like stocks. It's identical to how stocks work. If a large volume is sold, the price (value) drops. If a large volume is purchased, the price goes up.
There's are some minor outside factors but trading and speculation are the main reasons.

          The bitcoin price is so fluctuating due to the high volume of speculation in the market. For a sensible trader it is always good such speculative market to earn money. Normally the price of a commodity increases because of the market demand .Here the supply of the bitcoin is constant meantime if the demand still increases naturally the price has to go up. In the speculative market if the buyers are more bitcoin price will increase meantime if the sellers are more price can be decreased.

The supply and demand are what causes the price of the bitcoin to change. For example there has been a negative news regarding bitcoin which causes people to do panic selling. This will result to a excess amount of bitcoin being sold which will cause the price to decrease. As the supply increases the price decreases.

Maybe when some issues or news comes up by they affect the rise and fall of bitcoin market. Like the hardfork in August 1st, many was panicking to sell their bitcoin so the price gotten dump then after a successful hardfork it incredibly pump at highest price. After several weeks, another news affects the market, the Chinese banned issue but now it suddenly up little by little and this may continue until no new bad issues will came. Hopefully the price will not go down less than $4000.

We see bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies fluctuating is because of the demand and supply. That's how it works mate. The higher demand but lower supply, the higher the price of a product. The lower demand and the supply is too much. It will cause the product drops it's value. That's the Law of demand of supply. Demand and supply cause cryptocurrencies to fluctuate. The market still not solid and can easily collapse and it's still under developed. In additions for this are the news against this technology. It could affect its price depends on how bad the news as people are relying to much on news. That's why we experience fluctuations too often. Like the recent price drop. It's because of continous crackdowns on bitcoin. Let's wait and see when the market grows as big as stock market. Crypto market surely will surpass the stock market. Right now, the market is still young and a lot of issues about legality. Many countries still considered this as a fraud. But some change their minds. Like Russia. Let's wait for the others to adapt this technology.

I think the bitcoin price is influenced by the large bitcoin demand. if the demand for bitcoin becomes large then bitcoin prices will continue to rise. otherwise if the bitcoin price falls, as the demand for bitcoin decreases. or many people make sales.

Price fluctuate based on the supply and demand  in the market which also  influence and affects the foreign currency. The higher the demand may result in shortage of supply which cause the price to become higher. Now, its already affects the market trend the tendency of some businesses is to add on their supplies. If the supplies become higher and the demand will be lower the market will be force to lower their price unless they have some awesome strategies to attrack more on their business.

I agree to you , buying and selling coins makes the bitcoin flactuate or we the bitcoin is volatile maybe  in bad news and other news about bitcoim so that's why the bitcoin naturaly to decrease and increase on it's own value.

This is because of continued buying and selling. Sometimes the price of bitcoins is rising because more buyers are buying. Sometimes more sellers also fall in price. And this really affects the price of bitcoins. Just explanation is why falling and rising / Flactuating

Bitcoin is decentralized, no entity controls its price. Because of this, Bitcoin depends on the law of supply and demand to formulate its current value. Any event that can affect the demand will definitely affect the price. Selling Bitcoin to an exchange will increase the supply available in the market, buying Bitcoins will increase the demand and lessen the available supply in the market. Such event will affect Bitcoin's price. If we consider other factors such as FUD and rumor spreading, banning and acceptance, it will be difficult for us to predict how the price will move.

I think there are no main reason, bitcoin price so fluctuating. but something  depend on demand and market exchange . recently, one of the most reason Chinese market exchange ban, that's why price fall down.

The price of Bitcoin is always fluctuating because it the depends on the Law of Supply and Demand. If the Supply is high, the demand is low and if the demand is high, the supply is low. Whenever there is a high demand, the price is increasing because the supply is limited. Aside from that, another factor that can affect Bitcoin price is the current news about it. If there is good news, people tend to panic buying and if there is bad news, they do panic selling.

The price of bitcoin is always fluctuating because the price of bitcoin is always depending on the demand of the people in the market. So if you are going to invest in bitcoin then expect price changes because people are always depending on the news about bitcoin so it is about emotion so that is another reason why the price of bitcoin is always fluctuating.

there are several factors that make bitcoin price so fluctuating.
the first The small volume of Bitcoin spread across the network, the second The situation where more Bitcoin trader than Bitcoin user, the third of the News spread globally.

Two reasons.

One, this is how traders make money, the move the price up and down so weak hands sell and lose their money.

Two, weak hands sell as soon as there is something which makes them afraid in crypto. It seems to be very easy to scare people and make them lose their money.

Fluctuation is natural occurence to all market. As long as there's supply and demand we can expect fluctuation. Nothing is exempted.
If there's a high demand expect a rise in price and if there's a high supply then expect a decrease in price.

The market is new and bullish, as you say there are short-comers that seeks for fast profit, you can't blame the market from fluctuating.

There are so many players within this market as cryptocurrency is still far from mature like real-world exchange, whales that sell and buy by manipulating the psychology of investors, millions of FUD across this sectors that causes panic and bullish purchase.

Noted that crypto exchanges worked 24 hours too! and thus movements are highly unpredictable.

why is bitcoin price so fluctuating i think the reason of bitcoin fluctuating due demends of the user or the stock market like the stock exchange currency goes down and up as currency have a movement demends from the market and also if you are invest in the trading you investment money goes up and down hope iam correct for my speculation.

Simple answer to that question is due to high demand of bitcoin and less supply in market results in the fluctuation of bitcoin. Other reason is that veto countries like China ban ICOs and thinking to ban bitcoin as well so this would be another reason of fluctuation nowadays.

There are many things that can affect the bitcoin market, basically every assets open for trading will experience price volatility because without it trading will not be profitable. However due to very low marketcap, bitcoin tends to have quite huge volatility. Price can go by over $100 in just few hours when some whales want to pump it. Other than few manipulation bitcoin price fluctuate according to supply and demand.

There are so many factors that is affecting Bitcoin prices, the one and the most annoying factor is weak hands of newbie investors. This newbies have weak hands, whenever a bad rumour starts coming up, these weaklings start to dump their coins which will increase the panic of other investors.
The 2nd factor is because of news, whether it is a good or bad news, Bitcoin will fluctuate.

You will probably find a number of reasons above to invest in the Bitcoin but at the same there are also a number of reasons, why not to invest in Bitcoin. But out of all, these facts and points may or may not help you in gaining profits in your Investment. Like one of the most important factor in Bitcoin is that it is highly volatile which means the value can increase or decrease within one sec which might gain you better profit but at the same time the value might decrease subsequently leading to a greater loss on your investment. Other than that, there are many factors like issue of legality, prone to illegal activities, bad news and rumors and much more. So, at the end it is one’s own decision to invest in Bitcoin or not because it is your money and the gain and loss will be totally yours.

These fluctuations makes the profit of traders. They come from demand/supply in the market.

Bitcoin now is existed as gold not such a currency. So, it fluctuates when other situation threatening the current circumstance such as north Korea's missile. It actually went up when KimJeongEun shut the missiles. That means people think the bitcoin as gold that has the value itself not as a currency.

No one is forcing someone to buy using bitcoin. So why need to complain if at first you are not obligation to use because volatility is a characteristic of bitcoin.
this is the most decisive factor in any traded asset. because bitcoin has only limited supply in the market but is much in the interest of all people to use in the trading business.

Bitcoin's fluctuating price has been a matter of serious concern from the beginning.It is for this reason even many retailers have not accepted it as payment.Even many countries have not legalized bitcoin due to its fluctuating price.

Bitcoin's price fluctuating rate is almost ten times that of USD price fluctuation.There is no cenral body to control its price since it is a decentralized currency.

Also,the FUD which is voluntarily spread by big whales is also a main factor for its fluctuation.We just saw few weeks before that FUD spread about china's actions against bitcoin caused its price to almost fall around $1,000 less from $4,000 to $3,000.

Big whales create panic among newbies and buy bitcoins at cheap price.They are not bothered about bitcoin's progress.Just want to fill their pockets.

But it has to be agreed that bitcoin's volatility could not be controlled.

Even the fiat (paper money) the OP mentioned does fluctuates. If in doubt ask those who trade forex. The Dollar, Euros or Pounds Sterling does not remain same in value even for a single hour. It goes up and down like the btc. The only difference is that one can trade them while they retrace downward and make profit unlike the btc that is a one-way traffic. Price fluctuations are part of necessary market dynamism.

But thhe fluctuation for the paper money is really low compared the fluctuation of bitcoin price. The reason for this bitcoin fluctuation is that the market distribution is not homogenous. The whales still hold the majority of the assets.

Bitcoin's price ,like any other stock or commodity, is dependent on the market. The more people buy then the greater the price of bitcoin , if more people sell then bitcoins price will decrease.
The reason it fluctuates a lot is because any person can buy or sell it unlike other stocks which have some rules or some requirements you must fulfil before buying. So since bitcoin is a global market , unregulated, no req so more people buy and sell it resulting in so much fluctuations.
Another reason is because whales (someone with a lot of money) manipulates the price. A whale might buy a lot of bitcoins resulting in the market going up then after the whale has some profit they
Will sell their bitcoins resulting in the market going down.
A third reason for this is news. Like you saw with the recent Chinese FUD news can have a huge impact on the market either in a good or bad way.

I am also curious about the fast moving fluctuating price of bitcoin. The duration of changing value or rate of bitcoin is just a minutes. I don't really know what is to be considered because the value of bitcoin will decrease and will increase. But I think it is related on the economic status of every country that are involve in cryptocurrency.

your mind is too complicated, I guess everyone who buys bitcoin already knows the risks. and not everybody buys bitcoin just for shopping. it is about other needs and in terms of usability.
and the factors that affect the value of crypto is the market.

That’s true. I really couldn’t agree more. Bitcoin’s price volatility is really something that kakes buying things with btc pretty mimd boggling. Imagine paying someone for something and the proce suddenly went down, that would really suck.

Also, the main factor for price rise or decrease is us crypto people.

usually fluctuativ bitcoin prices because caused by the total supply available in the market can also be caused from news information as happened baned ico in china so bitcoin price down.

Most of the time, now that the market is slowly starting to even out and there is less swinging by hundreds of dollars (on most days, provided there isn't any bad news like what happened with China a few weeks ago), it isn't that bad when it comes to being a merchant. Plus a lot of stores are now adopting platforms which made rapid conversions from BTC to fiat to ensure that they don't lose out on revenue, although they also cannot profit from the market ticking upwards. There have been advanced which have made Bitcoin more viable for businesses.

Bitcoin still didn't found its place, in some moments demand is high and price is going up, in other moment we see panic made by some bad news people are selling bitcoins and price is going down.
Imagine someone paying with bitcoins and price drop, well that happened already but what happen if you as a buyer purchase something for 1 btc and that is 4.350 dollars and tomorrow you see price 15.000$, that sucks for you cause you overpaid that product and merchant is the one who is earning. Risk is something that is common for all of us.

Yes the risk is always there and virtual currencies are more vulnerable to such kind schemes. The market is full of ups and downs due to the fact that investors are always making the big moves sometimes. Many times officially launched news about bitcoin can fluctuate the market in big way because of unwanted selling or so called dumping occurs. In the same way there is another part of crypto geeks who will start buying on mass scale when rest are selling. This balances the dumping equation and sometimes surpasses the same leading to higher pumps in mean time. That's why the fluctuation.

Therefore on the world, there are many experts about finance had said Bitcoin is a speculation type, it is not an investment normal as stock or forex market as our knowledge. The price of Bitcoin depends on the news and the decision of the government or others famous people than the nature or its demand.

It is because bitcoin is decentralized, we cannot control the flow of bitcoin. Trading or investing is getting risky and risky as the rate of volatility increases. This is the only problem with decentralization, though this is better compared to bitcoin being centralized there would be corruption and anomaly in the system.

it's more stable compared to a few years ago when it used to go 1000% up and -1000% down in the same day

Bitcoin Market is driven by speculation and is currently decentralized so no central authority to control the market price.  It is also manipulated by whales and often times react to market condition such as FUD and hype.  This are the reason why Bitcoin price is fluctuating really hard.

I doubt this is the only reason for the fluctuations.

For my opinion or point of view bitcoin's price is fluctuating base on stock's and demands,
The more investors we are getting the more demands it get's so the price would go high.

It’s a free flowing as I described it.. A human/investors mind has the tendency to change in a slight news it’s either bad or good regarding bitcoin and uncertainty there is.. And we can’t demand for a stable bitcoin price as it will only happen if there is a centralized organisation who control it.. And I don’t think if that all of us want,, so be contented of what we have as of now..

Prices depends on the use demand and fluctuation is just due to the trend of user, user invests more than the price will be going high and if everyone start selling prices will go down automatically and both type of fluctuation is good for investor and fluctuation is the main source to profit and if there is a stable price there will no profit for anyone. So invest and earn.

Bitcoin is the digital currency it price increase day by day. It will give more information for the business process, trading and finance. So most of the people like the bitcoin and it uses to easy way for the get more profit. It's a future currency and all countries using the bitcion for the purchase and any bill. It is easy to exchange for the money.

As we all know Bitcoin is the digital currency it price increase day by day and minutes by minutes. It will give more information for the business process, trading and finance . So most of the people like the bitcoin and it uses to easy way to Get The more profit. It is easy to exchange for the money. :)

The active trader's you mention, can influence the price of bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies in the trading market there by leading to the fluctuations in the price of bitcoin. The price can not and will never be stable as long as trading in bitcoin is concern this is so because the market constantly face, up and down and the panic that is some time created by some short time trader's in bitcoin always lead to rush in selling off of bitcoin by some holders and that always affect the price stability.

this is called capital market, so far I know Bitcoin platform is not controlled by anyone, Bitcoin holders are the all in all in this system. though Bitcoin is still in the struggling platform so that people don't have 100% credibility on this system. so when they hear something negative regarding Bitcoin and after that, the Bitcoin holders may wish to sell their Bitcoin at a time. that is why Bitcoin face a price fall down at that time.

People who used to involved bitcoin business are always complaining the rise and fall of its value. But the reality happens is because there are traders who are used to grab the opportunity of rise and fall of its value. The people behind are spending most of their time tracking and if they find good things about its market they to sell their holding to earn a lot of profit, and grab another cheap coins for investment. Its a cyclic manner. But as the time goes by many people are getting curious of how it works, The popularity are the good factor which makes its value rose up. and tend to dump when they find profitable .

Bitcoin price are fluctuating at high speed, and its natural because of the high demand and supply of bitcoin all over the world with smooth liquidity of trading order's all over the OTC and TRADITIONAL exchanges. Actually the main factors that affect the Fall and rise of the bitcoin is the Rise In demand and supply of Bitcoin which is mostly seen during the big events, Occasions, Results, and news regarding the bitcoin. The professional traders handle this demand & supply during those big events and this is when Professional trader's take their big entries and exits and after which the Fall and rise happens accordingly and by this process we see big price Fluctuations.

Well we are the ones that are affecting the price of bitcoin, and because it is decentralized while having so many users that are owners to a lot of bitcoin that is why the value fluctuates so much, and that panicking so much traders I think are just newbies to this kind of system we all know here that it is best to always take a hold on your bitcoin but you an surely go with the flow by selling some when the value dip for a while!

In a nutshell, there is no central authority to manage its stability. Its value is largely dictated by supply and demand, which both fluctuate because the market moves fluidly. There are also some entities that are holding large amounts that can make waves in the market by themselves.

I agree with your statement and accepting Bitcoin as a payment processor is tough thing, if the price goes down then the seller will be in loss. I thought few days back to accept Bitcoin on my online store, but very fluctuating price has stopped me.

You are absolutely right in this regard. These two reasons have made the reality. And I must say this fluctuation have made the rise in business, otherwise nothing would be any of importance for this bitcoin.
Newcomers get panic and they just sell, getting more business to the whales and experts. Fluctuation is beauty and it is the source of fame.

And that's exactly whatis hindering the long-term success of BTC IMHO. If the cracy fluctuations are here to stay, no bigger merchant would seroiusly think about adopting bitcoin (see the ongoin rumours about Amazon....).

somebody asking how many coins are lost in the network?those coins which have not to return? it's possible to pull out of the global network ?

We could see that bitcoin during some price dips,very soon after such dips,bitcoin price gets settled mostly in a new price greater than its previous high price.Almost 755 of the time,bitcoin price only increases and only during the rest of the time,its price falls.We enjoy the price increase most time and complaint about price fall which does not happen often.

Its true that traders benefit most due to bitcoin's price fluctuations.But since,bitcoin is a decentralized currency,its volatility could not be controlled as its value increases and decreases in proportion to demand for it.

Its the nature of bitcoin and nothing could be done to control it.

Yes and in my own opinion I would rather see it fluctuating. Somehow I think of it like the heartbeat of bitcoin.
With it just staying in pne price it is like a dead currency. So shouldnt we celebrate for that?
The problem is most of the users just see the price decrease and will make a ruckus out of it. While when it is in surge they are silent.

Bitcoin trading is like stock market. The price is determined by many factor, One of those factors that helps us to determine if the price will go high or low is the bolinger bond. If you would study it, it teaches that the curves that is shown by different trading sites has its meanings. It has there are 6 methods that will determine whether the price will go high or low in total.

If bitcoin has no Fluctuating Price, then may be i was not a part of bitcoin community. I do trade with bitcoin, because bitcoin price is so fluctuating. May be it is not good for using bitcoin as a fiat currency, but it is useful and have benefits when we do trade and investment with bitcoin.

No need to worry about fluctuating prices, that's how to play bitcoin. When all panic to sell, that's our chance to get bitcoin cheaply.

Bitcoin is a commodity that is traded for goods, services and value produced.Bitcoin’s value is dependant on the intensity of demand and supply there is.
The demand is a market factor. The intensity with which the market needs the commodity fuels the demand aspect. Supply however is a limited factor within the Bitcoin economy since the number of bitcoins there can exist within the network is limited to 21 Million.
This often causes a difference between the buying and the selling price

I am not an active trader or even doing trading but I don't think of like fluctuation of Bitcoin prices have become a daily complaint of Bitcoiners arround the world because that is where we get our profit. I know that traders only used Bitcoins to buy altcoins or tokens but I think it doesn't matter to them that BTC price will go down because it is also a good opportunity for them to buy more Bitcoins during price dip. I can actually see no disadvantages during ups and downs of prices because both gives us the opportunity to buy and sell crypto's which is actually traders daily routine.

Compared to most stocks and Fiat currencies, Bitcoin is a global currency that anyone can access and utilize when they want.  I would say that there are a lot of buy and sell orders for Bitcoin compared to specific Fiat currencies. This means there's going to be a lot of volatility for Bitcoins and it will only increase as its popularity increases.

Depending on what the media says on a certain day or if a hard fork is coming soon the price can both dramatically be affected by Bull and Bear runs.

For me, there are many factors that affect the rise and the fall of bitcoin price like demand and supply, influence of new or media, the government regulation and market manipulation.

The main reason for the fluctuations of bitcoin in price is the emotion of the people who have bitcoin. If they hear or saw something wrong in bitcoin then they will panic sell and they will just accept the loss and leave bitcoin and the opposite thing happen when there is a good news that they saw or heard. The price of bitcoin fluctuates too much because of the emotion which is the enemy of every investor.

Bitcoin is a commodity that is traded for goods, services and value produced.Bitcoin’s value is dependent on the intensity of demand and supply there is.The demand is a market factor. The intensity with which the market needs the commodity fuels the demand aspect. Supply however is a limited factor within the Bitcoin economy since the number of bitcoins there can exist within the network is limited to 21 Million.
This often causes a difference between the buying and the selling price.

Price fluctuation is the common characteristics of the entire digital assets. The fluctuating feature needs to be used as an opportunity to multiply our investments. As we're very low in number we need a large capital volume into circulation which is impossible to be achieved. This makes the price to fluctuate.

I totally agree with you but I think there is another answer that will make bitcoin like a hero, and that is everything has a passion and it is bitcoin’s passion.

Bitcoin prices is fluctuating due to its buy and sell process. Bitcoin is one of the successful cryptocurrency that is ever created. The price of it in cash is really unbelievable which is surreal. The price of bitcoin is still fluctuating because there are times that there are many sellers and few buyers. Sometimes, there are many buyers but some of them only horde the bitcoin to wait for the price to go up. It maybe also because of the mining process of bitcoin which is hard so you have to get a high reward for mining bitcoins. I guess this fluctuation of the price is a positive effect because that means bitcoin is really valuable and won't die any time soon.

so when there is a good or bad news it will affect the market players to take a sell or buy position, and when the market players do the action then it will affect the next market price movement, it will apply continu and that is what makes the price of bitcoin fluctuate

I agree with your opinion because the bitcoin market is no different from the regular market where it also applies the law of demand and supply where when demand is high and inventory is little then the price will rise, and inverted when the supply of lots and demand is the least market behavior that makes bitcoin prices fluctuate .

Bitcoin price fluctuating because there is no consistency of the traders or investors in the world of crypto currencies which makes them also to have profit. Bitcoin is just like the subject on the economics that also applying the law of supply and demand in the society. Also, it fluctuates due to the rumors around the social media that might be down instead of going up its value. ;)

In my own opinion the price of bitcoin fluctuating still falls within the law of supply and demand. When you see a bad news about bitcoin, people who owns it starts to sell and many others. Once the supply increases and the demand for bitcoin decreases hence, the price goes down and vice versa. We can't do anything about that. That's how it usually works.

Bitcoin does not have intrinsic value. It is hard to measure its true value other than the cost of mining equipment and electricity to mine new coins. However, bitcoin has limited supply (max supply of 21 million coins). It is rare. More and more people know about bitcoin now. So it is a balance issue of supply and demand.  Also bitcoin is new and there are lots of uncertainty such as government policy, technical debate, competition from alt coins.

The fluctuation in rate of bit coin are dependent on the rate of the number if investors who invest in bit coin which is some time increases while some decrease some investors hold their capital while some investor sell it out so I think it is the beauty of bit coin and other crypto currencies.

Traders always do trading according to their own strategies and planning. but i think the fluctuation in the price of bitcoin is depending on supply and demand. in fact the demand of bitcoin is continuously increasing and therefore we are expecting the price of bitcoin will also continue increasing. Some time the investor become a little bet defensive which causes to lower the dump in the price of bitcoin but we always examined that such decrease is not for a long time but temporary and very soon we see a significant recovery in the price of bitcoin.

The regular growth and fall of bitcoin is a natural process, conditioned by the very nature of the origin of bitcoin. The main reason for its decentralization, no one controls it, and accordingly the price increases and decreases, depending on the volume of purchases and sales.

There are a lot of people that are not pro traders and basically what they do is sell and buy the news.

because decentralized, no one control bitcoin, the price up or down depending the users
many users want to buy, bitcoin will up, many users want to sell, bitcoin will down

Which will lead them losing their investment buying fake news will just another way of losing your money though fluctuation occurred when certain events influences the market, as for me the base still remained that there's still few people who understand bitcoin and because of that when someone being encourage they will start investing and those who already knew about it will sell since they already got good earnings.

Bitcoin price is fluctuating if you look closely. If you don't look so close you will realize that these are just temporary little blips because of FUD that is being thrown at Bitcoin, like always.

Huge Fluctuation of Bitcoin price will remain until it reached its limit supply IMO.. :)

Bitcoin price depends on demand and selling system,as there is only a limited amount of bitcoins in the world.The price hikes when the bitcoin holders hold their bitcoins and invest it for long term.And if many people sell out their bitcoins in panic,in events like the banning of ICOs in China then the price will drop.The fluctuation in the value is a part of bitcoin as it will continue in the future as well.Instead of worrying about the fluctuation of bitcoins try using the fluctuation to your advantage.

True, bitcoin price varies from the law of supply/ demand and the daily news from the television, internet that greatly affects the flow of btc.

Sometimes because of some fake news, we will see huge variations in bitcoin price. The present price fluctuation reason is Bitcoin gold. To get free BTG many people bought bitcoins so it will impact on bitcoin demand in the market, so the price went like a skyrocket.

Indeed. The bitcoin price are fluctuating and its always happen. There are many reasons why the price of bitcoin is always fluctuate and I think the supply and demand of bitcoin is the main reason why the price is always fluctuate. The fluctuations is always happen and it has no end.

There are many factors or events that make the bitcoin price fluctuates. It is also highly volatile and anytime the price will change swiftly.

The answer is simple. Demand and Indemand. With these two demand increases the price of Bitcoins as many people buy it. We have seen the rise of the demand for bitcoins in the past hardfork and because of these rumors and opinions that the price of bitcoins increases many people are buying bitcoins. What they do not know is that they are rising because of their purchase. Like this Bitcoin Gold hardfork. Many people do not have the chance to have Bitcoins Cash because of the rumor that people will sell their hold bitcoins first because it's possible to lose during forking that's really wrong information because the right thing to do is hold bitcoins so receive Free BCC. Now that people are doing because they already know that holding Bitcoins they will receive free BTG.

That's a natural phenomenon of trading that's simply following the flow of the law supply and demand the fluctuation of price will also create an opportunity for the traders to buy and to sell an earn profit  but the important things is the will gain trust from the investors and to the people believing to it.

The supply and demand relationship is the basic reason behind fluctuation of the prices of bit coin when supply is more than the demand then the prices drops down while whenever the supply is lesser than the demand then the prices goes up and up.

I think this is because the price of the token depends strongly on the number of miners: more miners - more transaction costs. In addition, it depends on the news. So, when the Bitcoin Gold news appeared, everyone wanted to transfer their coins to Bitcoin, which lowered the cost of altcoins.

once bitcoin reaches $1m in value this wont even be an issue.

Demand and supply are two important factors that cause variable bitcoin prices .  Example :  there has been a negative news
regarding bitcoin which causes people to do panic selling , at that time, bitcoin will drop sharply .If there is a positive news
about bitcoin, people will buy bitcoin to reserve. That also causes bitcoin to rise . Bitcoin price increases and discounts are
the rule of the market. You should not care too much about it too. You should learn to control yourself first

The value of Bitcoin has endured many fluctuations since its emergence and still doesn’t seem to be showing any signs of slowing. However, in the past two years, the Bitcoin currency has seen a remarkable high in its price, which is dictated by the purchasing power of fiat currencies in countries where bitcoins can be used for financial transactions. Ultimately, this trend that can be seen over the past two years is expected to continue, but at a rate of which nobody knows.

Bitcoin has the most liquid global market EVER!
The market cap is still tiny compared to the economy.

Insane liquidity, small market. Huge price movement guaranteed! Until the market grows so it has more inertia things will move fast and hard!

The factors are panic selling and fundamental news in favour or against bitcoin which can be summarised as the influence of the demand and supply that usually affect any other commodities or stock.  

I think so. In addition, it is fluctuating due to unnecessary trading or selling that leads to irregularities of bitcoin's price. Many also are panicking because of the news that popped everywhere. And, we all know that once it is televised, people will easily believe the information that has spread. In other words, it triggers people's or weakens trust about bitcoin. With that,it affects bitcoin's price.

The price is determined in an open market. There is no bank or government which controlles the price. The price is determined by supply and demand. So every news, announcemnet or rumor affect the price. A good example is what happened after past fork. Demand was higher than supply and the price rose.

The problem with price fluctuations is they are hard to guarantee what is going to happen in the market. It is all to do with supply and demand. With crypto currency trading there is many choices of coins to trade.

Exactly the demand and supply of bitcoin on the market is largely responsible for the fluctuations we normally have. There are a lot of bitcoin enthusiast out there who are either trading or buying thenm on a regular basis and these guys are actually causing bitcoin to grow in value because of their demand for the coin.

for me why bitcoin price is fluctuating because The value of a bitcoin is tied purely to the laws of supply and demand. In other words, the price is determined only by what the market is willing to pay.

Bitcoin price fluctuates so much because it is still in development phase and nascent stage. There are many news and rumours around the legality of bitcoins. Common man is getting to know about bitcoin and thinking about investing in it.There are lot of things happening in the bitcoin and crytpocurrency space. It is still like the little kid going up and down just for the fun of it.Like all things that have a finite supply, the value of a bitcoin is derived by the number of people that want to buy them vs the number of people that want to sell them.  If more people want to buy bitcoins than are currently for sale (for example if a surge of people want to start using bitcoins to transfer value across borders, see more on this below) then the price goes up.  If more people want to sell bitcoins than currently want to buy them then the price goes down.  One of the reasons that the price of bitcoin is so volatile is that many of the people buying bitcoins today are buying based on speculation not because they actually want to use them. Speculative buyers believe that in the future many people will want bitcoins (if this is true these future buyers will drive the price up) so speculators buy bitcoins now in anticipation of that future demand and price increase.

Bitcoin’s value is fluctuating because it circulates inside the market. If the number of buyers increases, the value of Bitcoin increases too and if the number of sellers increases, the value of Bitcoin decreases. This is happening in a loop. Since no government is handling Bitcoin, its price cannot be controlled. It is us, who make its value change endlessly.

Exactly, bitcoin's price fluctuations is just normal, most of time, the reason why the price is going down is because someone just sold bitcoin on a cheap price so the market is affected causing its price to have a huge drop. But everything is going back to normal price or going to increase more, and that is the right time to sell because once it pumps after a huge dump, it is going to the moon or even higher.

Yes it's really normal :)) Bitcoin price dump and pump every hour because of trader trying to make profit from it by selling in high and buying in low. Sometime Bitcoin price dump a lot because of any announcements from a government of any country, like China, or a famous people like CEO of JPMorgan Chase :)). But after all Bitcoin price always rise back :)

Well the price of bitcoin has always fluactuate between prices it's nothing new. Also better to stay away from the price checking from minute to minute , it's not helpfull. Calm down , enjoy the rollercoaster because bitcoin is about to go to it's all new high hehehe

The most influencing factors affect fluctuations are many online economic news that talking about bitcoin progress.
More financial groups interested investing in bitcoin will add to the positive price trend, but reverse of some countries that restrict use and bitcoin transactions will certainly result in reduced bitcoin prices.
However, nowadays bitcoin has become one of commodity trading assets such as forex, etc., so price fluctuations can happen every hour.

Market of bitcoin very young rather traditional share and Forex of the markets. The bitcoin isn't trusted by large players yet - banks, large investment funds etc. Respectively, in the market of bitcoin there are a lot of nonprofessionals newbies who filled the empty place. Newbies very sharply react to any news in the market. They easily panic. When large players come the market is stabilized and big volatility will remain in the past

We know that bitcoin's price is directly affected by the law of demand and supply.  And of course the demand will always be affected by many factors,  such as news from government either regulating or creating a total ban of cryptocoins. Another thing is because of user preferrences,  we cannot prevent anyone from either buying or selling their coins.  Therefore bitcoin price will always fluctuate.
 

It really affects. Fluctuating of bitcoin is only natural in the bitcoiners we must know that so why it is happen, what are the reason? Ibecause when the drop price of bitcoin come all of us maybe will got affected and most of all the people who keep an many bitcoin so why bitcoin are fluctuating maybe because the law of supply and demand we know what it is. Because if the supply of bitcoin can high and the demand will be the same. We know it happen thw price drop.

take bitcoin as a regular share, so, a lot of things affects it

Price fluctuation with bitcoin is a common factor, but what an user needs to focus is the end result. Here with bitcoin after price fluctuation gradually the price moves forward towards growth than going downwards. Based on the fact the fluctuating feature is the one that makes bitcoin more of a potential asset.

This is already applied and included of bitcoin's characteristics that bitcoin price was fluctuating, that's easily influenced by buying and selling (demand & supply). And not only that the news also can affect the movement of bitcoin price that will be down or up, because of course with the emergence of the latest news.. can be affect many people to decide to buying or selling it. Now the more countries that legalize bitcoin as currency, surely this can be affect bitcoin price to rising cause makes more people are would interested in bitcoin and start buying to investing in it or anything that can to do with bitcoin. Bitcoin price may remain fluctuating all the time, and indeed we should be able to take advantage of this fluctuating price.

The price fluctuations in the bitcoin is caused due to their increase and decrease in demand in the world wide.We knows the bitcoin is a limited amount so the availability is less when compared to usd or gold so when someone buy or sell bitcoin it makes effects in the total bitcoin which is the reason for fluctuations in bitcoin.

The chart shows that there is a great demand for bitcoin that is why its price have fluctuated upward making it reach $6200. Instead of questioning the volatility of the coin causing its market price to increase or to decrease we should just be thankful. After all this is what we are all wishing, for bitcoin value to continue increasing, because it will benefit us all especially our holdings.

And also there's a greater chance that there's a lot of users out there who were just holding their bitcoin. That's why the price is getting too expensive for the investors to invest. If i would be them i would still hodl my coins since we are not in the bubble yet but i also wonder, what if the bubble's burst? Are they going to panic selling due to the sudden down of the price? And this is why the fluctuation of bitcoin is unstable due to buy/sell activities of the traders.

If you are student of economics and you are interested in Bitcoin. Then it is easy to understand the fluctuating prices of Bitcoin. The law of demand and supply is fully connected with in and the policy of the government regulation directly affected its price. But at end of the day, the price of Bitcoin get high and investor can earn profit.

Yes it is true i think for the fluctauting price was roger ver's doing and his/her collueges. I think they planned it so well to withdraw bitcoin and put again the large sum money on it . Well it is profitable in fact because youll deal a large sum of money at hand and pays back with a hinch of fee on that but worth to try if you have what it takes and has many bitcoins at hand.

I agree and that would be a brilliant explanations for that mate, and the actual scenario that we had observed for the past recent days is really fluctuating and unpredictable bitcoin price due to the demand and supply really beating each other.

You're right. This enormous volatility shows us that there are many reasons why bitcoin can hardly be incorporated into the economy of real life in the near future. The slow and expensive transactions, the division within the community and this tremendous volatility increasingly continuous, are a real impediment to a widespread acceptance of bitcoin.

It can't be helped since Bitcoin is decentralized, all the fluctuation is caused by the market and there are no way to stop the fluctuation, not a lot of people complaining about this because the traders really like this situation and they like to take advantage of this situation, the more volatile the more profit they can get

True, no one is backing Bitcoin price but the community iself.  The reason why bitcoin price is so fluctuating is that it is affected by the community supply and demand. If the market is so hyped most people will buy the hype and put a huge demand on Bitcoin then a sudden shift of mood such as FUD will automatically switch the trend of Bitcoin from upward to downward.

In concept of bitcoin, there are supply and demand. Where there are much buyers and sellers that are duelling. And in this scenario, there is always a rise and fall of the price in which the people are getting their chance to bought bitcoin in a quality price.

Trading has been one of the source through which an user makes good earning. The same is possible only through the fluctuations happening with the price. If this was found stable it could have not gained such an increased market. Another thing, relative to bitcoin each and every altcoins too fluctuates but in a low range.

bitcoin prices fluctuate due to demand in the bitcoin market, if market demand for large bitcoin will increase the bitcoin price and if the market demand is small then the bitcoin price will drop. all depend on our bitcoin enthusiasts bitcoin price analysis is now soaring as market demand for bitcoin is bigger than other coins whose market demand is still small so bitcoin occupies the top position for criptocurrency.

Because bitcoin depend on simple Demand and supply law  (with small market ) any change of demand will make price increase so that price of bitcoin is unstable

There are many factors can fluctuate the price, news, more users adoption, whales but when market will become more mature it will be less volatil.

Bitcoin price is so fluctuating because people are buying and selling it every minute at different prices. Some of them are selling for lower price than it worths and some of them sell it for higher price than original price. Thats why price is changing everyday.

People are influenced by news from different websites so if they see good news from popular and trusted persons they will buy for higher price and the price is increasing. If there are bad news people will start to sell at lower price so it is decreasing.

There is no way that a single person can control the price of bitcoin because the price is changing only when a large amount of bitcoin is buyed or sold at different prices

People are currently taking interest in bitcoin which is causing the price of bitcoin to fluctuate. In fact the fluctuation of bitcoin is depend on the interest of the people the supply and demand when the demand is increasing so the supply is decreasing which is causing the price of bitcoin to increase more and more.

Bitcoin is most indemand coin among other crypto currencies, bitcoin has the biggest trading volume in a day. The factors that affect the rise and fall of bitcoin price is made by people. When a large amount of people going to sell their bitcoin the price will decrease, when people invest and buy bitcoin the price will rise.

fluctuating of bitcoin price is due several factors, such as the number of buyers
causing the price to rise and when many people want to sell it then the price is down,
it happens every day, because every day there are people who sell and buy with varied prices,
but when the price drops many investors who buy it can be ascertained
after that the price will rise

Price fluctuation is driven by many factors such as news on security breaches. It make investors react if  it is exposed to security vulnerabilities.

I wouldn't really say that it is a complaint. At least for me.

Personally i enjoy trading with the fluctuation. Without the fluctuation you can literally just use something like USDT(tethered to 1 USD). And that would mean that you're essentially limiting yourself with central bank policies again.

Bitcoin is all about decentralization and with decentralization will come fluctuations in price. Just how it goes.

There is no central authority to manage its stability. Its value is largely dictated by supply and demand, which both fluctuate because the market moves fluidly. There are also some entities that are holding large amounts that can make waves in the market by themselves.

Unfortunately the big capitals seem to have taken over the altcoin market, because the big movements that have been registered in the price of bitcoin this year (approximately five large swings of 30 or 40% of the price in a matter of hours), have shown that its high volatility it is due to manipulation in the price, what is making bitcoin a pump and dump business.

Bitcoin is now spread all over the world. It has become difficult for a single person or even for a group of people to manipulate the price of bitcoin. Still the increasing number of bitcoin is making bitcoin more reliable and that is the reason that still investors are taking more interest in bitcoin I am sure that the current increase in the price of bitcoin is due to the interest of the people. People still continue investing money in bitcoin which is increase the value of bitcoin and we are hopeful that this increasing trend of bitcoin will continue for a long long time, because still bitcoin has too much potential to increase.

In addition, bitcoin is the most popular coin in crypto currency industry and many investors are invest to this coin because they believe that in the future this coin will become the start of digital era.

Yes. but i think for me the most relevant reason of bitcoin price or value fluctuation is due to the demand and supply of bitcoin since they said that bitcoin is still in development stage now a days, and if more and more people adopt bitcoin then transparently the demand of it will goes high therefore as the law of demand and supply that the greater the demand the higher its value. So generally bitcoin value fluctuation is the results of users adaptation.

so for short the more bicoin holders the more it chance to increase and when a lot of bitcoin holders release or sell their coin there is a scenario that bitcoin value will decrease. Thats why bitcoin is always fluctuated because there are some eagerly bitcoin holders sell there coin time on time.

yes i am agree with you and there are many people which invest their money into bitcoin so they are expecting to make big profit from bitcoin too. when many people decide to buy bitcoin the price will increase and decrease and this make the price fluctuating and for people which is good in analyze, they can easily to make profit. the most reason why bitcoin price is fluctuating is because supply and demand in the market but people still confident to buy and sell bitcoin although the price is fluctuating.

Bitcoin prices are influenced by the amount of market demand in bitcoin more and more people buy and use bitcoin then bitcoin prices will rise but if little market demand for bitcoin then bitcoin prices will go down. So the rise and fall in bitcoin prices is determined by how many people want bitcoin.

There are a lot of people that are not pro traders and basically what they do is sell and buy the news.
People sell news, people buy news.

To add up about that mate, those people who weren't pro traders always think of quick money when they seen the price at reasonable price to sell because they afraid their investment to lose another value again. Fluctuations always generate bad impressions to those investors who had an attitude of having panic. They cannot calm down unless they recover back their money and turn their tradings back to fiat cash in hand, the patience for them is their worst enemy to fight and most of investors like this tend to regret in the future after they saw price tripled from its current value.

Traders do this thing fluctuation is part of a trading of,bitcoin. It's a pump and dump trading so dont be affected on that coz holders gonna win. Losers gonna sel first.

where fluctuations, it's just growth over a long distance with minor deviations. when around so much noise this inevitably leads to an increase and a drop in a short time

For me fluctuating price of bitcoin is naturally connected to this digital currency and also bitcoin has no physical appearance, unlike fiat that you can manage how to control it. You should know when can they excess and when can they loss. Aside from that maybe because of the demand of users and investors as well, buying and selling is difficult because the value has no specific time and day when they can fluctuate.

Price of bitcoin fluctuating is a common factor. This will never get termed to be a big issue with the people who have been getting profited through the fluctuations. This is all about the growth interval, now the growth interval has taken place and it once again starts moving forward in a short.

Technically I think the major cause why bitcoin is continue to moves up and down was the demand in the market.
Many investors and bitcoin earner are suppose to hoard bitcoin their wallet.
And it cause a lack of btc so, the tendency is to rise the value of it so that many bitcoin holder will sell their coin.
Aside from that the many investors invest in btc the better it improve interms of price.

You also have a point in that, but bitcoin price fluctuates so much because it is still in development phase and nascent stage. Similarly with every new Bitcoin development or negative news, the Bitcoin’s price gets effected. I have seen it drop down by 30% in a week and vice versa, majorly due to news and rumours.

yeah, same here. price fluctuations isnt really a problem to me and infact we should be thankfull to it because with these so called fluctuations , we can be able to to buy bitcoin in a cheap price when it dips or make a good profit when price pumps. therefor fluctuation  isnt really a bad thing that we should worry of.  fluctuations also happens on fiats or anything that has a value. 

There are a lot of people that are not pro traders and basically what they do is sell and buy the news.

Question is who are the people behind it that makes it fluctuate this much.
I can tell they are rich people if they can somehow shake the bitcoin price.
It could have been 5 bitcoin per human  being to make it grow this much and never use it or hold it for an amount of time.
But I think they did hold it. It is steady now at $15000 which makes me a bit calm after all the increase.

The price of bitcoin in the market fluctuating +-$1k a day is kinda normal nowadays. Many investors have seen the true value of bitcoin at $10k level and more are still on the point of realization, buying a piece of bitcoin no matter the price. There are also those who are profit taking for the upcoming holidays and paying their bills/expenses. The reasons vary per individual and the recommended strategy for now is to aim long term and ride with the whales.

Buying the news and riding the hype. Those traders that aren't too good enough are just riding with what's happening in the market and besides the price of bitcoin is moving because of them. And also when whales are selling, they are also affected like a domino effect.

Off course the price of Bitcoin change in every second. It does all depending the trend of the market and market follow the demand which is definitely going to rise up. There is no person interested in Bitcoin only then the price of Bitcoin fall down. The demand and supply policy also apply on Bitcoin. There is no intervention of the government in to regulate the price of Bitcoin, that’s y we say that Bitcoin is a decentralization currency.

Obviously that bitcoin prices were fluctuates depending to the demands and supplies of this coin in the crypto currency market. In additional more remittances from domestic and international are using wallets as remitter, so the tendency income of bitcoin industry will increase too.

Definitely I believe that this coming weeks more fluctuation of bitcoin will happen so be ready for the continues increasing of bitcoin value, since Christmas and New Year coming. I guess this time bitcoin value touches $20,000 hopefully.

yes that is right. I was also thinking like that and told to my brother a few hours ago that there are some people who do not know well about the trade and do not know about the future of bitcoin that is why they start to sell when they see the price a little decrease and when they see the price s a little increase then they start to believe again and start to buy again.

Avoid of buying anything blindly. In bitcoin It's nothing risky,but if you buy any new Altcoin which not have potential means. It's loss for your money. Avoid of such a thing to happen. Unless the price of bitcoin is fluctuates you can buy a Bitcoin at lower rate you are forced to buy at high rates and low profit from it.

I feel this is as a result of no centralized body governing it circulation and also the increasing demand for it.

Bitcoin is better known as one of the investment options for many investors.
Bitcoin prices that suddenly jump to much higher levels / low is one of the main attraction as happened in previous years there has been a spike and decline in the value of bitcoin quickly.
Bitcoin price fluctuations in various international and local markets are driven by many factors.
Bitcoin is very sensitive and is easily affected by media issues,
Bitcoin has properties that make it similar to gold.
Too many negative / positive perceptions both asset value and bitcoin value.
The presence of big players who manipulate bitcoin prices.

Having no governing body in it, there are a lot of manipulation happening like pump and dump and the whales accumulating and then pump when they want it. They also control the media that's why they can spread good news whenever they want and spread FUD if they want to make the price go lower. There are a lot of newbies entering the market every day and react to news that's why one news can make the market fluctuate may it be altcoin or bitcoin. It is an asset class that is fairly new that's why it has no stable value yet.

In my opinion, the rates are controlled by natural laws of demand, and now the demand is low. People hold their coins and don't buy much more because the hype is over. Last year, any news could make rates go high or down, because people believed that. Now people don't believe, so announcements and meetups can't affect the price much

I think.. the longer, the more people will realize that the fluctuation of bitcoin.. will be the unique thing that will survive, be understood, liked, and will attract more people anymore due of the growing a confidence till the price is unexpected and bitcoin will look more stable at altitude also supported by the governments.

For me, I think fluctuations of bitcoin price are caused by increasing number of investors and users of bitcoin. The increase of demands with limited supply of bitcoins in the market also causes its market price to go up. Though some investors are dumping their coins at lower price but still there are many who tried to hold and wait for another spikes of increase to happen. I believe that bitcoin price will continue to rise soon. We'll just wait and see.

The major factors that affects the upward direction and downward movement of Bitcoin and other altcoins is the demand and its supply. Although other factors could be attributed to government policy on regulation and sanctions.

I think it's because too many people are afraid when bitcoin price is down so they are selling their bitcoin to get their money back. and if the price starts to increase, they trying to buy bitcoin because they don't want to be late to make a profit. and this makes bitcoin price is fluctuating and we know that the price is always volatile from time to time. so if we can take this as our chance, then I am sure that we can make the profit like other people but we don't have to be panic if something bad it happens.

That's normal for all crypto coins, and do not make that a reason to panic, hold on when the price falls and be patient the price will surely increase gradually.

Those who panic because of the fluctuations in crypto market are simply dumb because everyone knows that the market recovers sooner or later and provide you with great opportunities of making too much money. No need to sell out of frustration because this not only affect your health but also destroys your economic stability. Panic selling is not a remedy for decrease in market prices, it is short term escape just.

you are right, and it is better to stay calm for a while so we can analyze deeper of what is happening now and we can see the opportunity for us to make a good decision. the market is always volatile and the market will recover too and don't afraid of this because this is only temporary and it is better we learn about how to prevent the loss. the more we learn, the more we can get from the lesson so we can anticipate if the market is down too deep and we could still survive.

Adapt to it there is no other way, the price of bitcoin is going to keep fluctuating and there are many reasons for that, one of those is that the limit of the amount of coins that are going to exist at 21 million makes bitcoin very scarce so miners cannot print more bitcoin when the price is going up to satisfy the demand, remember there is not a central bank of bitcoin controlling that so you should expect bigger fluctuation than in fiat.

when you don't have any regulation on any platform then you don't have any control over this system, another reason is that this is not a legal platform in every country so that when a country initiates to take control over this system then people are trying to leave this platform then price face a volatile stage.

Bitcoin is volatile in nature that is why a lot of fluctuations are seen in it's price.Even a small news regarding it can affect it's price by a large scale either positively or negatively.These news and statements affects the price because these news change the mindset of the investors.When investors start selling their BTC's on large scale or we can say when the demand of Bitcoin starts decreasing then a drop is noticed in the price and when investors start investing in it on a large scale i.e. when demad starts increasing then a rise is seen in it's price.Due to these factors a lot of fluctuations are seen in it's price.

Bitcoins always fluctuate because bitcoins are always manipulative by whales (those who own the most bitcoin in the world). In future, I hope that the government will have more solutions to control bitcoin prices

The market prices are based on supply and demand so its normal for the values to fluctuate because not every people are interested on investing and some are just holding their coins.

Bitcoin price have been rising and falling since this year,I guess the reason could be because many people are selling and there are less biyers. And no much big ICO ongoing too

Bitcoin fluctuations this time are more likely to decrease phase. Some people complain, because they do not understand the actual performance of bitcoin. Many people are wondering why the price of bitcoin in this year has fallen in price. Perhaps there are some who are confused and disappointed because the price of bitcoin doesn't improve.

Factors affecting bitcoin prices are: 
The volume of bitcoin circulation's still small. This's what causes bitcoin prices to rise or fall drastically, when there's a sale transaction and buy bitcoin with a large volume. 

Bitcoin Trading this's one of the factors of rising and fall of bitcoin prices significantly. Traders will buy large amounts of bitcoin when the price drops and then keep it for some time and will sell it when the price's high. When the process of buying it's certain the price will go up and the price will come back down when the process of selling bitcoin.

In addition, the good and bad news about bitcoin, fraud in the form of bitcoin investments and the crime of hackers, are a condition of events that affect the growth of the price of bitcoin. So what I mentioned above is all related to supply and demand.

Its normal for the price to fluctuate, the market is volatile because the prices are depending on demand and supply so you should always expect for the price to grow even more every time it was dropping.

Cryptocurrency volatility may be normal, but doesn't make it right, it affects mainstream adoption of money platforms like bitcoin or ripple.

Fluctuations happen if some people will invest and some people will sell which is a normal situation on every investment including in stock exchanges. We cannot control the emotion and decision of the people in which it is natural because we have different situation to face and different fortune in life. Except if we can control the people to keep on holding then of course fluctuations will never occur.

I think this is not strange. Strange if the market does not move at all.
Price movement up and down is a reasonable and it must be so. That the market is on and the road is active.

it's more stable compared to a few years ago when it used to go 1000% up and -1000% down in the same day

The fluctuations in price is due to the awareness that people are getting daily.  We are not going to have much of this price fluctuations in future as professionals are going to get into the market and trade it based of technical and fundamentals issues.

the fluctuations happen in every day and even its happen in every minute. I think this is what happens in the cryptocurrency and I think we could still search a profit by this fluctuating because we can find a lower price to buy and then the price will increase and this means we can sell at the highest price. but if there are more investor comes to the cryptocurrency then the price will not fluctuate too often and only go in one direction which means we are going to see it's increasing or it's decreasing.

Fluctuation of prices in the market is very advantageous to traders, because they are always investing a huge amount when the market price is dumping and sell it again when it pumps up, buying and selling at the right time will make you rich in this industry.

I do agree that crypto volatility has indeed attracted a lot of market players and this has caused more hard than good in a way because of large pumps and dumps. Crypto market fluctuation is one way to make huge profits if the trader is experienced.

Every day thousands of users are entering the cryptocurrency market and on every day there is a different coin that wins the day in terms of increase in price, therefore, the constant buying and selling of bitcoin causes such a violent change , also each user is the cause of the change so no one alone but everyone together is causing it.