What are possible scenarios for the block halving?

[Amph]

What things could happen with the btc price when the block halving occurs? will the price go down due to miners cashing out? or will the block chain slow down due to miners shutting off their mining equipment? will the price go up because of less daily bitcoin created? what will likely happen?

Miners would have to sell more as the rewards are less to maintain their operations.

not more than what they are selling today anyway, i doubt they are selling less than 1800 coins per day, after the halving at best they can sell that amount

if this is the case, we would get, roughly the same price with the halving, minus the initial hype that will create a relatively strong pump

[Biodom]

What things could happen with the btc price when the block halving occurs? will the price go down due to miners cashing out? or will the block chain slow down due to miners shutting off their mining equipment? will the price go up because of less daily bitcoin created? what will likely happen?

Miners would have to sell more as the rewards are less to maintain their operations.

they cannot sell more than they mine

[dloghwak]

What things could happen with the btc price when the block halving occurs? will the price go down due to miners cashing out? or will the block chain slow down due to miners shutting off their mining equipment? will the price go up because of less daily bitcoin created? what will likely happen?

Miners would have to sell more as the rewards are less to maintain their operations.

they cannot sell more than they mine

Except they start to save now and don't sell all immediately.
Could be the case for a few of the more profitable mining companies.

[mskryxz]

Demand still the same but bitcoins generated cut in half should boost the price if all else is the same.

[Searing]

Demand still the same but bitcoins generated cut in half should boost the price if all else is the same.

Or just too much coin being made (ie where the heck is the LTC diff coming from with no new equip being made? er a mass rush from alts to LTC  or (LTC) vs use by speculators in China just where it is at and hey thats all we need to ahem go sideways some more and it all could just hang together and price etc continue to go 'sideways' as well

seems sideways is the new normal for btc and ltc (just saying) (head hurts)

[tokeweed]

Demand still the same but bitcoins generated cut in half should boost the price if all else is the same.

[LMGTFY]

Demand still the same but bitcoins generated cut in half should boost the price if all else is the same.

Pretty much every economist since the 14th century?

[jubalix]

every 1/2 I have seen seen to be to have the price discounted/accounted in before the 1/2 ing and so drops a bit after.

[saddambitcoin]

Scenario: miners get 1/2 as much BTC, overnight. They are not going to sell for less. Supply shock. BOOM.

Everyone said it was priced in before the 50->25 halving too, and we remember what happened.

[CoinBateman]

Scenario: miners get 1/2 as much BTC, overnight. They are not going to sell for less. Supply shock. BOOM.

Everyone said it was priced in before the 50->25 halving too, and we remember what happened.

I don't really think that halving is going to do much. Look at litecoin.

[boopy265420]

Block halving will cause the rise in prices of Bitcoin that will be normal increase not some extra ordinary.This will happen to cover the expanses of mining so this time this increase will be sure.Mining is must thing to secure and stabilize the network and there will not be dumping in my opinion.

[LFC_Bitcoin]

I'm pretty confident that the price will rise fairly significantly. Probably close to double what it is now, maybe more.
It's been par for the course so far in bitcoins lifespan.

[prodigy8]

What things could happen with the btc price when the block halving occurs? will the price go down due to miners cashing out? or will the block chain slow down due to miners shutting off their mining equipment? will the price go up because of less daily bitcoin created? what will likely happen?

I think that the price should increase or there will be a "hard" crash.
Because the mining farms does not have a good profit if the block reward is 50% less.
The price normally should be increased to keep all parties good.