I am a total newbie to this forum and don't know very much about crypto currencies.
What are major factors affecting bitcoin (or any other crypto currency) price? Is this mostly supply and demand, do other factors (difficulty of mining, hash rate, etc) play significant role in bitcoins price?
The price fluctuation of bitcoin is mainly affected by the following factors:
1; Industry exposure (media attention), the Internet age, this point is particularly important and fast;
2; The attitude of the government and the law to bitcoin has a big impact.
3; The cost of bitcoin "mining" (the production of bitcoins) is due to the large amount of resources required to dig up the bitcoins, mainly the cost of electricity and the mining machine, which affects their prices to a certain extent.