What would the bitcoin graph look like without China?

[CoinGroin]

Serious question.

[devthedev]

Well, you can now see what it'll look like

Pre-China we were averaging $200/BTC

[Sindelar1938]

Probably around 250 bucks

[zubelutte]

Any time high would be around 500. The US senate hearing helped Bitcoin adoption as well

[CoinGroin]

I agree with this.  It just would have been interesting to see the rise and fall due to U.S. moves instead of it getting mixed up in Chinese speculation.

[ercolinux]

Probably we have reached a  600-650$ maximum: China has only helped to speedup the normal trend

[ropegut]

well i heard in china theres guys sitting outside a chinese bank with bags of money selling money below the exchange rate of the banks.

[buckrogers]

why would that matter?

[neuroMode]

It really depends if you look at it like they never entered the market in the first place versus just suddenly plucking out all China exchanges in a single moment while the impact of the publicity still remained.

I think China publicity helped the price increase which even if it was a bubble still attracted a lot of new entrepreneurs and general public awareness, which in turn helps the long-term and short-term growth.

[smeagol]

It really depends if you look at it like they never entered the market in the first place versus just suddenly plucking out all China exchanges in a single moment while the impact of the publicity still remained.

I think China publicity helped the price increase which even if it was a bubble still attracted a lot of new entrepreneurs and general public awareness, which in turn helps the long-term and short-term growth.

China was a bubble...

[CoinGroin]

It really depends if you look at it like they never entered the market in the first place versus just suddenly plucking out all China exchanges in a single moment while the impact of the publicity still remained.

I think China publicity helped the price increase which even if it was a bubble still attracted a lot of new entrepreneurs and general public awareness, which in turn helps the long-term and short-term growth.

I agree that it helped the price increase, but the rise/sudden fall when the bad news came out of China gave serious ammunition to people who say that it can't be currency because of the insane fluctuation. 

[Kaligulax]

same.. but for long time
China has only helped to speedup growth!

[wanchongshan]

Now?