2014: The Worst Year for BTC?

[desired_username]

I think it was a pretty awesome year so far. A lot of things are in motion and a lot of adoption/developments happened.

It was bad only for short-term speculators, but I couldn't care about those.

[Honeypot]

Crypto is not a get rich scheme.

[HCLivess]

Best price is the lowest price so you can buy. You have a week before the surge

[sandykho47]

2014 is not worst year for BTC, because :
-Some big company accept bitcoin
-More merchant accept bitcoin
-More people know & want to use bitcoin
-More bitcoin service opened
-And i have buy some original games with bitcoin 

So, i think 2014 is good year for BTC

[gonnafly]

In 2014 Bitcoin has improved in user adoption, wallet safety, education, public awareness, network security and Bitcoin companies have received more investment from venture capital than any other year. I call that a good year.

[CokeCoin]

1 year = 12 months. BTC price is still ~4x higher than last year at the same time.

[asdlolciterquit]

1 year = 12 months. BTC price is still ~4x higher than last year at the same time.

uhm...for me this is the wrong way to see the situation

[LiberyOrDeath]

1 year = 12 months. BTC price is still ~4x higher than last year at the same time.

We are talking here about 2014 specifically. Not the last 12 months or whatever. Is it that hard to comprehend. The discussion is about the year 2014. Capish?

[coory]

it will come up again

[GTA]

In 2014 Bitcoin has improved in user adoption, wallet safety, education, public awareness, network security and Bitcoin companies have received more investment from venture capital than any other year. I call that a good year.

I absolutely agree. 2014 was a great year. Besides the China ban and the MtGox disaster we had lots of good news.
One thin I realized is that good news do not push the price higher but bad news do.
Be prepared for up and down swings!

[Summer,69]

1 year = 12 months. BTC price is still ~4x higher than last year at the same time.

You guys have about 3 weeks left to keep saying this, keep that in mind

[MUFC]

I must admit I've been pretty disappointing with the price overal this year but I don't really sweat it as I'm in in for the long haul. I think all we would really need is one big merchant accepting it to push up the price. Whether that will be this year or next is irrelevant though. Just have a little patience and I'm sure we'll be rewarded.

[MoonTime]

Still 116 days until the end of the year.
Many things can happen. Prices can rise back too.

[johnathan32]

The leap of 2013 and the 1000$ price tag make the world pay attention to the BTC and 2014 starts the real change of accepting and developing the currency in many places.
I think it could be a better year in terms of reaching the purpose and spread the news.. but we wont know it until 2015 

[Bonam]

Lot's of time left in 2014 still and bitcoin price is notorious for sitting around relatively stable for months at a time and then rocketing off (up or down).

[lovegood]

1 year = 12 months. BTC price is still ~4x higher than last year at the same time.

If you discount the huge mainstream media hype that happened last year, temporarily and artificially inflating the price to $1000, you would be able to make the case for a continuing upward trend over the life of BTC.

[Dalmar]

Some of you guys are just too greedy, imo.. Why expect something to go up by insane gains every year? It's actually healthier for bitcoin to consolidate around a certain price range before a next major leg up. This would make future holders more confident that they aren't buying something that has little buying support and could collapse any moment once momentum goes away.

[thehappybtc]

The worst year of btc will be many years from now, when the S curve will be on its end, now it's time to grow.

[blatchcorn]

Crypto is not a get rich scheme.

Indeed.  I have made a post on this here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=755905.60

TLDR: Even amazing investments can go through decades of poor performance

[Robin_Good]

nah, in 2011 Bitcoin was having a quick death (from $30 to $2), and in 2012 a slow death.