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March 14, 2015, 08:33:15 PM
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Bitcoin Venture Capital per Quarter is Exploding  And we have not even ended quarter yet ... TWITTER: https://twitter.com/bitpump |
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Harry Hood
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March 14, 2015, 08:38:16 PM |
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The growth is certainly staggering. I'm a bit confused on the investment value on the X axis, is Q1 2015 VC investment just over $250, $250k, $250m? The chart doesn't say on the OP nor on the twitter post. The investment dollars is important but equally important would be the number of deals. Do you have any data on the number of deals closed by quarter? Growing investment is a great thing!
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March 14, 2015, 10:57:32 PM |
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Amazing, nice graph that shows things are moving, while clueless people keep selling their cheap coins panic due ignorance. They will regret once reality translates into the bitcoin price.
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March 14, 2015, 11:18:11 PM |
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Bitcoin Venture Capital per Quarter is Exploding And we have not even ended quarter yet ... Im gonna post this graphic from now on everytime I hear someone say "bitcoin... isn't it dead yet"? type of comments. |
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March 15, 2015, 01:31:45 AM |
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Amazing, nice graph that shows things are moving, while clueless people keep selling their cheap coins panic due ignorance. They will regret once reality translates into the bitcoin price.
For real, people are gonna feel stupid for selling early and at a loss once the future does its thing down the line - unless they truly needed the money for something serious in the mean time rather than just blowing it on upgrading to the newest iphone. |
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March 15, 2015, 02:59:30 AM |
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Amazing, nice graph that shows things are moving, while clueless people keep selling their cheap coins panic due ignorance. They will regret once reality translates into the bitcoin price.
For real, people are gonna feel stupid for selling early and at a loss once the future does its thing down the line - unless they truly needed the money for something serious in the mean time rather than just blowing it on upgrading to the newest iphone. We should follow the "smart money". Venture capitalists must have cogent reasoning for investing all those millions of dollars in start ups. It is only a matter of time before these companies start coming out of IPOs. That would lead to even more bullishness on bitcoins' price. |
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March 15, 2015, 03:06:22 AM |
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This is great and all but I'd much rather see a chart covering the explosion in new users buying btc for the first time.
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March 15, 2015, 03:09:39 AM |
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Nice graph! Millions of dollars are invested in bitcoin and support its ecosystem! The price will be reflecting the reality soon!The best strategy is to buy now until the price is booming!
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March 15, 2015, 05:16:22 AM |
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This is great and all but I'd much rather see a chart covering the explosion in new users buying btc for the first time.
I wouldn't. That's a useless metric at this stage. |
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March 15, 2015, 10:47:30 AM |
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This is great and all but I'd much rather see a chart covering the explosion in new users buying btc for the first time.
I wouldn't. That's a useless metric at this stage. It would be a great metric, indicating the extent of bitcoin adoption. Unfortunately, given Bitcoin's pseudonymous nature, I think there is no way we can get such a metric. |
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rikkie
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March 15, 2015, 06:05:22 PM |
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This is great and all but I'd much rather see a chart covering the explosion in new users buying btc for the first time.
I don't think it is really possible for someone to measure this figure. If people are correctly using bitcoin (not reusing old addresses) then almost all transactions should look like someone might be buying bitcoin for the first time. I would like to see this growth continue to be sure that the numbers are not artificially higher because of only one or two big deals |
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Oscilson
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March 15, 2015, 08:52:10 PM |
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Almost $1bn has been invested in BTC venturers so far. That is 25% of current BTC market capitalization. I wonder how much investments are in BTC itself. |
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March 15, 2015, 10:08:21 PM |
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This is great and all but I'd much rather see a chart covering the explosion in new users buying btc for the first time.
I don't think it is really possible for someone to measure this figure. If people are correctly using bitcoin (not reusing old addresses) then almost all transactions should look like someone might be buying bitcoin for the first time. I would like to see this growth continue to be sure that the numbers are not artificially higher because of only one or two big deals Venture capital is quite easy to track. We may estimate capital invested in bitcoin with no problems. From the other hand I can only monitor blockchain transactions, new address creation and addresses which have bitcoin and are empty. And that is not valid proof to judge how many new users bitcoin have. |
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March 16, 2015, 01:12:55 AM |
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As far as I am concerned, almost any metric is worth something. More people using BTC would obviously be a good thing, but how important is that? I don't know.
Still, the OP's graph speaks for itself!
I would also like to see a list (I suspect they are out there) of the companies that the VCs have invested in.
And the "next tier" of companies looking for money...
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ed_teech
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March 16, 2015, 07:59:25 AM |
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What projects are gobbling up these funds ?
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March 16, 2015, 12:32:42 PM |
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This is great and all but I'd much rather see a chart covering the explosion in new users buying btc for the first time.
Many of the companies being invested in by VC's make that incredibly easy for the average user. |
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March 16, 2015, 03:00:33 PM |
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This is great and all but I'd much rather see a chart covering the explosion in new users buying btc for the first time.
I wouldn't. That's a useless metric at this stage. It would be a great metric, indicating the extent of bitcoin adoption. Unfortunately, given Bitcoin's pseudonymous nature, I think there is no way we can get such a metric. We can see the amount of wallets being downloaded and the amount of addresses being created but never if they are new people, people re uploading the wallet, new or old people making new addresses etc. |
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March 16, 2015, 03:46:48 PM |
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This is great and all but I'd much rather see a chart covering the explosion in new users buying btc for the first time.
I wouldn't. That's a useless metric at this stage. It would be a great metric, indicating the extent of bitcoin adoption. Unfortunately, given Bitcoin's pseudonymous nature, I think there is no way we can get such a metric. Useless might've been too strong of a word, but I believe it's too early in the game to take user numbers too seriously. Predicting the future success of BTC based on the number of new users would've been like predicting the success of the internet based on the number of users in 1992. More users will follow the big money, as this venture capital is funding the future facebooks, googles, etc. of the bitcoin world. "If you build it, they will come." |
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March 16, 2015, 03:59:39 PM |
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I'm surprised that there was a decrease in Q2 2013, whereas it kept increasing after the Q4 2013 bubble (and until now).
Any explanations for that?
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