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Topic: 2014: The year of the mining bubble (Read 3422 times)

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Your Minion
December 15, 2014, 02:32:00 PM
#37
I see this as a good thing. Catching up with modern chip manufacturing for a p2p network is nothing to be upset about.
Expect to be flat or down for awhile however. Still have that why should joe blow use btc whether he knows it or not dilemma.
Big money gets in quietly before joe gets in.
legendary
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December 15, 2014, 02:25:41 PM
#36
Difficulty is following bitcoin's price. Lets see what happen if bitcoin price suddenly rise to $1000....

I think $1000 is not going to happen anytime soon.
We have to break beyond $400 first.

When BTC gets used more, price will rise.

The problem is, those giant company don't keep btc and they sell it almost immediately. So they will most likely drive the price down....


Yes. But When B2B BTC usage appears, there will be some BTC retained in the corporate account, that will reduce the dumping into exchanges.

That is essential to develop the bitcoin infrastructure further, bizniz can really benefit from bitcoin, yet due to al negative attention, it seems risky, while in fact it's one of the most secure networks ever!
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December 15, 2014, 10:02:07 AM
#35
Difficulty is following bitcoin's price. Lets see what happen if bitcoin price suddenly rise to $1000....

I think $1000 is not going to happen anytime soon.
We have to break beyond $400 first.

When BTC gets used more, price will rise.

The problem is, those giant company don't keep btc and they sell it almost immediately. So they will most likely drive the price down....


Yes. But When B2B BTC usage appears, there will be some BTC retained in the corporate account, that will reduce the dumping into exchanges.
sr. member
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December 15, 2014, 09:48:18 AM
#34
Difficulty is following bitcoin's price. Lets see what happen if bitcoin price suddenly rise to $1000....

I think $1000 is not going to happen anytime soon.
We have to break beyond $400 first.

When BTC gets used more, price will rise.

The problem is, those giant company don't keep btc and they sell it almost immediately. So they will most likely drive the price down....
hero member
Activity: 896
Merit: 1000
December 15, 2014, 07:54:26 AM
#33
Difficulty is following bitcoin's price. Lets see what happen if bitcoin price suddenly rise to $1000....

I think $1000 is not going to happen anytime soon.
We have to break beyond $400 first.

When BTC gets used more, price will rise.
legendary
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December 08, 2014, 11:21:50 PM
#32
Difficulty is following bitcoin's price. Lets see what happen if bitcoin price suddenly rise to $1000....

I think $1000 is not going to happen anytime soon.
We have to break beyond $400 first.
full member
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December 08, 2014, 05:12:09 AM
#31
Difficulty is following bitcoin's price. Lets see what happen if bitcoin price suddenly rise to $1000....
legendary
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December 08, 2014, 03:12:07 AM
#30
2014- The first year bitcoin has seen some stabilty.
2014- The year of the Trezor, everybody on here is talking about them.
2014- The year bit the bitcoin ATM
Heaps of thing have happened this year for bitcoin!

Don't forget PAYPAL
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December 08, 2014, 01:13:03 AM
#29
imho 2014 is the end of a dream. The dream of constant rice of the price of btc.

If the reason you are in BTC was and is only to make "money" you should not be in BTC.

Thank you, my thought exactly, mining was never profitable, only due to the extreme price rise it was profitable...

EXACTLY!
legendary
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https://www.bitcoin.com/
December 07, 2014, 09:46:27 PM
#28
2014- The first year bitcoin has seen some stabilty.
2014- The year of the Trezor, everybody on here is talking about them.
2014- The year bit the bitcoin ATM
Heaps of thing have happened this year for bitcoin!
hero member
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December 07, 2014, 07:52:44 PM
#27
2014: The end of the myth that bitcoin can only go up in a one year time period.
legendary
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December 07, 2014, 04:52:11 AM
#26
imho 2014 is the end of a dream. The dream of constant rice of the price of btc.

If the reason you are in BTC was and is only to make "money" you should not be in BTC.

Thank you, my thought exactly, mining was never profitable, only due to the extreme price rise it was profitable...
legendary
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December 05, 2014, 11:43:40 AM
#25
imho 2014 is the end of a dream. The dream of constant rice of the price of btc.

If the reason you are in BTC was and is only to make "money" you should not be in BTC.
hero member
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December 04, 2014, 01:14:10 AM
#24
Stop trying to destroy this currency even more with retarded faster miners... shame on you guys!  Angry

"Faster" miners doesn't affect the emission schedule
They do. Otherwise Jan 2017 would be the halving but it's July 2016. Six month difference.

bitcoin slow difficultyretarget makes it possible to mine more with faster miners.

If difficulty increases.  If difficulty falls, the emission schedule will run slightly late.
There's a small effect on emission rate as a function of the derivative of difficulty.
hero member
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December 03, 2014, 12:40:30 PM
#23
imho 2014 is the end of a dream. The dream of constant rice of the price of btc.

The same thing happened in 2011-12. BTC price will keep on rising in the future, but with volatility.
hero member
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December 02, 2014, 06:16:06 AM
#22
imho 2014 is the end of a dream. The dream of constant rice of the price of btc.
legendary
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December 02, 2014, 05:52:38 AM
#21
Stop trying to destroy this currency even more with retarded faster miners... shame on you guys!  Angry

"Faster" miners doesn't affect the emission schedule
They do. Otherwise Jan 2017 would be the halving but it's July 2016. Six month difference.

The flaw is that the network as it is now is more then strong enough for the protocoll, mining needs to be dialed down if you ask me...
legendary
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World Class Cryptonaire
December 02, 2014, 05:34:22 AM
#20
Guys 2014 is the year of "The Great Shakeout"....gah
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playing pasta and eating mandolinos
December 02, 2014, 05:23:58 AM
#19
ASICs will get more efficient, but in term of hashing power they have already approached the state of the art in computing hardware. Unless the state of the art is improved (how, exactly? optical circuitry? quantum dreams?), then there will never be such dramatic rises in the network hashing power again.

The general purpose hardware gets more efficient year after year, why do you expect the mining asic hardware will not get more efficient , therefore increasing the hashing power of the network?

It get more efficient in term of power consumption/dissipation. Total hashing power will grow, only not at the awe-inspiring rates of the past. There will not be another radical 'tech switch' like it happened when the problem was first 'mass-parallelized' (GPU, FPGA) and then when it was first solved on special-purpose hardware (ASIC). Someone will not be able to multiply his hashing power tenfold by simply buying another generation of miners. The producers will make it looks like that is still the case, however. Best you can hope is buying basically the same hardware over and over, with fading power consumption.
legendary
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December 02, 2014, 05:04:36 AM
#18
ASICs will get more efficient, but in term of hashing power they have already approached the state of the art in computing hardware. Unless the state of the art is improved (how, exactly? optical circuitry? quantum dreams?), then there will never be such dramatic rises in the network hashing power again.

The general purpose hardware gets more efficient year after year, why do you expect the mining asic hardware will not get more efficient , therefore increasing the hashing power of the network?
full member
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playing pasta and eating mandolinos
December 02, 2014, 03:38:52 AM
#17
ASICs will get more efficient, but in term of hashing power they have already approached the state of the art in computing hardware. Unless the state of the art is improved (how, exactly? optical circuitry? quantum dreams?), then there will never be such dramatic rises in the network hashing power again.
newbie
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December 02, 2014, 03:07:25 AM
#16
2014 will be end, the only thing I can be sure is that the price will not raine much. so sad
legendary
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Beyond Imagination
December 02, 2014, 02:32:59 AM
#15
KNC is already aiming for 10x increase in efficiency by 1st quarter 2015, don't really believe it since it is not open sale
hero member
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December 01, 2014, 08:06:47 AM
#14
Stop trying to destroy this currency even more with retarded faster miners... shame on you guys!  Angry

"Faster" miners doesn't affect the emission schedule
They do. Otherwise Jan 2017 would be the halving but it's July 2016. Six month difference.

bitcoin slow difficultyretarget makes it possible to mine more with faster miners.
legendary
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December 01, 2014, 07:32:47 AM
#13
2014: The Year of the Troll

+1000, Good lord yes you nailed it.  I can't wait for another rally to send these asshats away for at least 4-6 weeks.  We need a reprieve from all the bullshit spewed over the last 12 months.
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Bitcoin replaces central, not commercial, banks
December 01, 2014, 03:36:34 AM
#12
http://bitcoin.sipa.be/speed-lin-ever.png

Looks like we'll get a very slight difficulty increase. Mining might be set to stabstabilize a bit. Anyone know when next gen asics hit?

Sounds about right this year the mining difficulty went up exponentially
As for next generation ASIC's there are always units in production but it's difficult to put any dates on them as far as I know AM gen 4 is still in design not fabricating and most current chips are just being sold.

I would agree in saying that Q2 2015 is when we get better chips in.
(Honestly looks like a mining bubble using that chart but not sure if those things pop or just keep going ^^)
Or lead to a stable bitcoin price but 2014 was an interesting year
Year of Retail Adoption
Next Year
Year of Early Stage Development and low level mainstream users.

Don't see how that's true.

2014 was year of VC & mining investement. Retail adoption is a sideshow and will remain marginally important for some years
legendary
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Learning the troll avoidance button :)
December 01, 2014, 03:30:47 AM
#11
http://bitcoin.sipa.be/speed-lin-ever.png

Looks like we'll get a very slight difficulty increase. Mining might be set to stabstabilize a bit. Anyone know when next gen asics hit?

Sounds about right this year the mining difficulty went up exponentially
As for next generation ASIC's there are always units in production but it's difficult to put any dates on them as far as I know AM gen 4 is still in design not fabricating and most current chips are just being sold.

I would agree in saying that Q2 2015 is when we get better chips in.
(Honestly looks like a mining bubble using that chart but not sure if those things pop or just keep going ^^)
Or lead to a stable bitcoin price but 2014 was an interesting year
Year of Retail Adoption
Next Year
Year of Early Stage Development and low level mainstream users.
donator
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Let's talk governance, lipstick, and pigs.
December 01, 2014, 02:32:40 AM
#10
2014: The Year of the Troll
legendary
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December 01, 2014, 02:29:36 AM
#9
2014: The year of the mining ponzi's
legendary
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Gamdom.com
December 01, 2014, 02:27:39 AM
#8
I wont sell my coins, forget it! Roll Eyes
legendary
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December 01, 2014, 01:33:16 AM
#7

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Since the last halving event, the average bitcoin price has been $337.30 and 411,350 coins have been issued ahead of schedule, equal to approximately $138 million.

https://cdn.panteracapital.com/wp-content/uploads/Pantera-Bitcoin-Letter-September-2014.pdf

Hardly anything the market can't digest

And at the halving we shall rejoice! 
hero member
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Bitcoin replaces central, not commercial, banks
December 01, 2014, 01:02:44 AM
#6
Stop trying to destroy this currency even more with retarded faster miners... shame on you guys!  Angry

"Faster" miners doesn't affect the emission schedule
They do. Otherwise Jan 2017 would be the halving but it's July 2016. Six month difference.

Correct, my mistake.

Still...

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Since the last halving event, the average bitcoin price has been $337.30 and 411,350 coins have been issued ahead of schedule, equal to approximately $138 million.

https://cdn.panteracapital.com/wp-content/uploads/Pantera-Bitcoin-Letter-September-2014.pdf

Hardly anything the market can't digest
hero member
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advocate of a cryptographic attack on the globe
December 01, 2014, 12:51:35 AM
#5
Stop trying to destroy this currency even more with retarded faster miners... shame on you guys!  Angry

"Faster" miners doesn't affect the emission schedule
They do. Otherwise Jan 2017 would be the halving but it's July 2016. Six month difference.
hero member
Activity: 644
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Bitcoin replaces central, not commercial, banks
December 01, 2014, 12:48:38 AM
#4
Stop trying to destroy this currency even more with retarded faster miners... shame on you guys!  Angry

"Faster" miners doesn't affect the emission schedule
full member
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December 01, 2014, 12:46:43 AM
#3
Stop trying to destroy this currency even more with retarded faster miners... shame on you guys!  Angry
legendary
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December 01, 2014, 12:46:19 AM
#2
Q2 2015.
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December 01, 2014, 12:44:35 AM
#1
http://bitcoin.sipa.be/speed-lin-ever.png

Looks like we'll get a very slight difficulty increase. Mining might be set to stabstabilize a bit. Anyone know when next gen asics hit?
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