Topic: Bitcoin craze dying down? - page 5. (Read 15132 times)

compare with the beginning, it really gying down, but it won't stop.

The funny thing is that there has NEVER been so much adoption of bitcoin or more planning for the future of bitcoin. I don't pay attention to the price, the indicator that matters is how pervasive it's use has become. These are the best days I have seen since 2011.

Whats the point of messages like this? The end of Bitcoin will be when it hits 0 and no fucking using it. If massive adoption happens and Bitcoin is like 1 dollar.. so what? What matters is the use of it, not its speculative value. Even tho, mass adoption is linked with higher price anyway.

The end of bitcoin is coming

I agree with you.

+1.

Threads like this are silly. Just because the price hasn't been shooting skyward like a rocket doesnt mean that it's dying. I think bitcoin is still only beginning and is still trying to find it's feet.

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Not true.. Its just starting. I mean the craze, its just starting.. It will keep getting interesting and interesting.

It shares many aspects of bubble but isn't really one. Maybe it can be a new kind of bubble that grows and collapses several times before finally popping. I think it needs to pop to be a proper bubble, but hopefully that wont happen.

Nah, you're right. Ebay/Paypal are insignificant companies in the grand scheme of things.  They won't impact Bitcoin one way or another.


Rank   Company   Industry   Revenue   FY   Employees   Market cap   Headquarter   Refs
1   United States   Amazon   E-commerce   $74.45   2014   117,300   $160.49   Seattle, WA, USA   
2   United States   Google   Search   $59.82   2014   47,756   $380.64   Mountain View, CA, USA   
3   United States   eBay   E-commerce   $16.05   2014   31,500   $68.51   San Jose, CA, USA   
4   China   Tencent   Social   $9.91   2014   25,517   $65.01   Shenzhen, China   
5   United States   Facebook   Social   $7.87   2014   6,337   $160.03   Menlo Park, CA, USA   
6   Japan   Rakuten   E-commerce   $5.56   2014   10,867   $13.06   Tokyo, Japan   
7   United States   Priceline.com   Travel   $5.26   2014   8,000   $35.58   Norwalk, CT, USA   
8   United States   Yahoo   Web portal   $4.68   2014   12,200   $35.58   Sunnyvale, CA, USA   [
9   China   Baidu   Search   $3.54   2014   21,800   $29.75   Beijing, China   
10   United States   Salesforce.com   Cloud computing   $3.05   2014   12,000   $25.85   San Francisco, CA, USA   


Hmm...3rd largest Internet company with over $16 Billion in revenue and worth $65 Billion total market cap.  Are you sure this is useless news?

From Paypal's website:


Hmm...entering agreements and posting said agreements sounds pretty official to me.  Are you sure it's not final yet?

BTC is not a bubble. It still has potential to grow.

all you people talking about bitcoins and bubbles and how theres a bubble each year and blah blah blah. ill leave you with this

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZwbTKYhvIY

if people cannot 100% describe bitcoin clearly as a bubble, THEN ITS NOT A BUBBLE

Ah, I see. I sure hope you're right. I'd love to be rich. I just see it as taking a very long time.

yea if you thing Ebay/Paypal are going to help the value of bitcoin your crazy, they will dump those coins as fast as they get them. Plus the decision is not final yet, dont pump useless news.

I think this is happening due to continuous fall of price and high difficulty on mining.

Im crazy about bitcoin since over a year. Love it, spreading word about it, im happy!

I was actually talking about the law of large numbers regarding future returns on the price of bitcoin. The market cap of bitcoin currently stands at ~$6 billion. The GDP of the world is ~$85 trillion (depending on how you measure this). You were able to make 100x your money (based in fiat) if you bought at the low price and sold bitcoin at the high price during 2013. If we were to see this happen again then the market cap would go to ~$600 billion, if it were to happen a 2nd time then the market cap would be approaching the world GDP. My overall point is that extremely large returns are not able to be sustained over long periods of time.

I wonder if Scott Ellison thinks the Bitcoin craze is dying down?

https://www.paypal-community.com/t5/PayPal-Forward/PayPal-and-Virtual-Currency/ba-p/828230


Eh, he and PayPal/Ebay are small potatoes, what do they know...

I have to agree, 2 years ago  maybe ...MAYBE you could call this a bubble situation, but a lot has happened in 2 years. I will gladly eat my word if we seem to be wrong (TRUST ME) but as i research it seems these "bubbles" seem to be nothing more than coincidences or blatant pumps from people who have the ability to move the market. no one knows when these guys will stop pumping this market. Hope is not something miners can afford to base thier investment on, hope is useless, we desire results, and actions speak louder than words. Unfortunately the pricing actions right now are speaking volumes and they are screaming fall fall fall.

Trust and believe I dont care which direction it goes, I have a hopefull backup plan, but I can see if someone doesnt step up and do something positive for BTC demand probelem those bubbles you guys are used to are gonna pop right in your face.

I am just saying what goes up must come down. But things that go down are not guaranteed to go back up

its just small downside..

It may take about 50 years for the law of large numbers to kick in. Take credit card adoption as an example. Western Union began issuing charge cards to its frequent customers in 1921. Mass adoption happened about the time Visa replaced BankAmericard. BankAmericard became the first successful recognizably modern credit card with overseas affiliates, in 1977 changed its name to Visa.