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Topic: Bitcoin will hit $10,000 in 2014 (Read 6042 times)

legendary
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January 27, 2014, 05:38:21 PM
#68
Bitstamp seems to be systematically dumping off big chunks of btc that clear out all almost the entire buy wall.   Then there's a break..and then repeat...  weird stuff happening today...

Can one of you please just place a buy order for a modest number of 6,000-7,000 BTC to stabilize it off today?   Thanks...haha
member
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January 27, 2014, 04:18:16 PM
#67
Bitcoin inflation has this nasty property that some part of it hammers the exchanges.  This part is currently growing, but not as fast as it should, because of the preordering delays and scams in the mining hardware part.  But, once difficulty reaches some kind of equilibrium, you get the situation where you need fresh money just for the price to stay the same. 

When the difficulty is constantly increasing (a situation we've been in for a while), the amount of coins being mined is greater than it would be if the difficulty stabilizes (no new hashing power added to the network).

Holliday...you understand what the difficulty recalculation actually does, don't you?

I think he does.  If you doubt that, are you sure you understand it?  When the difficulty increases, then blocks are mined with increasing speed until the next adjustment, which happens earlier than two weeks (because of the difficulty increase).  Thus there are indeed more coins mined per unit time in this case as to the 'planned' 2016 blocks per two weeks (since the 2016 block period takes less than two weeks to be finished).

Fair enough. And yes, I do understand the 'ahead of target' discussion with regards to more coins being minted per time period.

The interesting thing there though also is, there's no certainty as to whether those "extra" coins are actually going straight to market or not. If they're not, it seems to make the current price lull/decrease that much more puzzling for all the "Bitcoinz to $10,000 in the very near future" screamers.
legendary
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January 27, 2014, 03:59:33 PM
#66
There are some pretty big sell offs going on at bitstamp today by the way...  6,000 btc in one hour this morning...and some more being dumped right now...

Thank you for the update.  I can confirm this is bad.  Thank you.

No problem, I want everyone here to be successful Smiley  I am in it for the long haul, so I am holding on to everything I've got...I am just trying to find the right re-entry point to pick up some more btc, I just can't figure out what that price point is yet...lol
legendary
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January 27, 2014, 03:58:50 PM
#65
Not going to happen. Will hit $3,000 max

Not confirmed.
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January 27, 2014, 03:56:55 PM
#64
Not going to happen. Will hit $3,000 max
legendary
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January 27, 2014, 03:55:54 PM
#63
There are some pretty big sell offs going on at bitstamp today by the way...  6,000 btc in one hour this morning...and some more being dumped right now...

Thank you for the update.  I can confirm this is bad.  Thank you.
legendary
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January 27, 2014, 03:55:13 PM
#62
There are some pretty big sell offs going on at bitstamp today by the way...  6,000 btc in one hour this morning...and some more being dumped right now...
legendary
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January 27, 2014, 03:48:58 PM
#61
Whoever wholeheartedly believes that BTC will hit 10k in 2014, should be putting every dollar that they can afford into bitcoin.   That is free money then, and if you are working at a job that is earning you 100k/year, then you can nearly double your income by investing less than 10k now...

My opinion is that BTC will one day hit 10k/coin, but we are a long ways off from that because since we are still pretty much in the infancy stages, every time there is a rally, there is another government dropping the hammer which leads to another pull back. 
legendary
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January 27, 2014, 03:14:23 PM
#60
Bitcoin inflation has this nasty property that some part of it hammers the exchanges.  This part is currently growing, but not as fast as it should, because of the preordering delays and scams in the mining hardware part.  But, once difficulty reaches some kind of equilibrium, you get the situation where you need fresh money just for the price to stay the same. 

When the difficulty is constantly increasing (a situation we've been in for a while), the amount of coins being mined is greater than it would be if the difficulty stabilizes (no new hashing power added to the network).

Holliday...you understand what the difficulty recalculation actually does, don't you?

I think he does.  If you doubt that, are you sure you understand it?  When the difficulty increases, then blocks are mined with increasing speed until the next adjustment, which happens earlier than two weeks (because of the difficulty increase).  Thus there are indeed more coins mined per unit time in this case as to the 'planned' 2016 blocks per two weeks (since the 2016 block period takes less than two weeks to be finished).
member
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January 27, 2014, 10:51:16 AM
#59
Bitcoin inflation has this nasty property that some part of it hammers the exchanges.  This part is currently growing, but not as fast as it should, because of the preordering delays and scams in the mining hardware part.  But, once difficulty reaches some kind of equilibrium, you get the situation where you need fresh money just for the price to stay the same. 

When the difficulty is constantly increasing (a situation we've been in for a while), the amount of coins being mined is greater than it would be if the difficulty stabilizes (no new hashing power added to the network).

Holliday...you understand what the difficulty recalculation actually does, don't you?

legendary
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January 26, 2014, 02:48:19 AM
#58
The multilevel marketing guys will take it mainstream this year. Its going to be awesome to watch.

What do you mean by multilevel marketing guys?  which companies are you talking about?  Just curious because multi-level marketing is huge where i am from...
legendary
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January 26, 2014, 01:53:05 AM
#57
Bitcoin inflation has this nasty property that some part of it hammers the exchanges.  This part is currently growing, but not as fast as it should, because of the preordering delays and scams in the mining hardware part.  But, once difficulty reaches some kind of equilibrium, you get the situation where you need fresh money just for the price to stay the same. 

When the difficulty is constantly increasing (a situation we've been in for a while), the amount of coins being mined is greater than it would be if the difficulty stabilizes (no new hashing power added to the network).

In other words, there is more fresh money required for the exchange rate to stay the same while the difficulty is increasing, as it has been for quite some time. Once it stabilizes, the amount of coins created daily will decrease to the target, and less will need to be purchased in order to stay at the same exchange rate.

It's hard to tell from your statement whether you understand that or not.

sr. member
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January 26, 2014, 12:55:04 AM
#56
Using fiatleak as an estimator, about $6mm flowing in daily at present.   Now 10k starts to seem pretty achievable.  I think the psychology of the historical spike pattern and the characteristic viral distribution curve militate for 3-5k in 2014, however.  10k in 2015.


You don't understand the full seriousness of the situation.

Bubbles form and bubbles deflate on their own.  Bitcoin price is at $800 currently exactly because people think that it will be $5k even this year.  Once you remove this belief, perhaps if price goes nowhere for 6 months (or even worse, starts to fall), you remove this reason to buy.  Also, people on the sidelines start to sell.

Bitcoin inflation has this nasty property that some part of it hammers the exchanges.  This part is currently growing, but not as fast as it should, because of the preordering delays and scams in the mining hardware part.  But, once difficulty reaches some kind of equilibrium, you get the situation where you need fresh money just for the price to stay the same. 

This, combined with the bubble bursting scenario, makes a nasty situation, and Bitcoin losing 90% of value should not be surprising. (it happened once before).


legendary
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January 26, 2014, 12:20:47 AM
#55
2014-2016 :   $36 million ($18 million if 50% sold)
hardly anyone sells, you looking at 10% ~ 1% of that.
Wait until the difficulty catches up, which would be, at this rate of growth, in about 3 to 7 months.  Then miners will have to sell, because electricity bills.
Using fiatleak as an estimator, about $6mm flowing in daily at present.   Now 10k starts to seem pretty achievable.  I think the psychology of the historical spike pattern and the characteristic viral distribution curve militate for 3-5k in 2014, however.  10k in 2015.


If there is $6mm flowing in, there is $6mm flowing out.  What matters is what leaves the exchanges and what winds up back on the books.  Only the exchanges have this information.
legendary
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January 25, 2014, 11:47:42 PM
#54
2014-2016 :   $36 million ($18 million if 50% sold)
hardly anyone sells, you looking at 10% ~ 1% of that.
Wait until the difficulty catches up, which would be, at this rate of growth, in about 3 to 7 months.  Then miners will have to sell, because electricity bills.
Using fiatleak as an estimator, about $6mm flowing in daily at present.   Now 10k starts to seem pretty achievable.  I think the psychology of the historical spike pattern and the characteristic viral distribution curve militate for 3-5k in 2014, however.  10k in 2015.
sr. member
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January 25, 2014, 11:32:10 PM
#53
Ah, the exciting $10,000 per Bitcoin in 2014.  Let's see what this means. 

If miners decide to sell all their mined Bitcoins, (or 50%), this is how much daily fresh money is needed on the exchanges for the price to be stable:

2014-2016 :   $36 million ($18 million if 50% sold)
2017-2020:   $18 million ($9 million)
2021-2024:   $9 million ($4.5 million)
etc.

So, if Bitcoin is $10,000 in 2014, good luck in finding that daily tens of millions dollars.


hardly anyone sells, you looking at 10% ~ 1% of that.

Wait until the difficulty catches up, which would be, at this rate of growth, in about 3 to 7 months.  Then miners will have to sell, because electricity bills.


legendary
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January 25, 2014, 09:50:51 PM
#52
The multilevel marketing guys will take it mainstream this year. Its going to be awesome to watch.
Yes, $10,000 BTC is very real in 2014. Only hurdle to reaching this number would be a continuous warfare from governments worldwide attempting to ban it / restrict it.
Not so high but i would say doubled or tripled value will be a fact ! Also many political events will take place !

Wow!
So marketing!
Many mainstream!
Much hurdle!
Such double!
Very politics!
full member
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January 25, 2014, 07:40:59 AM
#51
I can't see $10,000 arriving until there is more demand.  Real demand...not speculative.   At current levels - something like only 400 to 1000 BTC would be traded on Bitstamp in a 24 hour period if the price was 10,000.00.  I just can't see that happening yet.  

what thats supposed to mean??? is the dildo battery running low ?
newbie
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January 25, 2014, 07:37:48 AM
#50
I can't see $10,000 arriving until there is more demand.  Real demand...not speculative.   At current levels - something like only 400 to 1000 BTC would be traded on Bitstamp in a 24 hour period if the price was 10,000.00.  I just can't see that happening yet.  
legendary
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January 25, 2014, 07:37:13 AM
#49
My 2mBTC,

If we see the bitcoin ecosystem grow, then I see a price spike;

More Trading / Derivatives platforms (on the way....Winklevii, UltraCoin)

Major retailer acceptance (Amazon / Ebay  / Google?)


The big one though is of course regulation.

Even though bitcoin doesn't want or need it to operate, surely there is a lot of money sitting on the sidelines just waiting to see where the bitcoin economy is headed.


retailers don't matter that much, they don't make much money nor are they that larger part of the economy, they are small money depreciating assets. The real money, big end and backbone is in apreciating asset classes and currency backing/swaps/balancing the nightly/forex

eg forex in London a day is around 1.6T, that just blows retail out of the water
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