1) That would make less bitcoins on the market, and that would lead to price increasing.
2) Chances are probably very low as a central bank is not meant to make profits but to print the legal tender and emit monetary policies.
3) In the very little probability that they would buy, they would buy a lot.
4) The price change would be the same as if it was some random user buying, as buy orders to not have a name put on them.
5) That would create a big big amount of mass medias FUD. Just imagine the fuck it would be if ISIS used it as a reserve currency. But however that would not kill Bitcoin, just delay a bit the global adoption.
Topic: Central Banks & Bitcoin - What if they start accumulating? (Read 1349 times)
I am interested in thought on this topic, hypotheticals:
1) What if a small / medium / large country central bank begins accumulating
2) What are the chances of this ever happening?
3) How much would they buy?
4) What would the effect on price be?
5) If it is a 'rogue' nation, would it kill bitcoin?
Any large player that tries to enter the market will end up making the price to go up since demand will go up and the supply will go down as they keep buying bitcoin, an important central bank could potentially buy as much bitcoin as it is available in the market since they can literally print money out of thin air. 1) What if a small / medium / large country central bank begins accumulating
2) What are the chances of this ever happening?
3) How much would they buy?
4) What would the effect on price be?
5) If it is a 'rogue' nation, would it kill bitcoin?
If any country's central bank begins accumulating bitcoin and using it, it will not only drive bitcoin's price up but it will also increase the trust of the citizens on bitcoin and other countries' banks might begin to accumulate bitcoin too which will cause more demand. The chances of this ever happening in the future is just less than 5% and they would buy I think as many as 1 bitcoin at least and 1500 bitcoin at most depending on bitcoin's price at that time. Of course it will drive the price up if this begins to happen and I don't see why a rogue nation would kill bitcoin if it is a rogue nation since many users have trust in bitcoin already unless if many will start to not use bitcoin because of this rogue nation that might use bitcoin.
I wouldn't be surprised if central banks are and have been accumulating bitcoin quietly/secretly. In fact, I would be more surprised if central banks weren't buying bitcoin. As much as they are hated, they aren't stupid. Even though they are driven mad about taking over the world, I think they do understand risk/reward just as much as we do. They certainly have the means and capital.
We dont know for sure are they doing it or not, but if they do they doing very good job in hiding this fact. Can say that they do or they just buying some small amount 1-2 then test it in different way maybe investing in some alt or something. There are also some rumors that bank are in developing there own blockchain dunno if this is true or not but believe that bank dont like this.
If they did buy, its impact would be visible on the price. Central banks deal in huge volumes. They have the ability to stabilize FX markets, where the market players are banks and hedge funds. So if central banks started buying bitcoins, the price would be in 5 digits now.
My opinion is most of us here will be very well off and potentially very rich in the future if we hodl and accumulate as much btc as we can now.
This may be a 5,10,15 year plan but be patient. There aren't enough to go around so get your btc onto a paper wallet and make copies and store them in 2 separate locations in fire proof safes.
Thank me in the years to come.
Indeed it is not a short term thing here, now is the time to get as much as you can and put it away for a good few years, I reallly do believe bitcoin in 5 - 10 years as you do that a lot of people involved now will be very happy like we saw with the birth of the internet. This may be a 5,10,15 year plan but be patient. There aren't enough to go around so get your btc onto a paper wallet and make copies and store them in 2 separate locations in fire proof safes.
Thank me in the years to come.
I wouldn't be surprised if central banks are and have been accumulating bitcoin quietly/secretly. In fact, I would be more surprised if central banks weren't buying bitcoin. As much as they are hated, they aren't stupid.
People like this deal in trillions. You're not going to find them making 0.1 BTC trades on Yobit and there really aren't very many people in the world to satisfy the buying needs of any major player.
Considering they can press a button and magic up a few billion for free it would be a bit of fun for them but they've got more important things to do with their time.
And unless it's done in some type of mutually agreed manner with other central banks, all they're going to do is end up having paid free billions for strings of numbers no one else is interested in at that level.
Everyone from a toothless goat herder in Pakistan to the sleekest Washington operator knows that gold has value. You can't say the same for BTC at present.
I wouldn't be surprised if central banks are and have been accumulating bitcoin quietly/secretly. In fact, I would be more surprised if central banks weren't buying bitcoin. As much as they are hated, they aren't stupid. Even though they are driven mad about taking over the world, I think they do understand risk/reward just as much as we do. They certainly have the means and capital.
We dont know for sure are they doing it or not, but if they do they doing very good job in hiding this fact. Can say that they do or they just buying some small amount 1-2 then test it in different way maybe investing in some alt or something. There are also some rumors that bank are in developing there own blockchain dunno if this is true or not but believe that bank dont like this.
I am interested in thought on this topic, hypotheticals:
1) What if a small / medium / large country central bank begins accumulating
It will likely raise the price of bitcoin to a certain extend.1) What if a small / medium / large country central bank begins accumulating
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2) What are the chances of this ever happening?
Small. I don't think the a country's central bank will be accumulating bitcoinanytime soon because the price of bitcoin is not stable.
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3) How much would they buy?
If they ever buy, I think 1 million bitcoin will be a good start.Quote
4) What would the effect on price be?
Again, it will drive the price of bitcoin for a bit.Quote
5) If it is a 'rogue' nation, would it kill bitcoin?
No. it will not kill bitcoin because because is global and not just tied to a certain country.
I wouldn't be surprised if central banks are and have been accumulating bitcoin quietly/secretly. In fact, I would be more surprised if central banks weren't buying bitcoin. As much as they are hated, they aren't stupid. Even though they are driven mad about taking over the world, I think they do understand risk/reward just as much as we do. They certainly have the means and capital.
I am interested in thought on this topic, hypotheticals:
1) What if a small / medium / large country central bank begins accumulating
2) What are the chances of this ever happening?
3) How much would they buy?
4) What would the effect on price be?
5) If it is a 'rogue' nation, would it kill bitcoin?
1) What if a small / medium / large country central bank begins accumulating
2) What are the chances of this ever happening?
3) How much would they buy?
4) What would the effect on price be?
5) If it is a 'rogue' nation, would it kill bitcoin?
1) some countries are already engaged in this (quite likely), BUT not through buying, but rather mining as it would attract much less attention.
2) I say the chance is 50/50, maybe move to 80/20 in a year or so.
3) they will probably not buy, but rather directly invest in mining facilities, similar what quite a few countries do with gold (China, Russia, etc)
4) since it is not official, minimal effect, although mining difficulty would increase. Observe that difficulty doubled since September 2016. indirectly, this should result in eventual price rise, but it is not a direct cause-effect.
5) Why? Nobody can buy a lot of bitcoins right now because flows are minuscule. 70% of bitcoins are already "mined" and are in circulation, so the answer is NO.
I am interested in thought on this topic, hypotheticals:
1) What if a small / medium / large country central bank begins accumulating
2) What are the chances of this ever happening?
3) How much would they buy?
4) What would the effect on price be?
5) If it is a 'rogue' nation, would it kill bitcoin?
1. Depending on if that information would be publicly shared. If yes - it would boost bitcoin price significantly. 1) What if a small / medium / large country central bank begins accumulating
2) What are the chances of this ever happening?
3) How much would they buy?
4) What would the effect on price be?
5) If it is a 'rogue' nation, would it kill bitcoin?
Central banks might be hoarding bitcoin right now as we speak and we have no idea about it.
2. Hard to tell, knowing banks and governments mixed opinion about BTC I wouldn't keep my hopes high.
3. Again, it is totally speculative subject, we don't have any information abut their supposed budget.
4. Depends on which country we are talking about here, USA or China buying BTC - it would be huge deal, Rwanda or Zimbabwe, not as much.
5. You can't buy bitcoin and sell it, hoping you will crash the market.
It's only a matter of time when banksters starting to offer a Bitcoin wallet service to there costumers, sounds ridiculous but it will happen.
A lot of money would be needed to buy all bitcoins in circulation and then you will still have people hoarding their bitcoins even if the price is
sky high. If they sit on these coins, and there are very little in circulation.... then the price will increase... but it will also have a negative side. If
too little bitcoins are in circulation, people will not be able to use it on a daily basis.... even if satoshi's become more valuable.
sky high. If they sit on these coins, and there are very little in circulation.... then the price will increase... but it will also have a negative side. If
too little bitcoins are in circulation, people will not be able to use it on a daily basis.... even if satoshi's become more valuable.
I don't know if this is true but I've heard rumors that dutch central bank has begun to make some kind of experiment with bitcoins and that they are buying it and testing it, even that their employees can pay with Bitcoin in the cantine. I beleive that dutch central bank is not the only one that is interested in Bitcoins and if the mass acumulation would start that would definitely influence th Bitcoin price.
Central banks can't do this secretly - their balance sheets are audited and published. So they basically won't do it unless bitcoin becomes a major factor in world trade. Of course if bitcoin was used a lot in world trade, it's price would already be high, before any central bank started accumulating it.
I can't see it ever happening under any circumstances. There's no way they'd start participating in a market that staggeringly warped. Gold evolved and distributed naturally over thousands of years.
If Kiribati decided to get in early and scoop everything up, I can't quite imagine the Federal Reserve buying them out to the tune of a few trillion.
If Kiribati decided to get in early and scoop everything up, I can't quite imagine the Federal Reserve buying them out to the tune of a few trillion.
All your questions are leading to two stands. Approving bitcoins as a legal one or illegal. A bank will not touch bitcoins without any proper clearances from government. So basically once government unveil a stand on bitcoin, we can expect prices to skyrocket due to mass adoption and more number of new investors.
In contradiction, nothing will happen (or just a short term price fall) when a rogue nation opens its stand against bitcoins. Because bitcoin never needs a support from any government.
In contradiction, nothing will happen (or just a short term price fall) when a rogue nation opens its stand against bitcoins. Because bitcoin never needs a support from any government.
Whenever there is a big investment in bitcoin ,be it any source the price will rise but will the bank have the guts in investing in bitcoin as the volatility of bitcoin will be considered as a high risk high return investment and so is the reason i doubt whether the banks would risk investing in bitcoin.
I think the effect of this is that the prices of bitcoins will continue to rise because if the governments hold a lot of bitcoins that would mean they would be just holding it for a long time. Which means it will not move, hence the supply will result to depleting due to the stagnant bitcoins in the hands of th governments. I think it is highly unlikely that this would happen. Governments don't deal with these kinds of things.
I am interested in thought on this topic, hypotheticals:
1) What if a small / medium / large country central bank begins accumulating
1) What if a small / medium / large country central bank begins accumulating
that will be a lot of good publicity for bitcoin. it shows that a big financial place in the country is investing in something that people were afraid to invest in. so that will assure them to invest in bitcoin and not only price will go to the moon but also there will be lots more adoption because of it.
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2) What are the chances of this ever happening?
i think it is pretty low considering bitcoin is a small market still and banks have other things to worry about and have lots other methods to invest and make money.
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3) How much would they buy?
as i said it won't happen but they will buy as much as they can. you can never buy a lot of bitcoin in a second that will drive price to 100000000000 dollar!
so it takes time and accumulation
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4) What would the effect on price be?
explained in 1
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5) If it is a 'rogue' nation, would it kill bitcoin?
rogue nation?!!
why would they do this? bitcoin does not belong to one country so that another country wants to kill it.
and no, nobody can kill bitcoin. it will stay alive even if price is $1
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