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legendary
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Today is May 20, 2015. The price of Bitcoin is around $233 US Dollars.
Q: What does it take for Bitcoin to go 100X? (10 000% price increase)
A: 300 billion dollars.

Duh!
legendary
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Today is May 20, 2015. The price of Bitcoin is around $233 US Dollars.
Q: What does it take for Bitcoin to go 100X? (10 000% price increase)
A: 300 billion dollars.

Like it took $3.1 billion tossed at mtgox for the 2.5 to 266 run?

i think he is talking about a stabilized market, hence the referring to the marketcap, not by a pump point of view

if there are no resistance you rise the price so high without much effort
sr. member
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Today is May 20, 2015. The price of Bitcoin is around $233 US Dollars.
Q: What does it take for Bitcoin to go 100X? (10 000% price increase)
A: 300 billion dollars.

Like it took $3.1 billion tossed at mtgox for the 2.5 to 266 run?
legendary
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Today is May 20, 2015. The price of Bitcoin is around $233 US Dollars.
Q: What does it take for Bitcoin to go 100X? (10 000% price increase)
A: 300 billion dollars.
sr. member
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I just hope that when we do get to that point, I have a ton of bitcoins sitting in my wallet:)
hero member
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Reminds me of the "1% fallacy":
http://successfulsoftware.net/2013/03/11/the-1-percent-fallacy/

Pulling 1% out of the air is fun, but meaningless. Real question is exactly what %, and why? What specific industries can Bitcoin be killer, to act as a lower bound for the price?

(Online black markets being an obvious one...)
sr. member
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create 20 exchangers. set their price to a few buck over market and enjoy the pump

interesting theory.
for that you will need money and nice support also you will need decent amount of coin on each exchange for this.

Translation: waste money to waste money.

Not that interesting.
legendary
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create 20 exchangers. set their price to a few buck over market and enjoy the pump

interesting theory.
for that you will need money and nice support also you will need decent amount of coin on each exchange for this.
full member
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Where is Teddy?
create 20 exchangers. set their price to a few buck over market and enjoy the pump
sr. member
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That would take years of patience and millions of investments. Big corporations need to get involved with insurance of total security. That will gain trust among the users and the currency will keep on rising I guess.
full member
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Time + more etf options.

patience young padawan.
legendary
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Would halving and price increase after halving encourge more people to adopt bitcoin into their lives ?


perhaps or maybe not
there are still the ones that dont trust to much on btc as means of paying

still think that is near future this might be price value for everything but for this to happen it will take a lot of work


legendary
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I would say the offshore deposits will have the most significant impact if we want to see the price going up insanely one day. Imagine tax dodgers moving around the fund and practically these people would not mind paying whatever price is shown on the screen as long as the money goes through to its intended account and fulfilling its objective.

Not tax dodgers, but people with lots and lots of money who want to diversify.
Due to unique properties of bitcoin, Xapo is now basically an offshore fund/bank/depository in the middle of Europe (Switzerland).
No wonder that three highly placed (as high as basically possible) former officials are now on board:
The founder of VISA (Dee Hock), the chairman/CEO of Citibank (John Reed) and the Secretary of Treasury (Laurence Summers):
https://blog.xapo.com/announcing-xapos-advisory-board/
Q7
sr. member
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I would say the offshore deposits will have the most significant impact if we want to see the price going up insanely one day. Imagine tax dodgers moving around the fund and practically these people would not mind paying whatever price is shown on the screen as long as the money goes through to its intended account and fulfilling its objective.
legendary
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Welt Am Draht

Would halving and price increase after halving encourge more people to adopt bitcoin into their lives ?


Dunno. Maybe it depends on what role the world decides to award it if it was taken to their bosom.

It's easier to make a case for it as a turbocharged digital gold than anything else. What do you think it might become?



1. Probably not. Most people don't know anything about bitcoin, and certainly nothing about the halving. So why would that affect them? If anything, maybe people will be turned off by an increase in price, thinking it's too expensive now. There may be some new entrants looking to speculate and get rich quick. But they're not adopting bitcoin into their lives, only speculating for profit.


Aye. Most of that would be far over the average user's head.



2. Of course it's possible. If the demand falls by a lot, the price will fall. halving isn't the only factor in determining the price, in fact, I think it's probably a very small one.

Yup. It all hinges on demand. If that never arrives then everything else is irrelevant.
sr. member
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Would halving and price increase after halving encourge more people to adopt bitcoin into their lives ?

Would the price go down after halving ? Is it possible ?

1. Probably not. Most people don't know anything about bitcoin, and certainly nothing about the halving. So why would that affect them? If anything, maybe people will be turned off by an increase in price, thinking it's too expensive now. There may be some new entrants looking to speculate and get rich quick. But they're not adopting bitcoin into their lives, only speculating for profit.

2. Of course it's possible. If the demand falls by a lot, the price will fall. halving isn't the only factor in determining the price, in fact, I think it's probably a very small one.
legendary
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Today is May 20, 2015. The price of Bitcoin is around $233 US Dollars.

Q: What does it take for Bitcoin to go 100X? (10 000% price increase)

A: It takes 1% of the most obvious target markets.

The halving won't hurt either.
legendary
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Permabull Bitcoin Investor

Would it take around 5-10 years to enter the consumer phase ?


Who knows?

I guess 5-10 years would be enough time to figure out if it was ever likely to happen. If it's still nowhere in a decade then it's unlikely to blossom after that. Satoshi themselves said that in twenty years volume will be gargantuan or nil.

You can have all the cool stuff in the world rolling out, but if it doesn't convince enough potential users then it's goodnight.

Right now the infrastructure and usability for regular folks is still tricky enough to put almost everyone off. In the coming years that'll be sorted out. Then we'll see what the world thinks of its merits or lack thereof.

Respect. Everything you said, makes sense.

Would halving and price increase after halving encourge more people to adopt bitcoin into their lives ?

Would the price go down after halving ? Is it possible ?
legendary
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Welt Am Draht

Would it take around 5-10 years to enter the consumer phase ?


Who knows?

I guess 5-10 years would be enough time to figure out if it was ever likely to happen. If it's still nowhere in a decade then it's unlikely to blossom after that. Satoshi themselves said that in twenty years volume will be gargantuan or nil.

You can have all the cool stuff in the world rolling out, but if it doesn't convince enough potential users then it's goodnight.

Right now the infrastructure and usability for regular folks is still tricky enough to put almost everyone off. In the coming years that'll be sorted out. Then we'll see what the world thinks of its merits or lack thereof.
legendary
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We currently can't even get $1 million a day into the economy for the price to go up.  Across the whole world!  Plain and simple we need massive massive adoption.
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