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August 17, 2017, 08:45:39 PM
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Well the main factor is the supply and demand of it. When the demand increases the price increases also. So it is directly proportional. And for the supply, it is also involved for the growth of bitcoin. If the market cap is so high so as the price of it will also go high.
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August 17, 2017, 08:43:13 PM
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I am a total newbie to this forum and don't know very much about crypto currencies.

What are major factors affecting bitcoin (or any other crypto currency) price? Is this mostly supply and demand, do other factors (difficulty of mining, hash rate, etc) play significant role in bitcoins price?

It is all about what you have said, the supply, demand, difficulty in mining, transaction fee and the other issue in bitcoin, but whatever it is, it could affect the peice of bitcoin in a good way or in a bad way, for example is this SegWit activation, since this has been trashed by the people who supported bitcoin.

This SegWit warning caused a huge dumped, that is why there was so many people who sold their bitcoin in a low price, worrying that they could lost their profit if they are not going to sell it, it was like a big whale, then caused a huge pump price after this, and I know many people regretted their action when they sold their bitcoin on a low price.
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August 17, 2017, 08:40:29 PM
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In my opinion, the factors that most affect the bitcoin price are demand and supply, just like the other friends' opinions. Limited supply of Bitcoin, and the decreasing amount of Bitcoin produced every 10 minutes making bitcoin prices higher. Besides that the number of bitcoin enthusiasts is increasing
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August 17, 2017, 08:17:44 PM
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I am a total newbie to this forum and don't know very much about crypto currencies.

What are major factors affecting bitcoin (or any other crypto currency) price? Is this mostly supply and demand, do other factors (difficulty of mining, hash rate, etc) play significant role in bitcoins price?
The factors that affects Bitcoin's price, in my opinion, is the market's demand and the size of community Bitcoin has. All cryptocurrency depends on the demand in terms of their market value, and Bitcoin is a cryptocurrency ,so it also does. The size of its community will trigger the demand. The reason why Bitcoin remained the no. 1cryptocurrency is because of its big community that also made its demand high.
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August 17, 2017, 07:15:26 PM
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Currently there are positive news about bitcoin all over world which create more demand for it, and since the demand has become so high the holders becomes skeptical about whether to sell   or not and if we are to sell it should be on the higher side. That is to say, the demand for Bitcoin is higher than the supply of Bitcoin and that makes it price to go up.
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August 17, 2017, 06:57:51 PM
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Bitcoin prices are determined in absolute terms by supply and demand. If someone buys or sells Bitcoin in a big price, then the price will move in the extreme. Bitcoin price volatility will be dampened if more and more Bitcoin users are scattered and the number of Bitcoins scattered is also higher.
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August 17, 2017, 06:28:22 PM
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The major factor that make bitcoin fluctuation price is because of high demand in the market but limited supply. Mining can affect the supply of bitcoin because it depend on them how many bitcoin are they mine in a day  in order to supply a huge number of users and investors.
Today's bitcion price attract more investor because their is a big chance for them to a big profit in return. And if still there is a lack of supply probably it will continue going up.
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August 17, 2017, 06:02:45 PM
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I am a total newbie to this forum and don't know very much about crypto currencies.

What are major factors affecting bitcoin (or any other crypto currency) price? Is this mostly supply and demand, do other factors (difficulty of mining, hash rate, etc) play significant role in bitcoins price?
It is the demand that affects the price of any cryptocurrency. Same as in Bitcoin wherein its market value depends on the market's demand. Bitcoin at this moment is expensive, which means it is now, in demand. And anything that is in demand will have a high value. It's a matter of supply and demand relation. The size of community will also count. Bitcoin is still the best cryptocurrency because it has a bigger and larger community compared to other cryptos, which also made its price, high.
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August 17, 2017, 05:51:44 PM
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To understand how the price changes you have to understand how exchanges work. Only a small fraction of all coins in circulation are deposited on exchanges, and an even smaller fraction is being traded regularly, so most of those price movements are due to a small percentage of coins being traded. That is why the price can change only by a small percentage in a given time and it moves in waves.
When something happens in the world, like a country accepts BTC or there's a fork, like the one with BCC, traders react first and you get first wave. If that wave is big enough or the news significant and proven, investors will start moving money to exchanges to buy or coins to sell and start another wave. What affect the price the most is news.
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August 17, 2017, 05:19:11 PM
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You forgot about the fact that mining difficulty increases over time and this results in the need to get bigger mining rigs and hardware and makes it harder to acquire Bitcoin in general which leads to the price increases like we are seeing today.

i don't think that increase in cost mining bitcoins is proportionate to increase of bitcoins price.

what really amazes me is the recent volatility of bitcoin, the price is changing plus/minus hundred of dollars within single day.

I think bitcoin market is not that huge (yet), can there be some "shadow market makers" manipulating the price and making huge profits from this crazy volatility?
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August 17, 2017, 05:07:28 PM
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Supply and demand is one factor, but here the bitcoin is not like other currencies, it is not regulated so the supply and demand doesn't impact it that much. Major trading is one of the major factors that determines the bitcoin price. There are other factors too, technological advancement which can only be accessible with bitcoin give bitcoin a huge boost. By technological I mean that you can save your money in your PC and this is a big advancement in technology. This only is reason enough for the price of bitcoin to be up or at least a bit more than gold.

You forgot about the fact that mining difficulty increases over time and this results in the need to get bigger mining rigs and hardware and makes it harder to acquire Bitcoin in general which leads to the price increases like we are seeing today.
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August 17, 2017, 04:50:40 PM
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First of all welcome on board, trust me you will learn a lot here. Spend some time in reading the topics, posts and do use that search box from the upper right corner.

Now coming back to your topic, Mining/difficulty etc factors affect the supply and it has nothing to do with the demand directly. The main reason of price fluctuation is the relation and volume of demand and supply. It is directly related to each other so when demand rises the price rises and vice versa. Any news or incident can affect the demand and indirectly the price of Bitcoin (eg - recent fork). Now Bitcoin has grown so big that the movement of traders don't affect the price of it because there are normal users and long term holders which keep the demand intact even if traders are highly selling it.
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August 17, 2017, 04:40:52 PM
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Supply and demand is one factor, but here the bitcoin is not like other currencies, it is not regulated so the supply and demand doesn't impact it that much. Major trading is one of the major factors that determines the bitcoin price. There are other factors too, technological advancement which can only be accessible with bitcoin give bitcoin a huge boost. By technological I mean that you can save your money in your PC and this is a big advancement in technology. This only is reason enough for the price of bitcoin to be up or at least a bit more than gold.
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August 17, 2017, 04:36:55 PM
#1
I am a total newbie to this forum and don't know very much about crypto currencies.

What are major factors affecting bitcoin (or any other crypto currency) price? Is this mostly supply and demand, do other factors (difficulty of mining, hash rate, etc) play significant role in bitcoins price?
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