The Grand Bitcoin Halvening Thread

[Windowly]

It's only 199 more days till the next halvening. .. so I thought we could start this thread as we watch with bated breath to for this pretty important date.

Now 25 bitcoins are released roughly every ten minutes; after the halvening only 12.5 will be released. Last time this happened (almost four years ago) Bitcoin shot up afterwards more than 50 times the original price.

Will the bitcoin price shoot up again? Or has this already been priced in?

I imagine it has to put some pressure on the price, specially if block sizes are increased and transaction volume can increase.

I would say we get at least in the ten thousands. And if it did, it would drive massive bitcoin adoption as everybody who isn't in Bitcoin before the runup wishes they were in it before and buys in.

There will probably be unprecedented DDOS attacks on this website and other forums and exchanges, as there have often been before in price upswings.

[LiteCoinGuy]

wow, you are a pretty optimistic price-bull - iam a bit more conservativ.

i dont think that the halving is priced in. most people dont know what bitcoin is and they certainly dont know when or what a "bitcoin halving" is

on the last halving in november 2012 not much happend at first but you can see a smooth price movement in the chart in the first weeks at least. but just a few months later (2-4) the price made a big run-up.

at the halving the price was at 13 USD - some months later at 266,- USD and medium was around 100 USD. So roughly x10 increase