Bitcoin price soars above $5,000 to record high
Rising price of the cryptocurrency, now worth four times as much as an ounce of gold, has led to warnings of a bubble, It seems to me Bitcoin will fall a bit after this win.
But the price of bitcoin has smashed through the $5,000 window to an all-time high.
BTC rose by more than 8% to $5,243 having started the year solid at $966. Bitcoin has soared by more than 750% in the past year and is worth four times as much as an ounce of gold, Imagine that gold... it surpassed it. What do you have to say about that Jamie Dimon?
Bitcoin is still volatile.
Bitcoin has not always been this wonderful in giving back to the holders or miners price has been volatile though. The digital currency plunged below $3,000 in mid-September after the Chinese authorities announced a crackdown. Beijing ordered cryptocurrency exchanges to stop trading and block new registrations, due to fears that increasing number of consumers piling into the bitcoin market could prompt wider financial problems.
The only thing that sucks is that alts are being left in bitcoins dust
The price is rising because everyone wants to hold BTC for the BTC-Gold hard fork (is it on Oct. 26th?). Money is moving out of Alt-Coins and into BTC. There's also an upcoming Ethereum hard-fork so.... Interesting times we live in.
Things always settle back down. I think that in general, going forward, crypto markets will settle down a bit. However, volatility will remain high in this space for quite some time to come. As the new money becomes more widely adopted, it should help to make things slightly more steady. For now, there are good deals on Alt-Coins out there. Things like Lite-Coin, BitShares, even Steemit are basically "on sale."
I expect to see BTC continue to hit higher highs, and higher lows. If the next low remains above $3500, that's a very bullish sign. I don't expect to see anything else.
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Agreed im taking advantage of the alt coin sale and snatching up as much as i can. IMO bitcoin gold will tank and wont be worth the effort when you could profit more from alt coin price rise after the hype.
I think you are right my friend. It's good you are looking at it from a different point of view. Most people on here and elsewhere are focusing on getting as much Bitcoin as poss.
Have a nice day :)
LTC up over 13% this morning, more than BTC. Probably not "on sale." I still fail to see what the purpose of Litecoin is these days; it used to have value as a definitive bitcoin testnet, but in Forklandia, can that even be said anymore? The whole "silver to bitcoin's gold" bit was always just marketing hype.
As for Bitcoin Gold, is anyone actually planning on HODLing it? Seems to me that, much like bcash, it's a clear dumping opportunity. After all, what is Equihash without zk-SNARKs? Back in my early days as an altcoin miner, I mined a coin called VERT. Its only selling point was ASIC resistance, and true to the developer's word, they switched the hashing algorithm from a modified version of Scrypt to LYRA2-Re once FPGAs were on the horizon. The coin was still a flop.
I like the concept of keeping BTC mining decentralized and would like to see it run on a non-NSA developed hashing algorithm (SHA2), but changing the hashing algorithm just to keep the facade of decentralized mining seems reckless. Moore's Law will eventually do that to SHA256 ASICs all by itself.
Understanding the ins-and-outs of all of the mining probably puts you a few steps ahead of the curve, as compared to the average cryptocurrency enthusiast. Most of us aren't into it that deep. Your deeper understanding of the usefulness of the different coins puts you in a different category of investor - probably with much better understanding of the long-term viability of various coins. As it is, many people are out there doing the same kinds of speculating on this stuff that's been done in the stock markets. As I said - LiteCoin WAS on sale - 13% profits to take in a day isn't doing bad at all.
hip hip hurrahhh
This is extraordinary, can hardly wait to see steem go up and up, I have all my crypto fortune in steem
it seems like BTC will touch $10000 soon.
I would not be surprised to see it reach 10K by the end of next year.
Got me with 0 bitcoins. 😎
Its amazing to see bitcoin breaking off from 5000 levels. Just matter of time till it crosses the magical 10000. But i feel there would be strong resistance at 6500 - 7000 levels and may test 5000 levels again before it shoots up.
Regards Nainaz
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This is great, can't wait to see steem go up and up, I have almost all my crypto fortune in steem
Steem will go up just keep on holding and posting and earning.
how i can earn btc sir... sir can I got upvot from you plz..?
First: You don't beg for upvote or you get Muted.
Second: work on your posts.