Posts Tagged ‘BTC price’

Bitcoin Exchange Rate Going Up, Targeting $500+ USD

28, May 2016

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The Bitcoin exchange rate has jumped significantly going all the way up to $500 USD on many EU and US-based exchanges and skyrocketing even higher on some Asian exchanges. The jump seems to be caused mostly the Chinese BTC markets driving the price up as as the national currency apparently suffers another devaluation and people are moving to investing their money in Bitcoins. The side effect from this jump in BTC exchange rate however is the drop in price for many altcoins that might suffer loosing some of their value, but it might be just temporary. This creates a good opportunity for profiting by doing some arbitrage trading between different exchanges and buying the right altcoins at the right price, it is risky, but might result in a good profit later on. Another thing that might be influencing the recent uptrend in the BTC price on exchanges is the upcoming block reward halving that should hit in about a month and a half around the start on July. So be smart and do trades carefully during this turbulent moment…

Bitcoin Has Moved Past the 400 USD Exchange Rate Again

15, Feb 2016

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After hovering around $380 USD for quite some time since the beginning of this month, Bitcoin has finally moved past the $400 USD exchange rate again and is pushing to get higher. While BTC has been somewhat low in terms of price, but with a network difficulty that is continuing to grow rapidly with another 20 or so percent increase in the network difficulty right around the corner some altcoins have managed to do great. We are talking about Ethereum (ETH) that has had its price skyrocket to over 5 Euro and over 6 USD in the last days and that has also sparked some temporary, but huge interest in some of the Ethereum forks such as Expanse. The way things are moving with more big jumps in the difficulty and the second upcoming block halving this summer people are expecting to see Bitcoin doubling its price, but we are yet to see if that will happen this summer or not…

How Much Bitcoins Can You Mine with 1 THS Hashrate

19, Jan 2016

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We have compiled a short table showing how much Bitcoin you could mine with 1 THS hashrate starting November 1st up until the estimate for February 1st this year. This period covers 3 months and as you can see the coins mined for just these 3 months pretty much halved due to the rapid increase in the network hashrate and thus the network difficulty. The table shows the numbers of coins you could expect to have mined without any cost for electricity for own hosted mining hardware or maintenance fees for cloud mining. The end result is pretty much the same however – the profit for miners has declined significantly, especially for the ones using older hardware with more electricity being used.

What some of you might not remember that well already is that prior to November last year the exchange rate of Bitcoin was in the $200-230 USD range and around November 1st it was already in the three hundreds, briefly peaking up to about $500 USD. For the last three months the price of BTC has essentially almost doubled, so considering that the difficulty has also doubled miners should still be getting roughly the same amount of USD when they convert the mined BTC, even though the coins mined are half of what they were before.

Later this year another important event for Bitcoin is going to take place, in about 6 months we are expecting to see the second halving of BTC block reward from from 25 to 12.5 coins. This essentially means that the coins mined will yet again drop in half with many expecting that the price of Bitcoin will compensate by increasing further from the level it is now. If this happens we might as well see 1 BTC traded for about $1000 USD as early as this summer…

– To keep track of the remaining time you can check the Bitcoin Block Reward Halving countdown here…


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