The Halving Not Affecting Bitcoin Price or Hashrate, for Now
The Bitcoin halving took place yesterday, and people celebrated around the world. Block 420000 was successfully mined, signalling a decrease in the block reward from 25 bitcoins to 12.5, producing little change within the hashrate and price. The next halving will take place at block 630000, which should happen roughly in four years or less depending on....
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The second-ever Bitcoin block reward halving is estimated to take place in a little under two weeks, and the overall effects of this event are still somewhat of an unknown. There has been a runup in the Bitcoin price over the past month, and many claim this is due to the upcoming halving, where the number of new bitcoins created roughly every 10 minutes is cut in half (from 25 to 12.5). To get some informed opinions about what could happen next, Bitcoin Magazine reached out to BitFury CEO Valery Vavilov and BTCC COO Samson Mow. BitFury manufactures ASIC Bitcoin mining chips (and mines with....
As the block mining reward halving event approaches, many people in the bitcoin space are excited because of the potential for an increase in the digital currency's price. One miner, though, has expressed serious concern that, when the drop in the block subsidy occurs, it could trigger a chain of events that could lead to an inevitable hard fork. Chandler Guo is the founder of Bitbank, a China-based digital currency company that runs one of the largest mining operations in the world, BW. On average, BW.com accounts for approximately 10% of the total hashrate, an impressive feat considering....
Bitcoin’s hashrate has been running hot despite the lower prices and the recent difficulty increases. In fact, blocks are being discovered faster than the ten-minute block interval average and because of this factor, the network’s reward halving may come sooner than expected. While some halving counters that simply leverage the ten-minute average note the halving is expected in May or April 2024, halving counters leveraging precise block interval times show the halving event could happen as early as March 1, 2024. Block Intervals Show Halving Date Could Be Much Closer Than....
The bitcoin mining industry undergoes various capitulations upon the halving of block rewards, affecting bitcoin’s price.
So far, the doomsayers are proven wrong, yet that situation could change at any given moment. The Bitcoin halving is almost upon us, and many people believe the Bitcoin price will be affected by this milestone. A lot of people seem to think the price will go down, and some of them even expected it to go down before the halving itself. But that does not seem to be the case, despite a small dip on the charts after a strong climb. Influencing the Bitcoin price on the free market is not as straightforward as most people want to believe. Granted, there is the age-old game of bulls and bears....