WHAT IS BITCOIN HALVING?

in bitcoin •  6 years ago  (edited)


WHAT IS THE HALVENING?
In the Bitcoin network, user transactions are grouped in blocks and recorded to a digital public ledger called a blockchain. Miners are in charge of this task, and receive a mining reward in the form of bitcoins for each block recorded.

The amount of bitcoins rewarded for each block decreases with time: it is halved every 4 years. This event, the moment when the mining reward is divided by 2, is commonly called “Bitcoin halving”. Other denominations are used: “reward halving”, “Bitcoin mining reward halving”, or simply “the halving” or “the Halvening” which is a popular meme among bitcoiners.

When Bitcoin was created in 2009, the initial reward was 50 bitcoins. In november 2012, it droped to 25btc after the first halving. The second halving will take place in July 2016 and decrease the reward to 12.5btc. Next one will be in August 2020 and decrease the reward to 6.25btc.

What will be the impact on Bitcoin price?
As for any type of asset, Bitcoin price depends solely on demand and supply. The halving affects the latter. So it all depends on how demand evolves in the following months and years. Bitcoin being a very young currency with much room to grow in use and value, I would personally bet on a price increase. How much? When? It remains 100% unpredictable. One thing is certain though: at the time of Halving, the supply reduction will already be priced in the exchange rate, thanks to market anticipation. So don’t expect a big price movement on Halving Day.

Note that other examples of halvings are available for comparaison.

The first Bitcoin halving occured on the 28th of November 2012. On that day the price went up +1.7%, a negligible move. However the preceding and following months showed continued growth and led to the famous early-2013 rally (from 13$ to 260$ in 4 months).


Bitcoin early-2013 Rally image source: (bitcoinwisdow.com)

More recently, the Litecoin, a Bitcoin clone, passed its first halving on August 25th, 2015. Two months before, a wild speculative rally took the price from 2$ to more than 8$, before crashing back to 3$.

Litecoin pre-halving Rally Image source: (bitcoinwisdow.com)

Read more about Litecoin(LTC) halving in my other article here:

https://steemit.com/crypto/@goldeninvestor/litecoin-halving-in-205-days-what-are-your-thoughts-on-ltc-halving

What is certain for this second Bitcoin halving is that similar wild, speculative, short-term rallies and crashes will occur. The interesting observation will be, on a larger time-scale, to see if the up-trend than Bitcoin price has been experiencing since its inception in 2009 will continue its path.

Image source: pixabay
Rocket Ship counting time: http://www.thehalvening.com/#1

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nice post

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Nice article
can't wait for 2020, I hope this halving can really make an impact on Bitcoin price...

let's wait 481 days and we will see :)) hopefully!
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Good information goldeninvestor

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Nice post

Thank you! we hope you believe in crypto's future :)

Regards appreciated @goldeninvestor.

Although you make this clarification:

How much? When? It remains 100% unpredictable.

Do you think that with this valuable information product of your brilliant analysis we could predict a possible behavior of bitcoin?

It would be interesting for everyone to have a reference when buying or selling. But I think there are many factors of power that we may not know. It would be foolish to speculate about it. Or maybe not?

Thank you for sharing your knowledge.

All best, Piotr.