'Speculation' refers to transactions such as buying or selling crypto-currencies, or their derivatives, in the hope that future changes in market conditions will net the speculator a profit.
Questions tagged [speculation]
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What is a bid wall?
On the bitcointalk forums I hear a lot of talk about "bid walls". I have never heard of these in other types of financial markets. It seems that people use them as a way to support the price of a bitcoin.
I think i read the forums too much that I…
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What factors affect the value of a Bitcoin?
Obviously the number of existing Bitcoins affects the value, but what else? What are some of the primary factors for a rise or fall in a Bitcoin's worth?
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Does speculation hurt bitcoin?
Related Question: Does hoarding really hurt Bitcoin
Does speculation hurt bitcoin? I often hear people complain that speculation is destroying Bitcoin, or that Bitcoin will fail because of speculation. Is there any merit to this criticism of…
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How exactly does short selling with Bitcoins work?
Bitcoinica does (or did) offer short selling, but the question is how?
If I fund my account with 100 BTC and I want to short BTC, can I do that, or do I need USD to do that?
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Historical transaction/trade ratio. Available? Useful?
Blockchain.info lists both "Trade Volume" and "Estimated Transaction Volume" in both BTC and USD. It occurred to me that the ratio of one to the other might be a useful metric in determining how much of the Bitcoin market is currently speculative…
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What are some of the risks of speculating on bitcoin value?
Just like a commodity it is easy to buy and sell bitcoins. Current value is so much higher then it was just a few months ago it seems like a really great investment. Especially when you consider that there is a limited supply, and if bitcoins are…
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What type of hedging might CoinLab be employing?
In the announcement on GeekWire that CoinLab had received seed funding, there was a statement that I found interesting:
CoinLab will pay game companies in government currency, not Bitcoin, and will use price hedging strategies to protect its own…
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What does Litecoin offer over Bitcoin?
Litecoin is different from Bitcoin in the following ways, however none of them are particularly useful and on the contrary are only less worthy.
84 million vs 21 millions: since Bitcoin is divisible upto atleast nine decimals and also micro BTC can…
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What is going to happen when it is totally infeasible to download the entire bitcoin transaction history?
As far as I know, the bitcoin system currently relies on the principle that all transactions are made by someone with access to the entire history of previous transactions. Since bitcoin's public debut 2.5ish years ago, these records have stayed…
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Benefits of bitcoin as national currency?
As Bitcoin is crossing total M1 money of few countries, how could a country by adopting Bitcoin as national currency, mutually benefit Bitcoin and the country itself?
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=154954.0
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Is someone trying to kill bitcoin?
I've been observing the huge increase in the price of Bitcoin over the last month (November 2013) and I can't help but think, is someone with an ulterior motive pulling the strings here?
It seems to me that Bitcoin represents a huge threat to some…
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Could speculation some day rise bitcoin to the moon?
I saw too many questions about bitcoin losing value.
But in my view, 21 million bitcoins is relatively less money (ie., units) than other currencies. Why wouldn't Bitcoin's value rise simply due to supply/demand when it is used more widely?
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Bitcoin price speculation resources
Where could I discuss Bitcoin price speculation, and calculating fair spot and future price.
In general for stackexchange sites, the factors for here and now would be "too localized" I think.
So I will try to broaden it. Bitcoin price - being a…
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How to determine if a cryptocurrency has a promising future?
This may be a very subjective question. I've watched this video where Lark states that some coins (Monero, ZCash, DASH, etc) have a promising future and others don't.
What's the criteria to make this kind of predicion?
Is it possible to speculate…
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When ACTUALLY using bitcoin to buy and sell goods, is there a way to take its current price ($22,xxx) and find an actual value to it?
Because if i sell my valued item at say, 22,000 worth of bitcoin. Tomorrow, there could be a crash which brings it down to $1000 or less and i've essentially traded my $22,000 item for worthless bubble money.
Is there any term to search or people to…
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