How much something is worth (as opposed to how much it costs).
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Where do bitcoins come from and what gives them their value?
Where do bitcoins come from? From the WeUseCoins.com video it appears they are just being produced by "miners" and sold to people. So who backs Bitcoin or gives it its value?
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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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What happens if I buy Bitcoins and the price goes down?
What happens if I buy Bitcoins and the price goes down. Will I lose a quantity of my money?
Consider:
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Get simple BTC value to insert it in excel sheet
I'm trying to so some maths calculations with Excel but I need to get the current btc value from any website that can provide it in any format but simple as possible.
Do you have any idea to get the current btc value (usd) and update it in real time…
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What could be the consequences of many bitcoins being lost out of circulation if people lose their wallets?
If for some reason many people lose their wallet files then many bitcoins are effectively taken out of circulation.
Seen as it's not possible to tell as far as i know if bitcoins are actually disabled in this way, so to speak, I'm wondering what…
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How to answer to whether Bitcoin is a Ponzi scheme?
I was asked whether Bitcoin is a Ponzi scheme as I was explaining Bitcoin. In support of the question I was presented with the following scenario. I didn't know what to answer.
Let's assume Bitcoin started today and had no transactions and no…
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Why did Bitcoin first start to gain economic value?
I am really having difficulty answering this:
Why does a bitcoin have an economic value, such that there are people willing to
trade US$ (or any other traditional currency) for these virtual numbers?
What did the creator of Bitcoin do at the…
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Could the price drop between July and September 2011 have been caused by a bot?
In July 2011, 1 BTC was trading at above $10 USD. By September, the price of 1 BTC had fallen over 50%, and at the time of writing (October 2011) 1 BTC is trading around $2.50 - $3.00 USD.
In a forum thread one of the pool operators for bitcoinpool…
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Is the value of "satoshi" fixed or dynamic?
BitCoin Wiki (Transactions) states:
...1 BTC = 100,000,000 Satoshi...
Yet BitCoin Wiki (FAQ) states:
..."satoshi"... is smallest denomination currently possible
In the future when the protocol decides to support more decimal places, will the…
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What is the ecological effect of increased work for the Bitcoin chain?
As more users use Bitcoin and "forced work" difficulty increases what effect does this have ecologically? It is a silly question I know. I'm just comparing let's say value or effect of using computational power for protein folding vs Bitcoin and…
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What are the obstacles to pegging the value of bitcoin to an established stable currency?
Many people will not touch bitcoin due to it's historically extreme volatility. Many new currencies have pegged their value against an established currency until such time as it is sufficiently established to be decoupled.
For example the Irish…
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Relation between Network Hash-Rate & bitcoin value?
how is the relation betweeen network hash rate to healthyness of bitcoin, such as bitcoin value compared to USD, or the growth rate of this currency?
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What can be done with a bitcoin besides exchanging it for goods or services?
Some people have described a bitcoin as a commodity, but every commodity I see on this Wikipedia page seem to have a non-financial purpose, which also gives it a financial value.
What can be done with a "Bitcoin" (if anything) that has a…
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Trying to understand the bitcoin chart
I'm trying to understant this bitcoin chart, but there's no indication of what's the Y axis. The "200K" means the value in dollars? Or in bitcoins? Or what?
I'm trying to check out the value of a bitcoin in comparision with US Dollars over the year.
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How much is a mining pool share worth on average?
I know that mining pool shares have no value on their own, but it should be possible to find an average value based on the pool's average payout per share. This site describes the expected payout per share as ([block reward] - [pool operator's cut])…
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