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No End in Sight for Crypto Sell-Off as Bitcoin Breaches $4,250

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Re: No End in Sight for Crypto Sell-Off as Bitcoin Breaches $4,250

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Is this below the price where it is economic to mine? Presumably at some point the miners would have to pull the plug to avoid loosing money.

Difficulty adjusts dynamically to ensure there is always an incentive to mine.

Difficulty adjusts when total hash power changes, so for difficulty to adjust downward some miners will have to take equipment offline, ie "pull the plug".

Re: No End in Sight for Crypto Sell-Off as Bitcoin Breaches $4,250

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picture of a bitcoin man on a free falling rollercoaster screaming /weeeeeeeee/ What's the purpose of that article? What can be discussed about Bitcoin and the other crypto currencies that hasn't been discussed here several times already? There is no news besides the price collapsing but that has happened before as well. But this time it's different They are saying that during a bull run and during a bear market. I d…

> What's the purpose of that article?

I stopped watching cryptocurrency prices about a year ago. The novelty wore off. These articles say “hey, that thing you forgot about is doing something interesting—give it a minute.”

Re: No End in Sight for Crypto Sell-Off as Bitcoin Breaches $4,250

#27

Everything sells off this time of year. Nasdaq is down 7% on the month. It’s end of year profit-taking for tax purposes. As BTC has become completely mainstream now, this makes sense.

You're right, a "store of value" product being down almost 80% in the past 11 months is completely normal and not at all newsworthy.

Re: No End in Sight for Crypto Sell-Off as Bitcoin Breaches $4,250

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Still up 500% since January 2017.

Still down 78% since December 2017. What's your point?

Just because a bubble pops doesn't mean it's useless or dead. Many bubbles pop in the real world, they always recover.

Re: No End in Sight for Crypto Sell-Off as Bitcoin Breaches $4,250

#29

Everything sells off this time of year. Nasdaq is down 7% on the month. It’s end of year profit-taking for tax purposes. As BTC has become completely mainstream now, this makes sense.

Exactly one year ago btc price was heading to the moon.

Re: No End in Sight for Crypto Sell-Off as Bitcoin Breaches $4,250

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

What about $35 and $250?

Innovators. No one really heard of Bitcoin prior to the $1000 pump.

Reddit heard plenty before 1000$

I was there the week it was released. Lost 100 bitcoins to a hard drive crash and never looked back. They use to literally hand them out like candy. Mt gox happened and I never took it seriously ever again.

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