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Posted on 04/19/2024 11:49:55 AM PDT by Red Badger
Bitcoin’s “halving” is expected to happen soon. But its potential impact depends on your relationship to the coin; it’s likely to affect miners and investors differently.
“To the people who own bitcoin because they think it’s a good store of value, this halving is not that big of a deal. But to the miners, it’s a huge deal,” Omid Malekan, an adjunct professor at Columbia Business School and author of “Re-Architecting Trust: The Curse of History and the Crypto Cure for Money, Markets, and Platforms,” tells CNBC Make It.
Miners receive bitcoins, known as block rewards, for verifying and validating transactions and helping keep the blockchain network secure. The miners who receive them can then hold, trade or sell them. This is also how new digital coins enter into circulation.
Since there will only ever be 21 million bitcoin, the halving is a technical event written into bitcoin’s code that splits the block reward miners receive in half every four years. In 2009, miners were rewarded 50 bitcoin. In 2012, they were rewarded 25 bitcoin, in 2016, they received 12.5, and in 2020, they received 6.25.
Here’s how the halving may impact both investors and miners.
What the bitcoin halving may mean for investors
While the halving itself doesn’t directly impact bitcoin’s price, investors’ anticipation of the event can lead to highly erratic price movements, says Douglas Boneparth, a certified financial planner and president of Bone Fide Wealth. Boneparth has also held bitcoin since 2014.
“As the halving approaches, speculation typically increases, potentially leading to heightened volatility in the bitcoin market,” he says. “Investors might buy into bitcoin in anticipation of potential price increases, but there’s no certainty or guarantee of that and, quite frankly, this only adds to the volatility.”
Additionally, it’s difficult to pin down what exactly drives bitcoin’s fluctuations and declines in price. Unlike stocks and bonds, cryptocurrency doesn’t derive its value from an underlying asset.
Although the halving creates more scarcity, bitcoin doesn’t exactly follow the typical rules of supply in demand.
“You’d think having a restricted supply should always mean the price goes up, but that’s not true,” Boneparth says. “If that’s your thesis, then you’re not taking into account a myriad of factors that could cause the price of bitcoin to move in any which way on any given day.”
What bitcoin’s halving may mean for miners
In 2024, the block reward will be reduced to 3.125 bitcoin, which is worth around $200,122 as of April 19 at the time of publication.
However, since bitcoin mining typically requires expensive hardware and a vast amount of energy, it can be an expensive endeavor. That’s why some miners will need to weigh their costs versus the potential payout, Malekan says.
While miners can earn revenue from transaction fees, they earn the majority of their money from block rewards, which will essentially be cut in half after the halving, he says.
“Miners need their revenues to be more than their costs, like any business,” Malekan says. “What is likely to happen after the halving is that some miners will no longer be profitable, and they will stop mining.”
Invest with caution
If you’re interested in investing in bitcoin, tread carefully when it comes to delving into the world of crypto.
Although bitcoin’s price briefly hit a record high in March, its past performance shouldn’t be used to try to anticipate how well it may do in the future, as with any financial asset.
And since crypto is considered to be a highly volatile asset that’s subject to wild price swings, there’s no guarantee that you’ll be able to earn a profit from your investment.
“You’re dealing with something that’s very volatile and if you’re not careful, it might not work out if you’re trading bitcoin in the short term,” Boneparth says.
A stock split! A nod to the little people!
First I heard of it — thx.
Not quite like a stock split. In fact it’s opposite....................
That’s not even close to what it is.
o dear. i might have to read the article.
I got in at $21K to $27K then got out a few weeks ago at $73K
Once it gets down to 32K to 35K i may get back in. ETF’s and Bitcoins stocks (COIN) rather than the actual bitcoin
What's the "underlying asset" of a US Treasury Bond?
“Good Faith and credit of the United States of America.”
It’s written on every bond...................🙄
The Government's taxing power.
(((CRYPTO PING!)))
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catch me up on this; why is bitcoin going to drop by 50%? what’s going on in the overall crypto market?
*In 2009, miners were rewarded 50 bitcoin. In 2012, they were rewarded 25 bitcoin, in 2016, they received 12.5, and in 2020, they received 6.25.*
It is the reward bitcoin miners earn for mining that is being halved. Not the price of bitcoin, which is determined by the market.
BUY BEAR STEARNS!
And Lehman Brothers!.................
oh, got it, ty
So far BTC has followed this pattern again, which should make for an interesting late 2024 and 2025.
I bought one bitcoin for a little over $300 many years ago. Spent half on something and didn’t know what to do with the other half and let it sit.
A few years later it was over $30,000 and I went to vacation with the family with most of what I had left.
Two years ago, I had about $200 or so left. Now its worth over $500. I’ve done alright.
Don’t invest anything more than you can afford to lose. That’s how I do it with Crypto.
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