Questions tagged [value]
How much something is worth (as opposed to how much it costs).
0
votes
2answers
36 views
How bitcoin gets monetary value [duplicate]
This looks like a complex thing but I am trying hard to understand it. Why would any one in the world honor a crypto currency till it is backed by a government with monetary value? How does a crypto ...
0
votes
2answers
47 views
Value of cryptocurrencies: Why does noone make Bitcoin2, 3, 4,…?
Cryptocurrency disciplee sometimes say that cryptocurrencies have just as much inherent value and potential as storage of value as fist currencies. One argument specific to the Bitcoin is that its ...
0
votes
0answers
68 views
Is transaction value equivalent to transaction volume?
Data available on the Blockchain.com website show a graph called "Estimated USD transaction value"(https://blockchain.info/de/charts/estimated-transaction-volume-usd?timespan=2years). Is it the same ...
0
votes
3answers
94 views
What value does bitcoin add to the world? [duplicate]
I don't understand the value of bitcoin mining other than to produce value for its owners. What product is produced for the world? Mining for coal produces coal to be used for energy production. ...
0
votes
0answers
19 views
If the value of BTC rises, will the rate of transaction fees in satoshi's fall?
Is there some mechanism in the Bitcoin landscape to ensure that as the value of BTC rises, the amount of satoshis's per KB weight (sat/KB weight) for transactions falls?
Otherwise, do we expect that ...
1
vote
2answers
71 views
What is the source of bitcoin value?
From what I understood, the economic intrinsic value of Bitcoin as a currency is based on the "CPU-work" required to produce them. That is what makes Bitcoin rare enough to qualify as a currency. Is ...
1
vote
1answer
75 views
How can bitcoin coins have real values? [closed]
I had this question for some time and i couldn't have a clear answer.
How can a new entity (coin) have a real value, in USD for example, and be able to trade with it when it has no real life ...
0
votes
0answers
264 views
How can I calculate the true price of a coin/token?
For example, according to https://medium.com/@CO1NIO/fundamental-analysis-for-cryptocurrency-46d41941ccc
We will do a sample analysis with the cryptocurrency Gulden(NLG)
A quick analysis shows ...
0
votes
2answers
109 views
Why do altcoins vary so along with bitcoins?
Today bitcoin has dropped by 20%, so I looked for alternative cryptocoins with better performance. But, hey! Litecoin, Iota, Ripple, Ethereum, all of that has the roughly the same graph along time in ...
0
votes
0answers
111 views
Question to the procedure on Bitstamp, totally confused… Thanks to anybody that helps (or tries)
I am fairly new to everything and it is still blowing my mind to a great extend. I tried to search for the answers online and in this forum, but couldn't really find anything that would provide a ...
1
vote
1answer
100 views
What is the point of Bitcoins if every transaction has a fee?
You can't use them without it costing you money! I am asking because I want to give some of my bitcoins to a friend. It is a gift not a transaction.
I don't think it can be useful as a currency if it ...
0
votes
2answers
77 views
Is there a significance as to why bitcoin mining “costs” time/energy/money?
I have heard that the bitcoin mining process was created in a way that purposefully required the expenditure of resources (energy/money) in order to add real value to bitcoins. In this way, when more ...
0
votes
2answers
99 views
Is there a difference in buying coins with bitcoin or etherum?
So today I decided to throw my hat into the ring and bought some stellar lumen coins. Since bittrex is not currently accepting new accounts I decided to go with poloniex.
Poloniex doesnt offer ...
1
vote
2answers
5k views
Where to find logarithmic graph of Bitcoin over time?
I'd like to find a logarithmic graph of the value of BTC vs the simple USD/time graph. Any suggestions of where to find that?
Thank you!
-1
votes
1answer
176 views
How to predict value of bitcoin? [closed]
I was just thinking if its possible to predict bitcoin value. If so, what would be the parameters?
15
votes
10answers
34k views
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:
1
vote
1answer
106 views
How to price a Bitcoin?
What method do you use to price / value a bitcoin?
You use discounted cash flow for a stock, what methods do you know to price a bitcoin?
This guy shows some ideas: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=...
1
vote
0answers
483 views
Metcalfe's law for bitcoin price
Here's an inline link to article
article
the square function number of users times the average transaction value. 94% of the bitcoin moved over the past four years is explained by that equation.
It ...
3
votes
3answers
130 views
Value of Product Based on Bitcoins
If I chose to accept Bitcoin as a payment for my product, and the price of the bitcoin goes up or down, then technically I am not getting as much for my product in the long run correct? Because the ...
0
votes
2answers
29 views
Does the percentage of fluctuation remain the same regardless of the value in all wallets?
This was initially going to reference this question here
I, as well, have $10 bitcoin in my wallet, I notice the value does fluctuate. However, will the value fluctuate the same in a $100 wallet, as ...
0
votes
1answer
287 views
What is the method to determine the total market capitalization of the Bitcoin market?
When I look at the following site it says (at the time of writing) that the total market capitalization of Bitcoin is $125,927,574,809 AUD.
Now I think you could do this by running through the ...
1
vote
1answer
208 views
Who decides the price of bitcoin?
Okay so I understand that bitcoin's price is increasing/decreasing by its utility, its rarity on the market, how it is publicly perceived, innovations, media, investors exc..
My question is, who ...
0
votes
1answer
835 views
How blockchain.info calculate the value transacted
Having this address: https://blockchain.info/address/19tqZYnP9youKtbene2FZiZtZyJYaLeBDw
The last transaction says that this address received 0.0236 BTC
But even knowing the value in and the value ...
0
votes
1answer
120 views
View historic USD prices when transactions were made
Currently when viewing blockchain.info transactions, all transaction values are quoted in today's price. But is there an option or service where you can see how much the value was at the time of the ...
0
votes
2answers
152 views
What does the value of bitcoins depend on?
I've been looking up stuff about bitcoins for some time now and i have two question stuck in my mind:
How is the value of bitcoins so unstable?
And can there be bitcoin inflation?
0
votes
1answer
74 views
What are the additional benefits of having a blockchain behind a web service?
I'm still in the process of trying to understand cryptocurrency markets, and the factors behind their monetary value.
Today, I have seen an ICO for a token called DetectorToken, which is a service ...
0
votes
0answers
73 views
How is bitcoin deflationary if new coins are being generated everyday from thin air?
Example:
The US mint prints $541 million dollars every year. This robs us by making our dollars worth on average about 2 cents less each year.
Bitcoins are generated in blocks. Today, a block ...
5
votes
2answers
3k views
If cryptocurrencies have no intrinsic value, how do they originate?
In theory, anyone could create an infinite quantity of their own cryptocurrency right now. However, if you were to do this, it would have no value and, thus, it would be useless.
Since value comes ...
1
vote
1answer
358 views
Where can I find altcoin inflation rates?
I know I can use coincap.io and CoinMarketCap to see a lot of good information about altcoin relative values, and cryptocompare has good detailed information, but where can I access inflation rates ...
0
votes
1answer
152 views
Why isn't the price of BTC rapidly growing due to WannaCry? [closed]
This occurred to me today: the ongoing ransomware attack (started on May 12) caused by the WannaCry virus infected over 230 000 computers so far (source: Wikipedia). This probably means that a lot of ...
1
vote
2answers
155 views
Would free energy cause a market collapse?
Consider a world where energy is free and plentiful. Bitcoin, and other cryptocurrencies, are given value since they are 'proof' of work. This work comes at the cost of:
a. time
b. energy
By ...
1
vote
3answers
126 views
Can anyone give an explaination of what exactly a Bitcoin is and where it derives its value from?
I really just want to grasp how a bitcoin actually is something of value? and how a string of characters equate into something that is worth dollars?
1
vote
2answers
3k views
From where can I import live cryptocurrency market values into my webpage?
I am planning to build a webpage where a user can enter his/her stock of various cryptocurrencies, and the webpage should display the current market value (in USD) for each of the cryptocurrency he/...
4
votes
2answers
713 views
Why is Bitcoin gaining value while so many other cryptocurrencies are not?
Every time I find a new cryptocurrency, I look at the price charts and almost every time it's constantly losing value. Ether and Bitcoin are the only exceptions, and have gained value on the long term....
0
votes
2answers
121 views
What Bitcoin exchange is the real bitcoin value?
I have seen a lot of Bitcoin exchanges, BTC-e, Coinbase, Bitstamp, LocalBitcoins and Bitfinex. (I saw those on blockchain.info) But which one of them is the real bitcoin value?
1
vote
1answer
2k views
If everyone decided to switch to Bitcoin tomorrow, how much would a Bitcoin be worth? [closed]
Hypothetically, if everyone decided to trade in all their money and get Bitcoins for them tomorrow then how much would a single Bitcoin be worth?
My dodgy calculation makes it out to be $3,750,000 ...
1
vote
1answer
1k views
Get “Value at time of transaction” from blockchain.info api
I need to get the value displayed in usd on the transaction details page of blockchain.info, if you hover the btc sent you can see a "value at time of transaction".
How I can get this data ...
1
vote
2answers
55 views
Impact on Bitcoin value due to lost bitcoin wallets [duplicate]
My question is 2 part:
1. How does somebody know that a set of bitcoins is lost? Merely declaring that I've lost my private key and hence bitcoin makes the coins lost?
2. What impact(and why?) would ...
3
votes
3answers
165 views
How would Bitcoin's purchasing power be measured after fiat were gone?
Somewhere in the possible near/far future when there might not be any major fiat anywhere. What will Bitcoin's purchasing power be measured in?
2
votes
2answers
417 views
Calculating a sum of received bitcoins
I have a list of bitcoin addresses provided by a user and I am trying to find out a sum deposited to these addresses. I am using blockexplorer.com API to obtain transactions.
This is a typical API ...
-1
votes
2answers
81 views
Bitcoin physical monetary equivalent
I've never really given it a thought till now, but do bitcoins have a guaranteed value in gold similar to physical currency(banknotes/coins)?
As far as I know, the value of a currency is guaranteed ...
0
votes
3answers
806 views
How do I determine the value of new altcoins?
So, I'm curious about the value of altcoins.
Let's say I were to create an altcoin, and get some people to use it... how would I calculate the value of the coin? Is this determined by exchanges? Or ...
-1
votes
1answer
122 views
In India how does one accept or give Bitcoin? Do we also get a physical coin for a Bitcoin? [closed]
I heard about Bitcoin and its endless possibilities to use Bitcoin irrespective of a particular geographic location. But my doubt is How does one accept and give a Bitcoin, Does it have its own market ...
1
vote
2answers
3k views
Who determines the value of BTC vs USD? [duplicate]
How is the data collected to determine Bitcoin's value? And who determines the exchange value of Bitcoin in USD?
This question isn't really answered, no matter how much I research. I want to know the ...
14
votes
6answers
5k views
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 ...
0
votes
1answer
57 views
Can the dollar value of a transaction be different at different times?
Bitcoin value gets fluctuating frequently. Suppose I am transfering bitcoin to another person who is in another country (like my current bitcoin value is $234.97), i am sending the QR code through e-...
0
votes
1answer
157 views
Transaction Duration
Given the volatile bitcoin value, how long is a transaction valid? For example, say a vendor requires X fiat currency via a bitcoin service provider. The service provider link (ie, coinbase.com) ...
0
votes
5answers
2k views
How does Bitcoin have an intrinsic value?
I have read several articles about how Bitcoin have an intrinsic value. Aside from the fact that some of those articles confuse "intrinsic value" with "benefits of adoption", I found that none of them ...
0
votes
3answers
80 views
Would it be a good idea to have several different *coin to protect oneself from fluctuations?
I'm interested in *coin, but I'm afraid of sinking money into something out of idle curiosity and then losing that money to value fluctuations. Would it be a good idea to have several different *coin (...
1
vote
2answers
10k views
Does the value of my Bitcoin fluctuate automatically?
If you own a small amount of Bitcoin (say,$10) does one have to "invest" it somewhere for it's value to change or will the $10 fluctuate by just sitting in one's wallet and one can see the value ...
