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2024-03-14

What most ppl dont know and ask is, if 21M bitcoin is minted, who will cont to mine to keep the ledger?

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2023-09-11

Its not Musk's fault. Its just not relevant nowadays

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2023-05-09

This person deserves to be put in jail for lying and mismanaging the economy.

Jerome Powell Faces Lowest Public Confidence for Fed Chairman on Record, Gallup Says

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and whether it is playing a role in its ascent.</p><p>Depending on where you sit, the halving is a vital event that will burnish bitcoin&#39;s value as an increasingly scarce commodity, or nothing more than a technical change talked up by speculators to inflate its price.</p><p>But what exactly is it, and does it really matter?</p><h2 id=\"id_701305513\" style=\"text-align: start;\">WHAT IS IT?</h2><p>The halving is a change in bitcoin&#39;s underlying blockchain technology, designed to reduce the rate at which new bitcoins are created.</p><p>Bitcoin was designed from its inception by its pseudonymous creator Satoshi Nakamoto to have a capped supply of 21 million tokens.</p><p>Nakamoto wrote the halving into bitcoin&#39;s code and it works by reducing the rate at which new bitcoin are released into circulation.</p><p>So far, about 19 million tokens have been released.</p><h2 id=\"id_1544919212\" style=\"text-align: start;\">HOW DOES IT HAPPEN?</h2><p>Blockchain technology involves creating records of information - called &#39;blocks&#39; 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This makes mining less profitable and slows the production of new bitcoins.</p><p>WHEN WILL IT HAPPEN?</p><p>There is no set date, but it is expected to take place in late April.</p><p>The blockchain is designed so that a halving occurs every time 210,000 blocks are added to the chain. This means it happens roughly every four years.</p><h2 id=\"id_2428863025\" style=\"text-align: start;\">WHAT&#39;S IT GOT TO DO WITH BITCOIN&#39;S PRICE?</h2><p>Some bitcoin enthusiasts say that bitcoin&#39;s scarcity gives it value.</p><p>The lower the supply of a commodity, then all other things being equal the price should rise when people try and buy more.</p><p>So reducing supply of bitcoin should lift the price, some analysts and traders say.</p><p>Others dispute the logic, noting that any impact would have already been factored in to the current price.</p><p>The supply of bitcoin to the market is also largely down to crypto miners but the sector is opaque, with data on inventories and supplies scarce.</p><p>If miners sell their reserves, that could put downward pressure on prices.</p><p>Knowing what is behind a crypto rally is hard, not least as there is far less transparency about who is buying and why relative to other markets.</p><p>The most common reason given for this year&#39;s surge is the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission&#39;s January approval of bitcoin ETFs, as well as expectations that central banks will cut interest rates.</p><p>But in the speculative world of crypto trading, explanations given by analysts for changes in bitcoin&#39;s price can snowball into market narratives that can become self-fulfilling.</p><h2 id=\"id_2480998271\" style=\"text-align: start;\">WHAT ABOUT PREVIOUS HALVINGS?</h2><p>There&#39;s no evidence to suggest that previous halvings have caused bitcoin&#39;s price to rise.</p><p>Still, traders and miners have studied past halvings to try and gain an edge.</p><p>When the last halving happened on May 11, 2020, the price rose around 12% in the following week.</p><p>Later in the year, bitcoin began a sharp rally, but there were lots of explanations - including loose monetary policy and stay-at-home retail investors spending spare cash on cryptocurrencies - for this and no real evidence the halving was behind it.</p><p class=\"t-img-caption\"><img src=\"https://community-static.tradeup.com/news/1d0577cfecee557134cc058bdb9d4917\" alt=\"Reuters Graphics\" title=\"Reuters Graphics\" tg-width=\"1420\" tg-height=\"1000\"/><span>Reuters Graphics</span></p><p>An earlier halving occurred in July 2016. 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and whether it is playing a role in its ascent.</p><p>Depending on where you sit, the halving is a vital event that will burnish bitcoin&#39;s value as an increasingly scarce commodity, or nothing more than a technical change talked up by speculators to inflate its price.</p><p>But what exactly is it, and does it really matter?</p><h2 id=\"id_701305513\" style=\"text-align: start;\">WHAT IS IT?</h2><p>The halving is a change in bitcoin&#39;s underlying blockchain technology, designed to reduce the rate at which new bitcoins are created.</p><p>Bitcoin was designed from its inception by its pseudonymous creator Satoshi Nakamoto to have a capped supply of 21 million tokens.</p><p>Nakamoto wrote the halving into bitcoin&#39;s code and it works by reducing the rate at which new bitcoin are released into circulation.</p><p>So far, about 19 million tokens have been released.</p><h2 id=\"id_1544919212\" style=\"text-align: start;\">HOW DOES IT HAPPEN?</h2><p>Blockchain technology involves creating records of information - called &#39;blocks&#39; - which are added to the chain in a process called &#39;mining&#39;.</p><p>Miners use computing power to solve complex mathematical puzzles to build the blockchain and earn rewards in the form of new bitcoin.</p><p>At the halving, the amount of bitcoin available as rewards for miners is cut in half. This makes mining less profitable and slows the production of new bitcoins.</p><p>WHEN WILL IT HAPPEN?</p><p>There is no set date, but it is expected to take place in late April.</p><p>The blockchain is designed so that a halving occurs every time 210,000 blocks are added to the chain. This means it happens roughly every four years.</p><h2 id=\"id_2428863025\" style=\"text-align: start;\">WHAT&#39;S IT GOT TO DO WITH BITCOIN&#39;S PRICE?</h2><p>Some bitcoin enthusiasts say that bitcoin&#39;s scarcity gives it value.</p><p>The lower the supply of a commodity, then all other things being equal the price should rise when people try and buy more.</p><p>So reducing supply of bitcoin should lift the price, some analysts and traders say.</p><p>Others dispute the logic, noting that any impact would have already been factored in to the current price.</p><p>The supply of bitcoin to the market is also largely down to crypto miners but the sector is opaque, with data on inventories and supplies scarce.</p><p>If miners sell their reserves, that could put downward pressure on prices.</p><p>Knowing what is behind a crypto rally is hard, not least as there is far less transparency about who is buying and why relative to other markets.</p><p>The most common reason given for this year&#39;s surge is the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission&#39;s January approval of bitcoin ETFs, as well as expectations that central banks will cut interest rates.</p><p>But in the speculative world of crypto trading, explanations given by analysts for changes in bitcoin&#39;s price can snowball into market narratives that can become self-fulfilling.</p><h2 id=\"id_2480998271\" style=\"text-align: start;\">WHAT ABOUT PREVIOUS HALVINGS?</h2><p>There&#39;s no evidence to suggest that previous halvings have caused bitcoin&#39;s price to rise.</p><p>Still, traders and miners have studied past halvings to try and gain an edge.</p><p>When the last halving happened on May 11, 2020, the price rose around 12% in the following week.</p><p>Later in the year, bitcoin began a sharp rally, but there were lots of explanations - including loose monetary policy and stay-at-home retail investors spending spare cash on cryptocurrencies - for this and no real evidence the halving was behind it.</p><p class=\"t-img-caption\"><img src=\"https://community-static.tradeup.com/news/1d0577cfecee557134cc058bdb9d4917\" alt=\"Reuters Graphics\" title=\"Reuters Graphics\" tg-width=\"1420\" tg-height=\"1000\"/><span>Reuters Graphics</span></p><p>An earlier halving occurred in July 2016. 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This makes mining less profitable and slows the production of new bitcoins.WHEN WILL IT HAPPEN?There is no set date, but it is expected to take place in late April.The blockchain is designed so that a halving occurs every time 210,000 blocks are added to the chain. This means it happens roughly every four years.WHAT'S IT GOT TO DO WITH BITCOIN'S PRICE?Some bitcoin enthusiasts say that bitcoin's scarcity gives it value.The lower the supply of a commodity, then all other things being equal the price should rise when people try and buy more.So reducing supply of bitcoin should lift the price, some analysts and traders say.Others dispute the logic, noting that any impact would have already been factored in to the current price.The supply of bitcoin to the market is also largely down to crypto miners but the sector is opaque, with data on inventories and supplies scarce.If miners sell their reserves, that could put downward pressure on prices.Knowing what is behind a crypto rally is hard, not least as there is far less transparency about who is buying and why relative to other markets.The most common reason given for this year's surge is the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's January approval of bitcoin ETFs, as well as expectations that central banks will cut interest rates.But in the speculative world of crypto trading, explanations given by analysts for changes in bitcoin's price can snowball into market narratives that can become self-fulfilling.WHAT ABOUT PREVIOUS HALVINGS?There's no evidence to suggest that previous halvings have caused bitcoin's price to rise.Still, traders and miners have studied past halvings to try and gain an edge.When the last halving happened on May 11, 2020, the price rose around 12% in the following week.Later in the year, bitcoin began a sharp rally, but there were lots of explanations - including loose monetary policy and stay-at-home retail investors spending spare cash on cryptocurrencies - for this and no real evidence the halving was behind it.Reuters GraphicsAn earlier halving occurred in July 2016. 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That was the same month Musk decided to rename the company X, ignoring conventional branding wisdom and the wishes of CEO Linda Yaccarino. Compared to the same period last year, just prior to Musk&#39;s $44 billion takeover, downloads are down 18%.</p><p style=\"text-align: left;\">It&#39;s one of the worst showings of interest in the app since before it went public in 2013. Twitter has gained usually 15 million to 30 million users a month since 2011, according to filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. It gained just 10 million users between August and September of this year.</p><p style=\"text-align: left;\">Downloads of the app fell in nearly every country where Twitter, or X, is available, including its biggest markets like the US, UK, and Japan, according to Apptopia. Visits to the web version of X, which still operates as twitter.com, fell since the start of the year, with global web traffic down 10% in August and US traffic down 15%, compared to a year ago, according to an analysis by Similarweb.</p><p style=\"text-align: left;\">Usage of the app also slipped on a daily and monthly basis, with millions fewer people opening the app regularly. So far in September, daily users are down to 249 million, a roughly 2% decrease since July when daily users were at nearly 253 million. Monthly users are down by about the same percentage, now at 393 million users from 398 million in July.</p><p style=\"text-align: left;\">Musk has said he expects Twitter to reach 1 billion users a month by 2024. To reach that goal, he will have to find a way in the next few months to almost triple the number of monthly users. More recently, the billionaire admitted the company as a whole &#34;may fail.&#34;</p><p style=\"text-align: left;\">After Musk took over the app last October, downloads and usage surged after remaining relatively flat throughout the months between his offer to buy the company in April and the deal officially closing in late October. Usage dipped early this year to around 249 million users per day. Although usage began to pick up again in April, daily and monthly users have been on a steady decline since late May, when daily users peaked at 252 million, Apptopia data shows.</p><p style=\"text-align: left;\">Musk has dramatically cut staff since his takeover, including conducting further layoffs this week to X&#39;s trust and safety team, leaving only a few such workers to oversee content at the company, according to a person familiar with the company who asked to remain anonymous for fear of retribution. Meanwhile, advertisers continue to avoid X, decimating its business.</p><p style=\"text-align: left;\">The apparent decline in downloads coincides with Musk&#39;s ongoing changes and politically charged use of the app. Most days, Musk himself becomes a trending topic on X, leading it to become more of a platform about its billionaire owner than a place for keeping up with a day&#39;s events or broad public conversation.</p><p style=\"text-align: left;\">Musk has reveled in promoting false information, overseen and allowed a rise in antisemitic commentary, and changed the algorithm to promote posts and comments of paid subscribers over all else. Musk in turn has lambasted and sued third parties critical of how the site has changed under his leadership.</p><p style=\"text-align: left;\">A representative of X did not respond to a request for comment. 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That was the same month Musk decided to rename the company X, ignoring conventional branding wisdom and the wishes of CEO Linda Yaccarino. Compared to the same period last year, just prior to Musk's $44 billion takeover, downloads are down 18%.It's one of the worst showings of interest in the app since before it went public in 2013. Twitter has gained usually 15 million to 30 million users a month since 2011, according to filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. It gained just 10 million users between August and September of this year.Downloads of the app fell in nearly every country where Twitter, or X, is available, including its biggest markets like the US, UK, and Japan, according to Apptopia. Visits to the web version of X, which still operates as twitter.com, fell since the start of the year, with global web traffic down 10% in August and US traffic down 15%, compared to a year ago, according to an analysis by Similarweb.Usage of the app also slipped on a daily and monthly basis, with millions fewer people opening the app regularly. So far in September, daily users are down to 249 million, a roughly 2% decrease since July when daily users were at nearly 253 million. Monthly users are down by about the same percentage, now at 393 million users from 398 million in July.Musk has said he expects Twitter to reach 1 billion users a month by 2024. To reach that goal, he will have to find a way in the next few months to almost triple the number of monthly users. More recently, the billionaire admitted the company as a whole \"may fail.\"After Musk took over the app last October, downloads and usage surged after remaining relatively flat throughout the months between his offer to buy the company in April and the deal officially closing in late October. Usage dipped early this year to around 249 million users per day. Although usage began to pick up again in April, daily and monthly users have been on a steady decline since late May, when daily users peaked at 252 million, Apptopia data shows.Musk has dramatically cut staff since his takeover, including conducting further layoffs this week to X's trust and safety team, leaving only a few such workers to oversee content at the company, according to a person familiar with the company who asked to remain anonymous for fear of retribution. Meanwhile, advertisers continue to avoid X, decimating its business.The apparent decline in downloads coincides with Musk's ongoing changes and politically charged use of the app. Most days, Musk himself becomes a trending topic on X, leading it to become more of a platform about its billionaire owner than a place for keeping up with a day's events or broad public conversation.Musk has reveled in promoting false information, overseen and allowed a rise in antisemitic commentary, and changed the algorithm to promote posts and comments of paid subscribers over all else. Musk in turn has lambasted and sued third parties critical of how the site has changed under his leadership.A representative of X did not respond to a request for comment. An automated reply to the company's media contact line said, \"Busy now, please check back later.\"","news_type":1},"isVote":1,"tweetType":1,"viewCount":48,"authorTweetTopStatus":1,"verified":2,"comments":[],"imageCount":0,"langContent":"EN","totalScore":0}],"lives":[]}