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Bitcoin ‘Halving’ 2020: What Will the Price of Bitcoin Be?

Posted on mei 31, 2018 by Blockchain News

The halving, the 50 percent reduction in block rewards on the Bitcoin blockchain, is only two years away. Unless there is an abnormal change in hashrate, the reward for successful Bitcoin miners will drop from 12.5 to 6.25 BTC per block in May 2020. The burning question is what effect will the block reward reduction have on the price of Bitcoin?


A Little Bit of History

Bitcoin is less than a decade old. Thus, history might not paint a complete picture. However, historical patterns and trends are an excellent place to begin any price analysis. There have been two Bitcoin halvings: 2012 and 2016. Halvings occur every four years or after 210,000 blocks have been mined.

Both halving events have happened before significant bull runs. Whether the price rallies occurred as a consequence of the block reward reduction is unknown. A year after the 2012 halving, BTC price rose to $1,000 in November. At the time, it was the highest ever recorded price for the number one cryptocurrency. A year after the 2016 halving, Bitcoin also reached another record milestone. BTC prices rallied to an all-time high of $19,500 in mid-December 2017.

Bitcoin halving chart

Halving and Bitcoin Price

The historical pattern shows Bitcoin prices booming one year after each previous halving. However, history doesn’t always paint a complete picture when it comes to the cryptocurrency market. Case in point, the anticipated Consensus price rally failed to happen this year even after many leading experts made bold predictions.

If there is indeed any correlation between halving and price, it might lie in the former’s effect on hashrate and stability. In a nutshell, the question isn’t how halving might affect prices but how it might affect miners. Reduction in block reward means a decrease in revenue for miners, especially if the mining difficulty remains significantly unchanged.

A lot depends on the price of Bitcoin in the months leading up to the halving as well as the transaction volume on the network. Miners earn fees for facilitating transactions in addition to the block rewards for their mining efforts. If Bitcoin prices rise high enough to offset whatever the halving might cause in revenue drop, then the odds are that hashrate will not change significantly.

Halving and Hashrate

Commenting on the potential impact of halving on BTC price, Garrick Hileman, the research head at Blockchain said that:

Cryptocurrency markets are often very event-driven, and as we get closer to the next halving bitcoin’s price will receive a boost from those anticipating the forthcoming reduction in new supply. In the months leading up to the last two halving events, we saw bitcoin’s price steadily trend upward, and then power higher following the reward halving.

Hileman also went on to say that a significant change in mining hashrate due to the halving was unlikely. He went on further to say:

Miners have historically shown a willingness to maintain or increase computing power through halving events because they expect future bitcoin price increases to offset the reduced block reward.

Do you think the 2020 halving will have any significant impact on the price of Bitcoin? What are your 2020 Bitcoin price predictions? Let us know your thoughts in the comment section below.


Images courtesy of Blockchain.info and Shutterstock.

The post Bitcoin ‘Halving’ 2020: What Will the Price of Bitcoin Be? appeared first on Bitcoinist.com.


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