It's definitely been a major rise in the past week or two, and I for one wouldn't want to not be investing right now. Even if it goes back down after the rally, chances are there is a lot of money to be made from the increase alone. Definitely a good time to invest, if only for a little while.

Well, what else can they do?

Everyone has their price, their opinion, and their ability to manipulate the value of Bitcoin. All it takes is a few bears getting together and you can see the price go wherever they want it to go.

What did they change their name to? I wasn't aware they had changed it and I was also wondering why they disappeared from my regular exchange visits.

More people will come in and try to take their own share if some people start to get themselves too involved with the whole thing.

I'm excited for more exchanges opening up that are actually decentralized, and I think this will be good in the long run.

They're not Unicorns, that implies that none of them exist.

I personally think they're more like giant squid. They exist, somewhere, and we've seen them before, caught them, but they are a one in a million chance to just see them.

I would be really skeptical of that price estimate, but if there is more data to back that up then be my guest.

The price doesn't look like it is moving at all, and there seems to be absolutely zero momentum with the value to crank it above $455 by tomorrow.

If the price can move above $460 in the next week or so, I'd be surprised. There is nothing at all to move the price.

Well I'm glad to see Craig didn't manage to destroy the value, maybe we'll be seeing a few people coming to Bitcoin with a new interest in it, or just out of plain curiosity.

Maybe we can get more people coming out of the woodwork and start claiming they're Satoshi, I wouldn't mind seeing this trend continue 

I think that that Satoshi Nakamoto was probably one of the chillest people I've ever seen in the Bitcoin economy, and I'd glad he didn't try to snag power for himself by claiming he was something he's not. He seems like a man of integrity, and I wish him well in his life.

As for Craig, however...

Well the entire "support" system for it revolves around making applications for it (and I think there's a bit of mining involved at some point in the production chain), so it primarily benefits coders and people who can develop applications. Anyone else who is interested isn't able to get very far because of this.

ETH only spiked in value because there was a movement with Bitcoin we'll see it as a secondary currency investors will move to in the event of dips with Bitcoin, but it will never reach the point of being a legitimate rival to Bitcoin, primarily because it is driven entirely through speculation and not through actual application.

It's probably a better choice to be bearish when it comes to investing in ETH, it was looking very weak until the last week, and I wouldn't be surprised if there is a drop again in the near future. It might be worth getting into Ethereum and start hyping it once it drops next, but I would be skeptical at this point. A lot of this would just come down to timing and making the right investments at the right time.

I just think this is absolutely insane and completely unprecedented, considering Bitcoin is up something like $100 over the course of three days, this is probably going to end up being the second biggest upward trend in Bitcoin's history as of this far, dwarfed only by the rise back in 2013.

If the momentum keeps going like this, we might see over $650 before the halving, and, depending on how the market decides it wants to move, it might break $800. I'm quite hyped up for the next few weeks.

Holy shit I think some exchanges might break $600 today, we'll have to see where China wants to take the value but having the average breaking $593 means there's a lot of buying going on somewhere and this is probably going to impact all the other markets. We're going back to 2013 values bois.

I can't wait to see where the train ends.

Fuck I should actually be getting in on this right now, but I'd have to set everything up and send the funds to buy, so I guess I'll just have to watch all this easy money slip away... FeelsBadMan.

Maybe I'll get around to buying in a bit, or wait till the next halving, but I won't let more opportunities like this slip away.

If only. I would definitely start counting my Bitcoin and start looking at the big numbers in my wallet, and seriously wonder if I should exchange my Bitcoin before the halving if it was to go that high.

In all seriousness though, a lot of people would start giving Bitcoin a lot of attention if the Bitcoin value was to end up going that high. I'm sure some governments would start prioritizing legislation.

Hopefully not, but it definitely wasn't the worst year for Bitcoin at all.

2015 was the worst year for Bitcoin overall, with a low value, minimal community engagement and mostly stagnation within the growth and development of the technology that lead to zero progress being made. This year wouldn't be able to be the worst year for Bitcoin, assuming it only went as low as $250 again this year, because we made progress and got the community engaged with a lot of stuff happening over the past 5 and 1/2 months.

I don't know how many of your guys remember what happened years ago, but there were a lot of people that bought Bitcoin for $68X+ to $700, and there are a lot of people that are going to want to sell their Bitcoin and get their money back. Small dips at this point are somewhat expected, and the market will be relatively stagnant around this point. All the old coins will have to be sold off before the price keeps moving upwards.

Hahahaha

I guess that would be one way that they could potentially remain connected to the internet, but even if we cut them off I'm sure they'd find some way to skirt around our attempts and still maintain connectivity.

Personally the referendum was great to watch, and I had fun watching the emotional rollercoaster that was the brexit. Truly a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.

Personally I hope you're right, and I eagerly await the day that Bitcoin becomes $6,000/Bitcoin. I don't think that'll be for a long time yet, personally, but if you're right and we hit that sometime soon I will gladly eat my words.

I think if Bitcoin hit $6k though, we might see more widespread interest and involvement from investors and maybe even countries, considering that Bitcoin would be worth >$100B in a total market cap.

They have always been really weird, but Coinbase always seems to have a wider spread than most other exchanges regardless. I rarely see Coinbase showing a value similar to the spot price on other exchanges. Not sure why this is, but that's just something with their market. I'm thinking it has something to do with the volume.
BTC-E is showing something close to $69 below Bitfinex, but we all know the reason for that.