Bitcoin Core developer Luke-jr has delivered an April Fools Day joke for Bitcoin customers, lobbying for a market-wide minimal Bitcoin value of $50,000.

Combating ‘Unreasonably Low Prices’

In what’s going to possible turn into one of many extra common gags for this yr’s occasion, which historically sees crypto-related media and social media flooded with industry-specific pretend information, Luke-jr determined present Bitcoin value ranges should finish.

To resolve the state of affairs, the community ought to settle for two Bitcoin Enchancment Proposals (BIPs) to engineer a minimal value for BTC/USD of $50,000.

“Certain parts of the community have been selling bitcoins for unreasonably low prices. This has halted Bitcoin’s valuation at $20k and even driven the price down below $15k!” he wrote in a round to the Bitcoin Core mailing listing.

Nonetheless, clearly Bitcoin is price way more than that, and there may be widespread help for increased costs. In mild of this, I’ve written and applied two BIPs: one so as to add a signed value discipline to Bitcoin transactions, and the opposite to softfork a minimal value of $50ok USD/BTC a yr from at present.

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The information will little doubt delight the rising numbers of Bitcoin holders who’ve chosen to build up and ‘HODL’ by means of the cryptocurrency’s longest-ever bear market.

Regardless of Bitcoin value hitting $4000 from 19-month lows of $3100 final month, sentiment stays divided over its short-term future.

As Bitcoinist reported, some figures stay assured that Bitcoin dropping beneath $3000 is unlikely, whereas others are extra cautious, arguing the bear market will solely definitively reverse when BTC/USD falls nearer to $1000.

A change in code, Luke-jr argues, would take away such uncertainty and complications for devoted buyers.

“This problem can be fixed by setting a global minimum price for bitcoins,” he continued.

Sadly, at present, the consensus protocol is totally oblivious to the value bitcoins are traded at. Subsequently, we should first add a discipline to Bitcoin transactions to point their value.

Moon Coded In Stone?

The developer was not alone in his concerted celebration of April 1.

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Throughout the {industry}, companies and customers alike have been contributing to the unlikely circulate of breaking information, which has included Blockstream supporting Ethereum and Satoshi Nakamoto returning to Bitcointalk to substantiate he isn’t Craig Wright.

Craig Wright, in flip, has beforehand sought to substantiate he’s Nakamoto, the inventor of Bitcoin. Famously outspoken, the controversial persona stop Twitter late final month.

In the meantime, past the realm of fiction, Bitcoin buyers could but see a reversal of fortunes across the time of Luke-jr’s would-be $50,000 activation date of April 1, 2020.

As Bitcoinist reported, momentum is constructing round a concept that the Bitcoin block reward halving, set for Might that yr, will start to push up the Bitcoin value a yr upfront.

This, analysis has famous, can be in keeping with habits witnessed round a yr previous to Bitcoin’s earlier halvings.

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