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The stability would bring constancy which would shut down Uncle Ben's argument, but wouldn't it be boring?

What do you think?

It is unlikely to happen. Too much going on in the cryptoscene to get another stagnant phase of 2 years.

Either it will go down slowly again, or we will start rising again to challenge the 500+ region yet again.

Nope will not happens, maybe bitcoin price could stuck between 310-340$ for the next few days/weeks but not for 2 years.
In my opinion we will see a change (up or down) in the middle of December

Now you are thinking way too negative. The block halving will definitely make sure we'll not stay at these price levels for long. Perhaps 1 year from now we will look back and rethink what we wrote here as the price then might be $1000.

nah even the the 230 long stagnation, was only for 10 months, not even 1 year

the price will not increase just because, it will increase for a reason, if there are no reason we will face another stagnation, but in 2016 there are reason for a good increase so it's utterly unlikely

Next year's halving will sure to have an impact on price, and until then there is still plenty of time for a lot more change in price.310$-340$ for next two years certainly does not look at all likely.

If it stays there, that means the price has stabilized.

I don't think it will be anywhere near that stable during the next two years. If it is that stable I think this forum will have almost no activity because most of us will be too bored with bitcoin to post here. The exchanges would lose most of their customers because the traders would have little chance of making money from a stable priced bitcoin. It would be good for shops though because they would have no concerns about losing money in crashes while they wait for their bitcoins to be converted to fiat.

Not going to happen. Two years is going to be a punishment for all of us that's expecting the price will be much better.
We're faithful and we always believe on bitcoin.

To answer your question in which most have failed to do so far, yes it will be really boring if it stays on that range, in a way that there would be no potential gainers from the so called pump group plus the traders and in the other hand it won't be boring because there would be a safety line for everyone who could just buy more BTCitcoins and let them to stay on their wallets for longer times in comparison to the current situation of the rapid price changes

i find it possible to retain to 400 for next 2 years its natural the china and europe are more consern on other issuses than coins and usa cant do much about it

That's will most likely not happen, since the cryto coin world is developing with pretty rapid speed with a lot of startups gaining a lot of capital from investments. A lot of buzz going on in bitcoin overall lately and block halving approaching next year and so on.
However I'd welcome this phase, it would not be boring since we could all rake up those cheap coins while they last.

well i guess more people would be interested in bitcoins then as nearly everyone likes the stability and no huge fluctuations

yeah i think so too if btc has stable price people might start investing not having a fear of it suddenly going down.
but i just wish bitcoin price increase a bit higher before the end of the year.

A $310-340 stagnation wouldn't mean stability. It would mean utter boredom. It's inevitable it would move in either direction. I don't think there's the appetite from many for much more tediousness so they'd jump ship.

I think we will stay around this price for a couple of weeks. Nothing seems to be happening right now, but 2 years?

No way, I am sure without a few months the price will reach a new year high, for the block halving..

No way, it will be like it was when sitting at 230$. Sitting, then suddenly the price raises. It is mainly due to increased trade volume. So now again, if 400% more trades & exchanges will happen the price will start fluctuating.

well bitcoin would be really boring then i believe that one of the aspects that keeps it on going is the fluctuation of the price

For me it would be awesome if that happened. It would give me the chance and the time to increase my holdings to a much higher level.
I doubt it will happen, especially if you're looking at btc-usd prices, because it's only a matter of time when usd will start nosediving, whereas bitcoin tends to go upward by time.

Bitcoin is for 95% a speculation object. It won't stay stable for a long time. Law of entropy.

It would be good for new users, but the nature of any trading asses is supply and demand, which makes the price rise or come into a decline.

If it is with normal % (like 25%) a year it is perfectly healthy. The curves of the last weeks though were not healthy.

I dont think so, halving, ETF, marketing... we touch 400$ on 2026

So it takes 11 years to rise another $80? I assume you're missing a zero in one direction or the other otherwise we may as well call it a day now.

It would not be lose for bitcoin in my eyes but it needs movement.
I mean stability is important thing all right but it is not reason why people keep buying btc.

The stability will probably cause widespread adoption, which will cause the price to rise making things go crazy again, lol.

That will never happen. Bitcoin is too tied into the events around the world and never stands idle so bitcoin will never. It will rise or go down. It can't stay at one price range of ~30 for more than 4 months maximum.

We already sit at 180-1200$ for 2 years. We should go up to 2-3k per coin. I don't know why whales are waiting, let's start that goddamn pump!

This should be the statement of the century for bitcoin.

We would slowly start drifting downwards post that.
A lot of speculators sitting on piles of bitcoins would start leaving.  :)

In leaving, you mean selling off their stockpiles of coins right?

I think for a stable price for 2 years, the actual price level is too low, or to high, as some already have pointed out. If Bitcoin's adoption grows, the price should rise. But if it fails to do so, or a real competitor is about to emerge, then probably many "hodlers" will cash out and price should be lower.

But what I see as a possibility are several months in this actual price range (300-360). That would mean that the mini-bubble has taken us to a new base level.

My prediction, for now, stays the same as in some other posts I made about this subject: 500-700 at the end of the year. May be too bullish, but I think it's still realistic.

If the bitcoin price remains the same even after the block reward halving more miners will quit and it would reduce the security of the bitcoin network.

There is no way for the price to stay $330 for two years now. The adoption will drive up the price gradually.

I doubt this will happen and stay around $300.

Bitcoin is adapting, it's growing.

Bitcoin volume is increasing in most countries. I think it will only take an economic event such as another Cyprus for the price to moon. Also, don't forget about the halving next year.

The Greece drama was good for bitcoin, and I think the drama is not over yet.

If they default again, it will most propably the end of the Greece membership and investors will lost confidence.

So yes i don't expect it to stay at 300 -  350 USD, a spike in the price will come.

We will stay at 310-340 $ for a while but not for long period.I think at about Xmas we will see again some speculation and price will keep increasing continuously slowly and after halving next year it will be stable at 500 $ or more.

i think that bitcoin would have more investors then

Price will boom soon and this is last chance to grab some to enter in new elite class which will be created by Bitcoin.This is bottom now for Bitcoin and it is still under valued.Price will be over 400 $ in couple of weeks in my opinion.

The price may stay in place only when the demand stops. Bitcoin become more popular with every day so this situation is impossible. Ok.. it is same possible as that you can stop time ;)

With the upcoming black halving it can never be stable for 2 years.

Either the rate stays the same and end of july miners step out.

Or the rate increases and we have a healty price.

It's likely that the price will increase. The only question is, how much. If the price goes up to around $500 and stays above that price, then the miners will surely not stop their hardware. I don't even think miners will stop their hardware if we only go up to $400 after the halving.

The S7,S5, S4 and even the S3 is profitable @ 400 USD. so yes i don't think we need 400 USD But 330 USD won't be to good either, remember the fee for electricity is also calculated in USD.

I am fairly sure there will be a peak that the miners are happy with. But I hope the price will not fall back to lower $300 range. As long as the generated coins that they mine are worth more than their expenses, they will continue. Especially if they haven't made their invested money back.

It will most affect the traders who do stuff in exchange for bitcoins .They will no more be interested in saving up the coins as the prices won't go up or down .The solution could be other coins ,if bit coins market becomes too stable alternate cryptocurrencies will be in demand

Staying at these prices for so much would mean that Bitcoin would probably have less variance than USD.  ;D
That would be really awesome ! People would stop staying that BTC is risky, and much more people would use it.

Easy answer.As long as the ecosystem would continue evolving and the fundamentals show in the right direction, I would have two more years to accumulate more coins for a very low price.
But I doubt this to happen. We will see increasing prices.Starting at the latest Q2 next year.

miners can mine even with $100 let alone 400, but only with the s7, so those that have still the s5 will leave the game

OP you made me laugh! :) I seriously believe that this won't ever happen! I mean we are talking about Bitcoin, don't you remember?

If price is this stable for 2 years, bitcoin will be the new gold standard. Everyone would use it to store value, merchants will price goods in bitcoin without changing the price every week. It will be good for bitcoin.

It would mean no new innovations too, and this is not good for the trust people have in bitcoin.

So no, we shouldn't want this to be happend. A steady rice of let's stay 2% per month is more then sufficient.

Stabillity is good but not in the bitcoin world, certainly not if you consider 2 years without any change.

Expect a rise to 400 before the halving. After the halving we may see a 500 usd figure again.

No we won't. In 9 months there'll be block prize halvening. Price will raise; around $500.

 :D very true haha.


It is already way better than gold for investors. It has almost the same amount of risk, just that it is more volatile which is good to make profits.
It is only bad for normal everyday life consumers. In which, they do not use bitcoins as an investment but as a currency.

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I honestly could see the a $300-400 price ranged for another two years.

The reality of the situation is that it looks like bitcoin will not be going mainstream, at least at this point.  The blockchain and future techs based on it is where the growth will come from at this point.  This is going to take longer than expected.  Bitcoin and the blockchain are game changers, but unlike the internet where there was no alternative, they have a long uphill battle.

We all know there will be bull runs and bear periods to come, going beyond the figures mentioned in this thread.  But a realistic value will be in the $300-400 range at this point and that is including the upcoming halving.

None of this is true, from either posters.  Stability for another 2 years will not make this the new gold standard.  Bitcoin will need long term stability (decades) before it can be considered a gold like standard to store wealth.

Nobody invests directly in gold, as that is not its purpose.  In terms of risk, gold will not drop to $0.00 at this point of our collective society, however bitcoin could die within a few years.

You are right! We are talking Bitcoin....  where crazy, unexpected things happen, that no one believes can happen.

Everyone is either waiting for $0 (bears) or moon (bulls).

Right now, no one is expecting a stabilizing at $350, haha!

Demand will only increase, which automatically translates to a higher price. You should look back at this thread 2 year later when the price might even be far above $1K per coin. You'll probably have a laugh and happily look at the coins in your wallet that has exploded in value :) We will definitely not stay at these levels for very long.

No way not gonna happen its gonna go up or down nuff said

Staying at $310 to $340 would not really incentivize miners to continue, once the halving continues.

The price will not stabilize at that amount, for sure. It'll either increase from the increased activity surrounding the halving, or it will decrease when people realize that miners dropped out.

Two years is a lot of time.

even if it stays at 310-340 for 2 more years that is still great news.  stability is not a bad thing.  people who buy bitcoin for speculation thinking they will be rich tomorrow usually buy it at the peak of a pump and regret it when they sell a month later at a loss.  thats how whales make their money.

I'd doubt we're gonna sit at $310-$340 for 2 more years.

Look at what happened this year, if you only look at this year you can see that this year wasn't that bad.

Right now we're at a stable $300.

The price might be stable around $325 for two more month. It will rise after new year after more news about adoption.

Two years stagnation is quite unlikely. Maybe prices will go down a bit (if the EU "crackdown" will be too rough), but the block halving or some good news surely going to push the price up.

This is quite a likely scenario but I still hope that the course will move closer to 400 USD. But more than that I'd rate bound in 500 USD but do not fully understand the situation in the financial sector in the next two years  ;)

Here's a tinfoil scenario where it *could* happen, even though none of you want this to play out.

1: Mainstream doesn't give 2 farts about Bitcoin.  They'll never adopt it unless there's a killer app, like starbucks points on their phones.  No killer app development occurs for at least 2 years and mainstream continues to ignore BTC.  This contributes to a ceiling on the price, via free market forces.  I believe pretty much anyone who wants BTC is already in the game, to some extent.

2: Some big-wallst-whale-gov-central-bank, or similar powerful org wants to take over the long-term purpose of Bitcoin and use it for it's own objectives, with requirement of stability in the $310-$340 range. With effectively unlimited access to fiat, via the printing press, or other fiat mechanism, they fill any sell order below $310, essentially setting a permanent floor to the price.

3: Along with free-market, gov manipulation through propaganda, threat of KYC fees & laws, banning, etc, along with surreptitious sell pressure, big gov can't guarantee permanent ceiling, but are currently powerful enough to manipulate price where they want for 24 months.

So far I've not been proven wrong about the stability since 48 hours.

I wonder how long until I'll be proven wrong? :D

I don't see this happen at all. Especially since we are at a key point for bitcoin.

The current price is not a safe price. It will go up or it will go down within a month or 2. Of that i am quite certain.

Not gonna happen, Bitcoin is most probably staying volatile.

Everything is possible with Bitcoin. The price went below $200 in the beginning of the year. Every one said it would never go sub $200 anymore. And it still happened. That just shows that Bitcoin is doing what it wants regardless of what we think.

Yes indeed, and there is no harm in that. Well there is a little harm if we experience this big high's and immediate market corrections again and again.

a 20% annual growth is more then enough. However, the whales think different..

Volatility means insecurity. But not with bitcoin. With bitcoin it means some big holders/whales are speculation with lot's of money.

Again there is no event or signal that this rise would happen, or even hold...

The Bitcoin price will stay volatile,  but the general trend is up, like it did in the past 6 years.

2 years ? very long period . It will rise or go down. Cant be constant

if that really happen i think that is good news and it mean the bitcoin price is stable because as long i know the bitcoin price never stable

OK with me.  Finally we get some stability.

When the price of bitcoin rises further, the market cap will be much larger. It is more difficult for whales to manipulate the market.

The stability may be temperary. There will be the halving coming, the price could rise dramatically in the next few months.

Current price is 430$+ Update the thread title.

This is not going to happen. Within a few weks we will see some action.
Either it goes up,or it goes down.

I think it's still interesting, but I hope it will not happen, when seen from now, the price of bitcoin will be higher, plus the addition of users most of whom are investors, and if there are changes in the economy in a country can also affect the price of bitcoin be increased , so it probably will happen in a very long time

This could be a possibility,but looking bad at the charts, it's very unlikely.
Bitcoin is a wild (volatile) currency. For some reason it can't stay at the same level for over 1 month, let alone 2 years.

In a way it's decided by what investors want to do with bitcoin. There is no way the prices we see are supply and demand...

The minute Bitcoin starts to lose value and keeps it downtrend it's finished. Bitcoin has been growing year by year so the price can't really remain stable or decrease because if there's more adoption and demand, the price should always increase unless there's a dramatic event that makes it tumble. That's to me is clear. The real problem though is that I don't think Bitcoin has found a real demand from common people yet, either to buy digital goods or to send money overseas, the usability it's just not there yet for the average person. If this continues to happen and Bitcoin doesn't evolve it may face troubled times.

Sure some improvements can be made:
A better wallet
More merchants
More ATM's

But let's face it, which crypto currency is competing against bitcoin and really does have a chance?

Could be like all of this these things could be.
But my prediction is we will see some price rally within 3-4 months.
I hope even sooner.

I don't think so to see price sitting somewhere around this range what you just said in title.There is some sort of stability in price at over 400 $ for some period.Honestly we need not sit for 2 more years to get that consistency at what you referred.We see more stability and consistency even at higher prices which will be seen in this year.

My dream is that bitcoin stays at current level for a decade or more. All smart asses would finally be muted.

for the last 3 weeks the price of bitcoin has been ranging between $400-$430. I dont see it changing so soon. Bitcoin will be used more when theres merchants accepting it. im using it, because I can buy almost anything with it.

i am very pleased with the price remaining fairly stable in the last days. i also can't see the price go much lower. i hope to see a slow growth to the $500 level. that would be nice.

I don't belive we will ser the coin at such a low value. We have to remeber Bitcoin doesn't have any 'real' kind of competition - the price would be more stable, and eventualy increase, how much? Nobody could tell.

Bitcoin's past track record doesn't support this.
Whenever you have periods of relative stability people start speculating whether this is BTC's equilibrium value.
But we know what happens next.  ;)

Better than 2 years of fall. Don't lose is a win at this point

If that happen I will just stop doing bitcoin for 2 years and just hold it.
With that I will lose a lot of money if that happens. But I doubt that bitcoin will just go around 310 to 350 dollars.

I don't think this is likely to happen. Bitcoin market is always on the move, bitcoin is already at a $450 right now.
I doubt that bitcoin will stay at this rate for longer than a month.
Even it does stay at a $310 for 2 years, it would be stable which is good and not that bad at all.

Finally there is some action.
Like i thought it would the price is going up again. The whales are still focused on getting bitcoin to where it belongs..

500 Dollar.

Well bitcoin going to be that amount than that is fine with me.
But I don't really know what will happen with people if that happens if they still want to use bitcoin.

Unlikely to happen since bitcoin keeps going up or down on a daily basis.

I wouldn't see this as a bad thing either though, it would mean that bitcoin is at a stable price.

The price is not too stable. The recent price range is from $320-$470. It might rise when there is a consensus of block size.

Everybody would be happy because of the stability. It would be boring indeed, especially for daytraders.

How do you know it can't stay stable? It's not a bad thing for the price to be stable in the first place and if nothing relevant happens bitcoin can stay at 300-400 range easily through this year and it would actually be a good thing for bitcoin.

If the price stayed at those levels for more than 2 years, it could mean a collpase in the Industry. If the mining industry couldn't keep up, Bitcoin would much probably be dead.

it's a difficult balance, but if the price is stable, it happens. very difficult to guess the price of the current bitcoin, it could become a reality

That's a lie, bitcoin was at 1200$ and went to 200$ and didn't die because mining regulates itself, if the price is too low the difficulty will eventually be low too, it doesn't really matter what the price is.

this does not make any sense, the diff was no where near the current diff, so of course at 200 there was still profit, huge profit actually, and at 1200 it was simply overkill, if we talk about miners profit

No one can guess exactly the expected future price of bitcoins. It is totally depend upon many market conditions. But I also do not think it would be around $300 levels. In 2 years we can expect it to go above $2000 price levels.

Too high 2000$! For me a fair price is about 500$ (in a range from 350 to 700$)

based on what? ass assumptions? the marketcap is so tiny that right now bitcoin is not worth anything, 500 is massively undervalued, not even an argument

hell even 2k is massively undervalued, real value should be in the range of 1T at least, for the marketcap

hold on. Until the adoption stays at the current levels, $500 is not undervalued by any means (unless you bought shortly before Mt. Gox collapse).
Market cap reflects what people are willing to put in the currency that is strongly manipulated by speculators and is for now far way from being adopted by the average Joe to pay for his daily grocery shopping. 

I think 20% price volatility is regarded as stable for the bitcoin for the next few years. After that, may be 10% price volatility is normal.

It is definitely not going to stay around that for two years. I think that it may stay around $380 though.

We know that the price is not permanent even the price is going 310-340 i think we will still using it because the price is not stable and there still possibility that the price will increase again.. its just like year ago.. I always believe in bitcoin and there is a potencial that the bitcoin will be high value like gold...

Buyers of bitcoin does not give a shit about how much it costs to mine coins. They just care if they think the price if fair or not. Even if the block rewards go to 1 satoshi per block, if people don't want to spend more than $10 dollars per bitcoin, then they won't do so.

It'll be up to the miners to think of ways to stay profitable, or go bust. All that will happen is that mining difficulty will go down. There's absolutely no reason for buyers of bitcoins to worry about whether mining is profitable for the miners.

if they believe that 1 bitcoin is worth 10% then they are actually saying that bitcoin is useless for them, so better to not buy coin in any case, they are fooling themselves

when the value will skyrocket in the future, you will see that even the average joe will jump in no matter the price, they will buy small amount

those that lose money usually jump always when the price begin to skyrocket

At any hard situation it not gonna sit within the $310 - $340. There are possibilities for general bump down and up over these values but not gonna be settled over these after 2 r more years

No, I agree with you on that. When (if) the value skyrockets, there will be a lot of people joining the bandwagon.

But that's not what I'm talking about. I'm simply saying, that the cost of mining has no affect on the price of bitcoins. Rather, it's the price of bitcoins that dictates the cost of mining. Does that make sense?

yeah it make perfect sense, in fact the diff increase after the value increase not the opposite

but if we take into account the chinese miners manipulation, that don't want to see their business go out of profit, maybe it can be connected in some other way

True, because $380 is a strong support and $420 is the strongest resistance these days...
And it is breaking $380 below because of that cryptsy theft due to which many lost their coins and many lost their faith in BTC...

The present situation of bitcoin is not that bad to reach a value between 310$ - 340$
If it happens also it won't stay for a long time period of 2 years
390$ - 410$ can be expected to be stable for a long time

If the Core team agree with a block size rise soon without any conditions, the price will go up very fast.

It is I do not happen so quickly. It does have a low value, but does not mean that later become more valuable.
I think that the value will rise but not as fast.

Yes the price increases but there also the miners are getting affected. Now also many miners dropping mining process due to increased power price. So once again mining gets affected which will reduce the bitcoin price

It will  mean that bitcoin achieve price stability if  that will  happen btc wll be recognised like a currency and will be in worldwde use

I agree, if Core shows agreement then fears will calm down and the price will adjust overnight.

If that happens I'vee bee slightly dissapointed, but ultimately that won't mean it will be a failure either so that would be nice

Think honestly. I think it will be worth more later.
You really need patience. Quietly wait and see what happens.

I think it's good the price is stable around 380ish.
I am sure the price eventually will go up or down, but it's good to see some stability at last.

That is just a consolidation or because people are selling bitcoin to buy Ethereum. But the Ethereum bubble might burst soon.

$310 to $340 is less then 10% range - that's unlikely to hold for 2 years, given not only the bitcoin history so far, but also the history of other assets.

The trading range for EUR-USD, the world's most traded currency pair has been 1.05 to 1.40 over the last 2 years - that's 34%.

ethereum has nothing to do with the bitcoin price being fairly stable at current price level. ethereum is being heavily manipulated by a few people that already had huge loads of coins. i have been looking at the market action of ethereum the last days. and it just shows that some wealthy guys are buying and selling their own coins generating these insane volumes. classic manipulation tactics.

Nope, it will rise more and more each day, since its not stable yet, more places accept BTC as payment now

It is stable on where it sits right now.. so probably we'll see a price increase soon, and the $310 - $340 for 2 more years is still far from happening, although there is a possibility..  :)

The upcomming block halving will make the price surely go to at least $600 this year. Everything higher than $600 is a nice extra for us. My target is $600-$1000 for this year.

The halving could double the price. The block size increase will also double the price. So the price could be $1500 or higher.

It would bring more people and that's it, because if BTC will be stable for some time, people will like it more

Everything is correct but $1500 in this year i dont think so that it will jump so high, $600 is ok which can be achieve in this year, which  incommon sense is ok because market should also accept this much high price. If their is suddenly very good news then we can expect $1000 price in this year.

yes thats the trademark of a stable organization and i think if the price remains same it will win the trust of preople

It would be really nice, you wouldn't need to check price or speculation each time you wanna buy/sell them
 

it would maybe be nice for people who are holding bitcoin as store of wealth. they will then not need to worry about the volatility in the price. but for investors it will be not fun and as result they will leave and most likely not come back. the volatility is what makes bitcoin very interesting for traders. it gives them the opportunity to make great profits.

People who only save bitcoin or cash, the price at $310 - $340 seems to be really good. They don't expect anything. One who makes his living with bitcoin will suffer if it lasts for two years. Now such scenario won't happen.

Time will tell. I believe people will start hoarding coins just before the block halving. That, plus the speculation on top of that will raise the price significantly.

would be nice tofinnaly see stable bitcoin, more people would use it, but a lot of btc users would stop becouse they only sell/buy them, not use

Personally, i would not mind if Bitcoin stays at this price level for a while. It would encourage merchants and regular ppl to start using it.

if it happens, it does not matter, what matters is the price of the dollar at that time, probably at that $ 1 has been very valuable and can buy a lot of things, and if prices remain above $ 300 bitcoin, bitcoin might have a high value in society

That is not going to happen. The price will rise later and maybe it will be more worth later. I think it will rise in the future.
But Bitcoin is a currency and you never know what can happen in the future. It also can happen something bad and that is not good.

Yes. I think the price stability is the key to the adoption by merchants. They can mark the price tag with bitcoin instead of fiat.

Yeah, 2 years would be a plenty of times so they could hold enough coins in lower price, but might also affect other bitcoin users specially those who have been here years ago or those who bought when price is high..  :)

I think than that I will stop with Bitcoin and wait just for 2 years. It has now a very low value and nobody like it.
Maybe we need a little bit more patience, and see what is going to happen with the price of Bitcoin in the future.

I think I will forget about the bitcoin and hold the bitcon price for the long term. I believe it will rise in the next 10 years.

Good projection - i have a gut feel about the same thing. A significant change by December.

i don't think this can happen anytime soon. but if it happens there is always other options in cryptos to invest and they will go up and down for profiting.

no one can really forget bitcoin and not keep an eye on the price for longer than a week or so. especially when the majority of the people expect big action in the price the comming years. if i try to forget about bitcoin, then i can force myself to not look at anything bitcoin related for around a week. but then i have to look at the price and what the news is lately.

That's impossible i think it will not happen in the future if you see the old chart the value of bitcoin is low. while we are increase population using bitcoin the value will increase. every year the price of bitcoin i gradually increase and i think it will never break or down again below 300..

stable bitcoin? would be awesome for while, more stores would accept them now, also less buyer/sellers for profit

I think the bottom of bitcoin will be around $350 in the next few month, that is the mining cost of big miners.

So the miners will not sell below their mining cost. That could be a good base for the near term price.

Some miners are not mining for profit. They can just use the mining to heat their home or just a hobby.

We will never see $340 in the future. It is the mining cost of most people in the western world.

Staying at these prices? it will not happen because the price always move up or down in every seconds.

How is that?
The next generation of miners will come soon, these will make the current set of miners not needed anymore.

But no bitcoin value is not ready yet for stability. There is just too much happening for that.

A lot of good things could happen, first of all stores would accept them, second, people would use them and third, maybe even countires will use it

That cant happen. It will always change from value. So that is very hard to predict. I hope more people will also use Bitcoin.
But you can already see now that the value is rising. And that is good for the people who already made an investment.

It will never gone right. Bitcoin will go up, i believe it. Since trading is very in a loss these days, so we should can wait a little for this. Bitcoin will never sat at price of $310-$340 more. It will go up.  :)

I think the price will never go below $350 again. We just need to be patient. The price will be higher later this year.

The days of $310-340 are long gone. The price will never reach level again. In a few months, the price will be permanently higher than $400.

yeah it would be borring for buyers/sellers, no price rises/drops, but think about positive things, people would start to use it as curency because it would have no chances to die

As said only few users get involved with much attention and the other try to come out and try to go for some other technology which develops same as our bitcoin.

You are right. Since a little change is seeing in price and trading. The chances of price going up is seems to be increasing day by day.  :)

Stability is not a bad thing,the more stable bitcoin is the more likely it is to become mainstream

Anything is possible in bitcoins, and if it go that low, then we need to wait till it rise again, as we don't see any other option available, only patience would be the key to success.

That will not happen. I think that it will rise later in the future. And the halving is also coming, so that is very good.
Bitcoin will always change from value and that is hard to predict for what is going to happen with the value.

Plenty of people would love to see the price reaches a point of stock-like stability. The negative thing of that is that a lot wealthy traders are stepping in the Bitcoin market because of how volatile the price is. Will they still keep their money in Bitcoin if the price doesn't bounce up and down heavily? I really don't know. Money is what these traders are looking for. But then again, if the price is very stable it will most likely attract wealthy people who are looking to use Bitcoin as store of value.

If we are to be with a price $310-$340, everyone will be waiting for a increase in price. Users know the value won't be stable over a range for a long time. By situation if it happens the bitcoin loses the reality and nature of its origin. We can understand someone has taken a control over it.

I am in bitcoin for quite some time now and i haven't seen the price stable for more then 3 months. So no i don't expect this to happen.
At most the price could stay around the same for a period of 1 month.

Started following bitcoin a year or so ago. In that time there was never a period where there was something called stability.
In that regard it is safe to say the price can go up and down but not settle for a longer period of time.

Stability would be good for bitcoin, But i rather have stability somewhere in the 400 USD value then below that.
400 dollers give me enough movitivation to hold and spend my bitcoins.

yes, you're right, for the moment we do not have to worry about the price will drop to $ 310- $ 340, because the current price is stable at the price of $ 400, so if this year saw a statistic that the price of bitcoin rose steadily, we do not need to worry about the price bitcoin for the next 2 years

I do not want the price to rise too quickly and then drops a lot. If the price is stable, many people will use it and the price will rise.

Unfortunately, I don't have good news. As long as speculation is the main driving force behind the price rise, the action will look like pump and dumps all the time. Only if the adoption progresses and the coin becomes main stream we can expect a stable rising trend.

Also when price go low, we can buy it and when price go up, we should sell it. But price should be negotiable !  :)

Nowadays a lot people are accumulating coins to prepare themself for the pre block halving pump. Those who sell now will surely regret that they have sold at todays prices. It doesn't cost much effort to hold untill the block halving if you have the patience. I am quite sure that you will be rewarded with good profits if you manage to hold till then. The people who sell now will most likely end up buying back at higher prices.

That will not happen. The value will always change. So that it will be good. It wont be that low. Dont be so negative.
I just hope that the value will rise for a long time so we can get some profit also in the future. But you can never know what will happen with the currency.

Although, you are right. I also hope for good. But Price not seems to be go low, it going to be increasing day by day. Hope for best.  :)

always rise meant small profit, you can't do buy and sell because you can easily lost your profit, just let bitcoin price naturally rising up or go down, everything in this world have both negative and positive side

If we sit at $310-$340 for 2 more years that will be the end of bitcoin because theres going to be in need of more hash rate when mining btc and miner need to upgrade their miners.
As prices for computer part with high volume of hash rate is high and wont be going down it next 2 years or so.

It is not possible. The value is always changing so it will always change. And at least it will hold for 1 week or something.
But we all think that it will rise for a long time and that will be good. But you never know what will happen.

2 years is a long time and i dont think that bitcoin can stay between those numbers. Do or Die situation for bitcoin if we look at etherioum and other alts.

ethereum is nothing more than a new jimmick altcoin, that it will fade away when the mining scene end probably before it

don't belive too much in to those alt, they are good only to fee your bitcoin stash

I hope the PoW mining of Ethereum can continue for a few more years, at least until it fills the 3GB cards with the DAG file.

The price of bitcoin is not depending on any altcoin. None of the altcoins are that important.
Knowing this and the fact the price of bitcoin is very volatile it don't makes sense the price would stay at a specific range for more then 1 month.

Good point, I agree that 2 years in the 300s is not sustainable and prices will continue to rise for miners.  I just don't see it doing this though, I think a more stable price 2 years out would be 600-800.

i uses to think bitcoin was feeling pressure from coins like litecoin and ripple, but it's the other way around. They live because of bitcoin.
And even hype on bitcoin. And yes bitcoin price is never stable for 1 month or 2 years.

I would like to see such stability for long, but of course it seems almost impossible in this volatile coin. I think it would not be necessarily boring, but a great opportunity to trade it with scalping strategies.

That is not going to happen. It is always changing so you wont know what will happen with the value. It can be low and it can be down.
So it is hard to predict for what is going to happen. So you should take risks if you are going to sell or buy it.

That is not possible that it can happen. The currency is always changing from value and that is good.
You will never know what the value will be in the future. But we all think that it will be more worth later in the future.

Well this will never happen so why should we think about it, the point is already that the price is gonna increase this year due to the halving so it already will never be stuck at such a price.
Another thing is that the bitcoin is growing and is getting more popular over the whole globe so that is also why I do no see this happen by any chance.

I think we will never see $310 to $340. That will be the history. In a year's time, we will not see the $400 again.

Never say never when it comes to Bitcoin. A lot people were not expecting the price to go below $200 ever again, bit it still happened early 2015. It was shocking, but we recovered nicely from that as we are above $400 now.

At that time, the cost of the mining the bitcoin was just $50. So the miners would dump their coins like no tomorrow.

if thats the case i will quit on bitcoin for sure and i will find some jobs or other ways to earn much better than bitcoin.
but if the price go up ,up to 1000$ then i will stick on collecting bitcoin,

The price will be around $410 to $430 for 2 more months. If the price stay there for 2 more years, then I will also quit.

Why? What makes you believe that?

you're telling me that right now you can not find somethign that can make you earn more than bitcoin? you must be joking

if you can live by going full bitcoin, then the price would not matter, because if it will be less you will be able to accumulate more bitcoin, if it will be higher you will accumulate less

the only exception can be on altcoin, in fact the overall profit there, remained the same in all those years

why should buying and holding bitcoin be a quick way to get rich, anwyway ?

if we want bitcoin to become a widely adopted currency, than we should be happy with the current price stability.

bitcoin isn't a get rich quick tool anymore. right now if you want to make a decent profit you have to hold your coins for a longer period of time. i am a long term bitcoin holder and find the current stability very nice. it also allows me to buy the same amount of bitcoins with the same amount of fiat. usually due to the volatility the amounts you would get for your fiat were changing constantly. previous month i could buy 1 bitcoin for around $420 and today i can buy 1 bitcoin for around $415 which is fantastic.

that is true but this current price stability is not going to last long. and soon enough it will change either way (my money is on moving up though)

Yeah bitcoin won't go low to $310 - $340. As the price of bitcoin is stable around $415 for a long time we can expect the price to increase further than going down.

Yeah bitcoin wont really be coming back to that price bitcoin will keep its price high and soon it will have a new stable price.

With the coming halving the price of bitcoin will really not go back to that price,everyone expect it to be high after the halving.

There is still a chance to drop that low, but that chance is very small as of this time, and most probably as we are expecting halving, the price won't go that low for a little longer...right now, the price is really going up, and that is what people are expecting...I hope bitcoin won't fail us

of course it would be better to have a price raise, but I do not think staying at the same price is too bad either. You can still trade, earn, and buy with bitcoin without it having to be very high in price.

That will not happen for this 2 years, and if that will happen that will be very bad for the people who have already some Bitcoin, so I dont think that is possible.
You can now see that value of Bitcoin is stable now so we are all thinking also that the value will rise in the future very slowly after the halving.

But Bitcoin is a currency that you never know what can happen with the value and that can be very risky.

If the price is stay in a small range, it is good for range trading. You can buy low and sell high and repeat.

If the price will be at $310-$340 for 2 more years then i have a feeling that the transaction fee will be increased because the mining will not be as much profitable as it is now or it was before.

the price range has changed a lot from the time when this topic was started back in end of 2015
and it seems this level ($420) is stable enough to stay and not go any lower. and also the miners are mining ever so stronger and without any complains about the fees+rewards.

I should update to say $300-$500 at least until 2018.  Moonshot is gonna take a while, methinks.

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Maybe halving spikes price, maybe Etherium sinks price, or maybe perfect equilibrium is reached forever at $415.

Yeah I don't think that it will fall below $400 in this year, as halving is also coming so we can expect better price at the end of the year, the maximum low would be $400 in next two years.

if the price will remain stable there will be no interesting movements in it and bitcoin will be not such an interesting currency that it is right now

i think it would be a definitely bad thing to bitcoins as now a lot of investors are attracted to it because they are hoping that they will manage to make a lot of money out of small money that they put in right now

Do you think US dollar or the Euro are interesting currency? Currency is to be used, not for speculation.

Maybe you're right, but pretty much every central bank disagrees with you. There are a few fixed exchange rates - CNY was fixed until 2005, but that was the last large currency to be fixed.

I tend to think the more volatile currency pairs are most interesting, so I guess the currencies within the pairs are quite interesting in their own right.

What if we sit at $310-$340 for 2 more years or any other digit then it will be the stability of bitcoin and the stability means that enough people have joined bitcoin and are now using it as a normal currency, so that time will be the good time for bitcoin, as everyone will have believe on it to use as a normal currency.

I think its impossible that bitcoin will be normal currency.. because bitcoin was start as digital currency unlike paypal funds as usd this is the real normal currency and real money.. bitcoin is just like the other thing online that has a value.. like gold or stuffs online..
So its impossible that the price will stable at 310-340.. the price of bitcoin will grow more because we are also increase population in bitcoin world.

If the price is stable for some time, the market capitalisation will still rise due to the newly mined coin, that will increase its adoption.

It will be not possible and if that will happen than many people will stop using Bitcoin and will find another coin indeed I think, because it will be very bad if that will happen.
You see that the value is now around this time a bit stable and that is not that good for the people who already have Bitcoin.

well bitcoin is vastly used nowadays, not for speculative purpose, i would argue that specualtion is not playing a big role anymore, as a investment speaking because everyone is just holding bitcoin, so only whales are trading with their bots...

The speculation about the halving will still work to some extent. For example, I am buying bitcoin in the hope I can sell at higher prices.

If this happens I think I would stop a bit with Bitcoin. If the price stays the same there is really no reason for me to keep using Bitcoin. But I doubt that this will happen.

well, maybe it would not be good for some players trader, just like me.
if it happens bitcoin might be very boring, but if the price goes up, it will all be fine  ;D

Stability in the price isn't good for traders as they want to see high volatility during the years. Volatility is what all traders love. Without volatility the market will become very boring and less inviting for new traders.

I think despite that scenario.

Most people would hold it but as for me, I`d get rid of it. Only cause I`m not patient enough to see another 2 years to hold for those #`s.

Well the point of bitcoin was never just to have some high price, but to use it for transactions , purchases and services, and ofc for store of value.
No matter of the small traders you talk about, bitcoin will be fine no matter what, but naturally it would be a much better spread of awareness if the price
peaks up here and there, just to rattle the waters.

Yeah it will not be a good thing at all. The users of Bitcoin would just get bored and not be interested any more in Bitcoin. Bitcoin is now at a good place so I do not think that it will happen but you never know. If it would happen I would leave. 

first of all, stale bitcoin would be very, very boring thing and all bitcoin traders will go to trade litecoin, etherium and all other cryptos

but also, stable bitcoin have good sides too, for example more people will start to use bitcoin, also more stores will accept it just because it will be stable

it is not possible that we will sit at 310, that is not possible the value is always changing so you dont know what the value will be after some 2 years and the halving is also coming so that can be good.
There are also people that is telling that the value will be even stable after the halving so we must wait a longer time to make profit.

Truly the market capitalization will rise if the price is found stable for a long time, but adoption won't increase due to continuously mined coins but on continued usage and promoting.

I think the adoption does not have anything to do with the newly mined coins. The existing coins are already a lot.

wait, was it realy only at the $300 range back in november last year?     

we've been gong pretty slow in my opinion, but actually a $100 (or ~33%) rise in less than half a year is not bad actually.

imo it isnt really a bad thing to have a stable price for 2 years. Rapid changes in the price of bitcoin might be seen as a good thing, but if you want the real mainstream usage of bitcoin (the rest who still have no idea what the hell bitcoin is), it isnt a bad thing to have stable prices while they get to catch up and learn .

That is not possible, Bitcoin is a currency and that is always changing so the bad thing is also that you never know what will happen with Bitcoin and that is the problem.
The most are hoping that the value will be more worth and that they can get some nice profit in a fast time.

I think the bitcoin will stay around the $500 mark for about two months, it will go up after the halving.

That will not happen as you can see you see that the value is now stable for a long time and that is because the value isnt rising so that is quite bad for the most people.
The halving is also coming and that most people are also saying that the value will be keep stable in the halving.

Possibilities are there if bitcoin touches $500 within the end of April. So as mentioned it may continue to be stable around $500 for the remaining month till halving.

anything can happen. as is currently stable price in the range $420-430 with the time is long enough.
but true, if the price of bitcoin is stable for 2 years I thought it was impossible, because bitcoin prices fluctuate.

It would be so boring having to wait for 2 years for the price to move again. This is way people keep saying that Bitcoin is going to die or has died millions of times.
I understand those people because it makes me mad as well. But if you really want it you have to be patient.

I think the price of bitcoin will rise in the next two years. It is mainly due to the general adoption.

This would be super boring and I would just quit Bitcoins I think two years is just to long to wait. And afetr that it is going to take a while before the price is getting high again I do not have time for that.

yeah very boring, but as long as it is worth quite high I would not leave bitcoin. especially if we can get bitcoin easily.

I think the price will be around $2000 to $3000 in the next two years. That is not boring at all. People will use it.

Well this is not going to happen since recent events show it can only go up from that which it was nearly a year ago now. You have 1 more year to go to prove us wrong :D

All those  $310-$340 estimates looks very low now and even more to that lapse of 48 months.

I would be far to boring if that is going to happen. Two year is just way to long and many people would not even care about Bitcoin anymore.
So do I, I think that I would just quit with Bitcoin because waiting two year is just not happening.

If it keeps stable for such a long time than there will be a lot of people that is going to be mad because the value must rise for them because they want to make profit soon.
And if it keeps stable if will be not possible for them so they are going to be of course mad and dont like it anymore.

The price has just risen from $400 to $469 over the last 10 weeks. So the price will not be around $300.

The nature of bitcoin is not like that. So you would have a hard time finding something more stable. Just embrace it or deal with it.

I thought the bitcoin would be stable, but the price just dropped from $470 to $438 within 24 hours.

No one see the future, so it is difficult to say that bitcoin will remain in this price within 2 year, may be changing will happened because now you see mostly people are using the bitcoins the number is increasing who are using the bitcoin instead of last 2 years.that all show bitcoin will change the price..

The future price trend for the bitcoin is just up. If you take the one year moving average price, it is up.

If that happens then it would not make sense any more to invest your own money into Bitcoin because you will not make much money back. It would only make sense to gamble and win bitcoins or try to mine them.

Very true. As long as there is not a bubble, BTC is always going up. Sometimes there's a huge dump, which effects the price too. But think long term - we have come from 1 cent to over $400. That's a huge achievement in itself in my opinion.

If the bitcoin price was not manipulated by the MT Gox to $1200 and it rose slowly to $300 in 2013, the price should be $1000 now.

If that would happen then I would just stop using Bitcoin because I am not waiting fro the price to be stable for that long of a time. I would not stay here and waist my time.

I would not stop if it happens. it is still a high price, there are still many things we can do to make a profit but to wait for prices to rise and stable

I will keep on using my bitcoins. That will help the circulation of the coin so its value will increase in the process.

As long as useage increases at the same rate it has for the past three years price doesnt matter, in fact a stable liquid price over three years could increase the useability of bitcoin to the point that all the speculators would be out, before true market pressure forces the price up.. 

That will not happen and that is because the value is always changing and that can be nice because you can also earn some nice profit with it and that is perfect for you.
And of course you never will also know what is going to happen with the currency because it is hard to predict.

If we know the price will stay within a small range beforehand, we can always buy at low and sell higher.

which basically means you're not really interested in bitcoin. there is no real difference in the usage when the price is around $300 or $400 or $500. people will use or trade bitcoin regardless of the price.

That is right. I used bitcoin when the price was $800, 600, 300. That is to buy things with the bitcoins.

We will not stay to that low and that is because the price is always changing and that can be nice but also bad if it is going to reduce but you see also that it is rising slowly.
And that is nice if it is going to rise for a long time so than you can have also more profit.

yup. when i buy something with bitcoin that for example costs 0.05btc, then i use my fiat to buy 0.05btc and make the purchase in bitcoin complete. all this cost me less than a minute. this way i don't have to care about the price.

The tile should be changed what if we sit at $430 to $450 for 2 more years. The price has been in that range for the last 3 months.

That will not happen and that is because the value is going to be more worth so that is nice for the people that already have Bitcoin.
Because than they can make some more money with it and that would be perfect for the Bitcoin.

If that is going to happen I would just quit with bitcoin forever I have no intention on waiting 2 years for nothing to happen. I would leave and find something else to make money from.

It that happens, I will convert all my bitcoin into Etheruem. Ethereum is still in early stage and has more potential.

It would be so boring and I believe that many people would quit Bitcoin. You have some people that are holding on to there coins forever but you also have people that as soon as they can make a profit that they will sell.

Maybe the price action is boring, but there are active developments of the bitcoin infrastucture at the moment.

It would be boring but I think that I would wait it out because we always have to wait when it comes to Bitcoin. 2 Years is a long time tho but that gives me also a sort of break from Bitcoin I would not mind it all.

I would mind waiting so long I am everyday ready to make money and if the price would be stable for two whole years that is tom much for me. I think that I would quit with bitcoin.

The bitcoin price is over $500 now. I do not think the price will be around $310 to $340 for any time.

Well everything is possible with the volatility of bitcoin but that's true ~$300 seems to be hard to get it back for now

i am always prepared for the price to crash down as hard as it went up last days, but at this point all eyes are pointed at reaching $600 due to the quick price increase.

The main point is that bitcoin unlike the fiat currencies has a cap for the total quantity that can be in circulation. This economic point of view is that it will become a scarce commodity and we all know what follows when something even slightly valuable becomes scarce, except for those still trapped in the stone age

That is right. As long as bitcoin becomes widely used, its price will rise eventually, in line with usage.

6 years ago, when there was little usage of the bitcoin, the price was below $0.01 each. Now its price is over $500 due to the usage.

If that is going to happen then I have no choice but to take a break from Bitcoin because at that moment you cannot make any money with it. After those 2 years I might come back.

I think that if that happened that I would just wait it out and take a two year brake. There is now reason for me to stop after those two years I am just going to get back and go on Bitcoin.

That is what happens when you become an impatient pessimists, you make threads like this that get proven in a year, sometimes less than that, just months after.

Bitcoin always goes up.

Some miners will probably stop their operations for a short time, until the price goes up to such a level where they can make a profit again. That's the worst case scenario.
Glad it won't happen. We will definitely see the price go up much higher than current price level. It's the natural law of supply and demand. It will go up.

If the price rises to $900 after the halving, and the difficulty does not rise, most of the existing miners will be profitable.

It means most miners will not shutdown their miner, the difficulty will not drop and transaction time will be similar.

and that value has been achieved, now the price is around $682, and we will sit at the value of more than $1000 for the next 2 years.

As you know you can see now that the value is already higher now and that is really nice for people who already have Bitcoin and it is also going to be more worth so that is nice.
But nobody will ever know of course what is going to happen but the halving is also coming towards to us.

I think the recent price rise is caused by the block reward halving. The next rise will be due to mass adoption.

If we sit at those prices for so long then I have just no choice but to wait for it to be over. You can see it as taking a break from Bitcoin ( a long break) but it will not hurt me that much.

I think the price will be around $1000 to $3000 in the next two years. The below $1000 price will be history then.

I think that if the price would be stable for so long I really have no other choice but to stop with Bitcoin or to take a break.
I think that I would take a break for that time and see how it is going to be after the break.

Eventhough we get reach the total market capacity of bitcoin, if the demand is still there it will still remain it's price. It's true that if the coins is still continue to circulate it will not die.

There is a small possibility that it can happen but the chance is small because you have to know that the price of Bitcoin is now still rising so that is nice.
But of course it is hard to know what will actually happen with the value of Bitcoin

Yep, you can say that it is directly equivalent. The more people who use this, the higher value it gets.

That has been proven in the history of bitcoin. When there are very few users, it was worth $0.01, it is $700 now.

The price dropped again to $550. I think the price could stay around the $550 to 700 level for a few more months.

We are back to 582 in bitstamp and it's rising now. I think the bottom was 540 and now is time to continue the rise.

The price is just below $700 now. I am glad I did not sell below the $550 price. Any way, I will hold it for long term.

No matter how the price fluctuations, I will not sell, I intend to hold long-term.

The price has dropped a bit again but to be honest I think that that is a good thing because now more people are able to buy Bitcoins.
This is going to attract some people again and the buying is going to start.

When the price was $780, some people thought the price was too high. the price is $640  now, it is good to buy.

In that moment the price of $780 was indeed high as it went there in a very short time. That was a good moment to sell your coins at. Those who did are happily watching the price going down as they can buy back their coins at lower levels.

I would have no other choice but to take a break and come back when that is finally over, 2 years is pretty long and maybe I will forget it by then.
I am sure that so many people would stop using Bitcoin if the price was stable for that long.

Wouldn't that bring in more users of bitcoin? Most of the people would prefer stability over volatility. And if that happens, I would be more than happy to accumulate at such low levels. The patience for holding would be greatly rewarded if after two years the bulls start to make their presence felt. As they say, good things come to those who wait.

Yes the price was again $640, it is best time to buy invest and to store , as expected the price will be high during halving.

I think the bitcoin price will stay around $600 to $780 for the next 4 months, then it will rise to $1200.

What are your basis for that price? but it is a bit realistic, I hope that it could really rice up to $1200 this year. Well, sitting around $300+ is not possible anymore. It could drop that low but I don't think that it will roam around that price for long, for sure it will move up fast.

This seems to be realistic if the price can stay above 600 dollar.
IF the price goes down that a whole new scenario is coming on. Maybe even to 450 dollar.

I hope it will happen as you say because for the prices back to around $ 350 is not possible. IMO we have had a strong wall and the majority bitcoin holders who bought at the price of $ 450 before the price spike, they will not sell if the price slowly  drops .

The cost of making one bitcoin is around $500 now. That could be a good floor for the bitcoin price.

People don't know what's the peak price for bitcoin because at the same time we don't when it fall down, so you can't say that that was the good moment to sell since we didn't expect that time that the price will fall down.

I guess it's okay. may still be very many people who hold bitcoin her at the time, well, I also strongly believe bitcoin will rise in price, so it may be better to save the bitcoin if the price dropped to $ 300 +. and I think at that moment, which uses bitcoin is, users who believe in bitcoin

I think the bitcoin price will not drop below $300 again, unless there is very big news to drive the price doown.

I am sure that I would not like that because that is a really long time of making no extra me, i think that I would wait for it to be over.
There is no other option, many people would then quit with Bitcoin I know that for sure.

and there will be only more users because more and more people get interest in bitcoins, in my opinion the price might even go to the new all time high in the 2 years

In the last few years, there are more users and usages about the bitcoin. There are more transactions indicated by the block size.