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Really Bitcoin market will stabilize in 2020 ?
Is it because the reward is only 6.25 BTC/block?

Bitcoin price will never be stable unless we get Wall Street level investors into the Bitcoin market with their billions $$$. Currently a whale with a few million $ worth of BTC can manipulate a certain exchange massively. But then again, these high level investors will never ever use the current exchanges to trade on. Current exchanges are amateurish and can't handle the millions/billions from these traders. They need a professional platform where they can trade without issues.

It can also become the first currency to conquer space if we are throwing predictions left and right. Price volatility is not the only barrier for adoption. Bitcoin has to solve its user friendliness if that's a word or concept. Unless people to adopt it massively in the next years I don't think it can't survive.

I think you're wrong...
I think with the ever dwindling supply even at current adoption rates the price will flourish....
Dark markets, Gambling and porn alone are worth billions never mind all the legit uses....
The legit users (of they are to adopt it) would send it way past the moon, maybe even past the Mars.... :)

why BTC is not the value of the gold ,if bankers get gold on the value of BTC , we do not need to experience severe fluctuations ?
I suppose it could be run in a gain regulation ?

Depends on your definition of stable.. Price will probably keep increasing slowly over time.

If stability means a predictable and minimal increase or decrease, then it will probably happen.

If you mean no fluctuations, that will never happen.

it can not be ascertained at this time. You know how much bitcoin used in this world? the greater the bitcoin use the more stable the price of bitcoin.

This post seems like you have read something and cannot believe that. If so can you share the source. Reading within can be more easy for everyone to discuss. It is hard to ask to your question doing reasoning without source. It is more easy to tell. If I would tell and not reasoning can tell that no, there is not that year. The year in which the bitcoin market will be stabilized might be 2012. Or 200008. Then is discovered the argument of your question. Always in the form of question. According to this argument the market of bitcoin will be stabilized when the block will be 6.25. So 6.25 is a magic number. Will be able, since the first moment in which will be connected with bitcoin, to stabilize its market. I don't agree. I think that the magic number is another. It is 6.25:2. Who have right?

Low block rewards have absolutely no impact on the price at that time. Bitcoin needs to have a much higher market cap and less big holders. Coin must be spread among thousands of people. It's better to see 1000 people with 1 BTC each, than 1 person with 1000 BTC. That's when we can see a more stable Bitcoin price. It will take more than 10 years to come even close to that.

Stability is more likely to come when supply/demand is about the same, or the difference in % is not great. A lot of trading volume does not equal stability (there might be lots of people buying, or lots of people selling and price moving without being stalble)

I mean , there is no intention that does not fluctuate , but not easily fall only to traders as the price of $ .
I calculated , per day in 2020 Bitcoin supply only about 38 BTC,diff may be higher,not easy to sell a lot of BTC.
although dump and pump happens it does not affect much?

I second your opinion. There are yet a lot of problems that Bitcoin has to solve to become adopted on the mass scale. Seeing how this is progressing, we may as well don't see Bitcoin in 2020, as a more likely option rather than Bitcoin price becoming stable. Bitcoin price won't become stable until it is dominated by the speculators that are interested in quick profit. And that is unfortunately how the things are at the moment.

Bitcoin needs to be stable way earlier.

If we go in another spiral of 1 year where the price is not stable, most investor will keep ignoring it..forever.

It depends on what the price is.
If the market capitalization shoots up (to possibly a trillion $) and the holding of bitcoins is widely spread, then bitcoin may be stable.

There is no stable market in the world.

Even the stock exchanges and forex markets are shaking. If they shake, then there is no reason to believe that the crypto markets will be stable

Bitcoin is way to volatile. There is balance and natural growth with ALL major assets.
Your comment therefore makes no sense.

nah, the whole mining pressure is not so high as many thing, miners are not dumping 100% of their coin, i can argue that they ar enot dumping even 50%

because they do not need to since they ar emaking much more than what they are consuming, and to cover their expenditures, they need a fraction of their profit

so the halving di per se will not make much of a difference, but the hype yes, that is another thing, i'm waiting 2030 to see bitcoin stable, as satoshi said, big volume or no volume, 2030 is the final date for the final outcome

Year 2020 used to be very far in the future.... but it is only 4 years from now. I think bitcoin will continue to evolve and far from "stable".

Gold is widely supported around the world. Bitcoin at this point is only being supported by a very small group of people. Imagine what potential growth Bitcoin can go through if the adoption doubles from current point. It takes time, eventually when there is enough demand the market cap will grow significantly.

i think it will not gonna stable in 2020 because is just like other currency.  did you see usd or other fiat the price exchange is not stable.
so for me it will not stable in this far future..

I see.
indeed it is not possible to talk stable,but I passed one year in 2015, bitcoin prices fell not too steep as in 2014
down and up about 35 % of each value,gossip and blurring investors create a decrease of about 25 %,others around 14-15 % ,and climbed back every decline ,although the percentage does not exceed the decline.2014 gave $ 192 for early 2015,and the market capitalization at the beginning of 2016 get 5 billion.only we can not predict market demand.

As you said stable nature of bitcoin can't be predicted because it totally depends upon the market, the currency value, users, government, requirement of bitcoins,..etc. So we can just say it will get a rising when it pass years, because from the years it generated its moving in the growing path and recently it met with a drastic fall which has been found stable now and slowly it will rise as it rose during past years.

stable bitcoin would be awesome, because more users would use it, so that means it's beter for bitcoin

You are right it will be an eye opener for sure, its just a matter of time till the bitcoin will be stable.
I think the bitcoin will be stable at the year but you never know what will happen in the mean while so its difficult to say.

I don't see future, but stble bitcoin would be awesome, no more buy cheap sell expencive, finnaly could use bitcoin as curency, more stores would accept them

IMO bitcoin is already starting to have some stability. The price is not so volatilile has it was 4 years ago.
Even though there is still a lot of volatility, the coin is growing to be a more stable currency.

stability is always the best thing, but with this much early adopters and very wealthy investors combined with a very small market cap makes it nearly impossible to have serious stability throughout the years. and also, if the prices are too stable, traders will most likely pull back their invested money as there isn't much profit to gain. that's why i prefer a stable growth instead of the price being fully stable. with a stable growth like 10-15% per year bitcoin will be a great store of value.

I think the bitcoin will be stable at a point and there is a chance this will be in this year, but the bitcoin is always unpredictable so you will never know till it really happens.
Also thinking that the bitcoin will be stable at a lower number something between 2017 and 2019.

Well, maybe it would be difficult to happen if 2020 but judging from the present, it may be very difficult to happen because bitcoin prices always fluctuate up and down making it difficult to steady the price

if bitcoin still grow and price still possible to people buying bitcoin as an investment. i think yes bitcoin will still stable in 2020

I do not think the bitcoin price will be stable in 2020. It is still in the up trend, so will high and lows.

The bitcoin can be stable at that time but its the question what will happen between 2016 and 2020 because maybe the market is a lot different by than, you never know what will happen so its pretty unpredictable.
I think we just need to wait till its so far and than we will know it.

Right, what is stability exactly for bitcoin?  We've had periods of relative stability lately, when the price was hovering around $400 or so.  And everyone here in the speculation section was crying because of boredom--everyone wanted to jump on the rocket to the moon! 

And I agree with the person who said that as it stands now, a whale with a few million dollars can move the bitcoin market all by himself.  We really need to up the market cap if we're to avoid stuff like that happening.  We'll see.  Maybe something better will come along and make bitcoin obsolete.

The problem is that most people see Bitcoin as a speculative investment instead of a currency. There isn't enough adoption for use in consumption.

Even bitcoin is stable now. The fluctuating nature seems to be the nature of the bitcoin.
In 2020 also the nature won't change so surely it will be stable.

It will be similar to gold on the FX markets. Right now, the low marketcap allows BTC to be easily manipulated.

The bitcoin will get stable, but if it will be in that year I do not know, the bitcoin itself is unpredictable so you never knows what happens with it in the time between it.
I even think it can get stable earlier but it depends on how this year and other years will go maybe the bitcoin will rise fast.

Not sure if it will ever be stable since there are so many factors that can decide price. This being a global currency just makes it more volatile.

bitcoin won't be stable for ages, maybe month or two like in the past, i mean bitcoin isin't young now and it's price changes every week, so if it will be stable, it won't last long

That is very hard to predict. I dont think that will happen that fast. I hope that it will rise until 2020. So we have a lot of profit.
There is also a chance that it can be less worth.

But we must hope for the good thing. And just wait what is going to happen.

The bitcoin can be stable at that year but it can also be sooner if that market stays growing and the price will also its possible but the point is that the bitcoin is pretty unpredictable so we have to wait for it.
I think it will be sooner than 2020, I think it will be stable at end of 2017.

By 2020/6.25 BTC blocks? I don't know, I doubt it, and why are 6.25 BTC blocks significant to stability/volatility?

My local fiat is GBP - historically, it's one of the most heavily traded currencies. GBP/USD is historically significant, as "cable", for being the first currency pair to be traded electronically (trans-Atlantic telegraph cables). Most foreign-exchange transactions go through London to this day. Despite that, GBP isn't immune to manipulation - George Soros famously shorted GBP, prompting the UK to exit the EU's exchange-rate mechanism. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Wednesday) (Wall Street will not be Bitcoin's saviour).

It's not all bad news, though. BTC/USD's volatility is trending down (https://btcvol.info/), and is currently ~3x that of USD/EUR. I somehow suspect that however low BTC/USD volatility gets, people will still complain about volatility.

i really don't know about this because there are still four years away and anything could be happen in 2020 and bitcoin prices is very unpredictable so i consider that there is no stable price in bitcoin

If the market capitalisation of bitcoin is less than $210 billion, or the price is less than $10,000 each, it is easy to manipulate the price so the price will not be stable.

Bitcoin wont be stable. It will always change every time and that is hard to predict. I hope that Bitcoin will rise soon at the future.
If it is going to rise than it must be for a long so we can have some profit later in the future and that will be good.

You never know what can happen in the future. Everyone hope that Bitcoin will be stable but you dont know what is going to happen.
There is also a chance that Bitcoin can disappear or something you never know. That is a currency it is hard to predict.

Everyone doesn't hope that prices are stable - naive people do, because they think it'll benefit "mass adoption", not realising that all currencies are subject to volatility (and businesses with interests in volatile currencies somehow manage to survive, using tools already available to BTC businesses). Traders want volatility, so they can trade the peaks and dips. In forex, where there's a lack of volatility there's usually some powerful interest (central bank, banking industry, government, etc) backing the currency for as long as it can - and even with a major currency like GBP that's not necessarily as long as they'd like.

Bitcoin disappearing forever would be the ultimate form of stability, surely? 1 BTC = $0, forever and ever.

It will not stable even in the future.. There's no reason that the value of bitcoin will be stable in the future..
what is the purpose of traders And i think they not allowed bitcoin to be stable in the future..

stability in the bitcoin price is only possible when institutional investors bring in their billions of fiat into the bitcoin market. as long as that doesn't happen, the current whales and other wealthy traders can manipulate the price easily with 10% per time. they literally rule the bitcoin price with iron fist. they decide what will happen with the price.

It depends on the value of the bitcoin then. If it is more than $10,000, the value will be less volatile.

Oh, stable bitcoins would be nice,  finnaly we could pay with them in real life stores, because now they don't accept bitcoins yet

We cant know that. But it is hard to predict. Because you dont know what can happen later.
But it is very hard to know what is going to happen, because it is a currency and that is hard to predict.

it is very hard to predict whether it is going to be stable at that time or not, i guess it depends mainly on the people, if there will not be stability in the market, the price wont be stable too

If the bitcoin is widely used and there is no big pump and dump, the price will be stable and people will invest in it.

The fact is that there are plenty of exchanges where you can trade Bitcoin. Right now in China Huobi and OKCoin are leading the entire market. All other exchanges follow the price in China. The problem with the fact that there are plenty of exchanges is that you also have plenty of order books, as long as that doesn't change, nothing will happen. For real stability we need just 1 order book. Then things will look completely different.

Gold has been the bedrock of wealth for thousands of years. Every single human being knows it has value. Governments hoard it. Countless millions covet it. Its market cap is nearly 1500x larger than Bitcoin's.

Is gold stable? Hmm...

that would be dumb to hope for stable bitcoin one day because i am pretty sure that it won't happen, bitcoin was, is and will be not stable but stores will still accept them and bitcoin have really good chances to become alternative currency in lots of countries one day

It looks stable now  but its value always depends on many factors that maybe in a given period of time may have little variation but at a time can change its value dramatically causing euphoria due to growing or conversely suddenly collapse.

In my opinion, stable bitcoin price means the price change within a week is less than 5%, or similar to dollar/euro rate.

The (30-day) volatility of BTC/USD (1.19%) isn't that far from EUR/USD's volatility (0.76%). (https://btcvol.info/) I don't have data to hand (I grabbed the raw data from Bitcoincharts and fed it into a spreadsheet) but the average weekly change in price for BTC/USD is about 2.75%.

If we see mass adoption then there are chances that bitcoin can be stable or else it difficult to see that  bicoin can get stable as market cap of bitcoin is too small at a moment.

Yes with mass adoption the stability in price of bitcoin will occur, but make sure that this adoption will not be for the purpose of holding and trading and wishing for ups and downs, but for the normal use, then is possible that bitcoin stability occur, otherwise if people adopt it just for ups and downs, nothing good will happen.

I don't think we're too terribly far off from them form of investment. I'm actually surprised that more I haven't seen more institutional investors in the market space with the returns that are being had.

I used to try to keep it quiet how much money was being made with bitcoin and how much money could be made with utilization but I came to understand that the rising tide raises all boats and I welcome all hedge funds to take a look for themselves at the returns you can expect. If you need guidance PM me.

it depend on what stability you're talking about, perfect stability it's not possible, especially if yout ak einto account the massive usage that will happen in the future, if you want stability, this already will cause huge swings

If the daily price fluctuaition is less than 3% and the price just rise 5% a month, then I could say the price is stable.

What is the daily fluctuation?

I worked out the average weekly change a while back, from the raw data at Bitcoincharts. The average weekly change between 2010 and December 2015 was 2.75%. Obviously that pushes the average monthly change beyond 5%, though.

Its really difficult to imagine that bitcoin can be stable in future, as for price stability we need huge market cap which is missing in bitcoin at a moment and don't what would be the scenario around 2020.

i think it is very possible that bitcoin will be more stable in the future. maybe by the year 2020 or maybe 1-2 years more.
the more users start using bitcoin the less volatile the price can get because the market becomes bigger

Bitcoin will remain volatile probably for another 10 years as we are still in the early stage.

Stability will only come when very wealthy traders start joining Bitcoin as they bring in money that we so much need.

As long as that doesn't happen, the current Bitcoin whales will still be the boss over the entire market.

in 2020 is a little too far eh?

it is still long, but maybe bitcoin prices could stabilize in 2020, but the possibility is still 45%. as we all know now that the price of bitcoin is very difficult to guess, sometimes even down far enough, but now the price is stable and rising slowly. I think in 2020 the price of bitcoin has been very stable.

i am almost 100% sure that bitcoin won't be stable at 2020, and main reason is bitcoins traders, and another halving of course,  i don't think that traders will stop buying selling them so price will change anyway, and halving will change price too, but stable bitcoin would have nice things too, like attracting more users

the value is now stable around this time, and you never know what will happen after some 4 years and that is hard to predict because Bitcoin is a currency so you never know what the value will be.
I think that the value in 2020 is rising and that many people is using it in the future and that is nice.

I think the bitcoin price could double every year for the next 10 years if there is no big pump and dump.

Having bitcoin at a stable price seems to be happening now but it is not a desired price for many. First have it increase 5x then have it become stable. ;D

i think this is a safe speculation to make that by 2020 (in four more years) bitcoin has reached the mass adoption phase and so as the result the price of bitcoin stops being so volatile and be more stable.

That's not true, mass adoption is not gonna make the price stable. Only based on the technology and speculations we can experience a stable value. Currently the price is stable for a long time which will expected to reach $450 within weeks.

Mass adoption can make the price higher and stable. It will be just like a currency  like US dollar, which is very stable.

Bitcoin needs long time to reach very mass adoption. This would happen continuously when at least 5% people start using bitcoin. I think volatility and stability depends a small on the mass adoption rather than market situation.

The hard thing is that nobody will know what the value will be in 2020, there are also people that is saying that the value of Bitcoin will be high in 2020 the chance is really low.

The chance is low because the value is not even rising now and it wont also rise after the halving so that is already bad for Bitcoin, but we have to wait and see for what will happen.

I don't know it is far to early to predict6 the price for 2020. We have to focus on what is happening right now and worry about 2020 later. Their will be a period that the price will be stable in 2020.

Yeah for sure the price of bitcoin will be stable by the year 2020 and price will just play around a certain price and wont be going out to have a large amount.

it most probably will be stable by that time. it would be a disappointment for bitcoin "as a currency" to still be highly volatile in 2020. and i think if the adoption rate continues to be good and the big services get on board with bitcoin revolution then we might be seeing a high stable price.

This is actually very probable. Bitcoin has been progressing really fast the past couple of months. New merchants and big players in the market are taking Bitcoin more seriously. At this rate, in 4years time, Bitcoin will be more renowned and would be more available and widely accepted in the world. So I guess 2020 sounds like a very probable projection.

I think there will be better growth in bitcoin by 2020, but I am not sure that it will be widely accepted because in most of the countries it is not even known and if known it is not accepted anywhere, so to reach a stable state it may take few more years after 2020.

very difficult to say that the price of bitcoin could be stabilized, but maybe in 2020 it could happen, bitcoin will grow and be better, maybe in 2020 there is provision for a price that is given bitcoin, thus making it more stable

The risky thing of Bitcoin is that you never know what the value will be in 2020, it is a currency so it is hard to predict because we cant control it and it is always changing.
We all know that the halving is also coming so thats good but will it rise after the halving is the question ?

We do not know the specific prices. But if the general trend is up, I do not mind buying some now.

I dont think that Bitcoin will be stable in 2020 as you can see you see that the value is now stable for a long time and many people are negative about it because they want profit.
But the bad thing is that you never know what the value will be in 2020 because it is a currency.

Its really not bad to buy now and wait for the year 2020 to arrive before we sell our coins i think by that time the price right now will be double.

I believe the price in 2020 will be 3000 to 5000 dollars. So it is better to buy now and enjoy the ride of the price.

A currency can never be stable if it's control is in million of hands. If the whales get out you can see a stable price, that's never gonna happen.

Is USD or EUR or gold stable? Why bitcoin should be?
Bubbles like 2013, not; this, yes. But totally stable can't be.

You are talking about confidence.
But I have much more confidence on bitcoin myself, than the EUR, USD and generally the fiat money and the government and the banks.

This might happen if the price during the 2020 halving is seen high or above $1500. Another possibility to reach the quoted price is with much increased adoption.

I hope not because if the price is stable for to long people are going to get bored with Bitcoin and decide to leave again. But that is a problem for the future we now have to focus on the present and what is happening right now.

Which people? Why?

I mean, I love volatile currency pairs as much as the next forex trader, but even the stable ones (USD/NZD springs to mind, but there's probably better examples - GBP/USD maybe?) still seem to enjoy a great deal of use. Perhaps you're thinking that the only purpose for BTC is for unsophisticated traders who can only trade volatility?

i hope in 4 years (year 2020) bitcoin has reached a state that it is being used by a lot more people and services start adding bitcoin instead of paypal and ... and i would expect by then the price will be more stable like other currency pairs with small changes only.

It wont be that nice if Bitcoin is stable in 2020, Bitcoin must rise in that year so we can earn some more profit with Bitcoin and that can be perfect for Bitcoin itself.
And also for the people that is still using Bitcoin.

Perhaps he thought that when the price of bitcoin then the investment users can no longer sell their bitcoin with higher prices again. they also can not buy bitcoin at a cheap price and sell when prices rise again, so they get bored and leave bitcoin. but I also do not think sseperti it, very good if bitcoin prices to be stable, it can create more business opportunities for me

If you need stability for opportunities, you can create your own business opportunities even with volatile currency pairs - through hedging. The options and futures markets for Bitcoin are still fairly immature, but they do exist.

It is hard to know what Bitcoin will be in 2020 there is also a chance that Bitcoin will disappear in the future and that can be not good if that will happen.
If that is going to happen than a lot of people will get mad because it is their only payment method.

I do not think bitcoin will be the only payment method for many people in 2020. Bitcoin will coexist with fiat.

The market cap of bitcoin will be much larger in 2020. Many people will use it and invest in it. So it will be more stable.

More people will know about bitcoin in 2020. So more people will use it as a currency. It is less a speculative tool.

nothing will change when it comes to stability because whales will stay whales and they will keep moving the price in their favor. stability has only a chance when institutional investors step into the bitcoin market with their hundreds of millions of fresh capital. that's how you out rule the current whales. till that time the price will not be stable.

yes bitcoin will be stable at that time period and will be more and more stable with the passing of time, as there will be more people at that time depending on bitcoin and at that time more businesses will accept bitcoin for their payment for their products and services.

Quiet true, business people adapt bitcoin more than now I'm '2020 but we can't predict anything previously because now too our assumption goes wrong so how far we can confidently guess about anything that is going to happen in future.

The Bitcoin price has to be stable again some time but we just do not know when. But with the price being stable for to long this is not that good. This can make people leave because if the does not move they are just going to get bored.

I don't think so..Lets face it, this is one of the great in bitcoin, the volatility.. Price always move from time to time, there is no steady price or very small price movement in bitcoin..This will continue I think even after  2020...

That is hard to know what is going to happen with Bitcoin because the value is impossible to predict for what will happen with Bitcoin but there is a chance that it will reach a high value.
And that is because it keeps now stable for a long time and that can be nice later in the future because then it will also rise and that should be perfect.

That's the true nature of bitcoin. Even after years of survival bitcoin will have the same fluctuation in price and also variation happens often. At very rare instances we can feel the price to be stable for a limited time.

even those kids in school are now using bitcoins on that year,,they will use it to buy food and drinks on the canteen, ;D ;D

Price stability in bitcoin is not permanent, and we are not sure what will be the value of bitcoin in next few days then how can we judge what would be the scenario in 2020.

The bitcoin indeed will be very stable if everything will goes like it has to go this year with the halving.
I also think their may be another halving in that year so that is maybe good and after that it will be stable.

The chance is high that it can be a higher value and that is because the value is rising slowly and that can be nice for the people who already have Bitcoin.
But the chance is low that it can have a low profit because it keeps stable for a long time.

There is a possibility that this will happen but most likely this will not be the case to be honest.
I think in hat year it will still be like this and not stable..

Well if Craig Wright is Satoshi that is what he says his btc trust will allow him to 'cash out' in that if he is Satoshi he seems plenty pissed to have been 'outed'

and hell in 2020 would not be surprised if he went full anarchist satoshi and 'flushed the works' heh 1.20 btc then :)

not sure will have to watch this guy..if he IS satoshi he seems a 'bit off' (like us all) but I would not want ME to have full access to 1/2 billion in BTC in 2020

certainly not this guy

just saying (like most of my endeavors this could end badly....) :(

Craig Wright has given up the effort to prove he is Satoshi. I do not think he is Satoshi. Satoshi is totally different.

it is bad if Craig really Satoshi,but for what he is trying to prove themselves when the developers considers know better than he did.

Craig Wright did not prove he is the Satoshi. So the bitcoin price starts rising again, it will test teh $475 again.

As you can see you see that there will be a lot of people that is thinking that the value will be more worth and that would be a problem for the most people.
So you also dont even know what is going to happen with Bitcoin because it is a currency so you need also take some risks.

2020 do you even know how long it will take to reach that. How can you think the bitcoin will be stable by then.
I think you're dreaming to much stay by reality please. And life by the day

Nobody will know what will happen with Bitcoin in 2020 and that is because it is currency.
But we have to take the risk now and we must also hold it and that would be nice.

It will be stable for some time I think but not for whole 2020 if that is going to happen then so many people would leave Bitcoin. And I cannot blame them because they have no reason to stay.

It can be stable but I do not think it will be stable in that year due to the fact there is maybe another halving in that year.
If there will be another halving it that year it will not be stable for sure.

Nobody will know what is going to happen with the value in that year and that is the problem because sometimes you dont even know what to do and that is the problem.
But it would be also nice that we can make some profit in that year if the value keeps rising.

you must know what the difference between  the traditional  money and money from technology,money from technology goes with the human resources,but the money traditionally relied only on government policy,and technology will not be left out as long as it have benefits.

If we keep on using the bitcoin and more people start to use the bitcoin, the bitcoin value will rise again.

Judging by the halving curve, I don't expect Bitcoin to reach some sort of stability until around 2040, because by then the generation of new coins will be basically irrelevant to the total supply, and by then Bitcoin should be worth like half a million a coin if not more, which will be enough to make the miners keep making a good income and pay for the expenses. But to reach this big price, we will go through a lot of ups and downs.

The halving will have much big effect now than in the future as there are more bitcoin in circulation in the future.

Well now its the initial days of bitcoins enormous growth, so we can expect big variations on the days after halving. When years pass this would gradually reduce and we can expect increased stability in price than the current stability in price.

I don't think bitcoin can ever be stable in future, as the USP of bitcoin is the price volatility which attracts many users to make some quick profits.

Today, there are some 14.6 million Bitcoin units in circulation. As you told then it would increase even more?

Nothing is stable.Even the big currencies fluctuate.
And Bitcoin will continue to fluctuate for a long time this is true.But the volatility will become less extreme.

Some kinds of low volatility is good for the bitcoin. It will make trading profitable for some people.

I assume more and more merchants will start accepting bitcoin payments as well as more and more traders getting intrested in bitcoin trading by 2020 both may create some stability to bitcoin price by than.

But once bitcoins reaches some higher price levels and most of the bitcoins would have been mined out, there are more possibilities the prices of bitcoin to become stable. So, around 2020 there would be more chances for stable bitcoin prices.

That is the most important thing. More big parties who hold a lot of coins, so the price can't be influenced any more. This is and will be key to make bitcoin stable.

Eventually the price will be stable but not for the coming 2 years if you ask me. The price has been manipulated for a long time, the whales won't just stop manipulating the price, simply because they make a lot of money doing it.

I also think the same as at that time bitcoin will have a huge number of users and it will be used as a normal currency and with stable flow of this currency we will see that the price of bitcoin will come to stability.

it is possible, if all countries already recognize bitcoin, bitcoin I guess someday will have a fixed and stable prices. if it happens bitcoin might be used as an alternative to the dollar

Hm. I think it will not be stable on my own opinion ,because the exchange is always fluctuating the market value .the more users of bitcoins ,the more tendency that bitcoin will be more become higher amount , just like our fiat currency is fluctuating .

That is the real world, and future will be like that for sure. So depends from definition of stability we can even now say that bitcoin is stabile.
Normally more people join safer currency will be, but bitcoin is going in good direction for now. That is most important thing, of course there will be problems some bigger then other what we can do is to be prepared for that, and not to quit on first sight of big problems coming.
If until end of 2020 bitcoin have at least double more followers ( and I expect more ) we will have chances for going really high.

stable bitcoin would be awesome for lots of people that are interested in bitcoins but are afraid to lose their money, stable bitcoin would let them use it without fear

but i don't think that bitcoin will be stable then, as lots of people predicted that bitcoin will be stable in 2014, but it wasn't, so i think that it won't be stable in 2020 too

What is the need of leaving bitcoin and what you mean by that. There is no reason for people to leave bitcoin. People will start using bitcoin instead of saving it for future as bitcoin prices get stable.

If we have huge market cap then we can expect price stability in bitcoin or else its not possible, but we will see many more users joining the party in next 4 years so we can expect certain price stability.

Yes, once bitcoin prices are becoming very huge amount, then there would be new investors and will buy regularly some bitcoins (like getting salary in bitcoin). They will keep bitcoins prices to be stable without any pressure from the sellers.

The price is going to be stable sometime again that is for sure but to predict now that it is going to be stable in 2020 is something nobody knows for sure.
If it happens then it happens we just have to wait and see what it will bring us.

I do not know what is going to happen in 2020 because we are four years away from that year. We can only speculate about what can happen but no one knows the exact answer.

When supply and demand are enough for each other, then definitely we can expect from stable prices for bitcoin. As you have mentioned once most of the bitcoins get mined out, we can expect stable or only rising bitcoin prices.

There is a chance that the bitcoin will be stable in 2020 but I think it will even take a little longer.
Of course no one can predict this but I think it will be around 2023 or something, it need a little more time in my eyes.

I agree that 2020 is too soon. Just look where we are now. Problems with the block size, volatility etc. At best we can only hope the market will grow up and the pump and dumps are history. It is something which is bad for bitcoin.

I don't think we'll ever get rid of pumps and dumps. If at some point current whales are out ruled by institutional investors, then they will continue where the old Bitcoin whales stopped. Even the largest stocks are not imune for pumps and dumps.

Whether it is stable or not, I think the price would have appreciated quite a bit by that time.
I plan to turn a seller after the block reward halving in 2020.  :)

You are right, bitcoin will turn as a pure currency if it's prices are sustaining at one price level. Using or spending bitcoins does not mean people are leaving bitcoin. Actually bitcoin is invented for using as normal fiats.

If the bitcoin rises around 20% a year in the next few years and the price is not too volatile, it will become a good currency.

maybe you're right, it may be better to sell when prices are really high. but I think bitcoin prices will keep growing, because it will be many users who would buy bitcoin

The bitcoin will be stable without any doubts, and I also think the bitcoin has a good future a head with its growing users.
It cannot be predicted of course but this is just what I think.

Making small profits is not worth it. I have trying this (sell when it go high) but then the price did not go low so in the end I was better out just not selling. Which is my exact same strategy.
Hold for at least 1.5 year and then make a sell strategy or buy stuff.

Certain bots operating on exchanges that don't charge any fees can make quite a bit profit after a month or so by just buying and selling for very small profits. If the bot makes hundred trades a day with $1 profit, then you'll have $50 per day, $350 per week, $1400 per month.

I don't think so because all markets (especially those based on technologies) are permanently volatile, and there are multiple reason to think that bitcoin will remain unstable for long, especially when there are many people thinking that the bitcoin price could reach $100k or more  ;D

It is all in relative terms. The bitcoin will be more stable when the price is higher and there are more users.

Bitcoin will never be stable. That's why i like it.

If the Bitcoin is as volatile as the US dollar or other major currency after 20 years, it is regarded as stable.

I think it will be stable in 2020, but it is not stable at all now. The price just rose 40% in the last 30 days.

The market cap is too small, it can be manipuated by small whales easily. We need it to be $100 billion to be stable.

If the block size is too small, like now, the transaction will be slow. Big money will not come into bitcoin to use it.

I heard the SegWit will be implemented soon, and also the hard fork of 2MB. That could improve user experience.

The price of the bitcoin will never be stable and that is not strange because if th eprice of the bitcoin is stable there will not so many peopel
interested into it again so if you all think the price of the bitcoin will be stable in 2020 dont think because it wont happen.

thats one of the main reasons why i like bitcoin too, bitcoin price makes it never to be boring currency because it goes up and down all the time so theres a good chance to earn in trading

i think bitcoin wont be stable in 2020 because its price depends only on people and people will always sometimes buy more sometimes less and move the price all the time

Eh, I don't know if Bitcoin will be stable then, for all we know even more investors can get involved and cause the market to be even more volatile, and then it could see swings far beyond what we currently see. A lot of this has to do with the lack of restrictions and things have been applied to Bitcoin trading (which is something I like), and I'm sure we'll continue to see this until something changes.

It's hard to say indeed. 2020 will be the year of another halving. And those years the price is very volatile. Which means the chance of bitcoin being stable by then is very slim. But yes never say never, it could be that the next 2 years bitcoin gets mass adoption and with more holders even whales can't influence the price that much anymore. Stability at last!

it may be true that the price of bitcoin will never be stable, but I think there will be a time when the price of bitcoin will settle on a price, as it is today, bitcoin prices stabilized at $ 600 more, although it can not be said to be fully stable

i think it is most probably impossible for bitcoin to be stable, all the time the price depends purely on people and nothing else, no governments can control the price of the bitcoin i think

bitcoin will surely not be stable in 2020, though i think anything might happen, if bitcoin starts being a regulated currency then its price would most probably be really stable

The market cap of bitcoin could be $100 billion in 2020. But that is still much lower than that the gold, so still volatile.

anything that is said about bitcoin in a far future is not going to be accurate ever because bitcoin is alway unpredictable and a lot of different things can happen to it. i hope it gets a lot more predictable in the future but that would take a lot of time.

In the past I heard voices of people who were convinced that bitcoin won't sustain itself and bitcoin network will be dying after 1st halving. As you see it didn't happen.
I see that this belief is still strong within bitcoin community. We will see what will happen in 10 days and soon after that - it might shed some light on this matter so we will have material for reference.

No I do not think it will be stable in that year because most likely there will take another halving place in that year.
Of course we cannot predict it so nothing is sure but I do not think its gonna happen in that year.

There will another halving in early 2020, maybe May or June. I think the price could be around $5000.

Bitcoins will never be stable the price of the bitcoin will always be unstable and that is why people are investing into the bitcoin because if the
bitcoin has not that unstable value he wont be such popular as he is right now.

The bitcoin will be stable soon or later but I do not think its gonna be stable in that year due to the fact of a halving.
Most likely there will occur another halving in that year, every 4 years its happening mostly.

We do not what is going to happen in 2020 with the value of the Bitcoin because allot can happen with in these next few upcoming years.
We can only speculate and hope that the future is going pay off.

It would be a waste of time to keep on thinking that long, as no can predict what will be the exact position of bitcoin at that time, better to concentrate in present.

You are right about that, we can only now have patient and see what is gonna happen in that year, I hope it will be stable in that year.
I also must say that what is mentioned about another halving can also be true in that year.

i think you are right that bitcoin will be stable one day, i hope this will happen as soon as possible and we will not be losing our money because of wild fluctuations really soon as im fed up with it

I think Bitcoin will be on an upward trend for the rest of it's lifespan, at least until the overall decline of everything if that happens at some point. It all depends on the future of Bitcoin and how everything turns out.

The fluctuations are temporary, and so far everything has been going well overall. Aside from the drop from $1,000, Bitcoin has actually been a heavily investment for the past year and a half, probably two years no I guess. The average is going up a large majority of the time.

Tbhe price of the bitcoin will never be sttable and that is only better because otherwise i think there are not very many people want to invest into the bitcoin anymore just because
the price wont be higher then he was before. So there will be allot of people dumping their coins and that will mean the end of bitcoin.

I do not think so. There were lots of dump in the bitcoin in the last 7 years. The bitcoin price dropped from $1200 to 200, but it is still recovering.

The bitcoin price in 2020 could be $10,000 each, so the market cap could be around $170 billion, more difficult to manipulate.

i dont think that bitcoin price can be stable at any time because people only grows and dumps the price so i doubt that we will ever reach stability

If we need a large  daily volume, there must be parity among convertible currencies.Still, there will be a problem.Will there be enough amount of BTC for speculators?

The price is someday going to be stable again that is just how it goes with Bitcoin but we never know when the price is going to be stable.
I do not like it when the price is stable for to long because that means just more waiting.

The bitcoin price is already quite stable compared to 3 years ago. I think it will be more stable in the future.

If bitcoin continues to become more mainstream in use, then the price should keep rising and will be more stable (fewer large fluctuations). Hopefully by 2020 that will be the case. I think it is already becoming more stable now.

while i agree that the current volatility is much lower/weaker compared to how it was years ago, i must also say that the higher the price will go, the less stable the price will be. especially when firm holder keep holding the coins that they bought at current prices till the price is around $1000-$2000 in the far future. buy support will decrease while whales get bigger and bigger.

I do not know if the Bitcoin is going to be stable in 2020 I think so but not for a long time, every year the price is stable for some time.
So I do think that it is going to be stable for a little bit.

2020 seems a long time ahead, but still I don't think we will see stability. The whales have a big role in the price and they won't let it go so easily.

I also think that it will not be stable in that year, it will not come to stability until all of the bitcoins are not mined and until every person of the world do not adopt it for their use. after when this mining and adoption happen the price will reach to a highest value and will remain there forever with slight stability.

In 2020, the market capitalization of the bitcoin can be just $500 billion, it is still too small to be stable.

Well the way my life works, it will go something like this.

It's 2020 and I'm looking at my 100 btc worth xxxx $$$.

Craig Wright who claims to be Satoshi says he will have access to the 'supposed' BTC Trust.

With my luck it will be true and he will dump his probably at that time 1 Billon $$$ of BTC and

Also as he has stated implimented now that he proved he is Satoshi his 400 patents on BTC thru

his 'supposed' institution is accumulating as I type here.

FML. Just scared the crap out of myself. :(

If bitcoin network reaches a increased user profile around 25% from the current number of users bitcoin has the possibility to give a stable price by 2020.

i still dont think that it will be possible to achieve great stability in bitcoins because all the time there will be pumps and dumps

We cant predict anything, anything may happen within four years, I think even if it see pumps and dumps the price will be good than now satisfying user expectations.

I think that in 2020 the volatility will be very different from today.
The fact that there will be more people and shops accepting the currency will give more stability to the price.

i think bitcoin will be more popular in 2020 and large number of people will be investing their money into bitcoin and then i hope that in the end of 2020 bitcoin will be start rise up its price too much faster .

bitcoin is growing year on year, so it's fairly easy/safe to assume it will continue to grow in the upcoming years. i hope that the people that are going to adopt bitcoin will actually start investing in bitcoin instead of chasing faucet dust and other things that don't add any value to the overall price.  

I think the bitcoin price will grow as long as more people will use it. But I like to to grow gradually, not too fast.

I think that bitcoin will not be stable cryptocurrency in 2020.I think that because countries can consider bitcoin like illegall cryptocurrency in some countries which want to support local cryptocurrency to become more powerful and if that happen it can stop bitcoin domination.

For now, that assumption is a little out there. From what we know, bitcoin can die tomorrow. Let's hope that bitcoin continue to grow steadily and that we don't have any more troubles with governments and such...

As long as no fundamental problems with the bitcoin, it will continue to grow and the price will rise again.

yeah bitcoin will be getting more stronger 2020. and then never any crypto currency takeover the bitcoin like as recently and bitcoin will be increasing its price higher amount in the future.

you can see that for the last month or so and specially after halving the price of bitcoin is so stable revolving around 600 and 700 USD. so we can also expect that the price will also be more stable in 2020. at that time hope that most of the countries will have legalize bitcoin and most of the countries will do trade in bitcoin in their local markets.

I think that the Bitcoin is going to be stable for a bit in 2020 because almost every year the Bitcoin is stable for a bit.
The real question is for how long the Bitcoin is going to be stable.

The bitcoin price is not stable now. In the last 6 months, the bitcoin price rose 100%, then dropped 30%.

i guess you might be right but it wouldnt be too good of a thing because it wouldnt allow me to make a lot of profit out of trading my bitcoins

But at that time the demand will be increased much more because of more people involving in bitcoin, so at that time the adoption will be at its rapid speed and in that situation we cannot expect that the price of bitcoin will stabilize but it will continue to increase more faster and the stability will occur only when almost all of the people adopt it and a constant use of bitcoin is started.

Yes. I think the bitcoin price will be between $5000 to $20,000 in 2020. It is due the general usage of bitcoin.

After a few hacks, and there is no good user experience, the bitcoin price could go lower and  it is replaced by another coin.

the rate of bitcoin is stable or not, its depend on the market and condition people to buy and sell. if people react in bitcoin in positif then bitcoin can more growth, but if not, bitcoin will get falls. enthusiastic people to bitcoin can give good effect for bitcoin and maybe bitcoin from year to year will be growth and gets stable.

The bitcoin price shall not fall much in the next few months. The hack just happened to one exchange.

i think that the stable price might be reached by that year though i definitely wouldnt like it because it would be as  boring as gold then

Well we dont know the price will not go down again but i think the price should be increase because mining bitcoin using new asic miners are still not profitable now a days because of price decrease..

But for me it will not be boring as I want this coin as a permanent currency like other traditional currencies, with that we will be able to put all of our money in bitcoin and we will not have any fear of its price fall. and if are doing trade and want fluctuations in bitcoin then I will prefer to trade with altcoins, as these coins are giving much higher profit in trade, try to invest in LIR and other coins like that which have a great potential to increase in value in the coming future.

If there is no further bad news about the bitcoin, the price of bitcoin should start rising in the next few days.