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As I think this current rise have not finished yet, the price will pass $500 within the start of the next month.
who agree with me ?

If there is some big demand within the given time left, there is a possibility that bitcoin value may hit $500. If not, I'd say bitcoin value will hit $500 by the end of the first week of May.

i don't think we will reach the $500 price level before the next month starts. $500 is definitely coming closer and closer, but i think we will demolish that level late may.

maybe at the end, it can be achieved, or toward half of may, if we can go above 500 it's done, a new rally can begin

No don't think so.
We had a nice run the last9 days.From 426 to ~460. Don't get to greedy!
Let's try to stay in that range for a while before trying to climb the $500.

Agree, I'm also thinking this would a set of movements each with a higher floor, like what we've been seeing through the past weeks. Then probably a spike right before the halving. Anyway the thing is, let's just enjoy the ride.  ;D ;D ;D

I think the end of May, bitcoin will be 500$. not increased 500$ and not low. but it is depending in this situation that bitcoin will going up as it is. so it will be possible. otherwise time will judge.

People agree because the price is in a interesting status now. Again like in the past questions of a target price, people based on the current price movement which 80% not happen like the breaching of $600 desire last $500 saga.

Well today it's different because it has quite a big source. Now I just wondered if I can considered this as prehalving effect.

Yeah it will be somewhere in may, not the start of may. If it would be at the beginning of may we should have seen a bigger price already.
Somewhere near 480 USD now.

the price has been going up so good that i think it is possible to get there, since it is not that far anyways at this point, so since now there is only 6 days ti the end of April i would expect $500 in the first week of May.

It can happen the price is not almost at $500 so it can surely happen that the price is $500 at the beginning of May. This is going to be great and can lead to more people getting active on Bitcoin again. 

I don't think it's an unlikely prediction. We will have to wait & see but for sure $500 bitcoin's are definitely a possibility by early May. We just have to hope the recent price rise can continue.

Yeah but the Bitcoin price is definitely going to hit $500 with in May. Actually I never believed that the Bitcoin price would rise so sudden.
I think I got much to used to the fact that the price has been stable for to long. 

the market is greedy but I am not. ;D
I am totally OK with the current price but we are not in a sable range so the price will go up or down , and I prefer going up of course so I hope it will reach 500

The market is currently trying to find a stable price point to settle on after increasing to $460 and even higher.

I think if we can have a stable price above $450 then it will be nice to have it for a good month.

It is very likely that the price of Bitcoin could reach 500$ maybe even by the end of this month,but surely that will happen next month.As we were getting closer to halving, interest in Bitcoin is becoming bigger and demand growing which would logically should lead to an increase in prices.

the prices already passed $450 today but it seems still very far to reach $500 and i don't know the rally still continue or ended but i wish too at the beginning of may the prices will increase to $500 although i'm still doubt regarding that

It sure looks like that way right now. It is rising so fast now that it will make there by the end of this week.

I think we will attempt $680 before the halving

I am very optimistic that next month we could reach $500, so when approaching halving maybe we will see the price of $550-600?  :o

I hope so,but 520$ level is breakthrough,if bitcoin will pass 520$ than we will see 650$,after will be correct
520$ level is cruciual for bitcoin price

We could see this happening, if Steam have it live and people can use bitcoin by this time I think there could be a good bit of bitcoin movement and bring us very close to it at least.

Yeah I too believe that within next month the price reaches $600 to $650 and again continues significantly, I have a doubt here, why $520 value is crucial for bitcoin?

Considering there is only 5 days left before May, I don't think there would be a $30 leap in price. Probably $480 or $490 would be the best guess with the current stable increase.

Yes I think this is very possible in my eyes, this is reachable if everything will go like it has been planned and it stays rising.
The bitcoin has such a good future, I really hope it gets a little push this week..

Step by step. Let's first try to test $450 as a support and see if there is enough keen buyers there. Only then we can move further. All and all, there is too many people who want to get rich too quickly. That is usually not a good sign for the price action.

Tested $470 once, going after it again.

http://ynef.net/upload/charts/BTCUSD25Apr2016.png

As I wrote, let's wait on a sell on bigger volume to see how low it goes. Then we will see were the support really is. For now, we haven't really tested the buying side.

Many have coins/funds on the wallet to do an instant movement. The books surely don't show us all the money that is on board. But yes it's time to test some level to see where it can go, or will go.

500 dollar in the beginning of may is possible for sure, I really have no doubts about that its most likely just a matter of time.
The price is now already around the 440 dollar and it will rise very soon.

in essence we will touch $500 in the month of May, it's really no doubt. Price is now already around $465, it is getting close to $500. I even thought this could happen at the end of april :D

i wish it will be happened, because  bitcoin price is increasing day to day, now you can see the price of bitcoins is 470$, so it all showing in the May, bitcoin will reach at 500$,   

 

It is nice that there are now more people that is positive about Bitcoin and that is quite nice but I dont think that it will reach that value so fast because it keeps stable.
Maybe it will reach that value in December or something because it is hard to know for what will happen with the value.

Well, I hope it really happens. would be nice if the price of bitcoin really stable in the early months may at a price of $ 500, and it is probably the first step bitcoin to rise to $ 600

I think a serious dump can put the price back to $430-$440 levels without problems as I don't see much buy support. 2400BTC is enough to dump the price back to $430 on Bitstamp. That's why I am not getting too happy at the moment with the increasing price.

I agree with you, but seeing at the price rising trend I think the price will cross $500 within this month and the next month it will continue to rise and sooner will reach to $700.

Price is rising at a moment and we are not too far from achieving $500, may be we will reach there in the first week of may and price would be higher at the end of  the month.

Even with 5days left the possibility is more. I believe bitcoin has the potential and at the same time anything can take place in bitcoin price. Lets hope for a price rise which might be $480, $490, $500.

I don't think so because in the end of 2013 he was around the 500 after that the coin only decreased in value.
So it will be difficult but maybe there is a change that he will reach more than 500 but not next month.

I too wouldn't be much surprised if we reach $500 even before the end of this month.

I'm simply considering the fact that BTC has gained about 40~45 in the past 5-6 days and for now it seems that this trend is continuing.
Now there're 5 remaining days to increase another $35 and achieve that goal... It seems not impossible to me.


That would be terrific: I think it's a crucial point!
685 is the ATH from the beginning of June 2014 until today.

I think this is possible for sure without any doubts, the bitcoin is already rising and its also that its now around the price of 450.
The price will be soon around the 500 dollar.

It would be dumped a week before the halfing to scare newbies into dumping for cheap

i don't sure, but in this morning, i can see the price of bitcoin is going almost 3000 CNY compared to 2800 yesterday night, that's weird but more possible to make this ($500) happen. ???

There are only 4 days left. There's still 40$ left to increase. I don't think BTC price will go up 10$ a day. But still, there's a chance that this thing happens.

Many people are hoping that the value will reach that high value so they can sell it with some nice profit fast, but the bad thing is that you never know what will happen.
There is also a chance that the value can be down so you have to wait a longer time until you can sell it.

currently 468 usd

I think we will reach 480 at the end of this week. From there it's just waiting what will happen next.
Either we go to 500 or there will be a draw back.

$550 at or before june 20

that's my best guess.

I m agree with you because now bitcoin price is 470$, so it prove  that bitcoin will reach at 500$ in the mid of May, if it will happen than bitcoin will also increase 500$ in the end of May, it is a superb.

Looks like $470 is a possibility today, but the rise has slowed down. Probably a whale can help us reach $500 by 1st of May, but at this rate it wouldn't come naturally IMO.

http://ynef.net/upload/charts/btcusd27april2016.png

It is already at $460. It is possible to reach $500 in the beginning of May since the price is continuously increasing. Probably, the price will just stay after the halving.

Yes of course now you can say that it will be possible, because now bitcoin price is growing up, so the day will come when bitcoin will cross the amount  500$, within the start of the next month.

The price is very near to $470. Most expected to touch $500 within this month, but the price is increasing in a stabilized manner so mostly will reach by May starting.

All of us here I think is very excited in stable increasing of the price and start to earn it so that it will be big when we will have to withdraw it. It is almost $80 that the price increased after 1 month.

why do you think $10 rise per day is something difficult to happen ? those $40 or less can be achieved in even one day as the market nowadays has a clear up trend. maybe it will not be at 1st May. but it is very soon to reach $500

Yeah it may reach very soon as price has started increasing, four days are there, so price can reach $500 at first of May as of halving, or if it does not happen surely we can expect to be within mid of May.

Just a little update for you guys. I don't think it will hit 500$ at the beginning of May but I believe that it will hit 500$ at mid May or before May ends.

https://i.imgur.com/9mbI9oM.png

if it doesn't happen in may, then it will surely happen june as that is the month before the block halving. it will drive people crazy as they get greedy and continue to buy while the price is going up. either in june or at the beginning of juli, i expect a serious bull run to take off by that time.

that's why you should buy now rather than the period of today's peak, just based on the graph, the price suddenly dropped by $10, if you held at least 10 bitcoins, then you would have lost at least $102 including commission.

this might happen because we are getting nearer to the halving and all people are waiting for the rise and they hold their btc so the supply will be low and the price will rise

This estimate is highly probable as we are closer everyday in this pursuit of that half a grand mark as of late

If it is too come it will be by this weekend

For sure!

There was a correction (on average) across the board that brought the price down to the $450s, so it might not be by this weekend that we'll be seeing $500.

It's probably better for the price to have been corrected like this, now we can see if there is really support for higher values, or if it was just a bubble and it's starting to burst. I have faith it isn't a bubble, but we will see.

sure we will reach $500 in the month of May. but I do not think it will be at the beginning of the month. the possibility of mid-May.

Before Halving scared and inexperienced investors will do panic sell. In May, we will see BTC price under $ 400

That actually makes some sense.

I don't see a big panic selling event happening. At best we will find a price around 410 usd again, but not anything under 400 dollar. At least not before the halving that is.

Till May, a few days left. A Bitcoin is 455 dollars right now. I am a pessimist, and I do not believe that in the beginning of May, the price will be $ 500. It will then, after 2 months maybe, I think.

Only a few days left and it's not possible to even reach $480 seeing a few setbacks and small retraces. If bitcoin crossed the $500 mark in just a span of ~6 days, it would cause a stir and FOMO will begin (which I think wouldn't happen anytime sooner).


I do hope that you are sarcastic with what you've just said.

That's true...we are just 4 days away from May...with the current movement that it is making a small dip from time to time, it will not be possible to move up continuously and make a rally til it reach $500...

Actually were only 2 days away from May, not 4 days. ::)

But the real speculation we will not hit $500 at this beginning of may and i think more weeks before we will see that the price will reach $500..
If you see the updated chart price of bitcoin i think may is not the best month to the price increase and i think this june we will see a big pump for bitcoin.. block halving is too far to decide right now to buy more bitcoins..

The price is now indeed rising slowly but it is not rising that fast it needs time to rise otherwise it will be not possible for the currency to have a high profit later.
So we need the patience for it and you also dont even know what can happen later in the future.

I hope everything will be fair in future, the price is rising in a decent manner at the first week of May we can expect the price to be $500 and within two months we can see exponential growth and can earn big amounts during halving.

It's back to $445 now, with still weakening buy support. I suppose everyone bought during the price standstill a few weeks ago, no one wants to buy now even with the rise.

With the price movement, I don't think that we will make it to $500 in the first of May..Maybe by the end of the next month, it will be possible... The price rally going up has slow down a bit...

Achieving $500 in a short time is possible, but as I wrote earlier - decrease under $400 is in front of us .. most likely in middle of May.

but in my opinion, people will panic buying before halving, because such people are widely speculated that halving will make the price rise.

The greatest fear is always form the unknown causes .. Halving even for very good professionals is unknown. I am sure that many investors will panic ..

Yes I think this is possible without any doubts, its just a matter of time before it gonna happen in my eyes.
Maybe it will be at the beginning of may but I think it will be at the middle to be honest.

seem we lost hope to see the price will pass to $500 in the beginning of may but it will realized in the middle of may.

I think $500 can be in the middle or late May. The price is just $440 now. It will take several weeks to achieve $500.

Yeah we are the same thoughts and i think this following month at the beginning its impossible that the price will jump fast into 500 usd.. i as my speculation the price will hit at 500 usd in the middle of the month..

It seems that it will not happen at last. Price is going down, through not very fast now.

I think we gonna make it, the price is already going up and I think there is indeed a good chance that the price of 500 dollar is gonna get reached this beginning of may.
The price is around 450 dollar and that is a very good sign if you ask me.

Huh. Another failed prediction? No biggie, at least the margin of error is getting slimmer.
Here's a blast from the past :)

There are only few days until May and i doubt that bitcoin price will be pumped +$50 in a few days. But within May it is possible.

I think the bitcoin price will be $500 in late May or early June.

That can happen too, but as OP asks if it is possible within the next few days but it is hard to believe that there will be any pump this weekend.

Yeah it seems for now we will not get anything more then a 450 USD price. Which is fine with me. There is no deadline in may, so it can grow steadily and with peace.

I was writing in this thread that I won't expect that we reach $500 that easily. Not yet. We are still relatively far from halving and there is nothing else happening in the development. Why should we rise then?

Do not say that nothing is happening! Look at Japan - Bitcoin is money:
https://bitconnect.co/bitcoin-news/130/japan-officially-recognizes-bitcoin-and-digital-currencies-as-money/

This is the biggest step for many months! But unknown what hiding behind halving is still very strong blockade..

I strongly agree with you .walaupun current bitcoin prices decreased slightly. but it's all meaningless. bitcoin will continue to get positive sentiment and bitcoin price will be higher.

We had a nice push toward $500 in the past week but we've fallen back into that damn range of $430+/- $15 that it seems like we've been in forever.   Hopefully we'll bust out of it.

there is still time to get to $500 in the beginning of May :) and i think it is still possible to reach $500 within a week, especially since the recent dip was so short and it is already back up to $450 again.

p.s. the 2014 $10K hype was just a hype because bitcoin literary rose from nothing to $1100, this year's $500 and $1000-$5000 hype is realistic, possible with pump, possible after some years respectively. but i still think 10K is b.s.

To be honest this is a bit of a long shot even though April has been a relatively positive month for Bitcoin.

But to be honest, we have no idea where Bitcoin will go since it is manipulated heavily by the big players.

Most of us who have been here awhile now consider the 10k bitcoin just a dream they will never take hold within the next 2 years, 5-10 years down the track maybe.
For now i would be happy with BTC value of between $1000-$5000

mei shortly. I am not quite sure that 500USD .i believe bitcoin will be at least 470USD figures in early May. bitcoin now stands at 450USD. 20USD is a movement which is fairly normal.

good times.

maybe in 2017 we will have predictions of $100,000 or so.

would be fun

Yeah we suddenly got a downfall. With recent days push our price could have reached $500, but probability of the reach reduced. The next time bitcoin reaching $500 will be around the days of mid May or by the end of May.

There is a chance that the value can reach that high value because the value now is rising quite slowly and that is quite nice for the most people who already have Bitcoin.
But it is also rising slowly so you never know what there will happen soon in the future.

That's funny. The article about "Bitcoin Price Will Reach $10k in 2014" is actually published in 2014. I know they might've done the poll probably a month before new years but they could've probably published it a little sooner. Plus, they probably didn't expect the drop on that time.
$100,000 in 2017. That'd be a good dream I won't try to wake up from.

$100,000 will never happen though. what will happen is taht people will dump their bitcoin when it reach $500-600 and it would be staying in these support for a long time until the next halving.
those users wil just about 5btc and up will dump to earn few hundreds and then buy again after the drop and it will go on and go for god knows when.

People always expecting that they will win jackpot when they bought ticket this is nature..
We are greedy and pure expectations are very subjective.
What about real mathematical predictions?
How many new users are here ?
How much money is inolde now in bitcoin,real money, not assumptions based on actual price of bitcoin..

I don't think that $600 or $700 is any border. Buying and selling are happening all the time. Support as well can be on $2000..  ::)

Exactly. As long as the speculation is the main driving force it is really hard to predict when the next p&d will start.

It is true that now big players can manipulate the price, but capitalization of Bitcoin is growing all the time! Sooner or later Bitcoin will become a stable money! $500 may be even in few days. But do not forget about halving ...

All big players doesn't have same thoughts so manipulation is just giving an average movement unlike in the past where there are only few people holds a lot of coins, if we are talking about the bitcoin price movement by start of a year.

Speculation is quite the major factor here disregarding some other factors that affects bitcoin price.

This prediction is not looking so good now as it is only 2 days away from May and the amount of the rally has skydived back down to what it was a month ago. No real progress at all.  :(

Close call, since the bull pressure is really hard and attempts to crash the price are failing, the price crashed to 420 hours ago and we are not at 452 and steady growing, we will soon crush the 470 peak of the other day and then we will go through the 500's psychological barrier in no time. After that, it's breaking the last ATH.

This prediction may fail again. stay a few more days a month may be arriving, and the price is still above $ 450, we need people who want to buy bitcoin with many within a few days to get the price reaches $ 500

500 dollar at the beginning of may is in my eyes possible because its now already at the 45 dollar so I think it will not be hard to reach the 500 dollar.
The 500 dollar can be reached very easy if you ask me, just a matter of some time.

The value is hard to predict and the most people are of course hoping that the value will be more worth and that can be nice for the people who already have Bitcoin.
But it wont rise that fast I think because it takes time until the value will be more.

I think the 500 dollar is reachable for may but I think it will hit this amount in the middle of may to be honest.
The price is close to it now but I also think in a week it will lower a bit.

The price should be way higher but that would assume that the BTC price and people's behaviour follows common sense!  Also if someone can explain to me why some people think the halving should lead to a price fall I would be grateful.

Halving won't get us far, if it is only halving... If there is no real focus on the development we will get yet another pump similar to that one we had last November. How fat it can go? Somewhere between $500 and $600.

I agree I don't think it will cause a huge rise but some crazy people think it will cause a crash in price and I just don't understand how fewer coins being produced does that?  Also I think you're right the big rises in value will come from external developments that increase the uses and utility of Bitcoin not the technical side of things.

There is a good chance that the 500 dollar will be reached this next month but we still have to look if its really gonna happen.
Maybe it will be in the beginning although I think that would be to mealy I think it will be at the end it will take some time to reach the 500 dollar from the number 450.

$600 will probably be the highest point assuming the price will go in that direction. They keep naming the block halving all the time, but what if there wasn't a block halving? Would they still be that confident that the price will sky rocket this year? I don't think so.

The only thing the block halving will do is push out the little guys who mine and leave only the super sized mining farms resulting in greater consolidation and centralisation moving further and further away from the ideals of Bitcoin.  It will likely raise the price but as has been stated previously large sustained price rises are only going to come with greater adoption and it seems with Bitcoin that little has changed in this regard since 2013 when I first got interested in it. 

Sure there are huge plans in the background for mainstream uses and adoption but they are forever 6 months away or a year away and never seem to actually arrive.  It's like Bitcoin is the nuclear fusion of currency - nuclear fusion is always 20 years away from becoming a reality, Bitcoin is always 6-12 months away but it may as well be 20 years.

(As for the increasing centralisation of mining I think a switch to POS might help but this is not the right place to discuss that.  I have started a thread in the mining forum if anyone is interested to explore that idea: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1454710.msg14706074#msg14706074 (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1454710.msg14706074#msg14706074))

$500 before april ends.  ;D

Nice joke! I give you exactly 0.01% chance for this to become reality within 22 hours from now. Unless you are talking about before the end of April 2017. ;)

No way pal, its already end of the april and bitcoins price didn't reach that amount  :-\

It's right. Bitcoin would never touch $500 by April end  as we have almost few hours away from the April month last. So we can expect $500 by the mid of May.

Well, it is already the last day of April and doesn't touch the price of $500. I think it will happen at the mid or the last week of the month of May.

indeed, $454 today, tomorrow is 1/5, which is practically impossible to achieve this kind of occurrence, which is growing the price of bitcoin up by $46 each. lol.

So doesn't  matter, that bitcoin will not cross at the end of April the amount of 500$ , but bitcoin will cross 500$ very soon may be in the first week of May , now a days you will see bitcoin will also go up very fast. within 2 months are very important for bitcoin.

We can forget about April now. In mid-May it is more likely that it will reach $ 400 than $ 500.
Halving will be painful for the price of Bitcoin!

This speculation needs to stop.
The price will not/shouldn't rise before the halving as it already has.
I think It could reach the 500 mark around September though!

This estimate of $500 is highly probable in may as we are getting more and more closer to halving.

Sorry but it will be exactly the opposite .. Check BTC price before the previous halving. Price grew as now, before halving fell and later returned to the normal track.

I think now will be very similar.

You can't really compare the current block halving with the previous one as there is much more money involved and more traders.

And another big difference is that this block halving will not have that much of an impact since the majority of the coins are already mined.

You're right, but I would not expect price increases. Halving still is unknown situation, and investors don't like that. I'm with those who predict a fall in prices of BTC before halving. Later, it should be safe, stable growth.

Well bitcoin will grow and touch only after few weeks of May. Because the price is getting stabilized after decreasing, so it won't happen soon. A small period is required for the value to rise.

well it is may 1st and  i don't think that it will rise by 50$ in 4 hours because price now is 450$, but i can't say that it is bad or small price, it is really nice

and  i think we will see 500$ at middle or end of may, really high chances for that to happen as price rises even now, would be awesome to see huge price like this

The price has dropped from $471 - $449 this week and now it's stable at $450-$452. I feel that it is still not certain if the price would increase anytime soon and max we could reach $475-$485 by 15th May. I have read reports which say that bitcoin prices can reach as high as $890 in 10 weeks and hence the current price is too low.

Reference: http://bravenewcoin.com/news/bitcoin-price-analysis-the-weak-hands-are-out/

Seems like a somewhat reasonable estimate, but I would highly doubt that we'll see nearly $900 in 10 weeks. I could be wrong, but a lot of it depends on where the value goes before the halving. I don't have a good analysis for any of this yet, so take my opinion with a grain of salt.

So with such level of price we couldn't really expect that The price will going up at least till the next halving, if this reports are exact after 10 weeks it's already the halving date almost.

I think it's more likely to see the price somewhat stabilize around the current price for a few weeks. But I am quite sure that $500 will happen before the block halving.

$500 could be a good target for the end of May. We do not want the price to rise too fast, 10% a month is fine.

Seeing $500 in May is realistic. The price is still climbing. Bitcoin is doing good!

Even a growth of 10% is being considered fast growth. 10% per month is an increase of $45 this month, $49.5 next month, $54.45 the month after that, etc. Exactly 1 year from now the price will be $1412. This growth will be nice, but it's way too fast.

Whazzat? A bitcoin price prediction flops? In *my* bitcoin?! Has this ever happened before ???

Well its gonna be hard to come to 500 $ in next few days as I see, maybe it can happen and that would be awesome.
I think there is more chance to see that price in the end of the may.

After the sudden rise I can see this is bound to happen  ;)

It is possible for the bitcoin price to rise to $500 in the beginning of June. There is good demand for the bitcoin.

It might be difficult for the bitcoin to rise $50 within a month. But it is very possible for it to be $500 in July.