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Today i went through an article published on a website claiming that a report published by a Denmark-based Saxo bank has forecasted the bitcoin price to leap upto 165% or $2000 in 2017 beacause of economic stimulus and aggressive fiscal spendings by Newly elected U.S President Donald Trump. What does you guys think?

have a dart board. put different $$ on it and throw a dart.
then make an article using the exact words about economic stimulus..quoting the random number you hit

in short no one knows what the price will be. but anything can/could affect the price.

the thing is even if bitcoin hit lets say $2000.. trump could cripple the dollar where $2000 ends up only buying you a round of beers for 5 people
which means not so helpful for the buying power of bitcoin to get much in goods/beer

Someone's posted an article referencing this in the Press subforum (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1707658.0), so you can discuss the article itself (https://coinidol.com/saxo-bank-predicts-bitcoin-price-to-rise-in-2017/) there.  I also wouldn't be surprised if someone was discussing the same thing on the Speculation (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?board=57.0) board as well, which is where all the price-related chat should be going.  [/backseatmod]

If bitcoin will break ATH I think it will peak much higher than 2000 usd.
My guess (without any hard facts backing) is the peak will be somewhere around 3000-5000 usd but the peak of 2000 usd is unlikely as well as above 5000 usd. On the other hand, 2017 could be a repitition of 2013 and the price rises to 5000 usd in the spring season and towards December 2017 it can rise towards 10 000 usd.
Given how gradual the rise is currently it will take a few months before it breaks ATH and once that has happened there the gamblers screaming about 1000 000 usd/btc. When that is the case it is a good time to sell some coins to them.

Forecast isn't mean to happen always. And I see that even the factors you mentioned based on the article you read can't take the bitcoin price into it's new ATH or around $2000 mark next year.

Bottom line,it will depend on people's response whatever the trend that will happen next year. Even with the biggest news that can affect the price, if people will not take response to it then no big price movement will happen.

What kind of news you think it can affect bitcoin. I think when the time it reaches Christmas price will be move to some high value and it used to stand by for 3 months. This only use to happen by every year. I do not think 2000$.

There should be another strong fact that could lead them to think that bitcoin price can grow up to $2000 in 2017, there are lots of speculation but without some facts these are useless, a good factor is if bitcoin is being accepted in popular websites where people spend their money.

we will not know until then, but I guess possible if bitcoin prices will rise to $ 2000 in 2017. Well, if the price of bitcoin really be $ 1000 or even more in June or July 2017, it can be ascertained that bitcoin allow priced $ 2,000 at the end of 2017

If the price could reach 2000 USD in 2017, should be a nice investment to make and buy some bitcoins right now. But, I don't think it will reach that amount, I think it could reach more the 1000$ USD mark and then probably stabilize for some time.

Always hard to guess the valuation in the future ;)

Yes 2017 i think the chances are high bitcoin will be around $2000.

Yes, OP is just talking about saxo bank's speculations and there are no supporting points for those speculations.

With respect to current stable prices of bitcoins, I also believe there could be many surprises in upcoming month but without massive adoptions by market giants any new high levels too may get dumped.

Bitcoin prices have a habit of following Fibonacci retracements and projections. Based on BTC-e weekly swing high and low if the ATH is taken out $1340 and $1660 are important levels to watch (you can be sure traders will)

https://bitcoinnewsmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/btce-btcusd-Dec-07-2016-14-8-1.png

For China watch 9900 and 12000 at OKCoin:

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It's hard to say what price will Bitcoin achieve in 2017 and how the market will react. Even if this predictions were true I'm not sure that Trump and his politics could influence the Bitcoin price in some significant way. This price is possible and we would all like to see Bitcoin touching it but politics will not help us with that.

Well, you're right. very hard if we say the price of $ 2,000 occurred in 2017, maybe it could happen, but it is very difficult. maybe we need halving the row in order to achieve a price of $ 2000, or investors who invest a lot of their money into bitcoin. Well, I just hope bitcoin prices could reach $ 1,500 in 2017, but let's hope that bitcoin prices could reach $ 2,000.

that would have only been true and a valid speculation if bitcoin was rising (specially in the charts that you have included here) based on real supply and demand. these charts for example are the $1000 pump that was a fake pump by mtgox you should not include it in the speculation.

bitcoin has gone up big in the past too. in the last year for example there have been at least 108% rise and it was similar in the year before the last. so that part is correct and you can conclude that it is possible to rise another 100% in the following year. but again any price above $1000 is uncharted area that has never happened and i believe it needs some real adoption in order to go to prices that high.

Im expecting $1000 by beginning of 2017 i think it would be reached easily by March or April. Yeah I think we can see 2000 by end of 2017 if there isn't any down trend after reaching the $1000 mark.

It looks like it is moving to that now, i think early 2017, Jan we may have $1000+ per BTC but we'll see. $2000 would be nice but unlikely imh.

you are a very positive man. I think it will be at 1000+ in next year and I never think that it would be 2000 in the year of 2017.

Why not? We have seen bitcoin double in the last year, it was at around $250 in July 2015 and reached $600 this July, so why cannot this happen next year too. If bitcoin reaches $1000 in beginning of the year then yes sure by the end of year i would be expecting it close to $2000

I predict the price of bitcoin might be in the range of 1200 USD to 1500USD in 2017.  the price 2000USD  is too high. This will cause some economic system disrupted. but bitcoin will still be a priority choice for me.

Me too, I am skeptical with 2,000USD price. This might be a long shot. But I hope it does, I need that increase. For now, I would be stacking and saving bitcoins and looking forward to that 1,500USD mark. Maybe in in 2018 there is a chance we reach 2,000USD mark. Or there could be a miracle, and amazon adopts bitcoins then most likely we might even reach 5,000USD because of that.

Not going to happen. Dream on with that one! :P

This speculation regarding of $2000 is not that impossible before 2017 ends, there is always a might because as long as there are still
users and still growing users

Few countries have experienced some financial issues. On account of this big increase in users were found. I believe bitcoin is expected to be around the range of $1000 - $1200. Sudden increase to $1500 is not possible in this short period. If it happens too, it won't sustain similar to the gradual increase.

Well, there is always a possibility of bitcoin prices to $ 2000 in 2017. I also hope so, but if the price of bitcoin until at a price of $ 1000 in mid-2017, maybe it will not happen. I just predict that when the bitcoin prices rose to $ 1,000 in August 2017, then the highest price of bitcoin in 2017 was $ 1,500

I think that it will be 1000-2000$ bitcoin price next year not more because this year % growing i think that it wil not be bigger growings in bitcoin price but i want bigger bitcoin price also but statitics show that.

Yes there are lot of differences between sudden bump and sustaining increase. Still we can not expect that market movements will occur in similar manner. For example if bitcoin prices will be bumped to $5000 levels then we can expect sustaining around $2500 or even $2000 levels. So, anything will be possible in my opinion.

Since we are not fortune teller to know it i think it can be possible but for me it is hard to reach 2k value maybe above of $1k value can be possible this following year.. and the price will be still relay in demand and supply if we compare the movement of the price last year just a little bit similar to them..  so maybe 1k value is possible but less possible to happen in 2k value..

2000$ is very likely, I would like more an sustentable grow, but when BTC break new highs its very likely that the media will cover it as "ok, so its not dead after all" and it bring alot new users and alot of expectation on a fast ATH

Before 2016 what was the price? though I know halving had a part in the price increase but I hope to see a jump from $820 to $960 by the end of 2017.

we should not think about the price prior to 2016 .The price was recovering after major negative news because of the hacks and many people dumped their coins for other currencies but not it is regaining the old level because more people are coming into this crypto world and we will see more records broken in terms of price in the following years.

The price increase is likely to be higher. There are many economic, political and social factors involved with the cryptocurrency market. Just look at the increasing demand in India and China, for example. In addition, there are factors related to improvements in the network, which if they are ready in the coming months, we will see the development of many applications for the Bitcoin network.

It is clear that most forecasts in economic issues tend to continuously fail because of the great uncertainty that has prevailed in the lasts years around the world.

Besides, we have also seen that the price of bitcoin follow its own rules and it has always seemed oblivious to the world economic dynamics.

But in this altcoin world everything is possible, so we could see that price next year, or we also could see a continued stability or even a big drop to $300 again.

India is going to have a huge impact on the bitcoin price in 2017 and the following years. People are so pissed about the 500 and 1000 notes becoming worthless and scrambling to get rid of them asap (or are they worthless yet? I forget the date). $2000 might be a stretch but I do see a new ath coming in 2017. We've had some steady rises which are amazing for long term growth.

Segwit will help with the actually bitcoin community coming together but I highly down anyone will adopt because they just heard of this cool new thing called segregated witness with bitcoin. They'd just say "what the hell is a bitcoin!?"

Sooner or later it is gonna happen, maybe not in 2017 but eventually. Still next year looks very promising with all bitcoin related projects, investments and upgrades rolling out.
It is not the first time I heard that BTC will reach $2000, Kim DotCom said so too earlier this year, maybe there is something to it?

Well, its better if that will happen. We are still at $700+ barrier right now. Atleast $1000 a piece is what i expected next year. $2000 a piece is too much, but who knows it happen? We are all hoping it pumps that time and it will be my best day of my life. I think kim DotCom can have an impact when it launch.

posible bitcoin price to 2000 dollar or incraese over 100%
you can see, in 2015 bitcoin price range 200 - 300 dollar in end year 2015
but in end year 2016 bitcoin price over 700 dollar, or until reach to 800 dollar

There are possibilities that bitcoin will leap into that price first is bitcoin now is really good and keep increasing we have our mates from india who really needing bitcoin for there business and they can help bitcoin economics to make it grower not only U.S but all country will be happy if this happen.

As the other predicts. $2000 is to much. We dont even hit the $800+ barrier yet. But its really hard to tell if its gonna happen or not. I saw many predictions here but i dont see any accurate details why its going to pump that high. About Kim DotCom, i dont see if its gonna be a big impact. Im expecting it atleast $900 at the first quarter of 2017. I think thats more believable.

Then the possibility of the value of the money ain't  that impossible since we are almost in thousand before 2016 ends. Many factors including the one stated above are the reason bitcoins not reaching 1500$ by the year end.

bitcoin can worth 10000 U$ ... this kinda prediction is always a shot in the dark and args to monthful people, because the system is so liquidy now and many news are popping up that it dosn't matter how much it will worth, the good fact is the it will be good and solid, maybe you can work hard to win lotta bitcoin here in the forum to buy something outside., I mean, physical.

Always been possible in crypto one coin lately that promisize untraceable and anon such as ZEC turned out to be one of hte coin that has been very valuable. although it lasted only for weeks, it did happen.

yes of course many factors that can influence the price movement bitcoin today. some people still believe and trust bitcoin will achieve higher prices. I try to think realistically, I predict bitcoin will reach the price of $ 1.100 in 2017.

I think we cant reach that price next year because a lot of btc holders will gonna sell all thier bitcoin if the price reach at 1500, they will wait for 2000$ to sell thier bitcoins.

Indeed, we can't speculate it would leap to $2000 without any big step in the market that accepted bitcoin payment.
If we could use bitcoin to spend easily as spend fiat money (at least 50% of it) in daily basis, that time would be lead us to reach $2000 but not in the next year I thought, we need another 2-3 years later maybe.

If we look at the recent growth of bitcoin every price increase had a drop which means everyone books their profit with every increase and the stability of the price drop and rise suggest me that the price wont drop that much and the time it might take to reach $2000 is a difficult one to predict .

2000 is not such a risky bet if you're keeping long positions, although a more realistic target would be the 1250 and 1500 walls.

Once breached though a 2000 climb isn't out of the question especially with profiteers keen to wait out til that mark and make quadruple profits from the 500 price just a few months back.

Yeh well it sho could.  We gone hit the high from back in 2013 soon enough.  This here Donald Trump gone blow up Mexico all da way down to Chilly.  Ain't gon be nothing left down there.  These is crazy time we livin' in, and not only $2000 bitcoin but them gold and silver markets, they gon' blow up too.  People be actin' like the world's fine, but it ain't.  Nawsir, not by a long shot.

thats amazing if price went to that high as we all here really waiting for the value to move up and keep moving while progress and adoptions are in place let see if 2017 will be a great year for bitcoin lets just keep supporting bitcoin.

No doubt again, I sure price $2,000 will happen in middle 2017. Generally, after new year the price will increase more than 10 only a month. Last year 2017 I think will reach more than $2,100

this is impossible right now because bitcoin is hardly to reach the $1000 barrier so im guessing that in 2017 we could only hit the $1000 barrier and not $2000 maybe 2018 or 2019 bitcoin could hit that price. if there will be more investors like bigger companies theres more possibility that bitcoin could actually hit that price . based on my experience and being here in bitcoin world the price of bitcoin is depending on the investors who actually putting all of their money in bitcoin. thats why im still encouraging my officemates to invest in bitcoin because bitcoin is more reliable and fast than any other remittance.

I don't think we get above $1000k any time soon. We still have to beat the top of this year, let alone getting to $1k. The game is called rising supply, and as long as there is enough new money coming into the game we are rising. As soon as we observe difficulties on the demand side, the price should drop considerably. $2k is completely unrealistic at the moment.

I never would have thought this to be a possibility a few weeks or even days ago but if we break that $1000 barrier woah... watch out world. Here comes BITCOIN!!!
Rofl!! 1000k ($1,000,000) eh? Ya. I don't think we'll hit $1mil anytime soon either.  :D

Well, I also do not think that the price of $ 2000 it is impossible that could happen in 2017. I think that it is perfectly possible. but, that is the price really high, and it will be very difficult to achieve such a high price within 1 year. but I would still hope that it will happen.

you got me, there is the typo. I wrote initially $1k in the first post, and then decided to edit it to $1000, not deleting the 'k'. But the sense of my point stays the same.

Well, I see a little problem here. If all you have to back your $2000 prediction is 'your hope' than I am pretty much sure we won't get it next year.
If there are some other arguments to back it, then I would like to hear them.
Otherwise, these are just wild speculations based on wishful thinking and nothing else. and if so, why only $2k and not $1000k? It is an equally unrealistic target.

A week ago the price about $790 but now in $880, increase more than 10% only a week. I am optimistic in 2017 the price bitcoin hit $2.000, currently priced at $880 and before new year I sure the price hit about $900. 2016 is the best year bitcoin, because prices go up about 3 times.

this is impossible it could be $1200 but not $2000 that's a such a huge price so that won't happen because if bitcoin reach $1000 there's a lot of bitcoin users that could actually encash their bitcoins.. so they won't regret it after.. I heard that the price of bitcoin is depending on the investors of it self so if the users wallet lose bitcoin the price of bitcoin will be affected as well so the price of bitcoin could depleted.

At this point, I would actually believe the price could hit $2k by the END of 2017.
Price is going up fast, but to double at this point after we already had a huge jump would require some big news.
If we had some big service start accepting Bitcoin, or some huge financial change it might be possible, but I doubt natural growth would hit $2000.

I think it is more likely between $1500 to $1800. $2000 is more than the double of the price, difficult to reach.

Price is going up so fast that I expect to see bitcoin cost 2000$ in a month already, in the case if the price will continue to grow with the same temp. Bitcoin is just amazing thing that helps to many of us to become a little bit more richer.

It is already hit almost 1000$, I think BTC will hit the 2k in 2017

This year price doubled because of halving effect, but next year it would not possible big pump. It have a chance to reach 1300$ at most according to me. I think we can some good adoption to get into bitcoin in upcoming years.

Wait till the correction starts, to see where we are. It is definitely too early at this point to make any educated guess on where Bitcoin would sit at the end of 2017.

Yes many are predicting bitcoin prices in 2017 will increase rapidly. Many experts have predicted that if the price of bitcoin will increase in 2017. Even Daniel Masters, multi-million dollar bitcoin hedge fund, predicts that bitcoin will hit $ 4,400 by the end of 2017. Masters believes that bitcoin adoption will continue to increase, and more companies will accept it as payment. increased adoption of this would encourage investment in technology blockchain.

This is ridiculous but i don't expect this kind of price bitcoin will not be over that price in year 2017 i know because it will be set a new record once the price of bitcoin will be hit on that price. If donald trump will use bitcoin for economy then bitcoin will be in demand and they will be needing more bitcoin then there are chance that bitcoin will be increase.

I think so but it will reaches this level in middle year .

Wow! Is Trump really making some difference ? ;D
Anyway, I think that theoretically the price can rise up to $2000 but it is not very likely to happen. I guess when the price will go some repressions by the governments will occur. I mean, some influential countries can all buy some btc and thus start controlling the price is they act together. Or some people will start to panic because of some stuff. Or, they'll just need the money to spend on daily needs and thus the price won't become more than $1100.

I just don't see that happening, but with the pump we are having right now, anything is possible. I think we will still see the price drop some if it goes that high.

Ok, but if blockchain technology is attractive by itself that doesn't mean that automatically Bitcoin's price would increase. How about a scenario in which there are completely new coins created by the companies in question to back their blockchain-based businesses?

yes, I also do not see that it's possible, but I guess you're right. anything can happen on bitcoin, even if the price to $ 2000 in 2017 that it might happen if a lot of the economic crisis in the world, or more large transactions that occur using bitcoin.

A month or two ago, I would have said such a thought as $2000 is crazy-thinking.  Now...not so sure.  I was kinda hoping for a somewhat slower rise than we've had, but I'm not complaining.  We're at $910 right now, which is pretty damn good.  The market is going to do what it's going to do--I just hope if we get to $2000 it's sustainable.

Great advice. I keep banging on about the fact that Bitcoin should already be at $2000. The eco systems are all good enough to support that price now or even a month or 2 ago. The investors have been there for a while and the price is still nowhere near there. I think it will take another 17 months but... it shouldn't and there is no reason why $3000-$5000 cant happen... nor $10,000 but I doubt either will happen.

Wake me up in 5 years time when we are in a dip and we have reached a low of $5000.

$2000 is still crazy-thinking, as nothing has changed fundamentally. We have a crazy pump right now, no doubt about it, but that doesn't affect the fundamental situation. The current price is already well above the current fundamentals, the pump will be over at some point and then we will have correction. Let's see first how low it will go, before resuming further rise, to make any educated guess.

2k is nothing. When mainstream gets a whiff things are going to move fast. 8-10 - 20k for next big run, which we may be on the cusp of. If BTC is adopted sees mass adoption 50k-100k coins minimum, 1mill a posibility. Software moves super fast and adoption cycles are occuring at faster paces. How long did it take a payment app like Venmo to gain large mkt oenetration? 7 months to a year? Silicon valley is finally realizing thier heads have been up thier rears, the value is directly investable in actual publicaly distributed ledger protocols. Lightning and network upgrades need to come pronto, free mkt will likely take care of expanding out BTC functionality/capabilities through sidechains. Variable go blocksizes, like XVC has, should have been implemented yesterday.

That has actually been ongoing in the altcoins scene for the last few years, I've been following and investing there with interest however while there certainly are talented individuals, companies and coins worth putting some money into in my opinion, no other coin quite establishes trust as firmly and conclusively as Bitcoin does, it is the new digital standard of trust if you will that other coins can add thier own capabilities to. As time goes on coins look like an evolutionary tree through time, many rise, many go away/extinct, positive adaptions/changes/capabilities are made and added.

It is about the sentiment that has changed considerably in the last two three years. There were many innovative coins meanwhile, but there was no interest from the bigger markets. Now, we talk about the interest from the insurance companies, or alike, and they are capable to set up new coin and establish the trust needed. I think it would be much easier to set it up from scratch rather to try to buy back a coin owned by whales, with 75%+ of all coins already mined.

At first, I thought that the idea of $ 2000 per Bitcoin in 2017 was just hype, but then I realized it's more than that. First of all, there is real demand for Bitcoin, with an economy growing around it, we also have the effect of halving, and a series of events that can help the price next year, such as segwit (if activated, of course), lightning network, Bitcoin ETFs and several applications.

Well this might be considered fud but I think that the price will rise a lot (maybe more than 2000$) after Kim dotcom will release his new megaupload 2.0 bitcache project :)

This is this kind of news like many before, something that is supposed to be big, and turns to have only marginal (if at all) effect on the price of Bitcoin.
I wouldn't expect this one to be much different either, sorry to disappoint you.

last highs were 30, 250, 1100, next one is ?

250 = 8 * 30
1100 = 4 * 250
2500 = 2 * 1100

(very roughly)

so 2200 - 2500 would make some sense.

on the other hand, the fall from 1100 was only caused by Mtgox.

Definitely once 1100 is broken anything is possible. Market cap wise, BTC is still a baby.  :)

Adoption-wise Bitcoin is still a baby as well. Let's first get some more adoption to have a fundamental base for such a growth. Otherwise,we are talking about speculative pump only and this is always hard to predict.

we can never be sure about the next high price in 2017 and certainly we can not talk about $2000 at this point because it is too far away and is in uncharted waters!

but one thing is for sure, and that is the fact that we will see $1000+ next year and it may be a long and slow rise but it will rise steadily throughout next year.

actually this prediction is suspicious i mean there's no way that bitcoin could actually hit that kind of barrier. right now we're hardly to reach $1000 so its impossible to reach that amount. maybe in 2020 bitcoin could hit that barrier. but not today or next year. we're jsut getting started so just be easy on whatever happening right now and enjoy all the things.  ;)

I think it will be difficult to reach 2000$, and i think it will be hard to pass 1000$, although there is so many exciting project in 2017, but to reach that high it need a lot of pump and dump

Although I think that it is hardly possible that Bitcoin will hit $2000 mark in 2017 I wouldn't be so pessimistic about the future years. I think it is not so unrealistic to expect $2,000 in 2018, maybe in the second half of the year but BTC can really hit that mark in 2018.

So my prediction of the BTC price for the next two years:

$1,200 - Summer 2017

$1,500 - December 2017

$1,700 - Summer 2018

$2,000 - December 2018

I wish bitcoin price keep rising so $2000 could be true and hope it will bring more people to use bitcoin

It is not about being pessimistic or optimistic. It is about being neutral and not biased in any direction, be it up or down.
I simply don't see enough on the fundamental side to support the current valuation of Bitcoin, let alone, $1k, new ath and then $2k level.
This said, I am not saying it is impossible to reach there, as we already have seen massive pumps in the past. Although, if we have to count on pump in this matter and a pump of such volume, I hold it for very unlikely to happen.

I think if we break 1000 there is a very good chance we could snowball to a new ATH.....

This market  is anything but rational and orderly, especially when it hits the news that bitcoin  has finally surpassed the price of 1oz of gold....

A new ATH will come, just a matter of when imo

Well, I feel that these predictions will be slightly off the mark. I believe in 2017, bitcoin prices have risen to $ 1,000, and I believe bitcoin prices in 2017 will exceed that price. but I believe that the price of bitcoin really high, but the price will not arrive at the price of $ 2,000 at the end of 2018

You are absolutely right, when you say that the fall from 1100 was only caused by Mtgox. But at the same time, the rally towards $1,200 per coin was also because of Mt Gox. In reality, Bitcoin never touched the peak of $1,260 per coin. The Mt Gox guys rigged the orderbook, to create a fake spike in the prices. Since Mt Gox was the biggest exchange at that time, the other exchanges such as BTC-e also picked up this rally.

Well, of course, who can be 100% sure about what will happen in the future? That was just my prediction and no way I'm telling anybody to trust it. I can explain why I think Bitcoin will rise so much though. I think we are still in a situation when most people who would use Bitcoin are not using it for different reasons the main of which is the lack of information. This situation for sure will change in the next couple of years and thus the demand will rise and the price will rise accordingly.

i think it could be possible to be happen in 2017 because we can see that bitcoin is grow and not just for the user, but for the old people, bitcoin have a big value and they realize this and they don't want to be missed this opportunity. but i am not sure when the price of bitcoin will reach to $2000, i will prefer to use this time to make a saving as much of bitcoin as we can.

holding bitcoin did indeed is a way to get a huge advantage. but we are required to have a high level of patience.
bitcoin prices in 2017 will be in the range of 1000USD to 2000USD.

Anything is possible. So I think 2000 dollars is possible, but can't say when it will happen. If more people buy bitcoin, it will appreciate in value and there will also be other people such as miners trying to sell bitcoins to cash in their profits. Governments can implement high taxes to discourage people from using bitcoins. We will have to wait and see how things turn out in 2K17.

Predictions in cypto are always difficult, but if you ask me, I think it is an achievable goal. Since last year, experts were predicting that the price could reach even $ 3000 in the middle of this year.
A few months ago it was more difficult to predict, but now we can see that people are actually waking up for Bitcoin.

That's surprising to me that people are speculating that it could get that high but I suppose it's possible. I won't be buying at these prices because I think it's even more likely that we see some kind of pull back.

if the price reaches 2,000$ do you feel regretful about not buying bitcoin at the price of 1,100$.
I saw the buying power is very strong in the chart and I think it will break 1,100$ in 24 hours later.
That is interesting year of bitcoin.

Of course such a price is possible, could even go higher. But it also could come to a fee-event with impact on the price. That's why I consider Bitcoin as a good but very risky bet right now.

It may possible,but you need to make some different calculation for it, there are many speculation will arise once it touches 2000$. It will happen only when people are keep pumping the coin. Right now many people are not comfortable with the price.

If we talk about bitcoin's price and make speculation about that, I think everythings can be happen. There is no absolute formulas to predict the price, even if Trump make an account in bitcointalk.
But yeah, now peoples trust in bitcoin is raising up. And $2000 is really possible.

It is well on its way to $2000. Will it get there before an exchange 'hack' is another story. I hope so.

Yes, it maybe happens in this year. it seems the world economy is weaker and Trump became an american President.
it will help bitcoin have a good chance to rise up higher especially china's economy.

2000? Sure why not? It can even get to 3000? I don't think it's going to be smooth sailings all the way. Like some people I just think there will be some dips but it won't be like it was before. My random guess is that the floor from now will be 800.

$3000 could be reached later in the year if the US dollar starts to collapse.

i usually don't like getting ahead of myself with speculations like this, but my guess is if the year 2013 is repeated once again the price can go up to ~$3600 easily within a short time with a bubble.
but things are so different than 2013 and price has been rising slowly ever since the last bubble ended.

Lol bitcoins could be worth $1mil each if the USA gets rid of dollars and uses bitcoins only. What's your point? Are you predicting the collapse of the USD?

You can't just assume that the price will reach the same level of percentage growth as was the case in 2013. Back then a lot less coins, and a lot less money was involved. It was much easier to get the price to reach a certain level compared to how things are right now. That being said, it's great that the price went up that quick, but I am sure people add more value to a slower but far more sustainable level of growth. It makes people gain confidence.

Yes, I Think so. But it will must be down at 500$ or lower before it can grow up higher 1,000$ or 1,500$. This fact is belong to chinese people's decision. It's hard to guess their thoughts for bitcoin at this time.

Well, I guess now we see where this correction stops to make a more educated guess on how realistic is to go to $2k price in 2017.
As I wrote, it is an overly optimistic view to my understanding, but let's the market decide.

i don't find it optimistic, and it actually is realistic. price may not go to $2000 but it will surely go near it, maybe around $1800-1900
and it is not unheard of for bitcoin to go that high. remember last year price was half today's price and the year before that price was 1/5 of the current price. and some day price was $0.01 and so on.

Bitcoin price surely moves forward by the falling months. The real fact is that the price won't go high as much to the $2000 in a years time as the increase has already took place for the present year and just the fluctuations continues within certain limit. Further by the year end once again the steep increase can be experienced.

But I am having totally different view than you. Just today bitcoin prices showed $100 rarlly from $800 to $900 so quickly.

It is predicted that US investors may turn back to alternate investmnets due to weak dollars similar to what Chinese investors done when yuvan showed down fall.

New US government and their policy formation on economy are highly expected to trigger bitcoin price's up surge this time.

It is difficult to know if the price will rise for the next few days, I think the price will remain holding strong in the market, but some drops are possible. However, in a few months from now, there are great chances that the price may rise to higher values than those achieved earlier this year, especially if the events scheduled for this year, fostered by high profile investors and involving different applications, are released as planned.

In my opinion that forecast most probably will not happen and maybe after the dips and pump that we experience, bitcoin will probably stabilize at a price below 800$ since that's how it always is. That being said, it is most likely that we wont be reaching new all time high soon and the forecast you mentioned op wont come true. If it were to happen though I would be glad and so is everyone and for now all we can do is watch the charts daily.

Its possible but it will most likely not happen because of the fact that its something that is based on the things that happen on the market.

It will be very difficult to see Bitcoin in the five hundred dollar range again. I believe that most users, traders and investors are aware that the cost of mining has risen sharply since the last year, especially after the last halving. In addition, there are different events that can boost the price this year. Bitcoin ETFs and possibly improvements in the network itself can bring very positive results to Bitcoin this year.

Indeed, theres a big possibility that bitcoin could leap to 2000$ price or even higher by this year. Not only by the help of that news but rather more and more companies are accepting bitcoin and investing into it.

around one third  of tech companies in the uk have bought some btc just in case they get hit by ransomware
and need to pay ASAP

2000 will certaintly be broken in 2017

There is a big chance that will touch 2000$ but only you need to think is the more faster it reaches and soon it falls down. Bitcoin should increase it's price slowly because now many people start using bitcoin, once suddenly it touches 2000$ may be some people who are showing interest will not use any more due to bitcoin volatile.

Kim Dotcom said that it will hit $2000 in 2017. He was right before and I think he will be right this time as well.

the current bitcoin prices stabilized at $ 800, may require massive pump until bitcoin could reach $ 2,000 this year. but, this is a year long, there are still many possibilities to bitcoin prices rose again, and reached a price of $ 2,000. but, I doubt that bitcoin will stabilize at a high price in a long time.

well if the price would reached to 2000$ i would surely be gratefull for that great achievement but seems at this state it will remain for us  as a dream that we cannot be achieve at this moment, bitcoins rising got many difficulty and it doesn't sustain at 1000$ since it was to high and people will surely sell for that level thats why the 2000$ is just a myth that hard to achieved at this moment, but for now lets enjoy the little fall and lets still be happy since the price is bit to high and not like those past years that price drop to its ugliest level.

In the first instance, I did not believe people when they predicted that the price would hit the $1,000 mark come 2017. I thought those were day dreamers who just had wishes. Back to early 2016, the bitcoin price was around $250 and no one could tell if it would even go higher than $400. But come 2017, the price was $1,000 and above. Therefore, I think anything is possible and the Bitcoin price hitting $2,000 this year will not be a miracle

I think the price may peaks well over two thousand dollars. I've seen some analysis in which the price can reach up to $ 3500, but obviously the price will not stay for long in that range. Maybe the $ 2000 range is the range in which the Bitcoin price will stabilize this year.

Well, I do not know, to me in particular it seems a very high scenario, and I prefer to avoid making a statement about it, but even if it were maintained at current levels, it would already be an indication that it is a little more solid that before, and the conditions are more favorable and little by little its has been improving paulatively with the passage of time, so that where the balance is inclined there will be people who will make their own decisions taking into account his own experience to avoid any kind of surprises, what is certain is that nobody never know how high it will get or how low it can fall,so we will see where the balance is tilted.

That is why there are some good strategy in exchanging your bitcoin to not lose the opportunity for every price increase or decrease of the price .. if you seen the price is high and you already make you profit better to sell few of your bitcoin to hold just to save your profit and the rest sell it if the price will continue to rise and buy bitcoins again if the price is getting low.. just cycle or scaleup your bitcoin and increase the amount.. if you are ignore the price increase you will just lose the opportunity to make a profit..

if we have learned one thing about bitcoin in the past years is that price is not going to "leap" so high too fast. take the recent $1150 rise, price went up fast and it encountered a correction. so that is why i say the $2000 is not going to be a "leap" it will be the same slow rise that we have been seeing so far. and withing one year it is possible because a 2x rise is the norm of this rise so far.

That is just nomenclature. People would say that the leap from $400 to $1200 in 2016 was a "leap".
It doesn't matter what you call it. If the price reaches $2000 in 2017, it would be truly great.

Theres no change of touching $2000. Even now at $900 the blockchain is unable to take all the transactions and the delay is huge, imagine with a bitcoin at $2000 you had to wait DAYS to a single transaction.

I wish to see bitcoin's price go higher and higher, and yes 2017 will be good year for bitcoin as people predicted before 2017 start, as we saw that bitcoin's price reach almost 1200$ in just few hours and then dropped so we would say that bitcoin will reach  2000$ this year. We have 9 months almost so everything is possible when we are talking about bitcoin.

I'm not sure about Kim Dotcom prediction skills, but he's not the only one who made predictions that Bitcoin could reach such a value. I have seen many experts predicting that Bitcoin could reach values even above the two thousand dollar range.

And now that you mentioned him, I realized that he raised several million dollars through BanktotheFuture, for the development of MegaUpload 2.0 and Bitcache:

https://bnktothefuture.com/pitches/megaupload-2-0-bitcache

This is another event that can help price this year.

I am pretty sure $2000 in a year is realistic expection.
But sure it won't stay there long, it could only reach with huge speculation.

It will never be long on that price. Just like what happened to $1,120 it didn't went long. But this has more chance to happen rather than those people who are speculating that bitcoin will possibly reach to $10,000 and higher. Well I hope to see the price of bitcoin to land at $2,000 for this year or else we will expect it next year.

i think is not realistic, and iam not sure if bitcoin price can incraese 2000 dollar in 2017
you can fact, china exchanger regulate, about fee trading, margin trading, and now is factor bitcoin incraese, in china people can reduce, can't masive pumping again, so in 2017 very dificult and imposible can inraese to 2000 dollar

after some bad press (China Govt banning bitcoin) and a huge panic sell this month, btc seems to be holding like a champion over 900$, that was impossible 4 or 5 months ago, I can't say I didn't feel dissapointed when the price fell once it touched 1157 but I still think there are great things to come this year, so yes I expect 2000$ and beyond

Just read the article and purely speculation because Trump reign, but every speculation lead to another clue that might be causing the increasing to reach $2000 in this year. I've predicted that bitcoin will reach the price ($2k) in the end of the year as the few last years, the price chart always shows the same fluctuations, but even $1500 is good for bitcoiners. Remind me about the bull run pass through $1157 then fall and how bitcoin slowly recovering to $900's right now and it seems hardly to reach even  $950, only time will tell when the price get back to $1000.

if there is something that could make bitcoin popular this year, I believe the price may reach $ 2,000. but, I think it would be very difficult, because most users will sell bitcoin bitcoin they have, when prices reached $ 1,500 bitcoin. might happen panic selling again, the same as it was then.

We cant still be assure because we are not fully dependent on China regarding on moving prices of bitcoin if there are circumtances then it might be somehow but not fully dependent.Adoption would be the basis if we reach that amount on this year but i think it would be hard because bitcoins price tends to move so slow now.

well most of the speculations are not totally going to happen and I don't know if the Presidency of Donald Trump could really affect the price of bitcoin maybe yes but still there are no possible sign that bitcoin will surely leap to the said price within this year I am not being skeptic but I am not just expecting that it is going to happen as it appears impossible to me at this moment .

No there is no possibility that could affect the value of bitcoin they can not control the value of bitcoin. maybe the price of usd will be decreases not the price of bitcoin we can still relay in other currency like euro.
Since bitcoin still growing and more and more investors are come and more company and adopters are come we will ee a bright future..
That can be hit even $1400 in this year..

The People's Bank of China would step in when ever the price of bitcoin looks like breaking the records and that in turns affect the price of bitcoin and if that is the case every political blunders and uncertainty could in fact increase the price of bitcoin and the recent price growth is simply because of the uncertainty that Donald Trump created  by his actions.

I predicted in 2017 bitcoin could reach 2000USD. because the current development of bitcoin is greatly increased. in quartal 1 this year bitcoin prices are in the range of 900-1000 USD. there are still 11 months to reach that number. all could have been because bitcoin has incredible movement so fast.

Bitcoin is close to the point of 1000$ again, so I think the price of 2000$ is possible by the end of the year and predicted long time ago. As I noticed bitcoin get doubled every single year, so such price would be normal to be seen during the year.

yes bitcoin has a great potential to reach to very high price may be more that 2000 USD, because no one can predict about future of bitcoin. but i think the price of bitcoin can easily reach to 1500 USD level. in previous days when the price of bitcoin reaches to 1000 USD level it was expected that the rice of bitcoin will this time cross all time high price of bitcoin but after that some people start panic selling which cause the price of bitcoin do drop 750 USD level, but now it is again trading just touching 1000 USD and hope this this it will certainly cross the 1200 USD level very soon.

Kim dot com's project bitcache is now postponed from january to few months later.when it goes live it will bring a lot of new users in bitcoin. Megaupload 2.0 system with bitcoin micropayments for every upload... Price could reach 2000 usd thanks to that.

In the first quarter of the year we are sure not going to see $2k but with more corporate support getting on board this just might be possible

Yeah we shall reach 2000$ within this year. We should just not focus on bitcoin price, but also on the volume. The more the volume and marketcap of bitcoin, the price will automatically increase. My wish is that bitcoin becomes stable at 1500$ by mid of this year and then move forward towards 2000$ till year end.

I still believe in Kim Dotcom delivering a good software and giving us a real incentive to use bitcoin beyond hoarding it. I think he has the right mindset to get on board a lot of new average joes involved into bitcoin. If he manages to make an upload system that pays in BTC or whatnot I think he can take it to the next level and we will see $2000.

Anything is possible and have chances. Even $3,000 is possible, that's how easy to speculate. But ok let's back to the reality, $2,000 is really achievable "as long" as continus pump will happen or should I say, number of pumps must be dominated over the number of dumps.

Thinking it will go up straight to $2,000 is quiet not realistic so what we must expect is to maintain the resistance above $1,000 once the price reached $1,100 above. In that way, we can have a buying level at around $1,000 which is a good start before launching again to another price level.

Since bitcoin is unstable and unpredictable it can be happen awe are not fortune teller but in bitcoin since we already seen the price wa hit $1k value  and i think another goal could be hit in $2k value and hoping that it can be happen in the future.. now we need to buy more or ave more bitcoins befor e the price will hit the $2k which is very high price and i think if there are more project comes here in 2017 we will see the price movement fast..

Seeing the prices popping very high, I think that a climb towards $2000 would not be hard if we compare it with the number of total users that are being added to the list and are starting to use Bitcoins daily. The resistance levels are being reached quickly and newer supports are seen, so the charts show that we might have a chance to see $2000 this year.

I think I can say it's early yet, but there is a steady rise in the bitcoin and it seems to be going on at this level right now. But every time when the buying power is going down, we are moving towards a downward incentive, in short, we can not trust this bitcoin much. But I see a rise towards the end of 2017. But I think for $ 2,000 I do not see it for a long time, but I guess $ 1000 and above will pass this year.

Even before 2020 Bitcoin comes to a widespread level in the whole country and I think that more cuts need to be announced just to make it more common. It used to be Euro instead of Mark but now there is a new exchange rate in the euro place and there is another euro.

As I said here before, anything is possible and the prediction of the bitcoin price to hit $2,000 this year might come to pass. As we speak, the price is well around $2,030 and might even go higher. I am not very sure what is making the price to plummet, but I am very sure the price might hit $2,000 even before the first half of this year.

we are on the rise and even if the rise stops and we see another correction and followed by another down time, the price will again start rising up again. remember that so far we have been hit a lot and we have seen so many FUD and down times but each time price starts picking up again and right now the rocket seems to be unstoppable even if it slows down from time to time. that is why i say it is perfectly possible to see $2000 in this year.

This theory is really looking bright now as the prices keep on rising. But probably another correction would happen in the very near future. Probably it will happen within the next three months. So let's all be ready again for that panic selling and get ready to ride the waves!

Potential of seeing 2000$ is really exists which can not be denied. Just look at the recent ups and downs in price of Bitcoin market wheer it was over 1160 $ and then was dipped down and now again over 1000$. It shows pure manipulation and shows whales can drive the market of Bitcoin anywhere. If some time they decide to take the price higher it is still possible to happen.

It is looking to be a certainty now the way it is has just risen $20 since last night and just $10 in the last 20 minutes that I was checking on it.
Maybe change that number to $50000 by the end of the year at this rate.

Even in december, I thought that it's price would be between 650-700 but everyone sees how it raised in three days from 650 to 900. Now price is smally higher than 1000$. There is a chanse that price will rise again but double price will be like booom even if will take whole 1 year because people, traders, exchangers and miners don't had similar siyuation for many years. We see fairy tales of bitcoin and this won't be big accident if we will see 2000$ this year.

That's exaggerated. Price needs to get first to $1,500-$2,000 before expecting that it is going to make it up to $50,000 before the end of the year.

But if that happens then you surely got an angel tongue that speaks positive things. I'll wait for the price of bitcoin to reach to $2,000.

Let's expect that at the fourth quarter of this year.

At this point it's not even sure whether or not we'll maintain the $1000 level till next week, and yet you don't think it's inappropriate to speculate about insanely unrealistic price levels to be reached this year. Seriously, where do you think all the money needed to accommodate such a massive price increase will come from? There is absolutely no logic in your post.

I have not lost a good year in 2016 but I did not have a winner, so I missed a lot of opportunities. I have entered this year by missing opportunities, and I will not lose hope of what happens before dawn.

it's possible to hit 2000$ in at the end of 2017. The price is still on rally increase.

I believe bitcoin price is going to be in the range of $2k to $3.5k by the end of year.
But there maybe some downs in between when bitcoin may dip.This would be the buying opportunity for me ;D

I don't think so that it will leap at $2000 this 2017 because the movement is not that fast but certainly with my observation based on what I see with my monitorings, it will be nearly to 2000$ maybe at around $1.6-$1.7k will be reached by bitcoin. That would be a good signs if ever this idea will turn to reality and economy if btc will surely be uprising and became dominant at all times, hopefully less dumps so that price will continue to move higher.

I believe surely you will be proven wrong as today suddenly bitcoin crossed $1100 levels and staying strong around $1110 levels. With this pace bitcoin hopefully reach $2000 levels very quickly like before second quarter of 2017 itself. Bitcoin etf is crrent force driving prices now. I guess it may drive into $10k levels too.

It will reach that $2000 estimation given earlier for 2017..
You see the price lately? Past the $1110 margin you said it would get by second quarter. Well almost there in a couple of weeks so we are there right now! ;)

why you say this ?

it is happen now !

I wouldn't be surprised if bitcoin is valued @ $2,000 per btc by the end of 2017.

If Trump succeeds in reducing taxes on poor to middle class income brackets, that will cause an economic spending boom.

It would give americans substantially more disposable income & that could translate to the largest consumer market in the world buying up bitcoins on increased demand..

$2000 is possible but i won't be confident unless ETF is approved.  The recent rise is due to the upcoming ETF decision.  Traders are very optimistic that it will be approved and some are speculating that with the coming fund, bitcoin will rise in price and so they want to position themselves and cash out when a big increase happen.

yes, i am agree but we don't know when the time is coming to reach $2000 and we should be ready to waiting this price so we don't missed anything to make cash out. beside that, we are happy if there is many country will approve bitcoin so bitcoin user will be grow more and i hope this will give a good impact for the price although there is a little decrease before the increase price.

Holy moly it's on rocket fuel, the $2000 are reached above 55% by now. I would have assumed that payment days, usually located at month boundaries, would have an impact.

It is quite possible to be reached in the next 6 months.

As of my typing right now the price is 1152$ as per preev and it looks like we just took 2 month approx to move from 800 to 1150 and considering that the price is going up quite constantly we can see the time coming soon when the price will be around 2000$

It's hard to decide for now I do think that by end of 2017 bitcoin will easily reach 2000$ the only thing I'm scared of if it reaches 2000$ within a month or two that means the price isn't stable at all and because of this panic selling can happen and we can expect a huge slump in the price if this happens.

Why you have to wait for that long time when you can make it in the next few weeks?
The price keep moving from $800 last month and now heading for $1200
It have moved so fast $400 for couple weeks only
This is bitcoin world , something impossible always happened here .

If we're going through a rally where the price keeps going up constantly, then you can't avoid coming to the conclusion that the price will be overbought at some point. It's not more than normal that we will experience a correction taking the price back to more 'appropriate' levels. Market will need to get rid of its steam which is exactly why corrections need to pop up. Let's just hope that we will see the price increase in a slower but more sustainable manner.

I think that bitcoin price can go up to 2000 $. I`m optimistic, in last 6 months after bitfinex collapse price recovered pretty fast, and its going up since then. There were couple drops but nothing significant in my opinion. Price will get to 2000 $ eventually, I`m not sure will it happen this or next year, we need to be patient and not rush with conclusions.

I am also an optimistic person, but I think to hit 2k USD this year, we need the ETF approval to push the price much higher.  If ever this ETF is disapproved I am a bit worry that price would fall down to sub $1000, anti-climatic event resulting to bubble-burst that will burn people that bought BTC at higher price.

Sure it can easly,one of the reason can be inlfation return to USA and Europe,Central banks will have to rise rates otherwise it can turn in to hyperinlation emerging currencys,yuan will lose to dollar and btc price will rise
I  am also expacting  more development in bitcoin world

what if the 2 speculated dates that should affect a recent price hike/slide were postponed. How will the market react to the demand and supply. The agitation is affecting the market and cant think through the outcome for other coins. Have argue a price of stable $1500 by June except the dates make it remarkable.

I think the bitcoin price has been already affected.

It's not only bitcoin that goes up, a lot of the altcoins go up as well.
At some point investors will start to withdrawl their profit.
And that withdrawl could be either fiat or bitcoin.
I think that during 2017 a lot is possible, even if the ETF outcome is negative.

Market cap soon to be 20 billion plus  :o now on 19 and a half, All alts combine 23 billion something, amazing, and most probably we aint seen nothing yet  :o

I'm looking forward to seeing the marketcap at $200 Billion. Its only a matter of time.

4-5 years I would say

as I said The bitcoin will lead to 1,500$ in June then it will turn back 1,000$ or 1,100$ before hitting 2,000$ in the enad of this year.
so we are waiting for new correction in March , 2017 because of bitcoin withdrawal from China.

Yes in this year i have feeling that bitcoin can hit over 1500$ into 2000$ i know that thi comming vacation many students will have interest of using bitcoin that why bitcoin demand will be high lets wait for it and have fin using bitcoin dor life

Because the demand of bitcoin users is quite strong so it will hit at least 1500$ in September, 2017 and it could reach at 2,000$ at the end of this year. Do you think if  Bitcoin price will be available at 10,000$ in the year of 2020? Just image that you have 100 bitcoins at that time. yes, it must be awaesome.  :o :o :o

Wow, nice prediction! Lets hope for the $2000BTC.. Lets continue to pump and dump. Hope more Bitcoin users for this year.

There is so much possible on the upper side of bitcoin price in 2017, I have no clue where we are heading.
There is the ETF decision, the high transaction fees, the slowed down transaction times, the increasing competition of altcoins.
But if everything goes not in favour of bitcoin, I still don't think we will fall far beyond the 900$ level.

Up of course. Especially when the ETF gets approved. It will get covered by the mainstream media basically everywhere in the world. It's positive news that people will see, instead of the negativity that media channels usually tend to spread when it comes to Bitcoin.


Just adapt to the situation by including proper fees, and you won't notice much of a problem.


Transaction times are near-instant. I assume you refer to the confirmation times that may take longer than usual to come through, because people stick to the low fees they have been using since way back. Again, just adapt to the situation by including proper fees.


This has only effect on altcoins "battling" against each other, and not on Bitcoin itself.


At this point only a fake hack (i.e. inside job) of an exchange can get the price to sink that deep.