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How much do you think a single Bitcoin will be worth when we celebrate the New Year?

I am estimating that it will be around 8k (no evidence just a gut feeling), i think it will fluctuate and go higher but will stablise at 8.

funnily enough there are a wide range of speculation about the price of bitcoin by the end of this year and most of them are speaking of very huge prices such as $10,000 and above.

i personally don't know anymore :)
before activation of SegWit things were more predictable, with a slow rise over time. but SegWit put an end to the old scaling debate and opened up way for bigger rises. we saw the rise from $2400 to $4000 (mostly) because of it. and we can expect much more at a faster pace.

your 8K prediction no longer seems far to me.

I think it will be around 6000 $. If we follow the current trend , then it is expected that bitcoins will reach the 5000$ mark by the end of next month; currently it is trading at 4400$. As per my gut feeling, the price will hit 7000$ mark and then will be stable around 6000$.

I think 1 bitcon will most likely reached the $8,000 level by the end of the year. Simply by understanding the law of demand and supply we can predict that there is only one direction for bitcoin, which is to to go up, especially during the last quarter where there's so much liquidity,

I think the price of will increase by the end of 2017. In addition to that, I think the price of bitcoin will become $5000 by the end of 2017 and it will result to a good income. I hope it would happen and I believe that the price of bitcoin will increase day by day after the year of 2017.

By observing the market scenario and all the dips and increase in price during the beginning of this year i expect that the price will going to cross $5000 by the end of this year. We have seen a downfall in the price before august and a boost soon after august 1, the price is now fluctuating around $4300 and #4400, so even if we have to face a dip in the upcoming month the price will get the $5000 benchmark by the end of the year.

for sure will close at 7k or more by the end off years

At the end of this year 2017, my prediction is that the price of bitcoin will be doubled or tripled depends on the demand. There are many people supporting now on bitcoin that's why the tendency is to increase its value at end of every year. But I observed that also every month the price of bitcoin is increasing that's I'm glad to happen that.

This should be in the Speculation (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?board=57.0) board.

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My prediction wouldn't be a wild one but I expect an $8000 mark by the end of this year or back to $2000 ranges if Antpool continues to act childish which may turn some potential investors off. Weird thing is even if there are bad things that happened for the first quarter of this year, the price continued to surge.

I have high hopes that it would be the same trend for the rest of the year.

maybe 5000 $ or even 10k $

I'm optimistic about the bitcoin price but not that much optimistic to say it's going to be arpund $8k but more likely around  $6k or mayne $6.5k. Tho i must be honest, im having high hopes for bcc and eth.

I will go along with the prediction of a known Bitcoin trader,  $7500 at the end of the year.  We have seen how fast bitcoin goes up this past month, fron 2000 USD to 4000 USD now it is climbing to 5000USD which is not far from happening.  Adoption, Government acceptance, medias, hyped and the upcoming developmnt.  Those will certainly push bitcoin to $7500 at the end of this year.

most of us here are really positive that bitcoin will rise and with that perceptions we will hold our bitcoin forcing the value to keep rising and allow newbies to buy
with the value much higher than what we have right now, 8k would be nice after seeing 4500$ being reached earlier.

I agree with mate, I am positive that it will continue to rise this year. And I am also positive that it will reach up to 8k. That's why I'm buying bitcoin soon and hold the bitcoin I earned from signature campaign. And I will hold as many bitcoin as I can earn for it will still rise in the coming years!:) Feeling exciter here.

I think that your prediction is reasonable, with this high potential of bitcoin nowadays. I believe that the price will increase and achieve the 8k$ in the end of this year, but to be very optimistic, I think that bitcoin price will achieve the 5500$ easily and soon.
As we now, bitcoin community become more larger now, every singel day a lot of peoples inroll this community so automatically bitcoin price will increase a lot.

Unbelievable year for bitcoin. It's like nothing can slow it down, not even a hard fork that was designed to make it fail. The craziest thing in my eyes is that the general public STILL isn't really aware of it. Very few of my acquaintances even know what it is. The few that do, don't own any and have little to no interest in it. I went to the bank the other day to open up a fiat account. Talked to a representative and mentioned that I had invested a little in bitcoin and the conversation we had was unreal. This guy, that works at a bank, virtually had no clue about bitcoin or cryptos. His exact words were that "Oh yeah, I've heard of it. I read an article about it a few weeks ago. Interesting stuff." That was literally his entire exposure to bitcoin. I have no idea where it can go but I can't wait until Joe Public starts buying it up. The moon's the limit

It is sure that price will be above $5000 but it is hard to predict the exact price it will have by end of this year. I don't think there will be any panic on market in next few months other than possible split on november but price might recover quickly on that date too just like it recovered from august 1st panic.

I kind of agree with you. 8k is it.

There is still a period of 4 months until the end of 2017. There are still many possibilities that can happen. yes most prices will only move in the range of 6000 $ up to 7000 $. but we can see a lower price, bitcoin prices are not easy to predict because bitcoins can change very quickly.

I think my prediction last year or the year before was $263.56 by now.

I'm now upping it to $263.58 by the end of the year. I'm very confident it'll be at least that price.

Other than that let's see whether we carry on forking into oblivion. I'm pretty sure there will be no 2X and that'll be settled long before November so perhaps the skies will be relatively clear.

Okay it is a good expectation but hard to believe. 8k is way far although the holidays in the Ber months might also affect it for many people will have money so they can buy.
Christmas could make a difference too. I am guessing above 5k dollars before the year ends.

I think it'll be around $5000-$7000. Just a speculation though, but we'll never know what will happen after the November event coming. For sure a lot would be expecting bitcoins price to soar up after the segwit happens again.

My prediction for the end of the year for bitcoin price is +5.000$. There is many reason's for that, but most important reasons are in bitcoin adoption in this year. This year will be remembered as year when first countries legalized bitcoin. Fear and panic from segwit is far behind us and bitcoin can just go forward from this point is also one of the reasons why bitcoin price will increase to 5.000$. November event is not 1/August, we will see what will happen about it, on twitter there are some twitts about it and as I understand bitcoin core doesn't support that x2 segwit, and I wouldn't like one more bitcoin hard fork.

Bitcoin adoption by new people will be more than enough reasons to bring $10,000 levels possible within this year. Because new high prices are usually triggering chain reactions and it will never end up as those events are similar to closed-end chain reactions. New high prices will attract new investor and new investors will bring new higher prices and this repeat for ever.

I am very much confident that we are going to have bitcoin around $5000 by end of this August and then $10,000 will be an easily possible price by end of 2017.

Unlike the majority says, i don't think that bitcoin will equal 8 k dollar by the end of 2017.
it will be 7 k dollar at most !

the Bitcoin price movement shows an upward sign all through 2017.  I think the same happens beyond 2017 too. Predictions indicate that the price will be around 5k at the end of 2017, also it can be even more.

Hard to say how the hard fork will affect things. But ignoring that for now, it might hit $5000 this week...which means it will have gone from $3k to $5k in one month. I wanna say it'll go to $7000 - $8000 by end of year, but who knows it could be over $10k by then.

Usually, the price goes up during Holiday season. My estimate was between $5k to $6k during that time. I think that's the most realistic price for that and seems so easy to achieved because of price rise.  If the price continue to rise every month, there's a possibility that it could be more than that.

Now the price is above 4500$ and 5000$ seems just a step away and then the endless road is open. Still I think that 6000$ is the max price we could reach by the end of the year.
Magic number for me would be 10000$ but this is not going to happen this year, if ever. My friend says that the top price for Bitcoin it could ever achieve is 6000$.

That's a very big wow if your guessing will be a reality and I think the signs showed off by now and for previous spikes of the price was very much challenging and exciting to most investors who seriously monitored the actual scenario of bitcoin price. Sometimes it feared us a lot when price significantly rise and fall of it's value, which you cannot actually determine immediately because it's so volatile as it fluctuates rapidly whether slow or fast changing.

I’m more conservative in my estimates I think we are going to see a price of 5000 and this can change if the miners do not make another fork, if that does not happen then I guess 6500 is possible.

I think that's difficult to predict because nobody knows future besides bitcoin is getting better and better to provide the needs of everybody. Having said that bitcoin will become more successful this year. This could lead to a more fruitful years to come and who knows one day everyone or all over the world people will be united through this digitized money and more generous to one another.

I think $7K is possible by November also think that will be the top as predicted by Fibonacci extensions (https://bitcoinnewsmagazine.com/how-high-can-bitcoin-price-go/) from last ATH. Legacy Bitcoin will then enter a bear market and lose 78.6% of its value dropping to about $1200.

I would say it will reach $10,000 - $15,000 by the end of the year. Mostly this is gut feel too, but I think it is well possible! Look at how much prices has gone up since the start of the year. It doesn't even look like it is slowing down! I though $2,400 was already great, but look at it now! I never even expect we reach $2,000 this year, but we are well passed that already.

I think the price of bitcoin will hit $6000 by the end of 2017 and I think it will reault to a high profit. In addition to that, many people believe that the price of bitcoin will increase at the end of this year and I also hope that it would happen. Lastly, I hope the price of bitcoin will hit $6000.

As of now i dont have any prediction of bitcoin price in the end of this year 2017 .but the others speaking their prediction about bitcoin price will reach 4800$ but Goldman sachs predict that bitcoin will reach 5000$. So there are possibility results that bitcoin will be multiply on this year end . So i hope bitcoin will stay forever .

I am seeing $6000 before the end of this year...today the value of bitcoin reach $4700 and still continue to pump. It's a great opportunity to buy now while the price is continue growing surely many investors have been selling their coins that was bought a year ago...I wish I could invest now and wait for the big pump

8k would definitely be possible, if this craze for bitcoins and cryptocurrencies in general continues.

However, i do have a feeling that the price may just correct before the new year comes. The current bull wave has continued on for around 10 months consecutively now, and i don't think that it's going to sustain much longer. It could, but it's unlikely imo.

Reason why i think this is because of the fact that we are seeing pretty strong resistance at the $5k level. If we don't break that $5k mark soon, we may see growth slow down quite a lot or even go into the negatives.

I agree with that prediction. It also depends if the usage of the SegWit is increased or not. If not, the price could be lower.

IMO it is probably going to be around $3k-$4k by the end of 2017. I would expect the hype to slow down a bit before the end of 2017 since the pump has gone on for way too long, longer than even the 2013 pump which is pretty crazy.

I expect a correction here and there in the next 3 months that could most likely drive the price down. But at the same time, i expect the price to rise a bit in this current month, and the two forces will cancel out each other, and therefore $3k-$4k is my prediction.

Still, a lot depends on what happens this month regarding the fork. It could continue rising till the end of the year if the fork goes well.

If the Fork could really goes well but what if it doesn't? then we will see the crashing down on price, but hoping it can be as smooth as it is and we will never see a problem in part of getting into a fork, and I really wish that it will be a success and I guess there will be no split that may occur on November because the recent one is enough for the time being.

I agree!  It is true I believe $10k  is even reachable at the end of the year.  We have seen how fast bitcoin price grow and this is not just a pump or bubble and there is a reason for this.  The upcoming series of update right after this August 1 upgrade is initiated.  Scaling will not be an issue to Bitcoin anymore if this is perfectly done.  AFter that bitcoin will be ready to be at the mainstream where majority of people in the world can transact in Bitcoin without any hassle.

Yes indeed, it may reach $ 10k in early 2018, because if we look back at the beginning of 2017 bitcoin from the price of $ 1000 per coin and until now bitcoin about $ 4500 per coin. the popularity of bitcoin makes the world's companies also interested in Bitcoin technology, especially allowing the decentralization of financial networks and Blockchain, where all Bitcoin transactions are recorded.

Ya same.My personal predictions about bitcoin is ,it will reach the value of 7000$.You may think ,I am exaggerated. But it's Not like that. The price of bitcoin is keeps of increasing after August 1.I think you all know this truth.We have wait and see this ,how much the value will change.

It is difficult to predict the price of bitcoin, just look at what happened in the last weeks but it is one of the most important things to do especially if you want to profit from bitcoin on the long term.

I don't think that the trend of crazy upwards growth is going to carry over to 2018.

This is simply because after the hype there is always a year or two where nobody talks about bitcoin at all. The price usually suffers greatly as a consequence because of the lack of media coverage as well as user interest.

I'm not sure whether this bubble is going to continue till the end of the year, if it does then $7-8k is possible. But if it collapses before that, then we'd be looking at $2k-3k.

I share a similar opinion to you. I think that btc price is going to correct down to around $3000-$3500 and just hang around that level until the end of the year. This should happen in stages, the correction from $5000 down to where we are right now is the first one of them.

If the hype continues and the NY agreements is carried out successfully and seamlessly then we could see bitcoin going over $5k and staying above that level until the end of the year.

These are pretty volatile times, and it is really hard to accurately predict the prices. As a general rule of thumb though, don't put anything that you aren't ready to lose into bitcoin right now. It is still near ATH and you just never know when it's going to come down.

You are correct but even If nothing happened the fact that bitcoin remained for two years with such a high price will be noteworthy, everyone will understand that bitcoin is not joke and that the next bull market could make bitcoin touch 10k.

I expect the same by the end of this year. There are so many speculations saying bitcoin price will reach this amount or that amount by the end of the year. Speculations are nothing but people's hope to see what they want happened. My thoughts on this, is that the value of bitcoin would be around $7-8k by the end of this year. 

I just hope btc will keep increasing. But before that I want it to have even a short downfall for me to be able to buy some more btc before it pumps t the moon. Btc is too expensive to have now but I know its still worth it.

Fluctuate always remain in bitcoin price, but bitcoin not down too much, still bitcoin has a way of growing. Up and down always remain but instead of it bitcoin will be grow and in the end of 2017 i think bitcoin will be stopped at $5000 to $5600. It is enough growth and also in this year, at least bitcoin reach in this price, more than it i don't think so it is possible in this year. But the new year sure give us more happiness for us in bitcoin wise.   

There are baseless predictions and predictions based on the analysis of the charts and the patterns of bitcoin but at the end it does not matter how good is the trader there are things that are impossible to predict, like the recent news that came from China.