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Just spoke with several financial experts with backgrounds in the banking sector. They told me once Japan opens itself up to the Bitcoin the currency is very likely to reach the 30.000 USD mark before 2020 since
Japan has been known to be a trendsetter and have high influence on the EU and US markets.

You realize you are talking about digital currency and not the Fiat which they may be expert on.
Also $30? Did you mean $30K?

I think we have already seen what the Japanese impact will be on Bitcoin. Adoption is going to slow down over the coming

months, if the price falls like this. The FUD that are being spread in China and Jamie's negative statements at JP Morgan is

going to scare away potential adopters. { They do not question mainstream media } Sheep just follow price movements.  :P

Maybe Japan is very optimistic about it. But predictions are not always smooth. $ 30k is a very large number for the size of 1 Bitcoin, and still very far away if you look at the current price. Expectations are inversely proportional to reality.

I hope so. but the end of this bitcoin suffered a very severe dump. so I think it would be very difficult to reach the $ 30000 range before 2020.

It all depends on user activity. If several countries prohibit bitcoin, it will lower its price despite the adoption of Japan. We need to follow the news and hope for good growth.

It's very possible for me reach that price in 2020. Its still 3 years from now and a lot could happen in the market. Remember, Japan has already open its door to bitcoin this year and we already see what it can do to the price. We really have to love Japan for doing it and yes they are very trend setter because they have a economic sphere of influence in the West. I guess we just have to wait and see then. Although the price doesn't look nice as of the moment, I'm still optimistic that in the future it could reach levels we wouldn't imagine possible.

it's going to be hard for the next months, but there's still hope to get past the november hardfork without much drama:

https://bitcoinmagazine.com/articles/no2x-breaking-bitcoin-shows-no-love-segwit2x-hard-fork-paris/

Segwit2x is losing steam, this is bullish.

The Jamie Dimon and Chinese FUD is just temporal, smart money buying the dip.

My prediction is we will see an ATH before 2018, buy pressure is too high, this is noise that only impresses the newbies.

this is very fun news, but we also do not know what will happen with bitcoin price in 2020, maybe it could be bitcoin price reach $ 30,000 and maybe just close to $ 30.000 price, and I also feel happy with that price, and that is a lot chance in the waiting for the investment to better feel the results of his savings in bitcoin.

I do not need any expert to say that bitcoin will reach $30000. I do believe that bitcoin will hit it easily in the future. As you can see, bitcoin is becoming a digital gold. More and more people buy bitcoin and hold it in their wallet for the future profit. The more they hold, the higher the price of bitcoin will be. Bitcoin can even hit the moon in the few more years. even the China affects bitcoin a lot, everything is just temporary, it will recover from the crash and become stronger than ever

BTC will hit 30 k  before next halving. I think that this will be possible in late 2018/early 2019

I dont think bitcoin price reach 30k dollars even takes few years or the year of 2020. Because that price is very big. We need to reach first 10k dolllars next is 20k dollars and the lastis 30k dollars . For me the highest price of bitcoin for me is 30k dollars .as of now th eprice of bitcoin is 3900 dollars and we need to befoke times 7 or 8  before reach 30. Maybe in the year of 2025 it will happen.

30k? Cheap.

It will take maybe 10 years from now to happen,that's too high,though the subject were really troublesome, it might get the newbies panic due to the subject.

Why not really? I mean we have seen other experts in paste making such predictions and I must say that at this point, I no longer believe that it's impossible to achieve. In fact, it would be weird If we don't reach that as the next halving block reward will happen in that year and many features to scale bitcoin are coming, It's just the beginning.

Most people aren't wired to think exponentially. We will get to 5 figures in no time, and it isn't going feel nice, and it isn't going to feel pretty, it will be chaotic and big corrections will happen, but this is how it works. Huge bull runs of several thousands in the span of a week are perfectly possible thanks to us still being tiny in a sea of potential capital that can come in, and as we've seen, we can pump a thousand dollars in a day without China, imagine when we finally get sidechains and all these ICOs are hosted on bitcoin related chains. We will go to mars and beyond, easy.

I always have a hard time with people entering this forum and launching a topic on their first post with these kinds of statements and no backing.

It's feels so much like a religious statement "I'm here to help you all ... GOD told me personally that <xxxx> .... and I'm here to tell you the good news."


Anyway I'll take the 30k in 2020 with pleasure ... :P

yes anything can happen to bitcoin. nothing is impossible because bitcoin will give us a miracle. so 10,000 USD, 20,000USD and even 30,000USD is not impossible.

I think as well it might be possible to reach th 30K already in 2020.
But it will be much harder to stay there.
Setbacks are inevitable, and the higher we climb, the larger the setbacks will be. And the longer it will take to get back to the level we were.

The one thing which will be different in 2020 is that the block reward would have halved. As we have seen all along, the block reward halving seems to have an order of magnitude impact on Bitcoins price. If this continues, we can easily cross $30k at the next halving in 2020.

Even the ban of bitcoin in China has made a little shake in the price and within 24 hours it came up showing that it has nothing to do with bitcoin, so why can't it reach $30k within 3 more years, it is possible with bitcoin.

It depends on demand of bitcoin. There is no one can predict the price of bitcoin appropriately.
Maybe there are some countries where forbidden bitcoin such as China that make bitcoin price was decreased
Or there are some countries where legalized bitcoin such as Japan that make bitcoin price was increase.
But, i hope bitcoin price is keep improving over time and can reach $30,000 or above in 2020.

30k is a lot. it's like a median net year salary in western country, it's like gold on steroids! well, you can consider bitcoin as a digital version of gold but at that price level i doubt it will preserve its original monetary function and assume a different status of value store. nothing wrong with that but i don't think was the goal of satoshi.
maybe you can solve this "problem" when there will be less volatility considering that you can split in fractions but it is difficult to see stability today

2020 is not all that long away, I certainly hope the OP is right with his statement of $30,000 for 1 bitcoin by 2020. It'll make a lot of us a lot of money.

Hitting off the $30k-mark will be a dream-come-true for many of us here especially those who hodl their BTC for long time. It is possible in every way that we can think of but take note that this will be very hard to achieve. Look at what's happening right now. We are at the brink of hitting the $5k mark and then boom, one country spread FUD abhorrently followed by a baseless accusation by a CEO of a well known company and the market just reacted negatively bringing the price to what it's now.

What we need is for people to genuinely believe in BTC's technology and don't get manipulated by other people with FUD news. If genuine mass-adoption of BTC will happen, $100k mark is not even impossible.  ::)

That is way large for just 2 and a quarter years. I am just expecting double per year which makes it at 15-16k per bitcoin and I still see that as a large amount. Better focus on bringing it to 5,000 dollars before the year ends. If that happen there may be a slight possibility with your prediction.
I do trust bitcoin on how it could go fly with its price but I dont want to assume so much to avoid regretting at the end.

Real hodlers will not sell at $10k, $20k, or $100k. Real hodlers will wait until you can buy anything you want bitcoin, including real state. By then, one BTC will afford you a nice condo in Los Angeles or some other expensive place, so you don't need to pay taxes on currency conversions. It's either all or nothing. If BTC reaches its full potential, everyone that ever sold a single satoshi is going to regret for the rest of their lives.

Don't forget that the first real state purchases are starting to happen and we are only in the beginning:

https://futurism.com/bitcoin-was-just-used-to-pay-for-a-new-home-in-texas/

Imagine how things will be in 10 years.

I have learned from listening to many financial "experts" that they usually don't have any better idea than anyone else what's going to happen.  They spout out numbers because that's what they're paid to do, whether they're right or wrong.

However, that being said, over the last couple of months I have become cautiously optimistic that $30k+ may be achievable.  I think that one of the biggest risks is some unexpected event that seriously shakes confidence in bitcoin--like if some entity successfully mounted a 51% attack on the network.  The other risk I see is some event that makes all or almost all governments ban it.  There are few things that I think could do this, but it would devastating to the price if it happened.  Obviously the probability of these things happening is small, but it's important to know what all of the risks are.

Many experts make predictions about bitcoin. But bitcoin as we all know have became uncertain and unpredictable. Those so called experts keep on changing their predictions with time according to market and if anyone of that prediction goes right. They claim themselves to be expert in bitcoin.

But $30k prediction is realistic and we will touch that price before 2020 easily. In coming years, there will be increase in demand and price can easily touch this target.

If we see the graph over 7 years, bitcoin always show a promising progress as positive value of investment so that's why some expert try to calculate if bitcoin value always be like this, nothing is impossible. The problem only whenever people will keep have a faith on bitcoin or not when something bad happen for example : I keep hold my bitcoin although Chinese ban bitcoin

I have already commented on something similar in another topic, digital coins will have much use in the future

Imagine if in 2 years the European union accepted bitcoin as a means of payment, imagine when many organizations accept bitcoin as payment method

the price will be much higher than the current, maybe reach 30,000 in 15 years, now in 4 years reach 30,000 will be a challenge

I expect max price in 2019 to be right around $30k, so I say yes it is very possible. Entering 2020 price should be between 25k and 35k.

There are many Expert Investors in their best genres who predicted $25k - $50k range to be touched nearby 2020. Where JP Morgan's CEO "exposed" that Bitcoins are too much overvalued, Fundstrat's Co-founder Tom Lee said that this would be no less than $25,000 in 2022 (as published in a recent news report), many from Wall Street said Bitcoin's value is 0 where big investors like Bill Gates and Winklevoss Twins as well as Tim Draper find it to be the most optimistic investment made ever through them. Don't listen to anybody, just let the charts show you the real painting. ;)

And I expect that bitcoin by 2020 will be much more expensive. Yet I believe in those optimistic and non-logical predictions that say that bitcoin will cost between $ 100,000 and $ 500,000

High price levels mean more market cap and more popularity.Considering less interest to cryptoworld this prediction can only be right if peoples start to realize the opportunities..

Let's circle jerk ourselves billionaires in threads like this ;D

$1M/BTC in 2030 !!!!

Still bitcoin is different from EU and US markets. But you're also right that Japan is known to be a trend setter but I don't think it will actually reach that high in year 2020. Maybe around 15-18k dollar is possible.

Thats price is very high sir, bitcoin needs more time to reach that . Even 2020 the price of bitcoin will not reach 30k dollars The possible price of bitcoin in that year is 10k dollars . And i think it will happen the price of bitcoin will become 20k or 30k in the year od 2025 . But everything is possible to happen and for sure if you have a lot of bitcoin you will earn a lot of profit in the future. So buy more bitcoin and hold it for fee years.

15-18k$ is pretty far to be happen but possible if there is a big thing will boost it up for that period, But since 2020 is so far to be happen right now well maybe those possibilities have some chances but if there are some tragedy will happen then 15k$ minimum will be unreachable and maybe the one we can see is at 8k$ price.

Its a big challenge for bitcoin to really push the price around the $30K level i the future. We just lost a country supporting it and we need another one besides the current to man up and enter the picture. This is the only scenario that I consider that will really get the price to at least $20K or more in the future. Even if Segwit2x proposal is activated in the next couple of months. I don't think that $10K is possible in 2018. Well its still a long way and far from 2020, but I will remain optimistic here and wish the price could go as high as that.

The predicted price might look big when looked in comparison with the present value. Here the reality is that the price will grow high in accordance to the adoption happening. In the ongoing year one reason for such an increased value is the legal adoption of Japan creating a large scale circulation within a small time period. When more countries participate the growth happens tremendously.

Bitcoin will certainly thrive in the future but 30k $ is a very large number for the size of one Bitcoin. I think the bitcoin price will reach 10k $

We can only predict now, but I believe it will be higher than the value that it is now in 2020. I am a believer because BTC has survived many problems that appeared against them, but it never dipped and disappeared, it always appeared better and more valuable. It would be great if we reach that mark, and by then we will see a more stable an more popular Bitcoin.

Agree and may be 50000$
May be 10000$ in few months

2020 is still a short time for us before speculating like this. $30k is so big and not yet realistic for us. In able for bitcoin to reach $30k, we need a YUGE mass adoption of majority of countries in this market. Japan's adoption won't just put magic with it, so I think more countries, corporations, business sectors, etcetera is what we need for this huge growth. You think 3 years is enough for that?

It's a good say for the price of bitcoin to get to $30000 before 2020, but looking at the present state of bitcoin and the issues from China, it has to survive this present situation before we look towards the betterment. The year 2020 is still far, but let's follow it's price as it goes a step at a time.

Maybe this will occur if the price of the bitcoin can survive and continue to increase in every second then predictions may hit on number bitcoin $30,000 before 2020. current course price bitcoin still survive on numbers $3500 even still changed-change then we should still take three years to achieve the price. I'm sure this will happen in early October in the bitcoin will be the beginning for bitcoin good starting step towards

For me it does not matter how much it will cost bitcoin in the future. I live now and want to have the opportunity to buy all necessary for living. Every user of bitcoin needs to understand that the price can not rise always. Only large turnover bitcoins can protect our savings. Even if the price will not grow at all, but will be able to earn enough bitcoins for life every day is much better than the prospect of becoming rich in the future.

That's true indeed but who knows? Bitcoin is unpredictable yet, volatile. 2020 is still short time and $30k is also big but bitcoin might touch that amount or even more, there are many things that could happen within that short time. However to ensure that, support of everyone is necessary and huge mass adoption among countries will comply.

Since bitcoin is a so big currency today i dont think it would fall down to any more less than it's position now. But i would really think bitcoin would raise to atleast 30.000$ in the end off 2019. It is used on many sites and i just wonder how it would be in about 3 years.

As an absolute value, $30k sounds like a lot.  But on percentage terms (600% of the recent peak of $5k), it's in line with some of the other crazy rallies we've had in the past.  Right now, I feel like we're in a holding pattern, possibly waiting for either some more good news or bad news to drive price one way or the other.  We may be stuck in this trading range for a while.

The market seems to be consolidating, but I am not sure how long the market manages to remain hovering around current levels. If we're completely honest and realistic, an even worse situation than the first of August is heading towards us due to the planned hard fork in November. If the market is going to move in a certain direction, then it's definitely down from here -- no 'good' news can change anything in this case.

What's the current word on that hard fork?  Is it projected to be as controversial as the bitcoin cash fork?  As for the current consolidation area, you may be right, given how volatile bitcoin is.  I guess by "for a while" I was thinking like a week or two...a while in bitcoin terms, but not long compared to other financial markets.

As ironic as it may sound, if we can't break above ~$4k soon, a crash below $2k may be just what we need to resume the bull market.  There's too much indecision right now.  If we drop a lot lower, the decision will become clear again: buy.  A good bounce off of $3k again to form a solid double-bottom might also be enough.

I dont know if it can be possible, i think that bitcoin has to be less than $15k, no more. I dont get the point to be more than $30k - $50k - or maybe 100k like a lot of people are talking about, all those are speculations, and nobody is thinking that maybe banks will try to make a giant fud for preventing bitcoin to rise more. I dont know, but maybe it will rise a lot more, but not that much like you are saying,.

I'm curious: if you think $15k is possible, why not $30k?

One reason that people see $30k+ as a possibility is based on the market cap.  By 2020, I think there should be around 18M bitcoins that have been mined.  Multiplying that by $30k gives you $540B.  The market caps of the some of the biggest companies are comparable.  For example, Apple's market cap is about $785B right now.  So a market cap of $540B seems reasonable.

I think you did not factor in the profound resilience of Bitcoin in drawing your conclusion. The market have moved beyond China's gimmicks after their latest onslaught and the only thing ahead capable of holding Bitcoin back is the looming hard fork/split of the network. Should that end as a nonevent then the doors for great leap in price of Bitcoin just got thrown apart.

This could potentially be possible.

The halving is on that year, the Olympics games hosted by Japan who recently have legalized bitcoin and got rid of all the extra taxes people pay. Plus, i think that it is extremely likely that a lot more merchants are going to start using bitcoin.

I would say though, $30k seems to be quite a bold prediction. If it was lowered to $10k i'd be backing it 100%.

Another reason I think $30k is reasonable is that there still seems to be a lot of potential for new investors.  Access to the bitcoin market is still not trivial, and there's a lot of skepticism that may be keeping some investors away.  We really need a few institutional investors to jump in with tens of millions of dollars or more.  Yes, banks do seem to be against bitcoin right now (or at least Dimon has been making a big stink lately), but at some point they may start to realize (if they haven't already) that they could manipulate bitcoin for increasing their own profits.  If they start jumping into the market, it could skyrocket like we've never seen before.

As the user mentioned several possibilities based on several events connected to bitcoin is expected to happen before the targeted year. This might surely take the price much higher as well a better circulation will be found. Because at present Japan has got more merchants accepting bitcoin and by that time this will increase tremendously.

I'd have to say that you have to be pretty optimistic to predict these figures, however i'm not saying that they are impossible at all. In fact John McAfee said that bitcoin will be worth around $500k by around the same timeframe.

And it's not just Japan adopting, it's also Australia and they are a big economy. Plus, halving is on that year as well making the pump more likely.

Though, i think that maybe half that price is more likely. $15k per coin is a good prediction for 2020, but $30k is a bit of a stretch.

I agree, the possibility of reaching $ 15K in 2020 will be achievable but for $ 30K it is doubtful to reach that price, I think the price is too high for that price over the next 2 years.

that is right, although that price is possible, without supporting from many people especially from community, bitcoin will difficult to reach more than $15k. i think in 2018 and 2019, bitcoin will become globally and more country will approve bitcoin so we can reach that price without any problem. and we have time to go that price and when the price is really in $15k or more, i am sure that we all here can be a new richest people in our city.

I think it's hard for bitcoin to reach the $30,000 in 2020, due to unstable fluctuate of bitcoin in the market. Maybe on 2020 bitcoin value in cryptocurrencies was around $8,000 - $10,000 but the condition of this projection was depends on increasing and decreasing of bitcoin in the following years.

It definitely is not impossible. At the start of the year; did anybody predict that $5k would be possible? And 3 years is a long time from now. Bitcoin has risen 4x this year. We need to increase 6x in 3 years.

maybe your number prediction will become true as we see now bitcoin price is still below than $4k but soon in next month, i hope the price will reach $45xx because i see the trend is up again but i don't know how much the price will increase. so we can only waiting for that time and we can do trading to make more profit.

I think that bitcoin can reach such a mark, but it's not even about accepting the crypto currency by Japan, but in the interest of all inhabitants on the planet and lifting of prohibitions in those countries where it was banned.

If I'm waiting the price of Bitcoin like your said, I can not become the professional trader and I never have chance to change my life and get rich early. What do you know the difference between trade and gamble?

As long as you are breathing, you still have the chance to change your life. There is no such thing as easy money. Study hard on trading and earn good amounts. Trading is using knowledge and skills to earn. Gamble is when you just buy a coin without much doing proper research.

Bitcoin can rather touch $100K mark by 2020. There is surge in demand. Every year supply of Bitcoin is limited to 680 k before next halving and demand is increasing in Millions. Bitcoin is getting famous day by day with increasing media coverage and government support or hatered. Any news be it positive or negative only brings bitcoin in attention. Demand will take the price to new heights

The value of Bitcoin is simply driven by demand and supply and no one would have thought over $4000 per Bitcoin was realizable a few years back, but here we are today with $5000 just in view. Given the exquisite and unprecedented attributes Bitcoin have brought to play in the financial sector, we can only expect that the demand for and adoption of Bitcoin would continue to soar and since price is hinged on that, then these projections are just a matter of time!

Demand is not everything. One thing may be demanded harshly by the crowds, but if there is no efficient conditions to buy it or sell, then nobody will be able to benefit from it.

That's why we can't guess the future price of bitcoin.

Even though bitcoin have its good trend in the market but I don't think $30k are achievable in 2020.
I'm also an optimistic person but it gonna be far,$15-20 maybe.

This whole section of bct reminds me of some precious metals forums around 2011, where everyone was predicting $10,000 gold or hogher, and $100 silver.  It feels good to masturbate, which is why we do it, but it doesn't really help us in the long run, and it's all a self-abusing fantasy.   And look how it turned out for metals--that market has been dead for years now.

Could we get to $30k?  Yeah.  Do I think we're gonna?   Probably not, but my guess is as good as yours.  Hope I'm wrong, because I'll be saving it regardless of my outlook.

no matter how much bitcoin price as long as we can be able collect more bitcoin and the price is up to $4k then I think its enough for me. but for that price, I think it is difficult, we need to break price barrier for each of level. if there are more country join bitcoin and approve bitcoin as a legal, then maybe we can see $10k-$15k.

I don't see 30K as problematic by 2020.

It is a speculation regarding the amount bitcoin can get, but in my opinion in just 3 years bitcoin would go from $4000 to $30,000 mark value we would need $26,000 more and I think it would be not very accurate for that kind of leap for bitcoin to take and in my opinion my speculation for 3 years for bitcoin would just be $8000 or $9000 mark value I think that would be the nearest price to speculate for now, but we will see if there would be a great news that would happen for bitcoin then it can surely leap further enough to reach it.

This is a more realistic speculation than those who said it will reach half a million or million dollar per Bitcoin.  with the upcoming upgrade of Bitcoin network, the possibility of huge hype is big.  This will push bitcoin price upward since the port for more innovation to the Bitcoin blockchain will be opened.   Just imagin bitcoin having smart contract feature plus instant transaction that does not need to wait for many minutes for any confirmation to take place.  This will sure push bitcoin price upward.

Japan did adopted bitcoin now and the price increased too fast last time. 3 years from now $30,000 is more plausible rather than McAfee's statement about 500k for 3 years. It's more reliable but it's better to see if the price of bitcoin will reach $500,000 I'm not losing my hope though but I'm fine if the price of bitcoin will be ever reaching $30,000 on 2020 better if it will happen earlier.

$30000 or $30? Isn't that way too high in pricing with just 3 years? Can you site the names of these financial experts? Japan are serious about bitcoin and digital currency since they are legalizing it. Not to rain on your parade but I think $30000 in a span 3 years is way too much.

One of the user has quoted that the price $30000 is something too much. I never have such a thinking, because on adoption from a single country the price grew as high as $5000. So when more countries make active use of bitcoin, even without legalized manner surely support in the growth and the same might cause the price move higher.

It is somehow exaggerated to speculate such thing because 30k usd price per bitcoin is too much because adoption wont really be too much on 3 years time as of now. We even hardly surpass or break 5k price on 8 years time on bitcoin and presuming on 6x more on its price for the span of 3 years would really be hard for sure.

Both Trading and Gambling requires knowledge, time and effort before you get to learn everything from it and you may lose some money too in exchange for a knowledge. When you trade you gotta have to look at the price, fluctuation, forks, fud, etc., before you become a master in that field either short-term or long-term trader. Gambling also requires some knowledge of the game and luck, considering of what you've learn in the game this will be your skills and you will have to choose a game that you are comfortable with to win.

An opinion + a number = An opinion.
The data are not available to make such a calculation. While they are obviously correct that an open Japan would likely raise the valuation, ascribing a number to that is total guesswork based on opinion not math.

I think you miscalculated the rate of increase of investors in cryptocurrencies this year. Unless you wouldn't have said that $30k is not possible by 2020 and demand is not so high. $30k is very much possible by 2020 and most probably Bitcoin will be touching that number before the end of 2020. There is huge inflow of investors in particularly Bitcoin this year and this number is only going to multiply in coming years because bitcoin is getting mainstream now. Interest of future investors will automatically increase because of the growth and the return rate that Bitcoin offers. There is a huge market for cryptocurrencies that are potential investors but haven't yet heard of cryptocurrencies. With Bitcoin getting media attention that market is definitely gonna triggered and bring in more investors who will take the price to the moon.

I think $30,000 priced bitcoin is a possibility after the next halving which is actually in 2020 I believe. I’d be very happy if the OP’s statement bears fruition.

I am sure that those financial experts don't have any background and experience in cryptocurrencies. There is a huge difference in characteristics between paper currency and cryptocurrencies, the volatility of price is too high in cryptocurrencies that's why they are unpredictable, what could happen in future nobody knows.

From this point it doesn't look all that realistic, but that's basically also the same if you on December 31 of last year would have asked people whether or not they believe Bitcoin will touch $5000 before the end of 2017. People would either laugh at you, thinking that you're a noob, or they would tell you that they think reaching such levels would be a great price at the time the block halving kicks in, which is in 2020. Bitcoin's eco system is still a tiny dot, and we have seen the perfect example this year of how an increasing level of adoption can steer this market to record highs. Imagine how things will be when institutions start entering this market with billions of capital. Bitcoin does exactly that what people don't expect. ;)

I think that for 3 years bitcoin will not have time to grow to such a mark. By 2020, he can reach a maximum of $ 15,000, provided that no one will interfere with his growth.

$30,000 by 2020 for Bitcoin is very ambitious. I suppose it's possible but the price would need to be 6 times higher than the current price in 3 years. Actually if they are saying it would reach that before 2020 then it would be in just 2 years. We've seen an increase even greater than that for the past year but it's hard to predict a high return continuing for 2 more years straight, but it's possible

here's an interesting idea: if enough people believe that it's worth 30,000 they will drive it to that price like a self fulfilling prophecy.

Oh yes, their is the next halving so this could be another parameter that will push the price to $30K in 2020. Bitcoin will be scarce but their is a greater demand for it. But its still a long way to go, so its really hard to see what is the future price of bitcoin. Realistically, $30K is too high a price so I personally think it would not be meet in 2020. Its a very aggressive prediction.

If enough btc holders hold until all or most of the things they buy accept btc then the price will surely reach way beyond $30k.
If you wait until you can buy gas, groceries, utility bills, Ebay and Amazon stuff with btc instead of waiting till the right price to sell for fiat = rich.

Maybe after the halving on 2020 bitcoin will hit 20 to $30k. Everywhere you can see bitcoin on the news specially on business and other money related programs. Banks will accept bitcoin, nobody can stop bitcoin cause were already in the world of digital, all things will become digital andd bitcoin fits on it.

it can with the increase it has been getting lately I'm sure in future we can achieve such a target seeing the fact people still remain calm and invest in it and not sell it unnecessary reasons it can reach new heights

absolutely it can. I expect $15-20k in 2018 and low 30's in 2019. So yeah I think it'll reach $30k in the Fall of 2019