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I was reading the Speculation section from the Economics forum yesterday, and two guys from the BTC Foundation said that 2018 will be the last time that Bitcoin will be under $10,000. I believe that this statement was made to lessen the worry that comes about every time that BTC drops. I don't know how anyone could make that statement in full faith though, as the nature of altcoins is its very volatility. Since it is not tied to normal economic conditions as fiat currency is, I don't quite see where that prediction comes from. The fact that many economies are talking about some type of oversight does show that acceptance is gaining and perhaps is a harbinger of more stable, and higher, prices.

I believe there are plenty of powers fighting for the dominance over bitcoin some of which are trying to suppress the price and some drive it up. Moreover, bitcoin's rate is pretty dependent on news. With all that in mind, I would dare making any predictions as there always is a chance of a black swan.

I agree completely. Just trying to figure out what causes the price to fluctuate could take forever, as the economic basis is separate from the emotional one.

on what basis do they talk like that? is it just a prediction?
but I hope it really happened  ::)

everyone has their own opinions, and you didn't exactly quote a particular person or given any links so we don't know why they said that. you should find it yourself and see the source where that particular person is making that prediction and i am sure they have already explained why they think this year is the last time we are going to see below $10k.

and remember no matter who made that speculation that is still a speculation like any other.

I do not believe in anything like that. many experts say if the year 2018 bitcoin prices will be very high, but until now there is no sign if the price of bitcoin will rise.

I also do not believe on that, first of all everyone knows that no one can exactly knows what will really happen may it be this year or even in incoming years. One thing i am sure about is that bitcoin will not disappear because people were now interested and willing learn about it and i guess it would last even if i die, im sure bitcoin will still be there.

We all have the rights to say what we wanna say,and this two guys has their own.
And im still believe that saying about five digits would be this last year is appropriate because last year we have reached almost $20,000 and thats not a small margin,there must be a massive attack against bitcoin domination but we can see the resistance from the bitcoin supporters everytimw they try to dump bitcoin most of the alts from top coins drops with this.

Nobody has any control over the price so nobody has any reasonable expectation about what the price is going to do in the future. Prognostications by anyone, even people from the BTC Foundation, are rather worthless. It seems more likely they're trying to stoke demand since weak demand has been slowly deflating the price for awhile now. As members of the BTC Foundation, I expect they probably have significant Bitcoin holdings and are probably worried about how those holdings have depreciated in value over the last 6 or so months. Because of this, I would view such "predictions" as not only baseless (like any other price prediction), but also self-motivated and conflict-oriented. After all, I'm sure none of these guys would have ever predicted at the time Bitcoin was trading above $19,000 that it would ever again see a price below $7,000, and as we all know it reached that less than 6 months later! And that's why their predictions are worthless.

No one can really predict the future of crypto specially the values at a given time. Even experts cant accurately predict but its very much possible due to the mining difficulty that will happen next year. As we all know that every four years the mining difficulty of bitcoin increases together with its value but this does not really assure us that the value will definitely skyrocket or even be doubled since bitcoin's value is dependent on the acceptance and adaption of the people to the currency. The next halving is expected happen on the 31st of May 2020 and we will just have to wait and see what the future will bring.

The volatility of bitcoin as a feature of crypto was possibly not considered in the prediction. Its fine to be optimistic but in the world of investments speculations must be laced with rationality in thinking and measurements. While we hope that this is realized some day, please run with the reality of today.

I think the volatility of Bitcoin is exactly why they are saying this... They're not stupid enough to really believe Bitcoin would stay above $10k/BTC for the rest of its life. They're smart people and tell the crowd just what they want to hear.

They're saying this, because everyone knows Bitcoin is volatile and that it could grow (or fall) by many percents per day. When experts say the price goes up, people naturally believe that with a volatile asset, that means it would go up a lot and would therefore make them a ton of money.

I do not really know where they get it also but I do believe in the power of cryptocurrency.
There are still coins or tokens out there that is not moving and that is because their investors and supporters and not dying on them.
It will be the same with bitcoin if that is what is happening. But why come to this bear market?
It just means one thing for me. There are more and more people that are owning bitcoin. That means a lot of fluctuation if decided to sell while on the other hand the altcoin dont have that much yet.
Population of holders will really affect a lot, even the smallest one.

They are true believer and optimistic with bitcoin. If they ever said that this will be the year that bitcoin will be under $10,000 then that's great! We only have to hold until next year and that's few more months to go.
They have analyzed it basing the supply limit of bitcoin and it's next halving on May 2020.

Speculation are present in every sphere of uor live, can be little selfish, but I`m trying to earn mine, and dont worry about others earnings.

İf the subject is bitcoin than nearly all of the speculations are wrong and nearly all of the speculations are right.it will go up, it will crash down, it will soar in the sky and than get dismembered by a bear.noone knows which will be next and also everybody knows.you can predict pretty much anything and it can come true eventually.

Speculations will be speculations as long as there is a solid proof that it will definitely become realistic. No matter how many times people speculate the price of Bitcoin, it will only depend on how the marketing is going and if people will still invest in this crypto. Then again, I will not believe easily on speculations especially when there is no solid proof to the claim.

I really miss those disclaimers those who give financial / investment advice used in past eras where they said: "said person is not currently invested in the thing they're currently offering advice on". Objective and independent analysis is critical in gauging things like future price projections. Its very hard for someone to be either objective or independent if they invested $50,000 in gold/silver or $50,000 in bitcoin which is often the case for those offering investment "advice". And so perhaps it is a worthwhile goal to be cautious and practice "caveat emptor"(buyer beware) when pondering things some say.

I think the three main variables when considering future bitcoin price might be broken down thusly.

1. The state of the us dollar and european euro. If debt and deficit increases for either the USA or EU the value of bitcoin and crypto should increase. Concern over the stability and reliability of fiat currency is one of the main overriding factors determining how badly precious metals and crypto currencies are in demand for a populace which is seeking ways to maintain the value of their wealth in the face of worse case scenario fiat devaluation or hyperinflation. Currently there are many nations in the world which are dealing with currency devaluation/hyperinflation scenarios. The USA and EU may be the last to feel the threat of this but inevitably if nothing crucial changes they are both likely to end up in trouble eventually.

2. Worldwide regulation and potential legal crackdowns on bitcoin and crypto. How and when this is implemented could have a future impact on price. I think everyone knows most potential scenarios here.

3. Lastly I think demand and the size of crypto's userbase is the final main factor. How educated and informed crypto's userbase is and how well they support the right altcoins and policies could make a massive difference.

Of course this is all off the top of my head so maybe not the best breakdown but hopefully I gave someone something worth pondering or reading.

Well, I somewhat agree with the statement because the recent price rally brought many investors/users in this industry and most of them are waiting for the entry point to put their capital and at the same time, they don't want to take any risk so as soon as BTC will get some momentum on the price chart, we will see domino effect on the price and it will break the previous all-time high record. Considering the growth of the user base, I do see huge growth potential in the coming years.

Stabilization of Bitcoin's value is not beneficial to those who own it. After all, he was bought as an investment and he should bring income. So there are up and down swings, from 7K to 10K. This I think is the main reason.
And I do not exclude large investors who throw out large sums.

Trusting people from the btc foundation to make price predictions for bitcoin is like trusting a priest on news from god. I am honestly taking everything into consideration, and no matter how optimistic I am, I can't make a prediction like that. What I can tell you is that these huge swings show one things: absolutely nobody knows where bitcoin is going. We don't even know if we can take it to mainstream use. We're certainly trying, but I think price predictions without a proper explanation as to why it would be going in any direction is useless and childish. Why 10,000? Why 100,000? What are these figures based on?

I think of the three you listed, number three is the most important and impactful. I don't see number two having a serious negative affect since it would only be improving the structure crypto exists within and bringing more confidence to the system. If number one is having any meaningful impact, the world has already gone to hell and is may be irredeemable. At that point, the last thing you should be worried about is how much money you're making with crypto, because the world likely doesn't function the way it does currently with people economically confident enough to speculate and invest and are probably just struggling to survive. Number three is what impacts the price now, and if that stops being the case it's probably because number one happened and goodbye world economic stability.

We all have to remember that this was just a pure speculation. Those two guys you're referring to may only be expressing their own theory or their own desires for bitcoin. Hoping against all hopes that their theory can become a reality. We all have our own speculations, and i do believe that whenever we speculate it is always on the positive side. Come to think of it, I also happen to read somewhere an item about one analyst saying that, a very positive upsurge in bitcoin price is bound to happen before the end of the year. We'll it certainly looks like there were many things to look for at the end of the year mate.

I'm sure of that too, and I think next year bitcoin will be more developed and if it is downhill I will not get under $ 10000 and I hope the best for future bitcoin

But I've read in an article if bitcoin will increase again in the year and the article says if the year's high increase will happen even it will surpass the previous high value and he also says that this is the last one. Given this thread, I have high confidence if we keep holding is the right decision.

Well, I think that such claims come from the analysis that the people made out of the past charts or movements of bitcoins which may be reliable but not that much. But to be honest, I too believe that this might really be the last year that we might see the prices of bitcoins being lower than 10,000. That is, if what happened in the past still happens this year..

We have heard that many times before, saying that this will be the last time we are going to see bitcoin at $10K. However, we are even struggling to go past $8K now. So much volatility in the market that no one can really predict where the price will go.

Perhaps the reason that they are really saying that this year is the last time we are going to see it going below 4 digit mark is that they are bag holders and they want to influence the market and obviously their portfolio to grow.

I also know less about this, perhaps because of my kyrang experience in crypto, but what I believe is, whenever btc or altcoin falls, it will be a while back then again to the original position, even higher, so this makes me sure that no matter how much the decline, btc or altcoin could rise again, and hopefully this is true, amen

The volatility is in there it might be disappear or grown up because we all know that the speculations it will be wrong or not so definitely the value of btc are not longer to $10k because of its daily basis that depend on who will invest on it, so we don't know it yet. 

IMO, bitcoin economics is tied up with the normal economics.

There are factors that I've seen to have these two share both pains, you can see that bitcoin market isn't the only one that is suffering with this big correction or manipulation. I'm stay positive and looking forward to meet those predictions who are saying that bitcoin will be good at the end of the year.

they just say what they think will happen in the future against bitcoin. of course we all here can also say it, the higher the confidence to bitcoin then it will make high price predictions as well.

I just want to say two things here. First if you make a prediction, it must be reasonable or not impossible.
second if experts make predictions then there will be many people who listen to it.

I have read a newspaper that Bitcoin is still traded underground in the electronic money community as speculative hoarding, or trading surfing. But we should not speculate on bitcoin or other currencies

For speculator bitcoin is good to use for speculation and in the present time people are interested more in the crypto while investment trading and speculation all deal in crypto. Bitcoin is good to hold and it is also a long term investment tool while diversification is good and just to speculate bitcoin about prices is a way to make money in short.

If bitcoin prices till a fall it must have caused great concern for investors but I have till now tried to keep optimistic in earnings and hope bitcoin does not decrease drastically in this year.

Off course mate, that is how the crypto currencies are working really. I mean as long as the popularity will keep gaining the coins will start earning more users and thus more money will be injected into the crypto space. The more it is the more the prices will be for each coin. The thing is market always keeps correcting itself and 10K or more value was anyway overpriced tag for the BTC. I mean looking at the current hype of gainers I do believe that 10K and around rates are sufficient for the BTC for this year. In the next year investor base might just increase more and thus more value is always expected.

Yes, there is nothing wrong with the speculation on Bitcoin whenever price comes in as long we continually investing as the value of market really low and affordable once in a while to start buying bitcoin because this only chance we can buy and buy to hold until todays year which the really promising.

Believers will continue doing that, buying cheap coins and allow your self to accumulate little by little, those who still in the position of believing that
the price will grow and bounce back real time, a lots of speculations will come day by day and more people will start to see the potentials and will
learned the game inside this risky investment currency.

It is precisely such news or statements made by a person to convince a descendant of investors and bitcoin enthusiasts to remain confident and trust to withhold the bitcoin. It is also made to raise the price of bitcoin dimarket, this is like a strategy to increase the price of bitcoin by making good news about bitcoin.

I honestly even have my own speculations, but as many people here have said, people have lots and different opinions on what will be the price speculation. Because of this speculations a lot of people resulted their discussion to an argument and a fight which is real or not, but in the end nobody could really say which price is accurate.

I believe that this statement is made to alleviate the concerns that arise every time the BTC falls. I do not know how anyone can make that statement with full conviction, because the nature of altcoin is very volatile.

The sentiment in the market right now is even negative, so to have such an article springing up can really reduce the level of long term pessimism in the market.

Recovering from where we are today can actually be a good one at the end of it all, even though we are not even sure how far down we are going yet, but the possibility that testing the previous ATH, may make us hover around it for a little while and then start hitting new ATHs and with that, $10000 may actually be the last thing we will ever get to see again. All speculations though, since none of us can actually see what the future holds.

We can everyone make news but I think if you are a wise investors or traders you will see news in different ways. Bitcoin is great, there is no need for this kind of article because in the long run the price will recover what matter is you invest on a dump price and believe on bitcoin. Speculation of other person can also be a guide for you investment decision.

if we look at past bitcoin history then we have to believe the bitcoin value prediction will be high again. because this setback is common, it is important that we remain optimistic, but we remain cautious in making the decision to invest because even now the value has started to rise but the decline in value will still occur.

right, i guess we just need to find right time to buy bitcoin, that is at time of dump. after that we hold as long as possible until we get a decent profit. but i suggest do not panic sell because this is a factor that causes us to lose

Yup, There's no guarantee bitcoin will reach that far, but it depends upon the investors, As observed in the present, Bitcoins finds hard to recover its peakest value, Remember December 2017, It smoothly climbs up to 20k, and now it struggles down to 7K, This is the biggest bubble ever happen in history.

your statement might be true that while bitcoin price fall some people predict these falls will not last long and the price will recover soon because they were worried about downtrend situations but in the fact in this year too many negative statements which made bitcoin and altcoins price difficult to rise up again and i personally don't believe predictions without valid source because this kind of predictions similar such as guessing

Everyone of us has it's own speculation on bitcoin so a lot of statement on how much bitcoin price could be this year. Yes price is usually volatile we may see down trend continues or it will in uptrend right away. No one in here can provide the definite price so we can guess on how much bitcoin could fall.

AND thats reality,look at the market now after a week of downtrend now greening again.

But the price is getting lower and lower as months passed by,i hope this june will be our bullish waiting,and our effort of holding will give us good profit.lets pray more and hold longer for this to happen

It is very normal for BTC to change, we can see that the BTC has been going down continuously over time, many investors have been afraid when the BTC price drops, but I do not, I do not Fear what, I believe BTC is the safest coin, we hold them can only be careful to prevent hackers. Do not worry about the collapse of the BTC.

It seems that the statement was made to make good news as well as attract new investors so bitcoin is getting searched and its value will increase. I myself believe it will happen even though bitcoin is very unpredictable

I am sure that the best approach is an investing I mean that it is not a speculation. I explain my opinion briefly. When investing you believe in a chosen asset and you hold it as long as possible to get all potential but when speculating or trading you consider your trading position temporary and close it quite fast without getting all potential

That was a nice piece of information but bitcoin will always generate positive results regardless of the perspective it is dealt with. This is the most amazing investment tool that the mankind can know ever. It touched 20k dollars by the end of last year and yet people are of the opinion that it is an infant. Crypto experts predicted a target of 30k dollars as an end year value for 2018 but my guess is, it would be near 40k dollars.

I am just not with the increasingly bound altcoin make the economy and society because people will surely find out and ask it, although formally there is a statement that has been submitted in the first post,
but for me that's where the unique side of altcoin and the shortcomings that make a lot of people more curious, including myself, the movement of values, the power of exchange, the interest of the community, the issues that are developing, and the new altcoin will be a problem as well as learning that makes more interest and more because I think this altcoin is one of the benchmarks for the future.
hopefully useful and successful for us all

I am really expected that bitcoin price will hit 16, 000$ to have triple profits we received.

I predict bitcoin value would hit minimum of $30k by end of either November or December 2018. Compared to last year,  the growth has been healthy though the correction seems a huge fall.  Last Jab started with $2k and this year started with $4k.  So there are real chances for minimum $30k by end of this year with the growth starting in July mid.

All what people say about the price or how it is going to change are just mere predictions based on nothing but their view of the market and how it is changing and the conditions that it is in, and you should never take them as a given fact, because this market is all about volatility and it is quite unpredictable so no one knows when it will change or how it is going to.

We have been seeing bitcoins prevailing over the world in such a short time span. People are loving them for being amazing and adding so much energy and potential to the lives of people. The thing is, after so many hardness and frauds bitcoins have been seeing, still they are getting so much fame and pace. The mankind have really amused with this one fantastic creature.

All that speculation is true because many investor and user specially some of them are start to use bitcoin since 2015, all of them are monitored the price everyday because they are involving in investment, so we don't blame them if they predict to Bitcoin placed in worst situation co'z some of their capital for investment is almost 50% decreased.

Of a truth as a trader i have never think of bitcoin fall to this value we are now as at November and December 2017 but bitcoin is currently below $8,000. I foreseeing that what has been started is truth and in reality bitcoin should not be expected to be below $10,000 by next year and above.  I expect bitcoin should be above $50,000 by 2019 and this year 2018 it should be above $20,000 before December.

Most times I don't believe in all those prediction having the knowledge of how volatile the bitcoin marked is and how it operate on the economic law of demands and supply, bitcoin will only rise in price when the demands for it become high and the Price is also determine by the same demands. So any one is free to predict but not to make statement which you are not an authority in the operation of the market. Bitcoin is decentralized.

Those who do this are really successful. They are reporting so many unfound bitcoin values that you can really believe that you are in the system. That's why I need to respect reputable news.

There are different faith, different thoughts on things, that is why there are different speculations about Bitcoin. For me, speculations are only speculations, i do believe whatever in store for Bitcoin that will stand.

No one can predict the price of bitcoin. The people should understand what Bitcoin can do and not able to do. Not to invest into it blindly. Most of the time people writing about the Bitcoin wants to pump the price and sell it.

Your speculation concern the current market to be like last November/December is correct but for bitcoin to go above 50,000 is not possible and if such thing happen that will make bitcoin a bubble. However, there's no market pumping force which will push the bitcoin market to the price range you mention.

For me its hard to know the price of bitcoin and we dont know if what day or year to growth the price of bitcoin because its depends of supply  or demand of people so if you planning to buy or sell wait the perfect timing.

the end of the year may be what the person predicted will happen where the price of Bitcoin will return stable and slowly will experience a significant increase.

Nobody knows since crypto's are decentralized, Let's see how this things work in the future, It relies on the hands of investors, to boost it up, We had a big role in tossing crypto's to go up by sharing bitcoins to our friends and neighbors, Let's spread the good news about bitcoins:)

I don't just care those particular person, it's eventually happen a group of community or particular person made speculation for their own purpose. The market is going into manipulation, so don't trust blindly. That's why I argue make priority your own research.

There are lot of speculations about in bitcoin, But most of the community in the forum are thinking that Bitcoin will become the world currency in

the near future, even some of the other experts thought about this things too. Then some don't believed it as well, but all of the opinion of

others here even the experts one are all just an speculations.

Don't make a judgement with others judgement it will not eight in all time make your own decision with your mind but anything happens in bitcoin so wait and watch what will happen next and make a decision after that.

According to McAfee bitcoin will rise up to $15k this June and will dip on July. He said that he usually do not make a short term speculation because it incourage the investors to invest for short term.
I read this in one of a telegram where I am part as a member.

Actually, despite that Bitcoin in a continuous volatility during last period and even now Plus, the bad attempts of the governments in order to destroy the cryptocurrencies in general through collective ban by the social media (Facebook, Twitter and even google), but Bitcoin still develop and strong, and I think that this widespread crisis or drop is temporary, although it lasted for a long time and it's certain that after a few weeks we will see a collective jump on the market especially when Bitcoin rise with a good value because the cryptocurrencies are the followers of Bitcoin.
On the other hand, I agree with OP at some point, I expect that this year was the last time will be under 10K in the price, and I think after a few months we will see some new record in the value of Bitcoin, and I think in that moment the price of Bitcoin will reach between 25K and 30K.

I think bitcoin prices will be difficult to ride high in such a short time as it once was.
As you can see in recent months the price continues to experience ups and downs even tend to decrease compared to the price at the end of last year.

Then, the word holding should be compatible in this kind of business we don't need to race over the price if we can keep our bitcoin in our wallet then let us do it that way, so we can avoid panic mode which is not good in the market.

I think no one can make a comment like that but these are just speculations keeping the market condition in the market. Only the market can determine the price of a currency say Bitcoin. Bitcoin is expected to rise in the current year in terms of values but it cannot be said it will never fall again. The crypto world is uncertain. The statement mush have been made keeping in mind the value of Bitcoin in coming few years.

Or they're saying that so we'll buy more BTC and raise the prices. Then again, that is exactly what i did  so thumbs up for them. I really believe that BTC along with other coins will shoot up vone the last quarter. I just hope that what yhe speculations say is true. I mean if that should happen then we're talking about alot of money here.

You're just pulling numbers out of thin air. There's no reason to have these expectations, and having them are the reason Bitcoin will never be anything more than a speculative tool that people gamble with and not anything of any real value utility-wise. What Satoshi probably never contemplated was the possibility of Bitcoin achieving some level of renown but only as a gambling tool and not as a currency that changes the world for the better. The more attention Bitcoin has gotten, the more people have flocked to it not to abandon a bad and manipulative banking system (like Satoshi envisioned) but just to recklessly speculate on a vehicle they have no real interest in other than trying to get lambo-rich from it. Bitcoin is the antithesis of what Satoshi envisioned, and in that I suppose there's a rich irony in Bitcoin becoming a tool of the same type of recklessness he hoped to solve.

Reading this statement on a telegram? so what's the real source of it? his twitter account? what I can see to his account is full of memes.
He's a long term investor of bitcoin but we cant predict his moves if he's shorting or he is really helping the crypto community.

Just a way to raise more hope in the community and to as well increase the optimism among holders. I can imagine how those newbie investors who bought at the top late last year must have been feeling now, knowing how their main capital is going hugely down and those statements can actually help them and even though baseless, it sounds realistic if we get to see a massive recovery by the end of the year which I am hoping for anyway. We all know how bitcoin has fared over the years, and the possibility of seeing this happen.

Bitcoin needs just 10 good days in a year to reach 20k... REMEMBER THIS : )

There are different cryptocurrency today in the market that is keeps on coming out and because of that, the competition in the market is keep on tightening up and we can expect for the price of bitcoins to increase further more in the future.

Well, everything has always been a prediction since bitcoin has turned to more of a speculative asset than a currency anyway. However, all these depend on how this year ends but in some way, there could be a possibility in his statement.

Bitcoin recovery after some huge crash has always known to come out better than previous years and in the case where we get to see such moments, it is understandable that we may never set eyes on $10k again eventually, but when is not something anyone can actually give right.

According to me With all that in mind, I would dare to make any predictions because there is always the possibility of a black swan.
I believe there are many forces that are fighting for dominance over bitcoins that are partly trying to push prices and some pushing it. Moreover, bitcoin levels depend heavily on news.

I think it is all about the personal views regarding the bitcoin and altcoins that we see around us. The bitcoin can be differentiated from the altcoins in many regards and there are few specific factors that can affect the bitcoin tremendously. For example, what decisions country is making regarding its acceptance and whether that country is powerful one or not in terms of economic. How many users are getting involved with the bitcoin daily and mostly fundamental and technical stuff like that.

Now bitcoin will reach 10K USD or will stay below it one can not surely say that. As I said above facts can keep changing all the time and thus may give rise to different scenarios all the time. Who imagined that bitcoin will reach 20K USD last year, but it did.

The price of the bitcoin will increase again, if you believe bitcoin even the price you are confident that price become again 20k dollars or what price reach decemeber 2017. Maybe not 20k dollars this year because the highest price of the bitcoin in this year 2018 will be $50,000 but it's not 100 percent happen.

I still doubt this. Although looking at the last price of 2017 ago with a very fantastic but if we look again the history of BTC lowest prices since 2009 is not always an increase. https://www.bitguru.co.uk/bitcoin-price-high-low-since-2009/

No one can talk with absolute certainty about what the price is going to be but if said now that 2017 was the last year where you could buy bitcoin below 1000 most people will agree with me, so I think that is where their prediction is coming from, they think this is the last year in which you are going to see bitcoin this cheap and if I am perfectly honest with you I think they are right, the current prices are not going to be here forever and if you do not take advantage of this you will regret it for the rest of your life.

i am considering upgrading an article regarding the systematic pump and dump schemes with bitcoin by so called "bull calls" especially in the "free american media" that are scaming the viewers, and investors.

someone else observing those?

the dominance over bitcoin some of which are trying to suppress the price and some drive it up. Moreover, bitcoin's rate is pretty dependent on news. With all that in mind, I would dare making any predictions as there always is a chance of a black swan.

or the dominance over bitcoin some of which are trying to suppress the price and some drive it up. Moreover, bitcoin's rate is pretty dependent on news. With all that in mind, I would dare making any predictions as there always is a chance of a black swan.

Definitely. In more recent times CNBC has worked its way up real high in that regard. It doesn't only concern Bitcoin, but a few more top level altcoins. If you browse through social media, or even read the comments under each video, it becomes clear how many people have noticed this shady behavior. Another shady activity that people observed is that CNBC seems to be much in favor of BCash. If you see the mainstream media back something very questionable, then know that some form of compensation has been issued, or that they themselves are heavily involved in that specific coin. It's no coincidence that most guests there are not so much in favor of Bitcoin, but do like BCash....

That is true, for me those days will come and bitcoin will  go again up to 15k$, that will again suprise lots of people and some new investors will come to market again.

What grounds do you need? facts, etc. When the dollar rises against oil, what are the facts? Economic crisis??? All this is called so. Personally, my opinion is the limit of bitcoins in 21 million, this will be a key factor in the fact that everyone wants to have a piece of this "crypto pie" Here is a fact, the demand determines the supply and price.

Just a plain prediction is given and no logical facts have been provided.Every one know that bitcoin has potential to cross borders of higher prices,but it should overcome fuds and decisions taken by governments based on geopolitical facts.Also big shots like Bill Gates and Buffett contribute a lot for the negative publicity of bitcoin by blaming it.

Yes price of bitcoin will be high with time but we really need a lot of more speculation to make it stronger than our expectations, when more people buy bitcoin then it makes the price of bitcoin really high but when more people use to sell price gets down so now it is time for speculations we are going to get more than 20k dollar because right now some experts have declared that price will be more than double at the end of this year.

in my opinion do not speculate if we do not understand or understand

The price of bitcoin in the future will more than once return below $ 10,000. Apparently, such a forecast was made on the basis of the growth table of the bitcoin price. However, life is not just a table. The greater volatility of bitcoin at a large price will manifest itself in a much larger amplitude of price fluctuations. Therefore, bitcoin more than once will fall below this value, no matter how high the price it did not reach. In the end, I think, after a few panic, devaluations, it will set in price, apparently, less than $ 10,000.

Bitcoin and other crypto currency prediction is something anyone can give right cause the market is not stable this days but with the use of fundamental prediction and what was said on the news you can never go wrong because FUD and whales manipulate are the thing that determine the price of bitcoin in market now. How ever, I dont believe what you said that we may never set our eyes on 10K price again.

Bitcoin is the best coin and it needs just one month to grow maybe to the $20k and probably this year it will happen too.

Whether or not a US government bitcoin speculation is in the process of investigating whether or not the speculation manipulates the cryptographic market in general btc in particular. The investigation is supposed to focus on tricks that can be Affect on the transaction price

Their speculation is possible, It is a big possibility that Bitcoin will rally before the end of the year and I think the $10,000 area will be a super support level in the future. Just like recently our best support is the $6,000 area. I remembered first quarter last year that rarely you will see a person to speculate  that we will even reach $6,000 but looking today people already have identified that  buying at $6,000 is the wisest thing to do.

I was actually expecting to see a link as well. Like you said, it is just speculation as anyone can just come up with anything and still remain baseless. However, speculation or not, anything can be possible in the long run. We still have a long time before 2018 ends though, so it is hard to be making any assumptions for now.

This could be a good one if we are already past the $10k spot and bitcoin seems to be holding it strong as a huge support before hitting new ATH, then in that case, one may even assume that something like that is possible, but for now, the chances are still slim.

Or even less than 10 days. Last year, we have seen bitcoins rising from some $7000 to $22000 just in few days. These days were even less than 10 so that isn’t just a big problem. The problem is people, we don’t allow bitcoins to just jump over. We all are wanting bitcoins to show such huge jump but we all are participating in panic selling to some extent and that is why seeing such situation.

everyone has his own opinion, so I believe there are many forces that are fighting for dominance over bitcoins that are partly trying to push prices down and some pushing it.

I am kinda worried about one factor - rate of Bitcoin adoption. It seems like adoption slowed down significantly during last year, and sometimes even reverted (Steam is no longer accepting BTC)
Metcalfe's law states that the value of a network increases as the number of users on said network increases. So the number of users we have, affect directly the price  BTC
Adoption is somewhat stagnant - no major company is talking about accepting bitcoin as a payment method - because they know that people are not willing to spend their coins anyway.
I am worried that "hodling' mentality of Bitcoin users, in the end, will be a very big problem and the reason for low BTC adoption.

Merchants doing that are operating a hidden agenda, or they are ignorant. Steam's reason to no longer accept Bitcoin is because of the volatility and the higher fees. It's pure bullshit. When they started accepting Bitcoin the market was just as volatile, and the fees are not an issue because they will always come down again.

The number of users do affect the price, but it's not as significant as you may think. People in all cases are quite conservative of nature. No one will buy or sell massively if whales don't do the initial work. It perfectly shows in current market. If whales don't steer the market to whatever direction, it consolidates.

Bitcoin's adoption isn't stagnant. Bitcoin's adoption isn't just based on its currency aspect, but more so towards its digital Gold aspect. Bitcoin's adoption as currency has never really been a thing. Bitcoin's adoption as digital Gold is exploding.

It's not a problem. People care about one thing only, which is seeing Bitcoin's price go through the atmosphere, and that is exactly what is happening.

I think eventually, when the price becomes stable, and we have easy to use Lightning clients, the currency aspect will crawl back up. It takes time. :)

Most of the crypto analyst today that are writing different speculations are saying that bitcoins might reach $50k dollar just before the end of the year so keep on holding your coins.

Of course, when governments legalized bitcoin and will be amend the law, then bitcoin and cryptocurrencies will necessarily rise in price. Many people are now afraid and waiting for everything to be according to the law. Accordingly, then there will be a great demand and the price will rise.

I really believe that bitcoin will still able to reached its goal to become the most profitable and trusted investment throughout the global  and i think few years from now bitcoin market value will reached to $30000 this is what im hoping too.

Prediction on Bitcoin price or the stability is always a concerned of investors, any movement on price value could trigger the possible ups and down on the market treed. We can never tell what will happened next, market is Volatile, anything can happened at any given time on the market.But with the stable market status of Bitcoin it will remain on the top among all ALT coin posted on the market.

yes I think that is just a prediction but it possible to happen. we can see in the half of this year bitcoin price tend to be stable, I mean not increase significantly and not go down significantly and it have a potential to increase again until the end of year. I just hope bitcoin will reach more than 10k in the end of year and next year will be better for bitcoin.

Now Bitcoin has a relative stability of 7.4K-7.8K. I think that investors are not interested, too little profit up to 5%. Many are used to a minimum of 10%.

News and speculations can greatly affect people's decision whether to invest on cryptocurrency or not. However, it is not that bad to listen or read other's speculation about prices because if you really believe in cryptocurrency and technology, the price will not bother you because in the future, cryptocurrency will be widely used by everyone.

Immediately evident that you are a person who knows how to objectively understand the issue. As for the guys, I also think that they are not children of the famous VANGA. But as for the funds, it seems to me that the funds do not escalate the situation and do not create a stir around bitcoin and its prices. Perhaps the media spread panic on this topic, and the funds themselves are buying bitcoin in small batches at the moment.

No one can ever know if bitcoin will go under more or go up already, it is just all their speculation, and speculation can possibly be not going to happen. It is depend on us if we wanted to believe those speclation and I think there is nothing wrong to believe those speculate because sometimes it can happen but there are also times that it did not.

Bro, I wish I would have the same optimism you do have. I am not sure that Bitcoin will reach this maximum in 2018. We can finally admit and agree that this year is the critical period for the market.

your statement may be true but even though bitcoin down it will not be long bitcoin is a new technology that many companies accept, so grab a chance to buy if the bitcoin goes down

well, this would be an excellent opportunity to buy bitcoin if the price decreases as it is today. we all believe, that bitcoin prices will be even higher this year. it may be down for some reasons now, but it would be a very good thing to buy it in bulk.

And more than thay is the countries that dont want bitcoin or crypto interfered their economy thats why they are putting lots of regulations and some are banning but this is not enough to deeper the burden

In future years(not specifically this year)bitcoin will will and all alternative coins will bloom together with it,expect no good speculation but expect good future for us here

If you're a long term holder or have a high cost basis, you should be worried about this. What's more worrying still is that the "users" that spiked the price last year were nothing more than speculators looking to get rich. Compared to the number of people buying bitcoin, the number of people actually using it is only a small fraction of that. Metcalfe's Law contemplates value related to legitimate utility, which speculators don't play much of a role in, if any. The spike we saw in 2017 was not sustainable and not legitimate use of the bitcoin as a currency or medium of exchange, which is where any value under Metcalfe's Law would come into play. And you can see presently why you want actual use over speculative use, because actual use represents more permanent value creation and speculative use represents unreliable and unpredictable value creation. The price crash we've been experiencing for 6 months is attributable to the loss of speculators from the market. Without that buying demand, price cannot be sustained.

I think those two things are different aspects, in one hand you are right when you say that business have stopped adopting bitcoin and in fact we seem to see the opposite, the adoption by new users has slowed down somewhat due to the crash but it was very good before it, the main problem for business were the high fees and I sent a transaction some days ago and the fees were very cheap comparing them to a few months ago and this is going to improve when the lightning network is working, so we will see more adoption in the future it is just going to take longer than we anticipated.

The price speculations have been of optimistic nature and it has been speculated that the values of Bitcoin will rise as high as $30000 and might even surpass this value in 2018. As a result of this prediction by the top experts, the demand for Bitcoin has again risen in the market and this trend has also vibrated the whole crypto market which means we are moving towards good time.

Every people have different opinion but those kind of article are needed because there's a lot of negative news about bitcoin now, I think they want people to have faith in bitcoin because there are many users lose their faith and trust but I believe bitcoin will overcome all the struggle and it will bounce back more powerful.

Bitcoin will always here and it will not burst as what others said. We just need to believe that this will make us profitable when we invest this in a long term plan.

What do you mean by good days? There are no more good days like the ones in the previous year. That pump was unnatural and that’s why it collapsed like fail rocket and now the price is normal and corrections are also normal. Volatility is not a big problem for bitcoin because the price is so high that few hundred dollars up and down can occur any time.

Honestly i don't believe in people saying that the price of bitcoin will decrease or will go up because there is no one of us here that can actually predict the price of bitcoin in the future. That is only pure speculation and we should monitor the price ourselves.

Yeah we all hope for that because if ts gonna be happened I'm sure our life will changed financially.I hope we should pray and positively believe for it.

for bitcoin price speculation the bitcoin price should be more than $ 20k because the current bitcoin circulation is also getting thinner and getting bitcoin is already very difficult.

A statement sometimes arises because of the existence of a strong hope from that person. With the publication of the statement, it is expected to eliminate the fears that are happening and can foster a sense of trust, especially among users. 
Everyone has their own opinions and assumptions as well as what he predicted, I think that doesn't matter as long as the predictions were correct for the benefit of the public.
Honestly I believe in his prediction, I hope the decline this time is the last drop for bitcoin and maybe next week there will be a big jump.

On what basis is it going to be rising? Based on real demand or fake demand that some set of people just bring up to cause some moves in the market. The same set of people who are buying hugely and creating pumps are the same set of people who are dumping. This is a growth hindering process as most users will apparently stick to the fact that this is going to be more like a money making stuff without the real usage coming into play.

We need to see real demand, people using it for their daily stuffs, the market cap increasing based on main stream adoption, and that is what would really help and not just some speculation here and there.

No one can actually surpass the price of bitcoins or rather say an ico who will surpass the price of bitcoins in the future but maybe ethereum coins will have a long run today and definitely reach the price of bitcoins someday because the developers are just doing right on their platform.

After the peak of bitcoin which took place in the last quarter of 2017, everyone witnessed the big and continuous from the beginning of 2018. The market became a little slow till then. Therefore, I sincerely hope that in the next quarter bitcoin value will rise up and regain as everyone awaits. It is good to spread that volatility is a good characteristic of bitcoin that will increase its value thru positive news and trends that will create financial security to all investors that 2018 is one of the best year of bitcoin.

if it exceeds the price maybe the bch is closest to bitcoin. but i think it is still far away. we know, all coin and altcoin depend on bitcoin, so it will be hard coin else chase it

The truth is that speculations on the price of Bitcoin is coming from everywhere, and everyone. If you want to know the real bases of these speculations, you might only find yourself smiling while scratching your head or feeling disappointed and just shake your head down. The fact is that anything can happen. The only hope I am seeing is that cryptocurrency is really getting more popular. I am banking on this when I look forward to the day when Bitcoin's price will get back to somewhere $20,000.

My own opinion is that speculation are everywhere, in the world of bitcoin it consists of people that know many information and the beginners. What you need to do depends only on your personal knowledge

Negative speculation will discourage people and they will stay away of the market of cryptocurrencies due to the negative news. On the other hand positive speculation in the market will encourage people and more people to take the ways straight towards this market.

This improves the mind of people and brings increase in the demand factor which further improves the value of Bitcoin and other coins.

As they say how many people so many opinions. Do not believe in the truth 2 people who told their opinion about the cryptocurrency market (bitcoin). But taking this opportunity, I will Express my opinion about speculation today. The bitcoin rate is falling, today it is 6100-6300$ depending on the exchange. the rate is falling and there are good reasons. The market is tired, so much bad news. ( At one exchange hacked, then another) The problems in the countries with the law on the settlement. There is no inflow of new money at the moment. Market correction lasts a long time. Now the market can fall to the level of 4000-4500$. If it is, then there will be a lot of people who want to enter at a very interesting price in bitcoin, and thus there will be a new wave of growth, which will be double as always. There will be 2 candles with a growth period of 1-2 days, and then a pullback. If the price drops to 4500, the growth will be up to 12-13 000$ / I am sure that the market needs rejuvenation of participants. So be patient.

The worst thing is that these news can be easily manipulated by the rich people in our society what means that in a sense the bitcoin price can be manipulated by rich people.

   I didn`t hear about this prediction until now. It`s very reasonable prediction, Bitcoin is making higher all times high every couple years, and almost every year
Bitcoin have higher bottom. It`s fine someone to have more faith than others, I have a lot of faith in Bitcoin and many alt-coins!
   I have read threads from 5 years ago. Many people didn`t believe that Bitcoin will get this far. Threads from two years ago when price were under $1000, just
few people predicted $10000 in 2017, others didn`t believe.
   We have same situation today, believing in Bitcoin or not is the question? I believe, I made my decision already!
   

Some sources suggest that sharks are taking action to determine the price of bitcoin, but that is just the information and there is no evidence to show that the organization is speculating bitcoin.

My brother and I decided to buy more Bitcoins and some of the altcoins that will be the future gainers. Just do not be depressed but use this time to get the crypto.

Have you heard the speculation on bitcoin yet? Have you seen the individual agencies or organizations who are speculating bitcoin to make the market as well as to have personal benefits? Can you tell me?

I think speculations on cryptocurrency market are the most possible. The decentralized market is conducive to such activities, because nobody can precisely control it. Any organization or private agency will not admit to this type of activity because it is not in their interest to disclose such activities.

Maybe it's just an speculations, but other people and investors depends on thier speculation. However if you  want to succeed in bitcoin, we must trust and  believe the capacity of bitcoin. Some people make negative issue about bitcoin, to discourage others. The user who already understand and open minded about bitcoin will ignore those negative issue's.

We have two different groups here one is from the bitcoin believers and the other one is not. They give their different opinion but only the future can tell the exact data. For me I believe on bitcoin but I dont like to buy it at high price. Risk is too much from that point compare from this current situation.

Yes there will be a surge in prices, but I don't believe that the coin will cross the $10,000 mark by 2018. Many alts at present, are more advanced than the pioneer and present with more advantage over the crypto. This has led to an impact in the coin's demand, ultimately affecting its market capital.
In the future I believe, if the coin gains some stability and becomes less volatile, it can head towards being a mainstream currency which can revolutionise the economy and help in a digital, cashless society.

Speculation may have a great effect on the people that have the desire to adopt bitcoin to try to earn money by trading, but for the rest of the people they are only going to adopt bitcoin once it becomes clear they can make money with it in traditional ways like creating a business that accepts bitcoin or when they see an improvement in the technology that translates in direct benefits for them, that is why even if the fees are good right now we need the LN so the issue with the fees is forever resolved.

Previously, the speculation on Bitcoin was reasonable. But to this point, with slow growth and a decline in Bitcoin value, Bitcoin speculation is not necessarily wise. Bitcoin will again have growth in the future but certainly can not excel. Please stop to grasp the situation, or invest in another Altcoin that is probably more feasible. You should be careful when casting speculators in this situation.

They are people who predict where predict are neither fact or false. It's just opinions that would increase their own self-esteem about the current market situation. I don't really believe most of them though and just do my things on my own.

Thanks for sharing from a very experienced person. Although I'm a newcomer, I also believe that in 2018 Bitcoin can not reach $ 10,000. Bitcoin at $ 9,000 by the end of this year was a good price. So, let's consider whether to speculate on Bitcoin at the moment. Be realistic. Do not expect too much on Bitcoin's growth as late as 2017. It may take a lot of money.

Best choice, just continue what you two doing because the dip is temporary, Bitcoin along with othet alts will come back or maybe exceed what its highest price. Don't let this panic selling overcome you, don't join to others who give up but rather buy all their coins and hold it for a long time then sell at right time.

In my own opinion, there are different speculations in the market but there is no accurate prediction so i prefer to believe on positive speculations because in this way i can boost up my confidence to invest even more for the future.

We really need to be more positive and keep believing that bitcoin will rise again and good profit will get soon, even if negative speculations are everywhere I will still be more positive and keep waiting.

Well I disagree with the statement because in bitcoin there is no kind of discrimination to be use by poor or rich, bitcoin is all time open for everyone , no one is restricted to use bitcoin, rich people are buying and saving their money while poor are buying to get money profit and earning with bitcoin for daily life needs, but sometime those who has fine collection of bitcoin, the sell to make the price down so they again buy at lowest price more than they sold, so this is the only thing which effect the price, otherwise bitcoin is being speculated by all people of society.

The speculation of which I will not be able to decide advice because the value are unstable if the value is stable then we made a decision for a few tips but this is not stable love so we cannot make any decision for this situation.

Bitcoin today is currently decreasing in the market and it was down to $6k dollar to be exact, it was the best time to invest if you are planning to start trading in the market, investing today will make you earn a huge amount of profit due to the volatility that will make the price to increase after a few months.

Bitcoins and other cryptocurrency in the market are all unpredictable and the value will be always depending on supply and demand, the prices today is might decreasing but still we can expect for the price to grow again because people will still invest a huge amount due to the dumping time today in the market.

Many people predict that bitcoin will rise quickly, I don't think so, the market may take a long time to fix it, and we don't see more new investors entering the market now.

any people predict that bitcoin will rise quickly, I do think so too, the market may take a long time to fix it, and we do see more new investors entering the market now.

The price of bitcoins takes too long before it increases and the problem as well in the market are the fake news that is spreading all over the countries which makes the prices of bitcoins to drop even more but still it gives different people the chance to invest a huge amount since the market price is decreasing and that's when the volatility become very profitable.

True, the price is fluctuating and even if it is always moving down it is possible that it will be higher for the next weeks or maybe also not. We can keep on guessing what will be the price but we should not be that stressed out if what we expected didn't happen. Let us continue to hold bitcoin because the future of it looks brighter than today.

I think After all, I'm sure none of these people will ever foresee when Bitcoin is trading above $ 19,000 who will never again see a price below $ 7,000, and as we all know it reaches less than 6 months later! And that's why their predictions are worthless.
No one has control over the price so no one has reasonable expectations about what the future price will do. Prognostication by anyone, even people from the BTC Foundation, is somewhat worthless. It seems more likely they are trying to boost demand because weak demand has slowly deflated prices for a while now. As a member of the BTC Foundation, I hope they may have significant Bitcoin holdings and may be concerned about how their holdings have depreciated in value over the last 6 months or so. Because of this, I will see such "forecasts" not only unfounded (like other price predictions), but also self-motivated and conflict-oriented.

Speculation can be either positive or negative which affects the market of any product and especially the crypto market of Bitcoin. Positive speculation will result in positive and negative will give you negative result, for the better future of market positive speculation is very necessary. The market is now in low stages which is understandable and will soon recover.

Yeah but I think the believers ratio is high because many people still invest in bitcoin due to low price and they hope that the price will increase in the future. I also think that the future of bitcoin is very bright and it will recover all the deficits. It is still on the top of cryptocurrency market and the reason is high volume of investment capital.

In whatever intent those comments were made I think bitcoin is currently undervalued and what those guy are saying is reality of the future.  Bitcoin will remain above $10,000 in years to come and holding some of it is a good decision now as from next year we are going to have upwards price movement.

Comparing the mindset of the first bitcoin transaction for which 10,000btc was used to buy 2 pieces of pizzas could tell you what the value of bitcoin should be. But today that transaction can not be even imagined, because it will be outrageous. Therefore I believe that bitcoin has been priced over it's original anticipated value. Rather than believe prices will go up, I see prices constantly reflecting the reality, which is downward.

Predictions are unreliable and should not be trusted and those who are speculating about the possible price of bitcoin are just expressing their own opinion. No one really know what will happen in the in the coming months. The rise of the bitcoin will depends on some factors that may soon unfold and if these factors are positive, this will make the price of the bitcoin to go up.

Honestly, it is actually becoming worrisome as it would get to a point where bitcoin will only become more of a speculative asset with the way the price is being manipulated either in spikes or downward trend, which would make it hard for anyone to even end up believing or coming to terms with the real life usage as a currency eventually and to me that does not make any sense as that real life usage will always help sustain its value in a way, otherwise we will just keep having a pump and dump market in our hands.

Bitcoins will grow even more in the future because the demand is keep on increasing in the market due to the prices in the market today that is keep on dumping so we can expect for the price to grow even more in the next few months.

I agree mate. The speculations aren't really unreliable. Besides it's up to us weather we will become profitable or not. As much as possible despite of the   speculations we have to do our part to spread the goodness of bitcoin and open it to as much people as we can.

And if you read the threads over the last six months, people never thought that Bitcoin would get this low again. Basing investment decisions based on mass crowd delusions is generally not a good idea. When Bitcoin was at $19,000, nobody would have said it would be below $7,000 within 6 months. Everyone was all aboard the hype train to the moon, and anyone saying it was a bubble was dismissed as a FUDster, even though they were far more reasonable than anyone thinking it was going to continue to exponentially rise. I think it continues to fall from here. I don't see a reason it's even this high. The euphoria and delusion is wearing off, and when that's gone all that's left is utility, which is still too low to be at this price. Eventually future potential has to be realized, and that's what Bitcoin's current problem is.

Bitcoin is the dominat crypto in the market in terms of its volume and its price so i doubt that it could be surpass or even suppress by other form of cryptocurrency in the market. Most of crypto depends their price of the current price of bitcoin making it more suitable in trading and investment that could provie higher chance of profit in the future.

Some people think and speculate that bitcoin will peak by the end of this year, I myself hope so too. Probably because we have the bitcoin heyday at the end of last year until the beginning of this year, so we think it will happen again.

I think Because it is not tied to normal economic conditions like fiat currency, I do not quite see where the origin of the prediction is. The fact that many economies speak of some kind of oversight does indicate that acceptance is increasing and may be a more stable, and higher, price mark.
I'm reading the Speculation section of the Economic forum yesterday, and two people from the BTC Foundation say that 2018 will be the last time that Bitcoin will be under $ 10,000. I believe that this statement is made to alleviate the concerns that arise every time the BTC falls. I do not know how anyone can make that statement with full conviction, because the nature of altcoin is very volatile.

I wish there was an actual use other than the speculation that boils up from time to time. It's not only something that Bitcoin suffers from, but basically all crypto currencies. The insane amount of speculation has completely demolished any sort of understanding of what crypto is about. Everyone here is part of riding the hype train (me included), which is understandable on one side, but irresponsible and quite harming on the other side. In all the years that crypto has been available nothing really changed for the better. It's still speculation that thrives the market, and I don't know if we will see any change of significance in the coming 2 to 3 years....

Yep, I got your drift guy and I completely support you opinion. Evidently, we all have equal right to give prediction about any coin in crypto market. Therefore, it makes no sense if almost people give negative prediction . We are freedom and also we’re better off giving encouragement to bitcoin, giving positive prediction for our coin can lead us more optimistic and can come up with cool decision as well. Two guys who’ve gave positive speculation about bitcoin might be right or not, but it partly helps us to feel like more excited. The more we can think positively, the more we can earn in this market.

It still is speculation that drives the market because speculation is all that ever drove the market. The only difference is the amount of money being speculated with. Back when Bitcoin was worth fractions of a penny and wasn't usable for anything, you could pick up thousands of coins for $20. A couple months later, if you could flip that for $100 while the coin still wasn't usable for anything, that seemed like a pretty good return. There was no indication at that point it was ever going to be useful for anything. But the person buying for $100 was speculating or caught up in the novelty just the same as the guy who bought it for $20. This has been repeated through thousands of cycles over the past decade or so, and with most cycles bringing larger amounts of speculation each time. Eventually, it entered mass conception that this would eventually be a payment platform to rival or replace the dollar, and the deeper that notion took root, the more reckless people got with their speculation. There is no reason now to expect it will, or could, replace the dollar. In light of this, all there is is unrealized potential, and that potential seems wildly overstated. And yet, this is what the speculation is based on.

Any country that is trying to limit the growth of bitcoin or cryptocurrency at large in the country, is definitely going to be losing out in the long run and will possibly end up coming late to the game and there is no doubt about that.

There is so much to gain for each and every country if they even come up with light and lenient regulation policies, which I believe will advance the growth of the community and as well as the economic growth of the country itself. Some countries already know that and are so fast to embrace it.

BTC rise can happen very quickly and in the past it has risen like 2000$ in a day or more. So just if we see that the uprise starts in coming time and even if it can rise to 1000$ in a day for couple of days we will be back to 9000$ in quick time. This will boost up the market.

Speculating of bitcoin is not really our problem the real problem is bitcoin whales when you have a good idea, and other information. That a good idea for all of that. The first is to invest it in the world so much more than one million people in the right now is a start, and technology. The real problem here in this bitcoin.

Any People can predict what happen in Bitcoin in the future base on their experience but this is prediction only, this prediction can boast to other people to buy or not to buy, but the reality we can't predict what happen in the future. I still believe Investor can predict what happen in Bitcoin in the future.

everyone has his own opinion, so I believe there are many forces that are fighting for dominance over bitcoins that are partly trying to push prices down and some pushing it.

i agree mate! Bitcoin can rise easily if will concentrate very well. Of course our support will be of great help Many of us here still hope for the increase of price of bitcoin. Well this is not impossible because it did not become impossible when it reached the 20000USD value. Now that it is just recovering, I am so sure that it is just waiting for the perfect time to move up.

Yeah, but the problem is that the community interest isn't that big at the moment for it to happen, the price still has to bounce around for a while first in order to make sure that it is at it's low.

It will very soon be touching $20 k again this year only. After this happens, it will move to $30 k in next 30 days or even less.

Anyone who does not even believe that at the moment is obviously not ready to invest. This is a currency that has shown it to have a great support and a real life value and even though it is not being used to its fullest, that does not mean it is not there or it won't still end up being used.

As long as this is in play, there is nothing to worry about in the short term and the focus on the long term will it even make it so easy when investing in the dips that the market brings.

I still believe that saying about five digits would be the last year is right because last year we had reached nearly $ 20,000 and that's not a small margin, there must be a massive attack on bitcoin dominance but we can see resistance from bitcoin proponents every time they try to dump the most bitcoin alts from the top coin drops with this.
We all have the right to say what we want to say, and these two have their own.

We are waiting for this triumph. I don’t know when it will come but still we are on eyes to it. Since January of this year, we are hearing such news where people are asking for best time for the prices to take the lead and show us best of their performance. But here it comes June and nothing is abnormal or extraordinary. Prices are still just moving around this 6-7 thousand figure.

Of course, at this point in time we should only speculate in bitcoin, you can see that although bitcoin has great applications and great value for human life, in fact, bitcoin is still Not recognized by many countries and considered legal. So in fact bitcoin is still virtual and has no value for human life. I believe you should only speculate on bitcoin and long term investment should not be.

That is true their are a lot of spectaculaions of bitcoin it is because it is already known all over the world and some people make it to the point to invest by the use of their cryptocurrencies kinda business form. In my predictions it will continuously grow and grow because of the advantages that brings to our life.

I believe that most people entering the crypto market are speculative, the market in recent days is fluctuating continuously and very difficult to predict and at the current price bitcoin knit continuously decline, capitalization of the market The school has fallen sharply and is currently under the $ 300 billion mark. Therefore, I think you should not invest long term in bitcoin as long as the market is bearish.

You are right, speculations and predictions are not accurate enough so for me I have a strong feeling that bitcoin will continue to grow and will become more popular and also the price will increase more.

I disagree, satoshi himself said that in the future there will be a large volume or no volume, meaning bitcoin will have a high price or have a value of zero, so satoshi anticipated a huge volume and consequently a huge price for bitcoin as the adoption of bitcoin grew faster than the supply which is a recipe for a price increase, the current price of bitcoin does not reflect its reality and an even lower price will make that distortion even larger.

That's also a recipe for deflation and economic catastrophe if the economy were to be based in Bitcoin. Dropping prices or appreciating currency discourages economic activity, which grinds economies to a halt. I don't think considered the long term economic impact of a deflationary currency, only that the currency would not be manipulable which may produce short term benefits but seems to be outweighed by the long term drawbacks.

Most bitcoin forecasts or predictions are bound to fail. Those predictions are use only by some market analysts to attract attention from the viewers or the reading public. Bitcoin price is highly volatile and it's react quickly in every event that related to it. It need many positive developments to continue its recovery and eventually creating bullrun. Forecasting the next bitcoin bullrun must require a believable and clear explanations on upcoming bullrun.

I think that now too many other virtual currencies are burning btc, causing the price of btc not to rise, but the current price is reasonable. In the next few years, if more places can support btc payments,  his price will increase with the increase in computing power.

If 2018 is the last year for BTC to price below 10k USD then that's a bold claim. BTC woukd havento hit it's price early this year and higher for it to plummet above 10k USD. But it would be better for all of us who have stakes in BTC if the speculation is accurate. I juat want to be prepared for the worse that's all.

Speculation for bitcoin is a necessary condition. Bitcoin would not have been so worthy if it had not been speculation. Speculation is the reason why you lose so much value.
ie Speculation is required for both sides.

In my opinion, Bitcoin's future position will be determined by its rules and applications in the global marketplace

Everyone depends on speculation about his mind I think that the future of bitcoin is bright and invested on that speculation and am sure that all the investors speculate the same. If you are doubtful about the future if bitcoin they you will withdraw your money because nobody wants to invest hi money in such a place which has no future at all.

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No, at any currency market always have whale control the value of currency. BTC has like gold is for mining, but gold is material but BTC is immaterial.
   

It is so hard to believe speculative statements without seeing any proof that could validate the speculation. I know that every one of us here are looking for a strong place for bitcoin in the global market to secure our trust on the technology that brought us bitcoin in our lives. We must understand that price drop is normal in any investment, since bitcoin is a highly volatile investment, it really fluctuates in an unbelievable rate. We have to be calm and compose whatever happen, panicking will not help anyway. There will always be good news and bad news for bitcoin anywhere and anytime.

What grounds do you need? facts, etc. When the dollar rises against oil, what are the facts? Economic crisis??? All this is called so. Personally, my opinion is the limit of bitcoins in 21 million, this will be a key factor in the fact that everyone wants to have a piece of this "crypto pie" Here is a fact, the demand determines the supply and price.

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 I think of that too, bitcoin price is very speculative and so while we don't know who actually are speculating, all that we have is just too sensitive for those, and trying to keep on the top of the wave.

  Much has already been discussed at the expense of the bitcoin price. A lot of people are speculating on the account of a crippling currency, because this can be a good thing to earn. They say their opinion and it's up to you to think whether to consider it to be true or not.

As I always says bitcoin will have a chance to recover when the last quarter of the year comes like what happens last year when coins in crypto market pumps so high that no one expected to happen that kind of price increased. So I don't mind no matter what price drops happening right now because I'm focusing more on my work as a day trader and just waiting for that quarter of the year to come and do my next moves.

Well my take on this is that bitcoin and other crypto will definitely just the same, it just need is time to get back on its value. The fluctuation is normal to every crypto and it is normal as well to see a crypto fall. Some factors will affecy bitcoin to rise again and it might take years of waiting but after that you'll just sell your bitcoins and then you have a nice big profit just by waiting.

Well this year has been rough on bitcoin in terms of getting back up on its price peak last year. But as predicted this will surely happen and fluctuations will definitely occur but in years time we can see improvement in price. Many long time investors also think it this way because bitcoin will definitely not fall just like that it will definitely come back but it's going to take a year long.

Bitcoin is set to increase in price for the next year at a steady but volatile rate. Right now bitcoin is at a rate of 6000 usd and at that moment bitcoin is at a correction phase which means that as the holders of bitcoin are eliminated from the market and the coin is stabilized it will increase

simple with acceptance in other global companies the banking class accept that bitcoin vei to be equal to facebook as said if it is due to the factor of many use the BTC but another point always happens when it goes d to the moon happens the dumping of large portfolios there difficult to predict demand and supply

No one can give any guarantees that is just a prediction, and like you I am not sure how truthful it is since I really think the price is going to take a lot of time to recover, maybe they know something we don't like the date of a new development that could push the price even higher than in the past and that could happen in this year, because that is the only way I see bitcoin recovering that quickly.

Like any other cryptocurrency or any other asset or stock the value of bitcoin is affected by its circulation, as the ban of bitcoin is being lifted dr tom south Korea and Germany the value of bitcoin will increase as the mass adoption of bitcoin increases allowing an exponential increase in price

And why not believe their words. Or do you think that when bitcoin is legalized in many countries, or Vice versa banned, there will be no demand for this coin or asset? I'm just 100% sure that in 2018, we see the very minimum in bitcoin. He's below 10,000 for sure.

They are just expressing what they think it is going to happen and nothing more, no one can give guarantees in this market with the high volatility that we suffer every day, however it is entirely possible they are right about heir prediction or that at least they are not that off, after all we know the market will eventually recover and even if we do not know when, the longest the time frame the biggest the chance of a recovery happening, and since I believe the price will recover in the next 2 to 3 years it is possible their prediction comes true or at least it is close.

Things can happen, it can be said that the year 2018 becomes difficult year for bitcoin, the number of negative news makes investors run and choose cut loss rather than waiting, but I am sure that the market soon recovery and the price of $ 10k can be raise in August.

Yeah in some way you are right but speculations are the only thing that could make us invest in any coin on our market, of course it is up on us if we believe in them or not but for me we need to make those to see if our moves will be right or not.

When bitcoin prices fall, economists will comment with 2 points of view that bitcoin will end or bitcoin is preparing to bounce back. No need to be surprised and panicked, because bitcoin is the same digital currency as fiat currency, there is always a price increase or a price decrease. So the element of speculation is very dominant.

Speculators are people who are involved in high-pressure transactions, so they are accustomed to volatile prices but still have to decide SELL or BUY. This is game, calculation, and instinct.

Some people think bitcoin does not exist but they are wrong.But gladly,more people believe in bitcoun and they anticipate the many benefits it can give.

right, my advice is don't trade if you aren't ready to lose, I personally only do trade with some money, and I am ready to lose everything so I am not worried about the rise and fall of the value of bitcoin because I believe I will get a big profit if it continues hold it back

I still believe that the best trader is the man who knows that he has another, an additional source on an income (like the permanent job). As for BTC, it might grow closer to the winter.

agree with you. we all wait for winter to see the price of bitcoin being higher. I am sure many are waiting for this. well, I speculate that the end of the year will make bitcoin prices go up, maybe the price is above the $ 10k price again.

There would always be speculations on BTC as it continues to gather popularity , many people would be concerned about it's future and the price at every point in time. Bitcoin and cryptocurrency has come to stay that's why many speculators are around , since people have stakes and interest in BTC.

Speculation has always been a part of Bitcoin and the crypto market. People will always speculate to influence the prices.

Speculators are a vital link in the crypto-currency ecosystem. It is speculative capital that has provided an opportunity for growth and provides overall development. As the connection between the cryptomir and the real world increases, the role of speculative capital will naturally decrease.

Our speculations are less likely to affect the market, as I think the market for the price increase of the coin is intended for a certain power, which is the price of the market.

I know that almost everybody thinks that Bitcoin will gain in December. Meanwhile, I wish to find the proof of these predictions. Curious what makes people think like this.

yes, bro, there is a lot of speculation and issues circulating as if fooling everyone. ha ha ha

All we must to do now, it's learn technical analysis. And then you will understand, that it's really hard to take even 10 000 dollars for bitcoin with out new volumes. Where we can fined new people, who will buy bitcoin for 9k,10k,20k? Only time... Time will give answer on this question.

Well that is why it is a speculation, no one knows exactly what it is going to happen, we are doing our best analysis that we can but that is not enough, which is why most of the predictions that you are going to read in this forum are mistaken, however even if we cannot make accurate predictions that does not mean we cannot make some general predictions that will most likely become true, like for example that in the next decade the value of bitcoin will be many times bigger than its current value.

Speculations don't determinine the price of bitcoin; people do. Bitcoin can go up as much as 50K in any year or below 10k any year depending on the people in the ecosystem at the particular time. Speculations are not a sure way of predicting prices.

a lot of speculation has sprung up, and I'm interested in what you say.
You say that this year bitcoin will reach the price of 10,000 for the last time, will bitcoin fall? or will the price exceed 10,000?

See many people have predicted that the bitcoin price will reach more than 50000$ but still, it is in prediction only because the price of bitcoin is kept declining. A lot of negative things happening and this makes the price to decline even further.

Every one is allowed and free to speculate about this. Speculation of BTC will always raise in the society due to the legalization of it. Many country do not legalize and even ban it because several reasons. The most common reason of banning crypto is the security and the decentralization of it. It has much risks than real money.

like the price of bitcoin it will be very difficult to recover the price at the price of $ 10k or at a price of $ 20k because currently there is so much bad news to destroy the price of bitcoin and there isn't even good news for bitcoin.

many have speculated with the price of bitcoin, but I still believe in bitcoin that although the price of bitcoin continues to fall, it will definitely recover and have a high price again

We should be calm in this moment. It needs more time to settle down. Investors are in a hurry to make a quick decision. May directly affect the market. So be calm and wait a little longer. I believe it will bring the community the good news from the market.

It is good to spread that volatility is a good characteristic of bitcoin that will increase its value thru positive news and trends that will create financial security to all investors that 2018 is one of the best year of bitcoin.

But how this things can make happen this year? It needs good news and more new big investors that will invest a lot and will help bitcoin price to recover again

There's a lot of speculation about the future of bitcoin, only things we can do is be patience. Be patience and just ignore those bad news about bitcoin, having faith in bitcoin and soon it will boom again.

I quite agree with this opinion. That bitcoin is now the last time falls to the level of 6000. Next year I will not be sure of this price. soon there will be a growth of bitcoin, this is evidenced by many facts

I agree with you here and the fact that ETF's got a next denial means almost 100% for me that there are some groups that don't want Bitcoin at higher levels for now. But it will change soon.

I have feeling that bitcoin will rise again but I doubt if it will hit 20k dollars again but I hoping we are on the 3rd quarter of the year and this season of the year would be hard to predict btc price well we should wait until end of august if btc has no response on its price maybe next year.

many people have the same feeling as you, they believe that bitcoin will rise soon but we need to be patient to wait for the time to comes. there are too many speculations that saying bitcoin will fall too deep and this makes many people out there become panic so they don't want to get losses. we are now at the end of August and we can hope that in the next month, bitcoin price can increase higher and perhaps the price can reach more than $10000 first and stay in that price for a while.

indeed bitcoin currency travel is full of challenges, but that is the attraction of speculators, for them the rapid movement of bitcoin values can be a plus to take advantage, because being able to master the price movement can be the same as mastering bitcoin itself, there can be competition for that, but we can take the positive value that is the higher the value of bitcoin and will be more stable in the future.

If the coin gains some stability and becomes less volatile, it can head towards being a mainstream currency which can revolutionise the economy and help in a digital, cashless society.

But who do you think is a speculating with the price? The people are the ones that are speculating with the price, they are the ones selling and buying bitcoin based on nothing more but rumors, fake news or just the feeling that the price is going to go up or down, speculators are really ruining this market for many of us because if it were not for them the growth of bitcoin will be a lot more even.

next year maybe could be higher than today price.there will alot positive news that could support bitcoin price go higher again.we need strong faith to support bitcoin

Bitcoin has become an interesting conversation lately because the price of bitcoin which is almost US $ 20,000 in December 2017, was very shocking to the world financial players. No one has ever predicted the price of bitcoin would be very expensive. Bitcoin is now a game of large capital speculators in determining prices to go down or up. Speculators will shake bitcoin prices for the purpose of finding short-term profits.

Then again, that is exactly what i did  so thumbs up for them. I really believe that BTC along with other coins will shoot up vone the last quarter. I just hope that what yhe speculations say is true. I mean if that should happen then we're talking about alot of money here.

nobody knows of course. but i also think so. i mean see in the beginning of 2017 it was around 1k usd and now it looks so hard to see that levels again (ofcourse possible but so hard.) now it is over 5k usd and after next bull run, it will be so hard to see it below 10k usd again.

In currency trading, the biggest factor is speculation. Likewise with bitcoin. Because the predictions of each bitcoin trader will not be the same depending on the analysis of each. None of the bitcoin traders can predict for certain whether the price of bitcoin will rise or will decrease.

right what you say and I think it is all the risk of investing in crypto currencies that no one can find out the development of crypto currencies with conditions and situations as it is now needed confidence and patience in investing in crypto currencies

Speculations is just like predictions with no factual basis on it. Though there is no direct evidence of this speculations but at least it will boost he confidence of investors to continue patronizing cryptocurrencies specially Bitcoin.

Those prediction are came from their own thought based upon the technical and fundamental analysis. It may become true or not specially when the market leads to the predicted direction. A lot of people are easily giving opinion because they just want to hype the market. However, others attracted fastly because they fear of the situation plus they don't have enough knowledge in trading

Well, I think that less than 1% of the people that are holding cryptocurrency, cannot only predict these prices but successfully regulate them. These are the whales. Anyway we all know that one day price will go up! If not December than some other month in 2019!

no investor can predict the development of crypto currencies if speculating we must be guided by the movement of the previous year the most important is our belief and patience in investing is the most important capital

Nice words to give people a relief and this will certainly help boost the confidence of the people in investing on bitcoin. It will help other people as well to be more confident with their money. Yet the reality is as always just the same. Words are still words and you will never get to see any assurance correct until you will see it for yourself.

Well i think those are just lip service and secure people who have BTCs so they won't pull out or even buy more. I mean these speculations are to be taken with a grain of salt and people shouldn't take these as gospel truth because they're well just speculations. I myself have been enlightened before that when the market is down, buy more.

its better investing in proper ways, dont make any speculation even with small amount of money.if people doing some speculation usually they use less analisys and research in their decision.

With the capabilities that the BTC gives us, I believe it will be the best way to develop in today's era. It gives us many benefits such as jobs, opportunities and challenges. That's why it has become a growing trend for everyone today. I believe that with its Hot will make this currency become the most valuable currency in the Crypto market.

I always choose it because I believe in modern technology that is growing today. BTC always dominates the market because it makes it a very valuable money in the trading platform. It is also a growing trend today because this currency has created too many benefits. It will grow even more as we expect in the future.

There are many speculators gave their opinion about in bitcoin, and most of their speculation didn't happen, and if there is some prediction is not that accurately close to what happen in reality. But I do believed in one bitcoin experts that in the year 2025 bitcoin will become 100K$ each by this year. It is more like realistic to be happen.

It is in news that now a days people are predicting bitcoin a good symbol for the speculators that this time is good for them because if they want to start speculations on bitcoin so at present the price is good for us and with this speculation once again bitcoin price will rise more and ultimate the investors ill also play it's role in the bitcoin and global crypto market.

It is true that no one can assure you that price is not going to go any lower than that, in fact it seems very likely that this year of 2019 is going to start with a price that is lower than that but it's likely that during the next years the price of bitcoin is going to recover and go up once more and everyone will be lamenting not buying bitcoin before it reached that price.

People would always make predictions and suggestions but the issue is whether, the statement would come to pass, there have been several speculations on bitcoin and how unstable it is. Today, the market has really grown exponentially, in three to five years to come I see tremendous improvement on how people appreciate BTC.

Every one can make a speculations about the price of Bitcoin and get away with it. Some predicts its rise whereas others predict its down fall. What matters most is the readiness and ability of crypto users and investors to study the actual concept of Bitcoin and the entire crypto space in order not to give in to any false speculations.
Irrespective of the market status of Bitcoin now, it will certainly rise again. There have been times like in the past yet Bitcoin was able to skyrocket to $20k last year December.