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The last time the CBOE launched a Bitcoin financial tool, futures, we saw $20k. Recently rising Bitcoin dominance shows people betting on the latest CBOE tool, ETF, being approved.

Bitcoin dominance is heading towards fifty percent by marketcap. What does this mean for the price and how should traders and investors view it? Marketcap is by far not the best metric to read dominance, but that doesn’t mean it can’t add value to your trading.

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50k $ is too high before the end of this year so far to reach the price of a bitcoin because if this happens, many people will now hold bitcoin and earn big money.

The current scenario is really downward so no one is accepting the 50k USD in end of the year.
May be some unexpectable positive news are comes in future it will reach 50k USD. But surely it is impossible in this year.

even though it's not predictable and reaching $ 50k will be very difficult, but I'm sure if the price of bitcoin will definitely grow high and can happen. I am sure that this can be the future of bitcoin to grow higher.

It cannot even hit the 20k point again.
Why see a larger price than that? Is it really that big of a fluctuation that it can jump way high than our expectations?

I am not that optimistic about this prices and they are too much.
My shy prediction will be only back at 20k. I would rather stay with that to avoid causing mayhem.

$50k at the end of this year? I think it is simply impossible and by making such predictions you just prove yourself wrong, when seeing such headlines I even don't read them.

More and more people really expect it to happen but for now I think Bitcoin is at its rest zone and would really be like a volcano to erupt any day now and would make people panic and will start buying in FOMO again.

I never believed the market would rise so high and BTC could not rise as high as the price you have predicted is 50000...

I think it can happen in bitcoin just before the new year passes because many people really are. ag aason sq outcome of bitcoin today year.

No one can accurately predict the price of bitcoin but it has the capacity to get to that level

If you look at BTC in Jan 2017 it was $1000


it increased by 2000% 20 times gain.


BTC would ONLY need to increase 700% 7 times gain to hit $50,000 or ($49,000) at current prices.



My opinion, it is very unlikely.  The ETF WILL get rejected!! and their will be a move down to $4/5k

I believe that is not going to happen, you can see that bitcoin prices are constantly adjusting and falling sharply since the bitcoin price hit $ 19800. The market is bearish in the long term, so I believe that bitcoin prices will fall sharply until the end of 2018.

So bitcoin prices will not reach $ 50,000 with a market capitalization of only $ 250 billion.

I would very much like to believe it, but at the moment nothing indicates a sharp rise in the price of Bitcoin. Perhaps we will see such a price increase, but it will be necessary to wait a little more.

I would not so blindly believe everything that they write and say. Unfortunately we, ordinary traders, can't affect the price of bitcoins in any way. We don't have enough money for this. But there are those who can easily do it. The price will be exactly what they want. I would like that the price would reach $ 50k by the end of the year, but it's probably just a dream. I think it is impossible that there would be such a price. The market has still not recovered after December 2017, and there was a price jump only up to $ 20k. Can you imagine what will happen with market after the jump to $ 50k? I think that this is not beneficial to anyone. Soon see how 2018 will end ...

I believe that bitcoin prices will probably continue to fall sharply and possibly fall back to $ 4,000 by the end of 2018, you may find that the market is bearish in the long term and it is difficult to recover, Therefore, it is very difficult to successfully trade at this time, so I believe you have to plan ahead of time and always observe the bitcoin price.

Although $50k seem to be on the high side but no body is entitled to predict price because we saw the growth of last year. However that move, I strongly doubt that to happen, market have not been up at all to speculate that.

I would even go as far as 80k. Bitcoin is preparing for liftoff and right now is the last shake of insecurity.

Anything can happen in crypto. Maybe not quite $50k, but I certainly can see around $20k again next year, not 2018. No one can guarantee how much it will rise. It may not rise so much this year. The chance may be next year. FOMO is an amazing thing.

I don't see $ 50k, already use my technical strategy ( MACD, MA ) and the price too high for me. Everything is possible and I hope bitcoin get more higher value than $ 50k, I have bad asset situation right now. I keep try to hold until end of the year but if still running until February 2019, cut loss will become my choice.

I Ithinknot is all depend upon the volume of investors on the crypto field. If people are buying bitcoin in the next few months maybe the price will rise up high but I think itvwill not reach 50k USD that was really amazing price i am not ambitious I will be happy if bitcoin will reach 30k USD at the end of 2018.

This is can be possible  and easy for BTC to going up to 650% in less than 5 month if that Bitcoin ETF approved by SEC. If that approved many big investor will come and put their money in to Bitcoin and others crypto. If Bitcoin ETF does not approved, BTC will also going up to the $50k but need longer times.

I predict the end of 2018 will be a tragedy for bitcoin. There will be no pumping in the future anymore. because that is the whale's strategy to attract traders, they will never be good for traders to become rich. It is all a conspiracy and everyone should be careful and thorough before investing.

I think 50k is quite far from the target I have in mind.  2017 is on a correction year, and gov't interventions has keeping the whole cryptocurrency at low price.  but I think the day will come where gov't will finally accept cryptocurrency and that will be the start of the biggest bull run.  if we don't see bitcoin having upward trend this year, then 2019 might push bitcoin price upwards.

I think the ETF decision thing will drag until Q1 2019, it turns out they can keep postponing the decision until Feb., 2019. If ETF is accepted we could see $50k Bitcoin then.  ;)

Anything is possible in this crazy crypto market. Once the whales have all had their fill and they start digesting they are going to want to pump everything up to make huge profits, although this year its been mainly the shorters that have been benefitting the most and those playing the Bitcoin Futures markets. Personally, I think we are walking on dangerous ground relying on one EFT approval to get us to pump again. If the EFT doesn't get approved well back to 5k USD a Bitcoin we go, not 50k USD. That is a given and the market will end up very bearish for a long time to come and alts will plummet down even further. If we get passed 12k USD  Bitcoin I will be happy for this year of really bad bearish action.

well, we can speculate as high as possible about the price of bitcoin, but don't be disappointed with the results later, even when ETFs have received bitcoin, that won't guarantee the price of bitcoin reaches the price of $ 50k for this year.

Everything is in prediction we don't know how much the price of Bitcoin will increase but many big analysts are predicting the price of Bitcoin will reach to $50k. Even i don't think so soon it will reach $50K and it will take another 5 years to reach that value because the supply of Bitcoin is very low and demand of usages kept increasing.

The hard thing I believe will be a price increase of up to $ 50k at the end of the year, there are many people who predict it and they are very optimistic. yes, I am sure that bitcoin will be bullish but definitely in a long time

Wow, stop! This is too high a price for bitcoin at this stage. We are still in the downtrend. People are already tired of this, they are frightened, many sell their coins several times cheaper than purchases. Of course, after a while the price will recover and begin to grow, but not to $ 50k this year. I think that most are not ready to buy bitcoin at this price. I expect 15k $ by the end of the year. Time will tell who of us is right ...

I believe that is unlikely, you can see that the market is constantly falling and there are no signs of recovery, and my technical analysis shows that the bitcoin price will still be possible. We continue to fall sharply from now until the end of 2018. That's why I believe you should not invest long-term in the market at this time.

Me too have the same thought as yours. Bitcoin will rise again in the future but to hit $50k by the end of this year looks impossible for me. Although anything is possible to happen, but the current conditions don't give us the sign that bitcoin will rise up to that number.

We will not see 50k Bitcoin this year. The people who wanted to buy due to FOMO late last year bought in, most taking a huge hit, and those who didn't buy in did not do so because they thing crypto is fake money. The people who bought in late last year and did not cut their losses, will also most likely dump once they get even or get a little profit.

The market for cryptocurrency is falling sharply as investors have no confidence in this market. Future recovery is possible, but I think that for Bitcoin to reach $ 50k, the market capitalization of the cryptocurrency market should be ten times higher now.

You can see that at the moment the price of bitcoin is constantly decreasing and it is hard to predict that the market is in a bear market in the long run so I believe that bitcoin price will be very difficult to recover and will continue. sharply decrease in the coming time. All my technical analysis suggests that bitcoin prices may fall to $ 4,000 by the end of 2018.

I do not see that and I do not think that can happen, you can see that the market is volatile and difficult to predict, so to be able to trade successfully at this time Very difficult, bitcoin prices will likely continue to decline sharply at any time. According to my analysis, bitcoin prices will likely continue to fall sharply in the coming years and it will be difficult to recover in 2018.

I agree. Bitcoin price will go up for sure at the end of the year, but by no means I agree to 50k because I believe the time is just too short for such a drastic rise to occur given the current market situation.

In this market, anything can happen, but to be worth $ 50000 this year is too difficult for Bitcoin and I think it will not be possible. The market is in a difficult period so investors need to have their own strategy to be able to break through this stage.

This is really outrageous man i means seriously 50k is way to much and is looks like that will take too much time to reach like 5 years to come i mean we are at 7k right now not 20k or something

I believe this is unlikely to happen, you can see that the market is constantly changing and that bitcoin prices can drop sharply at any time, so I believe that at this point you Only short-term investment should be able to minimize the risk. I believe the market will continue to cycle until the end of 2018, and bitcoin prices may fall to $ 2000.

ETF IS THE KEY. i mean look at gold. Bitcoin almost following the growth of gold but it's so mucb higher than gold. And when the etf for it was approved,  the growth of gold became crazy. It might happen to btc.

Everyone said Bitcoin would be 50k for this year, but today price is 7k. Candles take direction according to the news and this direction is not known at all. Perhaps technique analysis, but it doesn't work compeletely.

It is daydreaming to think bitcoins will reach even 20000 usd by the end of 2018. Bitcoin can be traded at 50,000 but not now and unless bitcoins go into mainstream, there isn't any way to say it will be at such a high price end of year.

I agree with those who write that the price will not reach 50,000 usd this year. Maybe someday it will happen, but not this year.

The question is, will it happen? I don't think the price will fluctuate in 50K usd at the end of this year because we are now in 3rd quarter of the year and only few months more before the year will end. The price of bitcoin going down from 8400 dollars up to 6700 dollars right now. I don't it can surpass its price last year because it will become hard for our economy to recover.

Predictions like this might only lead to FOMO. It's quite preferable if we had new investors joining because they see the long term benefits of bitcoin as a powerful liberating currency rather than a speculative currency.

Bitcoin  ETF delayed to 30 of September,  and this announcement just make the price keep going down. In my opinion is hard for BTC going up to $50K in the end of this year.  In case Bitcoin ETF approved on 30 of september  that mean only in 3 month BTC should be going up to 8 times more. If Bitcoin ETF approved the price possible to go to around $20k to $30k in december next month.

Who knows  what will happen after the ETF, what we can do now is just to keep watching and monitor the current flow, if you believe that future will bring big to your investment then go for long term hold, but if you can manage to gain profits with small earnings playing with short term that's also good but really risky, 50k$ is worth to wait though.

Although this sounds good because everybody will love to see that price to happen but $50,000 is a very huge value with 4 months left before this year would end therefore i doubt it. Simpy because the more Bitcoin will reach the higher price it will become more expensive to purchase too which mean most of the small time investors will be force to shift to Altcoin which is much cheaper to purchase for an investment.

 ;D ;D ;D 50k$ !!! its totally impossible i think. If there any miracle things happen in crypto market then it may happen. We just want to hit 20k$ as it hit before. There is no special news in market hat it may hit 50k. Maximum are not holding BTC as market is going down and market is fully stopped i can say. So at this time its like me foolish man word nothing else.

It's hard to say if bitcoin can break the ceiling if it's previous height in ten's of thousand! Anything can happen before the end of the year since bitcoin value is inherent and real!

I think $50K price for bitcoin is not possible at the end of this year. I am not an advisor or price predictor but I could assume the price according to BTC price rally. I hope the bitcoin price could go $25K at the end of this year. $50K expectation is too much for this year.

there's a few predictions from the said experts on crypto, they said bitcoin price will touch 30-50k in end of the year 2018, but who knows right, everything can happen

Since bitcoin price is unpredictable i think it really hard to get see the price of bitcoin reach ATH $50k at the end of year. It need so many effort to reach this price with the ETF still delayed until end of September, and we don't know what FUD again will be on the news in 4 months until December. But i hope we can reach maybe at $20k again so people would trust again in bitcoin the the target $50k will be reach soon.

Given how it collapsed in only a couple of hours overnight I think people become more and more worried and are getting closer to the verge of desperation and losing faith so I hope this turns around quickly but I don't think it will reach that high.

I think we're far from losing faith and being desperate since we've been to worse times than this this year. This market definitely will test your patience but 50k is a bit too much to hope for this year. As things stand, we'd likely end up below 20k.

50k $ is not sure this year, this price is just a prediction but there is no assurance that it will happen at the end of the year, well many hodlers hoping it will happen, for me the recovery of bitcoin was enough even it don't reach 50$ .

As much as I want to see it hit $50k I don't think that it is possible this year. But in crypto who really knows? My strategy is to keep plugging along, buying every Saturday and dollar cost averaging with Bitcoin, Ethereum and Z Cash. And the occasional ŁiteCoin. Look at this price drop as your second chance to get in on the cheap. BTC

The market value of bitcoin has just started to rise higher and that there is not much of the time left in this year. The market value of bitcoin has not even touched 10k $ for now and that I don’t think so that it will be possible for bitcoin to have this much rise in the market value in a time period of just 4 months. It will take lot more time to see the market value going to 50k $ or eve more.

I would not use the dominance to qualify how the state of the market is going to be in the long or short run since that has to do more with price and circulating supply which also is somehow related to volume which can easily make these volume being transferred back to pump alts as I feel these are just some same people doing rinse and repeat across all the markets.

However, even asides all these, I do not see the possibility of setting new ATH record this year, let alone going as high as $50k at the end of the year. I may be wrong, but at least, that still is a whole lot reasonable considering the state of the market currently, because, whether you like it or not, this is the year of the bears.

I much preferred to support this thing because as whar I am seeing today the bitcoins is really struggling to ruse back up into the market and reaching their previous highest is almost impossible how much more to say that it can reached 50k if they cannot even go back to the 20k value. I am not being negative at all and I am not destrying the bitcoins I am just being realistic because it is hard to expect

The main role in the restoration of the market is played by the legalization of the currency and the inflow of institutional money. Legalization is the main driving force of market demand and it directly affects the value of assets. I think that the cost of the first crypto currency near $10,000 - $15,000 is a reasonable goal at the end of the year, but up to $50,000 the price is unlikely to reach out. There are no prerequisites for this today.

That's too high for bitcoin in this year, if there is no dump happening in the past months maybe it could reach $50k in this year, but now bitcoin is still struggling to increase.

Yes l dont quit on bitcoin l beleive bitcoin will reach $50k this year.l beleive in my faith to meet my expectations fom bitcoin.I will become rich from bitcoin just like my inspiration of millionaires produce by bitcoin.

Bitcoin will hit 50k by the end of the year. It is predicted by many people based on the bitcoin price increase by the end of 2017. The future is not known to be achieved or not but we hope that will happen. Bitcoin will return and make new wonders in the electronic money market.

How I wish this will come to pass. I will be the happiest person alive. If wishes were horses, beggars will ride. This is only possible in dreamland. The earlier we wake up to the reality that it ain't gonna happen the better for us. The big players are here, and they are here for their own share of crypto cake. They are not here to put money in our pockets, but to make money for themselves. They are gonna short the hell out of Bitcoin. They shorted it all the way from $20k to now and they are still shorting.  Institutional players are here for their own selfish ends. Guide your investment with all jealousy. Stop hoping for a better day, while you are in the best days. Get all you can today and leave tomorrow to take care of itself. I am no prophet of doom, I am just being frank.

ETF is not been approved and we can already see the reaction that follows.  Bitcoin will definitely rise because Bitcoin inherent value is strong and  real.  Future is doing more damage to bitcoin.  If Bitcoin grow independent of future,  that growth will be sustainable and organic!

because usually bitcoin will rise again at the end of the year, maybe because the best year for investors is the end of the year.

I, too, is unlikely, and from the point of view of common sense the threshold of 50k is unlikely to be overcome, the maximum that can be expected is up to 25k

Well I call it an over estimation of the future values of Bitcoin. It might not be able to reach as high as $50k towards the end of the year. Because we have the prices of Bitcoin falling slowly after having some more than $2000 rise in one month. But this is a momentary fall and on the average we have a rise in the economy so the future values of Bitcoin will definitely be high but not as high as $50000 but might cross the $20000 value.

Maybe in a 5 years you will see bitcoin could actually could do that but for now bitcoin is very cheap and continue suffering to dump the price. I would love to see that day bitcoin will be known around the world.

It's just a guess and no one knows what's going to happen, so how can we expect Bitcoin to change ? Maybe 20k-50k but can anyone believe it ? At present, Bitcoin price range from 6k-8k is also a good sign.

Actually we are heading towards $5K now because of these kind of speculations,so stop predicting the prices and keep concentrating on the longer term goals,maybe one day the price will hit $50K but it is not going to happen in the year 2018.

Yeah I agree it's just a prediction of other people but I will be happy if that happen and for sure many holders will also be happy, well for now it's really far to that price and we see that bitcoin price are continue falling down again.

In my days of trading, i have come to realize that price prediction are just people's assumptions based on the past market analysis. Truth be told no one saw the 20k coming because it happened in a jiffy and people were not prepared. I have never seen a price rise that was accurately guessed and when it will even reduce. So 50k for bitcoin if you ask me is a "might" that will happen. When it will happen is what we don't know. might come sooner than expected or even next year or 2020 who knows.

I can not see that at the bitcoin, you can see that the market is in the long term downtrend so to be able to trade successfully at this time is very difficult, bitcoin price will be able to The price of altcoin drops dramatically. That's why I believe bitcoin will not hit $ 50k and vice versa will fall sharply by the end of 2018.

Though you have a logic, 50K USD is too much high. At first, we cryptoian need to stop Hoping for 40K, 50K USD things. We should focus on the reality. In reality, bitcoin is now 6400 USD, we should spread the good news on our social platforms every day, we need to bring more legit investors here. So, please kindly stop dreaming about the 50K USD in 2018.

indeed I also believe that at the end of this year bitcoin prices can reach $ 50k, and with this ETF will strengthen prices for the future and later this year.

Well,we all are waiting for seeing this.Its our big prediction about Bitcoin price will increase at the end of this year.Hopefully it will come true.Crypto expert are also saying this.So,we can believe this and we may see this if it will happen.

If we hit 50k after this bloodbath and do it in around 4 months that would be one crazy ride.  I think we will have Bitcoin 50k easily.  However it may take some time to pull that off.  I think 2020 is more realistic. 

I think we will on that next 3-5 years but for now we will be not expecting on that since bullish run of bitcoin will start on November and will hit only $15,000.

Personally I don't share that believe of $50k by end of year because there are a lot of price manipulation going on. Yes Bitcoin dominance is on the ris, from about 37% few months ago to nearly 50% now but this has done little to make the price go high as expected. So we can continue dreaming about the bulls run and allow time to justify.

How certain are you that bullish run will start by November? What tools or parameters did you use in knowing that? Are you presuming from previous experience and forgetting that it is a different ball game now? The future remains uncertain to me and I will appreciate if you can explain how you were able to know what the future holds for Bitcoin

Actually Bitcoin is the best digital currency in this Era, The second thing is bitcoin going to list on the top one exchange of the world that decision is still pending and it will be announced in favor of bitcoin at the end of the year, So these are the reasons are will improve the price and demand of bitcoin at the end of the year. 

This prediction will not guarantee because the price of Bitcoin in this year will be according to news of Bitcoin ETF. If that approved will be possible the price going to 5 to 10 times in 3 month. If that denied, price of BTC still possible to go to $50K in next year because will be any others good news coming, like lighting network.

Many prediction about bitcoin I think the market will decide what will be the price on the future but most of the investors will be discounted.

We are not heading towards the $5000 value. Who said that? We will rise again as the market in the phase of recovery and this will help Bitcoin grow further. A fall below $6000 was not possible in June and it is not possible even now. When it fell below June, it recovered in few hours afterwards and same happened twice thus giving a message to its reluctance to fall below the given price. I hope we will have a price as high as $20000 in December.

Market is nothing but investors and traders as markets/exchanges cannot decide anything on their own. When more people will be believing into big things to happen in coming days then we may have prices even better than $50k too. That is the power of market and it is basically from investors and traders.

It is too much for the year and it is clearly not happening.

Most of the people are expecting that, but still it is not sure that either bitcoin price will reach to 50k or not. People only work on expectation and still they have good expectation about bitcoin price and therefore they are thinking that bitcoin price will hopefully reach to 50k.

Who really knows what the future holds? Never say never and let the future just take its course. Sure, it may look very bleak to even see $50k by the end of the year, considering we are still in a bear market and the honest truth is that we are not done yet with the bottom. For what it is worth, we would be lucky if we even manage to test the previous ATH at the end of this year and before we may even start seeing any possibilities of new ATH, it would be sometimes next year, but the fact remains that the market is always full of surprises and things may just take different shape entirely.

Of course there is no guaranteed prediction, we only hope to see bitcoin hitting that price but in reality its really hard to achieve. So many people still believe that the SEC decision will be on favor to us and ETF will be approved. We have nothing to worry about bitcoin because this is a giant coin that can go higher in the long run we just need to be patient today as the current market continues to go sideways pump and dump but I believe 2019 will be a bouncing year of almost all coins.

Who knows? This is just a prediction or speculation don't expect this to happen or what.
If you believe on bitcoin, you will make a good prediction for sure. :)

With a market like this that is certainly difficult to reach $ 50k, I agree that the year-end price that is most likely to be achieved is $ 15,000 and this certainly starts in August that can reach $ 8,000 last October $ 10,000.

The bitcoin trend is only right now but I think it's hard to hit that much price on a single coin just because many people can not afford to buy one bitcoin when that bitcoin is so high that it will end this year .

yes, I agree with you, whatever the decision of ETF for bitcoin will all be better, bitcoin will move freely again as before without any obstacles

in my opinion it is customary and will become a bitcoin trading law will rise at the end of the year, for the future it will be the same.

I have read many predictions like that all around this for room but most of the Times there are not supported by any specific statistics or specific analyses, so I am really thankful to you that you are using some proof for your opinion.

100k by 2020

I do not think that can happen, you can see that the bitcoin price after reaching the $ 20000 mark has been steadily decreasing, the market is in the cycle of detention in the long term, so I believe It is impossible to recover the card. It will take many years for the market to recover just like gold in previous years.

I also agree with you. In essence, it would be great to have BTC at such a high mark but in reality I think we're in a little too early stage for that to happen and realistically we can hope to see it somewhere near the 10k hopefully by early next year.

end of which year though, surely not this one anymore  ;)
10k is good the way we ware going..

This is a statement I have seen in the past. Although according to the market psychology it is true but I think that because the cryptocurrency market is so small it is very volatile and the opportunity to thrive is also great. I am very confident in the future of this market so I think cryptocurrency is still a very good opportunity for investors.

I think reaching $10k would still be possible for this year but considering the amount of $50k is just an exaggeration for today.I still believe that bitcoin has still a lot of good potentials to show in the coming years so maybe 5-10 years from now $50k will now be possible.

I think it's hard for btc to achieve that later this year. The market is very bad and it is hard to recover in a short time. Perhaps the market will be better in 2020

I think in the world of bitcoin trading, everything is possible, because crypto holders really try to raise the value of the currency, but to get a price of $ 50,000, I think it's still difficult, maybe very much, if there are big events like the Olympics

maybe the price can increased in large numbers, because with so much potential competition to bet, it is possible for gamblers who will bet will definitely need a fast and safe exchange tool that is not detected by law enforcement, and bitcoin is definitely the right choice because indirect needs will increase the value bitcoin currency.

I have seen mad predictions of BTC online at ridiculously higher prices, but I do not believe any of that to happen this year or soonest because after a great price crash comes a longer time for consolidation before the next boom. That's how market cycles and crypto is no exception

Thats a terribly bad idea, and big events like Olympics? How on earth would that make an impact to the crypto market?
There are numbers of major factor that causes the capitalization to move, whether it increase or decrease. Its true that everyone wants Bitcoin price to always increase, but that is not the nature of Bitcoin and cryptocurrency, and that alone could not make Bitcoin reach the target mark  that you expected , because there are these whales, regulations, and manipulations that is more powerful than everyone's speculations.

In my opinion, past occurrence can't predict future happenings. No one can accurately predict the price of bitcoin in this market. Bitcoin can get to a good level if ETF is approved. So, we see what happens at the end of the year in my opinion.

The current situation is not that great and you can do whatever you think is right.

i was always optimistic with cryptocurrency as a whole.  but with the current situation we were having, alot of people taking advantage and plenty are just being greedy, i see the whole cryptocurrency as being manipulated and don't think we can go up to 50k usd by year end.  unless bitcoin community can introduce some sort of control feature where whales and gov't can't control much of the price, we can't assume that general public will have interest in using crypto currency in daily lives.

I've heard many reasons for that to happen and I have read many articles of many different orders I have seen many production of experts to that to happen so I hope it hardly to be true.

Although ETF approved I don't think the end of the year would reach $50k it's too high, and I think it will happen in the subsequent halving, where when halving bitcoin price always rises drastically.

I am cautiously optimistic about this assertion!  Bitcoin have not performed credibly well in terms of price appreciation this year,  what factors are going to drive bitcoin price to $50,000 this year apart from future?

Last year we see ATH of BTC there had some reason because of BCH. People start buying BTC to get free BCH also people convert it to BTC that helps to reach BTC 20K level. So if this kind of event or ETF coming definitely new money will come, BTC will reach new ath.

Speculators see $50,000 USD by end of this year because it is patterned on last years trend. Last year August 16 price of Bitcoin is $4,715 and by December 17 price shoot up to $19,005 USD. That's a 303% growth. However, they speculated $50,000 USD when the price of BTC was above $11,000 USD last January 2018. Now if that pattern will be applied to the current price of Bitcoin which is $6,397 USD and growth of 303%, that's somewhere between $26,000 to $27,000 USD only.

A lot of people just keep on expecting things and sometimes it is not right.

It is not really easy to predict whatever you like and reaching out for things is not easy.

We are free to dream as high as we wish but in this crypto market we should be more realistic in hoping to see bitcoin price rise. $50k by the end of the year? I do not see anything can make this happen including ETF. Even if the ETF approved, bitcoin price wont jump that much. $10k is still possible but $50k is just too far away to be reached.

I also hope that if at least it doesn't reach $ 50k but we can see the btc is at the $10k price. this can be a hope because the potential of bitcoin can definitely be maximized and this becomes one of the maximum profit producers.

will need a lot of good news from bitcoin to make $50k can be happen. but now what we get only some countries keep banning bitcoin and make it as illegal currency. will need more hype to make that $50k really happen, even $10k.

I believe that it will not happen, you can see that the market is in the long-term downturn and bitcoin prices are constantly decreasing, the price of altcoin also dragged down very deep, market The school is in crisis. So I believe bitcoin prices will not be able to hit $ 50k mark and will probably drop sharply in the near future.

It is better no to dream high knowing that isn't possible to happen cause it only give depression once failed. I'm not in negative side but for me Ain't the right for crypto thid year.  But I'm just satisfied of what it shown to us now nor to like high prices that could only lead from losing big. 

Even in recent months the price of bitcoin hasn't returned to $10k. I will not expect too high this year. but I really hope
the price can rise and recover at the previous ATH. so there will be many people who recover their losses beforehand

50k this year, it seems like an unreasonable desire, because this year the price is not good so we can be sure that the improvement is good, but in the business world nothing is impossible, everything can happen, hopefully we hope that this year the price can go up and hopefully can get to the desired number.because world trade definitely needs a bitcoin currency.

It is difficult to reach this level during this period as everyone is in the bear market and almost all of the coins are in very low prices recently. I think we should wait in 2019 for this price to happen because this year is not good for long term investment and everyone should have confidence in Cryptocurrency.

Lots of people hope that bitcoin will reach 50k$ and so do i. I think bitcoin will reach this target because crypto market still too potential to grow, too profitable, too new. So base on these things, i think there are great chance for bitcoin to reach new high price.

It's too early to dream for that price, because that's too much expensive and I think we'll into more struggles prior meeting that value. Seeing that price of $50k is possible, but not that fast to be reached this year. More years needed before we will witness that price to be achieved, just stay focus on the goals we have and I am sure we will hit our target soon.

Definitely the importance of a Bitcoin ETF is reflected in the current price. When the SEC announced that they would delay their decision the crypto market took a plunge. Unfortunately, we don't know for sure what the price will be by the end of the year but if the ETF is approved new money will certainly flow into the market which will only help increase the price.

If the ETF fund is involved, Bitcoin prices will be very high and very fast in a very short time. I believe it will happen soon and people should not rush because the price increase will definitely happen because the ETF is keen to invest in Bitcoin and is facing a lot of barriers from the SEC.

In my opinion, all our predictions don't know how much Bitcoin will increase but many analysts predict that the price of Bitcoin will reach $ 50k. This will reach $ 50K and it will take a very long time to achieve that value. Because of the current situation that we experience, people find it difficult to take advantage and many are just greedy, I see the entire cryptocurrency manipulated and don't think we can rise to 50 thousand dollars by the end of the year.

Looking like a big fat no. But BTC can and will continue to surprise the world. Big stuff is around the corner, my fear is that Wall Street and the banking cartels will get involved and kill the bitcoin community movement. What started as libertarian internet monopoly money has become a worldwide phenomenon and success. So $50 grand this year, sure... Why not!

I also do not know why and I do not know at the end of this year or not? I know that it will come though much later because I have bitcoin beliefs that will create the new golden age.

That is exactly the case but in my opinion, the value of Bitcoin cannot rise so high in the current scenario and will rise slowly as we have a bearish market right now. $50000 is an over estimation for the values of Bitcoin and about the appreciation in the prices of Bitcoin, I think they can only jump till $20000 as the end of the year approaches.

Besides, the expanding technology and the fact that the known firms around the world have started accepting Bitcoin, the feelings of being in the main stream is exceptionally amazing and this will lead the technology to be the top priority of the investors.

$50K I bet is reachable but not this year considering a short time frame. We are almost on the last month of the 3rd quarter of this year and still no signs of a bullish market. Bitcoin price might surpass the $15K margin but I think it won't even break its all-time-high value last December 2017 which is almost $20K.

It's not certain that BTC prices will rise to $ 50000 by the end of the year, which is just a guess from the experts, but they predicted at the time I did not see the actual market.

This is a conjecture from some investors, and they expect so much from Bitcoin so they make stupid insults about the price it can achieve. I hope that Bitcoin will return to the amount of more than $ 10,000, I do not need the price in heaven.

Last year at this time, bitcoin was worth significantly less than it is now,about $ 4,500. However, by the end of the year, he jumped to $ 20,000. Why are you so pessimistic? I am sure that by the end of the year bitcoin will jump 20,000 dollars. While there is no bad news.

we can be optimistic if bitcoin will reach $ 50k by the end of the year. now the price of bitcoin is falling and if we look back bitcoin prices are growing at the end of December 2017 so I think bitcoin will grow high in the next few months this year, especially late 2018.

I think the price of Bitcoin will rise before the end of the year, but I don't think its price may rise to $50K, because I don't see where the source of funding can make it rise so much.

History of Bitcoin price make possible for BTC going up to $50k in the end of this year.  Last year Bitcoin was going up more than 30 times, and in this year will be very possible for BTC going up to $50K.  If not in this year,  this price will surpass by BTC next year because Bitcoin is powerfull and the community bigger.

Do you really expect Bitcoin to reach that $50k margin? Maybe it could happen but it's hard to believe that price would be met especially with more altcoins emerge. I might believe the price to reach half of what you expected than being exaggerated pricing.

Do you really think that bitcoin will increase in price 8 times before the end of the year? I do not believe this even with the approval of the ETF. Now the downward trend of the movement, it is not broken yet. You need to be realistic.

this year Bitcoin price will go near 18k $

I love these kinds of topics and posts. These are the topics that tells me the price will be going up soon. First you get the pump topics like this, prices go up and than people say oh bitcoin will be $100k and whatever, than the price goes down and people say prices will be like $2k soon, than you see these again and it goes up again on and on and on in a circle, you can literally check the topics here and assume what the price will be very easily. However, I don't think bitcoin can be $50k until the end of this year, is it impossible ? no. Is it probably ? also no. It would require a lot of good news and a great deal of people to come back after that horrible $10k drop in price.

who guarantees that the bitcoin will reach this price? it could even fall below $ 3,000.....never trust the  prediction of future price.

Their is possibility that bitcoin can get to 50k$ dollars at the end of the year. But their is no one that can possibly predict wether the price would get to 50k or not but what I know is that, bitcoin can get to 50k USD this year as well judging from how the volatility of bitcoin is.

It will obviously rise because people will start to invest again so you can expect for higher profit in the near future.

You can see that with the current market situation, the bitcoin price will be very difficult and almost impossible to reach the threshold of $ 50k, you can see that the market at the moment is gradually falling into crisis. bitcoin and altcoin prices are constantly decreasing. So I believe that at this point you should only invest in short bitcoin.

I believe that with current developments in the crypto market, bitcoin prices will probably continue to fall sharply, you may find that the market is fluctuating continuously and it is hard to predict, bitcoin prices are ongoing. The market is very difficult to recover in 2018 and will continue to fall further.

Because Bitcoin will get too much success in this difference of time and make the increment in price as it was done before last year, The expert's point of view some major announcements will increase the Bitcoin price in coming days.

Too much prediction. That is too high for this year. Bitcoin will need long time before it will hit $50,000. Bitcoin is having a hard time year. But i still believe that it will recover again.

Wow! I think 50k is too high for this year. Course have already bounced from the bottom and I wonder that it is not fall again. Rising goes up slowly and do you really think it can get 50k?

several factors and components that influence the movement of bitcoin prices in reality. the feeling of optimism can be seen from the graph of the development of bitcoin that is experiencing positive changes. bitcoin prices always show wonders so for me bitcoin will not be predictable. everything that is impossible then can become a reality. bitcoin will still be like that if there is no legal regulation regulated by the government.

Co-founder Reddit predicts Bitcoin will cost $ 20,000 and Ethereum will cost $ 1,500 by the end of the year. More and more people are choosing BTC as a replacement for fiat as a valuable asset when we see currency fluctuations and other uncertainties. Do you believe in predictions? I completely believe

Bitcoin would almost definitely not get as high as $50k in 2018 (I say almost, cause there is no certainty in crypto).
With the current shape, you can expect bitcoin to drop even further in the coming weeks.
Till we hit a support then we can have some organic growth.

No buddy $50000 Is very high and hard to achieve within this year. This may take some more time. Probably we could expect next year end. My prediction about Bitcoin price almost $20000 to $25000.

To me, Bitcoin's $ 50k increase is a good thing for Bitcoin investors and investors later this year. When it reaches its peak, I hope Bitcoin will just roll around with that number.

I will also try to remain a realist. I guess the price of BTC will not hit 50K this year. I remember that in December 2017 everybody expected the growth of Bitcoin, and no one could guess that it would fall.

The market is showing signs of improvement. You can see that the price of altcoin in the past few days is soaring, the market is constantly fluctuating and now you can see that despite the price of altcoin is rising very strongly but market capitalization does not increase, what This shows that capitalization is being poured from bitcoin to altcoin. So I think bitcoin prices will continue to fall for a long time.

We will not see bitcoin at $ 50,000 by the end of this year. This figure is too exaggerated. For today, I don't see any serious reasons for such a price. Even if we consider that the decision of the ETF bitcoin commission will be positive, then such a price is still too unreasonably high.

Their is a bit more possibility that we can see bitcoin in the 50k mark but I do not think it might be possible this year. Bitcoin can get to 30k if the ETF is approved and this can spike the price of bitcoin and make it grow well.

From where I am sitting, what cryptos need more than anything else is an effort to stop being so much "theoretical money" and a little more "something you can go down to the corner and buy a magazine and a coffee with." Get "real" people at street level involved, not just a bunch of blockchainiacs.
my prediction, since the start of the year, has always been $40k. News and improvements in the crypto world will make the speculation come back and a lot of FOMO with it, leading the prices to skyrocket just like they did on the end of last year.of course $50k and much more will eventually be reached.

50 thousand this year sounds unrealistic. I can believe that Bitcoin can even hit 12-15 thousand but not more. The market bearish trend weakened the cryptocurrency.

Not even this year but who knows about the coming year? No one can state an accurate price of BTC and honestly $50K is too high while you know that at this point BTC is struggling hard to bring it’s price above $6.5K. In such a situation we can hardly think of it to reach it’s previous ATH. Even if the ETF commission is in favour of BTC still we have a lot of challenges which may not support its price to go so high. As the prices go high we see miners start complaining about the block size which eventually BTC has failed to show success at. Also the pressure groups don’t want BTC to grow this much high because of their own benefits. A single rumor affects BTC price too badly and we have saw it happen many times in past.

Dude, the way some of you guys are just guessing this price is quite funny. What is even CBOE? And what’ makes you think that their launched tool was the reason why the price of bitcoin got up? What’ does an ordinary tool has to do with how price fluctuates. You didn’t talk about other meaningful projects that landed millions of dollars in the blockchain and you’re here mentioning CBOE… mehnn… hmph…

50k dollars a bit too high as a prediction before year end. Even when bitcoin ETF is approved, I still do not see that figure in my own opinion. Conservatively, I would say that, 20k might be a good prediction for end of year if we have a lot of good news

Now the price is about 6.4k dollars and your prediction is 50k dollars by the end of the year. In my opinion this is hard to believe , and it is a little too much. Of Course everything could happen, but i will be happy if BTC even reach his maximum reached price. I mean about 20k dollars in the end of year.

Yes, you are right, no one knows what awaits us next year. Therefore, I would refrain from such forecasts of prices. Bitcoin has a lot of problems and the crypto currency market also. Yes, we know that some kind of rumor or news can raise the price of bitcoin very high. But still the price of $ 50,000 for today and today's price is too high.

We also know Bitcoin has gone through waves and has dropped significantly over time. One product also has to go through three periods of growth, development and recession so the BTC is in a downturn and is going back to development. I believe the Bitcoin price will be about $ 40,000 lower than the $ 50,000 price end of year.

Cryptomarket is totally unpredictable, so who can guarantee it can/can't go beyond 50k $ before the end of this year? Or who could have predicted 20k almost a year ago?.. But I'm totally curious about the outcome ;)

All these arguments are not real. Bitcoin this year will not be able to reach a price of $ 50,000. For the current market, this is not realistic. It would be nice if bitcoin reached at least 15 000 - 20 000 dollars. After such a sharp fall and prolonged stagnation, bitcoin is unlikely to be able to soar. in the price. Even if this happens, it will not do him good. The situation may repeat from last year.

I can't agree with this. a market value of that much will surely not be reached by Bitcoin within a short period of time knowing that there are only few months remaining. And also, given the fact that the market is still having a hard time to increase at this moment, it really shows that having as that much assumption is insane. Ofcourse we are all hoping for an increase but we should still be realistic.

I think that 50k is worth the money this year, and if that is the case then it is a miracle in the cryptocurrency market. I also hope that for BTC can reach 50k $ the capitalization of the market cryptocurrency must increase about 20 times today.

Bitcoin can really recover fast. But i don't think it can reach $50k by the end of the year. Don't speculate too much because its not good. Maybe next year it can reach that mark.

Yeah it looks difficult to happen, even the price is very difficult to get back to $10k lol, but remember that anything can happen to
the crypto market, even the price can go up 100% within 1 day right? any reason can make bitcoin prices rise dude

so many people estimate that bitcoin prices will rise sharply at the end of this year, because they see the bitcoin price movement in December 2017 has increased very dramatically. but I think bitcoin price movements every year will not experience the same thing, whether it will experience a sharper increase or vice versa, all we have to do is wait patiently and see what will happen in the future

I did not see any possibility the price of Bitcoin will going up to $50k in december next month, this is too high price. If Bitcoin ETF approved i think the price will possible to go to $20k. Need more times for BTC going up to $50k, and my prediction this is can be possible  on february to march 2019.

Because of such high expectations, people are determined to hold the BTC, instead of selling the BTC at the end of 2017 at around $ 20000. But they believed that BTC would continue to increase, so they held, and now the price of BTC is as low as ever

50 thousand for Bitcoin this year (even 2019) is a fairy tale or a naive hope of a romantic man. The market was weakened by the fall of all cryptos - BTC will gain a lot in few years.

Yes, your point of view is really good and yes I think when the futures were introduced the Bitcoin and the whole cryptocurrency market boosted with bitcoin making a new all-time high of the 20k price level in the charts. And right now I am expecting the same thing to happen with the bitcoin and in the overall market when the ETF's will get approved and introduced into the markets and i hope it should get approved soon within this year ends.

If everything goes well, Bitcoin will certainly increase very well and may soon reach $ 20,000 this year but we have to weigh very carefully because this market is very risky and if SEC does not accept ETF investment funds then Bitcoin prices will soon return to $ 5,000 this year. I always believe in Cryptocurrency and hope for a whole new future for this market

I disagree. $50k BTC would take a hell of a huge piece of news. It could be done by a pump...but to have it legitimately go to $50k, we would need multiple pieces of good news. I would say that we would need positive news from a few countries as to it moving closer to legal use, as well as the continual development of cryptocurrency projects. I think it's fully possible...but we have to stop getting negative news, and start getting positive news. I actually don't think it's even possible for the news to not shit talk crypto. $50k bitcoin is far more likely than mainstream news not shitting all over it.

I always hope and trust the market will increase again at the end of the year. But I never thought bitcoin would skyrocket to $ 50k this year. This is impossible. if the ETF is accepted and approved. Bitcoins are also unlikely to reach $ 50k later this year.

It is true that bitcoin has got very good prospect in future, but it wouldn't go there so soon. Considering the present market situation, it would probable take a year or two to get $50k.

It's hard to know what to believe these days. Just a couple of days ago, I read an article by some "expert" who insisted that regulatory pressures would eventually force the price of BTC down to $100 because governments would not "tolerate" an alternative to fiat currencies to live unregulated if it reached a volume much above 1% of the total worldwide money supply. Then you can turn around and find someone certain that BTC is headed for $500K. And the arguments on either side seem plausible...

Bitcoin and other cryptocurrency in the market will experience great influx of investors mainly institutional and the guy next door. And, believe it or not in this coming month of September. Reason as per below is news just hours ago. Enjoy:
1) https://cryptochronicle.com/bank-of-america-applies-for-patent-for-crypto-storage-system/
2) http://www.cryptocapinfo.com/singapore-is-looking-promising-for-cryptocurrencies-singapores-central-bank-partners-with-nasdaq/
3) http://fortune.com/2018/08/24/world-bank-blockchain-bond/

If you think so, then you can see that bitcoin prices are constantly fluctuating and although there are signs of a slight recovery but the market is bearish in the long term and the current. Bitcoin costs only $ 6700. To be able to expect a bitcoin price to hit $ 50k, at least Bitcoin must pass the $ 20,000 mark, which is unlikely to happen in 2018.

You can see that the bitcoin price is falling very deep and although there are signs that it will be able to return to the $ 8000 level, the bitcoin price must first exceed $ 6800. The market is still bearish in the long run so I believe that the bitcoin price will probably fall to $ 5000 in next time. So being able to rise to $ 50k is a dream.

I'm still open that $50k will be able to reach but not this year,maybe in the next 5 years.Hopefully btc price can hit even $15k-$20k this year and i think that would really be great.The current price is still low but i see already a price recovery little by little.

It's not certain that we will see Bitcoin at 50k at the end of the year. While we are all hopeful of Bitcoin price rallying to 20k first before 50k, we want to tell ourselves the truth. It doesn't just happen overnight. Bitcoin will rise again but it will take time.

We can still consider ourselves lucky if we even hit $10k or $15k again but that $50k is like a shot to the moon. The people are bored so much and investors don't have a lot of confidence to buy more and so many ETF proposals are already rejected.

If the ETF can attract more than three times as many investors as the market, Bitcoin may realize a value of $50k, but it is actually difficult to achieve!

I n as much as no one can accurately predict what could happen to btc is it stands, but $50k is outrageous, but here anything is possible, after all nobody expected the $20k of last year and that is why a lot of persons jumped in, we may see another likely high or lower

It is quite reasonable not to think huge increase this year since market isn't moving. I also think that it can be hardly to reach even $15k this year. 
Anyways,  we never knew what will happen next and only the thing we can do now is to enjoy the moment it goes like this.

The likelihood at this point in the year and market that we reach that pricing is highly unlikely.

Wishful thinking at this point. Should be more concerned regarding the continuous adoption and maintaining some level of anonymity.

Don't lose hope to bitcoin price reach 50k dollars before end of this year 2018. I know that value of the per bitcoin ks very high if we can be united to hold and to buy bitcoin they will recover the marker and everyone will be happy.

Actualy if this is real happen in this year end,i thinks this is the most saddest and most dumps happen in the history of the cryptocurrency,otherwise i dont believe this happen now,because we could not predict whats is the exact happen in this coming year end,and i believe thats everything should find,especially thats theres a coming a bullish market,therefore market become rise in this year.

End of this year 50k bitcoin this is not possible. I hope that end of this year bitcoin reach 10k. This is good for trader and in Investors

it seems that it will be very difficult because the current price conditions for bitcoin are very cheap and will not be able to increase prices to such an expensive price if there is no good news that could trigger an increase in bitcoin prices.

wow, this news made me very enthusiastic about the crypto currency. Hopefully the bitcoin tool can actually realize $ 50K by the end of this year. if it is true that means that bitcoin is at the highest point

Crap. I will eat my shit if something like that will happen. Too few time left for such great move. Bitcoin must add like 10000 $ monthly right from now to reach the target the OP is talking about and that is just impossible.

It's hard to predict but most users and investors would love to see that value in the future. We have been experiencing a deep dip for months already and it would be better if we'll have a positive mind while waiting for our profits to grow in time. There's no harm in waiting and trying.

Anything can be possible in crypto. But if me i will only see it will happen or not and just follow stream of value. If it is really happen there must be pro and contra about it. We can see something bad usuallu happen when bitcoin reach it's peak.

From my point of view, when investing in the cryptocurrency market we should have one more point of confidence to be able to boldly make an investment decision. So when investing for me BTC is always the safest investment choice. BTC has proved its power over many years and challenges. Up to the year 2015, BTC died more than 500 times. When it is thought that the organizers are dead, it is more powerful that is why we can be optimistic about the 50k / 1BTC.

I hope many altcoin projects will grow in price as bitcoin, as in the past year 2017

I do really think that Bitcoin wouls have a price increase at the end of this yeat but I think it won't be as much as 50000 usd knowing that it failed last year to emachieve even the 20k usd market price. Seeing how the market is still on downtrend at this moment makes it more impossible. But since speculations are being made, patience should be the action by the means of holding.

Could we give our trust into it but for sure prices won't grow that much and it only fails us our expectations in year 2018. Maybe we consider that this year isn't for crypto and maybe we could see big things in the next year coming. We will not just end our trust and confidence towards crypto for the bad experience, instead we will keep supporting this until it ends.

I think the price will remain same by the end of this year, Tera very few hours builders that Bitcoin will even cross $15, 000 so it is not possible that Bitcoin will reach 50k by the end of this year. People are getting easily affected by the following price but somehow if they can get increased and stop spending all the money and started holding it then maybe we can recover the market.

Anythings could come true in this crypto market. Bitcoin does not need any country approved to jump to the moon, whales just waiting for good moment and they will push the price up to 50k$ soon. Patient is the key to sell your bitcoin here.  ;)

I am very confident that bitcoin prices can reach this expensive price because currently the total supply of bitcoin has been very limited and it has been very difficult to obtain and the demand for bitcoin is also getting higher so I am sure at the end of this year that price can be achieved.

I don't think so because the price of Bitcoin kept fluctuating which we cannot able to predict it exactly how long it will take to reach $50k but there are many people predicting that Bitcoin will easily cross the price of $50k soon. Maybe in my assumption, it will take more than 1 year to reach $50k price.

it seems that it is very hard to be able to make such a high price increase because at this time the condition of the bitcoin price fell below $7k and it would be very difficult to increase so far.

I think it's very difficult to see the price 20,000$ in this year and I'm sure it's impossible to come back to that price unless there are some special  exceptions. I only expect bitcoin will reach 10,000$ at the end of this year if it's lucky. Maybe bitcoin will be 50,000$ in the year of 2020.

Bitcoin touching $50k in the end of the year is possible.
Last year,bitcoin was sold $3k in December as a result of fud from china and some financial heavy weight wanting to buy btc at cheap rate.
The most interesting part is after the price of bitcoin went down including the altcoins ,the same year btc touch $19k and $20k in some exchange,and it is like history is about to repeat itself.
Now, the bigwigs and financial institution like CBOE and others have submitted btc etf applications to SEC demanding for btc etf approval of which if it is approved btc will hit $50k or more.
Some countries are now adopting btc after seeing the potential in it reason is it can't be printed anyhow unlike other traditional currency.

Who knows what future can bring us, there's still a lots of people who believing that bitcoin can rise high, as long as the traders continue to
play with this market, we will see more things to come and expect the unexpected, just stay calm and be wise wait for the next bull run and
enjoy gaining after.

I think that's a very bold forecast. And now it's hard to believe that this is possible.

Frankly speaking, I dont think we will see $50k in 2018. We will see a bullish trend but $50k is too good to be true. The market may try to recover after the ETF approval but it will not be as easy as last year.

No, it will take much more time. I will be glad to see how BTC is going to the Moon soon but I have to tell you that Bitcoin can reach 50 thousand not earlier than 3 years from now.

I think $10k is almost guaranteed...if it recovers at all. But I think $30k is possible...but I wouldn't make any bets. I also think it's possible that it could go down a lot further... I think it's all up in the air.

you're right bud. for now I don't think so. the price may be better if it reaches $ 10k, even I think that the price of bitcoin will not arrive at the price of $ 30k. but I don't know, we are just waiting for good news at the end of September.

I think 1k8$

I still beleive on that.This coming end of month will reach to $50000 if bitcoin.lm expecting for this coming months bitcoin will move higher.I know that everyones oraying fir the pump.This is the only hope of the many to change our lives.That bitcoin will be powerful soon for thecoming price pump.

This market is full of possibilities that no one can predict. I also hope Bitcoin can reach $ 50k but I think that in 2018 it is very difficult. I think Bitcoin could end in 2018 at over $ 15k, which is an acceptable milestone for Bitcoin at the moment.

Strongly doubt about $50k this year. The market is unpredictable, but $50k is too much, anyway.
I don't believe we may see it grow significantly by the 2018 year-end.

maybe because the condition of the bitcoin price has a very limited total supply and has very high demand so that it can make this bitcoin price very expensive in the end of this year, so you should be able to have as much bitcoin as you can and enjoy the benefits you can get it.

If, however, the SEC will support the ETF in bitcoin will pour large amounts of money and this means a huge increase ! If I'm not mistaken the bitcoin turnover does not exceed 2% of the Fund.

I think the increase in the price of bitcoin this year will be increasingly difficult to reach the price target you mentioned because there is currently no good news that can trigger an increase in bitcoin prices, hopefully there is good news that can trigger bitcoin price movements to reach your target mention it.

50k???? Mehn, this is too wide a speculation. I'd advise that this prediction is not promoted so that you don't raise hopes and expectations of newbies and prospective entrants. At this rate and stage of crypto, it's safe to stay away from predictions and just follow trends. Very safe!

Not by the end of this year... John McAfee promised $50k by 2020 or else he will eat his d^ck. Maybe he was right. Anyway, we'll see either of these extraordinary events: '1BTC=$50k,' or 'JM less his d^ck.'
Personally I'd prefer the former to come true rather than the latter  ;D

In my idea about in bitcoin I think that is not achievable, instead what realistic to be happen is from 20k$ up to 30k$, although it would be great

if 50K$ reach. However, I know majority of the community now in this business are now holding their Bitcoin and some are atlcoins too,

especially Ber months is now coming where bull run for sure is nearly coming to happen.

- But after all what is happening in the moment, the answer would still be impossible, the chances of reaching the price he mentioned are too low or even illusory, good news and the stimulation is not enough, bitcoin needs more to establish a record price. But I do not see any factor that can reverse the current situation, things are not going in the right direction, the wave of the market is still undulating, maybe we should just hope for a milestone that is easier for bitcoin in the end of the year, $10k or $12k is a reasonable number

Definitely, it is not possible. We will not see Bitcoin that is 50K this year. I doubt it will reach this price in 2019. The market must recover first, and then, the bull rung, the long process should start.

I am betting that BTC will touch 90k in 2020 but as for this year, I think we will be lucky to see 10k again at the end of december.... Although Bitcoin is without doubt, recovering already. European ETF go ahead should give it a nice push.

That is not going to be enough to push the price of bitcoin up, to begin with that was not the reason of why bitcoin reached 20000 dollars, bitcoin reached that price because of its own merits and if bitcoin ever reaches the price of 50000 dollars, and I think that is very likely, it is going to be because of its own merits not because we were helped by some financial tool.

I have hope the price of Bitcoin going up back to the $20k again in the end of this year. Bitcoin is has possibility going up to $50k to $60k if there are any good news like Bitcoin ETF approved by SEC. If not will approved the price still have possibility to going up to $60k next year. Bitcoin is future of money and will be possible to going up to $100k in the long run.

Bitcoin is well known all over the world and most people are looking good on this market and are willing to invest if there is more good information. I believe the $ 50,000 price could happen in the next few years because I believe Bitcoin will be a new generation in the financial sector and people are free to invest their way that no one can manage.

I don't see any improvements will happen in this year because the price will not reach $50k, maybe it will take another year to reach $50k. But surely one day the price of bitcoin will surely cross more than $50k.

I think that could happen because the demand for bitcoin this year I think is increasing and the total supply of bitcoin is very limited and almost gone.

I am amazed by your post, but is this not excessive because I find it difficult to think of the price of one bitcoin $ 50k, and currently the price of bitcoin is still at $ 6500- $ 7000 +

This year do not expect anything like 25k+ as well. May be even if it reaches now to 20k from here still gives us 3x multiple times return which is way much better than investing in the stocks as the moment as global market is quite slow at the moment.

I think you're right because it's 50k $ big enough to reach it before the end of this year because there are so many big and big money when its price increases.

No one can say I'm so high up bitcoin before ending it this year as I think the bitcoin price has fallen too far and has not recovered yet.

There is no sign for that and it will be impossible to reach $ 50k in the next year. The number of rejection is still high and it is really a sign for us that our dream won't come true soon or later.

Although I agree that Bitcoin will be on the rise before the end of the year, I don't think it can rise to $50000, which is an astronomical number, and I don't see the source of the money!

You remembered last year in december, when bitcoin was about 20000$, most of people and state buy it. Commissions on bitcoin transactions increased and it fell sharply. As for now at the same time, now cryptocurrencies are becoming more expensive. According to a number of forecasts, bitcoin will approach 10 thousand dollars in autumn. The main question is: "can the crypt become an alternative to the dollar?"

I think that is very possible because the condition of the price of bitcoin is currently experiencing a price increase and the demand can be very high and can eventually become very expensive.

Lol. Though i'm not optimistic at all that it can happen, btc's meteoric rise last year took only a couple of months and it can happen from september onwards. Who knows. I'm just saying that btc has a habit of going against what most people expect.

with the current price and market condition i doubt it if could be achievable but if etf should be approve i guess it should be the main propeller to push the price higher but if it ie rejected again expect price would be lower than 15k by year end.

Same, here. It is not very realistic that we get there this year. A lot will depend on regulation and if fresh money is able to flood into the market. Lot's of people got wrecked this year, especially those who went into iCOs. Last year the opposite was the case, ICO's made many people rich. If the SEC delays or rejects the upcoming ICO again we probably won't see massive gains this year, rather in Q1 next year. People's pockets are relatively empty, especially when comparing it to last year around that same time.

I think the possibility of Bitcoin gaining $ 50k this year is quite low because the downward trend of the market is not over yet and letting it grow so hard. I hope the uptrend will return to this market and continue to attract new investors.

I don't see this happening. Even if BTC goes to 20K this year, there will be a correction down again.. it takes time to go beyond.
But I don't have anything against it, as we all don't I assume.

That is even possible to happen, the market can increase more than 10 times, but I think that it is not so easy to happen I am sure that it will take a lot of time, may be it will become possible in middle of 2019, because most of the investors are considering 2019 as more favorable year for crypto currencies.

if bitcoin continues to run unhindered by the end of the year, I'm sure it will happen, but it's true that you say, if bitcoin returns to a correction and can't balance the range of support lines, then it will be impossible to make a significant price increase. But so far, the fluctuations that occurred this year did not show a meeting point at all to rally prices.

Yes that's a possibility, but honestly, I think that bitcoin will be worth $ 35,000 and not $ 50,000 .Although the market is unpredictable it is possible and 100 000 dollars will see .

this year Bitcoin price will go near 16k $

I'm pretty sure that there is no ETF that are going to be approved this year. The SEC obviously hates cryptocurrrency. Maybe we can take this moment to clean the trash projects in the community and showcase the best use of the virtual coins so next time we don't need those damn ETFs just to increase the prices again.

In as much as we are in a bear market now, bitcoin has the tendency to get to 50k dollars at year end if their are couple of good news and institutional investors get into the market fully.

 from now to the end of 2018 : it will range between 6000$ and 8300$, (2 highs, 2 lows) and by the end of the year, btc will probably try to break 10k  if you want to verify in the short term, btc will go to 8200 then go back to 6500-6700$ this will probably happen this month  see you when the prediction will be done

25-30k will be very good . maybe 50k for this year is not possible

All the news is just the plays that are meticulously crafted, the results are always set, they give out a lot of information such as refusal and delay just to deceive the user community, and the ultimate meaning is just making money from the fear and suspicion of others. We do not need the SEC or any explanation about the use of crypto, what we need is probably the motivation of the owner behind this market, this is a prerequisite for bitcoin to achieve the dream price

everyone hopes bitcoin would surpass its all time high by year end even half of 50k$ forecast by the thread starter would be very fine but looking for the current market condition it seems it even hard to break the 10k$ level  and etf approval may still reject ny u.s. sec no clearer view that fuis would be approve by this month.

I do not know about what data you are looking but I see the opposite, the interest in bitcoin is going down and as such the demand is going down as well, this is normal it happens in all the markets but it seems people want that the bitcoin market is skyrocketing all the time and that is simply impossible, what we are going to see in the next weeks, months and even years is a price of bitcoin that is not going to move much.

I think it might be due to the increasingly high conditions of bitcoin demand and the increasingly limited total supply of bitcoin, so making this bitcoin can be very expensive and I'm sure bitcoin at the end of this year could experience price increases.

No body know Bitcoin will go that high price or not in the end if this year. My hope is Bitcoin and others crypto will going up the same level like december last year. I think Bitcoin will be going up to $50k in next year because now not any sign for bull run,  there no many new investor jump in to crypto, i can see this from the total market cap of crypto just around $200Billion, and that mean not any new money come to the crypto market. Even Bitcoin ETF approved the price can be going up around $20k in the end of this year, and $50k will be in the beginning of next year.

I think it's difficult for bitcoin to reach $50k by the end of this year because now the price is only around $6k and we have to remember in current time, traders and investors are very cautious in investing their money because they don't want suffer losses since the crypto market situation is unpredictable and sluggish in a few months back. I have read that the price of bitcoin is predicted to drop to $5k by this end year. So let's we see how much the price that will be achieved by bitcoin in this end year.

Retail investors have been massively burned this year and are slowly moving out of the market while few people are coming in, it seems most people who just came during the last bull run have lost interest and moved on with their lives. Unless we see new people getting interested there will not be much change...unless regulations make it easier for institutional investors.

Bitcoin can be effectively hit $50k by the end of this year. It sure won't happen, even if bitcoin will get to that price one day, but certainly not this year and not any time soon. Best thing now is for bitcoin to get at least above$15k or within the range of last year's ATH. That will set a good road for further movement, followed by alts.

I also agree with you that btc will not be able to reach  $ 50k  at the end of this year. With the current situation I do not even believe it will reach $ 20k at the end of this year. I think that increasing of the price in 2017 is due to the impact of the "sharks" in the market.

No one can predict the price of bitcoin in the future. The price is unknown to any man. The price can get to 50k or might not get to 50k. It all depends on how the  market reacts

I think that this is impossible. Of course no one can say exactly what will happen in 3-4 months, but there are no prerequisites for the fact that the price soared. At this point it would be great for everyone if the bitcoin price had risen to at least $15,000 by the end of the year.

I just don't believe in $50,000 Bitcoin by the end of the year.  I think we will be lucky to see $8,000.  The only way we see anything like 50k is if the ETF passes and the news outlets pump it to oblivion.  Eventually they are going to push the sheep into Bitcoin and crypto.  The big question is when.

After reading this post, I look up the current price of bitcoin and without any basic knowledge of TA, I can say the chances of bitcoin hitting 50k is very minute. Anything is possible here, but we have to wait till end of the year. 112 days is a still long way.

It was possible for bitcoins to reach $50k dollars due to a lot of people who are investing right now and most of the whales are just waiting for the price to drop so hard before investing a huge amount.

The total market capitalization of cryptocurrency market is back near 109 billion dollars. Bitcoin is down nearly 70% from the all-time peak. However, it will be a jump to Bitcoin to increase $ 50k by the end of this year.

2018 year end we can see the btc price up to 15k . Atleast above 10k is for sure as we still have 3.5 months left and in one month it can climb 5k and above which we have seen in the past. So their is no need to panic or stay so low on the focus by being moderate like 8k or so. Its time to buy now.

$20k wasn't about one ore two things there were many factors . And $50k is just a good dream but i belive we can see $20k again.

The bitcoin market is volatile and there are plenty of opportunities for those who like to invest in risky capital and want to make a high profit. Invest in bitcoin.

I will be more than happy if it even crossed the $20000 value in the market. Bitcoin has been a slow growing coin in the market lately and there are many reasons behind this fact but ultimately the market will recover like it did when the coin was not known so much.

The pre boom and the post boom of 2017 are not so different and the market is exactly the same, we just need to be a bit more patient to get the profits.

It is possible that we may be above $50,000 before December 2018 but the probability that this will happen is zero.  We should be a bit realistic and since the big investors are currently not interested in buying bitcoin now I think this speculations is for the future.  The whole market is down now and a lot need to be put in before we can make significant profits.

With upcoming Bakkt tool in november, I can see bitcoin around $30 000 at EOY, since institutions would start buying bitcoin to decrease such a volatility as it's now.

Since the crypto-currencies trading market is so volatile, there are also plenty of opportunities for investors to lose huge amount of money within a short period of time, and I would advise investors who are hoping to get rich fast by investing in bitcoin, they should seriously learn and understand the technology behind bitcoin before investing in it, as bitcoin is definitely not an investment that would make people rich within a short period of time.

If the market can lose a very large percentage of capitalization in a few days, it is quite possible to get 50 thousand/BTC by the end of the year, although this is unlikely

 Normally markets fall faster than they grow though. Except maybe last November. That was just crazy.

I think bitcoin is very volatile and unique where its value is very difficult to guess and suddenly drops and rises like a magic, $50k for me is still possible to see history at the end of every year bitcoin has always experienced a rapid increase

yes, bitcoin will reach this year end $50000, who all are hold bitcoin , that person will become get more profit in this year end and there have still time to invest on bitcoin.

It would be possible. But, the chances are pretty low and it would be a big news if that could happen. Even though we wouldn't see that range of price at the end of this year, we wish the price will get recover to $10k if possible because current prices suck.

all just hope, I hope that even though Bitcoin doesn't break into $ 50k, at least Bitcoin can return to $ 20k by the end of this year... prices go down or rise, I'm very ready with all the possibilities that occur at the end of the year on Bitcoin...

Wishful thinking Delux. I too which for it to reach a max high at the end of the year but it’s too far fetched even for $20k

A slowdown in growth and price changes because we haven't come out of a bear trend dude. we are still in a downward trend and of course the increase significant price will be very rare. but when bull trends occur and confidence in the market grows. prices will be very easy to rise. like a years ago and maybe $ 20k will happen again

That's true, if you see the current bitcoin price movement right now still leads to a bearish market and only a few more to December, so, it's impossible if $50 will be acheived by bitcoin. However, bitcoin price movements are always difficult to predict, there could be many manipulators who have large capital which exist in the bitcoin market so it is difficult to predict. You can see priviously, the price of bitcoin has risen up to $1000 in an hour and it could be $50 achieved by bitcoin, of course if there is a miracle that comes to the bitcoin market.

I think that is not a real number. What factor do you think the bitcoin price will increase to $ 50k at the end of the year? I think that with an economy going downhill, the price of these altcoins will never be good in the near future. It will take more than 3 years to recover.

Who knows it's really going to happen because bitcoin is really unpredictable and is full of surprises beyond our imagination. But reaching 50,000$ is really a big amount which i think bitcoin can't hit by just looking at its recent market status. Maybe in the year 2020, bitcoin will reach 50,000$ or even more.

If we take over the mark of 8500 $, then it will be very good for the biton in the future. Simply this year, we will decide whether we will grow now or growth will only be in 2021! I hope that all the same we will grow in 2018-2019

Yes price is very unpredictable but since $50k is a huge amount possibly we could see this price by next year. The current status of the market is very low now so I do not think this year end to hit $50k.

Most likely, we will not see until the end of 2018 an increase of up to $ 50,000. But let's hope at least to $ 10,000 will come. News is now only bad work.

If you reach 30k you can sell everything and run away because there is something very wrong going on! Jokes aside, I find it very difficult to happen the famous highs of the past again :(.

well in my opinion the given reasons are not enough to see the btc into 50k because in order to reach 50k we shall see something bigger and more dramatic than just those reasons.

No one can predict it and I think it's not possible to reach 50k$.
In my opinion end of this year bitcoin reach 8k$. If many investors are invest these then bitcoin price going to high

I will be happy if it goes to 20K at the end of this year. Lets see when will the bulls be back. ;D

I believe there is nothing impossible as far as nothing can be certain in life. Bitcoin may reach this said range at the end of the year and it may likely not reach as well. But i must say that the chances of it reaching $50k by the end of the year is quite slim because unlike last year, the growth of bitcoin was seen through out the year.

I am also happy at 20k. In general, I am always happy when bitcoin increases and creates the feat. The situation is warming up today, hoping it will last until the end of the year.

CBOE has joined since last year. and now the ETF, I think it is not a measure of how bitcoin is to grow. but as part of the crypto world, I hope it will not cause a big reaction after the results at 30th of September. The race will bring miracles. I hope to see the 25k bitcoin as Tom lee had anticipated.

Too many people hodl for that to happen. And since a lot of people lost their money since earlier this year it will be a hard to reach 50k at the end of this year or in first months of next year. Maybe end of summer next year but let us wait and see.

maybe the price of bitcoin at the end of this year will not be able to be able to make price increases up to that expensive because the condition of the bitcoin price depends on the demand.

First of all, there are a lot of prerequisites and news for bitcoin to grow to such a value, I assume that very large institutional investors will come

In the moths of June, July and August, which were thought to be the months with a price appreciating market, the ting was completely upside down and despite a good rise in the price, there was fall. So all the predictions went wrong and this is why now I believe that predictions do not have a place in the market and this is all set by the factors of demand and supply and the government activity that can affect the price of a certain coin in the market.

Their are no accurate price prediction in this market. Bitcoin can get to 50k USD or can also get to 4k USD. The rise and fall all depends on forces of demand and supply

   I have studied the expert opinion about the Bitcoin till the end of this year they have predicted that it will go higher than 30k US dollar and did not cleared the 50k US dollar price which have no possibilities. Even if it is going higher than 30k US dollar then it is a huge achievement for us and we do not have to waste our time and to buy a lot of coins so that we may appear in high market.

Their is no body that can accurately forcast bitcoins price in this market. We are hopeful that bitcoin would get to such price and cross it in the near future. Let's keep our fingers crosses and be hopeful

I agree to your point bud. Well, basically we aim and hoping that the value of bitcoin will increase tremendously by this year. As what happened right now it so unexpected that it may crashed so down on its value but I believe someday that it may recover and each and everyone of us may have a great profit as most of us still have a huge losses from its peak value.

We are coming to the end of 2018. So i don't even think bitcoin reach 50k$. You are so optimistic. I don't see any positive signals. Can you show me any? If you have some, i'll believe in you.

This is what I see as well, the market cannot grow because no new money is coming and we should not really be surprised by that, after seeing the market crashing almost 70% in a matter of months who is going to want to invest in this market? The only ones that are willing to do it are those that have an incredible faith in cryptocurrencies in general but no one else.

Anyway, to reach that value of $50k at the end of the year is very unlikely, because this year the crypto market is not moving so much or does not have a big change, the market only moves at the same level for several months. But there are a lot of new innovations in some countries about blockchain technology, as recently there is one that empowers bitcoin mining, I forget the country. With the specific determination of bitcoin in several countries, it will lift the growth of bitcoin will be faster, so I think just wait, what will happen in the future.

True, the $ 50K point will be potential in 2019 from February to June. technically it has formed a falling wedge pattern. although I do not fully believe in technical analysis. good news as you say and I think the power of bitcoin is in a sufficient mining community. currently, there is still a lot of manipulation in both exchange and issue, I'm sure the future of bitcoin will be bright.

I don't think so Bitcoin reach 50k$ end of year if a good signal come and price not down then end of year it reach 10k$. But 50k it's not possible

This is reasonable to think like this. I have some believe that there would be a good change in bitcoin price for the end of this year, but it's not that bitcoin can cover above the last peak bitcoin did. I'm not even sure that it could reach $20k. I'm not actually pessimistic, I just think of something that is most likely to happen.

50k$ is so big for ending of this year but i think and expecting that bitcoin will raise 20k$ after end of this year bitcoins price now is so stable and no point if will increase lately.

Bitcoin is not only predictable but also a wonder. People should think about giving a figure about the future price of bitcoin. If it is asked that till the end of this year the price would be $10 or $15k, then it is sensible, but such a huge price is just nonsense and nobody will think about this price especially till the end of this year. The price will be the same till December.

Naturally, this price seems to all something impossible but I am sure it will be reached (no, not in 2018 but a bit later). However, we have to wait for it at least 2 or 3 years.

$50 k isnt impossible though expecting rising bull towards the 14 k usd mark would be best for now.

I do not believe that bitcoin will cost $50,000. No one will make it so easy for you! $ 50 for bitcoin, that sounds plausible!

I am not sure about the price given. $50k is huge price for bitcoin and there is long way to go to this level, and especially in this year it is not possible for bitcoin to hit this figure. Today the price is below $7000 and there are just 3 more months to go in this year. How is it possible to reach to this level? It is beyond sense. If the price reaches to $10k, it is enough.

50k US dollar is a huge value and it will take time to give us this much value so for now we have to expect value lower than 50k around 30k dollar can be possible by the end of this year or may be in the beginning of 2019 as said by experts.

Better to focus on getting coins in large quantity in this favorable market of Bitcoin you can get it easily as we know that Bitcoin will enrich you with its huge profit in your future only if you start buying in low market.

I do not believe in that. By the latest news we are in the middle of bear market which has place to be from the beginning of the year, that tells us that we will need to wait for about eight months more before the price will climb up again.

Well this is the only thing that makes me rethink about the potential of Bitcoin. It has extra-efficient traits and a rise in the price by $600 can rise the overall market cap by $9billion, this can happen again and again till December like the last year when the price of Bitcoin jumped high in the starting weeks of December. So it is quite likely for Bitcoin to end the year with joy. So the down price are like open invitations.

You can see that the price of Altcoin in the past few days is soaring the market is constantly fluctuating and now you can see that despite the price of Altcoin is rising very strongly but market capitalization does not increase what This shows that capitalization is being poured from Bitcoin to Altcoin just because of this I believe we have to wait for some long time to see this magic figure of 50K $ I have read that the price of Bitcoin is predicted to drop to 5K $  by this end year. So let's we see how much the price that will be achieved by Bitcoin in this end year.

That is right. Bitcoin might not be able to make such a jump till the end of the year, because for that, we need all the factors that affect Bitcoin positively positive. Only then Bitcoin can grow to such a value. In the current year, I do not think Bitcoin will do that. However hopefully it will rise relatively to other coins and will restore some trust which will ensure the participation of many institutional investors.

Whatever the price prediction may be I do not believe on any prediction as we know that predictions are almost uncertain about the future price of Bitcoin as making it uncertain due to its unstable price movement. We have to focus on instant benefits and can just expect a good market price in the upcoming days and want to see bull market again but it may take some more time so we have to hold with patience.

Before, bitcoin speculated to get reach $20k and several people says it is impossible to be happen, but its been happening last early December and many were surprise of tremendous increase of bitcoin. Now bitcoin is speculate to reach that price and i guess  for the sure profits, its better to start holding bitcoin or buying more of it, since the market is still low.

I don't think Bitcoin's price will reach $50000 by the end of the year, which is a huge amount because there is now a shortage of funds in the market!

I'm sure that bitcoin will cost much more than $ 50k, but in terms when it will be very difficult to say. At the moment we are in the flat and maybe we will still fall to $ 5000 and maybe even lower, we need to take the level of 8500 $ to start the growth!

Well one thing I am very sure about is that Bitcoin is not going to cross or even touch $50,000 till the end of the year. The rising trend is very slow and majority of the people have lost their trust in the coin because they did not get what they expected. This is the reason the demand for Bitcoin is not in full swing but as the rising trend starts and as there is a sign of the green market, these awaited investors will put in their funds and it would be more than good even if Bitcoin reaches its highest value it had reached last year.

50K$ is the too much high amount which it is impossible for Bitcoin to reach that value, even though the market seems to be bull but it is not possible for Bitcoin to reach that value. This year the price of Bitcoin will not cross more than $12k.

This is my vision as well that price is not impossible but it's impossible to reach in such a short amount of time, but give bitcoin two or three years and that price doesn't sound so crazy now, even in that time frame it is going to be difficult for bitcoin the reach that price but I really hope that at that time bitcoin is already in the middle of a new bull market and reaches a price at least close to that.

ETF is a significant step in the development of crypto industry. The effect of ETF will be significantly higher than from futures. ETF offers great opportunities for ordinary people to enter a new investment market.

But 50,000 dollars before the end of the year, this is something unthinkable.

I think that btc price don't reach 50k dollars even if passed the ETF.This market still needs long-term development.Maybe it will be realized in a few years.It also may never be reach.

Too many exaggerated speculation about bitcoin, it not impossible for bitcoin to go farther than $20000 it did last year, but isn't too huge expectance for bitcoin to go far beyond $20000 ? Speculation is the core of bitcoin that is why it has a value, good thing for bitcoin there are lots of speculators rather than saying they are investors. Bitcoin would either make $20000 again or a little up high.

I dont think that btc will hit $50k that much at the end of the year. Bitcoin needs to recover much longer to hit that 50k.

i am agree with you mate, etf approval would not be main reason for bitcoin price recovery,there are much factor needed for make investor become confidence buying bitcoin again, so its price could reach above $20k.maybe legalization could help it.

I believe that if the repetition of history is possible, it does not lead to the same results. therefore, it is too early to talk about growth

In my view the current price of Bitcoin is only $ 6,589 and there are signs of a return. But take a look at the reality to get $ 50,000 too hard and follow me is not possible. Bitcoin will probably only be at $ 12,000 which is the highest.

I would not believe Bitcoin would be at that price and i think $ 25,000. Because the crypto market is hard to predict. Tomorrow will be different today so we can completely believe in ourselves.

yes I agree that, it's very difficult to reach 50,000 this year even though the ETF is approved. but as far as I know the ETF announcement was postponed again.
for this year can be at a price of 10-12k it is very good to start a new price next year

Although 50,000 USD is a high estimate, I think this goal can be achieved at the end of the year. Bitcoin, which has gained a lot of value in a short period of just 60 days in the past year, is going to go up again if it shows the same performance this year. Of course, this upward trend will move faster than in the last year because everyone has learned how much the investors have earned last year. Furthermore, after such an upward trend, the demand for Bitcoin will undoubtedly increase dramatically, and it is possible to say that this increase in demand will push the price upwards quickly.

Using the historicals is teh reason why they see Bitcoin reaching as high as $50,000 USD by end of this year. They compare the growth from last year and apply it on the price of Bitcoin today. They forgot to consider looking into unforeseen events like a big exchange sites getting hacked or a country that will start to ban cryptos.

Not only that but they also relied on the popularity of bitcoin which said: "along with the passage of time, bitcoin prices ascertained will experience growth". But in reality, some negative information often inhibits the growth of bitcoin to go to the level of $ 50.000 US.

That's what most do, they base everything from the historical events that bitcoin went through.

But that's fine because its also a basis on how people do analyze the markets, they don't see those unexpected things that usually happens each year like what you mention hacks and bans. The market is unpredictable $50,000 is of possibility but I don't think this year will be there.

We have 3 months left of the timeline so i think $50,000 will be very impossible to happen in which they say that we are still in the middle of bearish market. As i see too that until now there is no sign of a healthy market then i think $10,000 will be the most possible figure before this year will end.

that 50k prediction isa liitle bit possible but the chart says its likely bearish since it forms a descending triangle pattern but the support level strong hold it february so its hard to really real what gonna happen next, we will see it in the next couple of days not week if we can break the resistance since it only take days from now to reach it..

if the money is received in a random way, most often they are not deserved, because the person initially did not set a goal how to apply them correctly

We all know now that this is not going to happen anymore, rather Q1 next year. But the SEC decision is not the only potential driver of new growth in this market. The Owner of the NYSE founded a company called ICO to launch an Exchange for Institutional Investors where they can buy Bitcoin on a large quantity, it will launch on November 5 and could propel prices up.

" founding imperative for Bakkt will be to make Bitcoin a sound and secure offering for key constituents that now mostly shun it—the world’s big financial institutions. The goal is to clear the way for major money managers to offer Bitcoin mutual funds, pension funds, and ETFs, as highly regulated, mainstream investments."

Read more here: http://fortune.com/longform/nyse-owner-bitcoin-exchange-startup/

Everyone is looking at the ETFs but there are other ways for big money to enter the market, especially that is relevant for Bitcoin. The Bakkt platform is going live soon and I also see this as an inflection point where everything can turn around.

Currently Bitcoin price is round about 6,500$ and it is the month of october.No doubt that Bitcoin rise and drops are very sudden but I think that $50k is very high value  to expect atleast until the end of this year.No doubt that Bitcoin is capable of reaching $50k mark but it will take some years to reach this mark.So it is n definitely not possibl for Bitcoin to reach $50k until the end of this year.

You joke, speculation that a lack of an analyst makes it fantasize and imagines that it happens December 2018. Do all countries flock to legalize the bitcoin in their country? well, I don't think this will happen because of the many factors that caused bitcoin to fall down like today, there are still manipulations of some institutions that cause when people.

I do't think tfor this now we willsee bitcoin 50k dollars for this year of end 2018. Because the possible price only of the bitcoin is 20k dollars in the 2018. Maybe we can move our prediction that bitcoin become 50k dollars in the year of 2019. But it is good if they reach this year to earn more profit.

do not wait for a very high price, but wait for the price of bitcoin to survive, because it hopes that the price of bitcoin will be as high as it has very little hope. well, maybe for the start, we should expect bitcoin prices to stabilize at a price of $ 7k. and maybe for the end of the year it can be $ 10k.

   The high peak prediction will abruptly appear in the meantime. As of now, the determination of the market is hard to tell, but what we have to hope most is the fast recovery and bountiful developments by the end of this year. Maybe we can hit $7k first before to assume that high peak due of the ustabalize market, but we're still be hopeful that this $50k predictions will come flourishly by the next year.

I don't like people who predict these things anymore. I prefer to see what actually happened. If Bitcoin can rise to $50000, where does the money come from?

yes, you are right . it's impossible to see bitcoin at 50,000$ at the end of 2018 and who dare buy a big amount of bitcoin to push it up to 50,000$ ?
Just be a dream in the future not now, guy.

Dreaming is free, but maybe after few years 50k dollars will happen. But this year is low percentage to happen because until now bitcoin is under 10k dollars but this price is really possible to happen again and that is 20k dollars and I hope that really hit again .

Yes, I also think that the price of Bitcoin at $ 12,000 may be the maximum by the end of this year. The closer we come to the end of the year, and the market stands still, the more we realize that there may not be much growth in the cryptocurrency market this year. This will be one of the most stagnant years in the development of cryptocurrency.

Bitcoin price can surprise us all, it happened before many times and be sure that will happen again. 50k dollars for single bitcoin by the end of this year is almost impossible, time period is two short, only two and a half months left, add that nothing big happened, nothing big enough to push the price so high. 10-12k dollars would be a great price for all of us, bitcoin can settle at that range and with 5 digits price we have a good foundation for next year. I don`t expect big changes next year too, bitcoin will struggle to keep new bottom, next big jump can come only if something really big happen, or we need to wait halving.

Im pretty sure that we will not see bitcoin on fiftyhousand at the end of the year. This year was a pure bear market, and it does not look like that it will end any time soon. So dont expect a bullrun like last year. These times are over. I believe in cryptocurrencies and in bitcoin, but there will not suge a hype on it again. Which means for me that there will just be a very slow grow in the coming years.

We hope this happened and we are able to sell our holding at a profits in some months to come.  Many of us here buy bitcoin above $10,000 and the price getting above $10,000 is very significant.  Many good news are coming out these days and we are hoping that this will be transformed into profits.

Bitcoin is struggling to rise in the past couple of months and it is not even sure if we're already heading into the bearish trend and of course breaking the needed resistance to show to us that bitcoin is really heading to reach even the 20,000$ price. Reaching 50,000$ seems unrealistic this year but it is possible in the coming years.

I think history repeats its self but the current market is not like it had been last year so it would be irrational to expect the market going high like last year. However the growth is not so dormant either. There has been a good portion of rise in the volume of Bitcoin in the previous month which meant that still despite the fall people look forward to invest in the crypto for the marginal benefits in crypto are still way too high.

I don’t see $50k till the end of the year even I do not see $10k till December 2018. The price is below $7000 and you are talking about $50k. You mean that it will jump $43k in the rest 70 days. It is possible in dreams but not in reality. There are no buyers, no demand for bitcoin and the price will go to $50k.for me it is more than a joke, and I don’t like such jokes which cause tension.

I don’t see $50k before the end of 2018. There is a huge gap between $50k and the current price of bitcoin and there are just 83 more days to go in this year. The market is very down and there is no more investment. There are no signs for growth in the price. I don’t know how you can you can see $50k till the end of this year. $10000 will be enough for bitcoin till December.

It didn’t happen many times. It just happened once in last year and the reason was high demand for bitcoin, but you will it never again in your life. If the price rose to $20k in real, then why it collapsed to $6k again. The reason was temporary increase and when the manipulators collected huge money the price was settled again. You should understand this.

In my opinion these king of false predictions are given only by big investors. They want to sell their coins for high price and the current situation is not in their favor. When you think of the end of the year and $50k, you will invest in bitcoin and after little bit temporary rise, the price will collapse again and you will lose all your investment. This is a game planned by whales.

Bitcoin is struggling but the reason that it is not growing is that there is no ore very little demand from the people. The price given here is not possible anyway. The current price is less than $7000 and the target is $50000, there is a huge gap between the two prices. I don’t think that the price even reach to $15000 till the end of this year. we will have to wait for more.

I think it will never happen this year, this year there have been accidents that make the market unbalanced, and we have to realize that this year has been a bad year to make such a high leap. Be patient, maybe the next year will give better results.

In my view the maximum price for bitcoin till December this year would be not more than $10000 because if we look the current situation of the market we will find that the investment cap is very low and that is the big reason for decreasing price of bitcoin. You are right that nobody can predict the price for future due to huge volatility in the price.

It is just hard to imagine that bitcoin is going to reach 50,000$ this year because in the first place, bitcoin really had a hard time breaking the 7,000$ price this year. In my speculation, bitcoin can only reach 15,000$ at the end of this year.

The price of bitcoin did not skyrocket for the reasons that you are stating, the price of bitcoin grew as much only because of the internal news regarding bitcoin, the price of bitcoin went up because segwit was activated, and this happened because people understood that the activation of segwit will eventually bring the lightning network and when that happens people are going to be able to use bitcoin as a currency once again and the transaction costs are going to be very cheap.

It is really unrealistic way of thinking, we can't even reach at $20k by then due to low market resistance. We are in the last quarter of the year and it looks like no strong movement around and could possibly Bitcoin remains at below $10k this year.

I don't think seeing 50k dollar bitcoin by the end of the year is even remotely realistic id be more worried if we saw a large drop to 2000 more then such a insane increase

in fact, until now we are still priced below $10k  :D ;D
even though the end of the year is only a few months away, it is very difficult if you hope bitcoin will go to the price of $50k because the market is still not clear where to go, yes for this year enough we hope bitcoin is stable in the 6-7k usd range. maybe next year bitcoin will be able to reach $50k (maybe)

Nothing is impossible in this market, I think so. Indeed, as we can see that from the very beginning of this year 2018, the price of bitcoin almost does not fluctuate in a good way, it’s opposite with what we expected, thus maybe there are many people who hardly believe in such a higher price like this. Yep, I completely agree with you guys that we should have a high hope in bitcoin for some last months of 2018. Let your mind be more positive, sooner or later bitcoin will show us a great news.

This sound too good to come to pass.  Bitcoin hitting $50,000 in the next two months is not what I think is going to happen. However,  we are going to get some bullish trend time to come and if possible bitcoin will get to $10,000 and above. We are going to make some money if we can invest now.

I think even reaching $ 10,000 by the end of the year is still quite difficult. well, but we all expect this month to show a positive trend towards rising bitcoin prices. even when the price of bitcoin reaches $ 9500 it will get better.

Every investor wants the price of Bitcoin to rise rapidly (the higher the better), but this is only ideal, and it is almost impossible to achieve this year! No more powerful purchasing power, how does Bitcoin rise?

This is irrelevant to say that it will be 50k dollar price in future or by the end of this year and we should think about this prediction that who is predicting this and on what reasons this prediction is based.

There is actually nothing and it has been proved that predictions are almost irrelevant and uncertain so this makes that I have no believe on predictions anymore. Now, experts are saying that it will be 10k dollar by the end of this year and few months ago it is 50k dollar prediction so this is something useless to talk about.

People are free to dream if that makes them happy and they can think of all the imaginary millions they could make with such a growth but the rest of us need to deal with the world as it is and when I look at the market there is nothing that shows to me anything that could remotely indicate that we could reach such huge prices, so what we need to ask ourselves is what we are going to make money or at least to avoid losing it in the current market?

IMO, that's an unrealistic value for bitcoin this year because bitcoin is having a hard times this year. I do believe that it can't even reach the 20,000$ as bitcoin remained stuck in the 6,000$ mark. Maybe this year is just bitcoin's starting point to its flight again to the moon next year or this coming 2020.

I think there are just too many investors who are hoping to get rich overnight by investing their money into bitcoin during the period of December 2017, and after they have left the trading market by selling away their bitcoin at a loss, there are simply lesser demand for bitcoin on the trading market, I think we might need to wait for a few years more before the price of bitcoin would start to recover back to its previous high values.

it can happen when bitcoin has good news like halving or hardfork or the good news is that accepting payments using bitcoin in various countries, so bitcoin can be very expensive depending on the development or reaction of some countries on the bitcoin currency.

surely the next halving 2020 will start another bull run like we had in 2017 Nov/Dec.

Now we have 1.5 years to start accumulating btc.

hahaha..

The price of a Bitcoin above $10,000 by the end of this year is unlikely to be, but it would be nice to see a price not lower than $9,000. In this case, Bitcoin will show that it was able to cope with the fall and began to grow again. This will be a good sign for investors and slightly reduce the flow of negative forecasts for future Bitcoin prices.

Opinion post shows everyone is well educated on the trend of things, so no one can some and bamboozle us with what is not possible. No analysis can give a price value of $50k this year. Next year will only be accumulation for few bitcoin that are available now. Most of the bitcoin is surely with the whales by now, we can only struggle to take a fraction from the crumb that fall from there table.

With the current situation? I don't think so. It's almost November but the price of bitcoin remains the same. 20k may even be too high for now. Perhaps next year, we will see changes in the price, but right now? Yeah. Keep dreaming.

we will not see $ 50k by the end of this year, that is impossible. many people think that the bull market will occur in 2020, well it's still very long.

the more drama that is made for bitcoin and many people expect the rise of bitcoin, this is boring drama that happens. it looks like this year bitcoin is not returning to print history could be even worse

Feels like that tho

This is what I think it will happen, the current price that we are seeing is going to be the base price for a long time but the good news is this is going to be the floor from which the price of bitcoin will skyrocket again in the future, so all of those waiting for that to happen need to be very patient because it is unlikely that such a big movement will happen soon and they need to be content of just holding their coins for the time being.

No. we won´t see a new ath this year. :'(

I don't feel that bitcoin will ever reach a market price as high as that because for almost a year now, bitcoin has struggled to rise and has became stagnant at its current cap and price. If bull run is going to happen starting today, i think bitcoin will only reach 9-10K$.

Well, this type of speculation is normal in cryptocurrency as crypto is speculative investment. This strategy was effective last year as the price reached $20k but I don't know if new investors will bite again. I think we need mass adoption to increase the demand of bitcoin and push the price higher in a normal process.

I believe you price of bitcoin has the difficulty to increase this year. It cannot cross to 50k$ this end of year. It is really struggling for more months now. No signs of improvement so with these situation I am still positive market status will have a growth.

Even the most bullish analyst on crypto in the mainstream media, Ran from CNBC, had to acknowledge that 50k is no longer realistic for this year, the big catalyst Van Eck ETF has been postponed to next year and we currently do not see any other catalysts as mass adoption. Given all the progress made this is likely to change next year but not much earlier I believe.

Hey op, what now? We are near the end of the year and still we haven't seen even $10k. LOL. Don't always fully believe what you heard even if it came from a known person or company because it is just a speculation after all. The realistic price this year end for me is between $8k - $10k. Kinda low rise but atleast I saw and can sold at a higher price.

We're not there just yet son :). But the odds of bitcoin making such an incredible move are very very low at this point, especially with the low volume levels and the fact that momentum is practically inexistent as of right now. The only thing I can see fueling a move to above and beyond $50k levels is a very intense sentiment of FOMO. I've long given up on trying to make an accurate prediction on the price at this point.

I do not believe that in a month and a half Bitcoin will be able to grow even up to $ 20,000. Even if the entire market starts to grow it will still not grow rapidly in such a short period of time.

Bitcoin is not showing any sign of growing big this year. It will be hard for bitcoin to reach $50k this year. I think it will take a longer time before it can reach that high.