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Dr. Rex Yeap (Singapore), IP blockchain inventor, serial ICT inventor, angel investor, quant, educator and meditator interviewed in our weekly show ICObench Top Experts.

Dr. Rex explains how he started his journey to Blockchain world in 1991 and developed algorithms for data streaming in 2010.

He shared with us his point of view about ICO market, it's future and an average number of the fund raised, explains how he rate the projects listed in ICObench.

Together with Dr. Rex you can analyze the graph " Top 11 famous people's BTC prediction" and look at an optimistic forecast.

Watch the full video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nTZEtolOnJs&feature=youtu.be

it looks very promising, but all are just predictions and speculations, and the most important for bitcoin success is not predictions but real support. how to attract investors to support the bitcoin market.

Most, if not all, predictions from the so called experts have been wrong. Where are the experts now? Look like anyone can do a prediction and is then considered as an expert. Pretty sure we can interpret a text from Nostradamus and say Nostradamus was an expert.
Only the sheep rely on "expert predictions"

I didn't watch the video, but one thing caught my eye:


Is this accurate? Did the blockchain world even exist back then (in 1991)? I can see from his biography that he has 25 years of experience in the infocomm world, but this doesn't mean that he has so much experience in blockchain technology.

In any case, I wouldn't take these prediction too seriously either.

I didn't click the link but here is my opinion. I know it may sounds like a broken record, but I believed that there's no so called "experts" here because crypto market is free and open market. It's hard to predict the price movement because of so many factors and usually the price is based on the sentiments of investors/traders around. How can you quantify those sentiments? Of course there are graphs and TA but most of the time, they aren't applicable isn't it?

It is possible when he says about the future will be good for the effect of investment it will give the confidence forest but if anyone can say anything but the prediction will not be possible in all time so wait and watch for the future to be happen.

At first, I really doubt you for giving an opinion without clicking and viewing the link given by the OP, but as I read your feedback, it doesn't seem to be wrong, you're quite right about a thing. FMO, there is no real experts in these kind of field, mining, trading, bitcoin predictions, etc,.

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Whose that Nostradamus? Sounds like a leader os ISIS to me ??? :P

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He might be a time traveler :D

Is it a joke or you were just naive? If you ever encounter a philosophy subject you would have known him.

Anyway, about of that "experts" in the field of cryptocurrency most of them are just good at telling that this and that you should blahblahblah. Well, look at them now what is the result of their prediction. We could only speculate because we don't know what the future could be but predicting and far from reality is too much IMO.

Some experts maybe right and some maybe wrong, Were not going anywhere Blockchain and crypto will become a necessity in the future I believe. Despite of so many critics and debates it stands like the first existence of the internet, as this industry is going mainstream nobody can stop it but path to growth is very clear and more companies will apply it.

I do not rely to the opinions and statements of those people who call them experts or professional. Their opinions about the cryptocurrency market 2019 are just pure hunch so we should not believe to them.

I just follow the flow of the cryptocurrency market and also my trading instinct. I do not follow the predictions of the people who said they are experts. We should alwats remember that not all of predictions are happening so it is better if we will trust our own opinion than the other's opinions.

Well, I like such experts, they have always a very good knowledge and claim to have detected the latest big deal. Marketing experts, programming experts and blockchain experts or better 'enthusiasts', that's more authentic.
Nowadays, there are countless experts, maybe almost as many as scammers... wait  :P

but at least if the news is good, it can be a stimulus for us to strengthen psychology and the belief that the market will soar later. because basically we believe the market will be good in the future

There will be many other people who will share their predictions about cryptomarket for this year so we can learn and get something from the prediction. But don't forget, you need always to make your own analysis and don't depends on them so you can make your decision and increase your skills in analysis. It's always good if we can learn together with them so we can get value by learning the crypto market.

You can still be depending on them but as a reference, you should have your own technical analysis on how markets move by their price.
However, ain't consider people who claim themselves as an expert on prediction, just like what happened last year. There are a bunch of well-known people predicted the market but it won't happen. So, for me, I won't be expecting too much price ahead of time in cryptocurrencies, there's no time frame on it.

right, we must believe in personal analysis. by making their statement a reference, this is only a consideration for determining steps. not necessarily their statement is correct. because throughout 2018 there were many statements and predictions, but this was not true. therefore personal analysis is better

Cryptocurrency industry has been speculated generally to experience the bull run and stability of token price, , In 2019 unviable project will be extinct. New project will be executed to add value to the industry.

Many people have tried to speculate and predict, even though expert researchers also do but in crypto, it is not as easy as we thought. Still having a lot of knowledge to be able to predict crypto, with my own research and learning with experts who are able to predict then I will make decisions in accordance with personal research, experts are only able to give a picture.

In the end we still do our own decision.
Experts gives a little advise but we should not totally follow what they say, we have to conduct our own research
and test if it's useful or not. This market is full of risk and we cannot rely no one in terms of decision making, we have
to be clever and smart all the time as things could be different once manipulations strikes in.

Love to read these opinions as it favor the Bitcoin market but i don't believe in predictions anymore as i have waited for so long for the bullish run but it did not come. In fact most of the prediction experts are become foolish last year due to bearish market which is still in effect. Anyway, this is better than spreading FUD in which it will just make the market to become worst.

It is true that prediction experts have given advice or an overview of crypto values but back to us, the decision is in the hands. The opinions of experts are appreciated but not to be followed so as not to get caught up in the market game. With our abilities and talents, we will give satisfaction even if it is a little missed but at least we can take a stand.

Even though Bitcoin was introduced 10 years ago and research was in the process three decades ago, I would say that it is still in the infancy stage and we have a huge growth for improvement. There is a long way to go and not only the financial sector but also other sectors would adopt blockchain in order to optimise their work ecosystem. As far as the short term is concerned, I am expecting to recovery from the correction phase.

No wonder if the experts give a lot of speculation in accordance with his opinion, but all of that is only limited to speculators who may become real or even an incorrect prediction. We can only read and see the picture so that it can help us to be more critical by looking directly at the bear market movements.

Bitcoin is still only used by a small percentage of people and very few stores even accept cryptocurrency.  This is good new though, imagine what the price will be like when we have full scale adoption across the world.

No one is really guessing what’s going to be the outcome this year. Most of the people I have seen and majority of the analysis are just a guess work. They never go straight to the point to say what’s it’s going to be for sure. But if anyone asks me I’m still going to be optimistic about everything and say that there is going to be an increase.

At the end of the day it will still be a prediction.   ;)

Beware of being dragged by those types just because of sweet words. Some of them are really doing it just for advertising purposes or to get more viewers for money.
Yes, it will always be about the money.

They are good story tellers and most of the stories now are fictional and it will be better off without them if you are in the right age.  ;D

Right.Of course all we can do today are just pure guesses because all of us here are not really aware of what will happen next in the crypto market.We can do a lot of predictions as many as we can but in the end,we will still rely on our own decision.We should still hope for the best and stay positive inspite of what is happening in the market today.

Oh listening advices of those "experts" is really boring. In most cases all they say is meaningless, nothing new, nothing backed by arguments. As OP says, 11 expert has optimistic vision on 2019's bitcoin. Is there any other way to think? All we want is price rise, fall will hugely affect this coin and whole crypto world too. Imagine if it fall under 2K, that will be insane and finally kill mining, wish of rise and so on.

I still don't understand here, because the problem has become more difficult since the issue of regulation about crypto and also I still haven't seen any optimistic weather forecast, because there is a demand market, we can call it still weak

I did not hear clearly Dr. Rex said maybe you should take some interesting information what was said, especially the duration of the video is very long because in my opinion 17 minutes to hear the bitcoin price predictions like hearing it for 17 believe me.

In other hand, I will not distinguish the prediction said by an expert or even a newbie. Because it's just a prediction, there is no element who will make it come true. Back again, in 2018 how many experts said that the price of bitcoin would be soar? 50k 100k or more than that, but are there any predictions that come true. This is just a lesson for us not to be too easy to believe in a person's prediction even though it's an expert, just believe in yourself.

prediction is the same as speculation both are unreal and dont have enough evidence that their statement can come true , so you are right mate and i frankly i agree on you but i can somehow believe on an expert than on a complete noob its because experts are more knowledgeable . they already have an enough  experience about how technical stuff works  .


Its cool because experts believe more about the potential of cryptos as much as an average joe . i guess they are also investing on crypto because they dont have any doubts based on what they speak  .  not only on 2018 but even today ,  many news are popping and experts are predicting that crypto can rose above 20k and above . to good to be true eh ?

all investments are predictions and speculations but investment with crypto currencies at this time is more at risk, indeed without income tax but without investment legality it is very easy to lose and disappear

It's good to trust a crypto expert but don't be too sure, and I think to try to make a profit in the short term we need to make our own research and strategy.

What? trust crypto expert? First, there's no such thing as expert here, Second, if you believed in them, its like believing that Santa is real. And most of time, those supposedly, crypto expert prediction is a missed. And they are just like you and me, just making a wild educated guess.

If you know how to do TA then much better, if you don't then try to learn it so that you don't need to really to others so called expert predictions.

BTc will be growing for sure in coming time so will other best crypto altcoins will also grow along with it It is only the time that matter now as once the bull run is back market will fly like 2017 and soon it will be supported by few other countries too.

I did not rely on predictions from experts. according to last year's experience, many predictions from experts did not occur so I concluded that the crypto market fluctuations cannot be predicted. Therefore, I prefer to do my own analysis regarding what will happen in the future to the crypto market.

Many are already tired of the predictions of experts and this does not bring anything, especially for those who have experienced but rely more on their instincts and experiences. And this attitude is good because bitcoin itself cannot be stable and we need to learn a lot from those who are more professional and experienced. Many experts who trap so seem irrelevant.

Even if it is influential person,  we should not belive to their opinions because it doesn't have enough basis and evidence to what they are saying. Their predictions are pure hunch so we should not follow on what they are saying.

Yes, time is running and provides evidence that bitcoin is growing well and valuable. With all the positive news that supports the development of bitcoin, the steps to move forward and be useful will be realized and various countries will also receive it well.

Every expert has his own opinion and we can use it as a basis to speculate about crypto market prices in the future. So thus increasing our profits to get better profits.

Does he has something to do with REX coin? Is he the owner? However, if he is. I've read some article about him and the ICO he promotes. The platform was good, searching the list of some real state properties using blockchain is somewhat unique. His opinions mean alot to everyone who is here in crypto world.

actually nowadays this has turned into a common thing where we see they call completely random people as "influential experts" but when you check out the history of that person you can see he wasn't even around for that long. not to mention that following what they said, if you have a tiny bit of experience, you can see how full of shit they are!

Wow, so blockchain has been in existence since the 90s, if this is true then I will believe all what the video details about. but still I hope cryptocurrency will do better before the year goes off.

At the end of this year they might be a serious upward trend in crypto currency in general and just bitcoin. Although, this is just my personal opinion which is bound to happen as speculated or not at all when the time comes but that is my hope.

There is no expert in cryptocurrency. All is just prediction and speculation. Cryptocurrency is volatile and nobody can tell when the market going up and when it will going down. Even this year 2019,no person can say the exact scenario to be happen.

Experts are real but prediction and speculations are not  . no matter how experience the person are  , he cant stilk predict what will happen on the future . not unless he is a time traveller that can travel thru times  .


Cool ! For real ?  All i know is blockchain was invented along with bitcoin on the year 2008 - 2009  .  i also notice that some ico's were already existed just before the invention of cryptos  . how can that be possible ? Maybe the rumor was true that blockchain already existed along time ago .

Hope this happen in 2019. Cryptocurrency market have a hard time last year after rising in 2017 and many people loss faith in this market because the price drop very deep. But i keep confident on this market because cryptocurrency still at early age and will growing faster in near future.

So lets we wait for the time. Many of us have a big loss since 2018, and it's been a year to wait for the recovering of the market, and in this year, the market is starting to rise, and I guess that soon, we will see the crypto will recover again. But I don't expect that the bad news that will comes because this will makes the market is not ready to.

I was surprised by the chart that shows the Top 10 countries (by funds raised, 2018) where it showed Singapore at the top. I never knew Singapore was so active in the ICO scene. Another surprise was the Cayman Islands and also British Virgin Islands, but I figure those were some of the gambling related ICOs where legality was a issue. <Might even have been scam ICO's, looking for a hiding place>  ::)

It was a interesting presentation, but just a pity that the audio was that bad.  :( 

especially for those who invest in the beginning of 2018, it certainly requires extra patience to this day. I also hope that, at least this year the market will show signs of recovery, so that it can help establish their confidence. on the other hand at this time prices tend to be stable, hopefully after this there is a breakout up, so that there is a trend reversal

I have invested in a few coins for the best year, but in fact I am not stable and capital has dropped by almost 60%, hopefully this year there will be progress in the market, because I still believe that the cryptocurrency will advance better.

No it is not lose but it all about profit you only need to have patience and work well in market, don’t sell at panic and don’t trust every person as well every coin, keep holding and don’t let your emotions make you sell at panic because panic selling is one of major factor which can make you lose your money so better plan well then bull is so close to run.

actually everyone can do such things  wherein like what experts doing.  but its doesn't mean we will trust on it easily because of their testimonials.  Of course we must do our work as well to ensure no regrets at the end . in fact we are already on this open market so stop relying on others thoughts and predictions.  Because mostly ppl nowadays that claiming as an expert always faild and didn't succeed .  So must make our own TA to avoid regrets.

I remember when 2018 open for us! A lot of speculation that said cryptocurrency will be boomed. However, it did not happen for some reasons. I think it might take a long ride before the market completely recover. Maybe, we can say that 2019 will be a good start for cryptocurrency yet it does not say that it gonna happen. However, I always expect for a bull run season because it skipped the year 2018 so, it might goes along this year. I just want to collect more and more tokens on my wallet so that I will harvest them during the bull season.

Although everything is just a prediction but in my opinion it is a very influential thing for investors to invest in crypto currencies, it can move the crypto currency trade balance especially if the prediction is delivered by an institution or someone who is considered an expert in crypto currencies.

Its ok to listen but never trust those self proclaimed expert. There is no things in cryptomarket as an expert, we can all make predictions but we can’t dictate the time. If you do focus on their analyzation you might be joining the hype and lose money as they take profit.   

Few specialists possibly right and some perhaps wrong, they were not going anyplace Blockchain and crypto will turn into a need later on I accept. In spite of such a significant number of faultfinders and discussions it stands like the principal presence of the web, as this industry is going standard no one can stop it.
However way to development is extremely clear and more organizations will apply it.

I keep relying to myself than to others because I have more trust in myself. I know that I can make high returns if I follow my trading instincts than to follow the advices those who says that they are crypto experts.

It seems really useful for the people who are thinking about the future of all their investment and it gives the confidence also for doing great with good strategy for our future journey.

if all goes according to plan and expectations, even ico will succeed in the present and in the future. but sometimes we don't know what's happening on the ground and how the market can be manipulated freely by whales.

He said that, "he started his journey to blockchain in 1991" but he didn't said that it is already out online, especially that we doesn't have internet back than 1991. I think blockchain that time is still discovering until year 2010 came, the data streaming of it.

I'm not the first year in cryptocurrency. And learned not to trust the opinion of experts. In most cases, these are just useless words with no facts.

I didn't feel the need to watch the video because there were some small points in the article that left me hesitant. I was wondering if there was blockchain technology in 1991? If there was such a technology at the time, why did this technology reappear in about 15-16 years, and why did it become so popular just 1-2 years ago? If I have to comment honestly, I think there are contradictions within the article and these contradictions are still going on in the video. On the other hand, the created content seems to have been created for advertising and interest.

Exactly, and you'll be doing yourself a favor if you continue that way, there predictions are mere speculations that anyone can come up with, I could go on YouTube today and start giving out predictions and giving out signals, even if i don't know shit about'em.Thats what most of them do, so pay absolutely no attention whatsoever to it

Of course we don't trust those so called experts and it's good to hear that even your still early in your crypto career, you already know not to listed to them because most of them are not useless words without any basis. But there are a lot of newbies who still fall for this kind of trap and still believes that there are experts and they listen to them. But as they grow and be mature I'm sure they will learn not to trust them or at least listen but they should make their decision based on facts and not from so called experts around.

This is my view too about cryptocurrencies but the truth is that it is still on the speculations area.  We did not really know what is going to happen in future and the only way we would know this is truth is to wait for the future.  The ico market really create the bearish market we are currently witnessing and that is because the scamming activities that takes place in the market is high and that makes it hard for people to invest in cryptocurrencies coin market.  The current cryptocurrencies holders are becoming wiser and everyone is playing safe.

Everyone has got a reason behind their prediction stating the possibility of the growth. As the market is manipulative, a big contribution is through the speculators. In other words every prediction cannot get into reality. It happens on a random manner getting coincidence with any one predictions put forth by experts gaining good credit to him on the crypto market.

"Experts" is just one term that has no weight at all in crypto. Whenever people hear "expert" they just know that something totally useless or wrong will come out. Whenever I hear anything from an expert ,I just realize I know more than they know which means either they are not experts at all (which is the correct answer) or I am even more expert than an expert on this subject (Highly doubt it).

I still do have experts in crypto tough, just people who are not claimed to be experts but I claim them experts for myself.
For example, Doog and Rhavar and Stunna on crypto gambling is my experts, erik voorhees when it comes to exchanges is my expert (including binance ceo as well), Vitalik is my expert when it comes to blockchain technology. You gotta find your own experts in this world.

As long we not using bitcoin in real world, every investment we made in crypto market is a speculation. But in internet era, i think bitcoin is not speculation anymore because investment banking like JP Morgan or Morgan Stanley jump in this market. Its make bitcoin is not a speculation asset anymore and i think become real investment

to be able to attract investors is by giving a clear understanding of the various types of convenience offered by bitcoin to its users. of course, in bitcoin trading there are always price predictions from time to time, this is so that investors provide real support, especially in terms of capital.

Well if we have to see the movements, it was quite bearish for sometime since 2018 and until now it has not made a great spark to kickstart and explosion. I believe that the optimistic remarks could have been seen by the way how people reacted to using cryptocurrency. If there was nothing really important to it then people could have gone and left everything forgotten. Certainly there will be a time that cryptocurrency will be put to a good use or utility which will make it more stable than now or some years ago.

Sometimes predictions are also good and a way to set ones part right in making decisions concerning a particular coin, though most predictions has lots of flaws in them and are child’s play, like the say, Truth is bitter.

Most accurate predictions doesn’t sound good to the ear but the lies are what people want to hear, I remember vividly when bitcoin went to the moon and at the point it got to $10000, there were some silent analyst that predicted bitcoin falling same year far below half price of that but many of us kept believing BTC will get to $100,000 and 1m. So, it’s not as if there are no accurate predictions out there just that the right predictions are bitter to hear.

All these cryptocurrency experts should not be trusted, they have already promised a lot and none of this happened. You must always think and count everything by yourself, do not trust any experts, otherwise you can remain without anything.

Because basically cryptocurrency itself cannot be guessed 100% and makes us confused, important things must be analyzed and also in-depth research to be able to get a result to be able to decide whether to invest or not

When i see this video, it is surprise for me, that in 1991 blockchain was here, then why not people used it?
A long period of time, people didn't about blockchain. Anyway, everyone has his own experience of ICO market, only few people get and achieve success not all. And about the prediction, now i have come in this stage where i have no trust on any prediction, but still i will say that you are right, because crypto market has a future for those people who are working on online and investment. 

I won't get too much hype on how icobench rate those ICO. Yes it's good to have ratings on the project we are in to but I guess, icobench is not one of rating site I trust.

The experts you're referring to are experts within their own field, but have no clue about what the market will be doing, and in most cases they don't even care. Gambling is still gambling, regardless of Bitcoin's value, so Doog, Rhavar and Stunna are fine either way. Erik Voorhees runs Shapeshift and he benefits from the pumps and dumps that are happening within crypto.

What people are interested in is what the price will be doing. They just want to see their bags pump hard as soon as possible, and that's why a lot of these so called experts keep gaining exposure on news outlets.

Exactly. I have learnt also not to take the words of these experts seriously because most times their predictions have failed. He may have had a number of years of experience with blockchain but this is not to justify that everything he says or foresees would come through. Although I appreciate that everything he said is in favor of bitcoin which I sure know to be true, but this is not to say the rise of bitcoin is based on his speculation.

Regardless of what experts are speculating and what average Joe's are expecting, I am very much confident about bouncing back of this market within 2019. How we had a longer bearish market, now it is another time to have longer bullish market as new investors may keep on joining cryptos to let the bulls continuously run.

When comparing the previous year to this year 2019 will be more promising than the previous year so it look very good for everyone to be with confident about their investment and also make sum investment will also helpful for the future.

we do not yet know whether the market this year will be better than the previous year, because we have been running for several months this year but the conditions are still the same, it is likely that it will still be able to fall even deeper or even occur soon.
we can only hope for the best this year so that everyone can trust again in investing in cryptocurrency, but it seems that big investors are still waiting for a lower price than they can now to invest, because now the price can be said to be stable.

First to hear about dr Rex.I also have doubt about blockchain in 1991 but maybe he is Satoshi Nakamoto
25 % of global GDP will be stored in blockchain in next ten years
Will be many different kind of blockchain what wll support diffrent industries
Those one above are facts blockchain is like internet was at his beginning

I also have the same prejudices with you and maybe dr. Rex is the person we are looking for that is hidden behind the name Satoshi Nakamoto. I also believe that in the future the blockchain will become a technology that will be used by various industries.

When I saw that year I was suppose but I am assuming The writer meant there was underground development of blockchain before public declaration and publication of the whitepaper by Satoshi Nakamoto.

I think the mistake will be to give them 100% trust, the problem with how we always expect them to give complete accurate predictions but this is usually impossible, the best is to accept their predictions  rising or fall as guide to knowing how to trade in the market but let’s not have high expectations.

I think there have recorded cases of experts who have also made predictions that have come true. So, I would say that we shouldn’t write them off completely but let’s always endeavor to make more research on every speculation.

I think by making them a reference, and with further research, it will improve accuracy. of course all decisions must be based on personal analysis, so that later can shape our character

I think ICO projects are only suitable when it only operates in the country but investors want to raise capital.
There have been too many scams and investors have lost confidence in ICO projects.
It will soon die and the IEO will start a new era.

It seems that the prediction period has begun, with bullish and bearish opinions more conservative than those from last year. While it is difficult to provide a certain level of strength in the predictions of a market as unstable and youthful as cryptomarket, it does not seem to stop analysts and fans from exposing their views to the world.

but I think there are still many good ico this year, although many are also fraudulent. but come back to yourself to learn from previous failures when choosing ico, because this is not simple

Even the most ordinary person can say that price rise and fall is very common and it will continue this way, 2019 will bring new hopes for investors and for traders, it is increase so according to current market situation price will continue increase for few months even more than this, it is trust worthy investment as compare to have any other business because in crypto currency lose is almost nothing.

This year it seems that market has to be on the recovery mode and also it has shown some sign last month when it has cross 4k levels and risen till 4200$. Also, it is back again to 4k levels now as well so we can see it is trying to take a leap.

Yeah don’t totally relay on your expert advice but try to make your own research and then find what could be better for you, sometime people will advise you to invest in something and your interest and  knowledge is something else so don’t do this, as listen to everyone but what your mind and your experience says is right.

Its not bad to listed up someones opinion yet you can add up these analysis to your own understanding too but i agree that depending on someone's
word isnt really ideal at all because tendency of failure is really high yet theres no experts nor professionals when it comes to very volatile market.
Its better to make decisions on your own and even you lost money that wont really make any regrets to you.

It may be funny to someone after looking at the year, but who knows blockchain really exist during that year, yet they havent found any relevant technology that they could use to run the blockchain.
There were really a lot of latest technologies that took years to develop and blockchain isnt an exemption,  so I have to agree with this person above, blockchain technology might be under-developed during that year.

experts have a logical mind for the success of the crypto market, I think, but we need concrete action for the success of the crypto market, if it's just a word, I don't think it's interested, so let's prove it with real action if we want to believe,

In crypto platform experts also predict the future possibilities not a predefined results so If you believe the experts word it is your opinion. Normally some major adoption is need for increase the crypto market cap because still we need some awareness of blockchain technology then only it will going to moon and all are easily predict the upcoming days.

It is right prediction experts has given us an advice to adopt crypto currency right now because later on price will rise too high and our progress of profit making will not as faster as we can get the chance to have in 2019, take the expert advice but never follow everyone just invest on right time on the behalf of you talent and your experience.

we cannot predict clearly about the current price because indeed the market is still uncertain, everything can still be done now where prices can still be played, so we cannot clearly know the price of bitcoin or other altcoins

In my opinion the most important thing is that we have to know the basics about the market so that we can get data to be able to do speculation and market analysis regarding the conditions that might occur this year