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Technologists, financiers and ideologues predicted that 2014 would bebitcoin’s coming-out party, but the digital currency slipped more than 70 percent from the previous year’s high. Still, some are claiming victory and predicting even more success for the future.Bitcoin—a digital currency started in 2009—has consistently captured headlines since its meteoric rise from a few dollars to more than $1,150 in 2013, but experts say that the focus on its slide to the $300 range misses the point. Instead, they point to growing merchant adoption and consumer awareness as the year’s high points.As for the future, bitcoin-related business owners said they are looking forward to stabilization and legitimacy from impending government regulation.“Regardless of the price, it was a huge year for bitcoin,” said Sonny Singh, chief commercial officer at BitPay. “A year - See more at: http://bitcoinfaucetrelay.com/will-2015-be-bitcoins-year/#sthash.HVx49ouC.dpuf

I am not going to make any bold predictions, but I sure hope it will be

I think so. There are a lot of development coming out in 2015. Many millions of dollars are injecting into the crypto projects and the increasing number of experts or savvy adopters are joining this area.

2015-2030 are bitcoin´s years  :P

I hope so.
so many bitcoin project in 2015 coming out, and more merchant accpet bitcoin too :D

for those in bitcoin for the fiat it'll be a great year, for those in bitcoin for initial concepts promise.....bitcoin will be dead to them.

2015 would a important year for Bitcoin: to live or to die.

I guess he means, anonymity, avoiding taxes, destroying governments, whipping your ass and all the other things, that were never promised by anyone, but are just, what some people want Bitcoin to do.

If Bitcoin can become Ironclad, like a vault in your pocket, then folks will have confidence in the technology. Make Bitcoin theft and fraud proof. If you build it, they will come.

haha I hope forever remain bitcoin years, while it benefits all people who play :)

I certainly hope so, my guess is 2nd half of the year if adoption and VC money into 2.0 apps kick on, and focus turns to the next halving

well thats a pretty bad guess, and wrong on every point.


the idea of bitcoin was an alternative to the banks controlled fiat, to take the greedy money changes out of the equation, one of the main reasons for decentralisation, whats the point of an alternative to the greedy banks if we ourselves given the same power act the same way?

lets not even begin at the whitepapers original mircotransctions point re reason for bitcoin over the banks, something the btc powers to be flipped on ages back  :'(

We don't have the power to freeze accounts.
We don't have the power to print as many Bitcoin as we want.
We don't have the power to reverse a transaction.

So, about what power are you talking about?

Could you please just cut this use of general terms, that means nothing and tell us, what exactly do you mean?

Still don't know yet. More and more companies are accepting it but it's to early to be mainstream. We just need a few more years the get a bigger foundation.

Talk about adoption, i hope paypal integration is moving on as planned. Seems quiet for now without any news. If it does work that will certainly make a whole lot of difference for bitcoin in 2015.

Most accurate response in this entire topic.

there is no turning back for me while bitcoin is still worthwhile

not of any use to the layman in the world with estimated bitcoin crypto ..we the future of search is not investor / businessman crypto .. and if it is to be an investor / crypto in the business world should already know the risk of d world crypto. so as we do not need to bother thinking about investors or that losses in the crypto world ... valuable as though the price down why despite lacking spirit ..

And 2014. People will say this indefinitely until it does actually happen. I suppose it depends what you mean by 'bitcoin's year' as well. Personally I don't care whether it happens this year or next, but I would like to see some decent gains or at least a new all time high within five years and a lot of merchant adoption (I want to be able to spend my coins freely). I think more and more money is coming into bitcoin and both more merchants and bitcoin users are getting involved so I think it will happen sooner or later.

I have a feeling this will be a year of adoption upside and general consolidation
2016 will be a big year

This is the same as “the year of the Linux desktop”. I personally think this is utter nonsense.

Agreed!

the bitcoin year will be the year when manipulatin stops acting in the markets

Yes if you talk about the technology side , it will be the year of bitcoin; but if you are talking about the speculate side I don't think this year will be the "year of bitcoin".

I think we should wait the next halving.

I believe that by August it will be back up to 310usd that will be the high point

Wasn't 2014 supposed to be a BIG year?

Then people say but 2015 will be totally different, it will be major!

2015 is certainly different, but not the kind of different people were hoping for  :D

I'm inclined to agree with you.

Every year since 2009 has been bitcoin's year. http://trilema.com/2013/things-that-matter-these-days-things-that-dont-matter-these-days/

except bitcoin has some mayor advantages over cash, unlike linux.

You're right, but predicting that this year will be “the year of [something]” has no value, because we don't know how things will happen. We will only be able to tell the year of success of a technology after the fact.

That's why I think, discussing about this in the present is useless.

https://www.cryptocoinsnews.com/why-bitcoin-value-doesnt-matter/

I don't expect any major changes in 2015 for bitcoin. Don't think bitcoin prise will go above 500$ in 2015, but it will always be difficult to predict price

after reading your comments I also doubt the price will be stepping $500, but we do not know what will happen this year on bitcoin, hopefully only remain stable.

I tend to agree with most of the people who posted here that 2015 will be a year in bitcoin. As more positive news and mass adaption is being implemented throughout the globe, there is only one way but up. We might see a glimpse of $500 too, saying it boldly yes.

Every year is Bitcoin year ;)

But seriously, I don't think, 2015 will be the year we reach mass adoption. There will be growth sure, (by that I mean projects not price), but I think, we will still lack this one killer app, that everybody wants/needs. And even if we will get that, it may take some time, before people realize that.

Well... the Gemini project is looming... The Winklevoss's are fixed on their ideas... New regulations may be/have already been passed to control bitcoin (which i doubt many will adhere to). It's anyone's say if you ask me. I would like to preserve my optimism.

I don't think so.

People keep saying mass adoption.  Do they even have an idea how far that is away from where Bitcoin is currently at?

Mass adoption (knowingly or not) is no where in sight.  There is no killer app, there is no reason for the average joe to get in to Bitcoin nor care about it at this point, security is still a major issue, crytos are confusing to tech-illiterate people, vendor acceptance doesn't mean anything other than selling pressure, good news/press generally has negative effects.

As awful as it is to say, but thankfully human greed is helping to keep mining alive.  Speculation buying, market manipulation and the strong taking from the weak hands actually helps keep money in Bitcoin, which we need at this point due to current inflation.

However, this unstable wild west is exactly what is needed for Bitcoin and the Blockchain to evolve and mature over time.


TL;DR

It is too early to tell and we are still in a bear market.  RAWR

I corrected that for you.

define what u mean by we, ie you're not part of the collective in any of my 'we' replies

your power points reply aren't even in the context of my post so i'll reply similarly;

"We don't have the power to freeze accounts."

can and has been done, one of the reason for an infamous btc fork.

"We don't have the power to print as many Bitcoin as we want."

can on several different level, and has been done for real before, again hence on of the infamous previous forks.

and currently is being done in a kind of way by various exchanges and other third parties through various financial product; you'd reply oh but thats no real bitcoins, but the products is just as real as those found in fiat (and all crypto nutjobs accuse fiat of being printed limitlessly).

"We don't have the power to reverse a transaction."

again can and has been done before ie again look at a previous infamous bitcoin fork.

However in context my whole point about being the greedy bankers is most people now in crypto are in it for the FIAT, not in it to make frictionless money, not in it to give people control over their money for better or for worse, but simply to buy a token and try and sell it to the next sucker for a higher FIAT price.

all makes the point of bitcoin redundant.

Not so, at least in the way you are assuming I do.  I care about the price in the sense that I hope it (regardless of much higher or much lower) has no negative impact on the adoption and growth of the technology.  Crashing and Moon-ing would both cause serious issues for the coin and the chain at this time.

and false too  ;D

Bitcoin will live for few years at least as hot sauce...every year is important for BTC..as it is still pretty much in early stages..

I think you're correct. It's still in the first phase.

Your only example about how the power was misused, is a bug that was fixed, so forged coins can not be used anymore?
So, we should stop fixing bugs and just use the first version of Bitcoin-QT Satoshi released?

ok now ur just arguing for the sake of it.

the irony of bitcointalk is half the post are bitching about the wealthy elite while the other half is all about how to become them  :-\

It's all speculation, but I think bitcoin has a long life left yet, but it could go tits up if something far superior came along, though if that was going to happen it likely already would have. I think 2015 will be another relatively disappointing year regarding the price but it'll have a few ups and downs and a lot of merchants getting involved but this wont necessarily be reflected in its fiat value.


Hot Sauce? What does that even mean?

it's pretty tasty actually, did you seriously never try?

http://img.foodnetwork.com/FOOD/2012/08/03/HE_hot-sauce-taste-test-01_s4x3_lead.jpg

i personally like hot sauces made of habaneros because i like the citrus-like flavor. But others are nice too.

Sadly I do not think 2015 will be bitcoin's 'year'. I think we'll see gains but it'll be a similar story to last year. Personally I think it'll take a 2-3 years for bitcoin to break into the mainstream but I hope it happens much sooner. I have patience, though.

I don't know what others think but I think bitcoin is still at the early stage and each and every year we are making progress. It's definitely not a do or die kind of thing.

Last year was absolutely devastating for bitcoin. Sinked from above $1200 to below $250. I  won't make any prediction but I do think this is a rebound year for bitcoin as countries in Asia, ex. China are making big moves. I certainly hope it will be. ;)

Let's hope the miners are happy this year :)

Otherwise we have no hope :(