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bitcoin is going to $2k in january and $4k 1 minute after block halving.  be prepared... be very prepared

why do you think that the block reward halving will have this kind of effect on price?

There is like ten of these threads every day. $XXX in Q1? $XXX in January? $XXXX next week?

Answer is no one knows. I personally don't believe in $2000 January, it would be to fast and too soon. $2000 I can see being reality during 2016 but January? Nope.

There is no way the price will be $2000 in January. $2000 might be a target for the end of year. $1000 could be after halving.

Lol, first 1k, now 2k in january. Some very positive thinking people here ;)
Let's first see if we reach 500 usd. If we do, then we can talk about 1k or up. For me 2k is a no go..

Just quoting so you'll feel silly next month.

Did you feel silly about all your predictions ?

Shit another waste thread. >_<

How come this people waste their energy posting non sense thread. Let's face the reality first.

It's "moron", not "manan".

We have the previous block halving to go by and we also have other alt coins to go by.  People are invested in the network before halving and after halving they change nothing, so the price goes up since the supply is less.

That's something that wouldn't happen in my opinion by either January or a minute after the halving. Block halving does have an effect in possible price increase but it won't make everything double just like that. Not sure if you based this on the reward miners will get afterward but that doesn't directly affect the price increase, it's just an indirectly proportional way not the other way around and certainly wouldn't make it double in value.

OMG :D I really like your thinkings because it may really gone happen and everybody gets a pionior and get rich for his made of coins ;)
Wait for it :D  ::)

regards
lama-hunter

Market prices incorporate information as soon as this information is available. The future supply of Bitcoin is completely transparent. All market participants are able to react now.
A price movement only happens when new information enters the market place. The halving is not new information and should therefore be reflected in the price already.

I think we don't need to wait till the next month to be honest. Out of the wild prediction. To me it sounds completely odd, and I really don't understand what drove the OP to such a conclusion.

Negative on 2k. Up to 500-550 then down to around 400 after Xmas.

2k$ in January lol its not going to happen it will reach around 600$ after Christmas parties it will jump back to 300s or 400s . back to normal :P

Guys let's just forget and leave this thread to clean the Speculation section. Yes its free to speculate but its annoying to see some troll speculation. Let's bury this thread by not posting here. -last-

Maybe he bought 1 btc and he is hoping for fast money now?!
In my humble opinion this is to optimistic, I will be satisfied if we rise a bit more, and hold that price for several months. I saw predictions all over the internet and I`m optimistic also, but this is too much. I`m also afraid about that after big rise there is big fall.
When u look everything, the question is not what a btc will be worth, but what a $ will be worth? I`m confused with all this sometimes.

There are two groups of new users that register to make 1 post about prices. First group writes about prices going to the moon, and more than double its price in few weeks. The other group writes about going to few dollars or nothing. I don't understand why anyone could be so interested about writing that, you can't change prices writing here.

I love to see peoples high hope regarding bitcoin price these days which is enough to create the massive buy force. But it will be over hope or over confident to think it will be 2k by january next year.

I think it's too fast, it may only be increased by about $ 800, if 2k $ may have happened in mid-2016, but hopefully it's true  :)

Nah thats way too fast more like $600ish. $2k maybe after the halving.

No way, that's just not a realistic thing to look forward too. It's not even at $500, how can you think that bitcoin will hit $2000 in just a couple of weeks. I'm happy enough if bitcoin can reach $500 and stay there for a while.

I don't think so, I can't agree with you here. It's too soon we're not even half way to hit $2000.
I think it will get to $500 - $600 in January.

Another option is that he bought next to the ath, close to $1200 and wants to get the return on his 'investments'. All and all, $2k is not going to happen in January. Let's see if we get there at all in 2016. That won't be easy at all, despite many optimists in this forum.

Based on what! when speculating i like to see people how do you calculate it.
By this there is no basement to even think that the price will be double tripled.
January is 2 weeks left so i doubt that something 2k - 4k will happen.

I love to see it that happen, but we need to look the reality about it. It won't just go that up in a month.
I can only say you never know what will happen so lets just watch what is going to happen.

What goes make you can said like this, surely it will not happen. We now closer to january and the price still around $440-$470

LIke most of these threads is based on 100% speculation and 0% truth. But it's fun if it happen right.
For that reason i keep reading (and hoping) someone has some analysis or good arguments.

I would prefer to see fewer topics and less posts, but based on a bit more deeper analysis.
One may speculate, but the speculation should be based on some kind of arguments, either technical (charts) or fundamental, not just on the pure 'gut feeling'.
Otherwise this section is over-flooded by the topics, $750 tomorrow, $2k in January, that bring nothing to the discussion, as OP has no arguments, and the discussion dies after max. 2-3 pages.

Insane, but it's actually possible to see 2000 USD per BTC by January. You wouldn't see a single dollar more in June/July though. My guess is slowly rising prices to a new base price by April, much higher than today. Nothing will happen on halving day or week/month. Another guess is a PUMP late 2016, long after halving, followed by a major correction (crash) by q1 2017 and followed by another two years of stagnating prices, though on a higher level than in 2015.

No, bitcoin's value is not even half way there. Unless it travels up to the moon, I don't think this will happen.
Bitcoin can't even reach $500 just yet so it's hard to believe bitcoin can reach $2000 in a couple of weeks.

This is possible to reach that high of kind of money, but I think it January we will just reach 600 dollars.
Maybe in November 2016 we will reach 1500 dollars. For me the price now is okey so I am not that worried for now.

2K in January that would be nice., I hope that it will happen so that I cdan sell 50% of my bitcoins.
I think if halving comes than bitcoin will be worth 1000 dollars or more, for now is not increasing that high.

Yeah very true, some have a good speculation tho so maybe 15% is the truth.
Maybe we are wrong, maybe that in january will reach to 2K in January.

Way 2 fast, I d expect around $1k by July 20, 2016, when block halving takes place.

naah we will surely not achieve such a high price in just a month im hoping that it would be possible to get to 600 what would mean we are slowly but surely climbing back to all time high price this would attract a lot more users to the bitcoin community then

we must consider if the OP is talking "as a stable value" or "as a peak" because the latter is more feasible of course and utterly possible even in january

insubstantial rise are very much unpredictable it could skyrocket to 3 k in january for all we know to return at the current value 1-3 months later

LOL  :D

I'm hoping it goes the other way so I can buy more! 

Yeah me too I really like that bitcoin is going up, but is just to expensieve to buy.
I would like that in january will just go down and with that I can buy and later I will just want to go higher.

I would also like to believe that, but the reality is that even expecting over 1 k values is maybe too much to ask for January.
The peak will be 2nd quarter next year, i believe, and sadly it's also most probable that it's only going to last for a short period of time, driven purely by speculation.

Generally, the supply of anything being cut by 50% will spike the price

I drink beer so if I am told by the brewery there will be 50% less supply of beer in the world every day after next June..... I will buy a pile of it before that...... But maybe not yet

A month or two before June I would buy it....

I think that around the year 2016 to 2020 the bitcoin price will be just go to 700 - 1200 dollars.
I think that is better to say that than 400 to 700 dollar for me is to low. I just want that bitcoin will just go higher.

Drop in January.

yeah possible, but only as a price correction, because of a previous pump that increased too fast

we might assist at another good amount of big dump before reaching 1k+ as a new stable vlue

You never know with bitcoin, it's too soon to say what will happen in the upcoming years.
I agree with you that between now and 2020 bitcoin will stay around $700 - $1200, I'm okay with this, I could always sell if I need some fiat.

January will be interesting. I suspect the first week it will be all postive.
Then investors become realistic and will sell like never before. If that happends, we should expect a 350 usd rate or so.

But i hope for a 400 usd low.

Hehe 2k would be great for the economics of the Bitcoin?
Or do you think this will make a panic and several banks will invest in the Bitcoin?

regards
lama-hunter

True, price does increase if supply decreases.
However, this price increase does happen as soon as people know about the supply situation. Your brewery told you about the 50% supply cut in 2016 on the day that Satoshi published bitcoin. Since then, no new information about bitcoin supply has entered the marketplace.

That would be so nice if bitcoin reaches $2k by January as like your are predicting there but i don't think price will cross $600 in the month of January there is hope to get stable floor above $500 into next month.

I believe this will only be possible if bitcoin will start off with a huge pump. I think that when bitcoin reaches $500 it will go back down to $450, unless there's a small pump coming in I think the highest price it will reach is $700 before the end of this year.

In January it will be just go to 500 dollars I think. It won't go that high for now.
If that was possible than I should have bought now more than 2 bitcoins.

I would love to see $2k next month..

Seems to me a little farfetched right now. I'm happy enough if bitcoin will be at a stable $500 - $600 by the end of January.
But who knows right, maybe bitcoin is able to reach $1000 by then if we get a pump going.

Lol seriously reaching 2k mark is the dream of Bitcoin users but I don't think it's gonna happen anytime may be this time next year it might reach 2k marks I just hopes that it should not drop down rather than increasing.

Seems a bit too soon for this to happen in January. I think that the highest value bitcoin will be in January is $1000. I don't think we'll even see a $2000 mark next year.
I'm basing this off from how bitcoin has progressed this last year, 2015.

Yeah that is still to high for me 1000 dollars in January I think when we reach 500 this month. In January will just go to 450 dollars. I know for soem people don't want it to happen that goes down, but is better to buy.
It is kinda expensive to me to buy now, I was just hoping after halving that goes up. So that I can buy a lot now.
I hope that it goes down even more so that I can buy.

But you will not see the $2k price in the next 3 months. Even if the price touches $2k, it will come down quickly.

It's very high what we are talking about, but if miners are serious and they won't sell their coins this cheap, then we might see even more than such prices mentioned by OP, i.e.; $2k...

There are chances, but no guarantees when it comes to the price...

You seem to be very much confident that this will happen, huh!?!?
But yes, if that happens, then everyone will be happy, as many folks are possessing loads of coins expecting to see six figures for their coins.
$2k in January isn't easy, but yes a possibility in the next 6 - 9 months.

$1k as a stable value? well that is very, very far away. We may get for moment to, and beyond, $1k in the next bubble phase (and that is yet to be seen), but not as a stable value. Stable value after next bubble would be somewhere at $500-600, but we are talking here about 2017 and beyond.
Disclaimer: by stable value I understand something that is the base price for a month at least and provides a solid support. Stable value does not mean staying at a given price for 2-3 days.

I think having a 2.000 dollars in January is unlikely to happen. The more I think about it that won't happen.
What a spect is that in January the price of bitcoin will be at 500 dollars at thats it.

I think it can happen if we want it. We must believe in it..

Nah, after reconsidering it, it won't happen. The idea alone is lunatic. A coin increased 800% in 2 months?
We need to focus on price stability first. Be it 400 or 500, stability is key for new investors to step in now.

Are you crazy? ;D $2k will not be happen maybe in the future if the bitcoins still increasing.
But for now i will believe that the price will rise to 500 this december.

It is not possible for the bitcoin to be over $2000 in January 2016. Maybe possible in December 2016.

Quite a bold prediction imo, though the bitcoin markets never fail to surprise us with such events. Maybe I'll settle for a much more conservative and achievable prediction: somewhere around $650-$700 is possible with the current market sentiment that we are having right now.

Lol... Seems legit  ::)

Come on man, you can be more realistic than that.

why december, when the halving is at july? 2k is expected as i see it to enter in play, not as a stable price of course, in april or march or around spring anyway

but i can see 1k+ in january, if the current trend continue

even getting to $1k in January will be very difficult. I don't see it coming. There are no fundamental reasons for such a growth, and halving alone is too far away yet.
We will see how January plays out, but I expect to stay between $400 and $500, as the most probable outcome. I wouldn't rule out one more test of $350 support zone, either, which btw. should be more likely than going to $1k. 

I don't think there's any floor for BTC to go $2k straight without any reasons, $500 would be a better option IMHO.
We seriously need huge pumpers to let this happen, else a miraculous stick would help. :P

IMO $500 would be difficult too in January. Let's say a bit more of March or April, when the halving is almost just a few weeks away.

Yes $500 in january could be tough. But hopefully will happen in Q1 2016.
Would be a nice catalyst and statement for the coming months until the halving.

OP: Are you smoking weed?


2k in January?  Actually it already was - January 2000...

This is making no sense at all.
Just after the last christmas dip bringing the price back to 400 USD, how can we expect it go 5x within a month?

I hope it's true, if the bitcoin prices rose to 2k in January to come, will be very many new millionaires will emerge, perhaps one of them is me  8)

it just dream :P

bitcoin will not go that fast. My prediction bitcoin in January 2016 will not be more than $600.

too many people have still to many bitcoins , when price get to 1200$ they will unload some bitcoin , and that brings the price back down , i think it will take some years before bitcoin price will reach thousands of dollars

I do not believe after halving block bitcoin will go very far. I mean if it was more than $1k?

2k+ is possible, but it may not stay there very long.

Not in January 2016. It might happen in 2017. I think we may reach a new ATH but it will come down to settle below $1000 as I don't think the buy support at the $1000 level is strong enough.

I think after the block halving we will go quite far down! The run up to the halving will be exciting and knowing when to get out will also be fun. 1 min after halving we go to $4k I will have some of what you're on OP.
I don't think we will get to $2k either we will be lucky and should be very happy to get anywhere near the ATH.
And still there remains the forum dreamers who are waiting for btc to make them rich :)

the halfing isnt going to change the prices by a factor of 2 in a couple of minutes. i agree itll have an effect on the prices it just wont be that instantaneous, people will notice the decreased supply and gradually the prices will go up.

$2k on january? imposible it wont be happen in this following year maybe in the future it will happen but for now the next predict is around 400 to 500
So its better to stay holding bitcoin than buying bitcoin with the price rate..

no 4k $ next year  ;)

There is no accurate way to predict how this is going to go.  If you have some Bitcoins, maybe keep them.  The halving should not overall result in a lower price, maybe a higher one.

No one knows the future value of bitcoin. The best thing to depend on is a bunch of peoples opinions put in one such as this thread
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1297610.0

But event then you still don't know the future value of bitcoin.

Do not think that would happen at all. Everybody knows about the halving right now, and that has to be somewhat included (at least partly) in the current prices we are seeing. Expect a raise, but not that much.

Of course, I would love to be mistaken.

I think the halfing will take its too around the 600 dollar mark.  No more no less,  Any of these predictions of 1k to 2k are just not realistic imo. The times of massive spikes of value are over and only a slow rise from now on.

nobody has a clue what real bitcoin demand actually is.... there will be a run before the halving then a pullback, on that day the next 24 hours will be critical.... as we watch the real bitcoin demand either drive the price to the moon or everyone will be bag holders for years.

too fantastic and it looks like it might not happen. only stay 4 days towards january.

Don't you think 24 hours is an understatement, IMO it should at least take a week or more to stabilize after the halving, that is when the true demand for bitcoin would be seen.

i do agree with you we won't see bitcoin price reach to $2000 in 2016 also i think the highest price in 2016 is $1000

Yeah It will not cross more than 700$ I guess. More over price going low day by day I think till halving happen price will go down only I feel. After halving price will be double in future. So save bitcoins as much you can now. buy bitcoin as well.

Correct me if I am wrong.  I have been working with Bitcoin from the beginning, but I never had this thought.  In the stock market, the price of a stock is affected by both market capital and the buying and selling price of the traders.  Even if everyone drops Microsoft stock, there is a basement bottom to the stock because it is backed by market capital, it can only go so low.

Is there any asset base anywhere that is behind Bitcoin.  I know there are vast pools of BTC with companies and sites and that exchanges stack out a certain amount of BTC to show that there is value in their service and company, but I do not think that even sites as trusted and old as something like blockchain.info actually connect any market capital with their base of BTC.  Even their servers and hard assets are part of a corporation or company and not associated with a chunk of BTC.

Even I believe anything is possible with bitcoin prices, but it would be a very tough call to reach $2000 mark by 2016 January itself. But similar to what happened in November of this year, a huge pump will make this price also possible.

Why is it impossible? Price has risen from 300 to 1200 in one month before. Momentum gains can be very quick, just look how we shot up to 500 with 20-30 usd gains a day.

Everything is possible with bitcoin. Sure, it will be heavily manipulated, but somehow this attracts buyers from all corners making it possible to rise fast.

Bitcoin is currently trading at ~420 USD,it is impossible to gain 450% in jusrt a month. We can see maximum 600$ if we are lucky

even $600 is not going to happen if you look at it from a realistic point of view. i am happy if we stay at the current price this year. it doesn't need to go up each time. a stable period is also valuable.

It's impossible to gain 450% in a month  :D

Ah little grasshopper, are you going to see some sights :)

Yeah looks so pretty if the price can strong around $420-$450. so i think we have new bottom on the next year and hope price never drop below $400

uh, you remember the 1200 peak in what time frame was achieved? it was 14x the value, which 1400% in just 3 weeks...

2k makes no sense to be honest.
Frankly we should be happy if we can hold onto 500 USD. The whales have tried to break resistence there 2 times, and they failed both times.

Let's first get to 500 USD before hoping such a huge increase.

Seeing the whales failed 2 times getting to 500USD i just hope they will achieve this goal in 2016

Right. 2k Is just a dream right now. And for that matter so is 1k.

We have to be realistic. Getting to 500 dollar first is mandatory. If the price keeps under the 500 dollar too long, I am afraid we go back to 300 dollar again.

a newbie very prepared :D
but by the way we need again btc to strong price to see again scam speculation people that understand only "btc = weed money"?
We need it?


Yes in fact… 500 use could be a reasonable value also for new adopters…  I think that how jump in this "adventure" with 2k price has a really big expectation … why we have to risk the fall?!?

2k price I guess your just over positive thinking. It wont make the price as high as 2k. Im happy if the price will stay in $420+ until January. Anyway my prediction is just around $500-$700 next month.

not possible right now the price is very low right now

Anything is possible it just isn't probable but of course it can happen.
Saying that I wouldn't place a bet on it reaching $2k in January.
You have got to be kidding, the price of btc is at a nice place and not low at all it is where the market wants it to be.


That is the attitude to have lets get it to $500 milestone and then take it from there.
They did briefly manage to get it to $500 and will again no doubt about it.

No way Jose,

We need a major boost for that to happen.
For that matter we can even see the price come in a decline, since nobody is sure what caused this bubble.

you are exaggerating in speculation. it is not that easy for btc price to reach these level which has never be reached before . you are taking about a new high level for bitcoin.
we still need more time to reach 2K$ and i think it will not in 2016

It can, and maybe it will...
Because halving is coming, we really can't predict the values we might see in the future...
There is a possibility we might even see prices higher than $2k and see a new high near to halving time...

This makes sense.

2k How would that even happen? There is so many resistence levels before we can go there, i would rather put my money on red.
Getting to 700 dollar before the halving is something which could happen though.

People said At $2 the same as your saying now....
They said it again at $10-$260
Again at $250-$1200 etc  world
If it can do all that, I wouldn't ever bet it couldn't test 2k within a year

The problem is bitcoin was young then. These dayse more company's traders are using it. And thus you find more resistence in the market.
Did you see any large pump after the last pump?

Correct, there was none since more party's are splitting the cake.

Is it really speculation if you are just throwing out random numbers?

Maye you are right and is it just plain BS.
Getting to 2K is just 1 month is hard, maybe even impossible.
However an asset doubling in value in 1 month is not new. In fact on the stock market there are stocks that went x4 in less then a month..

I know it happens, but it happens for a reason. I'd like to see some reasons why the price would go to $2000 in January. Sure the halving is coming up, but that would hardly have an impact now. I don't really know of any major change in January that will up prices. Could something crazy happen that no one knew would happen? Sure. But in order to speculate you need to at least have some reasons (even if they are unlikely, or unverified) that the price would go up.

Don't get me wrong. I am praying to the Bitcoin gods that the price goes up everyday, but I guess I'm more of a realist.

Going the bitcoin price to $2000 in January is just an imagination, it's simple impossible unless something big will happen.
Most of us are optimistic that the price will be increased very soon but not like $2000 in January

Listen up bro's there is a time for being optimistic and a time for over optimistic.
2K is way to high, even for the whole of 2016, let alone 1 month.

I don't thing such a thing is possible. Right now to many people are focussed on 500 dollar.
if 500 dollar is done in january the next price can be achieved. If not we well may go back way more down.

Not all what you dream with comes true :D
Try to be realistic, the price has a long journey to reach 2k$

Even if we make it to 2k, ask yourself, would that be something good?

I beg to differ. It's a wrong signal we give the world about bitcoin.
I am sure they think of bitcoin of monopoly money.

It's time for us to be realistic. These unrealistic figures are not doing any good.
Like you say rightfully a rise to 2000 dollar would harm bitcoin more, then we could profit from it.

January is just starting and already we are seeing some nice price movements.
Sure 2k is too high but I am in for a treat this month.

$500 is possible for January. I expect price rise of $100 for each month of 2016. Next year, price rise will be even higher.

Yeah a 100 dollar price range seem to be realistic now.
I hope for 50 dollar, so 100 dollar would be a big bonus.

But it can go down too, i am always aware of this.

of course not its impossible to achieve it in just 1 month

i dont think it will be that high

It will increase after halving but we dont know when it happen
According to bitcoinblockhalf.com halving ends after 199 days and i think its june so meaning the price will change and raise above 500
On june so i think this january the price will still stable around 420-470.

No matter how bullish I am right now, I can not see the price even get to $600 this month.

No way that will happen. Even saying $600 by end of the month sounds too good to be true.
It has been just going up and down and settling right back down to $433 since boxing day and the two biggest days of the year didn't even budge the price by any significant amount.

Be prepared for your bitcoin cause it will crash anytime within this month. Prepare for going down not going up.bitcoin will only recover on last quarter of the year of 2016.

Yeah bro You are right. I don’t why OP is imagining This much After halving we expect Double the rate of current price But This is heavy contained dream. I think We can see halving on July time only. Price also will not fall due to adaption.

2K in this month nope
It might happen when halving comes but that it all

2K is still a long way to reach...
even 600...not yet reach....i dont think it will bethat high this year... ;D

But, I'm so optimistic of $2000 within halving. If it is not in January but highly possible within first quarter of 2016.
Because everything is possible with bitcoin price. I do see it's just away from double of double from current price.

To be realistic it's hardly possible to see $2000 in the first quarter of 2016 I feels like prices might come down little bit and then again will rise in the last quarter of this year, but surely Bitcoin will reach $2000 in two years

I do not see $2k is January or February. The bitcoin price could reach $1000-2000 in the middle of the year.

Today is 3rd of january and we can see price is struggling at around 400 to 450 which is same when this thread was created. Don't speculate high price within some months or year.

it is a lot 2k, maybe next year

OP is probably drunk or high so his words shouldn't be taken seriously , we are probably not going to reach 1k after the block halving reward so 4k is simply impossible  (without speaking about the fact that nothing is going to happen in JAnuary , we are staying at 400$ ) .

Nah, I don't think so. I think bitcoin will rise up to $500, that's the highest I'm guessing for this month.
I don't think there will be a huge pump coming this first month.

Not $1000 in January as that's too high to achieve in just a month. It may increase by 20-25% or decrease to $350 as there is not much demand in the market as of now. People are mostly just holding their coins and till there are not enough buyers, we can't get this price.

We are still in January and i think that we are far away from 2k, it's simply unbelievable to think that bitcoin price will be 2k, if it reaches by this december then we should be very happy.

The target for January is $500-550. There is no way the price will go to $2k this month. It might go to $2k in 12 months.

I don't think this will happen, at least not the month. I'm aiming for this amount next year.
Bitcoin needs time to grow and if you've been keeping up with it these last couple of years then you know that bitcoin comes back down after a pump.

Some one is dreaming 2K in January I don't think that will happen I can see a 500 dollars but 2K nah.
Maybe after halving we will see more than 1000 dollars. This year is about the the halving for me what will happen after that.

The other said 1K dollars and this one 2K dollars people are dreaming this time.
Well in my opinion we won't see this price after the halving I think.
I love to see also that the price can go to 2K dollars that is just such a dream.

2k is not for January, it is for July after halving, or end of year target. There is no reason for the price to go higher now.

I was thinking ok 2k but what year cuz shure its not this one

I guess it will not be achieved, it is very difficult to achieve 2k price this month, even at $ 500 it was very difficult, but there is no harm in hoping, that might occur if there is a miracle

2k will not happen. I don't believe that.
Not in january, or in 2016.
Maybe next year if the halving give us a price over of 1k. Else it will come maybe in 2020 (the next halving comes then).

January 2016 will pass soon. So the price might reach $2000 in January 2017. Even so, I am happy for the price increase.

Men that is not going to happen I wish that can go there but I don't think so so we will see what is going to happen this January for price I think just 450 dollars.

$2000 in 2017 is a more realistic price target. We first need to touch the magical $1000 barrier before we have a fantasy about $2000.

Yeah that is true at leas t if we reach 1500 dollars that is a possible that we can see a 200 dollars so that will be nice if that reach at that can be stable.

So weird that people think that this year is for bitcoin that the price can just go up. I think we need to let to the people what is bitcoin and the company's to make bitcoin grow.

I can't blame them for thinking the price will only go up this year as we still have the block halving in front of us. It makes people excited and think that they can make a great profit. Nothing wrong with that.

That is true but still in January? that is way to early for that price for sure we can see a 1000 dollars again this year after the halving.
So we will if that happens people is excited, but also panicking when it goes down.

We are not going to pass 500 and not hit 2000 cmonyou cant be serious about it

Haha yeah these speculation threads are from youngster with high hopes are trolls.

In this case someone was over ambitious I think.

These people don't know anything about how markets work. If you expect the price to reach such a high level, then they are trolling or plain stupid. No one in his right mind thinks the price reaches $2000 in such a short time.

No hope for the bitcoin to be $2k in January. There is a possibility for the price to be $500 in next month.

OP's speculation for January never even touched halfway. and his halving speculation is I think far from becoming true.  8)

$ 2K unfortunately will not happen it seems. bitcoin now begun to erode its value. $ 500 may be very likely to occur.

Says the guy who bought at 1k 3 years ago.

I bought @ $1,000 - 3 years ago!
I sold @ $1,100 - 3 years ago...lol  ;D

Sure you did.

What a golden time... when mt.gox was still a huge thing lol.

I believe we see solid growth though, hopefully we can get to $600 zone by this anytime in 2016 which stays solid.

January almost over, no $2k. What s your next forecast?

Hopefully what you suggested can take place, I saw many posts describing that by the year 2017 the price will go as high as $2k. I don.t think that is gonna happen, The value may reach to the max of about 600$ to 650$ not more than that, happy if it grows higher than the calculated price increase

That dude is fantasy man, didn't you know?

this is another exaggerated  speculation that days prove it was wrong. there is a very long journey to reach $500.
so I think reaching even $1000  this year is very hard

OP prediction was totally wrong bitcoin price not even reached half from the prediction price and might be OP will create new thread with title $2k in

february or something else

$2000 is not so realistic right now.

If you have (for ex.) 40 BTC and w8 $2000, your target is $80K, right?

Better idea is to trade or watching alts, so you can accumulate your bitcoins. 50% in few months seems very possible right now.

So, you'll have 60 BTC and the same target - $80K. Then price for dump is ~$1333. That's more realistic than 2K.

And 1,3K seems reachable for next 12 months.  ;)

you're right, of January will soon be over and there was no sign of bitcoin prices will reach $ 2K price, but still with positive thinking may price $ 2k will happen in the next month

$2k? Still @80% discount, OP! Buy buy buy!

I've got 6 bitcoins and I would love to sell them to you.
Because you seem to be a nice guy, you get another 50% discount on that 80% discount.
So what do you think?

If that's 80% off 2k, that's 400. And 50% of that is 200. If your lookin for a buyer, I'm here bud.

Oh yeah. The price is definitely 2k right now, not like it's $400 or anything.

Impossible. 4 days left and the price is still under 400$.
Why would people still bumping this thread though? Lock the thread please.

Indeed.  I think instead of making tons of new threads devoted to guesswork (which is what this all is), we should resurrect some old threads from last year or even longer where very specific predictions were made and see if any of them were right.  But thread resurrection is kinda frowned upon here I gather and I'm not volunteering to do it.  :)

If the price can be over $400 by 31 January, it is very good the price performance. The price has risen a lot over the last 6 months.

even when the price is still below $400 and above $380, then the price has still performed well. current price is just temporary. i think the real action will start 1 or 2 months before the block halving. then people will regret that they didn't buy at current prices.

I don't think this is gonna happen, I think it will raise but not with this high numbers.
The numbers that are thrown are a bit to much, I think the bitcoin will raise but only a little bit.
Maybe it will raise in high numbers after the halving but I don't think so.

without any discount price will remain $ 400 seems. if true I would buy all  ;D

Not sure why he posted it as such, $2k for this month is definitely a way off even a month ago. Who else would've though of such claim, no one. Oh, he did. Most will sell their bitcoins if it even reached a thousand, just wondering who's going to buy.

I do not think its possible, its not realistic if you compare the bitcoin market with it.
Sure it will raise, but not in this month and I think we are far from this month.

I think it will hit 2k for sure but not this month or the next month.
Maybe in about a half year.

This month has passed almoust and we didnt see price change over 500
Lets hope after chinese new year we will se moving forward

Lol. The price is not going to reach $2000 anytime soon. But it definitely is a good time to buy.

probably due the low value of oil barrel a lot of big investors could decide to approach  a massive buying on bitcoin....
I think it's only matter of time....

$2k during this summer block halving more likely, by next jan its probably back down to $800 or something haha

2k is the new 1m.

OP is the prototypical bulltard trying to reel in unsuspecting noobs into the Bitcoin ponzi.

Didn't happen!

Bitcoin's price is actually less than it was when this post came out. People selling their coins before "the big dump" that will happen before te lock halving (potentialy).

May still rise to $2k, but doesn't really seem too likely fefore the block halving now.

It's gonna be February in a few hours, let's hope this month we would see the block size issue reach a conclusion and finally see the price gain momentum towards the halving.

The OP was posted a month and a half ago when the price went 460+ and this board was full of threads predicting over-optimistic prices. When bitcoin crashes this board is full of threads predicting the death of bitcoin. The same trolls probably start both types of threads to trick us into buying or selling into the trolls orders.

I like the idea that when someone wants to speculate at least to have any basement, about 2k, January it's almost gone and this target was not reached.

it won't happen this month. i think it will take at least 6 months to a year to see an agreement about the block size issue. till that time the community keeps staying in doubt and the bitcoin alternatives keep popping up.

January ends in another 12 hours. Let's hope we at least get back to $400 per coin before the end of the month.

It's Sunday and i doubt that the price will even reach at least $380 nor $400 but 2k it's impossible.

no, of course not, i doubt that after a year we will be able to see such figures, its too big i think

$2k is too big for January and January was past already, Its february now, what are we expecting? price might just stay below $400 until before halving. I hope it will still go up before halving.  :)

Even after 6 years I don't think that it would happen. The basic reason is everything has some specific value, if the price goes that high the existence of fiat money to gets increased which may lead a situation to end up all decentralized currencies.

Another Bitcoin dream shattered... Ohwell :(

http://i3.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/000/569/804/0c3.jpg

This was a bit lofty and Feb is here and the price is very quiet.  Give it to the OP for having positive thoughts though.

Nope, didn't happen, I don't think this will happen until we're closer to halving. All bitcoin has done has gone down.
It's nice to stay positive but I don't think bitcoin will even reach 1k this month.

Hey it's February 1st (not January anymore). Yeah the price didn't go to $2k, although it would be nice ;)

I think we can also agree that the price won't actually be hitting $4k by the time halving comes. Although it's nice that the OP has positive thoughts, an increase like that is just ridiculous. I can definitely see the price of bitcoin being affected positively but it will definitely not increase up to $4k. At most it will increase a few hundred dollars.

If it does reach $4k, though, I'm taking a vacation.  8)

Only fantasy people were thinking and hoping for the price to reach $2K in January. The majority of the people are just laughing at threads like these. As you said, the price will only go up a few hundred dollars, I think exactly the same as you. I am very happy if we can have the price sitting nicely around $600 after the block halving. That can be considered a great achievement.

It might happen in June or July. We should have 2MB block size by then and the halving soon at that time.

I think after solving the block size issue, we could see a little movement  in price, but not that big, and a little more boost after the halving..  :) but $2k is still far, very far..

I still dont think that would resolve to the price to go up.

I mainly can see it in a obvious point of you. Which is what most people dont see is the more buy orders coming from somewhere else, which can be more people being involved with buying and selling bitcoin.

Unfortunately I think we will be staying below $400 for quite some time more. I saw that every weekend bitcoin price will fall and not rise above anymore. Do you guys think we can reach a higher price before the halving?

Yes but not because of halving but because of the news spreading out that price will increase during halving.

If we have a spread news like that then it may push some people to buy btc's to make benefits if the price will increase during halving.

I do not understand the weekend phenomenon. Do the miners tend to sell during the weekend for there is not much buying support then.

There is just a lot of volatility with BTC price these days. I don't think it's related to miners selling their coins. I think it's more a stand-by situation : halfing isn't so far, but we still have a few months to wait and the block size drama isn't solved... So I guess the market just doesn't really know where to go.

A close call perhaps :)
There's no basis why it will be at $2k. Will there be someone who will predict that the price will be at $2k this March? :)

within 6 years a lot can happen. by that time we must see the price at least above $1000. otherwise the price is just moving too slow or there is simply not enough demand. don't forget that the block rewards will be 6.25 btc.

The price could  be $2k in November. But it will not be in March. There is no good news to drive the price up.

We were expecting $1000 by the end of 2015 and it was not met and now we are expecting $2000 by the end of this year. lol.

$2k is ridiculous,  we can't achieve that this year, it is possible that it could peak at 1k this year and immediately go back down,, but $2k is really impossible. haha..

I do notice that the price is now rising. But I think it's now not going to grow so quickly.
Because the fact is growing very slowly.

This may be correct. January 2020 maybe? And which halving?  ;D
Funny bad predictions... I don't understand the reason of them..

I think the previous prediction is too optimistic. The price might go to $1000 just before halving. $4k is next year's price.

$4K for next year is also way too optimistic. I think it will be a more than difficult task to reach the $1000 price level again this year. There are plenty of people ready to sell the coins that they bought at sub $400 levels.

I sometimes that Bitcoin is growing.
But I think it's not going to be worth so much this time around. It builds slowly.

I think its impossible right now and i think this year will not rise above $700 because if they increase the value of the bitcoin some investors of bitcoin and also seller will be reach more than anyone in their country. So i think the maximum limit for now is $700.

It is possible to have a high price in the middle of this year, but I think too many would be selling their coins when we reach a new ATH, that won't be stable and price might dive maybe at $500..

I do not think it will happen.
Because that is a very high price and I think it can not easily happen.
I am convinced that it is going to rise. But not so fast.

of course it will not happen... did you even bother to read the title and think before posting? we are already sitting in february.

If (if) it reaches the ATH then I would imagine there will be quite a few people that bought up at that price that will just be happy to unload and walk away from it altogether.

i think those in it for the long haul will not be bought any time soon so I wouldn't anticipate a disaster, just that we may fleetingly see those prices before tumbling down again to the 500-600 kind of range (should the ATH be challenged), then the next time it passes ATH it could actually stick and find a new base.

2k will be happen in future and i think not now there's no reason that the price will rise to 2k this year.
But maybe we don't know the price fluctuate and it's always rise and dump..
So its better to collect more bitcoins and wait for 2k usd in few months..

I really do not think it goes so fast. The price will include not rise as fast.
I also think that it does not agree this year to reach the 1k.

It will not reach this number at all this year its to much.
Although the halving is coming it will maybe hit it 1 day and than get lower.

It is possible to reach $2000 by the end of the year. But it will not be in the first half or before halving.

If the price does reach $2000 by the year end, it is a all time high. That means bitcoin has great future.

No, no, it won't rise so much in one day! that's like 500% more than price now, won't happen, even after halving

Bitcoin has a great future regardless if we reach a new ATH or not this year. Let's see first if we manage to stay above $500 before getting too excited about the price. It will be a tough challenge.

Some predictions are totally ridiculous. 2000$? ::) And after halving this looks like mission impossible
Always be ready, if falling buy if rising sell. For this you must have btcs and dollars ready 24/7.

Yes, that's the truth, rising too high might also cause a problem in bitcoins stability..though it is possible to raise up to $1000 but that was the highest that I could think of..  :)

Ideal price rise will be 2% per week for the bitcioin price appreciation. If it is too high, It is too volatile.

oh no it won't go to 2000$ now and to 4000$ after halving, yes, price WILL rise after halving, but just like 100$, not 2k

Many will feel safe at 800$, that is why this excessive expectations can cause many to lose their money!
Be aware no one promising nothing!

nope, won't go 2000$, be realistic and don't spread panic, price won't rise so much, even after halving it can rise  up to 100$ but not more

That's right,, $2000 was way to high for the bitcoin,and even after halving, it is still far from reaching $2000... but as always, it is an speculation, could probably happen or might not...  :)

2k is way too unrealistic, not possible to have that large price rise,  even halving won't change it so much

$2k is not the price to be achieved in January of 2016. But I am pretty sure the price will be that in 2017.

I think the halving will only double the price, so that it could be $800 due to halving. General adoptoin will increase the price.

Indeed, it wont be that high. It is now rising slowly indeed but that doesnt mean that it will rise forever.
I hope that it will reach but I think that is not possible. It is very much and it dont happen that fast, maybe after 2 years or something.

$800 will be a more than ideal block halving price for most people. it means we reached a new high since 2014 which will make a lot people very excited. i only don't know how long that price level can be maintained due to all the dumps.

Where's the moon I was promised ? :D

It's still there where it needs to be: IN THE SKY... :P
And about the moon of BTC, it's obvious that BTC will take time and grow slowly and steadily and this should happen too, as we lose many investors and people because when people just panic buy and sell, it just looks like a P&D scheme and nothing...

That wont happen so fast. I think it will take a long time to rise. And if it is rising than it will rising very slowly.
But it is hard to predict a currency. We all hope that we can some have profit later in the future. That will be so good.

$2k could happen in January 2017. In this year, the price might not reach $1500 even after the halving.

Buy before the halving, sell after. Buy the "rumor" sell the news, never fails in bitcoin. See how insiders started buying at $360 till $450 and then sold immediately after the news of core dev consensus came out

it might happen only around 2018 january, it's 400$ now, it won't rise by 1600$ so fast, every huge price rise takes time, can't be 400$ in 1 day, 2000$ in other,  won't happen so fast

I will buy before halving. But I will not sell after the halving. I think the price of bitcoin will rise in long term eventually.

That will not happen that fast. Of course you see now that the price is rising, but it wont rise that fast.
I hope that it will rise for a long time. But it must rise faster and faster that will be good for us and for those who made an investment.

i prefer this slow rise over a massive rally.

at least with a slow grow you can be more sure that the price is going to stick around and not fall back down after a week. like every other pump that we see after the fast rise people will cash out and that will cause the price to crash and then be followed by panic sells and crash more.

But in the process there will be price drop as well. I just do not want the price to drop too quickly or too big.

Well there is really no way the price will go this high even in a period of 2 years. There is way to much sell pressure in the 500-800 region already.
My guess is we can find a 600 high this year.

2k in januarry 2017, well it could happen, but chances are very low, so i don't think that it will, i don't even think that it will go near 1000$, max is 750$, not more

2k is a big price, when considering about the time period. This price can be expected to reach by the year of 2020.

The bitcoin price shall be $1000 later this year, so the $2000 price should be reached earlier than 2020, maybe 2018.

false, price can't rise so high like you said, even in best case scenario price can't rise so high and just in 6 months to 100$, not real

price will rise because of halving, yes, but max up to 1000$, it won't rise to 4000$ in minute for sure

i doubt that only 1000 dollars per bitcoin will be possible as the halving will greatly impact the price even more than that

im pretty sure we will see something like 2000 or a bit less but surely it will exceed the all time high we had a few years back

Even the $1000 price level is nothing more than a great fantasy right now. Let's see if we can break through $500 and then $600 first. That alone will already be a more than heavy challenge with all the sell orders that will pop up as soon as we come near $500 and higher. It's not as easy as it might look to some people.

What if someone create panic near halving to cause dumping?
We could see 300$ in no time, just because nobody believe this could happen.

even if someone creates a panic and dump, halving could just balance it all, so probably there is only a small chance for the price to drop that low...

 ROFLMAOSC!!!!!!

I think the way things are, $1k per coin by the end of the year would be an exceptional outcome

Well, it depends on what the price is by then. If it's the same as now, then yes, $300 can be reached easily with enough panic among traders.

Its hard to say for what is going to happen in the future later. And I think it is not possible to happen that fast.
Because if it is rising it will not rise that fast and that is the problem.

the price not going up fast is very good in my opinion. i like the price to build up slower so it will be more sustainable than when the price goes up due to a peak. peaks are great for a quick profit, but they won't add anything to the long term price as peaks come and go. that's why i only focus on long term growth.

This is completely a useless thinking. My opinion is if the price increases in a short term to a huge price. Bitcoin is on th path of destruction.

For whales Bitcoin is service for creating more money, and they will use this more and more
while we approaching halving. After big pump i expecting return to previous price.

This is how this always go. But remember 2K is not a realistic figure. not in january nor for december.
Small, baby steps will bring bitcoin to an high.. not optimistic speculation..

yeah, it wouldn't because it's March now and that didn't happen.
I wonder why people keep saying high price. maybe because they're so optimist. no offense

His  expectations were very high to January, Only great news could trigger the price in such a short time up or down, So a "light" variation  occurs under normal conditions to BTC price.

Yeah and they were far from realistic. If the price would go this high it would have become a major pump.
I see the price going to 2k in maybe 2 years or so.Not anytime sooner.

Remember there are man parties involved into bitcoin. There won't be just a day where there will be stability. It may even never happen. Which would be perfectly fine if you ask me.
The price going up and down means it is very much alive.

Yes until its fluctuating we can have hope that it will be higher in future, and reaching $2k seems to be impossible in this year, we might see this value in next year.

The price could be $2000 in January 2018. That is after the halving and the block size increase.

It is not necessary that we will see this after that much long wait, because if the halving gets done successfully, then we are sure to see new ATHs this year. The events are not huge part of price hikes, but the manipulation is.

LOl I think Op is mentioned for this year only, not for 2018 and all.

Yeah its for the year 2016. Already January had passed. Lets hope for a better $2k by the January of year 2017.

Maybe that or if we got lucky this year at the end

The OP said this year, but you might be right, price of bitcoin might go up that high in the coming years, but definitely not this January 2016, we didn't even reach half of $2k last January..,

How do you know that halving will even happen, and how do you even know when it's going to happen? You must be life hacker or genius ;D ;D

Never mind, realised he was talking about 2016 January which has already passed... Well, wait for next year? :D

It will be not possible to have that high value in in that month, you can see that the value is not even rising now around this time and that will be bad.
But you never know what will happen with the value later and that can be very bad and good, but you see that the value is not even rising now.

2k$ is not a possible answer anytime soon, and i really doubt it will ever cross 1k$ mark. consider the first time bitcoin crossed the 1000$ barrier , how many virtual currencies  were there. look at it now, got a bunch of promising new coins and other options and people still think the price will soar just like that. i dont know .

Guys let's dream of the realistic first before bumping to $2k target. Yes there are lots of coins now that can shake the balance of crypto's price that's why traders are splitted up now. A $800 price is much realistic at this point throughout the year.

Predictions need to be realistic as quoted by above mate, 2k looks to be a imaginative value. Lots of coins emerging but these won't affect the crypts price. I too believe in a short term bitcoin might reach $800.

Any number is imaginative. Even the $800 you said is imaginative. But that is more realistic than the $2000.

Everything here is imaginative, even what we speculate is based on certain predictions. I too agree $800 looks more realistic than $2000 by jan of 2017.

$800 is very very possible in January next year. I even think $2000 is possible next January, but more probably later next year.

Reaching to $2k in january doesn't seems to be realistic as its taking too long to reach $500 at a moment but with a halving this year we can expect something around $1k in january.

I don't think that Bitcoin's price will reach $2k by the next January, the actual price is already about 400$ and it will increase most likely after the next halving so we can expect 500$ to 700$ by the end of this year.

In a year's time, it is possible for the price to rise to $2k or higher. This is due to mass adoption, halving.

Well,

But halving is a thing  with a  very close date , And as you say mass adoption  can bring that value and even  more maybe but there is no date for that to happen even if this happen.

No mate only few months more for January, that is not a long period, before that the adoption rate won't increases by even 2% also if halving hits $800 we can expect $1000 in January and not more than that.

It is good that you are positive but we have to be realistic and that is not realistic you see already know that the value is not even high now so that is really bad.
But the best thing will come and that is the halving for Bitcoin.

Yep, it can jump to a couple more hundreds more. But it's very improbable to shoot up its value upto 2k.

We have passed Junuary and the Bitcoin was not even close to $2000. We are not even in the thousand but that time will come in the future.
We are now on our way to $500 I hope that the price keeps rising.

Agreed within the month of coming 2017's January hitting $2k is tough according to the valid reason quoted in the above quote. 2% increase in a short is really hard to achieve even if large number of mass adoption takes place.

Dollar 2000 can be achieved with which rate the bitcoin has grown from the start of this year 2016. It has gone  fastest beyond our imaginations and will continue to grow more.

Whos know what happen at halving...$2 or $ 3 ? :o

Bitcoin needs the same value growth it experienced Q1 2016 along with an increased usebase, and it needs the same kind of high-profile companies starting to accept Bitcoin. EBay or Amazon accepting Bitcoin would be a big plus.

I am doubtful it would hit $2k, but we might hit $700 or a value similar to what is was before the crash in 2014/2015

$2000 is not possible this year. The price might reach $1000 after halving and by the end of the year.

I don't even think we'll reach $1000 this year as we need a lot buy support for that to happen. Only the block halving is not enough for this.

This would be nice if it was going to happen but it is not happening because we are not even at $1000. So it would be rare if we were going to $2000. Junuary is behind us and we are not even at $500.

I agree with that $500 could be a price for June, or just before the halving. After halving, the price could be $800.

It will not reach that high value because as you can see now you see that the value isnt that high now so that is not good, but maybe it will reach that value around some 2 years.
But in this fast time it will be not possible because it keeps stable for a long time.

You can except any thing at halving. But possibly if you believe in halving , then hope for the very best to happen for all us.
I strongly believe halving can make bitcoin to cross all boundaries in term of price. So, price appreciations may occur in over night.

Anything is possible with bitcoin as price can reach to the moon or else it can again fall back down, but looking at the speculation around it seems price will rise at the time of halving.

True. The value of bitcoin is stable for more or less 4 months already. It's really hard to imagine a really big jump by a short span of time, seeing that many people have already invested in bitcoin. It would be a little unfair because it's going to be like giving A LOT of free money to bitcoin holders.

Yeah I agree it is just sort of impossible for it to reach $2000 in January. We are not even at halve of that so for it to jump suddenly to $2000 is unlikely to happen. 

It will be not that high value soon because as you can see you see that the value is stable for a long time and that is bad because many people wants to sell it fast.
And that is not possible now and some people are even mad because they cant sell it and I understand that.

OP has predicted price to touch 1k by january but it only touched 500 that is half so hope we will get 1k just after 1 minute of halving (half of what OP preidcted). LOL  ;D

Well, not just it only reached $500, January is also the month when the price fall below $400.., So his prediction didn't happen...maybe it is possible after the halving takes effect, but still I think the price won't move that much...

We have just past January and the price was not at $2000. The price was not even near it the price is just moving way to slowly for it to happen. I believe that it will not even be $2000 in January 2017 we are still to far away from and with the halving coming in.

Yeah already we have passed January but the price has not reached $2k as the quote. If halving gives a big effect price might reach $2k by the year 2017.

that is right. $2000 price is not for the January of 2016. It is for the January of 2017. It depends on adoption.

What adoption?

Merchant and consumer adoption obviously. However why would this happened instantl. There are no signs, so no I don't expect it to happen.
A rice to 500 is all we will have.

With that also new investors stepping in. The more the better. Right now some parties hold too many coins so the price is too volatile.

wealth spread has always been unfair everywhere around the world. bitcoin is no exception here, and i don't think it will ever change.

Will we reach this any time soon
Price is rising these days can we get there in next period

his prediction covers till the upcoming halving, $4000 after that, it's very unlikely to happen, but who knows?
call him like that is a little too much, i think.

$4000 is not just after halving. It is the price for late 2017 when the bitcoin is adopted by many retailers.

Adoption causes a small variation in price. Adoption would never just take price high to such a big extent. In my opinion it may be around $1000 even if adoption concerns.

No as you see weven have past january and we stil have not been in the thousands yet. We are not even halfway there so I believe that it is going to take allot of time for the Bitcoin price to be in the thousands. 

I don't think that Bitcoin will reach $2k in january , unless the price increase highly and going to moon after the next halving, which isn't expected till now at least. I think may be will reach 800$ by January.

$4000 after the halving? You mean 5-10 years after the next block halving, right? Otherwise it's just dreaming what you do.

$4000 after the halving, that's the speculation of the OP, not mine. his first speculation was ridiculous and failed already, it should be the same for this second one. of course i'm not dreaming, but this topic can be let unlock.

The price is not rising now and that is quite bad for the most people because they all want to make some profit but that is not possible for them so they have to wait.
But maybe it would be nice if that is going to happen soon and that is nice, but it can takes a long time.

That amount is to much and irrelevant maybe in 10 years it would be 2k but not even then i think.
You guys need to be patient don't think to much it would never been such high.

I also think that some people are just to unrealistic they want the price to be so high that it exceeds my expectations. We have to be realistic and focus on what the price really can be in the future.   

That is hard to predict but the value will not rise that fast because as you can see now you see that the value keeps stable for a long time and that is quite bad for the most people.
Because we all want to make profit now and that is not possible so we have to wait a longer time now.

Yes, that's the truth, rising too high might also cause a problem in bitcoins stability..though it is possible to raise up to $1000

this ridiculous and useless speculation can still be put in use in some ways, i guess. if you guess it will be half of everything the OP has predicted, you should hope the price will reach 1000 after half of 1 minute.

That is right. If the bitcoin price is $1000 early next year, it is already a good achievemnet for the bitcoin community.

If a big fund manager buys into the bitcoin, the price will sky rocket. But are they allowed to do that?

Impossible to achieve this price as we have been waiting long to see price of $500 so its not possible to reach there by January.

That is right. The $2000 price is for next year or the year after next. This year, the price could be around $1000.

Nah. That's a bit too much of an overestimate.

But in the long term, bitcoin will definitely hit $2k. Whether it's sooner or later. Just a matter of time.

I would just like to see bitcoin increase around $150-$200 a year. That rate of growth is pretty stable for me.

well it depend, spike on bitcoin can really surprise us, it may be 1k easily before the next christmas and then 2k as a peak in january

i would not put it for granted, talking about the inability to reach 2k

Yeah its always good to have slow but stable growth over a period of time then to see major pump and dump, I think price would be around $800.

A growth of 200 means that bitcoin's price will remain the stable this whole year which is comforting to me. Having said that i do expect the price to go up after the halving - december.
Perhaps even a pump like we had last year.

The value is now not that high now and that is because there are a lot of people that is still using Bitcoin but the most people are waiting for a better price increase so they can sell it.
And that would be nice if we all can sell it in the next year because we already waited a long time.

I also see no why how the price is going to $2000 in january the price is just way to high. We have not touched the thousands yet so let first hit $1000 before we go to $2000 or even higher.

Most of the people are holding the bitcoin to sell at the higher price. I will use it when the price is very high.

$1k is still far away from the reach first lets touch $500 and then start dreaming of higher price its taking too long to even reach to $500 so $2k is impossible to achieve in jan.

Yeah your right very hard to believe that the price will increase fast in 2k value and yah i think your right that the only that can be possible is $1k value..
But this is still prediction there's no assurance if the price will goes to 1k value.. but i am still believe that we can make a profit after block halving..

Indeed, there is no need to speculate about 2k, if we haven't even passed the 500 mark. Even in a best case scenario 2k is not realistic.
At most 600 and with adoption from a lot of new parties perhaps 700, nothing more.

Most of the new people joining Bitcoin are only looking to earn a few bucks. Even if you have plenty of these people joining in the next couple of years, then still it won't have much impact on the price. We need people with good amounts of money coming into Bitcoin in order to get the price to rise.

It is to fast we are not halve way there so it is going to take some time before we are going to reach 2k. I think that we are going to hit 2k somewhere in 2018 but not anytime sooner unless the price is going to suddenly rise fast.

The Bitcoin value will of course not rise to that high and that is because you see that it was already stable for a long time and it needs a longer time to rise for a higher value so that is nice.
But of course it will be really hard to predict what is going to happen with Bitcoin but it will for sure reach the $500 I think.

I doubt if it occurred in January 2017. The amount to very much, and rise very high on bitcoin, perhaps halving alone will not be enough to make the price of bitcoin to $ 2k in a short time, the necessary economic crisis some countries to price bitcoin rose to $ 2 k in a time that could be said of this brief. if it's inception in 2018, it may still be close to the price $ 2k

We have passed January now and the price is still not 2000 Dollar, it will not even be 2000 Dollar in January 2017 that is just not happening. Especially with the halving also coming the price will then drop.

Even if halving bring good news for us we cannot expect that high price in the month of Jan as its really too high to expect an unrealistic too.

This has been the expectation for the past January, but due to some sort of situations the price didn't went that high. Also quoted price seems to be unrealistic even after the days of halving.

I have a simple question
To whom will you sell at $2k and $14k
Who is gonna risk that much money. Stay calm and see a 5% to 10% rise.

Right now nobody, but when the price will rise (all though I am not sure it will go that high) off course there will be people who will buy it that high.
January, 2016 and yes even 2017 will not be the time the price will go this high. Numbers like these are just no where near to being realistic.

Just prepare for steady rise with some 'moments' of despair.

There is no chance that it can reach that value in the beginning of next year and I don't see anything higher then $600 in next year, be realistic.

Only the mass adoption will increase the price. The halving will not increase the price if there is no demand.

Mass adoption will help significantly that's right.

It will have a long term impact on the price while the block halving will most likely have a very short term impact on the price because the demand last year wasn't very high as the price kept fairly stable.

That the price kept itself hovering within a certain range was solely due to the block halving that is coming towards us.

People expect the price to go up so they are not really interested in selling their coins.

I am quite sure that if there wasn't a block halving this year that the price would go slowly down.

The value will not rise that fast and that is because it needs a long time to rise to reach that high value so people with Bitcoin needs some patience to wait for a better value.
And that is hard for some people because not everyone has the patience and some of them are even greedy.

I also hope the bitcoin price does not rise too fast. But it is already $500 now. i just want it to stay here for some time.

I think price will be around $800 in January, as we have almost reached to $500 today so I think that price can be achieved till that time.

I think the price could be around $800 in December. but that is not much difference from your predictions.

That has not happened like I thought it would not happen, maybe in the future the chance of that happening will be bigger. Next January 2017 it can happen.

I do not think the price will be $2000 next January. The price could reach that level in the latter part of the year.

Honestly as my speculation the price won't hit to $2k value in the next january it's impossible if you check the chart of 2013 when the price hit to 1k value its over valued because more people are investing their money in bitcoin and that time they are using bitcoin in illegal purposes like buying drugs and weapons online they are using bitcoin because of anonymous transaction of bitcoin.. so now its already used by illegal purposes. so this year and next january its impossible to hit $2k value..

first of all, i don't think that price will rise to 4000$ only 1 minute after halving, that is stupid talks only because that won't ever happen, because of many reasons, price rises needs time

and second, price now is 550$ only, price wasn't even close to 2000$ in this year January, so this is also another reason why price can't rise to 4000$ after halving in July

This kind of replies are just idiotic. I don't think it's normal to predict something like that all in the open. Let's be happy we have seen a good period of increase and now finally the time has come to fully enjoy a decent price for out bitcoins. With the future being very bright, i just hope we can hold the current price.

if you say that in January 2017, it could possibly happen. we do not know until when to increase the bitcoin will stop, and may rise in price of bitcoin will be up on the latest peak, ie bitcoin rewarded $ 2,000 in January. I can only hope it's true, and it will be stable

You are right. The bitcoin price will not rise like that. The price is $638 now. It might be $1000 in December this year.

The price was over $710 a few hours ago. It is around $690 now. I think the price could be more than $1000 late this year.

It is difficulty to say. The bitcoin price is still very volatile. It is $540 at the moment. But I still think it will be $1000 in 12 months.

$1000 based on what? wishful thinking. Price won't just climb to $1k because we all want that. There must be a reason, at least some fundamentals to support. Bitcoin is in a quite different place, compared to where it was in the end of 2013. We already had the experience of climbing to $1200 based on pure speculation and we all know how it ended. History doesn't need to repeat, what's more it will take a lot of new money flowing into Bitcoin to get to $1k. Why and from where? I don't see it at the moment.

The price rise to the $1000 will depends on the mass adoption. We need the block size increase to help mass adoption.

Not necessarily that figure does not corresponds to the event that you describe however a higher price  could do it.

The bitcoin will be used more when it takes less time to get the first confirmaiton. People will have good user experience.

$2000 is possible in January 2018. It will not be so high in January 2017. The price could be around $1000 then.

I think we will see 2k in january 2017 for sure
Maybe at the end of this year but sure for next one

Can't be predicted exactly, but has got more possibility is there to touch $1000 with the gradual increase than a much bigger value of $2000.

That is what I hope. If the price rises too fast, and a bubble is caused, the price will drop a lot. That is bad for adoption.

I dont know, 2k it seems too high for such a short interval.

2k Was never a price that was realistic. At best we can see a new price level (if a pump happens) to 1k.
And that's very very optimistic.

i think such price is definitely really realistic because people will be buying their bitcoins at a very rapid pace, i think that such price will surely be possible in january of next year

i hope that bitcoin will grow to such big price really easily and allow me to earn money, but anything might happen so im not putting too much efforts in getting my bitcoins right now

You hope Bitcoin rises so you become rich but you don't have any.

Seems a good plan.

Solid.

Lol, yeah. It would be pretty stupid for someone to realise the potential that bitcoin has, and still not invest anything into it.
I suggest that you place 20% of your wealth into bitcoin, because $2k is easy as hell to achieve.
I'm going with more actually, more than 90% of my savings.

I'm happy with 100% of my savings in btc but I have friends who have borrowed loans and turned it into btc.... Some 200% or higher than everything they own!
Either go balls deep. Or don't go at all....
No guts, no glory!! :)

Bitcoin can't rise from $650 to $4000 in just one minute, come on.. This means +600% profit in one minute, which is most likely impossible. Just like I said, we've seen no changes after the halvening. This is because we will see the changes in time, not in one minute.

It will take some time for the bitcoin to rise from $600 to $4000. That could happen in 2 to 5 years in the future.

It is possible for the price to be $2000 in january 2017 but the price has to really rise after the halving if that does not happen then we can forget it.
I predict that the price then has to be at least $1000 I am almost sure of that because with the last rising we were so close.

But that needs very good news to drive up the price and we need more positive adoption news as well.

I don't think the price will touch $2k in January, my prediction is that the price might be around $1,000 to $1,400.

The price at this moment seems to be fighting against 670 dollar. If it passes 700 I am sure we will reach the new height at 770 if it goes down to under 600 we may find resistance at 550 or even 500 dollar. This alone makes it hard to predict where the price eventually will go.

i think that it is really possible that we will see 2 thousand dollar price the next january because bitcoin still has a lot of potential to grow in my opinion making me a lot of money easily

It is possible for the bitcoin price to be two thousand dollars in the next January. But it relyes on the general usage.

It is even possible that the bitcoin market price reaches two thousand dollars this year if the usage increases.

thats true and i think that bitcoin price will reach such heights pretty soon really easily, i hope that in the future there will be a decent growth and we will make money

i think you are right about this, it will definitely take some time but we will see the huge prices in the near future, i hope that it will allow me to make some good profit really easily

the usage of bitcoin has been increasing for the past year. and there are new services and merchants that have started accepting bitcoin in their business and i think the biggest one recently was Valve which brought bitcoin to millions of gamers online that had to use credit cards before to buy games and charge their steam wallets.

Take it easy. This thread was opened on December 2015 and the current market conditions are very different. And seeing the current stability in the bitcoin behavior for the last weeks despite the highly expected halving, it seems really difficult to see on January 2017 a price beyond $900.

That was a sweet hope by that newbie but not reached, the value of bitcoin in January was much lower as it was around $380, but Thanks God that after that because of the news of halving the price at least double upped.

I do not think that the price is going to be $2k in january because it is to soon for that to happen, we will have to wait longer for that to happen.
I hope that it is going to happen sooner then later.

probably we see this good target in the next year remember there are negative interest rates imposed by banks on the fiat system...

Yeah and I think $2k can be achieved by the end of the 2017 not before that and I would be much satisfied even if touches to the price of $1k in january.

yeah, people need to have a lot of good news in order not to be afraid of buying their bitcoins right now

If we see mass adoption in this year then there is a possibility of achieving this price in january but I don't think it will remain stable there for a long time as its difficult to expect price stability from bitcoin.

For the past few weeks we were experiencing a good stability in price , I don't know whether this continues in future or not. If this continues we can expect the price to be in the range between $1000 to 1200 and if not it won't cross $1000 even.

For the past few weeks we were experiencing a good stability in price , I don't know whether this continues in future or not. If this continues we can expect the price to be in the range between $1000 to 1200 and if not it won't cross $1000 even.

I think so. The bitcoin price is quite stable at the moment. It is consolidating well, so the price could rise further.

i doubt that this will happen too, we might touch a new all time high pretty soon too though i dont think that the price will go that high in just a few months

I think price will be around $800 to 900 range by that time and its really difficult to predict the price above that in such a short span of time.

I would agree with this at the most. It could even be less than that based on the stability right now in price. It seems to be caught between $650 and $680 for days now, so it may rise very slowly.

I would be happy if we can get towards $800 as the lowest medium or the new medium to hold.

If prices can hold for more then 2 months like that - then I have more faith in towards the $2k.

I hope that next year January the price can be $2,000 but I do not believe that it is going to happen because it seems to soon for that.
 think that the price is sooner going to be $1000 in January.

$2k is impossible, may  it would reach $1k in january. Since Bitcoins price is unpredictable as you can see it stays its price at $680 price as of now .. Lets see what happen in upcoming years or months to come. We would all assume that bitcoin price would go high that we never expected to reach .

According to the general adoption level of the bitcoin, I think the bitcoin price could be $2000 in lat 2017.

It is quite possible for the bitcoin price to be 2000 dollars in 2017, but it depends on the number of users.

The value of the social network is proportional to the square of the user numbers. So if the number of bitcoin user rises, the will move up faster.

yeah, the price will surely be much higher, in my opinion in a few months we might even reach a new all time high that will make us all some good money easily

Seriously, what makes you think we'll hit a new ATH in a few months? I can't even see the price reach $1000 again this year. Perhaps not even the $900 price level.

true true, everything depends on people themselves, if they want to buy the bitcoins then the price will go up a lot and if they want to get more fiat then it will be dumped

people are re-discovering the many positive aspects of using bitcoin for payments as well as for holding bitcoin. The chatter picks up on trading platforms, and people start purchasing the coin and pumping the price.  It only depends on what people think will be its future price.

I think it is possible for the bitcoin price to be $900 to 1000 in January 2017. $2000 could be possible in 2018.

I agree with that. In the short term, I mean for a few weeks, the price could drop to $550. But it will rise later.

i think it might be achievable, though anything is possible with the price so i wouldnt pay too much expectation into it right now

Well, I also agree, I think it's very fast bitcoin has a price $ 2,000 in January, because most likely the price at the time of the month of January 2017 is approximately $ 900- $ 1000, even if the price of bitcoin down, but I'm pretty sure the price of bitcoin will rise to the height and stabilized in the late 2016's.

That could happen. But due to the Bitfinex hack, the price could be lower in January 2017, maybe $1000.

yes, you're right, but this time the price of bitcoin down far enough. bitcoin prices must rise to the height before the end of the year and reached a price of $ 1000 or more, because it is very difficult to reach $ 2,000 in January, if the price of bitcoin unstable for now. There is the possibility of bitcoin prices will not arrive at the price of $ 1,000 before the end of the year, but I hope it does not happen, I expect the price of bitcoin until the price of $ 1,000 before the end of the year

I used to think the bitcoin price could be $1000 by the end of this year. But it could be $1000 some time next year.

Bitcoin however withstand the current hack situation.Such an issue was exposed by a hack at Bitstamp in early 2015, when exchanges, merchants and ATM providers connected to the exchange experienced a notable disruption.

Now it’s unclear if any smaller exchanges were impacted, and smaller exchanges contacted by CoinDesk and reported no disruptions.
It is not so far for bitcoin to reach $1k, I believe it will achieve in short term.

The Ethereum DAO hack and the Bitcoin Bitfinex exchange will reduce people's confidence in crypto currency.

While Bitcoin has an impact on other cryptocurrencies, the reverse is not true.
The Ethereum DAO issues (or other alt currencies' problems) have limited impact on Bitcoin.

not impossible but looking too difficult because $2k mean more than double just in 5 months, the price of bitcoin already effected by the the previous scandal of bifinex, and still not recover to its previous position although the investor regain their confidence and they started buying bitcoin again and therefore the price of bitcoin are now recovering, hope that in very start of the next year the price of bitcoin will cross 1200$ very easily.

I think it is not possible for the bitcoin price to reach $2000 in January 2017. The price is still recovering from the hack.

Slightly longer bitcoin prices will reach $ 600 back. from the time of falling prices, this is a short time. if the price of bitcoin really going up, maybe the price will go up in October or November to more than $ 1,000 and will probably be $ 1,800 at the end of the year. Well, maybe it will make the price of bitcoin to $ 2000 in the early months of 2017. I just hope that these predictions really happened

it is definitely possible i hope this price is definitely going to be reached pretty soon

I dont think it will be possible any time soon not this year or in january
If we somehow hit 1000 it will be great but 2k is far away

Even $1000 is far away at this point. It will require the market to absorb insane amounts of sell orders as soon as we go over the $900 level. And I am quite sure that massive sell walls will pop up at just below $1000 to prevent it from reaching that price level. It will be a real challenge.

thats true, it is sad to see that over time we get more and more of those bad reputation things that disallow cryptos and bitcoin to evolve over time