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Will we find this gift under our tree?

No. Honestly speaking, I find the current price already to be somewhat of a Christmas gift. Right now we have to make sure we will settle above the $750 level that so far has been the point of resistance, where from there we always went down. For now we broke that resistance point, but for how long? I don't think it's enough to reach the $800 levels on western exchanges.

i hope so but i also doubt it.
because $1000 is $250 away and that kind of rise in only one month is not possible and it is not even favorable because that kind of rise will be followed by a big dump back to $700. but i think we may see price touching $800 near XMas.

I would be worried if it gets $1k during Christmas.... there will be a huge dump next year if that happens. Stable increase would be much preferable.

If 2 year high will fall now, 1000+ is very possible before new year.

in november 2013 price went from sub $200 to $1163 (bitstamp). i agree though that a slow and steady rise is more favorable.

And see what this brings to bitcoin economy (2013 bubble),  and those people who should have been a solid supporter of bitcoin now is one of those bitcoin hater/basher.  Anyway, I'm with you that a normal growth of bitcoin is a lot better than a sudden increase in price.
As of the bitcoin price, i think it would not hit 1000USD, probably around 780 uSD - 850 USD at the end of 2016. 

the current price $770 and meanwhile raising +230$ for less than a month i have to say that is pretty hard but indeed if everyday the prices increasing step by step maybe that is possible but i don't think will so easy because if the price hit $800 above before Christmas i fear the market will happening panic selling and the price will falling down

everyone certainly expect Christmas day can increase the price of bitcoin up to 1000 USD. but we have to think that the day will also be a lot of people who sell bitcoin. they will need the money for a long holiday. ;D

The 2013 rise was a one-off. People were just discovering bitcoin and MtGox was running it's infamous trading bot to inflate prices. Those days are never coming back, which is a good thing.

I do wish bitcoin can reach 1000$ it will be a perfect christmas gift for all of bitcoin user, but we must think realistic, even it reach 1000$ it will be only a monent because everyone will sell their coin, i prefer slow and steady rising like in this few months

No, the min $700-$800 range is already a nice X-mass gift.

Its very hard to reach up for that at this moment since christmas is approaching and it dont have enough time to stretch for 1000$ and i believe thay the right price for us to see is at 750-800$+ price range and also i've think the 1000$ will be achievable next year if there's no something bad will be happen to cut down the surging of the price at this point.

nah. i'd be extremely surprised if it got anywhere near there and it wouldn't be very healthy if it did. the current progress is strong and steady. that's way better for everyone.

Don't think so to be honest.Sure you should never say never but I don't have that much faith.
More likely we will correct again when reaching a certain point.And if we can consolidate on a solid 750-800 USD level I would be really happy and satisfied.Anything more than that is a nice present which I will gladly accept of course.

It would be great if it'd hit $1000, That will be too quick and i bet many people will sell their btcs if that happen there will be a huge dump err.

The price should be around $750-$800 this christmas,  I think

i think we have to start to be satisfied with $800 and possibly another jump rope play for bitcoin over this price with another +$20 fluctuation.

i am surprised though to see 770+ price today. because it is mostly out of nowhere for me, there is no news going on that can be associated with this rise.

there wasn't any news for previous rises to late 700s either. there doesn't really have to be and i don't think positive news ever has much immediate effect.

I don't think it will be at $1000 by christmas, I think it will stabilise at around $800 before making the next jump

well, the increase in early december BTC is really impressive. most likely, prices will continue to rise bitcoin indeed, might even reach $ 1,000 by the end of the month. Well, I just hope it really will be stable. but, I'm not sure if BTC at $ 1,000 by Christmas

Yeah, high possibility me thinks. Im thinking we wont stop by and look at that magical 4-figure number for another half a year, we can get accelerated and move much higher than that. Since gox's ATH was around 1241 USD, my selling target would be not less than 1400 USD by march, making btc the top ruler in the fintech space again.

I think the maximum that the price will go before the end of this year should be not more that 800$, the price is very stable since the summer. You could see the pattern that the price rise slowly but not increasing like a Lamborgini at his full speed on the highway.

I will be very happy if the price could reach 1000$ ;)

There is no assurance that the price of bitcoin will going to touch in $1k value for me it is impossible that the price can be hit at $1k value.
I feel that the price will hit in 800 value because it is nearly to happen..  since the price is already 770 so the possibility that the price will tocuh in 800 value but for $k value for me it takes long time before we can see the price touch in 1k.

It is not impossible that this happens,a few days ago the price was 730$ and today on most exchanges is around 770$,while in China price is close to 800$ and it is around 792$.We only need 10$ rise per day to reach 1000$ by Christmas,but many will sell long before that causing a drop in price.

I would personally like to see stable 800$ at the end of this year,it is more realistic and in the long term much better for BTC

May be $800 not $1000 by Christmas as there is not much time remaining to reach Christmas this year. May be we will see $1000 by next year Christmas   ;);D

Actually its good to have stable price rise by making floor on some points, we need to create floor in $750 or $800 now and than with another pump we can easily cross $900. Better not to have quick pump and quick dump..

I do not think so. There is a small chance that a price pump like that would happen, even a smaller chance of it happening without a big dump right after the price pumps. That speculation is rather random, I do not think the price will rise much before 2017 comes.

Exactly. The slow and steady rises are much better than the huge rises then huge falls. This way it's just good returns rather than a penny stock that's flying all over the place. I think $800 or $850USD is very realistic.

It is certainly looking this way right now.
With the way bitcoin price is surging the way it has been doing for the last 12 hours.

Usually for Christmas people need money to spent on gifts and many other stupidity ;) so i don't think that price will go up so much. My prediction is also around $800 - $850 ant the end of December.

No, I don't think so but I'd love to be proved wrong. I can't see a rise like that being a reality in such a small space of time with no real great news making it possible.

I'd be happy to be stable over $800 by Xmas.

A real gift would be to reach $930USD which would be a new CAD ATH.

In Christmas time people buy gifts so they sell their coins for fiat and the bitcoin price ought to come down, but I've observed that the reverse is happening.
Maybe people are now receiving bitcoins as Christmas gifts.

I've been giving paper wallets containing $5-$10 worth of BTC as stocking stuffers for years now.

I figure it's 2 gifts in 1: enough Bitcoin to buy a beer and for those new to Bitcoin, a chance to learn.

Preaching about Bitcoin is a losing prospect. People will figure you're trying to promote some scam. Give them something worth something and they'll take the time to learn how to use it.

Win-win.

Though I very much want us to get there, getting there in 3 weeks wouldn't be good.   It might be damn fun, like all bull markets and bubbles are, but we'd crash hard. 

Plus I don't have enough accumulated.  Need to buy a hell of a lot more before the trip to the moon.

Eh, that would be greet but it's not going to be more than 800$ this year, maybe it's price will be between 730-750 despite today's price 763$. Wishes are wishes and bitcoin was created by satoshi, not by santa so it means price will be like it's today and it was some weeks ago.
Nothing is impossible and if that happen, well I'll sell half of my bitcoins immediately.

I would really like it to be able to stay stable because everytime it has risen this fast in the past it comes down just as much as it rose to such levels.
So good luck to everybody that is predicting that this will be the new high for other currencies.

The price is rising fast these days, but we should remember that Bitcoin was moving sideways in the 725-750 range for almost a month now. Yes, it has risen a few percent during the last few days, but there is nothing extraordinary in such movements. With many other assets, prices often change in a similar way. First, they consolidate at some level, then make a quick jump to the next level. Nothing to worry about.

I wasn't predicting a new ATH. I was saying it would be a real gift.

My "prediction" if you want to call it that, was for $800.

Just to get things into perspective:

http://i664.photobucket.com/albums/vv10/JimboToronto/chart161202.png

"Bear" in mind that this is Bitstamp, aka Bearstamp, traditionally low-ball.

Don't think so. I think if we happen to hit the $800 price level that we have done an amazing job this year. I really can't see it settle or reach anywhere near the $900 levels (let alone reach $1000). Every time the price is going up in a decent manner people seem to have unrealistically high expectations. I prefer the price to go up slowly to $1000 where we reach it later in 2017 or maybe even 2018. This year comes way too soon.

I don't think, because it means a +40% from the actual price so far, it's a really big value.
Actually in these days we see the best capitalization of the whole market, so we are now in a peek!
But probably we can see a 800$-900$ value under the Christmas tree!

I think your estimations are quite realistic and that is the way it should go if it is to keep any of it's growth in the last day. Steady and then wait.

I think 1000 dollar is a litte bit to high for this Christmas. Maybe next year with Christmas that looks very possible for me. For this year i think we will easyly pass the 800 dollar. I have just seen on C-CEX they sell now at 783 dollar. Not bad way we took the last weeks.

800 value is much more possibility to be happen than 1k value before christmas and i think 1k value will not happen this year instead this following year we can see that the price will touch in 1k value..  unless if there is another good news before christmass that can push the price of bitcoin until 1k value..

2017 maybe 2018 for sure

I changed my mind recently, how time passed higher chances that price will get to 1000 $ are for next year then end for this year. As a gambler I calculate odds all the time, and I'm not some proud prick I know to admit when I was wrong.
In case price get to 1000 $ before new year I will be pleasantly surprised.

Think that over 800 is good price for Xmas  dont think 1k can be achieved  maybe im wrong but it would be good to see that price

The prices in Indian exchanges have already crossed the thousand dollar mark because of the demonetization of currency and now the price of bitcoin has jumped from 750 dollars to 775 dollars and i am sure it will cross the 800 dollar mark in a week or so and you would see some sell off,i wonder the issues in India will make some changes in the price world wide too

Well, it cant reach a $1000 this year. Im starting to save my bitcoins for that prize and earn real money. Next year probably, it might reach $900 going to $1000. It is a good prize for users of bitcoin and I hope not only the users and the Bitcoin's prize will go up. But also the stores that accept bitcoin will do.

I don't even know that there is a reason for Bitcoin to hit $800 honestly.
Unless the situation in India is bringing in that many new users, this is just a bubble.
No new services, still having confirmation issues, people still arguing over segwit.
There is actually zero good news about Bitcoin right now.

There are still 23 days remaining before that special occasion and I don't know if it is still possible that it will be able to reach $1,000 or else it will be possible to reach $800 only. But still I don't want to get discouraged and dismayed with this, let's just hope so.

But was there any reason for Bitcoin to hit $700 before? Methinks, it is impossible to say with certainty in regard to any price level. But we could still speculate that Bitcoin adoption increases and that stimulates prices to grow. If it is really so, the prices should be slowly rising over time. But isn't that what we have seen recently? The price has been moving inside the range for quite some time now, and maybe it's time to move higher?

That would be definitely something hard to achieve in three weeks as SegWit will probably won't be activated by then and I don't see anything else that could boost the price at the moment other then developing bitcoin more.

Cant wait to see it. We already reached once again the highest price this year and 1000 price this christnas is possible. If bitcoin can get through the 800$ ,1000$ in price is real

   If bitcoin can get through 800 $ then 900 $ will be real wish, and 1000 reality. Yes, one step at the time I also think that is good rise and logical sequence of upcoming events.
   I also would like to see that famous 1000$, too much talking about it wake up wish in each of us.

I see bitcoin price climbing while most of the altcoins are falling.
I suppose money flows from altcoin to bitcoin.
Maybe because ETH as number two in market capitalization went down so hard the last few days, people are losing trust into altcoins in general.

Actually, according to my desktop widget, we're at 760$. Christmas is in 22 days. That would be a rise of 240$ in 22 days, so a rate of about 11$ a day. A puntual rise of 11$ is not an awesome victory, but rising for 22 consecutive days at a rate of 11$ a day is clearly not sustainable.

Let's assume it will : since we're in the speculation board, I'll give you my speculation on what might happen then. I see only thing, a crash. Be realistic ! Such a rise will in a sure manner get quickly compensated by a significant rise that will probably make us get back to the level of 600$. Some people are hoping for such a Christmas gift, but for me it isn't, since you would have a very tight timespan to sell and profit from it. Most common people would of course just enjoy it and consider that rise as something that will last, and they will end losing money as most could in the rise sell to avoid losing too much. Most clever people would of course keep them because they don't care about the fiat price of a bitcoin.

I actually consider ourselves pretty lucky, as the value of a bitcoin near doubled in a just a year, while I've been seeing it constant when I joined. We better have a slow and constant rise than great spikes that will make people avoid Bitcoin due to its volatility that seems to have calmed down a bit that late times. Think about it before asking a 1000$ Bitcoin to Santa Claus ;) !

It looks more like price adjustment. Whenever Bitcoin grows, most altcoins are going down because their prices are given in bitcoins. Basically, it means that there is no real flowing of money from altcoins to bitcoin and back.

Regarding Bitcoin price itself, if it doesn't go below $750 next few days, that level may establish itself as a new support before going higher, to the next resistance level at $800. That said, we are likely going to trend in that range through the end of 2016.

It can happen like in 2013 where the biggest rise was in December. Wouldn't it be great if the history repeated itself after 3 long years?

If you are believing that history is just repeating itself. There is still a month enough to see that if this possible to happen.

And this will make a lot of investors sell immediately their bitcoins that they are holding, so if this happens. Expect a very rapid price decrease too

And to many other traders it will be a sign that Bitcoin is destined to be much bigger than it is today. I'm sure that when the prices were at $300 last year people were telling themselves that once it doubles they'll take the profit and leave, but once it passed $600 there was no big crash back to $300 again. Instead it went up. $1000 is not a magic barrier, we've been there before!

To tell the truth, those people were right, to a certain extent. They was expecting the price to continue growing through the end of the halving, and it had in fact been growing till the time when the halving was about to happen. Many holders started to massively sell their bitcoins about a month before the event. So it was more about time, not price as such.

With just over 20 days to ago, and ~30% hike required, I wouldn't banking on this bit of news to make my Christmas day.
We got to have patience, irrespective of the stellar performance that Bitcoin has displayed this year.

I see no but hey we already have a gift under our tree by looking how far the price went up before the year ends. It's more thankful isn't it than a quick jump to the moon. It must maintain first the resistance if the price will reached $800 or $900 before breaching the $1000 mark.

Talking about the reality, average bitcoiner will surely use some of their bitcoin to take part of the Christmas Season. Since bitcoin value is quiet high to consider, I see some people will take advantage of it and use it primarily for regular spendings that is present during the said season.

My own speculation as always.

Bitcoin is not having any negative news to go below the current rate and if the trend continues it could cross $800 in coming weeks and normally the price would take a dip during christmas and new year eve and thats what the historic graph says and so i do expect that during this year too.

Yes all current events (new US president and China looks for alternative investments etc) are supporting bitcoin prices to go upward. The festival seasons must be another big support for bitcoin prices to stay strong. Hopefully, we can expect bitcoin prices to reach ATH at any time in the remaining days of 2016.

That might indeed be a few reasons that the price goes upwards. 1000 dollar seems to me too high for the end of the year, but surely in 2017, that must be possible. I hope that the transactions doesn't go slower anymore, because that is not good. If there are problems with transactions during several days before the transaction is completed, i think people will stay away from bitcoin.

I dont think that BTC can scale upto 1000$ this year ,may be it will scroll to 820$ max. I researched a lot on tradingview today and reached to this conclusion.

With the steady increase in the price the possibility is that it could go up to $900 in coming weeks and will it happen before Christmas i highly doubt it with the way in which it is moving and i do expect a price drop during the holidays as i do expect people to book some profits

We haven't even hit $800.
Not sure why people are talking about $1000.
There is no big news or any announcement driving the price, so I would be surprised if it kept going up, honestly.

This would be great but I will speculate no.  It is amazing enough to see it in the solid 700's.  It has moved 150.00 in just a few months so that is great, but who knows, this is just speculation.

The same was the case just before the block halving. People were heavily speculating about the price to break through $1000 while we didn't even reach the $800 level. Right now we're in exactly the same situation. Beside that, the price doesn't move on good news anymore. That however can't be said about bad news. Even the slightest form of "bad" news can make people panic sell like there is no tomorrow.

Yeah I've totally given up trying to speculate the price of Bitcoin anymore.
It seems so random these days LOL.  :P

I do think we can reach the $1000 mark eventually, we just need some new service to create more users.
Hopefully the Mega sharing platform or something like that happens soon and exposes new people to Bitcoin.

That's why it's called speculation. just a few opinions spread by people with some little reasons and can't guarantee the truth behind it and the fact that will be coming. service aren't giving big impact to bitcoin, though. the demands of the market are coming not because some services were existed but most people more likely to get interested in owning bitcoin

bitcoin price in christmas and new year can down trend not up trend
ussualy in christmas and new year bitcoiner need cash money
so much people can sell bitcoin, so can hard dump is added panic sell, co bitcoin price can very down

I already sold out my bitcoin i thought it will never go up again :) but it's okay im going to work harder in trading so i can earn more again it would be nice if bitcoin will hit $1,000 by christmas or after this year it's so nice that bitcoin is getting so strong.

Although it is nice to see bitcoin reach four digits by the end of the year, I am already happy with its current price as the price it holds for the rest of the year. And for bitcoin to have another significant increase with just a little less than a month remaining might be asking too much. That could result in a quick dump as well.

We need solid price consolidation above $750, maybe, for a few weeks before we can safely go higher. If we just pump and pump without end, that, as you have said, could easily result in a quick dump to $700 and below. Better slowly but surely.


Yeah, they need money to buy more bitcoins, for themselves and their dear ones. But we shall see.

Expecting ATH at any time in the remaining days of 2016 is a bit a too much.  I can see $850 at the end of the year.  There is not much of a news to move bitcoin at that new ATH, besides if bad press happen we might see a sub$ 700 at the end of the year.  Not mentioning people need to encash to have money to spend for the christmas season, so there is an expected dump within this range of time.

It would be great if it could go up so much, but I think this ain't going to happen in such a short period of time left. I am glad the price is stable where it is right now. And who knows it will break the $1000 barrier in 2017.  :)

May I know at what prices you sold all your coins?


You're clearly proven wrong. Bitcoin is a more than tricky market. One day everything looks fantastic where the demand and good sentiment levels are peaking, while the other day the market may look like an entire war zone. For inexperienced people this is what makes them decide to do certain things (e.g. panic selling, selling all coins at once) that they later surely regret.


I think the idea of reaching $1000 is much nicer than the actual profit that you may get from it. Example; If you buy 0.5BTC right now, and the price happens to reach the $1000 level, then it's just a profit of ~$120. I personally can't really get excited with such profits.

I hope so and If that happens im one of the happy person this coming christmas eve, i now have extra money to buy gifts for my  son,nephew and nieces.what a wonderful gift this coming christmas.

Bitcoin lesson #1: buy coins when you can and never sell them.

But it is still around 25% of returns. If you get that much within a month or two and you don't get excited with such profits, what does excite you then? Your capital would be tripled in a year if such growth should continue for so long. I don't really think there are a lot of investment opportunities that could yield so much in so short a time unless you engage in illegal activities such as drugs or similar things.

I was more referring to small buyers that mostly buy way less than a whole Bitcoin due to the current price. If you buy 0.5BTC at current prices, and eventually make $120 profit after months of waiting, then it indeed doesn't get me excited. Also, it is far from certain that we will reach $1000 within a few months. We might not even see that price in 2017. But if you are buying yourself like 10BTC at current prices, and the price does happen to reach $1000, then you'll be making $2400 in profits. That's what gets me excited.

Well, no. If that so happens, then there will be a massive dumping next year, and the price will fall drastically. So I would prefer stable and steady increase in price and hope it reaches around $800 this Christmas. That would be more beneficial to bitcoin, in the long term.

I would prefer it to rise steadily and break $1000 barrier in the fall of 2017. This would help to avoid any huge dump in the market value of bitcoins, thus benefiting all users in the long term.

I get what you mean, but it is all relative. If you personally don't get excited by $120 of profits, someone might not be quite excited by $2400 in profits either. That's why such conclusions don't make much sense themselves, and it is seems to be more correct to speak in terms of percentages, anyway. In my view, 25% in a few months is more than enough to excite even Warren Buffett himself.

Though with his volumes it will be impossible to get such returns through bitcoins.

well, although not impossible, but I may disagree with what you say. bitcoin prices may not reach $ 1,000 at Christmas time. I further believe that the price of bitcoin will rise higher than the price of $ 900 at the beginning of 2017. Well, all possibilities can happen in 2017, and most likely, the price will reach $ 1,000 bitcoin

Christmas time is so near to be happen and i surely guess that it wouldn't truly reach for that price and i don't see anyonw telling that to be happen, 1000$ bitcoin target is so huge to be reached and it needs more time to be happen and short period of stretch would not really helping to its cause, and i also think that before it will happen we can face a little downfall and it will be followed by the big up.

Its not really possible for bitcoin to reach up $1k on this year hence we are now on the 1st week of this last month of 2016 and Christmas is fast approaching and we can see on the bitcoins price its still on the $730-780 price and keeps falling and rising and reaching 1k is not  possible maybe next year same as you said. We should not  hope too much because it would not happen now this month.

That's also true. It's different for each person what is a good amount of profit and what not.


What you said about the profit aspect that $120 for me isn't much, but that for a different person $2400 isn't that much either, but this basically also applies when you are talking about percentages.

Other than that, the Bitcoin market can't really be compared to how billionaires are investing their money into stocks, companies, etc. They are already happy with 10% in profits in a matter of months, where here with Bitcoin it's something people don't look at as being much of an achievement, or something to be greatly excited about. It's just an okay bit of increase.

Really hoping on it, it would be nice and it would be a good present right ?
I think that we cannot predict this and I also think it will be hard, although its getting popular.

Well, i think it might be happen, the price of bitcoin will reach $1,000 by Christmas this year. But if it's happen, it will not for long term. Because my prediction is in 2017 the price will back to normal after Christmas 2016.

There will be just 20 days for this year's Christmas, still I am too having more hopes like it will happen. Bitcoin prices are trying to break a big resistance levels around $800 price levels after that the next resistance would be around $920 only. So at any time we can expect bitcoin prices to trade above $900 levels.

I can't see this price by Xmas Maybe later but I think it will cross 800 for sure
expect to see some movement in price for this weekend or after it

Yes it seems like that, it is very difficult to be able to penetrate the $1,000 and I still pessimistic before Xmas could reach $800. But it is also a good idea because if we buy a bitcoin not yet expensive.
It's time for buying bitcoin now and likely in 2017 can reach $1,000.

Bitcoin price seems often fluctuate in this month with higher price around $760-$770 and fall back to $750, looks like normal for bitcoin market. Since bitcoin could rise significantly in one night, $1000 isn't impossible but for these year we should be realistic about the price which has constantly increases a little bit and we hope could reach $800 by the end of the year. I thought that we should reach $1K in the mid-2017.

$1000 by this Christmas is not possible by looking over chart but nothing impossible in this world of crypto. I hope it will remain this price range throughout the whole month maybe will drop to $740. But this will be normal and soon in Q1 price will surpass $1000.

By looking at current condition, I dont think $1k will happen by Christmas. Since it's going down again now. I was hoping too but, less likely now.

Their wont be always steady rise in the price it will always go up and down so i think the maximum price that we can see is nearly $825+ as the market is going stable this price is achievable.

it all depends on the following week, and how things work out for bitcoin. if a price rise starts we can see $800 be broken but otherwise i don't think this can happen the closer we get to the new year and as people need cash for their new year expenses.

Will we start new year in $800+ or remain in $700+ (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1702624.0)

1000$ this christmas wont happen .as we are looking at the price right now it seems like bitcoin has a hard time to reach 800$. So it hapoens that the price goes down ,cause it cant pass the 800$ marked.

Usually before Christmas, people have a lot of expenses associated with family and trips. Very few people choose to invest in this period. About $1,000 we may forget, I will be glad if Bitcoin price manage to cross $800 until end of December.

Could potentially, but however it is all hype and speculation at this stage and no real reason backing it up. I'd say that if we can get through this hurdle at mid 700's then we can hit higher levels easily, potentially in the next few weeks.

It is also interesting to see the fall of altcoins, meaning that the trader's funds are mostly engaged in BTC trading.

Anything is possible when it comes to bitcoin. So we can't rule out the possibility of reaching 1000 $ by Christmas. It would be a hell of a Christmas present for all bitcoin fans!

Don't know about Catholic Xmass, but on Orthodox it's more possible to happen ;D
 But even in that I doubt. To me the present would be if bitcoin will reach at least 800$ by the end of the year.

Regular people that you are indirectly talking about, don't even make a dent in the price. It's a group effort from whales that gets the price to move into a certain direction. I am already happy with how the price has been trying to build itself around the $750 level. Not long ago it was a point where heavy resistance was preventing the price to smash through $750, and now we're finally over that point. The only question is how long will it last? It doesn't take much for certain large traders to dump out of boredom.

750$/BTC is already a Christmas gift for us and I don’t think it will reach 1000$ this Christmas maybe the next one?

Maybe it will happend, if TrumPump the price but as I see the price today is still stable and not too much moving, however it could be happend.

But I could not see any specific reason why prices to stay exactly here. As once bitcoin prices break the resistance levels around $800 levels then it will move forward till $900 levels too. (the intermediate resistance levels around $840 to $860 will not have significant effects to resist hopefully). I am too expecting bitcoin prices to reach $1000 levels by Christmas.

No we will find a smelly dump under our tree this year like most years I can remember.

I don't really think it is applicable to percentages. There are very little legal investments that would yield so much. Correct me if I'm wrong on this, but stock markets had been yielding around 15-20% annually on the average. Therefore any higher percentage than that could be considered as an excellent result. Only very few traders are able to make +30% per annum year after year. Sometimes, just giving any profits is considered a good result.

That makes sense. People will usually shell out money for gifts and we can't expect new investments to come into bitcoin. In fact, people will even sell some bitcoin for fiat cash. However, I think 1000 USD can be crossed in 2017. So use this opportunity to add more bitcoins if possible.

To make $1000 per bitcoin this coming season is a little bit impossible because of a small span of time 'coz we only have 20 days before Christmas. Anyway maybe just around $900 for this Christmas season might happen.

This will be a great present to everyone who is totally waiting for bitcoin to increase and
who is in trading.

You must be new to crypto. 20 days a small span of time lol Do you know when Bitcoin reached it's all time high, how long that took? Say no more.

That's really hard to happen, we must realistic now bitcoin price is quite high for reached $900 isn't easy it will take many time.

i still don't think we will see 1000 at Xmas not even this year 800-850 maybe this can be realistic price for now

I agree, there will be a big resistance to reach $1000.  A week had been cut out of Dec. and yet price is still playing at $730- $760.  I doubt it can even reach $850 at the end of this year.  It is a holiday season, people are spending their hard earned money to share the love of Christmas, I am expecting a dump before Christmas.

It is very likely we can see this because i looked at the preev price last night and this morning. It has risen and that is a good sign of stability.
It continues to rise and not fall to hard so that shows it is stabilizing nicely now.
Would also be a great Christmas present if it will reach $1000 by that time just in time. ;D

In my view, the price could easily spike above $800 due to some whale loading up with bitcoins for a few million dollars, but it will hardly stay there for long and will bounce back to $750 as quickly. That said, we had all seen how quickly the price rose to above $700 from lower $600, in a matter of a few days only. Could something similar happen before New Year? Such things always happen out of the blue.

The current price is a gift as such, I could not wish for more same time last year

I hope that it can be happen before christmass but it is nearly christmass few days ago we will experience of staying the price at 700 level this is what i thought.. but i am still hoping that the price will touch even in 800 value because there is still possibility before christmass that the price will touch into 800 value.. 1k value right now is impossible to happen..

I really would love this but I have my doubts about it, it can stay rising and reaching it but it can also go to the wrong direction these days are not predictable anymore.

i sort of doubt that the predictability has changed regarding bitcoin prices.

I agree that Christmas won't give a positive impact on bitcoin price.  If there is many stores that accept bitcoin it is possible that it will create a good demand to bitcoin but the problem is not all country have the same privilege as others that have so many merchant accepting bitcoin.  And in this country where bitcoin merchant is rare to find, they will be forced to sell their bitcoin and buy stuff needed in Christmas.  there is indeed a dump during this days.  So having 1k USD is not possible.

I see the current price as a gift as well. If I look at how the market has been performing lately, then it's fairly easy to assume that the price will not reach $1000 this month.

I understand that people want to reach $1000 but why so soon? I want the price to go up in a slow but sustainable manner instead of the old fashion pump.

I am very happy with how the price has been performing this year, and that's also the reason I am perfectly fine with the price not reaching $1000 this year.

I also think it looking much hard to get touch $1000 by this Christmas. Maybe price will rise and can cross $800 but nobody can tell the exact price of bitcoin. With current trend I don't think it would be there.

Just be positive, there are plenty of enough time to test those price levels. Usually people prefer to spend more for their festivals and celebrations in next two weeks of time we can expect people will buy bitcoins for better saving with their shopping. These 2 weeks are more than enough to cover the differences of $250 gap.

We might notice every year chart specially in the time of Christmas an new year it used to pump to some good amount every year. Hoping for this year also to reach some peak value due to this is a halving year.

I don't think we are going to see that price that soon, my personal prediction is early summer of the next year at the earliest or late autumn at the latest, bitcoin price is growing but I don think we should expect such a huge jump in price overnight.

Nothing wrong with being optimistic to a certain extent, but you're being too optmistic here. It's not an easy thing to eat through the $235 difference in the price. If we get to reach $800 then we first have to make sure we maintain that price level. I can guarantee you that it won't stay above that price for long as serious dumps will push the price significantly below $800 again.

I accept the fact that the price of bitcoin are much stable than it was before the price would play around a range and then seeing a spike but if you check the charts we did have huge spikes in price within a couple of days and the holiday season coming i dont expect the price to be $1k but i would like to see the price around $740 to $840 range.

in one of our 2016 dream maybe :P

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mostly same opinion here too, it is almost hard to see $1,000 before the end of the year.
I would say 1k is possible at the end of the next summer

Well, the bitcoin price has been so unpredictable that it can be perfectly possible, although I prefer to be more conservative in my expectations, so I don't see a price above the strong resistance level of $800.

Not just 800 more it 770 big resistance but if this is somehow broken or even 800 broken don't think we will go over 900 in that case
For me between 800-850 is realistic for this year end and that is max price

im grateful now on the price of bitcoin right now than last christmas so if it could actually hit $1000 this year i will be more grateful because ive invested my money on bitcoin again last week so im expecting that it will grow too so 1000 usd please come with us haha. theres a lot of businessman who's using bitcoin currency because it has a lot of advantages. im thinking that it could actually hit that price this year. *crossfinger*  :D

it is not possible to give any time for the $1000 price because things may be a lot different in the next year we can tell for sure that it will not happen in one month (till the end of this year) but we can hope for $800 and reaching $1000 may be another excruciatingly long event that takes us even a complete year of stable price on $800 and then $900 and 4 month of struggling to break $1000 unless some good and big news breaks out.

Bitcoin have better chance to reach $1k  by Christmas and next year.I really want that move,bitcoin is now pretty much stable and I don't think bitcoin will be drop from this position.I am pretty much positive this time I saw some people said bitcoin will reach $1000, I think still have chance to increase price and reach $1000.lets see what will happen future.

I think bitcoin could cover $250 gap in two weeks as the current price has constantly increases around 1-2% daily even though there are some declined, but I don't expect we will see $1000 by this christmas if bitcoin keep on track likes in this month.

i don't think it will happen to much gap is this over 800 is realistic price ho happen by this year end

The price continues to slowly increase, but it looks like Bitcoin has run out of gas already because the trend seems to be flattening now. Unless there is some positive event regarding Bitcoin, for example, a news of some government officially endorsing Bitcoin to be used by financial institutions such as banks or hedge funds, the price should not jump well above $800 till the end of the year. Though it will all depend on what the majority of people are going to do on Christmas and New Year.

i think this will not happen for now . because right now bitcoin price was slowly growing but it much better than last year so ithink by this christmas it could hit atleast $800 barrier then bitcoin could hit the price $1000/BTC next year maybe june/july thats where bitcoin price grow more based on research i've read earlier. but who knows bitcoin price always surprising us when it comes on christmas and new year  :D

Like everyone else here. I don't think it will happen. The other thread is more likely, i.e. BTC at $800 at christmas day. That is more plausible as prices are already at $770 and just $30 more we have reached $800. We still have a few more days before christmas and I firmly believe we will reach that price. I just hope it stays at the price or even rise to up to $2,000 by next year. Good luck to us and merry christmas!

i don't see Bitcoin will reach 1000 USD this christmas.  There are several factor that will hinder this price.  First, christmas and new year is coming.  People will probably take care of this stuff first.  We may see some dips before this season because people may encash to use some of their bitcoin to finance their activity  for the season.  800 USD is  very possible even reaching 850 USD but not 1000 USD.

Correct me if I'm wrong on this, but earlier today the price has jumped to almost $790. Then it dropped a little, but we are still hovering above $780 at the moment, though Bitcoin doesn't seem to have much momentum left to go higher this time. A correction is likely to happen soon, maybe down to $760 or thereabouts.

It is just a normal i saw the price few hours ago this days that the price was hit $790 and yeah decreases in few hours..bitcoin is a normal that the price is increase and decrease because there is other people are keeping buying bitcoin and there is other people are looking for a timing to sell to get profit when the price hit high or we can say there is someone are monitoring the movement of price if there is a large margin pump in the price they will sell and buy bitcoin again with low price.. 
so for me right now we can not experience 1k value before christmass

If you made a big investment then don't worry you will make money this year and the next there is no need for bitcoin to move abruptly for you to get your earnings as long as you are willing to hold for some time you can obtain some nice profits.

The possibility of crossing the thousand dollar mark by Christmas is a real possibility but you can never expect the price would be stable by the time because you would see massive sell off if the prices crosses the magic figure.

What the he11 are you talking about !? Christmas time is almost here and crossing $800 will be success! Who think about investments now? If Bitcoin will reach $900 in March will be very good result for everyone!

hard to realize that bitcoin even struggle to reach $900
and yeah i agree instead by the end of the year bitcoin will go up again to $1,000
it's just will go down to $700 for a while and in the early 2017 then bounce back
everyone expectation always about to see a high price , well just let's see.

Don't thank we'll get ezactly that high, but I'm sure we could come close.  I tell ya, when we do get passt the $1000 mark, everybody gon' be celibate.  It's gon' be like what the halving was supposed to be like.  I thank this is kinda what you could call an after-effect of the halving.  But we'll git there.  Time to buy, mmm-hmm.

you prediction bitcoin price is very optimis and fantastic
if bitcoin price contant incraese 1-2%/day , so to week ago bitcoin price can incraese over 1000 dollar,
but bitcoin price incraese maybe only until before crhistmast maximum 24 december
after in 24 december until end year much people can selling bitcoin, and so bitcoin price can down

There is upcoming pump for sure but it would be not that much high value pump like halving effect. Christmas pump usually happen on every year in end of December to  January hopefully will see some good price rise in this year also.

Alot are riding on this prediction that it will reach this amount so they can exchange them for money to by Christmas presents for their kids this time of the year. :)

Historically speaking we have seen more of a drop of Bitcoin on Christmas than a jump to profits. For year 2013 and 2014, BTC price dropped 40% and 14% respectively while on 2015 that's the time when there's a 22%. BTC price has been hoovering over $760 - $780. If there will be some price increase it would be safe to say somewhere 10% to 15% in next coming days until Christmas shopping ends.

It really depends. For me in my opinion Christmas doesn't really have an association with bitcoin compared to a date such as halving of block reward day for bitcoin. So I don't think that it will affect bitcoin prices that much at all.

I'd say that in the short term it'll stay at around $770-$780ish, nothing major.

1k by xmas. Im down for that cause. Take this shit to the moon or doom, I dont care but take it somewhere. 1K preferably.

Don't think we'll see $1k by Christmas, but I do have a strong feeling that we will finally hit $1k in 2017. I'm excited to see what is in store for BTC next year.

Bro, hitting 1k in 2017 is a given. No debating that. We talking bout xmas.  ;)

you shouldn't even compare bitcoin of 2016 with bitcoin of 2013-14 everything has changed compared to those days. there is no mtgox, there is no pump and there are lots more investors creating a better and bigger spread and besides any drops after the gox pump should be ignored the same as the pump when you want to see the overall change.

what you are trying to say is true that in 2016 we are having the real users of bitcoin who are having full faith on bitcoin so i also dont think that their will be any major correction but same thing we wont be seeing $1000 mark of bitcoin price in this year the max we can expect is the price $850 - 875 as per my calculation as in the last week of this month we can see some selling pressure as most of them will be willing to sell and go for vacation for Christmas

Christmas will be a few more days to arrive. Well, many of which have to be prepared at the time, especially bitcoin. I'm not sure at the time of Christmas, bitcoin prices reached a price of $ 1000, but I would argue that the price will not be much of a price of $ 1,000. Well, the price will go up very quickly before the end of the year, I believe it  ;D

Not gonna happen, it would be too early, I think it will happen at the beginning of 2017 due to the fact we get more popular everyday right now.

If all bitcoiners that will participate in Christmas season will not use their coins then we can't see some price decrease.

But it's far from happening since people are using money regularly when there is a Christmas. Even people don't want to cashout they will use it  to take part of the season. We need some time like this too and not just about thinking big money.

We can earned it again afterwards.


Faith is nothing to do with here. The quoted post above is clearly pointing to the happenings in bitcoin every Christmas season and not on the whole 2016 alone.

 The bitcoin can reach this price but it will not be done this year, most likely it will happen next year for sure.

just one more week until Christmas... dont think we will reach $1k.... $800 maybe....

I think no, I have seen an article a while ago that the price of bitcoin will be around 800 dollars at the end of this year. No one knows, this is just a speculation and there's nothing wrong to expect more but it would be really great if we reach the 1000 dollar on Christmas day, what a very big bonus.

Yes, I think so, only one week not could probably could reach $1,000. It looks like this will occur in 2017, however this is a good time to buy a bitcoin, I'm sure the price will continue go up.

I'm losing my hope now that the price of bitcoin will reach $1,000 before the Christmas eve. So my another hope is to accept the fact that bitcoin is possible to reach $800 before the end of the year. And let's just hope for the next year to come that bitcoin is going to reach that $1,000 mark.

The bitcoin price could just reach over 30% in just one night as you can see from the past statistic that this ever happened. you might already lost your hope but the chances for bitcoin still there. even though bitcoin is not going to make a miracle but the miracle will probably coming. just wait and see what's gonna happening to the bitcoin's rate and may we surprised when something big happened

For Xmas price realistic is to hit little over $800 to go over 1000 is little to much at this point. Dont think we can expect to see price goes over 1000 but to see 800 is really realistic in 10 day we can expect to see that price over 800 maybe in some range of 820-850 that would be great and good to see.

It could happen overnight, though if it is going to happen at all, it will likely take more time than that. Some two months ago the price had risen from $600 to over $700 in just a few weeks, so the prices of either $900 or $1,000 wouldn't be something out of the ordinary. That said, we should still be glad if the price just reaches the $800 level by the New Year, then we could hope that in the new year it will finally take the $1,000 barrier.

I agree that a realistic price for Xmas is to cross the line of $800 if it has the ability to surpass its annual high of $781. A sky-scraping price it is possible after a short time to lead the bitcoin price to go down. In my opinion is better to have small and steady raise of the price.

It gonna be little more than that but over 800 is for sure no doubt  about it
I also think we can see 1000 just in end of next month January

If I were you, I wouldn't just take for granted that we will reach the $800 level by Christmas. Right now the patterns are quite similar to how it was before the block halving when we were about to reach $800. People were speculating about it to happen within an x amount of hours, but we all know what happened after that. First let's reach $800 and settle above that level, and repeat the same thing when we reach $900, and after that we'll start speculating about reaching the $1000 level.

But today we don't have the block halving right around the corner. Many people had been warning in the spring and early summer of 2016 that the price would drop right before the halving just because traders would be fixing profits they had obtained from the rally that lasted almost 9 months since the fall of 2015. In my view, there is no plausible reason to think or expect that the price should fall almost 200 dollars again as it did after the July halving.

Chances are there for it to happen, but yes, just because the chances are there, or the situation is similar to a certain extent, it still doesn't mean that it will actually happen. But as it stands right now, the market is waiting for someone (big player) to pull the trigger. It's that, or traders will dump out of boredom. But then again, I didn't say it will drop $200. It's impossible to say such a thing as Bitfinex was part of the problem for that drop. Sub $700 is what I am focusing on.

No I don't think so. $800 seems a strong resistance so I only see two possible scenarios: a stable price at the current level, or maybe a small correction around $750.

Most users in the forum want to see a big rally and earn some money out of it, I don't think we will reach it but there is nothing wrong with dreaming with that happening since everyone could use some extra money in Christmas.

I don't own enough for me to start spanking it over such a thought.  It certainly would be nice--and it's most definitely possible.  I almost went to the beach last year at Christmas, because it was about 70 degrees F in New England.  You just never know.

Some things will never change...

I would be happy if we can hold 750 for at least 6 months. It would be an remarkable effort.

It is rising like crazy right now and glad i got some before this rise above that wall that everybody has been saying that has been holding the price back from going skyward bound.
It is great to be free like this now! ;D
GO up to the top bitcoin.

This is every ones waiting for to come this coming Christmas season yet to those who anticipated they will get frustration of what will happen.

so better not, but then guessing of bitcoin for this coming year is for sure higher than now because of fast or rapidly growing or increasing value of it.

The highest I think it can go right now is $850 before Christmas, the way the price is trending as of the moment but hitting the $1000 mark is really far fetched.

It seems to me that traders are just waiting for a serious correction because we have been on the rising trend for over three months already without a major correction. I refer to early September when the price had started its current rally from around $570 per coin, an aftermath of the Bitfinex incident. Ironically, I myself placed piles of buying orders from just below $700 and down to $650.

It will be good if I have a tree as at Christmas and that gift just show up all of a sudden. I will be more glad to see that happen because looking at the grand, its really moving in that direction and its something that will be close to that if we can't achieve that but the most important is not meeting that at Christmas but keeping it at that or even higher after that...

But we have now only almost a week before the Christmas day come. No more hopes for $1,000 and now its better to aim something lower than that is more acceptable and yes $800 is. And the price now is, $786. $14 dollars more before it reaches and we have still ample time that it is going to happen before Christmas day.

800 is realistic price for Xmas for the moment don't think it will be over or near 1000 by Xmas no way it can happen in just one week

in just 2 weeks to be exact. I do agree, now we are on 800 so it is really achievement the prices getting higher and higher! Well 1k is very impossible in just 2 weeks it will stay at the line of 8 by the end of the year. Well we cant really predict if that will happen that it will be in 1k by the end so lets just watch/

Based on the current markets, very unlikely and to be honest I do not wish that fast acceleration at this point. I hope to see the price climbing up slowly slowly as long as possible. When the growth starts to accelerate, we know what is going to happen.

At this point , the only thing that I see achievable is 800$ or 850$ at max by Christmas . I mean It could happen If something triggers it otherwise It should stay as it it or increase a little bit.
As you said too , If it increase too much and too fast then It will go to the ground faster and we don't want to see that , there is nothing better then an increase with stability.

I predicted around 800 dollar and we are there about right now. Today we just passed for a moment just above the 800 dollar on C-cex; I think it must be possible to get 1000 dollar for Christmas next year. That should be nice.

CCEX is an exchange that no one takes seriously. Even not when the price there reaches $900 tomorrow. That exchange is just too insignificant. I think it's surely possible that somwhere next year we'll finally see 4 figure prices again. It gives the price enough time to build up support levels to make reaching $1000 very likely. I just hope we don't see more hacked exchanges....

Price gaining slowly is best for any commodities including cryptos. The faster the price gains, the harder it falls. It is best for the growth to be slow and be consistent.
I highly doubt whether we will see 1000$ mark for bitcoin this December.

why would choose the slower grow of the price of bitcoin if the only way of getting more income was to hope for faster grow of bitcoin . remember that if the price of bitcoin could grow so fast. its a huge help for the people that doing trading and commonly people that getting a income through market. we're investing in bitcoin because we believed that bitcoin could grow more than the price right now so if the price of bitcoin could raise too quickly its a good advantage for us because we dont need to wait a lot of time just to get a profit on our investment.

I think this is possible but unlikely to happen. The price has increased for a long time, it will be normal if we see some price drops for the next few days. After that, when investors find the new bottom price, the price can climb again, and a value around $ 850 seems to be a more realistic goal.

There is an indicator in trading which is loosely called a contrary indicator. It may be anything, but in this case it means that what most people think might not really happen for the simple facts that majority always loses. Therefore, if we are to take into account this factor, we should expect the price to continue to rise just because too many people are expecting it to drop.

Looking at current condition we are a bit far away from 1000$ for Christmas but maybe we receive the prize :D under the xmas tree!

"Ho ho ho"  ;D

As usually I give some fraction of btc for christmas as presents, I hope to not pay to much :P

Not enough time for bitcoin to reach 1000$ but 800 could be possible at christmas eve. Maybe next year we will see 1000$ ,and its my first time to see it.

That's why I'm losing my hope already and there's no more expectation that the price will be able to reach $1,000 on the day of Christmas. Better to move forward that it is possible to happen as the new year of 2017 will enter. I will just put my hope that it will happen in any month next year.

I do not think this will happen this means it still needs 200 dollar on top right now and in a week that is not gonna happen in my eyes.

Christmas is going to be in five days. I doubt that bitcoin could rise for 200$ during this short period. I think this price will be possible with same temps if grow only in two months approximately. So 1000$ by Christmas is too optimistic I suppose.

Forget about $1,000 to Christmas! We are watching steady growth, without artificial pumps that often did more harm than good.
I think $800 is a very good result and we should be happy about that.
I would like to see a similar situation, also after the New Year - I mean stable growth, and then in 3 - 4 months $1000 :)

The price has yet to cross the 800 dollar mark and christmas is fast approaching and that will not happen this year but the good thing is that the price of bitcoin has improved a lot from where it was in the beginning of the year and hope it will keep on rising in the coming years as more people will be involved in bitcoin.

It is very much possible because when I check on the price for the last 4 days it has been nothing but inching upwards from $0.50 to $1.50 at a time almost everytime that I check.
So given that much rise every 2 hours I can see it happening.

well that will be a great Christmas gift that we will receive for now but It seems really impossible for bitcoin to reach $1000 on or before Christmas, as we can see the price is still $790 althoug it is close to the said price but still we need a $210 dollars increase in bitcoin price and it seems not going to happen right away . the demand needs to be increased and many people will be needed to invest in bitcoin to make it possible .

But there were histories like bitcoin price levels were flying for $100 per day also. So anything will be possible and I'm still having big confident bitcoin prices may reach around $1000 by this Christmas. But I'm not sure that prices will sustain there as people may start profit booking at those levels.   

lol and you really believe that? the price you see is not just up up up, it is tiny swings before the sell off that is coming. $1000 is not happening this time around I don't think. I'd like to be surprised though.

I am happy with what the price of the bitcoin has been through right now, I am thankful with its current price and it's continuously increasing value. If the value will risen to $1000 that is the greatest christmas gift for me this year, if that happens I would share my other income with my relatives and friends.

Such abrupt price changes happen only with the price going down. The last time something like that happened was due to the Bitfinex incident in early August this summer, when the price collapsed from around $600 down to below $500. But that was primarily due to panic selling and likely hackers themselves selling their spoil. I don't remember a single case when the price would have risen $100 within a day.

$800 is possible in a few days time.

seems like bitcoin cant reach 800$ in the end of christmas tho

It is still possible to reach that amount, we have more time. Don't lose hope guys. If ever we don't reach that quota then let see it on before year ends. Well, for me the current price at this moment is enough because it is already high sometimes we need to be contented.

Of course it can, it has been over $800 in China, it's just everywhere else needs to catch up and help this pump.

In my opinion, it's not possible anymore for the price to reach $1000 this Christmas, it may touch but won't stay there, price won't be stable if we force it to be there. It will just drop since there is no support build up below that for sure. Even in New Year, if the price shoots up very fast, it would just return to the ground. But lets not forget that it is almost Christmas and New year is also approaching, anything could happen either a drop or a increase.

price from preev:787.0$
i think it can reach it tho
ANY ONE MUST EXCHANGE THIER BITCOIN NOW TO MAKE PROFIT
NO NEED FOR THE 13$ TO MAKE THOES 800$
EXCHANGE IT NOW BEFORE PRICE CHANGE TO LOWEST

Maybe bitcoin already hit $800 this week there are big chance that bitcoin will have spiked on coming christmas don't be hopeless everything is impossible and always believed that bitcoin can make it even there are chance that bitcoin may fall hope not.

nobody is stopping "YOU" from selling your bitcoin satoshis and getting out to make profit before it is too late.

bitcoin is on the rise and it actually is on the verge of breaking out, the moment $800 price is broken price will go up at least another $30 in about a week.

It is rather funny how people think that price of $800 is something significant in the grand scheme of things. It reminds me of time when people were freaking out because bitcoin reached $1 value.
Hold your horses people, if you want to earn money then don't sell anything until bitcoin will reach $10.000 or more.

Hoping for that and can't wait for that to happen. 
Though, it can just possibly reach 800$ it is still a big sum of money, you cannot just pick that amount anywhere so let us be thankful and congrats for those who has bitcoin in their wallet.

IT REACHED IT SO
PRICE OF 1 BITCOIN IS:787$ NOW  :o

everyone would expect the price of bitcoin will attain the following positions. but we can not confirm the price of bitcoin on Christmas. because at Christmas will be a lot of people who sell bitcoin. they do it to earn money holiday. it is a very reasonable thing.

Well, there will surely be people who will sell the coins on that day, many of them will certainly sell to buy gifts for others, but there are people who can also buy Bitcoin as a gift to other people, or for themselves, which by the way seems to be a good gift, and a good way to prepare for hard times.

Not gonna happen if you ask me, its way too soon right now what I already said it will happen in 2017 in the first quarter.

Some people may prefer a slower price increase since that is probably a sign of bitcoin gaining adoption instead of the big price swings caused most likely by speculation, besides if the price of bitcoin rises slowly then we have more time to buy it at cheaper prices.

No this will not happen, I just do not think that 1000 dollar is possible in such a small time period, not possible!

I wouldn't consider it a gift. That would mean the bubble is about to burst again, as in 2013. What we need now is a steady rise, based on the fundamentals and new money coming in. Slow and steady.
$1k is still a distant story, definitely not this Christmas.

i am sure that bitcoin price will be rise to 1000$ to Christmas because a lot of people buy bitcoin in huge amount for online shopping for christmas so i hope that bitcoin price is going to increasing because bitcoin bitcoin adoption is increasing day to day.

No, I don't think this happen this Christmas. It is clear that $800 is an important barrier, although I have no doubt that this price will be broken soon and we will end the year around $850.

That barrier has been broken and I will bet on it rising past this mark by the up coming new year because it has no slow down in it's price increase from what I have been seeing lately.
I have watched what I have bought in the last week grow and not faulter so I am happy with this outcome so far.

It looks like we'll have to forget the bitcoin price $1,000 by Christmas. It seems to have to wait for the year 2017. Let it be priced under $1,000, so we have the opportunity to buy before actually reaching $1,000.

No more hopes that the price will able to kick to $1,000. But let's have another hope when the year of 2017 enters.

For sure a lot of things will happen for that year and a lot of good things will surely applied in bitcoin if we are going to keep on supporting and using it.

The price now rose to $801.9 as per preev. Good indication that the first week of January will be a blast.

It can do this but I think it will not happen, it would happen fast right now than and that is not the point at all right now.

wont the btc price fall after Christmas when people cash out, like last year?

I think it's not possible anymore, We're only 3 days away before Christmas Eve... The price only touched down $800 hours ago, and probably is not yet stable there.... It's $200 dollar before it could reach $1000 in 3 days that's not possible anymore except if there is a pump... It is possible in the New Year, just like last year...

Nothing serious happened last year after Christmas. Not sure what you are referring to as I am right now looking at the Charts but not see anything of importance. The only thing that seems to be somewhat worthy of mentioning, is the dump that started somewhere in mid January that got the price to go down from around $440 to below $360 in a very short time. I am not sure what the exact reason was, but it was a very decent price to enter the market for sure.

there are few threads around last christmas about price drop.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1304313.0

of google "bitcoin christmas drop". Not big drop like yours but I guess enough that people started asking.

What if it will be happening like $100 per day because around 10% growth per day is highly possible for bitcoin as per 2013 records. I am still having hope that bitcoin may reach $1000 price levels by Christmas. In the worst case we can expect it to happen by the new year.

I don't know if it's a gift or not, but I think it will happen. Unfortunately or fortunately it has many possibilities to be near there. But it's something that I don't want to happen  :'(

Well, with this recent surge in BTC price, maybe its possible to reach $1k soon. Price has already passed the resistance levels we were previously seeing and is now around $820 ! I hope we do see $1k soon!

This would be my dream!

$818-825 in the western exchanges is promising but the best part is huobi + okcoin + btcc where the price is around $840-841 which means $900 soon maybe?  :)

I will assumed the resistance level you are talking about is around $700. It's just passed their but not yet at above $800. But if we are to look on how price moves, the resistance may likely build up now at the price above $800. I don't mind that $1k price won't reached by Christmas as long as price is above $700 and much more if it's on $800.

Sadly my last buy rounds is back at the price of $730 but it's fine since I can take again the risk of buying at $800 rate once the price established a slow price movement this upcoming days.

I'm starting to think after recent upwards trajectory that $1000 could definitely be possible soon. Maybe not by Christmas Day but by New Year yes.

I hope the price will be around $850 by new year. If it rises too fast, it will also crash hard. That happened before.

On the way to $10k

At this pace the race should be over soon. I don't think we will get above $850, but let's see.
The indicators are in the overbought territory, meaning that you can expect the rally to finish any time now.

I think price need to pass another line of resistance the $900 wall.  I think it is not possible to reach $1k this christmas.  Seems the rally towards $850 slows down a bit now.  Let us wait and see of it will go up to $900 this next day, if so then $1k BTC on Christmas is possible.

Nothing is impossible.

Remember that the price used to rise by hundreads of dollars a day back in the 2013 pump?

And Xmas is a perfect time to manipulation, people are too busy doing something else and won't be able to react properly

three years ago there was much less coins in circulation and pretty much one significant exchange with big volume.
Pretty easy setup for a price manipulation scheme. This time it would cost much more to get closer to the ath, there several significant resistances on the way where the sellers in volume should appear.

now it hit $820 per bitcoin.. I think it's impossible for bitcoin to hit $1000 this coming Christmas maybe next year. there's only 3 days left until Christmas and I would say bitcoin cant hit $1000 barrier because $900 is hardly to reach.. but it's a good thing that bitcoin is growing on what we're predicting since then and we should celebrate ..

We do not have enough time to reach this amount although I must say that the price is rising fast these days.

Only $140 to $1000 and it's December 22 ;)

This $140 difference might not look like much, but I doubt it will happen. In this pace I think the chances to see $900 are fairly active, but at some point I do expect the dumps to kick in. Nothing can only goes up without seeing a correction.


It's pure panic buying that people are doing right now. It's just buying and buying while the thinking aspect is not there. I persoonally don't mind it as I am securing some top notch profits, but it's going up too fast. There is no time for the market to calm down and settle. It's a run bull!!

I don't think we reach there before 2017

Just look on current price! 862$ per 1 BTC! With such temps of grow bitcoin 1000$ on Christmas doesn't seem so ridiculous! I just can't believe to my eyes. In the case that you campaign pays you not bad bitcoin can replace your work in the office with such price for it!

1 BTC = 1,000,000 USD

I am extremely hopeful that bitcoin will cross $900 before year end.A lot of things are happening that are creating huge bitcoin demand

A week ago I would have laughed after reading this statement.
Today, I read it in silence, and after looking again at the charts, I can say: damn! It is possible!

If you saw how quickly the price had started to grow from below $600 in early September, you wouldn't be surprised at the recent price surge. After the resistance at $800 was broken, the price went parabolic because the majority of bears have been heavily beaten down at that level, and it seems that there is no new sell wall all the way up to $900. It looks more like demand has exhausted itself, though it may be only temporarily before the next jump, and we will see the price continue rising in the near future.

In the beginning of this month i thought we should maxium reach the 800 dollar. But as is see we went now in a few days to 870 dollar (now on CCEX), i don't know it anymore. It goes very fast up now. Lets hope it keeps on going this way. That should be a beautiful Christmas. And let of course hope that the price we reach now will stay and grow bit by bit.

Now this would seem like it would be plausible now. I never thought this price can be reached this year. $1,000 seemed far away since two to three days ago. Now, looking at how much bitcoin prices are rising it may seem that $1,000 would be reach but I think it would be before the end of the year and possibly not christmas day. Well, good luck to us bitcoiners!

Maybe as a symbolical action it can reach to $1000, big whales can work for it just to boost the news and conversations about Bitcoin in the end of year and the beginning of new one. But unfortunelly we won't have the Bitcoin pricing $1000 stable yet, it will take some time. I thought it was faster, but now it's impossible to reach $1000 easily with stability. I hope to see the price in $1000 in the middle of 2017 (stable).

if you will take a look at the current price of bitcoin then you can see that $900 is closely possible for bitcoin to reach . imagine how big jump was bitcoin has made in these past few days ;D lol I though i would only slightly stop on $800 price but became $820 and now it is already $864 and seemed to very close to $900 well it could be possible if there will another big jump of its price we just have to watch what will happen after a few days .

It was $870 when I last time I checked the price 1 or 2 hours ago but now it dropped to $860 of course it is a correction and some people profit from the rise to sell and make a gain
$900 after all isn't impossible either and this end of the year seems exciting  :)

I to be honest didn't think it will be possible for price to go this high and after today i change of 50 dollars im hopping big for nextdday or two to see price like you said  over 900

The time is becoming closer and the intrigue remains. I think we won't. There are only a few days left and btc is only $850. I mean, yes, it's huge but still not enough you now. Of course, we can remind ourselves that Christmas is not only on 25th of December and win almost two more weeks (Orthodox Christmas is on 7th of January). Then it is quite plausible. However, what if a lot of people earn or keep btc till big holiday like Christmas comes, because that's the time they exchange the btc and buy some presents? Then the price will fall soon.

I am not so sure that the price of bitcoin will arrive at the price of $ 1,000 before Christmas. but, I think there is hope that bitcoin will reach the price of $ 1,000 before the end of the year. well, the increase in bitcoin that when this happens, it can be said so quickly. If this continues to happen, then it can be sure that the price reached $ 1,000 bitcoin. Well, rise $ 50 in 2 days is the rising so fast.

No it won't land at $1,000 this Christmas. And only 2 days left before Christmas while the price now is $857 as per preev.com

Unless price will pump $75 for each remaining 2 days which is mostly not going to happen. I don't think that the price will be able to reach $1,000 before the year ends.

But possibly it can hit the $900-$950 and $1,000 on January 2017.

Btc can do anything. 1000 tonight is even possible but highly unlikely... But it will be over $900 on Christmas.... That I can guarantee....

Ladies and germs we are at 884$   i think we will land at 950$ in 3-4 days and at that level i think a major profit taking will happen and the price will go down to 700 range


lets hope i am wrong and this rise will continue over 1000$

I don't have hopes anymore for the landing price of bitcoin to $1,000. Possibly it can just happen for next year and let just 2017 work for the rest.

And as of now base on what is happening with bitcoin, surely that everyone is loving it but not for those people who are waiting for the price to fall.

Because they wanted to buy at lower price but their hope now is a little by little becoming gone.

You're crazy. Anyone who wanted to lock in profit for 2016 has already done so... Order books are super thin and nobodys selling. Its moontime...

#2016moonshot

You're crazy too. BTC = MOON! Get with the program.

what  about segwit if it doesn't get adopted?I am not sure if I am interpreting this right. Wont the price take a major blow in this case? Only 25% adoption so far?

https://blockchain.info/charts/bip-9-segwit

We dont need segwit for 1k.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1709691.msg17136291#msg17136291

Update: now it's only $89 to $1000!

This opinion is divided cuz still no indication that segwit or BU will be good for it. Still they have split support among miners and that will hardly change but this is good progress in price by 50+ dollars from last day. If this continues then it can be possible for bitcoin to go on 1000 on some exchanges.

Update : it's need $100 to reach $1000 now, usual fluctuate on bitcoin in daily.
It's surprising that bitcoin could leap to $900 just in 2 days, unbelievable imo as the price before increases step by step and seems more stable. I thought that, well it would drop back again but it doesn't but keep get back to $900 again and again. A lot of people in rush of selling I think but the price seems won't get back, amazing.

Yes, we hope it gets there but that'll be over ambitious but it's all good we are enjoying the constant rise.

Bitcoin now is at $901.0 USD as of http://preev.com/ rate i know there are big chance that bitcoin will be pump at exact christmas day , fact people will keep pumping it to reach the speculation price of bitcoin and if bitcoin hit the maximum price they start duming it to start a new year of earning bitcoins. As you can see as of 10:00 am in the morning bitcoin is at 850$ dollar but now see it your self.

Christmas is two days away, and the exchange rates have already climbed to $900 per coin. Just 2-days are remaining now, and I am quite hopeful that the rates will finally touch the four digit mark on 25th. I am waiting for the past four years for this moment. At least this time, there will be no rigging of the order books.

There is nothing extraordinary if we consider how many bears got tossed and trampled down by angry bulls when the price had been trading around $780-790 per coin for a few days. Therefore it is no surprise that there was almost no resistance after the price broke through the resistance at $800. It seems to have now become a matter of how much demand is there and how quickly it will be exhausted.

Maybe it reaches over 1,000$ at the christmas day. I think it will be 1,100$.
Hope I'm right.

I think it is highly viable to reach $1000 by Christmas now that it has reached over $911 (what the :-[).
If it does reach $1100 then it is not too far for it to reach it's all time high of $1200 a long time ago.
So many years ago it makes me feel so old now. :'(
LOL!

100$ Dollars more and we already in $1,000 in christmas and only 1 day and 1 hours left before christmas so there are still chance that bitcoin will be pump by holders let's pray for it and don't lose hope everything is possible this time.

I can wait to see what will happen cuz last night it was 50+dollars change i must say if this happens again tonight who knows what will be by Xmas and that is very close two days.

This price is excellent by me but to be honest we all want 4 digits for xmas or for new year. Best is to go day by day.

I am already happy with the growth that we have been experiencing very recently. Let's put it this way, I was already happy with the price being +$700. Imagine how I feel right now. It fills me with great joy that we are sitting at $900 as I see it as a fantastic Christmas gift. I can't expect much more than this realistically. If we happen to touch $1000 this year, then I can't do any other than cashing out some profits and buy myself something nice with it.

With the current increase rate of price, it is really possible to reach $1000.  Bitcoin breaks $900 barrier in just 1 day, and i don't see any reason why it can't break another $100 increase in price of Bitcoin.  Bulls are charging non-stop now.  I just hope there is no bad news  to stop the rally to $1000.

Few days ago i would said that's impossible to increase 50 or 100$ every day. But now i see the 1000 $ so near, i think that we will see the 1.000 $ quote on Christmas, and more on end of the year. 2016 is a good year for bitcoin. Waiting to see how high can scale on 2017.

Yeah, that is so right. That price spike is so rare and were lucky that price is getting higher and higher. If this continues, we will be having a $1000 price and our new year will be a very good one. This year is really a good one, hope next year is a better one. Though from the price spike i think it will be a very good one too.

Each time I enter to see news on Coindesk, Bitcoin approaches a little more to this U$1000,00 EXTREMELY FU***** BEAUTIFUL PRICE !!! C'mon, HIT ME WITH THIS 1K !!!!! I worked a lot, man, a lot this year, much more than in 2015 and 2014, just because I'm blind with the power that emerges from this piece of "more than gold" thing. It could hit 1K today, maybe tomorrow, maybe it don't stands much time, but it will reach at least.

  ;D 8) :P 8) ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D <--- ME

It seems like people are in a holiday mood and they are not aggressively buying into bitcoin to pump it up to $1000. Wait for 2017 and we can see lots of action for bitcoin.

I think it will go down a little bit because of many convertions and cashout this holiday season and to expect this 2017 to finally reach its $1000 price .Well then, after holiday there are no more expenses to spend on only Valentines day to next ,it will be a good year to start and continue the rise of the price of bitcoins .

well, it looks like the Christmas drop did happen or it might happen. What was the top just day ago? 920? it is not down to 867, that is a nice drop.

might be possible that they already exchange their btc to fiat for their holidays so better to place some entry below 850 let see if btc will drop but im looking forward to see 1k$ as maybe 1st quarter of this year for sure after Christmas traders will start to work again bringing another rise for btc.

Well, I guess this prediction misses. but, I also had thought that the price of bitcoin will arrive at the price of $ 1,000 at the time of Christmas, because of the increase in bitcoin happened. but I guess it was the opposite. bitcoin prices declined at Christmas time, and I think the decline is not too far from the price of $ 900

No, almost hit. All predictions and speculations are rough estimations and we can not expect 100% accurate price levels. By Christmas eve bitcoin prices was trading around $910 levels which means less than 10% short of speculated $1000 levels. Yes +/-10% differences could be considered as accurate speculations  :).

I agree with you . bitcoin prices will be in the range of 1,000 USD with margin up and down by 10%. bitcoin price increase will happen very quickly. Christmas celebrations will affect most of all exchange bitcoin prices.

Unfortunately, down, it is so little. Look forward to next Christmas is $2000

Yup... I am sure that by the next X'mas, the exchange rates will be above $2,000 per coin mark. This time we narrowly missed the four digit threshold. The signs are encouraging, although not overly so. For the past many months, I have not heard any reports of exchange sites getting hacked and the coins stolen. The user-base is increasing, albeit very slowly.

We wont still know the possible things that would happen on next 1 year on bitcoins price movement. We cant be assure if the year of 2017 that there is no exchange hack and hopefully there none because i dont like to see bitcoins price to move down. Speculating $1000 price in christmas is fail because we just hit only $900+ but still its not a bad thing.

don't be so negative with bitcoin price and instead try and look at the bigger picture here instead of looking at 12 hours price.
we are up to the 8 hundreds range from the 7 hundreds price range and in my book that is a pretty big rise and it is keeping up above $800 which is also another good thing.

It's normal that the price has gone down as larger traders take this opportunity to secure profits. You can't just expect the price to keep climbing up.

And no, we won't see anything near $2000 prices as from current prices, every $100 increase that we will experience will be a very difficult achievement.

We must be happy that by next year we will sit just above the $1000 mark. If you ask me, that would be my next Christmas gift.

It seems that we are now in a serious correction. If price doesn't fall below $800 per coin, that would still be a success for December price. Anyway, this level is a good start for future price growth for the next year if support builds up there. Though I don't think that we could stop by the $1,000 mark by next Christmas. $2,000 prices and above seem difficult to imagine, but this is purely psychological. When we reliably and persistently cross 4 digits, such prices will no longer seem as unreachable and mind boggling.

Off course, unfortunately bitcoin is going down on Christmas Day. Letter bit, i am not surprised, because i know that, it is not a even of bitcoin. Because it is not a Halving day. Suddenly bitcoin down in this day, than i guess people are using their bitcoin to celebrate the Christmas, may be the reason to going down the price of bitcoin. Otherwise i think within 2 days bitcoin would be grow up. So let see what is happening in the last week of the year. 

Basically the same happened before the last halving. People had been expecting the price to go down some time after the event, but it topped about a month before. We can see something similar here. People expect the price to top after some specific date or holiday, Cristmas or New Year, but the trend seemingly changes before the date. The lesson is that we shouldn't follow what the majority of people think or say and should instead act to the contrary, though not mechanically, of course.

The $1000 price was reached just 7 days later. So it is still very good.

Yes, That is past gift. Now we can see how much bitcoin will reach in this month? This is new year gift for you .
I expect it will rise up 1,150$ or more in this January.  Buy and hold bitcoin now.

Are you sure about 7 days ago? Correct me if I'm wrong, but the $1,000 level fell only 3 days ago, on January, 1st. And since then, the price has been rising constantly without any meaningful correction. Right now it is just short of $1,100 mark and will probably shoot higher during next few hours. But it looks more and more like heavy market manipulation, with people long expecting a correction and still failing with the price ever rising. We need at least a week of consolidation at some level to make any reliable conclusion about if it is really an organic growth as some are saying.

7 days from Christmas is around January 1.

It did not happened but the fact is that it right now happened is also good just in the beginning of the year, what a good begin of this year people!

Can happen, its right now around the 1000 dollar what is already nice and pretty insane honestly.

Haha, the price reached $1200 yesterday and it is still over $1180 now.