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Bitcoin can reach 3000 USD in a year ?

If the ongoing price increase  continues with respect to the increase of users around the​ globe, then surely within a years time we can reach $3000 per coin. Or else in the same way as Japan few countries need to regulate bitcoin as an acceptable currency.

Sure, but it's more likely to happen in a year where the price starts between 2500 - 3500 USD.

Do you think it's going to happen this year?

I don't.

Economists are predicting that Bitcoin can reach that value in a year, tho' there are factors to consider, the acceptance and popularity and the bloom of usage of Bitcoin can increase drastically the price. The central banks who takes note of it's regulation is a good influence too. Well nothing is impossible but we must have point on this potential and work hard in this community. Good days are coming. Hang on.

Sure it could get rise a huge percent within a year without that much resistance.
If a billionaire or someone with a bunch of money purchases the orders on various Bitcoin Exchanges then the price would go up within days of it increasing.
There is only a little bit of people holding Bitcoin and they are the ones that might get super rich.

My gut feeling tells me that this is not going to happen this year, with the crashes between BU and Core on-going. Once this is solved (for example, the activation of Segwit etc), we can expect double or triple the current price- which is unlikely to happen this year. Hope I am wrong.

Its not impossible to happen because day by day many people get involve to accept bitcoin so expect it. But the main question is when and I don't feel that this year will hit that amount.

By this yeat i can confident say that it is a yes,its possible by this time.Bitcoi price now adays is keep on pumping and lose value sometimes but still rise up more than the price they use to beforit get dump.Besides 2018 is the year i predict that thats the time when it will dump

In my opinion I dont think will happen in this year that the bitcoin price become $3000 each. But I believe the price of $2000 its very possible to happen in this year 2017. If you see the price today the price now is $1300 and I think next month the price will increase at $1500. Your prediction is possible but this year will not happen maybe the year of 2018 or maybe 2019 will happen. But as of Im focus on $2000 price each bitcoin. I dont want to expect to much price.

I don't think any real economists are predicting that it'll happen.  It's pretty stupid really - talking about multiplying the price by three in a year.  Sure, it's happened before but those were in different circumstances, when the price was much lower and it didn't need so much of a boost to go that far.

As the now vanished iamnotback pointed out a while ago, it's about cumulative increase rather than just increase.  Once we're at 3000, we'll be talking about 9000 because that would be multiplying by three again.  To reach $500,000 by 2030 would require a cumulative increase of 59% per year - something which could easily be achieved this year with more, and then as Bitcoin comes anywhere near that amount it would slow down.

It's unlikely to ever reach that kind of level but my point is that it's very difficult for a cumulative increase to continue without genuine investor confidence - especially since Bitcoin is no longer as convenient for small transactions as fiat.

The way it has come here in the last 12 months or so, definitely there is a strong chance that bitcoin value in the next 12 months may reach that figure if not surpass it, but again, as is the case with with crypto, it cannot be said if it is gonna stay there or not, it might get back to under $1000 in a couple of months after that.
But it growing rapidly, so no one knows where it is gonna go next.
But most probably, its gonna keep going upwards.

Its possible to touch $3000 price but I doubt it will be done this year. It the trend continues, it could possibly be hit in 2018. But we all know for a fact that a slight negative news coming from FUD will cause panic then the dumping start. This is only scenario that can bring the market price down. Of course, we don't want that to happen, but this kind of things is inevitable. The good thing about bitcoin though is that it can recover from this kind of angle. We can only hope that for this year that the price will continue to rise so that everyone would be happy at the end of the year.

If the number of users of bitcoin suddenly soared very high then it is a big possibility. Since bitcoin's value depends on the concept of demand vs supply, if the demand suddenly soared up and continue to increase after that while the supply is not that high enough, bitcoin's value will surely reach 3000USD in just a year. This is very possible since bitcoin is rapidly being known across the globe

Yes this is possible to get this target easily it is because if we will see in the beginning of the 2016 then we find that the price was about 350$/BTC but now at the beginning of the year 2016 it's price is about 1200+$/BTC that is about 3times more than was in past .
So here if the demand increase ( and also why not will increase , in the current time few countries declared bitcoin legal) then the price will increase atleast to double more .
So this target target​of 3k$ is small , be positive  ;) Because patience in the bitcoin job is a way of success to make money easily .

I don't know if will reach 3000$ in a year, but in my opinion it will hit 2000 by the end of this year (2017).
The price depends of many factors, so it's hard to predict what will be the value of a bitcoin in the future.

i am not sure , 3000USD is bery amazing price for 1BTC . i think can but not this year :)

One thing I have learned from bitcoin ever since I have seen how it behaves is that you can’t accurately predict what the price would be in the future. It’s easy to say that at any point the price is going to reach $3,000 or $5,000 but these all seem to me as a hype job to get more people interested in bitcoin. The price has clearly held its own after the FUD regarding hard fork and who knows what’s going to be the next obstacle it is going to hurdle before establishing another solid support.

I think it can reach 3000 USD in a year, but it's not this year as there's etf rejection earlier this year and hard fork drama with BU and segwit. Bitcoin is still growing, it need more popularity to reach 3000 USD. Several countries already starting to allow the use of bitcoin in their country, several more country join and the price will jump.

if russia begin to regulate bitcoin it can reach $1500 without problem, if other country will follow, seeing $3k would not be that difficult either, it's all about adoption and regulation

i think he real boom will be when big merchants like amazon will start to accept bitcoin, but before this happen, bitcoin need to be regulated in many other countries

If we could solve this scaling debate issue I would say yes! This is the only reason why we are not really progressing at the moment. Since 2 years we are carrying that rock with us. An activation of SegWit alone could push us up to $2000 just alone in no time and would give us also tremendous potential for future implementations which are already in the pipeline!This means even more boost for future price increases!
But how likely is a solution in the next few months? I have no idea but I hope we will make it this year. Hope never dies! :)

The honeybadger will prove you wrong my friend!It's just a matter of time.
If you believe or not! $3000 would mean a marketcap of ~$50 billion! This is still just a drop in the bucket compared with the wolrd wide money supply, gold market, bond market, stock market etc.
You think $3000 is unreachable? See you in 10 years at the latest when we will be in 5 figures. There will be people like you then who will hate themselves not have taken the opportunity to buy some BTC when it was still "cheap".

I think that very important question that we should ask is are we talking about 3000 $ net increase, or just bitcoin price rising up to 3000$?
Because if we are talking about the first option, then I would like to say that it is almost impossible with the current infrastructure, the blockchain itself is just not ready to maintain with such a price for one bitcoin, because that would attract massive amount of people.
We are already having issues, which is why nowadays are not so certain like before, it is still not said but there is a high chance of a hard-fork.

All that leads me to the conclusion, that most likely we are not ready to see 3000$/btc in this year, the price is not going to double so quick.

This is crazy, I'm sure it will never happen. Bitcoin has been legalized by many countries, indicating that it will affect the economies of those countries, so the government will always take measures to control the value of bitcoin. Even if not controlled, that can not happen, because the value of bitcoin always depends on the market.

Really? Look how small btc's marketcap is rightnow.

It can easily reach 10k when people diversivy their gold and silver bags into btc.

No, bitcoin can't reach $3,000 price in just a year, even i'm a bitcoin believer, i don't think bitcoin will reach that because the volume of bitcoin in the market is not cheap to just buy bulk and hold, it is around $1.3k per 1 bitcoin so it will cost a lot of money in order to reach $3,000. In my opinion, it will take at least 2 years for bitcoin to reach $3,000.

i think it will be hard to reach that price after all the market is unpredictable sometimes bitcoin pumping and sometimes also bitcoin price going on some big dump . as you search about bitcoin pricechart in the internet you will found out that bitcoin price is pumping and dumping so i think for now it will be impossible for bitcoin to reach $3000.

thats so impossible dont you see that bitcoin right now is not increasing its price because bitcoin and the market needed to be balance in order to run it more towards many years but when bitcoin reach the highest peak thats the end of bitcoin because half of the big whales will gonna pull out and sell their bitcoin in order to be rich and right now bitcoin is not taxable because its not a fiat money it is crypto currency thats why i bow satoshi for developing this.

Yes bitcoin can very easily reach 3000$ in a year, but not this year. If the current uptrend continues, I would be expecting BTC to close at $2000 by the end of this year. But obviously, we can't predict it exactly as some big event might turn the tables and bitcoin would be going down. 

No, it can not. I would be more than doubling the price in a one year time frame. Absolutely impossible unless the biggest news of all times get out, such as United States replacing the dollar by Bitcoin...

Bitcoin does have an unlimited price, and allows it to have a very high price. But to reach $ 3,000 this year looks so difficult. Well, we may have seen in a few years bitcoin prices go up very quickly, but, it may be difficult to rise to $ 3000 for this year.

Give it some months. This month +300 USD, not bad

Prices that can be a reference in the range 1500USD up to 1800USD. It is a price that still makes sense. While when calling 3000USD then I say that it is a difficult thing. It needs a miracle that bitcoin can increase 150% of the current price.

We need another 2 more years before bitcoin reached the 3000$ price. Maybe by the end of this year bitcoin can climb up to 1800$.
2018 bitcoin will have new 20 million adopters worldwide.

Why? Look hoe fast those shitty altcoins grow. Its only a matter of time before the money flows into BTC again.

Considering that those +300$ are coming after a -300$, I do not think that it is that great. Yes, of course it is good, but this is not marvelous either.

I'm optimistic about bitcoin. But I do not think that we will see the price of 3000 this year. A maximum of 2000. Despite the good news, the price will not grow so fast. But, maybe I'm wrong.

I am optimistic too about where bitcoin is going, but I am not that optimistic that we would even reach beyond $2,000 ranges. It might be possible to get to around near $2,000 but that would probably be it and not beyond that level. Though, if it does happen, I'd be happy to embrace the situation and try to sell some of my coins.

Japan has "officially" legalized Bitcoin now, and adoption will grow much bigger soon, when more people start using Bitcoin there. We see a very

slow increase in the price, but it is moving up monthly now and we are not even near the "Black Friday" and "Xmas" events where there are a

significant spike in the price.  ;D ..... So my wild guess is "$2000 for this year.  ::)

Possibly.  
But it would take a huge event for the price to double. It could definitely go to $1500 or $2000 in a year.  
But we would need much more adoption by a large retailer etc.

If the problem with scaling and high fees are resolved, this may have a chance to happen. But since the clash between  bu and core does not make bitcoin to move forward, I doubt 3000 can be reached in a year.

This is a problem which can't be answered and resolved in the near future as people are bickering about who profits from their decision, and if they don't see they will profit from it they will not decide for it. That is generally the problem in human society and that is why progress is hard to achieve as people would naturally tend to be selfish.

For the previous days of bitcoin performances I would gladly say that $3000 can be reached within next year of 2018 but not this year, because price will be struggling with the price fluctuations in the market systems. Well no impossible thing for a bigger price value if this significant increasing will really continue just like the previous days ever recorded of btc history on price value currently we are now at the range of $1200-1300; and price continually shows rising trend on graph monitoring.

Yes I agree. It may reach to $2000 or above till end of the year 2017. The prices will go high but not that fast. It will take time and can say that in the mid 2018 the price may reach above $3000, but for 2017 I am a little scared of saying it. As there are many things involved in increasing the prices of any commodity or currency so is the case with the Bitcoin. But it is very good for those who are holding it for long run.

Yes the price can easily reach 3k but unfortunately there is a very less chance that bitcoin will cross 3k by end of this year. The thing is most of the people have already invested everything in bitcoin so the only way the price can grow now is by other countries accepting bitcoins.

You are so wrong it not just can this year it even can next Month.  With some luck even next week. That is Bitcoin.   But current Bitcoin fuels are altcoins and Crypto economy emerging there.

Well, it takes a very long time. $ 3000 is not a small price, especially bitcoin prices have just reached the price of $ 1000 more and stable this year. It may take several years until bitcoin prices reach that price.

In a year more services are definitely going to come, but the price could scale to 2,000, but take a little longer according to predictions for it to reach that amount.

In reality, Bitcoin's value will definitely raise to xx,xxx valuations because of innovation in the digital economy promoting the exchange of new ideas and web services.

You're speaking theoretically, while the poster you seem to find so wrong has just expressed his realistic view. Don't try to make someone look bad when you are making yourself look even worse with statements like that. In order for the price to reach $3000, don't you think it makes sense to focus on the $2000 level first? ;)

Nah, I want 10k because its a nice round number for calculations.

It could probably push bitcoin price to reach more than $2000 if SegWit is activate on bitcoin network. Sadly, with all the politics going around the scaling issue it won't be implemented for now. Bitcoin is really having its best year so far with other country putting regulation and legalizing it. But one thing that will truly rocket the price of bitcoin to the moon is the scaling problem. Like you, I'm still hoping that it can be done this year.

bitcoin increase to 3000$ i think can't ..
my predict bitcoin can hitted to 1500-2000$ in a year ,, if 3000$ must a biggest news from bitcoin ,, exp : bitcoin accepted in more country ,, etc ,,

What about other fiat currencies? Euro, Pound, Yuan, Yen, price of BTC is different in each of them.
Currency exchange calculations will never be unified and easy.

In 2013 Bitcoin rose from $15 (price in January 2013) to $979 (price in November) we might have another surprisingly high spike in the future as well.

I think it will be very difficult, but it is possible, especially now. Maybe bitcoin can add up to $ 600 to $ 600 within a year, but it would be great if it increased more than $ 1000. It looks hard, unless everyone accepts bitcoin, it might happen.

Yes no doubt. By the current growth and the adoption I feel no hesitation while saying it that it can reach up to $3000. As we can see many of the countries are looking forward to accept the Bitcoin and with this decision we can see a clear growth in the prices of the Bitcoin.

It has covered the distance from $1,100 to $1,300 and is still growing with the raise in its prices. I notice every next day the price increase and if it rises with the same velocity it will reach to $3000.

Yep it is very impossible but the way isn't that straight. There will be a lot of situations before bitcoin can reach this new ATH. But I want this to happen very soon so that I can sold some of my bitcoins while keeping other of it with my wallet. But after this year maybe we can see the price near to $2,000 and this price can possibly happen for the next years to come.

No, but all shares, assets and other holdings are usually denominated in USD, even though the others are still major currencies.

Obviously no one is going to buy in saying "if we can just get to $10,000, the calculations about how much profit I've made will be so much easier!",  but it's nice to be hovering around $1000, drifting far away is great but it's annoying when I'm doing maths.

Regarding "Japan".

Japan's banks have already started using XRP's blockchain, so it's kind of "regulated"

Yes, the people currently holding the bitcoin rather than trading can become richer by the end of the year. If a billion dollars trade gets started in the bitcoin prices may go high even than that of what people are expecting now to be in a year after. The trend of bitcoin is already get started it now just needs a little push and then look at the prices. It will change the life of many around.

I guess now the technology is already growing and increasing so all could compare that bitcoin increased faster in price with its value, I myself also divert my self to bitcoin and I hope can become a successful and wealthy people because the price of bitcoin day after day, month after month, year after year will always increase.. especially if it will increase up to $3000 for this extraordinary.

It's still too soon to talk about it. Bitcoin reaches $ 3,000 in a year I think it can not be achieved. Bitcoin is very volatile, so to achieve it requires a process. Bitcoin also will definitely fall several times and there are still some negative factors that overshadow bitcoin, so for the price to go up to $ 3,000 will definitely take time and process. It's better to talk about bitcoin prices going up to $ 2,000 and if it has been achieved it can talk about the price to $ 3,000 in a year. Do not be too hasty and better to enjoy the process :)

$3000 is just not possible, the price will grow little by little so if the price grows about $20 each month, its still not going to be enough to reach that 3000. It will only be possible if ETF will be approved, they were saying its been reviewed again. Assuming it will be approved, all of us will celebrating.

This ETF review is getting taken far too serious by people. It's just the SEC looking through everything to make sure they haven't missed anything that may have lead to them potentially unfairly rejecting it not that long ago. It's funny that at the time the ETF was rejected people were saying that it didn't matter because there is no need for an ETF, and now there is even a 0.01% chance of approval, people miraculously see huge potential in this ETF. ::)

I still doubt that if ever the ETF approved it, we will see $3000 level soon. It will still take some time before we see the price jumping on this level. Again as I have said, the impact that really affect the price to really soar is the scalability issue. They need to solved this issue right away and step aside the politics behind it. Because if this is resolved, we can truly see the potential of bitcoin specially in the financial landscape of the general public and other countries who are going to embrace bitcoin technology.

It's impossible for bitcoin reach $3000 just in a short time, It will need a lot of time. But ETF approved just give hundreds millionds dollar for the bitcoin market cap. Don't expect if the price of bitcoin can be doubled for instantly caused by bitcoin etf. It's really wrong opinion in my mind. It can't be considered as a big waves in the future.

Bitcoin price literally doubled in one year but since $1200 price range is a little high for most of the people they rather find alternatives to direct buying Bitcoins which would be mining and as long as people can mine for themselves with a cost of even %80 of the current market price they will definitely do it, so unless difficulty increases that much as to make it more profitable to simply buy the coins and not mining them I don't see $3000 or even near $2000 in this year.
Even if ETF approves then people will go and mine instead of buying into the hype.

Every time I have seen the price of bitcoin going up even more, there always were many threads about the same topic: if bitcoin is going to reach xxx USD in next xxx years.
The only thing that was changing, was the numbers. It is exactly the same in this case, now it is about BTC reaching 3000$ until 2018.

That question haven't been asked before just because the price of bitcoin has crossed the 1300$ level lately. People are looking even higher and higher levels, which is still good for bitcoin.

I do not really think that it it possible, but bitcoin has amazed us many times already: so it is not impossible to happen.

I can't see why not. It's seen almost 220% increase over the past year. That's pretty astonishing.

Home based casual mining is long gone,it is not at all profitable to mine bitcoin with the difficultly level we have,the positive side is that since the alt coin market is rising along with bitcoin people will be investing their time in mining alts and then convert those coins into bitcoin and that is the possible situation now,the speculation of bitcoin will continue and new grounds will be broken with time.

We can not measure the potential for bitcoin for now, sometimes it looks impossible, but sometimes it also looks so easy. Well, the most important thing is to prepare a strategy to welcome the price of $ 3000, because definitely the bitcoin price will be high, whether it is within 1 month, or 1 year.

I believe in it and i think that the price of bitcoins would reach upto 3000$ by the end of this year and many people are going to make a lot of profit and from that time i am thinking to sell all my bitcoins right then as it will be the highest price of bitcoins.

No it cannot that would be very high, and bitcoin cant reached that price within a year only. It needs 2 or 3 years before it gets to the price wanted by some bitcoin users. Well gonna see more  and big improvements in bitcoin after 2 years and it may lead to 5000$ price.

I would not say it's completely impossible for bitcoin to do so.
Let there be a positive ETF outcome, a break through with the block size problem or a few positive signals from major governments all around the world, and we could approch to a region near 3000$ per coin.
Of cours, that is pure speculation from my side, and chances that it will come this way are very small. But not impossible either.

I agree. It can not grow so fast, it takes more time. The price can not constantly go up and during this year there will still be small reductions that will not allow such growth.

Hitting 3000 USD would require a daily increase of about 0.4% for the remainder of the year.  Seems very possible to me!

After seeing some crazy price movement in all the altcoins in the last week I'd say everything is possible and I wouldn't be surprised if price kept rising above $1500 in May.

Of course, everything is possible, because the price of coins is very unstable. But you need to remember about the risks and be able to get a small profit.

Yesterday all coins was in plus and green, today all reds and prices are dropping, but bitcoin is going up and today we saw new ATH. I'm pleasantly surprised with this price movement, I didn't expect this and probably if price continue to rise steady we can see 1500 dollars very soon, looks like that is just a matter of time now.

Yes, the sudden increase in the price to 3000$ is not good for bitcoin, I think ETF will agree to accept bitcoin as one of the payment methods.
The price of bitcoin should increase slowly in order to attract more people, the sudden increase in the price will lead to afraid by the people.

Anything that goes up too fast too soon is bound to come down at some point. Bitcoin is not exempted from this and we can’t really expect that the price continues to increase without some corrections along the way. Although $3,000 is a nice price to be at, it must happen at the right time and not be caused by some pump and dump scheme.

Everything is possible so it's hard to say exactly but despite current relatively quick rise I don't think that price will touch 3000$ so soon. For that it takes time and all conditions on the market to be right. We can expect further pump but not without any limit and corrections made along the way.

it is possible to hit by the end of this year.

Maybe it really can happen if you see the potential of bitcoin for now. Well, we can never guess the exact bitcoin price path, but, if the bitcoin price goes up like this, maybe within a year, the bitcoin price will definitely be $ 3000.

Yes exactly it is happening now. Either way whether the people convert the traditional currency or the altcoin in the end they buy bitcoin. It means that the bitcoin market is ultimately improving. The speculation of the BTC will remain and will continue but this is not a huge issue for the BTC holders because they all are ready for the situation coming to them.

3000 is not realistic, at least not at this point. Right now it will be a hard job to even see 2000 dollar. If 1500 dollar is broken.. then maybe.
But seeing the increase followed by a decrease means resistance is hard.

With the way the price of bitcoin is moving you really cannot say never as you got plenty of time to hit those valuation and if the SEC approves the ETF then it is a matter of time that the price breaks those valuation.In a realistic situation the price could see those valuation with time as more countries will be legalizing bitcoin we could see more investments in it which would increase the price.

I agree everything is possible but certain thing has more possibility to happen than other thing.  Like for example in this case, who would have known that Bitcoin will touch more than $1400 today, but with regards to Bitcoin reaching $3000 either this year or within a  year of this post is has a steep possibility.  I think it is possible to reach $2000 in a year but reaching $3000 is quite ambitious.  Though if ever Bitcoin scaling is solved, then there is no doubt, $3000 is easy or even surpass this amount in a year time.

Well for now its impossible even we are seeing more price increase coming.. as i can seen the price is keep rising but the issue from bitfinex still not solve that i think this exchange site will be the next mt.gox well this is just my thoughts but i am afraid that the price will crash down if you are late for exchanging your holding amount of bitcoin or sell few of your bitcoin just to get the profit for this price..
So better to always keep follow the trends and be wise to your decisions..

I'm sure the price will be $3000 difficult to achieve because a lot of things, especially is speculation. the price of the week did indeed go up constantly, but I'm not sure you can continue to survive until the end of the month.

I dont think that bitcoin will reach $3000 by the end of year. Yes, it will definitely reach $2000 by the end of the year. This is highly achievable by looking at the increasing price.

Why not? We are almost at $1,500. If the ETF gets listed somehow, we may reach $2,000 to $2,500 per coin. Else, it is going to take some time, but not more than 12 to 15 months. Because the growth in the number of users is pretty obvious now.

I think that potentially, there would be no problem for bitcoin to reach even more than 3000$ price level before the half of 2018.
But we would need to see some changes going on. The current fee size just cannot remain like that, so we need to fix it: same as the confirmations time.
Even with a proper fee, you need to wait an hour usually unless you want to spend even more money than usual for just transfering it to somewhere else at first block.

If those issues will be changed, im sure that bitcoin will reach 3000$. Japan is adopting it, and we are already seeing them buying a lot of bitcoins.

Anything is possible, but that does not mean that is likely, look at how much time we needed to wait for all time highs, and at the time we are in the middle of a bubble, I don’t think it is going to get us to that price and after the bubble burst then the price is going to get lower.

Right I think $3000 is very impossible to happen in this year 2017 but it will happen I think in 2018 but no one knows what happen in bitcoin in 2018 or the next day. For I dont recommend expecting to much but it is your prediction only. I think the price the bitcoin have possible to reach is $2000 or maybe $2500 and thats possible because the price as of now is $1500 and halving is soon to happen again in july and for sure the price increase.

Halving happens in every four years so most probably next halving would happen at the year 2020 so I don't expect bitcoin for now to reach $3000 marks but I do expect it to continue to rise then dump later on because that's just the way bitcoin goes for the past years that I have been using it. I really do hope for now it will sustain it's current upward movement until it reach 1600$ price.

Always remember the resistance, everytime Bitcoin price surge up there is always a steep going down in price.  Obviously, I am saying that we can observe some downfall in price after this rapid increase in price.  A room for correction before going up in price again.  So I guess we won't be seeing $3000 at the end of the year, probably at the end of 2018.

Yes, I also assume that soon the price will fall. This always happened after rapid growth. And the price of 3000 dollars will probably be in a year or a year and a half

If that really happens bitcoin price $3000 then I feel it is very easy to be rich but I am not sure because the price of the bitcoin ride downhill now and allow bitcoin will be held by each State in the Government, because it would be very helpful to the development of the economy

yes the price of bitcoin now is ongoing into that lead it will really happens in the perfect time assume thay if this not happen in this year maybe next year market bitcoin will be in demand volume will be rapid growth that is why im starting to hold my bitcoin from profit im getting to trading and gambling

I don’t believe in all these. The ratio with which the prices are going high is indicating that it will go more in the same year. People are already buying new coins. Today it hit $1620+ this price clearly says that people are interested and love buying that BTC as a potential investment to the fiat they have.

It can't be in this year, bitcoin price has increase rapidly within this week due to speculation of ETF.
I believe that bitcoin will be corrected after 15^th May if SEC decision is another rejection.
However, there's nothing we can say it for sure as we can't predict what will happen in the future.

From the beginning of the year I'm very optimistic that this year's price could reach $3000 or more. many people pessimistic when prices drop below $1000 but I continue to buy because it is convinced the price will go up again.

No, in this year, it is very hard to reach at $3000. No doubt bitcoin is rising very fast, but still in my thinking it is difficult to reach at $3000. Because in bitcoin price, i see every big rise is a sign of dump.  But i believe in this year bitcoin might be come at $2000.   

I don’t agree, just fellow the prices are jumping and climbing the mountains now a days it approximately increases  ~$200 every week. If the prices kept increasing like this it will cross the $3000 very soon maybe before the end of 2nd quarter. This is encouraging for all the users.

Unless you are already holding a significant amount of bitcoins then it is unlikely you are going to get rich with your holdings in your bitcoin, and if that is the case then becoming rich with bitcoins is going to become harder since you will not be able to buy as much bitcoin as possible.

yes in fact bitcoin has the ability to cross the 3000 USD level in few months, i am hopeful that bitcoin will continue its journey and its price will continue increasing its price because bitcoin has the potential  to increase its price more and more.

I beg to differ, I speculate that bitcoin can reach its maximum potential price of $2500 this year. But it can cross the $3000 barrier in the next year. As for me, there would be some dumping that will happen, and its unavoidable. So when its price goes down to around $1000 level, it will slowly rose again and will touch $2000-$2500 at the end of year. Its still a good thing though, at least investors or just casuals like us will have a chance to buy bitcoin at lower level then just save it at our wallet as store of value.

Many of us waiting that moment for bitcoin to go under 700 $ again for whatever reason so they can take the chance to enter again , otherwise many speculate that one bitcoin will hit 500k$ within 2 years .

Looks like it is possible! Looking at the current growth in price of bitcoins, $3,000 could really be something it can reach and stabilize into. But this can't happen just like that. It will need more than just speculations and a few improvements in adoption. Bitcoins must be adopted by more people in their daily lives to be able to reach that price target.

Yes, it does.

There is lots of new people and organizations entering the market.
Lots of people getting involved in this world every day. Network effects..

That is why the growth is exponential.
It will double current price before, in 6 month.

Well I don't really know how to analyze this thing on $3000 because for now dumping of bitcoins really happened, and  people  waited for so long on their investment to take a break and enjoy their profit. But to those who were not getting tired to take their risk of another holding, they kept doing their pumping of btc price and hold bitcoin for another long period of time; actually buying again aside from selling it. For this year were impossible to make it to 3000 USD,  and price will go through challenging moments of fluctuations within the middle of the year 2017.

What organizations are entering bitcoin investing scene?

I don't know any institutional money managers who can touch bitcoin legally as it is still unregulated asset.

Maybe in Japan it is different, I am not sure what institutional investing in BTC works in Japanese current legal framework.

If the development and support to bitcoin continues like nowadays is going and the countries started to adopt bitcoin for the financial affairs of their state and the bigger companies come to adopt bitcoin for their business then it is sure that in an year the price of bitcoin will reach to $3000.

I agree with you. To achieve such a price, an incentive is needed now. And the government should be friendly to the crypto currency. This will lead to an increase in the popularity of bitcoin and a price increase

After Japan adopted bitcoin. Now, the many people just adopt over the bitcoin. Recently Swiss banks has been adopted the bitcoin and they were also planning to make the bitcoin as a legal money. After May 1st, Bitcoin price simply bumped to the next peak value. Fortunately Eth value touched its peak value yesterday,

Really great news coming left and right about states adopting it or having plans of adopting it. This really means that bitcoins are gaining popularity all over the world and that will be good for the price as it can surely skyrocket it. Also, what is really nice here is that when it does get widely adopted is that we can use bitcoins to buy in any store we see around us. That is a great feature.

Well, I guess this time bitcoin has shown price stability within a few days. Maybe we can see bitcoin prices just barely reach $ 3000 price. Well, the $ 3000 price is still very far for now, but it does not rule out that it could reach that price. We can not guess the bitcoin rise cycle, because it can happen pump anytime.

Although there are opportunities, it seems difficult if bitcoin will reach $3000 in a year. Maybe next year will happen.

In the mainstream media, I have read numerous reports claiming that a large number of institutional investors are now entering the Bitcoin sector. So in the short term (2-3 months), $2,000 per coin seems possible. But can't predict the prices after that.

I am also thinking that the price of bitcoin will reach to that value because now the price of it is increasing much faster and if it continued like that then nothing will be able to stop it to reach to $3000. I am sure for that fact and because of that when I get some money I invest that in bitcoin and will wait for the time when the price will reach to $3000 or more above that.

If 3000$ price would be reach by bitcoins well im pretty sure that all of us will be happy but I think theirs also domino effect well be happen on that since competition well be more tighter and the chance for us to get some bitcoins will decreased. But anyways lets leave that thoughts for now and enjoy the surging of price at this moment maybe we can ser more from it since people's eyes are unto bitcoins stats for now.

Price increased only because Japan accepted BTC as legal tender. BTC hype in Japan has its limits.
We are not ready for growing adoption without proper scaling solution, without SegWit activated Bitcoin will be looked down by everyone.
If you want bigger money and quicker invest in alts. Bitcoin is investment only if can wait years for it to bloom.

I also have certain doubts about the real sustainability of this current rally. It is true that speculators have the power to eventually send the price to the moon, but I can't see solid basis behind a potential increase to $3000.

Its difficult to reach that amount however, Its not far from bitcoin to reach that this year because as you can see the price of it is continue growing. Bitcoin community would be happy if it will happen. And many investors will shift into bitcoin investment and yet it will attract more people to use bitcoin. If that happen the demand of bitcoin will rise and it will continue to grow.

It is very difficult to reach 3000USD price. Still need a road and a long time. But I think that in bitcoin world nothing is impossible. Because everything can happen without guessing, all things are miracles in the bitcoin world.

No, i am sure in this year bitcoin can't reach at $3000. It will be a big challenge for bitcoin to come at $3000.
Also I believe in 2017 bitcoin stop at $2000. But in the next year, i can say bitcoin will reach at $3000, but it will take time.
I suggest you, don't think high about bitcoin, give the time to bitcoin than no doubt bitcoin give you profit but slowly slowly. 

I think no because the 3000$ is a large amount for bitcoin this year maybe next year that is the next milestone so for me this year the real target is the 2000$ because that price is the closest and have a lot of chance to meet because the price of the bitcoin now is greatly pump this following month so I will go for 2000$ this year maybe next year it will be 3000$

Yeah reaching that amount in such a short amount of time does not seem likely but the more time we give to bitcoin the higher the chances for bitcoin to be able to reach the target amount of 3000 dollar suggested in this thread.

Well said. But look at the price now, it is more than 2000 dollars. I Have a experience where i've waited almost a week to receive my btc especially the smaller amounts, the pending of receive is taking to long. One of the problems also is the wallet, when massive people uses online wallet there are bugs in the system that occurs. I have seen one of my friends lost at least 200 dollars because they've said that the btc is already claimed but hes not claiming any amount. Disappointed.


With the massive adoption of BTC and the hype, bitcoins price almost rose to 3000 dollars. The price will definitely go up because some countries are legalizing btc as a form of payment. It will become more scarce and some economists predicted that it might even reach the price of 10000 dollars in a year or two.

There are high chances to reach 3000$ soon.
I'm not sure if once reached this value will stay there.
It is possible to reach 5000$ until the end of the year.

It`s not hard to say this when we see how price going up fast, 3000 $ seems like its around the corner. We can throw numbers 3k, 4k, 5k and bitcoin price can really climb up to this prices, but I don`t hurry to see this high price, I always think that I can earn more while price is lower. I also think that price will rise until the end of this year, how much I don`t wish to speculate, I`m sure that price will surprise me in any case.

Yeah we will not be long to see bitcoin prices around $ 3000, this is only a matter of time because there have been several pumps in recent days and i see there is one of the exchangers have tried several times to push prices above $ 3000.

Its almost there. I saw the other day that it touches $2900 so it will soon be $3k. I'm not too eager for the price to be $3k because I don't own a single btc but I do have ERC tokens I have been keeping. But the rise of BTC is also the rise of altcoins.

the price of the bitcoin is indeed the higher value in the future, so that many countries have validate bitcoin on the list might affect the economic growth of those countries so that each State Government has always taken steps to control the value of bitcoin

If the rate of Bitcoin increases at this rate ,then yes bitcoin would definitely hit the mark of 3000 $ in a year's gap.This will ensure that bitcoin can be leader of all the currencies in the future and maybe people who don't believe in bitcoin may be stunned with such an increase in its price and come to know its real value.

Bitcoin price reaches $3000 and even higher based on the adoption happening by the falling weeks and months. As more people are entering new to the digital currency network soon we can expect more good things to take place in price as well acceptance.

Not so fast slugger, price went near $2900 but now the market is resisting the push from the whales, if ETH stops going up I assume bitcoin will do the same because obviously there is something going on between ETH investors and BTC investors and I don't know what people see in ETH?
Maybe 15 seconds confirmation time? but why did they say that they will change POW to POS? that was something which made me doubt mining ETH and when it becomes POS then only the whales will earn profit while if the whales in bitcoin dump their coins they will for sure lose and more people get their hands on bitcoins.
What if I told you by tomorrow we'll hit $3000+ will you go and buy as many as you can afford?

yes you are right bitcoin is very close to 3000$ as the price is going very high in this week and i hope in the coming months the price of bitcoin will be above the 3000$ and also due to the acceptance of bitcoin by the some countries cause the price of bitcoin high and also the adoption of bitcoin by many people and the investors is the cause of high price of bitcoin.

Bitcoin is so near to 3000$ now.Hope it will touch 3000$ very soon.  :)

It's so very near back again whales are always taking profits before it will hit the barrier of $3k. And the price went back at $2,771 so it's a normal thing in the fluctuation of bitcoins price. We always want to see bitcoin's price always at the peak but there will always the equilibrium, alt coins and bitcoin makes it slowly but surely increase of bitcoin.

asking the guys quoted here: has the recent rise changed your opinion?   :-*

hard to believe that this thread started just 6 weeks ago... (price now is @2787 ($/stamp))

Yes, it's possible. 52 weeks ago Bitcoin price was $482.
Now, 52 weeks later we mark bitcoin at $2748+ and breakpoint for now was $2903.
So yes, we will hit $3000 in a matter of weeks.

With such temps bitcoin will reach 3000$ this month already ;D and who knows what price will be in a year?! 5000$ doesn't seem so impossible anymore.

yes you are right bitcoin will reach 3k dollars in this month because the today's price of bitcoin is 2732 dollars and with such increasing speed the price will may be cross 3000 dollars and about this year i think that it will be above the 3500 dollars when this year end, and i think 5000 dollars is seems impossible because no one know what happen.

I have a hope that when now the price of bitcoin start to increase then it will not take time to increase to a value of $3000. We will see that price within a minute. But currently it is at $2750+ and is standing there many people think that it will take some weeks and reality is that the price is waiting for some demand and some investors.

It's not unrealistic by the end of this year. But I think some things may occur differently than expected, and it's important to be prepared for it. It all depends on how efficient devs and miners will be to solve the current network problems.

Last summer, when Bitcoin fell sharply in 2016, there were predictions that said that 2017 would be revolutionary and would be something like what happened in 2013. So you could already assume that Bitcoin will be sure, and cross the threshold of $ 2,000 for 1 Bitcoin and go on without stopping there. Therefore, I do not doubt that by the end of 2017 we will have 3000 dollars for 1 Bitcoin.

If the price continues to jump day by day. The bitcoin price will make it in $3000 before the year ends. All we need to do is wait until it happens.

If it continues the rise its had over the last few weeks I think we will hit $3000 before the month ends even. The pumping lately has been astonishing.

I was just thinking that. It is very possible that by the end of this months it'll be 3000$. And in a year it might be 5000$ or more, or less...

It will not even reach before the end of the year instead it's possible to happen in the end of June. And yes, that's very possible to happen at this early quarter of this year. But I don't have an idea on what is going to happen on and after August 1. Many are spreading different thoughts about it, but I hope that it's new floor will be $3k.

Of course. With such a development, the development may even reach the $ 5000 mark by the end of the year.

There were a lot of developments in btc it rise high and fall a bit,things were unexpected so it can grew more in time. It possibly can.

Very possible that the price of bitcoin can end $3,000 for this year. And it's better if you are going to keep on holding while waiting for the price to get up to $3,000. But there's a lot of speculation too that many are saying it can also end up to $5,000 for this year.

yeah bitcoin can easily reach $3000 in this year because today price of bitcoin is 2793 and I sure that is very easy for bitcoin can reach $3000 in this year.

yes you are right bitcoin will easily reach $3000 USD in this year  after one or two  months because it has attracted many people and the number of their users are also increased daily and I hope at the end of this year the price of bitcoin will be going to 3500$ or 4000$ in case of investors are increased day by day.

Yeah I hope so, the Bitcoin price to $3000 is really near which was at first looking like that it will happen because I remember of talking about the price to be asked was $1800 whether the Bitcoin will reach this price till the end of this year and now look at the boom in the price of the bitcoin. This is simply awesome man.

The price surprised me several times this year. Bitcoin is very unpredictable. In January 2017, I could not imagine that I would see 2000+ this year.
But now I'm waiting for the price to be 3000+ and I'm sure it will happen very quickly

The possibility and speculation of bitcoin keeps on increasing every month because the price keeps on breaking new records,lets see how things will go with the scaling proposal and i think we will have a set future,the mental barrier to cross the $3000 is strong for now and it might cross in the coming weeks.

Hard to believe $3000 has been such a dream just a few months ago!  :D

I also didn't expect the $3000 level to become reality this year, and especially not in January this year, but we are very close. Precisely speaking (for what it's worth), OKCoin just peaked over $3040 in both its CNY and USD platforms. It's now waiting for western exchanges to pick up, but that might take a while now Chinese exchanges don't have any leading role anymore.

Not yet there, but it seems its gonna climb to that soon. Let's just hope the future corrections would be minimal.

I think it will not need a year to reach 3000 USD maybe at the end of this month.

Yes I think you're right at this certain thinking mate, I see were not yet there to have $3000 of bitcoin price and although the signs of progress is there in every price changes in the market; not assurance for us that $3000 will be reach while price corrections is always struggling. Price bubble has been a specutions since btc was around below $1000 and there's no actual proof about it, and all I believe is that supply and demand always takes place.

Yes, bitcoin is growing too fast and old predictions are no longer relevant. One has to wonder if he will reach the mark of 5000 this year.

I guess the bitcoin will increase with the value increasing every second sekaraang, I bet if bitcoin can penetrate the $3000 figures will be at the end of this month because my prediction is always appropriate, current bitcoin has reached $2800 very close to the numbers $3000

Many people consider such a forecast to be correct and this can happen even much faster than by the end of this month. The popularity of bitcoin is high and new users join it.

Yes! I really think that way too, that this month will be the best to see the price of bitcoin would reach $3000, we are surely nearing it because as of now the price is $2800 right now, I am expecting a lot of support from other countries market to pump up the value of bitcoin, and by July we can surely Speculate another rise and a new speculation regarding a whole new country that will accept bitcoin and that will be Australia.

OP was done in April 2017, we are only 2 months later & it looks very likely that we'll break $3000 in the very, very short term.

Incredible scenes.

Well I am hoping for more than $3000 till the end of this year. But let me take to another issue that can raise with the rising prices of the bitcoin and with which the bitcoin can really go through a tough phase due to the competitors is that the number of the transactions of the Bitcoin as payments can be decreased with the value of it getting higher.

I'm sure yes, bitcoin will reach $3K. Popularity and bitcoin technology are increasingly attracting many investors to invest. This has positive effect on price increases.

It's funny that at first I didn't noticed this thread was posted almost two months ago and only realized that it was after I had read some comments or replies which has a negative opinion regarding to the price ;D probably they already realized that bitcoin will surely be able to hit $3000 and maybe even higher within this year as they can see the current price as well as how many months left before the year 2018 ;D

to me we have already crossed 3000 $ in some exchanges, but according to preev.come today the price of bitcoin was trading 2950$ but after that the price of bitcoin fell down to 2400$ which is a huge drop. but it is just a correction and hot a panic selling because people are still giving support to bitcoin and very soon the price of  bitcoin will recover its previous position when the correction will over.

It is really incredible to see the rally in bitcoin,but today we were on the brink of breaching the milestone and could not sustain it for a longer time because people began booking their profits and we had a very good correction and we are having a good resistance to cross the barrier as this is the second or third time we are seeing a correction after trying to breach $3000.

Preev takes its exchange rates from several exchanges at the same time, and then calculates the average price, and that's what they show you. That explains why the rate that Preev is showing you is lower than the rates from various other exchanges. Other than that, it's a normal correction that has taken place -- there are still a lot people that need to close their positions before we can finally move further. If you were waiting to enter the market, then go ahead and use this correction in your advantage.

$3000 is psychologically important and it is natural that people book profits. But the current drop is something more than people booking profits. It looks like a section of investors is getting out. Usually profit booking doesn't result in such a substantial (~20%) fall in profits,

Bitcoin is so popular today, 3000$ is totally possible to hit this year as you see the price of bitcoin continue to grow.
This increased adoption will be propelled investments in blockchain technology. And i think more companies will accept Bitcoin as payment like Japan did. I'm also expecting that the price of Bitcoin will hit to 3500 to 4k $ by the end of this year

Many people are investing now in bitcoin. A lot of companies too are supporting it but the bitcoin today is having a hard time to hit the $3000 but it will hit it in the future. I'm expecting the bitcoin will hit the $5000 the next year.

More investment is coming into bitcoin as well big adoption too is happening. From the days of Japan entering into bitcoin more Countries have been showing interest towards bitcoin. As a part Countries too have been creating their own digital tokens. So everything going digital is also an reason to assure the price will reach $3500 or $5000.

Yes I agree looking at the demand of the Bitcoin and the people getting aware of the benefits of the Bitcoin are increasing rapidly and more and people are adopting the bitcoin as a mean of payment and also as a mean of investment. By looking at the potential of the Bitcoin the Bitcoin I am sure will cross this limit very soon.

Actually 3000$ has been reached by the bitcoin last day but as usuall it sudden dumps since many people dump their hodl coin by that time and we should not be afraid of these dumps since it means that their would be another stretch happening unto it and maybe by this year another bitcoins milestone will be listed and provably 3500-4000$ will be set for this year around.

Nope. What the news says is BTC is gonna split sometime soon. i am not quite aware of what that means but seems like BTC will split up like ETH did to ETH and ETX or ETC (I dont remember what that was) . So 3000, I dont think so. But if it hits, I'd be more than happy. :)

Well, it has already reached 3000$ last week although not for long.

Come on mate this is going to be happen before the August I am sure.
If there was no any uncertain situation like an exchange hack or some other technical issue with the bitcoin the Bitcoin is going to hit in the next few weeks most probably in the next two or three weeks.

I'm sure the price will be $3000 difficult to achieve because a lot of things, especially is speculation. the price of the week did indeed go up constantly, but I'm not sure you can continue to survive until the end of the month.

well i do not think that it is very difficult for bitcoin to achieve 3000 dollars because few days ago the price of bitcoin was about 3000 dollars but it does not matter that the price is now about 2500 dollars, i think at the end of this year surely the price of bitcoin will be stable at 3000 dollars not in the end of this month.

Rallies do not last forever. Take into account that Bitcoin could fall back sub 2000 as well, in the form of a large retrace, quite quickly. It has been rallying for about 2,5 months now, with a short but violent downturn during the end of May, only to find itself doubting again.

There is absolutely no guarantee that Bitcoin will close the year with a 3000 dollar value. It could be, but it isn't the 95% likely outcome people here like to think it is.

On the other hand, there absolutely no guarantee that bitcoin will not be on $3,000 within this year.

Since you is only a guess and speculation, same as mine, we all really don't know if that will happen or not. Rallies are not meant to last forever but those short rallies are pushing the price up that's why we are having a different bottom. Remember the $1,000 price? It's high price but now a bottom. That's why there are reasons to believe that $3,000 is achiveable this year.

i agree with you and i think we can see 3000 USD in this year soon but to know when, we don't know for sure and we only can see if its really happen. for this end of the month, i think the price will still volatile and changing over and over depend on how the order buy and order sell in the market. the chance to the price to gets increase is still wide open and we can hope that the price is getting up soon.