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Hey guys! Just wanted to have some fun and share ideas on how much Bitcoin will cost by the end of the year and why.
I personally think that it will at least come close to the ATH because there is some shady pumping going on by the whales.
What is your take?

The probability that bitcoin will cross $20,000 by November or December is high and we have seeing a new speculations that it might cross $100,000 by 2021. Because of this speculations I think that bitcoin is going to do well at the end of this year and in 2020. We should not be afraid to buy now that it is a little above $10,000 especially if we have the mind for long term purpose.

If you're going to talk related to your predictions and all speculations, then you can talk and ask anyone in speculation (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?board=57.0) section no here in bitcoin discussion, so better to move this thread, there's a 'move topic' command in the lower left of this thread.

A good prediction, for me, it's a 15k USD stable after BTC hit 20k in october-november
This is what I expect and I think most of here are specting to hit 20k USD again, but it's hard to maintain this, a dump will occur for sure

Thank you, moved it.

My timing predictions (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5176246.msg52200775#msg52200775) are still on track......sideways/down for another month, give or take. So if the next wave up plays out like the $3,122-$13,880 wave (in terms of time), then around EOY we will probably be testing the 2017 ATH.

I feel you, hope for the best but prepare for the worst. Though, 12k is not that bad either :)

AFAIK there's already a thread like this before but maybe it has been covered by too many threads.

Looking forward and positive that we'll finally get to see more than the last highest price that we've seen this year. And Bakkt futures launch is one awaited moment for next month.

Shady pumping? I usually see people only complain when the price gets dumped down.  :D

Mind to explain what makes you think the pumping is shady? All I have seen so far is regular fomo activity combined with short squeezes. I can see how people get the impression that there is something shady going on with big green candles popping up out of nowhere, but it definitely isn't shady or manipulation.

As for my view on the price, I will remain neutral until we either make higher local highs or lower local lows. It feels good to just sit back and wait for the pop, regardless of the direction it ends up popping to.

I think in Sept/Oct it'll go up to $18k or so, and then probably spend the last couple months of the year correcting back down to like $14k or so. So I'll say a high of $18,000s, but end the year more like $14k or $15k, being ready to move above $20k in early 2020.

i don't think we can come close to ATH this year because ATH is still considered a very strong resistance and the closer we get the more sell pressure from those who think they made a mistake by buying bitcoin and want out (just like $1200 which was the previous ATH in 2017 before breakout).
and no i don't think we can ever see any pump in bitcoin anymore. the days of "pump" have been over ever since Mt Gox was closed.

we will probably see a more slower rise with some small jumps towards the end of the year and sit somewhere close to $15k+ unless we can see some real differences in the market that could start a big momentum bringing up the price by a lot more.

likely before the end of the year, the price of bitcoin will pump. September or October may be one of the months that is suitable for the pump, and the price may reach $ 15k to $ 18k. however, this development is still as far as predicted, and there is not enough good information for it. because of this, at the end of this year, the price of bitcoin might be close to $ 20k. we only need a pump that continues. that was the prediction that I was thinking about.

however, other predictions from several sources say that the price of $ 20k could be reached in May 2020 due to halving assistance. it might support the big price development at the end of this year.

What sort of news do you think is the reason why BTC could reach up to $20k by the end of the year?

I have closely watch the price in charts but I see it not really going that high unless there is really something significant that will happen. It can't even break the $11k barrier so if its going to have a break out, there must be something that will trigger investors to massively buy to abruptly break that 11k to 15K.

Looking at the 1w graph it's going to go sideways for now (few more weeks).
Once we get closer to the Bollinger band median we will go up again.
When we go up we will go fast and then get corrected again.
2019 will end round about $18k I would think.

All right, pulling out of the hat some Bitcoin predictions for fun is the good way to do it. The predictions should never be taken serious, after all.
Since in the quarterly predictions I've put some 19k iirc, I'll put 40k for the end of the year. Again, these are just random numbers / wishful thinking!  ;)

I have a ready and easy to understand explanation if you are curious

It is just a human nature to consider shady anything that people can't grasp and thus fail to understand. Basically, it is just an instinctive (read, kinda automatic and uncontrollable) reaction to events and situations which don't fit their idea about how things are or should be. People implicitly assume they are right, so when they are indeed proved wrong and there is no recourse to an imaginary Ignore button, the only option left is to assume that something shady is going on or taking place, i.e. someone deliberately trying to pull a trick against them. In other words, it is a protective mechanism for the ego which would otherwise get hurt and humiliated by the incomprehensible reality

Somewhere under $20k and above $12k IMO. Bullish momentum's slowing down a bit and especially in the last few weeks, and we might even be pressed down near $10k for a month or two before things finally start moving, though I do find it likely we're going to break upwards soon. Can't rule out breaking down lower, but I do find that unlikely.

My gut says $20k is pushing it.
I'm hoping for $50k-$70k.
When looking at the past $100k-$200k should be possible (although my gut says "what have you been smoking bro?")

That seems to be something realistic, I too have the gut that $20000 is possible to be reached end of the year. Already we've touched close to $14000, and this increases the chances for $20000. There were more wild guesses of $100k and more to be reached, at this instance we've very small percentage of reaching it.

Ok, I know it's just predictions, and there are a lot of almost impossible pumps that BTC did  ;D
But 100k USD for this year? I don't think so, it looks so hard because people are waiting 20K USD to dump and wait for a dip

20k for now it's the main goal

All I see right now is a market trying to get stable and I think whatever shady deal that the whales need to do was already done in that April and has already pushed us out of the bear market, so any addition that we see in the market, I think it should be as a result of organic pumping, I mean genuine investors that are preparing on these cheap values pending the time that the bull run of bitcoin starts.

 I am not so sure if bitcoin will reach the last All time high this year but if I was to base it on some speculation and based on my own personal prediction also, I think that bitcoin should at least pushes a little forward to a figure around that $15,000 which to me is still not that bad, if we can pick up from that value as from next year, then I expect bitcoin to get up to $45k before the end of 2020.

Sounds like a plan...  8)

the market has already reached its stability but that is how a stable bitcoin price looks like. it is a price with less than 10% ups and downs around 1 fixed point which is these days at $10500.
in some ways this could be a good sign as the volume is still high considering the stable phase and the accumulation is ongoing. i am mostly seeing $15k for this year but also i think a big FOMO is still a possibility,all it takes is for price to show a small rise above $13k to see it kick start.

At the end of the year I am hoping to see at least 13k, I know that is a very risky price and whenever we reach it the price goes down so it should be more like 14k but I feel like we will break the wall around 14k but we will fall a bit so that whales could get some more, which will result with us going above the 14k, breaking the 13.8k wall, making it easier to go back up above to 15k+ and than going down so that whales could accumulate more bitcoins, that is exactly the stage we will leave bitcoin on 2019, on 2020 it will be accumulated enough in first few months and on close to halving it will be skyrocketed again only to fall after the halving when people realize nothing major will happen. That is exactly the road map in my mind about bitcoin for late 2019 and early 2020.

That's the 20-week MA. That (or the EMA) is the standard for support in Bitcoin's past bull market corrections. It's possible we wick below though, which happened a couple times in the 2016 bull market. For that reason, I think the $8,000s are still possible here. Lower than that, not so much.

There is nothing less stable than Bitcoin's price

Other than the prices of altcoins, of course. If history teaches us anything (I know, it doesn't but still), the longer the price is locked in a certain range, the stronger and more brutal will the next price action be. It is up for debate whether the price will go higher (though, in the light of the coming halving, there are good chances to actually see that coming) or it will crash to the levels from which the recent rally had started (i.e. down to 6k). In fact, both options are quite possible, and in an arbitrary order at that

We already visited the 13,000$ level twice this year so we could easily identify 13k as a major resistance for BTC at it already failed to break the resistance twice that is why we are now consolidating from 9,000$ to 11,000$ level. Expecting Bitcoin to have a walk in the park from 9,000$ to 15,000$+ at the current situation we have for this year seems to be not possible. And by the way sometimes if not most of the time the whales are not the ones who are waiting for Bitcoin to go down they are the ones who are the reason why it's falling down due to them offloading their position on certain levels and buying them back again, that's why we are seeing Bitcoin having huge price swings even in consolidation.

We still have four months left before the end of the year and i don't see any sign of moving close to the ATH of Bitcoin with this kind of number right now that will show up in every exchanges. I think it's just too early to make a prediction if the price is barely moving from $10,000 to $11,000. It's been a week since this price is quite stable.

I think the same, we will see the price in the same range until the end of this year. Maybe, but only maybe we will see some minor rise in the last month, it`s something that has been repeating over the past years, but we can`t be sure about anything these days. Next year is the year of the halving, I think we had many excitement until now, its good to take a little break from everything and prepare for next year's madness. By that I mean accumulate as much as you can until then.

I don't think it is completely impossible

What we are dealing with here seems to be called a recency bias, i.e. we don't expect prices to move too far away from their current levels (this is a very common misperception anyway). To understand why it is indeed a bias (in fact, a handy euphemism for being deluded), all we need to do is recall that only half a year ago Bitcoin was trading in the 3-4k range, and most of us didn't seriously expect or even imagine prices like 13k and above anytime soon, definitely not by this summer


I think whales are sitting on the sidelines for the time being, while the huge price swings as of recent can be explained by trading volumes declining, which essentially means there is no demand nor supply in sufficient amounts at these prices. That, in turn, means volatility running wild as under these circumstances it doesn't take a lot of liquidity to move the prices considerably in any direction. That seems to be a pretty good explanation of what is going on now

However, if you have a better one, you're welcome

I will go for atleast 10-15$k before the year end(but of course I wanted more if given)

As what like pooya says the resistance this year is very strong and I don’t think wean break it this time,maybe things will change after or before the Halvingof bitcoin next year around Second quarter

That’s also what I think what will happen,not unless there’s a good investments entered the market this next month before 4rth quarter starts then it will bring light to all of us but if this certain things continue to happen then the more it will be on 10$k or even lower

"the resistance this year is very strong" this is true, but we also know that conditions on this market change in an instant. I still think the reaching the old ATH is possible.

If 2019 maybe i don't have high target for BTC, or maybe accumulation phase still happen in that time. Because if me not wrong, people will take chance to buy bitcoin in cheaper price before halving that come in 2020 come. So they can make profit when that time happen. Actually that is what will i do before halving come, if have money and price is good to buy, i will buy some and hold it until next pump.

A year ago price was around 6-8k levels so it wasn't that far off from right now, still high but not that different, we have hit 8 thousand last summer and we have hit 9 thousand just recently, from their peaks tho we have hit 6 thousand last summer and we hit 13k this summer, so there were close times but far away times as well.

This means its quite possible to break any price of course and we can definitely go above 15k (or under 10k) but that doesn't mean it will happen, its not recency bias, whenever bitcoin got stuck in the price for a too long time period the price usually did a crazy move, it could go 100% up or 50% down and both would be logical because that is exactly what bitcoin does in these kind of situations. Of course that was the past, doesn't mean same will happen.

I'm very optimistic this year, my prediction is very high because I believe we will have a new all time high this year.
Maybe some people have lost their faith on bitcoin since was stuck at $10K and drop again today, but let's look at where it started, it was just trading at over $3k this year, reach a high of $13K, so it's not impossible for bitcoin to rise again at $20K this year.

We are free to make our own prediction and I believe I made a realistic prediction that I won't change it regardless of what will happen to the price of BTC.

if you want to have fun then go to google and research the price predictions made by Tom Lee, John McAfee and many other people i believe you will laugh long


When you say you believe the price could reach the old ATH I am assuming that you are saying that the price could reach $ 18000 at least this year. But I don't believe the price exceeds $ 17000 this year.


people are buying bitcoin because of halving that will happen next year, but there are BAKKT and other major players that can make the price go up a lot, so I believe the price could be up to $16000 this year

You're not really doing yourself a favor by not changing short to mid term predictions. As we have seen, there is a lot that can change rapidly, for the best or worse. I was like that last year and paid the price for it. It's much better to follow the trend rather than to stick with your prediction. It's not a sin to change your opinion.  :)

I'm not saying that we won't be seeing the price retest its 2017 high, but for that to happen we need to see the price make higher highs, and as long as that isn't the case, I will not be expecting the price to retest its 2017 high.

Every price flauation is not actually influenced by the whales, some could be traders activities.
Anyway, I think the year will end with the price of 15k at exact. Figure crossed.
I feel this price will make it stable at the first beginning of the 2020 where there will additional price increase, it will be a gradual process. All the same let's hope for the best.

I never heard great news, update and good development again in favor of Bitcoin except of the 70% domination which is now interrupted or stop. With the market is now in difficult again maybe Bitcoin will not reach beyond $15,000 before this year would end but hopefully it will hit the ATH again so lets wait and see.

I personally also still believe, that the price of bitcoin will also return a good price in the coming months, because now the market prices of bitcoin and altcoin are also increasing.

Many people believe it too, but the problem is we don't know how much the highest price of bitcoin for 2019, and no one will know for that. We could hope that the price can increase higher more than $15k, but the reality is still a mystery. So if you want to see how much bitcoin price will be, you need to follow the bitcoin journey and don't forget to buy bitcoin when the price is down like today because maybe you will not see this opportunity in the future.

In 2018, many people predicted that Bitcoin prices could return at $10,000. And all had happened in the year 2019, and until now remained at $9,500. Predictions for the end of the year 2019, I think the price will be back pumping. And for this year my expectation can also reach $20,000.

Everything can happen in this crypto industry because everyone in the world can invest. I hope that Bitcoin can go back to pumping. But Altcoins should be able to follow the Bitcoin movement.

Absolutely. But that is the whole point of this thread, to throw some wild guesses around and have fun :)

Absolutely, so far we have seen that most altcoins are very dependent on BTC movement, which means that if there will be a BTC pump there will also be a big altcoin pump. All the more reason to invest now while prices are still accessible and then... Whell then it's complicated, it will either go down like last year and 2017 situation repeats itself or it goes back up and continues the pump.

Yeah, but startups and new cashless payments methods are usually based on altcoins. How do you think this will affect BTC itself?

Bitcoin will eventually be affected because of two main reasons. If these methods are mainly altcoins then the year going to get some more attention in bitcoin as well, if the system works for some altcoins why wouldn't it work for bitcoin as well, so with time the system will switch from altcoins to bitcoin if it is proven to be working.

The second one is, bitcoin is the original currency, if it is anything then it is being number one in crypto world, so if altcoins get great attention and increase in price and basically be super successful that means their money will come through bitcoin most of the time, people will buy bitcoin and then spend it on altcoins. Hence, in any case bitcoin will take advantage of it as long as they are actually succeeding on doing this new system.

There has been different prediction of bitcoin price from all angles but one thing is sure that bitcoin price will hit $18k before this year end's. So many investors are now investing more in bitcoin due to the shades between China and USA over tariff

But, this recent drop sealed it for me, I knew bitcoin would be going up very soon but I wasn't entirely sure when it will happen and how it will it happen but thanks to this drop now I am 100% sure that bitcoin is about to go up really high. Bitcoin never just takes off without no movement beforehand, it does a bit of testing to see how the market looks and depending on the results it goes up or down.

This is one of those times where bitcoin has tested the bottom to see where it can fall when it goes up so that it knows the bottom in case of a fall, now that we know the bottom we can now go up as high as possible with the knowledge of where the risk is and be careful while going up but at the same time since we know the risk we can just go up without worrying about what could worse happen.

This makes total sense. Then we are in for a treat in the near future, can't wait to see where it is going to go.

Why do you say that BTC will hit $18k for sure? Do you have some more info to base this prediction on? I am very interested to hear, I personally also belive that around 20k is in order, but I don't know for sure, just hope :) 

It can easily break that $15k when when finally BAKKT will be launched in 3 weeks. Its been announced lately it will be released. Same say it may not have effect but it sure does have. Its where the financial institutions are going to rumble and compete the traders in crypto and the money from investors will flow. Everyone who thinks of profit will grab its chance to buy whatever is on the horizon.

it's likely that the price of bitcoin will be in the range of $ 15,000 by the end of 2019. I'm just waiting for information about things that can make the price of a bitcoin pump like a trade war.

a lot of information that supports that the price of bitcoin can be a higher pump, it's just that I don't think that at this time there has been a significant increase. so, I believe that in the near future, the price of bitcoin can break through the price of $ 11,000, and the recovery will continue until it approaches, or exceeds that price.

We still have almost 4 months before the end of this year, so everything can happen. Bitcoin can increase and back to $10k, and then it could slightly increase to the next level price. But we don't know where the price wants to go while the market until now still cannot be predicted. We could only wait and see for what will happen later, and we can buy trying to buy bitcoin from now on if we think that soon the price will increase. But if we are still afraid of the next downtrend, then we can wait for a while.

18k is definitely a made up number, its not even a wall that will be hit and stay, like for example we hit 13.8k and we stuck there and than fall down because there was a wall there that kept us from going any further up, 18k doesn't have that, we have the closest at 17.7k so maybe he round it up and that could be the most logical argument for him, the next is at 19k+ (19k and some change I forgot) so that is further away so I assume he talks about the 17.7k wall. That is something we can reach if we have some new money coming into the market but for that to happen we have to have a reason, like what is going on for bitcoin that would make people put up some more money into it?

As far as I know only good thing going on for bitcoin has been bakkt and that is not something huge that would change the price that drastically.

People are just saying what they like to say out of assumption and not out of fact because anyone that predicts should be able to back its prediction up with some summaries of analyses done, and majority of us actually just speculate because we know that it is speculation that controls the market.

Many at times, people have speculated different figures, and when it eventually coincided, then one that got the prediction well will claim he is an expert, meanwhile it was just a guessing work. There is no one that can predict the future of bitcoin, we can only get some clue form whatever is happening around us like the release of bakkt, the release of Facebook coin, and some other fundamentals that we know that there is no way it would not have effect on the value of bitcoin.

$16,000 by the end of the year. By the early months of 2020, January February and March, Bitcoin will try to break the all-time-high price and will succeed by April. New ATHs will happen in April to May and then crash back to $16,000 because many will sell the hype.

On this year bitcoin has a potential to make pumps in my opinion but it's just a pumps that wherein will not go further due to some factors , you can see it on the chart . Actually im not saying it will make a repetitive fluctuations within this year because you know, we are now on bermonths and there's a high possibility again it will keep progressing  like what always happened . But in my view not too much. 

You can't be sure about that, although I believe that it's not likely to have a new ATH this year but I still think it's possible.
3 months is more than enough to make a new ATH, BTC can increase 100% in just a month like it did in the past, so with 3 months, I think that's a lot of time. At over $10,500 now, a 100% increase from this price would already create a new ATH, so it's really possible.

Crypto is known to be a good investment because it could give a return in many folds of your investment, and you have to remember that bitcoin is the king of crypto, if altcoins can increase more than 100% in less than a month, bitcoin can surely do that.

I think Bitcoin has chance to hit 16k-18k even.Than will be correct like 20% to 30% and final bull run will begin
I see two dangers for bitcoin price growth
First is big cap altcoins .Big cap altcoins are so much oversold.Bitcoin needs quality alts.It is one market nothing rise alone

 Second is Central Banks can use CME to lower btc price or and legal action against cryptocurrencies

I agree more on the part you stated of a possibility of the price of 15k this year closing. Seems to be my price prediction too.
But about ATH 'not happening this year'... We can't be too sure.
In cryptocurrency anything can happen in sudden. Today the price might be low, tomorrow it could go so high or the other way round.

I will be glad if the price hit above than $12k at the end of this because that means, bitcoin will make a new highest price in the next year before the halving happens. The new ATH at the end of this year can be varied since we don't have any right prediction and people still predict on much higher price. I think bitcoin wants to give us some a big surprise for the price, so it is better we can be patient for a while and see what will happen to the price later.

Possibility wise it is quite possible but do you really think its probable? I mean we are already in September and unless something major happens we are stuck here for a little bit more while.

Obviously, this is finance and this is crypto with its decentralized unregulated nature it could go to 20k+ tomorrow and we would be all shocked how it happened but we would all know that its possible to happen. That is why I think people do not believe bitcoin would go above 20k but they are saying that full on knowing it could totally happen at any given moment same as it could also drop back to 4k at any moment as well but we believe that won't happen anytime soon. Usually these things happen really fast but not in 24 hours, like if we go up to 20k it would take about a week and not in a day so we would be taking a look at it when its happening.

for now, the closest prediction I feel is that the price of bitcoin is above $ 10k, but below $ 15k. so, that's between $ 10,000 and $ 15,000. Even though the news is pretty good, even the dominant bitcoin price is higher than the others, but I'm still quite pessimistic about bitcoin that can reach prices above $ 1500 this year.

the problem of danger, of course, we also see some risk ahead, only at this time I only focus on the development of bitcoin. I just want to see the price of bitcoin rise in line with the price of an altcoin.

Like to see that people are doubting BTC to have a new ATH this year, this means they are more matured and more realistic now.
Maybe most of us learn from our experience during year 2017 and last year, so we are not easily believing that the history will repeat itself again.

Now that ICO is almost dead, there's no major reason why altcoins rally will happen this year, maybe coming from IEO but the IEO this year is not big enough to cause an altcoins rally, it's safe to predict that we have a great year next year but this year is all about a good recovery as well.

The price could go up that much but I would suggest be careful about it when that happens, if the price goes up anything above 15k there will be a huge gap in the bottom which means it could literally freefall back down under 10k and that would hurt many investors. That is why I highly suggest people to buy now and sell then instead of actually buying then, if you see bitcoin going up to 15k or more than do not buy it, it could still go even higher but that is a big risk compared to right now.

I am not saying bitcoin won't reach 20k or higher, it will but if it does a sudden move without closing the gaps then it will eventually fall which will be another bear run for months for us, it should slowly go up and down in order to reach highers while closing the gaps in between.

May I know what is your basis on your statement?

I just see the opposite happening because without altcoins, there will be no more competition in the market, hence, bitcoin would easily rise even higher than it has previously reach. Bitcoin is not viewed as a successful payment system because compared to the fiat payment system, they are more faster, bitcoin as its price getting higher, it's not good anymore for small transaction as the fee is high and the network congestion is one of the problem.

Bitcoin now is heavily invested because people are transferring their money as bitcoin is more promising due to its limited supply that could result to a higher value as the demand increases.

2019 is about to end and still theres no sign of bitcoin bull run.  I predicted bitvoin to go 30,000$ by the end of year which is too imposible to  happen by now.

we haven't even started q4 yet, and that's often a bullish time of year. in q4 2016 we went from $600 to $1000, and in 2017 we went from $4k to $20k. so don't underestimate what bitcoin can do in 3 months. in april-june this year, the market rallied ~250%. replicating that move from here would put us near $25k!