Maybe, but let's not forget that in 2012 volatility seemed to be done also. Then we had 2013.

I don't think we'll have quite the volatility as we had during the 3 great bubbles (or even last spring's micro-bubble) when it rocketed up in a few short weeks and plummeted just as quickly.

Hopefully the next bubble will take several months (or even years) instead of just weeks. The fractals of the bubbles are remarkably similar, but they are getting taller, longer, and with longer intervals between them.

Eventually one of them will be where the s-curve goes "vertical". Then the exponential growth phase will be done and the price will exponentially level off.

Well JJG says somewhere between $3K to $5K.  I'm sure that any day now he'll provide some detailed analysis as to why he thinks that, as well as give us some exact dates as to when it will happen.  Still waiting....   

Buy rumor, then sell the news. Meaning you are buying the fact that crypto is progressing and not sell because of the realization it isn't perfect yet. The problems of crypto will get worked out over time via competition from altcoins and Bitcoin.

Monero cant be Bitcoin 2.0, that are other coins that fight for that title.

Monero is just more Bitcoin 1.0 as Bitcoin itself.

Bitcoin's use will never be for that. The current system used for day to day shopping works perfectly. The banks and the payment processors that are established are all giving efficiency and convenience to their users so Bitcoin has no place in it. Where Bitcoin thrives and will thrive more is in the black market and online dark markets simply because the banks do not serve that space.

This is exactly the question to put forward when prediction of increased adoption is suggested.

The simple "here and now" benefits of crypto that would spur adoption are the low fees and anonymity. The fees are climbing and exchangers nullify anonymity.

And there is no real utility. All utilisation now is created and not meeting existing needs.

Change that and adoption will spiral out of control=)

10BTC

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=178608.msg2514705#msg2514705

Currently 2 btc but keep growing as I'm keep investing every month from my main salary.
As you know that finally We can grab some profit since bitcoin reach highest value recently


I think you're an early bitcoin adopter , aren't you ?  

Really? Even in my country i would also spend quite a lot of years in comfort with an amount like that, it may not be enough for retirement though but it is not less at all, if i had an amount like that i would have been having a beautiful car by now which is one of my dreams.

I don't think mainstream adoption is coming at all. How many people use bitcoins to purchase stuff from Overstock?

Bitcoin is behaving more like an asset class (gold, property etc). People who want to store wealth away from the prying eyes of govt. People in places like Venezuela and Argentina who are dealing with delinquent currencies and want something to hold it's value.

But in the west normal fiat will continue to be used to purchase the necessities of life.

Great amount of bitcoins so far, I could  retire with that amount and live a simple life until I retire.

I've been expecting a new all time high for a while and it hasn't happened, but I believe it will happen soon. From everything I have seen it looks like liquidity is weak and demand is high. OTC liquidity is harder and harder to come by. Big money still wants in as the store of value use case continues to prove itself, especially in India, China and Italy.

Mining investment continues, we saw a 10% jump in difficulty at the last adjustment. My pet theory is that it is miners who are providing the liquidity despite most of them being long term bullish, not just to pay expenses but also in an attempt to keep the price artificially low to protect their market share by keeping mining less profitable for new entrants due to upfront costs. But with each dump attempt, the liquidity gets soaked up and held. I believe that this market share protectionism is also primary in the blocking of SegWit as well.

The boom is coming though, first from smart money and then mainstream money short behind. The next three months will see the launch of the major projects that will make owning at least a small amount of BTC a must for many. These are t0, MegaUpload2/BitCache and Yours.

First will be t0, which will be the home of an offering from Overstock. This chain anchors into Bitcoin and will prove out the digital land use case of Bitcoin. On chain anchoring will become the standard for all blockchain projects in the financial sector, and as other chains are forced to anchor investors will get it and come in just in time to make money before adoption becomes mainstream.

With MegaUpload2 succeeding in its crowdfunding campaign, it vs set an end of January launch date. This is going to be the first undeniable use case for mainstream users. Anyone who wants to download from MU2 will need to have at least a buck or two of Bitcoin.

Finally Yours will bring it home. Content creators will monetize on this platform and content consumers will be forced to buy Bitcoin to continue consuming their content. Yours will kill Q&A services like Quora, digital marketplaces like Shutterstock and likely many other business types we can't quite determine yet.

I'm also believing that the price of bitcoin is going to reach $1,000 for this year and with a news that Switzerland central bank is now planning to do something for the acceptance of bitcoin. This is a big factor that bitcoin will reach to thousand dollar value it maybe earlier before the year ends or sure thing for the first quarter of 2017.