I will also do a bet that it won't be at $1,100 by Saturday... I'd rob the same old lady to put as much on that bet as possible. I am actually looking out the window at a coffee shop for potential old ladies to rob at this point. Look what you people are making me become. You are turning me into a monster.

Zero, zilch, nada, not going to happen.

$4000 by the end of next year... unlikely but certainly possible.

$4000 by the end of this year... I will ride along the ocean with a magical unicorn on my way to seizing control of the entire universe before that happens. Understand? NO!!! Not .000000000000000000000001% chance.... just ZERO!

Not a bad article, http://cointelegraph.com/news/112259/op-ed-is-bitcoin-ready-for-the-major-leagues

Interesting part:

A Death by Trading

One of the primary causes for price instability in commodities is the amount of trading and speculation that goes on. Particular groups try to corner certain markets by buying a great deal of the commodity, thereby driving up the price that consumers pay at the market. There is no real reason why Bitcoin cannot fall into the same trap as we get closer to the last mined coin. The above examples of people trying to corner the market are extreme examples. But even regular trading has a sometimes horrid effect on commodities as is evidenced by speculation in the energy industry.

The only way to prevent this from happening is to keep Bitcoin as decentralized as possible and as much of the currency as possible out of the exchanges and in the economy. Money on the trading floor enriches only the traders and owners of the commodity, not the end-consumers or people who buy the final product. Meanwhile, money that continually flows through the economy keeps it healthy and liquid.

Not like day/week traders care, but they are partly responsible for killing or slowing down BTC's success.
To everyone else, spend your coins when you have the option.
If you don't want to lose your amount of BTC, buy back the same amount which you'd otherwise spend in fiat.
Do this until it's not necessary anymore because you get your 'paycheck' in BTC.

As for speculating, the price will rise. You are delusional if you don't see the rapid increase in adoption from serious companies.

adam is too busy digging up his "hodl" coins from his backyard and trying to remember the BIP38 password so he can sell.

Honestly, I think we can look at something like doge to get an idea of bitcoin's future from this point forward. Doge is like bitcoin on fast forward. We'll probably go several years from here just steadily bleeding down, until we hit <$100. From there, maybe we start all over again and go up?

So  I'm thinking either a 20 point buy bump  or another 580 retest in the next 2 hours?  Which way?  I lean bump,  but it's hard to say.

Mott street and 11th Ave and Mulberry street in early 1900's

The world is going to change more in the next 25-50 years... than it did in the past 100 years.....

are we ready?

Bitcoins.

Money of the future?

People will laugh at how quaint it was, and at how many trees had to die, to carry around bits of paper money in folded carry cases made from the hides of dead livestock.

Coming to a reality to you soon.

Unless you are old or unlucky - then you may miss out.....  try not to...

Future looks bright.

BTC = Bitcoin = Because that's consensus

 

(If you want you could replace the word Bitcoin with "cryptocurrency") Point remains... bits of paper inside bits of folded over cow... are not too long for this world in the grand scheme of things)