4343.22 * e^(.01*days since sept 30th 2017)= Bitcoin's price
Just a few weeks ago CoinsMarkets shut down. I noticed the price of my current favorite coin, Yenten, make a 10x jump right after that happened. Why? Because it's most popular exchange shut down. When exchanges shut down a coin becomes harder to get and prices rise. That is just how this works.
On September 30th 2017 all Chinese bitcoin exchanges shut down. This is the equivalent of the largest exchange shutting down for yenten, except this is bitcoin. What happened since Sept 30th? Bitcoins price has risen.
Before anyone caught on I looked at the price between sept 30th and oct 30th. This is a good period to look at because this is before the mainstream hype jumped onboard. During this time bitcoin's price rose 1% per day.
I predicted that bitcoins price would continue to rise 1% a day. Recently its price had been higher than that but that price wasn't sustainable. The price manipulation by the bitcoin Futures bears last week brought some sensibility back to the market and since it's price has come back in line with my prediction. Today bitcoin sits at 12,500. My graph that started sept 30th and adds 1% value per day predicts today's price is 12,900. Pretty close.
I predict Bitcoin will continue to rise 1% a day on average until China releases the CryptoYuan, outlaws bitcoin, and allows its people to trade their bitcoin for CY. Then China will dump the Bitcoin on the open market and Bitcoin's price will come back down to 1,000 a coin.