$10,000 by 2018 is looking now like a possibility

[ipanks]

bitcoin price can be possible to increase at $10,000 by 2018 and even more, we are see a new era or new ways for people to make money in next year. with so many new technology will develop, i think it will affect with the price to be increase. i think in 2018, bitcoin user will increase and this will affect with supply and demand. with the increasing of difficulty, the amount is reduce too and the price should be increase because people want to take a part in bitcoin world.

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[Kronos21]

It seems to me that people have turned bitcoin in God and now pray to him in the hope that it will enrich all. Can't all be rich. It is beyond the power even of God. Why do you believe in such optimistic forecasts? The growth of bitcoin 10 times in one year is unlikely. It seems to me that if the price held at about $ 5,000 is already a very good result.

[arseaboy]

It seems to me that people have turned bitcoin in God and now pray to him in the hope that it will enrich all. Can't all be rich. It is beyond the power even of God. Why do you believe in such optimistic forecasts? The growth of bitcoin 10 times in one year is unlikely. It seems to me that if the price held at about $ 5,000 is already a very good result.

well if we are really aiming why not aim high as we are seeing how the coin is really climbing better to stay close and look at is really making great moves,
bitcoin can possibly reach that amount we don't know yet when will be the time for that to hit the target but maybe a year or two and we will all enjoy.

[eminemcookie]

Given that bitcoin has done 5x so far this year it really isn't out of the question for bitcoin to do 2x in 2018, presuming that it finishes up 2017 somewhere around the $5k mark.

[Lucid717]

I would call it an inevitability at this point.  I was actually just coming here to say today may be the single best day in Bitcoin history yet.  I'm not talking about any increase in volume, I'm talking about what's happening in the world... there is a lot of promising news today.  Not just about Bitcoin but cryptocurrency in general.  I believe it was Uganda that is trying to create their own national cryptocurrency.  The EU is of course trying to block it.  Although this has nothing to do with Bitcoin in general it's a great sign.  It shows how countries are taking notice of the potential of cryptocurrency as far more than just some passing fad.  It shows that the EU considers it a serious threat to their own paper currency, the 2'nd strongest in the world by the way.  If they considered it just some scam or a passing fad they'd hardly be shaking in their boots over the prospects of it.  Several other countries as well moving to adopt Bitcoin, though I now forget which ones... I read several articles on the deep web and confused many details now, but not the main jist.  Goldman Sachs is seriously considering getting in on the action, concerning Bitcoin specifically, no other cryptocurrency.  What one can read into things is that they don't have supreme confidence in cryptocurrency as a whole, but they do in Bitcoin specifically.  And that is exactly how I feel too by the way.  This is coming off the heels of JP Morgan just last week announcing that they no longer consider Bitcoin just a passing fad.

... it is more than clear now that it is not.  It's grown past the point where not only can it be taken lightly like that anymore, it's grown into a living, breathing entity with it's own mind at this point and cannot even be controlled by the controllers.  Even the most optimistic traders that were there since it's inception could have forseen what it will eventually grow into.  It's like a boulder rolling downhill at this point, picking up speed, and it can't be stopped.  You either get behind it or get out of the way.  But unlike the boulder those who get out of the way will regret it... many already have, but it's hardly too late to get on board.  You won't be able to exponentially, many times over double up your money like those who got into it when it was still in the 3 digits, but you can double up at the very least, and probably even double up again, and possibly a 3'rd time in a few/several years if I'm correct.  I never doubted that it'd reach 5 digits, and saw the high mark somewhere around 35,000 before it retracts like all things eventually do that expand.  There very well may come a time when the plug is pulled and someone makes off with everyones money.  That it turns out to be a long con.  Or some hacker(s) beat/break the blockchain technology... or that that's just the cover story and it's made to look that way by the crook that took everyones money.  But it's not going to happen any time soon and there's a lot of money to be made before that happens.  My advice is that when the time comes that you feel it's reached that high water mark get out and cash in your chips while you still can.  You'll have to use your intuition because there will be no sign... no hints or any news until after the fact.  That's how those things go down.  But even "if" you feel that that will eventually come to pass, again, there's a lot of money to be made until it does, and everyone in all the right places are starting to realize it right now at this very moment.  A few days ago I said to expect a bull market soon...  I think it's arrived.  You might want to turn whatever cash you can spare into Bitcoins right now. 

I said that I expected it to reach 10K by the end of 2019, but now I believe your timeline is more accurate, though I'd say by the "end" of 2018, not the beginning.  Though I wouldn't be surprised if it rises a couple grand in the next month alone.

[Lucid717]

, presuming that it finishes up 2017 somewhere around the $5k mark.

That could very well happen within the next couple of days.

[error08]

There will be always possibilities for bitcoin prices in the future, but I doubt if bitcoin can reach $10K caused by segwit2x.
Bitcoin scheduled to experience another hard fork by the end of this month, BTG will be created from bitcoin nodes but the puzzle remain a mystery in my opinion. Time will reveal the truth about the next bitcoin hard fork and how it's affect bitcoin price, whether people will get free coins or not.
Whether BTG price could reach over $1000 like BCash did before or won't ever surpass $500 mark.

[Fredomago]

There will be always possibilities for bitcoin prices in the future, but I doubt if bitcoin can reach $10K caused by segwit2x.
Bitcoin scheduled to experience another hard fork by the end of this month, BTG will be created from bitcoin nodes but the puzzle remain a mystery in my opinion. Time will reveal the truth about the next bitcoin hard fork and how it's affect bitcoin price, whether people will get free coins or not.
Whether BTG price could reach over $1000 like BCash did before or won't ever surpass $500 mark.

big question waiting for such an answer the movement of bitcoin right now is just another hyped knowing that fork is incoming, people are accumulating
and from that we seen a good positive movement from the value of btc im not sure what will happen after the fork if correction will make some downside
or resistance will keep it up and reach another ath breaking 5k$.

[BLAST2MARS]

Very possible, indeed. I'm going to make a bet with my  friend that on the second half of 2018, btc price will surpass $10k.

[baronious]

It's not likely to happen. However, just last week, this forum was full of people who said we wouldn't see the 5k mark in 2017.  Here we are almost at that mark just a week later.   The way bitcoin moves is so crazy that I wouldn't be surprised if we reached that mark by 2018.

[Wexnident]

More and more and more actors from the NYC agreement are dropping like flies. Now we have BTCC out of the agreement. Along with f2pool, this is a big chunk of hashrate that segwit2x lost. Bitfury will also potentially not be mining segwit2x. This would be the nail in the coffin, not even considering Bitcoin Core 0.15 is comming out soon which everyone will upgrade to.

With segwit2x out of the picture, we can hit $10,000 easily during 2018, so hold on to your coins and stop falling for the government ban nonsense.

I agree. Factors that will help this thing to happen is the demand that is continuously increasing and the approaching hardfork in November. Since the demand of Bitcoin in the market is increasing, its market value is getting more expensive. There are possibilities that backdrops will take place as the fork is getting near. But as you've said the best thing to do is to hold and witness how Bitcoin reach 10000 dollars next year or maybe before this year end if possible.

[junoreactor]

, presuming that it finishes up 2017 somewhere around the $5k mark.

That could very well happen within the next couple of days.

My prediction: 5800 in January 1st. 

[Unplugged]

It's possible to reach $10000 but I think 2018 is way too early for that. Give it at least 2-3 years, assuming there are no economic breakdown, wars or calamity that might hinder it. $5000 is within reach today, I'm speculating the price by 1st quarter of 2018 is $5500-6000.

[ragnar0k]

It's possible to reach $10000 but I think 2018 is way too early for that. Give it at least 2-3 years, assuming there are no economic breakdown, wars or calamity that might hinder it. $5000 is within reach today, I'm speculating the price by 1st quarter of 2018 is $5500-6000.

Well, 10k is 100% from now (possibly 80% by 2018)
In two years time, that is a growth of 40% a year (or less) - people will start investing on apple or facebook, much better returns. I really hope we do a good S growth otherwise we lag behind

[wxa7115]

More and more and more actors from the NYC agreement are dropping like flies. Now we have BTCC out of the agreement. Along with f2pool, this is a big chunk of hashrate that segwit2x lost. Bitfury will also potentially not be mining segwit2x. This would be the nail in the coffin, not even considering Bitcoin Core 0.15 is comming out soon which everyone will upgrade to.

With segwit2x out of the picture, we can hit $10,000 easily during 2018, so hold on to your coins and stop falling for the government ban nonsense.

I knew about the F2Pool but I did not knew about BTCC and I just read it in reddit, this is good news, maybe we can avoid the hard fork and if some still decide to hard fork despite all what is happening then it is possible the segwit2x hard fork becomes as inconsequential as the BCH hard fork and the bitcoin gold hard fork, with this and the lightning network activating in the 2018 then bitcoin could reach a price of 10k.

[dmamigo]

By Q42018, possibly at the end of 2018, but only if everything goes fine, But by Mid 2019, we surely gonna see the price range touching $10000.
By the end of 2018 mostly it will tough $7000-$8000, unless we see some miracle. The price surely jumps pretty high very often, but making small range periods with so high value may dissatisfy and may impact the mindset against it.

[HatakeKakashi]

As of now the price of bitcoin is already 4900 dollars and I think it will continue to increase again and possible this day or tomorrow hit 5k dollars . I think they have possibility the price of bitcoin increase more in the next few weeks and 10k dollars in the year 2018 is high chances to happen because many investor invest to this project so bitcoin price continue to increase. More bitcoin more money.

[jostorres]

It's not likely to happen. However, just last week, this forum was full of people who said we wouldn't see the 5k mark in 2017.  Here we are almost at that mark just a week later.   The way bitcoin moves is so crazy that I wouldn't be surprised if we reached that mark by 2018.

Apparently, people always just end up rolling with the tide and subjecting any recent event in favor of how they speculate. That is the only power we have anyway, predict, speculate, hope. Reaching that mark is possible.
Earlier this year, no one would have thought bitcoin will even get to this point it is today but here we are and we are still climbing and no one knows the value it will climb to even before the year ends.

[BitDane]

More and more and more actors from the NYC agreement are dropping like flies. Now we have BTCC out of the agreement. Along with f2pool, this is a big chunk of hashrate that segwit2x lost. Bitfury will also potentially not be mining segwit2x. This would be the nail in the coffin, not even considering Bitcoin Core 0.15 is comming out soon which everyone will upgrade to.

With segwit2x out of the picture, we can hit $10,000 easily during 2018, so hold on to your coins and stop falling for the government ban nonsense.

If we are talking the whole period of 2018 then I agree with you.  I always find forked and upgrade bullish for Bitcoin.  And since it is the gateway (the current upgrade for implementation of segwit 2x )upgrade for lots of improvement.  I believe Bitcoin might probably exceed $10k at the end of 2018.

[LeoEspansq]

This is a wonderful forecast and I hope that it will be realized in 2018. He has all the prospects for such growth, one needs only to believe in him and help develop.