ATH for Bitcoin in year 2018

[Sivanandam]

Lets check the sentiment of the cryptoinvestor for year 2018

[SONG GEET]

I think  it will be anywhere between $20k to $25k if there will be no any bad news like big amount of bitcoin being stolen from exchange, wallets. Market is still not mature or strong to hold up on negative news. Whole crypto market is based on speculation right now, some whales can easily manipulate price. But if there will be no any negative news and people keep buying bitcoin like crazy than $25k+ could be ATH for 2018.

[Zuilhsa]

Predictions may go wrong, sometimes we expect $15k but we can see $25k and sometimes we expect $25k and we obtain only $15k, if bitcoin don't find any major crash on its way and investors adopt bitcoin as store of value and good payment option as said by experts, bitcoin can reach its all time high up to $50k by the end of 2018.

[neurotypical]

It depends on 2 premises in my book:

1) Lack of forks: If people stop trying to hardfork Bitcoin controvensial ways, such as the Segwit2x attempt, or former attempts such as Bitcoin Unlimited and so on... we will get rid of a strong charge of useless FUD.

2) Lightning network becoming operative: This would solve the complains of slow and expensive transactions once and for all.

So given that we get these 2 points meet, we are going to hit $30k+ somewhere in 2018.

[The Sceptical Chymist]

I think I'm going to give up making predictions--either here on bitcointalk or even privately.  Every single one I've made has been wrong thus far, which is why I'm a lousy trader and don't do much else besides buy-and-hold.  Never would have thought we'd be pushing $10k in November, yet here we are almost at that huge milestone. 

I do think we're going to shoot past $10,000 because the bull market is still in full swing and sentiment has never been more positive.  That stuff I can clearly see, so there are still people buying, and that'll drive the market up.  I can't even imagine what 2018 is going to bring!

[boyptc]

Lets check the sentiment of the cryptoinvestor for year 2018

I think we can go far up to $30,000 this is the highest but the floor will be $20,000 - $25,000. I'll wait for that time, since I'm not retiring to crypto / bitcoin I can witness a lot of ATH's. And next year the same question will come out asking "ATH for 2019?".

[ChinkyEyes]

I can see bitcoin going to 22k in 2018. I think there will be a huge drop as well in 2018. Maybe first go bitcoin will go to 16k ish and then drop by 30-40% and recover to 22k. Ending 2018 with around 20k for bitcoin. But who knows, only time will tell

[newinbtc]

I can see bitcoin going to 22k in 2018. I think there will be a huge drop as well in 2018. Maybe first go bitcoin will go to 16k ish and then drop by 30-40% and recover to 22k. Ending 2018 with around 20k for bitcoin. But who knows, only time will tell

Bitcoin up and down game is normal , everyone know when bitcoin come down it will go down downer at deep The grow up with bounce back power and Price will more double than earlier

Ex When price was nearly 5500$ Suddenly price came down to 3700$ and Now its still growing ...

may be you are right But who know what will happen in 2018....

[Pursuer]

this is uncharted territory now, we can not make accurate predictions anymore. imagine how hard it has always been to predict bitcoin price, now it is even harder.

on one hand we have this price rise of this year which was big so far. many even call it a bubble (like they always do!) and there is always panic in cases like this and many would also want to cash out their profit after the long time they held their coins.

on the other hand, bitcoin is still bitcoin. the same scarce currency with a limited supply and increasing demand. with all the media attentions and all the price rise all the good news and all the mainstream adoption, and lots more,... there is a lot of money being invested in bitcoin these days. and this will only increase in the future! what I am trying to say is that the rise is somewhat justifiable to a point where you can say it is even small, it should have been a much bigger rise already in the past 8 or 9 years.

[Nahl]

if i'm not mistaken there will be 1 hardfork at december and 1 hardfork at January 2018 and which mean people will bought more bitcoin to save into exchange because tempting from split of bitcoin and automatically bitcoin price will increase again so possibly to bitcoin will surpassing $10k at the beginning of 2018 and i think new peak will be at $12k or more on that year

[BitHodler]

It depends on 2 premises in my book:

1) Lack of forks: If people stop trying to hardfork Bitcoin controvensial ways, such as the Segwit2x attempt, or former attempts such as Bitcoin Unlimited and so on... we will get rid of a strong charge of useless FUD.

2) Lightning network becoming operative: This would solve the complains of slow and expensive transactions once and for all.

So given that we get these 2 points meet, we are going to hit $30k+ somewhere in 2018.

The fork craze hasn't even started. If we look how easy it is for entities to book massive instant profits without much effort, and the demand coming from people related to this entire industry, it will translate into many more forks.

This however isn't really a negative aspect, unless an economical majority manages to come up with a fork similar to S2X, but that's not likely since even when an agreement has been signed, it still means nothing as we have seen.

Regarding OP ~ I voted for $18-$30k since I am aiming at a top of $25,000 to be reached next year. It will likely settle at lower levels, but still far higher than the levels we are hovering over right now.

[talkbitcoin]

It depends on 2 premises in my book:

1) Lack of forks: If people stop trying to hardfork Bitcoin controvensial ways, such as the Segwit2x attempt, or former attempts such as Bitcoin Unlimited and so on... we will get rid of a strong charge of useless FUD.

2) Lightning network becoming operative: This would solve the complains of slow and expensive transactions once and for all.

So given that we get these 2 points meet, we are going to hit $30k+ somewhere in 2018.

The fork craze hasn't even started. If we look how easy it is for entities to book massive instant profits without much effort, and the demand coming from people related to this entire industry, it will translate into many more forks.

This however isn't really a negative aspect, unless an economical majority manages to come up with a fork similar to S2X, but that's not likely since even when an agreement has been signed, it still means nothing as we have seen.

Regarding OP ~ I voted for $18-$30k since I am aiming at a top of $25,000 to be reached next year. It will likely settle at lower levels, but still far higher than the levels we are hovering over right now.

the "The fork craze" is two different kinds of fork from what i have seen.
1. those like SegWit2x and BCH which are supposed to be a scaling solution for bitcoin and get some support like S2X and its 90% miner support.
these can cause problems as long as there is a risk of bitcoin splitting into two chains.

2. the bullshit forks such as bitcion gold, silver, diamond,... which nobody even knows about and just do an airdrop to die a couple of months later.
most of these won't even be listed on most exchanges. running a node for these is impossible for an exchange! each one these will take a lot of resources...
these won't  cause much issues, they just give some free money for a while before it all stops.

[aso118]

Some of the analysts like Novogratz feel that the price could reach $40k in 2018. If futures trading starts, we could see the price really take off. What is happening now is just talk, we haven't seen action yet.

[batang_bitcoin]

I can see bitcoin going to 22k in 2018. I think there will be a huge drop as well in 2018. Maybe first go bitcoin will go to 16k ish and then drop by 30-40% and recover to 22k. Ending 2018 with around 20k for bitcoin. But who knows, only time will tell

Did you came from the future? I'm guessing that it can be at $20,000 and also with expected drops that will be the new floor price for the year of 2018. Still waiting for the right companies to hop in so bitcoin's definitely going to the moon. But we had to see bitcoin first to be stable at $18,000 and if this year is going to be a blessing to all of us and no drops will be followed by the increase, same fortune can occur on 2018.

[malikusama]

Lets check the sentiment of the cryptoinvestor for year 2018

By keeping in sight some regular dips i am expecting it will cross $25000 and even reach the $30000 till the end of 2018. But if it will have a rapid increase like in this year and don't have to face a severe downfall then hopefully it will surpass $30000 easily before the end of next year.