Wences Casares – $1,000,000 (by 2027)
Wences Casares is an Argentinian technology entrepreneur living in the US. He is the founder and CEO of Xapo, a Bitcoin wallet startup, and a board member at PayPal, among various other roles. Casares says he first found interest in Bitcoin because of high financial volatility in Argentina’s native currency, the Peso. The tech giant bought his first Bitcoins in 2011.
Casares believes that Bitcoin will hit $1 million sometime before 2027, speaking at the Consensus 2017 conference in New York. Even better, he believes that Bitcoin could hit one million dollars in as few as 5 years, saying on May 23, 2017, that the milestone will be reached “in 5-10 years”.
John McAfee – $500,000 (by 2020)John McAfee is the founder of McAfee Associates which launched first commercial antivirus software in the late 1980s. He recently founded MGT Capital, a company that mines various cryptocurrencies in and outside the United States. John got involved with Bitcoin because according to him it will eventually become ‘the standard for the world.’
McAfee recently made waves in the cryptocurrency world after claiming that each unit of Bitcoin would be worth half a million dollars by 2020. He did not stop there. He went on to predict that Bitcoin could even reach as much as $2.6 million in the same time frame. There is no way of knowing whether McAfee did this to get attention or if he actually means it. Only time will tell.
Jeremy Liew – $500,000 (by 2030)Jeremy Liew is a partner at Lightspeed Venture Partners, famed as the first investor in the social media app Snapchat. Liew’s other investments include the multimedia company Beme, the listing service VarageSale, and the hardware wallet LedgerX. His net worth is estimated at north of $2 billion.
In an exchange with Business Insider, Liew said that the Bitcoin price can “realistically” reach $500,000 by 2030. Liew’s prediction was backed by Peter Smith, the CEO, and co-founder of Blockchain — the world’s most popular Bitcoin wallet. The estimate was made on May 4, 2017.
Roger Ver – $250,000 (no date)Roger Ver is an early investor in Bitcoin and its related startups. Born in the US and now with citizenship in Saint Kitts and Nevis, Ver started his business career with a computer parts business, MemoryDealers.com. By early 2011, Ver had begun investing in Bitcoin, now with a portfolio including startups like Bitinstant, Ripple, Blockchain, Bitpay, and Kraken. He is sometimes nicknamed the “Bitcoin Jesus”.
In an interview Jeff Berwick, for The Dollar Vigilante blog, Roger Ver said in October 2015 that Bitcoin “could very easily be worth $2,500, or $25,000 per Bitcoin, or even $250,000 per Bitcoin”. Ver’s estimate is based on the principles of supply and demand, which he believes creates great potential for Bitcoin as a store of value.
Kay Van-Petersen – $100,000 (by 2027)
Kay Van-Petersen is an analyst at Saxo Bank, a Danish investment bank which specializes in online trading and investment. Based out of Singapore and with an MSc in Applied Economics & Finance from Copenhagen Business School, Van-Petersen is an active Twitter user with no fear of speculating on tough topics like the prices of cryptocurrencies.
Van-Petersen believes that Bitcoin will rise to $100,000 per unit by 2027, according to a feature by CNBC news published on May 31, 2017. As the man who successfully predicted Bitcoin’s flow up to $2,000 by 2017, Kay Van-Petersen’s most recent estimate, perhaps a little optimistic, suggests that Bitcoin would then account for 10% of the volume in the foreign exchange market.
Ronnie Moas – $50,000 (2020)
Ronnie Moas is the founder and director of research at Standpoint Research, an equity research firm accounting for both traditional investments and new-time ones. Moas is an avid Twitter user and Wall Street analyst who has been featured on dozens of TV and radio interviews and holds an MBA in finance.
Moas projects that Bitcoin will reach a price of $50,000 by late 2020. He also believes that the market cap of all cryptocurrencies will burst up to a whopping $2 trillion (from the current $150 billion) within the next 10 years. Moas has also compared the wealth proposition of cryptocurrencies to that of the dot-com boom.
Masterluc – $40,000 to $110,000 (by 2019)Masterluc is an anonymous Bitcoin trader, known for his impressive predictions in the price of Bitcoin. Most notable was his prediction of the end of the 2013 Bitcoin bubble, which was then followed by a bearish market for multiple years.
Masterluc sees Bitcoin reaching a price of between 40,000 and 110,000 US dollars by the end of this bull run, sharing his thoughts publicly on the TradingView platform. In his May 26th, 2017 post, the legendary trader said he expects the price to be reached sometime before 2019.
Mike Novogratz – $40,000 (by end of 2018)After correctly predicting the $10,000 milestone, hedge fund manager Michael Novogratz thinks that Bitcoin price can go four times by the end of 2018 and cross $40,000. According to him, high demand from Asia and a limited supply of the cryptocurrency has lead to cryptocurrency’s exuberant growth.
Novogratz is starting a $500 million cryptocurrency hedge fund to invest in cryptocurrencies, initial coin offerings, and related companies.
Trace Mayer – $27,395 (by Feb 2018)Trace Mayer, who according to his website, is an entrepreneur, investor, journalist, monetary scientist and ardent defender, has predicted Bitcoin price to hit $27,000 by February 2018. Mayer has been involved with Bitcoin since its early days, initially investing in the cryptocurrency when it was worth $0.25.The host of The Bitcoin Knowledge Podcast is basing his prediction on a 200-day moving average. He’s assuming that by taking the 200-day moving average, in four months it will reach $5,767. At which point, he believes that each bitcoin will be worth over $27,000, increasing its relative price by 4.75 times.
Tom Lee – $25,000 (by 2022)Thomas Lee, or just Tom Lee, is a founder, managing partner, and head of research at Fundstrat, an investment “research boutique”. Lee has over 25 years of experience as a Wall Street strategist, and his company Fundstrat presumably keeps a close eye on Bitcoin and its other cryptocurrency derivatives.
In an early-September CNBC feature of “Fast Money”, Tom Lee explained why he thinks Bitcoin will hit $25,000 by 2022. His explanation revolves around the concepts of supply and demand, along with a strong belief in the blockchain technology behind Bitcoin. Lee believes “unequivocally” that Bitcoin is the best investment until the end of 2017, having similar potential to gold as a store of value. He has recently doubled his recent forecast for bitcoin hitting $11,500 by mid-2018.
Bitcoin Predictions that have proven correct
As of November 28, 2017, bitcoin has crossed the $10,000 dollars per bitcoin making Tim Draper and Mike Novogratz predictions correct.
Tim Draper – $10,000 (by 2018)
Tim Draper, a billionaire venture capitalist, envisions Bitcoin to hit a $10,000 USD per bitcoin by 2018. Draper scored big as an early backer of Skype and Baidu. He is also an early supporter of Bitcoin and its underlying technology blockchain.
In July 2014, Draper purchased nearly 30,000 bitcoins (worth around $19 million at the time) which had been seized by the US Marshals service from the Silk Road (a marketplace website).
Mike Novogratz – $10,000 (by April 2018)Mike Novogratz is a former hedge fund manager who has been investing in Bitcoin and Blockchain technology for a long time. Due to heavy investor interest in the cryptocurrency, Mike believes Bitcoin price could rise up to $10,000 by April 2018.
Novogratz is supposedly going all in by starting a $500 million fund to invest in cryptocurrencies, initial coin offerings, and related companies. He has already put his own $150 million and plans to raise the rest from outside sources, mainly from wealthy individuals and families and fellow hedge fund managers.
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