Can bitcoin reach 40k at the end of 2018?

[Malsetid]

Bitcoin could be at $40,000 at the end of 2018. It easily could," Michael Novogratz says on CNBC's "Fast Money
Ethereum, which I think just touched $500 or is getting close, could be triple where it is as well," adds Novogratz, formerly a macro hedge fund manager at Fortress Investment Group.

Well hopefully it does. It encountered quite a number of challenges during the closing week for this year so i hope we'll see a strong btc comeback within january. Though 40k would probably be by the latter part of the year

[fogsan]

It seems that January is going down for a while

[sasaku bitbit]

a bit later we all enter and welcome the year 2018, lived a few hours away even several seconds longer. I personally have a hope and a prayer for the progress of the bitcoin in the future and of course all the users will also be equal to my expectations expect. This will occur hopefully in bitcoin can be more $50 k until the end of the year 2018. because I'm sure the price of the bitcoin increasing continuously

[gentlemand]

I think $4000 is just as conceivable as $40,000. No one knows what the year will bring. Perhaps BTC has earned a nice breather to warm up for the next halving. Or it'll carry on until everyone's head is spinning.

[BILGPS]

Bitcoin is good and market competitive currency So we can say that it will grow more in the market but to achieve the $40k It is a little bit difficult that it will grow up to the expected amount like $40,000. But i have seen many changes in the crypto market so it can be said that every thing is possible in this market. Bitcoin is very successful in the present time.

[slyfox]

Bitcoin could be at $40,000 at the end of 2018. It easily could," Michael Novogratz says on CNBC's "Fast Money
Ethereum, which I think just touched $500 or is getting close, could be triple where it is as well," adds Novogratz, formerly a macro hedge fund manager at Fortress Investment Group.

That is definitely a possibility, however more important than the price my biggest worry for the next year is if the the lightning network is going to work as advertised if that is true then everything will be fine but if that is not the case things are going to get really difficult for bitcoin.

[BUK2016]

Bitcoin could be at $40,000 at the end of 2018. It easily could," Michael Novogratz says on CNBC's "Fast Money
Ethereum, which I think just touched $500 or is getting close, could be triple where it is as well," adds Novogratz, formerly a macro hedge fund manager at Fortress Investment Group.

One need not to be optimistic about because if your prediction didn't come to pass so many people who has invested as a result of your prediction will be misled and probably loose huge amount of money as a result one speculation. I don't think you get your information right because ethereum market value far above $500 even as at the time you open this thread.

[expert4knowledge]

Even 50k, but this is probably the maximum ( though we said 5k was the maximum for Bitcoin in 2017 too and see what it did )

[mrcash02]

Possible to happen. Bitcoin is full of surprises, we never know what will really happen until it happens. The fact is that Bitcoin have already surprised many people that didn't expect to see its sucess. To make this possible the interest in BTC must keep increasing and more people must start investing, more businesses must adopt it as payment method and the technology must continue being improved, this way we reach $40.000 or even more!

[omonuyak]

I believe this is very possible and bitcoin will actually get to $40,000 and above in 2018. I have to also accept this reality that ethereum is going to double in 2018 and holding this 2 coin should be the best thing to do now. 2018 is going to be a fruitful year in the history of cryptocurrencies.

[cybersofts]

Bitcoin could be at $40,000 at the end of 2018. It easily could," Michael Novogratz says on CNBC's "Fast Money
Ethereum, which I think just touched $500 or is getting close, could be triple where it is as well," adds Novogratz, formerly a macro hedge fund manager at Fortress Investment Group.

Without the bitcoin current transaction issues, bitcoin can reached $40,000 or even higher as it has so many potentials and everybody loves bitcoins. The demand of bitcoin was unbelievable in 2017 but due to the high transaction fee and slow transaction speed, people started losing interest in bitcoin and start looking for another solution.

[iram1011]

Bitcoin could be at $40,000 at the end of 2018. It easily could," Michael Novogratz says on CNBC's "Fast Money
Ethereum, which I think just touched $500 or is getting close, could be triple where it is as well," adds Novogratz, formerly a macro hedge fund manager at Fortress Investment Group.

The price prediction of bitcoin is always negotiable among the folks here . Bitcoin's value is very hard to predict .  Reaching upto $40000 should actually not be a difficult figure to attain witnessing the current growth of bitcoin . But that would ofcourse need lots of changes in the current scenario of bitcoin . Reaching upto such value would also need an increase in the block chain size for its smooth functioning in the transactions . Without such updations bitcoin will always be at the verge of falling again as many people tend to dump it when they are sick of the problems associated with bitcoin.                                   

[Netnox]

$40,000 per coin is a bit difficult, but quite possible. If the exchange rates reach that level, then the market cap will be close to $700 billion. It is still much lower than the market cap of fiat currencies such as the United States Dollar and the United Kingdom Pound.

[snipie]

Bitcoin could be at $40,000 at the end of 2018. It easily could," Michael Novogratz says on CNBC's "Fast Money
Ethereum, which I think just touched $500 or is getting close, could be triple where it is as well," adds Novogratz, formerly a macro hedge fund manager at Fortress Investment Group.

Yes it is possible to reach $40000 but i think that this could be done mid-2018 in the summer

[Baoo]

In my opinion , Although the price in this period is volatile as well there are difficulties in the wallet like the fees and the high number of transactions ( Especially the unconfirmed). In otherwise, I guess that in 2018 there will be many changes in bitcoin And it is certain that the price  would be much better than the above ,May will become 40K in mars 2018 . And at the end of the year, the value of the market cap will be more huge and the price will be more of 100K( maybe that will be achieved  in November  or December 2018).
Furthermore,  Perhaps there are many cryptocurrencies  will growth witch bitcoin. Such as , Etheruem, Litecoin...

[nominee]

$40,000 per coin is a bit difficult, but quite possible. If the exchange rates reach that level, then the market cap will be close to $700 billion. It is still much lower than the market cap of fiat currencies such as the United States Dollar and the United Kingdom Pound.

Some people has guesses for $100k in 2018, some of them have guesses for $25k. Let's make an average approach and say my prediction is $45k for this year. Next years, I think it will make us surprised a lot!

[Hariz]

I think so. But its not gonna be a smooth climb like the second half of 2017. You would see several dump and corrections before BTC hits $40K - I believe it will reach by the last quarter of this year.

[bitbunnny]

From this point of view the end of this year looks far away and everything seems possible.
If the price will rise fast like at the end of 2017 40000$ is possible but still I think that the growth will slow down a bit and 25000$ sounds more realistic to me.
Also there are some other things that could influence the price like forks, fees, unconfirmed transactions.

[Happy Miner]

40000 is the real cost of bitcoin at the end of 2018. To rise in price in three times bitcoin can even up to summer.

[mharz]

From this point of view the end of this year looks far away and everything seems possible.
If the price will rise fast like at the end of 2017 40000$ is possible but still I think that the growth will slow down a bit and 25000$ sounds more realistic to me.
Also there are some other things that could influence the price like forks, fees, unconfirmed transactions.

$25000 for bitcoin is not hard to hit, but there's also a possibility that $40000 reach at the end of 2018. Even though there's a lot of trial happen before touch that amount. Because if we see the gap of this amount from $40000 was so far.

However if you review the increasing of amount of bitcoin last 2017, it was increase from $900 to $15000 currently with gap of $14100 only.