2018 predictions

[worle1bm]

Crypto is at another rally. I heard that 2018 will be the GTFO year where BTC will hit 20-50k, maybe? Or some McAfee levels... Who knows. And then it crashes and will be low for quite some time. But what if the crypto will be just calmer. Go a little bit up, then down and stay on pretty much the same levels. What if there will be no bubble. Or what if the bubble already burst. Opinions?

Crypto era has already started by the end of december as altcoins are surging with huge pumps and gaining huge market cap like LTC,XRP, TRON have risen with 2500-3000% which is not an ordinary surge so we can make predictions that this year is going to be great for altcoins and btc is also rising and will reach to the level you speculated so have faith and stay calm.

[iqlimasyadiqa]

Crypto is at another rally. I heard that 2018 will be the GTFO year where BTC will hit 20-50k, maybe? Or some McAfee levels... Who knows. And then it crashes and will be low for quite some time. But what if the crypto will be just calmer. Go a little bit up, then down and stay on pretty much the same levels. What if there will be no bubble. Or what if the bubble already burst. Opinions?

Crypto era has already started by the end of december as altcoins are surging with huge pumps and gaining huge market cap like LTC,XRP, TRON have risen with 2500-3000% which is not an ordinary surge so we can make predictions that this year is going to be great for altcoins and btc is also rising and will reach to the level you speculated so have faith and stay calm.

All analyzes and data show that Bitcoin and Altcoin will increase this year. All that based on data that the current digital currency increasingly in demand for use and the increasing popularity of digital currency has changed the view of many people to the digital currency. Now the digital currency becomes an important thing because it is very influential on the economy in the world. I as a digital currency user believe that in the future everything will be much better, we've seen it in 2017. One example is Bitcoin, currently Bitcoin is growing and always shows a very positive trend, This is our initial capital and statements that can show that the future of digital currency is very bright.

[lili song]

Predictions this year bitcoin will increase more fast than last year. 2017 for bitcoins is just a beginning.
Another crypto will increase also in this year. This year will more profitable than others.

[pooya87]

I love your positivity. Bitcoin is my hero. Also, don't forget we have a Bitcoin Cash which in my opinion is more useful. Bitcoin will stay either way.

it is not "more useful", it is temporarily fixed until the disaster happens.
if you think increasing the block size to 8 MB fixed the scaling problem then you haven't understood the problem at all.

I know it's a hard topic, but I am in crypto for quite some time, but one thing bothers me with Bitcoin. It's slow and expensive to move it so I don't do it and rather use Ether. It's also not useful for everyday life when you want to pay for goods. What went wrong?

i share your views. i got into bitcoin because it was a currency and could be used easily. but i still won't use an altcoin specially Ether with all the risks that introduces.

What went wrong? it is hard to say. the scaling issue was foreseen a long time ago (3 years or more) and there has been a debate over what to do about it. but the debate turned into fight over power at some point, specially with "businessmen" who only care about earning more money such as Roger Ver got involved in it. that made things to come to a near halt with bitcoin. and the sad part is there is corruption on all sides.

i really like Segregated Witness and the rest of the proposals that are coming such as Schnorr and the second layer LN and all the side chains and smart contracts. and i do believe that this is the way to go forward.
but the problem here is that all of these are Opt-In. as @1Referee said people aren't using SegWit that much!

and here is what i am afraid of, compressed public keys were introduced to bitcoin core version 0.6 on 30 March 2012. it reduces the transaction size by 32 byte per input, people were still not using it by 2015 as much as they should have, because it is opt-in. you still can use uncompressed ones and have a bigger transaction! SegWit and the rest may not take that long but it will still be a long while.

[dragony]

I love your positivity. Bitcoin is my hero. Also, don't forget we have a Bitcoin Cash which in my opinion is more useful. Bitcoin will stay either way.

it is not "more useful", it is temporarily fixed until the disaster happens.
if you think increasing the block size to 8 MB fixed the scaling problem then you haven't understood the problem at all.

I know it's a hard topic, but I am in crypto for quite some time, but one thing bothers me with Bitcoin. It's slow and expensive to move it so I don't do it and rather use Ether. It's also not useful for everyday life when you want to pay for goods. What went wrong?

i share your views. i got into bitcoin because it was a currency and could be used easily. but i still won't use an altcoin specially Ether with all the risks that introduces.

What went wrong? it is hard to say. the scaling issue was foreseen a long time ago (3 years or more) and there has been a debate over what to do about it. but the debate turned into fight over power at some point, specially with "businessmen" who only care about earning more money such as Roger Ver got involved in it. that made things to come to a near halt with bitcoin. and the sad part is there is corruption on all sides.

i really like Segregated Witness and the rest of the proposals that are coming such as Schnorr and the second layer LN and all the side chains and smart contracts. and i do believe that this is the way to go forward.
but the problem here is that all of these are Opt-In. as @1Referee said people aren't using SegWit that much!

and here is what i am afraid of, compressed public keys were introduced to bitcoin core version 0.6 on 30 March 2012. it reduces the transaction size by 32 byte per input, people were still not using it by 2015 as much as they should have, because it is opt-in. you still can use uncompressed ones and have a bigger transaction! SegWit and the rest may not take that long but it will still be a long while.

I know it could sound little far-fetched, but can you direct me to a place where I can influence people towards changes. I can see a dim future for BTC if we don't make it useful as payment protocol again. I am also concerned that people which want it to fail already infiltrated it and divide people. I think everyone would agree we need BTC which is fast and cheap. Or why Roger Ver left?

[DashS]

I think it 2018 BTC will be stable around 20k (which was almost reached when futures trading opened!). We'll see...

[batang_bitcoin]

I think it 2018 BTC will be stable around 20k (which was almost reached when futures trading opened!). We'll see...

It was good already at $17,000 earlier but it's starting to drop again at $16,000 but this way is better than to see bitcoin at $13,000 and be stable there. My prediction is just like others that bitcoin will be possible hitting $20,000 very soon. No one knows but we are heading there, we just have to keep on holding and let the market play for itself and while us who are holders will wait for a perfect time to sell.

[DashS]

I think it 2018 BTC will be stable around 20k (which was almost reached when futures trading opened!). We'll see...

It was good already at $17,000 earlier but it's starting to drop again at $16,000 but this way is better than to see bitcoin at $13,000 and be stable there. My prediction is just like others that bitcoin will be possible hitting $20,000 very soon. No one knows but we are heading there, we just have to keep on holding and let the market play for itself and while us who are holders will wait for a perfect time to sell.

BTC is the biggest crypto project but it showed very strong stable growth which is very important. BTC did 16x which is really big number but it's still not super high number (compared to ETH for example or XRP...)

[Slow death]

Crypto is at another rally. I heard that 2018 will be the GTFO year where BTC will hit 20-50k, maybe?

This year we will reach over $25.000, We just need a lot of news like this:

Peter Thiel’s VC Fund Invests Millions Into Bitcoin, Market Reacts
Bitcoin Billionaires Hiding in Plain Sight
Bitcoin Adoption by Businesses in 2017

Or some McAfee levels...

I do not believe that the prediction he made comes true someday.

And then it crashes and will be low for quite some time. But what if the crypto will be just calmer. Go a little bit up, then down and stay on pretty much the same levels. What if there will be no bubble. Or what if the bubble already burst. Opinions?

Just relax and have a coffee and watch the price go to the moon.

[batang_bitcoin]

I think it 2018 BTC will be stable around 20k (which was almost reached when futures trading opened!). We'll see...

It was good already at $17,000 earlier but it's starting to drop again at $16,000 but this way is better than to see bitcoin at $13,000 and be stable there. My prediction is just like others that bitcoin will be possible hitting $20,000 very soon. No one knows but we are heading there, we just have to keep on holding and let the market play for itself and while us who are holders will wait for a perfect time to sell.

BTC is the biggest crypto project but it showed very strong stable growth which is very important. BTC did 16x which is really big number but it's still not super high number (compared to ETH for example or XRP...)

The stable growth of bitcoin has been there since the past years and this beginning of 2018 it showed a slow movement although that seem to be good. I don't want to see it moving quick and then it will plummet. I started with bitcoin when it was still on 3 digit's time and for the past years I think the price will still be good for this year and I do believe we'll see the unexpected price of bitcoin in a positive.

[CryptoCurr]

I think bitcoin would be selling at $100k by December 2018.

[Rajamuda]

About the prediction, of course not necessarily will be exactly right and only can be ensure in accordance with the developments of the situation and conditions and interests / support from various parties (the people).
But apparently, as the price developments so far.. bitcoin price is always not be far from the highest price already reached, I'm sure bitcoin would be still continue tends lead to a higher direction although often would be accompanied by a decline.
And most likely due of the increasing of enthusiasts and known by many people from a different countries, bitcoin price will continue trying to reach a higher values. For the next.. I'm sure it will be at $20k upwards.

[aussiesloth]

I've left getting involved until only just last month, so seriously hoping this isn't the new stable level, or worse, the top of the bubble.  I see so many blockchain coins still in their incubator stages that have actual real-world uses, so I'm betting there's still plenty of upswing for 2018.  Fingers crossed anyway.

[sgenuine]

It's hard to predict. In my opinion, to continue this process by making a profit in short time periods that should be done. I think this is the most reasonable way to make a profit in this market.

I expect Bitcoin to go above $ 20,000. And only then I will make further plans. Now I'm buying Bitcoin and I'm waiting for testing $20,000.

[babygun]

Personally I think we will witness a severe crash, where bitcoin would drop to as low of 5000$ or even lower. It will hurt, but also give a nice opportunity to buy more  .

[Mind Control]

Crypto is at another rally. I heard that 2018 will be the GTFO year where BTC will hit 20-50k, maybe? Or some McAfee levels... Who knows. And then it crashes and will be low for quite some time. But what if the crypto will be just calmer. Go a little bit up, then down and stay on pretty much the same levels. What if there will be no bubble. Or what if the bubble already burst. Opinions?

Expecting Bitcoin to increase its price over and over isn't a good thing. Over expecting might break hopes for some people. 2017 was a crazy year for Bitcoin and we cannot expect that the same thing will happen this year. Yes, we all want that but this is not always the case. Bitcoin may be subjected to a bearish market at any time and 2018 might be that time. Bitcoin drops more often indicating that it is a bear market we are in.

I am not excluding the possibility of bull run since we are aware that Bitcoin is still gaining more and more popularity. We might go up but not as crazy as 2017. The important this is the "go up" part, right?

[Shinpako09]

Personally I think we will witness a severe crash, where bitcoin would drop to as low of 5000$ or even lower. It will hurt, but also give a nice opportunity to buy more  .

What makes you think of that? I don't think we will see $5k this year. The crash has done and it didn't even touches the $10k and bounce back again. Every year for btc is becoming great since we are becoming more popular year by year. I think btc will become higher and will perform good the same time last year. We will have a slow start and a rally in the next remaining quarters.

[kiloiko]

I think and feel that in the beginning of 2018 bitcoin prices are more calm and stable, and over time I think that bitcoin prices could skyrocket to the moon to reach 25k even more, that's my opinion.

I am also having same opinion in this matter. Bitcoin will not show any real progress in this month at least. It is already going through dip and most probably it will keep on lingering between a specific range for some more time. Actually this is good for the health of everyone or we may end up going crazy or greedy. Experts think that it will touch at least 30k dollars in 2018. IMO, bitcoin is unpredictable, it will soar but to which extent is unknown.

[H0USE]

Crypto is at another rally. I heard that 2018 will be the GTFO year where BTC will hit 20-50k, maybe? Or some McAfee levels... Who knows. And then it crashes and will be low for quite some time. But what if the crypto will be just calmer. Go a little bit up, then down and stay on pretty much the same levels. What if there will be no bubble. Or what if the bubble already burst. Opinions?

At this time when market is not favouring alts and bitcoin or crypto market is floating in deep down many have thoughts that this is end of crypto but its not true because the price will again rise with greater surge and boost to new levels after all the correction is over but all that needed is patience and faith.Bitcoin is going to cross the landmark of $25000 and ETH is going to cross $1500 easily while some good alts like litecoin will also shine so just wait for the moment.

[South Park]

Crypto is at another rally. I heard that 2018 will be the GTFO year where BTC will hit 20-50k, maybe? Or some McAfee levels... Who knows. And then it crashes and will be low for quite some time. But what if the crypto will be just calmer. Go a little bit up, then down and stay on pretty much the same levels. What if there will be no bubble. Or what if the bubble already burst. Opinions?

The truth is that no one knows, I have my doubts anyone predicted even half of the things that happened last year, bitcoin growing to 20k, all the forks that happened, the fact we were supposed to get a segwit2x fork and then it did not happen, the ban on icos and all those other things that happened.