Bitcoin will be 10k+ Q1 2014.

[zimmah]

Its more likely for bitcoin to go back to $100 than it is to go to $10,000.

The only way bitcoin can go to $10,000 in the near term is if wall street gets involved. That means the Winklevoss twins ETF gets approved. It might take a while for that to happen if it ever does.

"Wall Street Will Put 'Hundreds of Millions' Into Bitcoin"

http://www.entrepreneur.com/article/230346

Bitcoin will be over $10k by the end of 2014 (is my guess).

Hundreds of Millions is not enought, you would need hundred Billion instead...
$10k * 12,000,000 = 120 Billion $

that's not how you calculate the increase of stock value.

you have to look at the market debt.

Right now, with the current available orders, you'd need:

$4.87 Million to bring Mt. Gox (USD) to 10,000
$6.06 Million for bitstamp
the other markets don't have any sell orders for $10,000 so they'd need to create sell orders in that range.

So theoretically you could place a market order with ~10 Million dollars and increase the bitcoin price to $10,000 on Mt. Gox and bitstamp, but it would quickly decrease due to arbitrage.
Note that this is purely theoretical, and also the price will most likely crash when there is not enough support to keep the market stable.
to buy up all the coins at all other exchanges you may need over 100 million, but still not anywhere near  120 billion.

[yurimir]

There are two options

In 2015, for 1 bitcoin will

1) to give more than $ 100,000

2) will beat face  

[operrajunk74]

you have to keep in mind that all the big guys coming into bitcoin at $500-$1000 will want at least 10-15x returns before they cash out, so yeah $10,000 is v real. Doubt about Q1 but towards the end of 2014 v likely.

I doubt about the minimum 10-15x requirements, big guys knows +50% in short time is enought.

$10,000 next year wont happen I guess

[PenAndPaper]

Remember this thread to see if I'm right when the time comes and if I am right you can tip me.
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I think you should ask for tips from now because if your prediction come true you 'll get 10 times lower tips 

[Reece523]

$10,000 would make Bitcoin roughly 1/4 the size of AAPL in market cap -- I don't think it's unrealistic at all to imagine Bitcoin being worth more than one quarter of a single company at some point... What would QQ have become had the Chinese government not intervened? Bitcoin ftw!

[EvilPanda]

I would love to see OP's predictions come true. But reality is usually different from expectations.

[CoinGeneral]

I've run some calculations and have been tracking the growth trend. The rate of growth that new people are coming into Bitcoin is very high, media attention is high, and that means demand is high.

I believe Bitcoin is growing faster now than it was in April and will be growing even faster in Q1 2014 because there will be better infrastructure. Once we have an easy way to buy and store Bitcoins the demand will so far outweigh the supply that the price will go from $1000 to $10,000 within a matter of weeks. We will see growth spurts of $1000+ in a matter of 48hrs or less.

I predict it will peak out at around $15,000 and that all of this will happen between January 2014 and May 2014.  Remember this thread to see if I'm right when the time comes and if I am right you can tip me.
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[CoinGeneral]

I've run some calculations and have been tracking the growth trend. The rate of growth that new people are coming into Bitcoin is very high, media attention is high, and that means demand is high.

I believe Bitcoin is growing faster now than it was in April and will be growing even faster in Q1 2014 because there will be better infrastructure. Once we have an easy way to buy and store Bitcoins the demand will so far outweigh the supply that the price will go from $1000 to $10,000 within a matter of weeks. We will see growth spurts of $1000+ in a matter of 48hrs or less.

I predict it will peak out at around $15,000 and that all of this will happen between January 2014 and May 2014.  Remember this thread to see if I'm right when the time comes and if I am right you can tip me.
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Sure if you're right I'll tip

But you have to send me a PM, if it reaches $10,000+ by Q1 of 2014, you must send me a PM and link to this thread and include your BTC address again, then I will tip you.

Deal.

[id10tothe9]

I have also made some calculations but I come closer to $23000:

1000*23= 23000 

hahahahaha

[reactive4ce]

$10,000 would make Bitcoin roughly 1/4 the size of AAPL in market cap -- I don't think it's unrealistic at all to imagine Bitcoin being worth more than one quarter of a single company at some point... What would QQ have become had the Chinese government not intervened? Bitcoin ftw!

Chinese government just told what is obvious already. About the $10,000: definitively will happen, because Bitcoin can take nice share of payment systems pie, but more likely in 2016

[Tzupy]

To break the previous ATH of 1240$ would require about 27M$ plus resistance. While the bid side isn't looking bad yet,
those 27M$ are 73% of the 37M$ total bids on Gox. With little new money coming to the exchanges, it's not going to happen.
Wave C has to finish, then a new market cycle can begin, but historical data shows those have been failed bull markets, and
only after several months a fully developed bull market will succeed and possibly drive the price to a new ATH.

[hellfrozenow]

To break the previous ATH of 1240$ would require about 27M$ plus resistance. While the bid side isn't looking bad yet,
those 27M$ are 73% of the 37M$ total bids on Gox. With little new money coming to the exchanges, it's not going to happen.
Wave C has to finish, then a new market cycle can begin, but historical data shows those have been failed bull markets, and
only after several months a fully developed bull market will succeed and possibly drive the price to a new ATH.

I agree, we will see about 1000$ for next few months before new panic buy happens somewhere. Bitcoin is interesting, indeed

[kireinaha]

Wrong! We are not at 10k!

[CoinPN]

Wrong! We are not at 10k!

We are 19/365 into 2014

[BitChick]

Wrong! We are not at 10k!

We are 19/365 into 2014

Bitcoin has a funny way of plateauing for a month or two and then increasing by 4 or 5 times in a very short period of time.  Look at April and November of last year.  So wait until the end of March and then come back and say "wrong."

It could still happen, or should I say will probably happen.  I think it is highly likely to be $10,000 by May at least!

[flagel8]

I have also made some calculations but I come closer to $23000:

1000*23= 23000 

LOL! Although I'd rather it didn't happen until after the FBI has sold all of its coins! Irony ftw!

[shmadz]

Wrong! We are not at 10k!

We are 19/365 into 2014

Bitcoin has a funny way of plateauing for a month or two and then increasing by 4 or 5 times in a very short period of time.  Look at April and November of last year.  So wait until the end of March and then come back and say "wrong."

It could still happen, or should I say will probably happen.  I think it is highly likely to be $10,000 by May at least!

Agreed, be very careful, bitcoin tends to crash up

[loopgate88]

numbers first, talk second

[cryptoanarchist]

$10,000 by July 2014 

[fr33d0miz3r]

Probably $5-6k before April 2014.

P.S.: Yes, I was wrong with my bearish calculations. Now I'm bullish