Logarithmic (non-linear) regression - Bitcoin estimated value

[Trolololo]

In this OP I will always post the last updated chart:

Update 2017-01-03:

Donations: bitcoin:1Fe6B3Zo4HxaCD8ybi9A8zBRH2wKpciUxe

Calculate today's trendline value HERE

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[Trolololo]

Post reserved for links to previous chart updates:
2014-10-14 Chart v1.1
2015-03-09 Chart v2.0
2015-05-28 Chart v2.1
2016-04-15 Chart v2.2
2017-01-03 Chart v2.3

[Trolololo]

To understand what I have done, I recommended to visit:
1) Rpietila's thread: Monthly average USD/bitcoin price & trend
2) SlipperySlope's thread: Stephen Reed's Million Dollar Logistic Model
3) Rpeter's post: Latest graphs showing nice correlation between prices and adoption (squared) - Metcalfe's Law
4) Raystonn's thread: Metcalfe's Law: Bitcoin Price and Adoption Analysis for the Future
5) jl2012's thread: Bitcoin long-term exponential trend (updated regularly)
6) gbianchi's thread A Bitcoin price theory
7) Joe200's thread Non-spreadsheet long-term predictions


Why QR codes inside the charts?
The idea is to attach a unique bitcoin address to each chart, to be able to track wich (if any), you prefer.
That's why you will see a different QR (bitcoin address) in each chart I post.

[Trolololo]

Chart with data until 2014-10-14:

Donations: 19AYtA4xFM7izR7BAXKr9TLJkrAJsvcfFm


If we "flatten" the red logarithmic line, we get the spread between the price and the estimated value:

Donations: 1BgnScfDU5QvKUGCqKKsDm62YxKzh5sjCn


This is how the 2011 and 2013 (1) bubbles look like in linear price axis:

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And this is how the 2011 and 2013 (1&2) bubbles look like in linear price axis:

Donations: 196xJM7c4jjhHkUp7CnrKG2joXPe57uNRF


Calculate today's trendline price HERE

Projected:
     1.000  24-04-2015
    10.000  22-11-2017
   100.000  16-07-2021
1.000.000  06-09-2026

[Dotto]

Nice graphics and nice work! 

What software did you use?

[franckuestein]

Very very interesting… 

In this OP I will always post the last updated charts:

Nice work with the charts. Thanks for sharing with us.
I'm going to stay on that topic to check your updates and estimates.

2015 could be an important year for bitcoin. Not just to become mainstream… It's going to be a "key year" because of the projects related with the bitcoin ecosystem consolidation.

[SmoothCurves]

Very interesting chart. I could definitely see BTC reaching $1k around April 2015 and then hovering around there until Q4 2015. The block reward halving will be a focus of discussion and I can imagine that topic causing a x10 increase to around $10k in late 2015. Guess we'll have to wait and see.

[Trolololo]

Nice graphics and nice work! 

What software did you use?

Excel.

As Rpietila says, you can do amazing things with excel.

[Simcom]

In what year does your regression intersect with $1M USD?

[bubfranks]

-25% or -37% on the y-axis of the 1Bgn graph? The right and left axes disagree.

[Trolololo]

-25% or -37% on the y-axis of the 1Bgn graph? The right and left axes disagree.

-37% (it's the calculation of 1 - 10^-0.2)

Thanks. I'll fix that.


Edit: fixed

[keystroke]

Probably about right. 

But let's not forget the massive volatility we will have getting there!

[chriswilmer]

What price do you get in 2075? In my opinion the "equilibrium" price of Bitcoin is one of the easier numbers to make rational arguments about (thermodynamics is always on sounder footing than kinetics, etc.).
For example, if you get $1 trillion per BTC in 2075, I would say the model is problematic, however well fitted. If you get something in the $1-10 million range, then you're probably in the ballpark. (these models assume a certain optimism about adoption already)

[Trolololo]

What price do you get in 2075? In my opinion the "equilibrium" price of Bitcoin is one of the easier numbers to make rational arguments about (thermodynamics is always on sounder footing than kinetics, etc.).
For example, if you get $1 trillion per BTC in 2075, I would say the model is problematic, however well fitted. If you get something in the $1-10 million range, then you're probably in the ballpark. (these models assume a certain optimism about adoption already)

By year 2075 I will be dead.

The curve will always grow, but slowlier and slowlier as time goes by. Just like the Bitcoin emission curve.
This logarithmic regression is way better than the linear regression. But it's just a model, not a crystal ball.

The curve will flatten or steepen depending on the future price fluctuations, but not much.
I will recalculate the regression from time to time. Maybe monthly, or once every three or four months.

I made the chart for myself, and I later thought that it would be worth sharing it with you all.

[Trolololo]

Very interesting chart. I could definitely see BTC reaching $1k around April 2015 and then hovering around there until Q4 2015. The block reward halving will be a focus of discussion and I can imagine that topic causing a x10 increase to around $10k in late 2015. Guess we'll have to wait and see.

Probably about right.  

But let's not forget the massive volatility we will have getting there!

To figure out what can happen in the future price and volatility, read these interesting thoughts: 100,000 block countdown - What will happen at the next halving?

[Trolololo]

In what year does your regression intersect with $1M USD?

I will answer you tomorrow.

Edit: 06-09-2026

[cuddaloreappu]

tomorrow came... please tell when million dollar btc

[devphp]

Interesting chart. It's also in line with the hyperinflationary QE-to-infinity scenario which is to unfold when stock and other markets crash. Of course, that $10k in 2017 won't buy you as much as it can buy today.

[Trolololo]

Added to the OP:
Calculate today's trendline price HERE

[madmat]

Added to the OP:
Calculate today's trendline price HERE

Your work is really great. This trendline seems realistic.

Could you provide a date for the one million dollar price ? Or extend your chart a little bit ?

[findftp]

Nice graphics and nice work!  

What software did you use?

Excel.

As Rpietila says, you can do amazing things with excel.

Wow, nice work!
Thread watched and notified.
Just gave a small tip.

[Trolololo]

Added to the OP:
Calculate today's trendline price HERE

Your work is really great. This trendline seems realistic.

Could you provide a date for the one million dollar price ? Or extend your chart a little bit ?

1.000.000 on 06-09-2026

I would like extend the chart to that date, but by excel worksheet doesn't want to. I don' know why.

[Trolololo]

Nice graphics and nice work!  

What software did you use?

Excel.

As Rpietila says, you can do amazing things with excel.

Wow, nice work!
Thread watched and notified.
Just gave a small tip.

Thank you!

[madmat]

Added to the OP:
Calculate today's trendline price HERE

Your work is really great. This trendline seems realistic.

Could you provide a date for the one million dollar price ? Or extend your chart a little bit ?

1.000.000 on 06-09-2026

I would like extend the chart to that date, but by excel worksheet doesn't want to. I don' know why.

Thanks for the date.

Excel is not perfect. Did you reach the line limit ? (1 048 576 lines)

[Trolololo]

What price do you get in 2075? In my opinion the "equilibrium" price of Bitcoin is one of the easier numbers to make rational arguments about (thermodynamics is always on sounder footing than kinetics, etc.).
For example, if you get $1 trillion per BTC in 2075, I would say the model is problematic, however well fitted. If you get something in the $1-10 million range, then you're probably in the ballpark. (these models assume a certain optimism about adoption already)

With only 1550 days of prices, it's quite weird to estimate the value for day #24.098 (01-01-2075).

But let's suppose that the price stays flat at 370 for 5 more years (from today to 01-01-2020).
That would mean we have around 5500 days of prices.
The logarithmic regression would throw a estimated value of 961 k$ by 01-01-2075.

That's a more realistic value than any linear regression model.

[oda.krell]

Nice post & analysis, Trolololo. Following.

I made a similar observation earlier this month in Stephen Reed's thread, about what looked like an increasing time span between reaching the next order of magnitude in network size, but didn't follow up on it (shameless plug to my own post :D).


A question.

I'm not sure about the exact type of growth of your function. What you seem to be mapping is logarithmic growth (slow) on a log chart (fast). Stripped of its minor constants, your formula is of the form 10^ln(t) for time = t. ln(t) grows extremely slow over time, but the result is used as a positive, growing exponent.

It seems to fall somewhere between linear growth and exponential growth, and it isn't bounded either (like in Stephen's model). I was wondering if someone with more knowledge on functional growth could answer this once and for all for me, have been wondering about this for a while now. (EDIT: I'm wondering if it could be an instance of so called sub-exponential growth)


A critical remark.

While I personally, intuitively, find a price function with a declining growth rate (like yours) more plausible than the constant growth rate models that have been presented on this forum (i.e. the "loglinear models" you linked to as well), one problem still remains:

Price tends to "jerk around" all those models.

I remember that, late last year, when price exceeded even the loglinear model's predictions, some analysis was posted that suggested a superexponential price function to model BTC price.

Then came the first leg of the 2013/2014 correction, and suddenly the loglinear models were all the rage again.

Now, the correction continues, and you suggest (with good reasons, I agree) a model based on an below exponential growth assumption. But I'm afraid all it takes is another year of bear market (or perhaps, a sudden rally of huge proportions), and we need to re-adjust our assumption for what the "best" growth type for our model is...

Here's what I'm trying to say: I am using technical (i.e. historic price based) methods myself all the time for predicting price on the short term. However, I start to think that, on a long enough time scale, fundamentals govern the price function. So a model like yours (or Stephen's, or rpietila's), that are essentially an extrapolation from an (admittedly well fitted) function on the historic price data might come to its limits.

I am thinking that perhaps the only semi-reliable way to go about mapping the "long term trend" is Peter R.'s way: finding a proxy for network size, and then modeling expected price/mcap as a function of network size.

See for example here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=68655.msg9059346#msg9059346

He still makes a number of assumptions (Metcalfe's law, for example), and in a way, his method only shifts the problem (because now we are trying to predict, i.e. extrapolate, network size), but at least his predicted numbers will rarely be so out of tune with reality as the pure time series models can be at times.

[Trolololo]

Nice post & analysis, Trolololo. Following.

I made a similar observation earlier this month in Stephen Reed's thread, about what looked like an increasing time span between reaching the next order of magnitude in network size, but didn't follow up on it (shameless plug to my own post ).


A question.

I'm not sure about the exact type of growth of your function. What you seem to be mapping is logarithmic growth (slow) on a log chart (fast). Stripped of its minor constants, your formula is of the form 10^ln(t) for time = t. ln(t) grows extremely slow over time, but the result is used as a positive, growing exponent.

It seems to fall somewhere between linear growth and exponential growth, and it isn't bounded either (like in Stephen's model). I was wondering if someone with more knowledge on functional growth could answer this once and for all for me, have been wondering about this for a while now. (EDIT: I'm wondering if it could be an instance of so called sub-exponential growth)


A critical remark.

While I personally, intuitively, find a price function with a declining growth rate (like yours) more plausible than the constant growth rate models that have been presented on this forum (i.e. the "loglinear models" you linked to as well), one problem still remains:

Price tends to "jerk around" all those models.

I remember that, late last year, when price exceeded even the loglinear model's predictions, some analysis was posted that suggested a superexponential price function to model BTC price.

Then came the first leg of the 2013/2014 correction, and suddenly the loglinear models were all the rage again.

Now, the correction continues, and you suggest (with good reasons, I agree) a model based on an below exponential growth assumption. But I'm afraid all it takes is another year of bear market (or perhaps, a sudden rally of huge proportions), and we need to re-adjust our assumption for what the "best" growth type for our model is...

Here's what I'm trying to say: I am using technical (i.e. historic price based) methods myself all the time for predicting price on the short term. However, I start to think that, on a long enough time scale, fundamentals govern the price function. So a model like yours (or Stephen's, or rpietila's), that are essentially an extrapolation from an (admittedly well fitted) function on the historic price data might come to its limits.

I am thinking that perhaps the only semi-reliable way to go about mapping the "long term trend" is Peter R.'s way: finding a proxy for network size, and then modeling expected price/mcap as a function of network size.

See for example here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=68655.msg9059346#msg9059346

He still makes a number of assumptions (Metcalfe's law, for example), and in a way, his method only shifts the problem (because now we are trying to predict, i.e. extrapolate, network size), but at least his predicted numbers will rarely be so out of tune with reality as the pure time series models can be at times.

In linear price axis the trend looks exponential:



But is really a subexponential line, a "lowering" exponential trend.

I suspect that in the very long term (reaching year 2075 i.e.) the linear price axis graph would look like an "S" curve (logistic growth). Pending task...

Edit: no "S" look at all. Looks like a "lowering" exponential trend for any timeframe.
To have a "S" look que should use another regression function, like



Relative to volatility, I also suspect that the tops of the bubbles could fit in a similar logarithmic regression. The same for the bottoms of the bubbles. That could give us an estimation of the roofs and floors of next bubbles.
Another pending task...

[dnaleor]

nice charts

will folow your posts from now on

edit: left you a small tip

[oda.krell]

Edit: no "S" look at all. Looks like a "lowering" exponential trend for any timeframe.
To have a "S" look que should use another regression function, like

That's what I said... the 'S' shape (of slipperyslope, e.g.) is bounded growth, i.e. is convergent. Your function doesn't have a finite limit. It just goes to infinity rather slowly

[dnaleor]

I remember that, late last year, when price exceeded even the loglinear model's predictions, some analysis was posted that suggested a superexponential price function to model BTC price.

that was fun
We would be > 600k by now

edit: just posting it for the lulz:

[Capt Drake]

Very nice work man!!

I'll be watching your future updates on this! 

[Trolololo]

nice charts

will folow your posts from now on

edit: left you a small tip

Thank you!

[superresistant]

Nice graphics and nice work! 
What software did you use?

Excel.
As Rpietila says, you can do amazing things with excel.

Impressive.
Yes, Excel (or equivalent) can do so much things.

EDIT :
I can only agree with the estimate, 1.000 USD by 24-04-2015
But that's only an estimation.

[smooth]

I'm not sure about the exact type of growth of your function. What you seem to be mapping is logarithmic growth (slow) on a log chart (fast). Stripped of its minor constants, your formula is of the form 10^ln(t) for time = t. ln(t) grows extremely slow over time, but the result is used as a positive, growing exponent.

10^ln(x) = x^ln(10)

[cbeast]

Let's now see some new analytics using splines and regressive curvilinear functions. I'm so tired of seeing mspaint lines over boring plots. The speculation threads will love these.

[oda.krell]

I'm not sure about the exact type of growth of your function. What you seem to be mapping is logarithmic growth (slow) on a log chart (fast). Stripped of its minor constants, your formula is of the form 10^ln(t) for time = t. ln(t) grows extremely slow over time, but the result is used as a positive, growing exponent.

10^ln(x) = x^ln(10)

Thanks. Feel like an idiot for missing that.

Which would make it about quadratic growth. Interesting.

[laurentmt]

In what year does your regression intersect with $1M USD?

I would say for Xmas 2026 

[smooth]

I'm not sure about the exact type of growth of your function. What you seem to be mapping is logarithmic growth (slow) on a log chart (fast). Stripped of its minor constants, your formula is of the form 10^ln(t) for time = t. ln(t) grows extremely slow over time, but the result is used as a positive, growing exponent.

10^ln(x) = x^ln(10)

Thanks. Feel like an idiot for missing that.

Which would make it about quadratic growth. Interesting.

Yes I thought so too. If you buy the Metcalf's Law valuation argument (I don't entirely), that corresponds roughly with linear growth of usage. Which interestingly is what Chris Dixon has said they are seeing in his businesses (mostly Coinbase I think).

[macsga]

Following. Great job indeed. Congrats.

[ssmc2]

This is in my weekly repertoire of threads I look at to give me that warm blanket feeling   

[solex]

Great work Trolololo.

Can't see it mentioned yet, maybe it is elsewhere, but do you have a version which utilizes the "market capitalization" (monetary base), instead of the price? For the first decade this may produce a somewhat different curve.

[mmortal03]

In this OP I will always post the last updated charts:

Calculate today's trendline price HERE

So, the trend line is currently just above $600. In terms of accuracy, it's at least closer than Stephen Reed's Million Dollar Logistic Model: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=366214.0

[Igluenza]

Awesome work Trolololo! I actually came across this thread last week & with this recent movement in price, I figured it deserved a bump.

[Trolololo]

Thanks for your acknowledgments!
I truly appreciate all your comments (and tips  )

Great work Trolololo.

Can't see it mentioned yet, maybe it is elsewhere, but do you have a version which utilizes the "market capitalization" (monetary base), instead of the price? For the first decade this may produce a somewhat different curve.

No, Risto also suggested that, but I don't have any "market capitalization" version yet.

Actually working on calculating the "real" R^2 value for the logarithmic regression, and in other curve shapes...

[keystroke]

Thanks for your acknowledgments!
I truly appreciate all your comments (and tips  )

Great work Trolololo.

Can't see it mentioned yet, maybe it is elsewhere, but do you have a version which utilizes the "market capitalization" (monetary base), instead of the price? For the first decade this may produce a somewhat different curve.

No, Risto also suggested that, but I don't have any "market capitalization" version yet.

Actually working on calculating the "real" R^2 value for the logarithmic regression, and in other curve shapes...

Agreed, a market cap version would be awesome as we are still experiencing high inflation.

[dinofelis]

I'm not sure about the exact type of growth of your function. What you seem to be mapping is logarithmic growth (slow) on a log chart (fast). Stripped of its minor constants, your formula is of the form 10^ln(t) for time = t. ln(t) grows extremely slow over time, but the result is used as a positive, growing exponent.

10^ln(x) = x^ln(10)

Thanks. Feel like an idiot for missing that.

Which would make it about quadratic growth. Interesting.

Yes I thought so too. If you buy the Metcalf's Law valuation argument (I don't entirely), that corresponds roughly with linear growth of usage. Which interestingly is what Chris Dixon has said they are seeing in his businesses (mostly Coinbase I think).

Hello everybody,

I'm pretty new to bitcoin, looked first at it this summer.  I also did some curve fitting to the historical data in log scale.  Of course, one has to be extremely cautious when extrapolating from early price movements, but intuitively the idea that the bitcoin price should "do something" is pretty clear.  I'm cautiously also buying modest amounts of bitcoin... for my retirement in a few decades, based upon similar extrapolations.

When looking at the long term (and not doing day trading), one must always look at the fundamentals.  Now, bitcoin is supposed to be a monetary asset, in the same way as fiat, or as physical gold: it doesn't serve any other purpose but as "money", that is, intermediate vector of value.  A monetary asset is in a certain way a "frozen Ponzi scheme" or a "frozen bubble" to some extend in my opinion: the only reason why you give it value today (why you want to spend real effort and other monetary assets on it) is that you believe that someone else will estimate it has value tomorrow, and that you will get something for it in return.
Shares, houses, and other investments also have a part of "monetary asset", but they usually also have another cash flow associated to them, like dividends, rent or usage (you can *live* in a house), so there is a "floor" to their price, which is their cash flow or usage.  Gold has a very limited "usage" in jewels and so on, but is essentially a nearly purely monetary asset.

Now, for a purely monetary asset, its "value" is solely determined by the "quantity theory of money", which states that in steady state:
P x Q = M x V

where P is the price of goods, Q is the quantity of goods bought with the monetary asset, M is the amount of monetary asset, and V is the average velocity of the monetary asset.

The "price of a bitcoin" B is then 1/P, and we have:

B = 1/P = Q / (M x V)

So you can expect the price of a bitcoin to be the amount of stuff (expressed in dollars) divided by the amount of bitcoin in circulation M, and divided by the velocity V.

Now, 1/V is given by the "(harmonic) average holding time" of a bitcoin between two buys, which we can call T.

We hence have:

B = Q x T / M

Or: the market capitalisation is B x M = Q x T

In other words, the market capitalisation is grossly given by the value of all stuff bought with bitcoin, times the (harmonic) average hold time of a bitcoin.

Many expectations of "too the moon" are based upon a similar "holding time" T for fiat and for bitcoin: in that case, the market capitalisation is then comparable to the fraction of the fiat market capitalisation that is done in bitcoin.

If bitcoin becomes a success, in the sense that, world wide, people buy and sell stuff in bitcoin, then this market capitalisation can be potentially huge.  Only in dollars, there are 2 - 10 trillion dollars in circulation.  World wide, the estimate (M2 money) is of the order of 55 trillion.
If bitcoin would take 1% of the world trade, its market cap would be about 550 billion dollars.  If bitcoin doesn't even buy 1% of stuff in the world, then the question can be asked whether it made sense in the first place to consider it as a monetary asset.

That is, under the assumptions of similar average hold times.

So that's about a 100-fold increase in market cap compared to now.

Essentially, this is the "amount of value" one needs bitcoins to have in order to be able to buy all that stuff, and to hold all those coins for a time T.

The crucial point is T: if people would just buy bitcoins (with fiat) to spend them immediately, then T becomes much shorter than the average hold times.  This can pretty much lower the market cap needed to buy all that stuff.  Essentially, if bitcoins are only held "a few seconds" the time to buy them with fiat, and to spend them buying some goods, you see that the market cap of bitcoin would be extremely limited.  If 1% of goods are traded in bitcoin, but bitcoins are held 100 times less long than fiat, then market cap is not going to change !

But bitcoin has promises as a store of value too, so chances are that people will actually hold on bitcoin also as "store of value".  Even more so than to fiat which has a bad reputation as store of value.  That might actually make T *longer* than the T of fiat.

However, for the moment, I have no idea, but Q is pretty low (except maybe on black markets, which do play a role in the early phases of bitcoin).

So why is bitcoin then worth something ?  I think we are still in a hugely speculative phase, where the current price of bitcoin is more the future *expectation* of what its price will be, rather than the actual value in monetary use.  Most people (like me) speculate somehow that bitcoin is going to become a success, and that people will not only use it to buy stuff (Q), but also as a store of value (T).  

This has the potential to put the bitcoin price B pretty high.

But it won't happen overnight.  You are not going to wake up, with people buying suddenly 1% of the world economy in bitcoin.   This is going to be a slow process, and to me, *this* is the fundamental value of bitcoin.   The current prices are short-term effects of traders, and the longer term consists in the long term belief of high bitcoin value, that is, a long term speculation on the value of B, as a function of Q and of T.

It can also be that bitcoin flops.  But for the moment, I'm taking a prudent bet on "to the moon", but over a decade or more.  It would be a nice complement to my retirement.  

However, in my opinion, there's no fundamental which can support a "to the moon and staying there" in the near term: Q is too low for the moment.  For bitcoin to become money, you have to buy a significant part of the world economy with it (1% is a very "significant part").

What is dangerous with curve fitting, is that there will be a transition at some point, from the "speculative" domain where we are in now, to the "monetary domain" when it is really on its monetary fundamentals.  There's no reason why fitting laws on the speculative part should have anything to do with the monetary circumstances.

[anton000]

Hello everybody,

I'm pretty new to bitcoin, looked first at it this summer.  I also did some curve fitting to the historical data in log scale.  Of course, one has to be extremely cautious when extrapolating from early price movements, but intuitively the idea that the bitcoin price should "do something" is pretty clear.  I'm cautiously also buying modest amounts of bitcoin... for my retirement in a few decades, based upon similar extrapolations.

When looking at the long term (and not doing day trading), one must always look at the fundamentals.  Now, bitcoin is supposed to be a monetary asset, in the same way as fiat, or as physical gold: it doesn't serve any other purpose but as "money", that is, intermediate vector of value.  A monetary asset is in a certain way a "frozen Ponzi scheme" or a "frozen bubble" to some extend in my opinion: the only reason why you give it value today (why you want to spend real effort and other monetary assets on it) is that you believe that someone else will estimate it has value tomorrow, and that you will get something for it in return.
Shares, houses, and other investments also have a part of "monetary asset", but they usually also have another cash flow associated to them, like dividends, rent or usage (you can *live* in a house), so there is a "floor" to their price, which is their cash flow or usage.  Gold has a very limited "usage" in jewels and so on, but is essentially a nearly purely monetary asset.

Now, for a purely monetary asset, its "value" is solely determined by the "quantity theory of money", which states that in steady state:
P x Q = M x V

where P is the price of goods, Q is the quantity of goods bought with the monetary asset, M is the amount of monetary asset, and V is the average velocity of the monetary asset.

The "price of a bitcoin" B is then 1/P, and we have:

B = 1/P = Q / (M x V)

So you can expect the price of a bitcoin to be the amount of stuff (expressed in dollars) divided by the amount of bitcoin in circulation M, and divided by the velocity V.

Now, 1/V is given by the "(harmonic) average holding time" of a bitcoin between two buys, which we can call T.

We hence have:

B = Q x T / M

Or: the market capitalisation is B x M = Q x T

In other words, the market capitalisation is grossly given by the value of all stuff bought with bitcoin, times the (harmonic) average hold time of a bitcoin.

Many expectations of "too the moon" are based upon a similar "holding time" T for fiat and for bitcoin: in that case, the market capitalisation is then comparable to the fraction of the fiat market capitalisation that is done in bitcoin.

......

Awesome analysis dinofelis.  Bitcoin's full utility must be realized before its realizes it potential value. There's also quite a difference between miner's mining costs and what market is currently paying for it. So seems like even miners are speculating or rather banking on whats its future price may be.

In short we can compare this to the discovery a new important resource:  People discover Goldoilphene, and know it has great potential and promise. But no matter how much it cost to mine/make this new discovery, the realization of this new element potential, be it in part or fully, will ultimately determine the price the market will be willing to pay for it.

[BTCtrader71]

I'm not sure about the exact type of growth of your function. What you seem to be mapping is logarithmic growth (slow) on a log chart (fast). Stripped of its minor constants, your formula is of the form 10^ln(t) for time = t. ln(t) grows extremely slow over time, but the result is used as a positive, growing exponent.

10^ln(x) = x^ln(10)

Thanks. Feel like an idiot for missing that.

Which would make it about quadratic growth. Interesting.

Yes I thought so too. If you buy the Metcalf's Law valuation argument (I don't entirely), that corresponds roughly with linear growth of usage. Which interestingly is what Chris Dixon has said they are seeing in his businesses (mostly Coinbase I think).

Hello everybody,

I'm pretty new to bitcoin, looked first at it this summer.  I also did some curve fitting to the historical data in log scale.  Of course, one has to be extremely cautious when extrapolating from early price movements, but intuitively the idea that the bitcoin price should "do something" is pretty clear.  I'm cautiously also buying modest amounts of bitcoin... for my retirement in a few decades, based upon similar extrapolations.

When looking at the long term (and not doing day trading), one must always look at the fundamentals.  Now, bitcoin is supposed to be a monetary asset, in the same way as fiat, or as physical gold: it doesn't serve any other purpose but as "money", that is, intermediate vector of value.  A monetary asset is in a certain way a "frozen Ponzi scheme" or a "frozen bubble" to some extend in my opinion: the only reason why you give it value today (why you want to spend real effort and other monetary assets on it) is that you believe that someone else will estimate it has value tomorrow, and that you will get something for it in return.
Shares, houses, and other investments also have a part of "monetary asset", but they usually also have another cash flow associated to them, like dividends, rent or usage (you can *live* in a house), so there is a "floor" to their price, which is their cash flow or usage.  Gold has a very limited "usage" in jewels and so on, but is essentially a nearly purely monetary asset.

Now, for a purely monetary asset, its "value" is solely determined by the "quantity theory of money", which states that in steady state:
P x Q = M x V

where P is the price of goods, Q is the quantity of goods bought with the monetary asset, M is the amount of monetary asset, and V is the average velocity of the monetary asset.

The "price of a bitcoin" B is then 1/P, and we have:

B = 1/P = Q / (M x V)

So you can expect the price of a bitcoin to be the amount of stuff (expressed in dollars) divided by the amount of bitcoin in circulation M, and divided by the velocity V.

Now, 1/V is given by the "(harmonic) average holding time" of a bitcoin between two buys, which we can call T.

We hence have:

B = Q x T / M

Or: the market capitalisation is B x M = Q x T

In other words, the market capitalisation is grossly given by the value of all stuff bought with bitcoin, times the (harmonic) average hold time of a bitcoin.

Many expectations of "too the moon" are based upon a similar "holding time" T for fiat and for bitcoin: in that case, the market capitalisation is then comparable to the fraction of the fiat market capitalisation that is done in bitcoin.

If bitcoin becomes a success, in the sense that, world wide, people buy and sell stuff in bitcoin, then this market capitalisation can be potentially huge.  Only in dollars, there are 2 - 10 trillion dollars in circulation.  World wide, the estimate (M2 money) is of the order of 55 trillion.
If bitcoin would take 1% of the world trade, its market cap would be about 550 billion dollars.  If bitcoin doesn't even buy 1% of stuff in the world, then the question can be asked whether it made sense in the first place to consider it as a monetary asset.

That is, under the assumptions of similar average hold times.

So that's about a 100-fold increase in market cap compared to now.

Essentially, this is the "amount of value" one needs bitcoins to have in order to be able to buy all that stuff, and to hold all those coins for a time T.

The crucial point is T: if people would just buy bitcoins (with fiat) to spend them immediately, then T becomes much shorter than the average hold times.  This can pretty much lower the market cap needed to buy all that stuff.  Essentially, if bitcoins are only held "a few seconds" the time to buy them with fiat, and to spend them buying some goods, you see that the market cap of bitcoin would be extremely limited.  If 1% of goods are traded in bitcoin, but bitcoins are held 100 times less long than fiat, then market cap is not going to change !

But bitcoin has promises as a store of value too, so chances are that people will actually hold on bitcoin also as "store of value".  Even more so than to fiat which has a bad reputation as store of value.  That might actually make T *longer* than the T of fiat.

However, for the moment, I have no idea, but Q is pretty low (except maybe on black markets, which do play a role in the early phases of bitcoin).

So why is bitcoin then worth something ?  I think we are still in a hugely speculative phase, where the current price of bitcoin is more the future *expectation* of what its price will be, rather than the actual value in monetary use.  Most people (like me) speculate somehow that bitcoin is going to become a success, and that people will not only use it to buy stuff (Q), but also as a store of value (T). 

This has the potential to put the bitcoin price B pretty high.

But it won't happen overnight.  You are not going to wake up, with people buying suddenly 1% of the world economy in bitcoin.   This is going to be a slow process, and to me, *this* is the fundamental value of bitcoin.   The current prices are short-term effects of traders, and the longer term consists in the long term belief of high bitcoin value, that is, a long term speculation on the value of B, as a function of Q and of T.

It can also be that bitcoin flops.  But for the moment, I'm taking a prudent bet on "to the moon", but over a decade or more.  It would be a nice complement to my retirement. 

However, in my opinion, there's no fundamental which can support a "to the moon and staying there" in the near term: Q is too low for the moment.  For bitcoin to become money, you have to buy a significant part of the world economy with it (1% is a very "significant part").

What is dangerous with curve fitting, is that there will be a transition at some point, from the "speculative" domain where we are in now, to the "monetary domain" when it is really on its monetary fundamentals.  There's no reason why fitting laws on the speculative part should have anything to do with the monetary circumstances.

This is an excellent analysis dinofelis and I think your thought process is spot on. I see so many people making estimates that fail to take into account velocity and are therefore fundamentally flawed. If you were to write this as an op-ed or article and get it published somewhere (coindesk perhaps), I think you would be doing the community a good service.

[nakaone]

person talking sense

thanks for the great insight.

I always thought that the quantity theory of money would fail to deal with the store of value function of money (or hodling) assuming that money is always neutral.

You seem to have a deeper understanding of that - so I have a few questions:

1.) I think that bitcoins function as a store value will for quite a long time be more important than its usage (even though being interdependent). Can you give more insight regarding factor T? Or provide a good (academic) article regarding that factor in this particular kind of analysis in QTM?

2.) It is obvious that the price is hugely driven by speculation - but given todays market capitalization (~5 Billion) we could say that it shows (no one knows if this is really possible on methodological level) that we give it a 1 % chance to get 1 % of the trade and store of value of the world economy (500 Billion). or do I misunderstand that?

3.) I always have the assumption that we as economist fail when time comes into play . But you tried to give some insight regarding that, when you say that you do not think that it will be an overnight ride to the moon and assume that it takes a decade. But let us simply assume that perception regarding bitcoin changes due to some factors. At question 2 we had a 1% chance at todays prices to reach 1% of the world market. for simplification let us assume we change to a 10% chance. Don't you think that prices would climb much faster, even given the same or nearly the same velocity?

4.) given your formula. Do you think it is possible to fill it with numbers, to give us a speculation free price of bitcoin - I think I do not completely get your factor t and how to use it.

[dinofelis]

person talking sense

thanks for the great insight.

I always thought that the quantity theory of money would fail to deal with the store of value function of money (or hodling) assuming that money is always neutral.

You seem to have a deeper understanding of that - so I have a few questions:

1.) I think that bitcoins function as a store value will for quite a long time be more important than its usage (even though being interdependent). Can you give more insight regarding factor T? Or provide a good (academic) article regarding that factor in this particular kind of analysis in QTM?

Yes, that is a good question.  My opinion (but only my personal opinion) is that for something to be a long term store of value, it needs more trust than to be a means of payment.  Both are monetary assets of course, but with different functions and time scales.  I'm strongly influenced by the Austrian school and by von Mises and Rothbard's thinking.  Of course, these people didn't know about computers and internet and so on, and they are highly tied to the gold standard, which I'm personally not.
But there's something to say for gold, which bitcoin hasn't: "historical proof of trust".
There's a difference between taking a high-risk, high potential return speculation (like I do too with bitcoin) with a small part of one's savings, and to need something to build your retirement on.  There you need trust, or (and!) diversification, to hedge the breach of trust.

So my personal opinion is that a long term store of value needs trust, and trust takes time to build.  This is why I don't believe that bitcoin, as of yet, can take a large part in the market share of the aggregate demand for "store of value" in the long term.  Of course, lots of people are holding on bitcoin, but that is *speculative*.  They think they are first adopters of a monetary asset that hasn't yet reached, by far, its full potential.  As such, the tradeoff between the lack of trust (it is too new) and the potential benefit (it will "go to the moon") turns it into nevertheless an attractive asset.  But a high-risk/high gain asset.  That's not "a store of value".

Stores of value are things that need trust.  Real estate, gold, "trust-worthy" (haha) pension funds, and a diversified portfolio.  State bonds (haha).  

The high potential gain is in my opinion not an offset for the high risk, as a storage of value.

But indeed, if bitcoin works essentially as a storage of value, then its market cap (and hence the bitcoin price) will not so much be determined by M x V = P x Q, but rather by the fraction it will cover in the aggregate demand for "storage of value" worldwide.

That is essentially unpredictable for the moment.  You could just as well assume that bitcoin will completely replace gold (6 trillion worth or something), or will replace 1% of it.  As I said, for the moment I have a hard time believing that there is sufficient trust in bitcoin to replace the century-long trust in gold.  But I may be too conservative.

For the moment, it is hard to distinguish what part of holding bitcoin is speculative for "to the moon", and what part is just "holding value".  My personal guess is that it is 99.9% the first.  That not many people are considering bitcoin as a storage of value were it not for its large potential to increase.  But then, it is *not* a storage of value, but rather a high-risk high return asset.  Like shares in a start-up.

2.) It is obvious that the price is hugely driven by speculation - but given todays market capitalization (~5 Billion) we could say that it shows (no one knows if this is really possible on methodological level) that we give it a 1 % chance to get 1 % of the trade and store of value of the world economy (500 Billion). or do I misunderstand that?

That's also how I understand it.  You should also take into account a risk aversion factor, which is especially sensitive to long-time storage of wealth, if your pension depends on it for instance.

Between something worth 100 for sure, and something worth 1000 with a chance of 10% and worth 0 with a chance of 90% (same expectation value), most people prefer the first, by a large factor.  I don't know what the risk factor is.  

3.) I always have the assumption that we as economist fail when time comes into play . But you tried to give some insight regarding that, when you say that you do not think that it will be an overnight ride to the moon and assume that it takes a decade. But let us simply assume that perception regarding bitcoin changes due to some factors. At question 2 we had a 1% chance at todays prices to reach 1% of the world market. for simplification let us assume we change to a 10% chance. Don't you think that prices would climb much faster, even given the same or nearly the same velocity?

The market ideally (ideally, because now it is probably manipulated by traders on the rather short term with effects on the longer term) takes into account all available information.  If the probability jumped from 1% to 10%, ideally, the (speculative) price should jump by a factor of 10.  But how could this probability suddenly jump ?
It could by an improbable event like a country officially adopting bitcoin as its currency.  The day the Swiss government, after a public voting, announces that the Swiss Franc is replaced by bitcoin, yes :-)  It could by an oil country announcing that oil will now be paid in bitcoin.  Or something of the kind.  Otherwise, only a smooth evolution is thinkable, no ?

4.) given your formula. Do you think it is possible to fill it with numbers, to give us a speculation free price of bitcoin - I think I do not completely get your factor t and how to use it.

Ok,let us take just an illustration.

Let us assume (it is just for sake of having an idea and an illustration, I don't imply anything) that bitcoin is *the* money for the drugs market, and for nothing else. (again, I'm not implying anything, it is just to get some numbers for an illustration).

The world drugs market is estimated, according to wiki http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illegal_drug_trade to $300 billion in 2003.  So let us estimate that now at $500 billion.  Now, if the velocity of money in that world is comparable to the M2 velocity of money in the US according to the FED, that's between a factor of 2 and 4 grossly (see wiki http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Velocity_of_money).

If the entire drugs economy were bitcoin and nothing else were bitcoin, and we take that the bitcoin velocity is similar to the dollar velocity in the normal economy (highly uncertain) then the estimated market cap of bitcoin would be $500 billion / 4 = $ 125 billion.

We take the velocity of bitcoin here to be 4.  That means that bitcoins are traded on average 4 times a year to buy drugs with.  Some will be held years, others will be spend ten times a year.  Like your savings account and your cash in your wallet.  But on average, it is 4.

That is, if all bitcoins took part in that economy, with the same distribution of "holding times" as M2 dollar money in the US economy.

In other words, in that case, the price of bitcoin would have to rise with something like a factor of 25, to about $ 10 000,-, just to sustain the purely monetary aspect of this business.

In this case, bitcoin is not really used any more as long-term store of value than fiat dollars in the US economy.  It is the merchant usage of bitcoin that drives its price: the demand for bitcoins to be able to do all this trading sets the price.  It is what I considered with the quantity theory of money formula.

As I personally do not think that bitcoin can take a large part in the "store of value" market (without the speculative "to the moon" drive) for the moment (because of lack of trust), but I think it is merchant adoption that will be a fundamental to the bitcoin price, it is the above kind of estimation that gives an idea of what value to speculate for (multiplied with the probability of the scenario happening, and reduced with a risk aversion factor).

But I may be wrong, and it may be the "store of value" market that drives the price.  If you estimate that bitcoin will take on 1% of the gold market, that's good for $60 billion.  If you give that a 10% chance of happening, well, we are not very far from the current market cap.

[xa4]

Hey, thanks for sharing your work.

I suspect that in the very long term (reaching year 2075 i.e.) the linear price axis graph would look like an "S" curve (logistic growth). Pending task...

I'm not sure the linear price axis graph should look like an S curve. I believe this could be true for adoption or #users, network hashing power + others, their growth is bound by max resources, Bitcoin price however isn't bound by any resources in my opinion. That's why I prefer your model to Stephen Reed's logistic model, you don't have an arbitrarily $1000000 price limit.

EDIT : even #users isn't bound to max resources if you count bots, agents, DACs, machines, ... in the future.

[Joe200]

Plotting a best fitting line through a time series makes no statistical sense. It doesn't matter that you have a high R2 or that everyone else is doing it.

See here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=600802.0

Another problem that I also discuss is that model parameters change over time. How far back should we go to estimate the current parameters going forward?

This is actually an issue now. Because if we use the past half year or a year of data to estimate model parameters -- then the trend is DOWN.

[lesni4ok]

Bitcoin logarithmic regression with inverted and scale dollar index on it.

http://www.everego.com/btc-dxy.jpg

[cbeast]

Bitcoin logarithmic regression with inverted and scale dollar index on it.

I like how the channel goes from $15 to $60k. 

[asdlolciterquit]

In this OP I will always post the last updated charts:

Calculate today's trendline price HERE

R^2 = 0,988 is not bad.

Oh, how i hope that this analysis is right, but BTC is, imho, one kind of market that can be used in this case

anywais in 4 months will see if the first prediction will be right!

[Trolololo]

As I posted time ago, R^2 is not 0'98... but quite smaller (possibly around 0'91...).
I will recalculate it in the next update.

[franckuestein]

Bitcoin logarithmic regression with inverted and scale dollar index on it.

Nice! Thanks for the update, @lesni4ok.
Could be interesting to build that charts on an online-system that updates automatically and let everyone check in real-time   Don't you think so?

I don't know if there's something similar  

[Trolololo]

Bitcoin logarithmic regression with inverted and scale dollar index on it.

Nice! Thanks for the update, @lesni4ok.
Could be interesting to build that charts on an online-system that updates automatically and let everyone check in real-time   Don't you think so?

I don't know if there's something similar  

Yes, it would be nice.

You can check today's value HERE

[79b79aa8d5047da6d3XX]

Plotting a best fitting line through a time series makes no statistical sense. [...] Another problem that I also discuss is that model parameters change over time.

Paging a statistics expert prepared to defend the use of the ordinary least squares method.

[mmortal03]

Plotting a best fitting line through a time series makes no statistical sense. [...] Another problem that I also discuss is that model parameters change over time.

Paging a statistics expert prepared to defend the use of the ordinary least squares method.

lol, did this debate fizzle before it even got started?

[btcjoin14]

If the guys making the charts could actually predict the market movements, they'd be rich

[smooth]

A little patience is really all that is required here. This model is calling for 1000 USD/BTC in three months or so. Sooner or later the price will either converge with the model or will diverge so much that the model becomes absurd. So far neither has happened.

There is a certain structural validity to it, if you accept Metcalf's Law as a valuation metric and observe that users have been growing roughly linearly (reported by coinbase and others).

[dasource]

A little patience is really all that is required here. This model is calling for 1000 USD/BTC in three months or so. Sooner or later the price will either converge with the model or will diverge so much that the model becomes absurd. So far neither has happened.

There is a certain structural validity to it, if you accept Metcalf's Law as a valuation metric and observe that users have been growing roughly linearly (reported by coinbase and others).

Agreed, certainly seems we where ahead of the curve during the last ATH.
Would be nice for some updated charts covering into 2015 ....

[mmortal03]

A little patience is really all that is required here. This model is calling for 1000 USD/BTC in three months or so. Sooner or later the price will either converge with the model or will diverge so much that the model becomes absurd. So far neither has happened.

There is a certain structural validity to it, if you accept Metcalf's Law as a valuation metric and observe that users have been growing roughly linearly (reported by coinbase and others).

Agreed, certainly seems we where ahead of the curve during the last ATH.
Would be nice for some updated charts covering into 2015 ....

Same here. I'd love to see the actual chart updated. Will donate.

[Melbustus]

A little patience is really all that is required here. This model is calling for 1000 USD/BTC in three months or so. Sooner or later the price will either converge with the model or will diverge so much that the model becomes absurd. So far neither has happened.

There is a certain structural validity to it, if you accept Metcalf's Law as a valuation metric and observe that users have been growing roughly linearly (reported by coinbase and others).

Arg, where's that article on Metcalfe's Law being wrong... I feel (vague, I know, I know) like it's more n log(n) than n^2.

Eh, maybe n^2 is the better model during early growth, though.

[smooth]

A little patience is really all that is required here. This model is calling for 1000 USD/BTC in three months or so. Sooner or later the price will either converge with the model or will diverge so much that the model becomes absurd. So far neither has happened.

There is a certain structural validity to it, if you accept Metcalf's Law as a valuation metric and observe that users have been growing roughly linearly (reported by coinbase and others).

Arg, where's that article on Metcalfe's Law being wrong... I feel (vague, I know, I know) like it's more n log(n) than n^2.

Eh, maybe n^2 is the better model during early growth, though.

I'm not a big fan of Metcalfe's law as a valuation metric anyway, but I was just pointing out that this graph supports it.

I should clarify that by "a little patience is really all that is required here" I meant to see if the model works. I wasn't suggesting that I think patience is all that is needed to see high prices. I'm pretty uncertain about that.

Also, we might note that n log(n) doesn't diverge that much from n^2 if n is "small"

[mmortal03]

Trolololo, I just tipped you a small amount in advance.

[franckuestein]

@Trolololo you can post something like a "chart update" every 2 weeks or so to check how's the chart going and compare time-periods to know if it's following the logarithmic regression  

This days price was falling down but it's recovering step by step, so IMAO could be nice if we can see it updated on your chart  
Thanks!

[thetimeisnow001]

Can you please post an update to this?

[colinistheman]

Can you please post an update to this?

bump request.

I like your graphs. Would like an update please!

[lyth0s]

There has been so much divergence that to update it now would just look ridiculous. He will update it when the price rises to be more in line with his predications.

[Trolololo]

Hello everybody again.

First of all, sorry for the delay in updating the chart.

Anyhow, this is a long term chart that won't change much in a few months. Here is the update:


Donations: bitcoin:1GDBgp1qEBFH2dpxafjJmES4JHWFVpbqrR

Some thoughts:

I have used the Excel's "Solve" command to find the best possible fit.
After getting the "Solve" results, the first calculated prices (necessary to fix the value at the Genesis as close to zero as possible) have been removed to calculate a fair "R2". No more 0'98... values, but 0'91... values instead. As promised.

The "Solve" excel command makes much more iterations than I could do myself, and the result is a bit steeper regression than the older "by hand" regression.

I have put the log regression curve and the spread on the same image. At 152'40 USD/BTC, we hit the most undervalued price ever: -81%.

Faded, on the background the "old" curves (few iterations).

IMHO, the (around) 2017 regression values are much better than the linear regression values. In fact, they are an order of magnitude lower!.
On the other hand, the 2024 years values (1M$) make me dream of yatchs and girls  , but a better non-always-growing-curve might suggest values of "only" 100k...  

Projected (dd-mm-yyyy):
     1.000  17-01-2015
    10.000  10-04-2017
   100.000  30-04-2020
1.000.000  08-07-2024

Thank you all for your donations.

[mmortal03]

It's interesting how an updated regression, in a situation where the price has been going down, and with a reportedly "fairer" R2 fit, that it would end up projecting *higher* prices than the original. That said, I do appreciate your contributions.

[Trolololo]

Great work Trolololo.

Can't see it mentioned yet, maybe it is elsewhere, but do you have a version which utilizes the "market capitalization" (monetary base), instead of the price? For the first decade this may produce a somewhat different curve.

Well, the market cap and price charts shapes are almost identical, and the regressions are quite similar:

[Trolololo]

It's interesting how an updated regression, in a situation where the price has been going down, and with a reportedly "fairer" R2 fit, that it would end up projecting *higher* prices than the original. That said, I do appreciate your contributions.

That's because it's an iterating process.

Well, in October I "hand" made about 10 iterations.
Now, Excel "Solve" command can make hundreds...

Executing "Solve":
- with data until October 2014, the "R2" is 0'9099.
- with data until March 2015, the "R2" is 0'9097.

The curve has flattened a little:

[Trolololo]

There has been so much divergence that to update it now would just look ridiculous.

No. See the new charts posted.

If I had uptated on Jan 14th (faded red) vs today (red), the difference faded is almost behind the red:



Only prices of different order of magnitude, and for some months, would significantly change the curve shape and parameters.

He will update it when the price rises to be more in line with his predications.

No.
Updating is a process that requires many hours of work.

With almost 1700 days of data prices, the values of the regression don't change much month to month.
I will update 2 o 3 times a year.

If anyone knows how to execute a "Solve" like command in a Google Datasheet, I'm all ears...

[okthen]

According to your chart we should have reached 1000 by now!

But really, if you're right, we've got a long way to recover...

[macsga]

If anyone knows how to execute a "Solve" like command in a Google Datasheet, I'm all ears...

Meaning you're doing this stuff on Mathematica (or Wolfram Alpha)? Could it not be done by using an external script? I'm still an Excel guy, but using macros is something I do often. I'm not familiar with Google Datasheets though. I'm not sure if they allow for scripts to run...

[Trolololo]

According to your chart we should have reached 1000 by now!

But really, if you're right, we've got a long way to recover...

According to the log regression's trend, 1182 is today's estimated value.

You can see it here.

So the price is 76% undervalued.

[solex]

According to your chart we should have reached 1000 by now!

But really, if you're right, we've got a long way to recover...

According to the log regression's trend, 1182 is today's estimated value.

You can see it here.

So the price is 76% undervalued.

i am thinking that the 1MB limit is increasingly becoming a dead-weight on the value. This roadblock to scalability is highly publicized now, and it is reasonable that large amounts of money is on the sidelines waiting to see whether Bitcoin can properly scale. The sooner v4 blocks are happening the better the environment will be for the value to return to trend.

[macsga]

According to your chart we should have reached 1000 by now!

But really, if you're right, we've got a long way to recover...

According to the log regression's trend, 1182 is today's estimated value.

You can see it here.

So the price is 76% undervalued.

i am thinking that the 1MB limit is increasingly becoming a dead-weight on the value. This roadblock to scalability is highly publicized now, and it is reasonable that large amounts of money is on the sidelines waiting to see whether Bitcoin can properly scale. The sooner v4 blocks are happening the better the environment will be for the value to return to trend.

Are the debates on this done? There were half people that said yes and the other half said no. Is it decided for sure then?

[uki]

I have a question to the OP: what are the underlying assumptions that make this log regression's trend held over the entire period depicted?
It is hard to believe, taking out some severe doom-like event to the US dollar, to see the price of Bitcoin reaching $100k by 2020. Not even to talk about the valuations beyond the 2020. Isn't it that you try to estimate the trend for much longer time period (next 10, 20, 50 years), having the data from a relatively short period of time (2010 till now) and thus committing a huge prediction error, due to the insufficient amount of data?

[solex]

According to your chart we should have reached 1000 by now!

But really, if you're right, we've got a long way to recover...

According to the log regression's trend, 1182 is today's estimated value.

You can see it here.

So the price is 76% undervalued.

i am thinking that the 1MB limit is increasingly becoming a dead-weight on the value. This roadblock to scalability is highly publicized now, and it is reasonable that large amounts of money is on the sidelines waiting to see whether Bitcoin can properly scale. The sooner v4 blocks are happening the better the environment will be for the value to return to trend.

Are the debates on this done? There were half people that said yes and the other half said no. Is it decided for sure then?

Core dev need to come to agreement on the details, so nothing is "decided", although Gavin has made a proposal which has reasonable support:

60% for, 20% against, 20% whatever

So, only 20% are firmly against changing the limit, which is the same percentage as the polls 2 years ago.

[Trolololo]

I have a question to the OP: what are the underlying assumptions that make this log regression's trend held over the entire period depicted?
It is hard to believe, taking out some severe doom-like event to the US dollar, to see the price of Bitcoin reaching $100k by 2020. Not even to talk about the valuations beyond the 2020. Isn't it that you try to estimate the trend for much longer time period (next 10, 20, 50 years), having the data from a relatively short period of time (2010 till now) and thus committing a huge prediction error, due to the insufficient amount of data?

As said before, this log regression just tries to have a better estimation of bitcoin's value than the linear one. Specially for a 2 or 3 years horizon.

For a longer term value, it's worth to take a look at James d'Angelo's "Bitcoin Price Model".

[Kipsy89]

This is an interesting way to approach the 'real' price of Bitcoin... I've seen many people do similar things. I guess one of the most prominent being rpietila, you know the guy with the castle and the pink car. Haha, man... he's awesome!

[HarmonLi]

I think this is a good approach, although I believe that we may see a behaviour that diverges from the regression line when we hit $10k or $100k...

[uki]

I have a question to the OP: what are the underlying assumptions that make this log regression's trend held over the entire period depicted?
It is hard to believe, taking out some severe doom-like event to the US dollar, to see the price of Bitcoin reaching $100k by 2020. Not even to talk about the valuations beyond the 2020. Isn't it that you try to estimate the trend for much longer time period (next 10, 20, 50 years), having the data from a relatively short period of time (2010 till now) and thus committing a huge prediction error, due to the insufficient amount of data?

As said before, this log regression just tries to have a better estimation of bitcoin's value than the linear one. Specially for a 2 or 3 years horizon.

For a longer term value, it's worth to take a look at James d'Angelo's "Bitcoin Price Model".

I know that this is your time window, but still my question that remains unanswered is: do you have enough data so far, to make such regression reliable?
So far you had like 2081% above the line and 81% to the downside, which indicates that the fit to the curve is far from acceptable in terms of prediction error. Meaning probably you don't have enough 'training data' to make any reliable predictions for the future.
Just to illustrate what I am talking about, try a small exercise: take only first two years of data and make the regression based on that. Compare that to the real results in terms of errors. You will probably see even worse results in terms of how far it is from reality.

[mmortal03]

I have a question to the OP: what are the underlying assumptions that make this log regression's trend held over the entire period depicted?
It is hard to believe, taking out some severe doom-like event to the US dollar, to see the price of Bitcoin reaching $100k by 2020. Not even to talk about the valuations beyond the 2020. Isn't it that you try to estimate the trend for much longer time period (next 10, 20, 50 years), having the data from a relatively short period of time (2010 till now) and thus committing a huge prediction error, due to the insufficient amount of data?

As said before, this log regression just tries to have a better estimation of bitcoin's value than the linear one. Specially for a 2 or 3 years horizon.

For a longer term value, it's worth to take a look at James d'Angelo's "Bitcoin Price Model".

I know that this is your time window, but still my question that remains unanswered is: do you have enough data so far, to make such regression reliable?
So far you had like 2081% above the line and 81% to the downside, which indicates that the fit to the curve is far from acceptable in terms of prediction error. Meaning probably you don't have enough 'training data' to make any reliable predictions for the future.
Just to illustrate what I am talking about, try a small exercise: take only first two years of data and make the regression based on that. Compare that to the real results in terms of errors. You will probably see even worse results in terms of how far it is from reality.

Unless you're willing to propose some sort of non-standard regression function that makes sense as applied to the Bitcoin market, complaints about 2081% and -81% are unfounded here. The fact that the Bitcoin market has volatility with respect to the regression trend does not mean that this chart offers nothing worthwhile in terms of representing reality. To get an equation to follow the price more closely, you'd have to throw in something more exotic, like an oscillation component or something, and doing so just to get a better fit is often not the best tactic.

[thejaytiesto]

This is an interesting way to approach the 'real' price of Bitcoin... I've seen many people do similar things. I guess one of the most prominent being rpietila, you know the guy with the castle and the pink car. Haha, man... he's awesome!

He predicted 1 Million per coin back then. I wonder where does he stand nowadays and if he still believes that will happen and when.

[cbeast]

This is an interesting way to approach the 'real' price of Bitcoin... I've seen many people do similar things. I guess one of the most prominent being rpietila, you know the guy with the castle and the pink car. Haha, man... he's awesome!

He predicted 1 Million per coin back then. I wonder where does he stand nowadays and if he still believes that will happen and when.

He claims he dumped a lot of his bitcoins for monero. He may have been pumping and dumping.

[uki]

I know that this is your time window, but still my question that remains unanswered is: do you have enough data so far, to make such regression reliable?
So far you had like 2081% above the line and 81% to the downside, which indicates that the fit to the curve is far from acceptable in terms of prediction error. Meaning probably you don't have enough 'training data' to make any reliable predictions for the future.
Just to illustrate what I am talking about, try a small exercise: take only first two years of data and make the regression based on that. Compare that to the real results in terms of errors. You will probably see even worse results in terms of how far it is from reality.

Unless you're willing to propose some sort of non-standard regression function that makes sense as applied to the Bitcoin market, complaints about 2081% and -81% are unfounded here. The fact that the Bitcoin market has volatility with respect to the regression trend does not mean that this chart offers nothing worthwhile in terms of representing reality. To get an equation to follow the price more closely, you'd have to throw in something more exotic, like an oscillation component or something, and doing so just to get a better fit is often not the best tactic.

I understand that the idea is to have something very simple and non-complex to approximate the price of Bitcoin, but still I feel uneasy (even very uneasy) when I see the prediction error and the number of data samples on which the trend is based. And I believe that is perfectly founded complain, to which I haven't got any response yet, rather than that one regression is better than the other (linear one). What if both are not closely enough approximating the trend?
Now, you also say that it makes a perfect sense to use such a regression. Can you explain in more detail, what backs that statement?

[pereira4]

I have a question to the OP: what are the underlying assumptions that make this log regression's trend held over the entire period depicted?
It is hard to believe, taking out some severe doom-like event to the US dollar, to see the price of Bitcoin reaching $100k by 2020. Not even to talk about the valuations beyond the 2020. Isn't it that you try to estimate the trend for much longer time period (next 10, 20, 50 years), having the data from a relatively short period of time (2010 till now) and thus committing a huge prediction error, due to the insufficient amount of data?

Who would have thought in 2009 that bitcoin could reach 1 per coin? we have the same mentality towards 10 or even 100K. Everything impossible in the unknown future.

[mmortal03]

Unless you're willing to propose some sort of non-standard regression function that makes sense as applied to the Bitcoin market, complaints about 2081% and -81% are unfounded here. The fact that the Bitcoin market has volatility with respect to the regression trend does not mean that this chart offers nothing worthwhile in terms of representing reality. To get an equation to follow the price more closely, you'd have to throw in something more exotic, like an oscillation component or something, and doing so just to get a better fit is often not the best tactic.

I understand that the idea is to have something very simple and non-complex to approximate the price of Bitcoin, but still I feel uneasy (even very uneasy) when I see the prediction error and the number of data samples on which the trend is based. And I believe that is perfectly founded complain, to which I haven't got any response yet, rather than that one regression is better than the other (linear one). What if both are not closely enough approximating the trend?
Now, you also say that it makes a perfect sense to use such a regression. Can you explain in more detail, what backs that statement?

I don't think more samples would make it more accurate for forecasting. This isn't something where we are lacking data points. What we've got is the best that we can have. You could use intra-day data for more samples, for example, but that wouldn't help anything; the daily weighted price is fundamentally representative of that.

Assumptions have to be made. Trolololo has made some. It's likely that the information necessary to best predict the price may not solely be contained in the past price data. Keep in mind, price growth can't just continue forever. But determining what outside parameters may predict where the model will diverge from a particular pattern is a hard question.

Read through the following for some formal assumptions and interpretation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear_regression#Assumptions

Also, the following:

If the guys making the charts could actually predict the market movements, they'd be rich

Edit:

The following is also helpful: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overfitting

[uki]

Unless you're willing to propose some sort of non-standard regression function that makes sense as applied to the Bitcoin market, complaints about 2081% and -81% are unfounded here. The fact that the Bitcoin market has volatility with respect to the regression trend does not mean that this chart offers nothing worthwhile in terms of representing reality. To get an equation to follow the price more closely, you'd have to throw in something more exotic, like an oscillation component or something, and doing so just to get a better fit is often not the best tactic.

I understand that the idea is to have something very simple and non-complex to approximate the price of Bitcoin, but still I feel uneasy (even very uneasy) when I see the prediction error and the number of data samples on which the trend is based. And I believe that is perfectly founded complain, to which I haven't got any response yet, rather than that one regression is better than the other (linear one). What if both are not closely enough approximating the trend?
Now, you also say that it makes a perfect sense to use such a regression. Can you explain in more detail, what backs that statement?

I don't think more samples would make it more accurate for forecasting. This isn't something where we are lacking data points. What we've got is the best that we can have. You could use intra-day data for more samples, for example, but that wouldn't help anything; the daily weighted price is fundamentally representative of that.

Assumptions have to be made. Trolololo has made some. It's likely that the information necessary to best predict the price may not solely be contained in the past price data. Keep in mind, price growth can't just continue forever. But determining what outside parameters may predict where the model will diverge from a particular pattern is a hard question.

Read through the following for some formal assumptions and interpretation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear_regression#Assumptions

Also, the following:

If the guys making the charts could actually predict the market movements, they'd be rich

Edit:

The following is also helpful: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overfitting

As I wrote in one of my previous posts, I am not expecting a perfect fit here, but the assumption on the continuously growing trend that is made by Trolololo is somehow doubtful. And that is why I made my comment of having not enough data (too short observation window). To illustrate what I mean by having not enough data, just a little thought experiment: how would look the regression curve in comparison to the present one in, say year 2020, if hypothetically we would stay in the down trend till then? Or another, more practical life experiment: you throw a stone upwards and plot its height as it goes up (say you sample every 1 millisecond). If you take the regression on the very first few seconds before the stone starts falling, you would probably see a very different curve, than what you would plot if you have a longer time window.

[mmortal03]

If you take the regression on the very first few seconds before the stone starts falling, you would probably see a very different curve, than what you would plot if you have a longer time window.

Of course. Didn't I post a link to overfitting? The following is also the common reply: http://xkcd.com/605/

Anyway, this isn't a lack of data issue. It's more of an issue of having a theory. Trololo has a theory of what will happen, and this is that it will keep increasing along this curve, on average, to at least 2024. What is your theory? What is the evidence that you have that might result in a different curve than what Trololo is theorizing? It's one thing to criticize, it's another to put your money on your own curve. If you were to draw one, what would it look like, and what factors would this be based n?

[usairx]

I personally think Bitcoin is undervalued in the long term, but I'm very curious and interested to see what happen in 2015

[HarmonLi]

Recently I really fell in love with the charts suggesting that both 2013 bubbles were artificially created (or at least inflated, rather) by Mt. Gox. If you take those bubbles out of the equation you get a nice long-term support we're bouncing off right now. Nice.

[mmortal03]

This is an interesting way to approach the 'real' price of Bitcoin... I've seen many people do similar things. I guess one of the most prominent being rpietila, you know the guy with the castle and the pink car. Haha, man... he's awesome!

He predicted 1 Million per coin back then. I wonder where does he stand nowadays and if he still believes that will happen and when.

He claims he dumped a lot of his bitcoins for monero. He may have been pumping and dumping.

He did, but he's only pumping Monero, not dumping it.

[Trolololo]

Since some days ago we are in record undervaluation: -81%

[Natalia_AnatolioPAMM]

I personally think Bitcoin is undervalued in the long term, but I'm very curious and interested to see what happen in 2015

its going to crash down to 50. i strongly believe that

[ensurance982]

This is an interesting way to approach the 'real' price of Bitcoin... I've seen many people do similar things. I guess one of the most prominent being rpietila, you know the guy with the castle and the pink car. Haha, man... he's awesome!

He predicted 1 Million per coin back then. I wonder where does he stand nowadays and if he still believes that will happen and when.

He claims he dumped a lot of his bitcoins for monero. He may have been pumping and dumping.

He did, but he's only pumping Monero, not dumping it.

Yeah that was really puzzling me, seeing someone like him really falling for an altcoin. If any crypto succeeds it will most likely be Bitcoin, there's no reason to invest in anything else - it really is just exposing you to more risk.

[ensurance982]

I think altcoins breaks that theory cuz they reduce people interests to bitcoin.

Well they actually only water down the amount of money that goes into BTC. But since they only account for about 5% of the whole market cap they don't really matter at all actually. There is still no coin on the horizon that may be a real threat to BTC, maybe one day we will see one but I think the chances aren't exactly high.

[mmortal03]

This is an interesting way to approach the 'real' price of Bitcoin... I've seen many people do similar things. I guess one of the most prominent being rpietila, you know the guy with the castle and the pink car. Haha, man... he's awesome!

He predicted 1 Million per coin back then. I wonder where does he stand nowadays and if he still believes that will happen and when.

He claims he dumped a lot of his bitcoins for monero. He may have been pumping and dumping.

He did, but he's only pumping Monero, not dumping it.

Yeah that was really puzzling me, seeing someone like him really falling for an altcoin. If any crypto succeeds it will most likely be Bitcoin, there's no reason to invest in anything else - it really is just exposing you to more risk.

An altcoin like Monero can succeed alongside Bitcoin in the privacy niche.

[Trolololo]

Please, Sirs, let's keep this thread clean.

There are other threads to talk about Risto or/and Monero or/and any altcoin vs bitcoin.

Thank you.

[lyth0s]

Trolololo thanks for the charts. Are you interested in releasing the spread sheet so that we can easily update the spread per your formula?

[rebel24]

Trolololo thanks for the charts. Are you interested in releasing the spread sheet so that we can easily update the spread per your formula?

This is a good idea, besides that, can we have an update? Thank you for your relentless good work

[Tzupy]

Since some days ago we are in record undervaluation: -81%

When a model results in such a large difference with respect to reality, it's time to abandon the model.
Some may prefer to abandon reality though...

[Trolololo]

Trolololo thanks for the charts. Are you interested in releasing the spread sheet so that we can easily update the spread per your formula?

I'm working on a public Google spreadsheet that:
- auto-updates daily prices, and
- auto-executes the "solver" command to find the best parameters.

But it will take some time...

[Trolololo]

Hello everybody.

Here is the update (two and a half months since the last one):


Donations: bitcoin:1GVyRMXFaSEbXUCMwZKk3CfXgo8wCmympC

Today's price of 235 USD/BTC is 81% undervalued from the estimated value of 1234 USD/BTC

You can calculate today's trendline value HERE.

Projected (dd-mm-yyyy):
     1.000  22-03-2015  (former update projected 17-01-2015)
    10.000  25-07-2017  (former update projected 10-04-2017)
   100.000  17-10-2020  (former update projected 30-04-2020)
1.000.000  30-03-2025  (former update projected 08-07-2024)

Thank you all for your donations.

[mmortal03]

Thanks for the update!

[Trolololo]

Here is a chart showing the evolution of the logarithmic regression curve:


Donations: bitcoin:1vrqMEKzTWWGcuRiTG3WGSnpztTvs1KLh

[lordoliver]

Hi Trolololo,

I love your graphs and I think they are a good estimation. Thank you.
I just think, that there are some wrong assumptions.

1. The price is depending on the dollar. That means, that the fed printing money or stopping can change that. In the worst case they can for example move a lot of money of the market and let everything dive into worst deflation. That could change the graph completely and turn it maybe upside down. I suggest to use GOLD as comparision currency. Can you use the graph estimation depending on ounces or grams of gold? I guess it could be a little more stable as well.



2. I don't think that the function is accurate for long term. With the dollar it may look like the right one an may also look like that later if the fed is continuing to ease. If you switch to gold you need definitely a function with a supremum. If the adaption is complete bitcoin shouldn't change much any more to gold...

regards
Oliver

[jones techbit]

I think I saw a infographic somewhere stating for BTC to be 1% of the world economy, it would have to be priced around $10,000 for 1 bitcoin.

[photon_coin]

lots of detail in this analysis

[Trolololo]

Hi, Lord Oliver

1.- The resulting parameters would be almost identical. Dollar and gold relationship is very stable compared to bitcoin...

2.- The logarithmic function is quite nice for a medium term horizon (1 or 2 years from now) and it's much better than the linear one.
But it's not as accurate in the long term. As I have stated in former posts, I would prefer an asymptotic function for the long term.

Regards.

[lordoliver]

Hi, Lord Oliver

1.- The resulting parameters would be almost identical. Dollar and gold relationship is very stable compared to bitcoin...

2.- The logarithmic function is quite nice for a medium term horizon (1 or 2 years from now) and it's much better than the linear one.
But it's not as accurate in the long term. As I have stated in former posts, I would prefer an asymptotic function for the long term.

Regards.

Yes I know, that its kind of stable compared to bitcoin, but still it defuses a little the spike in 2011 for example. That may make your graphs of the early years a little less diverge.
The only problem with gold is, that its price is manipulated. It would normally (and does sometimes, if manipulation failes) follow the bitcoin spikes a little as the bitcoin price is also (of course minor but still) driven by bad economy.

[mmortal03]

Cool chart, but the bitcoin price just overwhelms it. The trend lines look practically identical to what I've drawn on my own long term chart, priced in USD.

[americanpegasus]

Please, Sirs, let's keep this thread clean.

There are other threads to talk about Risto or/and Monero or/and any altcoin vs bitcoin.

Thank you.

 
  
Trolololo, I don't know if you know me or not, but I'm a big fan.  How much of a donation would it require to get you to create a chart like this for Monero? (even though I know we only have a year of history to go off of)

[Wexlike]

Do you really want to see a chart that mostly points down ?

[smoothie]

Requesting updated chart since last one did in May 2015.

[smoothie]

Requesting updated chart since last one did in May 2015.

two weeks went by and no response?

Is this thread still alive?

[mmortal03]

Requesting updated chart since last one did in May 2015.

two weeks went by and no response?

Is this thread still alive?

Maybe just PM Trolololo and ask him directly. He seems to still be active here.

[mskryxz]

bump interested in an update as well

thanks for your work it is much appreciated

[manfred]

Forecasting is totally useless. Based on currently available date you get this result by 2020
 
The past will not tell you the future

[Pente]

Forecasting is totally useless. Based on currently available date you get this result by 2020
 
The past will not tell you the future

I wouldn't say that chart is worthless. The power regression formula makes the most sense to me and I expect (90% confidence) BTC to break $1000 again before 2020.

[macsga]

^^
Those predictions have only got a meaning when you actually have witnessed the periodic phenomenon. Log fit curves tend to produce enormous error factors when you attempt to go for a long term prediction. I too believe though we're en route for greater and bolder prices.

[manfred]

To have different starting dates on one forecast chart does not work. So  here is a fix. Not that is really meaningful. The other issue is the missing early data for bitcoin, it is needed so i started a one cent.


and

[manfred]

Please, Sirs, let's keep this thread clean.

There are other threads to talk about Risto or/and Monero or/and any altcoin vs bitcoin.

Thank you.

 
  
Trolololo, I don't know if you know me or not, but I'm a big fan.  How much of a donation would it require to get you to create a chart like this for Monero? (even though I know we only have a year of history to go off of)

As i sad before the past does not tell the future.

[franckuestein]

Thanks for the updates @manfred, it's always interesting to see new graphics. Glad to see this thread updated again
ping @Trolololo

[Dufkin]

Please, Sirs, let's keep this thread clean.

There are other threads to talk about Risto or/and Monero or/and any altcoin vs bitcoin.

Thank you.

 
  
Trolololo, I don't know if you know me or not, but I'm a big fan.  How much of a donation would it require to get you to create a chart like this for Monero? (even though I know we only have a year of history to go off of)

http://i.imgur.com/5RJcLZ3.png
As i sad before the past does not tell the future.

Interesting graphic, thank you manfred. However, as you already said it is not very reliable due to the fact, that this graphic shows only a very short period of time compared to the graphics that show the regression models of btc and ltc. From my point of view a model which compares the early stages of btc, ltc and xmr would be more informative, although one always have to keep in mind, that btc was the first cryptocurrency which had probably more influence and fans in the beginning and nowadays there are a lot of altcoins available on the market. Furthermore, the price level of btc on the market has influence on the price level of all other coins since they are mutually dependent (kind of, if you ignore trades from real money to cryptocurrencies). Creating a regression model that consideres all these problems is kind of impossible I think.

[mmortal03]

To have different starting dates on one forecast chart does not work. So  here is a fix. Not that is really meaningful. The other issue is the missing early data for bitcoin, it is needed so i started a one cent.

Who's to say that starting the bitcoin price at one cent is meaningful?

[zimmah]

To have different starting dates on one forecast chart does not work. So  here is a fix. Not that is really meaningful. The other issue is the missing early data for bitcoin, it is needed so i started a one cent.

Who's to say that starting the bitcoin price at one cent is meaningful?

although I think the idea is good, the numbers seem off by a lot.

I don't think bitcoin will stay at or below $1000 for that long.

based on this chart, it would seem bitcoin would stay around $1000 far into 2020, which is completely ridiculous.

[mmortal03]

To have different starting dates on one forecast chart does not work. So  here is a fix. Not that is really meaningful. The other issue is the missing early data for bitcoin, it is needed so i started a one cent.

Who's to say that starting the bitcoin price at one cent is meaningful?

although I think the idea is good, the numbers seem off by a lot.

I don't think bitcoin will stay at or below $1000 for that long.

based on this chart, it would seem bitcoin would stay around $1000 far into 2020, which is completely ridiculous.

Yeah, we're above both of those trend lines right now. Maybe the exponential line is closer to the truth.

[americanpegasus]

Well the answer is obviously not quite exponential, but a (n * log(n)) trendline, or a Modified Metcalfe Line.  

Also, how can I generate those gorgeous Monero price charts like you did?  The price per USD has moved up and I think it would be interesting to show.

[Trolololo]

14 April 2016 update:

R²= 0.900263
a = 2.84737734739566
b = -19.2400124152881

The price today (424 USD/BTC) is 74% undervalued from its Log regression expected value (1607 USD/BCT, calculated HERE)

I will upload chart asap.

[Swisk]

I got so excited when I saw regression - I was thinking the whole statistical deal: Adjusted R^2, parameter selection, maybe even a bit of time series modelling. 

I mean, best fit curves are useful, but I wouldn't call it regression per se. I'm not a professional though.

[mmortal03]

I will upload chart asap.

Welcome back!

[Trolololo]

Donations: bitcoin:1Em6yNYWG9FXSLWQki4aDDis1ETQ3WwKpB

[mskryxz]

Nice update!

[mmortal03]

Donated. Thanks!

[lordoliver]

I have to ask again. Why do you think this kind of graph is fitting? Does it have any similarities to other commodities/currencies/assets?

For example gold long term, dow jones long term, any stock, nothing is fitting in there...

[mskryxz]

Any updates

[franckuestein]

Hello all, I'd like to share my previous chart on tradingview
https://www.tradingview.com/chart/BTCUSD/VKWhgBho-Cup-and-handle-pattern-for-Bitcoin/

Thanks for the chart, but... what's their relation with the topic of this thread?
If you take a look to the previous messages you'll notice that people is discussing about the @Trolololo bitcoin logarithmic graphics. 

You can share your TA in other threads like:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=178336.0
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=274613.0

[Marc De Mesel]

Could u update Trolololo? 

[Trolololo]

Could u update Trolololo?  

Chart update!!



Today's theoretical value (check HERE) is around 2100 USD, so the price is half undervalued.

Please, consider donating to bitcoin:1Fe6B3Zo4HxaCD8ybi9A8zBRH2wKpciUxe

[RAJSALLIN]

Thanks for the update!

[mmortal03]

Chart update!!

Typo on the chart, should say January 3rd *2017*.

[Marc De Mesel]

Chart update!!

Thanks so much man!

[americanpegasus]

Hey I wonder what it would take to get an updated Monero chart now that Monero has gone semi-exponential?   
 
You can't say you weren't warned wellllllll ahead of time. 

[lordoliver]

@Trolololo
I have another suggestion. Can you try to do this for the market cap instead? This should be a little more precise as its flattening out the early parts a little

[shon6000]

In this OP I will always post the last updated chart:

Update 2017-01-03:
https://s27.postimg.org/illwa70gz/logarithmic_03_01_2017.jpg
Donations: bitcoin:1Fe6B3Zo4HxaCD8ybi9A8zBRH2wKpciUxe

Calculate today's trendline value HERE

Hi,
Great job !!!!!
Do you have by chance a similar chart for DASH ?

[koizumi]

Any update to the Chart?
Thanks!

[overboost]

Could u update Trolololo?  

Chart update!!

https://s27.postimg.org/illwa70gz/logarithmic_03_01_2017.jpg

Today's theoretical value (check HERE) is around 2100 USD, so the price is half undervalued.

Please, consider donating to bitcoin:1Fe6B3Zo4HxaCD8ybi9A8zBRH2wKpciUxe

@Trolololo, there is no image available.
Can you please update?
Thank you.

Edit: Please disregard, it's working. Thanks again.

[Marc De Mesel]

@Trolololo
I have another suggestion. Can you try to do this for the market cap instead? This should be a little more precise as its flattening out the early parts a little

Actually, Trolololo, could you make one for the total marketcap of all coins?

Let me know for how much you can do this? I'm very happy to pay for this to get this done as soon as possible.


The one thing I think these calculations overlook is that other cryptos can take over the market from bitcoin and so past growth trend may not be extrapolated into the future. This has also just happened I think due to the black swan event of bitcoin not being able to process anymore transactions for half a year now. However for the whole cryptocurrency market this is still valid, but if u were to make such a chart I think you would see that current marketcap of all cryptos is already considerably above it's expected average and is due for a correction, and therefore Bitcoin as well, eventhough it is not yet way above it's expected price.

[tommyworldpower]

@Trolololo
I have another suggestion. Can you try to do this for the market cap instead? This should be a little more precise as its flattening out the early parts a little

Actually, Trolololo, could you make one for the total marketcap of all coins?

Let me know for how much you can do this? I'm very happy to pay for this to get this done as soon as possible.


The one thing I think these calculations overlook is that other cryptos can take over the market from bitcoin and so past growth trend may not be extrapolated into the future. This has also just happened I think due to the black swan event of bitcoin not being able to process anymore transactions for half a year now. However for the whole cryptocurrency market this is still valid, but if u were to make such a chart I think you would see that current marketcap of all cryptos is already considerably above it's expected average and is due for a correction, and therefore Bitcoin as well, eventhough it is not yet way above it's expected price.

I agree with Marc, please make one of the total market cap, thank you!

[quadruples]

Could u update Trolololo? 

Chart update!!

https://s27.postimg.org/illwa70gz/logarithmic_03_01_2017.jpg

Today's theoretical value (check HERE) is around 2100 USD, so the price is half undervalued.

Please, consider donating to bitcoin:1Fe6B3Zo4HxaCD8ybi9A8zBRH2wKpciUxe

Trolololo, only recently discovered this amazing work - THANK YOU (and others).

I did a bit of my own work in Excel and came up with this chart, which I think is fairly close (based on 1st of the month values in CoinMarketCap).

https://s2.postimg.org/ddzobwvpl/btc-chart-6mnth.jpg

I then made a monthly chart for BTC for the last 2.5 years and like the correlation.

https://s2.postimg.org/x7bs4m93d/btc-chart-1mnth.jpg

But I have to confess I don't completely understand the values for 10 ^ 2.66167155005961 as well as the -17.9183761889864? Could you potentially elaborate or point me in the right direction?

Reason been - I tried to evaluate ETH and had to move the START DATE from 9-JAN-2009 (for BTC) to 1-JAN-2013 (ETH?) to get an "acceptable visual correlation" (not very scientific I know). This is my best guess at the moment...

https://s2.postimg.org/l809xb3ih/eth-chart-mnth.jpg

Any help / pointers / explanation appreciated.

[Trolololo]

Trolololo, only recently discovered this amazing work - THANK YOU (and others).

I did a bit of my own work in Excel and came up with this chart, which I think is fairly close (based on 1st of the month values in CoinMarketCap). (...)
I then made a monthly chart for BTC for the last 2.5 years and like the correlation.

Nice !!

But I have to confess I don't completely understand the values for 10 ^ 2.66167155005961 as well as the -17.9183761889864? Could you potentially elaborate or point me in the right direction?

Those are the parameters thar define the log curve.

Reason been - I tried to evaluate ETH and had to move the START DATE from 9-JAN-2009 (for BTC) to 1-JAN-2013 (ETH?) to get an "acceptable visual correlation" (not very scientific I know). This is my best guess at the moment...

I don't know when ETH was incepted, but that should be the start date.

[Trolololo]

@Trolololo
I have another suggestion. Can you try to do this for the market cap instead? This should be a little more precise as its flattening out the early parts a little

Actually, Trolololo, could you make one for the total marketcap of all coins?

Let me know for how much you can do this? I'm very happy to pay for this to get this done as soon as possible.


The one thing I think these calculations overlook is that other cryptos can take over the market from bitcoin and so past growth trend may not be extrapolated into the future. This has also just happened I think due to the black swan event of bitcoin not being able to process anymore transactions for half a year now. However for the whole cryptocurrency market this is still valid, but if u were to make such a chart I think you would see that current marketcap of all cryptos is already considerably above it's expected average and is due for a correction, and therefore Bitcoin as well, eventhough it is not yet way above it's expected price.

All coins marketcap log regression

[emdje]

Nice graphs man!

Quick question: how did you import the total marketcap data into excel?
Would you please share how you imported the data?

[miauwmiauw]

the past will show you the future
What you think about my future projection
https://pasteboard.co/GEsGOor.png

that would mean end 2018 = 14K but than slow deflation between 10k - 14k until 2023. than slowmotion bullrun till 2027 with ofcorso various ups and downs here and there.


Can't embed an image for some reason.

[Ahab_Hunter_of_BearWhale]

Pretty sweet, using your model/equation spat out 3200 (give or take a few dollars) for todays price.
I like logarithmic analyses of btc's price over time.

[Bamelin]

Pretty epic watching the price shoot up as the chart suggests it would.

[Al Ien]

Trolololo, here is the Vision (Road Map 2017-2028) of Bitcoin future. The key figures correlate to your chart. Thank You.


Taken from another topic.

Suggested topic is devoted to discussion of Global Road Map of Bitcoin BTC



Based on following factors (I-IV) suggested for discussion is the Bitcoin Global Road Map (V).


I Number of active bitcoin wallets

According to Mr.Woo's http://woobull.com/woos-law-of-bitcoin-user-growth-bitcoins-adoption-curve/ research, bitcoin users double every 12 months. Mr. Woo makes corrections (S curve) based on real world human behaviour. Here comes wild idea that algorythms, based on mathematics and Laws of Universe are already changing real world human behaviour. Through smartphones, computers and gadgets they force us to move quicker to live more intense lives. They change us, attuning human schedule to Rythms of Universe, hence increasing people's efficiency.



II Halvings schedule (next is on June 12 2020) - recalculating of network difficulty

The network started on January 3 2009. First halving took place in 2012 which led to all time high of more than $1000 in November 2013. So, after halving bitcoin price can increase 10 fold. After next halving in 2016 we witnessed the power of third wave of bitcoin evolution in November 2017, when bitcoin rocketed to $7,900 and peaked $12,400 in Zimbabwe.
After next halving, which means that emission of bitcoin slows down and miners will be rewarded only 6.25 bitcoins (now 12.5) for one mined block. Which increases the cost of every mined coin. Because of the limited coins supply increases the price.


III Achievements of past 9 years of bitcoin existence

https://99bitcoins.com/bitcoinobituaries/ 183 times Bitcoin could die. No other technology/product/startup is known that could survive under such huge pressure. That shows mathematical correctness of the protocol, flexibility and stability of Bitcoin Protocol. That means Bitcoin can evolutionate. It can change. Like a snake that gets rid of old skin, bitcoin is moving further, leaving its forks behind. Open to whole world's pressure, represented by banks, governments and financial institutions from outside and numerous challenges in form of soft and hard forks from inside, Bitcoin became capable to digest these pressures in the process of becoming holistic (i.e. indestructable) technology.

The Bitcoin Technology (Protocol) is so advanced and multifaced (combined knowlegde from Game Theory, Economics, Programming, Finance, Cryptography, Quantum Mechanics) that still there are only a few people who completely understand this technology. Since the Bitcoin building is so huge, some people see only separate floors of this building. Some see financial implications. Some see social implications. Some see that this technology can change the world completely - there will be no need in banks, governments, Systems. Some see the future of the technology in VR and IOT. Some call it digital gold. Some - digital currency. Some - digital assets. Probably we see birth of new class of asset, to which quite another approach should be taken by regulators. It is nither currency nor goods. It is all together, all kinds of assets represented in one digital form.  
The Technology is self-balancing, coming to dynamic equilibrium from any internal or external impulse, be it soft/hard forks or governmental pressure/attacks, between 4-5 parties, such as Developers, Wallets (People interacting with this technology), Finance (financial institutions, institutional investors), Miners and IoT in the future (yes, the Robots). Bitcoins can be traded 24x7, time moves 20 times faster in the world of Bitcoin, which can accelerate growth of human economics.



IV Hello New World !!!!

Bitcoin technology gives you freedom. Independence. But it also has another side of the coin - Responsibility. Personal. You are responsible for your money and if you were not conscious building cryptocurrency portofolio you can loose your funds. If you transfer to wrong address, you can't undo. No banks can help. No insurance company. You bear all the risks.
That increases awareness. That leads to forming many people making decision to take their Fate into their own hands. To be independent from the governments and banks. To have their own opinion how to live their lives. That means new way of living. No borders. Decentralised education, stimulating people to think independently to make decisions by themselves. Probably there will be merging of old (centralized) and new (decentralized) approaches in the world. Decentralization (New World) offers Competition to old centralized world, which can lead to mutual growth in the dance of Evolution.



V Bitcoin Global Road Map

---------------------------1 Birth of Bitcoin---------------------------

2007            Bitcoin Design and Coding
2008            October - White paper published

---------------------------2 Bitcoin's childhood------------------------

2009 Year 1. January - genesis (first) block mined. Year 1 (started from October 31 2008)
2010 Year 2. Bitcoin exchanges and bitcoin exchange rate established
2011 Year 3. Satoshi Nakamoto leaves the project, as it became self-sustainable
2012 Year 4. First Halving.
2013 Year 5. November $1000 peak
2014 Year 6. Massive correction  
2015 Year 7. Gaining stability
2016 Year 8. Second Halving. Segwit
2017 Year 9. Segwit 2x.
                   Around 0.2% of people (10-15 mln) using Bitcoin  
                   80% of coins mined.
                   Global acceptance among institutional investors.
                   By the Year 10 (November and December 2017) all time high $7,900

---------------------------3 Sky (Bitcoin's adulthood )--------------------------

2018 Year 10. $14,000-$27,000 (Fifth wave by Elliot)
2019 Year 11. Technologies such as Lightning Network (momentary payments, no 10 min waiting) are implemented in
                      the second layer of Bitcoin protocol.
                      Next Segwit 3.
                      Around 1% of people using Bitcoin.
                      Massive correction (50%+)
2020 Year 12. Third Halving.
                      Around 2% of people using Bitcoin.
                      Recovery and movement to 6 digits.
2021 Year 13. Around 4% of people using Bitcoin.
                     This year we will see 6 digits.
                     $100,000 per Bitcoin
2022 Year 14. Around 7% of people using Bitcoin.
                     Consensus with banks and governments - they Must Change to Survive.
                     Bitcoin wons this competition and banks/governments are forced to demonopolize themselves and change
                     their Attitude - State is People's Servant. State has to Serve People.  
2023 Year 15. Around 12% of people using Bitcoin

------------------------4 Space (Bitcoin's maturity) -------------------------------------

2024 Year 16. Fourth Halving?
                     Around 25% people using Bitcoin.
                     Blockchain technologies massively implemented
2025 Year 17. $1 Mln per bitcoin.
                     50%+ people using Bitcoin.
                     Bitcoin goes into Space (literally, to Mars).
                     Blockstream orbital sattelites broadcast bitcoin transactions worldwide and in the entire Solar System.
                     Technologies such as Atomic Swaps are implemented in top cryptocurrencies.
2026 Year 18. Segwit 4.
                     Massive correction.
2027 Year 19. Recovery.
2028 Year 20. Fifth Halving? 80%+ of people using Bitcoin.
                     Over $10 mln per bitcoin.
                     Irreversable changes (80 - 20 Law) in Human Society driven by Bitcoin technology.
                     Social changes.
                     Change in System of Values of Man.

------------------------- 5 Hello New World---------------------------------------------------

2032 Year 24. New generation (since 2012) is formed.
                     Total acceptance of bitcoin by all people.
                     Total death of fiat money.
                     With the evolution of AI possible human race economics growth up to 10 times.
                     $100 mln per bitcoin.
                     1 satoshi = 1 usd.
                     2,000 trillion dollar human race economics (now equals to 70 trillion dollars ) potential growth (AI, IOT,
                     Space industry etc.)
 

[Lucasgabd]

Trolololo, here is the Vision (Road Map 2017-2028) of Bitcoin future. The key figures correlate to your chart. Thank You.


Taken from another topic.

Suggested topic is devoted to discussion of Global Road Map of Bitcoin BTC



Based on following factors (I-IV) suggested for discussion is the Bitcoin Global Road Map (V).


I Number of active bitcoin wallets

According to Mr.Woo's http://woobull.com/woos-law-of-bitcoin-user-growth-bitcoins-adoption-curve/ research, bitcoin users double every 12 months. Mr. Woo makes corrections (S curve) based on real world human behaviour. Here comes wild idea that algorythms, based on mathematics and Laws of Universe are already changing real world human behaviour. Through smartphones, computers and gadgets they force us to move quicker to live more intense lives. They change us, attuning human schedule to Rythms of Universe, hence increasing people's efficiency.



II Halvings schedule (next is on June 12 2020) - recalculating of network difficulty

The network started on January 3 2009. First halving took place in 2012 which led to all time high of more than $1000 in November 2013. So, after halving bitcoin price can increase 10 fold. After next halving in 2016 we witnessed the power of third wave of bitcoin evolution in November 2017, when bitcoin rocketed to $7,900 and peaked $12,400 in Zimbabwe.
After next halving, which means that emission of bitcoin slows down and miners will be rewarded only 6.25 bitcoins (now 12.5) for one mined block. Which increases the cost of every mined coin. Because of the limited coins supply increases the price.


III Achievements of past 9 years of bitcoin existence

https://99bitcoins.com/bitcoinobituaries/ 183 times Bitcoin could die. No other technology/product/startup is known that could survive under such huge pressure. That shows mathematical correctness of the protocol, flexibility and stability of Bitcoin Protocol. That means Bitcoin can evolutionate. It can change. Like a snake that gets rid of old skin, bitcoin is moving further, leaving its forks behind. Open to whole world's pressure, represented by banks, governments and financial institutions from outside and numerous challenges in form of soft and hard forks from inside, Bitcoin became capable to digest these pressures in the process of becoming holistic (i.e. indestructable) technology.

The Bitcoin Technology (Protocol) is so advanced and multifaced (combined knowlegde from Game Theory, Economics, Programming, Finance, Cryptography, Quantum Mechanics) that still there are only a few people who completely understand this technology. Since the Bitcoin building is so huge, some people see only separate floors of this building. Some see financial implications. Some see social implications. Some see that this technology can change the world completely - there will be no need in banks, governments, Systems. Some see the future of the technology in VR and IOT. Some call it digital gold. Some - digital currency. Some - digital assets. Probably we see birth of new class of asset, to which quite another approach should be taken by regulators. It is nither currency nor goods. It is all together, all kinds of assets represented in one digital form.  
The Technology is self-balancing, coming to dynamic equilibrium from any internal or external impulse, be it soft/hard forks or governmental pressure/attacks, between 4-5 parties, such as Developers, Wallets (People interacting with this technology), Finance (financial institutions, institutional investors), Miners and IoT in the future (yes, the Robots). Bitcoins can be traded 24x7, time moves 20 times faster in the world of Bitcoin, which can accelerate growth of human economics.



IV Hello New World !!!!

Bitcoin technology gives you freedom. Independence. But it also has another side of the coin - Responsibility. Personal. You are responsible for your money and if you were not conscious building cryptocurrency portofolio you can loose your funds. If you transfer to wrong address, you can't undo. No banks can help. No insurance company. You bear all the risks.
That increases awareness. That leads to forming many people making decision to take their Fate into their own hands. To be independent from the governments and banks. To have their own opinion how to live their lives. That means new way of living. No borders. Decentralised education, stimulating people to think independently to make decisions by themselves. Probably there will be merging of old (centralized) and new (decentralized) approaches in the world. Decentralization (New World) offers Competition to old centralized world, which can lead to mutual growth in the dance of Evolution.



V Bitcoin Global Road Map

---------------------------1 Birth of Bitcoin---------------------------

2007            Bitcoin Design and Coding
2008            October - White paper published

---------------------------2 Bitcoin's childhood------------------------

2009 Year 1. January - genesis (first) block mined. Year 1 (started from October 31 2008)
2010 Year 2. Bitcoin exchanges and bitcoin exchange rate established
2011 Year 3. Satoshi Nakamoto leaves the project, as it became self-sustainable
2012 Year 4. First Halving.
2013 Year 5. November $1000 peak
2014 Year 6. Massive correction  
2015 Year 7. Gaining stability
2016 Year 8. Second Halving. Segwit
2017 Year 9. Segwit 2x.
                   Around 0.2% of people (10-15 mln) using Bitcoin  
                   80% of coins mined.
                   Global acceptance among institutional investors.
                   By the Year 10 (November and December 2017) all time high $7,900

---------------------------3 Sky (Bitcoin's adulthood )--------------------------

2018 Year 10. $14,000-$27,000 (Fifth wave by Elliot)
2019 Year 11. Technologies such as Lightning Network (momentary payments, no 10 min waiting) are implemented in
                      the second layer of Bitcoin protocol.
                      Next Segwit 3.
                      Around 1% of people using Bitcoin.
                      Massive correction (50%+)
2020 Year 12. Third Halving.
                      Around 2% of people using Bitcoin.
                      Recovery and movement to 6 digits.
2021 Year 13. Around 4% of people using Bitcoin.
                     This year we will see 6 digits.
                     $100,000 per Bitcoin
2022 Year 14. Around 7% of people using Bitcoin.
                     Consensus with banks and governments - they Must Change to Survive.
                     Bitcoin wons this competition and banks/governments are forced to demonopolize themselves and change
                     their Attitude - State is People's Servant. State has to Serve People.  
2023 Year 15. Around 12% of people using Bitcoin

------------------------4 Space (Bitcoin's maturity) -------------------------------------

2024 Year 16. Fourth Halving?
                     Around 25% people using Bitcoin.
                     Blockchain technologies massively implemented
2025 Year 17. $1 Mln per bitcoin.
                     50%+ people using Bitcoin.
                     Bitcoin goes into Space (literally, to Mars).
                     Blockstream orbital sattelites broadcast bitcoin transactions worldwide and in the entire Solar System.
                     Technologies such as Atomic Swaps are implemented in top cryptocurrencies.
2026 Year 18. Segwit 4.
                     Massive correction.
2027 Year 19. Recovery.
2028 Year 20. Fifth Halving? 80%+ of people using Bitcoin.
                     Over $10 mln per bitcoin.
                     Irreversable changes (80 - 20 Law) in Human Society driven by Bitcoin technology.
                     Social changes.
                     Change in System of Values of Man.

------------------------- 5 Hello New World---------------------------------------------------

2032 Year 24. New generation (since 2012) is formed.
                     Total acceptance of bitcoin by all people.
                     Total death of fiat money.
                     With the evolution of AI possible human race economics growth up to 10 times.
                     $100 mln per bitcoin.
                     1 satoshi = 1 usd.
                     2,000 trillion dollar human race economics (now equals to 70 trillion dollars ) potential growth (AI, IOT,
                     Space industry etc.)
 

Quite interesting roadmap.
Dont you think some things will happen much faster? We’re already implementing atomic swaps. For example. It’ll probably be common in max 3 years time.

Though. Bright future
I like the fact that surviving “bitcoin deaths” helps to state the fact that the network is safe and will survive longterm.

[GTfloat]

Nice work on the Charts, but in the end they will prove totally meaningless. At this point in time, technical analysis has no merit in the world of CryptoCurrencies. Take that from a person who has spent 50 years of his working life as a Technical Analyst.

[Tomjames]

Trolololo, here is the Vision (Road Map 2017-2028) of Bitcoin future. The key figures correlate to your chart. Thank You.


Taken from another topic.

Suggested topic is devoted to discussion of Global Road Map of Bitcoin BTC



Based on following factors (I-IV) suggested for discussion is the Bitcoin Global Road Map (V).


I Number of active bitcoin wallets

According to Mr.Woo's http://woobull.com/woos-law-of-bitcoin-user-growth-bitcoins-adoption-curve/ research, bitcoin users double every 12 months. Mr. Woo makes corrections (S curve) based on real world human behaviour. Here comes wild idea that algorythms, based on mathematics and Laws of Universe are already changing real world human behaviour. Through smartphones, computers and gadgets they force us to move quicker to live more intense lives. They change us, attuning human schedule to Rythms of Universe, hence increasing people's efficiency.



II Halvings schedule (next is on June 12 2020) - recalculating of network difficulty

The network started on January 3 2009. First halving took place in 2012 which led to all time high of more than $1000 in November 2013. So, after halving bitcoin price can increase 10 fold. After next halving in 2016 we witnessed the power of third wave of bitcoin evolution in November 2017, when bitcoin rocketed to $7,900 and peaked $12,400 in Zimbabwe.
After next halving, which means that emission of bitcoin slows down and miners will be rewarded only 6.25 bitcoins (now 12.5) for one mined block. Which increases the cost of every mined coin. Because of the limited coins supply increases the price.


III Achievements of past 9 years of bitcoin existence

https://99bitcoins.com/bitcoinobituaries/ 183 times Bitcoin could die. No other technology/product/startup is known that could survive under such huge pressure. That shows mathematical correctness of the protocol, flexibility and stability of Bitcoin Protocol. That means Bitcoin can evolutionate. It can change. Like a snake that gets rid of old skin, bitcoin is moving further, leaving its forks behind. Open to whole world's pressure, represented by banks, governments and financial institutions from outside and numerous challenges in form of soft and hard forks from inside, Bitcoin became capable to digest these pressures in the process of becoming holistic (i.e. indestructable) technology.

The Bitcoin Technology (Protocol) is so advanced and multifaced (combined knowlegde from Game Theory, Economics, Programming, Finance, Cryptography, Quantum Mechanics) that still there are only a few people who completely understand this technology. Since the Bitcoin building is so huge, some people see only separate floors of this building. Some see financial implications. Some see social implications. Some see that this technology can change the world completely - there will be no need in banks, governments, Systems. Some see the future of the technology in VR and IOT. Some call it digital gold. Some - digital currency. Some - digital assets. Probably we see birth of new class of asset, to which quite another approach should be taken by regulators. It is nither currency nor goods. It is all together, all kinds of assets represented in one digital form.  
The Technology is self-balancing, coming to dynamic equilibrium from any internal or external impulse, be it soft/hard forks or governmental pressure/attacks, between 4-5 parties, such as Developers, Wallets (People interacting with this technology), Finance (financial institutions, institutional investors), Miners and IoT in the future (yes, the Robots). Bitcoins can be traded 24x7, time moves 20 times faster in the world of Bitcoin, which can accelerate growth of human economics.



IV Hello New World !!!!

Bitcoin technology gives you freedom. Independence. But it also has another side of the coin - Responsibility. Personal. You are responsible for your money and if you were not conscious building cryptocurrency portofolio you can loose your funds. If you transfer to wrong address, you can't undo. No banks can help. No insurance company. You bear all the risks.
That increases awareness. That leads to forming many people making decision to take their Fate into their own hands. To be independent from the governments and banks. To have their own opinion how to live their lives. That means new way of living. No borders. Decentralised education, stimulating people to think independently to make decisions by themselves. Probably there will be merging of old (centralized) and new (decentralized) approaches in the world. Decentralization (New World) offers Competition to old centralized world, which can lead to mutual growth in the dance of Evolution.



V Bitcoin Global Road Map

---------------------------1 Birth of Bitcoin---------------------------

2007            Bitcoin Design and Coding
2008            October - White paper published

---------------------------2 Bitcoin's childhood------------------------

2009 Year 1. January - genesis (first) block mined. Year 1 (started from October 31 2008)
2010 Year 2. Bitcoin exchanges and bitcoin exchange rate established
2011 Year 3. Satoshi Nakamoto leaves the project, as it became self-sustainable
2012 Year 4. First Halving.
2013 Year 5. November $1000 peak
2014 Year 6. Massive correction  
2015 Year 7. Gaining stability
2016 Year 8. Second Halving. Segwit
2017 Year 9. Segwit 2x.
                   Around 0.2% of people (10-15 mln) using Bitcoin  
                   80% of coins mined.
                   Global acceptance among institutional investors.
                   By the Year 10 (November and December 2017) all time high $7,900

---------------------------3 Sky (Bitcoin's adulthood )--------------------------

2018 Year 10. $14,000-$27,000 (Fifth wave by Elliot)
2019 Year 11. Technologies such as Lightning Network (momentary payments, no 10 min waiting) are implemented in
                      the second layer of Bitcoin protocol.
                      Next Segwit 3.
                      Around 1% of people using Bitcoin.
                      Massive correction (50%+)
2020 Year 12. Third Halving.
                      Around 2% of people using Bitcoin.
                      Recovery and movement to 6 digits.
2021 Year 13. Around 4% of people using Bitcoin.
                     This year we will see 6 digits.
                     $100,000 per Bitcoin
2022 Year 14. Around 7% of people using Bitcoin.
                     Consensus with banks and governments - they Must Change to Survive.
                     Bitcoin wons this competition and banks/governments are forced to demonopolize themselves and change
                     their Attitude - State is People's Servant. State has to Serve People.  
2023 Year 15. Around 12% of people using Bitcoin

------------------------4 Space (Bitcoin's maturity) -------------------------------------

2024 Year 16. Fourth Halving?
                     Around 25% people using Bitcoin.
                     Blockchain technologies massively implemented
2025 Year 17. $1 Mln per bitcoin.
                     50%+ people using Bitcoin.
                     Bitcoin goes into Space (literally, to Mars).
                     Blockstream orbital sattelites broadcast bitcoin transactions worldwide and in the entire Solar System.
                     Technologies such as Atomic Swaps are implemented in top cryptocurrencies.
2026 Year 18. Segwit 4.
                     Massive correction.
2027 Year 19. Recovery.
2028 Year 20. Fifth Halving? 80%+ of people using Bitcoin.
                     Over $10 mln per bitcoin.
                     Irreversable changes (80 - 20 Law) in Human Society driven by Bitcoin technology.
                     Social changes.
                     Change in System of Values of Man.

------------------------- 5 Hello New World---------------------------------------------------

2032 Year 24. New generation (since 2012) is formed.
                     Total acceptance of bitcoin by all people.
                     Total death of fiat money.
                     With the evolution of AI possible human race economics growth up to 10 times.
                     $100 mln per bitcoin.
                     1 satoshi = 1 usd.
                     2,000 trillion dollar human race economics (now equals to 70 trillion dollars ) potential growth (AI, IOT,
                     Space industry etc.)
 

Niceee Road Map on the future

[The Catcher in the Rye]

Could u update Trolololo?  

Chart update!!

Today's theoretical value (check HERE) is around 2100 USD, so the price is half undervalued.

Please, consider donating to bitcoin:1Fe6B3Zo4HxaCD8ybi9A8zBRH2wKpciUxe

Any update for Q4 2017?

[uslfd]

Extremely interesting equation.
Running it today, it shows BTC price should be at $4000 instead of $8000.
Maybe indeed there is some truth that btc is experiecing some sort of bubble right now

[itsthezing]

@Trolololo Could you update please?

[hritevanz]

In this OP I will always post the last updated chart:

Update 2017-01-03:

Donations: bitcoin:1Fe6B3Zo4HxaCD8ybi9A8zBRH2wKpciUxe

Calculate today's trendline value HERE

Seeing the chart gives me hope to keep on trusting bitcoins. I probably will hold my coins until it reach the value of year 2021. This graph also shows the price difference from the start for which other might think that bitcoin is experiencing of what we call "bubble". Bitcoin is really something. Great for the chart you have done.

[crocozino]

ok, we are pointed to 100l in three years?? fine I'm ready to ride
but I'm sure there would be huge corrections  and humps during this flight to 100k
are you guys ready?

[Denker]

ok, we are pointed to 100l in three years?? fine I'm ready to ride
but I'm sure there would be huge corrections  and humps during this flight to 100k
are you guys ready?

Well $100k in three years still sounds unimaginable for me. But the world has never seen something like that before. A new asset class which could suck up so much money from all different markets out there. Bitcoin acts like a giant vortex no one can escape from.
We're slowly reaching levels where it starts to feel a bit scary.Especially because we are moving up so quick! Many people will feel tempted to sell some coins, especially if they bought around end of 2014 and 2015 or even earlier than that. There will definitely be lots of profit taking imo.Will be interesting to see and how strong the buys will be on certain levels.

[Kryptowolf512]

Wooooooow..... He almost predicted the 10k Bitcoin at the same date. Holy.... Not bad dude

[danielwwt]

Very interesting.

Feels like you are from 2021!

[jpouza]

Amazing, Nostradamus like stuff 

Very good predictions, I´m impressed.

[tradingdisaster]

OP, where did you get your data for "spread" from? And what does it mean?

[Sanglotslongs2]

Amazing, Nostradamus like stuff 

Very good predictions, I´m impressed.

Yes, it found out it was good, the 10k on 22-11-17 was a little bit scary And 100k will be after the next halving IMO. I hope 2018 will be a good year for bitcoin tech improvement with all that stuff bitcoin core are developping right now.

[a1choi]

crazy how close the prediction was.  is there an updated chart?

[JKWong]

I am a newb in data but I am sure I could input this somehow into excel so it would give me the price on my chosen dates right? So I could plot my expected holdings and end value if I would say dollar cost average 200€ per month (or any other value)?

Can someone teach me please ?

[Xynerise]

Holy shit this is spooky

[adam1230]

This is the best prediction i ever seen. You are a genunie genius.
This is working like a charm and hell yea we are aiming to 1.000.000 USD by 2026

[SeksiStarlord]

In this OP I will always post the last updated chart:

Update 2017-01-03:

Donations: bitcoin:1Fe6B3Zo4HxaCD8ybi9A8zBRH2wKpciUxe

Calculate today's trendline value HERE

I would love to see an updated chart now. If he is not around anymore maybe someone else has the skills to do it? We need it updatedfor the next years!

[mmortal03]

People should donate to him. Hopefully he still controls the associated wallet.

[vit05]

People should donate to him. Hopefully he still controls the associated wallet.

Yep. I think it will be great if he confirms that still own that address. Because this prediction was great and he deserves some tips.

[mithrim]

Very impressive work, I'm quite sad that I didn't discover this thread earlier. And it doesn't matter that the formula suggests $4.011 for todays price as there is always spread. But it will be good guide for the coming months/years.

Well done!

[TwoCorn]

I recommend you guys check out this thread:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=470453.0

It's similar and is updated fairly regularly. Please read the OP because it explains how the numbers are calculated. Enjoy!

[CornCube]

In this OP I will always post the last updated chart:

Update 2017-01-03:
https://s3.postimg.org/kmzui60kj/logarithmic_03_01_2017.jpg
Donations: bitcoin:1Fe6B3Zo4HxaCD8ybi9A8zBRH2wKpciUxe

Calculate today's trendline value HERE

I sketched a hand (inaccurately) drawn update of the green price line (did not update the regression):

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2550946.0

[crypt0heaven]

In this OP I will always post the last updated chart:

Update 2017-01-03:

Donations: bitcoin:1Fe6B3Zo4HxaCD8ybi9A8zBRH2wKpciUxe

Calculate today's trendline value HERE

I sketched a hand (inaccurately) drawn update of the green price line (did not update the regression):

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2550946.0

what a god damn prediction, to infinity and beyond

[mithrim]

In this OP I will always post the last updated chart:

Update 2017-01-03:

Donations: bitcoin:1Fe6B3Zo4HxaCD8ybi9A8zBRH2wKpciUxe

Calculate today's trendline value HERE

Are there any updates coming this year/next year? It's quite impressive and it would be sad to have it discontinued 

[jeunpeun99]

to the people saying it is quite impressive and such.
According to the graph, the price of one bitcoin would be around $ 4000 not $ 16000.

[slowlyslowly]

to the people saying it is quite impressive and such.
According to the graph, the price of one bitcoin would be around $ 4000 not $ 16000.

Why are you picking on the chart? It is simply a chart based on the past. It is very apolitical in that sense. Yes the expected price is far from the current price but we all know even by bitcoin standard there is massive pumping going on so we may soon be much closer to the expected value. And the spread info gives the reader some feeling of how far up or down the price might be from a middle path. Leave the chart in peace.

[jeunpeun99]

to the people saying it is quite impressive and such.
According to the graph, the price of one bitcoin would be around $ 4000 not $ 16000.

Why are you picking on the chart? It is simply a chart based on the past. It is very apolitical in that sense. Yes the expected price is far from the current price but we all know even by bitcoin standard there is massive pumping going on so we may soon be much closer to the expected value. And the spread info gives the reader some feeling of how far up or down the price might be from a middle path. Leave the chart in peace.

Im sorry, I didn't want to pick on the chart. I just wanted to let people now that the expected value would be lower than it is now.

[Lancusters]

It is impossible for the graphs to see the pattern in the behavior of bitcoin. In 2012 and 2014, we see great failures. I am sure that they were made possible by the speculators. They have seen great prospects of bitcoin and has made a decline in prices to buy up all the coins. Few who held their assets at the time. Is it possible to repeat this? Maybe, but right now the underlying asset is concentrated in their hands. Why would they reduce the price to assemble a small number of coins? They will continuously raise the price until sell all your stocks.

[Torque]

Chart is not as useful without a current update.

[Phil_S]

The thing is, when the actual graph is jumping all over the place, up and down, it's inevitable that it will intersect a smooth red line a few times. Every time it happens, you can call it amazing, but... you know...

[btcone111]

The thing is, when the actual graph is jumping all over the place, up and down, it's inevitable that it will intersect a smooth red line a few times. Every time it happens, you can call it amazing, but... you know...

Yeh this is problem of rate of reversion. If serious, someone has to estimate the reversion parameter to test that it has't' changed. if successful, then the model is more convincing.

[wwzsocki]

Is there an updated version of this chart?

I have tried to update this chart in but looks bad and I will not post here. I am not sure of my accuracy but looks like (on updated chart) that we are High (when the price touched 20000$ Bitcoin was 800% oversold) and now we see a correction back to trend line.

I don't want to scare anybody but if this goes back to trend line we will see price back at 7000$.

Good for me I will just wait and buy.

[mattbellme]

Does anyone know how to set this up in excel?  Would love to have my own version to play with...

[olumyd]

Is there an altcoin version. Will like to do a comparative analysis to see if FUD and FOMO have quantitative measures on the market assays.

[bitbunnny]

This chart could only represent some guidelines not something you should stick to and expect the trends will be exactly like this.
Also without update this isn't worth so new values should be filled all the time.
Don't be disappointed when this will not help you to actualy predict the values.

[mmortal03]

Is there an altcoin version. Will like to do a comparative analysis to see if FUD and FOMO have quantitative measures on the market assays.

"Total Marketcap All Coins Logarithmic Regression"

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2000218

[mararn1618]

Did anyone think of creating a tradingview.com indicator out of this? It would be awesome! 

[harvw]

Any update on this?

[mmortal03]

Someone else made this one:

Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/7qrs3y/bitcoin_headed_to_100000_in_2018_says_analyst_who/dssdrum/

[mmortal03]

TenshiS' chart, updated:

[Biodom]

a large deviation from the original graph.
maybe it is still a true exponent a la BETI.