Overly optimistic in my view. We cant' even stay at 270 right now. The past is no indication in bitcoin. Remember that the past 24 month long bear period has broken new grounds. Too many people bought in at $1000+. If and when we reach $1000, they will dump their bitcoins, we will go right back down to 200.
No. When the price reach $1000, most of the people would think that their long awaited target reached and start to sell that may pull back some 10% to 20%. Usually we say that profit booking. A profit booking never drag back to the origin. But the new money in flow will make it to pass $1000 again.
I can't imagine how awful it's going to be for the responsible ones who sell a significant portion or all of their coins at $1000 or even $2000. Who knows where the top of the next movement is?
I was a bitcoin GPU miner back in 2011. I watched as the price hit an all time high of ~$31 that summer, then collapsed. I sold everything when bitcoin was in the low 30s in early 2013, thinking it couldn't possibly get much higher than the previous ATH. Within a matter of months, of course, the price was ~$1,200.
I'm not making the same mistake again.
up to $40-50K, then?
I admit that it is developing slower than I initially thought.
The true breakout will happen if we get a wind of some major government actively sourcing miners or purchasing btc.
Could be China, Russia or US-I wouldn't be entirely surprised by any of these three.
In fact, I am surprised that a few consultants did not rec this already. After all, expenses would still be meager at this point ($400 mil for 10% of btc) and having 10% of BTC might come handy later on.