See, the Proudhon thread from early 2012 that Op copies almost ad verbatim here (i c wut u did), has Proudhon predicting single digits at this time (he was two digits off.) And the average prediction from other posters in that thread is around $14, which is a tenth of what it is now, a year later. What does this mean?
In April 2012, both the bears AND the bulls were way off, and predicted a price between 10 and 100 times lower than it is today. We need to use a new animal - perhaps the vulture? A big black scary-looking vulture with a cascascius coin hanging off a gold bling chain around its neck, and of course, grasped within its talons is a sinister package that it is delivering anonymously (next day air!) for Silk Road. Naturally, the vulture is a metaphor for the hungry, circling bitcoiners moving in on the sickly, decaying banksters and devouring the last bits of their wealth.
Now, Proudhon is stuck in a perpetual price microcosm and continues to see every single 2-hour 10% decrease (even if it is followed by a massive upswing) as sign of a humongous long crash lasting 6 months and bringing us back to single digits, so perhaps we need to start calling him a "dodo bird" or similar animal that is renowned for being silly and/or stupid. "Bear" is almost a compliment.
So I'm going to go ahead and say that in a year's time, 1 BTC will be at least $10,000 USD, but really I think 100,000 isn't too much of a stretch.
i seem to remember something about extrapolation... nah, not important. I'll be retiring in 6 months at age 24, folks. XKCD can go suck it.
+1 I will also be retiring at the ripe old age of 25
