I'm wondering what you all think are the most likely possibilities for Bitcoin's recovery until the next bull run, actually analyzing the possible situations not just predicting price.
These are what I think are the most likely outcomes in the mid-term:
1. Institutional investors start jumping on board bitcoin this year which creates a new hype phase and Bitcoin passes $20k this Fall and initiates a new bull run that takes place during the first six months of 2019. Bitcoin has come off the bottom of the market strongly, market sentiment has already shifted from negative to positive. The results of a survey with institutional investors that came out last week said plenty of them are going to start crypto trading in the next 6 months. If big boys start jumping in en masse in order to get in the game before the next boom that could be the beginning of the next boom which means it could start by the end of this year.
2. Similar to #1 but tax season has a strong downward effect on price from people not being ready for it and having to sell crypto to pay taxes in the first quarter of the year, meaning a bump happens in late 2018 but then the bull run stalls and doesn't really get going until Spring of 2019 and we have a Spring through Fall of 2019 bull run.
3. Big investors just dip their toes in starting this year but it's not enough to get a new hype phase going. The public isn't quite ready to go nuts for Bitcoin again after many of the people who jumped on board have a sour view after not getting in until the top of the 2017 bull run, and plenty of them sell once the price gets back to their buy-in price, meaning there is steady selling in the (thousands of) teens, dampening and making more gradual Bitcoin's rise back to $20k. Bitcoin very gradually gets back to $20k over the next year, only gaining on average $1000 or less per month, before starting the next boom, leading to a bull run at the same time as in #2.
4. The consolidation period is much longer, reminiscent of the last extremely long one after the Mt. Gox crash. The next boom doesn't occur until the next halving in 2020.
Those are the possible paths I see. I think #4 is least likely because Bitcoin is just too well known now and plenty of big investors will want to get in before the next boom and there hasn't been a MtGox-like event to create an extended crypto winter in which people just lost faith in it for a long time. I of course hope #1 happens because that is the quickest, but looking at long term charts it seems a little too fast a recovery. So I think #2 or #3 might be the most likely which gives Bitcoin a year to consolidate post-crash before it starts going nuts again in the spring/summer/fall of 2019.
thoughts?
Perfect speculation pick mate, but this is not first we are seeing the people opening the thread to speculate the mid year price expectation on bitcoin and altcoins. I hope this thread may used to spam their post.
Hope you(op) will not allow that happen in your thread.
Once you find the few analysis kind of reply from the high rank guys then lock the thread mate. Hope my reply would not hurted you.