Let's see we're over $4k now. Lets just say it doesn't go up much the whole rest of this year and we only hit $5000 this year.
A conservative bet for bitcoin is to double each year until it gets close to mass market, mass market will likely be 6 figures. That means $10k 2018, $20k 2019, $40k 2020, $80k 2021, >$100k 2022. So yeah it is definitely possible to see $100k in 2021.
Well, to be more accurate, Bitcoin doubles in price every 8 months!
And yes 5k is still possible this years, what would mean a 500% increase since the beginning of this year. So the word "only" doesn't really fit here.We're doing pretty good this year so far. But I get your point and understand what you mean.
Furthermore I agree that mass adoption could very likely mean 6 figures for Bitcoin, with today's purchasing, so no hyperinflation or anything like that.
The thing is I don't know how quick we can achieve that.Everything is still way techy imo and right now we seem to hit some critical mass of speculation, which is still very far away from a mass market. Imo we are still very early and could take at least another 5 years before seing some significant increase in terms of users, meaning 100 million or so. But when this happens, things will go extremely quick. And this is the reason why now is the time get as much Bitcoin, or bits as you can. 100k I could imagine 2022-2024, don't think it'll much earlier. But Bitcoin has to stay as the dominant coin, otherwise this all won't happen, and we won't be even close to it.