2016 isn't all that important right now. This year is going to be a big year, either upwards or downwards. There's too much going on for it to remain stagnate at $200-$300 for so long.
Personally, I'll be surprised if we don't end 2015 in either double-digits or quadruple-digits. I'd say double-digits, but all it takes is one big rally to push it back past $1K.
I'll buy the crap out of Bitcoin if it goes back into double digits! And I'm quite certain a lot of other people will to the same. Keep in mind, we'd have to go down about 65% still to reach double digits. This is quite a number.
And people were saying the same for the low hundreds, back when it was $1,000. Remember all the people saying "Cheap coins! Cheap coins! Cheap coins!" all the way down? Seems like that term isn't used as often anymore.
2016 isn't all that important right now. This year is going to be a big year, either upwards or downwards. There's too much going on for it to remain stagnate at $200-$300 for so long.
Personally, I'll be surprised if we don't end 2015 in either double-digits or quadruple-digits. I'd say double-digits, but all it takes is one big rally to push it back past $1K.
I'll buy the crap out of Bitcoin if it goes back into double digits! And I'm quite certain a lot of other people will to the same. Keep in mind, we'd have to go down about 65% still to reach double digits. This is quite a number.
I secretly pray for double digits! But that's pretty unlikely.
Of course, Bitcoin
never does anything deemed unlikely.
Well, double digits for a while are fine with me... Just as long as we continue our launch to the moon afterwards. Re-fueling the tank with some insanely cheap coins is always welcome! I somehow do get what bears dig so much about trying to slash the price...
The problem is, there's always a solid chance that it never goes back up.
I've always taken the Bill Gates approach to Bitcoin. It's an amazing and extremely useful technology, but it's still very primitive and may not be the "one". I think cryptography in currency has a bright future, but I'm just not so sure it's going to involve Bitcoin. If you look at what the larger investors are doing, they're investing in the cryptopayment industry, but not bitcoin itself. (Even
suckers investors like Tim Draper aren't investing in coins in hopes their price goes up - they're investing in the overall industry.)
Cryptocurrency technology is invaluable and may be a vital component of the future of money. However, I just don't expect a digital play money from 2009 to really be relevant in 2020, even if some of the possible technical advancements do fully fruition (e.g. sidechains).
Just remember how small the market cap of bitcoin itself is compared to the large companies of today. 5-10 billion dollars is absolutely nothing when we're talking about the global financial system. A payment solution based around cryptography that is used heavily by either consumers, businesses, or banks could have a greater value than 5-10 billion in a single year, let alone 6 like bitcoin. People don't view bitcoin as value in the same way they view a literal company as value.....and I don't expect that to ever change.
Open source is great for technological advancements, but makes monetization challenging.