Okay, but how much of that is wishful thinking? I can't help but feel people are just setting themselves up for disappointment with such high expectations. A new ATH, okay, definitely possible, but the figures you're talking about seem a little overly optimistic over a relatively short timeframe. If you had said that was your prediction for 2040, then fair enough.
Why is $20K reasonable in 2017 but not $100K in 2021? Pull up a monthly chart. Past bubbles came and went
fast.I do feel there is a lot of overconfidence and exuberance in the market at the moment. I wouldn't be surprised to see both BTC and stocks smacked down hard to punish top buyers and margin longs. If there is wishful thinking going on, it's all the expectation that we'll see a bubble
right now, and that there will be no corrections along the way.
I guess I'm just puzzled how people are so confident in such uncertain times.
Maybe I have some misconceptions about bull-runs. I've always assumed they were the result of a surge of new users due to the hype around halving. Lured in by speculation but often choosing to stick around for the long-haul due to network effects and the other benefits Bitcoin affords them. A perpetual cycle of more users leading to greater utility, leading to more users and so on. But all I'm hearing at the moment is how much ordinary people are struggling in the broken traditional economy, ever-growing gulf between rich and poor, businesses failing, job losses, etc. Which instinctively leads me to believe that future halvings won't have the same impact when people generally have less disposable income available to invest while the world is going to shit and their primary focus is simply putting food on the table and keeping a roof over their heads.
So, long term, if things continue down that route and the economy worsens further, where do we continue to source new users from as the price gets
higher while people generally get
poorer? Will it still have the same impact on the markets when buying anything more than a few mBTC is simply unattainable for the average person? Will the price swings still be as dramatic? Just makes me wonder if the current chaotic state of the world is going to impact the next run and rain on the speculators' parade a bit.
Unless I'm talking a load of nonsense and bull-runs aren't the result of an influx of new users at all, heh.
Or maybe people will come out of covid-19 lockdown with a surplus of savings because they haven't been able to go on holiday this year, or didn't spend every weekend down the pub like they normally would. Maybe they decide to plough that money into Bitcoin, who knows? Maybe it'll be the most impressive bull-run yet.