Investing or any industry, if you ignore the historical factor, it means you leave out the data about the market. The market principle is always iterative because human psychology is also iterative, so if you take away the lessons that the market has taught you in the past, you cannot predict the future market well 👌
I'm pretty sure that those who become rich investors didn't ignore historical data. In fact they look at it and that's why we have what we call technical analysis which base everything on it's previous history and then plot in and try to see where it will go in the future.
=> If you study a field thoroughly from basic to advanced things like why it appeared, by whom and how, .... Then there will come a time when you will be able to predict the future. its. And that is also the reason why great people have the ability to predict the future like Tesla, Leonardo da Vinci, ... Why don't we apply that in investing in general and investing in virtual currencies in particular?
It's being applied already, and that is why there are many predictions. But it doesn't mean though that it is an exact science. Most likely those analysis is going to be a hit or miss. Just like what one famous prediction model which was almost perfect, but it just failed when it says that the last bull run, we are going to see at least 6 digit tops.