Im hoping for a 100 billion marketcap for bitcoin by December 31st 2017. Thats 6000 usd per btc. Also 200 billion plus mark for all cryptocurrencies and heading to 1 trillion by the 2019-2020
We are in the 145B marketcap again. The biggest that we got so far is around 150-160B if I'm not mistaken. So 200B is not far fetch.
Elections are not the reason. In China never changes the course of the country. They have a development plan 100 years ahead, and therefore, after the elections there is little that can change. Maybe the Chinese government has decided a portion of its dollar reserves to invest in bitcoin and in order to do it cheaper organized panic.
I also don't think the Elections could have caused the government to suddenly made a U-turn on bitcoin. It has a deeper reason and I can speculate that it has something to do in their financial system or political.
I think that people do not understand why China made such loud statements. So I created such a panic. I'm sure the Chinese government decided to force the Chinese to keep their savings in dollars. Thus the Chinese in the country attracts the capital. With the miners to fight no one will. They will sell the mined coins outside of China and to attract dollars into the country. Perhaps these actions are more directed at the increased pressure on the dollar than to fight bitcoin.
I guess it is inevitable for this kinds of news to appear or issues that would affect btc. There would always be some bad news regarding btc. China is the main miner in btc and it really affected the price but as i heard that it was temporary until the next election, i guess another price surge if the legislation would change there mine about the banning in China.
There will always be negative news like this that may come out and I'm pretty sure that there are more to come in the incoming years. China and J.P Morgan's statements had a big impact because they were both influential, thus the public simply reacted to it.
I'm not so sure as to the reason why China made such statements and I am also not that knowledgeable of the politics and nature of government in their country but from what I know, there are a lot of bitcoin users in that country. The recent events surely has affected them, and even for us who don't live in China.
Yes, expect a wave of attacks on bitcoin because its really gaining more popular. Wolf of Wallstreet is another personality that has recently bash bitcoin. So more to come. What important is that we should not be affected by them because we all know what bitcoin can bring to all of us.
The one that really affected by the banning of ICO's and the sebsequent shutting down of their local exchanges is the bitcoin community in China. Not us.