My prediction in bitcoin is going up because the tendency of many currency in the future is going up. You know we are for futurism in which high tech gadget and new technology will create so the trade is all about the money or the currency at the end of the day.
I agree, but do not forget that the ceiling will come. that is the entire idea of the rising diff versus the declining supply. we are nowhere near that, but even if the value continues to climb, the moment will come when those last few crumbs are so hard to get that only the huge farms can achieve them. that will shoot the value up at the very end, based on the sheer fact that people always want what they think they cannot get. that moment will mean that there is nearly 21,000,000 Bitcoins out there. At current value that makes $2,100,000,000 or around that amount, more than enough funds for the people that will be holding them, but as soon as the words hit the public that the supply is almost at the end, people will scramble for theirs and the price will jump. it will also have a good drop not long after that as many people sell off their supply because the rush is over.
not too long after that the price should stabilize to a good extent and only get a little up and down push based on the standard rumor mill bullshit. but, with the supply down to what is in circulation, that will mean that the game is over for a lot of people, the rush is gone, the thrill is over, like all those disappointed people looking into the night sky on Dec 31 at the end of the millennium, realizing the world did not end, and that they had to get up tomorrow and do the same thing over and over again, just like last year.
price is fueled by the buy/sell world of the exchanges, that is fueled by guess work, rumors and supply/demand ratios. the only controllable factor is supply and demand. a person has the ability to manipulate this to some degree. anyone can dump their house, empty the bank account and put every dime they have into a hard buy of bitcoins or another coin on the market and likely change the price. newer coins can be literally bought u[, mined up and taken control off by anyone with the funds and desire. bitcoin can be controlled, but the power needed is much higher. things will settle, might take twenty more years, but they will settle once people stop rumoring and fearing the worst. then, the time of those true investors will come, those that believed, held on and rode the storm out. I still have a wallet from three years back that has 1 BTC in it on a dead PC in the garage, it was bought on an exchange for under $200, fees and all. That 1 BTC is not getting dumped until my kids are ready to die, lol. Sort of a monument to all that we have been through for Bitcoin. Mining, investing, yelling and screaming, and still....the code lives.