Also, one thing I find strange is that all these experts predict bitcoin price to hit $1 million or $10 million. But I have never seen them give any analysis as to why they believe bitcoin can achieve that? They also never mentioned bitcoin's market cap at the time, which makes me suspect they were just creating FOMO in the market rather than making a prediction.
To tell the truth, I never gave much importance to the analyses of the "gurus" because, quite simply, they didn't know the crypto market. It's not, was not, and will not be the same as the conservative and ancient market models that they created and it is all methodical as they want and it benefits them. From the beginning of the BTC, they shouted that we were frauds and crazy people who lived in a bubble that would burst and swallow us. They succeeded in their prediction that the bubble would burst, only it was not the BTC but their economic system. Now everyone is shouting to buy what they cursed. But, you know, when you cannot defeat your enemy, (at least) join him.
I wouldn't be surprised if during this bull season, they sell Bitcoin when it hits $200k but keep shouting that Bitcoin will hit $1 million so people become their liquidity.
For me, it's like you say it. But you know, they do it all the time. When BTC is bullish - "go buy or lose!" and when it's bearish - "sell now or you are doomed".
However, I believe that their real plan is for ordinary people who have managed to own some BTCs to sell them and have them taken over by people of their own system and environment. In this way, they believe that they will be able to control the market for their benefit and will "disappear" any small investor from the map.
I'm not and don't want to be a guru in economics but for sure I can make a prediction like them. Their plan is doomed to fail and the price of "The King" will not stop rising, whatever they say. So high that they will be dizzy from the zeros they will see following the one and only unit.