You base your opinion on what facts exactly ? The fact more and more shops are using bitcoin is reason why it slowly will go up.
Also for many people lower prices would be cooler since then they would be able to buy more of them.
Not really, most people convert to fiat instantly, which is selling bitcoins ..which doesn't help the price. The recent news meaning tax problems for Americans might hurt it too. It's no longer simpler to use than other payment options for businesses if it's taxed as an asset. Thaat wasn't very good news at all at least for the short term.
Paypal are control freaks, they love to be able to reverse transactions so bitcoin doesn't seem likely for them IMO.
As for the China ban or FUD or whatever that was...that wasn't great even if it was shite because a lot of people will believe it in ignorance and look no further.
Nothing good is happening or likely to in the near future, and we could use something I think. A big fat financial crisis in a country would be about right.
Many things could help bitcoin rise in value, blind faith and crossing fingers isn't one though. A poll a few months back on here had about 60% saying they saw bitcoin at 5k by end 2014. I bet they wouldn't today.
Fact is, he could be right even if he doesn't know why.
Bitcoin is new it is very volatile and there are manipulations, extreme trading and not a lot of visibility sometimes => price swings
BUT you believe in Bitcoin and a lot of people do as well, new persons believe in Bitcoin everyday, way more than people that stop believing in it
The banking system is corrupted, shady and unsustainable in the west so is the current purchasing power of the USD or Euro with their debt so I am very positive for Bitcoin; how long will it take for the market to recognise that? I don't know because it took a while to burst the real estate bubble after the .com bubble and the FED is just trying to blow into a new bigger bubble not to deal with the unpleasant consequences of the economic reality but I know the USD will crash, the banking system will evolve and Bitcoin may a lion share in this new system so I try to get my hands on a few BTC