A Bitcoin price prediction of $1,000 by the end of 2016 might seem over the top — except that the person making it is two-for-two in his previous predictions.
I'm talking about Vinny Lingham, a familiar name in the Bitcoin universe. He gained notoriety among cryptocurrency fans by founding mobile gift card app Gyft in 2012. Gyft allows customers to buy gift cards with Bitcoin.
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His Bitcoin price predictions have been infrequent, but on the money.
Lingham made his first Bitcoin price prediction at a Bitcoin conference in San Jose in May 2013. At that point, the Bitcoin price was fresh off a run that took it from about $13.50 in December 2012 to $266 in April, then a drop back down to the $115 range.
Lingham boldly predicted that the price of Bitcoin would hit $1,000 by the end of 2013. The audience chuckled at his audacity. While many Bitcoin enthusiasts felt the digital currency would get back to $266 or even $300, few thought it would reach $1,000 so quickly.
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Lingham made his next Bitcoin price prediction in a late March 2014 blog post…
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But the Bitcoin community remained undaunted. Bitcoin price predictions of an imminent return to $1,000 — and not long after that, $2,000 — were typical.
Except for Lingham. He flat out said the Bitcoin price would not revisit $1,000 in 2014. Instead, he foresaw a lengthy period of Bitcoin price consolidation in the $350 to $550 range.
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Now, a little more than two years later, Lingham has weighed in again. This time he's bullish, predicting a Bitcoin price of $1,000-plus by the end of 2016.
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So this might happen after all