Majority thinks that we will go above ATH as early as July.
Maybe, but then it would mean that we are going parabolic early and probably will fizzle out much earlier than 50-100K (more like 30-34K).
Somehow, I feel that there are lots of whales (Mayer, Novogratz, etc) who want the next peak later and much higher.
I tend to agree that later and higher peak would be desirable.
I am not sure about Novogratz, but even though Mayer tends to spout out a decent amount of bullishness, he does not tend to prescribe his feelings of preferences on bitcoin. In other words, he frames the matter of bitcoin price dynamics as a kind of inevitability... bitcoin going to do what it is going to do, whether any of us likes it or not.
Like you suggested, if bitcoin goes on some kind of exponential upwardly price tear, then likely buy support is not going to be able to keep up, so we would likely end up with more volatility. Either way, bitcoin is going to be going up, but certain situations and momentum can cause the volatility to play out more violently.. but it seems that either way we are going to the same UP destination, even if we get a quick up or a gradual up or even if we were to have some kind of major correction and a decent amount of suppressed prices, in any event BTC's prices are going to be going up, and up and up... and bitcoin gives no shits what any of us think or believe "should be" the preferred route..... also, frequently, the "preferred" route is usually NOT going to take place because too many people have differing opinions and they are willing to invest into their theories and try to force bitcoin too soon or too fast, and then inevitably, we are going to experience a decent amount of ongoing and difficult to predict with precision price volatility.
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