At this point I'd say $5000s are gone forever. Maybe if bitcoin corrects soon we could very briefly see high 5000s, but I think it's more likely any correction would only take it back to 6000s.
Hell with bitcoin hitting $7800 right this moment it's possible $6000s is gone forever at this point too, though I wouldn't be on that just yet. But within a few weeks I think it's likely we'll see $6000s for the last time too if we haven't already.
$8,200 now and no sign of incoming correction yet. I would probably retarget my prediction to $6,400 - this would be the lowest price when we'll drop, and then we'll start growing again, and if it is a new bull run (which I'm mostly certain it is now), then we'll keep growing and growing so this bottom won't be retested again. But overall the market feels so strange this time - I remember how just recently people were wondering whether we have reached the bottom, and suddenly the price more then doubled compared with the bottom.
Yeah I think a correction to 6000s is likely in the next week. But soon enough 6000s will be gone forever.
Yeah it is absolutely a new bull market, that much has been clear (at least to me!) since it popped from $4200 to $5000 at the beginning of April. However I did mostly expect slow growth for the rest of this year, with maybe a couple medium sized surges. I certainly didn't expect $8000 for a few more months.
I think that just shows in what a different place the market is than the last time a bull market started. In late 2015 when the last bull market started nobody talked about bitcoin unless you were already into bitcoin. There was no ever-present watching of the market and there were no big outside forces looking to move in. This caused a slow year and a half move up from $300s when the bull market started to May 2017 at $1300/1400 when the real surging started.
But nowadays Bitcoin is constantly in the media, banks and tech companies are making their own cryptocurrencies, there is regular news of governments working on regulation of the markets, financial shows mention bitcoin quite often, many companies are also implementing blockchain technology in other ways beyond crypto which gives blockchain in general more legitimacy against the naysayers who think the whole thing is a scam (the certainly still exist haha, I've got a coworker who harps on about blockchain being a scam a few times a week), you have crypto occasionally being promoted by famous people and CEOs or promoting it at events, and of course you've got the lumbering giant that is Wall St slowly dipping its toes in and building out bitcoin services that is gonna bring a tsunami of new money in.
Not sure how it'll play out, we'll just have to see. I would wait a couple months to make any strong prediction on how this young bull market is looking compared to the last, because after all the last one did have a big pump about a month after the initial pump out of the bottom, which could be comparable to the current price action, then it cooled off for like 6 months. But given all the momentum and interest in the market these days, I don't think we're gonna see a 6 month mostly sideways period like bitcoin had in the first half of 2016. I'm gonna venture a guess we're less than a year from hitting the ATH again, and things might just then get nuts again in the second half of 2020, which would be a year earlier than I had been thinking we'd see the madness start again.