Topic: What’s Next for Bitcoin in 2018? - page 2. (Read 298 times)

Happy New Year to everyone first. There is a little bad news for all the bitcoiner in the house that with the beginning of this New Year, there is a small dump in the valuation of BTC and I guess this must not be the bad news because this is the very common rule of every business that there is a dump after every pump and so for the BTC but BTC has a very great future and BTC would present a very good profit to all its bitcoiner.

I think I'm not losing bitcoin because the price is still high and there are so many users here so far no bitcoin even with top investment around altcoins is still higher than bitcoin, just in case More than bitcoin I prefer bitcoin because it's my best practice and great miracle when it comes to bitcoin,But it's a mistake.

Never saw it that way, that Lightning Network might not just add a second layer, but also unclogs the mainnet.
Great!

I think, Bitcoin will definitely recover over time but look at bitcoin network status and high transaction costs, it looks like recovery will take a long time....

Current market cap is around 250 billion dollars. Hereafter it is going need billions to move. It cannot move fast like 2017 anymore. It will still move up, but gradually. My prediction for end of 2018 is 30K.

Wow, I love the way how you construct your thoughts about bitcoin and other altcoins. Very neutral and to the point. For me, I believe that bitcoin will still soar high in this year and the coming few years to come until it stabilizes and become the norm of transaction online purchases.

Bitcoin will definitely recover with time but looking at the bitcoin network status and the high transaction fees, it seems like the recovery will take some time. I recently came across a news that few wallet providers and exchanges have started adopting segwit enabled wallets for faster and cheaper bitcoin transactions. I think everyone should start adopting that so that the network can be saved. This way bitcoin will have higher acceptability again and the price will start going up.

I think bitcoin will continue to rise, but in a slower way.

There are a lot of predictions out there on the internet but personally i believe in none of them because Bitcoins price is just balncing between 13k and 16k and they said that it will reach 20k at the end of 2017 but that wasn't the case. so i think that's why we can't really predict the value of BTC this year.

2018 will certainly be an exciting year for Bitcoin, at least technology-wise; major advances have been made to the Lightning Network, the second layer which aims to scale bitcoin for the masses. The project is expected to be completed sometime next year, which would enable instant and nearly free transactions. Schnorr Signatures are also on the horizon, which would restructure signatures in bitcoin transactions to reduce transaction size and thus, fees.

This doesn’t mean that the Bitcoin community can relax and underestimate other coins, however. Even though Bitcoin is the top cryptocurrency right now, there’s nothing stopping other coins from taking its place. Other cryptocurrencies are proving themselves to be serious competitors to Bitcoin – Bitcoin Cash offers far cheaper transactions, while Ethereum is proving itself to be a very powerful smart contract platform. Ethereum will also be hard-forking sometime in 2018 to switch to a Proof-of-Stake system.

So… Moon or Not?


The only right answer to this question is “maybe”. Nobody knows what will happen – maybe the price will stabilize, maybe we will see another 14x rise, or maybe it could collapse. Even though we cannot predict the future, some so-called “experts” think they do; here’s a list of predictions for 2018.

Tomas Salles, FXStreet Analyst – $8,073 to $89,750
Nick Colas, DataStreet Research Co-Founder – $6,500 to $22,000
Dennis Gartman, The Gartman Letter Editor – Below $5,000
Dr. Julian Hosp, TenX Co-Founder – $5,000 to $60,000
What do you think about these predictions? Do you think they will be accurate given that in 2017 all predictions were blown out of the water? Let us know your thoughts below!