I'm gonna go ahead and call it:-
Monero to have a $2 billion market cap by 1st November (11/01/2017).
I just read an article that said if everything goes haywire in this upcoming July-Aug-Sept period of contentious forks, in theory we could end up seeing not two but actually as many as FIVE different "bitcoins" each with separate blockchains diverged from the others.
In-Fucking-Credibile they've let it come to this.
All other things being equal, in theory, if BTC is now at $2500 and we end up with 5 "new-bitcoins", then a legacy coin on each one would be valued at $500 average, correct? Based on hash rate? But I doubt that'd really be true due to lost network effect (and just due to the bullshit of it all).
In any scenario like this it's a foregone conclusion I think that Monero would benefit. XMR could easily become THE "new bitcoin" in this case.
So, yeah, just about a 3X spike from here to hit $2B market cap would be nothing too hard. Actually it may be "easy" even IF bitcoin doesn't crash and burn like this: fucking Dash(LOL) is still holding over $150? XMR oughta be well past it too, actually...