As bitcoin has touched new price highs on Thursday nearing the $50k handle, people have been curious as to where the price will go in the future. Meanwhile, despite the gains so far, a number of luminaries, analysts, executives, and proponents from the crypto space believe the leading crypto asset will reach between $60k to six-digits this year.
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Satoshi Nakamoto’s invention has gained mass appeal in recent times as the leading digital asset bitcoin (BTC) has reached its highest value ever in 2021. On Thursday morning (EST), BTC spiked to an all-time high (ATH) at $48,697 per unit. Earlier in the morning at around 2 a.m., bitcoin was exchanging hands for $44,485 and saw an 8.98% increase since then. At the time of publication, at 6:30 p.m. (EST) on February 11, 2021, bitcoin (BTC) is swapping for $47,821 per coin.
With BTC so close to the $50k mark, people have been forecasting new price predictions for 2021. Some individuals think that the bull run is not over, and crypto supporters should expect to see much higher prices from here. Although, skeptics think that the leading crypto asset is completely worthless and the biggest bubble the world has seen in ages.
A Myriad of Bitcoin Price Predictions Between Zero to $600K
On February 11, the crypto analyst from the multi-asset investment platform Etoro, Simon Peters, explained in a note to investors that BTC could tap $70k by the year’s end.
“The crypto asset world is bursting into the realms of traditional finance at a staggering pace. Major payments provider Mastercard announced it will support digital assets directly via its own network, signaling yet another major milestone for the industry,” Peters wrote.
The Etoro analyst added:
Bitcoin and its peers are, quite simply, going to be part of the mainstream financial universe sooner rather than later. I expect demand to surge and see bitcoin prices hitting at least $70,000 by the end of this year.
As BTC neared the $50k handle Luno’s head of Asia Pacific Vijay Ayyar said he believes the price will surpass this psychological price zone. Ayyar stressed that bitcoin is “slowly inching away at gold’s market capitalization.”
But despite Luno’s Vijay Ayyar and others believing that bitcoin will eat away at gold’s market cap, gold bug Peter Schiff surely disagrees.
“Big Wall Street investment banks love the Fed,” Schiff tweeted. “They love the fiat monetary system, and they love government regulations that inhibit free markets and squash their smaller competitors. Now they also love Bitcoin. Is bitcoin being Wall Street’s newest BFF a problem for anyone?” Schiff asked his 355,000 Twitter followers.
When someone responded and said that BTC was a competitor to gold, Schiff again disagreed.
The gold bug replied:
Not really, but maybe Wall Street banks think it is. Since they hate gold it may make sense that they love bitcoin. The enemy of your enemy is your friend.
Other skeptics wholeheartedly agree with Schiff’s opinion, as the author of Inside View and Wall Street Journal contributor Andy Kessler thinks that BTC is worthless. In Kessler’s opinionated article dubbed “Behind the Bitcoin Bubble: Manipulative actors have been known to take advantage of the madness of crowds.”
In the article Kessler declares:
Bitcoin is nothing, it’s vapor, a concept of an idea. Transactions using bitcoin are few and far between. It’s not a store of value— anything that drops 30% in a week can’t play that role.