Forget $20,000 or $6,000 mark, Bitcoin may reach $60,000 in 2018?; here’s how?

Bitcoin has been in talks for so long that now people can understand what’s happening with the coin. This cyber currency is tumbling and the same is being witnessed for nearly six months now. Because of its downward movement, investors are losing their interest in other cryptocurrencies. There are somewhat 1,629 digital coins listed on CoinMarketCap with Bitcoin dominating the market. Bitcoin’s valuation is very volatile, at first it showed a great movement by touching nearly $20,000-mark, but it later entered below $10,000, and then further went down to almost $6,000. 

Today, Bitcoin was trading at $6,447.55 mark, down by 1.51%, as per CoinMarketCap. This could be Bitcoin’s new low, compared to April 1, when it stood near $6,572.66.  The market cap of Bitcoin currently stands at $110.61 billion.

One can now understand that Bitcoin has entered into its bubble phase. Earlier, a Recode report called Bitcoin as a greatest scam in history, stating that promoters claim cryptocurrency is valuable as (1) a means of payment, (2) a store of value and/or (3) a thing in itself. None of these claims are true, the report said. 
 

Therefore, where is actually Bitcoin heading nobody knows. But Phillip Nunn, CEO of The Blackmore Group and Wealth Chain Group, has an answer to this. 

Nunn in a Bitcoinist.com report said that the price of Bitcoin in the year of 2018 would reach a bottom of $6,000 and a high of $60,000. At the time of the prediction, the price of Bitcoin had pulled back a large percentage of its run-up to an all-time high in mid-December of almost $20,000 and was sitting at just over $10,000.

Yes, you heard it right, Bitcoin is believed to crack $60,000 mark and that too by end of 2018 itself. 

As per the Bitcoinist, the first half of Nunn’s prediction came true in the first week of February when the price of Bitcoin briefly fell below $6000. Now, many are sceptical whether Bitcoin will be able to return to its $20,000 all-time high in 2018, or let alone come anywhere close to $60,000.

“All the money that exists in crypto at the moment is from the public, so it’s all about market sentiment. A flood of bad news can wobble the market, stuff like regulation. The industry is so small that there’s market manipulation,” Nunn adds.

Nunn explains that the cryptocurrency market is still relatively young and quite small compared to traditional markets, and cryptocurrency’s small market cap makes it easier to manipulate. He further elaborates that constant waves of news concerning regulation, technology, and security make the cryptocurrency market truly unique.

It is true cryptocurrency market is still young worldwide. Marc Andreessen, an American investor in Incrementum research, said, "Bitcoin gives us, for the first time, a way for one Internet user to transfer a unique piece of digital property to another Internet user, such that the transfer is guaranteed to be safe and secure, everyone knows that the transfer has taken place, and nobody can challenge the legitimacy of the transfer. The consequences of this breakthrough are hard to overstate.”

Recently, a Coindesk report highlighted that the Bank of Russia, Sberbank and Alfa Bank will offer their clients shares in a special fund that will be trading the six most popular cryptocurrencies on major exchanges, including Kraken and Bitstamp. 
 
However,  Nunn's prediction for Bitcoin will be keenly watched. So far, he has been right about downtrend in the coin. His prediction, therefore, makes it very exciting for further trading. 

Bitcoin was trading at $14 on January 2013, but it grew 141,825.71% or 1419.26 times by December 17, 2017 - where it clocked $19,869.60-mark. If Bitcoin manages to gain $60,000-mark, it will grow by a behemoth 4,28,471.43% or 4,285 times from the 2013-level.