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Despite the price of bitcoin reaching a record high in 2017 and then taking a bearish turn as 2018 kicked in,dynamic retroarch background for gamecube bitcoin bulls were not deterred and continued making overoptimistic predictions throughout the year.

Among the prominent bitcoin bulls, the co-founder of markets analysis firm Fundstrat Global, Tom Lee, stood out for his unrelenting optimism despite continually being proved wrong. Speaking to the business channel CNBC in late April 2018, Tom projected that the price of

bitcoin would reach US$25,000

by the end of the year:

We still feel pretty confident bitcoin is a great risk/reward, and we think it can reach $25,000 by the end of the year.

Fundstrat’s Lee Predicts $25,000 Bitcoin Price by 2018’s End

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April 13, 2018

At the time, the price of bitcoin was oscillating between US$7,500 to US$8,000 and Lee blamed the decline in price that had been witnessed in the weeks leading up to May 2018 on selling by U.S. investors who were looking to take profits as tax day approached.

Lee was to later revise his price target from

US$25,000 to US$22,000

as the bear market intensified. Last month when the price of bitcoin was hovering around US$3,400, Lee indicated that the

fair market value

of the digital asset ought to be between US$13,800 to US$14,800 based on ‘active wallet addresses, usage per account and factors influencing supply’.

To the Moon!

One of the most ambitious predictions of last year was by an analyst at Danish investment bank Saxo Bank, Kay Van-Petersen, who projected at the beginning of 2018 that the

price of bitcoin would reach US$100,000

by the end of the year. Then, Van-Petersen indicated that the rally would be driven primarily by the entry of institutional investors.

Bitcoin Price to Hit $100,000 in 2018, Predicts Saxo Bank Analyst

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January 16, 2018

A more modest prediction was made by the billionaire founder of cryptocurrency firm Galaxy Digital, Mike Novogratz, who forecast that bitcoin would hit the

US$40,000 price level in 2018

as Ethereum reached US$1,500:

Bitcoin could be at $40,000 at the end of 2018. It easily could. Ethereum, which I think just touched $500 or is getting close, could be triple where it is as well.

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Novogratz’s prediction did not come to pass just like was the case with the co-founder and chief executive of crypto exchange BitMEX who had projected that the price of bitcoin would

skyrocket to US$50,000

in 2018. At the time, the price of bitcoin was around the US$8,800 level.

Bullish Call: BitMEX Chief Predicts Bitcoin Price to Hit $50,000 in 2018

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May 15, 2018

Did not go to Zero

With bitcoin racking up

nearly 100 obituaries

in 2018, the year was not complete without a prediction that the cryptocurrency would crash to zero. One of the most prominent of these calls was by the chief economist of asset management firm Vanguard, Joe Davis, who said

bitcoin would eventually become worthless

since its price was not based on ‘economic fundamentals’:

I’m enthusiastic about the blockchain technology that makes bitcoin possible. In fact, Vanguard is using such technology. As for bitcoin the currency? I see a decent probability that its price goes to zero.

With bitcoin having defied both skeptics and optimists last year, it will be interesting to see what 2019 has in store for the cryptocurrency.

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