Bitcoin Price Prediction: Is A Plunge To $20,000 Possible?

Crypto News
2 min readApr 23, 2021

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Tesla has confirmed that consumers now can purchase their electrical automobiles using Bitcoin.

Regardless of Bitcoin’s aggressive rally the past 7 months, rising from $10,600 to a record high $65,000, a prominent investor believes the largest cryptocurrency will topple to less than half its existing worth prior to soaring to all-time highs in the long run.

Scott Minerd, Guggenheim Partner’s global chief investment officer, believes Bitcoin’s cost is moving too fast and a significant correction is most likely in the horizon. In an interview with CNBC’s “Worldwide Exchange” on Wednesday, Minerd thinks a drop of 50% might occur quickly.

“ I think we might pull back to $20,000 to $30,000 on Bitcoin, which would be a 50% decline,” he stated.

The executive, however, added that a correction isn’t something financiers ought to be fretted about as this is absolutely nothing new to the cryptocurrency.

“ The intriguing aspect of Bitcoin is we’ve seen these sort of declines before,” Minerd included.” [It’s] the normal evolution in what is a longer-term bull market.” Minerd is also optimistic the most in-demand cryptocurrency could reach record levels, ultimately striking $400,000 to $600,000.

“ Our basic work reveals that Bitcoin must deserve about $400,000,” Minerd told Bloomberg in December. “It’s based on the deficiency and relative valuation such as things like gold as a percentage of GDP. You understand, Bitcoin in fact has a lot of the characteristics of gold and at the exact same time has an unusual value in terms of deals.”

The surge will likewise be driven by big investors and financial institutions’ continuous adoption of the token. In March, Tesla validated that consumers can now purchase their electrical automobiles using Bitcoin. On Tuesday, WeWork has just validated that it will start accepting cryptocurrency payments.

Costs Miller, a long time Bitcoin financier, likewise told CNBC he’s not worried about the token remaining in a bubble like in 2017, when it reached nearly $20,000 before plunging and losing 80% of its value.

“Supply is growing 2% a year and demand is growing much faster. That’s all you actually require to understand, which suggests it’s going higher,” Miller stated.

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