The venture investor has made such a forecast in the past, so this is not the first time he has done so. The investor had previously predicted that the most valuable digital asset will reach the price threshold of $250,000 within a year in an interview with the same media source back in January. According to ZyCrypto’s research, he also kept the same prognosis when conversing with cryptocurrency dealer Scott Melker in the month of May. According to an article that was published in Forbes on Friday, Draper has not changed his position.
“At this point, I am more certain than I have ever been that it is taking place.”
It is important to remember that in May, when he was speaking to Melker, Draper cited the rising acceptance of cryptocurrencies by women as the driving force that would bring Bitcoin to its current price position. Draper said at the time that women presently hold 51 percent of the wealth in the United States, and he stated that in the event that these women began utilizing Bitcoin as a means of payment for products and services, it would most certainly cause the value of the digital currency to skyrocket.
The Bitcoin devotees are filled with amazement at Draper’s decision to enter the realm of cryptocurrency. The investor wagered $19 million on the asset in 2014, purchasing 30,000 BTC each at a price point of approximately $600 in an auction of the gains seized from the infamous Silk Road dark web platform. Later that year, the investor predicted that 1 Bitcoin would trade hands for $10,000 within the next three years, and he placed his bet accordingly.
It is not only the venture capitalist but also other pundits who had predicted that 2022 would be a prosperous year for bitcoin. Several Bitcoin experts had expected that the digital currency will finally surpass the coveted $100,000 price mark in the first quarter of this year, but the reality has been very different from what they had anticipated.
Bitcoin and the rest of the cryptocurrency market have maintained their downward path, which has been hindered by an increasingly gloomy prognosis for the macroeconomic environment and a strong association with tech stocks. As a direct result of this, a number of flaws and dangers in the blockchain business that were masked by the excitement and bull run in 2021 have been brought to the forefront.
The failure of poor initiatives that were able to get funding in prosperous times has resulted in the loss of that funding to the investors who supported them. The cryptocurrency markets are a long way from the all-time highs witnessed in November of 2021, as the overall market value is battling to regain above $1 trillion, having fallen to roughly $3 trillion in November from its all-time high of nearly $1 trillion. Bitcoin’s price was over $69,000 in November, while it was only $47,000 at the beginning of the year. It is now trading around the $20,000 price threshold.
In spite of the recent difficulties, there are still a lot of signs that the asset class is going to be there for a little longer. This year saw the adoption of bitcoin as a form of legal money in the Central African Republic, making it the second nation in the world to do so. Surveys have shown that a number of conventional financial institutions continue to have an interest in the cryptocurrency asset, and a number of luxury businesses have recently begun accepting payments in the cryptocurrency asset.