Bitcoin Price: Tim Draper is Not Losing Sight on $250k Target

Tim Draper has extended the timeline for Bitcoin price to touch the $250,000 target which he projected when the coin was just $4,000
By Godfrey Benjamin
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Bitcoin (BTC) might be up by more than 84% in the Year-to-Date (YTD) period, it is largely underperforming when the predictions of major market analysts and investors are brought into focus.

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Owning up to Failed Price Call

One of the top voices in the Bitcoin ecosystem is Tim Draper, the renowned American Venture Capital investor. Draper is arguably one of the most enthusiastic personalities when it comes to Bitcoin, and he predicted, a couple of years ago, that the premier digital currency will be trading at a price of $250,000 by this time.

Taking to his official Twitter handle, Draper acknowledged that the prediction did not come off right. He made the forecast at the time when the price of the cryptocurrency was pegged at just $4,000. Should his prediction had come to pass, BTC would have climbed by 60x from that point but on the contrary, the coin has only managed about a 7x growth at the current price around $30,500.

Despite the target he projected still being a mile away, Tim Draper is not giving up hopes that the coin can indeed reach that ambitious level. He is, however, shifting his grounds and is giving a 2-year allowance for the cryptocurrency to hit that price range. 

One of the rationale he postulated is the fact that the coin’s core developers or “engineers are hard at work.” This might be related to the growth in Lightning Network adoption and the emergence of Ordinals Inscription on the network across board.

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Tim Draper is not Alone

In reality, Tim Draper is not alone with the forecast he shares considering the fact that other top analysts have also made forecasts that are largely yet to materialize.

One of these top analysts is PlanB, the founder of the Stock-2-Flow (S2F) Model. According to PlanB, Bitcoin is destined to hit the $500,000 price mark, a call that has not been realized despite his constant claim that the fundamentals as presented in the S2F model holds true. 

Bitcoin is the obvious leader in the industry, however, its volatility is still intense and many are optimistic that with the potential emergence of a spot Bitcoin ETF in the US, the crypto asset may finally receive the needed boost to print these massive price highs.

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Godfrey Benjamin
Benjamin Godfrey is a blockchain enthusiast and journalists who relish writing about the real life applications of blockchain technology and innovations to drive general acceptance and worldwide integration of the emerging technology. His desires to educate people about cryptocurrencies inspires his contributions to renowned blockchain based media and sites. Benjamin Godfrey is a lover of sports and agriculture. Follow him on X, Linkedin
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