The co-founder and CEO of one of many best-known Bitcoin (BTC) firms has revealed he’s at his most bullish on the most important cryptocurrency in 5 years.

In a series of tweets on Oct. 6, Invoice Barhydt, the CEO of funds gateway Abra, highlighted numerous indicators suggesting incoming BTC value features.

“I’ve by no means been this excited concerning the potential of #Bitcoin for important value appreciation within the quick time period (lower than 18 month time-frame.),” he summarized.

Bitcoin has spent the previous few weeks in a consolidatory sample after hitting highs of $12,500. Whereas short-term value prospects look underwhelming to analysts, others say that community fundamentals and long-term habits are as bullish as ever.

For Barhydt, even present motion is a trigger for optimism.

That perspective chimes with others from this yr, notably Credible Crypto, who in Could argued that BTC/USD had been consolidating ever since its all-time highs in 2017.

The outlook, Barhydt added, was for a retest of these $20,000 highs to spark even greater ranges by default.

“The community results of a run to $25k #Bitcoin would seemingly trigger a run to $50k and past,” he wrote.

BTC/USD one-month chart. Supply: Coin360

Bitcoin value stars align

Away from value, Barhydt famous inflows from the stablecoin Tether (USDT), now with a market cap of $15 billion. 

The assist of main firms and even latest endorsement from Chinese language state media additional buoyed his temper. As Cointelegraph reported, numerous publications final month described cryptocurrency as 2020’s best-performing funding.

Concluding, he mentioned that circumstances have been extra skewed to the upside now than at any time for the reason that days lengthy earlier than the 2017 bull run.

A later tweet added a caveat that BTC/USD may nonetheless drop to $5,000 and by no means attain $100,000.

Value expectations stay subdued this month due to Bitcoin’s continued correlation to macro markets, notably indices such because the S&P 500 and gold. 

United States President Donald Trump’s latest brush with coronavirus served to underscore the connection, with BTC/USD dropping from just below $11,000 to lows of $10,390. At publishing time, the pair is buying and selling at $10,600.