The prices of gold and silver are suppressed to protect the dollar. The paper markets sell 100 or 200 shares of paper gold and silver for every ounce that actually exist. Based on US dollar creation silver should cost $817 an ounce and gold should cost $6746 an ounce. Check it out at

http://www.usdebtclock.org/gold-precious-metals.html

Is Bitcoin in a bubble? It looks that way. Could it still experience exponential growth and reach $50,000? I think it could. I think there's still money to be made by people who get in now and get out at the right time later.