Market Capitalization Analysis
Another way to make price forecasts is to compare Ethereum with Apple and Microsoft.
If Ethereum is the “operating system” upon which future blockchain applications are built, it could be compared to Apple and Microsoft, which built the two primary computer operating systems used worldwide.
The combined market capitalizations of Apple and Microsoft are approximately $1.5 trillion at the time of writing whereas Ethereum had a market capitalization just north of $100 billion.
If Ethereum were to realize its potential as the platform upon which all future blockchain technologies were built perhaps its price rise has a significant runway ahead of it yet.
But Apple and Microsoft produce real products and have real customers that pay them year after year so it is difficult to make a like-for-like comparison.
And it would be a bold claim to infer that Ethereum could grow to a market capitalization as large as $1.5 trillion.
The expectation of capturing future value is largely what has catapulted the price of Ethereum and other cryptocurrencies higher.
Whether they will sustain their valuations and continue to grow will depend on how closely expectations match reality.
Ethereum Price Forecast: What Experts Predict
John McAfee became famous as the founder of McAfee anti-virus software but more recently he has jumped on the cryptocurrency bandwagon with gusto.
As one of the leading cryptocurrency miners in the United States, he has predicted a rise in Bitcoin to $1,000,000 per coin by 2020.
If Ethereum were to rise in price by the same amount, it would translate to a 50x increase, which would seem to defy reason because that would equate to a market capitalization of $5.7 trillion!