Julian Hosp, founder of TEnX, sees 150% increase for bitcoin and the cryptocurrency market could potentially rise 7 or 8 times the current level.
The work on scaling Issues and bitcoin is the most important crypto because government backed money goes in or out of bitcoin and in effect, affects the entire crypto market.
Large scale and more legitimate ICO's will require ether and that translates as a possible rise in ethereum to $200 billion .
Regulation in the long run will provide legitimacy, stability, and certainty which will give institutional investors the assurance to invest in cryptocurrencies.
A lot of execution and usability as both users and merchants are set to increase dramatically in 2018.
Institutional investors will start their first year of flowing money into cryptocurrencies and the current estimate is 10-12 billion so you can imagine that is the tip of the iceberg compared to the amount they have available to invest.
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