Zhu Fa, co-founder of crypto mining pool Poolin, recently made a bullish statement on bitcoin’s price, predicting that bitcoin would surge to new highs at 5 million Chinese yuan (roughly US $740,000).
From record high above $17,000 to year lows near $3,000, Bitcoin’s year-long turbulence has not discouraged crypto bulls. The operator of the world’s fourth-largest mining pool with over 11% of global hashrate still goes hyperbolic on bitcoin price forecast despite the current sluggish climate.
There’s some consensus in the industry that the highs will be 10-20 times what they were in the previous bull run, that means, the new highs in the next bull would be 1 million to 2 million yuan, and 500,000 to 4 million yuan with a 50-200 percent margin of error, he says, however, bitcoin price will not always go up like this. Some claim that the next bull will be the last run, in this sense, an extra one million yuan can be added.
He posted the prediction on instant messaging platform WeChat on Feb.10, commenting another bitcoin billionaire Zhao Dong’s statement that bitcoin right now is the cheapest. Zhu continued that “likes and comments on crypto posts in the community keep going low these days, it now feels more like a bear market”. At the same period last year, numerous WeChat groups on crypto have been emerging and crypto climbed as one of the most talked about topics last Spring Festival in the country.