I am excited for Bitcoin heading to $100,000 in 2018, This information was produced by an analyst who predicted last year's price rise. Bitcoin could hit $100,000 in 2018, this analyst who correctly predicted the cryptocurrency's rally at the start of last year told CNBC on a sunny beautiful Tuesday morning Van-Petersen forecast in December 2016 that bitcoin would reach $2,000 in 2017. This was a unexpected rise especially in 2017 where experts found that bitcoin would rise to $5000 but boosted to a whopping $10,000 in value. This made early investors happy as these major coin holders became millionaires.