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HitcryptoBitcoin returns to the $12,000–$20,000 price range within the next few years
A scored prediction by Benjamin Cowen, made on .
Scored prediction
Hitcrypto“we're going to likely get back into these regions you know between say twelve thousand and twenty thousand dollars crossing them and then pulling back crossing them again to join this general uptrend”
Bitcoin returns to the $12,000–$20,000 price range within the next few years
- Made on
- 2020-01-28
- Outcome
- Hit
- Importance
- 3 / 5
- Effect on score
- +2.76
What counted as right
- Status
- resolved
- Settled on
- 2020-08-17
Bitcoin's price reaches the $12,000–$20,000 range at some point on or before 2023-01-28.
Criterion ('reaches the $12,000–$20,000 range at some point on or before 2023-01-28') is satisfied unambiguously. First touch of the range was 2020-08-17 (~$12,375); it then traded through the range Oct–Dec 2020 (Oct close $13,781) before exceeding $20,000 in Dec 2020. No conflicting evidence — Bitcoin's price history is well-documented across multiple sources. resolved_on set to the earliest date the criterion was met.
Sources
Bitcoin: But how many times have we crossed $9,000?
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Evidence of what happened
Bitcoin broke above $12,000 on 2020-08-17, trading as high as ~$12,375 — the first time it entered the $12,000–$20,000 range after the 2020-01-28 prediction (BTC was ~$9,350 when the call was made).
Bitcoin held within the range durably that autumn, closing October 2020 at $13,780.99 (up 27.7% for the month) after 97 consecutive days above $10,000 — squarely inside the $12,000–$20,000 band before crossing $20,000 in December 2020.
Corrections
- tags: Tag dictionary: a cryptocurrency price/level call is 'crypto' (primary); a pure crypto price bet also carries 'markets' (secondary).
Effect on the score
+2.76- How sure they sounded
- 80%
- Outcome
- Hit
- Importance
- 3 / 5
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Where this came from
Bitcoin returns to the $12,000–$20,000 price range within t…- Methodology version
- v1.0.0
- Last computed
- August 2, 2026
- Made on
- 2020-01-28
How this profile was built
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