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Economist: Ethereum To Repeat Bitcoin Rally To $20K, According To Metcalfe’s Law

Tony "The Bull" Severino by Tony "The Bull" Severino
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Ethereum is now the second major cryptocurrency from the last bull run to break its former all-time high. One author and economist, however, claims that this is only the beginning of the top altcoin following in Bitcoin’s footsteps, and will soon rally to $20,000 mimicking the epic 2017 bull run. Here’s the theory behind the lofty price target more than 10 times the current price per token.

Economist Estimates The Long Term Value of Ethereum Using Metcalfe’s Law

Ethereum this week set a new all-time high, beating its peak set in 2017 amidst a flurry of initial coin offerings and widespread retail FOMO. The top ranked altcoin topped out at $1,419 on Coinbase back in January 2018 – weeks after Bitcoin set its then-record at $20,000.

And although it fell to $80 in the years following, and is only now trading at that former level, an economist, trader, and mathematician believes that Ethereum will follow Bitcoin’s steps to $20,000 eventually.

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D. H. Taylor based the target on “Metcalf’s Law [sic] .” According to a summary, Metcalfe’s Law can map “the rate of growth of a network” using “the square of the number” of its users.

“Internet usage, Facebook, and Bitcoin can all be mapped using Metcalf’s Law [sic] , including the price moves of Bitcoin,” the summary continues.

Using Metcalfe’s Law, the author claims that Ethereum will repeat “what Bitcoin did” and move up to $20,000 per ETH.

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Ethereum is following Bitcoin's steps fairly consistently thus far | Source: ETHUSD on TradingView.com

Repeating Bitcoin’s Meteoric Rise Or Outright Outperformance?

A rise from $1,400 per ETH to over $20,000 might sound implausible, but it’s only a 1400% gain from current prices. From May 2017 to January 2018 the altcoin did that much and then some, moving four times that amount during the entirety of 2017.

The report’s author appears to believe the Metcalfe’s Law should put the price per Ether at more than $20,000, following Bitcoin’s “meteoric rise” in 2017.

However, other well known economists, such as Claude Erb of the National Bureau of Economic Research in Cambridge, Massachusetts, have used the model to cap Bitcoin’s maximum price at only $73,000 per BTC. If that’s the ceiling on Bitcoin then a $20,000 target on Ethereum isn’t as realistic.

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The problem with Erb’s application of Metcalfe’s Law, is that he incorrectly relies on the total supply of BTC as the total number of “users.” That would suggest Ethereum’s value could go higher than Bitcoin’s based on the total number of tokens, but cryptocurrencies are far more decentralized. The former commodities portfolio manager and finance professor at Duke University lacks a deep enough understanding of the underlying technology.

Taylor, the author with the large target per ETH, does the technology justice and based on their usage of the methodology, expects Ethereum to outpace Bitcoin and eventually have a repeat performance of the cryptocurrency’s 2017 rally.

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Tony "The Bull" Severino

Tony "The Bull" Severino, a technical analyst and Head of Research at Bitcoinist. As the founder of CoinChartist.io, an educational platform for crypto traders focused on technical analysis, Tony provides his expertise to help others understand and apply this methodology. He has partnered with industry leaders like Elliott Wave International and TradingView. Through his partnerships, educational resources, and leadership roles, Tony has established himself as an authority on leveraging technical analysis to trade cryptocurrencies.

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