Tracking the price of bitcoin can be an fascination for some, an obsession for others.

Since ZapChain is the best place to talk about bitcoin with experts, we decided to ask:

“How much do you think Bitcoin will be worth in a year?”

Here’s what some people said.

Realistic

…completely plausible — at or near historical prices

$700

“Aug 2015 — $756.” — Keith Horwood, Advertising @ CoinDesk

$1,200

“I’d estimate one Bitcoin will be in the vicinity of $1,200 USD by July 2015.” — Matthew J Martin, Founder of BlossomFinance.com

$1,500

“I hope that within a year the price will be driven primarily by mass adoption for transactional use and not speculators. If this is the case the price will not rise absurdly because speculators will move to more volatile assets. I do think it will hit USD 1500.” — Teemu Paivinen, Founder / CEO at Coinmotion

Moon Shots

…where no bitcoin price has gone before

$2,000

“$2000 is a great conservative value. We could see another hockeystick this year, which would see even higher prices.” — Mark Hopkins, Founding Editor SiliconANGLE

$3,000

“Once eBay and PayPal begin Bitcoin implementation, which will hopefully happen in 2015, I believe Bitcoin will soar to $3000.” — Jason Rosenstein, technologist

$30,000

“I fit a logistic trend line to prices as of last November. The predicted average price for next summer is $30K.” — Stephen Reed, artificial intelligence entrepreneur

Or the price could be

…a total gamble

$0

“It could be worth nothing, for all we know. Anything anyone says about the price of bitcoin in the future is pure speculation and like predicting the outcome of a slot machine.“ — Jackson Palmer, creator of dogecoin

Who Knows!?!?

“Does anybody really know?” — Mugur Marculescu, BitPagos

Why even try?

“Nobody can guess that. Don’t try. Focus on value.” — Ben Parr, Author, Captivology

Do you think you know where the price of bitcoin is going? Do you have a specific reason why you think this?