I read someone claim the last controversial ETF took seven years.  It might be a couple years from now, or it could even occur in 2017.  I could see them fast tracking it if the post-halving charts don't look like a completely ridiculous pump and dump going from like $500 to $10,000 and back to $1000 again.  People would think that's kind of suspicious.  If it went from $500 to $3200 then back to $1600, they would consider that OK and just price discovery/growing market.

Yeah, that must be dirty rum. I am amazed as well about how they do not understand anything about the possibilities of Bitcoin and bitcoin at all.
This is a great post OP btw! I can finally ignore all noise accounts with ease! I just need to check for 2 keywords together in a reply: '10.000' +'never' =auto ignore :-D

Anyone who thinks 10.000$/BTC is unattainable, or it needs decades - hello, ever heard of exponentially growing network effect?? -, just have no clue about the economics of the world or suck at mathematics (real bad!!), or both. 10.000$/BTC equals at the max. of 21 million coins as ~210 billion dollars of market capitalization. Gold is a 7,5+ trillion dollar market today and it is basically useless in everyday economic activity, unlike bitcoin. Heck, a middle sized trust fund is bigger than 210 billion $.

All "skeptics" should check this out: http://money.visualcapitalist.com/all-of-the-worlds-money-and-markets-in-one-visualization/
It is an awesome and shocking graph about how small bitcoin is (like a small town's yearly budget).

Also:


Now tell us how bitcoin can't get above 1000$.