Those aren't facts, they're predictions--and they're predictions people have been making for years now.  The truth is that nobody can (or should) tell you with a straight face what bitcoin's price is going to be tomorrow, much less at any point after that.  No one knows.  We could have nuclear war that wipes out the internet, or something could come along that makes bitcoin obsolete, or any number of scenarios whereby it won't rocket to the moon.  It's only ten years old and hasn't been widely adopted yet, so pretty much anything could happen.  Do I hope bitcoin goes to $50k?  Yes.  Do I hope it achieves a market cap in the trillions of dollars?  Absolutely.  But I can't bring myself to speak with your level of certainty, because I'm not sure it's going to do those things ever.

I hear this quite a bit, and I don't agree with it.  Those "whales" might have the ability to manipulate bitcoin's price, but you have to realize that there are probably millions of people who own bitcoin and who thereby contribute to the price being what it is, so I tend to think of it as the free market in action.  You'd also think that if people who owned tons of bitcoin could and did manipulate its price, it'd be a hell of a lot higher than it is now.