Bitcoin (BTC), Monero (XMR)–According to a report by the initial coin offering (ICO) advisory and research firm Satis Group, both Monero and Bitcoin look to be the biggest winners in terms of price gain over the next decade. Satis, which publishes outlooks for both ICOs and current cryptocurrencies, as well as advising on the forces that will shape the industry, has released a new forecast for the next ten years that puts XMR as the greatest price gainer while predicting XRP to be in for a historic crash.
According to the report, Monero is predicted to have a price appreciation of 38391 percent over the next ten years, bringing the price to a whopping $39,584 (up from its current value of $108 as of writing). The report also predicts Monero having a strong performance over the next year, predicting a four-digit percentage increase in price to bring the valuation of XMR to $1476.
In addition to being bullish on Monero, the new report also finds more profit to be made through Bitcoin, claiming that the number one currency by market capitalization will eclipse it’s previous all time high of $20,000 at some point in the next year to bring the total value of BTC to $32,914. The five and ten year outlook for Bitcoin is equally positive, with the coin poised to hit $96,378 and $143,900, respectively, over the coming decade. Ethereum and Litecoin were also listed in the report with positive gains, however Satis Group predicts neither coin to perform anywhere near as well as Monero and Bitcoin. Litecoin has an expected 10-year price outlook of $225, failing to eclipse December 2017’s all time high, while Ethereum’s outlook is pegged at $588–again failing to retest previous highs.
Interestingly, Satis Group finds XRP to have an overwhelmingly negative outlook, predicting the coin to reach a historic low in investment price. The former product of blockchain startup Ripple and current third overall cryptocurrency by market cap is predicted to be worth a penny in five-year’s time, and less than that over the full decade forecast. XRP, which once traded for as high as $3.84 per coin during the January’s bull run, is expected to continue a slow decline worth up to 90 percent of the current value, a price point that would result in a 99.7 percent decline since the last all time high.
The reasoning behind such a meteoric rise for Monero stems from the belief by Satis Group that anonymity-providing currencies will form the dominant share of the market rather than the current projection towards Dapps. Satis Group finds penetration into offshore deposit markets as the natural extension for the growth of cryptocurrency, making the value of a currency like XMR–which rebuffs censorship and can hide user transaction information–more attractive if the industry shifts towards providing greater privacy services.
Bitcoin also received a positive review from Satis Group, with the company highlighting that the high marketability and brand appeal of the coin would continue to climb with the growing penetration of cryptocurrency into society. Taken from the report,
“Despite a lack of appeal during retail frenzies, we continue to believe that BTC and its network effect will dominate end-market share within Currencies and the overall cryptoasset market, driven by: 1) increasing liquidity and purchasing avenues, 2) increasing brand recognition, 3) its position as the default base-pair within the crypto markets, 4) declining relative volatility, 5) relative lack of attack vectors, 6) network capacity alleviation through the maturity of layer-2 solutions, and 7) an increasingly high attack and overthrow cost.”
