Realistically, what do you see Chainlink being worth by the end of the year?

Too kind. This is a shit coin for shit people. You all got played - when will you realize this?

Maybe $2 if normies ever try to understand it.

Pretty average/conservative year: $20-25.

Decent year: $50

Great year: $100

Truly "WTF JUST HAPPENED" kind of rocket: $1000

Everything about LINK's price comes down to adoption. Over a long enough period of time, I think $1000 is definitely possible. The tricky bit is gauging how many developers are going to adopt it right away, and how quickly that pool grows. IIRC they have 19000 developers signed up for updates and by all appearances there's a lot of big players looking at building on Chainlink, so EOY price will range from $20-$1000 depending on how fast dApps integrate with it and what partnerships are officially disclosed past mainnet.

I wouldn't doubt $50

and link will go from 0.5$ to 0$ in less than that

normies are not even going to need to understand it. they take one look at the chart and hear the buzz words and they're in.

If we get a repeat from last year, this would be possible.

Never happening. NEVER.

You didn't just fall for the meme - you're the meme. Sorry user.

If normies are already into crypto and have some basic understanding of Ethereum, its not a huge leap to explain Chainlink.

Ethereum = decentralized computer that runs dApps

Chainlink = decentralized internet for said decentralized computer that connects blockchains to the real world

Your pitch to normies is easy: if you think the internet was successful, its worth considering investing in Chainlink because its the only project aiming to solve the data problem in a way that could feasibly become a standard protocol. And given that data is the new oil, and Chainlink is aiming to woo SWIFT and other financial use-cases, Chainlink's potential market cap is enormous.

In a wacky bull market I can see Link hitting $10 this year, howeer my EOY prediction is about tree fiddy.

Answer me this, anons: did I fall for ICX the same way linkies fell for chainshit??? Am I fucked like the linkies??? Unironically asking.

Let me guess. You didn't read the whitepaper did you?

The economics of LINK create a shitload of upward pressure on the price with adoption because nodes stake LINK, which removes them from the market. So as it becomes adopted, nodes will squat LINK, lowering supply and increasing price, while at the same time developers will be acquiring LINK to interact with the network also lowering supply and increasing price. In the end the majority of all LINK in circulation will be locked up in nodes and the price will remain high.

Keep in mind there are only 1 billion LINK servicing all data that will flow into and out of the blockchain. That's really not that much with some of the partnerships we know about lined up. Zeppelin_OS alone is going to account for a significant number of daily transactions from the dApps built with it that leverage the Chainlink network. The next Facebook will be a dApp, and my money is that it uses Chainlink.

$1-$3. Anyone who complains about either of those numbers is a greedy faggot as well. $3 is still 6x.

I would consider $7 to be an amazing result, and it would also mean I would have $1 million.

I appreciate the education, however my money is that each dApp will create its own oracle.

There are other electric cars besides Teslas. Other hamburgers besides McDonalds, other operating systems besides windows, other shoes besides nike, other tires besides goodyear, other papers besides zigzag. Shall i keep going or are you still convinced no one else can ever create another oracle.

$60 no joke.

>however my money is that each dApp will create its own oracle

As a developer I can tell you your money is poorly spent. That's like saying "I think every app developer will just make their own internet".

The only way dApps take over the world is if we have interoperability, like we do online. Having all oracles be siloed off and proprietary is an inefficient and error prone model. The reason Chainlink will likely become the standard is because its made to be extensible, allowing any developer to create an adapter for whatever chain they want and enable it to be connected to the Chainlink network and third party APIs.

There will certainly be more oracle networks, but it seems all the big players are lining up behind Chainlink, and as a network, network effects apply so having first mover advantage will lock in their spot for a while.

>absolute delusion

First logical response/defense of link that I've ever heard, thank you. What big players are lined up behind link? As a businessman, I can tell you sometimes its great to be first, a lot of times its better to be second.

$5 - $50 seems reasonable depending on market conditions

>when you realize most link fuders itt are link holders

$1 if stinky linkies are lucky

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Well it would appear that Microsoft's Cryptlets/Enterprise Smart Contracts are really just SDKs that wrap the Chainlink spec and allow developers to work with Chainlink more easily (while branding it in their own way for enterprise). A manager from Microsoft did an interview and in effect said that they realized some projects know more about the problems they're solving than they do, so with blockchain rather than aiming to make everything themselves they've been opting to work with projects and let them handle their part and just focus on developing tooling around it. With Microsoft in, that's already a strong indicator Chainlink will become the standard.

IBM has also circulated Oracle docs on their mailing list and Chainlink seemed to be one of the preferred options for any decentralized oracle needs. I believe there was another IBM lead at some point as well but I can't recall it now.

Tom Gosner, founder of Docusign, just retweeted something today calling him a LINK Marine, which confirms (kind of) suspicions of a Docusign partnership. Docusign is aiming to make a strong play into blockchains because they can see that they could potentially take over legal services from lawyers through smart contracts, and Chainlink would be their best way to pull that off. Their client pool is huge and spans a number of industries so that partnership will be a big deal.

I personally also suspect Facebook is looking into Chainlink. The Director of Engineering at Facebook is an Advisor for Chainlink, and Zuck's EOY message was all about blockchains/crypto. I think either late 2018 or some time in 2019 you'll see Facebook launch some big play into blockchain, and they'll be leaning hard on Chainlink to do it.

AHHAHAH SO DELUDED.
>1.5dollars MAX EOY

Oh, and then there's Zeppelin_OS which to me is the biggest deal. Chainlink is going to be baked right into the kernel of it, which means any nextgen dApps are going to very likely be integrating with Chainlink. Their partnerships are so far doing great at pulling in the current massive players, but with Zeppelin_OS they'll be positioned to be an integral part of the nextgen tech giants we see launch ~2019.