$20,000 is the floor price for how far Bitcoin could go down, said Sonny Singh, Chief Commercial Officer at BitPay.

As for the upside, given that his $30k target has been hit in just 20 days rather than taking over a month, with “very little sell-side pressure,” he sees BTC going to $40k-$45k next month when some pressure will be seen.

Sonny also predicted that this year Bitcoin will “become a trillion-dollar currency” and the magic number for that is $54,000 roughly. At this point, he expects, even governments and the Treasury Department to start buying BTC “which may sound far-fetched but two years ago corporations buying bitcoin for the balance sheet was crazy too.”

Talking about the current price movement in the market, Sonny said Monday's 20% correction was “just a minor blip in the road” — it wasn’t long-term fundamentals at all rather just futures getting liquidated. Singh said in his interview on Bloomberg,

“What you're seeing over the last month is there's supply and demand. There are a lot of institutional buyers out there and there's very little supply.”

While these buyers have bought in all the BTC for a three to five-year time horizon, if Bitcoin hits about $45,000 next month or so and these institutions decide to start selling, the selling pressure of $200 million which the industry has never seen before can cause a catapulting event, to cause things to come down pretty quickly and there $20k will act as a floor, he explained.

On the regulation side, which remains a concern for outsiders, it is already happening. Governments are passing a lot of KYC/AML policies on the exchange but “that really won't slow growth,” said Singh.

While it may slow the utility of sending Bitcoin to your friends or spending it at merchants, regulation will only help the actual mass institutional buying and selling, he said.

As for the Ripple part, Singh said it is to be seen if the SEC would want to do a long drawn out court case or do a quick settlement, especially as the administration changes under the new president.

According to Wayne Trench, chief executive officer at OSL, the main regulatory hurdles are already solved in terms of custody and clarity.

The last remaining pieces are regulators globally collaborating cross-border which is starting to happen now, said Trench noting that industry bodies are working on collaborating across borders that we'll see play out a bit more in 2021.

Singh also believes Coinbase’s IPO is “very very instrumental” for the market because while Wall Street loved that Square traded $1.6 bln with crypto in Q3 last year, Coinbase traded $1.5 bln on this last Saturday.

“The revenue numbers at Coinbase are going to blow people's minds away and then Wall Street is going to really drive that stock price up,” he said. And then Charles Schwab, E-Trade, and others won’t sit back and let Coinbase have a sole market, Singh added.

“It's going to put a lot of media frenzy around this whole industry.”

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