The main suspect of the 60,000 Bitcoin money laundering case, Qian Zhimin, predicted in 2018 that BTC would rise to $40,000 to $55,000 in 2021.

According to a report by Jinse Finance, Caixin.com disclosed that a diary written by Qian Zhimin between May and July 2018 shows that she formulated a “six-year plan” for 2018 to 2023, anchoring almost all large expenditures to Bitcoin. The diary states that in 2018, based on a calculation of “approximately $6,800 per coin”, she planned to sell at least 4,000 Bitcoins; in 2019, assuming the price rose to “$8,200”, she would sell no more than 1,500; by 2020, she further raised the budget price to “$9,500”, and in her diary, she bet that after entering 2021, the coin price would remain long-term between $40,000 to $55,000.