Qian Zhimin, the mastermind behind a money laundering case involving 60,000 Bitcoins, predicted seven years ago that BTC would rise to $40,000-$55,000 in 2021.

PANews reported on November 16th that, according to Caixin.com, a diary entry written by Qian Zhimin between May and July 2018 reveals that she formulated a "six-year plan" for 2018-2023, anchoring almost all major expenditures to Bitcoin. The diary states that in 2018, based on a price 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 planned to sell no more than 1,500; and in 2020, she further raised her budget to $9,500, betting in her diary that the price would remain between $40,000 and $55,000 per coin long after 2021.