The software that controls the Bitcoin network is set up to cut the reward – the amount of Bitcoin a miner receives for solving a block – in half at regular intervals. The first halving in 2012 cut the reward from 50 bitcoins to 25. The second was in 2016 and cut the reward to 12.5. The next halving is expected in May of 2020. And as you can see, following each halving, the BTC market follows a heavy bull upward trend. And according the my analytics, I predict we have the possibility of hitting up to almost 250k by 2022.