Key Takeaways

• MINA has struggled since reaching an all-time low in August 2023.
• The MINA coin supports the intentionally-small Mina blockchain.
• Can MINA ever recover?
• One Mina price prediction says it can reach $145 in 2025. 

 

The MINA cryptocurrency has not been in a good place recently. It fell to an all-time low in August 2023 and has barely recovered since then. 

Although the news  that it was working on an upgrade could have generated interest, it didn’t. A blockchain that prides itself on being small is, currently, struggling to gain any sort of traction.  

Mina did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

But what is Mina (MINA)? How does Mina work? Let’s see what we can find out, and also take a look at some of the Mina Price Predictions that were being made as of September 7 2023.

 

Mina Coin Price Prediction

Let’s examine some of the Mina price predictions being made on September 7 2023. It is crucial to bear in mind that price forecasts, particularly for a potentially volatile asset like cryptocurrency, often turn out to be inaccurate. Additionally, please remember that many long-term crypto price predictions are generated using algorithms, which means they can change at any time.

First, CoinCodex  had a short-term MINA price prediction which said the coin would drop to $0.3426 by September 11. It then said MINA would recover to $0.4062 by October 6. The site’s technical analysis was bearish, with 18 indicators sending discouraging signals and 10 making bullish ones. 

Mina Price Prediction for 2023

DigitalCoinPrice  said that MINA would be worth $0.73 in 2023. CaptainAltCoin  had the coin trading at $0.5063 in December. PricePrediction.net  thought it would reach $0.51 this year.

Mina Price Prediction for 2025

Moving on, CaptainAltCoin thought MINA would hit $1.45 in two years time, while PricePrediction.net said it would be worth $1.06. DigitalCoinPrice’s Mina price forecast said it would trade at $1.30 in 2025. 

Mina Price Prediction for 2030

Looking at a more long-term Mina price prediction, PricePrediction.net said Mina would trade at $6.63 in 2030. Bitnation  thought it would stand at $3.21, while DigitalCoinPrice said it would reach $3.85 at the start of the next decade. 

 

MINA Price History

Now, let’s examine some of the highlights and lowlights of the Mina price history . While we should never take past performance as an indicator of future results, knowing what the coin has achieved can provide us with some very useful context if we want to make or interpret a Mina price prediction.

Mina came onto the open market at the start of the summer in 2021. On June 1, it reached an all-time high of $9.91. Unfortunately, the market was in a decline at that time and the price soon shot down. The coin sank below the dollar in late July. However, there was a recovery, and MINA trade at above $5 in September. It stabilized at above $4 for a few months, but dropped to close the year at $3.55. 

2022 was a very bad year for cryptocurrency. The collapse of the Terra (LUNA) blockchain saw MINA fall below the dollar in May. Not only that, but the aftermath of the FTX (FTT) exchange’s bankruptcy saw it close the year at $0.4339. This meant MINA lost nearly 90% of its value in 2022.

Mina in 2023

So far, 2023 has been a bad year for Mina. It started well enough, climbing past the dollar in February. The coin then fell, and the United States Securities and Exchange Commission suing the Binance and Coinbase exchanges in June hit it hard. When Crypto.com (CRO) suspended its US institutional arm on June 10, MINA dropped to a low of $0.3756. Following that, there was a recovery. Things looked especially hopeful on July 14. Following a court ruling that Ripple’s XRP was not a security if it was sold on an exchange, MINA rallied to $0.5127. 

There was another downturn, though. When the market collapsed following Elon Musk’s SpaceX offloading millions of dollars worth of Bitcoin (BTC) on August 17, MINA fell to an all-time low of $0.3617. By September 7, it had barely moved and was worth about $0.3765. 

At that time, there were 963.7 MINA in circulation out of a total supply of just over one billion. This gave the coin a market cap of about $362.6 million, making it the 86th largest crypto by that metric.  

Mina Price Analysis

MINA has not been in a good place lately. Although its current price is about 4% up from its record low, it is still down nearly 15% since the start of the year. 

Is Mina a Good Investment?

It is hard to say. There is a theory that you should buy during a dip. MINA is certainly in a dip now, but we don’t know when the dip will finish nor where MINA can recover to. 

On the other hand, Mina is an active blockchain that offers investors and developers something different. This may help it stand out in an increasingly crowded market. 

As ever with crypto, you will need to make sure you do your own research before deciding whether or not to invest in MINA.

Will Mina go up or down?

No one can really tell right now. While the Mina crypto price predictions are largely positive, price predictions have a well-earned reputation for being wrong. Keep in mind, too, that prices can, and do, go down as well as up. 

Should I invest in Mina?

Before you decide whether or not to invest in Mina, you will have to do your own research, not only on MINA, but on other coins and tokens such as Solana (SOL) and Cardano (ADA). Either way, you will also need to make sure that you never invest more money than you can afford to lose.

Mina (MINA) Explained

Blockchains are, by definition, big things. For instance, Bitcoin  is more than 500 gb in size, while Ethereum  is around 1,200 gb. While this gives them a certain power, there are disadvantages. They take up a lot of bandwidth, which makes it hard for regular users to access them. Larger blockchains can also be prone to slowing down, which makes them more expensive. 

Mina  aims to solve these problems by being incredibly small. The Mina blockchain is about 22 kb in size. In other words, it is the same size as a couple of tweets. 

Computing experts Evan Shapiro and Izaak Meckler founded Mina in 2017. The MINA coin is the blockchain’s native token.  

How Mina Works

Mina uses a Proof-of-Stake (PoW) consensus mechanism. This means that people are selected to verify transactions and add blocks to the blockchain based on how much MINA they hold. 

Things called Zero-Knowledge Succinct Non-Interactive Arguments of Knowledge, or zk-SNARKs keep Mina small. zk-SNARKs are a form of cryptographic proof which is generated by a new block on the blockchain, proving that the block was valid.

In turn, users, or nodes, are able to store the zk-SNARK to show the block’s validity, rather than having to store a copy of the entire chain. This means the entire block’s transaction history is shown as being valid. In turn, this means the size of the block is around one kilobyte. In turn, this means that the system can operate without slowdown, at least in theory. 

Mina has three different types of users. Verifiers interact with zk-SNARKs, allowing them to operate. Block producers stake and mine MINA and put transactions into blocks. Snarkers make zk-SNARKs. Block producers pay them for their snarks. However, there is a de facto auction for zk-SNARKs, since block producers would like to get their zk-SNARKs as cheaply as possible, and snarkers want block producers to get as much as they can for their work. This means different snarkers can apply to work with the same block producers, with the block producers deciding which snarker offers best value for money. 

MINA pays for transactions on the blockchain. It can interact with decentralized applications (DApps). People can also buy, sell, and trade MINA on exchanges. 

 

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Disclaimer 

Please note that the contents of this article are not financial or investing advice. The information provided in this article is the author’s opinion only and should not be considered as offering trading or investing recommendations. We do not make any warranties about the completeness, reliability and accuracy of this information. The cryptocurrency market suffers from high volatility and occasional arbitrary movements. Any investor, trader, or regular crypto users should research multiple viewpoints and be familiar with all local regulations before committing to an investment.