Ultimate Bitcoin Forecasting Using Python | by ab1sh3k | The Capital | Apr, 2025

Let’s roll up those sleeves and prepare your magical Python cauldron!

Make sure you have atleast a NVIDIA RTX 3050 graphic card on your laptop / PC. It needs atleast 4GB of Grpahic card RAM

nvidia-smi

See that GPU? Good — magic awaits.

Create and activate a fresh Python environment (to avoid dark dependency magic):

python -m venv bitcoin-env
source bitcoin-env/bin/activate  # On Windows use: bitcoin-envScriptsactivate

It needs python3 and Wave your pip wand:

pip install pandas numpy matplotlib requests pandas_ta sklearn xgboost catboost prophet optuna tensorflow

Additional (Prophet):

pip install prophet

Install CUDA and CuDNN for TensorFlow GPU acceleration:

Check TensorFlow GPU magic:

import tensorflow as tf
print(tf.config.list_physical_devices('GPU'))

If it’s GPU detected, you’re golden.