Bold Bitcoin Price Predictions For 2025 As MicroStrategy Buys $209M BTC

Bitcoin (BTC) price today trades at $93,268.0 and is close to ending the tumultuous year of 2024 and enter 2025 with optimism. While the ETF approval provided the initial oomph for the 2024 rally, Donald Trump’s victory in the 2024 US elections helped overcome the 2021 high and hit $100,000. Let’s explore experts’ 2025 predictions for Bitcoin price.

*bitcoin price updated as of 11 PM.

This massive accomplishment comes after recovering from one of the biggest crypto market crashes caused by the collapse of FTX and its ripple effect, which caused a widespread financial crisis in adjacent institutions. Regardless, Bitcoin has emerged victorious.

Trump’s victory and crypto-friendly regulatory promise, starting with replacing US SEC chairman Gary Gensler, helped Bitcoin’s 2024 bull run. This optimism can be witnessed in experts’ 2025 Bitcoin price predictions, which range from $150,000 to $300,000.

The potential establishment of a US strategic Bitcoin reserve will be a key event that could help propel Bitcoin to new highs in 2025. Another important shift in paradigm after the spot ETF approval is the institutional interest around BTC. On that note, MicroStrategy continues to accumulate BTC. The December 30 filings show the company acquired $209 million worth of BTC. The recent purchase brings their total holdings to 4,46,400 BTC, worth $42 billion. The cost basis for the total holdings hovers around $62,428 per bitcoin.

Bitcoin Price Prediction For 2025: $150,000 to $300,000

According to Finder’s survey, the average Bitcoin price prediction for 2025 hovers around $113,364. Finder’s panel was conservative, expecting $113,364 by the end of 2025 and 282,238 by the close of 2030

Several CNBC’s panel members expect BTC to double and hit $200,000 in 2025, but the lower end of their 2025 prediction starts at $150,000.

Regardless of these bullish predictions, Adrian Fritz, head of research at 21Shares, cautions investors about Bitcoin’s corrections. He adds that 20% to 40% corrections are “vital mechanism for reestablishing market equilibrium and are an integral part of bitcoin’s historical price patterns.“

Wall Street research firm and Brokerage giant Bernstein expects Bitcoin to hit $150,000 in 2025.

Bitwise analysts expect Bitcoin to reach $200,000 by the end of 2025. 

CMT Analyst Adrian Zduńczyk is a firm believer that Bitcoin will peak at around $225,000 this cycle and is expecting BTC to transition from optimism to a belief phase.

Standard Chartered expects BTC’s price to hit a peak of $250,000 in 2025. Geoff Kendrick, the bank’s head of digital asset research, noted that spot Bitcoin ETF flows could hit $50 to $100 billion by 2026. Fundstrat Global Advisors’ Tom Lee also shares this outlook.

Venture capitalist Chamath Palihapitiya makes the most optimistic prediction. According to Palihapitiya, Bitcoin could hit $500,000 by October 2025 and is forecasted to be worth $1 million by 2040.

What To Expect From Bitcoin Price In January 2025

Bitcoin’s 2024-2025 price is setting the stage for a massive rally to the upside if history rhymes. The ongoing BTC consolidation resembles that of 2023-2024, where the rangebound movement was met with a deviation to the downside, which was followed by a parabolic move to the upside, leading to new ATHs.

Hence, if history repeats, BTC could sweep the range low of $90,799, leading to a quick rally and a breakout above the range high of $104,100. Such a development could propel BTC to set up a new ATH around $128,000 to $130,000.

Although the outlook for Bitcoin remains predominantly bullish, a Tether-related FUD that leads to a depeg of the USDT stablecoin could have a significant impact on the markets. In such a case, a breakdown of the $90,000 support level could invalidate the bullish thesis and potentially trigger a crash to $78,000, as forecasted by veteran trader Peter Brandt.