Bitcoin Price Rising Fast to $1 Million?
(Updated: July 21, 2025) Millions of investors, including institutional investors are buying Bitcoin or Bitcoin stocks this year, during the coming dip or in volatility trading. While the forecasts about Bitcoin’s price were outlandish previously, they are looking fairly accurate now.
However, such speculation leaves investors vulnerable, as laws are political and the current bull market could see corrections. You may want to exercise caution and warn others about the risk of being “all in” on the Bitcoin frenzy akin to the booming investment in AI stocks.
Bitcoin’s current popularity and strength might be primarily due to President Trump’s move to deregulate the banking industry and to end the cryptocurrency prohibitions of the Biden-era Democrats. Everyone is piling in and fueling incredible price growth for both Bitcoin and Ethereum. Trump’s newest bill is called the “Genius Act” where he vows to make the U.S. the “crypto capital of the planet.” It’s believed that Ethereum however, is cited as the key benefactor of Trump’s new legislation.
Some analysts believe it’s headed for $200,000 or perhaps $500,000. Tom Lee of Funstrat believes BTC is headed for $1 million per coin, but likely between $250,000 and $500,000 is more likely. This is likely to fuel a FOMO frenzy that will end up in a crash. With the economic recovery in place and the NASDAQ and S&P 500 roaring ahead in this bull market, it’s pulling more money out of money markets and increasing investment in US cryptocurrency, thus the bullish peak $1 million valuation.
How about you? What do you think is happening here? Are you ready to find a way to invest in Bitcoin or Ethereum? Which one is more relevant and useful within the new economy?
We know that in the past, BTC grew up to 80 times its value. It’s price was just $30,000 two years ago, and it’s up to $117,00 a coin now. Now investors wonder about continued rise to $200k is a 600% return on investment. In this post, let’s see what the experts are saying about BTC and what the predictions are for its price up to 10 years into the future.
Bitcoin is Hot, up 50% since April
This interview on CNBC focuses on Ethereum, and you might want to expand your view with another perspective before making decisions on buying Bitcoin.
Let’s begin with Changelly’s forecast chart:
Cathie Wood and BTC Price Projection
One notable major fund manager, Cathie Wood, Wood projected a base case BTC price target of over $600,000 and a bull case of over $1 million by 2030. If you’re investing for your retirement fund, and don’t need immediate results, that kind of upside is much better than almost all the stocks on the S&P 500. Even stocks such as Tesla, Nvidia, Google and Apple pale in comparison.
Young investors aren’t afraid to invest in BTC and are on the hunt for investments not for security and safety, but instead their full upside potential. Gen Z’s and Millennials are a huge investor group coming into their big earning years (Next 10 years). Will they gamble a little on Bitcoin?
Only 2.5 years ago, you could have purchased one BTC for $22,500 and you would have $117,000 now, a 5X gain. Many more millionaires and billionaires were created by that price rise.
Will FOMO in investors result in another spike in the years ahead? (Current note: all these years later, we know it came!) We’ll see what the experts say about Bitcoin futures and the price within 5 years. Of course, with BTC and current economic anxieties, we might predict that at some point between now and then, it will jump. We just don’t know the date (now we know it’s happened twice in the last 6 months — for two buy the dip opportunities.
The surprising recovery and resilience of cryptocurrency Bitcoin is making more investors consider jumping back on crypto ETF’s, BTC and Bitcoin backed securities this year.
The US government would like to squash cryptocurrency and any other threat to the US dollar. Crypto and blockchain are complaining about how the US government is trying to regulate the sector and stifle technology and innovation (Trump has come to the rescue).
130 countries are looking into cryptocurrency development, that’s 90% of all countries. The push is on, but would it be easier for them to instead use Bitcoin or Etherium? Developing cryptocurrency is beyond the capabilities of most countries, and that might include the US too.
Holding Bitcoin and blockchain off might one way of buying time in order to learn the infrastructure and technology of blockchain. The Jury’s out about whether US finance department can come up with a US digital coin that would work in a blockchain environment. Of all Biden’s pet projects, cryptocurrency might not be at the top of the list of must-do’s for the next 16 months.
What will drive the next BTC Rocket?
- scarcity – US dollars can be printed and will be making them less valuable in comparison
- BTC is hard and expensive to mine and generate
- everyone knows about Bitcoin and its past run-up
- US dollar has sunk in value and with lower interest rates, it might reduce more
- Investor fear of missing out (FOMO)
- institutional investors have avoided oil and gas market and thus have fewer options as a store of investors’ wealth
- no real cryptocurrency rivals other than Ethereum
- as the FED interest rate falls and more money flows back into the economy, the USD, Yen, and Euro will fall in value
In a CNBC report, Jamie Sly, head of research at CCData, told CNBC “Bitcoin’s recent surge in value has largely been driven by large trades within a less liquid market.. Our analysis of market orders over 5 BTC reveals an aggressive surge in market buying, suggesting large players are seeking to gain exposure to digital assets. “When combining large orders with thin books, the market is subject to more volatile movements.”
In an Investorplace report, 3 analysts back up the high predictions including:
- Crypto analyst Dan Tapiero say BTC will surpass $100,000.
- Standard Chartered’s head of digital assets research Geoff Kendric reports their belief in a $100,000 price target.
- Crypto analyst PlanB’s BTC price prediction model forecasted that Bitcoin will surpass $100,000.
Of course, there many threats for BTC and cryptocurrency to handle, and the scares are magnified because of the government’s control, self-interest, and that BTC is not backed by assets.
BTC prices swings up and down according to sentiment. It’s waiting for an anchor or key supporter that will make it a permanent asset with real value.
The US government’s plan to regulate, cripple and diminish it could backfire against a deflating US dollar. Once legitimized, and with BTC ETF’s established amidst the 2024 recovery, institutional investors and billionaires may pour money into it.
All we have right now is a rational forecast and the right to gamble.
