{"id":20079,"date":"2025-01-02T09:44:55","date_gmt":"2025-01-02T07:44:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/coinshares-researcher-forecasts-bitcoin-at-150000\/"},"modified":"2025-01-02T09:44:55","modified_gmt":"2025-01-02T07:44:55","slug":"coinshares-researcher-forecasts-bitcoin-at-150000","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/coinshares-researcher-forecasts-bitcoin-at-150000\/","title":{"rendered":"CoinShares researcher forecasts bitcoin at $150,000"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>James Butterfill, head of research at CoinShares, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2024\/12\/31\/bitcoin-btc-price-predictions-for-2025.html\">predicts<\/a> that in 2025 bitcoin\u2019s price will be in the $80,000\u2013150,000 range.<\/p>\n<p>He says one should not rule out the asset\u2019s market capitalisation rising from the current 10% of gold\u2019s market value to 25% over the long term. In that case, the first cryptocurrency\u2019s price would reach $250,000, although that is unlikely to happen in 2025.<\/p>\n<p>If US president-elect Donald Trump fails to deliver on his crypto-related promises, the price will probably be closer to the lower bound of the forecast \u2014 $80,000.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>\n<cite>\u201cDisappointment regarding the cryptocurrency initiatives proposed by Trump, and doubts about their implementation, may trigger a significant market correction,\u201d said Butterfill.<\/cite><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>On the other hand, the improvement in the US regulatory environment expected by the expert could push bitcoin to new price highs.<\/p>\n<p>In 2023, CoinShares analysts forecast digital gold at $80,000 in 2024.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, Fundstrat co-founder Tom Lee <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/tom-lee-predicts-bitcoin-surge-to-250000-by-2025\">predicted<\/a> that bitcoin would reach $250,000.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>James Butterfill, head of research at CoinShares, predicts that in 2025 bitcoin\u2019s price will be in the $80,000\u2013150,000 range. He says one should not rule out the asset\u2019s market capitalisation rising from the current 10% of gold\u2019s market value to 25% over the long term. In that case, the first cryptocurrency\u2019s price would reach $250,000, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20078,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"","news_style_id":"","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[480,1191,1146],"class_list":["post-20079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-bitcoin-price","tag-coinshares","tag-cryptocurrency-market-forecasts"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"50","promo_type":"","layout_type":"","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20079","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20079"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20079\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}