Eric Trump, Saylor, 'Rich Dad' and billionaires were wrong about Bitcoin’s 2025 price

The twelvemonth 2025 was filled with bullish Bitcoin (BTC) forecasts, and astir each of them were wrong.

At midnight connected Dec. 31, Bitcoin ended the twelvemonth astatine $87,000, acold beneath expectations from salient voices successful the crypto world.

Here’s however immoderate of those predictions stacked up:

• Robert Kiyosaki: $250,000

• Tom Lee: $250,000

• Chamath Palihapitiya: $500,000 by October 2025

• Tim Draper: $250,000

• Eric Trump: $175,000

• Michael Saylor: $150,000

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Bitcoin began 2025 connected a beardown footing, rapidly rallying to $102,000 successful aboriginal January astir Donald Trump assuming the statesmanlike office.

Over the adjacent 2 months, the plus moved wrong a choky scope betwixt $98,000 and $104,000 earlier momentum faded.

By precocious February, BTC dropped to $80,000, past fell further to $76,000 successful April.

The 2nd fractional of the twelvemonth saw a dilatory recovery, culminating successful a highest of $126,000 successful aboriginal October, just earlier a flash clang connected Oct. 10 that wiped retired double-digit gains.

In the last 4th of 2025, Bitcoin traded sideways betwixt $86,000 and $94,000, closing the twelvemonth beneath the astir blimpish expert targets.

ARK Invest CEO Cathie Wood believes markets whitethorn beryllium underestimating however antithetic 2026 could look.

In a Dec. 21 video, Wood argued that contempt 2025’s challenges, including tariff shocks, a authorities shutdown, and a persistently hawkish Federal Reserve, plus prices person shown unexpected resilience.

That resilience, she said, could pave the mode for a “Goldilocks year,” marked by accelerating maturation and falling inflation.

“Lots of anticipation for 2026... but if we are right, maturation volition beryllium overmuch stronger. And astir importantly, ostentation volition beryllium much, overmuch little than it has been with tariffs,” Wood said.

Wood suggested that ostentation could adjacent autumn to zero oregon crook antagonistic if lipid prices and rents proceed their downward inclination — a macro setup historically favorable for hazard assets similar Bitcoin pursuing agelong tightening cycles.

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Optimists constituent to method setups and semipermanent forecasts, including Bernstein’s $200,000 people by 2027, arsenic grounds that Bitcoin’s structural bull marketplace remains intact.

However, caution persists.

Standard Chartered precocious trimmed its 2026 forecast for Bitcoin to $150,000 from $300,000, citing softer spot demand.