The FOMO isn’t just here. It’s crushing.
In case you missed it, Bitcoin just punched through $100K. If you were an early believer, congratulations: you’re in “F%$* You” money territory.
At over $2 trillion in market cap, Bitcoin is now worth more than Meta, Tesla, or Saudi Aramco. If it were a country, it’d rank 11th globally, bigger than Brazil, Australia and South Korea.
For the doubters, the risk-averse and the “crypto’s a fad” crowd, the question now isn’t just “Did I miss the bus?” It’s “What the hell was I thinking?”
Where next?
With Bitcoin projected to hit $200K by 2025, there’s still money on the table — at least if you trust the bulls. And President-Elect Donald Trump hasn’t even stepped into office yet.
Trump’s promises — Bitcoin stockpiles, pro-crypto laws and American mining — have unleashed record-breaking optimism.
Thomas Perfumo of Kraken calls the rally a “release of pent-up demand stifled by uncertainty.”
“$100K was the FOMO barrier,” Vineet Budki, CEO at Cypher Capital, tells MONIIFY, adding that the $150K to $200K level is the next target.
He reiterated what he told us in October: BTC investing will continue in 2025 as the US Federal Reserve cuts rates, largely expected under Trump.
Animoca Brands’ Yat Siu went further, saying Bitcoin could hit $1 million, because owning one full coin will be a “critical status item.”
But don’t expect this to be a straight lay-up, some counter. OKX’s CMO, Haider Rafique, tells MONIIFY that there could be a 20% to 30% pullback as some investors cash in.
But “it wouldn’t last long,” he adds.
The next nudge
April 2024 was Bitcoin’s latest halving, the event that cuts the supply of new coins in half every four years.
Historically, halving has triggered rallies, and analysts like CoinSwitch’s Balaji Srihari think the latest one will be no different. He tells MONIIFY that the event could spark a rally of 300% to 400%.
Wall Street’s been all in, too, for a while. Bernstein predicted $200K by 2025. Standard Chartered put Bitcoin at $150K by end-2024 and $200K by 2025. Even Goldman Sachs called $100K back in 2022.
For the stragglers, it’s no longer about “Am I late?” It’s “How do I catch up?”
And for the naysayers of 2019 who said, “Keep dreaming, Bitcoin will never hit $100,000,” Binance CEO Changpeng ‘CZ’ Zhao had one simple clapback today: “Don’t dream. Keep building.“
