Bitcoin Price Forecast: How High Can Bitcoin Go? Wall Street’s Brash $180-$250K
As Bitcoin spins on in its manic tempo throughout 2025, Wall Street analysts are making increasingly-daring predictions regarding where the world’s largest cryptocurrency may be headed. Some of that is hype, some is realistic.
VanEck, Fundstrat, and Standard Chartered experts anticipate a 2025 BTC high of $180,000 to $250,000 based on institutional adoption and patterns from past markets. But are such lofty price projections realistic?
The Bull Case: Institutional Momentum Building
The foundation of these bullish projections is underpinned by a series of key pillars. Bitfinex analysts suggest that Bitcoin can crack the $120,000–$125,000 zone at the earliest in June, pending supportive macroeconomic developments, setting an important short-term milestone on the way toward the higher objectives.
Institutional adoption is growing dominance. Bitcoin ETFs have experienced steady weekly and monthly inflows with data from BitMEX Research showing net inflows of some $1.2 billion into US-domiciled Bitcoin ETFs during the week up to May 30, 2025. This is a long way from earlier this year when a number of prominent asset managers cut their exposure to spot bitcoin exchange-traded funds after a 12% fall in the price of the cryptocurrency in the first quarter of 2025.
BlackRock’s spot Bitcoin ETF closed the week with a $356.2 million inflow, marking a third straight week of inflows and 19 consecutive days , the lengthiest stretch of 2025 so far. These long-term inflows indicate growing institutional trust despite past volatility. That’s great news for all BTC holders, and shows confidence from large …
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