Finder analyzes expert predictions each quarter. We conducted our most recent survey in April 2025, in which our panel of 25 crypto industry specialists shared their thoughts on how bitcoin will perform through 2035.
All prices in this report are denominated in US dollars.
On average, our panelists think bitcoin (BTC) will be worth $135,048 by the end of 2025, down from the $161,105 predicted in our January 2025 report.
Looking further ahead, they see the price of BTC rising to $452,714 by year-end 2030 and $833,000 by the close of 2035.
Bitcoin’s price is expected to rise to $135,048 by year-end 2025, according to the average prediction from Finder’s panelists.
Our most bullish panelists see BTC trading at $250,000 by the end of 2025, while our most bearish panelist sees it dropping well below where it is now, reaching $50,000 by the end of the year.
Our panelists also predict BTC will hit $452,714 by 2030 and $833,000 by 2035. The panel is slightly more bullish than last quarter, when their long-term prediction for 2030 came in at $405,789 and $746,842 for 2035.
Josh Fraser, the cofounder of Origin Protocol, is one of our most bullish panel members and expects BTC to close out 2025 at $218,000, laying out why he expects BTC to close out the year so strong.
Bitcoin’s supply issuance just halved while demand from exchange-traded funds (ETFs), institutions and sovereign entities continues to rise, creating a structural imbalance that pushes price upward. As global fiat debasement accelerates and capital seeks scarce, censorship-resistant assets, bitcoin is positioned to absorb trillions in flight-to-safety flows. Reaching $1M by 2030 is not a fantasy — it’s a reflection of BTC becoming a global monetary base layer.
Johnny Gabriele, head analyst of Blockchain Economics and AI Integration at the Lifted Initiative, believes we’ll see BTC reach $200,000 as institutions and nations see the value of BTC.
The institutions and the nations are waking up to the value of bitcoin. You don’t want to be on the wrong side of this trade. While the current moment is challenging and scary, the fundamentals have not changed.
At the other end of the spectrum is Joseph Raczynski, a Futurist at JT Consulting & Media, whose end-of-2025 prediction of $125,000 is 55% lower than his prediction of $275,000 at the time of the January 2025 survey.
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John Hawkins, senior lecturer at the University of Canberra and resident crypto curmudgeon, gives our lower prediction at $50,000, who sees its recent struggles as a harbinger of what is to come.
I have long regarded bitcoin as a speculative bubble, which has continued to fail in its original goal of becoming a widely used payment instrument. If having the US president go from calling it a scam to being a strong supporter is not enough to stop it falling from over $100,000 to under $80,000, its future looks bleak.
The average peak price our panelists predict bitcoin will hit at some point in 2025 is $146,818, with some predicting it will climb as high as $250,000.
The average lowest price our panelists predict bitcoin will hit at some point in 2025 is $70,509, with some predicting it will fall as low as $50,000.
Ben Ritchie, the managing director of Alpha Node Global, is also quite bullish, as he thinks we’ll see BTC crest $200,000 but sees the tariff-led financial selloff as potentially hindering its value.
Bitcoin’s scarcity makes it a valuable asset, and if long-term holders — including institutional investors and governments — continue accumulating, we see potential for the price to reach $200,000. This aligns with our outlook on improving inflation and monetary conditions. However, a potential US tariffs and recession announcement could trigger a significant sell-off, bringing BTC down to the $55,000 level. Despite this risk, we remain bullish on bitcoin, supported by the growing pro-crypto stance in the US.
Ruadhan O, founder of Seasonal Tokens, also mentions Trump’s tariff plan as a possible reason we’re yet to see a bull market for BTC in 2025, but that doesn’t stop him from providing a prediction that BTC will go to $175,000 at some point in 2025.
The Trump tariffs and ETF outflows have pushed the bitcoin price to its lowest level this year, possibly delaying the start of the bull market until the second half of the year. The price isn’t likely to break above $100K again until August or September and will probably peak before the end of the year.
Like many of our other panelists, Rouge International & Rouge Ventures’s MD, Desmond Marshall, sees the Trump administration as having a major impact on BTC’s short-term valuation:
Trump is now pushing the markets down, with his tariffs, causing some fear. This is helping BTC to have some support, but not a lot yet, since there is nothing definitive launched by the US government. However, as per his last term, the stock market rebounds pretty heavily up, and it will draw funds back into stocks, meaning a dip in BTC prices, and most probably then will Trump move more dollars in actual buying BTC to stock up. He is moving gold already back to US, hence the treasury has immense buying power.
Ruslan Lienkha, chief of markets for YouHodler, is more sceptical about the potential of BTC in 2025 and sees it hitting a bottom of $50,000 at some point.
BTC’s price has recently been driven by macroeconomic factors and sentiment in the equity markets. The key question now is whether US authorities can successfully navigate a soft landing. However, even in the event of a recession, prolonged selling pressure will not persist indefinitely, ultimately presenting opportunities for long-term investors to accumulate positions. From a long-term perspective, the current price level could be considered a reasonable entry point for increasing holdings.
The majority of our panel says now is a good time to buy bitcoin.
To be exact, 68% think bitcoin is a buy at its current price, while 25% believe it’s a good time to hold the asset. Just 7% think it’s time to sell.
Simon Trimborn, an assistant professor at the University of Amsterdam, believes it’s time to buy BTC because of the “US administration’s bullish stance on crypto.”
Jeremy Cheah, an associate professor of decentralized finance at Nottingham Trent University, also says BTC is a buy, off the back of governmental demand.
The US government’s demand will increase bitcoin prices in the long run. If bitcoin is underpriced, the US government’s demand will sweep it up.
Sathvik Vishwanath, the CEO of UNOCOIN, says that BTC is currently underpriced and its current price doesn’t reflect its value.
BTC’s fixed supply, increasing institutional adoption, ETF approval and macroeconomic instability are all bullish factors. The current price doesn’t fully reflect its long-term value potential and global strategic interest.
Tommy Honan, the director of product at Swyftx, sees BTC as currently underpriced and representing a buying opportunity based on its previous history of massive price swings.
“Bitcoin’s price history shows a clear pattern — big crashes, big recoveries and explosive bull runs after each halving. With ETFs bringing in institutional money and adoption growing worldwide, it’s hard not to be bullish long-term. Sure, short-term volatility is inevitable, but the fundamentals are stronger than ever. If history repeats, we could see $100K–$150K+ in 2025 and much higher beyond that. Right now, at $87.5K, it feels like we’re in the calm before the storm.”
Miles Paschini, the CEO of FV Bank, says it’s time to hold but does highlight the fact that institutional demand is growing.
While there is volatility in the market due to new administration, tariffs, etc., the buildup for institutional demand is quietly growing. Once the RIAs kick in and corporate treasury, the supply will quickly dry up and prices will begin to rise. This will be followed by retail interest and further the demand versus supply ratio.
Well over half our panel members (61%) think bitcoin is currently underpriced.
The remaining cohort is also split between 32% saying BTC is priced fairly and 7% saying it’s overpriced.
Alexander Kuptsikevich, the chief market analyst at FxPro, believes that BTC is underpriced at its current value as bitcoin comes out of its correction:
BTC is completing its correction after rallying from its peak at the beginning of the year. The first cryptocurrency managed to stay in the long-term growth territory (above the 50-week moving average). In the previous couple of times, we have seen the price double after a similar signal. But this time around, we’re looking at the market a bit more cautiously due to its maturation.
Kadan Stadlemann, the CTO and project lead at Komodo Platform, says the continued adoption of BTC as a store of value means that BTC is underpriced.
Recent developments point to a positive outlook for bitcoin (BTC). MicroStrategy, led by Michael Saylor, continues to make aggressive bitcoin purchases, recently adding 6,911 BTC to its holdings, bringing its total to over 500,000 BTC. This ongoing commitment underscores strong institutional support for bitcoin as a store of value.
Nicole DeCicco, CEO of CryptoConsultz, says that while macro conditions may hamper BTC’s potential growth, it’s still undervalued as she has seen firsthand how bitcoin is starting to go “mainstream”.
At CryptoConsultz, we’ve seen consistent growth in both high-net-worth and everyday clients looking to get into bitcoin — many for the first time. That says a lot about how far mainstream interest has come. My view is that bitcoin still has room to grow this year, but price action will depend heavily on macro conditions and how quickly regulatory clarity improves.
Mitesh Shah, the founder and CEO of Omnia Markets, says that BTC is fairly priced but might represent a strategic entry point for investors.
Bitcoin is demonstrating remarkable resilience amidst current market uncertainty; it’s effectively serving as a ‘US isolation’ hedge and notably outperforming most large tech stocks affected by the recent tariff news. Based on this relative strength compared to traditional assets, the bank forecasts a potential return to the $88,500 level from its April 1 low of ~$82,340, suggesting that now might represent a strategic entry point for investors.
Shannon Blood, the CMO of InFlux Technologies, doesn’t see much movement in the price in the near term and that BTC is currently fairly priced.
BTC’s dominance remains; before a rotation of liquidity into alts, we could see a significant rise in BTC’s price before it retraces and alt-season takes off. It is fairly priced because of recession speculation and altcoin dilution. These factors keep BTC’s dominance where it is. Until inflation gets much worse, the price of BTC won’t skyrocket and won’t crash significantly either, because each week, it surges above test levels.
Lee Smales, a professor of finance at the University of Western Australia, sees BTC as overpriced and riding the highs of promises made on the campaign trail.
Pop from Trump’s newfound enthusiasm hasn’t lasted. There is every chance this could work against further uptake of crypto in the medium term.
US President Trump recently signed an executive order to create a strategic bitcoin reserve for the US, and close to half of the panel (48%) say the initiative will significantly boost market confidence and institutional adoption of the crypto market.
While Hawkins sees the move boosting market confidence, he wonders if this is more of a bait-and-switch.
“It should be positive for the market both by removing some selling pressure, and misleading some potential buyers into thinking it has some substance. But it seems to have failed, possibly as expectations of the US government or the Fed actively buying did not eventuate.”
Over three-quarters of the panel (76%) say that US President Trump’s executive order to create a strategic bitcoin reserve for the US was a smart move.
John Murillo, chief dealing officer at B2BROKER, thinks the US is well placed to be a leader in the bitcoin space.
I agree that considering bitcoin as a core asset for the national reserve in the United States may sound very exotic at first, but let’s not make hasty conclusions. The US remains by far the largest bitcoin mining country in the world. It might be logical for the US to adopt the bitcoin-friendly legislation and a crypto-based wealth fund, thereby boosting bitcoin mining attractiveness and the natural way of domestic bitcoin fund sourcing.
Martin Froehler, the CEO of Morpher, also sees a strategic reserve being a boon for the US, as “bitcoin will become a global reserve asset, the gold of the digital age.”
Chairman of Tracer, Michiel Frackers, sees it having zero net effect, as it’s “irrelevant because the US is not buying any bitcoin, just holding onto seized assets.”
An overwhelming majority of our panel (76%) says that the formation of a strategic bitcoin reserve in the US will prompt other countries to establish similar reserves, increasing global adoption.
The panel is fairly split on whether or not Trump’s vow to make the US the “crytpo capital of the world” will impact bitcoin’s integration into traditional financial systems, with close to half of the panel (48%) saying the way forward will be a “gradual integration with cautious adoption” and 38% saying there will be “accelerated integration with widespread acceptance.”
Judging by the first 100 days of this presidency, “cautious adoption” seems unlikely.
Miles Paschini
Miles Paschini
John Murillo
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Simon Trimborn
Simon Trimborn
Jason Lau
Jason Lau
Jeremy Eng-Tuck Cheah
Jeremy Eng-Tuck Cheah
Ruslan Lienkha
Ruslan Lienkha
Joseph Raczynski
Joseph Raczynski
Alexander Kuptsikevich
Alexander Kuptsikevich
Ben Ritchie
Ben Ritchie
Ajay Shrestha
Ajay Shrestha
Ruadhan O
Ruadhan O
Michiel Frackers
Michiel Frackers
Sathvik Vishwanath
Sathvik Vishwanath
John Hawkins
John Hawkins
Mitesh Shah
Mitesh Shah
Desmond Marshall
Desmond Marshall
Martin Froehler
Martin Froehler
Kadan Stadlemann
Kadan Stadlemann
Pedro Febrero
Pedro Febrero
Nicole DeCicco
Nicole DeCicco
Nick Forster
Nick Forster
Jeremy Britton
Jeremy Britton
Josh Fraser
Josh Fraser
Johnny Gabriele
Johnny Gabriele
Shannon Blood
Shannon Blood
Jean Rausis
Jean Rausis
Tommy Honan
Tommy Honan
Simon Peters
Simon Peters
Lee Smales
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