2025-12-30 12:20:51

As 2025 is coming to an end, looking back at this year's Bitcoin market, many once-bold institutions are feeling a bit awkward.

By the end of the year, Bitcoin's trading price was about $88,000, down 6% from the beginning of the year. This report card is indeed a bit painful compared to the aggressive predictions made at the start of the year.

Let's see what these institutions said. BlackRock CEO Larry Fink stated in January that if major investors allocated to Bitcoin, the price could surge to $700,000 — but what happened? It didn't even reach half of that. Bernstein predicted it could break through $200,000 by the end of 2025 or early 2026, but now that target seems too far away. Standard Chartered initially set a target of $200,000; by October, Bitcoin indeed hit a high of $126,000 for the year, but then it plummeted, and the bank ultimately had to cut its target to $100,000.

Bitwise repeatedly claimed that Bitcoin would break through $200,000 in 2025, but that didn't come true either. Fundstrat co-founder Tom Lee initially predicted it could reach $200,000–$250,000, but later revised his forecast to possibly surpass $100,000 again before the end of December — a significant adjustment. Even Cathie Wood, CEO of ARK Investment Management, tempered her bullish forecast for Bitcoin in 2030 from $1.5 million down to $1.2 million.

Behind this collective forecasting failure, perhaps it reflects that the volatility of the crypto market still exceeds the expectations of many institutions.

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GateUser-c799715c

· 10h ago

$700,000? Haha, big institutions really know how to boast, now they’re getting slapped hard. --- Just knew these people make wild predictions, each one more outrageous than the last. --- Really incredible, they keep changing targets faster than the coin price drops haha. --- Institutions messed up this round, luckily I didn’t listen to them. --- Always the same: first they hype up sky-high prices, then they shrink them later. Who still believes this trick? --- $200,000, $1,500,000... They talk as if it’s real, but what’s the result? --- Volatility beyond imagination? Isn’t it just because they can’t read the market correctly? --- Laughing to death, even top-tier institutions have flipped over. Who can predict this market accurately? --- Predicting so wildly, yet still dare to call themselves professionals. Truly ridiculous. --- They’ve already cut their targets but still pretend to stay calm. Let’s see who else keeps bragging.

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ProtocolRebel

· 10h ago

Haha, these big shots really messed up. They even dare to say things like $700,000... This is how big institutions predict; they talk a lot of nonsense but none of their predictions come true. This wave of collective selling is indeed outrageous. It seems they completely don’t understand the on-chain logic. It looks like the more they boast, the worse they fall. Staying low-key is actually more stable. It's all because the market is too wild; no one can predict these crazy fluctuations. That’s why I never believe in expert predictions. It’s all nonsense. Even Cathie Wood had to cut her holdings by $300,000. What does that mean? It means no one truly understands. The $88k price point is actually not bad, considering there was no good news last year... The core of playing with coins is not to trust predictions, but to trust your own judgment. These institutions should have realized long ago that Bitcoin is always full of surprises.

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MidsommarWallet

· 11h ago

Haha, a live face-slapping by the big institutions, the $700,000 dream shattered --- Where's the promised 200,000? How come all the institutions have become "prophets" --- That's why I don't trust the predictions of the big shots, they're all armchair strategists after the fact --- $88,000 can still fall? Laughing to death at those who call the shots --- Tom Lee changed his tune so many times I can't even understand it, but this move is acceptable --- Cathie Wood can only bow her head now, even the big players have their days of failure --- Collective mistake? I think it's just a collective harvest of retail investors --- From 700,000 to 88,000, that gap is really outrageous --- Still, as I always say, listening to experts will only lead to bankruptcy --- The crypto market always exceeds expectations; it's just a gamble --- Why are people still following the predictions when institutions are so off?

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