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$BTC Bitcoin may be down for the year, but it could still be headed to a price of $1 million.

Bullish Bitcoin (
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) price targets are nothing new for Michael Saylor, founder and executive chairman of Strategy (
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), the company formerly known as MicroStrategy. He's generally considered to be the biggest Bitcoin bull in the world, and his company is the world's largest corporate holder of Bitcoin.

It's one thing to be making bullish price predictions when the price of Bitcoin is soaring. But it's another to be doing so when the price of Bitcoin is trading more than 30% below its all-time high from October.

That's what makes his latest price predictions so stunning. He still thinks Bitcoin could rally to the $150,000 price level by the end of 2025, before hitting the $1 million price level by the end of 2029. If that's the case, it would imply a head-spinning 1,049% gain for the world's largest cryptocurrency.

$BTC Bitcoin Price Outlook: Bulls Target $94,000 Break for Momentum Into New Year

Last week, bulls needed to hold closes above $85,000 to stave off the bears, and they managed to do just that. Bitcoin price dropped to support once again last week, and the bulls defended it well, pushing the price back up to close the week out at $88,656. The price on the weekly chart has been rejecting from the lower trend line of the broadening wedge pattern for several weeks now, but the trend line is so low now that the price should push above it this week. If it fails to do so this week, look for the price to take the next leg down into the low $70,000 range.

Bulls will want to continue the push this week, level by level if need be. Initial resistance sits at $91,400, with the next level at $94,000. Above here, we should see very strong resistance at $98,000. Then we should see a fairly strong resistance zone from $101,000 all the way up to $108,000. Closing above $108,000 would start to place severe doubts on the long-term top being in place here.

$ETH Binance has opened up ether options to all users, allowing them to earn passive income, expanding a strategy previously limited to professional traders.

The exchange's move responds to growing demand for advanced derivative tools from both retail and institutional investors.

Binance has upgraded its options platform to offer faster execution and greater flexibility, aiming to dominate the competitive crypto options market.

$BTC Bitcoin’s price stands at $88,195 as of Dec. 20, 2025, giving the asset a market cap of $1.76 trillion while 24-hour trading volume registers at $37.07 billion. The session has respected a defined intraday band between $86,929 and $88,759, pointing to a market that is active but far from impulsive. In other words, bitcoin is awake, alert, and pacing the room, but it has not yet decided whether it wants coffee or chaos.

Bitcoin Chart Outlook
On the 1-hour chart, bitcoin remains trapped in a low- volatility consolidation that reflects hesitation rather than conviction. Price action has rotated between roughly $88,000 and $89,500, with a brief push toward $89,349 swiftly rejected, a classic example of a short-lived breakout attempt that lacked follow-through.

$BTC LATEST: 📈 US spot Bitcoin ETFs saw $457M in net inflows on Wednesday, their strongest single-day intake in over a month, with Fidelity's FBTC leading at $391M and BlackRock's IBIT adding $111M.

$XRP XRP ETFs are booming, but a quiet $15 billion payment layer matters more than the price

ETF flows hit $941 million in two months, but real adoption hinges on Ripple's ODL volumes, on-chain payments, and RLUSD growth on XRPL.

Four XRP spot ETFs now trade in the US, with combined assets of $941.7 million as of Dec. 18. Grayscale's GXRP holds $148.1 million, Canary Capital's XRPC $373.6 million, Franklin Templeton's XRPZ $189 million, and Bitwise's XRP ETF $215.6 million.

That stack grew from roughly $336 million at launch in November to current levels in under two months, front-loading a lot of excitement into a narrow window.

XRP now runs two parallel stories: an ETF layer that has already captured regulated US demand, and a payments and infrastructure layer that still has to prove it can stand on its own if those flows plateau.

$BTC Over the last two months, the broader bitcoin market has bled to semi-surprising lows and it seems like fear has crept into the forefront of market sentiment. But Strategy’s Michael Saylor, in true Saylor fashion, just put his head down and bought more bitcoin. 

Over the past two weeks, Strategy has spent nearly $2 billion just on Bitcoin.

Strategy has steadily expanded their Bitcoin treasury over the years, now holding 671,268 BTC — equivalent to 3.2% of all Bitcoin ever expected to exist, the company says.

The firm’s average purchase price for its holdings sits at roughly $75,000 per BTC, with a total acquisition cost of $50 billion and a current Bitcoin net asset value of $60 billion. 

Strategy has added Bitcoin in every quarter since Q3 2020, totaling 90 separate acquisitions.

$BTC LATEST:  Bitcoin will see a base-case price of $1.4 million by 2035, according to CF Benchmarks, which used traditional capital market models to project BTC at $637,000 in the bear case and nearly $2.95 million in the bull case.

$BTC Bitcoin data proves 60% of top US banks are quietly activating a strategy they publicly denied for years

With 60% of top US banks embracing Bitcoin, the asset's path to becoming a conventional financial product is clear.

According to data from River, nearly 60% of the country’s 25 largest banks are now somewhere on the path to selling, safekeeping, or advising on Bitcoin directly.

Spot ETF approvals dominated the headlines of 2024. The story of 2025 is quieter: crypto is moving from fringe allocation to routine line item inside mainstream wealth and custody workflows.

If current timelines hold, 2026 is shaping up as the first year Bitcoin looks like a standard product rather than an exception.

$BTC LATEST: ⚡ Bitcoin's hashrate dropped by around 10% in a single day as roughly 400,000 miners went offline in China's Xinjiang region, according to former Canaan co-chairman Jianping Kong — the steepest decline since the April 2024 halving.

$SOL JPMorgan recently issued $50 million in US commercial paper for Galaxy Digital on Solana, with Coinbase and Franklin Templeton as buyers.

The bank created an on-chain USCP token, settling both issuance and redemption cash flows in USDC rather than bank wires. Both issuance and servicing of the deal ran entirely on blockchain rails.

As a template, JPMorgan intends to extend to more issuers, investors, and security types in 2026.
The announcement follows a pattern. Institutional on-chain issuance headlines recur every few months, such as Siemens' €300 million digital bond, Goldman Sachs and BNY Mellon's tokenized money market funds, and BlackRock's BUIDL crossing $2.85 billion for the first time.

$BTC Bitcoin treasury company Strategy (formerly MicroStrategy) acquired more than 10,000 BTC for the second week in a row, adding another 10,645 BTC to its treasury for approximately $980.3 million at an average price of $92,098 per bitcoin between Dec. 8 and Dec. 14, according to an 8-K filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission on Monday.

Strategy now holds a total of 671,268 BTC — worth around $60 billion — bought at an average price of $74,972 per bitcoin for a total cost of around $50.3 billion, including fees and expenses, according to the company's co-founder and executive chairman, Michael Saylor. To put that in perspective, the haul represents more than 3% of Bitcoin's total 21 million supply and implies around $9.7 billion of paper gains at current prices.

$ETH LATEST: 📈 BitMine added another 102,259 ETH last week, worth around $320 million, bringing its total holdings to nearly 4 million ETH as it continues working toward its goal of holding 5% of Ethereum's total supply.

$BTC LATEST:  Bitcoin's four-year cycle remains intact but is now driven by politics and liquidity rather than halving events, with historical market peaks aligning more closely with US election cycles, according to 10x Research head Markus Thielen.

$BTC LATEST: ⚡ International nonprofit Save the Children has launched a Bitcoin Fund, announcing it will hodl BTC donations for up to four years and test new ways to deliver cash assistance using Bitcoin, stablecoins and digital wallets.

$BTC American Bitcoin, the bitcoin mining and treasury firm backed by Eric Trump and Donald Trump Jr., has announced the acquisition of an additional 416 BTC, valued at roughly $38.3 million as of December 8.

This latest purchase lifts the company’s total reserves to around 4,783 BTC (approximately $440 million), solidifying its position among the top public bitcoin treasury holders.

$ETH LATEST:  Bitmine chairman Tom Lee says Ethereum has already bottomed, telling the Rug Radio podcast that the company is "putting our money where our mouth is" by dramatically increasing its ETH buys compared to a week ago.

$ETH LATEST: ⚡️ BlackRock has filed with the SEC for a new staked Ethereum ETF that would combine price exposure with staking yields, creating a separate product from its existing iShares Ethereum Trust ETF.

$BTC Bitcoin Attracts Record $732 Billion in New Capital, Surpassing All Previous Cycles Combined: Report

Bitcoin attracted a record $732B in new capital during 2022–2025, surpassing all inflows recorded during previous cycles combined.

Market Dominance and Volatility
Since November 2022, Bitcoin’s dominance has increased from 38.7% to 58.3%. Glassnode attributes this to a shift toward higher-liquidity and lower-risk assets. Meanwhile, Ethereum’s market share has declined to 12.1%, continuing its multi-year trend of underperformance relative to Bitcoin following the 2022 Merge. The broader Altcoin sector now represents 21.3% of the total market due to subdued retail participation and limited speculative capital compared with previous cycles.

Additionally, Stablecoins account for 8.3% of the total market, slightly higher than last year but below their 17.3% peak in late 2022. The report highlights that these assets remain the primary quote currency on centralized and decentralized exchanges. Further, their rising adoption in emerging markets contributes to liquidity and supports dollar-denominated trade.

$BTC LATEST: 🌎 Michael Saylor says nation-states should develop regulated digital banking systems backed by Bitcoin reserves, arguing that such accounts could offer higher yields while speaking at Bitcoin MENA.