Experts Predict Bitcoin Will Explode in 2025 — Here’s Why They’re Wrong

Ever since Bitcoin (BTC) hit the market in 2009, it has remained a popular asset. More people scrambled to get in on the cryptocurrency market following its explosion that made some holders overnight millionaires.

In the years since, Bitcoin has been a volatile investment fueled like most other investments, by supply and demand. For those who have followed the investment news, BTC has been on a wild ride from its humble beginnings to where it sits now. But could it have another crazy spike?

Experts have been predicting it will go wild in 2025, but the writing on the wall shows otherwise.

Price History of Bitcoin

Initially, BTC began trading at a stunningly low price of $0.06. That was back in July of 2010. Its previous high was $73,835 back in March 2024, but it hit another high of more than $75,000 in November 2024.

The volatility has many people wondering if we can expect another significant spike as we’ve seen.

Will Bitcoin Explode?

There has been much speculation that BTC is due to explode once again, this time, likely in conjunction with the recent presidential election. Some are even throwing out crazy predictions that it will exceed $1 million. While that is unlikely to happen (though never say never, I guess), some believe it will hit $100,000 by 2025.

Currently, experts (and cryptocurrency sites) have BTC trending bullish, meaning there will be an upward price swing. While this is expected, the amount won’t likely see another explosion like it did in 2017 and 2021.

Previous Explosions

For several years after it hit the market, BTC actually trended low. It certainly did have significant growth from 2010 to 2016, when it trended up to nearly $1,000. In 2017, though, the asset went wild.

At the end of January 2017, one BTC sat at $965.50, a significantly higher price than the $0.06 it started at, no doubt. Fast forward to the end of 2017, and it hit a stunning $16,467.90. It rebounded and stayed in the thousands, occasionally touching more than $10,000, until 2021, when it shot up again.

Another Significant Spike

In January 2021, Bitcoin skyrocketed to more than $30,000, but the real surprise came just three months later when it went over $60,000.

Since then, it has been up and down, dropping to under $16,000 in 2022 and increasing over time to where it is now, around the $75,000 mark. It has certainly created many a millionaire who traded on these explosions.

Why Experts Are Wrong

The Bitcoin we’re seeing today is not the same as the one we saw a few years ago. Some of the excitement has waned on it, especially with companies walking back initiatives allowing people to pay for goods with BTC.

Additionally, there are a lot more regulatory eyes on the crypto market, including the Treasury Department, Department of Justice, Securities and Exchange Commission, and Commodity Features Trading Commission. This is to prevent fraud and the market from spiraling out of control. Does that mean we’ll never see a large spike again? No. But it likely won’t explode as predicted in 2025.

HODLers Will HODL

That shouldn’t stop you from getting rid of any BTC you hold. In fact, many who own the asset are some of the most loyal, riding out the volatility storm year to year.

There’s a term in the investment world called HODL, which means hold on for dear life. And that’s what many continue to do, hoping for another spike, but they’re still in good shape letting the asset do its thing in its bullish stage.