Bitcoin could reach nearly $250,000 in 2025 as half a trillion dollars of new capital flows in.
In its latest weekly report on Jan. 14, onchain analytics platform CryptoQuant braced for the next Bitcoin 
BTCUSD price macro top.
BTC price should hit at least $145,000 — Research
Bitcoin is primed to hit at least $145,000 this year as the new US presidential administration sparks a mass capital influx, CryptoQuant said.
Discussing where BTCUSD may be headed, the firm flagged favorable US political and economic trends as the basis for a solid bull thesis.
“About $520 billion of fresh capital could flow into Bitcoin in 2025,” researchers calculated.
“In the context of favorable regulatory, monetary and cyclical conditions, it’s reasonable to expect capital to continue flowing into Bitcoin in 2025.”
An accompanying chart shows Bitcoin’s realized market cap — the combined value of the supply as it moves onchain — since 2015. If the market follows historical patterns, CryptoQuant said, the $520 billion tally becomes attainable.
“Bitcoin could rise to $145k-$249k in 2025, given the expected capital inflows,” it continues.
“The expansion in the total capital invested in Bitcoin (realized capitalization) has a more-than-proportional effect on Bitcoin’s market value and price.”
CryptoQuant joins various bullish BTC price predictions for the coming year, some of which include a giant leap to the $1 million mark.
That came courtesy of Samson Mow, CEO of Bitcoin adoption firm JAN3, who in an interview with Cointelegraph late last year predicted the appearance of “omega” BTC price candles.
“You’ll start to go up by 10,000 a day or drop by 10,000 a day. And this is the God candle. After that, we’ll start to see Omega candles, which are 100,000 increments daily,” he said about future BTCUSD moves.
Mow continues to tout the $1 million target for 2025 on social media.
Analyst compares Bitcoin to “beach ball” in January
Despite tagging two-month lows this week, Bitcoin is also fielding optimistic targets in the short term.
Ahead of US President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration on Jan. 20, rumors are swirling over first-day announcements, which could set the tone for the rest of the crypto bull market.
“Standard stuff…. my feeling is that BTC is currently a bit of a beach ball under water with the legacy markets sitting on it for now,” Filbfilb, co-founder of trading suite DecenTrader, told Telegram channel subscribers about the latest BTC price action.
Filbfilb said that overly bearish sentiment across risk-assets, thanks to concerns over Fed policy, may be weighing on crypto market performance.
“A case can still be made for a Monthly Bull Flag,” trader and analyst Rekt Capital added.
On daily timeframes, Rekt Capital described BTCUSD as going “from threatening a downside deviation To strongly rebounding and developing a new Higher Low.”
“Lots can change within 24 hours for Bitcoin,” he concluded.
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