Bitcoin Set to Surge Toward $220,000 Amid Rising Institutional Support
Bitcoin price target raised to $220,000 by Max Keiser, reflecting growing confidence amid 2025 macroeconomic trends.
Institutional support strengthens, with Standard Chartered and BitMEX co-founder forecasting BTC up to $200,000–$250,000 by the end of 2025.
Technical analysts, including John Bollinger, signal a potential upside breakout, reinforcing bullish momentum.
Bitcoin (BTC) continues to dominate the headlines as its value surges even higher, and crypto stalwart Max Keiser is back in the spotlight with a bold new prediction. Quoted for years for his long-term bullishness on the cryptocurrency, Keiser has revised his previous target of $200,000 to now predict the virtual currency soaring to $220,000 by the end of 2025.
$220,000 in 2025 pic.twitter.com/IzduBPm0YG
— Max Keiser (@maxkeiser) July 10, 2025
His latest comments demonstrate growing confidence in the superiority of Bitcoin as a store of value over fiat currency and as a disruptor in global finance. The timing of this updated forecast is conspicuous. With 2025 already more than halfway there, Keiser’s sense of urgency betrays his confidence in the possibility of a rapid spike in the price of Bitcoin due to macroeconomic developments and growing institutional interest.
He also framed his outlook in terms of wider scorn for fiat currency and attacking former U.S. President Donald Trump for his “fiat money addiction.”
“Fiat money addicts have to hit bottom and be willing to listen to the message of Bitcoin,” said Keiser. “When Trump decides to get well, Bitcoin will still be around, just way higher in value.”
Keiser initially made news about his $220K price prediction for bitcoin in 2022 in an interview, and now, with the latest conditions in the market matching those in his earlier insight, he appears more convinced than ever. Nevertheless, asking him for the date for BTC to reach this point, Keiser declined to give one, saying, “If I gave you both the price and date, most of you would be scared.”
Bitcoin up 700% since this interview 2 years ago (and $220,000 in 2025 looks likely).
Gold up less than 2X @DanielaCambone promised to have me back on at $220K https://t.co/wmCfomWGrc pic.twitter.com/OUs9OvGBfD
— Max Keiser (@maxkeiser) July 10, 2025
To Keiser’s optimistic thesis, technical analysts and many other voices in the crypto community have lent credibility. The Bollinger Bands creator, John Bollinger, has in the recent past mentioned the possibility of a Bitcoin breakout in one of his commentaries on analyzing the markets. He argued that BTC was “setting up for an upside breakout” in the current week.
Bitcoin looks to be setting up for an upside breakout. $BTCUSD More as the week gets going.
— John Bollinger (@bbands) July 6, 2025
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Bitcoin Forecasts Jump as Institutions Target $250,000
Institutions are following suit. Banking giant Standard Chartered has just upgraded its BTC forecast, forecasting the advance to $135,000 in Q3 and $200,000 in Q4 2025. BitMEX co-founder Arthur Hayes has proposed to even more aggressively target the goal of $250,000, conditional on the return of the United States Federal Reserve to quantitative easing (QE).
This matching of positive outlooks highlights the added relevance of Bitcoin in retail and institutional finance. With the ongoing unpredictability in the economy and confidence in fiat systems being eroded, the appeal of Bitcoin as a store of value and inflationary hedge becomes more prominent.
At the time of writing, the value of Bitcoin is $112,595 with a 24h volume of $56.67B and a market cap of $2.24T. The value of BTC increased by 2.90% in the last 24 hours.
Moreover, the revised $220,000 price forecast by Max Keiser drives the already favorable story even higher. With technical outlooks that show green lights and institutional forecasts increasingly bullish, the road to six-figure value for BTC has never seemed more attainable.
While timing is speculative, the momentum for the world’s leading cryptocurrency cannot be denied as being more and more accelerated.
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Filed under: Bitcoin - @ July 10, 2025 6:32 pm