Ripple CEO Says $180K Bitcoin

[death69]

Brad Garlinghouse, the CEO of Ripple, went on stage in Dubai last week and said Bitcoin will reach $180,000 by end of 2026. The crypto news websites loved it. Why did he say this number and what does it mean for people like us?

First, who is this man? He is 54 years old, Harvard MBA, worked in Yahoo and AOL before Ripple. For four years, the US government attempted to destroy his company by legal attacks. He fought back and mostly won. So, he is not some random person in Twitter. His company, Ripple, benefits both from Bitcoin rising and from crypto being more accepted by governments. If Bitcoin wins, XRP wins too. So is this analysis or this marketing?

Some of what he says is consistent with real data. The US government is now holding Bitcoin, instead of selling it. Big companies such as Blackrock are producing Bitcoin products for regular investors. Miners are losing money at present prices and that typically indicates that the price is approaching an area of support. These things are true.

But the people beneficiary from Bitcoin going mainstream are not us. They are the institutions, the funds, the governments. They purchase when we are scared and do so quietly. They sell slowly, when we are excited. They have time and money and information that we do not have.

So maybe Garlinghouse is correct in the direction. Maybe Bitcoin does go much higher as a result of all these structural changes. How many of us patiently have the plan for it to benefit us? Or do we just play to the headlines and buy high/sell low and watch the big players win again?

To understand why he made it; who it serves; and what your own strategy is. Because in this game the person who has the plan usually wins. The man who is after numbers usually loses.

[Fiatless]

So maybe Garlinghouse is correct in the direction. Maybe Bitcoin does go much higher as a result of all these structural changes. How many of us patiently have the plan for it to benefit us? Or do we just play to the headlines and buy high/sell low and watch the big players win again?

To understand why he made it; who it serves; and what your own strategy is. Because in this game the person who has the plan usually wins. The man who is after numbers usually loses.

Having all the educational qualifications and experience in finance doesn't mean that Brad Garlinghouse's predictions would be accurate.  I would be happy to see Bitcoin hit $180,000 by next year because it's more profitable. But  I don't see this prediction happening because Bitcoin might experience a bear market by next year.

I have a long-term plan, so I am not swayed by FUD. The Bitcoin space is unpredictable, so one has to be prepared for any outcome.

[EL MOHA]

I will start with your question of maybe this is an analysis or marketing? This answer is straight up this Brad Garlinghouse analysis or prediction and nothing like marketing because you cannot market bitcoin, bitcoin utilities has actually market its self, if Brad has the marketing power he would have preferred to Market XRP instead. It’s a prediction and nothing special about it, because even some of us called bitcoin at $150k to $180k for this year ATH and it didn’t come through, so same can happen to that of Brad prediction too or it might happen.

As for miners I don’t understand why you think miners are losing money. For me they are not that losing because they should be aware that there is bearish season and for me I think they should have actually planned perfectly for it. Although if you’re assumptions is based on the fact that fees are high now, then I will say it will be selfish for them to complain of losing when had periods where even $10 couldn’t get a transaction into the next available block.

Also yes institutions who have heavily accumulated bitcoin are definitely going to be beneficiaries but that doesn’t leaves out the fact that even retail investors like us are not beneficiaries, with bitcoin you get equal share of the advantages and disadvantages. The only difference is how long you can hold to gather more profits like the institutions hold

[Joy_learns_crypto]

So maybe Garlinghouse is correct in the direction. Maybe Bitcoin does go much higher as a result of all these structural changes. How many of us patiently have the plan for it to benefit us? Or do we just play to the headlines and buy high/sell low and watch the big players win again?

To understand why he made it; who it serves; and what your own strategy is. Because in this game the person who has the plan usually wins. The man who is after numbers usually loses.

Having all the educational qualifications and experience in finance doesn't mean that Brad Garlinghouse's predictions would be accurate.  I would be happy to see Bitcoin hit $180,000 by next year because it's more profitable. But  I don't see this prediction happening because Bitcoin might experience a bear market by next year.

I have a long-term plan, so I am not swayed by FUD. The Bitcoin space is unpredictable, so one has to be prepared for any outcome.

Just like I don’t think that the man with the highest IQ in the world will have a correct bitcoin prediction. Bitcoin investors without much qualifications are also making strong predictions.

But the thing about the prediction is that all of them are optimistic about 2026, even with the price down under $100k the prediction for next year are very optimistic.
I also have a long term plan too so their prediction which are optimistic are good to see but I am already going to hold even after the end of 2026.

[Charles-Tim]

So maybe Garlinghouse is correct in the direction. Maybe Bitcoin does go much higher as a result of all these structural changes. How many of us patiently have the plan for it to benefit us? Or do we just play to the headlines and buy high/sell low and watch the big players win again?

The best is to just watch what will happen or just DCA, bitcoin has not been favour in such time in the past, if you are not holding already, just watch what will happen. I also do not believe in what well known people are just saying, I do my own research. Even without research, I can easily know that next year might not favour bitcoin. I can be very wrong but my post is based on what has happened in the past.

[livingfree]

I want these personalities to say that Bitcoin is going to specific lower price than of high on the bear market.

It's because that everything they say about Bitcoin, it's the opposite that's happening. From all of the good predictions, only a few of them have seen it happen in the reality and they didn't just say those numbers during the bull run like what Brad has said.

If it happens, that's good but if doesn't, We know that the bear market should have arrived by 2026 and that shall make the price of bitcoin lower.

[Alpha Marine]

Some of what he says is consistent with real data. The US government is now holding Bitcoin, instead of selling it. Big companies such as Blackrock are producing Bitcoin products for regular investors. Miners are losing money at present prices and that typically indicates that the price is approaching an area of support. These things are true.

The Bitcoin market does not really care about these. It's not that straightforward. All these people bought, even the US turned their seized bitcoin into a reserve (if you can call it that), yet the price of bitcoin still dipped. Big companies can buy, governments can buy, and there will still be a dip.
I believe Bitcoin will go above $100k next year and might even get a new high, but I doubt it will get to $180k.

It's true that demand from institutions and governments will raise the price of Bitcoin, but that doesn't mean it will just keep going higher.
Right now, all anybody will say about Bitcoin is just predictions. The only difference is some are predicting with emotions and bias while others are predicting with data and analysis, but no amount of data or analysis can give you a certain prediction. Humans and unforeseen events makes it difficult to be certain.

[STT]

The flip side to that is saying 2026 BTC will peak, so a high price occuring before the end of year with quite possible decline.   I'm not sure he means 180k at the year end which in many ways would be more steady and predictable with health for the long term.

I agree on volatile terms 180k could occur in the spring or summer but I usually hope for the gradual build scenario more as it lasts better.  From here to that target is 100% gain which causes some harm in price stability I think.

Compare and contrast to last year summer, we were as now at the 200 week average and within 10 weeks it had 'spiked up'  ; its taken about a year now to even that out up and down.
   Rapid changes require alot revision most likely.

So the 2024 price change was over 100% from those lows.  His prediction can repeat that again though it takes alot of energy.

[Mrbluntzy]

In the next 21 days that is left to end the year, we are going to find out what happens then, it's possible that the price could spike to that $180k, but whether it does or doesn't, we should plan to continue holding while also DCAing. The price of Bitcoin can not be correctly determined all the time, even most analysis of Bitcoin were wrong,  earlier this year I remember that most big people that invested a massive amount on Bitcoin have also made open speech that Bitcoin was going to get to a certain price this year and we are at the end of the year, but the price of Bitcoin didn't even near their predicated price.

[FiliOrangGila]

For 2025, it is very unlikely that the price of Bitcoin will reach 180k dollars because the current trend of Bitcoin is actually experiencing a bearish trend. However, for the future price of Bitcoin or the next halving in 2028, it is very possible for the price of Bitcoin to reach 180k dollars. This is because after each halving, the price will skyrocket and then experience a decline. After the 2024 halving, the price of Bitcoin has already skyrocketed to a new all-time high with a peak price of 120k dollars, and currently, Bitcoin is in a bearish trend. So, it is very unlikely that during a bearish trend, the price of Bitcoin will skyrocket to reach a new all-time high.

[cryptomaniac_xxx]

So maybe Garlinghouse is correct in the direction. Maybe Bitcoin does go much higher as a result of all these structural changes. How many of us patiently have the plan for it to benefit us? Or do we just play to the headlines and buy high/sell low and watch the big players win again?

To understand why he made it; who it serves; and what your own strategy is. Because in this game the person who has the plan usually wins. The man who is after numbers usually loses.

Sooner or later we are going to hit $180k, but I don't think that we will see it touch this cycle. If you would remember, in the last bull run, most pundits says that we will hit $100k, but it didn't happened, our last all time is just $69k. But eventually we did see that 6 digits this cycle and so the prediction might have been delayed by one cycle.

So this could just repeat itself, $180k as a entry level prediction in 2028-2029.

As for the educational background and other stuff, I don't think that it's a leverage for making prediction. We are all just making a wild and educated guess here. Even people who have less education can also say that $180k is possible.