Uncle Tom and his partner in Fundstrat cannot agree on bitcoin's price on 2026

[bbc.reporter]

It appears that one of our favorite uncles, Tom Lee, in the cryptospace cannot agree with the prediction on bitcoin with his partner in Fundstrat heheheheh.

According to his partner, bitcoin might dump to $60k on 2026, however, uncle Tom predicted that bitcoin will be on an all time high early on 2026.

Who will be correct? The partner or uncle Tom?


Tom Lee

A debate on X over whether Fundstrat analysts are sending mixed signals on bitcoin intensified over the weekend, prompting a response from the firm’s co-founder that appeared to endorse a more nuanced explanation of the differing views.

The discussion began after an X user known as “Heisenberg” (@Mr_Derivatives) shared screenshots that he said showed contrasting outlooks from Fundstrat’s leadership. One highlighted comment attributed to Sean Farrell, Fundstrat’s head of digital asset strategy, outlines a base case in which bitcoin could retrace toward the $60,000–$65,000 range in the first half of 2026. Another pointed to Lee’s recent public comments suggesting bitcoin could make new all-time highs, potentially as soon as early 2026.

Read in full https://www.coindesk.com/markets/2025/12/20/tom-lee-responds-as-x-debates-fundstrat-s-differing-bitcoin-outlooks

[philipma1957]

It appears that one of our favorite uncles, Tom Lee, in the cryptospace cannot agree with the prediction on bitcoin with his partner in Fundstrat heheheheh.

According to his partner, bitcoin might dump to $60k on 2026, however, uncle Tom predicted that bitcoin will be on an all time high early on 2026.

Who will be correct? The partner or uncle Tom?


Tom Lee

A debate on X over whether Fundstrat analysts are sending mixed signals on bitcoin intensified over the weekend, prompting a response from the firm’s co-founder that appeared to endorse a more nuanced explanation of the differing views.

The discussion began after an X user known as “Heisenberg” (@Mr_Derivatives) shared screenshots that he said showed contrasting outlooks from Fundstrat’s leadership. One highlighted comment attributed to Sean Farrell, Fundstrat’s head of digital asset strategy, outlines a base case in which bitcoin could retrace toward the $60,000–$65,000 range in the first half of 2026. Another pointed to Lee’s recent public comments suggesting bitcoin could make new all-time highs, potentially as soon as early 2026.

Read in full https://www.coindesk.com/markets/2025/12/20/tom-lee-responds-as-x-debates-fundstrat-s-differing-bitcoin-outlooks

Both it hits an all time high in the  first quarter and crashes in the summer.

[OgNasty]

Tom is trying to become a social media talking head like Jim Cramer or Peter Schiff. It is telling that his company has been preparing for the bear market while he tells people the price is going to the moon. Everyone knew the 4-year correction was coming. Beware the folks who were saying we were going higher.

[Oshosondy]

Tom is trying to become a social media talking head like Jim Cramer or Peter Schiff. It is telling that his company has been preparing for the bear market while he tells people the price is going to the moon. Everyone knew the 4-year correction was coming. Beware the folks who were saying we were going higher.

The way these people are saying that bitcoin will increase in 2026 to the extent some said bitcoin will get to $200000 in 2026 is somehow. It is like a coordinated speech that has been planned before or maybe it is from a technical analytical point of view. I just know that analyses can be very inaccurate at times. 2026 is almost here, I will see what will happen. I also think that bitcoin price may still go down to at least $72500 or lower.

[bbc.reporter]

Tom is trying to become a social media talking head like Jim Cramer or Peter Schiff. It is telling that his company has been preparing for the bear market while he tells people the price is going to the moon. Everyone knew the 4-year correction was coming. Beware the folks who were saying we were going higher.

We can be quite certain that similar to his famous prediction on the cycle before where he predicted that bitcoin will pump to $25k when the bubble pop happened on $20k, he is only finding some people to hold with him through the bear market.

He might also be doing these bullish predictions to make us his exit liquidity and dump on our faces with our mouths open. He is a frustrated man who wants to be something similar to an arab billionaire who can do the Dubai chocolate on people hehehehe.

[GreatArkansas]

Well, these speculations are normal; that's their vision and opinion, and we must respect it. If you can see, the figures, $60,000 ,are around $20,000 away from the current price, so there's still a chance we can drop to that price.
Well, some personalities also doing these kind of publicity so price can drop and they can buy more cheap Bitcoins.

[Dave1]

Tom is trying to become a social media talking head like Jim Cramer or Peter Schiff. It is telling that his company has been preparing for the bear market while he tells people the price is going to the moon. Everyone knew the 4-year correction was coming. Beware the folks who were saying we were going higher.

The way these people are saying that bitcoin will increase in 2026 to the extent some said bitcoin will get to $200000 in 2026 is somehow. It is like a coordinated speech that has been planned before or maybe it is from a technical analytical point of view. I just know that analyses can be very inaccurate at times. 2026 is almost here, I will see what will happen. I also think that bitcoin price may still go down to at least $72500 or lower.

Not coordinated but we think why they wanted it to be still bullish, because they might have clients that pour a lot of money on them and so they want to make profits by trying to tell the public that it is still OK to invest on Bitcoin despite what the charts is saying.

Truth to be told, we might be in the bearish season for all we know. But majority still refuses to acknowledge it maybe because (a), they haven't sold yet and think that the price will go on to $150k before they take profits, or (b), like Fundstrat and other who handle big clients, they want to assure them that the price will continue to rise and so they want them to invest more of their money so this companies will profits too.

[Donneski]

Classic Bitcoin Uncle Tom sees fireworks in early 2026 his partner sees gravity kicking in afterward. Same firm different lenses. Bitcoin can easily hit a new ATH first then retrace to $60k–$65k later. Markets aren’t linear and Bitcoin loves confusing everyone.

[Amphenomenon]

Tom is trying to become a social media talking head like Jim Cramer or Peter Schiff. It is telling that his company has been preparing for the bear market while he tells people the price is going to the moon. Everyone knew the 4-year correction was coming. Beware the folks who were saying we were going higher.

I don't really know much about these men but like you said we should be aware of the four years cycle a dip is not forever, the bear will come and the bull will come and dominate even higher than before. Sit and watch, all these are speculations, let's be guided and avoid FUD/FOMO.

[Darker45]

It's probably his partner who's sharing an objective outlook. Tom's is obviously an exaggeration. I doubt if there's really somebody who's looking forward to an ATH early next year. We can't even reclaim $90,000. But it's very normal for crypto personalities who've got so much stake on the market to create hype all year round, that is, even if it's in the middle of a correction. The price may be going down but their predictions are all bullish.

Anyway, $60,000 is much more probable than an ATH.

[bbc.reporter]

Well, these speculations are normal; that's their vision and opinion, and we must respect it. If you can see, the figures, $60,000 ,are around $20,000 away from the current price, so there's still a chance we can drop to that price.
Well, some personalities also doing these kind of publicity so price can drop and they can buy more cheap Bitcoins.

However, similar to uncle Tom Lee, there are also some personalities that are predicting very high prices and hype the market to dump on our faces with our mouths open again hehehe.

This might also be caused by an anguishing feeling where holding a falling cryptocoin wants you to encourage everyone to buy and hold the falling cryptocoin with you to have the anguishing feeling together hehehehehehee.

[X-ray]

A two way prediction coming from the same firm, a completely normal phenomenon in finance world especially in crypto  .

However, from the news I've read from yahoo finance.. The reason their forecast is contradictory is just matter of short term and long term holding where sean farrel only giving insight about short term outlook for bitcoin where tom lee's advise is more geared toward institutional holding bitcoin for diversification for long term.



So actually there's no contradiction.

[bbc.reporter]

@X-ray. However, if we only concentrate on 2026, there is a big chance that Sean Farrell will be proven more correct than the prediction of our favorite Korean uncle Tom Lee hehehe. Very much similar to 2022, I reckon 2026 might be a bear market.