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Why Markus Thielen's BTC Year-End Target Is Capped at $142K and His $5K ETH Prediction | Markets Outlook

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4.8689 Ratings

🗓️ 4 August 2025

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

The latest price moves and insights with 10x Research founder Markus Thielen.

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10x Research founder Markus Thielen joins CoinDesk with his outlook for the crypto markets and a comparatively bearish price target for bitcoin at $142,000 by the end of this year. Plus, the hidden catalyst for BTC and the current divergence between Ether's price and its on-chain fundamentals.

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0:53.3

This year, we have seen $206 billion being moved into Bitcoin this year.

0:59.7

And if we see this acceleration or the same pace basically until the year end,

1:05.0

there would be another $140 billion.

1:07.0

And that would get us to $142,000, which is sort of like the most realistic price target right now. Hey, everyone, I'm Jen Sanasi, and this is your Monday Market Outlook. Joining me today is 10X research founder, Marcus Tielan, Marcus. Welcome back. Hey, thanks for having me.

1:28.6

All right, Marcus, I want to start here. What are you watching this morning? Well, of course, we're watching, you know, how far we can rebound. I think we sort of expected this kind of drop. I think it surprised a lot of people. You know, we have been actually bearish for the last kind of like week or two. And I think we, you know, beginning of the week, we're seeing some rebound,

1:27.9

but we don't think it's going to last. We don't think a lot of bearish for the last kind of like week or two. And I think we, you know, beginning of the week,

1:44.8

we're seeing some rebound, but we don't think it's going to last. We don't think a lot of new money is entering, you know, the market. And of course, we have also entered August. And August is seasonally, usually a very weak month. So, you know, looking back the last 10 years, August went down seven out of the last 10 years.

2:03.6

So the seasonality is quite weak.

2:05.6

There was, of course, one big outlier.

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