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Bitcoin hits new all-time high, passing $112,000

Experts think bitcoin will continue its upward trajectory in the coming months.

Bitcoin hit a new all-time high today, crossing $112,000 for the first time, passing the previous record of $111,970 reached on May 22, aka Bitcoin Pizza Day.

“Bitcoin has performed far better than the doom-and-gloom proponents had been predicting over the last several months, and reaching an all-time high during such macroeconomic and geopolitical uncertainty is a testament to it becoming a globally recognized and accepted asset,” Sidney Powell, CEO of Maple Finance, told Sherwood News. 

Powell said that while he’s not big on predictions, he “would not be surprised to see bitcoin surpass $150,000 by the end of the year.”

Geoff Kendrick, global head of digital assets research at Standard Chartered Bank, wrote in a July 2 note that bitcoin will reach another all-time high “to around USD 135,000 by end-Q3 and to USD 200,000 by end-Q4.”

He added that he expects the second half of 2025 to be bitcoin’s “best ever” thanks to ETF and corporate treasury buying, Powell’s potential “early replacement,” the passage of a stablecoin bill, and the broadening of sovereign buying.

Others are even more bullish, projecting bitcoin to reach $200,000 to $230,000 by the end of the year.

“Quantitative models estimate bitcoins hypothetical fair value amid the current sovereign default probabilities at around 230k USD today. This estimation is dovetailed by bitcoins increasing scarcity which also points to an ascend towards 200k USD by the end of the year,” Bitwise researchers André Dragosch and Ayush Tripathi wrote on June 10

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$1.2B

Crypto liquidations reached $1.2 billion in the past 24 hours, according to CoinGlass data, as bitcoin continued its downward trajectory. Bitcoin suffered $458.24 million in liquidations, with the bulk of them — over $334 million — in long positions. Meanwhile, the second-biggest crypto, ethereum, saw the second-biggest figure for liquidations yesterday, with $278 million.

Bitcoin slipped as far as $103,856 early Friday morning, its lowest level since July, and is down 13% in the past seven days. The sell-off dragged the total crypto market cap down to $3.67 trillion, down 5.5%. Underscoring the market anxiety, CoinMarketCap’s fear and greed index is now at 28.

Bitcoin ETFs also suffered, registering $536 million in outflows on Thursday. The Ark 21 Shares Bitcoin ETF took the biggest hit, with $275.15 million in outflows. Since Monday, bitcoin ETFs have seen $864.5 million in outflows. 

Maja Vujinovic, CEO and cofounder of digital assets at FG Nexus, told Sherwood News that bitcoin’s slump looks like a classic risk-off chain reaction.

“Credit jitters and trade tensions pushed money into gold at record highs while leveraged crypto longs were forced to unwind. Once the liquidations exhaust and policy fog clears, the same macro buyers chasing safety today are likely to hunt value in BTC again,” Vujinovic said. 

$15B

The US government seized 127,271 bitcoin, worth $15 billion, in what it calls the Department of Justice’s “largest ever forfeiture action.”

The indictment against Chen Zhi, chairman of Cambodian conglomerate Prince Group, alleges that he engaged in wire fraud conspiracy using forced labor in Cambodia.

“Individuals held against their will in the compounds engaged in cryptocurrency investment fraud schemes, known as ‘pig butchering’ scams, that stole billions of dollars from victims in the United States and around the world. The defendant is at large,” according to a DOJ press release.

This is “exactly the kind of outcome the Strategic Bitcoin Reserve was designed to enable,” Zack Shapiro, managing partner at Rains Law and head of policy of the Bitcoin Policy Institute, said on X.

This significantly increases the size of the US’s strategic reserve, which held over 197,000 bitcoin before the seizure. As of today, Arkham Intelligence data shows it’s holding 324,780 bitcoin, worth over $37 billion.

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