Bitcoin News
By Sydney TheCMO
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What Changed Since December. Rewind to December 2024. Back then, 58% of survey respondents were confident Bitcoin would hit or…
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Platform Security Gets the Spotlight. BITmarkets runs a cryptocurrency exchange offering trades in over 200 different coins.
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Supply and Demand Versus Everything Else. Daylami's point about internal dynamics versus external factors cuts to an ongoing debate in…
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Bitcoin won't crack $100,000 in 2026. That's what 44% of crypto users think, per a new BITmarkets survey that polled nearly 2,000 people across 58 countries.
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The numbers tell a clearer story than the hype did. BITmarkets asked 1,934 participants what they expect from Bitcoin's price action through the rest of 2026.
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Rewind to December 2024. Back then, 58% of survey respondents were confident Bitcoin would hit or beat $200,000 in 2025. That confidence evaporated fast.
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Now the coin hovers around $70,000, stuck in a range that's frustrated bulls and bored most retail traders.
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Ali Daylami works as Head of Data Analytics at BITmarkets. He sees the cooling sentiment as a natural correction after the October peak.
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The survey's geographic spread matters. Participants came from 58 countries, so this isn't just American retail traders or Asian whales skewing results.
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BITmarkets runs a cryptocurrency exchange offering trades in over 200 different coins. The platform supports 14 languages and puts 99.
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The company positions itself for both retail day traders and institutional clients looking to allocate capital into digital assets.
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More context: Crypto Traders Drop $9.7 Billion on Fees as Bitcoin Drawdown Looms
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Cold storage emphasis isn't just marketing talk. After multiple exchange hacks over the years wiped out billions in user funds, platforms that can prove they're keeping assets…
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The exchange didn't offer predictions beyond what the survey data shows. No comment on whether they think Bitcoin will prove the pessimists wrong or validate the bears.
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The 2026 price action so far suggests the latter. Global markets have seen plenty of volatility this year. Bitcoin's response? Kind of muted.
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