Bitcoin Primed for Explosive $150K Surge Before Correction—CEOs Bet Big

Brace for liftoff—Bitcoin’s next parabolic rally could hit $150K before gravity kicks in, according to bullish CEO forecasts. Here’s why the smart money’s doubling down (and why Wall Street’s still playing catch-up).

### The $150K Catalyst: Institutional FOMO Meets Scarcity

With halving-induced supply shocks and BlackRock’s ETF inflows hitting record highs, BTC’s path to six figures looks less like hopium and more like math. Even goldbugs are quietly rebalancing.

### The Coming Correction: Profit-Taking or Paradigm Shift?

Every moon mission needs a re-entry plan. When retail traders start mortgaging homes to buy memecoins, that’s when our CEO predicts the smart exit—right around $150K. Cue the ‘I told you so’ tweets from crypto OGs.

### Wall Street’s Dilemma: Late or Leveraged?

Traditional finance faces its Kobayashi Maru: miss the boat or overleverage into volatility. Meanwhile, Bitcoiners keep stacking sats—because nothing says ‘hedge against inflation’ like an asset that swings 20% before breakfast.

CEO Issues A Cautionary Call

According to Canary Capital CEO Steven McClurg, there may be no more than 27% of upside left in this cycle before a downtrend begins.

He told viewers there is a greater than 50% chance bitcoin hits the $140–$150k band this year. At $118,350 that would mean gains in the neighborhood of 20% to 30%. That is the scenario he laid out — a controlled move higher that then rolls over if key buyers step back.

Institutional Flows Drive Recent Gains

Reports have pointed to spot Bitcoin ETF inflows and large treasury purchases as the main drivers of recent price action.

McClurg said sovereign wealth funds and insurance companies have been asking questions and moving into allocations, and he expects some of that buying to peak in the coming months. If those big buyers slow or pause, the price path becomes harder to justify at higher levels.

McClurg also expressed concern about the broader economy and the timing of US monetary policy. He said he does not like the economic standing now and argued the US Federal Reserve should have cut rates earlier.

Still, he expects cuts in September and October, and market pricing via a popular CME gauge places the odds of a September cut at roughly 92%. A Fed MOVE can lift risk assets, or it can unsettle markets if it signals deeper trouble — either outcome matters for Bitcoin.

Not all voices are cautious. Cathie Wood (ARK Invest) projects a big upside — a bull case around $1.5 million by 2030, with lower-case scenarios in the high hundreds of thousands. She links the thesis to growing institutional demand and Bitcoin’s fixed supply.

Strategy executive chairman Michael Saylor said recently that “Winter is not coming back,” and he went as far as saying that if Bitcoin is not going to zero it could reach $1 million.

Mike Novogratz (Galaxy Digital) gives a range: midterm targets like $150k are possible, and under stronger adoption scenarios he talks about $500k–$1M longer term. He stresses those outcomes depend on macro conditions and large buyers.

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