Name: Hoskinson: Bitcoin will be up to $250,000 by end of 2026
Uploaded: 2025-11-18T15:11:09.066Z
Duration: 4 min 8 s
Description: Charles Hoskinson, co-founder of Ethereum and CEO of Input Output, tells Squawk Box Europe he expects bitcoin to hit $250,000 by the end of 2026, adding that crypto is not immune to macro factors.

Charles Hoskinson, co-founder of Ethereum and CEO of Input Output, tells Squawk Box Europe he expects bitcoin to hit $250,000 by the end of 2026, adding that crypto is not immune to macro factors.

Charles Hoskinson expressed optimism about the future of Bitcoin, predicting its price could reach $250,000 by the end of 2026. He attributes this outlook to the clearing of current market downside within the next two quarters, increased institutional participation, and the expansion of crypto-related assets such as stablecoins.

Hoskinson also emphasized the unique nature of the current crypto cycle, marked by involvement from major financial institutions and a growing global user base. He noted that while the proliferation of cryptocurrencies will likely lead to consolidation, the sector's rapid growth and integration into global trade and infrastructure remain strong.

Hoskinson: Bitcoin will be up to $250,000 by end of 2026

Oh well the markets go up and down and crypto is not immune to the macro and we're still dealing with issues from the tariffs, we're still dealing with a great degree of economic uncertainty. So just this year was a little lackluster but overall I'm still very optimistic in the next 12 months. I think we'll clear most of this downside in the next two quarters and we'll be back up to $250,000 Bitcoin by the end of 2026. Okay so two quarters you think it's going to take but the reality if you look at some of the technicals here the many watchers are saying look if you look at the time that has taken since the last halving event of Bitcoin that occurred April 2024 this is typically what you see 400 to 600 days after so more of a technical factor here. But I would say this time is a little bit different in the sense that we've had a whole bunch of ETFs that have been launched, institutionals that come into the space, we've got an administration in the United States that is crypto friendly. Does that make a difference to any downscale that we could see here that typically could last a lot longer if it were not those factors in the backdrop? Well I mean it's a very different kind of bull market than the last three times that we had the four-year cycle. I mean the last three times it was retail led most notably in 2021 where everything reached an all-time high but this time around you have BlackRock and Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley and the US government all others coming in and really there's a big transition where a lot of assets that are in the crypto space are real world assets. I mean if you take a look at the growth of verticals like stable coins for example we're over 250 billion issued and it's going to be over a trillion dollars by 2030 and it's kind of a soft dollarization of the developing world and there's a lot of estimates that by 2030 to 2035 there's going to be about 10 trillion dollars worth of equities and other assets traditional assets in the cryptocurrency space. So when you have large institutions nation states like the United States and a huge growth of the user base from about 550 million to a billion the fundamentals are just sound there's no way for these markets to stay depressed forever they're just reflecting the current macro environment. Charles it's fascinating conversation I am genuinely coming at this as a layman I understand very little about crypto but one thing I and I'll take on faith that you know he's going to go back up to 250,000 I personally haven't got a clue but do we need 18,000 different types of coin? This is my point. But Bitcoin get it, Ethereum get it, Solana get it, Doge whatever but 18,000 Charles? Well yeah you got a lot of websites too so you know anytime you have an emerging technology there's a thousand flowers that bloom and not all those flowers survive the winter so there's always a great explosion and then a Cambrian extinction of companies and then there's going to be a consolidation to a collection of dominant standards you know the challenge is that we're just moving very quickly and you're not talking about one technology class when you look at crypto it's not just a financial asset you're also talking about protocols to run social networks and artificial intelligence and supply chains and medical records so it's kind of a rewiring of the back end of society and the real value proposition is global trade you know this is the only technology we have when China and Russia and the United States aren't getting along where we can still do global business and have some fair rules that don't change every 15 minutes I mean I'm old enough to remember when we didn't worry about tariffs anymore now we do and I was old enough to remember when we had transnational groups that actually had teeth but now we have great powers conflict like the old Soviet days again so you need a safe commercial space and that's what the cryptocurrency space is providing and you know innovation is going to create a tremendous amount of competition but remember you're talking about 8 billion people playing in this space not just a single nation state or a single standard so overall I think we're growing at the right rate if you look year by year we gain more people we gain more capital and the last 15 years we've gone from pretty much nothing to a multi-trillion dollar market and there's no other technology class that's had the opportunity to grow this quickly relative to where it's at the market.

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