What's Next for Bitcoin: $45,000 or $100,000?

2026-03-05 06:44:00 ET

Right now Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC) is priced at around $69,000 after a brutal slide of 27% over the last three months, and the crypto mood looks grim. Many market participants have been speculating that the coin is due for another big leg down, to the $45,000 range, whereas others -- perhaps aspirationally -- have been predicting a snappy return to the $100,000 level. If you're investing for the long term, these possibilities for short-term price action aren't worth fixating on, but it can still be comforting to game out the different scenarios, if only for the sake of developing an outlook for how aggressively (or cautiously) to invest.

So what's next for Bitcoin: $45,000, or $100,000? Let's map things out and get some perspective.

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