Bitcoin Price Prediction: Can BTC Get Back Over $80,000?

Today's Bitcoin price prediction has BTC trading at $79,500, up around +1.1% over the past 24 hours, as the coin's late-August grind between $78,000 and $81,000 stretches into another week.

That sideways chop is the entire story right now, and according to BitMEX co-founder Arthur Hayes, it's not just a mid-cycle pause; it's a structural problem for the largest corporate bitcoin holder on the planet.

Hayes argues on Laura Shin's Unchained Podcast that Strategy Inc.'s decade-old playbook, sell shares at a premium to net asset value, buy more bitcoin, repeat, breaks down the moment BTC stops accelerating, even without a price crash.

With Strategy's enterprise mNAV compressed to roughly 1.01x and diluted mNAV near 0.74x as of August 27, the company now trades close to the raw value of its 840,447 BTC holdings, leaving almost no premium to fund another buying cycle.

Bitcoin briefly topped $81,000 on August 25 before easing back, a pattern that's reviving debate over whether this rally still has legs. Recent technical coverage suggests the answer hinges on a handful of key levels playing out over the next few sessions.

Bitcoin Price Prediction: Can BTC USD Hit $83K This Week?

At $79,649.68, Bitcoin sits in a tight band that's defined the past several sessions, with seven-day gains still running near 9.7% despite Thursday's pullback.