Bitcoin has all the factors in place to a seven-figure price over the next four years, according to BitMEX co-founder Arthur Hayes.
BTC will hit $1M by 2030... but Arthur Hayes is buying ETH instead
Arthur Hayes says Bitcoin is going to grind higher from here, but Ethereum is his number one pick due to its potential to increase “3x to 5x pretty quickly.”
Cointelegraph by Ciaran Lyons
Publisher Cointelegraph
Sep 2, 2026 at 1:30 PM UTC · 4 分钟阅读

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But he’s buying ETH right now, because he believes it could easily do a “3x to 5x pretty quickly.”
On the latest episode of Trade Secrets, Hayes says the collapse of the AI bubble, “massive” money printing, and potential US yield curve control are among some of the reasons why Bitcoin could go to $1 million by 2030
“We have the ingredients. The time is now. So I think the $58,000 was probably the bottom in Bitcoin, and now it’s going to grind higher in this hate fuck rally,” the 41-year-old billionaire says.
Hayes’ prediction comes just a couple of weeks after 10x Research head of research Markus Thielen told Trade Secrets that reaching that figure by 2030 was “mathematically impossible.” He argued that the amount of capital inflows Bitcoin saw over the past 15 years that pushed it to the current price suggest it has little chance of attracting the trillions in inflows over the next four years required to reach $1 million.
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