Arthur Hayes says Bitcoin could hit $250,000: ‘China needs to pump up..’

Arthur Hayes, the chief investment officer of cryptocurrency venture capital firm Maelstrom and a macro analyst predicted that Bitcoin is heading toward $250,000.

Speaking with Roundtable expert Scott Melker on his podcast, Hayes argued that governments worldwide have no choice but to print trillions to keep their economies afloat, leading to massive devaluation of fiat currencies and a historic surge in Bitcoin.

“If you listen to what Trump and all of his lieutenants want to do, they want to rearrange the world around the US… But that requires a lot of money printing. It requires destroying the real value of government bonds in the United States,” Hayes said.

According to Hayes, it’s not just the US — China, Japan, and Europe all face the same economic pressures and will also be forced to flood their markets with liquidity.

“China needs to pump up their property market, get the plebs investing in stocks again, get them confident again, get inflation up. They need to print yuan as well. Japan needs to sell a bunch of shit and repatriate yen. Europe wants to decarbonize, but then shut off all their energy from Russia and shut off products from China… So they need to print money as well,” he explained.

‘The only free market left’: Arthur Hayes

Hayes believes these macroeconomic shifts will send Bitcoin to new heights, with $250,000 serving as just a checkpoint on the road to a seven-figure BTC.

“These are the massive changes in the economics of the world that will bring crypto— the only free market left in the world — and, to an extent, gold, to fiat price levels that are unimaginable. That’s why I think that’s how we get to a million-dollar Bitcoin. $250,000 is a stop along the way.”

Bitcoin is currently trading at $103,378, up 3.16% from its all-time high of $108,786, which was recorded on Jan. 20, 2025.