When will Bitcoin reach $100,000?

What the trend says

The estimate is not a forecast of a single day. It is the point where a curve fitted to 16 years of daily prices crosses $100K. The fit is refitted every night on the full history, so this date moves a little as new data arrives; the current fit explains about 96% of the variation in price since 2010.

Why the growth slows down

Bitcoin does not grow at a constant rate. Its annual growth has been shrinking every year since 2010, and a steadily declining but still positive growth rate is exactly what a power law describes. That is why $100K was reached later than a naive extrapolation of the last bull run would suggest, and why targets ten times higher take much more than ten times longer.

At $100,000 Bitcoin's market value would be about $2 trillion, roughly the size of the largest single companies on Earth. Numbers of that size are easier to judge in years than in multiples, which is what the Power Law offers.

The two bands: worst case and best case

The lower band, which marks where bear-market bottoms have historically landed, reaches $100K in August 2028. After that date even a deep bear market would, on the model, keep the price above $100K.

The upper band, three times the trend, touched $100K in September 2022. That is the earliest a bull-market blow-off could plausibly print $100K, and it is also why the honest answer is a range of years rather than a date.

What could break this

The model is a description of the past, fitted to data, and it can fail. Since 2010 the price has closed more than 60% below the trend on about 2% of days, all of them in 2010 and 2015, so the bands are a historical range, not a guarantee. A regulatory shock, a flaw in the protocol, or simply a change in adoption would bend the curve. Use the date above as a map of where the centre of gravity has been heading, not as a promise.

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Numbers updated September 6, 2026 from the daily refit · price $79,811 · trend $139,838