##PCEMarketWatch 'Money Printing' Will Lift Bitcoin to $250K This Year: Arthur Hayes

Bitcoin’s price will more than double within the next six months, according to BitMEX founder Arthur Hayes. Here's why he expects the surge.

Arthur Hayes. Source: André Beganski/Decrypt

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Bitcoin will hit $250,000 this year, according to BitMEX co-founder Arthur Hayes.

The White House will shift away from tariffs to avoid political fallout, he added.

A tax on foreign capital could drive governments toward Bitcoin and gold, he argued.

Bitcoin’s price will more than double within the next six months, swelling to $250,000, according to Bitcoin billionaire and BitMEX co-founder Arthur Hayes, as U.S. President Donald Trump moves away from the market-rattling impact of tariffs toward other fiscal policies.

“Midterm elections are coming up in the U.S.,” he told Decrypt at Bitcoin 2025 in Las Vegas. “While the Trump administration went hard on tariffs and was taking this market pain for the last three months, that narrative has to shift.”

Instead of pursuing trade policies that could weigh on economic growth and potentially hurt Americans’ ability to afford everyday goods, Hayes—who has made his fair share of bold predictions—argued that the president will have to show he “brought goodies for the population” to help Republicans at the ballot box come 2026.