Eric Trump, the son of US president Donald Trump and the co-founder of Bitcoin (BTC) mining agency American Bitcoin (ABTC), stated on Friday that there’s “no query” that BTC hits $1 million within the subsequent a number of years.
Trump beforehand predicted that BTC would reach $1 million per coin in December 2024. Talking to the viewers on the Bitcoin 2025 Asia convention in Hong Kong, Trump stated:
“You’ve got acquired nation states which might be shopping for the hell out of Bitcoin. You’ve got acquired Fortune 500 firms which might be shopping for the hell out of Bitcoin. You’ve got acquired the most important households, you’ve got acquired the most important firms on Earth that consider on this digital retailer of worth. Everyone needs Bitcoin. Everyone is shopping for Bitcoin.
That is an unimaginable factor, and that is why I’ve all the time stated that I actually consider within the subsequent a number of years, Bitcoin will hit $1 million. There is no query that Bitcoin hits $1 million,” Trump continued.
Trump stated that regardless of the elevated demand from monetary establishments and rich people, present Bitcoin adopters are nonetheless “early” as a result of the overwhelming majority of market members have not yet caught on to digital money and the way forward for finance.
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Gryphon approves merger with American Bitcoin amid slight BTC drawdown
Shareholders of Gryphon Digital Mining, a publicly listed US-based Bitcoin miner, approved a reverse merger with ABTC in August, and can commerce beneath the ABTC ticker as soon as the deal is accomplished and the inventory is relisted on the Nasdaq alternate in September.
Gryphon’s inventory soared by about 231% since Could 2025, when the preliminary deal was introduced, and rose by over 42% on Thursday in anticipation of the merger.
The deal got here amid a minor correction of almost 13% from Bitcoin’s all-time excessive worth of about $124,500 on August 14.
Bitcoin’s worth has now dipped under the 50-day exponential shifting common (EMA), a dynamic assist stage, which may point out additional strain to the draw back within the brief time period, at the same time as analysts and business executives are calling for larger long-term costs.
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