Bitcoin has gained great gains with the change of political attitude towards the crypto currency sector in recent years. A few weeks after Donald Trump’s victory over Kamala Harris, especially in the USA, the Bitcoin market exceeded the $ 100,000 level, reaching an important turning point. However, since the beginning of 2025, Bitcoin’s rise acceleration began to slow down.

Will the price of Bitcoin leave the gold behind?

Bitcoin’s rate of change since the beginning of the New Year (YTD) has decreased by 10.2 %. In the last seven days, the price of BTC declined by 2.71 %. However, Fundstrat’s founding partner, Tom Lee, predicts that Bitcoin will be the best performance class in 2025. He even claimed that BTC would perform better than gold throughout the year.

Last year, gold prices gained 27.44 %, while Bitcoin increased at least 121.1 %in the same period. However, BTC, called digital gold, could not survive in the first quarter of 2025. While the change of gold since the beginning of the year (YTD) was 13.7 %, Bitcoin’s starting with a loss of 10.2 %caused question marks about whether BTC could force the dominance of gold as a value storage tool. However, Lee predicts that by the end of the year, Bitcoin will perform better than under it.

BTC has been falling since the beginning of 2025

At the beginning of 2025, Bitcoin’s price was $ 93,536,41. In January, there was a moderate increase of 9.54 %. However, in February, the market saw a significant decrease of 17.55 %. At the beginning of March, BTC was traded for 84,381,04 dollars. In the first two days of the month, an increase of 11.68 %was recorded and the price reached $ 95.048.73 on March 2. However, after this rise, the market experienced two major corrections: a decrease of 13.25 %between 8.5 %on March 3 and 6-10 March. Following these corrections, the BTC market has not yet been fully recovered. As of now, the price of BTC is at 83,873 dollars and 13.32 %from the highest level of the month.

Tom Lee’s 2025 estimated

Tom Lee predicts that the price of Bitcoin in 2025 will reach $ 150,000. This estimate reflects a extremely optimistic perspective on the future of the BTC market. Although Lee’s previous Bitcoin estimates give mixed results, it is considered a respected figure in the financial sector. Fundstrat, a founding partner of Lee, is known as one of the leading organizations in independent financial research. If the analyst’s prediction occurs, the year 2025 may be very profitable for Bitcoin investors.