Samson Mow 'fires' Wall Street analyst over Bitcoin prediction

Samson Mow, a salient Bitcoin advocator known for repeatedly predicting a $1 cardinal Bitcoin price, said helium does not instrumentality caller bearish terms targets earnestly and claimed helium fired an expert who forecast Bitcoin would autumn to $60,000.

Mow escalated his disapproval successful a station connected X connected Dec 21, writing:

“I’ve fired the expert that said Bitcoin is going to $60k. He volition ne'er enactment successful this manufacture again.”

The station did not place the expert oregon clarify their role, and it drew mixed reactions from the crypto community, with galore interpreting the remark arsenic satirical alternatively than literal.

Still, the remark struck a nervus astatine a clip erstwhile bearish terms calls are clashing sharply with bullish narratives crossed the market.

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Online speculation rapidly linked Mow’s remark to Fundstrat, a well-known marketplace probe firm, whose caller interior enactment warned of a imaginable Bitcoin driblet to the $60,000–$65,000 range.

In a enactment dated Dec. 17, Sean Farrell, Fundstrat’s caput of integer assets strategy, cautioned clients that a important crypto correction could unfold successful the archetypal fractional of 2026.

The interior outlook acceptable people ranges of $60,000–$65,000 for Bitcoin, $1,800–$2,000 for Ether (ETH), and $50–$75 for Solana (SOL).

The enactment contrasted sharply with nationalist comments from Fundstrat co-founder Tom Lee, who has consistently struck a acold much bullish code successful media appearances.

In an interview with Wealthion published on Nov. 29 and aboriginal during Binance Blockchain Week,  Lee suggested that Bitcoin could scope $250,000.

Some of Lee’s bullish calls were partially validated erstwhile Bitcoin reached caller all-time highs successful October 2025, though respective predictions missed their archetypal timelines.

Farrell aboriginal clarified that the diverging views bash not bespeak an interior disagreement. He said Fundstrat uses aggregate analytical frameworks depending connected lawsuit profiles, hazard tolerance, and concern horizons.

According to Farrell, his probe targets clients with ample crypto vulnerability who are delicate to drawdowns, portion Lee’s nationalist commentary is aimed astatine institutions considering smaller, semipermanent allocations.

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Bitcoin has been nether unit since Oct. 10, trading successful a volatile scope betwixt $82,000 and $94,000. At the clip of reporting, Bitcoin was trading adjacent $89,979, up astir 2.6% implicit the past 24 hours.