The boldest bitcoin predictions for 2025 are in — and most see prices doubling to $200,000

Several industry watchers who spoke to CNBC forecast bitcoin will hit $ 200,000 in 2025 .

The highest call is for bitcoin to surge to $ 250,000 .

In December , the world's largest cryptocurrency broke the highly-anticipated $ 100,000 , setting a record high price above that.

Bitcoin is known to be very volatile with potential for corrections of between 70% and 80% from all-time highs.

Standard Chartered expects institutional flows into bitcoin to "continue at or above the 2024 pace" Bitcoin inflows from institutions have already reached 683,000 BTC since the start of the year .

Carol Alexander , professor of finance at the University of Sussex , sees $ 200,000 bitcoin as a possibility next year .

Youwei Yang , chief economist at Bit Mining , is predicting bitcoin will peak at $180,000 to $190,000 in 2025 .

"We see bitcoin more than doubling to $ 250,000 within a year ," Nexo 's product chief says.

She sees the entire crypto market capitalization surpassing that of gold over the next decade .

The Federal Reserve's balancing act managing interest rates and inflation while avoiding stagnation will be pivotal, Taskova says.