ETH to $30K?

Oh boy, Tom Lee is at it again, predicting Ethereum is gonna be worth $30,000 ๐Ÿคฏ. He’s got a whole thread on X, six whole posts, and it’s all about how companies are gonna treat Ethereum like MicroStrategy treats bitcoin, and voilร ! The price goes up ๐Ÿ“ˆ. Because, you know, math ๐Ÿ“.

Lee’s argument is that MicroStrategy’s shares went from $13 to $455, a 35-fold gain ๐Ÿš€. And get this, only 11 of those gains were from bitcoin’s price increase, the rest was from their “treasury strategy” ๐Ÿ“Š. I’m not gonna bore you with the details, but basically, they’re doing some fancy financing moves that make their BTC per share go up faster than the coin’s price ๐Ÿ’ธ.

Now, Lee says Ethereum can do the same, and lists three magic moves to make it happen ๐Ÿ”ฎ: issuing new stock to buy more ETH, using token volatility to lower borrowing costs, and relying on convertibles or preferred shares to cap dilution ๐Ÿ“ˆ. Because, you know, Ethereum’s volatility is still higher than bitcoin’s, Lee thinks they can drive down the cost of debt-and-option structures and accumulate more tokens ๐Ÿ’ฐ.

And, of course, Lee’s got his own company, BitMine Immersion Technologies, which bought a whopping $1 billion worth of ETH in its first week ๐Ÿคฏ. That’s four times more than MicroStrategy bought in its first week back in 2020 ๐Ÿ“Š. Lee’s like, “Hey, we’re on our way to acquiring 5% of the overall ETH supply ๐Ÿš€”. Yeah, sure, Tom ๐Ÿค”.

Other companies are following suit, like SharpLink Gaming, chaired by Ethereum co-founder Joseph Lubin ๐Ÿค. They’re raising money to buy more ETH, and Bit Digital is like, “Hey, we’re gonna be the biggest ETH holding company in the world ๐ŸŒŸ”. Okay, okay, we’ll see ๐Ÿค”.

Together, these three companies control around 682,000 ETH, which is like, half a percent of the circulating supply ๐Ÿ“Š. Lee thinks this creates a “reflexive loop” ๐Ÿ”„, where higher share prices provide cheaper capital to buy more tokens, and the price goes up ๐Ÿ“ˆ. Yeah, because that’s exactly how it works ๐Ÿคฃ.

Crypto analyst DCInvestor is like, “Tom Lee is basically calling for $30-80K ETH ๐Ÿคฏ”. And some people are like, “Yeah, right, and I’m the King of England ๐Ÿ‘‘”. Ether’s trading at $3,600 today, so an eight-fold move to $30,000 would be like, a big deal ๐Ÿ“ˆ.

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2025-07-19 01:17