Here are my quick guesses
1. Increased institutional adoption
2. Hopes for interest rate cuts
3. Trump's crypto-friendly endorsements

$HYPERLANE also experienced a price surge of about 481.82%

Yep it's only 10% gain, people are expecting more if they invest in Bitcoin. $150k is a good number because it increase 50% than the previous milestone ($100K), that's why if Bitcoin cross to $150K, we will see many articles and people are talking about Bitcoin.

$150K is make sense I think, not too big and not impossible to achieve in the current bull run.

FOMO may be present now but it’s still not that much to make the market looks to be in such state yet. The market is just transgressing on what the best part of it will be at the moment and trying to achieve what it is set out for this bull cycle which is actually what we see happening now. The consolidation has far more been taken time, so it’s time for the market to set out and achieve its goal for this bull cycle season.

The problem is that since the irruption of the "strategic reserve" idea, there are entities which could potentially acquire millions of BTC. Even if it's unlikely that a single nation will really buy > 2-3 millions of BTC on its own, several nations together could form a cartel with certain common interests. FATF for example is an organism made up by a lot of governments, and if all FATF member states together had let's say 20% of the Bitcoin supply, then it could have enough power to reject privacy improvements which require softforks.

This wouldn't be a single manipulation event. It would be constant pressure on developers, exchanges and miners to reject privacy-related softforks. Normally, users have the option of an "user activated fork" as a last resort in this case: forking away from the main chain implementing the update anyway without miner consent. But the "FATF cartel" could scare users to use this pro-privacy Bitcoin fork, selling millions of coins on this chain to impose the chain with less privacy.

This "manipulation threat" is limited to certain issues like privacy where such cartels could form, of course.

Unfortunately it seems ETH will still prioritize L2 roll ups and so far there's no promising solution to the scalability problem on the L1.
Even recent upgrade is all about improving UX and making L2 better.

I guess we won't ever see ETH mainnet having fee as cheap as solana and the others.

Ethereum is a sell. Looking up its price is not even close to its previous all time high. That means leaving the ecosystem would be wiser.

Betting on high odds and winning takes a lot of luck to work out especially when you are talking about odds of over a thousand. I remember betting on basketball games randomly with no analysis whatsoever, the odds accumulated to over 900+ plus, I knew my predictions were not solid so I placed the bet with 18 naira knowing the outcome would probably be negative, to my greatest surprise I ended up winning

In my opinion, betting on high odds is like handing an immediate advantage to the bookmaker, and it's essentially throwing money away.

You don't need to apply for anything at this time, especially about the speculation of Bitcoin prices, we can see a lot from the Bitcoin circulation in July 2025 the price of Bitcoin can be close to $120k, Because they see that the current Bitcoin price reaches a record of $118K.

But for me this is an important moment for Bitcoin users as a whole by increasing liquidity will automatically increase liquidity in the long term in the crypto market, especially against Bitcoin itself, This means that if speculation the opportunity for long -term investment will have a positive impact on general investors.

Strict restriction means the regulators order all billboards to be taken down, influencers to take down their posts and stop posting, and all sponsorships to be stopped.

Do you think seeing no gambling, hearing no gambling, and talking no gambling, not even a mention of a gambling site, will decrease addiction? Is it a good resolution?

This growing number of addictions here in our country started because of the massive marketing and influence of celebrities. Your thoughts on this?

I think the situation is surprising and unexpected. In sports betting like soccer, we might pick a player who scores a goal or bet on a complete underdog against a strong team.
I've made several such bets, and it's rare to achieve a surprise win by relying solely on luck. Yes, such bets can be won simply by relying on luck, or by a bettor who can truly predict the future.

I feel you on that. Ethereum’s been building hard behind the scenes, and projects like Tanssi, Eigenlayer, and Arbitrum are showing real use cases. Tanssi especially caught my eye lately with how it's making appchain deployment super easy and secure. I actually spotted it first on Bitget, and with the kind of support it gives new projects ,like the recent PoolX and CandyBomb events, it’s clear they believe in its potential too. ETH might just surprise us sooner than we think.

I see a path skyrocketing to $150,000 and above. The characterized investors behaviors of them holding firm while some jumps out is rational and part of the ethics of the market that drives the speculations of bitcoin.
So let those jumping out enjoy their dividends. Probably they might regret somewhere as we're foreseeable of breaking more Ath.
We also need to understand that these both criticized Investors do also drives Investor interests to come in.

I agree with the fact that BTC may be bought via smaller portions - however, I do think the case told here is about the overall amount of BTC in the hands of bigger entities against common retailers.

I agree.

More worries are currently about how much the retailers, common people would possess BTC and their proportions to bigger entities in the long run in the eco.

However, that's too a question that would be developing over the years, if not decades to come..

Never said it was political.
I said its now used as a political weapon
Bitcoin in itself might be neutral but it's perception is determined by how's used.
People exist in an environment. Everything is connected whether directly or indirectly
So changes in the economy would have an impact in Bitcoin
Though mostly centered on the price.

Using a simple example, I'm going to show you that skills are very important in poker. You can have Pocket Aces and win without showdown, or you can bluff and hold weak cards and at the same time force other players to fold their cards. Thus, in the first case, no skills are required, but for the second case, they cannot be dispensed with. So in the first case, it's luck, but in the second case, you can't do without skills.

If someone becomes successful in sports betting over the long run, would you say that’s because of luck or skill?

I think many people fail to realize that despite being decentralized Bitcoin exist in an environment.
Directly or indirectly Bitcoin would be drawn to certain changes in god environment
But the involvement of large institutions and government made it more direct.

 
Now it's now like a political weapon
Even Elon musk is trying to use it to build his own party.

There is nothing and nobody who can change Bitcoin and because of that it will always be a neutral asset. You must understand something important. Can some nazi group, satanist group or something crazy like that adopt Bitcoin and worship it? Yes they can. Does this make Bitcoin political or hijacked? No. This is the nature of something that is censorship resistant. Anyone can use it for whatever purpose they want, good or bad. Bad people using Bitcoin does not change Bitcoin. Some political parties making Bitcoin their symbol does not make Bitcoin political either.

The name is quite funny "USELESS". The project team did well by making it available on many CEX. I was able to mop up some pips when it was listed in bingx futures trading. Fortunately, the USELESS is not useless, lol.

No wallet is safe if the wallet holder doesn't understand the responsibility of keeping the seeds/private keys safe, so the answer really depends on how educated you are about the wallet and internet security.

It's a real threat to Bitcoin. Bitcoin has always thrived without the support from corporates and governments. It used to be a common people's currency system. At least that's how Satoshi had envisaged it. But unfortunately, governments and corporates are positioning themselves in a way where they can manipulate the market at their will.

I am not saying that these entities will manipulate the market. But having that power to manipulate is scary to others. Bitcoin as an asset is not political, but it's usage can be political and can also harm the common holders like us. That's my concern!

Local sellers are usually cooperated with centralized exchanges.

They might not ask KYC to trade with them, but if the banks and centralized exchanges know the sellers, they might watch the buyers too. Because it's traceable the banks know that Bitcoin seller send fiat money to your banks, so they likely know you have Bitcoin.

Most people avoid to submit KYC because they don't want to suffer data breach, so they won't have any problem in this situation. It's different if someone want to be completely anonymous, because this leave a trace.