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Bitcoin Prophecies – Weird, Wild and Exactly What the Market Needs
The latest, and greatest, ‘prophecy’ that’s been blowing up online this week is one that calls for $444,000 per Bitcoin within the year. But the reason this is getting so much traction now is that so far, those milestones have been met, and the belief is this prophecy might just come true...
Adam Atlantic
March 18, 2025 • Estimated Reading Time: 4 minutes
This cycle, we have another one. Another prophecy.
And thanks to the 2024 movie, Dune 2, the Bitcoiners on social media are borrowing the popular character reference of Lisan Al Gaib, the idea of a prophet, or messiah within the film.
You see the latest, and greatest, ‘prophecy’ that’s been blowing up online this week is one that calls for $444,000 per Bitcoin within the year.
This of course comes after certain milestones are met on certain dates.
But the reason this is getting so much traction now is that so far, those milestones have been met, and the belief is this prophecy might just come true.
Mandell’s Prophecy
Lisan Al Gaib has been declared on popular ‘crypto oracle’ Josh Mandell, a former Wall Street trader – now the Bitcoin prophet.
You see, about a year ago, Mandell began publicly sharing his Bitcoin and Strategy (MSTR) trades. Starting with $2.1 million he grew his portfolio to $22 million about a week ago.
Then on November 5, 2024, when Bitcoin hovered at $74,000, Mandell posted a cryptic vision of price targets and dates on X.com.
Source: Josh Mandell via X.com[1]
The post now has over 1.1 million views, but it’s also started to gather steam as the most important prophecy of this cycle.
$84,000 on 14 March, and then $444,000 inside the year. This is what Bitcoiners have gleaned from this single ‘prophetic’ post.
As it happened, Bitcoin grazed $84,000 in the predicted time, but it didn’t hit the price and explode from there.
Still, the hype around this prophecy underscores something more important for me.
Every cycle, we end up with a ‘prophecy’ that carries hope forward and is a strong indicator that the real blow-off-top peaks are still on the way.
How Many Lisan Al Gaibs do we Need?
In 2014, Tim Draper, made a wild call that by 2017 Bitcoin’s price would hit $10,000. It was a prophecy carried forward for a few years, until it hit $10,000 in 2017 as Draper has prophesised.[2]
In 2019, there was a popular prophecy on 4Chan which the Bitcoin community latched on to, that Bitcoin would hit $29,000 in 2020. It didn’t quite get there in 2020. But was close enough to the date when it hit $29,000 in 2021 for the prophecy to be fulfilled.[3]
There was another prophecy in 2017, the late (and infamous) John McAfee prophesised $500,000 by 2020. And he was just flat out wrong.[4]
But he did say, ‘Know that if I hang myself, a la Epstein, it will be no fault of mine.’ He was subsequently found dead in a Spanish jail cell, by hanging himself. So that just set alight anything he’s ever said as being prophetic.
Point is that every cycle, there are prophetic ‘visions’ that the Bitcoin community latches on to. In fact, if there wasn’t a powerful, almost religious, prophecy soon I ‘d say the cycle might never come.
But here we are, again, with another Bitcoin prophecy.
So, are Bitcoin prophecies just weird crypto folklore? Maybe.
But they’re also a pulse check. The buzz around Mandell’s forecast, accuracy or not, suggests a market itching to break out.
Whether it hits his targets or not, the takeaway is clear: when the crypto world starts whispering about prophecies, it’s often a clue that something big is brewing. That is exactly the prophecy we like to see.
Trust in crypto,
Adam Atlantic