{"id":106895,"date":"2026-08-19T17:40:17","date_gmt":"2026-08-19T17:40:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/106895\/"},"modified":"2026-08-19T17:40:17","modified_gmt":"2026-08-19T17:40:17","slug":"standard-chartered-says-bitcoin-may-reach-100000-by-year-end-on-expanded-us-long-bond-buying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/106895\/","title":{"rendered":"Standard Chartered Says Bitcoin May Reach $100,000 by Year-End on Expanded US Long-Bond Buying"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Standard Chartered&#8217;s head of digital assets research said Bitcoin (BTC) could reach $100,000 by the end of the year.<br \/>\nHe said a break above Bitcoin&#8217;s key resistance level of $65,500 could signal the low for this cycle.<br \/>\nHe also said expanded U.S. Treasury purchases of long-term bonds could support Bitcoin, which can serve as a hedge against currency debasement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"_feedSummaryContent-module-scss-module__B3djzW__newsAnalyticsTitle\">Forecast Trend Report by Period<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Indicator.png\" alt=\"Loading Indicator\" data-hide-on-theme=\"light\" class=\"h-full w-full object-cover\" style=\"animation:var(--animate-spin)\"\/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Indicator-dark.png\" alt=\"Loading Indicator\" data-hide-on-theme=\"dark\" class=\"h-full w-full object-cover\" style=\"animation:var(--animate-spin)\"\/>See more mid- to long-term trend analysis<\/p>\n<p>Bitcoin could reach $100,000 by the end of the year as expanded purchases of long-term U.S. Treasuries provide support, Cointelegraph reported on Aug. 19.<\/p>\n<p>Geoff Kendrick, Standard Chartered&#8217;s head of digital assets research, said a break above Bitcoin&#8217;s key resistance level of $65,500 could signal that the low for this cycle is already in. Investors should prepare for a move toward $100,000 by year-end, he added.<\/p>\n<p>Expanded U.S. Treasury purchases of long-term bonds represent the type of government intervention Bitcoin favors most, Kendrick said. Because Bitcoin has a fixed supply, it can act as a hedge against currency debasement.<\/p>\n<p>Bitcoin was trading at $68,336.85 on Binance&#8217;s USDT market as of 2:10 a.m. on Aug. 20, up 5.49% from a day earlier.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/586413d0-d5eb-4cbf-835c-9e368df89d6f.webp\" alt=\"Photo: Shutterstock\" width=\"646\" role=\"presentation\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/>Photo: Shutterstock<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Standard Chartered&#8217;s head of digital assets research said Bitcoin (BTC) could reach $100,000 by the end of the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":106896,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[21387],"tags":[3408,25432,8996,25430,25431,25437,25436,25434,25433,25435,12735,24500,25438,20677],"class_list":["post-106895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-standard-chartered","tag-bitcoin","tag-bitcoincommunity","tag-blockchain","tag-bloomingbit","tag-coincommunity","tag-coininfo","tag-coininvest","tag-coinnews","tag-coinreview","tag-coinstats","tag-cryptocurrency","tag-ethereum","tag-solana","tag-standard-chartered"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@UnitedKingdom\/117123404558035038","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106895","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106895"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106895\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/106896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}