Ethereum

Love

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Tom Lee

<a href="https://x.com/fundstrat/status/2004313451129368725?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E2004313451129368725%7Ctwgr%5Ede57761a4bb7e3a4d8b382cf773d4e56e44ddc8b%7Ctwcon%5Es1_c10&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fpublish.twitter.com%2F%3Furl%3Dhttps%3A%2F%2Ftwitter.com%2Ffundstrat%2Fstatus%2F2004313451129368725" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">Tom Lee just gave</a> a made-up 4chan “prediction” a second life, and the internet did what it always does when a big name nods at a big number: it treated it like a price prediction.
Lee, being a chairman of BitMine Immersion, reacted with "love this," a quote-post to an image that claimed 2026 ATH targets of<a href="https://u.today/death-cross-threat-returns-for-bitcoin-and-67000-is-not-meme-number-anymore" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">$250,000 for Bitcoin</a>, $20,000 for<a href="https://u.today/ethereum" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">Ethereum</a> and $1,500 for Solana, and framed them as “outputs” rather than opinions.
Interestingly, the prediction quickly gained its own warning label with a community note that says the referenced forum post number is outside the board’s current range for December 2025 and that archive checks found no match, so the viral “anon” source appears invented.
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 Love this <a href="https://t.co/mwePyQVQNr" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">https://t.co/mwePyQVQNr</a>— Thomas (Tom) Lee (not drummer) FSInsight.com (@fundstrat) <a href="https://twitter.com/fundstrat/status/2004313451129368725?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">December 25, 2025</a>
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In the meantime, BitMine’s treasury currently contains $11.83 billion in crypto value with 4,066,062 ETH versus 192 BTC, a 99.86% ETH allocation by value. It is so big that every $1,000 move in ETH marks that pile-up by about $4.07 billion on paper, which explains why a moonshot headline gets a nod from Lee.
<h2 id="what-if">What if?</h2>
<a href="https://u.today/blackrock-stuns-coinbase-with-bitcoin-and-ethereum-move-whats-next" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">If ETH actually prints $20,000</a>, BitMine’s 4,066,062 ETH would be valued at about $81.32 billion. On the same dashboard by CoinGecko, the Ethereum line is shown around $11.82 billion, so the upside from that ETH-only stack would be about +$69.5 billion on paper, before counting the separate 192 BTC position.
The fakeness of the prediction does not stop the narrative from being tradeable. It still plants a ceiling number for people to anchor to and sells the idea that ETH is the treasury asset of this cycle, while propping up equity proxies like BMNR when crypto chatter spills over into stocks.<a href="https://u.today/love-this-ethereum-billionaire-tom-lee-reacts-to-fake-20000-eth-price-prediction" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">Read original article on U.Today</a>

'Love This': Ethereum Billionaire Tom Lee Reacts to Fake $20,000 ETH Price Prediction

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