Bitcoin Price Prediction: BlackRock ETF Wave Eyes $80,000

"Bitcoin got rejected at $79,500, we almost hit $80,000," the analyst account darlene.net posted on X on August 22, as a five-day run from under $63,000 stalled and the price drifted back toward $76,000. "There was a large volume of sell orders sitting there, but the market will gradually eat through them and push higher."

"ETFs bought $1,920,000,000 in $BTC this week. Biggest weekly inflow since October 2025," the analyst Ted Pillows posted the same day, a week Farside Investors' tally shows peaked Thursday at $606 million, $503 million of it BlackRock's IBIT.

'Institutions Aren't Waiting'

"BlackRock's clients just stacked over $500,000,000 worth of Bitcoin in a single day," the account @nikonchain posted, days after mid-August sessions had bled a net $385 million from the funds. "Institutions aren't waiting."

"Asset managers and ETF issuers have existed for a while," Bruno Caratori, co-founder of ETF issuer Hashdex, said on the On The Margin podcast. "All the folks here in the US know very well the names such as Fidelity, Vanguard, BlackRock, and there's a lot more."

"Spot Bitcoin ETFs pulled in 517.19 million dollars on Wednesday, the largest single day inflow in three and a half months. Eight of twelve ETFs were positive, led by 284.7 million dollars into BlackRock's IBIT alone," the account @IgnacioAFCMO wrote, three days after the short squeeze that had Anthony Scaramucci eyeing $100,000. "Real money showed up right as the short side got forced out. That timing is rarely a coincidence."