Tom Lee simply gave a made-up 4chan “prediction” a second life, and the web did what it all the time does when a giant title nods at a giant quantity: it handled it like a value prediction.
Lee, being a boss of BitMine Immersion, reacted with “love this,” a quote-post to a picture that claimed 2026 ATH targets of $250,000 for Bitcoin, $20,000 for Ethereum and $1,500 for Solana, and framed them as “outputs” relatively than opinions.
Curiously, the prediction shortly gained its personal warning label with a neighborhood notice that claims the referenced discussion board put up quantity is exterior the board’s present vary for December 2025 and that archive checks discovered no match, so the viral “anon” supply seems invented.
Love this https://t.co/mwePyQVQNr
— Thomas (Tom) Lee (not drummer) FSInsight.com (@fundstrat) December 25, 2025
Within the meantime, BitMine’s treasury at the moment accommodates $11.83 billion in crypto worth with 4,066,062 ETH versus 192 BTC, a 99.86% ETH allocation by worth. It’s so large that each $1,000 transfer in ETH marks that pile-up by about $4.07 billion on paper, which explains why a moonshot headline will get a nod from Lee.
What if?
If ETH truly prints $20,000, BitMine’s 4,066,062 ETH can be valued at about $81.32 billion. On the identical dashboard by CoinGecko, the Ethereum line is proven round $11.82 billion, so the upside from that ETH-only stack can be about +$69.5 billion on paper, earlier than counting the separate 192 BTC place.
The fakeness of the prediction doesn’t cease the narrative from being tradeable. It nonetheless vegetation a ceiling quantity for folks to anchor to and sells the concept ETH is the treasury asset of this cycle, whereas propping up fairness proxies like BMNR when crypto chatter spills over into shares.
