After the roughly 7% surge caused by Bitcoin over the past day, analysts have begun predicting $BTC It will reach the $75,000 area in the near future. These include Michael Van de Poppe and Ted Pillows.
Bitcoin is currently trading at $68,200 after briefly reaching $70,000 earlier today.
Analyst predicts Bitcoin likely to head towards $75,000
Analysts, like other crypto users, have been closely monitoring the recent price movements of Bitcoin, which has seen the world’s leading cryptocurrency rise by about 7% overnight, surging into the $65,000 to $70,000 region.
Michael van de Poppe, an Amsterdam-based trader and analyst, happily tweeted that Bitcoin had started to pull back, saying it was a “strong move and a return to the uptrend on lower time frames.” According to his mark on the 4-hour Bitcoin chart, this price surge could happen as early as early March.
Prices soared on news that the Jane Street Fund may be suppressing Bitcoin prices. Terraform Labs filed suit against the aforementioned funds.
Well, #Bitcoin is rising again.
A strong move brought us back to the uptrend on the lower time frame.
So I think we’ll see a rally towards $75,000 in early March. pic.twitter.com/zfyGJh3xKV
— Michael van de Poppe (@CryptoMichNL) February 26, 2026
A second prominent investor and analyst who expressed similar views about the X platform was Ted Pillows. He also expressed his joy at Bitcoin’s recovery to $67,000. Pillows believes so. $BTC It manages to stay within the $67,000 and $67,500 range, but “could rise toward the $72,000 to $74,000 level.”
$8.8 billion $BTC and $ETH Options that expire in Deribit
Leading cryptocurrency exchange Deribit has published an options expiration alert, alerting its community that over $8.8 billion in crypto options, Bitcoin and Ethereum, will expire on the platform at 8 a.m. UTC on Friday.
The majority of these options are based on Bitcoin ($7.8 billion). The rest is for Ethereum, about $961 million. The put/call ratio here is 0.76, which means that the majority of traders are betting on Bitcoin to rise, meaning there are more calls than puts.
🚨 Option Expiry Alert 🚨
Over $8.8 billion in crypto options are scheduled to expire on Deribit tomorrow at 08:00 UTC.$BTC: Notional amount approximately $7.8 billion |Put/Call: 0.76 |Maximum pain: $75,000 $ETH: ~$961M Assumption |Put/Call: 0.77 |Max Payne: $2,200Call OI is dominant across both assets. $BTC Carrying… pic.twitter.com/5r8MjeQtJ9
— Deribit (@DeribitOfficial) February 26, 2026
Interestingly, the biggest pain point (the level at which all bets are off) is $75,000 for Bitcoin, which is the level predicted by the above-mentioned analysts. However, that’s a big problem $BTC That’s a hefty 10.3% jump, so it could reach $75,000 by Friday morning.