Max Keiser, a Bitcoin advisor to El Salvador’s president Nayib Bukele, has recalled his very first mention of BTC on TV. At that time, he also made the first ultra-bullish prediction, saying that Bitcoin can surpass $1 million.
In a recent X thread, Keiser told his social media followers a story of how he and his wife Stacy Herbert started their long-running broadcasting career on various TV channels, including BBC and RT. For more than a decade they have been covering Bitcoin together on air, being the earliest to do that. They began when Satoshi Nakamoto was still around.
Satoshi-era Keiser’s $1 million BTC prediction
Stacy Herbert first mentioned Bitcoin on their “Keiser Report” show running on RT in 2010, when BTC was still trading at $0.30. With that post, Keiser shared a clip from “Keiser Report” published by Bitcoin historian and journalist Pete Rizzo, where that forecast was voiced. Back then, according to the tweet, BTC still traded at $200.
In that clip, Keiser referred to Bitcoin as “the currency of the resistance” (and “the seed of revolution”). He stated that BTC would allow Greece (which faced a financial crisis in 2013, following the global crisis of 2008) or any other country to create their own economy, outside of the centrally-controlled and centrally-planned economy of the UK and the US, which is “controlled by kleptocrats” per Keiser.
Then Keiser went on to price predictions, saying that once Bitcoin begins to be used that way, its price would go to $1,000, then $2,000, soaring to $5,000 and $10,000. He then cited another expert’s analysis, where Bitcoin was predicted to absorb between 1% and 10% of the global forex market. This, Keiser stressed, implies a price between $100,000 and $1 million per Bitcoin.
7,999 BTC bought on Coinbase
Meanwhile, the prediction cited by Keiser has partly come true as today, in late June 2025, Bitcoin is changing hands at $107,407 and it has captured the attention of not only retain users but also financial institutions.
Large amounts of Bitcoin are being bought and sold daily. One of such massive purchases was reported by Whale Alert earlier today – an anonymous whale amassed a staggering 7,999 BTC worth $858,017,366 and withdrew it in an unknown direction, likely a cold wallet.
