Andrew Tate has issued a blunt warning to crypto investors, predicting that Bitcoin could collapse to $26,000 before any meaningful recovery begins. In his trademark raw style, Tate argues that the market’s persistent decline is rooted not in technical patterns or institutional selling, but in the collective overconfidence of retail traders.
According to Tate, the main reason crypto keeps falling is psychological: “It’s going down because you think it won’t.” He claims that over-leveraged traders are the driving force behind each new wave of liquidation, as many investors continue to “max long”, borrowing heavily to bet on an imminent rebound, despite ongoing volatility and mounting losses.
“It Can Always Get Worse”
Tate illustrates his philosophy with a brutal metaphor, emphasizing that the market can always sink lower no matter how bad things already seem. “Everything can always get worse,” he says. “The price can always go lower.” He argues that this principle applies universally, whether in life or in trading.
BITCOIN IS GOING TO $26,000 pic.twitter.com/Ng8ntmjWow
— Andrew Tate (@Cobratate) October 17, 2025
The ex-kickboxer and social media figure claims that Bitcoin will continue to drop until every last ounce of optimism is flushed out of the system. “It will continue to get worse until all the longs have stopped being placed. Until everyone’s out of money,” Tate says.
When the Pain Ends
Despite the grim tone, Tate’s perspective follows a familiar market psychology cycle: capitulation before recovery. He believes that only when every overleveraged trader is wiped out and “nobody thinks they can make it all back with one trade” will Bitcoin finally reverse course.
“At that point,” he concludes, “when everyone’s lost all their money, then we go to all-time high.”
While Tate’s $26,000 prediction is far below Bitcoin’s current level, his message echoes a hard truth in trading, markets rarely bottom when hope is still alive.
