With BTC's exchange rate ending 2025 down 6%, the 4 year cycle of 3 up years followed by 1 down year is officially broken. On the bright side, Bitcoin has never seen 2 down years in a row. Let's just hope that pattern isn't broken in 2026!

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I would be surprised if we didn't get a green year in 2026
hazzvaan's avatar hazzvaan
Bitcoin has followed a power trend consistently, which is how networks typically grow. Current price of $88k is below the trend (~$114k on my model, varies a bit depending on which data was used to fit the model) and Bitcoin has been this much below the trend only about a third of the time in it's history and well within normal variation. In one year the trend sits at $158k and to the current price level will be at the 5th percentile meaning that the price typically is above that level 95% of the time. Obviously network growth is not the only thing affecting price but these other factors are the drivers that push the price either above or below the trend.
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Since 2012 and all models are bullshit. I'm glad the cycle is broken because I kept expecting it to break in previous cycles and was more surprised that it didn't.
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BTC-Satan 3 days ago
On the down side you're loading the blockchain with spam.
Calling Jameson Lopp a spammer faggot is not rage bait. A million AI slop articles about trans story hour is rage bait.