$BTC : Bitcoin’s 4-Year Cycle Isn’t Broken: People Are Ignoring History

The majority are already claiming that the 4-year cycle is broken. Meanwhile, I keep explaining the same thing: the timing is different this time, and we’ve seen a similarly prolonged bear market before, during 2013–2015.

Now imagine Bitcoin makes a new cycle low — even if it’s nothing more than a marginal break below the previous $58K low.

Just imagine the chaos.

People are already questioning the 4-year cycle. If Bitcoin breaks below $58K, many will start screaming even louder that the cycle is officially broken.

But whose mistake would that actually be?

Not the market’s.

Bear markets have never had a fixed duration. We’ve already experienced four completed Bitcoin bear markets, and all four have been different in duration.

Yet people continue to focus almost exclusively on the 2018–2022 cycles, treating a roughly one-year bear market as if it were a mandatory rule that Bitcoin must follow every time.

They ignore more than half of Bitcoin’s historical price action, including the prolonged 2013–2015 bear market, which lasted significantly longer than a year before Bitcoin eventually established a new cycle low.

The market doesn’t owe anyone a bottom on a predetermined schedule.

The real mistake is assuming that because the last two cycles followed a certain timeline, every future cycle must do the same.

A prolonged bear market doesn’t automatically invalidate the 4-year cycle. It may simply mean that this cycle is taking longer to complete.

And that’s exactly what I’ve been arguing from the beginning.