yes, bullish will occur at the end of the year 2024 or early 2025. we will see a drastic increase in the price of bitcoin and altcoins, my estimate is that the price of bitcoin will touch ATH of at least $150k in the upcoming bull run. This is quite reasonable as $150k is only about 2x the previous ATH.
This is not just about making sense, but also about market conditions in general and also about the time conditions that could allow this to happen. $150K is a very large amount for the next ATH if we compare it with the previous ATH, because if Bitcoin is able to pass the $70K mark it should be considered an ATH. So there is no need to think that it will be easy and can be exactly what you say because it is still possible to miss what you say. This is a prediction and everyone needs to see how the market reacts after the halving within this year.
$150k sounds realistic to me. The returns are diminishing, last cycle we pumped what? x3 from the previous ATH? 2017 cycle top was x20! 2013 even more? So we can expect anything between x2-x3 which is roughly $140k-210k.
Yeah $150k is realistic. I think that's probably about the generally agreed upon prediction. Could be a bit lower or a bit higher.
Bull runs are now much smaller than they were last decade, because of diminishing returns as you say. It's much harder to move a trillion dollar market up than a ya know like 10 billion dollar market like it was in 2017.
Last bull run was actually quite small, for various reasons, partially because there was a 50% crash in the middle of it. It only went to barely over half the price I expected. Hopefully nothing like that happens this market cycle.
But also there are more permanent reasons why it was much smaller. I think the main one of those is that in previous bull runs Bitcoin was the main get-rich-quick thing for the tons of new people flooding into the market. But last market cycle meme tokens and random app tokens and NFTs are what got all the hype as the get-rich-quick-scheme for the cryptocurrency bull run. So the new uninformed people, for the first time didn't just mostly flock to Bitcoin, but instead ignored Bitcoin and flocked to whatever the flavor of the month altcoin was. Most of them ended up losing badly because they chased after these useless altcoins or NFTs rather than Bitcoin, but that's what uninformed and inexperienced people do, they chase after the supposed get-rich-quick thing.
And I'm not sure if that's going to change. I expect of the tens of millions of people who flood into the market for the first time (or perhaps come back after leaving during the 2022 crash) over the next 18 months, a lot of them are going to entirely ignore Bitcoin and chase after whatever useless token is currently in the news that week or month for skyrocketing upwards. Missing out on that dumb money craze definitely makes Bitcoin not have the sort of insane peak it used to have last decade during bull markets, like when Bitcoin shot up from $6k to $20k in 6 weeks in 2017. Most of that big doomed to collapse peak is from uninformed people finally getting in at the end of the bull run but now it's going to random altcoins instead of Bitcoin.
In 2021 Bitcoin spent quite a while between the two $60k+ peaks up in the $60,000s or high $50,000s. Because there was no great big push from FOMOing dumb money into Bitcoin. It all went into other stuff.
I don't see NFTs getting that sort of stupid money again, but I'm pretty sure whatever meme token or app tokens get pushed by crypto influencers next year are going to take up a lot of that money and we'll likely again see a rounded top for Bitcoin, perhaps at like $130k-$160k, instead of a huge fast push at the end of the market cycle up another like $50k to around $200k.
The addition of TradFi investors through the ETFs will be another interesting wrinkle on the old bitcoin bull run formula. Will they keep steadily buying through the bull run and even through the bear market, perhaps greatly reducing the depths of the bear market compared to normal? Will they act no different that the bitcoin market participants normal act during the market cycle? Or will they maybe even slow their buying down as the prices get high because they've seen the bitcoin boom/crash cycle before and perhaps are a bit more experienced investors and so perhaps they'll wait out the bull run and then start buying again in the bear market. And how much will their behavior influence the bull market up or down, and the bear market up or down?