just as a reminder, the previous one lasted for two and a half years.
I think you may need to take a look at the charts. price drop began at the end of 2013 (December=$1100) and bottom (lowest price) was reached by the start of 2015 (January=$150) which means the actual bear market lasted a year.
That's not how I would measure things. Since we are only distinguishing between bull and bear markets, it's not really fair to call an accumulation range a bull market. They are specifically
not uptrends and are often characterized by lower lows such as the August 2015 crash.
In classical trading terms, Dow theory, etc. we didn't form the first signs of a bull market until October 2015. That's when we officially exited the long term bottom range, saw a weekly golden cross, and actually began forming unbroken higher highs/higher lows succession. We established previous long term resistance (the July 2015 top) as support.
In comparison, we have seen none of those things yet here. Structurally, it's still
really premature to declare the bear market over. This could technically still be a correction to the bear market so we need to be patient and let time do its thing. I'm confident we will form a bullish structure and break out into a bull market. But it's not visible on the charts yet.