https://cryptodirectories.com/news/next-bitcoin-bull-run-to-be-half-story-half-utility-mike-novogratz-at-token2049/The next Bitcoin (BTC) bull run will have to be much different from historical cryptocurrency rallies in terms of story and utility, Galaxy Digital CEO Mike Novogratz believes.
Compared to previous bull runs, the next Bitcoin rally will have to be more focused on utility and less on the story, Novogratz predicted at a panel at the Token2049 crypto event on Wednesday. One of the biggest historical rallies, the Bitcoin bull run of 2017, was mostly about the story, the CEO said, referring to the cryptocurrency’s run from about $1,000 to $20,000 within one year.
According to Novogratz, the 2017 bull run was mostly about the story of people not trusting the government and wanting more privacy and decentralization. “It was a Gen Z millennial revolution. And it was global. That’s a powerful story,” the CEO noted.
Another big rally, with Bitcoin hitting all-time highs above $69,000 in November 2021, was “really generated” by the COVID-19 pandemic, Novogratz said. He suggested that the price action in 2020 and 2021 was “probably 80% of the story and 20% of utility,” referring to the growing utility use case of digitalization amid the pandemic.
Mike Novogratz has made a prediction in the past which was correct, but people that understand bitcoin price history would have predicted in 2020 that the price of bitcoin would significantly increase after halving and it was like that. But some people still always use something happening in the world to be the cause of bitcoin price increase, some are true but not all the cause. When COVID-19 started to affect the world in March 2020, the price of bitcoin decreased from $10500 to $3800, it was said that COVID-19 caused it. Bitcoin price later increased and reach $63500 or so in 2020, it was said that COVID-19 caused it. I believe halving is the main cause, but people like to link what is not to something relevant at times.
What I will not agree about here is the indirect statement that story like halving will not have effect on the next all-time-high. People should not believe this. After 2024 halving, be expecting all-time-high again. It is best to hold now.
Bitcoin is highly utilized already and the utility is increasing which is part of the adoption and price increase, but the story part has never gone too which is halving.