There's no pattern.
After the first halving it rose exponentially for 4 months from $12 all the way up to $266, a level previously only dreamed of.
After the second halving it took a steep drop from $660 down to under $470 in about 3 weeks.
It's gone down after the first. It has each time. I didn't write this article as a "look at the chart" prediction. The halving has short term negative effects with miners, which was the start of my price prediction. I also never made any fixed price predictions because that is gonna be near impossible to pinpoint. We'll see a price drop that will go below $8300 before the end of the year. And if I'm wrong, then cool I lose out on money. And if I'm right, I make money and you guys lose money.
That's what a free market does
Gone down after the first? That's a stretch.
As I pointed out it rose almost continuously in a lovely exponential curve from $12 at halving to $266 at the peak of the bubble in April 2013. It barely twitched with the hard fork on March 11, 2013.
When the bubble burst it had nothing to do with miners. MtGox was overwhelmed and crashed, accompanied by a series of ddos attacks. Of course it was also vastly overbought and overdue for a massive correction, just as it was in December 2013 and again in December 2017.
Even after the April 2013 collapse, the price never went below $50, which was over 4x the price at halving. To say it went down is ridiculous.
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Maybe the price will go down below $8300 before year's end. It fell by a larger percentage in 2016. If it does it probably will have nothing to do miners. Miners mine, network hash rates go up and down, difficulties get adjusted, and blocks are added to the chain approximately every 10 minutes. The price of Bitcoin is not determined by miners. It is determined by supply and demand in the marketplace and the daily supply of new coins just got cut in half. As adoption continues to grow, demand will continue to grow. The price will follow.
That's indeed what a free market does.
As for "us guys" losing money, speaking for myself, that's impossible. I've already taken out several times the amount of fiat that I put in and still have a nice nest egg with which to live happily ever after.