Disclaimer, I have a 100% failure rate at predicting short term Bitcoin price

I am starting to agree with many that we are entering a new phase of Bitcoin price action, outside the 4 year cycle. I think we might be entering a more stable period for Bitcoin.

Despite the current low price, both the dips and peaks of this cycle are nothing compared to previous cycles. Perhaps we are entering a stabilisation period for Bitcoin, with a general upward sawtooth pattern.

I made a bet with a friend shortly after the last halving. My friend holds Bitcoin, but is not a Bitcoiner. He holds because he knows, over time, the price always goes up, but he’s busy running his company and so relies on our monthly dinners for updates on Bitcoin and other matters.

I bet him that the price would reach $500K by the end of this year. The looser would pay the bill at our next monthly dinner which would be held at a Michelin star restaurant.

When I made the bet, I actually thought the price would reach $1M, but didn’t have the confidence to make that bet. I also thought, based on previous cycles, that once reaching that figure, it would crash within 3 - 6 months to around $250K. My intention was to sell close to peak and buy back at the bottom.

I don’t believe this is going to happen now, but I do believe the price will, over time, and over the next four years slowly rise towards $1M.

If this is the case, I will not be able to dramatically increase my holding, but I will be freer to live on the Bitcoin standard spending Bitcoin daily without worrying about dramatic price volatility.

Once again, take Bitcoin price action advice from Jim Cramer before you take any advice from me, I have consistently been shown to be close to 100% wrong in my short term price predictions.

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I think Michelin-starred restaurants would approve this post! 🤩

They did on Twitter 😂

People still clinging to the 4 year cycle make me chuckle. We hit 95% of the total bitcoin ever already having been mined yesterday, but somehow the halvings are supposed to matter? The 3-5 year debt refinancing cycle (which averaged to 4 years, starting in 2008) is effectively broken from the 2021 and later Fed activity. What's supposed to make it continue, chart looks-maxing? 😄.

Anyone watching dollar macro right now knows we're in an extremely tight liquidity scenario. The standing repo facility utilization has gone through the roof in the last 2 weeks. SOFR-IORB has been fairly steadily a positive difference. Meanwhile layoffs, the Beveridge curve, and other labor indicators are all flashing.

Do we think that there's just not going to be stimulus this time? Do we think the central banks are just going to let deflation rip their house of cards apart?

If the answer is no, I don't know how anyone can possibly think we're in for a major bear market. Not that I'd complain if we are; I'm definitely stacking, and a bitcoin dip is a raise in my salary. I just don't remotely think we're getting that lucky right now.

There's already been favorable changes to tax laws; the standard deduction's been raised, brackets have been redrawn, and deductions on tips have been added. Meanwhile, outside the US Canada has already restarted QE, and I'm sure there's more that's just not been on my radar given the pain that's been inflicted on the Eurodollar system (it's about time...). What comes around in early 2026 and even later 2025 isn't something I can predict of course, because (thank God) I'm not inside the heads of Jerome Powell, Donald Trump, etc. But something has to, unless they're just letting the dollar rip everything apart, and handing elections over to to the opposition.

we are still following power law. just less wild.

If you are always 100% wrong then predicting the future is easy!

If only!

I'm only 100% wrong, 95% of the time 😂