Veteran trader Peter Brandt says Bitcoin’s decline since its April 2024 halving is beginning to resemble the market’s movement before the 2016 bull run.
“The decline since Bitcoin’s halving is now similar to the 2015-2017 halving bull cycle,” Brandt said in an Aug. 5 article, comparing the depth of market corrections since the halving date, noting that the two are very similar.
In 2016, the Bitcoin halving occurred on July 9, with the asset’s price at $650 on that day. During the cycle, the market fell to a subsequent low of $474, a 27% drop in a month, before surging to a cycle high of $20,000 in December 2017.
Similarly, Bitcoin recently fell below $50,000, down 26% from its post-halving high of $64,962.
However, some analysts have warned that Bitcoin could fall further. ITC Crypto founder Benjamin Cowen said in an article on X that the current pattern reflects what happened in 2019, when the market soared in the first half of the year and then pulled back sharply in the second half. (Cointelegraph)