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Crypto Sentiment Cycles The deeper you study crypto sentiment history, the more obvious the pattern becomes: Every cycle eventually reaches a psychological breaking point where people stop caring completely. 2015: Forums were dead. Altcoin discussions vanished. People genuinely believed crypto was a failed experiment after Bitcoin crashed over 80%. 2018–2019: Probably the darkest sentiment period in modern crypto history. “Blockchain not Bitcoin” narratives collapsed, retail disappeared, and the market spent over a year in depression-level boredom. Most people didn’t even want to hear the word crypto anymore. March 2020: Pure panic. Global markets crashed together and Bitcoin dropped nearly 50% in a single day. Sentiment completely broke as people feared systemic financial collapse. Late 2022: Terra, Celsius, FTX… Trust evaporated. Even long-time crypto users started questioning whether the industry could recover structurally. 2026: What’s interesting now is that sentiment readings reached similar fear levels again despite the market being far larger, more institutionalized, and globally integrated than ever before. Grok, Gemini, and ChatGPT all reached a similar conclusion: Extreme fear, apathy, boredom, and disbelief are recurring parts of crypto cycles. The emotional pattern barely changes, even as the market evolves. My opinion: The real bottom signal historically hasn’t been panic. It’s when people become emotionally numb and stop expecting anything at all.