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This is how I honestly see 2026 shaping up for Bitcoin. I’ve always been a Bitcoin bull and I still am, but at some point you have to step back and look at the bigger picture instead of letting emotions or Twitter narratives drive your decisions. $BTC went roughly 8.5x from 2023 to 2025, and that happened with almost perfect execution: institutional adoption, ETFs and serious capital entering the space, everything lining up exactly how a bull cycle is supposed to. But nothing in markets goes up forever without pauses, resets, and long periods of digestion. After a move like that, it’s completely normal to see profit taking, distribution, and capital flowing back into fiat while the market cools off and rebalances itself. The real reason this cycle feels so confusing for most people isn’t Bitcoin, it’s altcoins which didn't perform the way CT promised. And I’ll be honest, I got hit there too. We did have a small, mini altseason whether people like to admit it or not. Coins like $CPOOL, $CREO, $DIONE, $TET and a few others actually performed well. The problem was expectations. Everyone was waiting for 2021-style insanity, much bigger rallies, and one last euphoric leg, which is why most people including myself didn’t sell when they should have and are now stuck hoping for a miracle. Although now i have exited all my altcoin bags besides $HTS and a small portion of $CPOOL. I still strongly believe the 4-year Bitcoin cycle is very much intact. People only want to declare it “dead” because this cycle didn’t reward lazy altcoin exposure the way previous ones did, and that’s a hard pill to swallow. My base case is simple: 2026 is likely a bear or reset year, with a lot of chop, lower highs, boredom, and frustration. That’s usually the phase where people lose interest, stop paying attention, and miss the real opportunity forming right in front of them. For Bitcoin, the 50–70k range is my main long-term accumulation zone. If we get deeper than that, I’ll welcome it. Those are the levels where patience historically gets rewarded, not the tops where emotions are running high. Only after Bitcoin properly resets and finds a solid base do I even start thinking about altcoins again, and even then I’m talking about very specific names like $ETH, $SOL, $INJ, and $LINK, most likely in the second half of 2026. Until then, my focus is simple: capital protection, stacking $USDT, and staying patient enough to be ready when the real window opens. In my view, that window is Q4 2026 through Q1 2027, setting the stage for the next bull market that could realistically top out around 2028–2029. The biggest lesson this cycle taught me is brutally simple: stay away from shitcoins unless you’re being paid to talk about them. Putting your hard-earned money into most of them is a terrible risk-reward, and I learned that one the expensive way. This is the real talk 99% of the CT won't tell u because they're still hanging on to some deals paying them. Patience now, position later. 🤝

JUST IN: Professor Steve Keen who predicted the 2008 financial crash now is warning people "Bitcoin is going to zero."

JUST IN: Bitcoin drops under 71k, down ~5% today. $BTC moving like this is a perfect example of why you need to stay calm and collected in this market. In my view, we’re still in a bear market environment, and nothing about this move changes. The 50–70k range remains the golden accumulation zone this year, and we haven’t even properly spent time there yet. That’s the area I’m watching closely, and I believe we’re going to spend a good part of spring and summer moving around inside that range. Looking further out, I still think there’s a real possibility of a deeper move later on, with a potential cycle bottom forming somewhere in the 30–50k region into fall 2026. This is just my current read of the market. If the structure changes, I’ll adjust and share it. For now, it’s simple.. patience and capital protection matter more than anything. Don’t chase green candles.

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