{"id":37514,"date":"2025-07-17T17:16:31","date_gmt":"2025-07-17T17:16:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=37514"},"modified":"2025-07-17T17:16:31","modified_gmt":"2025-07-17T17:16:31","slug":"bitcoins-4-year-cycle-is-dead-researcher-says-heres-why-it-matters-for-xrp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=37514","title":{"rendered":"Bitcoin&#8217;s 4-Year Cycle Is Dead, Researcher Says: Here&#8217;s Why It Matters For XRP"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>The crypto market has changed, and experts say relying on the traditional 4-year halving cycle could leave investors poorly positioned in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/markets\/25\/07\/46458150\/the-man-who-called-every-crypto-cycle-since-2017-just-revealed-his-blueprint-for-the-250k-bitcoin-ru#:~:text=The%20Four-Year%20Cycle%20Clock%20Is%20Ticking&amp;text=Previous%20bull%20runs%20peaked%20around,the%20bull%20market%E2%80%9D%20right%20now.\">this new environment<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Pseudonymous crypto researcher Viktor <a href=\"https:\/\/cryptonarratives.substack.com\/p\/the-crypto-market-has-changed-heres\">argued<\/a> in an essay on Substack that the long-believed 4-year cycle, popularized by <strong>Bitcoin<\/strong> (CRYPTO: <a class=\"ticker\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/btc\/usd\">BTC<\/a>) halving schedule and past altcoin seasons, is now outdated.<\/p>\n<p>Many traders anticipated a 2021-style altcoin boom in early 2025, but instead, they&#8217;ve been met with a sustained decline in altcoin\/BTC ratios.<\/p>\n<p>He explains that macroeconomic conditions now drive crypto more than ever. <\/p>\n<p>Instead of neat, predictable cycles, the market moves in response to broader risk-on or risk-off sentiment, often tied to the &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/crypto\/cryptocurrency\/25\/07\/46475118\/bitcoins-4-year-cycle-is-dead-researcher-says-heres-why-it-matters-for-xrp\" alt=\"Bitcoin's\" cycle is dead researcher says: here why it matters for xrp>Full story available on Benzinga.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The crypto market has changed, and experts say relying on the traditional 4-year halving cycle could leave investors poorly positioned in this new environment. Pseudonymous crypto researcher Viktor argued in an essay on Substack that the long-believed 4-year cycle, popularized by Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC) halving schedule and past altcoin seasons, is now outdated. Many traders [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,4,5],"class_list":["post-37514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-crypto","tag-doge","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37514","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37514"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37514\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}