{"id":41447,"date":"2025-08-11T08:01:42","date_gmt":"2025-08-11T08:01:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=41447"},"modified":"2025-08-11T08:01:42","modified_gmt":"2025-08-11T08:01:42","slug":"bitcoin-is-not-the-scrappy-underdog-anymore-and-you-cant-expect-it-to-10x-every-4-years-forever-says-analyst","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=41447","title":{"rendered":"Bitcoin Is Not The &#8216;Scrappy Underdog&#8217; Anymore And You Can&#8217;t Expect It To 10x Every 4 Years Forever, Says Analyst"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>Bitcoin&#8217;s <\/strong>(CRYPTO: <a class=\"ticker\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/btc\/usd\">BTC<\/a>) four-year growth cycle, historically used by traders to time market peaks and corrections, continues to follow a trend of diminishing returns.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Bitcoin Slows Since April 2024 Halving<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>The first halving cycle saw extreme appreciation, with the price exploding over 5000%, as shown below. The gains have progressively fallen in the subsequent cycles, with the apex cryptocurrency <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/money\/what-is-bitcoin-halving#:~:text=Read%20our%20Advertiser%20Disclosure.&amp;text=TL%3BDR%3A%20The%20Bitcoin%20halving,the%20price%20of%20Bitcoin%20soaring.\">returning only 91%<\/a> since the April 2024 halving.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But is it rational to expect such volatility cycle after cycle?<\/p>\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-table aligncenter\"><\/p>\n<table class=\"has-fixed-layout\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>Cycle<\/strong><\/td>\n<td><strong>Start Price (Halving)<\/strong><\/td>\n<td><strong>End Price (Next Cycle\/Peak)<\/strong><\/td>\n<td><strong>Total Gain (%)<\/strong><\/td>\n<td><strong>Nasdaq Composite Gains In A Similar Period<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>2012\u20132016<\/td>\n<td>$12.53<\/td>\n<td>$666.52<\/td>\n<td>5219.39%<\/td>\n<td>65.68%<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>2016\u20132020<\/td>\n<td>$666.52<\/td>\n<td>$8,756.43<\/td>\n<td>1213.75%<\/td>\n<td>85.45%<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>2020\u20132024<\/td>\n<td>$8,756.43<\/td>\n<td>$63,843.57<\/td>\n<td>629.105%<\/td>\n<td>66.25%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>2024\u2013Current<\/td>\n<td>$63,843.57<\/td>\n<td>$122,080<\/td>\n<td>91.2174%<\/td>\n<td>40.3612%<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/figure>\n<p><strong>See Also:<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/25\/04\/44621245\/gold-backed-cryptos-match-yellow-metals-highs-following-trumps-liberation-day-shock\"><strong> <\/strong><\/a><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/crypto\/cryptocurrency\/25\/08\/47021434\/peter-thiel-once-said-bitcoin-was-systematically-underestimated-for-years-does-this-still-hold-true-today\">Peter Thiel Once Said Bitcoin Was \u2018Systematically Underestimated\u2019 For Years \u2014 Does This Still &#8230;<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/crypto\/cryptocurrency\/25\/08\/47024161\/bitcoin-is-not-the-scrappy-underdog-anymore-and-you-cant-expect-it-to-10x-every-4-years-for\" alt=\"Bitcoin\" is not the underdog anymore and you can expect it to every years forever says analyst>Full story available on Benzinga.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bitcoin&#8217;s (CRYPTO: BTC) four-year growth cycle, historically used by traders to time market peaks and corrections, continues to follow a trend of diminishing returns. Bitcoin Slows Since April 2024 Halving The first halving cycle saw extreme appreciation, with the price exploding over 5000%, as shown below. The gains have progressively fallen in the subsequent cycles, [&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-41447","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\/41447","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=41447"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41447\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}