📈 ETH’s cycle

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Whether you’re bullish, bearish, or channeling some other animal spirit, you’re forgiven for feeling the pressure right now.

It’s been two weeks since bitcoin’s last all-time high and only four days since ether set a new price after almost three years.

Bitcoin could trend sideways and even downward for all anyone would care. 

ETH sets the tempo for the foreseeable future. Scary stuff.

This is good for ETH.

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Before we zoom in on ETH, let's see the momentum it's inherited from bitcoin.

The chart below plots every bitcoin bull market together, as if they all started on the same day. Green dots point to cycle peaks, and each bull phase starts at the previous bear market’s lowest price.

By these (very basic) rules, bitcoin has now been on a bull market for 1,023 days — 2.8 years.

If the bitcoin top is not yet in, then bitcoin is on track to soon enter its longest bull market on record. It took another 40 days or so from here for bitcoin to reach its November 2021 peak.

Returns so far are about what you would expect, considering how large the market cap of bitcoin has grown. 

At this point in the past two cycles, bitcoin had posted up to 100x and around 21x, respectively. 

Two weeks ago, when bitcoin hit $124,100, that was the equivalent of about a 7x from the late 2022 bottom.

Here’s the same chart, but for ETH.

It’s similar. Ether’s cycle peak took another 50 or so days from here, so if ETH sets another all-time high around Halloween, then it would officially enter its longest bull market on record.

What’s glaring is that ETH’s cycle returns are tracking far below the previous bull market. 

Perhaps Solana has something to do with that, considering bitcoin has no analogous direct rival.

The advisoooors have done something.

But if it’s true that ETH is the thermometer for where crypto is headed for the next year, year and a half, then the pink line will need to catch up to the purple line, fast.

— David Canellis

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