💢Forget the Old 4-Year Cycle: Crypto Doesn’t Play by Those Rules Anymore



Everyone talked about the 4-year cycle: Bitcoin halving → bull run → bear market → accumulation → and then halving again.

It sounded logical, and for the last 2–3 cycles, the pattern played out almost perfectly.
But today, things have changed. The market no longer follows that simple script.

📌 First, new types of capital have entered.
Institutions, ETFs, traditional finance players… their flows don’t move like retail money used to. It’s bigger, faster, and much more complex.

📌 Second, narratives now evolve at lightning speed.
AI, RWA, memes, SocialFi, L2s… Instead of waiting years for the next wave, we now see mini-cycles every few months that can move billions.

📌 Third, crypto is no longer isolated.
Macro factors (interest rates, Fed policy, even geopolitics) directly shape the market. Crypto has merged with the global economy, and that makes it way harder to predict.

That’s not a bad thing. In fact, it means there are more opportunities than ever.

👉 The 4-year cycle was once the rulebook. Now, survival (and profit) belongs to those who can read the flow of money and move with it.

#coinminutes # trading #crypto
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