{"id":91876,"date":"2026-03-08T14:23:59","date_gmt":"2026-03-08T14:23:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/freakcryptos.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/08\/bitcoin-bear-market-could-be-shrinking-but-are-we-watching-history-repeating-itself\/"},"modified":"2026-03-08T14:24:00","modified_gmt":"2026-03-08T14:24:00","slug":"bitcoin-bear-market-could-be-shrinking-but-are-we-watching-history-repeating-itself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/freakcryptos.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/08\/bitcoin-bear-market-could-be-shrinking-but-are-we-watching-history-repeating-itself\/","title":{"rendered":"Bitcoin Bear Market Could Be Shrinking, But Are We Watching History Repeating Itself?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div xmlns:default=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" id=\"ftwp-postcontent\">\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Bitcoin has fallen again beneath $70,000 as <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbtc.com\/bitcoin-news\/bitcoins-brief-rally-isnt-the-end-of-the-bear-market-analysts-say\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">selling pressure continues to dominate <\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">amongst crypto merchants. Notably, there&#8217;s presently little signal of robust shopping for demand that would cease additional draw back and the present construction nonetheless leaves <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/bitcoinist.com\/whats-driving-bitcoin-and-ethereum-prices-and-why-investors-should-be-watchful\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">room for a Bitcoin price drop<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> beneath $60,000.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Interestingly, technical evaluation exhibits that the Bitcoin worth motion is <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbtc.com\/bitcoin-news\/bitcoin-bounce-fails-short-term-holders-take-profit\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">beginning to resemble the pattern<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> it created in the course of the 2022 bear market, with long-term information displaying that Bitcoin\u2019s bear cycles have regularly change into much less extreme over time.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><h2 class=\"jeg_block_title\"><span>Related Reading<\/span><\/h2>\n<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"ftoc-heading-1\" class=\"ftwp-heading\"><b>Bitcoin\u2019s Bear Market Cycles Are Shrinking<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Technical evaluation of <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/_Crypflow_\/status\/2030015957389684881?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Bitcoin\u2019s entire price history <\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">exhibits that post-cycle drawdowns have been compressing with nearly mechanical precision. This sample hiding in plain sight was laid out by crypto analyst CrypFlow on the social media platform X.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">According to the analyst, every main bear market has produced a smaller proportion decline than the earlier one, beginning with a 93% collapse after the 2011 high. The 2013 high was adopted by an 87% collapse. After the run of 2017, the market gave again 84%. Lastly, when the 2021 bull cycle peaked, the next bear market stopped at a relatively modest 78% decline.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-886234\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbtc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/a_a0f36e.png?resize=1024%2C523\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"523\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.newsbtc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/a_a0f36e.png?w=1096 1096w, https:\/\/www.newsbtc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/a_a0f36e.png?w=750 750w, https:\/\/www.newsbtc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/a_a0f36e.png?w=768 768w, https:\/\/www.newsbtc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/a_a0f36e.png?w=860 860w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\"\/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The argument is that Bitcoin\u2019s progress right into a deeper, extra liquid market has regularly decreased the sort of draw back volatility that outlined its early years. Based on that context, the following main bear market low wouldn&#8217;t have to rival the bloodshed of prior cycles. Therefore, it&#8217;s secure to imagine a worst-case situation of a 70% drawdown from Bitcoin\u2019s 2025 peak worth of $126,080.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Extrapolating that compression ahead, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/bitcoinist.com\/bitcoin-correction-could-persist-to-whale-activity\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">a 70% crash from<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> the 2025 cycle high would place Bitcoin someplace round $37,000. However, the analyst additionally famous that this worth shouldn&#8217;t be a backside forecast. It can be price noting that Bitcoin has by no means closed a month-to-month candle beneath the earlier cycle high throughout a bear market. In this case, that earlier cycle high is 2021\u2019s peak round $69,000.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 1835px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tradingview.com\/x\/zotOyJn7\/\" width=\"1835\" height=\"951\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">BTCUSD presently buying and selling at $67,923. Chart: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tradingview.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">TradingView<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2 id=\"ftoc-heading-2\" class=\"ftwp-heading\"><b>Familiar 2022 Bull Trap And Possible Drop To $50,000<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Bitcoin\u2019s bear market cycles could be shrinking, however a have a look at the present worth sample exhibits it could be taking part in out similar to it did within the 2022 bear market. This was revealed in a setup by a crypto analyst that goes by the title Chiefy on X.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/0xChiefy\/status\/2030015009724461180?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In that setup,<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Bitcoin\u2019s present worth motion was positioned aspect by aspect with the 2022 bear market, with each intervals displaying what a textbook sequence of a bear entice adopted by a bull entice.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In September 2022, Bitcoin staged what seemed to be a restoration bounce at $18,000 after a brutal descent. However, this led to a bull entice round $21,000 that lured consumers in earlier than the worth motion rolled over and carved out recent lows.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><h2 class=\"jeg_block_title\"><span>Related Reading<\/span><\/h2>\n<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The script taking part in out in early 2026, in accordance with this evaluation, is an identical. The bear entice on this case was Bitcoin\u2019s fall to $60,000 in February after which one other bull entice <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbtc.com\/bitcoin-news\/bitcoin-coinbase-premium-2\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">as it pushed to $74,000.<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> If the 2022 analogy holds, that bounce shouldn&#8217;t be a restoration. It is a setup, and the following Bitcoin worth low, the analyst warns, is round $50,000.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-886236\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbtc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/b_0968c7.png?resize=1024%2C589\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"589\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.newsbtc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/b_0968c7.png?w=1103 1103w, https:\/\/www.newsbtc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/b_0968c7.png?w=750 750w, https:\/\/www.newsbtc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/b_0968c7.png?w=768 768w, https:\/\/www.newsbtc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/b_0968c7.png?w=860 860w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\"\/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/0xChiefy\/status\/2030015009724461180?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Bitcoin Price Chart. Source: @0xChiefy On X<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Featured picture from Unsplash, chart from TradingView<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbtc.com\/news\/bitcoin\/bitcoin-bear-market-could-be-shrinking-but-are-we-watching-history-repeating-itself\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bitcoin has fallen again beneath $70,000 as selling pressure continues to dominate amongst crypto merchants. Notably, there&#8217;s presently little signal of robust shopping for demand that would cease additional draw back and the present construction nonetheless leaves room for a Bitcoin price drop beneath $60,000. Interestingly, technical evaluation exhibits that the Bitcoin worth motion is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":91878,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1070,20,2162,41,7403,4406,3468],"class_list":{"0":"post-91876","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bitcoin","8":"tag-bear","9":"tag-bitcoin","10":"tag-history","11":"tag-market","12":"tag-repeating","13":"tag-shrinking","14":"tag-watching"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/freakcryptos.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91876","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/freakcryptos.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/freakcryptos.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freakcryptos.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freakcryptos.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91876"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/freakcryptos.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91876\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":91877,"href":"https:\/\/freakcryptos.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91876\/revisions\/91877"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freakcryptos.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/91878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/freakcryptos.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freakcryptos.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freakcryptos.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}