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Story: Bitcoin Bottom Call From Samson Mow Splits Market as Four-Year Cycle Gets Questioned

By Pankaj K

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What happened. Samson Mow says bitcoin has hit its bottom. That's the headline, and it's a bold one.

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The historical context. None of this is new territory, really. Bitcoin has been through this kind of split-opinion moment…

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Why it matters. If Mow is right about the halving cycle shifting, the stakes are pretty significant.

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What to watch. Bitcoin's price trend over the next quarter matters a lot here.

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Samson Mow says bitcoin has hit its bottom. That's the headline, and it's a bold one. Mow, a vocal bitcoin supporter, made the call despite a wall of skepticism from financial…

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Go back further to 2016 and you get another version of the same story. Bitcoin spent a stretch going basically nowhere before it broke out into what became a record-setting bull…

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If Mow is right about the halving cycle shifting, the stakes are pretty significant. A changed cycle wouldn't just be a footnote — it would mean bitcoin is entering some kind of…

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But if the skeptics have it right, and bitcoin drops further from here, the damage isn't contained to price charts. Confidence takes a hit.

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See also: Bitcoin UTXO Capitulation Pattern Puts Long-Term Holders in Focus

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There's also a structural question underneath all of this. For bitcoin to settle into a recognized asset class, the market needs some kind of shared framework for reading it.

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Bitcoin's price trend over the next quarter matters a lot here. A sustained move above $30,000 would probably give Mow's bottom thesis real credibility — it's hard to argue the…

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Institutional investment volumes are the second thing. If bitcoin-focused funds start seeing meaningful inflows, that's a signal that larger players are buying the bottom…

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Related: Strategy Locked: MicroStrategy Holds 4% of All Bitcoin as Volatility Climbs

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Regulatory clarity in the United States and the European Union is the third variable. Clear guidelines from either jurisdiction tend to move sentiment — and sentiment, murky as…

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Mow's core claim — that the halving cycle has changed — is the thread running through all of it. The traditional cycle worked because reduced supply historically pushed price up.

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