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Story: Galaxy Research Says Bitcoin’s Bear Market Floor Is Higher This Cycle

By Sydney TheCMO

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What Galaxy Research Actually Found. The core of Galaxy's argument is that Bitcoin's current trading pattern is breaking from…

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Why the Price Floor Looks Different. Bear markets in crypto don't happen in a vacuum. Global economic pressure has been real — interest…

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What Traders Are Watching Now. Finding a market bottom is kind of an art and a science at the same time.

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New data out of Galaxy Research is turning some heads. The firm's latest work on Bitcoin's price behavior during the current bear market pretty much flips the old playbook — the…

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That's not a small claim. Bitcoin bear markets have historically been brutal things. Drops of 70%, 80%, even more.

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Galaxy Research hasn't pinpointed a specific price level. Unclear on that front, still.

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Why? Galaxy's research doesn't spell out a single cause. The market is still working through it. But the data is clear enough to say the pattern has shifted.

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And that matters a lot for how people are thinking about risk right now.

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Bear markets in crypto don't happen in a vacuum. Global economic pressure has been real — interest rates, macro uncertainty, risk-off sentiment across asset classes.

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The traditional assumption was simple: bad macro plus crypto bear market equals catastrophic drawdown. That formula has driven a lot of panic selling over the years.

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It's worth being careful here, though. The research doesn't say Bitcoin is out of the woods. The bottom hasn't been confirmed.

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Finding a market bottom is kind of an art and a science at the same time. On-chain data, trading volumes, liquidation levels, macro signals — analysts are pulling from all of it.

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For investors, the uncertainty cuts both ways. A higher floor sounds reassuring. But "higher than 2018" still leaves a wide range of outcomes on the table, and volatility hasn't…

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So the practical read is probably this: stay close to the data, don't anchor too hard to past cycles, and don't mistake "less bad than before" for "good."

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