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Our AI-driven analysis of Bitcoin’s cycles: the correlations between today’s market and every earlier year, cycle and bear market, with the measures and the macro data behind them.

Updated 7m ago
Bitcoin
$73,664

-40.9% from the cycle's closing high

Cycle position
46%

Through cycle 4

Next halving
517 days

12 Apr 2028

New coins per block after it1.5625 BTC
Since the top
402 days

closing high $124,728, 6 Oct 2025

Bitcoin, all of it

Every daily close since 18 Jul 2010, the record the cycle study is built on.

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Jul 2010Sep 2018Nov 2026

Sampled evenly from 5,962 daily closes. The halving overlay, the bear overlay and the twelve year outlook are the other tabs above.

Cycle milestones

Tops, lows and halvings the cycle study has found. Prices are daily closes (UTC).

DateEventCloseNote
1 Jul 2026 Cycle 4 low provisional $59,963 268 days after the topintraday low $57,735
6 Oct 2025 Cycle 4 top provisional $124,728 not regained for 402 daysintraday high $126,272
20 Apr 2024 4th halving $64,895 Block 840,000new coins per block 6.25 to 3.125 BTC
14 Mar 2024 Pre-halving record high $69,339 set 37 days before the 4th halvingintraday high $73,794
22 Nov 2022 Cycle 3 low $16,124 377 days after the topintraday low $15,479
10 Nov 2021 Cycle 3 top $67,774 regained 5 Mar 2024intraday high $69,000
11 May 2020 3rd halving $8,759 Block 630,000new coins per block 12.5 to 6.25 BTC
15 Dec 2018 Cycle 2 low $3,153 363 days after the topintraday low $3,122
17 Dec 2017 Cycle 2 top $18,681 regained 30 Nov 2020intraday high $19,666
9 Jul 2016 2nd halving $641.96 Block 420,000new coins per block 25 to 12.5 BTC
14 Jan 2015 Cycle 1 low $180.79 410 days after the topintraday low $152.40
30 Nov 2013 Cycle 1 top $1,110 regained 23 Feb 2017intraday high $1,163

Halvings

Where the supply schedule has stepped down.

DateBlockNew coins per block
12 Apr 2028 due 1,050,000 1.5625
20 Apr 2024 840,000 3.125
11 May 2020 630,000 6.25
9 Jul 2016 420,000 12.5
28 Nov 2012 210,000 25

74,477 blocks to go from the latest block, 975,523.

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