Bitcoin 2017 Vs. 2021: How This Bull Run Is Different
2021 is shaping up to be a momentous year for Bitcoin as the price hurtles toward $40,000 — more than double its 2017 all-time high. As HODLers rejoice and naysayers are left in disbelief, it’s important to note that a lot has changed in the world since 2017, making this bull run infinitely disparate from the previous one. Global pandemic and political mayhem aside, many other things have changed in the last few years, even in the microcosm of Bitcoin. In short: Bitcoin, not shitcoinsAccumulation, not tradingInstitutions, not consumers Bitcoin, Not Shitcoins In 2017, bitcoin....
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More people use Bitcoin now, but transaction fees are much lower than during the 2017 bull run. As Bitcoin (BTC) keeps hitting new all-time highs past $20,000, its network fundamentals paint a different picture compared to the previous 2017 bull run.Three years ago, on this very day, Bitcoin reached its first major all-time high of $20,000, recording up to 2,000% gains for that year. Over the course of 2020, Bitcoin enjoyed another price rally pushing its price to new historic highs and crossing $23,500 on Dec. 17 for the first time ever.Comparing the bull runs of 2017 and 2020, one may....
Bitcoin is now trading well above $20,000, and at this point will never again see under five-digits. And although the clean break of $20,000 was proof enough that a massive bull run was here, the Relative Strength Index has also breached into bull territory for the first time since 2018. Comparing past crypto market cycles, Bitcoin is already far more bullish this time around than it was back in 2017. That rally took the crypto […]
Historical analysis suggests that the amount of time it takes for the Bitcoin price to double may accelerate during this bull run. The price of Bitcoin has doubled in the past 75 days, prompting some analysts to question whether the market is approaching over-extension.However, historical analysis from Bitcoin monitoring team CaseBitcoin suggests the Bitcoin markets could accelerate further, noting that BTC’s “doubling time” — the time taken for price to increase by 100% — shrunk down to just 12 days just before the peak of the 2017 bull run.3/ How low can it get? In 2017, the fastest....
Indicators point to the moon as an ailing macro economy provides a mass influx of retail investors into Bitcoin. Bitcoin (BTC) is looking increasingly like it is in a “supercycle,” not just a bull cycle, statistician Willy Woo suggests.In a Twitter exchange on Feb. 12, the popular analyst joined Dan Held, growth lead at U.S. exchange Kraken, calling the current BTC market a bull run like no other.Woo: Retail has arrivedHeld had previously explained his theory about the state of Bitcoin in 2021 — that price gains cannot be compared to past bull phases, and do not even match the end of 2017....
The next Bitcoin rally will require fast and scalable systems, which the community is yet to build, Galaxy Digital CEO Mike Novogratz. The next Bitcoin (BTC) bull run will have to be much different from historical cryptocurrency rallies in terms of story and utility, Galaxy Digital CEO Mike Novogratz believes.Compared to previous bull runs, the next Bitcoin rally will have to be more focused on utility and less on the story, Novogratz predicted at a panel at the Token2049 crypto event on Wednesday.One of the biggest historical rallies, the Bitcoin bull run of 2017, was mostly about the....