Bitcoin Price Alert: Historical Trends Spell
Trouble for BTC as Halving Looms.
The Bitcoin halving, a technical event that occurs on the Bitcoin network every four years and reduces the cryptocurrency supply in half, is scheduled to occur in around three days.
Oklink, a blockchain explorer, indicates that
the countdown is 3 days and 15 hours as
of press time, with an estimated date of
April 20 and 526 remaining blocks. The
halving cuts Bitcoin miners' earnings by
half, as stipulated by the Bitcoin blockchain
code, and is slated to occur every 210,000
blocks. This time, mining rewards will be
halved from 6.25 BTC to 3.125 BTC.
With only a few days remaining until Bitcoin's fourth halving, the price has dropped significantly, reaching up to 16.65%, according to CryptoQuant's most recent analysis. This drop has caused significant fear and anxiety among cryptocurrency investors and traders.
While selling pressure remains on the
market, CryptoQuant identifies a historical
trend that frequently occurs before each
halving cycle: a price collapse, a pattern
that has occurred several times previously.
For the second halving, the BTC price fell by 40.36%, reaching $465 before skyrocketing to $19,600. Similarly, before the third BTC halving, the Bitcoin price fell 20.35%, reaching a low of $8,078 before rising to a high of $69,000.
In the current cycle, the price reduction thus far stands at 16.65%, which CryptoQuant believes might be a typical and expected occurrence, adding that there may be no cause for concern because this scenario repeats itself in each cycle, albeit with variable percentages.
Expectations for Bitcoin halving event.
According to Bloomberg, citing Crypto.com exchange CEO Kris Marszalek, the Bitcoin halving event may prompt some selling due to buy-the-rumor, sell-the-news trading, but the event is poised to boost the price of the largest digital asset in the long run.