Is Bitcoin In A Bear Market? | Anthony Pompliano
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Is Bitcoin currently in a bear market?
One of the most important questions in Bitcoin right now, is Bitcoin in a bear market? The reason why a lot of people are asking that is because they're trying to figure out what happened. We went up to $126,000, set a brand new all-time high, and then we came crashing down. We recently hit $75,000 in Bitcoin's price. That's a 40% decline. Obviously, that's got a lot of people shook. Now, if you've been around, you know that Bitcoin is likely to be very volatile.
What makes this bear market different from previous ones?
We have seen things like a 30% drawdown four, five, six times in bull markets. And so some people are saying, wait, we're actually not in a bear market. We simply are just seeing normal drawdowns as we continue to go higher. $150,000, $200,000, $250,000. I don't agree with those people. I think that Bitcoin is in a bear market, but it might be a different type of bear market than you're used to. So let me explain what are some of the things that I think are happening here. The first is that there's an entire cohort of people that subscribe to the four-year cycle. This idea that the halving drives the price up, then there is some sort of correction, we then have these 80% drawdowns, and then we kind of repeat the process over and over again.
It's happened multiple times in the past. These individuals continue to subscribe to this idea. Now, the reason why I think that the four-year cycle is interesting is because I do believe that the halving has an impact on price. If you have a supply shock to an asset and demand stays constant, then you are likely to see higher prices. What I think is a little bit different though, is that the four-year cycle can remain, yet we can still have different severities in terms of the appreciation and the decrease in price. That's just volatility disappearing. And we know that Bitcoin used to be an 80-vol asset, but now it's only a 40-vol asset. And so if you've cut volatility in half, you should expect less on the upside and less on the downside.
Now, another reason why I think that Bitcoin is likely to be in a bear market right now, other than just the price is down a lot and the four year cycle folks are pretty well timed in calling the top last October, is that we also understand that Bitcoin is becoming financialized. Now, as Bitcoin has entered into the Wall Street world, what we are watching is all of these firms try to figure out, how do I take my type of strategy, apply it to Bitcoin, where there's lots of volatility and lots of alpha, and extract economic value for me and my investors? We originally saw public companies adopting it with strategy and others. We then saw the ETFs become very popular. Asset managers are simply saying, hey, I can take a 25 basis point fee on helping people buy Bitcoin, and then I can continue to take that year after year after year.
So there's an economic incentive for them to do so. But now we're seeing things like covered call strategies that are going out as ETFs from those same asset managers. We also are seeing the introduction of other types of options into the market. And so now people can hedge. They can apply different types of pressure, both on the downside or upside of Bitcoin. The financialization of Bitcoin is going to temper volatility, in my opinion. And that's what we've been seeing, both in terms of the launches of these products and the adoption by the consumer, but also in the decreasing volatility. Now, the other thing that I think is really important here that people aren't talking about is I believe that markets are forward-looking.
Actually, I would argue that that is just how markets operate. It doesn't matter what my opinion is. Markets try to look forward and investors say, based on what I believe is going to happen, I want to act today rather than wait. so if you go back to 2020 and 2021 when people thought that there was going to be high inflation because of undisciplined government spending what did they do they said i'm going to buy bitcoin today i'm going to buy gold today i'm going to buy inflation hedges before the inflation shows up i'm going to prepare my portfolio and that was a really good decision stanley jericho miller paul tudor jones and many others along with everyday individuals all were preparing for inflation that eventually came but they bought the assets before
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