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We are just a few weeks from the half way point of this year and what an awful year it has been so far.

Many say Bitcoin is doing well, and it is to some degree but the price is currently less than it was 5 months ago , so it’s maintained its level, nothing special.

Alts on the other hand , which I am mainly in unfortunately, have been wrecked with some down around 75% from their highs during the pump we saw end of last year.  Thanks to a few winners I picked up last year my portfolio is still in the green though.

Just as when I thought things might start being ok for June with the good news on the CPI data the other day, I now wake up to all this FUD with Israel and Iran war going on and the markets are tanking yet again, some of my altcoins down 15/20% from where they were just 48 hours ago.

War is awful, and the tariffs have put everything on a back foot this year but I can’t help but think it’s just an excuse for all this market manipulation to keep prices low.

I had hoped we might see a decent June before the typical boring summer but not even sure if we will get that now, may just have to wait till Q4 once the summer is done which is usually a good time for crypto.

I am just holding for now, not buying or selling , if we fall another 10% then I will buy more. What is everyone else doing and what do we think is left in store for rest of 2025?

Many are saying the top is in for Bitcoin but that can’t be it surely? I’ve seen predictions ranging from $160-200k this year, are we still thinking that? Or is 2025 really the start of a long bear market ..

Just be careful with altcoins because as some fall, they may not get back to the price you bought them, the only coins that I know you can buy but its price fall and later increase back is bitcoin. Also the way altcoins are falling, it can really be frustrating. As you think some has falling to 75%, it is possible they can still fall more. People buy them, dump them and move to another altcoin and so on. The most frustrating thing about altcoins is that they are not getting to all-time high, which means they are not store of value.

Yeah it’s been a lesson learned for me, it’s my first cycle and I thought Bitcoin was too expensive when I got in around $40k so mainly went with altcoins not knowing how the cycles work, with Bitcoin moving first before altcoins etc.

But saying that, whilst Bitcoin has pumped almost 200% since I first started , I’ve had a few altcoin winners over 1000% which is why I’m still in the green overall but most of mine are down 30% or more, some as much as 75% and those ones I am just hoping they recover the the price I bought in so I can then move them into Safer altcoin plays.

I’m expecting an average summer, either sideways or down but hoping we can have some good news with rate cuts by August to then hopefully give us a good last 3 or 4 months of the year.

At least you learn your lessons, and most of us did go to that hard pain of thinking that it's expensive and yet during the peak of the bull run, you can still make a lot of money if you only bought it at a lower price.


That's another thing right now, it seems that the cycle of altcoin has change or altered already. Before it used to be Bitcoin-> followed by pump by a lot of altcoins. Now, it's totally different, most of the top altcoins are way below their previous all time high at -60% or even higher.

So it just shows that the money is still with Bitcoin right now so you have to make your choice.

Maybe this June, Bitcoin can not perform well as we may seen what happen to Bitcoin so far. But we can still expect a better situation in the next month and make Bitcoin price increase and break the last ATH.

I am not sure if the top price for Bitcoin is already happen. I predict the top price could be at more than $150k especially many companies, rich people, ordinary people see how good Bitcoin performing. They want to buy and hodl Bitcoin like the others so this time still good for accumulation.

It is good if you are still hodling but you need to buy more to have more Bitcoin. You need to use Bitcoin for a long term investment while you can expect to make a big profit from your altcoin. We may see altcoin season coming in the near so it is better you focus by buying Bitcoin and wait for the altcoin season coming.

I dont have enough funds available to buy Bitcoin right now.

My bet for this cycle has been altcoins, and I am waiting for another run like we saw end of 2024 when my portfolio went from break even to +225% in just 5 weeks.

I took profits when that happened but not enough as I thought we would keep going up in 2025 but it has been awful with Trump his tariffs and wars etc keeping stocks and crypto down.

My plan is to sell all my altcoins when they finally see a move to the upside whenever that comes this year, and then with those profits buy Bitcoin.

I think there will be changes in the norm of the games. Yes bitcoin still might reach that or were already swimming around the top. If your fond of alts or airdrop just like me, then ofcourse youre hoping to witness once more the great altcoin season which is truly great. Or maybe it will never happened again. All we can do is take extra cautious on not to get so hype and more careful. Always have extra funds or stable just in any case it wont happened not to get buried the alts we have or if you want so safe then go for bitcoin.

Stablecoins is the best bet. Most altcoins are seriously going to lose almost entirety of its marketcap in 2025-26. Cash is going to play a major part in 2025.

I was not conversant with the crypto space in the past bull run, but I was informed that there was always an altcoin rise after the Bitcoin bull run. Anyway, I am not a fan of altcoins, so I don't have much interest in them.

The crypto market is highly influenced by global economic and political events, which cannot be predicted. Since we don't know how the tariff war will play out and the extent of the escalations in the Middle East, it will be safer to expect anything. If you are still hodling just expect anything.

I won't focus on alts in my answer (there's a whole section to discuss about them) but on what you said about Bitcoin:

I'm one of the many who think that Bitcoin is doing well this year. Yes, you can be right that the price can be currently less than it was 5 months ago if you compare today's price with the previous ATH, but we've just had a new ATH a few days ago, and what is most important is not that the price didn't keep increasing at the same pace as the last year's last quarter, but that it's holding new supports after such a great surge.

If you mean that Bitcoin dominance is very high and we can see a change making other projects more profitable, who knows, but to me Bitcoin holding over the 100k is really good news.

That's a wise move you are about to take, to use the profits from altcoins to buy Bitcoin at the end of the year. For anyone who misses selling their altcoins this year, I don't know when will be the ideal time for them to do so because this year seems as the perfect time for everyone to sell out their hodl altcoins, to buy Bitcoin preferably because it is worth hodling for long term, not altcoins that is good for short term.

Personally I am not fazed by all this short term dumps and swings in the market and personally I think everyone shouldn’t be worried about that too if only you are holding bitcoin, I personally think bitcoin will definitely bounce back and head for another all time high after this phase. Personally I was expecting a bullish June and bullish end to the second quarter. But still this is still not far fetched because we are still in the middle of the month and this war is just short term sentimental change.

For me I think it is best to either accumulate more bitcoin at this period in time or simply just hodl but certainly there is going to be new tops soon, my prediction is still that bitcoin will get to $150k before the year ends

I think, in addition to holding Bitcoin, we should also do compounding and maybe it can be easier by using the DCA method to be able to add more to our portfolio, and even when Bitcoin experiences a correction in price value, it makes us want to add more Bitcoin to hold. Regarding the price value of Bitcoin, I think for some time now Bitcoin has been quite good, and maybe it will still experience a correction, but I am sure that at the end of 2025 Bitcoin will give us all a surprise, and I convey this based on the results of historical analysis submitted by analysts, namely 500 days after the halving, and that was in the fourth quarter of 2025, cmiiw.

You have to understand that Bitcoin is not a get rich quick scheme, it doesn't fly to the peak of ATH without experiencing some retraces and corrections so don't worry much about what is happening now. I have realized that Bitcoin investment is for the patient who can wait and endure through the storm that pullsback price before it will rally again. 2025 is just halfway and we have two more quarters to go, we need to be positive that we are still in the bull run and that we can see more ATH that will increase our stash.

I personally don't put my trust in altcoins because most of them are gambles, they don't have potentials like Bitcoin which has built a reputation to be called a store of value. For altcoins I will only say gamble with the amount that you can afford to loose because most of them are scams that can never rally when they dump.

First of all, I think this thread should be posted on the speculation board (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?board=57.0).

It's a possible prediction, but it still remains unpredictable.
Typically, the market spikes during the last quarter of the year, specifically in December, I think.
I've witnessed it several years ago, and yes, it had a massive impact on Bitcoin's price during that period.

I'm talking about Bitcoin, but if you insist on altcoins, sorry, I don't prefer to hold them for the long term.
Bitcoin is still the best one for me.

There is this behavior we used to have about Bitcoin, I'm talking about dump of Bitcoin price after everyone might have had some kind of believe in it to hold, some mafia will just pop out of nowhere and dump the price and everyone out of panic join the dump but things are changing, I'm not sure if I can say this is permanent yet but I see it becoming stronger, yesterday Iran and Isreal had some bombing on their, the Bitcoin market dump and was quickly adjusted, if it was before the dump wouldn't be good.

What if Bitcoin becomes so strong that people refuse to sell again?  :o We might as well begin to have some believers in the whole of the market, the crypto market will be alive again and probably the people doing dump and running away from this market will summon some confidence and build this things for real this time even though the price isn't making sense, they stick around and continue to build, this is what crypto should be about.

This is a good plan, staying calm while the market is uncertain whether it will uptrend or downtrend is a good sign.  It is also a good decision to accumulate more when the market goes down by 10% since it would be buying Bitcoin at 10% discount for now, I believe that the bull market is yet to end and Bitcoin has possibly yet to record its true peak this cycle, so I guess we can still have a time for Bitcoin bull run before the market transition to bear market.



I am still thinking of $150k  BTC a piece this year before the bull market transitions to the bear market.  It is possible that the transition might happen at the later month of 2025 or an early quarter of 2026  but just as I stated, Bitcoin has probably not yet recorded its ATH this cycle.

Since you don't want to buy now unless the price fall by 10%, what about if it increases by 20%? When it does, you might not still buy because you would think of how you missed the opportunity to buy when the price was in this current level. If you are investing only on Bitcoin, you can use the dollar cost average method to buy  consistently and hold until the price spike to when you can take profit. You don't know what price might do next, so while you are waiting for a fall, you can still be buy just small fraction in case the price doesn't fall as you speculated. Speculation has it that Bitcoin will get to $150k this year and you don't know when that will happen.

Its hard to tell at this point. Much like with gold, BTC price depends on global macro economics. For example, if this war with Iran blows hard, we might see movement. In which direction, i'm uncertain, but it will definately affect it. Keep a close eye on it and we will see how it will pan out. Check out bitcoin-meter as well, it takes these things into consideration, so that might give you some vague clue what's gonna happen

This year you said is bad does it refer to altcoin? But for bitcoin it is not too bad because this year has reached ATH although expectations are not too high because there are still a few months left to reach its record, it could be $150K this year as experts say.

But it seems like you are trapped in an altcoin that is experiencing a decline when BTC is already dominating the market, your hopes may fail because many altcoins are falling, but unfortunately you are too focused on altcoins and too hopeful for an altcoin season.

alts or at least 99% of the 10000 there are , are bad value items.

I think btc should still do a lot better than the 112k ATH

How is it an awful year when it is the year that we have some government we are determine to us Bitcoin as strategy reserve. Have ever think about some achievement Bitcoin achieve this year, and the level of influencer people who join the market?
If the price didnt make the parabolic people believe it will make isn't it something that should expected that once the market is crowd there's high chance of manipulation.
I believe those that expect so much from Bitcoin after organization like BlackRock enter the market are naive when all organization that profiting through the use of manipulation.

I don't want to say it's awful though, but it's an opportunity.

An opportunity for those who bought when everybody's afraid to buy. An opportunity to make profit when the market is bleeding. Imagine if you bought when the market is at around $80,000 or even below, and then sold it at the peak at $110,000? That's already around 20% profit just by buying and holding. That's why I don't want to say that this year has been awful so far. Maybe for those who lost their money when the market is going down then it is, but not for me.

That's why many always say to stay cautious when it comes to investing into crypto because news like this can happen at times when we don't expect it to happen. I opened a trade hours before the war happened. A long position, and was in profit still then I slept. when I woke up, I just saw that I'm down already. :D Shit happens anyway. :D

Q4 usually is a good time for crypto indeed for most of the time that's why many are saying that we might see the peak of this bull run by that quarter. It might happen, or might not though, but just be ready.

I'm also holding some assets still, but still doing trading. As for the top of Bitcoin, this might scare some, but we've seen a double top formation at the $110,000-$112,000. It happened as well during the 2021 bull run, and I hope this will not turn out to be the peak of Bitcoin, and it gets invalidated or else, we might see the bull run ending way earlier than many are expecting. :X

No one can say for sure what the future price of Bitcoin will be, but we should not be too skeptical about the price of Bitcoin in the rest of 2025 just because the global geo-political situation is heating up. The market is slightly down, it is natural as a response to the situation, but just remember that this is not the first time we have seen a situation like this, it may affect the market but the price of Bitcoin will definitely recover again and may increase significantly.. so just see how the situation goes.

Being a bitcoin holder in this month is like a boxer who got beaten left and right to the face.
We've already getting bad sentiment from the tariff yet right now there's war ongoing. The price plummet and there's no breakout happening so far.
This kind of thing is the problem that's totally out of control, what we can do is just buy the dips and hoping market to recover.
It'd be great if the world can calm down for at least a year so that economic recovery can happen, we're not even a decade after covid-19 pandemic that destroyed most of the economies worldwide.

I assume you already have altcoins and wait for altcoin season. If that is the case, you can buy Bitcoin using your profit by selling altcoin in a high price. You don't have to worry although altcoin season will come but we don't know when. You can just hope your altcoin can give you a big profit.

I also have some altcoins and ready for the altcoin season coming. So I am sure that other people will have the same goals as you selling their altcoin at a high price.

If you want to sell your altcoin, you can choose your profit in Bitcoin or stable coin. I mean you search for the Bitcoin pair your altcoin or stable coin pair your altcoin. But if until the next year, altcoin season is not explode and only give you not too big profit, you should be more patient.

June might be bumpy with slow motion, but it seems that new momentum is gradually building. yeah, actually, global war, sanctions, tariffs, and geopolitical FUD, summer doldrums, altogether pushing the market to the north. Whatever, until we hold support very soon, a rally into Q3-Q4 will begin, and it could go beyond either. I support your strategy, holding and adding more on dips will give you the strength to stay away from FOMO. Like another ~10% drop, it aligns well with the historical pattern.

Till now, people are serious with alt lol :D, it is a tougher ride, all alt coins shitcoins are far more sensitive to the market sentiment & risk off moves.

You just stated the obvious and fact, we cant predict the exact price of Bitcoin that's why personally I don't get bothered especially when the price of Bitcoin drops, I think this is not the first time we have experiencing escalating tensions on war zone although our assumptions maybe right that the tensions are the reason for the temporal price decline thats being faced by Bitcoin but the suspected causing factors wouldn't stay forever although they have reoccurring tendency which I believe that Bitcoin will also finds it way out out of it, it is just a matter of time, since we are conversant with how volatility works and how it can favour either upsurge or dip at any given time, I think we should utilize this opportunity to pay more attention to our Bitcoin accumulation because we sleep wake to see Bitcoin price soar to our unexpected imagination.

Don't even think of the bear market for now until Bitcoin last all time high has been achieved for this season, most of these speculations you have been seeing were quite interesting and could be more significant to be the actual range the market price could go this season, once the limit is not above $200,000.

But for the bullrun to continue, it could come by any dimension and we don't have an idea how this may starts until then, when we see the way of the market performance and reactions to the economic and financial aspect, for now, we should speculate more better with the hope that things will go more higher than this before the end of 2025.

Basing on the current flow though, our target is $120k at least this early before we can go and shoot for higher price at the end of the year. And so far, as per the sentiments, we are still very much positive and bullish and that is a good thing. Although we might encounter some dips along the way, but that is part of the market. What's important is that we are willing to stay till the end of the year and see that we will go to $150k or higher.

And then after that we might talked about the bear market in 2026. Funny though, let's say if we see the price hitting $200k and then the lowest in the bear market is like $75k, then who would have thought that a bear market with that kind of price?

Daniel, I feel your pain dude, it is really sad that we didn't see any historical alt rally after a year passed, Bitcoin broke its ATH.
While Bitcoin is holding its historical top notch till now, and within 1 year we didn't face any significant correction, most of the altcoin has failed to hold its All Time Low value. I actually wonder where those emotional alt hodlers still get so much confidence that they will go moon one day. and still showing temptation to newbies to join with them.

michellee, you are right. So-called altcoin season is always a big question mark & being ready to convert gains into BTC is a smart play for risk management & securing profit.

Of course I do not blame those who speculate that their right in assessing the price of Bitcoin in 2025, whatever they can analyze and speculate.

But I personally am not sure for this year Bitcoin will surpass the current price, I speculate just the opposite, even so all of us Hoping the best for this 2025, we all understand that every four years Halving happens, meaning that new changes occur to Bitcoin, that's how Bitcoin works.

The point is all of that is in our own confidence where this year the year of the formation of a new ATH for Bitcoin whether at this time the peak or vice versa.

Holding out not to sell is not a good decision, but holding out not to buy is worth a second thought as there are methods that do not keep us awake with the portfolio. Sometimes holding on not buying is not an option if the money capability is available.

If it's Bitcoin, don't be afraid. Instead, be careful of altcoins if you have altcoins in your basket.

The only hope for the altcoin holders is the BTC Dominance to decrease and that would be the only time when one can hope that altcoins prices may rise. I don't think that BTC. D can stay above and the big correction is very near. Initially I thought it may rise to 70% before falling down but now i think it will be moving down anytime soon.

Hint:- When we see bitcoin dominance is dropped near to 50% level, that would be end of the bull cycle and altcoin run too.

The remaining part of 2025 is going to be more bull momentum that we see any possibility of bear market, for me 2025 is a year that Bitcoin will definitely be making several and multiple all time highs and for sure we can achieve somewhere 120k before the end of this year and from the Bitcoin chart movement and the entire outlook with countries approving Bitcoin reserves and ETF money inflow we should expect a lot whole new level of market dimensions for Bitcoin in 2025 remaining.

Awful? this is the best yet so far because Bitcoin hit $100k+ for its ATH. It's just that you held the wrong cryptos and you took the hit badly for not seeing your alts move a lot.

Maybe the best is yet to come and that's why keep on holding but make sure that you're buying BTC.

Just make sure that you're ready for the best and for the worse case scenario. In top of everything, Bitcoin is still doing fine if you look at its chart since last year.

If you dont see anything special about the current price, well as for me I do. It’s special because it gives us more opportunities to buy before the next pump. There were times I regretted not buying on, my biggest regret was not being an early adapter of Bitcoin. If only i could rewind time. So, I am happy to be able to afford buying now the price is comfortable for me. I don’t want to have regrets later, like many will in the coming years. Watch and see.


Am afraid I will be diverting the conversation with my question, but I will love to know what altcoin did you by that are down 75% now?. Feel free to share it in my Dm.

It's highly probable that we aren't seeing BTC dominance dumping unless it reached 70% dominance. Past chart shows that BTC has been floating around 70% dominance for a while, it's only after the altcoin craze in may 2021 that the dominance dumped to really low.
However, right now dominance keeps climbing because institutional money are the market movers this time around and most of them settle for long term holding through custodian wallet and ETF which gonna be hard to rotate to altcoin.
I don't even think those institutional investors are even interested in investing to a shitcoin. The BTC dominance can still rally.

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I frankly won't be hoping too much, but anything possible right? ::)

Totally agree with JamesDaniel90. The price might not seem exciting now, but that's actually a good thing, it gives us a chance to buy before the next big move.
Like you, I've had regrets not buying earlier and sold some earlier too, so I don't want to miss this chance again.

2025 still has a logn way to go, and I believe good things are coming.

Maybe because selling won't give him the profit that he really wanted? And he even said that he is willing to buy more. As for others that thinks they have enough in their bags, they are only holding and waiting for the perfect time of selling it. It is not a method if our portfolio is not keeping us awake but it is an issue or a disease, though there are methods that we can do to fix that. Obvious one would be is to divert our selves in other things.

Yes, he just said Bitcoin there, although he also mentioned the word bear market later on. Bear market can refer to all cryptos. Judging on his post, he is not afraid but he only wants to verify some things. I can only say that none of us here can predict accurately.

War can affect the global market situation, and we can't really force Bitcoin to move in what we predict. We will follow its movement and, as your plan, if there is a drop, you can decide to buy more.
Bitcoin also does not show a bad situation. Although several times we saw attempts to pass ATH fail, and then a drop occurred, the market responded quickly, and everything came back quite strong.
There probably won't be much change for the middle of this year. But by the end of the year, we might see a significant movement. Even if it is a bear market, at least we are ready with the setup.

If I were you, I wouldn't use "awful" for Bitcoin because it's a journey that attracts testimony and celebration so far. After all, it didn't decrease, but it increased, regardless of how little, and more is certainly coming. This year, Bitcoin opened below $100k, and presently, despite the rollercoaster ride, it's still very well above $105k.

I don't have any hope for an extreme bearish season for Bitcoin anymore, so if it falls, it wouldn't be significant. As for the $160-200k expectations, I think it's time we live in reality, anything can happen, but ambiguity will certainly not help, it will only bring desperation to our minds.

At the end of every bull market, the market marks the beginning of a bear market, so the bear market starting up this year won’t be a surprise especially when the bull run is noticed to have reached its peak and now heading towards the bearish market one again before another cycle that will trigger the price will come again.

The rest of 2025 is a very long time from now. Many things can happen and we can’t be able to predict accurately most of the time because of the too many events that will take place and will take effect on the market almost almost all of the times. Price predictions will always come and go, but just make sure your profit target is not too exaggerating and learn to take profit when it is reached.

$160K-$200K is a realistic price in this bull run but some kind of over exaggerating to me. $150K is more realistic and possible for one to achieve and investors can then take most of their profits at that point rather than waiting more time for it.

$150-200k would be the realistic price for this years bull run, but there are someone saying that it might happen on Q1 on 2026 but we do know that this is already that start of the bearish market on which we can say that this is where we should be that trying out to prepare our funds for us to make some re-entry. Thoughts for the rest of 2025 and since we are already on half or mid-year then so far so good on which the price is holding above $100k on which it do signifies that this is already that a strong support but of course we shouldnt be that trying out to be that confident that there would be no some sort of dump before the price would be preparing for another leg-up. We have seen multiple scenarios such as this on which there's some dump first before breaking the high. Lets see if this one will be that still continuing into this kind of behavior or we would be that just readying for take off. Everyone is that already anticipating for this year and this will be that a test of patience on which considering that we are that impatient for sometimes and cant be able to control up our emotions on making up such investment decisions. The key on here is that you should be sticking into your plan and wont be that easily being influenced on whatever are the things that would happen along the way. This will be always that a roller coaster ride for all of us since this market is always been unpredictable in the first place. We dont know on what would happen and thats why making up some preparations will be always the key or setting out back up plans.

Looking at the bitcoin price from its previous months, I cannot say that we will be facing a long bearish market this year, that’s because bitcoin today is quite different from its past years. Once bitcoin price falls, no matter how deep it is, it will eventually find its own way to recover again or even surpass the current price after a couple of days or weeks.

However, compared to bitcoin before, once the market turns bearish, bitcoin will just ride with the market and display a long price decline, and if ever it recovers, bitcoin price moves very slightly, to the point that bitcoin hodlers get tired of waiting and just decide to sell immediately when there is available opportunity to sell, even if it comes with just small profits.

People always say they are ready for the Bull market but most of them are not ready for the coming Bear market. Isn't the continuous increase we are seeing an opportunity for those who have been waiting for a long time? I mean as an investor, realistic thinking should be the guide, opportunities ahead will always be taken and towards the end of the year, there is no harm in giving room for the Bear market? Plus the political turmoil in the world is heating up, at least we should be a little careful in taking positions.

That is true, tons of people are not selling because they believe they can do a better job, and that is the most important part. We are dealing with something that makes a lot more money on the long run and we should focus on how to get a greater return with our investments so if you want to invest more then you should try to avoid selling.

Many people believe peak is here and sold and got out, if the price goes up, those people will regret taking only a smart profit. But if it goes down, those people will feel better. I am sure that it will keep on going higher, it's just that I am not really doing anything that big, so I do not feel that much need to keep on focusing on how to do a better job for the time being.

Just come across an interesting fact about the Iran/Israel war, last time there was a big attack in October there was a week of down/sideways action followed by the pump we saw end of last year in November/December. There was however big excitement around Trump coming into office at that time whereas now we have uncertainty with Trump and his tariffs.

I am still only holding for now, i am happy with my bags so feel i do not need to add more at current prices. If we fall another 10% then I will buy to lower my averages.

If the market of Bitcoin goes to the downturn. And those who are investors will always try to recover the loss and do DCA again and again. However, those who are investing long -term must wait for the right time. Because they know that the Bitcoin Market will pump again no matter what the recession. However, for those who are trader, they are always looking for profit and therefore can have a huge impact in the market. Since there are still many left in 2025, we hope we will see Bitcoin in a better position. Our patience should not be lost. As the Bitcoin goes to the recession, the opportunity to buy will increase as the Bitcoin is more profitable as it is. I do not think, any long -term holder will easily sell Bitcoin. They will try to increase their BTC when given the opportunity.

I think we got all the clue we're ever going to get right now which is indecision and sideways drift is name of the game.  How can we call anything different when thats the clues we're being given.

I see some pullback nearby as possible but looking at weekly bars for longer term I see we are still above the December closing highs near that prior ATH so BTC is strong really.

Let's see how long this game lasts, I try to prepare myself while waiting for this game to end, when the movement starts to show positive signs, that's the right time to enter the market to get some Bitcoins at a cheap price. Hesitation and sideways movement are signs to welcome the next surge, the cycles that occur in Bitcoin's journey always show unpredictable strengthening, maybe at the end of December Bitcoin will reach the level you assume.
The Bitcoin market will continue to receive positive responses from various investors and traders after the sideways movement ends, this condition will be the trigger for the fire after they have been patient for some time to get better momentum.

It becomes an extreme uncertainty rather than adding an actual value and impact to the crypto ecosystems/space.Altcoins  regulatory maps a huge difference in risks failures and volatility effects.On a major scale,so many altcoins are completely lacking innovation with the basic functionality.

The world has become quite uncertain and unpredictable after Covid-19 and the start of the Ukrainian-Russian war. The markets have been fluctuating a lot, and as much as I'd want to see Bitcoin surpass $120,000 and potentially reach a new ATH by the end of the year, the current situation isn't helping. It's not easy to say what's going to happen in the next six months from now; as you've also noticed yourself, the conflict in the Middle East between Iran and Israel was enough to suddenly affect the market for the worse in a matter of a few hours.

Thus, there's no safe way to speculate how the rest of 2025 is going to be. At the time being, I don't mind a little bear market to accumulate some Bitcoin, altcoins on the other hand have plummeted, and I've lost significant value from Binance's airdrops and launchpools.

I feel pretty lost right now to be honest. My portfolio was +225% end of December and is now almost back down to break even with all the FUD with the war going on with Iran & Israel.

I have seen it before with Ukraine & Russia, the markets crashed for a month or so and then it recovered so all is not lost yet as I think the market will recover I just have no idea when it could be next month or we could have a very long boring sideways summer and not see any real action again till Q4.

All I am doing for now is holding but the fact we are near bear market lows for many altcoins is not good and it’s getting very tiring.

In the short term - I don't think the market is doing well. Prices tend to be affected by wars in some countries or economic policies of a country - but in the long term especially the rest of 2025, I think the market will still be bullish and hit new ATHs.

We don't really know what will happen for the rest of the year - but there is confidence and optimism about the bullish market for many reasons. Bitcoin has hit its new ATH a while ago - but today it tested its most important support at $100K, but still this volatility will continue and we never know where the market will turn bearish. I'm still optimistic about the rest of 2025 - a new ATH is what I want.

We all believe and hope that the rest of 2025 will be a good time for the market because historically (4 year cycle) we will enter the strongest growth phase of the bull season. But to be fair, nothing is certain as the economy is under a lot of pressure from multiple wars as well as Trump's trade war, and I don't think Bitcoin can continue to break ATH, and the bull season will be able to last if the economy gets worse.

For me, the market's performance for the rest of the year will depend on the macro and geopolitical situation.

The effect is going to be short term though. Maybe in the beginning of the war it will hurt us as there are fear and uncertainty. Nevertheless, I do belief that this war is not going to last that long.


But we are in the bull run, and previously, we haven't seen a bull run that the price didn't have a new all time high or the peak price for that cycle. So for me, I will stick to the fact that it has never fall us. So in the next couple of months or at least this year, the last quarter could have been still big for us breaking new price highs and maybe what we speculate, around $150k-$180k.

Even if the war drags on, I'm not worried. I saw how bitcoin adapted to recover and even thrive during the Russia-Ukraine war. Since then, I have been almost no longer worried about bitcoin when the India-Pakistan, Iran-Israel wars broke out. Everything is temporary, and we should see it as an opportunity instead of fear.
But we should not be subjective because the market is very unpredictable.


We have surpassed the ATH of the previous cycle (69k) and reached a significant high ATH (112k) so it would be incorrect to say bitcoin has not yet reached new all time high.

As I said, market is very unpredictable. The opposite scenario can also happen, don't rely too much on the past, cycles and think it will always repeat, there is no guarantee of that. It's all just speculation, expectation, no one dares to guarantee that.

Sometimes just when you taught that you're at the verge of making it suddenly you'll experience some little disruptive innovation that'll want to take you off guard but regardless it's to remain intact on ones plan. So to say the year was abit favourable giving us some price raise and profitable signals but boom unforseen circumstances wil pull themselves out and obstruct things.
My plan is to keep holding for the time being that's all.

All in all, you must be patient, the market will always be volatile, and such fluctuations are a normal thing due to volatility, but such fluctuations should not be seen as negative, but rather they should be seen positively as an opportunity to buy more. Bitcoin has dropped a bit at the moment, such a dump is a normal thing at the moment due to the current global situation, but no one should panic, stick to long-term positive thinking, the current situation will definitely recover, but if an investor makes a negative decision at the moment, it will only cause losses for him.

I'm not too worried about Bitcoin, if it drops even below today's Price it is still optimistic, for me, I just hold it longer and wait for the bounce back.

What should be worried about is those who hold altcoins in big portions, this may be a dark time for altcoins, the price will fall deeply and make holders have a dilemma between holding or selling, and selling at a loss is better now before the decline is even deeper.
Past events should be a lesson, holding Bitcoin is still a better thing than holding altcoins

I am not worried about this current dump, because I believe that Bitcoin will definitely recover, this current dump is just a kind of volatility, there is no reason to worry about this issue, and this issue should never negatively affect your holdings. Those who have been patient in the long term can continue to hold their holdings as usual, and there is no reason to worry about the current volatility. Also, Bitcoin is likely to recover more strongly after this, and after this Bitcoin will create a new ATH, keep holding continuously with this kind of positive thinking.

Good way to end the week with some kind of resolution rather then the weak sauce we've had thus far.  A proper move under 100k and on a weekly closing bar might actually shift us somewhere.
   My full context would be for some kind of closure to the March and April closing prices, doing so is actually bullish even if all you see for some months is red bars.  Of course its never straight down or up, but some negative price action in BTC will actually do some good.  Get rid of the sellers while they have an excuse then we can rise stronger without them.

BTC remains positive further out and I hope that means end of year ATH but wringing the towel dry of wet drips who cant hold is required and necessary.   Last bar we put in like this and this high was January so yea something new is good imo

I believe that the whole of this year will be bullish, we will still see corrections but I don't think the corrections can lead to a bear market, it will just be skyrocketing and after which it gets a correction. However, even if a bear market appears, it will not be so long as we had in the past bear seasons. There are many actors in the market now unlike before when there were less investors, many people and companies including countries are developing interest in Bitcoin, there actions will impact positivity in the market which means there will not longer bear season anymore but it doesn't mean a bear market will not come. As for the ATH of this year, we are all making speculations but it wouldn't be bad if we see the price reach $200k

Now the best thing is just keep patience and always take your time for having any decision about bitcoin because price is on stable and things like these are always keep pressure while peoples those are well aware about this market also understand how volatility works.

Few conflicts currently are hurting confidence of buyers but still a big community is looking for buying because they understand this is good chance of having enjoyment of dip this can jump which could be surely good and then peoples those have not their share surely going to regret about their decision of not having this. Iran vs Israel is surely problem which having some impact on price but with this now few other things are also happening which are going to be help for bringing normality and price could be back on good level soon.

Things are very unpredictable right now and I think any predictions made may not come true or may even exceed it. Bitcoin price has been affected by many things so far and the latest one is the war. Today the price dropped to $99k which is feared to go further but a recovery is still possible as we are about to enter a new week.

About the rest of 2025 I think it's still a mystery. No one knows for sure what will happen, but there are always optimists and pessimists in this fluctuating market. Bitcoin has good upside potential in the long term, but the rest of the year is getting harder to predict considering the wars that are starting to happen everywhere.

I'm good with my current portolfio so I'm just waiting for a real bull season. I'm still optimistic altseason will happen before the end of this year.

The predictions of $160-$200k this year is too high for me. Experiencing 2 bull cycles already, those peak prediction doesn't really happen. The peak price for this cycle that I think is possible is somewhere between $120-130k.

For this year, $120k-130k is a good number for the bull run that is expected to happen this year. I might also consider selling some of my Bitcoin or altcoins if there is an increase that follows the positive direction of Bitcoin.
It's just that right now there is a war going on, and if it happens in a long time involving more parties. The situation may not be predictable. The market response may be the opposite of what we expect, but hopefully nothing bad happens.

The altcoins are already at very low prices and most of them are on their strong support. Yes, they can dump more but not much. Also when you see that bitcoin dominance is at 65, how high can it go before falling ? Maybe it can move to 70 but then the dump in BTC. D is imminent and that would be bullish for the altcoins. It is only a matter of time. I know most of the people are holding altcoins for a long time, but those who can keep holding them during the current phase too, may be rewarded well in the near future.

It almost dropped to $98,000 during that bearish move, but currently, the market is recovering, THANKS TO TRUMP yet again. :-\ :-\ :-\ He tweeted recently regarding peace, and the market pumped. Talking about the biggest manipulator of market ever.

The crypto market has been unpredictable ever since. Many didn't expect that the Iran-Israel war will escalate that fast that many caught unprepared on that event causing many investors and traders to lost significant amount of money. We are in a bull run indeed, but for me, this is the worst bull run season that I've seen out of all the 3 that I saw already (2017 and 2021). Bitcoin has lots of upward potential, but events like these wars prevent it from happening. Maybe add also the fact that there isn't enough liquidity as well to pump up the markets, but these wars are the main drivers right now. I just hope that this de-escalates already and if possible, I hope that this war will end already.

We can already say that Trump and his policies seem to really affect the market, which is why market manipulation seems possible. Many traders and investors will react to his policies, if the policy is positive then the price will go up, and vice versa when Trump makes a bad policy. I get a lot of people in the US protesting his recent policy of being directly involved in the Iran war, of course I don't know what he can do after that, but for sure the pressure on his shoulders is increasing. Fortunately, today the market seems to be recovering and it makes me more enthusiastic.

In fact, there will always be a reason behind the volatility of bitcoin prices and its trend changes in the market. Such cycles always repeat themselves regardless of the reasons, maybe the war in Iran has been one of the reasons in this year's bullish cycles, but other issues will be the next reason until they can determine the direction of its price movement.

When Trump and his policies are considered positive and the fundamentals of bitcoin are getting better, then the price will skyrocket. I believe there will be a new ATH waiting this year and it will be achieved for one or more reasons. But we may start to doubt the high nominal, like $200k or above.

We can only believe that Bitcoin will continue doing well, because nobody can see into the future. So maybe something awful will happen, but probably not. There is no point in worrying about something nobody can foresee, is there?

I am going to stay optimistic. Bitcoin has not disappointed so far...

Agreed this bull run is not comparable to the previous 2 bull runs but I don't think it is as bad as you say because bitcoin broke ATH and gave significant returns to investors in it. Those who believed that and bought in the 2022 bear market below $20k are making huge profits, there is no reason to complain with the current situation. I think only altcoin investors are disappointed because as we see, altcoins are in the worst state ever.

War and economic instability are bad things and no one wants them to happen, but they also have a positive side. This is how bitcoin proves to the world its potential, helps it mature, and once it can overcome all of this. The world will have to stop doubting it and acknowledge its potential.

Just a few years ago, I had just learned about Bitcoin and crypto currencies and bought four altcoins. The biggest one was APE, which was priced at $17 at the time and was expected to go above $30, but it didn't, instead it hit its all-time low and is currently at $0.623560. So I doubt if this price will come back in the next ten years. But I think now that if I had bought BTC at that time, no matter how difficult the situation was, it would have recovered and today its current price is $105320.

I expect a big rise in the second half of the year but obviously I could be wrong. Wars, what Trump may do or rate policy may influence what happens. But fundamentally I see too much institutional demand that at some point has to pop the price.

Agreed. The first half of 2025 has been bad but that’s mainly due to Trump and his tariffs and in the last few weeks the war between Israel & Iran but that is now over so that’s the first step towards some good news. We now need tariffs sorted and rate cuts coming in either July or August and then we should be on our way to a good last 3 or 4 months of 2025.

We have to remember altseason usually only last 3 or 4 months every 4 years at the end of each cycle so that would make it end of this year, it’s very possible so we just have to wait and see what happens from September onwards.

It might be the best bull run but not yet so obvious until we get far past 100k free and clear;  nobody will be complaining at that point.   We are very close to the November break through prices still despite some selling  BTC has been buoyant and returned right back to the higher prices so I cannot agree its been bad beyond the normal path of Bitcoin.

Many attempts to bring BTC price action lower but all failing makes me believe underlying strength for BTC is high and the final highs it might achieve are much greater then anyone would have assumed at the start of last year.
  If we were near to last years March prices still I might agree its stalled, its been too long but this wavering now is development even if not gains at the pace some might hope for, this is impatience when gratitude would be correct for a multi year sustained rally in BTC.

Yes, Bitcoin is currently in a stable and good phase, right now Bitcoin is back to $108K, which is definitely a good phase. However, the volatility in the world is now somewhat calm, as a result, the price of Bitcoin has now recovered, and we are waiting to see something better after this. This kind of volatility is actually nothing, but a buying opportunity, so we have to think long-term, Bitcoin is constantly getting stronger, big holders are constantly buying Bitcoin, like today Metaplanet bought another 1,234 bitcoins for $133 million (https://www.theblock.co/post/359754/metaplanet-surpasses-tesla-12345-btc-total-holdings?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss), after all, they have full faith in Bitcoin, so they are the ones who will achieve the greatest success in the future. So we should also have full faith in Bitcoin, real success will come in the long term, so there is no alternative to long-term holding to achieving success.

The good thing to look at is on the price is holding that above or in range of $100k+ on which we do know that we've been that facing some war issues or events recently but the price hold back strong and didnt made out some crash or huge correction on big percentage. What to expect for the rest of 2025? Expect the unexpected as always as there would be things on which that could happen along the way and could potentially be that having the effect and thats why i do make myself to be that minding up that much about price condition nor the movement because it would be always that unpredictable. The best approach on here is that whenever you do saw an opportunity to get in then you should be that trying out to make up some buybacks because we do know that the market do make some corrections but it would be that impossible that i wont be making out some recovery and this is what you would be trying to catch out. Its best that you should be that wary on how the market works and behaves and just simply go with the flow and take up some advantage if you do saw up some opportunities.

Now that we are that already half way on this year 2025 on which there are tons of unexpected events that do happen but good thing that it didnt been able to hit up some huge impact in towards Bitcoins price or in overall crypto market. Somehow we cant be still that confident about that because there's always that chance or possibility that issues and events could happen along the way. There's no way that we can be able to tell on where it would be going into the next minute,hour,day, weeks or months when it comes to price movement. This is why I do always prefer on making myself that just simply go with the waves or flow and sees out on whats the price of it and if I do see up that opportunity then we can be able to dive in with that chance for us to make some buybacks on which this is somewhat that we do need up to consider.

In my opinion, first half of 2025 was so boring and I am sure it would be the same for the rest of the year. As per four year cyclic nature, this year bitcoin should have at least 2x growth than the 2021's ATH and this way we will have bitcoin around 130k level. Good thing is, for reaching such level, we are having enough time left on this year. Moreover, this 2x growth is the least and this may go as high as 20x. For a minimal scenario, we may have 5x but I guess time frame may vary for such a growth. It means bitcoin's four year cycle may extend this time.

All I am trying to say is, we do not need to wrap up our belief just within 2025 but we can go beyond this year as well. So, our speculations must include 2026 as well for considering the current cycle's bullish trend. So, even 2025 will be a slow and steady year, I believe 2026 would be more exciting year for bulls.

It depends on which reference you take to see the outlook, this is the end of the year in the 4-year bitcoin cycle after which we will go through a bearish market, which usually will happen in 2026 in Q1 or later.

For the price of bitcoin also the maximum in this cycle in my personal opinion is $150k, and realistically it is at $120k-$130k that is a conservative number to do TP gradually.

The year got enough stories to tell and some hard lessons to learn lo and behold I'm glad that I ain't giving up on my growth. And just as this second half of the year has unfolded I believe the earlier we hit the nail on the button the merrier we will be therefore Bitcoin is attaining a substantial growth  and the remaining months will most likely lead us to a bullish cycle unto the next year.

If you want to achieve something good from Bitcoin, you should always make the right decision with patience instead of rushing. You should always move forward in line with reality, in the same way, you should never expect anything unrealistic from Bitcoin, such as thinking of getting rich overnight from Bitcoin investment. See, the market is volatile in nature, we cannot give any guarantee as to when the market will go to which stage, especially due to short-term volatility, it is never possible to predict the price of Bitcoin, but as a real investor, it is mandatory for you to have a long-term attitude if you really want to achieve something good from Bitcoin. Good days will definitely come in the market, but until that time you have to continue investing continuously with patience.

I'm beginning to think that Bitcoin's price is controlled by the economy globally, the price usually rise or fall when something huge is happening in the world or some part of the globe, however, during the first half of the year I have always said or predicted that Bitcoin's price will show a new ATH at $120/$150k on the next half of the year which has started this month July so I feel it's still too early for me to start having a second thought on my prediction as I feel that Bitcoin will do better very soon.

First half of 2025 was bonkers not boring its just BTC weathered it well despite the storm in the wider market, BTC was noted as being more stable then other assets by quite a few.
  I'm looking for resolution to this current action that has resumed the range first seen in late 2024.   BTC is falling below the weekly average just today, so waiting to see if that matters if it finds weakness or does something new.  My default take for the moment is we drift right into September, at that point you can call it boring sure :)

You should always be careful with altcoins. Their prices can drop at any time and can increase according to your budget. As time goes by, the prices of altcoins are decreasing.

 Yes, I agree with what you said.

That's how the market works, and even if we don't like that the global economy or even geo-politics have an impact to us, nevertheless that will be the case here. And if we look at it, our market is somewhat connected because we are always open. So if something happens from the other side of the globe, it's impact can be felt from the other side which might be doing trading or investing. However, we are in the last half of the year, meaning it's a make or break to us. But if we look at what is happening, the market is still in the bull run. And so with that there are still a lot of things that can happen in the market. Specially if we look back at Bitcoin's past historical logs, the last quarter of the year might be a good time for us to push the price to a new all time high at $120/$150k.

Put all those stories aside, because now Bitcoin is back nearing the $110,000 level, which is a good thing for many people and institutions around the world to see. And I also think that in the second half of this year, Bitcoin still has the potential to create a new ATH if the current price level can be maintained over the next few months. But besides all that, we must also be more prepared for price corrections, as we should view them as good opportunities before we see even greater increases in the second half of this year.

Hasnt it just made a new high ? or maybe it doesnt matter because to me dollar is always losing value and just a small move higher isnt enough to make me too excited but I expected others to be jumping up and down by now in anticipation.
   Dollar nominal price could be higher while value had fallen hence I remain calm until I see a good trend forming with support below us, I dont feel like that just yet.

As you can see, we are already in the third quarter of the year but still Bitcoin keep growing stronger and has broken ATHs and will still break more ATHs. The market hasn't even shown any signs of a possible bear season not to talk of a long bear market. The price prediction for this year is centered between $150 - $200k and looking at the price of Bitcoin currently, I can vehemently say that $150k is feasible this year, $200k is also possible.

$150k minimum this year , and altseason will finally be here in few months.

That kind of price is still quite possible this year, and I'm also looking forward to the altseason in the coming months, as it's a sector everyone should capitalize on and consider to generate more profits through the market. But before that happens, we need to see Bitcoin break through $120,000, as that would provide a full boost to most altcoins, putting the market in a truly favorable and quite perfect state.

I hope so. Well, knowing how Bitcoin moves, it does have some stagnant times where it will just keep its value for a long time. But, we do have the months of "Ber" where it usually moves. We just don't know if it's up or down. In its records, that is where it gets wild, and I think that's because many small investors are trying to get in, and they will surely invest in Bitcoin with their bonuses, which were given in those months.

I am pretty optimistic that there will be some movements upward. We just have to be patient about it.

Patience is the key, Bitcoin's movement can go in any direction at any time, but Bitcoin's future movement is likely to be very positive, today Bitcoin has created another new ATH, which was above $119K, $120K was only a few hundred $ away, but it will be crossed at any moment, Bitcoin has shown really great movement in the last 1 week, but this is only the beginning, Bitcoin's future is much bigger, and we should not think about the short term but focus on achieving big success in the long term and accumulate Bitcoin. We should not panic but remain steadfast on long-term plans, Bitcoin success is achieved in the long term.