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CZ’s focus on Bitcoin and BNB shows his conviction in the long-term strength of these assets.

If Bitcoin enters a real supercycle in 2026, it could shake up the market and break the clean 4-year cycle narrative that everyone loves to repeat.

The 4-year cycle has worked because Bitcoin had predictable halving supply shocks, retail hype waves, and macro liquidity usually lining up at the right time. But markets don’t follow calendars forever.

This cycle is different in a few ways: ETFs, institutional flows, corporate treasury buying, weaker retail mania, and a macro environment that can flip fast depending on rates, liquidity, and risk appetite.

So the better question is not “will the 4-year cycle break?”
It is: how much of the old cycle still matters when the buyer base has changed?

Patterns are useful. Blind faith is not.

Anyone still believe the 4-year cycle will hold perfectly?

Don’t trust anyone on CNBC. Take it as information only.

probably ran out of money, guys. There’s a good chance he speeds up selling more STRC this week.

2026 is a U.S. midterm election year, and BTC is green so far.

Other recent midterm years:

• 2022: -15%
• 2018: -19%
• 2014: +39.5%

June doesn’t look much better historically either.

Maybe this is the part of the cycle where dry powder goes into yield instead of forcing buys into chop.

And yeah, you could say 2014 doesn’t count because the market structure and volatility were totally different back then.

Fair. But still - the pattern is worth watching.

Not a prediction. Just data being annoying again.