Bitcoin’s 4-Year Cycle Just Failed (Here’s Why That Matters)

The legendary Bitcoin 4-year cycle… might be dead. 2025 flipped everything we thought we knew: no euphoric blow-off top, no brutal 80% crash—just a strange sideways grind that left both OGs and newcomers scratching their heads. So what happened? Did institutions kill the cycle? Did macro forces take over? Or is Bitcoin simply evolving into something more powerful?

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CHAPTERS:
00:00 – Did Bitcoin’s 4-Year Cycle Just Die?
01:10 – Bitcoin’s Classic Cycle: Halving to Crash
02:45 – 2025 Defied All Expectations
03:30 – Jeff Ross: “Of Course the Cycle Is Dead”
05:00 – The Real Purpose of the Halving
06:25 – Bitcoin’s Sample Size Problem
07:15 – 2024 Halving: What Went Off-Script
08:30 – Sacred Cows of Bitcoin Are Falling
09:15 – Why the Market Changed (Not Bitcoin)
10:30 – Institutional Capital Changes the Game
11:40 – Macro Forces Now Drive Bitcoin
13:00 – The Rise of the 10-Year Bitcoin Cycle

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