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Benjamin Cowen (Into the Cryptoverse)
Claim author · 📅 26.05.2026 · Bitcoin: The Four Year Cycle Is Not Dead
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"One of the arguments as to why the four-year cycle is breaking is that the stock market keeps putting in new all-time highs. But you could easily refute that by noting that in 2018 the stock market actually put in all-time highs and Bitcoin still went down."

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Methodology Benjamin Cowen's claim is confirmed. Historical data indicates that in 2018, both the S&P 500 and Dow Jones Industrial Average stock market indices reached new all-time highs. Concurrently, Bitcoin's price significantly declined in 2018, ending the year with approximately a 73.5% decrease in value after reaching high levels early in the year.
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do that, and there's always a chance that I'm wrong about this being a bear market rally. But I have to ask myself, is this time really different? Or is it just doing the same thing that it always does where it draws people back in over a long enough period of time to make them think it's different but then it ends up actually not being different. One of the arguments as to why the four-year cycle is breaking is that the stock market keeps putting in new all-time highs. But you could easily refute that by noting that in 2018 the stock market actually put in all-time highs and Bitcoin still went down. And in fact, it was an early correction in the stock market that led to Bitcoin's first drop to 6K and it was a second correction in the stock market in the second half of the midterm year that led to a subsequent drop by Bitcoin. Now if you look at this cycle, you can see that Bitcoin's first drop corresponded to a drop in the S&P 500. So perhaps

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