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PLUS: Binance CEO predicts bull market start

GM everyone. This is 2036, the crypto newsletter that pays you.
Hereās what weāre serving up today š²: this is it, ladies and gentlemen. The moment weāve all been waiting for. Itās been a year in the making.
Letās dig in.
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There are two things we pay attention to at 2036:
How much Taylor Swift makes daily on her latest tour (ā¼$14m per day and countingā¦)
Whether our favorite internet coins are cheap or expensive
For the past 7 months, weāve screamed left and right some version of:
ābitcoin is cheap. The time to buy is now.ā
Well - it looks like weāll be ending that spiel soon.
You see, there are a handful of tools crypto degenerates like us use to value their favorite coins. One of those is confusingly called MVRV-Z.
You donāt need to remember this, but for good measure - MVRV-Z takes into account the deviation between a cryptoās market cap and realized cap.
The realized market cap removes coins that have been lost from the calculation (ā¼15% of all bitcoin) and instead values coins on when they were last moved.
Hereās the current MVRV-Z:

The little green line indicates when bitcoin is dirt cheap. And over time, it maps to Bitcoinās price cycles astoundingly well.
But the train has now left the station. You had a year to accumulate magic internet coins. And bitcoin is no longer cheap.
Going forward, weāll be watching how high we can go.
Crypto moves in 4-year cycles. And over the next 18 months, weāll see:
the bitcoin halving
a bitcoin ETF
improving macro conditions
⦠all of which are likely to be positive catalysts for bitcoin and crypto in general.
You can see how this cycle has played out in the past, from all-time high to new all-time high:

Notice how bitcoin always:
moves down/sideways for 1-2 years (which itās done since November 2021)
always moves higher eventually (despite every media outlet saying ābitcoin is deadā at least a dozen times)
In fact, hereās how high itās gone from each bottom:

Weāre the little green line on the left
The bottom is likely behind us. Now it could be uphill from here until 2025/6.
āyeah but Iāll buy when the market goes lower.ā
Maybe. Binance could collapse and drag down the market, or something unexpected could happen.
But Cathie Wood, the most badass woman in crypto, thinks maybe not:

Bitcoin has strong support at current levels and lots of buyers.
But at the end of the day, charts will never be able to account 100% for human psychology and macro conditions.
And we never use them for short-term movements.
Charts are useful for spotting trends and cyclical patterns.
And it looks like weāre in for a wild ride from here.
Bitcoin may not be cheap, but thatās ok. Thereāll be plenty of other opportunities as we climb higher.
Weāll be here to guide you through the most important ones.
In the meantime, we wish you a fantastic start to the week.
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