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Bitcoin price history: 2026 as a turning point  2025 was a pivotal year for the crypto market. The early surge in risk appetite gradually gave way to a much more fragile sentiment. Bitcoin reached an all-time high of $126,210.50 on October 6, 2025. Since then, the market has been dominated by doomscrolling, denial, suspicion, stressful liquidations, and bouts of unreasonable optimism.  Source: CoinMarketCap After several so-called “crypto bloodbaths” in just a few months, traders are now approaching 2026 with mild caution. Whether another bull run emerges in early 2026 will largely depend on broader macroeconomic conditions and overall financial market sentiment. S&P 500 bubble: Will BTC save crypto market? This question often comes up when valuing the largest U.S. tech companies. A comparison with the 2000 dot-com bubble is useful. Back then, the Nasdaq fell about 75% over two years. A table from Goldman Sachs compares today’s P/E ratios of the 10 largest companies in the S&P 500 with their levels at the 1999 peak, before the bear market began. It also highlights concentration: the top three companies made up 10% of the index then, versus 20% today. Source: Goldman Sachs More importantly, at the 1999 peak, the average P/E of the top 10 companies was 41; today it is about 31. There were outliers then (Cisco, Time Warner) and now (Tesla), but on average valuations are still roughly 30% lower than 25 years ago. The S&P 500 recently ended a streak of 138 consecutive days closing above its 50-day moving average. Here’s what the index has done in similar situations over the past 100 years: 100 or more days above the 50-day moving average and the first close below it. Source: SubuTrade Looking back over the past 100 years at similar cases, the takeaway is mixed: results are close…

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