Bitcoin (BTC) just crashed 25%.
It’s never fun when crypto goes down.
You look at your portfolio losing value by the hour. Hoping prices will turn around. But they just don’t.
All you want to do is press SELL so the pain can be over.
Please don’t. You’ll be selling at the worst possible moment.
The price of bitcoin right now is $84,000.
Data shows BTC could reach $113,000 by May.
We’ve looked at all the instances when bitcoin crashed by at least 25% during this bull market.
Here are the results:
In the last two years, this happened five times. And every single time bitcoin price recovered and reached new highs.
On average, BTC gained 38% over the next 3-months.
If anything, this crypto crash is a huge buying opportunity.
Big picture: We’re in what has historically been the best time to own crypto.
The “sweet spot” that’s typically produced the biggest gains.
BTC prices have followed a “3 up, 1 down” pattern. We call it the bitcoin 4- year cycle.
Every fourth year, crypto prices plunge. The last time that happened was in 2022.
Markets then recover slowly, with the biggest gains being handed out in years 2 and 3, as this table of bitcoin’s annual returns shows.
Year 2 was 2024, and year 3 is 2025:
In August 2023, when bitcoin was trading for $27,000, I told members of my premium crypto advisory RiskHedge Venture it was headed to $150,000.
Bitcoin price more than tripled since.
Based on how much the price has already risen, and my analysis of past cycles, I believe BTC could possibly run to $250,000 in 2025.
But I wouldn’t buy bitcoin.
I prefer to own smaller, fast-growing cryptos with higher upside.
I first heard about bitcoin in 2011 when it was trading under $5.
Didn’t buy any. Big mistake.
But from this mistake, I learned to appreciate the unique trait of crypto. We all had the opportunity to buy BTC from the very beginning, when it was only a pup.
This is the opposite of how the stock market works.
Former cyclist Lance Armstrong was an early investor in Uber (UBER). He invested $100,000 in 2009 when the company was valued at less than $4 million.
He would see gains on his initial stake of around 25,000X — which would turn $100,000 into $2.5 billion.
That’s great for Lance. But he only got that opportunity because he was a rich, connected celebrity. Although an average person could have mathematically turned $1,000 into $25 million investing in Uber, no one did. Uber wasn’t available to invest in for regular folks until it IPO’d in 2019.
By that time… it was already a giant company.
Cryptos are different. They basically “IPO” on day one.
Bitcoin went live in early 2009. That very same day, investors could buy it for fractions of a cent.
Most cryptos work this way. Their tokens launch alongside their businesses on Day 1 when they’re tiny, early-stage startups. It’s like investing in Steve Jobs or Bill Gates tinkering in their garages, long before Apple (AAPL) or Microsoft (MSFT) IPO’d.
Crypto lets ordinary investors truly get in on the ground floor.
You notice how many of the people who got rich in crypto were nowhere near Wall Street?
You’ve surely seen the kids driving Lamborghinis… or the 20-year-olds who turned a couple thousand dollars into a couple million dollars in crypto.
Think about how unique that is. Typically, big early-stage gains flow straight to Wall Street because it controls the deals and access. The rich get richer.
In crypto, it’s different.
Anyone could buy Ethereum (ETH) when it launched in 2014 for 30 cents. Today, ETH is trading around $2,300. Where else can a regular investor throw $100 into an early-stage startup and see it balloon to $7.5 million?
It’s the same for Solana (SOL), which launched in early 2020 at less than $1. It’s up 140X since then.
The point is that the crypto market is still so small and so new, there’s plenty of room for exponential growth.
But you don’t want to buy just any small crypto. I wouldn’t touch 99% of them… Especially meme coins.
But the other 1% have the potential to change the world.
I just released a report writing about 3 early-stage cryptos to buy in 2025.
They all have real business models making real money.
One of them is disrupting Google. Second one built an Airbnb for AI chips. And the third does business with big brands like Disney, Netflix, HBO, Apple, Nike, etc.
Best of all, thanks to the recent crypto crash, they’re all trading at a discount.
Click here to access the full report.
— Stephen McBride, Chief Analyst at RiskHedge
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