It\u2019s a sign of a bullish market for all crypto assets that are not called BTC. Last time this happened in 2021, a bevy of popular altcoins returned cryptocurrency buyers 28,000% by the end of the market cycle.<\/p>\n
Bitcoin\u2019s market share fell from<\/a> 65% to 61% between May 7 and May 13, according to TradingView. Markets haven\u2019t seen that 65% level of BTC dominance over altcoins since 2021.<\/p>\n That year was the altseason, as crypto veterans like to call it, that launched Dogecoin\u2019s price tens of thousands of percent upward in under 12 months.<\/p>\n Meanwhile, in 2021, a\u00a0$100 Shiba Inu investment went from<\/a> Jan. 1, 2021, to over $14 million by Mar. 2023. Two unemployed Millennial brothers from Westchester, NY,\u00a0invested $8,000<\/a> in Shiba Inu that year<\/span>\u00a0after a family friend told them about it.<\/p>\n There are hundreds of trillions of dollars out there.<\/p>\n There are only 21 million #Bitcoin<\/a>.<\/p>\n Do the math.<\/p>\n \u2014 Samson Mow (@Excellion) May 8, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n\n As Bitcoin boosters like to say: Do the math.<\/p>\n While a 4% dip in Bitcoin dominance may seem like a small fraction, the numerator here is a global Internet currency with a two trillion dollar market cap on May 7.<\/p>\n That\u2019s something like an $80 billion dip in market share against altcoins over six days in May. Furthermore, Bitcoin\u2019s price and market cap grew by 7% during those six days, even as its wedge on the pie chart shrank.<\/p>\n Meanwhile, an index of altcoin prices formed a golden cross in May, potentially signaling bullish momentum into a prolonged bull run.<\/p>\n As one popular crypto YouTube analyst reported on May 13, the total altcoin market cap for major currencies has formed a golden cross. That\u2019s when a shorter-term moving average crosses from below to above a longer-term moving average.<\/p>\n Altseason incoming. golden cross hit.<\/p>\n Last time this happened in 2021, alts went +28,000%<\/p>\n 2025 just did the same. Don\u2019t fade the rotation.#crypto<\/a> #altcoins<\/a> #bullrun<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/ZZp7z2nrcT<\/a><\/p>\n \u2014 Bitcoin Duniya (@bitcoin_duniya) May 13, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n\n The moving average for a cryptocurrency is the periodically updated average of all its prices over a previous period. Traders use that to get a sense of the market\u2019s inertia.<\/p>\n If the last market cycle\u2019s performance repeats on this round, the total altcoin market cap could exceed $5 trillion sometime by 2026. Here are<\/a> five more signals that altseason may soon commence.<\/p>\n The post Bitcoin Dominance Dives in May as Altcoins Form Golden Cross<\/a> appeared first on CryptoPotato<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It\u2019s a sign of a bullish market for all crypto assets that are not called BTC. Last time this happened in 2021, a bevy of popular altcoins returned cryptocurrency buyers 28,000% by the end of the market cycle. Bitcoin Dominance Takes 4% Spill Bitcoin\u2019s market share fell from 65% to 61% between May 7 and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":67201,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-discovery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67200"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=67200"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67200\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/67201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=67200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=67200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=67200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Altcoins Form Bullish Golden Cross<\/h2>\n
\nif you fumble this run, you deserve to stay broke.<\/p>\n