What was so special about 2021?

2009, 2013, 2017, 2021, 2025🤔

I started investing in 2021, and I've always been very unlucky financially, so maybe that's why?

Why do people think the bull run peak will be this year ?!? It’s going to be 2025.

Oh bless you for thinking markets are based on fundamentals or any logic.

The M2 money supply was exploding…

M2 ebbs and flows, global liquidity is starting to increase again, and will increase faster once interest rates start dropping.

Covid times were unprecedented, causing the surge rapidly. This time it will take longer to see the effects, and perhaps the effects wont be as impactful.

Who knows though

Definitely Covid stimulus, government hand outs, people couldn’t spend there money all sat at home on lockdown throwing there spare cash at the latest 💩 coin and diamond hands all the way. I can remember just about every 2nd person talking about it at work, now nobody, they were all left rekt. I mentioned it to a few the other week when BTC smashed through 70k, nobody even knew, not interested. The euphoria back then was wild and probably never to be repeated unfortunately. Just look at the alts this cycle apart from 1 or 2 they are all way down. Even ETH has a bit to go before ATH. Covid is your answer to the 20/21 euphoria bull run

100k eoy 21'

Your brain isn’t serving you well. The halving year last time was 2020 not 2021. This time 2021 = 2025

Compare 2021 with 2025 😉 The bullmarket barely started, and I bet once we get closer to the end it's gonna melt faces 😆

Money printers went brrr. Federal interest went to 0% allowing for people to borrow money to gamble with. And gambling in general went nuts as people were quarantined with nothing to do.

In addition to the extra money due to COVID, I think 2021 was when cryptocurrencies started hitting mainstream consciousness. Now most people have already heard of these things, so large jumps from people hearing about it on the news aren't happening. 

I also suspect the NFT craze may have something to do with it. All that hype for that little impact on life has made some people more cautious.

Everything has a peak. It was crypto peak, of course we will see new ATH but it will never be so popular like it was in 2021. I think the reason was very simple: covid

For example I was on subsidy scheme for 1 year, it means I got my salary for 1 year but I didn't work, just staying at home all day everyday. I couldn't even spend it because every shop was closed in my town. I started ordering stuff online but I got bored, then I saw crypto on the news (February 2021) and decided to try - I had basically zero knowledge about trading and made 2x with doge on the first day. I felt like I am very smart investor and dropped more and more money until everything crashed in 2022 😂

I think many people can share similar stories

Oh also thanks to Elon Musk for making hype, messages of people like Elon have bigger impact on the market than etf, if Elon wrote "ETH to the moon" the price would be 5k by tomorrow. Pay attention that he's very quiet about crypto this year

The difference is a lot of people got into crypto for the first time in 2021 and 99 percent of them got rekt.

That's gonna keep down the "euphoria" a tad.

Its the harbinger to our collapse.
Too much fiat created out of thin air.

it was an off cycle due to messed up world financial situation/covid/etc ... BUT the main cause was that pos Sam BF...and his FTX solana pumping with insiders. that was the main factor for btc rocketing.

The pump in money supply

With most things in the investing world, when things become widely expected, they end up not happening.

For example, the great housing market collapse of 2020-2024 that every single person on earth expected to happen.

year of the brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

Technicals drive the market, not fundamentals. ETFs do drive technicals, and that’s why we have seen the largest gains pre halving in history. We are actually far ahead of the previous cycle at this time.

Matt Damon said you were a pussy if you didn't invest in crypto.

1 word. Bitcoin. Bitcoin exploded in Q4 2020 and Q1 2021, and the liquidity is what created the 2021 alt coin season. This will happen again next year. Look up the 4 year bitcoin cycle if you haven’t already. You need to understand this. All roads lead to bitcoin.

Blockfi, Celsius, 3 arrows, Gemini earn, FTX…

All this fraud and associated shit collapsing really hurt.

Crypto market cap is barely a drop in the bucket. It doesn't matter how good the new is, if shit is bad around the world (which it is) price won't move. World runs on fiat homie.

Do you not know the Bitcoin cycles?

2024 is 2020

2025 will be 2021

Bruh you need to be patient. The halving took place in 2020, historically about 6-12 months after halving BTC will have reached its peak for the cycle, at which point BTC dominance will start to fade and all of that money goes into alt coins, known as alt season, altcoin rally. At which point you will start to see alts move up thousands to millions of %. Crypto is a long game and you have to be patient. Bull cycle lasts 18-24 months roughly give or take a few months. I think due to BTC ETF’s causing ATH’s before the halving, the cycle won’t last longer than early to mid 2025 then things Will begin falling into bear status again. My best advice just keep stacking alt coins and don’t sell until at least sep/oct 2024. And please do not buy BTC and ETH at highs. Leave them alone until 2025-26

The halving was in 2020, have a look at a bitcoin chart in tradingview, zoom out, and have a look at the halving dated on bitbo.io

Stimulus checks. Period.

I think you are forgetting the fact that BTC has already broken previous ATH's several times this year. What more do you want? I'm more for continuous slow growth than rockets and plane crashes. This was always a long-term play for me. All this flash spikes and crashes plays havoc with that.

People saying it was mostly manipulated by ftx, 3ac and other bad actors, hence ridiculous price action. Who knows

Alt season

the run didn’t really start until after the summer 2021 so have patience

Free money from Covid stimulus

People had money to invest then, it was before inflation got crazy and stimulus checks and unemployed checks were rampant, not that hard to figure out.

A big part of it were those stimulus checks sent out, everyone locked at home, didn’t end up using that money to go out etc., so you have hundreds of millions of Americans dumping extra cash into the markets and couple that with some quick inflation, everyone being online and surrounded by people saying buy this, buy that! etc., lot of reasons

low interest rates. the fed controls everything.

Cash pump in the economy (during covid times) which caused the following inflation.

There were several reasons, people had extra money, not just because the govt was handing it out, everything was cheap, gas, food, all the important things that will eat away at the average person's account, no wars people just seemed to be overall in a better position across the board

Because we still don't really use it in our day to day life.

Back then people could still afford things.

Now there is a huge part of the population that can't even afford to pay their bills.

Thanks inflation.

SOL went down to $8, thus a financial renaissance for me and whoever through their stacks that way.

4-year cycle. So, 2021 will be 2025.

The cycle is 3 Green years, and 1 Red year. Each year of Green gets progressively better before the carnage of the Red year. 2026 will be like 2022.

low interest rates plush the covid stimulus printing money enabled people to take more risks with money. Also groceries gas and housing was more affordable which means people have more left over funds to invest

2021 growth is what I dub as unicorn money with the following recipe:

1) Create a new kinda token, release 100k and keep 900k in reserve 2) Sprinkle magic unicorn dust 3) Set up an "unrelated" entity and transact small amounts of those tokens at $1.50 4) Offer someone to bulk buy the token at a discount of $1 each. Your token is now valued at $1 - $1.50 each. 5) The market starts transacting your token at $1.. Good deal. 5) Now you have $900k unicorn money in your reserve that you can spend

You know it's unicorn money when the whole thing came crashing once enough people tried to cash out.

So many claiming halving in here. Go plot BTC with NDXT and you’ll see something crazy. They hate this one simple trick

Wait 6 more months. Understand where we are in the cycle.

Zero interest rates, massive monetary policy shifts, and people being bored

Viddy

We had a pandemic which forced people to stay home and not spend money, and we also just gave people a bunch of money to just blow.

There are lots of reasons that people have already listed. Then there's time. Notice you are asking about 2021. 1 year after the last halving. The markets have barely even gone bullish, and we haven't seen a run yet at all. I'm not saying we're going to see as much growth as last time, but give it time, dude. You can't expect the halving to occur and to immediately see prices explode. That's not how this works, and it never has been.

People also don’t have as much liquidity as they used to. Investors that piled into Bitcoin ETFs didn’t see much movement so they could be hesitant to move it ETH

In 2021 there were Defi, NFT and Metaverse.

Now there aren't any internal developments, it's only news from outside. ETF are bringing a liquidity into the market never seen before, but they have nothing to do with blockchain or crypto themselves.

Amazing isn’t it! Hedera tbh to them is breaking mad ground, BTC and Eth etfs roaring! Everything else is being weened out for the un-useful crap that it is!

It wasn't special in any general sense, that is, every bull is "special" in that it has unique characteristics, just like every moment is special. Now, 2016-2018, that was fucking special. You should've been there, unbelievable.

Covid you duntz

Trillions of $$ printed and monetary easing. Lots of disposal money = more luxury and buying less necessary but cool shit. If you remember the goal was to stimulate the market after covid lockdowns, however not long after that Ukraine war started, upsetting the oil market and global economy. Inflation has been going up since then and so is monetary tightening. If the Feds knew this war was coming they probably would have been more conservative with the stimulus campaign. But shit happens. Case in point, we won't be seeing a face melting alt bullrun until the Feds clearly switch back to easing. Almost nothing else matters.

People were full of money to bet on multille random alts

We also had alameda and FTX to ponzi everything up

2020-2021 was amazeballs.

On top of the COVID stimulus, we had CeFi and yield farming

• Terra Luna
• Celsius Networks
• BlockFi
• FTX
• Gemini
• DCG
• Pancakeswap
• Aave
• Compound

Everything was generating yield on a stack of under-collateralized loans. Basically, all these yield farms were printing crypto from thin air. People kept shoving more money in trying to chase after higher and higher yields, until it collapsed starting with Terra Luna

Market cap size

I think comparing 2025(once it happens) with 2021 would be a fairer comparison. 2024 is more exciting than 2020 was I'd say, the halving year

lol have you never been through a btc cycle?

We just had the halving a few weeks ago. Relax. The big bull runs don’t start until months after. There’s always a sideways grind for a while.

People are just FOMOing away from Fiat into Crypto and anything that's not governmentmade oder supervised

Halving cycle. Were almost there. Patience

People had nothing else to do? I know for me, I was stuck at my computer at home all day. So I spent a shit load of time watching the markets, playing with different coins, buying and selling. Now I’m way too fucking busy for all that

Nobodies gonna mention eth going to pos? That was all the talk of the town in 2020/2021.

the BTC halving

There was a BTC halving then too. Or just before it.

Even the Eth etf announcement yesterday, still really hasn't had a ballistic impact on the price of Eth.

No official announcement yet? Trading weeks or months off. There will be a GBTC sell off.

Patience young bull. In time, I expect we will see the 2021 run was cut short. Study your cycles.

I think the markets are just waiting for the right excuse to blow. We don’t even have advertising for ETFs yet.

2021+4=2025

Have patience

Enormous liquidity event from covid money printing + people isolating at home with nothing to do but spend money on video games, OnlyFans, and crypto. Also interest rates were near zero.

Some people started extraordinarily successful OnlyFans pages during that time and made tens of millions of dollars. Seriously wish I had thought of that. And that I was a beautiful woman.

Sigh

It takes months after the halving before the bull run starts. Late this year we should see fireworks based on history. It may come a little sooner, but the halving doesn't start the bull run like everyone seems to think.

Wait like 8 weeks

Sweet sweet STIMIES

2021 is the greatest printer in history of fiat.

what we DID have tho was Jimmy wit the Stimmie......

Saturation. 2021 was a wake up moment for crypto

Keep in mind, with respect to the halving, we're equivalent to June 2020. The curve didn't start to go up until about November/December 2020. If history repeats as it has, we're looking similarly at an October/November rise with a peak sometime around mid 2025.

When BTC halving cycle, global liquidity cycle, and Wycoff's composite man all line up together, shits gonna bast off. This is not that time. '25 we may have all those same indicators align once more.

I Don't understand those wondering why we aren't going parabolic ATM. It's not time. It may be soon but now is not it.

Tiktok happen

It was second season of Corona.

So 2025 should see prices 🚀?!🤔

2021 was a year past the bull run that started in 2020.

We have yet to have the bull run even start this cycle.

Does that answer your question?

Every cycle the price goes up not instantly after halving, but few months after.

Duuhjh... The bull run...

One month after halving... Wen Lambo? When will people learn to be patient.

Uhm..EOYs $100k BTC for starters

After these ETF runs, we might see a completely different bull and bear market in the future. The halving will become less and less significant

Ah.. the good old days in 2021.. seems like a dream.. maybe it was?

Hahaha… Maybe the government printing trillions in just months… 🤓🤓

Most people see crypto as a scam now vs then.

Yeah also in Defi you could borrow at a lower rate then you could lend. That was a bit of a bubble

Ie could borrow USDX at 3% and lend at 5%

Bit unsustainable

Eth was moving because of 2 things that have now ended. Mining and NFTs.

Umm.... Quantitative Easing. There was a massive truckload of liquidity pumped into the world during that timeframe.

The stimulus checks didn't do it. Thats a grain of sand on the beach in comparison to the real government liquidity that was flowing. And Crypto (alts in particular) feed of of excess liquidity.

It was the perfect timing for someone to start their experience with crypto with all these conditions of this period.