Криптовалютний аналітик прогнозує падіння криптовалюти біткоїн до $78 000

Michael van de Poppe, a well-known crypto analyst and trader, believes that 2026 could be an unexpected and crucial year for bitcoin BTC $88,876.57 Mezo Wrapped BTC -0.88% Market capitalization $39.45 million VOL. 24 hours $1.91 billion . In his analysis, he notes that institutional investors are preparing to actively enter the market, and this could completely change the traditional idea of «four-year cycles» of growth and correction that BTC used to follow. According to him, bitcoin has become a «mature asset» and now operates according to other market laws.

The analyst emphasized that major players — from banks to tech companies — are not focused on old market models, but are preparing for the massive introduction of digital assets after the adoption of new legislative initiatives in the United States, including the Genius Act and the Clarity Act. «The institutions are already here. Bitcoin has become the best form of money that has ever existed. It’s a simple game of acceptance theory,» van de Poppe said.

Despite his long-term optimism, the trader expects another decline in the short term. He calls the $ 92,000 level the key for bitcoin: it is the level from which the market has recently rejected it. According to van de Poppe, if Fed Chairman Jerome Powell takes a tougher stance and refrains from further rate cuts, a classic «sell the news» scenario could occur, a short-term collapse that would send BTC to the $ 78,000-$ 82,000 range, after which the market would reverse and begin to recover.

The analyst believes that after this latest decline, bitcoin will receive an impetus for strong growth in the first quarter of 2026. Van de Poppe emphasized that the next year could «surprise everyone and even their cats,» hinting that the current correction is only preparing the ground for a large-scale market reversal.

In general, according to the expert, the key difference in the upcoming cycle is the intervention of large institutions that will act not according to the traditional logic of crypto speculation, but according to the principles of global capital allocation. According to him, this could make bitcoin the most powerful financial asset of the new decade.