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Bitcoin has now outlasted the peak of all its previous four-year cycles.

For over a decade, every Bitcoin cycle has followed the same sequence: consolidation, breakout, mania, crash. Rinse and repeat.

Timeline-wise, we should be at the post-mania inflection point, waiting for the seemingly inevitable crash.

Yet unlike previous runs, this cycle never saw its “mania phase.” Instead, Bitcoin has spent the past year grinding sideways, touching new all-time highs without a euphoric blow-off top that defined previous cycles.

The fact that this euphoria period never materialised brings into question whether this cycle still has room to run, or has the market simply matured past the point of mania-driven peaks?

The Historical Four-Year Pattern

The traditional Bitcoin cycle was simple. Every four years, a halving event would reduce the block reward (amount of new Bitcoin being created) by half, creating a supply shock that triggered major bull markets.

The 2013 cycle, the 2017 cycle, and the 2021 cycle all followed this script. Each halving was followed by a 3-to 9-month growth period, then a full-on mania period, before topping out 12 to 18 months after the event.

Following the most recent halving in April 2024, Bitcoin experienced five months of sideways consolidation, then hinted at making its anticipated breakout into mania after the US election… but quickly returned to sideways consolidation for the next year.

We have seen new ATHs and the price has made some notable gains during the period, but the overall momentum has been much weaker.

This failure to repeat the frenzies of the past three cycles has brought into question how much influence the Bitcoin halving truly has on the market anymore.

No Longer a Supply Shock

In previous cycles, the halving created a situation where prices had to rise to clear the same dollar amount of miner expenses (who were now earning half the Bitcoin).

Bitcoin miners would simply not sell until the price reached a certain level, creating a supply shock that would drive prices higher.

Miners still do this today; however, the market’s maturation and the institutional adoption of Bitcoin have dampened the impact.

Selling off Bitcoin is no longer a balancing act where miners hold influence over price. The market has deep liquidity that can handle significant flows in either direction.

Institutional ETFs routinely purchase more Bitcoin in a single day than miners produce in a month. 

The supply reduction that once drove dramatic price movements is now easily absorbed by a market with institutional buyers providing constant demand.

If the Halving Isn't Driving Cycles, What Is?

The overriding narrative is that the Bitcoin cycle is now tied to the global liquidity cycle.

If you plot the Global M2 Money Supply versus Bitcoin on a year-on-year basis, you can see that every Bitcoin top has correlated with the peaks of Global M2 liquidity growth.

This isn't unique to Bitcoin. The Gold price has closely mirrored the rate of Global M2 expansion for decades.

When central banks flood the system with liquidity, capital tends to move into stores of value or high-risk assets. When they drain liquidity, those same assets tend to retreat.

However, this is a correlation; these relationships may change and should not be relied upon as indicators of future performance.

Is the Dollar Just Getting Weaker?

The U.S. Dollar Strength Index tells the other side of this liquidity story. Bitcoin versus the dollar year-on-year has been almost perfectly inversely correlated. 

Simply put, as fiat currencies lose purchasing power, “hard” assets like Bitcoin and Gold start to appreciate. Not because of improved fundamentals, but because the currencies they are paired against are simply worth less.

The Self-Fulfilling Prophecy

Beyond the charts and patterns, there is also the psychological notion that the four-year cycle persists precisely because people believe it will.

People have been conditioned by three complete cycles to expect Bitcoin to peak somewhere between 400 and 600 days after a halving.

This collective belief shapes behaviour: traders take profits, investors take fewer risks, and retail enthusiasm wanes. The prophecy fulfils itself.

When everyone believes Bitcoin should peak 18 months after a halving, the combined selling pressure can create exactly that outcome — regardless of whether the underlying driver still exists.

The current market weakness, with Bitcoin dropping over 20% from its October record high, occurred almost precisely at this 18-month mark.

Is This Cycle Built Different?

Despite this on-cue sell-off, this cycle still has the potential to break away from the historical four-year pattern. 

Increased ETF adoption by institutional investors has brought in higher quality and consistent ownership of Bitcoin.

Unlike retail traders, who often panic-sell during corrections, institutional holders tend to maintain their positions through volatility.

For example, Michael Saylor’s high-profile MicroStrategy fund has continued to purchase Bitcoin through market weakness. Recently reporting a purchase of 8,178 BTC at an average price of $102,171.

Another hard indicator that diverges from previous cycle peaks is the amount of Bitcoin being held on centralised exchanges.

The current amount of BTC on CEXs is unusually low. This pattern is generally seen closer to cycle lows, rather than peaks.

Other factors supporting the break of the four-year mould are coming out of the Whitehouse. 

A comprehensive regulatory framework through the CLARITY Act represents structural changes and boundaries for regulatory bodies that didn't exist in previous cycles.

And the move to establish a Strategic Bitcoin Reserve will see all government-held forfeited Bitcoin (approximately $30 billion worth) transferred into a government reserve, signalling Bitcoin as a strategic asset like Gold and oil.

Bitcoin Has Finally Grown Up

The four-year cycle has been a useful heuristic, but heuristics break down when conditions change. Institutional buyers, regulatory clarity, and strategic reserves represent genuinely new conditions historical patterns don’t account for.

At the same time, dismissing the cycle entirely would be premature. The self-fulfilling aspect means it retains predictive power even if the original cause has weakened. 

Market participants act on the pattern they've learned, and their actions create the pattern they expect.

Perhaps the real insight is that the Bitcoin market cycles never had just one cause. They were always the result of multiple overlapping forces — programmed scarcity, liquidity conditions, sentiment, self-reinforcing expectations.

The cycle shifts character as some forces strengthen and others weaken. But whether the forces have shifted enough to break the four-year trend is yet to be determined. 

The fundamental indicators show this cycle may have some life, but the psychological power of the four-year pattern could push it to another, predictable end.

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澳洲政治右转，对经济与全球市场到底意味着什么？

不知道大家是否注意到，过去这一两年，澳洲的政治气候正在悄悄变化——街上的反对移民游行越来越多，以及民间对待移民的恶行案件也在不断增加。就在最近，过去一直被大家当成笑话的澳洲的一国党，在最近媒体的民意测试中居然已经达到了20%的支持率。尤其是对于40岁以上男性，以及收入和学历较低的人群，其支持率更为显著。

这不是剧烈的政党更换，，也不是意识形态的突变，而是一种社会情绪逐步积累后的“方向改变”：越来越多选民，尤其是非大城市中产之外的蓝领和普通人，都开始倾向保守路线，对移民规模的不满、政府预算不满、能源政策不满、基础设施不满、生活成本更是非常不满等问题表现出更直接的焦虑。于是政治自然往右偏，这种偏移既不是偶然，也不是澳洲独有，而是许多发达国家都出现过的周期性现象。但真正值得讨论的，不是它在政治版图上造成多大震动，而是它对澳洲本身的经济结构、澳股的未来风格、以及全球资产价格的潜在影响。

而在这里，我必须先把一件事情讲清楚：对于我本人分析来看，
澳洲右转 ≠ 全球右转。
澳洲的政治变化不会影响全球科技路线，更不会左右AI、大模型、半导体、机器人产业的方向。
原因很简单：
澳洲本质上不是科技链条的主导者，而是产业链最上游的供应者。

真正推动全球经济方向的，是美国、中国、日本、欧洲这些科技、制造与资本力量强大的经济体。而它们当前的竞争核心只有一个：科技革命，尤其是AI 和算力相关的全链条竞赛。这场竞争规模之大，几乎让近几十年所有科技浪潮加起来都显得“前菜”：

英伟达市值飙升、美国和中国的云计算投资爆炸性增长、日本半导体制造设备企业全线涨价、欧洲推出史上最大芯片补贴计划，中国的AI 与自动驾驶落地速度不断加快。整个世界就在以惊人的速度投入到“智能化时代的基础设施建设”中，这是一条不可逆的道路。

在这样的时代背景下，我们再来看澳洲政治右转，影响的重心其实非常明确：它改变不了全球科技格局，只会改变澳洲自身的发展路径。

澳洲右转的真正意义：不是改变方向，而是进一步“定型”

在过去文章里我说过800遍，澳洲的经济基础长期由两个轮子驱动：
人口（移民） +资源（矿产、能源、农产品）。
移民提供劳动力和消费需求，资源提供出口收入和财政稳定。

而如果澳洲政治右转之后，会产生两个直接后果：

第一，移民政策变得更谨慎，也就是更少。经济增速会从“快”变“稳”，或者简单说就是慢。

保守路线通常会认为移民过多会挤压住房、医疗、交通和教育系统，于是主张“适度缩减或更精准的移民结构”。
但澳洲不可能完全收紧移民，因为它根本不具备“人口自我成长”的能力——澳洲的生育率低到根本撑不起劳动力市场，主要的双职工中产家庭目前已经从过去30年平均2.8个孩子降低到了不足2个。按照这个速度，只靠澳洲自己生，人口增长曲线就太慢了。因此移民永远不会离场，它最多只会从“激进增长”变为“可控增长”。

按照AFR分析文章，如果移民不考虑，或者按照没有移民计算，这意味着：

• 澳大利亚未来的     GDP 增速会从过去长期的     2%–2.5%，下降至     1–1.5% 区间
• 房地产需求不会消失，但增速会更温和
• 劳动力市场的紧张状况可能持续更久
• 社会服务压力稍微缓解，但不会明显下降

换句话说，右转后的澳洲经济不会迈入衰退，而会进入一种更接近“中龄发达国家”的增长模式：稳定、缓慢、但不至于迷失方向。毕竟家里有矿饿不死。

第二，矿业与能源的重要性将进一步强化，而不是削弱

这正是我观点的核心，也是事实所在。
澳洲不具备成为科技强国的产业积累，它不是美国、日本、中国那种拥有科研体系、硬科技生态和顶尖人才吸引力的国家。因此，即便政治极端自由化，也无法让澳洲在短时间内变成“硅谷南半球版”。

而右转之后，政策上对矿业、天然气、稀土、锂矿等传统出口产业会更加友善，尤其是在审批流程、环境限制、土地开发、能源规划这些领域上更偏“务实而非激进”。结合全球 AI能源需求暴涨（数据中心耗电量预期未来十年增长4–6 倍），澳洲的资源不仅不会被“旧时代化”，反而可能因为科技革命而重新变成战略资产。

用很现实的话讲：
别的国家搞 AI，搞 GPU，搞光刻机，但所有这些东西背后的能源和金属原料，澳洲正好供得上。澳洲估计不太可能出现类似英伟达一样的企业，但是澳洲再出一个大矿业公司到是很有可能。尤其是铀矿和电池类矿产。

世界越科技化，越需要电力。越需要电力，越需要能源、矿物、材料。
越需要这些，澳洲的重要性越高——就是这么简单。

这就是澳洲政治右转背后的经济逻辑：
不会创新，但会赚钱；不会引领，但会供应；不会主导世界，但会让世界离不开。

澳股的未来：资源+ 银行 = 主体结构，科技不是主角也不会成为主角

ASX 的结构过去如此，未来仍然如此。我本人的养老金的澳洲部分都压在这两个板块上。但是由于目前澳洲矿产出口目前未来一段时间我觉得都不会有大的增长，因此我把很多的仓位转移去了银行。

但是就算澳洲即便不右转，澳洲股市也很难出现类似美国NASDAQ 那样的科技指数，因为澳洲缺乏：

• 科研系统
• 资本密集型科技风险投资
• 人才生态
• 供应链基础
• 市场规模

假如澳洲真的继续右转之后，科技行业在政策上甚至更难占到优先级，所以澳股未来十年的风格非常清晰：
资源撑底、银行稳定、大盘权重公司继续占据主导地位。

这让澳股变成一种很特殊的市场：
全球科技狂奔，它稳；
全球资源波动，它跟；
全球金融收紧，它挺；
全球创新周期更替，它依然是“老牌现金奶牛型市场”。

换句话说，澳股不是“高速成长型市场”，而是“高分红、低波动、结构单一但稳健”的市场。
对长期投资者来说，这种市场不刺激但可靠；
对想追求科技成长的人来说，最好把目光放向美国、亚洲或全球ETF，而不是指望本地公司突然出现科技奇迹。

这也是为什么许多澳洲投资者会长期持有：

• ASX200
• 全球科技     ETF（如美国科技     ETF）
• 黄金
• 澳大利亚资源股

这四大类可以形成“稳定现金流 + 成长 + 防御”的组合，而不是单押澳股。

最后再来谈谈澳洲右转对全球市场的影响：不是主导，而是提供“资源稳定性”

目前最近这几年，全球市场的主轴仍然是科技革命，而科技革命高度依赖能源与资源。澳洲右转后资源供应更稳定，政策更一致，对全球制造业、AI基础设施、半导体供应链都是正面作用。

美国市场（S&P500 / NASDAQ）

• 不会在意澳洲右转
• 不会因此改变科技投资方向
• 不会因此降低     AI 投资

澳洲对美国股市最大的影响只是：资源价格不会乱跳，算力扩张更稳。

这对美国是利好，而不是干扰。

日本市场（Nikkei225）

日本属于“外部资源依赖型科技大国”，资源成本稳定对它是重大利好。

所以日经指数的产业结构（高端制造+ 半导体）会因为资源稳定受益，而不是受伤。

欧洲市场（EuroStoxx 50）

欧洲和澳洲一样是“老经济”，但欧洲靠制造和高端科技，澳洲靠资源。
澳洲右转意味着资源供应确定性变强，这让欧洲工业企业的成本预期更清晰。
对欧洲来说也是正面影响。

黄金

黄金永远不是因为“澳洲右转”而涨，而是因为全球长期处于：

• 高地缘政治风险
• 高债务
• 高不确定性
• 高系统性竞争

澳洲的政治变化只是全球保守化趋势的一部分，而金价上涨的逻辑依然成立。
未来十年，只要全球AI 推动能源需求、同时物价和通胀结构依然变得不可预测，那么长期黄金都会保持强势。

总结：澳洲政治的右转不是世界剧变，而是澳洲自身定位的再次确认。如果我们把所有的分析收在一起，可以很清晰地得出结论：

• 全球科技路线不会因为澳洲右转而改变
• AI、大模型、半导体仍然是全球资本的中心戏
• 澳洲在其中扮演的角色依然是“全国地表最大的原料供应公司”
• 右转会让澳洲资源产业更稳定、更确定
• 澳洲经济会更稳定、更慢速、更依赖出口
• 澳股未来十年依然是“资源     + 银行     + 高分红”的结构
• 黄金继续是全球资产配置中不可回避的一环

做简单易懂的平民化分析，那我是相当专业的。做财经和分析十几年，我依然坚持每周亲自至少写一次文章，这样会让人依然有着敏感的触觉，对于市场和热门话题保持敏锐感。不至于对于市场把握下滑的过快，别人一问三不知。希望我的看法对于大家依然有所帮助。

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