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JAN3 CEO Samson Mow predicted that Bitcoin and the rest of the crypto market would recover over the coming decade.
In an X post from December 26, Mow said that “2025 was the bear market.” When asked in the comments if the market cycle had changed from four to three years, Mow replied: “a decade-long uptrend.”
Industry experts divided on BTC performance in 2026
Mow is not the only industry expert with an optimistic outlook for BTC.
Bitcoin analyst PlanC also expressed optimism about the crypto’s price as the year draws to a close.
“If you survived until 2025, you survived the bear market,” the analyst wrote on X.
Congratulations!
If you survived until 2025, you survived the bear market.
So we can all agree that 2025 has been a bear market, right? pic.twitter.com/uWs5ScVTm1
– PlanC (@TheRealPlanC) December 26, 2025
Earlier this year in July, Matt Hougan, CIO of Bitwise, said that 2026 would be a “positive year” for Bitcoin. Meanwhile, Phon Le, CEO of Strategy, said in an interview earlier this week that the fundamentals of the Bitcoin market have remained strong this year, even amid the decline in crypto price and sentiment.
However, not everyone is optimistic about BTC. Veteran trader Peter Brandt is among the analysts who remain cautious. Earlier this month, he warned that the price of Bitcoin could fall as much as $60,000 by the third quarter of 2026. Similarly, Fidelity’s director of global macroeconomic research, Jurrien Timmer, predicted that 2026 could be a “gap year” for BTC.
Bitcoin briefly fell below $87,000
These predictions come as the largest cryptocurrency by market capitalization, along with the rest of the digital asset market, entered a downtrend in the final months of 2025.
Over the annual period, BTC is down more than 9%, according to data from CoinMarketCap. The crypto market leader set a new all-time high (ATH) of $126,198.07 on October 6, but has since seen a correction of over 30%.

BTC Price (Source: CoinMarketCap)
Over the past 24 hours, Bitcoin price fell to $86,628.14. However, it recovered slightly to trade at $87,392.43 as of 12:33 a.m. EST. Despite this recovery, BTC is still in the red at more than 1% over a 24-hour period.
BTC begins to consolidate
The price of Bitcoin began to consolidate towards the end of November.

Daily chart for WBTC/USD (Source: GeckoTerminal)
Looking at the crypto’s daily chart shows that BTC has fluctuated between $83,260 and $94,611 over the past month.
Technical indicators such as Moving Average Convergence Divergence (MACD), Relative Strength Index (RSI), and short-term exponential moving averages (EMA) suggest that BTC price could move in one direction or the other in the coming days.
Famous trader and analyst Michael van de Poppe told his over 816,000 X followers that BTC could be ready for a “strong start” until 2026.
In an article yesterday, he highlighted the 20-month moving average (MA) and said he would monitor whether BTC price can stay above this technical indicator.
“If the month closes above this level (and even better; above $90,000), I think we’re in for a good start to 2026 with a run to $105-110,000,” he said. said.
It was before he predicted In the past 24 hours, gold investors will soon lock in their profits and turn them into “symmetric assets” such as Bitcoin.
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