Bitcoin may have broken from its midterm-cycle bottom pattern

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Past bitcoin bear-market lows have typically arrived after U.S. midterm elections. This year's price recovery, however, suggests the market bottom may have come months earlier than that historical pattern would predict. The divergence points to bitcoin possibly decoupling from the midterm-cycle timing that analysts have long tracked. Whether this marks a lasting shift or a one-off deviation remains to be seen.

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