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Originally Posted by ItDoesntMatter
Halving is the most overrated thing in terms of impact on BTC price action, it matters less each cycle. Probably still has some impact, but compared to the ETF it's basically nothing IMO.
"It [the halving] matters less each cycle" is a common refrain, but I think it's incorrect.
For four years, the markets have adjusted to the generation/creation of x new BTC per day. Soon that number is going to be reduced to x/2. It doesn't matter what x is. It could be 3,600 or 900 or 225—dividing that number by 2 will always produce a similar supply shock, until markets adjust to the new rate of production.
The approval of spot BTC ETFs produced a demand shock, and we saw the early results of that over the past few months. The halving will still produce a supply shock. What makes this cycle unique is the combination of these two overlapping shocks.
If you want to argue that the four-year cycles are unrelated to the halvings, that's different. That means they never mattered. But to say they matter less each cycle implies they used to matter more. And if they used to matter, they still do.