Samson Mow Sees “Decade Long Bull Run” Ahead For Bitcoin And Crypto

JAN3 CEO Samson Mow has predicted that Bitcoin and the rest of the crypto market will rally over the course of the coming decade.

In a Dec. 26 X post, Mow said that “2025 was the bear market.” When asked in the comments if the market’s cycle has changed from four years to three years, Mow replied, “decade long bull run incoming.”

Industry Experts Divided On How BTC Will Perform In 2026

Mow is not the only industry expert who has a bullish outlook for BTC. 

Bitcoin analyst PlanC also expressed optimism for the crypto’s price as the year nears its end. 

“If you made it through 2025, you made it through the bear market,” the analyst wrote on X.

Earlier this year in July, Bitwise CIO Matt Hougan said that 2026 will be an “up year” for Bitcoin. Meanwhile, Strategy CEO Phon Le said in an interview earlier this week that Bitcoin’s market fundamentals have remained strong this year even amid the declines in the crypto’s price and sentiment. 

However, not everyone is bullish on BTC. Veteran trader Peter Brandt is among the analysts who are still cautious. Earlier this month, he warned that Bitcoin’s price could plunge to as low as $60K by Q3 2026. Similarly, Fidelity’s director of global macroeconomic research Jurrien Timmer predicted that 2026 could be a “year off” for BTC. 

Bitcoin Briefly Dropped Below $87K

Those predictions come as the largest crypto by market cap, along with the rest of the digital asset market, entered a downtrend in the final months of 2025. 

On the yearly time frame, BTC is down more than 9%, data from CoinMarketCap shows. The crypto market leader had gone on to set a new all-time high (ATH) of $126,198.07 on Oct. 6, but has since experienced a more than 30% correction. 

BTC price (Source: CoinMarketCap)

In the past 24 hours, Bitcoin’s price dropped to as low as $86,628,14. However, it has recovered slightly to trade at $87,392.43 as of 12:33 a.m. EST. Despite this recovery, BTC is still over 1% in the red on the 24-hour time frame. 

BTC Starting To Consolidate

Bitcoin’s price started 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 oscillated between $83,260 and $94,611 over the last month. 

Technical indicators such as the Moving Average Convergence Divergence (MACD), the Relative Strength Index (RSI), and short-term Exponential Moving Averages (EMAs) suggest that BTC’s price could go either way in the coming few days.

Renowned trader and analyst Michael van de Poppe told his more than 816K X followers that BTC could be poised for a “strong start” to 2026. 

In an X post yesterday, he highlighted the 20-monthly Moving Average (MA) and said that he will be watching to see if BTC’s price can stay above this technical indicator. 

“If the monthly closes above it (and even better; above $90K), I think we’re in for a strong start of 2026 with a run to $105-110K,” he said. 

That’s before he predicted in the past 24 hours that gold investors will soon lock in their profits and rotate them into “symmetrical assets” such as Bitcoin.