Reading your post, I think of you likely care more about what's next for altcoins, but not what's next for Bitcoin.

Like you want to know what will happen next for Bitcoin because it will result in what will happen next for altcoins that you are really care about.

Do you care more about altcoins than about Bitcoin?
Believe me, holding and trading Bitcoin is safer a lot than holding and trading altcoins.

I understand that BTC sets the pace for altcoins, and whatever it does is usually replicated by this altcoins. That said I don't have a specific altcoin that I care about at the moment, I just hold a general view for altcoins.

I can't afford to buy a lot of BTC, my only option is to hold what I have now, and commit funds to other cheaper alts.

I made the decision to HODL a long time, and I'm not changing that now, Ideally I'd like to buy more, but I can't at the moment.

You kidding right? because we can't put any timeline, and just like that, Bitcoin goes down from $95k to $92k currently, so it's just temporary but obviously there are a lot of short term traders or speculators who might have taken advantage of the situation and squeeze some profits.

And it just shows how volatile the market will and will be in the future. So we don't know, at least we should be in the bullish trend still for this year but there could be a lot of humps along the way that it's really hard to see what will be all time high for this cycle.

Or the bottom can define what will be the top price for this bull run cycle, and with $79k, it might be 2x, so it's possible to look at the last all time high could be around $158k give or take. And it could be the just the minimum as it's possible that it could move as high as $180k as that's where most of the predictions.

Of course it can still go as high as we don't have the crystal ball and see the future.

But at least, just be conservative and not expect very high price so that we won't be discourage or something. Just like in the last bull run wherein there is that 6 digits that we all wanted to see but it turns out that the all time high is $69k in 2021.

You probably asked yourself the same question when Bitcoin was dumping, and honestly, the answer is we don’t know. No one expected Trump to suddenly announce crypto as part of the U.S. reserve. There were speculations before, but no one saw it happening this soon.

So, just like before, if we trusted the market when it was dumping, then we should trust it even more when it’s pumping. Maybe it’s best to keep holding, or if you’re thinking of investing, it’s still a good time, because we might just be on our way to a new ATH.

Viewing the market and Bitcoin price in yearly chart is better than doing this with shorter timeframe charts like daily, hourly.
https://charts.bitbo.io/yearly-candles/

It gives us overview on market cycle, years of bear and years of bull as well as how price acted in past cycles from ATHs and from bottoms.
https://www.bitcoincyclescomparison.com/

Over the past week, Bitcoin has been highly sensitive to news, which is why we’ve seen such fluctuations in price. I think the more the U.S. talks about it, the less sensitive it will become to these statements. HODLing still seems to be the most promising approach 

You missed later report and forensic analysis that mistakes and security faults are from Safe, the multisig wallet provider, not from Bybit.

It is truly big bad news but Bybit resolved that situation well and there was no bankrun that could kill Bybit like FTX years ago. It's positive news after all and yesterday Donald J. Trump announced his national strategic cryptocurrency reserve for the USA. Surprising enough that Bitcoin is not mentioned but Bitcoin managed to soar about 10% yesterday and nearly reclaim what it lost after Bybit hack last week.

I believe Donald Trump will add Bitcoin to this reserve later, and I also believe that Bitcoin will repeat its history and cycle pattern. This year will be a bullish year for Bitcoin and it will make a new ATH in this year but how high the absolute ATH for Bitcoin in this market cycle, this year 2025, I can not say.

Bitcoin has +2% rally at 18:49 and people already ask how long it lasts and what is next at 18:50.  Wake up people, be real.

It is going through a phase it has never been in before.  Bitcoin is entering the Reserve of The United States.  This is history and the market may make new history too.  So no, none of us 'knows' what is next or how long this lasts.  We can only pretend we know, or we can try to predict.  Nothing more.

We can not expect how long the bullish trend to last because no clear sign about that. We can only guess and hope that we are right. If we lose our chance, that will not easy to get back and make a profit so we need to be careful to decide.

Bitcoin will get the bull run and so do altcoin will get the altcoin season. You only need to wait and see and prepare your coins so you will get the opportunity to make a big profit. We may difficult to imagine what coin that will explode this year because the number of the coins in the market is too big. Perhaps the position in the market will change and fills for the new coins so you need to watch out of that.