Only next 6 months? That is not enough to give a satisfactory answer, because Bitcoin will always be trusted by the community of this forum throughout its life. I guarantee they will agree that Bitcoin since it became the attention of the investment world involving many large institutions, nothing has changed our stance to continue holding Bitcoin.

We continue to hold bitcoin for long because we believe in it. There will be institutions buying and selling but we mostly buy and store it.

The long term outlook of bitcoin is good because of its inherent properties like censorship-resistance and decentralization. But most people find the use in storing for the long term value, there is nothing bad in it because someone needs to raise the fiat price of bitcoin.

Keep buying bitcoin and dont forget to sell it in times of need only. Avoid altcoins and you should be good.

I am not going to build my trust in Bitcoin based on price movement alone, especially price increases. There are so many reasons why I should continue to trust Bitcoin, even if the price dips for the next six months of 2025.

Over the years, Bitcoin has proven that it always recovers whenever there are dips, which, of course, usually last for a short time. Despite this, we can see that the price keeps increasing, despite the volatility. I don't just trust Bitcoin, I am very confident in it.

Aside from this, the increased adoption and growing trust in the minds of people all over the world is a great reason. Bitcoin is doing perfectly well, and we already know this.

It’s really amazing to witness that the first half of Bitcoin is very positive in the crypto market. It really shows its true potential globally and that’s why until now it dominates the crypto market. Also, in the past few months, it recover fast even there are major problems happening in the world. Different countries and firms are into Bitcoin even there’s a war happening, they’re taking advantage of that opportunity.

People are trusting bitcoin more and this is really a good thing, i’m looking forward for the next months.

You don't need to see dominance like this to be in Bitcoin and Bitcoin dominance does not always come together with high price of Bitcoin, it depends on performances of thousand of altcoins too. It's true that in this cycle generally and recent months particularly altcoins are very underperformed and they contributed to very high dominance of Bitcoin.

Bear market is very good time for people to take advantage of Bitcoin low price but if they missed the latest bear market, they will have next bear markets to do so. In addition, they can accumulate Bitcoin in dips during a bull market and it's how investors apply DCA strategy into their investment practice.

Bitcoin is the pioneer that led the foundation of cryptocurrency market. All cryptocurrencies in circulation today are inspired by Bitcoin, so it's natural that Bitcoin will dominate the crypto market and rest of cryptocurrencies will follow it. No Alt till date is able to beat Bitcoin in terms of market cap and since the launch of Bitcoin ETF it look difficult that any cryptocurrency will surpass Bitcoin. These days investors are mostly inclined towards Bitcoin and paying not much attention to available Alts.   

I feel like it's the end of cycles as we knew them. People thought it's going to be a 4 year cycle forever where there's 2 years of bear market, 1 year of flatlining and 1 year of bull followed by an altcoin cycle. Bad news for you

IMO bitcoin will continue to dominate until something goes wrong because mining is affecting the price less and less and the longer we stay in this slow moving bull market the less chance of a 50% correction happening ever again. 80% corrections are over for sure. The next time we see one it's going to be either world war or pandemic, or something similar, affecting all markets.

Somewhat agree. In reality the past cyclic bear markets only lasted for more or less 1 year down to the bottom, even when the first bull market year (e.g. late 2022-late 2023) often felt "bearish" too and people still were afraid of a larger drop.

I can also relate to your hope of ~80% bears now being a thing of the past, but I'm still not 100% sure. I still expect a 50-60% drop this time, at least once in the cycle (compared to the previous ATH, of course).

Regarding the second half of 2025, I have previously thought it would be more bearish than bullish. But I'm reconsidering my stance.

What I expected originally was an overheating bull market in March/April/May, at least to 120-130k, and then a drop. But that didn't happen. While these months were bullish, the volatility was low. The "trigger" of the past bear markets was normally a completely overheated market phase with 30%+ or even 50%+ price growth in a single month, which led to massive profit taking.

But now, we're for some time close to ATH territory, but without any overheating. So I guess many "cyclic" investors are still not planning their exit. Some even continue buying. Expectations about an uber-bullish Q4 could also hold back the bear market. And thus it could be possible that we see some bullish months more, even a November/December rally cannot be ruled out.

Regarding altcoins, I guess they have some potential to recover the harsh losses of the last 6 months. Above all if Bitcoin stays on its current low volatility, some people will try to gamble a bit. So I'd expect a stable or slightly declining Bitcoin dominance, but not a strong "altseason" like in 2018 or 2021. These times, I think, are more or less over.

Of course, who wouldn't trust bitcoin in the next 6 months when we have already witness progressive growth in the past 6 months. Since January till June, the price has been impressive despite the tariff wars that cause panic in the market but after then it has remained above $100k which shows that the market has sustainability which was why it didn't experience any severe DIP. Investors have now understood the manipulations in the market is just to cause FUD, they are now holding their bitcoins tight and do not care about any negative news and most people are withdrawing their bitcoins from centralized exchanges and transferring it to non-custodial wallets to enhance its security.