A 4chan post from December 2023 called the exact date of Bitcoin's last all-time high — and the same numerological pattern now points to October 5, 2026, the bottom of the crypto market cycle. On that day, Bitcoin is trading near $86,000, roughly 32% below its peak of $126,198.07, set on October 6, 2025.
The prediction dates back to December 12, 2023, when a 4chan user posting under the ID SBC7H7La shared a screenshot outlining a striking pattern and made a bold call: Bitcoin's next market top would land on October 6, 2025. The logic was pure numerology. Previous cycles had taken 1,064 days to travel from market lows to highs, and 364 days from highs back down to lows — a sequence that had already repeated twice in a row. The anonymous poster expressed confidence that the “simulation” would run again.

It did. Despite understandable skepticism, Bitcoin touched $126,198.07 on October 6, 2025, hitting an all-time high on precisely the date identified nearly two years earlier.

What followed was a prolonged drawdown. By late June 2026, Bitcoin had fallen 52% below its peak. Crypto asset manager 21Shares noted at the time that the decline was still milder than the 80%-plus bear markets of past cycles.

Now the second half of the prophecy comes due: adding 364 days to October 6, 2025, lands on October 5, 2026 — today. By the 4chan arithmetic, this is the bottom — the turning point that, if it holds, would mark the end of the “crypto winter” that followed last October's all-time high. Numerology, of course, guarantees nothing, but the coincidence has already been right once.

Bitcoin was changing hands around $86,100 on Monday morning, up about 2% on the day and nearly 30% below its all-time high, with market watchers highlighting a notably bullish technical setup forming exactly today. The move followed a U.S. jobs report showing the economy added just 29,000 jobs in September, well short of the 90,000 economists had expected. Soft hiring data would normally sound like bad news, but for traders and investors the math points to the Federal Reserve likely keeping interest rates where they are rather than hiking them again — and the absence of higher rates is exactly what buyers of risk assets like Bitcoin tend to welcome.

That said, Bitcoin already bottomed in July at around $57,000, which means the asset currently sits about 50% above that low.

Not everyone is convinced the bottom is in. Benjamin Cowen, a well-known fundamental analyst who says the accumulation phase began on July 1, still sees a window for another leg down, flagging a possible fourth-quarter floor near $44,000. The technical setup, meanwhile, appears a bit more optimistic.

None of it is quite as striking as a random 4chan numerology call coming true to the day — and whether the prophecy's second half holds is something only the market can decide. With the projected bottom date now at hand, the July low near $57,000, Cowen's possible fourth-quarter floor near $44,000 and the bullish technical setup flagged by market watchers give observers a clear scorecard for the days and weeks ahead.

Disclaimer: The views and opinions expressed are for informational purposes only and do not constitute financial, investment, or other advice. Originally reported by Decrypt.