Crypto Analyst Willy Woo: Next Bitcoin Bull Run Could Start in One Month

On Saturday (June 27), prominent crypto analyst, entrepreneur, and investor Willy Woo said that according to his latest Bitcoin pricing model, Bitcoin’s next bull run could start as soon as a month from now.

As exciting as this sounds, before examining Woo’s comments, it might be a good idea to explain what “black swan” and “white swan” events are.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb is a Lebanese-American essayist, scholar, mathematical statistician, and former quantitative trader. He is widely recognized as one of the world’s top experts on probability and uncertainty.

Publishing company Penguin Random House describes Taleb’s landmark five-book series Incerto (Fooled by Randomness, The Black Swan, The Bed of Procrustes, Antifragile, Skin in the Game), which as been translated to forty-one languages, “an investigation of opacity, luck, uncertainty, probability, human error, risk, and decision-making in a world we don’t understand.”

His publisher goes on to say that Taleb “spends most of his time as a flâneur, meditating in cafés across the planet,” even though since 2008 he has been serving as a Distinguished Professor of Risk Engineering at New York University’s Tandon School of Engineering.

In his 2007 book The Black Swan, Taleb wrote that a “Black Swan” event is an event that has the following three attributes:

“First, it is an outlier, as it lies outside the realm of regular expectations, because nothing in the past can convincingly point to its possibility.

“Second, it carries an extreme ‘impact’.

“Third, in spite of its outlier status, human nature makes us concoct explanations for its occurrence after the fact, making it explainable and predictable.

“I stop and summarize the triplet: rarity, extreme ‘impact’, and retrospective (though not prospective) predictability.

“A small number of Black Swans explains almost everything in our world, from the success of ideas and religions, to the dynamics of historical events, to elements of our own personal lives.”

According to an article in The New Yorker by Bernard Avishai published April 21, Taleb told Bloomberg Television on March 31 that he gets “irritated” whenever he sees/hears the COVID-19 pandemic referred to as a “black swan” event. 

Taleb told Avishai that this term was not designed to provide “a cliché for any bad thing that surprises us.” 

In an academic paper called “Systemic Risk of Pandemic via Novel Pathogens – Coronavirus: A Note”, which was published on January 26 (when COVID-19 was an endemic confined mainly to China’s Wuhan province), Taleb and two co-authors (Joseph Norman and Yaneer Bar-Yam) warned that due to “increased connectivity,” the spread of this coronavirus would be “nonlinear.” 

In his interview with Bloomberg Televisioin, Taleb said that had governments spent penniesback in January, they could have avoided spending trillions.

On March 26, in a Medium post titled “Corporate Socialism: The Government is Bailing Out Investors & Managers Not You” (co-authored with Mark Spitznagel), Taleb said that he did not consider COVID-19 to be a “Black Swan”:

“… some people claim that the pandemic is a ‘Black Swan’, hence something unexpected so not planning for it is excusable. The book they commonly cite is The Black Swan (by one of us). 

“Had they read that book, they would have known that such a global pandemic is explicitly presented there as a white swan: something that would eventually take place with great certainty. 

“Such acute pandemic is unavoidable, the result of the structure of the modern world; and its economic consequences would be compounded because of the increased connectivity and overoptimization.

“As a matter of fact, the government of Singapore, whom we advised in the past, was prepared for such an eventuality with a precise plan since as early as 2010.”

After that long preamble, it is time to take a look at the comments Woo made on Twitter yesterday about his latest Bitcoin pricing model, starting with the first tweet in the thread:

This is a new model I’m working on, it picks the start of exponential bull runs.

1) Bitcoin was setting up for a bullish run until the COVID white swan killed the party.

2) This model suggests we are close to another bullish run. Maybe another month to go. pic.twitter.com/wmoEdMVywF

— Willy Woo (@woonomic) June 27, 2020

Woo then used the chart seen in the following tweet to illustrate that COVID-19 was a “model breaking outlier”:

Another way to use of the model here.

Very clearly shows how COVID was a model breaking outlier. pic.twitter.com/oOK4kUymOm

— Willy Woo (@woonomic) June 27, 2020

However, it’s not all bad news since Woo says that the longer it takes us to get to Bitcoin’s next bull run, the higher the peak price will be:

The longer this bull market takes to wind up, the higher the peak price (Top Cap model). A long sideways accumulation band is ultimately a good thing. pic.twitter.com/mZV2Sx2t8T

— Willy Woo (@woonomic) June 27, 2020

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