Seeking a Sword from a Carving on a Boat - Beginning: Current 2025-2026 Bear Market: From the ATH on October 6, 2025, down more than 50%, 163 days have passed (as of March 18), far shorter than the historical average of 12 months. Price has retreated from $126k to $73k, but no long-term bottom signals have emerged yet. Since 2018, the time span from each bull market peak to the next time BTC returns to the previous peak is 1086 days: 2018 to 2021 reached previous peak - 1086 days; 2021 to 2024 reached previous peak - 1086 days. The 2019 bear market, although it didn't break the 2013 bull top, spent considerable time at the bottom. The 2022 bear market, after breaking the previous peak, took 262 days to finally exit. Yet this time, only 42 days have passed since touching the previous peak. Seeking a Sword from a Carving on a Boat - End.