Bitcoin’s biggest percentage moves are in the rear-view mirror… or are they?

There’s a simple law in markets: the larger an asset’s market cap, the harder it is to move the price dramatically.

That’s why BTC’s wildest rides happened when it was tiny:

• Nov 2013 → +454 % in one month ($200 → $1,127)

• Oct 25, 2019 → +42 % in a single day ($7.4k → $10.5k)

• Apr 2013 → +309 % in 17 days ($90 → $266)

• Dec 2017 → +90 % in two weeks on pure ICO mania

These weren’t “normal.” They were phase-change moments when perception flipped overnight and users/investors suddenly decided “this thing is real.”

And here’s the exciting part: the conditions for another phase-change moonshot still exist.

Imagine one single catalyst that instantly makes Bitcoin undeniably useful or undeniably necessary for hundreds of millions of people at once:

• A major sovereign state announces BTC as legal tender AND starts buying aggressively

• The U.S. (or EU) green-lights spot ETFs with forced pension/401(k) inclusion

• A global banking crisis forces millions of unbanked into BTC overnight

• A trusted tech giant (Apple, Amazon, Meta) integrates Lightning/BTC payments at scale

Any one of those events could trigger the same psychological chain reaction we saw in 2013 and 2017:

FOMO → media frenzy → retail avalanche → price discovery on steroids.

Yes, the market cap is $2 T now instead of $2 B. But adoption curves aren’t linear; they’re sigmoidal.

The biggest gains in Bitcoin history didn’t come from slow grinding growth.

They came from the moment the world woke up and sprinted toward it all at once.

We’ve seen that movie before.

We might be about to see the sequel.

Edited to remove an inaccuracy