Shortly after Bitcoin’s 15th “birthday” in January 2024, the digital asset community crossed a long-awaited turning point — the US Securities and Exchange Commission’s approval of 11 spot bitcoin ETFs. 

To many industry participants, this marked digital assets’ decades-long transformation from a niche curiosity among “cypherpunks” to an alternative asset class garnering serious attention from some of the world’s largest asset managers. 

The community is now bracing for another major milestone in the coming weeks — the fourth Bitcoin halving. Crypto natives know the drill: The previous three halvings have largely followed a distinct pattern of heightened market…

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