Rebuilt Bitcoin valuation model lifts score to 24.3, still above levels seen at prior bear-market bottoms
Jake Pahor said a rebuilt version of his long-running Bitcoin valuation model now places BTC at 24.3 on a 0-to-100 scale, in the bottom 20% of all readings since 2011. The shift did not come from a sharp market move, but from a model redesign that removes distortions caused by Bitcoin’s extreme early-year volatility and instead measures price against a forward-moving fair value range. The revised model, labeled v4.1, was tested against 21 manually marked cycle tops and bottoms and, according to Pahor, improved identification accuracy by about 35% versus the prior version. Even so, the new read leaves a notable gap versus past bear-market lows. He wrote that since 2014, every Bitcoin bear market has ended only after the score spent a meaningful period below 20. In prior examples, the model printed around 7 in 2015, about 15 in December 2018, and 18 at the November 2022 low of $15,742. In the current cycle, the lowest reading so far is 21.5, printed on July 1 when BTC traded at $58,550. Pahor said that means one of two things: either this cycle is structurally shallower, or the kind of washout seen at prior major bottoms has not happened yet. He added that BTC was at $64,085 at the time of writing, up 0.96% on the week, while the score had risen 1.6 points to 24.3.








