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Brian Armstrong Asks if Bitcoin Bottom Is In, Crypto Community Can’t Agree
Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong sparked debate over Bitcoin’s direction on July 14 after asking X users whether the OG cryptocurrency has already reached its market bottom.
The poll quickly drew thousands of votes and a wave of comments, with the community split almost evenly between the yays and the nays.
It all started with a simple question Armstrong <a href="https://x.com/brian_armstrong/status/2076857638059720736?s=20" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">posited</a> on X earlier today: “Is the bottom in?” The Coinbase chief also clarified in a follow-up post that the survey was specifically about Bitcoin.
“Perpetual futures trading, stablecoin payments, prediction markets, and tokenized real world assets have just been growing,” he said.
At the time of writing, nearly 31,000 people had cast their vote, and more than 648,000 X users had viewed the post, with 55.6% of those who voted answering “No,” while 44.4% believed BTC had already bottomed.
The replies were also split along the same lines as the vote, with one user, AI developer Ilan Rakhmanov, in total agreement, tweeting, “Opinion: the bottom is in.”
Meanwhile, ChainLeak founder Joshuwa Roomsberg <a href="https://x.com/Joshuwa/status/2076866968569741598?s=20" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">argued</a> that the poll had become a “market map” and that Armstrong’s comments pointed to a sector where crypto adoption is expanding beyond BTC itself.
Some of those <span>who didn’t agree that the bottom was in included market watcher Our Crypto Talk, who <a href="https://x.com/ourcryptotalk/status/2076858134300430444?s=20" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">said</a> there was a “very high chance” BTC would go</span> back to the $50,000 to $55,000 range one more time before any real recovery happens.
Others, like crypto educator Rob Art, focused squarely on percentages, <a href="https://x.com/SirRobArtII1/status/2076906514036515046?s=20" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">saying</a> that in past bottoms, the price of BTC dropped by 93%, 84%, and 77%, while right now it is just over 50% below its October 2025 all-time high and would need to be at roughly 65% to follow the pattern that he pointed out has been in effect since 2014.
While opinions remained divided, recent on-chain analysis points to a market that looks very different from the overheated conditions seen during the 2025 bull run.
A July 14 report from XWIN Japan <a href="https://cryptoquant.com/insights/quicktake/6a553c213eb04801bdf182f8-How-to-Read-the-Summer-Market-Part-1-Four-Essential-On-Chain-Indicators-That-Rev" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">highlighted</a> four widely followed CryptoQuant indicators: the MVRV Ratio, Net Unrealized Profit/Loss (NUPL), Realized Price, and the Puell Multiple.
According to the update, these metrics suggest Bitcoin is no longer in a euphoric phase, with valuations cooling and investor optimism fading without reaching outright capitulation. It also showed that market activity appears more consistent with c