Bitcoin (BTC) is facing a "double bubble" and will see two price tops this year, fresh data suggests.

In a tweet on Wednesday, Charles Edwards, CEO of investment house Capriole, highlighted 2022 equally having one key similarity to the 2022 double summit balderdash cycle.

Bitcoin gears up for second peak

Bitcoin has divided opinions over whether its 2022 bull run is more like 2022 or 2022 — the other 2 years that immediately followed block subsidy halving events.

If to await at one metric, unrealized profit and loss (Upwards&Fifty), the answer may exist simple. According to Edwards, only 2022 has produced similar results for coin profitability.

"New prove for a Bitcoin double bubble," he summarized.

"In prior bike tops, bounces were never able to concord unrealized profit and loss above 0.5. Merely the 2022 double bubble and today have achieved this."
Bitcoin unrealized profit and loss annotated nautical chart. Source: Charles Edwards/Twitter

Such a perspective further accommodates the popular stock-to-flow price model, which demands an average BTC/USD reading of $100,000 or more this yr. Its creator, PlanB, previously gave an terminate-of-year minimum of $135,000 as a "worst-instance scenario" for Bitcoin.

Double bubble?

The findings are not the only ones arriving at the "double bubble" determination.

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Dedicated monitoring tool the Bitcoin Bubble Index likewise depicts a 2-phase price peak this year.

For context, the Bubble Alphabetize hit its all-time high of 119 on April 14, the time that BTC/USD reached its electric current best high of $64,500. Currently, it measures 110, almost the same as the top, with Bitcoin sitting at $44,500.

Bitcoin Bubble Index vs. BTC/USD chart. Source: Bybt

In May, as Bitcoin was on its way to local lows of $29,000, information from on-chain analytics business firm Glassnode likewise pointed to this year mimicking 2022.