After Bitcoin bulls reclaimed the $7,400 level earlier, the flagship currency is holding in the $7,500 area. A crypto analyst says that these are ‘standard crypto games’ – Bitcoin is likely to surge into the $8,000 area before plunging again.

Bulls, get ready to rock - $8,200 on the horizon

At press-time, Bitcoin is swapping hands at $7,544. For a long while prior to that the price was trading flat in the $7,200-$7,300 area.

However, on Friday, the Bitcoin price managed to recover to the $7,500 level.

The analyst @CryptoMichNL reckons that Bitcoin is following a standard pattern of the volatile crypto market and is going to please the bulls before giving them a nasty surprise of a bearish reversal.

I would not be surprised if we hit $8,000-$8,200, before we come back to $6,500-6,800 for bottom confirmation.

Just to make everyone bullish at the first and bearish at the second.

Standard crypto games. $BTC

— Crypto Michaël (@CryptoMichNL) December 6, 2019

‘Bitcoin halving is the main catalyst’

The next Bitcoin halving programmed by Satoshi Nakamoto, the Great and Terrible, is to happen in May 2020. Many in the community believe it to accelerate the Bitcoin price surge since miners have not priced it in.

Halving is the main catalyst for the #Bitcoin growth. pic.twitter.com/9frnjGxcZG

— Crypto Einstein (@BitcoinEinstein) December 6, 2019

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Doubts about the BTC halving impact

However, a co-founder of the Morgan Creek Digital Jason Williams, the less Twitter-active than his colleague Anthony Pompliano, reckons that the Bitcoin price is likely to dip after the halving. The thing is that miners are going to get twice as fewer BTC for each new block than now and many of them are going to have to sell their BTC to pay the bills.

Besides, chances are high that small mining pools will quit since mining will stop giving them enough profit.