Bitcoin’s long-term chart has delivered this another interesting price projection, as crypto analyst Crypto Tice points out a technical roadmap needed for a rally to $500,000. This Bitcoin price prediction is based on a broad ascending channel that has taken the cryptocurrency through previous support tests, midrange rallies, and rejection zones. Notably, the latest structure is now positioned on what the analyst called the second major support measure.
Bitcoin’s Bull Channel Structure
Crypto Tice, a technical analyst on the social media platform analyzed a macro bull channel on Bitcoin’s weekly chart that controls price action over multiple cycles. The structure is a long-term rising parallel channel bounded by a lower rising support trendline and a higher rising resistance trendline.
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The weekly candlestick chart shows Bitcoin reacting to the lower green boundary at the previous low of the cycle, rallying towards the middle of the channel, getting rejected here and then returning to support before starting a stronger rally phase towards the upper part of the channel.
The analyst’s rationale is that Bitcoin has already completed the same sequence that appeared earlier in the channel. The first touch with support has already occurred, the rally to the middle of the channel has already occurred, and the rejection back to the lower part of the structure has also completed.
Based on this reading, Bitcoin sitting around now the second major support touch, the zone where the analysis suggests a much bigger move could begin. The second support touch is the most important part of the setup, as it represents the point at which Bitcoin is expected to prove that the larger channel is still intact.
Bitcoin price chart. Source: @CryptoTice_ On X
The projection to $500,000
Bitcoin’s current position is very important. A defense of the A lower trendline would mean that the leading cryptocurrency is not just bouncing in a weak market, but building a new expansion leg from a long-term channel support trendline.
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The next projection is a bounce from the support trend line and then a rally to the channel resistance line. The next price target in the upper resistance band of the long-term bull channel is at $500,000. This target is plotted the same way Bitcoin recovered from support to the upper resistance band the last time.
It’s worth noting that this is just a technical projection, and one that implies a move of more than six times from the current price level. At the time of writing, Bitcoin is trading at $77,075, having lost the $80,000 price level again. The broader analyst community is divided over Bitcoin path, and the institutional forecasts for 2026 are usually within a range of $143,000 to $189,000.
However, Crypto Tice’s analysis takes more of a long-term perspective and provides a structural context for understanding where Bitcoin is in the long term.
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