What’s Next for Bitcoin – and What You Should Do About It

I've got an unconventional way of spotting the bottom in crypto sell-offs: I know crypto is nearing the bottom when I've gotten four phone calls from people I thought were smart enough not to ask me if it's time to take their money out of crypto.

I always tell them "no," but they always call anyway.

I got the third call not long ago - so one more to go, I guess.

OK - I don't actually base my predictions on jittery friends making panicked late-night phone calls. In reality, I've got a much firmer basis for my hunch that the bottom is close.

Bitcoin's been bouncing around the $20,000 range for the past day or so, which leads me to think that we are in fact near - if not at - the bottom, but as investors, we have to leave open the possibility that at least a little more pain could be on the way.

Let me explain why, and then tell you what I think the best strategy on Bitcoin is right now...

Blasting Out Trash with a Firehose

We've already seen significant deleveraging. The kiddies who thought they'd leverage up 100X and play in the big leagues - they've been knocked out for a while now.

We've already seen most of the bad actors detonate and get blown out - and I'm talking about both bad actors with malign intentions and bad actors that were just arrogant idiots.

I've heard a theory - and I've got no evidence one way the other - that big exchanges like FTX may have intentionally sold Bitcoin over the past few weeks to "nuke" the positions of bad shops like Celsius and Three Arrows Capital (3AC) and sweep the rot out of the market.

If you give a damn about crypto, this theory makes good sense; it would be a smart move. Knock the operators - the Alex Mashinskys and the Do Kwons and their ilk - out of the market, and you've got a much stronger market and a much firmer basis for the next leg higher. Not only that, but markets like this are a breeding ground for crypto innovation - smart people, with good ideas worth that much more.

But is it worth this much volatility just to have a bunch of hucksters and dopes taken out of play? I think so - and this is coming from a guy who's own net worth was oscillating by a couple of million dollars every few days.

That kind of rough ride shouldn't rattle you (much) if you keep your eye on the extreme long-term upside potential here.

So, as I said a minute ago, it's not crazy to expect that there will be a little more selling on the horizon as big players adjust their positions - quite a few of them need to improve their dollar positions after all this, and, well, turning Bitcoin into dollars is the way to do that.

But I don't think we're in for any more major, convulsive selling like we've seen over the past few weeks, which means we're unlikely to see another huge crash in the price of BTC.

Bottom line: if you haven't been buying down here, you should get started. If you have, buy more, and keep our dollar-cost averaging strategy in mind - even if we see a little bit more of a dip here, any small losses you take are going to get swept away in the long run.

But you don't just have to take my word for it. There's a Wall Street insider - famous for being a conservative investor - who's even more bullish on Bitcoin than I am. For a long time, he was a huge crypto skeptic, but now he's saying it's the best investment opportunity to come along in the past 30 years.

Skybridge Capital's Anthony Scaramucci has a bold Bitcoin price prediction that's been making headlines, and you can see it right here, along with his advice on what every American should do right now...

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