In December 2023, I Published the Dates Bitcoin Would Turn. Then I Paid Two Strangers to Prove Me Wrong.

Bitcoin was in the forties when a CPA put four dated calls in public, where they couldn’t be unsaid. Here’s what the market did with them, what he still got wrong, and the audit he ran on himself before asking you to read a word of this book.

Friends,

In December 2023 I did something my profession would call reckless.

Bitcoin was trading in the forties. The previous top was two years gone, the industry was busy declaring the four-year cycle a relic — and I sat down and published four dated calls, in public, on LinkedIn, under my own name. Not vague seasons. Dates. “Tuesday February 6, 2024 – Remember this date…” That was the first headline — ten weeks before anyone could check it, with the furthest date almost two years out.

You can still read every one of them. That matters more than what happened next.

What happened next: February 6, 2024 marked the temporary-top window — the top printed March 13, and the sideways stretch I called ran its six to eight months. October 8, 2024 — “the BIG date” — opened the strongest advance of the cycle. June 10, 2025: I’d flagged a major sell-off near the date; a 32% drop landed, inverted, into an April low. And my October 2025 selling window? Bitcoin topped at about $125,000 on October 6, 2025 — inside the window I’d named almost two years earlier, in the same season the industry was explaining why cycles no longer existed.

If the story stopped there, this would be every other crypto page you’ve ever closed.

So here’s the rest of it. In February 2026 I published a price call — a new high above $100,000 within four to six weeks — and watched it die in public. On March 31 I published the concession under my own name: I was wrong on the timing of the acceleration upward. The bottom call I’d attached to February 10 is graded a miss on my scorecard, in my own handwriting. The dated windows from December 2023 kept landing; the price targets I attached to them kept missing. Time has been my edge. Price has been my humility.

A record like that is either a system or a coincidence — and I’m a CPA, so I don’t get to grade that one in my own favor.

So before this book existed, I ran the audit I’d demand from any client. I hired two independent analysts — one working a century-old price-geometry discipline, the other a pure time-cycle method — handed them raw charts, told them nothing about my counts or my dates, and gave them one instruction: attack this thesis. Working blind, they came back with my dates. One of them projected the 2026 crash low at 12.3 on the chart I use to measure Bitcoin against gold; the actual low printed 12.5. And where the stress test disagreed with me, I changed my plan — an audit that can’t change your mind isn’t an audit.

That file — the misses, the blind test, the published numbers that would prove the whole framework wrong — became this book.

The record, with the misses left in

Most financial writers show you their hits. Here are the December 2023 calls and what happened — plus the two 2026 misses and the 2016 gold call — dated, published in advance, and linked to the original articles so you can check every word.

Published	The call	What happened	Verdict
Dec 1, 2023	Temporary top into/after Feb 6, 2024, then 6–8 months sideways	Top on March 13, 2024; sideways 6–8 months	Partial — the window and the sideways landed; the scripted bottom didn’t
Dec 18, 2023	Oct 8, 2024 — “the BIG date” to be positioned by	Brief dip, then the rally to new all-time highs	Hit
Sept 25, 2024 (drafted Dec 2023)	Significant sell-off — possibly 40% — around June 10, 2025	32% drop into an April 7, 2025 low	Partial — window right; sequence inverted
Sept 25, 2024 (drafted Dec 2023)	“As we get into October of 2025, you must be prepared to start selling”	Top around $125,000 on October 6, 2025, then roughly −50%	Hit — and I didn’t follow my own call. I held.
Feb 3, 2026	Feb 10, 2026 “is not confirming the cycle is over. It’s marking a bottom.”	The February low zone held for nearly four months — through the outbreak of a war — before being marginally undercut in June	Miss — date registered as important but no V-bottom
Feb 11–12, 2026	Strong confirmation “with a new high above $100,000 within four to six weeks… $120,000 to $150,000 by June”	Bitcoin never traded above $82,035 in the sixteen weeks after the call; June printed roughly half the target. On March 31 I wrote: “I was wrong on the timing of the acceleration upward.”	Miss — conceded in writing
2016 (Book 1)	Gold “above $5,000 an ounce in approximately 3–7 years” — written with gold around $1,100	Gold crossed $5,000 on Jan 26, 2026; peaked near $5,600. It took about ten years.	Hit on price; miss on the 3–7-year timing rider — a price call, graded on both things it claimed

Read the full scorecard post — the calls above, graded, with links to the originals →

Notice the pattern — and notice it’s two different patterns, not one. On the Bitcoin cycle work, the December 2023 dated windows kept landing while the price targets I attached to them kept missing (the February 2026 bottom call, graded Miss above, is the one dated exception) — time has been my edge; price has been my humility. The gold call was the mirror image: a price thesis that reached its destination years late. Each call above is graded against the axis it actually claimed — a time call on its timing, a price call on its price — because that’s the only honest way to keep a scorecard. This book is about the Bitcoin half of that record: why time in this market has been knowable in a way price is not, and how to use the half that works.

Nobody sold you a calendar. Everybody sold you a price target.

Think about what you were told these past two years.

Through 2025, the loudest institutional voices said the four-year cycle was dead — ETFs changed everything, this time is different. Fidelity Digital Assets published research titled “Is Bitcoin’s Four-Year Cycle Over?” The Bitcoin treasury companies raised billions on an “up only” story and a pledge to never sell.

Then Bitcoin topped in October 2025 — inside the same 12–18-month post-halving window as every prior cycle — and fell roughly in half, right on the historical schedule. The scoreboard since: about $80 billion erased from Bitcoin treasury companies in thirteen months. 43 of the 50 now trade below the price of their first Bitcoin purchase. The sector’s market cap collapsed from roughly $150 billion to $67 billion. And the most famous “never sell” pledge in the industry ended with the company’s first-ever Bitcoin sale. (Sources: The Crypto Times, Aug 27, 2026; CoinDesk, June 27, 2026 — linked in the scorecard post.)

Here’s the part that should actually bother you: the people who told you the cycle was dead paid no price for being wrong. No corrections. No scorecards. The chorus just moved on to the next confident take.

If you held through that top — or bought near it — you didn’t lose because you’re bad at this. You lost because everyone was selling you a destination and nobody was showing you a clock. The cycle top wasn’t unknowable. It was ignored, by people whose business model doesn’t require them to be right.

Where are we in the cycle right now? Here’s how I read it — free

You can learn the core skill of this book in the next two minutes. Not the whole framework — but a real, usable piece of it.

Every Bitcoin cycle since 2011 has moved through the same rough anatomy: accumulation (nobody cares, media says it’s dead), awareness (quiet recovery), mania (your barber asks about it), distribution (early money quietly sells a euphoric top), capitulation (a 50–85% collapse and another round of obituaries). Four completed cycles — 2011, 2013, 2017, 2021 — each with a higher low and a higher high than the last.

Now place today on that map. The top printed in October 2025, about 18 months after the April 2024 halving — inside the same window as 2013, 2017, and 2021. In the year that followed, price fell roughly in half from the $125,000 high — and the whipsaw since has settled nothing: violent rallies, sentiment lurching between fear and greed, every bounce argued over as “the bottom.” The prestige press has published its obituaries — the Financial Times ran its “death knell” piece on February 10, 2026, of all dates. And the three prior post-peak years — 2014, 2018, 2022 — each printed their cycle low in the October–December window.

That’s the read: by historical structure, this is the late capitulation phase — the point in every prior cycle where the crowd was most certain it was over, and where the calendar said the next one was closest to beginning. That is a historical observation, not a promise; history rhymes, it doesn’t repeat, and this cycle has already stretched longer than the last (the book explains exactly why — it’s a debt-refinancing story, not a halving story).

But notice what just happened: you evaluated the market using time and structure instead of a price target. That’s the skill. The book gives you the whole toolkit — and the dated receipts behind it.

What you get in 145 pages

• The sound-money foundation — why Bitcoin’s case is gold’s case with a different clock, in plain English (Chapters 1–3). No jargon walls; you don’t need to be technical.
• The full prediction record, in print — the December 2023 date series, what I wrote, what happened, and what I got wrong (Chapter 5). The same ledger on this page, with the charts.
• Why the four-year cycle stretched to five — the debt-refinancing engine behind every cycle since 2008, the COVID maturity extension, and what the ISM Manufacturing Index has signaled at every prior cycle top (Chapter 6). This chapter is the answer to “the cycle is dead.”
• Where we stand now — and October 2026 (Chapter 7). The next date is in print before the window opens. You get to grade it in real time.
• A CPA’s crypto tax guide — the five things every Bitcoin holder must know before selling a single satoshi, and the traps I’ve watched people walk into (Interlude 2). This section alone can be worth more than the book costs — it’s the one part I’m professionally qualified to say almost nobody else on the crypto shelf can write.
• 10 concrete steps to your first Bitcoin — exchanges, wallets, cold storage, dollar-cost averaging mechanics (Chapter 8), plus the objections chapter to hand to your skeptical spouse, friend, or financial advisor (Chapter 9).
• 20 charts — the Gann date charts, the ISM cycle overlays, the liquidity divergences — every major claim drawn, dated, and sourced.

Read this before you buy

This book is for you if:

• You’re 35–55, you’ve built real savings, and you want to actually understand Bitcoin’s cycle before the next one — not follow another influencer’s conviction.
• You watched 2024–2026 whipsaw people and thought: someone must be able to explain the pattern.
• You’d rather hear “here’s my record, misses included” than “trust me.”

This book is NOT for you if:

• You want a price target. I’ve been wrong on price in public and I document it in Chapter 5. If you want someone certain about price, there’s no shortage of them.
• You want to get rich by Christmas. This is cycle education, not a trading system.
• You already know Ammous, Pal, and the halving math cold and want new frontier theory. This book teaches a method and shows its scorecard — and it’s deliberately written in plain English from first principles, so if you already live in the deep end, the early chapters will read as review.

If you’re in the second group, genuinely — save the $4.99.

The CPA who audits his own calls

I’m Chad Walker — Certified Public Accountant and MBA. I don’t manage money, sell a course, or take commissions from any exchange. I went from $200,000 in debt to financial security by ignoring mainstream advice and studying what actually moves markets, and I’ve published my analysis publicly since 2016 — the gold call in my first book (written with gold around $1,100; gold crossed $5,000 in January 2026), the December 2023 Bitcoin date series, with the misses left on the record. My profession audits claims for a living. I just point the audit at myself.

Objections, answered straight

“Another crypto book?” Look at the bestseller list: fraud exposés at the top, “never sell” advocacy underneath. Not one teaches cycle timing — the actual question of 2026. And none of them publish a scorecard. This one is built on a public, dated record with the misses left in.

“A CPA writing about Bitcoin?” Reading cycles and balance sheets is literally the profession. When the top books in the category are about cooked books and collapsed exchanges, an auditor’s habits — verify, date, source, disclose — are not a quirk. They’re the point.

“You got the price call wrong.” Yes. Publicly, in writing, more than once — it’s in Chapter 5 and in the scorecard post. That miss is why this book teaches cycle position instead of price targets. I’m asking you to trust the method that worked, not the calls that didn’t.

“Is this financial advice?” No. It’s education. I’m a CPA, not your CPA, and not your investment advisor — that disclosure is on this page, in the book, and on everything I publish. The book teaches you how I read the cycle; what you do with your money is yours.

“I already own Bitcoin. I know this.” Then skip Chapters 1–3 and go straight to 5–7: the dated record, the extended-cycle mechanics, and the October 2026 read. The tax interlude is worth your time regardless — most Bitcoiners are one exchange sale away from learning it the expensive way.

$4.99. Less than the fee your broker charges to tell you nothing.

Accelerate Your Money and Prosper — $4.99 Kindle / $14.99 paperback. 145 pages, 20 charts, the full cycle framework, the audited record, and a CPA’s crypto tax guide. For context: one hour of CPA consultation runs $300 or more, and a single month of a paid crypto newsletter typically costs more than this entire book.

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The next date is already on the calendar

I’ll say this carefully, because pre-registered honesty is the whole brand.

Bitcoin’s three prior post-peak years — 2014, 2018, 2022 — each printed their cycle low in the October–December window. The historically equivalent window for this cycle opens in October 2026 — weeks from now. The next date in my framework is printed in Chapter 7, published before the window, the same way the December 2023 series was published before its dates.

I don’t know what price will do into it — my record on price is in the scorecard post for all to see, and the market may well go lower before it goes higher. But that’s exactly why the timing matters for you as a reader: a cycle framework is most useful when you learn it before the window it describes, not after the market has already graded it. Read the clock before the window. Then watch October with your own eyes and decide if the framework earned your attention.

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To your wealth, health, and personal freedom,

Chad A. Walker, CPA, MBA

P.S. — It’s Saturday morning sometime in late October 2026. You read a headline about Bitcoin — panic or euphoria, doesn’t matter. Here’s what’s different: you place it on a cycle map in about ten seconds, you know which year of the cycle you’re in, and the headline loses its power over you. That’s the entire product — $4.99, with the full chart pack, the Your Freedom Number report, and The 2016 Audit included free with your copy. Get the book on Amazon

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This page is educational, not investment advice. I’m a CPA, not your CPA, and not your investment advisor. Nothing on this page is a recommendation to buy or sell any asset. Cryptocurrency is highly volatile and may result in total loss of principal. All calls referenced are documented history — dated and linked in the scorecard post — not predictions of future performance. Amazon links on this page are plain links, not affiliate links; no associate disclosure applies. Disclosure: I personally own Bitcoin and gold, as documented throughout my books and reports.