Peter Schiff claims Bitcoin has hit a ‘major top,’ but is it too soon?

  • It was too early for Peter Schiff to claim that BTC has reached a ‘big top’.
  • None of the 30 important peak indicators on the market showed overheated signs from June 2025.

Bitcoin [BTC] Shortly dropped to $ 102k on June 12 after Israel had attacked Iran.

In the midst of the fear of potential region-wide escalation, fuss markets, in which BTC expands its weekly losses to 7% together with the US stock market dump.

In the midst of the risk-off sentiment, gold tore higher to $ 3.4K. The divergence, according to old critic, Peter Schiff, meant that BTC reached a ‘big top’. He said

“Priced in gold, Bitcoin is now more than 15% below the peak of November 2021.”

Bitcoin vs. gold

He added that the failure of BTC to stand up against gold for more than three years, despite the support of the government and the craze of the treasury, suggested that the ‘bubble has reached a peak’.

“An important top has been formed because Bitcoin is spread over strong to weak hands. The whales have made up as latecomers who have the bag.”

He had one thing on one thing: BTC was under the peak of 2021 compared to gold at the time of the press.

According to the BTC/Gold ratio, which follows the relative price performance of BTC in the gold, BTC was about 22% away from cleaning up the 2021 peak in gold terms.

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Source: BTC/Gold Ratio, TradingView

In 2021, the BTC/Gold -Ratio led 37. A fake broken on 40 in January led to a dip of 36% to 26. In other words, gold surpassed BTC with 36% in Q1 2025.

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However, it was too early to make a ‘top call’ because the BTC/Gold ratio was still in a multi-year upward trend, as evidenced by the rising channel (white).

Perhaps, if the channel breaks lower, Schiff’s projection could be possible.

A composition of the peak indicators of the market cycle from ETF streams to valuation models such as MVRV Z-score, has not marked a likely peak from the moment of the press.

According to the peak indicators of the Coinglass’ Bull Market, none of the 30 metrics were shown overheated. This suggested that the current levels were a solid 100% ‘hold’ despite the tensions in the middle east.

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Source: Coinglass

In addition, investor Ken Teng, popularly known as Chicken Genius on X, claimed that the US will probably print more money to try to save his debt situation.

This will probably be rally BTC higher, a thesis that is generally known as ‘nothing stops this train’ in Crypto Twitter.

Glass node reflect Teng’s prospects underlines that the dive has not cracked important support in the short term, including the short -term holder (STH) realized the price for $ 97k.

“Despite the recent pullback, BTC remains above the most large cost basis in the short term …Since most holders are still in profit in the short term, the top-heavy risk seems limited. “

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Source: Glassnode

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