First, most institutional investors are de facto evaluated over one- to two-year horizons because of how liquid fund investment committees operate. Second, new net liquidity into Bitcoin will be dominated by ETF channels, making them the main footprint to watch. Third, the selling behavior of legacy \u201cOG whales\u201d remains the largest supply variable, but is treated as exogenous to his ETF-centric analysis.<\/p>\n
Within this lens, two concepts matter most: common-holder risk and calendar-year P&L. Park notes that when \u201ceveryone owns the same thing,\u201d flows can amplify both rallies and drawdowns. But he focuses on something easier to observe: the way annual performance crystallizes on December 31. For hedge funds in particular, \u201cwhen volatility increases towards the end of the year\u201d and there isn\u2019t enough P&L \u201cbaked in,\u201d managers become more willing to sell their riskiest positions. The choice, he writes, is often \u201cthe difference between getting another shot to play in 2026, or getting fired.\u201d<\/p>\n
Park leans on Ahoniemi and Jylh\u00e4\u2019s 2011 paper Flows, Price Pressure, and Hedge Fund Returns, highlighting its finding that a large share of hedge-fund \u201calpha\u201d is flow-driven and that return\u2013reversal cycles stretch \u201calmost two years.\u201d This, he says, offers a blueprint for how liquidity and performance feedbacks could structure Bitcoin\u2019s ETF era.<\/p>\n
He then sketches how a CIO might sell Bitcoin internally: as an asset expected to deliver something like a 25\u201330 percent compound annual return. On that basis, a position must generate roughly 50 percent over two years to justify its risk and fee drag. Park references Michael Saylor\u2019s \u201c30% CAGR for the next 20 years\u201d as a rough institutional hurdle.<\/p>\n
From there he builds a three-cohort thought experiment. Investors who bought via ETFs from inception through year-end 2024 are up around 100 percent in a single year, effectively having \u201cpulled forward 2.6 years of performance.\u201d<\/p>\n
A second cohort that entered on 1 January 2025 is roughly 7 percent underwater, now needing \u201c80%+ over the next year, or 50% over the next two years\u201d to hit the same hurdle. A third group, holding from inception through the end of 2025, is up about 85 percent over two years\u2014only slightly ahead of its 30 percent CAGR target. For that group, Park says, the live question becomes: \u201cDo I sell and lock it now, or do I let it run longer?\u201d<\/p>\n
ETF flow data sharpen the picture. Park highlights that Bitcoin now trades near \u201can increasingly important price, $84k,\u201d which he characterizes as roughly the aggregate cost basis of ETF flows to date. While 2024 inflows carry substantial embedded gains, \u201calmost none of the ETF flows in 2025 are in the green,\u201d with March as a partial exception.<\/p>\n
October 2024, the largest inflow month, saw Bitcoin around $70,000; November 2024 closed near $96,000. On a 30 percent hurdle, Park estimates one-year targets of roughly $91,000 and $125,000 dollars for those vintages. June 2025 inflows near $107,000 imply a $140,000 target by June 2026.<\/p>\n
He argues that Bitcoin ETF AUM is now at an \u201cinflection point,\u201d where a 10 percent price drop would drag total AUM back to roughly its level at the start of the year. That would leave the ETF complex with little to show, in dollar P&L, for 2025 despite taking on meaningful risk and inflows.<\/p>\n
The key takeaway, Park writes, is that investors must track not only the average ETF cost basis, but also \u201cthe moving average of that P&L by vintage.\u201d Those rolling profit profiles will, in his view, become the main \u201cliquidity pressures and circuit breakers\u201d for Bitcoin, eclipsing the old four-year halving template.<\/p>\n
His second conclusion cuts against retail intuition: \u201cIf Bitcoin price doesn\u2019t move, but time moves forward, this is ultimately bad for Bitcoin in the institutional era.\u201d In a fee-and-benchmark world, flat is not neutral; it is underperformance versus the 30 percent ROI that justified the allocation. That alone can trigger selling.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn summary,\u201d Park concludes, \u201cthe 4-year cycle is definitely over.\u201d Bitcoin will still be driven by marginal demand, marginal supply and profit-taking. But \u201cthe buyers have changed,\u201d and with halving-driven supply shocks less decisive, it is the more \u201cpredictable\u201d incentives of ETF managers\u2014expressed over roughly two-year windows\u2014that may now define Bitcoin\u2019s market cycle.<\/p>\n
At press time, Bitcoin traded at $87,559.<\/p>\n
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