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Bitcoin (<a href="https://cointelegraph.com/price-indexes/bitcoin" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">BTC</a>) price metrics are showing relief this month, but the risk of repeating the 2022 bear market remains.
Key points:
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 <li>Bitcoin’s Bull Score Index combined price metric reaches its highest levels since October last year.</li>
 <li>The relief may be short-lived, analysis warns, pointing to the 2022 bear market.</li>
 <li>Crypto sentiment reaches its most bullish since January, per the Crypto Fear &amp; Greed Index.</li>
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<h2 id="bitcoin-bull-score-index-ditches-bearish-zone">Bitcoin Bull Score Index ditches “bearish” zone</h2>
New data from onchain analytics platform <a href="https://cryptoquant.com/community/dashboard/67db8377a2a7203afd398632" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">CryptoQuant</a> places the spotlight on the Bitcoin Bull Score Index (BSI).
Bitcoin has finally entered “neutral” territory with its push to $78,000, the latest BSI data confirms, with the Index climbing to its highest since October 2025.
BSI incorporates nine price metrics to give an overall impression of performance. Since the bear market began, it has been sharply bearish —&nbsp;just as in the early stages of the previous bear market four years ago.
“First time in this bear market that the Bull Score Index enters neutral zone (50),” CryptoQuant contributor Julio Moreno noted in an <a href="https://x.com/jjcmoreno/status/2046706707162644689" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">X post</a> on Wednesday.
<figure><img src="https://s3.cointelegraph.com/uploads/2026-04/019db45b-b4b8-728d-a078-da3982e079df.png" alt="Bitcoin Bull Score hits six-month high as 2022 bear-market fears linger">
 <figcaption>Bitcoin Bull Score Index. Source: CryptoQuant
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 Moreno cautioned that despite the pressure being off for now, BSI also had a brief cooling-off period before the 2022 bear market continued.
“In March 2022, the Bull Score entered neutral territory for about a week, and then the price resumed its decline,” he added.
Should history repeat, attention will be on the Index’s performance into the April monthly close, as BTC/USD attempts to <a href="https://cointelegraph.com/markets/bitcoin-funding-stays-negative-78k-short-squeeze-expectations-grow" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">break out of a multi-month range</a>.
Examining BSI readings last week, with price around $74,000, CryptoQuant contributor Arab Chain described a “balance between supply and demand forces.”
“On the other hand, the current BSI reading shows that the market is still far from the area of strong optimism (above 60), which typically indicates strong bullish conditions, while also remaining above the zone of extreme pessimism (clearly below 40),” they wrote in a <a href="https://cryptoquant.com/insights/quicktake/69df71d5a946e438c680e356-The-Bull-Score-Index-reflects-the-beginning-of-a-recovery-in-Bitcoins-performanc" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">QuickTake</a> blog post.&nbsp;
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 “This places the market in a transitional phase, as investors await new catalysts to determine the next direction.”
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<h2 id="sentiment-edges-to-most-bullish-since-january">Sentiment edges to most bullish since January</h2>
Other signs of a broader market recovery come from crypto trader sentiment.
Related: <a href="https://cointelegraph.com/markets/btc-price-due-new-highs-five-things-bitcoin-this-week" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">BTC price due new highs: Five things to know in Bitcoin this week</a>
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 🚨 UPDATE: Crypto Fear &amp; Greed Index sits at 32 (Fear) today, a notable recovery from Extreme Fear at 23 last week. <a href="https://t.co/lmjfjh0Ui3" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">pic.twitter.com/lmjfjh0Ui3</a>— Cointelegraph (@Cointelegraph) <a href="https://twitter.com/Cointelegraph/status/2046836517629297147?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">April 22, 2026</a>
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According to the <a href="https://alternative.me/crypto/fear-and-greed-index/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">Crypto Fear &amp; Greed Index</a>, a classic lagging indicator that uses a basket of factors to reflect the mood among investors, conditions are at their least negative since mid-January.
Fear &amp; Greed measured 32/100 on Wednesday —&nbsp;still within its “fear” zone while like BSI also approaching the “neutral” bracket.
The Index value has nearly tripled in a little over a week.
<figure><img src="https://s3.cointelegraph.com/uploads/2026-04/019db45d-06f3-769e-80c5-9221a29bfe5f.png" alt="Bitcoin Bull Score hits six-month high as 2022 bear-market fears linger">
 <figcaption>Crypto Fear &amp; Greed Index (screenshot). Source: Alternative.me
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Bitcoin Bull Score hits six-month high as 2022 bear-market fears linger

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