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The bitcoin tycoon recently took toWeibo (Twitter's equivalent in China) to opine about his prediction of bitcoins next halving. As the date of the third bitcoin halving draws near, debates regarding when the halving effects kick in and how it will influence price have been intensifying.

Since bitcoins creation in 2009, its block reward is designed to be halved every 4 years. There have been two halvings, with the first happening on November 28, 2012, and the second on July 9, 2016. The next halving event is estimated to fall onMay 12 this year, when mining rewards will get cut in half, to 6.25 BTC per block.

In terms of bitcoin price performance, the two previous halvings have projected bullish momentum a year before and after the event. Bitcoin bulls strongly believe that bitcoin would also see great gains in price this time, while some others say that history may not predict the future.

In Jiangs view, bitcoin halving this time will definitely bring in a bull market and it is likely to be the last bull run that can be clearly foreseen on the grounds that:

Some have argued that when there are legal and convenient channels for regular people, bitcoin will have a huge potential investor base. But there's still a long way for bitcoin to go to get close to the acceptance of traditional assets such as stocks. So it's hard to predict what will happen.

[This story was originally published in 8BTC.com, and is shared by arrangement with that site. It has been edited to conform with Decrypt's style.]

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Upcoming Bitcoin bull will be the last one we can predict, claims China mining tycoon - Decrypt