It can be considered a time of rise. The reason behind the increase will be the adoption which is getting increased due to the halving of the year.
Companies adapting bitcoin as a source of payment will surely increase its value and the more people use it the more it will be mainstream.
As this years come of bitcoin halving this will surely mark another price hike for bitcoin.
Many people are thinking indeed that it is going to rise and that is very good. I hope that more people will just hold their coins.
But you never know what will happen. And that is quite risky. So that is not good. But the halving is also coming.