The bear market ended a couple of months, around the beginning of February when the downtrend finally stopped and the btc price started to consolidate in the mid 3k's and then began to go up.
What is the reason for this rise
Probably bears getting exhausted making the bulls take over the market by pumping the prices by surprise. There are many theories but tbh no one can't really pinpoint the exact reason for this surge.
If we can do that this second quarter, then we may have a chance of getting to 9 or 10k by years end.
If the trend continues, we're gonna enter a bull market in a few months, with that in mind, we should go past the 9k-10k levels before the end of year provided FOMO kicks in in full force and dumb money starts pumping the prices.