[...] There was no market capitulation, scaling wasnt really resolved, chinese are still paralyzed and bitfinex is close to insolvency.
Bitcoin while performing quite well in all those year is not exempt from the laws of physics.
Indeed. So the market currently considers more weight to Bitcoin being an open, borderless, decentralized, permissionless, peer-to-peer network.
And on a longer time scale proven to be a great store of value, under
your own control.
(even though rumor goes there are still today legendary members, already burned once or twice, writing walls of text about some infallible money making strategytm, storing their private keys at multiple third parties)
Are you referring to anyone in particular in your small text?
I agree with your overall point in the large text, yet why do you believe that it would be necessary (or even a related topic) to raise your small text digs?
Do you have difficulties accepting that there can be varying approaches, strategies and views about bitcoin? Or, you just feel good if you can denigrate others who may have differing views from you in one way or another?