People need to understand a few things here.
Bitcoin isn't just a method of storing value or a currency. It's a social network. It's a decentralized way for humans to interact without a governing central body.
It also has a finite number. It can't be inflated. It cant be forged. It's hugely mobile. It's the future of financial transactions and unless cryptocurrencies and the blockchain fail then bitcoin is cryptos main asset class. It is crypto gold.
The controllers know these things and the fact that you might own some of these bitcoin scares the crap out of them so they are doing everything in their power to make sure that you don't own any of it. They want it all. All of it.
This is a game to them. They are using their worthless fiat currency to manipulate the markets to their benefit. They are using their banks to control the flow. They are using their media companies to spread the FUD. They are wrecking peoples lives right now. It's not beyond the realms of possibility that they inflated bitcoin so wildly last year just so people would buy in knowing they were going to crash it this year and bankrupt them. They did it in 1929 why wouldn't they do it now?
My point is that bitcoin is a finite resource so unless you are going homeless or starving to death then hold on to your supply because you will never get it back if you sell it to them and the last thing we want is for the bankster bastards to have a monopoly on bitcoin and that's exactly what they are trying to do.
They are stealing the future again. Just hodl.