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Bitcoin dominance has been dropped to 39.2% from 45%, market cap is $382 billion now, are we moving towards another bull run like Dec?

Crypto currency such as bitcoin can be used to buy goods without intermediaries, meaning less need of a bank. Although traditional banking systems may charge high transaction costs, bitcoin allows global transactions to take place at a lower cost. that's the reason why bitcoin is getting more dominant.

But if the price of Bitcoin goes up, then the price for transactions will be higher. We already saw this when the price for Bitcoin last year rose to 20,000 dollars.

No that is not how transaction fees work. I see this so much online, people saying the transaction fees go up because price goes up. They are not linked at all. Transaction fees went really high because suddenly everyone was trying to buy bitcoin or send it to exchanges to trade or whatever. The blocks being filled up and people's urgency in getting transactions confirmed is what affects fee price, the price of bitcoin doesn't affect it. Note that recently while Bitcoin has been around $9000 the fees are about the same as they were a year ago when bitcoin was at $1000. Did you notice how fees continued being crazy as Bitcoin was crashing? Because people were selling or moving there bitcoins to exchanges to sell, if it was due to price then the fees would have been dropping when it started crashing. Bitcoin could be $100k and the fees could be 50 cents if there isn't much going on on the network and there is free space in the blocks.

They're not directly linked, for sure, but there is certainly some correlation. Fees are always going to be in terms of satoshis paid for taking space taken up by data of transaction, that is what is generally fixed and depends on efficiency and network demand. Then Bitcoin price affects what people see as fiat value of that satoshi fee.

Price also affects demand, as you just explaines yourself, both in bull and bear conditions. Demand generally leads to congestion, though with LN upcoming, we may have seen the last days of congestion.

agreed for the most part. just saying demand for bitcoin is not the same as current usage. High usage could be because bitcoin price is going crazy and people are moving bitcoin to exchanges - crashing which would mean higher fees despite lower price, booming would mean price and fee go up together. Could also be without bitcoin price moving much at all and people start spending their bitcoin more even though no new money is coming in. I would say there is a very loose correlation, though certainly their is a bottom limit which would be 1sat/byte which depends entirely on the current price of bitcoin. Though yes obviously as adoption rises price will go up which should lead to more usage which makes fees go up. So they have the same cause but fees and price aren't themselves linked in any way, and that cause can lead to strong correlation, no correlation, negative correlation all depending on market sentiment at the time.