From where are you getting the Trace Mayer assertion of $3.5k is possible? Is that a recent statement, and what is the context of such statement?
All the people who claimed I was speaking "fud" when the price was $20k and I said it was going to plummet to $4.2kish and likely stabilize there with a likely flash crash to $3k before it stabilizes are now basically copying my statement word for word except 10 months late. This of course assumes bitcoin has to obey some type of general accounting practices and they don't just print a quadrillion tethers out of thin air to make the price do whatever.
Am I a buyer at $4k? Nope. Not when the price of metals is this low. I mean, they even 'discovered' the national debt is $40 trillion instead of $20 trillion then tried to cover it up under "national security". Price of gold with typical 90%+ correlation to US debt should already be $2500ish now. With a $40+ trillion national debt it would be $5000 an ounce gold ($166 an ounce silver in the bull run to 30:1 GSR, unless they peg 15:1 and it's $320 silver).
Some random economist talking about his discovery of the govt's "missing" $21 trillion:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H4XRbcBz2Z4