All the BTC investors just had a difficult year in 2018.
A lot of people had chosen to give up, while more people continued believing in BTC.
As for the price,what matters will influence the price in 2019?
BTC Forks? Lightning network? Miners? Whales? Investors?
2018 might be a difficult year to some but take note that others got some advantages on that.
-Others able to take advantage of the price swings resulting on a profit out of a bearish market.
-Others low price target have been reached resulting on another accumulation of btc.
-Others understand how volatile crypto is. Because of it, they are now enlightened that crypto is not an overnight quick rich scheme.
-Those people who just enter crypto because of hype are now gone. Good thing it was filtered.
The bullish will start once a certain "trend" changes the phase of what's the status. It might be an event or such price rise movement that will trigger the fuel for more increase. Who knows?
No one knows what will happened to the future. Just continue the usual accumulation of bitcoin on our stash.