The Bitcoin price certainly affects many things. It can help us gauge adoption along with other metrics as well as the sentiment of people who are currently invested.
Bitcoin is not a get rich quick scheme. It is the currency of the internet designed as a super hard form of money to challenge many status quos.
Even if we were to pay more attention to the price. Many of the people worrying don't know the basics of TA. I'm here to tell you that if you own any amount of BTC you are riding a rollercoaster that is affected by adoption, politics, whales and many other factors out of your control. The one thing you can count on is the math, The fact that is was the first, the 21million cap, it's security, and the torrent of frustration it brings older businesses who have grown lazy and abuse the masses(banks).
From a TA standpoint (i'm a noob with a background in music but i've been studying and doing paper trades for years now). Bitcoin has been consolidating for a few months after a pullback from a 1 year high. The fact that it's been trading in the range its at means that the whales and traders who bought in late can't affect the die hard HODLERS who were already in the market in early 2019. You can find articles explaining the demographics of Bitcoin holders. Those who bought in at 10k+ were the ones selling.
Other than that we have some whales playing in the ocean.
Remember this is about change and technology.
If you believe in the ideals money is more than likely to follow.
Be well!
I agree. We should stop being paranoid about bitcoin's price. It has been like this for many years already and as time passes by, the number of whales grows larger and larger so it is expected that the value will surely fall down. It definitely grew during last year when bitcoin almost reached 20k dollars. Lots of them surely bought a lot during the early days and used hodl to make it grow larger but what happened was opposite so I think some of them are still eager to wait for the value to grow.