Well, the events described in
this post happened. There was a short/long squeeze on the market and a further drop in prices below significant support levels:
Is there any good reason that the steady rise/recovery of mining difficulty is not visible at all in the latest evolution of the price?
I mean that we're
almost back to all-times-high-difficulty and nobody seem to care. It makes me think that this movement could be a trap, but maybe it's just my hopes talking.
Zoom out on the chart, and you'll see that it is indeed a trap. The monetary system is designed to have constant inflation (not deflation i.e it's not possible to suffer a great depression), this means that long-term asset prices must go up. Take the S&P500, look at the last 30 years and imagine you bought every week no matter what the price was. >99% of those buys would be in massive profit right now. The system is designed for up and up only long-term, buy regularly every week for decades and retire with craploads of money.