Re: Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion
Similar to previous fractal from last week, here is my short-term worst case scenario with mid-term best case scenario: $20K by end of month but $30K by June
I like it when people are more optimistic then me 
Probably because I'm just not convinced that the macro economic environment being bad for Bitcoin, fundamentally I think it's good for Bitcoin long-term. Until Bitcoin drops further than -83%, ie further than previous bear markets without high inflation, then the -77% (so far) is clearly a better performance. I'm not sure how anyone can argue against this, apart from speculating that $12K is still coming but will just take longer than usual. Which for sure could still happen, but doesn't change the fact Bitcoin has performed better in 2022 (ie a year after ATH) than previous bear markets after 1 year of downside.
This is the only long-term bearish sentiment I hear right now, speculating that Bitcoin will perform worse during high inflation or a recession, without any evidence so far to prove it. Bitcoin falling -77% can be attributed to it's 4 year cycle, completely unrelated to the macro economic environment. Probably the reason it has performed better in 2022 than 2018 or 2014 bear markets is simply because there was no blow off top, not much else, and certainly nothing to do with high inflation or the macroeconomic environment. Hence the argument of being below 200 WMA is kind of irrelevant, because of course without a blow off top it's a lot closer.
The only argument I am really willing to acknowledge is that there was no blow off top in 2021 was because of anticipated inflation, but even so I find it a bit far fetched personally. I'm otherwise certain that if high inflation came in 2021, then everyone would be speculating that this is the reason for the bull market, rather than simply acknowledging it's to do with Bitcoin's own inflationary policy and post 2020 halving.
I might generally agree, but why bitcoin not having a blowoff top was because of anticipated inflation (in a direct fashion)?
Perhaps, it was rather a more complex relation: market surmised that because inflation is anticipated, fed would have to move and get into restrictive posture with regards to money printing, thereby restricting money flow to the most "speculative" (in most participants perspective) investments like bitcoin.
Indeed, something more complex like that, but otherwise under the guise of anticipated inflation still (whether direct or indirect). Or I take the alternative theory and speculate that because of the Chinese mining ban causing price to drop by 50% for 2 months, it broke the bull market structure of it's usual -35% pull-backs lasting around a month. The momentum had faded and quite simply took too long (6 months) to recover in reaching it's all time high again, compared to every other time taking only 6-8 weeks. This would also be more directly attributed to Bitcoin's fundamentals (it's network), as opposed to external factors.
Ie if price had recovered to ATH by July, instead of November, then there would have been a lot more time for price to continue to the upside (ie 4/5 more months). Instead it was wasted on a recovery. Personally, if I had to attribute the lack of blow off top in 2021, it'd be down to it's fundamentals - like a massive reduction on hash rate causing mass selling - as opposed to external factors that doesn't directly affect price.