My question now is, since this bull run has been tagged with major speculations, how can a potential investor navigate his or her way through a long-term, meaningful and financially impactful projects as against those riding on just the hypes?
It will be good if you only invest in bitcoin and hodli for long term, so that you don't need to bother about the market. Investing in a long-term on bitcoin wouldn't make you run at loss of you don't sell due to panic because bitcoin price increases overtime. With this, you don't have to listen to anyone but just keep on stacking for the future.
A time will come that bitcoin will be expensive and anyone without bitcoin will regret it by then. Only bitcoin is the solid project and has the potential to make new ATH in every four years.