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Price and Usage are phenoms that can influence the volatility of Bitcoin

For sure, i.e. when BTC price drops, weak hands start to sell their BTC's, and this cause the price to drop even further, that is why a lot of people believe that with fewer weak hands, there would be lesser volatility. Take note that these weak hands are also the ones caught in the fomo rush when the price starts to rise again as they rush to buy the coins they sold.

However, as for BTC usage, it can mean a lot of things based on BTC's use cases, i.e. it could be holding BTC, spending BTC, setting up BTC strategic reserve, buying BTC shares through etf, etc. Demand or adoption obviously influences BTC price movement, since we already have a capped supply, a high demand would move the price upward.

Weak hands will always exist because people will always have reasons to sell their Bitcoin. There will always be new entrants to the market that will ignorantly dump coin into the market.

Bitcoin awareness will increase adoption, which ultimately leads to an increase or decrease in price. Bitcoin use could be a huge dump which would affect the price adversely.

I think that the more people start using bitcoin for payments in their daily lives, and the more governments begin to adopt it into their systems, the more regulations will be imposed on it. As a result, its price may become less volatile, the fluctuations won’t be as significant, and investing in bitcoin may become less profitable compared to other assets.

Both price and usage really effect bitcoin volatility when the price drop weak hand usually panic and sell which pushes the price even lower then when it start rising again those same people rush back in creating even more swings.
However usage is another factor it is not just about spending BTC it could be holding using it as reserve or buying through ETFs since supply is fixed adoption and demand naturally move the price but weak hand will alway exist because there all always be a new people who panic sell without thinking long term in the end more awareness and real world adoption should help reduce volatility but sudden dumps or panic move will alway be part of the game.