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No. Hasn't started, isn't (won't?) going anywhere.
If anything, it's truly sad to see the discrepancy between so much good news, and so bad market/price performance.

WTH is wrong, what did we miss?

From a data-driven perspective, Bitcoin looks increasingly well-positioned for a sustained continuation of its bull cycle. On-chain metrics paint a compelling picture of resilience for the Bitcoin bull market.
Market prices are truth, and what they're saying (#908702) is making me scratch my head until whatever hair I have left falls off.
Crosby walks us through a bunch of really positive on-chained data, but alas price doesn't care.
  • maybe things aren't as good as they seem
  • maybe someone is holding down the price (= the long-standing gold-bug conspiracy theory)
  • maybe my (macro) model of this -- money printing, hard assets, censorship resistance, freedom money -- is just incorrect or fatally incomplete in some sense.
I dunno, how are you guys making sense of all of this?
It is a bit baffling but this isn't the first time I have seen this in bitcoin. I do think there are a lot of shorts in the market right now. I think short term traders currently control the price and it will be range bound until we get more macro clarity.
Gold has had a great year so that has probably sucked some potential demand from bitcoin. Unfortunately, Bitcoin is still seen as a risk asset.
I expect within a few months we are probably significantly higher or lower depending what has gone on in the world.
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I think people should care more about increasing people using bitcoin as payment instead of the exchange rate.
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those are the same thing. If the exchange rate isn't increasing (or is wobbling around like crazy), that's a HUGE impediment to using bitcoin as payment.
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  1. Wobbling like crazy not HUGE impediment
  2. It doesn't wobble as much as in the past
  3. It doesn't need to increase at all for it to be used as payment
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Wrong on all accounts
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Right on all accounts.
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Idiot. Just join the mute club