While I have sympathy for people who've lost their paper wealth, it's painfully obvious this was going to happen. It has every other time and there was nothing special about this one.
That directly explains why long term hodlers have massively started with liquidating a certain part of their extremely overpriced coins. These hodlers are slowly accumulating while the price keeps touching lower lows.
Result is that they increase their holdings and become more wealthy when the next bull run kicks in, where they then simply repeat everything. I can only have respect for everyone doing this.
Noobies buy your coins for $18,000 and sell them back to you for $7000. If that isn't enough incentive to hodl to the next bull run then I don't know what is. The average person doesn't stand a chance in this market.
That's because the average person doesn't understand it and our nature tells us to be scared, to protect our money, run and hide, take minimum profit and get out. There are 2 types of people that are able to hold. Type one went in early with small money, but the value of BTC went up so fast that his investment suddenly got worth 100 times more in just 2 or 3 years, so he took some profit and is holding the rest with confidence. Even if the price goes down to 10k USD, he'll still have a lot of money. And he will in the end make a lot of money, because BTC is eventually going to attack ATH again. The second type are people who were always wealthy. They put 1% of their money in cryptocurrencies and won't feel a thing if that investment loses 50% of its value.
Who loses on the market? Poor people who invested all their savings to get one or 2 BTC because they heard that some people bought lambos.