I also think this selling is because of fork delay the people who bought get anxious and sell panic. Some day it will rise again but not today. Maybe in 2025.
This is just a big whales games. They trying to dump price, than buy and sell higher again, like this was in December. And seems developers may be in same game, as they postrponed twice fork and don't give us exact new date... why? May be they also playing in this game and manipupating the price?
by the way this is very important upgrade this actually changes the eth protocol to a better one this is not 1 protocol but bunch of other protocols to imply and work on its future. Vitalik has good visions for this i could see his name being in books in near future for a good invention.
We have to think positive the crypto community is very small compared to the market outside manipulation from whales would be much smaller in near future.
26th February is a new date of hardfork? This is exact date? I think they can postpone again (as they postponed twice already). But if they will launched really hardfork this will be a good news. May be we will see crpto-spring, if Bakkt launched platform as well in near time. As I know Fidelity was going to launch platform in 1st quarter this year. Nothing changed in their plans?