Big if true. But also very natural. That'!s what happens during the bear markets. Bitcoin and other crypto tanks, people speak of crypto no more and when they least expect it, bitcoin makes a huge jump and everybody talks about it again. Happened many times before and it will happen again. This is the accumulation phase. Don't let it go to a waste.
Is it big though or have I missed the sarcasm implied here? Judging by your following sentence I'd assume so. Anyway, I'll chip in with its absolutely 100 percent expected, and by no means is unprecedented. This isn't really news per say, more confirmation of something that was already assumed.
Despite getting a next block confirmation with 2 satoshi per byte the number of actual transactions is way lower than two years ago, people are either hoarding or ditching usage altogether, and people holding coins in their cold wallets can't be called "active users".
It's pretty normal, it's a bearish trend and until the price goes up again you will not see an increase in active users, it simply doesn't work so.
Yeah, and we can't blame people to be holding or getting out. We're probably heading for a global recession that few have seen worse. Natural for people to ditch things that they aren't quite confident in or on the contrary hoard them, in hopes that'll put them in a better position years down the line when we're coping with the recession a little more.