The Subject line is a hightlight from this article from Analytics Insight:https://www.analyticsinsight.net/bitcoin-predicted-to-peak-at-us32000-in-2023/
Bull Season is back boys and girls
Perhaps not officially pronounced a bull season by the media yet, but we will have our 2023 Bull Season headlines showing soon, slowly but surely. OR basically overnight Bitcoin will crush all expectations on its way to new ATHs in 2023, no doubt!
From same article"According to analysts, there is a good possibility that Bitcoin will experience a bullish surge. As per experts, Bitcoin will keep growing in popularity in 2023, and if key factors stay the very same, this trend should continue into 2024. When Bitcoin hits its crucial support, it is known to recover. At the end of 2023, the price range of US$32,000 is anticipated to be broken.
I've been seeing headlines lately like highest hash rate:https://cointelegraph.com/news/bitcoin-hash-rate-taps-new-milestone-with-miner-hodling-at-1-year-low
This excerpt from the article is eye catching: "Hash rate is a key component of Bitcoin security and significant drawdowns result in network difficulty rising to entice more miners to participate.
Network difficulty is also set to reach levels never seen before this week in a nod to fierce competition in the mining sector.
According to data from BTC.com, the next automated readjustment will send difficulty an estimated 2.75% higher to 38.62 trillion"
The more difficult it is to mine surely will increase the price simply from supply and demand, as we all know.
You are right about the difficulty, though I still have my doubts. I believe that miners have effective control over the market and it would be in their best interest, as well as higher power individuals/groups for the price not to increase so smoothly during the year. My prediction is that there will be growth but that another "catastrophe" like Luna or FTX will occur, once again providing the significance of "not your keys not your coins" and the downfalls of custodial services, which will hinder the expected growth until the end of this year or until during 2024, where the halving will force miners to increase the price in order to maintain a profit on their operations.
And all of this FUD by JP Morgan Jamie Dimon is comical. The only reason that he would be saying anything like calling bitcoin a "pet rock" and releasing the FUD questioning the true 21 mil BTC cap is because of Bitcoin's ultimate threat to the Federal Reserve.
This on the other hand shows extreme fear from big banks. Usually if they are blasting the fud, they know good things are on the horizon and they are trying to keep as much of the public out as possible. You are totally right that it is comical at this point and it takes me back to the
Bitcoin Obituary every time