Bitcoin prices are based on the feelings of investors on the other hand the price of gold has started declining since the end of this year. While this comma is good news for a single buyer bitcoin is more volatile than gold as an investment medium not for investors because bitcoin has no basic basis as a result no one will be able to control bitcoin very easily if it creates a bubble in the market. The risk remains low and long-term investments will be worth more than gold.
'Margin-Calls', when the margin-calls kicked in, people sell assets to raise cash to cover the calls. ( collapse of Archego biggest fund loss since LTCM )
GOLD is always the easiest thing to raise cash to cover 'calls', so GOLD went down first.
BITCOIN is extremely hard to sell, especially $350B USD, pump from fall 2020 to spring 2021, it took a few weeks, and the sale was delayed by miners in China going off line, its still hard to do transactions.
Now we have BTC etfs, and futures there can be a complete disconnect in 'price discovery' just like in GOLD, where everybody is doing paper-derivatives, and the real thing you must pay a premium.
BITCOIN prices are NOT based on 'feelings' of investors, the $350B that came in from 'Institutional' is not robinhood stimmy boyz, on average they own 0.05BTC, and they by a majority drink the koolaide labelled 'HODL'
NOW that most BTC trading is by the way of CANADIAN BTC ETF's, and stock like RIOT, MARA, COIN there can be a complete disconnect from reality, just like there is on GLD compared to street price of physical in a shop.
Most of the posted BTC prices are from exchanges, who don't even actually have BTC, they just float it on their books and time-2-time they go bankrupt when their is a run, but these days there are so many limits on cash withdrawls that its almost impossible to call their bluff. Again the entire BITCOIN eco-system is a criminal endeavor.
Now that IRS-COINBASE has gone public, and ownership by US-GOV secured, its in the interest of GOV that BTC ETF's be too-big-too-fail TBTF
From this point its either going down to $10k or higher, or to the moon ... $100k, if it goes to the moon, then it means that the US-GOV is funding BITCOIN, or in reality 'mixing' worthless USD into digital-gold, this also brings in the entire world, which keeps the USA from going bankrupt.
The irony is that Satoshi mythology is 180 degree opposite of this intended outcome.
Probably the reason that NO politician came out to 'endorse' BTC is-was they were waiting to see if it sticks, or if they could get it under their control, I think now those questions have been answered.
So for the people on this board, your wildest dreams have come true, BTC is now the official currency of the USA-MAFIA.
Of course the wild-card is +67% mining in China, and 99% of HW miners 'made in china', if they pull the plug, given the chip shortage, there is no way the west can replace the bitcoin miners. Lot's of wild-cards, even if the USA GOV MOB does protect BITCOIN. We know they're prepared to dump trillions of USD into anything that keeps them on life support.
BTC is a lot like Hotel-California, you can come in, but you can never leave.