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A whole year of bearmarket topped off by an epic crash should start make you think about the fundamentals.
Many of us thought about the fundamentals pretty deeply 3 or 4 years ago. Nothing's changed, except massive development and expansion of the ecosystem.
Obviously you didn't think 'deeply' enough or lacked knowledge.
The higher the marketcap the bigger the impact of the inflation. The inflation was leading to centralisation in mining and an unhealthy miningindustry.
Miners to this day are a big factor in the market.
Miners have too much power in the market - that's what it comes down to.
Miners' influence on the market this late in the game should be much less - or else: see what you get here.
But people have been calling this for months now.
Someone is paying the bill for the inflation and it is the longterm holder as his holdings are devalued. So in the end nobody wants to hold it longterm because it's loosing money. So there is also no adoption for it because people hate to loose money, so they don't use it.