Bitcoin price hasn't been what we expected this year and December (2023) has also given us a disappointing amount because we all expected the price to be up to $50k before getting to 2024 but still it didn't, to me it was a poor performance in the movement of Bitcoin price.
This year even got worse that it (Bitcoin price) could not surpass $45k and keep moving to the next one and stay there for long.
Of recent we saw Bitcoin moving to $47k but it didn't waste much time in getting back to $40k and now is $41k. While the price is not favorable all these while I feel is the main reason why we had that high fee rate. But as everything has come back to normal I feel the price of Bitcoin will as well be going up without coming back down, let's hope it goes that way to put a smile on traders and investors.
Disappointment? How? Anyone expecting more from Bitcoin despite how much it performed last year is an ingrate. The issue is that human expectations will always be more and more, it can't be satisfied even as things progress, and what I can only relate to it is greed. From the beginning of 2023, Bitcoin started barely at $17,000 and moved higher in a few months and was able to hold at almost x2 of the price for many months after. All what I saw was mainly $40,000 on the forum which I never knew Bitcoin would even reach throughout the year. But for the ETF hype, the coin moved higher and even beat the expectations of people and almost hit $45,000 in the year.
You're really funny to think that anyone who expect more from Bitcoin base on price is an ingrate, you really have to work on your words brother. You don't get why I said what I said.
December expectation on the market price was high, is like you haven't been following up the movement right from September if I'm not mistaken.
December was suppose to give us something close to $50k if not $50k, so when the price started dropping that was why I said disappointing. It was suppose to follow the flow of the market price as other months have been doing.
And nobody is greedy or an ingrate like you call it, this is what we expected to happen not that we ain't cool with how the market price has been.
In the second week of 2024, it reached above $49,000 which is closer to $50,000, anyone who is not greedy should have even liquidated their position if that is what they are so desired to do. Bitcoin, as far as I am concerned, was heroic last year and what we are experiencing this year is very normal. We all know that ETF made it move too much, and the market was overpriced, so it is normal that it shed some pips to ease itself before there will be the continuation of the bullish movements which I believe will hit the $50,000 easily and pass it this year. We should only be grateful that it hasn't dropped lower than its current price ($41,595) now.
I agree with you that Bitcoin has been doing great but is like a step, without all these speculations and expectations I don't think we would have been pointing out the prices in every month. When they ask how much do you expect Bitcoin to be before the end of January, I believe you'd to say $60k or above, but when it doesn't get to thqt amount or higher and it start going back down to $30k it becomes disappointing because that wasn't what you was expecting from how it has been going.
We are grateful for the amount we are seeing and it should continue going higher not lower, $41k should start making a move to $45k and surpassing it, that's it.