I haven't been trading my bitcoins and cryptos since this year begins, but I have noticed that the hype train is slowing down since then, compared to last year. I want some honest opinion about the future outlook of BTC or crypto per se. Should investors invest in it?
You should look at the situation as follows:
why would people buy bitcoin?
why would people buy altcoins?
In 2017 people bought lots of bitcoins and ETH to invest in the ICOs and many ICOs generated high returns, the altcoins were also generating high returns. it was a pump and dump scheme. It turns out that after a few months there were no more new investors, and many governments began to create many barriers for people who bought cryptos, and the price of bitcoin and altcoins began to fall. With the price of altcoins and bitcoin dropping a lot, it made people move away from cryptos and bitcoin.
Now the idea is that many institutional investors are entering the market and have bitcoin halving. But you have to wonder if halving really will create a big price increase or not. Bitcoin ETF has been rejected, BAKKT was not a big hit, although we still have time to see how it will be, we should not be too optimistic that the price will increase a lot because for the price to rise a lot it need a lot of demand and you never know what people think, they can invest in other assets