I do not understand why people stopped trusting the currency that gave them a great way to earn a few years
It's not a matter of people stopping with 'trusting' Bitcoin, but more that they don't understand how everything related to the implementation of SegWit works. People here in this forum have been infecting each other with non information and fud. It's mind boggling how much of a problem people make out of practically nothing. Nothing will happen with Bitcoin,
even not with a hard fork incoming. If SegWit2X activates, a month or three later a hard fork will follow anyway. People don't seem to be looking at that fact -- they get blinded by all this first of August nonsense
I can't agree with you
If we distance ourselves from current commotion, noise, and confusion (due to coming SegWit activation), and take a wider look at Bitcoin from a distance of at least half a year, we will see that Bitcoin is slowly but surely becoming toxic. It has a tremendous margin of safety (any other coin would likely have already been dead as a doornail by now in such or similar circumstances), but this margin is not infinite either, and it is shrinking at that. See, even if nothing extraordinary happens and SegWit gets activated this way or another, the "political" issues are not going anywhere, and they will still be eating away this safety margin until it is completely exhausted
And then Bitcoin might collapse like the Tower of Babel