we all know that this dip is because of the fear of August 1st and the possibility of a chain split because of the deadline that BIP148 has set.
while many believe that BIP148 is going to fail, i say although it will fail but it is not a failure. the best result of it was the SegWit2x which currently has 91% of the miners support. whereas BIP141 (SegWit) has 46% support.
now the speculation.
i say we are going to have SegWit activated on August 1st by SegWit2x (which needs only 80% support and now has 91% support) and that will lead to a big price recovery and another bull run.
we saw the same thing about activation of SegWit on litecoin. they delayed the activation as much as possible, also caused a big dip after LTC's big rise and then it was activated with nearly 100% support and price jumped another time.
this following chart is happening all over again. this is the same fear. the fear of a hard fork and a split. the difference is that the picture below was because of BU split and now it is the SegWit split. and both of them are because of drama and had a very small chance of coming to reality.
i will expect $3000 be broken if things go as planned.
buy the dips thenbut it will probably only last about 4-5 months until the second deadline which will be 6 months after activation of SegWit (in 2018). and we may see another one of these.
now by that time either SegWit has lived up to the promise (and it is good enough time to see) and they give up on the 2MB hard fork or we will see the drama all over again over hard forking to a 2 MB base block size.
How about 'buy on rumours sell on news '?
From my perspective when the news came up everything will be dump,just like before and other project(altcoin project).it happened because you can see fudster and shiller in action when the news came up,it's like a fudster and shiller are an organization created by a rich and smart people to make an issue regarding future development.
And many newbies will fall from their tricks,for example an issue for future development when gavin out from the team ? You can see fudster and shiller everywhere with their logical explanation.
In my opinion,bitcoin will rise in the future even we get dump hard this time (which is i hope we dont need to see it right now)