Actually, this recent price pump is not natural. It is being highly manipulated by the whales and exchanges. Still, not many new investors are entering the market. hence, I expect this pump to retrace back to $6k levels. Bitcoin might be able to touch $7800, after that I expect a dump to $6800 at least. So, trade wisely here. Like it or not, this is a bull trap. The market hasn't yet entered in a trend reversal zone.
I largely agree that we need to take current BTC price rises with a fairly large grain of salt, and surely I will feel more comfortable once BTC prices get to the $10k testing territory - otherwise, current BTC prices remain too close to having the ability to retest lower end support.
Totally depends on us, the holders and new investors. Unless we support it, reaching $10k is still far yet. As the past trends, it will take much more time, because people tends to panic and they will sell whenever they reach their buying price.
I don't know how you could reasonably believe that there is so much empowerment within "us" to be able to collectively control BTC's price direction because the sphere of "us" in crypto and bitcoin has been growing and growing and growing, so as the market cap grows, the means for liquidation of BTC and the number of adopters, it becomes harder and harder for any kind of "us" to really push the price direction. Also, as the BTC adopters grow, it becomes exceedingly more diverse, and with a whole hell-of-a lot of mixed agendas and even confusion about what it is that they (we) are investing into, exactly, so in that regard, it seems to me that we have to accept that we are more likely followers of the market rather than makers of the market, no?
Yeah, spread the word, blah, blah, blah, but bitcoin is going to do what it is going to do, and on an individual level, each of us has to attempt to prepare ourselves, as best that we can for our own situation, that either price direction could happen.. .well , that is UP, DOWN or sideways... or some combination of them and not in any particular expected or self-created order.
Surely, several BTC holders, and more likely the longer term holders are not going to get tricked out of their coins, and they are going to be buying on the way down, and selling on the way up in order to prepare themselves to buy more in the event that the price goes down again.