So, if grumpy works for you, let it be so.
Bitcoin languishing in its current trading range for so long is also a little bit frustrating. Was hoping for more excitement post halvening, and it came and went with practically no fan-fare, as far as effect on pricing.
It would really be difficult to expect any kind of immediate effect from this most recent halvening. In respect to hash power, we did get a bit of what seemed to have been a mining front-running that caused hashpower to go up prior to the halvening, and then a few adjustments on the hashing power downward that still ended up largely continuing to show upward movement in the hashing power over the past 6 months, even though there was a downward hashpower blip there right after the halvening.... so in that sense, bitcoin seems to be working as it was intended to work, and no real hashpower issues presented themselves through this most recent halvening... .so really, that kind of non-issue in regards to mining and mining incentives should be bullish as fuck.
Another thing is that a decent amount of time could pass before the reduction of the new bitcoin supply is really felt (going from 12.5 to 6.25), and even in 2016, it took several months for the upwards BTC price pressures to increasingly be felt - and even with that, we cannot know if this time had a bit more of the havening event already priced in or NOT so we cannot be sure if the up (presuming that it comes) is going to play out similarly as last time around
(don't get me wrong, I am NOT much of a "priced-in" theory advocate, but I am just trying to say that we really don't know the pattern of how the price plays out this post halvening as compared with last time).In other words, we are barely touching upon two months post halvening, and sure we might be largely flat in terms of the BTC price right around the time of the halvening as compared with now - even though there was a decent amount of both up and down BTC price movement within the week before the actual halvening.
Call me a party poop, but I am not even going to be upset if BTC price ends up still being in the sub $10k arena a couple of years from now. I am just not trying to create expectations that are too great for myself (and something like BTC that is largely outside of my control), even though I still believe that there are pretty decent odds that some kind of upwards exponential BTC price growth is going to happen within the next two years, and probably even less than that, without really knowing for sure and not really even causing myself to get depressed if we were still somewhere between $5k and $9k two years from now, even though there are good odds of higher BTC prices than that... especially given all of the circumstances and the seeming fundamentals.. and I am going to say the same thing to someone just getting into bitcoin about halving a long timeline in terms of expectations.. and don't expect too much from bitcoin in the shorter time frames... because having too high of expectations remains a set-up for psychological disappointment....
Sure any BTC accumulator and HODLer and even newbie into bitcoin might be pleasantly surprised by upwards BTC price movements in the short term, but the surprise remains far from guaranteed... so also in accordance with that kind of mindset, I am quite grateful for already being into considerable profits with my BTC, which would also be true if bitcoin were within a $5k to $9k price range, now or in two years or even longer from now...
Yes.. maybe sounds too bearish.. but, even DCA'ing into bitcoin and marginal performance of the bitcoin asset into the near-term future seems to have great odds of out performing all other investments, even though such projected likely superior BTC price performance remains in the mix while at the same time, far from guaranteed
(holding two conflicting ideas in my head at the same time... go figure? hahahahaha).
Edit: A couple hours after this above original post, I added a few more words to this post.. hopefully, to attempt to make the substantive aspect flow better, rather than changing any of the actual substance.. even though longer to read and I maybe might be not sorry about that.