I don't know if the correction has already started but there's a major dumped happening, bitcoin dumped below $30,000 and it has bounce back a bit. However, I think the trend is already bearish, I am optimistic on the future of bitcoin but I can't deny the possibility of seeing a major correction, I think we will see a price as low as $10,000 this year.

 Bittrex is going down anyways, used to be good exchange long time ago but not anymore,
privacy is one of the fundamentals of crypto vs fiat so exchanges should support that

So many companies recognized bitcoin a long time ago, they knew that it was a good investment and to make their money grow. Until now, there are still lots of companies that are now recognizing bitcoin as a good investment, that will make the market good, there are so many investors and volume that are circulating. I can say that every company that invests has a great impact on the price of bitcoin itself. And as time passes by, the knowledge and the use of bitcoin is spreading all around the globe.

Covid19 is really disturbing worldwide, the information passing across because of covid19 second lockdown is very strong, the previous lockdown really affects people especially trader's, entrepreneurs and many people lost their life's and siblings, so since the vaccine for treatment of the virus is out I think government don't have to lockdown countries again for the sake of less privileges in society, life is very difficult for people in rural areas and our leaders are not care to look towards the development or needs of poor's, I think government of some certain countries should remember that all hands are not equal, by following cases of covid19 with precautions instead of shutting down everywhere or making the prevent measures of corona virus to be necessary to people living in such domain, I think it should be more preferable than closing source of less privileges daily breads.

Nowadays most people use electronic money instead of banknotes, so the process of eliminating cash has already started. Developing and launching CBDCs will take up to 5 years. It will take above 10 years to become finally cashless.

I dont think so. I dont believe can go below $10k ever again. Most likely it will also stay above $20k. Or at least if will somehow fall below $20k it will retrace back extremely fast. Impossible to buy unless you will have buy orders set at that price.

The crash of 2017 was because of the absence of institutions that cannot support the crash, few whales and many small investors, things are very much different now, there are many whales and institutions are coming in, and the number of small investors have also grown.

Everyone, please don't panic sell by losing your capital as this forum will be flooded with FUDS since the value of Bitcoin has dropped to $30k which will lead so many people to post negative article against bitcoin which we have come across in the past. Just ensure don't cashout in hurry and rather do a proper analysis to avoid any possible loss as it's bit difficult to control emotions when we see numerous negative posts predicting a downfall.

I didnt believe it was true whenever I read the accusations since hitbtc worked with no issues for me the last years and i always sent coins out and i made huge profits on some of their smaller coins that only they had (like ETHlend(now Aave), or verge when it was still cheap (before mcaffee) and many others.