That doesn't explain why the price action is so restricted for so long

If you look at Bitcoin's volatility in 2013-2018, you will see that while there were periods when the price didn't change much, it still wasn't stagnant. And now we have Bitcoin's price which we hadn't seen till the fall of 2017, i.e. most of Bitcoin's history, and it is basically stuck in a very narrow range, which raises eyebrows. And there is a reason for that. The current situation may be called a "potential well" of sorts, so whenever there is a hint on a strong price movement, either strong resistance or strong support instantly builds up

So if you ask me, that can be explained only if you admit or take into account there is a massive amount of shorts at play, which limit the price action in both directions. Indeed, there is still a possibility of a breakout, either via extreme manipulation aimed at wiping away these shorts or via somebody actually having an intention to buy or sell enough bitcoins that no buying or selling wall will be able to hold back

Education is the way. A fork is an altcoin, they can try to steal the bitcoin name but they can't because they came later, MUCH later.

You can order clones of almost anything from China, with varying qualities. For a small fee, they can stamp anything as the "brand". If you attempt to resell that in another country where counterfeiting is forbidden, you might get in trouble; for selling in those countries the clients usually just stamp another brand.

This is not related to free open source software of course. Forks are welcome and part of the ecosystem, but its up to you to make your fork "better", and for the people to welcome it. Sometimes forks add ideas that get implemented in the main tree, sometimes they dissolve as nobody wants them. Its part of the freedom of free software.

If you copy Linux, change its name and say its yours, the community will immediately denounce you for plagiarism. The correct etiquette when forking a project, is to give credit where credit is due. Some licenses make this obligatory, and some even require you to publish back your source code.

Calling the forks "Bitcoin" is a blatant lie. They have officially different names, although they use "Bitcoin" as part of their name, they are not.

Actually, we can't do anything about it since Bitcoin are created open source under MIT license But we can educate people to choose the real Bitcoin Core. @clrpod analogy could be countered by plagiarism could be punished under the law, but Bitcoin isn't. The only thing we need is to make a newcomer able to testify themselves about the current situation about cryptocurrencies spaces and tell them hows it's started, and who is covering the lie which is the Roger Ver Team.

what did you expect?
the banking cartels will be losing profit and Central Banks will be losing control
if people are allowed to trade currencies anonymously
there will be all kind of excuses , sponsoring terrorism, crime, money laundering and what not
in reality it is all about your anonymity and privacy
and money

They Anonymous and De-centralized Exchanges will become more stable and liquid over the next 10 years.

The larger exchanges (long term) have the same problem banks and financial markets have -- there is too much incentive to assist manipulating shitcoins and ICO's to earn a profit.

The whole "Crypto" industry that people want to become a real thing, won't become a real thing until all of the bad actors get out. Which is why so many of us are bitcoin maximalists until the terrible projects die off.

The terms of using Bitcoin will be very unusual by the people because we don't accept while the price becomes very low but we had slept while the price become more higher do not a good system to convey the development of Bitcoin because when the price become low we are selling our investment this will affect the development of Bitcoin that's why the untouchability will continually flowing through the cryptocurrency especially Bitcoin.

Next week (Tuesday?) we're going to finally know the end of the story.
In any case, if UK and EU do not reach an agreement before the end of the month, the UK will be forced to leave the European Union because of the Treaty(ies) of the European Union. (hard brexit).

What I wonder is

- Is The UK ready: not only economically (what will be the cost and most important who will pay!) but I feel like there is nothing prepared for. For example, what about the people living in Europe, would they become immigrants since they won't have any legal paper to reside in the country? What about the companies, several banks are moving their offices outside The UK. It looks like a mess already, even 2 ministers resigned

- What about Ireland/North and Scotland?, they should take this opportunity to ask for their independence

- GBP could lose its value easily with 15%-20% (ok I may exaggerating a bit with the % but it's the scenario I am betting for)

not at all.
we don't need the bull market to start (in other words we don't need to see 2-3 months of big rises) for the bear market to end. the thing is, even the drop below $6k doesn't make the current trend "bearish" at least in my opinion because if you look at WHY it dropped this low you can see that it wasn't because of some trend or anything like that. that trend (the bearish one) had ended long time ago. the drop was purely because of a large scale attack on bitcoin from the BCash people which whales got behind to make more money from shorting bitcoin.
that in my view is not a "trend", it is more like an incident

Good news pumping the price during a bear market? Good luck waiting for that. On top of that, every quick increase will be tanked back to where it started at, so don't hope for miracles to happen any time soon. The same applies to people hoping for a massive short squeeze to pump the price. People fail to understand that short squeezes don't represent actual demand, and thus will be sold back down quickly.

I like how there is nothing at this point that will make the price pump hard. It makes people get used to this side of the market, and helps them understand that 2017 was something out of the ordinary, and not a normal happening in crypto. People who entered in 2017/2018 legit believed that crypto could only go up in value, lol. 

change is not very fast and tends to undergo changes that are not too drastic. we are still in an uncertain phase, the price of bitcoin will never be able to survive the exact price. changes occur, decreases and increases will always be there every minute. when more people need bitcoin then the price will increase and when more people sell bitcoin then it will reduce the price of bitcoin. Such a scheme will always occur because the price of bitcoin is very much determined by the demand factor.