Whales are backed by team of analytics, they have best resources at their disposal and they know keep the price dropping till they empty our pockets and then make huge profits. Hedging their own new versions of shitcoin against true bitcoin, Which will by than become hallmark standard of crypto 

When banking system was created, the bills were attributed some value, something we today call as fiat currency. Its nothing but a piece of paper backed by reserve bank. Still it changed the way we do transactions( Previously it was barter). Then came the online banking, but it lacked the flexibility of true digital currency. That is where satoshi saw opportunity and gave us a system of online currencies, today we call as crypto, which can help us make blockchain based transaction. Which outweighs fiat or online banking.

Another banking system being built, which will make rich more richer and poor more poorer. US and allies want to regulate crypto to suit their agendas. They know that a recession is coming, and this recession is due to dollar's weakening and inflation is already at its peak and if a recession actually hit the market, dollar will be the biggest loser. Investors might take up crypto as a new asset. Now they just want to save their dollars and nothing more. And to do this they have one option.. Regulate crypto.
But the draft seem to be very ambiguous with no clear and defined objectives and no clear roadmap ahead.

Inflation is when the liquidity is high but supply is low. As we see the supply of essential goods has suffered greatly due to war and climate change. The option with Fed is to increase rates to make poor man suffer and bring recession. But with decentralized economic system like bitcoin. I think if not now but in future we will have a mean to fight off the monopoly of fed to regulate our money by simple rate increases.

Anything has value, if we can buy something with it. Bitcoin can have value if we can buy something directly from it. Sadly initially there was no such means to do this and bitcoin was coupled with fiat currency. But now slowly many organizations have started to accept bitcoin and we will see that now bitcoin no longer will need coupling with fiat in future. As bitcoin is the future.

I think the rule based order of the world is collapsing. We have seen enough after Covid times. Countries seized vaccine shipments of other nations. Now we are seeing seizing wheat supplies. Where is this world headed to if these episodes keep on repeating in future. Are we heading to a collective collapse for egos of few rich and powerful. Hope the crisis get resolved soon.

If you look at the market adoption of crypto, I think its still less than 1% of total market size and the blockchain and crypto tech is going to grow significantly from here. So I assume your assertion is quite true and bitcoin is going to grow big from here.

Discipline in managing finances is very important for long term success. Also it is important to buy in dips and hold till the peaks. Keep yor strategy clear and always research well before investing. Experience teaches us a lot. Learn from mistakes of past. Take calculated risk and put your money in circulation.

El-Salvador has made great attempts to utilize the value of bitcoin, though bitcoin value is low right now, but its inherent value will remain unaffected. Once this spree of market fall end,  we will see that bitcoin will rise high and El Salvador will surely reap the benefits. In fact El Salvador is the prime global ambassador for bitcoin

Certainly the market might now climb with equal speed now, like they did in previous downturns of bitcoin, but they surely will rise. But gold will never reach the heights which bitcoin is poised to reach, because there is a constant supply of gold keeping the cost of gold under control. So you might not make any astronomical profits, with gold. But with bitcoin you can change your life for better.

Investing is bitcoin in current scenario is certainly not a good way to fight inflation or hedge against inflation. Yes if you want a good long term hedge against inflation. I will say bitcoin will be one of your best option. In future bitcoin will surely reach 100K. For a long time in future, we see bitcoin will remain the undisputed king of crypto

I think bitcoin is not a true hedge against inflation as  its will fluctuate against market falls and rises, but it provides a good mean of money transfer, and being in limited supply, many institutional investors are investing in it, and with increasing adoption of crypto and digital currency, we will see that it will become a hedge for funds in future, if not against infalation

Buy it when the prices are down and you have money in the pocket. there is no ideal time to buy. There is ideal time of hodling. If you want a quick profit. I don't think this is the right time as the market is still in devaluation mode and the prices to me seem like, they will fall further. So yes you can stay assured that bitcoin like previously will rise. But  for that you will need to hodl your bitcoins for quite some time.

This is a good news, and this is the reason we believers of bitcoin are hodling our coins because the signs are very clear at the time when the markets bleeding big institutions are actually putting their money in bitcoin. There is increasing acceptance of bitcoin by governments and in countries. Remembers buy when everyone else sells and sell when everyone else want to buy. That's the rule of market.

I see market whales collecting bitcoin, and accumulating them. Since bitcoin is in limited supply, I thing in future these institutions will launch their own altcoins hedged against bitcoin reserves. Just like how governments launch their products hedged against gold reserves

Saying that something else will take place of bitcoin is like saying some other fiat will take place of dollar. Even then lets take this argument as true, What will happen. With the current holdings and the value  of bitcoin it will take a tleast 5 years to any altcoin to generate the market value and customer base as bitcoin has.
Moreover any alternate currency too will need to provide a very strong safe and meaningful system for  safe transactions.
If you see most of institutional investors are still choosing bitcoin as their first choice, because the market trust that bitcoin carry is still far more than any other alt coins and bitcoin will stay on top for a long time

It is important to understand that bitcoin is not a alternate currency, Its a alternate economy driven by a new technology of blockchain. It was satoshi who first proved the utility of blockchain as a currency. However since than a lot of new advancements have happened in blockchain economy, which are represented by altcoins. But overall this market has grown enormously and this is bound to happen in future as well. There is no reason to doubt of feel disappointed by bitcoin, as all this is  just part of ups and downs of the market.

Europe is already losing the steam for quite a long time, Post colonial era europe is a utopian state with innovation as its foundation of economy. It know that it can't really regulate crypto and any non meaningful bans will only lead to own losses. Yet energy could be the last reason for bringing in regulation. They are already guzzling tons of pollution in air, land and seas. Controlling that will be more meaningful I assume

When market bleed some die, some live. Its the companies who invested more in failed altcoins, without financial or technical prudency. Thus they have lost both their funds and market trust. Current fall is also due to hikes in intrest rates by central banks, leading to massive withdrawals. Another
factor is decreasing returns on miming and increasing mining costs, which have dampened the moods of miners, still the hodlers are buying during the fall. Most of the financial analyst see bitcoin as future currency and it is here and going to stay.

Yes indeed. I believe this is the last time bitcoin is falling, we wont see such huge falls in crypto in future. The  main reason of this fall were the scams due the shit coins. However the rich and strong are buying because they know very clearly that this fall is temporary and bitcoin will regain its value and will prove to be a good asset in future. So keep Hodling your coins, your grandchildren will be proud of your prudency someday