actually I think it may be because they remember too well!

all the topics or even news that were published by the news sites have one thing in common and that is the fact that they all come out as FUD to increase the ongoing panic in the market and shake out the weaker hands so that the market makers can buy more cheaper coins.
the "remember" part is that in the history FUD like this has worked well so everyone wants to do it. you even see idiotic topics on bitcointalk from time to time trying to spread FUD but they make something up that doesn't even make sense!

no real speculator has ever actually expected the drop down to $3000. at least all the cases that I have seen and I have seen a lot, have been trolls and desperate newbies who missed the chance to buy or sold at the bottom and wanted the price to go lower so they could buy back.

and by the way $400 rise these days means 5% rise which is nothing.

we have been saying bitcoin has bottomed when it was at the bottom but good for him to say it now that we are 40% above that bottom and about 1 month has passed

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many people see bitcoin as an investment only so this mindset will exist and we can't do anything about it.
but there is a correlation here: better future means more adoption and a higher price as a result.

if you think banks and government saying something negative about bitcoin is going to make it "unsafe" and threaten its future then you are admitting that bitcoin has failed as a decentralized currency that doesn't need approval of banks or the government to succeed.

not to mention that if anyone wants to start a propaganda they will do it at any price, even when price was $400 we had major FUD about bitcoin.

no bitcoin price didn't go down because some scams have been happening. it is the other way around. meaning because bitcoin price went up and bitcoin became more popular, more people came in some of which were scumbags so the number of scams grew more.

otherwise investors in bitcoin aren't going to sell their bitcoin just because somewhere someone found some gullible people and filled his pocket using them.

I don't really understand your logic here and your thoughts seem to be all over the place. I think you want the price to go up above $10k so you are trying hard to come up with reasons to justify that rise for yourself here. which is a wrong approach to speculation.

in any case don't worry, price will rise. we may not see it happen fast at first like last year but there will be more of a slow rise which will also be a lot more solid than these big sudden jumps.

none of what you said makes any sense!
you say "many negative issues about bitcoin" then only talk about two things that are not "negative issues". one is price volatility and the other is some people scamming others!

the volatility is because of the smaller nature of the bitcoin market and the fact that it is still growing by the millions at a time each time there is a rise.
and the scams are happening like anywhere else in the world since money is involved and bitcoin is a currency like any other currency.

bitcoin price will not be affected by these.

not at all. the idea of bitcoin is a lot of things, being anonymous is not one of them.

not to mention that using a payment processor is not changing anything about how anonymous you are. (assuming Samsung accepts bitcoin payments) you would still be going on the same site or same physical shop and make the payment and whether bitcoin directly or through a payment processor you are still providing the same amount of information to that shop. the difference is that using a payment processor (a legit one like BitPay not this crappy one in this fake news) makes it easy for the shops to set it up and also makes it possible for them to receive fiat while accepting bitcoin so they are not affected by the volatility.

no they have never depended on bitcoin price.

unfortunately this year as the altcoin dumps coincided with bitcoin price drop people started thinking that altcoins must follow bitcoin everywhere but the truth is altcoins only follow the drop other than that they are only moving based on their own pump and dumps.

and right now because altcoins have been severely pumped they are continuing their dumping period until they reach a reasonable price (aka bottom) and get ready to get pumped a gain and that can take a couple of months.

nobody cares about market capitalization except the altcoin bag holders who want to say their altcoin is worth something just because its market cap is higher than some abstract number. bitcoin's dominance is not its market cap and how big it is compared to the whole market.

bitcoin's dominance is the fact that it has the highest volume, the most number of investors, the most number of users including merchants and customers, and a lot of other real world factors that altcoins do not have which means bitcoin's dominance has always been near 100% even when its percentage of the market cap was going down because of altcoin pumps.

yes this is basically what happens every time that bitcoin has a rally. people pull their orders from altcoins and come back to bitcoin market and also because of arbitrage opportunities the altcoins continue going down versus bitcoin and USD while bitcoin continues its rise.
when bitcoin stops the rise and becomes stable, then the traders go back to focus on altcoins and pumps and make profit to get ready for the next bitcoin rally.

if by "end similar" you mean go to $9k+ then fall down to $5700 then no I disagree. it won't end similar. this time even if we end up seeing another drop the bottom of the drop should technically raise up a lot because each time a trend like this shapes up the boundaries will come higher, they won't be repeated.

besides we may not see another "big drop" this time anyways....

I don't think it has anything to do with decentralization. it is all about the "free market" and in that sense nothing would change with Lightning Network in my opinion. there will still be the same free market and if people choose to use altcoins then they will like so far that nobody ever chose altcoins for anything except for speculation and short term trading.

we need natural adoption for bitcoin where people see what bitcoin is as a decentralized currency and then choose freely to use it as such. we don't need to "lure in" any investors to come and buy bitcoin as speculation and pump the price up so that you can sell your coins at a higher price and be happy about a short lived profit that doesn't last.
we need real adoption where merchants start accepting bitcoin as payment and people all around the world freely use bitcoin without needing any third parties, governments approval, banks,... that is when bitcoin will grow and you can make "real profit" since that is the thing most people care about not with "institutional investors" coming in to speculate.

there is a big difference though!
the backlog in bitcoin was 90% spam attack against the network and most of that attack was from different campaigns wanting to force their scaling solution on bitcoin for their own purpose.
the backlog in ethereum was simply usage of it from ICOs and lots of other pointless transactions that are naturally occurring on it.

the difference is that bitcoin can handle its current adoption needs and handles the users' transactions well. but ETH can not even handle a small surge of transactions.

the centralized altcoins are not a cause of concern and they will never be.
however the newbishness of people who get involved in them is a big cause of concern in my opinion. you see when some altcoin is centralized but admits it, I don't see anything wrong with it. for example we have government issued centralized coins like Petro, we have centralized stable coins like Tether, ... and these are fine. but we have centralized altcoins which claim to be decentralized and fool people like XRP, ETH,... that is bad and the more people fall for the lies things would become worse.

everyone seems to become experts these days about bitcoin and its price so they want to spread their "expertise" about it also! and all of them without any exception are fools trying to gain some momentary fame on the internet and at the same time make their names heard.
otherwise they have no understanding of how bitcoin market works. sometimes their guesses come true and most of the times they are just forgotten since their guesses were pure bullshit.
in any case clickbait sites like the one OP is advertising love this kind of news.

I disagree. there is only one possibility, price will definitely increase in case ETF is approved by the SEC. and it won't be because ETF is a good thing or anything like that but it would be because of Fear Of Missing Out and pure speculation that bitcoin should rise because ETF was approved!
it doesn't have to even make sense, people have to believe in it and then act on this speculation for the price to go up. of course there is positive sides to such approval by SEC too but that will be more of a long term effect.

this is just showing how a lot of people want it to happen, which is pretty weird if you ask me! nobody really gains anything if ETF is approved, most people don't even know what ETF is! I think newbie investors are starting to get restless and want profit soon which is why they are rooting for ETF to be approved because they mainly speculate a huge rise if it is.

this was a decent topic apart from the following part which you even start the whole thing with:

everything about this is just wrong!
"forget about them for a few years"? depending on what coin you have this can be the worst decision of your entire life. for example these days a lot of people are bag holding ethereum but they forget that it has unlimited supply. in a few years when you come back instead of 100 million ETH, there will be 1 billion ETH in  circulation and that has already killed the price.

"Hopefully if everything goes right"? that just shows he investor has no  clue what he is doing. when you invest you shouldn't 'hope" you should analyze and make an educated decision.

that is hard to answer to be honest because long term is not just a fixed amount of profit. it is the futuristic value of bitcoin that is important. for example when I started with bitcoin and its price was about $200 I wasn't buying it to sell it at $1000 (400% profit). I was buying because I knew it can one day be worth a lot, possibly even $1 million. and of course there is always the fact that bitcoin is the only decentralized currency and I want to have a bigger share of this scarce currency.

with that said I have sold at $1000 but only a small amount. this is the long run game and the more bitcoin that I have the more successful I can be in the future. at the same time risk management suggests selling something at least to enjoy the profit. and for that I don't really set a % instead I look at the market and see whether I can predict a sure drop then I sell before it happens and I usually buy back after the drop.