Everyone here likes to "hodl". It makes sense. Bitcoin has spiked before and provided investors with 10x return or more, and then proceeded to talk 50-80%. This is normal bitcoin behavior and seems to happen again and again, and it always seems to recover and bounce even higher. From that perspective, I totally understand people wanting to remain steadfast and hodl.
That being said, it is now over. Bitcoin is done with this pattern and will not spike again like it has in the past.
The landscape for crypto has fundamentally changed recently. Bitcoin used to be the only option for many people to invest in crypto. The reason it would rise is because there was a large, untapped population of investors who were willing to log into Coinbase and invest because it was very easy to do, and there was a lot of money to be made. Now, this is being spread out among altcoins. While bitcoin itself is championed as being this great deflationary currency, ironically, crypto as a whole is infinitely inflationary as more and more alt coins are created, and made easily accessible on services like Coinbase.
Previously it was one choice - you log into Coinbase and you buy bitcoin. Now it is 4, and this number will only rise. This, on top of government threats, and technical/scalability issues with Bitcoin, are why this pattern is over.
I do not expect Bitcoin to ever set a new all time high again.
So are you saying that right now, crypto has already reached its maximum potential? I think you'll agree with me in saying that crypto has not even unlocked half of its potential yet, I'd say that less than 10% of the world population actually has investments in crypto, and the countries which need it the most like Venezuela which has hyperinflation on a daily basis has not yet fully adopted it.
These are all potential for bitcoin to keep growing, which I believe will be the case.
Right now, there may be a "crypto winter" like people like to say. But after that there will be pumps. All time high could be broken again, or at least that's my opinion.
Of course, you shouldn't put all your eggs in one basket. Even as a bitcoin bull, I'm diversifying into silver, gold, fiat, stocks, etc. so that in any scenario, I've still got some savings left.
