I have put considerable effort into this analysis at this critical juncture.
Just in case I am wrong, I am still hodling most of my BTC.
I think it is very, very likely that Tether fails in 2022 as China’s commercial paper is defaulting, Senators such as Lummis are calling for transparency and regulation for stable coins, and Biden contemplating a E.O. for a crypto tzar. The other stablecoins are well backed and are preparing to work with the banking sector for FDIC insurance which could send crypto to the moon after the posited Tether devastation.
Remember I could be wrong. So don’t bet the farm on any particular outcome.
A decline to 26k this Nov/Dec at that volume profile (VPVR) spike would not entirely invalidate TechDev’s thesis, so that would still have the FOMO fuel for another bull trap Spring bounce into $60 – 85k. Michael Saylor and Tesla probably wouldn’t capitulate at 26k and instead buy more.
The real fireworks would come with a Tether collapse in late Spring or summer 2022. Frankly 8k might be possible. We’d have whales capitulating (while not realizing they’ll soon have a huge income tax bill to pay for the free airdrop over 60k which they weren’t aware of). Arguing with a rogue, mafia that the IRS will become will not be fruitful. Even those who do sell that posited bull trap will probably hold proceeds in Tether and thus lose everything.
Jim Cramer will get his chance to purchase Bitcoin below 10k as he predicted.
The ride from 8k (or maybe only 18k) to $200+k will be ostensibly driven by FDIC insured stablecoins, elimination of USDT market manipulation, so that a spot price ETF can be approved in the U.S.. In other words, the masses and major institutions will finally onboard and then be fleeced of everything by the posited donations attack which obliterates the cryptocosm and prepares the plebs to be pushed on to 666 central bank digital coins (CBDCs) whilst legacy Bitcoin will march on to $1+ million but in a two-tiered monetary system on for central banks and billionaires to use. FATF will blacklist the donated BTC that was fleeced by the miners, but not until after the miners have cashed out their massive gains to finance the “attack” which is really just a restoration of the Nash equilibrium for Satoshi’s immutable protocol.