All this buying and we can barely move the needle… If this breaks out with follow-through to 125k — it’s a continuation of the 5-wave. But if it stalls here after barely clearing the high, it’s not a breakout — it’s a B-wave fakeout. No momentum = no continuation. And if that’s the case… it’s done like dinner — Wave C inbound.
I should have narrowed my quotation. I was responding to the retail is out of the game generalisation. Apart from that it was a well thought out post,albeit biased to the downside for maximum needle effect and attention.
2017-2021: Retail Mania Era $5K got you half a BTC in 2017 — life-changing if you held Everyone had a Coinbase account or a robin hood account I couldn't go anywhere without the topic comingup. The narrative was hope, and the driver was hype 2024–2025: Reality Era $5K gets you 0.05 BTC now — and nobody brags about that The noise has died down Retail is priced out, and many got burned Gamestop, Doge, SHIB… all left emotional scars Silence = disinterest — it means retail has exited the casino What’s Actually Happening Now Institutional money is accumulating quietly ETFs like BITO, IBIT, and your portfolio proxies are absorbing that capital Bitcoin has matured — the get-rich crowd is gone, replaced by institutional buying.
dogecoin is likely to have an ETF this year. And everything crypto related on the stock market is just going bonkers.