Right now most people are still scared, otherwise the market would've heated up significantly.
I would say no. Zero people in this thread are currently scared their BTC "investment" could evaporate and leave them holding the bag. They're all currently "HODLing" looking to dump on whatever whale manipulator is dumb enough to try and manipulate it higher. In such situations where everyone is holding and looking to dump on whoever raises it, the only real way it can go up is if it's a govt created scam to try and distract people away from physical metals and the ESF just sets money on fire to rig the price up and accomplish that task. Or if the manipulator himself has far more coins than the peons looking to dump on him.
Again, I would say this is totally false as well. In this forum and every other forum I've seen, the general spam is all "if you buy just 1 bitcoin and HODL you will be a trillionaire". If you look at any type of web crawler metrics, bitcoin is most popular in the most asinine of places like "incel" forums. That's all they talk about. Their general mantra is make believing you can erase 20 years of bad life choices simply by buying some shitcoins. It's hilarious. All of this nonsense is based on desperation.
Instead of the smart guys in the room buying low and dumping on the general public, most of these shitcoiners make believe THEY'RE the smart guys in the room (Micgoossens) and will somehow be able to dump on the actual smart guys. There are so many complete fools and fly by night scammers in craptocurrency that have somehow been able to make profits dumping on some amorphous sky entity that just should not be there to dump on, that anyone with a rational brain at all has had to of questioned just who/what is propping this market up.
*Cough* a single entity operating on the fraudulent exchange Bitfinex (either Bitmain, Bitfinex owners, TBTF banks, or the ESF) manipulating it all the way from $200 to $20,000 with tethers and other fraud.