Purely subjectively, this bear has been far more disspiriting than the 2018-19 one. Perhaps because it has been significantly longer, perhaps because we never even got the bull market we were hoping for, perhaps it's just that the world seems like a far darker place post all the covid insanity...

The discourse within Bitcoin also seems noticeably worse than in 2018-19. It feels like there is another block size war brewing. This time it isn't over any particular proposed change to bitcoin, but rather over the idea that there ought to be any more changes to bitcoin at all.