* Zero storage cost.
* Globally portable.
* Censorship resistant.
Very difficult to confiscate store of value.
You may not like it but BTC will always be in demand as long as authoritarian regimes, fiat debasement, geopolitical uncertainty, and capital controls exist. And yes it has substantial illegal use and money laundering even if it is distasteful.
But anyway this conversation has been had a thousand times. By now either you get it or you dont. Gold is not going up bc there's a surge in demand for wedding rings or sunglasses lol...
I get what you're saying, and my experience is totally the same. But.. when I really think about it, I find my prior feelings of conviction tend to grow in posterity when there's a positive result.. and vice versa for not-so-great results.
If you can just manage to cut out the:
a) fomo
b) 'its already ran so must drop'
c) 'its already dropped so must rise'
and see what's left.. it helps alot.