{"id":862809,"date":"2025-07-16T02:12:19","date_gmt":"2025-07-16T07:12:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/16\/nobody-cares-fear-i-already-missed-out-may-be-overpowering-fomo-in-bitcoin-market\/"},"modified":"2025-07-16T02:12:19","modified_gmt":"2025-07-16T07:12:19","slug":"nobody-cares-fear-i-already-missed-out-may-be-overpowering-fomo-in-bitcoin-market","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/16\/nobody-cares-fear-i-already-missed-out-may-be-overpowering-fomo-in-bitcoin-market\/","title":{"rendered":"Nobody cares \u2013 Fear I Already Missed Out may be overpowering FOMO in Bitcoin market"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\"bitcoins Nobody cares \u2013 Bitcoin FOMO may be over in an era of FIAMO (Fear I Already Missed Out)<\/span> Liam ‘Akiba’ Wright \u00b7<\/span> 2 months ago<\/span> \u00b7 3 min read<\/span> <\/span> <\/span> <\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n

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Google search trends show dwindling excitement despite Bitcoin’s astonishing market ascent.<\/p>\n

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3 min read<\/span><\/p>\n

Updated:<\/span> May. 22, 2025 at 2:52 pm UTC<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Bitcoin trades above $110,000<\/strong> today, while Google Trends data for \u201cbitcoin\u201d sits at 38.\u00a0<\/output><\/p>\n

This afternoon, a Midtown Manhattan barista will glance at a phone ticker showing $110,630. He\u2019ll shrug and keep steaming milk.<\/p>\n

The mood lines up with the data as searches for the word have stayed in the low-40 band for months<\/a>, the same range seen when Bitcoin cost under $30,000.<\/p>\n

Perhaps we\u2019re now entering FIAMO<\/strong>, short for \u2018Fear I Already Missed Out.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Bitcoin search trends (Source: Google)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Big money is moving instead. BlackRock\u2019s iShares Bitcoin Trust regularly brings in multiple times more than miners create. Bitwise chief Hunter Horsley noted the contrast. \u201cPublic interest, especially among ordinary investors, has substantially dropped,\u201d he told FinanceFeeds<\/a>, \u201ceven as price rockets to fresh highs.\u201d<\/p>\n

Bitcoins Numbers back FIAMO Narrative<\/h2>\n

Exchange volume numbers back the FIAMO narrative as Coinbase cleared $78 billion<\/a> in retail trades during the first quarter of 2025, barely half the average seen in 2021.<\/p>\n

The exchange saw explosive growth in 2021 as retail activity ballooned more than 7-fold versus 2020, mirroring the overall crypto bull run. Then, crypto winter hit retail hardest, volumes fell 69% in 2022 and another 55% in 2023.<\/p>\n

In 2024, a rebound in prices, approval of U.S. spot-Bitcoin ETFs, and improved market sentiment drove retail volume up 195 % year-on-year. Now, Q1 2025 retail spot volume is down from the exceptional Q4 2024 but still above any quarter in 2023, helped by Bitcoin\u2019s new all-time highs early in the year.<\/p>\n

People can\u2019t or won\u2019t buy a whole coin<\/strong>, and many still feel that fractions look like scraps.<\/p>\n

While\u00a0<\/span>unit bias<\/a> is just arithmetic, it is very powerful psychologically. Exchanges push to \u201cbuy $10 of BTC,\u201d yet a six-figure sticker keeps newcomers frozen.<\/span>\u00a0Owning 0.001 BTC feels small, even though it equals the full spot price of 2013. Until wallets talk in satoshis, that mental block will linger.<\/p>\n

Also, memories of the 2022 wipe-out still sting, with many awaiting redemptions or having lost considerable sums. FTX, Celsius, and Three Arrows vanished in weeks, erasing life savings and confidence. Many small traders promised themselves they would never chase parabolic charts again. That promise now shows up in every flat search curve.<\/p>\n

Veteran desks say the lull will not last<\/a> as capital that flows through ETFs often filters into broader retail channels later, once friends and family notice the gains on retirement statements. A similar lag followed the gold-ETF boom in 2005. So the next wave may arrive with a gentler face, automatic paycheck purchases rather than late-night leverage.<\/p>\n

However, pension funds in Wisconsin won\u2019t see the gains anymore after it sold all of its Bitcoin ETF holdings<\/a> for a considerable profit.<\/p>\n

Still, quiet search charts have fooled the crowd before<\/a>. In past cycles, the Google curve peaked months after price highs, once headlines seeped through to casual investors. If history rhymes, FIAMO could flip back to plain old FOMO.<\/p>\n

Bitcoins Politics and Bitcoin<\/h2>\n

Politics now also adds another layer to the Bitcoin and crypto Zeitgeist. President Donald Trump believes that \u201cOur country must be the leader in the field\u201d and is a staunch Bitcoin proponent, aiming to roll out a Strategic Bitcoin Reserve.\u00a0The\u00a0<\/span>shift in Trump\u2019s attitude to Bitcoin<\/a> turns Bitcoin from a rebel asset to a state resource, a shift that can\u2019t help but dull the thrill for some weekend traders, especially those outside the US with a \u2018less than favorable\u2019 view of the man.<\/span><\/p>\n

Within Trump\u2019s MAGA base, more focus is given to Official TRUMP memecoins and World Liberty Financial stablecoins than to Bitcoin. Trump voters aren\u2019t buying Bitcoin en masse, though they are cheering on the government turning Ross Ulbricht\u2019s Bitcoin<\/a> into a strategic reserve.<\/p>\n

Aligning Bitcoin so closely with right-of-center politics is likely to negatively affect those on the other side of the political spectrum. However, I believe the blame for politicizing Bitcoin is bipartisan. Politicians who revile Trump\u2019s broader policies should compartmentalize Bitcoin from those issues. <\/span><\/p>\n

Bitcoin has no party<\/strong> and no politics<\/strong> within the traditional financial system. <\/span><\/p>\n

Until we are free from fiat, it is Bitcoin or nothing<\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n

As Satoshi said,<\/p>\n

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\u201cMaybe instead make it about the open source project and give more credit to your dev contributors; it helps motivate them.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

For now, the signals are plain: ETFs soak up supply, policy wraps Bitcoin in reserve language, and Google\u2019s trend line hardly moves.<\/p>\n

The largest digital asset continues to smash all conceivable records while most onlookers barely look up.<\/p>\n

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Nobody cares \u2013 Bitcoin FOMO may be over in an era of FIAMO (Fear I Already Missed Out) Liam ‘Akiba’ Wright \u00b7 2 months ago \u00b7 3 min read Google search trends show dwindling excitement despite Bitcoin’s astonishing market ascent. 3 min read Updated: May. 22, 2025 at 2:52 pm UTC Cover art\/illustration via CryptoSlate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":862810,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30281,1046],"tags":[11476],"class_list":["post-862809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cares","category-nobody","tag-bitcoins"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/862809","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=862809"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/862809\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/862810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=862809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=862809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=862809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}