Of course, in recent days each of us have been wondering why we could not just go up from here and get above $46k "as we were scheduled" in order to increase confidences that the $32,951 bottom is in.

That bottom still might end up being in, but I am doubting that its odds are better than 50/50.. and it's not like I go much beyond 50/50 in anything that I say regarding short term BTC price anyhow.. even though I feel that I do tend to have my leanings that error on the side of our being in a bull market (even when we are not.. hahahahahaha... those kinds of biases of mine have not really damaged me too much psychologically nor financially in the past 8-ish years)...

In recent months, we have had folks proclaiming that we are in a bear market, and gosh some of these proclamations go back to May-ish of last year... and some of them have been ongoing, consistent and persistent and others have been more opportunistic to be materializing during the more DOWNity times of whatever correction that we are in at the time.. and surely others come after the fact and say "I told you so - look at my post x, y and z."

A frequent underlying fear continues to be whether something like 2018 could repeat... If you might recall (or look at the charts), we had around 5 or 6 times of visiting and revisiting the "support" at $6k, so the feeling was that $6k had to be a pretty damned solid-bottom... so in that sense by the time we got to September/October/November 2018, there was quite a bit of growth in confidence from a broad section of the BTC HODLers that $6k was the bottom... because it had been tested so many times.

So then our current question could be the price arena of $30k.. Is $30k really a bottom for this era... has it been tested sufficiently and strongly enough, and could we end up in a similar situation as we had experienced with our nearly 50% break of BTC price support below $6k once it happened in mid-November 2018?

Personally, I hate to become too cocky regarding whatever BTC price related beliefs that I have because so many times there have been overshooting.. and not just exaggerated overshootings but something that really seems to border upon extreme overshooting - even though sometimes some BTC price points do seem quite difficult to achieve (in spite of proclamations of their inevitability) and also there has to be a lot of tree shaking to get us to even get to something like $28,600 - if we were to get there... however, we also know that if multiple tested bottoms end up tending to have more bottom if they end up getting breached..

I really hate going down this bear-talkening road, and for sure, I hate to be presuming that support is going to break at various BTC price levels.. because we have had many times in which reversals end up happening before the price gets even close to theoretical "support" levels, and those waiting for further bottoms.. end up getting screwed because they really are not sufficiently prepared for UP.

Many of us who have been participating in this thread for a few years have gotten ourselves sufficiently prepared for UP.. so I amnot really too worried about many of us, even if there are some of the guys/gals herein who do seem to want to trade these kinds of conditions that may not really work out too well for them in the end.

I am not going to presume that lower $30ks won't get tested, even though I am considering that any breach below $30k would have difficulties getting anywhere close to even a 30% correction from there (which would be right around $20k).. and I am not sure if I am saying anything controversial.. ... and how much should we even have any dry powder still in reserves for prices below $35/$36k is surely a matter of personal discretion and could well be funds that ONLY serve as insurance rather than being anything that would realistically end up being used..   For sure, I am not against attempting to maintain insurance whenever feasible, and surely I am for neither running out of fiat for the drops that could come nor running out of BTC for any price rises that may end up happening...

I am not sure of lower numbers. I'm not into bullish or bearish nonsense, cuz I trade in sh!tcoins. But I do analyze what the "BTCig Puba" does so I can swing trade based on how the wind blows. And what I have 100% certainty is that anything under $52K is a dip.

You can certainly run it that way.  BUT most of the node in a box distros are based on a RPi platform.  So it will be a little more DYI I think... I think the next best thing would be one of the docker containers... not sure what's current in that regard.

I have run Bitcoin servers on Old desktops, old laptops, rack servers, VPS instances, Amazon VPSes, RPis, and even a Celeron based QNAP NAS via docker containers.

The RPi nodes are BY FAR the best choice for a home setup.  They are low power, and easy to tuck somewhere next to your hub and always turned on. I think they are by far the best choice as long as you do not intend to do heavy duty business on them, in which case, if no $$$ was an object rack servers in a cage at some well endowed server warehouse... living in Dallas that would be easy...  But I think even if I wanted to run a little commerce I could get pretty far using the Raspiblitz for the node and the BTCPay server before needing to upgrade.

I have been itching to build a Seed Signer and am also super sad that the Pi Zero W models seem to be impossible to get.    https://seedsigner.com/

Too much to hope for?  Yeah yeah... lines of hope.