the amazing part is in the number of shorts in the past 24 hours from people who have been desperately trying to make profit from bitcoin falling.
the more amazing part is going to be the amount of money this very same people are going to lose when price goes back up without going any lower than the price they wished it to reach.
that "wish" is the reason for all the negative stories FUD today.

Mostly its kinda normal at this time, when the market price of bitcoin is pumping people are just constantly talking about how bitcoin is going to pump at this price or reaching a million dollars or something, and so many price predictions online, mostly are good news about bitcoin to boost and pump the market price of bitcoin.

When the market price is dumping in bitcoin, most are panic selling and news is mostly bad news about it. I guess there are some manipulations where articles and news are kinda also controlled so that investors or companies could buy the cryptocurrency at a cheaper price make in the end make that profit.

It doesn't actually matter a lot in some individuals as long as you could with the movement of the market and sell when the market is green and buy when the market is red.

It is really sad to see so many people, who don't have a clue of what bitcoin is, attacking this coin. This is just another example of how social media has shown it can be used for good and for bad. To be honest it seems like the one thing BTC media is good at is spreading negative stories.
I really don't think it was just coincidence that the BTC downvoting and all the negative comments happened today at the same time. Perhaps that is why the positive voices are so few and far between.

I think the main lesson that can be learned from the past day, which can hardly be called a "black resurrection" is that rumors are sometimes stronger than objective and verified information. And bitcoin itself is already very much dependent not on the actual indicators of the cryptocurrency economy and ecosystem, but on ordinary speculators, as in other financial markets. In general, this is rather sad but not tragic at all. We all learn sometimes from mistakes to learn more useful than from successes. So we do not lose heart and are optimistic about the future.

This is similar to everything that happened in the previous bull markets like that of 2017. Halfway through the trend, series of negative news started to popup every now and then about Bitcoin that triggered several market dumps and the funny thing to even reason is the fact that altcoins would follow Bitcoin in digging a hole with dips. I will try to put some money together which I can use to buy some bitcoin and hodl for the next leg up.

The negative stories always go alongside the positive ones. This is not a problem at all. If you give more attention to the positive stories you will be bullish despite all these never-ending FUDs. And, well, Bitcoin's strength grew during those times when almost all stories about it are negative. There is no reason to fear and doubt now. If you do, Bitcoin doesn't care and will continue to grow.

By the way, are you the real @scottmelker?

These stories were part of the traders and newcomers trying to make short term profit. Now the sudden decline in the market have caused a big disappointment and the outcome are these stories. Once again the marketcap have begun to increase, but this time it looks like the bull trend for the altcoins. Maybe after a small break the market of bitcoin will progress slowly.

There will always be FUD around Bitcoin and the whole cryptocurrency industry for that matter. I am not saying that these fake news can be positive, but one reason for this phenomenon is the fact that Bitcoin is now getting really valuable and many players are exerting any influence they can to push or downplay its value for their own personal interest. The kind of dynamism involved with and in Bitcoin is telling us that more and more people are getting interested with this digital asset and with the coming in of institutional money there is no stopping its train. We have to remember that FUD will most likely targeted on something that has real value and not anymore that is worthless.

I too feel like its trick which financial services used to do in the early days, when they wanted to get into something, they just announce that the item is not worth the price and quality/features are very bleak. The institutional buyers are getting into crypto everyday now and it will be more harder to spread these FUDs. Also the heavy players like Microstrategy are here to stay with buying crypto in every dip.