The halving was a major event that attracted many new investors to bitcoins, some started investing seriously some months to the halving just so to make some profit from it.The halving was what attracted them, but now that the halving has come and gone, do you think that the number of new investors will reduce for the now until the next halving is close again?
The influx of new investors to Bitcoin is dependent on the marketing strategy of companies that integrate Bitcoin as their main business. It is very dependent on how these companies put hype on the post-halving event and how they condition the minds of people on the supply of Bitcoin getting scarcer every 4 years. Aside from that, the effect of the Bitcoin price surge and how these companies' marketing arms interpret and make use of the uptrend pattern of Bitcoin after the halving to create FOMO to their audience the same way they make a discounted mind set when the Bitcoin market decline.
With the approval of spot ETF, many possible Bitcoin investors will likely get interested but the current surge in Bitcoin fees might hinder these incoming investors. As of today, I believe the major hindrance of Bitcoin adoption, or investors getting into Bitcoin is the Dev allowing BRC20 token and the likes of Ordinals and Rune that discourage small-scale investors due to making the transaction fees sky rocket.
We don't have statistics from that but to think of it,
Why not? There are statistics (albeit with some reservations) - this is the current bitcoin'sprice. If this price rises, it means there is a demand for this asset, which is created by those same new investors.
Or some wealthy groups do wash trading to inflate the volume of the coins and at the same time inflate the price. Bitcoin is often subjected to that, IMO, if the price of surging Bitcoin is not maintainable, there may be a group of people who purposely inflate the price for the purpose of dumping their stash later on.
But if the Bitcoin price increase is maintained, I agree that there is new money from new investors coming into the Bitcoin market.