Having confidence in bitcoin and see it as an investment that's worth throwing some value in for the future will make you ready and prepared for whatever ups and downs the price movement will be. As long as you are investing with your discretionary income weekly/monthly, you will have a rest of mind.

Another thing is when you have a bitcoin target as a goal for you to accumulate, you will not think about the price fluctuation but only stacking. Profits shouldn't be put as priority, it can lead to panic.

Bitcoin investment usually depends on the Bitcoin investor holding, if you are holding Bitcoin for a long term then you can buy Bitcoin at any time. Whenever you hold Bitcoin for a short term then you have to consider the ups and downs of the Bitcoin market, you will buy the dip and when the dip comes out then you will sell it when the Bitcoin price goes up.
If you buy and sell Bitcoin in the short term then you will have the highest chance of losing money because you will never think about which direction the Bitcoin market will move. That is why long term Bitcoin investment is the most important and depends on the investor's control, the more Bitcoin you hold for a long time the more you will be ready to get benefits.

That's propaganda war! People who are using Bitcoin for a couple of years, are usually not affected. Because they have seen all kinds of ups and downs in the market and they have also seen bitcoin breaching 100k threshold. So they shouldn't be worried at all. The problem is with the new users who have not experienced a crash yet. So they get FOMO quite easily and feel anxious about their investment decisions.

Personally I don't care about the direction of the market. Every dip is an opportunity for me. But a lot of people wouldn't understand this mindset. Random news definitely do not bother me anymore.

For someone new into the world of bitcoin, i guess they would easily be scared of any sudden price movement in the market. Fact is they fail to know what type of investors they are. For long term investment you have little need of checking the market and keeping updated with the news. There are so many happenings in the market that we don't have to keep note of so we don't make rash decisions that may endanger our investments. For the short term traders, it's their business checking the market all the time so they don't get lost in the market...

For me the moment of realization was when the fiat price of my coins went up and down for the first time, but the bear market lows in 2019 happened to still be 4x above my entry price. At that point I knew that I'll never be at a loss as long as I keep my coins safe. It's been 6 years since that day and I'm still a happy holder.

I make sure I take some profit when bitcoin reaches a new ATH and that profit is enough to keep me going, holding the rest of my coins for another year or two and then there's going to be another big pump. Also, I've seen bitcoin go down by 70% and I just bought more. I did it in 2019 and again in 2022, so why should I panic at something like a 10% correction?

In as much as you are in this industry and have the major part of your investment in crypto, you will in one way or the other always react to the market. But as an OG or an experienced investor, your reaction will be moderate compared to a new investor.

The reaction of a Hodler will be quite different from a trader or a short term investor. In the same vein, the reaction of someone who holds his coin in a secured hardware wallet will be different from the reaction of the person that holds his coins in an exchange.

Every Bitcoin holder always writes their own story based on the strategy adopted by each individual, long-term investors will be calmer in facing any challenges such as a decline after making a purchase because they believe Bitcoin will grow stronger after a correction, short-term or daily traders are more anxious with slightly weak market sentiment, but the high volatility that occurs in the Bitcoin market always has many sweet stories behind it (Especially those who are able to survive).
Investors who are more familiar with Bitcoin than other assets will find it easier to control themselves because the cycles that occur in the market are not something new and have been experienced before, they find it easier to deal with the situation because they are immune to the issues available in the media.

Desensitized? Sure. Not that I am a cold-blooded robot, or a crypto monk who is unaffected by dopamine surges. I just got tired. tired of the circus: headline, charts, the "BREAKING: panic" and "URGENT: euphoria" news cycles. Investor sentiment has become  a toggle switch - turn it on, FOMO, turn it off, FUD, repeat.

The more you spend time in these waters, the more you understand: Bitcoin has value in every line of code, in every block, and in how the network stays together without anyone needing permission. Freedom. Time. The cycles are mere noise. Look at the signal, the hard cap, the consensus, the inability to print more just because you are bored. That is what I anchor to.

Does that mean I never feel anxious? Please. I am a human. Once in a while, I see the candlesticks and my lizard brain twitches. Sell? Buy? Run? But then, i breathe, stop, context: what has changed? Block by block, same math, same rules. The news does not tie my freedom. My resolve is layered: time, study, conversation, scars from dumb trades.

Human beings are not desensitized, but they are made realistic. You are reacting to everything, and then you realize this is the play they want. That is how control works: not through information, but through how you respond to it. Most never graduate from the noise. Others learn to silence it. Fewer build with it.

Hang around long enough and you will find yourself reading the same stories with different faces, same desire to dominate, same devices of fear, of hope. The real immunity? It is not about avoiding news it is about knowing the purpose of the broadcast. Who wants you impulsive? How come this cycle keeps on repeating itself?

It's not about how long one has been involved in bitcoin that determines how one response to news and factors that looks like one that will affect bitcoin price. Even if you've been involved in bitcoin for a year, two or even a circle, as long as you're holding a good chunk of BTC, everything that happens and has the tendency of influencing bitcoin price to a certain direction will tend to affect every investor even if it's going to reduce with how long an investor has stayed invested in bitcoin.

At the speculation board where you find a lot of old investors that have been in the game for a long period of time, regardless of the news and the momentary DIP in bitcoin price, they've always hold Thier ground really strong such that it seems as though it's not affecting them at all. I am more unbothered at the now than I was at my early phase of my bitcoin investment and the reason is that I've seen a lot of recoveries even after bitcoin went really down and that in addition with some fact I have now is enough reason to remain invested and unmoved regardless of the market sentiment.

Its not a mater of how long but one of how well have you understood and followed up with the trends seen on bitcoin and other related assets. discipline is even the primary thing you should be training yourself on how to manage first because if you are disciplined enough to abiding by principles you have learnt over the years and have been able to imbibe them into you trading and investing habit, then you need no desensitization to be bale to not yield to any of those news that would cause you to make irrational and impulsive moves while making trading or investment plans.

Even if you stay long enough on Bitcoin and you don't have a good strategy and discipline with which you imbibe to enable you trade and invest well, you will still fall for all of that when ever it happens. its for me more of self discipline and you been conscious of that which you are doing and trying to achieve to be able to get a stable mind that will not be moved by any of such.