I don't see any other news that could impact this current bitcoin price but I heard miners are now selling their BTC however, the reason why they sell it is because they are going to buy new equipment before halving. I just heard it from social media comments and Cryptopanic.
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panic? Lol, so you're supposed to keep your cool and DYOR on it ?

This mining thing makes little sense, I mean, why?

First you don't sell now to buy gear for the halving as Bitmain and Microbt are already full of orders, Mara has a delivery scheduled for Q3 2024!
Now, about getting ready for the halving, to make the same profits per th/s after it you need double the price, if you know this doubling in price would happen , why would you buy gear and not BTC, not even going into the thing of selling it for cash for gear for getting satoshi..
Let's take the s21, I'm not going for more efficiency but for lower th/$, cheap as hell kwh 4cents, no other costs (unicorn realms!).
That thing will burn $3.36 and will get you $16, assuming you have by delivery 60 days till having, you've made ~750, you have ~3200 to cover.
So if the price goes up immediately after the halving you still need half a year to ROI, assuming the others don't move in.
If the price jump happens 6 months after the halving then you have ~1000 and need another 4 months to cover till full ROI.
So why not buy Bitcoin now, store that with no incurring cost of expanding, months of pad wages and so on?
If you anticipate the price spike will happen fast then it makes no sense not buying Bitcoin now.
If you anticipate the halving not affecting the price immediately it makes no sense expanding and not well into it!
Anyhow this would be simple to validate or invalidate as a theory, all the big guys are listed on the stock exchange and will have to release their holdings, some in order to gain more trust and more investors do it monthly, some like core are forced to do since their are under chapter11, so we will probably see how much of it is true by early February but for me it would be a shock to be honest.