But to understand the dynamic that led to this year’s depressing year for crypto, we actually should start a few years before 2018. In bitcoin’s early days, Mt. Gox was the go-to service for handling transactions. Then, in 2014, it halted transactions and slowly copped to a crypto-hack to the tune of $473 million, the biggest hack of its kind at the time, and it gave many people pause. But it was still early enough for people to believe that the blockchain system was still getting all the technical kinks out.
With all of these shortcomings facing most of the competition, Safemoon is definitely in trouble. The Safemoon team has to do a lot to make the play competitive. Otherwise, not many people will be interested in this Safemoon. This means low demand, and this is how the value of Safemoon’s coin will plummet.

While still on the tokenomics, Safemoon does not offer investors better returns than competing companies like Bitrise. That's the reason why over the last few weeks, there has been a mass movement of Safemoon community members joining Bitrise. This includes Safemoon whales. One of the reasons for this movement is better ROI from Safemoon competing coins.
After that, five percent of the tax is then allocated to people who still own SafeMoon currency. This is to prevent the price from dropping as people start selling the token.