Some posts from this thread should be sticky in crypto section.
@OP Hard to say if this cryptos will recover, probably not. Crypto is speculation, market dont have any "real" reason to go up. Maybe in few years there will be one more cyrpto bubble but personally i dont think so.
Crypto market is quite big right now, bitcoin capitalization is 100 bilions usd, whole crypto market is probably ~1000 bilions USD (so 1 trilion USD).
Whole world stock market capitalization is around 100 trilion USD so crypto market is small compared to stock market.
Now lets say we want whole crypto market to grow by 100%, it would mean we need 1 trilion USD pumped in crypto market.
Lets say we want crypot market to grow by 1000% (btc would cost $60k by then) - we need 10 trilions usd.
So as you can see in theory crypto market can rise, but it probably wont because there is no real reason to rise, its speculation, coins produce no real value and tons of money would be needed to rise crypto market by 10 times for example.
P.S. Every era had its bubble
Back in 2000 there was end of IT buble, any company related to IT was going up on stock market, no matter if this company was actually earning money or not.
In 2008 there was end of real estate buble, before 2008 i saw many companies from real estate niche doing 500%/year on stock market for no reason.
2017-18 - maybe its end of crypto bubble.
Look for new bubble, it will be there for sure, jump on train early enough and you can make millions.
P.S. Probably next bubble (or one of next bubbles) will be AI (artificial intelligence, the singularity) bubble. When we will be close to real singularity small and big fishes on stock market will know that company that will create singularity will open new era of humanity so i bet people may buy stocks of any companies related to AI in future just to jump on train.
P.P.S.
Some might say crypto is dead and some may say it will 100x
To rise crypto market by 100 times so every coin is worth 100 times more than its worth now we would need 100 trilions USD all money on all stock markets on the globe. This just wont hapen, 10x rise also wont happen. Low x times may happen, but still there is no real reason for that.
P.P.P.S
Stock market is really high right now, crypto is far away from its maxes. Sooner or later stock market will crash, people will stell stocks and thats when cryptos in theory can rise because some people who earned $$ on stock market may be interested in investing $$ somewhere while stock market is falling. Thats pure speculation but it may happen, so guys look for signs of big crash on US stock market and than look on crypto market - if there will be signs that trend is changing on crypto market it may be time to buy.