What I think caused the death of crypto, is for years this was a market full of very bad "unsophisticated" investors, and in 2017 many techincal people, even myself included, "regular" traders, famous fund managers, all kind of people coming to pull money out of the bubble.
The "unsophisticated" bagHODLers never sell, why would they? It is going up!
And then serious people came and milked it.
Last time it was MtGox, you had almost no way to buy crypto anymore, and all the bagHODLers back then instantly lost all of their money.
This time every one is trying to milk them.
Since this market only cash inflow are foolish gamblers, and cash outflows are plenty, I doubt it can go up "to the moon" ever again, any new cash inflow will be milked, by me and others like me. An uptrend? Let me go long and cash out effectivly taking money out of a zero-sum market.
Oh and the awesome thing about crypto is "you cannot print money out of thin air" unlike fiat, so any money I rob from there is NEVER going back into that market ;)
If that makes sense. The money can only reappear when new investors buy or old investors put their latest paycheck in.
It can ONLY go to zero. Very basic maths.