The FUD course by North Korea and China are the main responsibility of the current decline of the market Value of bitcoin and altcoins in recent time. And the current decline has create an avenue for newbies and rational investors to invest more at this time that the value is low.
Also, someone said that CME contract expired 1/17, which means that the short is expiring now.
I couldn't find a source to confirm that, but if it's true, then Bitcoin will be pumped massively. And the alts will recover with it.