Well one cannot tell whether their prediction will come to fulfilment at the end of this year because anything can happen in crypto currency market since no single person has the power to influence the market value of Bitcoin and other alternative crypto currency value.
The downward trend of the entire cryptocurrency market from the beginning of the year was enormous. 2018 will be a tough year for coding. This is not surprising since since the launch of Bitcoin so far no year without difficulty. But we can see that there are long strides in technology and confidence in this new digital currency is growing.