How is bitcoin not going to reach 50k and bitcointalk/CMC losing influence connected? I don't get the connection. Or is there something I missed? Bitcointalk and CMC losing influence is actually a good thing, whether you like it or not. The biggest names losing influence means that there's good competition going on. Which is good overall to decrease centralization in the space.
That and we have actual business news organizations starting to cover Bitcoin and it's movements, Bitcointalk will continue on but with a lot more altcoin discussion. Which is fine especially if the main developer area stays untouched we don't need or want the spam in there anyways.