it was a self fufilling thing, once it started it couldn't stop. It's why everybody dived in headfirst and FOMO'd harder than probably ever before. I got caught up in the hype and averaged up (dumbest move of my life). Now i'm just going to invest in preico alt coins with big traditional support from the people like softbank, so when the market pops again or doesn't, blockchain just gets accepted by the mainstream, the ICO will pop and actually do well as a business