I agree it is too early to draw conclusions, as the decline in January has been going on for several years, there may not be a repeat of 2017, but I hope the year will give good results for the crypto as a whole.
Several years? as far as I know, we started moving downward in early 2018 and right now we are in Q1 2018. Which means, it is only a year of time. Did not know that we were on the decline for a couple years.
About our future, if we are talking about our history. More likely this year, the price will start to recover its price. Just like before when Bitcoin got dumped so hard in 2014 and 2015 the price started to recover some of its value.