This market moves so fast that being away for one year is the equivalent of being away for several years in other markets, if you had being holding bitcoin or other similar cryptocurrencies then you should be doing well since we saw an important recovery during the second quarter but most other coins have been doing badly, this is not surprising since there is no need to invest in such coins when bitcoin gave 3x during this year and many top altcoins gave something similar.
When I saw this market, I was already building the hate speech that I will give you until I saw that you were referring to bitcoin lol, because the only market that has fully been doing well is only that of bitcoin while altcoins are still very much stagnant, and stagnant is even still an understatement.
Most altcoins aside the top altcoins are seriously dying every day and it will take lots of energy for them to be revived again, so while he was gone, if he had invested in bitcoin as at that time during the bear market, I am sure he would have been back by now smiling because most of the investment in bitcoin that I did during that time he was away has really been a good one for me. I have made several profits within that space while the other altcoins are still struggling.
I was lucky then to not get that speech, but in all seriousness altcoins will have lots of problems to recover, it seems to me the trust that investors had in altcoins is lost and once that trust is lost there is not much to do, for a long time I have only invested in bitcoin and ethereum since I do not trust in any other coin, and while many may not like my strategy as it is too conservative it is also a great strategy since it saves me from all the losses I could get if I invested in unknown coins.