My personal prediction, that will likely be false on all accounts:
1) BTC will stay above USD 10,000,-, it might be a close call though.
2) Alts will see yet another boom, but the growth will be mostly unsustainable. We'll see changes in the top coins as some currently hyped alts fall from grace and get superseded by others.
3) BTC will come close to USD 50,000,- at one point in 2018, but not be able to stabilize on that level.
1) BTC will stay above USD 10,000,-, it might be a close call though.
2) Alts will see yet another boom, but the growth will be mostly unsustainable. We'll see changes in the top coins as some currently hyped alts fall from grace and get superseded by others.
3) BTC will come close to USD 50,000,- at one point in 2018, but not be able to stabilize on that level.
Alts will go up with bitcoin, bitcoin won't affect them negatively this year. But I think bitcoin can make at most $40.000 this year, within 2018.
The interesting part will be to see whether one of the alts manages to decouple itself from BTC, which I don't quite see happening yet.
Most alts still get pulled down when BTC drops. ETH decouples at times, but still mostly follows BTC's movement. BCH only decouples during hype events, but for the most part still seems to follow BTC's market trend. XRP looks mostly like a short-term trend right now, but who knows. It's going to be a decisive year for crypto in general either way.
