Yeah the financial crisis could happen, even the crisis ever hit a big country like US so that their currency is depreciated up to a few percent.
This is not a financial crisis. Any modern fiat currencies, even the ones of most developed countries, depreciate a few percentages annually. Does it mean that we are living in a state of a never-ending financial crisis? If so, doesn't it mean we can no longer call it a crisis? To me, crisis means going from good to bad or from bad to worse, abruptly and strongly, definitely not something which is here to stay for years to come.
What we consider as economic crisis today has little in common with what happened in that day and age, with thousands of people literally starving to death in the streets.
IMO the reason why the effects of financial crisis were worse in those days was that the elites could get away with it. In 1931 the Fed just did nothing and watched banks fail across the world (including the US) and the economy dive into the worst part of the Great Depression. Ben Bernanke 'apologized for the mistake,' but the objective fact was that the massive deflation reduced the degree to which the dollar had to be devalued against gold, and helped support the system in more ways than one.
I don't think so. The Fed didn't actually do nothing. Let's not forget that it was the time that the Federal Reserve Notes came about, which are now known as the American dollar. The true dollar which was fully redeemable with gold ceased to exist soon thereafter. Let's not forget either the confiscation of both metal gold and gold certificates in 1934. In this manner, you can't say that the Fed did nothing. They may in fact have been too late to react but this is certainly not because of "the elites could get away with it". They just lacked required knowledge and understanding of the situation.
The only difference today is, democracy is stronger, and the elites can't go that far any more. The election of nationalist populists across Europe and America just now shows that people will not take pain lying down, whether or not they understand what is really the problem.
Do you really believe in this yourself? It is kind of accepted truth that the level of democracy in the US has been declining steeply over the last few decades (since Reugan times).
If the shit hits the fan in earnest throughout the world, cryptocurrencies will be worth next to nothing. People simply don't know what real crisis and economic meltdown means in practice as they never saw the one (in developed countries, at least).
When the shit hits the fan, most likely cryptos will be worth a lot more. The reason is that, one way or another, the elites will have to devalue state money against non-state money to inflate away the debt, plus keep life more or less comfortable, plus keep their state money stable, at the same time.
So far it is cryptos which are going down, even without any serious financial crisis knocking on the door.