Do you think LUNA's downfall will scare away investors from the crypto market? If not, why?
It could, but i would argue that it will only scare away people who know little about the crypto network, let us be honest, quite a lot of investors who bought that project did so basically cause of hype, and a bid to get rich quick, i am pretty sure most of them did not do their homework/research, they just thought of it as a medium to double their money, and we all know what is likely to happen when investors do that.
Now the thing is this, for investors who have been around for so long, and who know a lot about pump and dump coins, they would not be too worried or scared away, even if they lost money to the project, they would understand that it is the risk one has to take when you invest with such pump and dump project, but for investors who are prolly relatively new to the network and straightaway lost money to Luna, i am pretty sure that could be the last time they invest, at least in a long while, till they do their homework.
Having said that, non-crypto people are not left out as well, all of the news about Luna would give them many more reasons to avoid crypto all together, but quite a lot of them wouldn't understand that the problem isn't with crypto generally, but the particular network you invest in.