I know no one knows what will happen but I don't think we will see a three year bear market like we did in the past. Like you said, so many more people know about it and institutions are setting up shop in the space, or at least planning on it in the next 12 months. All it will take now is some of this institutional money to start pouring in (something we didn't see in 2013)and I believe the market will turn back around.
I am also wanting for a project to come around that makes blockchain easy to use and understand so that we can see more adoption from the public.
It is similar to the internet, things took off when the search engine was created, it was then easily adopted by the masses. Something along those lines needs to happen in this space and I think that there will be a few companies that figure it out in the near future.
But I get it with the hit on the portfolio... I had to turn everything off and lock away my ledgers so I don't check... Steem is the only one that I am looking at because everything else is depressing... But I have faith that it will all turn around and this shitty few months will be nothing more than a story we can tell our kids in the future hahah
Cheers!
Another good thing about Steem is that you can add to your SP while it goes down (blogging or other means). You still lose account value but mitigating a bit of that loss by adding a little bit of SP.