People who look up WSJ for financial advice is always going to screw up whether it's stocks or crypto. Anybody else who are newly introduced into the blockchain space who does real digging will come mostly decoupled with BTC. The people who started years ago while BTC had the best fundamentals in the market will turn pigs, stick with the Segwit coin and get slaughtered.(I predict below $5 billion market cap for BTC by 2020).

Crypto is still early adopters market. There is no mainstream in blockchain. There are just bitcoiners who doesn't face the facts. In a sense they are the mainstream equivalent in this space.

Monaco and TenX is picking up. NEM is already big in Japan.
https://pivx.org
dashforcenews.com
People are bound to discover treasury funded sponsor programs from Dash and PIVX.
Thai government already working with OMG. NEO is going to get really big. There is also Bytom and WTC and of course there is BCH.

Death of BTC just started. It takes few months. It's pretty much Day 2 at the moment. We'll see major changes by the end of the year.