I think initially the price of BTC will jump but then the PPT will suppress it as they do it with gold and silver...
and it actually did play out very much like you predicted. BTC did jump to almost 20k on 16th of December and now entier cc market is down ~70% since then.
What can I say? Personally, I tend to ignore conspiracy theories as much as possible and the one about the 'cartel' suppressing the price of silver, gold and now BTC, certainly does sound like one for me. But if that wasn't a coincidence, you were spot on. Kudos to you for that.
RE: The end of CC market as we know it.