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I'm a huge crypto bear, and even if crypto collapses 99% - it's still a >$10B market, so there will still be people trading it.

The sports trading card market is ~$7B - and plenty of people's entire life and income revolves around trading sports cards.

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The only issue with the comparison of cryptocurrencies and sports trading cards is that trading cards will still provide some utility to the 1% of people trading them. The primary utility of cryptocurrencies is the anticipation of them going up in value. If 99% of people stop using crypto, it loses its utility for the last 1% of users.

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