I don't believe that this is the beginning of the death of bitcoin. Even if I'm a noob here, I still believe that crypto era has just begun. That's my opinion though.

Your opinion is right, this is not new and it's happened so many times I think this is the 100th times where people shouting it's the end of Bitcoin but after a week Bitcoin resurrected, maybe a good news can push Bitcoin again to rise, let's see what happen in the next two weeks.

Some believe the crypto era is ending with the adoption of quantum computers.   

let them speculate that it is the death of bitcoin, but remember, this isn't the first time of bitcoin tragedy, there's a lot of happen in the past, but what happen? bitcoin is always survive and even more expensive than before, this is just a correction because bad news from china. and $100? they're totally joking. I thought even if its reach $2k, I believe there will be a very huge buy wall. This is just a discount time for those who always believe in crypto currency especially bitcoin.

The crypto era has just begun. Especially recently, crypto's exposure is getting more and more, with the 5 major banks working together on a new Crypto

We will just add them to https://99bitcoins.com/bitcoinobituaries/ like we usually do. The DEATH of Bitcoin was predicted since it was started and guess what, we are still here. The Chinese government alone will not kill Bitcoin. They saw massive amounts of their local currency being invested in unregulated ICO's and they think that this is a form of capital flight, so they banned it.

It has nothing to do with the protection of their citizens, but merely a political move to protect their own currency.  ^grrrrr^

Not even close. Bitcoin lost less than 20% (4950 to 4000) in the last 3 days. It only looks bloodier because the absolute price is higher ... so the almost $1000 look like something never heard of

Even in 2017 there were several crashes with a deeper fall:

- June 12-14: 3000 to 2300 (~24%)
- May 25-27: 2700 to 1850 (~31%)
- March 16-18: 1270 to 950 (~25%)
- January 5-7: 1150 to 850 (~26%)

Source: https://bitcoincharts.com/charts/bitstampUSD

(The biggest bloodbath was the April 2013 crash, where price in three days went from $250 down to less than $100. That's 60%!)

the "topics" say it, so it must be true, do you know any time before that these "topics" have been wrong?

18% drop after 400% rise is barely a bubble bath let alone be a "bloodbath"!

bitcoin goes down, altcoins get massively dumped!
this is the story of altcoins from the start. there is nothing new to it.

no the FUDsters are enjoying their shorts and making a lot of money from it while everyone is chasing their own tails then they will start filing their bags with cheap bitcoins again when everyone is asking when will it end and again they will continue to buy it up as everyone is asking will it continue rising or will it drop. and they sell again when everyone is saying i finally bought back after the drop ended and price went back up!

For me all of this is just normal....
A sudden decrease in price after ICO ban in China must already be expected...
Of course Chinese hodlers would somehow feel some pressure thereby making them decide to sell their acquired coins.
Thus making the supply of bitcoin in general circulations increase....
My advise instead of being worried why not buy some coins...
this is a nice time to do that...