With the hyper inflation of cryptocurrencies, you can not use it total marketcap in a bull run to conclude anything.
- Total cryptocurrencies are increasing, everyday
- New cryptocurrencies contribute too much cap for the total marketcap. New projects are overvalued and you can not judge their quality, values with their caps
If you want to conclude anything about growth, look at the Min as Yearly lowest price of bitcoin. I would rather use it than the Yearly Highest Price. For bitcoin, it is on uptrend. Ups, downs, corrections, bubbles, the yearly lowest price of bitcoin is in an uptrend.
The same can be done for total marketcap and with bear market, you will see how the market has been grown. Shit projects now are contributing too much caps but in bear market, they contribute 0.