bitcoin is dominating the crypto market and that is why bitcoin price effects all altcoin prices. any sharp movement in the graph of bitcoin effects badly on other cryptocurrencies. i think it will continue like this for a while more.
Well, bitcoin dominating the market is based on the fact that the market is generally speculative in nature and that makes the whole market in its entirety subject to manipulation. For this reason, we have seen a lot of altcoins as just a pump and dump for profit environment with the whales driving the market how they want and that is absolutely one thing only real life usage can curb. So, in the absence of real life usage, it brings about a lesser community of users and so price becomes more speculative.
Yes that is how it would go. And In my opinion, it is just because of the big market share of Bitcoin that is influential in fluctuating the values of market. In other words the whole market moves with Bitcoin.
This is not good because of the fact that the coins other than Bitcoin have their own market as well and the prediction of many cryptocurrencies would have been very clear and easy if their markets were not masked by Bitcoin, but again we do not have a perfect competition at all.
The first mover advantage actually, but I believe as the market matures, this is something that we will get to see less most especially when the alt market start having the ability to stand on their own, and then we get to see people using them in real life for the product with which they are backed on, and for things like this, we will end up seeing real demand and not just some punkish whale manipulating the market to his own benefits.
As long as that speculative aspect remains over real life usage, the chances of seeing the altcoins as just a pump and dump market will always be there and they will keep being tagged with the movement of bitcoin as what whales are doing is to use the altcoin market to increase their bitcoin stash.