If you say so.
My recollection was that bitcoin was getting a baptism of fire at that time due to forking for the first time ever and there was massive hedging into alts.
Not only that. The fork of BTC Cash was an assault on the crypto order established up to that date.
It was a spin-off headed by a reference member, Roger Ver ... and a massive mining threat thanks to Jihan Wu in favor of the new option, which pigeonholed BTC as useless for its "authentic" objectives - p2p -, which united to a massive influx of crypto investors, it caused altcoins to be considered IN GENERAL AND FOR THE FIRST TIME, as totally valid alternatives to BTC, beyond being a "lesser evil", copy or imitation. Today, the context is the opposite to the BTC standard accepted by global mainstream economic referents ... and in DASH, especially opposite, due to its ruinous situation, after endless waste, defaults and deception ... sunk in the ranking ...
In reality, BTC was redefining itself and laying its foundations as a Store of Value (and crypto standard, de facto). Since DASH, there have been years of trolling and disqualifying BTC, when the perspective of the "thinking heads" of DASH (associating leadership with those visible faces and their enormous and evident mediocrity is simply delusional) was extremely ignorant and stupid, ignoring even the FRONTAL maximalist claim of BTC in that their project transcended that of a simple means of payment. A perspective of DASH, also always malicious and fallacious, as can be seen even in statements such as today's official in the umpteenth new pamphlet of the Platform admitting its full awareness that they had NOTHING operational and had to start from scratch. The official message in those same moments and context - was to claim (above BTC - not to mention the enormous contempt and condescension towards ALL the rest of the projects -) a deserved "crypto-crown" ... for the alleged quality of a work never delivered: "Mainnet in June'18", "the sky is the limit", "investment capacity will exceed that of Silicon Valley as a whole" and antics of that shameful level to simply finance themselves through deception until they sink into the current absolute precariousness. And that's been the obscene - and imo, with obvious criminal responsibilities - DAO-funded editorial line since 2017.
Well, emotions always try to disguise themselves behind "reasons"... this time around the emotions seem the same, I'm sure a new excuse will be used as to why a similar outcome occurs.
Well ... those who are sure that the excuses will not end is the corrupt gang who manipulate this project. Let's hope that the rest of us can maintain a cold criterion so as not to fall into what you comment - ... and, by the way, that some good conclusions generate beneficial consequences and do not remain only in endless words -. Anyway, that they are like this does not make us all the same.
Other than that,, there is no longer a similar result, because the scenario is not. While the talkative idiots despised arrogantly the VOLUNTARY BTC shortcomings and presented themselves as better alternatives, BTC, right under their noses, has consolidated its own monetary standard.. Without a tremendously powerful and effective monetary approach to this, TA and psychology are secondary in the evolution of the crypto sector. The opportunity cost is something very specific and things do not reappear in the same circumstances when one wants.
BTC has played its timings brilliantly... Some alts, with some relative success ...DASH, after already an irregular start - and ethically questionable for a lot of public opinion -, with breaches, waste , parasitism and lies towards its investors ... and with an image of a real scam in the eyes of the entire sector. A similar scenario now would be the same as expecting ETC to overtake ETH ... and replace Bitcoin as the leader of the crypto industry.
Which objectively seems unlikely, right?