I had thought a while back people said if you are betting on altcoins, you are essentially betting against bitcoin. However how is this even the case or is this statement wrong? Because when bitcoin goes up, the altcoins basically all go up. If bitcoin goes down, all altcoins basically go down. Aren't they essentially correlated?
So let say you believe in bitcoin and buy bitcoin because you believe value will go up. Well if you buy altcoins, isn't it very likely if bitcoin goes up, then your altcoin will also go up? The only difference basically comes down to do you think that altcoin will grow a higher percentage than the bitcoin? Thus thats the only question you should ask before you convert btc to altcoin?
Because if bitcoin fails, well aren't all altcoins going to fail? And if bitcoin goes up etc, well then isn't almost all the altcoins going to go up? The thing that i want to ask is also this. If btc goes up, then aren't essentially any altcoin let just say in the top 30 altcoin list going to basically go up? Thus some go up more than others etc? Because people say to buy this altcoin such as say dash or monero or iota. However, if btc goes up, does it even really matter? I watched a video where someone mentioned in a bull market, everyone thinks they are a genius. Well if its a bull market, does it even matter which coin you really buy? Like if you were told bitcoin will go up today, well does it matter if you buy iota or deeponion or monero? Because bitcoin basically controls the entire crytocurrency market right? And is it even possible for bitcoin to do really bad and the altcoins go up a lot? Or if bitcoin goes up a lot and altcoins go down? Because i dont think i seen any graphs or charts like this. Basically everything follows bitcoin. So its basically saying... if you believe in bitcoin and it will go up, well you can buy bitcoin and hold it or just buy altcoins since it will also go up. Its like does the projects of each of these coins even matter anymore? Literally everything goes up on the list. Its like what research do you even need to do. Like if you were told okay bitcoin will go up a lot today, well you could just randomly buy 10 different altcoins in the top 50 even and almost all will go up right? Because my issue with the crytocurrencies is basically bitcoin seems to determine everything. Why isn't it like bitcoin goes up a decent amount, and say 1/2 the altcoins do decent and 1/2 the altcoins do bad etc. Like to hear all your feedback on this.
I've had the same post about the correlation of bitcoin and altcoins. Well as we all know most of the alt coins are also derived from bitcoin. What i think is that in order for a certain altcoin to have value an the existing value of bitcoin must be utilized so that the flow of currency will be balanced. About the trade and how each of the altcoins follow BTC, well simply becuase these coins are derived from btc and inorder for us to convert it to any conventional currency it must go through btc.