The other day I watched a real-time animated graph of a time-line comparing BTC and some prominent Alt coins performance and the trend was very clear... when Bitcoin goes up, most Alt coins goes up too and most Alt coins started with a "Bang" during the hype cycle and then it goes down over time, where the Bitcoin price goes up steadily over time.
I cannot find it now, but it was a bit of an eye opener, because you quickly see how Alt coins have a short "hype" cycle and then it dies, compared to the Bitcoin price that just constantly goes higher and higher over time.
Well. I know, I see this trend also since 2011. But early 2017 was different. I know. It was a planned attack, I see clearly already. But the accumulation phase was too small... The attackers loosed the controll then above the market, and then tried to fork bitcoin in some other bitcoins - to break the dominance in other way, but it won' succeeded also.
At this time I detected a much bigger accumulation phase for a such attack. But maybe I fail. Maybe. It has a probability.
The government(s) trying to establish a market control over the crypto market, and it could be implemented through a well marketing (direction to ETH i.e., ETH will be green, and Bitcoin won't...) to BIG SELECTED INVESTORS,
The masses will be influenced through profitability and medias. They will be forget Bitcoin later. The big energy consumption can be the base of the detection of miners. So it is possible then to ban Bitcoin well.
It remains other Alt's (mostly not PoW - what seems to be a good change, but...) and maybe in several places in the world PoW coins, i.e. bitcoin also, I know, but not more possible (or not with a small effort) to win the support the masses. The possibility to break the tendence of destoying our Living Environment through our wrong economical laws will we lost then. Or maybe not. We working hard on our Vortexledger project, I should say.