Right now it seems that all alt coins' performance is tied to Bitcoin performance.
Do you think that someday ETH price movement can be separate from Bitcoin's?
Or flippening will happen?
I know there are a lot of places that you can buy ethereum directly with cash however the main way of acquiring ethereum is still about the same for people, you buy bitcoin with your fiat and than buy the ethereum for bitcoin. Which means bitcoin and ethereum is still intertwined no matter how much they try to alienate from each other.
Plus, when the market is falling all coins are listed with two prices, how much a coin worth in dollars and how much it worth in bitcoin, ethereum is still showed in bitcoin prices as well and when bitcoin drops the dollar value of ethereum drops as well.
There is no coin in the world that can't be affected by this and the only reason bitcoin is not falling as fast as others is that when people leave altcoins they just sell their coins to bitcoin and leave, however when bitcoin is dropping other coins "buy" bitcoin in order to sell it and that creates a cushion for it. Hence ethereum can never be separated from bitcoin, neither any other coin.