...The only reason they haven't seen an atomic bomb go off is because they're praying they can attract some new, greater fool contestents post-BTC halving. ... Any rise on BTC is black death misery on alts.
Well a rocketship rise in Bitcoin will bring more fools in to arena to lose their money, so I am not so sure about that.
I rather think if
BTC gets a flu, the altcoins go into cardiac arrest.
Ideologically I wish you were correct because I wish we were accomplishing something more serious here, but fact is Bitcoin is a gambler's paradise and is the reserve currency (unit-of-account) of crypto-gambling. Up for Bitcoin, is up for altcoins.
And as for the seriousness of Bitcoin, it is not. We have some blockheads at Blockscam leading us to SegWarts failure.
Face the reality. The entire CC arena is a speculative vested interests snake pit for the most part. There is some genuine work being done but it is the minority.