according to cnbc. in this article
The reality is if you look at
https://www.cryptocompare.com/ Eth, dash, and zek, are down and BTC is up within the last few days. ROLMAO!!
What you should be looking at is bitcoin dominance.
http://coinmarketcap.com/charts/#btc-percentageBitcoin accounts for 69% of total crypto market cap now, which is very low when you see its overall history. It was ~85% a month back.
That is low but at the same time, we need to accept that as bitcoin is unable to advance in some key issues then other coins are going to go up because they are able to fill a void that bitcoin leaves for the lack of consensus.