Quote from: mullenmanBTC on February 05, 2018, 04:15:05 PM

I know many people like to view crypto as alternative investment to the financial market, but it's hard not to notice the mirroring trends. The crypto market goes on an all time bull run in unison with the stock market. Now as the stock market begins to tumble so too does crypto. In the future we envision crypto to be independent of the centralized markets, but in the present what do you think is causing this trend ??

The crypto and financial market is only connected with one bridge and that's bridge of fiat investment. There is nothing else which connects both of them in reality. There is only bidirectional conversion going on where fiat is invested heavily into crypto market and it gets its market capitalisation in that way while when mass selling occurs then it is converted back to fiat currency and thus vice versa process.

I believe there is no real role of financial market as such because neither of the real world commodities impact the presence of crypt currencies not crypto do the same for the financial market. If in any case the centralised and decentralised market got hybrids of each other then there might be a link but we are not sure at all. For now both of them stays unique.