What do you think would happen to the rest of the currencies if for some reason bitcoin were to crash and the price dropped to 0?
Bitcoin means cryptocurrency, if it wasn't for the famous and popular price jump that bitcoin made last year, the crypto market would not have reached the level that it is at right now, so in my opinion when and if bitcoin goes down for some reason the whole cryptocurrency will eventually go down with it, because most of the trades made in this market are all involved around bitcoin and the market will lose its profibality if such thing happens.