Quote from: geronimo2123 on April 01, 2018, 01:31:21 AM

Quote from: fudster on March 31, 2018, 03:25:57 PM

Dent will be a good choice soon but bitcoin is taking the beating for months already, if this will continue after a year, the disappointment will cause them not to go back to crypto. Though investors will like the DENT project, they wouldn't start buying more with this down trend. Its killing all the crypto I think this big whales are already losing and most of their BTC are already owned by those who don't like crypto that is why they are cashing out everything.

Yes this is true...the only thing that can save many altcoins right now is USD pairings with certain exchanges so that BTC and ETH do not bring the legit alts down with them. If the public knew they could buy altcoins without first having to buy Bitcoin that would be huge. That was the biggest complaint during the last bull run...having to use BTC for everything. Binance, Poloniex and Bittrex have all said they are working on USD pairs for many alt coins. Kucoins may follow. Not USDT, but USD to whatever.

In a perfect world we would not have to worry about BTC futures and Coinbase Custody whales suppressing the price of BTC, but they are and this is not a perfect world.

This is not necessarily true. I used to trade a lot of coins in the now defunct Yuanbao exchange. The exchange exclusively pair coins with their fiat CNY. One thing I notice, yeah, other coins' price action move independently of Bitcoin, especially coins that the Western exchanges don't have. HOWEVER since traders love volatility especially when it's going up, they readily dump their altcoin holdings to buy Bitcoin - Sell ALT for CNY, buy BTC with CNY. Although, I think this is because there's still a limited number of altcoin traders that they join BTC traders during a bull run, instead of waiting for their alt bags to move up.