it is because of the growing adoption and the money that has been coming in. the rise has always been inevitable we just had more sells so it couldn't show itself. as price broke the resistance the newbies started panic buying so price went up faster.


it is taking everything that is traded with bitcoin up with it.
 for example if some shitcoin is worth 0.01BTC and bitcoin is $6000 then that shitcoin is worth $60 so when bitcoin goes to $7000 that shitcoin is worth $70 now but that shitcoin is still a shitcoin