Yes. Bitcoin is the base/core of the crypto platform! Without Bitcoin, the crypto market will be vanished for sure. Bitcoin price is rising and today it hits 4K USD and look at the total crypto market cap, most of the coins are increasing with BTC. If bitcoin price goes down again, the whole crypto market will follow bitcoin! And it has been proved many times!
It is so obvious that even no one will argue, from year to year the situation does not change and the dominance of bitcoin has never shaken, its influence on altcoins is simply enormous
Indeed, the influence still strong inside the crypto market, so whenever bitcoin moves alts still affected and go along the directions, maybe
it will take a long time to go before this two will be seperated, alts needs to build its own popularities and different venue and usage if they
wanted to move away from the shadow of btc.
Only time can tell what future brings to all those competitive alts around this industry.
For some time being it isn't possible for any of the altcoins in the market to go away from the shadow of bitcoin. Bitcoin will influence the Market and if such a trend prevails surely the growth of the alts gets affected. As of now bitcoin itself too yound, compared to bitcoin what has been into existence regularly needs some pathway. This is been provided by bitcoin.