Obviously, Turks know better

But it feels like manipulation. It is really out of equilibrium with bitcoin dominance so high. Xrp still at 0.4 cents xrp/btc ratio 0.000035 and btc dominance at 65% on tradingview.com btc.d or 62% on coinmarketcap.com. It is now 1/3 the xrpbtc ratio it was several months ago. Being the 3rd top coin on coinmarketcap.com, I am more surprised that this is still trading at these low levels than I am surprised that bitcoin has made a 350% move up over the past few months. I just can't believe there is not an army of people buying these altcoin at these extremely low levels by now yet there was an army of people these where prices were 10 to 100 times higher than this back in late 2017 to early 2018.
Many whales are Bitcoin maximalists, which makes them hate altcoins... ALL altcoins. For me there is Bitcoin, Altcoin and Shitcoins. For some people (unfortunately many) there is Bitcoin and then there's Shitcoins!
Especially when it comes to XRP, few have given it any research themselves. Instead they hear misinformation like "it's a bankers' coin" and "Ripple controls 90% and they'll dump their bags on you" and they instantly believe all that.
I'm just patiently waiting for true investors to rise XRP. The whales can keep playing with Bitcoin, raising its dominance to 80%+ and do the governments a favor by making cryptocurrencies' suppression a walk in the park.
Having a few strong coins which move independently from BTC would help us win the war.