all investors are panicking about the price of altcoins and now we see the price of altcoins is falling even bitcoin is also experiencing a continuous decline. What is the cause of the crypto price dropping like this?
I want you to understand there is what is called dominance in the crypto market and it revolves around Bitcoin and Altcoins most of the time. There will be a time in the crypto market when Bitcoin will be the only one moving and gaining values, altcoins may follow in general but the it growth wouldn't match up with Bitcoin, just Bitcoin for that moment.
However, there is also a time when altcoins grow and Bitcoin will reduce. That's when you see altcoins growing rapidly and specifically. I think that's what you are seeing. If the market drop in general, they drop together in most cases and that's not what we are seeing right now.
Well, since you talked about dominance, let me let you know that currently, bitcoin has the highest dominance in the crypto market, and this makes it kind of have a good control in the market, where by any time the price of bitcoin is dropping, it is likely that the entire Altcoin market will follow suit and drop as well, but anytime the price of bitcoin is rising, and it's dominance is rising as well, the Altcoin market usually is stable or are losing value, and this is because bitcoin's dominance rising simply means that money is shifting from Altcoins to bitcoin, so Altcoins lose value, while the value of bitcoin rises.
But when bitcoin is rising and it's dominance is stable of reducing, the altcoin market also is rising because, money is circulating into bitcoin and Altcoins together, this is usually what happens when there is a major bull run on going.