Ever opened your crypto app and thought, “Wait, did every coin copy-paste Bitcoin’s chart?” You're not hallucinating. That’s Bitcoin being the overachieving firstborn of the crypto family—every move it makes echoes across the market.
Bitcoin is the largest, most liquid, and most institutionally watched asset in crypto. When it pumps, it pulls attention, capital, and FOMO with it. When it dumps, altcoins don’t just follow—they often overreact like dramatic understudies trying to steal the spotlight.
Add in automated trading bots, macroeconomic news, and a market that still leans heavily on correlated sentiment, and voilà: chart clones.
So the next time you see everything rising and falling in synchrony, remember—Bitcoin sneezes, and the rest of the market catches the flu. It’s not market manipulation. It’s gravity.
