This sounds like a really awesome project.
Would love to contribute with Telegram and possibly translations.

But I probably don't qualify as I'm still a newbie. Maybe in time .

Probably most for profits. Not as many are necessarily using Bitcoin today to pay for goods, as it was originally designed for.

Thus due to all the trading that's going on, big buys and sells are taking place as a results of supply and demand.

Larger investors also affect the trends a lot in the short term. And many tried to get free Bitcoin Gold just to dump the bitcoin at a higher price and attempted to reap the profits. These wins were probably then used on alt coins to reap benefits again. Probably a short matter of time before the whole wheel turns again for the Segwit2x fork.