FUD can play a role in the effecting a lot of coins but at this point of the game, there's no way that FUD can kill BTC because of its sheer size and adoption into mainstream application such as in Japan where its used alongside the Yen. At most it could ease a bit of the new people coming into BTC but the people that are already in BTC know its true value as something to make money off and they would happy to wait for the effect of FUD to drop the prices of BTC to buy in the dip for big profits.

FUD is much more likely to affect ICOs because that is a bad amount of PR for a soon to be released ICO looking for investment but again, savvy investors are able to look past the most basic FUD to see the diamond in the rough

Altcoins can be a good and a bad thing for BTC. At first, they brought some sort of validation to the world of Crypto as a whole and made more people trust in the fact that Crypto is going to be around for quite a while so they should avoid being left behind by the bandwagon. Now, on the other hand, the emergence of better functioning coins as products of hard forks or just coin creation (Bitcoin Cash, ETH etc, it puts more pressure on a coin like BTC which is slowly beginning to look like a relic in the greater picture of how much development has been made to better Blockchain tech.

Hi guys

Can Crypto get big enough that it would be used to fund political campaigns and totally influence the way we make decisions in broader aspects of government?