yes and no.

like any other useless altcoin, Ethereum is also pumped and dumped so it means that ETH will also only move based on pumps and dumps of its own and in this regard it won't be affected by bitcoin price movements.
but at the same time it is just another altcoin on the altcoin market and although some newbies may think it is something special and also the advertisement in the media may tell you so but in reality it is just another pump and dump altcoin among thousands of others. since the main purpose of these coins is to give profit on bitcoin investment, so their prices will be affected by bitcoin price movements.

if you want to put your $$$ in something and leave it be there so that you can get a big profit in long term just because it went from some price to a higher price then invest in bitcoin. it will go up and there is a much lower risk.

the price goes up nice only if there is a real usage which can bring solid demand for that thing. bitcoin has that and altcoins don't. specially coins like Dash that are shady and also centralized. what happens to these altcoins is that they get pumped shortly and then there is not much else! so why not just get involved in them in short term whilst they are getting pumped?

there is always some useless shitcoin that is being pumped at any time no matter what is going on in the market. the traders (better say pumpers) can not stand idly by and not make money, they go around, pump shitcoins and make a lot of money from the newbies that get in after them.

it is pretty simple: learn not to bag hold altcoins for longer than their pumps.

this is just another excuse to spread FUD and excuse for others to panic.
sometimes people don't even care if the news is real or not, it may sometimes be real but not effective but they still will panic over it and start selling their bitcoins. and the market, specially the big players have always liked this for as long as the market was active that is how they make a lot of money anyways.

he doesn't believe in the future of his own project, he has said it publicly on his twitter multiple times. he doesn't even tell people to invest in it, he tells people "to invest in traditional assets because crypto has no future".
and that is what happens when a dev becomes millionaire overnight by premining his shitcoin.

of course they are going to say they are focusing on gaming but they obviously know that they are in fact creating new hardware for altcoin miners. and that is why the article is saying they are worried!
and i think it is a good thing, they are feeling the competition and Bitmain will also have to compete with them. and in the end we may even start seeing Nvidia and AMD ASIC miners by these companies and all these competition can make everything better for us.

my "hope" is that in 5-10 years we stop seeing the current situation which is 90% of the market consists of shitcoins and 100% of the altcoins are pump and dump which will die eventually. what i hope is that we end up seeing 90% of the market become good projects that are "actually" doing something not just pretending to solve something that doesn't even exist!

and i think eventually something like that will happen. soon all the top 10 altcoins will be flushed out and be replaced by newer pump and dump coins and then they will be replaced until eventually they will be replaced by real good projects.

it is hard to say in my opinion.

on one hand we have all these cryptocurrencies that are being created that most of them are scamming specially these tokens (ICOs) that keep on coming out like weeds. and also we have all these businesses such as exchanges which are also scamming their users even if they are the #1 exchange in the whole world....
.... regulations can prevent (or at least make nearly impossible) all of these. so it can be a very good and  a necessary thing.

on the other hand we are saying a cryptocurrency (eg bitcoin) is a decentralized censorship resistance currency that anybody can use and regulations can be restrictive in this case and that may be harmful.
also not all regulations are good. there are times when the government sets some stupid regulations in motion which are in fact restrictive more than anything else (like unreasonable taxes or rules they have to follow) and that  can damage the businesses.

if they could gain the support they would have been "bitcoin" and since they failed at it, their page of the history is closed for a long time now.

it would still be as meaningless as bitcoin "dominance" being (i don't even know how much it is right now)% since people are mistakenly calling "market cap" as dominance.

they all want to make more money because of the pump of this altcoin like all the rest of them...

unfortunately articles like this are written to advertise ethereum so they are ignoring all the faults of it.

that also means ethereum is creating 50x more blocks than bitcoin and as a result its blockchain has been growing alarmingly fast. i don't know how big it is now but last time i checked it is orders of magnitude bigger than bitcoin's blockchain and some say it will reach 1 TB soon. and bitcoin has ~150 GB blockchain now.
what this means is that you can no longer sync your ethereum wallet with the network unless you use third parties for example using a web wallet. this effectively centralizes the network.

there is no cap for ETH so you can not say "half of it" because unlimited can not be halved
current supplies are:
BTC: 16,950,000 (max = 21,000,000)
ETH: 98,542,000 (max = infinity)

if i am not mistaken ETH reward is also halved. it was reduced anyways and it is currently at 3.
but the important difference is in total daily new coins created:
BTC: 1800 coin/day
ETH: 7200 coin/day

you can't use bitcoin's ASICs to mine ETH but that doesn't mean no ASIC can ever be created to mine ETH! they can simply modify the mining equipment they are producing to match ethereum's hashing algo and mine it with new versions of ASIC. so far nobody has started production because they fear the centralized ETH dev team change the algo at any moment and ruin their business.

fees in both cases is somewhat deepening on the size. but since ETH is basically smart contract platform it is calculating the fee based on the complexity of the execution of that smart contract which will basically increase as the size of the transaction increases.

it is not without reason!
more demand (ie more investors) in bitcoin is because of its usefulness. bitcoin is acting as a currency for real and that creates demand.

the altcoins and all the tokens that currently exist have little to no chance of surviving the future because the main purpose of their creation was not to be a currency, instead they were created to make more money through trading. and unless this changes, we won't see any project worthwhile.


demand is not something you can create. what you call demand is a temporary hype where money pours into these coins with the hope that the investor can dump and get more out of it. more like gamble actually and it won't last long.

there are two different approaches here in my opinion.
1. long term and mainly HODL where you just buy at the bottom and don't touch it for a long time and sell when you see a big bubble for example and buy back after its correction. there is a very nice profit in this for example buying in 2015 at $200 and selling in 2017 at $20000 was a 100x profit in 2 years!
2. the short term and mainly day trading bitcoin. which can also be as profitable, maybe even more profitable than just holding but much much riskier. for example looking at charts you can see last year alone we had maybe twenty big drops every couple of weeks each as big as 30%. taking advantage of each of these swings could give a day trader a huge profit.

the thing is, both strategies are good as long as performed wisely.

they say a lot of t hings, they also say bitcoin is dead. but random people saying idiotic things on the internet doesn't make them true. for instance the have started saying bitcoin is a store of value because they wanted people to forget that bitcoin is a currency!
the fact is bitcoin is a currency and as a currency it is volatile as long as its market is small. and that volatility is justified when you think of bitcoin that way.

besides being a store of value is a secondary aspect of bitcoin and it doesn't have to be stable for that. stability is a perk not a requirement. to be a store of value it has to be secure and immutable which bitcoin is both of these.

Olympics is going to be 100 times better than this one because first of all it is in 2020 so there is more time for bitcoin adoption to grow and more merchants start accepting bitcoin and by them we will surely have second layer solutions such as lightning network up and running to have the fast and cheap transactions available. second because it is in Japan. and unlike other countries like Russia, Japanese have adopted bitcoin with open arms.

the fact that there are a lot of Newbie accounts like OP which are saying the same thing as "buy ETH" and "ETH is good investment", blah blah, is enough indication for me to stay away from it for the time being because each time a bunch of throwaway accounts are created to advertise some altcoin, without an exception they are doing it because that altcoin is planned to get dumped some more.

to be frank currently i prefer to stay away from the altcoin market as much as possible, this can change pretty soon but for now this is the best thing to do in my opinion. and that is because the dumps are still ongoing and there are a lot of investors who have been wrecked in the past few months because of all these dumps who are now looking for a small recovery (aka a dead cat bounce) to start dumping their coins at a smaller loss and that dump can start another crash which i don't want to be buried under.

$6500 has been showing a good support so far and price had a nice recovery from that bottom, and although i don't like saying never when it comes to bitcoin but it seems like you are correct about it. we have already seen a HUGE drop from the ATH and that has to count for something.
as for buying the best strategy is to buy at least some amount in this dip so that you have not completely missed the chance and also not to go all in at the same time so that you still have some money left for possible lower prices.

someone who is buying stuff because of Fear Of Missing Out is not a trader. you will see them call themselves traders but it won't make them one. they are in fact gamblers who are fooling themselves and meanwhile are messing up the whole market with their irrational decisions. and finally they will all end up in a big loss one way or another.

that website is not so good when it comes to suggesting appropriate fees. they always suggest a higher fee for transactions for some reason.
the fact is currently transactions with 1 to 5 satoshi per byte are having high priority which means being confirmed in the next block that is found. and that amount of fee is about 1-2 cents.

you are right about one thing, that the best coins with real usage and no problems will survive in the long run but i am sorry to disappoint you to say that Ethereum is one of those coins that will probably be dead by then. ETH is not only incapable of lasting long term but also it has a lot of problems that will only get worse as time goes by. and on top of that even if it  didn't have those serious issues, there is still a lot of other projects that are doing the exact same thing as ETH but in a much better way.
and to put the final nail in its coffin, we are going to have RSK (Rootstock) soon which is on top of bitcoin as a sidechain and will offer smart contracts on bitcoin network which is effectively killing off ethereum