there is no connection here though. try not to read too much into what is most probably just a coincidence. because if you look at the history you can't really find any serious case when bitcoin price moved alongside the stocks market prices.
in fact it is known that bitcoin is always a separate market from all the rest of the markets and that is why it is considered as a good option for diversification by many investors.

gold and bitcoin have not much in common to reach any kind of parity. you might as well compare price of thousand satoshis with a course of meal and say they reached parity

if this was hundreds of years ago where gold was also being used as a currency then you might have compared it with bitcoin but gold has lost that usage. not to mention that bitcoin is a global currency which is fast. you can't compete with that with gold.

it is not just the whales, in fact i don't think that many whales would bother with forum spam. the time is best spent manipulating the market for real instead of wasting time here.

those who spam are mostly idiots and what they spread, we may not even call FUD. most of them are just butthurt because they have lost money to making bad decisions and selling when it was too late and the drop was at an end.

like anybody else he too is advertising his own business. the more noise he makes the more people will hear him and find out about his business and because of that the will gain more customers and earn a lot more money.

what these people do is not called prediction, what they do is that they look at the ongoing trend and market sentiment and then throw out a number based on that.
for example if we are on the rise and money is coming in they call for $50k. it is not a guess, it is not a speculation nor a prediction and it has nothing to do with knowledge. they just see the trend and go with it. if we are on the drop side they call a low number which is equally worthless.

i wouldn't say this only to newbies but to everyone that they should try and stay away from investing in ICOs. it is not just a very high risk investment anymore it is a losing game which is also damaging the whole cryptocurrency market. ICOs aren't really doing anything, they are not developing the technology, not producing any useful product, not offering any service, .... they are just tokens created to take money from you!

you are wrong because if you check the criteria the these ratings use they are not using price among them at all! they are basically calling it "technology" under different characteristics which they compare and then rank the coins. for example one thing they consider is the smart contracts and if a coin has that option it automatically gains a higher rank!
(i don't need to go into details of how this is flawed because you are comparing apples and oranges)

besides when it comes to rises, altcoins are known to rise in short term and then get dumped hard. not to mention that their star burns bright but short. meaning they get pumped this time, many will disappear after this and be replaced by new ones that get pumped in their stead.

it is scary in my opinion too but not because the two drops are similar (since they have absolutely no similarity) but only because the chart of these two times looks the same!
which makes wonder about the reason why we ended up seeing the same chart when the situation today has nothing in common with the situation back in 2013.

i don't think anybody is crediting the bear market to altcoins. there have been times when the massive dumps of altcoins has initiated a drop in bitcoin and placed some pressure on bitcoin price but they are not the whole reason.

the image is wrong simply because you are including one column that says "crypto". what the hell is  "crypto"? cryptocurrency or altcoins consists of more than 2000 different projects! and you can't categorize all of them in one column and then compare THAT with bitcoin.
it is like comparing gold with elements instead of comparing gold with platinum, aluminum,... 
so for example when you say High for fungability which coin do you have in mind? i can think of hundreds that aren't and dozens that are.
or when you say low for decentralized again i can think of dozens that are decentralized while many aren't.

how is this a this or that option? if we don't see a bull run it is not equal to abandoning the ship! you abandon something if you think it is sinking or dead. do you think bitcoin is dead?

you can't stop things like this. it is a free market. the rest of the market needs to be strengthened so that shorts can not cause a problem for it.

ICO is bullshit so it will die eventually. when and how is not clear but we can see that its death spiral has started a couple of months ago.

being decentralized has nothing to do with the price though.... and all you talked about was price here.

google trends is not an indication of anything. it just shows how many newbies are freshly coming in.

no, fiat is still in physical form (cash) and that has not changed. it just happens to also have an alternative form which is digital but still is backed by that physical form.

i somewhat agree with @magneto. the problems that OP mentioned are the small and secondary things that bitcoin can solve. the main feature of bitcoin is that decentralization that it has and all the benefits that come from it.

i think it is hard to say, there are so many countries that are obviously adopting bitcoin more than others such as Japan that was mentioned and a couple of more like Germany, Switzerland, Australia,... but then we see some big adoption cases in some other countries that you don't think is possible. like the Venezuela or many of the African countries and some other third world countries in the middle east. so it is hard to say which one is in the lead in my opinion.

"Many Countries Government"? where is the reference for that?

as far as i know and the legitimate recourses tell us only a handful of countries have actually tried to stop bitcoin. countries such as Bangladesh comes to mind. otherwise majority of the world has not been trying to "stop bitcoin" at least not publicly and not on big scales. there has been a lot of talk though mostly in the news which always exaggerates everything.

most of the shorts were performed by the whales who caused the dump in first place. they did it to make a lot of money while making the price crash like this and then bought back over the counter.
then came a lot of newbies who rushed in to short after the drop was over and started losing money like they always do.

i think people are overthinking things about mining these  days only because it was brought up this year and not in the past as much as today. if you look at the charts you can see that the hashrate has been going up and down for as long as bitcoin has been around.
price rises then the hashrate rises with it. then price falls and the hashrate falls after it also. it has been like this with any major rise and fall of price!
there really isn't any more to it than profitability for individual miners.

you shound't remain positive about future of bitcoin because of some arbitrary cycle or because of something that happened in the past!!!

instead you shuold be positive about bitcoin only if you know the potential of bitcoin as a decentralized payment system which works globally and has a limited supply. combine that with the growing adoption and you can see the chance of growing a lot more than this is quite high that justifies investing in it.

otherwise if you just base that on some cycle that happened before then you have to also invest in a lot of shitcoins that are dead today because each of them had pumping cycles where they went up quite high then got dumped down 80%-95% and then went up again. but eventually since there was no real potential they simply died.

the fees and all that are good but one important thing that is overlooked for bitcoin donations is always the transparency of it. for example one of the problems with charities is that people always to know what the charity did with their money. did they actually spend it on what they were supposed to or did they waste it or worse stole it!
with bitcoin you can keep track of where the money has gone and how much and where it was spent.

the only reason "dominance" decreased in first place was because of a big suge of shitcoins in the market that were coming out nonstop each having millions of useless token which then increased the total market cap by a lot.

so obviously when they got dumped that fake market cap vanished and "dominance" went back up again!

yes i wrote the private key down and stored it on paper.
i'll try to check out the project more and see how things work.

this is not the first time someone tried to take over bitcoin. it is just a new way of doing it. in the past there has been numerous attacks against bitcoin and there will be  a lot more and as bitcoin grows the number of take over attempts will only increase.

their split only increases the drama it won't kill either of them. simply because they are not some newbie created shitcoin! they are shitcoins backed by people with money and mining power and that keeps them alive and a nuisance.

that is true but remember it is not all about skills. there are many skilled traders that don't want to trade because of the situation with exchanges. after all you have to trade on exchanges!
to put simply many don't trust them. specially those who have been around to witness or even experience some of the exchange scams in history of bitcoin which are now devastating since they lose large amounts of bitcoin to these scammers. so they prefer to now only buy bitcoin as an investment.