BITCOIN DOMINANCE AND ITS RELATION WITH ALTCOIN

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BITCOIN DOMINANCE

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You may have heard the term Bitcoin dominance several times from professional
traders. What does it mean? It’s pretty simple. If you divide the total market capital

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At the time of writing the article, the BTC dominance is at 64 % and it has started
reaching a resistance zone. ETH dominance is at 11 % and Tether’s dominance is
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at 4 %. A fall from this zone will be good for altcoins.

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Although there are thousands of different currencies, Bitcoin’s dominance has
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been above 50% for most of the decade.

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WHAT HAPPENS WHEN BTC DOMINANCE INCREASES OR
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When BTC dominance increases, it means that the demand for BTC increases and
that for altcoins decreases. When BTC dominance decreases, it means that the
demand for altcoins increases and that for BTC decreases.

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When BTC dominance increases, it means that investors in crypto are looking for a
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less volatile and safer investment. It is analogous to buying A-list stocks or YEN in
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forex or Gold in commodities. During market uncertainty, investors shift towards
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less volatile and highly liquid assets like BTC rather than investing in altcoins with
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low liquidity and market cap. There are multiple reasons for the high dominance of
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BTC which include: earliest digital asset, listed across all exchanges, completely
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decentralized, extreme media attention, etc. This is the reason most traders in
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cryptocurrency have begun their journey by BTC as the first cryptocurrency.

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When BTC dominance decreases, it indicates the beginning of alt season. It is an
indication that the profits earned from the rise in price of BTC will now be used to
buy altcoins. A falling BTC dominance is a good sign for altcoins. Altcoins have a
much higher probability of exponential gains given its low liquidity and high
volatility compared to BTC. To give an example, it is far more likely for an altcoin
like BAND to jump from 5 USD to 15 USD in a much shorter time frame than for
BTC to jump from 10,000 USD to 30,000 USD in the same time frame.

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HISTORY OF BITCOIN DOMINANCE

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Since the introduction of additional 10 cryptocurrencies, BTC dominance has been

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mostly above 50% in terms of market dominance. Till November 2014, BTC
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dominance was above 90%. After the introduction of XRP, the dominance started
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falling and reached 78 % when XRP dominance was at 13% during the first
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altcoins season.
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The dominance of BTC crawled back towards 90% in the beginning of 2016 till
ETH got listed across exchanges which took 13% of the market cap and led the
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dominance of BTC to drop down to 70s and again started crawling back up.

The major drop in BTC dominance was in mid-2017 when Ether became
extremely popular and it started looking like it can dethrone BTC.
BTC dominance fell to 38% while ETH dominance peaked at 31% in June 2017.
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During this period, we saw massive gains in many altcoins and this was one of the
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most euphoric eras of altcoins as well as BTC. We saw BTC reach its all time high
price of 20,000 and many altcoins reached their all time high price till the
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beginning of “crypto winter” in January 2018. We saw many coins doing more
than 10x in a short span of time which was also known as the era of “ICOs”.
During this massive altcoin rally, BTC dominance fell down to it’s all time low
value of 32%.
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TODAY’S MARKET CAP:

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DOT, 0.93
LTC, 0.98
BNB, 1.1 Others, 14.8
LINK, 1.19
BCH, 1.27
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XRP, 2.9

USDT, 4.12
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BTC, 61.09
ETH, 11.62
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SUMMARY

Bitcoin dominance is an extremely important parameter for traders and investors.

It marks the beginning or end of altcoins season.

Here is a tabular summary of the relationship between BTC’s Dominance, BTC’s
price and Altcoin’s price

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