Bitcoin continues to lose market share and this trend may continue further.
The market situation has started to change since the beginning of this year, and now it is already becoming obvious that BTC will not remain the leader for long.
Technologically, Bitcoin lags behind many competitors. The number, speed and cost of transactions, as well as the convenience of making them, will never be able to satisfy the broad masses.
The decline in the share of bitcoin to 42% compared to 70% at the beginning of the year suggests that participants can start thinking in a different direction and invest in other tokens.
As the big players leave, Bitcoin will gradually become cheaper. A decline of 50% over the year in relation to altcoins is a very real scenario. For a month, many altcoins have been growing towards bitcoin, including ETH, ADA, EOS, XLM and LTC.
Crypto trader Lark Davis believes that this year, against the background of the rapid formation of cryptocurrency markets, altcoins will show rapid growth.
The altcoin market cap is poised for a giant rally after overcoming a key resistance level. In 2014, the last time this happened, the capitalization of altcoins then grew by 27,000% in just a year.
"In 2017, everything was tied to Ethereum. Now we have several blockchains: Binance Smart Chain (BSC), Solana (SOL), Avalanche (AVAX) and others that run smart contract applications," Davis said.
In addition, a number of crypto-currency platforms have appeared on the market that make it easier for retail investors to enter the crypto markets, among them: CashApp, Robinhood and PaxPal. A huge amount of institutional money is also entering the cryptocurrency space.