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No, I don't mean (just) the numerous Bitcoin forks or copies like Bitcoin Cash, Bitcoin SV, Bitcoin Diamond, Bitcoin Classic, Bitcoin Puma, Bitcoin Pepsi etc. I mean all Crypto management/developers who to this day think they are unique enough to succeed on their own without Bitcoin.
This isn't a new thing, even in the good old days of the legendary 2018 price jump did we see many Cryptos outperform Bitcoin by the percentage they increased in price and immediately have the team and/or community gloat about how they were "better" or "the next" Bitcoin. But as many of them have learned since late 2018, it isn't just about the price and certainly not about the percent your Crypto increases more than Bitcoin. Many of those "better than Bitcoin" Cryptos are nowhere to be seen nowadays or dropped from the top 100 to somewhere in the top 1000 in rank. I'm not going to name these Cryptos specifically, this isn't meant to put them in their place or pick on them, I guess this is meant as more of a caution than anything else. A caution to unite rather than to seek opportunistic gains.
How this is being played out today, is to be found in the rather interesting way I noticed certain "green" Cryptos essentially almost e-begging Musk to have a look at their Crypto in the midst of his rants about how Bitcoin was consuming too much and often non-green energy. I don't mean some influencer or large bag holders, I mean the actual management/team behind the Crypto themselves were messaging Musk under his posts about this, not correcting him and de facto agreeing with him on his false claims regarding Bitcoin. On that same note, I am starting to see more and more cases being made for certain Cryptos that will benefit from the anti-Bitcoin steps China has been taking and somehow conclude that they will thrive from this as Bitcoin takes the hit.
So is there something wrong with wanting to succeed on your own and not be dependent on Bitcoin? Not at all. Perhaps there will be a day that Bitcoin is no longer number 1 in the Crypto market ranking, perhaps there will be a day that Bitcoin price movements will no longer effect other top Cryptos as much as it always has and above all, perhaps there will be a day that a certain blockchain/developer makes ground breaking developments that will change or improve the foundation once laid by Bitcoin years ago. This is not so unimaginable as Ethereum is already turning a lot of heads and even recently made a historic achievement regarding it's active users.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/billybambrough/2021/07/03/ethereum-just-surpassed-bitcoin-in-a-key-milestone-as-major-upgrades-help-spur-its-price-higher/
But these are all possibilities that even if they ever occur, have to happen in a natural process based on technological development in the Crypto world, not outside influence or price manipulation. Until that faithful day, any attack on Bitcoin will effect your "next" or "better" or "green" Crypto a lot more than it will Bitcoin. Case in point: China's anti-Bitcoin actions already effected the price of Alts a lot more negatively that they did Bitcoin itself, not exempting the Chinese developed blockchains either. Musk's Bitcoin rants have overall caused more damage to the price of Alts than they have on Bitcoin, no matter how "green" the projects were or how much damage control Musk tried to do with bias, positive Tweets.
https://www.nasdaq.com/articles/10-reasons-dogecoin-predictably-crashed-2021-06-27
Bottom line: An attack against Bitcoin is an attack against the entire Crypto world, end of story.
