Ah, good to see a self mod thread in Alt Discussion. The shit replies crossed 20+ and you have trashed most of them, except keeping a few good ones.
There has been significant dip in the btc/eth trading pairs with eth reaching as low as 0.03
BTC these few days. The dip might have been due to various reasons with the primary one being the ICO guys selling of their Eth which they have collected in ICO to prevent further losses due to the bearish market prevailing now. Further cmc datas has shown that btc dominance is raising at a steep rate with the tokens getting vanished from the market at a speedy and an enormous rate.
According to recent stats, it is seen that ICOs have raised around $7billion this year and with August being the lowest. Most of the ICOs collect eth as their primary currency and sell them off to start developing their platform.
We should even note that, eth doesn't have a cap and a minimum supply. Also as of VB words, eth should be considered as a fuel for running the platform on top of ethereum network. The new market traders could have realized this lately and would have sold their eth which they accumulated in the earlier 2017 days.
The recent words from VB suggests that "Eth and other currencies has reached their maximum potential and would never rise in steep gains". These may have also created a panic among the traders and some minor whales who could have dumped the price.
Will the eth market recover and see new gains?
I don't think so, unless we have some good improvements in the eth protocol and the introduction of Casper.