why should BTC-ETH trades change the dollar price of BTC?

well it just broke down from a rising wedge, which is forming the right shoulder of a massive h&s...

to answer your question, vitalik spoke at coinbase today, so if coinbase does ether there will be a pump from that.

vlad and vitalik have both admitted they don't actually know how to scale ethereum and scaling is still a "research project"  . (they've admitted that this year)  pretty soon they'll figure out their "idea" for scaling violates the cap theorem.  even with zero use their blockchain is already bloating.  beyond 'hello world' prototypes theres gonna be a lot of problems and a lot of drama with insiders selling off before announcing their failures to handcuff a bunch of dapps (which are not decentralized) to their platform in any way that scales.

is it possible that the halvening got priced in during the runup from $200ish to $500ish last year? then again i remember a similar runup in price in like august 2012, months before the first halvening.. if thats any indication, price might just do nothing.. for now.

i feel like we're gonna get to the end of the triangle and not break up or down, just continue flatlining until some scaling news comes out.. thoughts?

Tim Draper 

not exactly 

cant get past main page, and it looks like withdraws have been down for hours