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Good thought. I hadn't considered, but could be the reason!

I think the correlation is:
Once BTC goes up. If a coin was worth X BTC then automatically at the moment BTC is up, that coin USD value goes up. Because you can trade it and get the same X BTC but BTC worth more USD.

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