Well if this was to happen it would make it much harder for the people manipulating the markets to keep doing it. Altcoins are actually being used on purpose in order to directly control the price of BTC. This is done by the biggest players in order to keep buying up cheap BTC in a market with such limited supply. Even looks as if governments are big players in manipulating markets lately. And don't you find it odd that there's been some sort of news or publicity of some kind in order to excuse the rapid increase in value of just about every BS coin under the sun while BTC drops... which I'm sure a lot of us all knew well in advance was already coming. Just look at the charts, it's pretty obvious.