it didn't matter that BTC pumped, or that BTC and alts were falling; the HIVE pump had its own independent, undisturbed action.
I don't know exactly why this happened, but I certainly love the fact that it happened. If we keep onboarding more users to our DAPPs and eventually make the DAPPs get treated as other independent projects such as games and social media, we could have handle the bear market better than most other cryptocurrency projects.
That happened before with Splinterlands and Leofinance, and will happen again. But I don't think any crypto project will go through bear markets without being affected, at least until we have mass adoption of the projects.