Ironically last summer my tracking of ETH was done against BTC and although the dollar value of ETH was higher than it had ever been last July or so it was tanking against BTC. It was for that reason that my decision was to sell off my ETH to buy a 36' ocean sailer. ETH began to tank against the dollar days after that. My understanding is that it has not recovered to last summer's high, as of this writing.

ETH was offered to the owner of the boat, at the time of purchase, yet they preferred that it be changed into FIAT for payment. Just because folks value their BTC in a dollar value speaks more about the person's mindset more than anything else, in my opinion.