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Bitcoin in more than double ETH and XRP seems to be knocking on the door.
If it is Flippening the it is Flippening to Rank 3

Ok. I know, it is not knocking but it will be there soon.

Bitcoin definitely asserted its dominance in the post-Bitcoin Cash world.  A couple months ago the flippening looked inevitable but now I don't think it will ever happen, not because Bitcoin boomed and Ethereum is lagging behind but Bitcoin has shown that it can scale and the crypto community has shown that it wants Bitcoin to scale.

i'm really interested to see where ethereum is gonna head in the near term.

the ico mania couldn't last and now we're seeing the first wave of regulatory crackdowns. whether that inspires ico operators to shape up is another matter. there are now also multiple projects that have sucked up a huge amount of money that now need to deliver something. how many of those will pull it off? not very many is my bet.

the sea might well pull out and we'll get a good view of who's swimming naked.

on the flip side they have their pos conversion which will be intriguing to watch. i wonder where all that mining will head next.

ICO's will continue getting hosted in other countries where they aren't banned, it's as simple as hosting them on some random place that no one cares about and since it's a global online offer they will always get speculators buying. Im surprised to see some people think bans will stop ICO speculation. It's not gonna happen.

So ETH will keep getting used, even if it's only to issue ICO tokens in smart contracts.

i'm more interested in whether any ico will deliver anything that justifies their existence in the near future. i'm sure they'll continue to exist but i can't see people falling for the same thing for years on end without having some success stories to point to, and by that i mean more than the ability sell for more than you paid for it.

there'll come a point where the pool of buyers just won't want to do it any more if it's looking like a dead end.

The flippening is ove now because theres better things to worry about now. Eth may have seen a problem when it was gaining so much traction but theres always something else that gets thrown in to worry the community. And for now we are back to contentious forks (again)  :o

where eth will actually go from here i dont know but im sure others will start a new flippening with eth or some other alt next year or after the fork drama and all alts and bitcoin start rising . Bitcoin will always have challengers trying to dethrone it.

XRP still has a long way to go to overtake ETH in marketcap. I do believe XRP price will go up in the upcoming months, but i dont see 300% happening on the short term.

Ethereum is technologically superior, with more use cases and has already more transactions than Bitcoin. It is not a matter of if but when it will surpass Bitcoin.

Yes, If anyone of them knocks bitcoin within a year from now, that would be Ethereum, but if it's not Ethereum, Bitcoin will surely have the top spot at least for 3 to 10 years from now.

For sure that's far fetched because flippening, well it's not gonna happen ever. With the decreased ICO interest and more bans in the countries it will affect the ethereum in negative way. I mean have you ever thought of ethereum with no investors directly or indirectly? It will let the ether go down as nobody will be investing into ICO which are based on the ethereum smart contracts only. That's like bye bye ether and welcome bitcoin. In anyway bitcoin was top most traded and invested now this incidence might just make it more stronger than before.

Worst news is - I never get to say I told you so!

Kind of off topic, but that shit was hilarious.

Yeah, I bet a lot of ETH whales spent a lot of energy and money trying but it never really came close to happening. Even the ICO craze did its best but the time for them has already passed a very short lived golden era. Maybe the new Ethereum, when the fork completes, will be able to support the same volume of ICOs in future, but with all the talk on regulation and ICO scrutiny, plus the burnt ICO investors who've generally seen their tokens crash and burn, it's hard to see another scenario in 2018 where everyone wants to buy up ERC20 tokens.