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I was completely shocked today to see ripple briefly overtaking ethereum (marketcap)!  I am scared to see bitcoin becoming the next victim in the future. Now, when do u think bitcoins to start increasing given the fact that the  popularity of ethereum and ripple is also increasing? do u think investors would be as keen to invest in bitcoins as we have seen in 2017?

Thanks for your answers :)

Expect bitcoin to rise in 2018 many experts says that it will rise at january 1st or 2nd week this 2018. If your a bitcoin hodlers then you are one of the investor. And bare in mind that keeping more bitcoin will be a heaven in future :D
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Yes me too! I was too surprised after seeing the market for Ripple hit the 2 USD mark. Dam I mean thats cool for any coin to hit the 10X rates in such short period of time and more than that whats important is, it is being done naturally. There is no artificial pump and neither there is any bad legacy behind it! The 24 hour volume is almost 2-3 billion dollars for the XRP, and it is more or less similar to ETH only. This is really dangerous thing for the ETH coin and amazing thing for the XRP market itself.

Though XRP is getting into hearts of investors but I don't think it will cross the BTC market itself. It is huge and more than enough to keep the #1 place all the time. I agree on the XRP market completely, its best and it can move further than what we are seeing right now but it will take huge efforts for it to reach the BTC prices.

Lol!!!

Bitcoin has made such a HUGE move forward that people just keep focusing on last week losses.
What's the matter if btc lost 10% in a week? Did everyone already forget that it jumped nearly 100% in value in about... what? A month? Two maybe?

Ripple is just getting the money from the panic sales of btc by people too stupid to realize the trith: there is no bubble just a huge massive exponential move forward. That's all.
So yeah expect btc to move upwards! But don't mind me it doesn't mean ripple won't follow, there is room for plenty of currencies here :)

Yes, Ripple has long been in a downward movement. And its growth has been waiting for many investors for more than six months. I think this is the beginning of the growth of this crypto currency. But to bitcoin it is still far away. And the broadcast by the way, too, did not grow normally.

There is room for both Bitcoin and Ripple. Dont worry. Both are very good projects.
But I think Ripple will surpass Bitcoin in 2018

Ripple is government's favorite coin because it's centralized, doesn't even have a blockchain, they could control it... im sure a lot of governments would like to see Ripple take the #1 spot. Also a lot of people involved in Google are working Ripple. This is why big enterprise deals are being mad with Ripple. It's also a really old project. Satoshi talked about Ripple many years ago it seems, even before Bitcoin was released which was surprising for me to find out. Then again Ripple doesn't solve the byzantine generals problem or anything on that level.

I dont't think we're going to see any major movements in Bitcoin until mid-january, reason being is that it's the holidays and people are doing their own thing during this time of the year. Same thing happened last year, price went down in the december.

About XRP, I'm no sure what exactly is going on, seems like japan and korea are the ones pumping the price thanks to the news of some asian banks testing Ripple. Personally, I wouldn't like to see a completely centralized cryptocurrency supported by the banking system as the next ruler of the crypto market, but by the looks of it, it could happen.
Btw, Ripple's current uptrend doesn't mean that it's becoming more popular, it just means that either its price went up (the market can be ridiculous sometimes) or more ripples that were already pre mined were introduced into the market, so there wouldn't a correlation to its popularity.

I believe bitcoin is stale at the moment in terms of growth. Bitcoin is not predictable, but at the moment most people are not gonna have money till end of January due to the christmas holidays and new year. Its going to take many months for bitcoin to rise. It may most likely fall though. I think we need to diversify into smaller cryptocurrencies in order to get maximum returns. Look at electroneum and maybe xrp ship has sailed but buy some and hold it for a long term incentive.

I guess Ripple is Centrakised which ETH/BTC are decentralised. Ripple was been accepted by bank in my location and yes, ripple is growing much above. But reaching the price of bitcoins is too hard for any crypto. Bitcoins will too soon pump back in 2018.

Ripple (https://coincodex.com/crypto/ripple/) has a different concept compared to Bitcoin (https://coincodex.com/crypto/bitcoin/), so no, it will not replace Bitcoin. But Bitcoin will definitely need to do something about the transaction costs and speed if it wants to stay on top.

ripple has less than zero resemblance to bitcoin. could it pump past it? you never know. would it matter? if people can't understand why bitcoin is important then they deserve to get schooled when its properties are actually needed. ripple won't be of any use to them then.

I think the bitcoin will still rise in the near future.  And same goes to ripple or other cryptocurrencies.  Ripple has the advantage now because compare to bitcoin before when it was started, there was very few people knew about it and not much of promotions or advertisements, unlike now with the Ripple, people have knowledge already regarding the cryptocurrencies, so they will believe the Ripple now because of the testimonies of Bitcoin, Ethereum and other large market capital of cryptocurrencies.

I think Ripple will definitely have a shot at getting past ETH, but not entirely sure against Bitcoin yet.

The reasons for the growth of the ripple rate consisted first of all that 61 large world banks united to use this coin within the banking system for making instant transfers of payments around the world, and now information has been received that Japanese and South Korean financial institutions are considering the possibility of using its technology for their needs.

Ripple will not be the first i think

I don't think Ethereum, ripple or any other alt-coin will take over the market cap of Bitcoin, or Volume (USD) traded because these things do not compare to bitcoin in terms of security or recognition. If an alt-coins market cap does end up surpassing Bitcoin, I would theorize this would be the "bubble" everyone likes to pretend Bitcoin is, and the artificial market cap will be shaved off in no time. I only think ETH or Ripple can be artificially "more valuable" if it ever even comes close.

These secondary coins are only thought of or bought at all because of what bitcoin has become and what others know about bitcoin; none of these other coins stand on their own two-feet in the long-term. Bitcoin will keep its seat until it is not applicable, irrelevant or refuses to develop solutions to certain problems.

I don't think that any coin created in bitcoins image, as a copy, except slightly different (normally these differences centralize distribution, development, or allow for other flaws/faults that are not possible with bitcoin); they lack the foundational principals that have made Bitcoin the integral giant it has become in our world of modern finance.

Two things are certain in life.

1. You will die.

2. Bitcoin will be overtaken by other cryptos.

yes, everyone is worried about bitcoin. they are afraid of losing their wealth, so they do not want to invest in bitcoin. but we should not be afraid and worried, because the bright light will increase again in 2018. I predict in 2018 will reach $ 35000.

Bitcoin will continue to be battling other coins. Ripple has made great growth in a short span of time. We will continue to see bitcoin grow through 2018.

Bitcoins market value is going down but it also tends to rise back again as it goes down so I never think that bitcoin is slowing down because I am very sure that in due time bitcoin will steady it's market value and then it will start to skyrocket again it's market value giving no chances for the ripple to rule the market in the future. Bitcoin is the future of all cryptocurrency in the market so if Bitcoin will goes down then all cryptocurrencies will also goes tumbling down.

Experts predicts that the price of bitcoins will rise till a record breaking amount near around March..


It's really worth the wait to see and keep holding and Bitcoin dominates more than 50%of the market cap and ripple can't replace it that early is what I think.


There may be chances but still it does have a long way to go , for now trust BTC and hold them .

There are good news for Ripple now and it is enjoying the benefits of those good news as more and more people are buying their Ripple. That is good for many Ripple hodlers but when there would no more good news the value would tapered off and this is the natural movement for Ripple. It is more of a sleeping giant. If I have some funds available, I might also invest with Ripple.

When these altcoins try to challenge bitcoin, bitcoin will prove that its position can't be surpassed in a month.

All I can say about Altcoins is this; Whatever happens to the market they (are and) will still be dependent to Bitcoin. Decentralized and centralized coins is really different. Ripple might skyrocket but how long does it take? I think Ripple maybe a good investment when it comes to trading but still Bitcoin is the king since a lot of governments accept it as payments system and as a form of investment. Ripple is backed by giant banks meaning they are in control of our funds. Therefore, it is too far to compare Bitcoin from Ethereum and Ripple because they are using different technology.

I don't believe ripple can make it the fact that there are altcoins which are better that it like ETH. And I believe BTC will rise again.

After a serious price drop, because of the news of China banning cryptocurrencies, bitcoin is starting to rise again. This is hopefully a real upswing, so the price can rise to at least 20K soon. Ripple had a real crash and will not rule the market. If there is an altcoin that can overtake bitcoin and rule the market, that would be Ethereum.

No, of course not, ripple is crap, it is the biggest shit that has been created during the last few years, if you are really saying that ripple will be much more better than bitcoin, then please, leave this forum.
Ripple is centralized, while bitcoin is not.

So please, try to learn about those cryptos before talking.

Ripple would not overtake bitcoin anytime.It is used mostly as payment between banks and that's the reason for its price hyke.

When will Bitcoin start rising? Obviously after the extreme price down, Bitcoin price will gradually return to normal on demand within a few days or weeks. So, no need to worry because everything will be normal in time.
And for Ripple, I do not really understand their rules.

No, ripple will never be the first crypto, in fact, it was less than $1 yesterday when everything was falling because of this giant FUD, for me, ripple does not even deserve to have a value of more than $0,50, but what can we do about it? Nothing, it was perfect when this one was below $0,20 each, it was a high price anyways.. Now it is super OVER priced

It is really hard for me to imagine that ripple will ever rule the market today, if someone will ripple I'm sure that will be bitcoin. It is clear on the new that bitcoin is in its gradual market value increase and of course almost day by day many users and investors used bitcoin to complete their financial transactions. Ripple had tried to replace ETH but soon enough ETH come back again and replacing ripple again. So there's no chance for ripple to  rule the market in the future.

As we see, altcoins exist for pure manipulation and instant earnings.

Honestly, Bitcoin will return strongly in the beginning of February. As well, This crisis in the value of the price and market cap is certainly temporary and all the problems that led to this sudden fall will be solved in the near future, and I guess that after two weeks the price will rise to $ 20,000.

In addition to that, with regard to Ripple (XRP), It can have great value in the future. Moreover, there is an evolution in the number of users cryptocurrencies which are investing in Ripple because it is the third best currency in the market and their price is low ($ 1.67). And it is expected that after a few years, the price will more than $100.
So this can be the best chance to buy a large amount of this currency.

Could u tell me more about Ripple?

Shouldn't you be the one doing your own research? You will learn if you do so, instead of having the information spoonfed to you.

Anyway, with regards to ripple, I don't think that it will be able to rule the market in the near or even in the far-off future. I don't even see any actual application of the coin, yet (or maybe I haven't heard of it yet). Anyway, although ripple had progressed a little in a short period of time, we can never deny the fact that it was easily surpassed by eth by means of just a little nudge. And even though as long as eth hasn't reached its full potential yet, it will still keep ripple at its tail's end.

I have already seen that bitcoin had already started it's rising as of this moment, although slowly but it's starting to gain it's losses and soon it's market value will return to skyrocket again and ripple will never rule the market in the future as long as bitcoin remains in the very top of all crypto currencies which many users and investors had already trusted and tested.

Haha, I like reading comments about Ripple :D There are like 2 Ripple communities one loves Ripple and anotherone hates it:D

Just take a look the price first "buddy" before you expect the fact..
Maybe only in the field of positive pecentage of the ripple in the past or nowadays, but when you see the actuall price it's to big an enterval to say that it's going to be ethecal. As much as many new tokens came from many project today still have a great  benefits by using eth..

No, if Ripple win, the bank will rule the world again ;D ;D