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Those days ripple is doing really well, it has more than half of bitcoin market cap and has 19% market dominance.
I hate ripple as a cryptocurrency as it's centralized, now seems that ripple is the queen, not ethereum.

That really is making me upset but I want to hear your thoughts.

It's impossible to ripple over bitcoin, because I remember a lot of people talking about it half a year ago saying that ETH could exceed ETH, and that ripple could only compete for second place with ETH.

I think it's impossible, bitcoin is going to remain the king for a long time. Ripple has had such a big rise because of the noobs that have entered the sector and have seen a cheap currency on top of the coinmarketcup. Actually, ripple is rubbish for the philosophy of crypto coins.

Don't be fooled

Right now, I don't think its possible to overtake bitcoin. Ripple has still a long way to go to do that. Also, bitcoin moves every time even if ripple can double its price right now.

No way! It's not even a decentralized coin, I think Ripple is just too over hyped now.

as soon as people see some alt coin getting pumped they're ready to scream "to the moon! BTC is dead! long live to xxx coin".
Yes, now ripple are doing very good with 32% increase within 24 hours, this is a nice wave to ride but saying it will overtake BTC it's funny; be practical, ride the wave while it last but i wont invest huge amount of money (as usual, this is just my humble opinion).

It is not possible to overtake Ripple Bitcoin at any time. Bitcoin is the King, it is very difficult to defeat the King.

I agree to you even ripple are doing so good for this past few weeks bitcoin will still the king of cryptocurrency we happy for ripple to became no. 2 cryptocurrency this big wave indicate that ripple have a good potential with a real product.
Because ripple are centralized theres no possibility that ripple can overtake bitcoin anytime the btc can boost again just my own opinion and analyzation.

i earn better on ripple then bitcoins

Ripple was actually older than Bitcoin with its original version created in 2004 according to Bitcoin Magazine. Though it has reached noticable milestones especially these days with value jumping more than 7,000%, I dont think it will exceed bitcoin's achievement. But investing in ripple is a good choice also. Its up to us to discern.

At this rate, Ripple could overtake Bitcoin in a month. Check out the numbers at coinmarketcap.

If btc fell to $10k ripple would be number 1 looking at market cap just now.

There has never been such a big threat to btc before. Ripple is reaching towards BTC levels very hard.

Yes XRP is pumping so hard right now but its not enough to overcome  bitcoin and I believe no one can do that. This thing will never happen, people should open their eyes and make time to realize that bitcoin is way better than any other coin. Though holding XRP is a good way also to make good profit.

its just ripples time to pump,
when bitcoin pump again, ripple will left behind,
long long way to overtake bitcoins status.

OP is one of those cryptocrite - one who hates banks but their fait are on banks. Just one term I saw on facebook :)

Ripple over taking bitcoin is possible. Banks are going to be using it, why won't banks be buying all those supply for themselves if ripples can help them in every transactions they will do in the future.

i don't think ripple can overtake bitocin. Ripple is a good for bank but is centralised an majority of coins own company. But it is really strange cuz ripple now have a lot of transaction more than btc and eth but banks don't use ripple so i don't know ...

Well its still not bad to invest in Ripple if you think you'll get profit. Eventually, it is your own decision. XRP is doing well but it won't surpass bitcoin. Even though it is centralized, if you want to put money then go, but the coin is just adverse in the concept of decentralization.

Bitcoin is not stay on the same place and it is also raising, so I doubt that such little fish of the crypto sea as Ripple will ever overtake bitcoin's value.

I have done with Ripple, I know it can go higher but it is getting closer to the all-time high and that is a concern for the short-term hold.
from here on XRP will get wild with big rise/drops increments, but it will never go above the Bitcoin market cap.

It can be, ripple continuously moving upward and it can replace bitcoin as the 1st cryptocurrency. However, ripple will drop faster and it cannot be stayed at the top. Ripple has issue in centralization and centralization of ripple will affect its price.
Bitcoin also has the lightning networks that I think will be the asset of bitcoin. Bitcoin holders and users will now appreciate more reliable and fast transaction with low fees.

It is hard to tell as of now, but if a lot of people find Ripple more convenient for micro-transactions, it would pose as the biggest risk for Bitcoin since banks are behind Ripple.

I don't think.It can't be happen.this is just a hype only.at least ripple is not decentralized coin.
 

first define "overtake"...

in market capitalization?
yes there is a good chance XRP will be have so much bigger market cap one way or another. either it will be pumped to nearly $6 to get there or they will release another massive supply that will help the push upwards.

in trading volume? maybe for a couple of days before falling down
in price? not a chance
in usage? LOL
in adoption? LOL x2

Ripple cannot overtake bitcoin despite coming into prominence in the last couple of days ago due to it's market capitalization, bitcoin has been in existence for 9 years and has become so popular that it is being adopted by many countries recent news indicates that bitcoin has increase Japan GDP by 0.3% and so many positive news about bitcoin as it is decentralized.
However ripple being centralized is big disadvantage to the coin as investors dislikes a third party controlled coin.

So many see centralisation as a problem.  Perhaps many people coming into cryptocurrencies now dont mind? 

Bitcoin is them mother currency of all coin, there is less chance Ripple to overtake Bitcoin, it can come near to it but i dont think it can overtake.

Ripple is overhyped and centralized coin over taking bitcoin will never happen more over ripple bull trap any time the price may come down

I don't think ripple can overtake bitcoin. Bitcoin is the king

It sometimes goes like that, as ripple and any other cryptocurrencies are dependable of the market demand.
And as we knew about market trend of ripple, it could be consider that someday it will be a ripple day. But considering that ethereum is exemplary performer since from the start, still ethereum is on the top among altcoins.

i think ripple will not  overtake bitcoin judging from the price of it its still far away its more like 0.0000001% of the bitcoin. may be eth has a potential to overtake bitcoin or maybe the bitcoin cash in the future.but this ripple i dont think so.may be someday it will crash but still we dont know.

I agree, if we look at the history of the ripple, an increase like this happened in the year 2017 exactly in April. Ripple skyrocketed to 0.0002 btc / ripple then fell back. I think this will most likely happen again this year. But at least in 1 month, this is the trend of the rippe, instead of bitcoin or ethereum so that market cap and volume rise significantly.

I don't think so, Bitcoin is the roots of all cryptocurrency, and i still confidently believe bitcoin will consistently the no. 1 in cryptomarket. Bitcoin is the dominant of all type of coins:)

Well for me, i guess ripple can not overtake bitcoin as the king of cryptocurrency. The main reason for that is because ripple is a centralized coins. People who loves and understand cryptocurrency knows that "centralized thing" is not a good thing because the market can be manipulated easily by the central people. And i believe all this pump (beside the initial pump by the central) happen because all people who only wants profit, join the pump too. People sooner or later will dump ripple if they think they have enough profit from it.

Ripple can't overtake bitcoin, ripple will crash and go back below $1! altcoins are on the rise at this moment, but they will fall again and all those money made off on alts will flow back in to bitcoin.

lol you are comparing Ripple to Bitcoin??? It is impossible for Ripple to take over Bitcoin

No that's not going to happend, people are just crazy about ripple going up and they are throwing load of money hoping to make some profit

What do you think mate? Xrp will replace bitcoin at the top or not? I think you know the answer already you only see xrp increase 400× then you did this question. Bitcoin progress cant beat any altcoin, yes, i am bitcoin supporters but i also invezting in altcoin for additional income.

yes, i see ripple has a pretty good development up to now, and it seems to be going up high. but will not pursue BTC.

At this time, i think very impossible to overtake bitcoin,l. too early, even riple backed by government or bank

not at all. i don't believe that ripple overtakes bitcoin. but now ripple position is better than before.  now ripple position is 2nd. but i believe bitcoin is the number one currency all the time being.

Well, Ripple has a great platform for banks to compete with Bitcoin but again it's not the idea of decentralization and hence doesn't fall under the category of democratic cryptocurrency such as Bitcoin. On the other hand, I do see growth opportunities of XRP if someone is willing for speculative gains out of it. I don't think it's going to overtake Bitcoin in any way because, at any given point, decentralized power would be much more than the centralized power and we will see multi-fold increase in Bitcoin user base along with the improvements in core areas such as transaction fees.

That is not impossible to happen right now. Specially ripple is now starting to make its name in the business. It already surpass ethereum as the second cryptocurrency next to bitcoin.

yes, I really agree with you, that today ripple lags far from bitcoin, so it will be hard to chase bitcoin.

It's possible but it is like thinking that a new challenger will take over on the Kind of Crypto which is pretty much not good to think as a trader. As a trader myself that Ripple will become #1 in terms of coin market cap as porfitability of Bitcoin might get slowed down by it as the participation of most of the traders will now be divided as in this scenario the kings of crypto has been uncrowned.

It is hard to accept. I think that most of the Ripple investors are those that are skeptical about decentralization. Again, it includes people that wants to join crypto investment through the back door. I think ripple's dominance may not last long until ethereum and its likes displace it. So don't be upset, it is a matter of time

It's just a hype and it would never goes longer, it will stop sooner or later. Not that i hate the ripple as a crypto but as i have observed since the first time i have been in crypto, there are sometimes that a particular crypto gets the limelight and the price and the trading volume as well goes crazy like what happened to TRUMP coin wayback before. The ripple thing is just temporary.
Well, that's my humble opinion only.

Bitcoin price is at $14500 where as Ripple is at $3.76. Ripple share is around 19% where as bitcoin`s share is around 50%. How comparison is possible. It is impossible for ripple to overtake bitcoin by any way.  Bitcoin have more transactions/ movements as compared to any cryptocurrency currently operating in the market. Ripple is a centralised currency so it may get manipulated or influenced by regulating authority. Bitcoin is a decentralised currency, no third party interference is possible, and because of this people are investing in bitcoin currency.

The ripple is really doing well and capturing investors interest but crossing btc is not possible rather it seems funny.Many altcoins pump with same boost but this is all a temporary one whereas bitcoin price boost is forever so dont comapre this to such a currency. It is also a centeralized currency which make it less profitable and less growth so be practical man.

BTC is in a unique position. Ripple can't overtake bitcoin. I don't think it will go even near to it. After few days ripple will go back to third place.

In the present scenario of competitive market; cut throat competition the rule of survival of the fittest applies to the market players.  Where market players kills other player without mercy.  There was a time when almost all were wearing wrist watches ; the watch which has been brutally murdered by mobile cell phones which serves the purpose of time check also.  In the past we could not have imagine the death of wrist watches. 
So with the passage of the time what will happen no body can imagine presently.  But seeing the fundamentals ; expectations / preference of the market players it seems very difficult for ripple to overtake bitcoin due to the decentralized nature of bitcoin as ripple is almost centralized ownership. 
I see the kingdom of bitcoin without challenge in future several years.

It is not possible is ripple overtake the bitcoin. Ripple can not overtake BTC in near future also be patience ripple buble is bust and it will be back again. bitcoin is always no.1.

Ripple is being pumped massively. I don't think this is real value for one coin. Ripple's goal is to achieve better CENTRALIZED system, something that we all got into crypto to stay away from. I don't even see  how can someone invest into something like that.

Looking on the recent situation it can! but only for short time while Bitcoin stands still. No one could imagine such hype of billion coins.

You got some strange ideas in your head about bitcoin.

Bitcoin is not democratic. There are no bitcoin elections. You do not have a say in how it’s developed, mined or exchanged for fiat. It does not favor social equality and it is not egalitarian in any way. The only way I can see bitcoin mimicking any current democracy is that the very small minority of rich people control all of the wealth.

Bitcoin is nowhere near decentralized. 99.995% of the humans on the earth have no idea how to code C++ and think internet protocols are those red marks you get on your genitalia when you masturbate to internet porn. These people rely on the 0.005% that do understand it to tell them bitcoin is working fine. That leaves development completely centralization. Most people (even computer savvy people) on this forum still have no idea how Ripple works.

Mining (bitcoins security system) is in the hands of a very few wealthy mining consortiums (based in some of the most oppressive countries in the world, btw) that meet regularly to determine the future of bitcoin. This small group is so powerful that they were able to stop a necessary blocksize increase from happening. That’s a more centralized system and has far fewer members than the US governments executive office of the president which has over 4000 people working there.

Bitcoin exchanges are limited to one or two separate entities located in a small handful of countries and have proven to be the most manipulative component of the bitcoin ecosystem. BTCe and MtGox manipulated and robbed tens of thousands of people worldwide. Coinbase (americas powerful bitcoin exchange) is in the middle of an internal audit because they discovered insider trading happen right under their noses. That is the least decentralized part of the whole system.

You need to get those crazy notions out of your head, wake up and smell the roses because they smell like shit.

Is possible in terms of credibillity and stability but not in value.If Bitcoin crash which is near impossible, then Ripple will be the favorite of crypto currency because governmetn and banks have already vouch for it.

In my opinion, it is not possible for ripple to cross bitcoin. Ripple is not well known coin such as bitcoin. The user and facility of bitcoin is far more than ripple. Bitcoin is unbeatable it is sure. Though ripple has great chance but it is impossible for ripple to overtake bitcoin.

Bitcoin has such a first mover advantage it will be hard for anything to overtake it.  The only way I see it overtaking it is if Bitcoin has a major problem, i.e. it somehow gets shut down by some entity or government, at the same time that Ripple is "embraced".

Given what has happened in the last couple of months in crypto world I would say anything is possible.
looking at both market caps now i cannot believe ripples of $141 billion +
another question to add into the thread, is the Bitcoin price suffering because Ripple is gaining so much?

I think that Ripple will not overlap BTC with capitalization. However, it was very large growth of Ripple in last 2 weeks.

Ripple is quite a good investment as it's current market price is affordable and the interests earned from it will be very profitable. It will take a long time for ripple to overtake BBC as btcs value and popularity is too high

That doesnt mean it will already go beyond bitcoin.
This is the total supply of Ripple = 99,993,093,880
Look at those numbers. That is a lot for one to grow in value way above your imagination like bitcoin.
It just cant. It might be in the hype right now and it is great to profit from it but please do not take it to the higher level. Let us all be practical here and go back to reality.

It will be a truly sad day if it does happen.
But a quick glance at the history XRP/BTC chart on coinmarketcap gives a pretty big clue as to what is going to happen pretty soon.

It will be very difficult for the XRP to overtake the BTC.
But the real advantage of XRP is its liquidity, BTC needs 4 hours to complete a transaction. XRP needs 3.6 seconds.

People are looking to get a good return from ripple like bitcoin did. Ripple has a supply of 100 billion vs bitcoins 21million its not going to reach the same as bitcoin has. People see it has increased in value lately and have the fear of missing out

Actually it is possible. If all new incoming ppl will invest in ripple than for sure it will overtake it. But my opinion is that BTC will start rising again...

People only buy Ripple because it is cheap...

And I bet, that they think it will rise to "a couple of thousand dollar" just like BTC ;)

Well, they are wrong. And a extreme fall in price will come soon...
BTC is in a Bubble??? Then what is Ripple? Super Mega Extreme Uber Bubble ;)

Sell the air, while it is hot!

For many, ripple is an opportunity to make money on speculation. I, too, do not like the centralization of a ripple, but the rise in prices for it does not mean that people will use it.

I don't think so, I think ripple is enjoying a pump and will soon again be passed by ethereum. I don't think it can come close to challenging bitcoin, it would require a price of $10 or so which seems absurdly high.

Noo Wayyy man, XRP is over hyped by the newbees.
soon it will go downward, i have sold mine at the peak.
and be ready for the next bull run by the king BTC.

Overtaking Bitcoin in terms of market cap seems to be near impossible but if you are looking for a quick money right now it is a good time to buy ripple instead of Bitcoin. One of the main reason is its good timing as Ripple has a good chart and also Bitcoin is on consolidation stage. So looking at it I don't think that it is necessary for Ripple to overtake something just to show that it is more profitable as .60$ per Coin to 3.00$ is a pretty big leap forward. Their profitability will still increase as the number of traders also increase.

i think ripple is having a big chance to defeat bitcoin in the future. bitcoin is slowing down few months recently, in contrast, ripple is rising rapidly, it is taking away bitcoin's market every day, so if this keep going on, ripple may take bitcoin place in not very far future.

no its imposible of ripple overtake bitcoin.ripple must pass another cryptocurrency before overtaking bitcoin and then ripple must make a big project to make it better...

I don't really think so, and especially I hope not. I just think that the recent rise of Ripple is a sheer matter of speculation.

Lol. That isn't enough to even make ripple worthy of being compared to bitcoin. Yes, bitcoin has been going down in price lately. But this certainly doesn't mean that it will continue to crash. Just try to look at the past of bitcoin and you will see that this has happened a lot to bitcoin. So i think things will still be the same bitcoin will rise up again. Breaking record by record. Specially when the lightning network finishes fixing the major problems of bitcoin and implements this fix this year. I guarantee you that when this happens, bitcoin will be unstoppable.

Ripple and Ethereum will be able to compete for second place. Eventually, Bitcoin will fall - and maybe Ripple will overtake Bitcoin at that point, if Ripple is still actively used at that point. But that may be years away, the way things are right now... in any 2018 horizon, Ripple is highly unlikely to overtake Bitcoin's market dominance.

 

Total supply of Ripple is 100 000 000 000 coins. If one XRP will cost even 100$ can you count how huge will the Ripple capitalization in USD? And Bitcoin must cost 100$ too. How you think this may happen at all?

I really can't understand why this premined not mineable centralized pseudo-crypto is pumping so hard.

Nowdays seems that I can't understand crypto anymore  :'(

The whole market is in a bubble for sure, newbies are buying crap for FOMO reasons like there's no tomorrow and they will all get burned.

I hope this money will flow back to bitcoin soon

When ETH was on the #2 spot some are asking whether ETH will overtake Bitcoin. Now that XRP took the #2 spot, this topic shows up. The only basis for the ranking of every cryptocurrency is their market cap. However, the market cap is just a mere multiplication of the current price of that specific cryptocurrency and its supply. The market cap is just a number and will not justify anything. XRP is #2 and ETH is #3, if we make a poll what would you prefer? Perhaps many will choose ETH over XRP. The ranking does not define how good a coin or token is so we should not make any big deal out of this.

Banks, and huge media support! Combined by BTC slow network it is not hard to pump XRP!

Koreans pumped ripple for easy money and will dump it at any moment, only BTC will prevail!

I personally don't think that ripple will overtake bitcoin, people are just hyping it currently and it is all over social media too. They have good marketing strategy for now because of the big corporations associated with it, but once the whales have cashed out from this coin, those who bought at a higher price will be doomed.

not also when ethereum overtook them back on the 2nd position of coinmarketcap, i think it is a trend for ripple so it would not be possible to overtake bitcoin

For me this is just a new type of FOMO. If you look at coinmarketcap you will see a lot of coins that are under $1 to get massive gains. It's like people were randomly picking them and pumping them. It's the new trend in crypto, but it wont last long, because most of those coins don't offer anything special. People just think that those coins are cheap and will get to big prices, so they buy them to try to get rich, since they didn't buy bitcoin when it was worth cents as well. Of course those coins have a huge coin supply, and will never get to those prices, but some people don't even know that, because they just buy anything with hopes of getting big profit.

Let's not forget that there are many updates coming to ethereum, and that lightning network transactions were already made on the main net (instant with no fees), so the future is still good for BTC ETH, and other good decentralized coins, and this new mania wont last.

But when are they going to cash out? It is already 10x profit in a few weeks.

In terms of market capitalization? Maybe, but probably not too soon and maybe only temporarily. Now Ripple is experiencing a huge rise, but I see a couple of peculiarities. Firstly, the price at Korean exchanges is much higher. Secondly, there was a very similar pump (to almost the same XRP/BTC rate) in May. Surely, Ripple allows fast and cheap transactions, but this may be just an artificial pump, followed by a dump.

Lol yep!!!  ;D ;D ;D and bitcoin will pump right back up

It's really doing well, I do hate ripple and I don't have it. I don't want to support these bank people who are pumping the coin and I don't want to be part of it. Sooner or later we will see these people who'll start to dump this coin so while it's early for you to see the price pumping it's better to sell it while it's on the peak but if you do believe on it, then just keep on holding. But even there are good news about it, I'm not going aboard and it won't overtake bitcoin.

Ripple is a lot cheaper than bitcoin......

But it has many times more supplied coins! It is about market cap I think!

Currently, the Bitcoin blockchain does not comply with the requirements of financial markets and its infrastructure does scale to deal with the daily volumes of transactions taking place on the financial market.

Ripple is a blockchain-based solution for cross-border payments, in other words they offer a service similar to what SWIFT does but in a decentralized way. Their vision can be summed up as becoming the Internet of value.

Ripple is a decentralized transaction network that also contains a digital currency called ripples or XRP. Any type of currency can be transacted over the network, so if someone wants to sell their XRP for USD they can do that within the network without the need of a third party.

Most of us here on the forum don't like the idea of ripple taking over bitcoin. But just to be realistic, ripple has increased incredibly these days. In a few days ripple has reached half the market cap of bitcoin. If that goes on, it could overtake bitcoin.

Ripple Really takes a leading position in the market, a very large demand for this coin. Perhaps it will be like bitcoin in importance, but not in value.

Of corse it is. But there are so many newcomers that can't understand crypto basics that coin fundamentals are becoming less and less important.
Sometimes I think that all that it takes to pump bitcoin to 1m usd is starting to use millibitcoin or satoshis, and many people would buy these "cheap" coins again. It's absurd.

The Bitcoin developers are putting extra effort to provide us cheaper and faster transaction even tho it is not centralized like ripple, and if ripple be on top he probably a king, sorry but when i hear bitcoin and ripple it feels like masculine to me and ethereum more like a feminine, anyway between bitcoin and ripple i think ripple have to do more job to be able to surpass Bitcoin

it pumped off coinable news.. but now its dumping off new coinbase news.

Woah, slow down people, just because some people became rich by starting mining when it was worth $.001 it does not mean it is good or better than Bitcoin. It is worth only $3 for God's sake! One Bitcoin is worth more than $15000 which is 5000 times bigger! Sure, Ripple has gone up for quite a percentage, but it does not stand a chance against Bitcoin in any aspect.

Not gonna happen till ripple is suddenly adopted by all banks as their blockchain coin and Bitcoin is banned by all countries. Ripple just had a momentary boost or a so called pump and is now retracing back to its previous price. Currently, there is no coin that can overtake Bitcoin. Bitcoin is just too huge.

Ripple 'overtaking' Bitcoin is about as relevant as JP Morgan's share price overtaking Bitcoin. They're fundamentally different things not in any type of competition. How Ripple wound up being lumped in with actual cryptocurrencies is an eternal mystery to me.

unlikely, very unlikely ..
if you want to replace bitcoin first must beat ETH, because during this time ETH always follow below as long as bitcoin up
and I think that's hardly hard

Of course bitcoin is too huge and cannot be overtaken by either ripple or ether. I cannot believe how people can think that may happen.

I don't think that this ever happen. Bitcoin is to huge and popular cryptocurrency

With the regulation on December 22, the value fell below $ 1. However, this decline took a very short time and the XRP went through a rapid upward trend and saw the new record, $ 2.84. This trend led Ripple to take 2nd place in the market with $ 90.5 billion in capital. This rapid rise of Ripple led to controversy in the crypto society. Some are of the opinion that Ripple may be a fraud committed by some banks and financial industry while some believe that BTC is the new successor.

It will never happen that ripple will replace or overtake bitcoin. Maybe just for now ripple increasing and bitcoin is dicreasing but it cant replace it. It will never happen that the value of ripple can increase and will the same as the value of bitcoin. Decreasing the value of bitcoin is just for now maybe few day after the value bitcoin will increase more that the highest value it takes. We dont know what will happen next but the that i know is that ripple will never be the same as bitcoin and it can never be overtake it.

It is only because of huge total supply 10 billions XRP (okay even with circulation supply ~40 billions in coinmarketcap calculation) This guano have no utility for banks, they are need technology, not XRP

no ripple can't be replace the bitcoin, right now the ripple market is down i think cause ripple can't hold more volume again and the price can't get up anymore this ripple gonna down and down and the price will go back to normal. this coin is one of the best investment beside bitcoin but right now it's a little expensive.

I do not think ripple can replace bitcoin as the best coin. Though it might have replaced Ethereum as the second best as Ethereum is only worth a few thousands, it cannot replace bitcoin which has a price of over $14000.
Besides, one of the reasons bitcoin is the best coin is because it is decentralized, as ripple is centralized, I'm very sure it can't replace bitcoin.

For me it's very impossible for the ripple to overtake bitcoin because is the best of all crypto currencies. Bitcoin is very high to reach by other alts and no one can reach what bitcoin has reach and everyone can tell that.

We do not know that the ripple will override the bitcoin because the bitcoin is known by the crypto currency but the new's bigger is actually the ripple. Ripple, also known as XRP, is the third largest cryptocurrency in terms of market capitalisation – which refers to a company’s outstanding shares. SOUTH Korean regulators discussing implementing tighter regulations surrounding cryptocurrencies hurt the value of most major blockchain currencies, except for ripple.

Yes Ripple can catch and beat Bitcoin in market cap, especially as big banks are now getting in on it.  It creates an interesting question for all currencies going forward.

Bitcoin is the foundation of many coins but is the oldest which means it doesn't have the technologies of the newer coins. Newer coins are improved and have more features but they don't have the development of the bitcoin team

You are right, the presence of XRP in the top three coinmarketcap little shake the dominance of BTC and ETH. This is becoming more interesting because XRP has a larger volume of ETH, even though its unit price is cheaper than  ETH price so many people switch with XRP. I think ETH is preparing strategy for this, we just wait what will happen, hopefully bubble XRP can last long.

This is a tough call, a very tall order. I dont think ripple can achieve that feat.

i dont think ripple can overtake the bitcoin. may be the marketcap increases if ripple is supported by some good comapnies in future. i think the the increase in the marketcap is due to the the bank acceptance. but i dont think the price of the ripple increases to a high level.

I don't think that ripple is going to overtake BTC, look at the supply it's not the same.
ETH may come back to rank number 2.

Enough with this overtaking thing, let's don't ask things such as like this and we'll just see it if it happens. But to the fact they are different coins that does have different focus, comparing and thinking that other will overtake bitcoin. You have to re-think.

I read the title and thought .... WTF?!

Simple answer: No it won't.

I don't suggest buying it now, because it pumped extremely in the last few weeks, try to find unpumped coins instead.

I agree your comment and ripple is showing a upward trend these days. But it is not easy to pass king coin like bitcoin. Personally i do not believe that ripple can replace bitcoin.

Maybe they will overtake bitcoin which i don't hope. But they won't be number 1 i think.
All the good things about bitcoin , ripple takes them and destroys them.

Ripple is just huge hyped right now just as ETH some months back, Bitcoin is competitionless.

Well, ripple is a good potential coin now a days but if we compare the ripple into bitcoin, i think it can not surpass the value of it because bitcoin is a superior of all crypto-currencies world wide.

The thing is with centralization they can really go out and get big projects and scale faster. So from a business perspective it makes sense. I personally do not like Ripple.

I do not believe that ripple is the queen or next on bitcoin.  It is ethereum.  All my friends and bitcoiner I know trusted ethereum just like bitcoin.  If you monitor the ethereum value right now, it almost reach $1000. More people (bitcoiner) use ethereum as a backup on their bitcoins.  So do not be upset.  That is just a hearsay and without proof.   Besides, the value of ripple just fluctuated last week.  

Every time it seems more likely that this event may happen, but not necessarily because Ripple is the great crypto that the market needs to solve all the limitations that the bitcoin has faced recently, but rather because of the growing speculative wave that seems to be taking control of the market, since from the purely technical point of view there would seem to be altcoins with better features than Ripple, but this fact seems unknown to the large capitals that prefer to invest in "safest" options since right now they have begun to distrust bitcoin and are looking for new options to speculate.

I think it will not happen, and the good news is bitcoin will not be overtaken by any altcoin
From the beginning bitcoin has become the benchmark price for all altcoin and it would be better if it remained that way

For me, Ripple will be limited to replace Ethereum only in which an ambitious leap to replace Bitcoin was really impossible for now. It will take many years for Ripple to surpass the Bitcoin throne with chances of very impossible to none because no matter how many Ripple you have right now still in the end you will trade it to bitcoin for fiat.

Can someone me forward where I can read about Ripple and that XRP actually is something the banks are not interested in so the whole currency is just a sham? That they are interested in part of the company which is not XRP.  I heard about it. Your opinions?

I know ripple goes into the moon the price in the coinmarketcap but i don't believe ripple overtake the bitcoin price in the market price bitcoin are now in the stable price into 13 to,14k usd movement for the ethereum i know this year as the prediction hoping to uprise in the market because now is the year for altcoins moving up the price but nobody can overtake the king.

maybe ripple can overtake bitcoin, but it need long term
it could be 2-3 year later, cause bitcoin is so strong now

There is no way Ripple can beat bitcoin. People just see a cheap coin that they can afford just to join the crypto game.

They got a lucky bump and that is it.

No way man, it will never happen that ripple will surpass bitcoin. Well i heard a news why ripple value getting higher because some banks adopted ripple coin. But never, never, it will never overtake bitcoin.

It's actually dumping right now lol. But i agree. Though it overtook eth as the second top crypto, thanks to banks behind it, bitcoin will not be overtaken. Wait for another btc surge and it will show everyone who's boss in cryptocurrencies

BTC is the most famous, people socially believes in what other people believe, so... I think BTC is going to be the leader for the next years. A lot of newbies wants to come into the  Cryptoworld, and society believes in BTC. If everyone believes in something, would you chose differently?? I don’t think so.

I believe Ripple, is going to rise up, as another altcoins will do. But BTC is going to conserve the crown for a while.

Ripple just have got the momentum to makes a lot of people interested in their project, but for real they have no future like what bitcoin has with its wonderful electronic money system , ripple would remain as an altcoin, nothing more and nothing you can expect from them.

Ripple was overbought so has now seen a natural correction. I would be surprised if we saw it regain its ATH any time soon. Can't see it being a long term competitor to Bitcoin. There are so many other better more versatile options and Ripple goes against most of what crypto stands for being centralised

Ripple only rises its demand on their coins yet their price is still very far from becoming the second to bitcoin. Yes every cryptocurrency has a tendency to rise above bitcoin but it will take some time to make it happen. Still bitcoin beats every other crypto in terms of price, reliability and stability on its platform. So whether you like it or not, it is better to trust bitcoin than any other coins.

As each day passes, I foresee the day many have envisioned, where Bitcoin has paved the way, but an alternative Crypto overtakes it and leads the way from then on.

The transaction fee's are killing BTC atm.

Yes there's a possibility for any crypto not just ripple
But now i think ripple is more possible to overtake Bitcoin and become number one in spot
as ripple is gaining every week compare to any altcoins

ripple taking over bitcoin in terms of prices in 2018 is next to impossible because of the huge price difference.I am not saying that it is impossible but it is very difficult. The prices of Bitcoin will come down when People will start to trade all their Bitcoin for something else. it can be ripple.

In my personal opinion, I don't think Ripple can overtake Bitcoin just like that. Bitcoin already has proven something in the crypto world. Bitcoin's already a foundation in the cryptocurrency. Ripples got a lot of catching up to do before it can take over Bitcoin. We all know that there's a bit of issue BTC is facing, but it won't bring BTC down beneath. It may go down a couple of notches, but eventually, it will rise again like it used to be. Bitcoins dominance is unquestionable!

In sense of what will ripple overtake bitcoin? With fully centralized structure, with unknown supply? I don't think so. Ripple bring some value to the markey, but this is very limited if we go more detailed on it.

too early if ripple will be able to overtake bitcoin, I think for now only bitcoin cash and ethereum are strong competitors to take bitcoin positions

Both Ripple and ETH will take out Bitcoin and if you study up on "Lightning Network to the aid" then you
will discover that it uses hubs, they charge fees and are in fact "Banks" so that's more pain on top of
the $25 plus Tx fees we already have today.

See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UYHFrf5ci_g

I own and like both Ripple and ETH but ETH will need a major re-write to survive because
just like BTC it uses Block-Chain and therefore will not scale and i have already covered the
Lightning sticking plaster.

Block-Matrix will work and scale and will break transaction processing (Not mining as they call it) down
between nodes which involve some centralization just like Lightning needed anyway for it's hub/banks

ETH developers are pro active, BTC developers are sitting on there hands and cannot even come up
with a temporary fix on Bitcoin to limit the fees and have been taken over by greed and big finance.

I can see Ripple becoming a conduit to get money from XYZ coins back into fiat at the bank
and have no love for bankers but unless we get our act sorted out and that's not going to be
$25 in fees from a white paper that said "Virtually free transaction fees" and on a public
ledger then Ripple will take over.

Mining coins and PoW is the biggest pile of crap ever invented by someone calling themselves
a programmer and the king has no clothes on people, we didn't need it before and we don't need it now

yeah we can say that the ripple are doing a great performance in the industry but it impossible for now that the ripple can go over the bitcoin. ripple only is 3rd in the toplist and it is under inthe Ethereum who's the second in the toplist. i don't think how many years it take before it success to exceed the bitcoin of ripple.bitcoin was done for many goods in many countries and ripple still chasing the career

No,it never happen in the future.Bitcoin is the leader of all coin and will remain the leader.In future the only coin come close to bitcoin is ethereum.At the moment bitcoin has no competitor.

Despite the gradual increase in price that Ripple is having, it can still not be said that it would take over Bitcoin. The concept and innovation behind these two currencies differs and bitcoin being at the fore-front, gives it an edge over other cryptos.

I do not think, the ripple will be just for a moment, then the ripple only focuses on the bank, while bitcoin is very widespread, it can take bitcoin, but it takes a long time, because ordinary people only know about bitcoin, fixated with bitcoin, that's one of the reasons that makes it hard to take bitcoin

Really? Are you blind? Cannot you see the big difference between the price of Ripple and Bitcoin? Or even in the difference between the price of Ripple and Ethereum? Ripple's price is stable because of the reason that it is centralized. People will not invest in Ripple because of its price and potential. Therefore, it will neither overtake Bitcoin nor Ethereum.

It would be very difficult for ripple to overtake the bitcoin. Very little chance of ripple overtaking bitcoin, because bitcoin is too strong to be defeated.

it will not overtake bitcoin, for me its just a normal coin but if people support ripple it can overtake bitcoin but most of the country support bitcoin it can convert into fiat just like our country only bitcoin we can convert it.

I feel like you're telling a joke. I'm never optimistic about XRP. I don't think it's good enough. It's not as good as bitcoin or any other mainstream coin.

I doubt that ripple can beat bitcoin. Even ethereum cannot beat bitcoin and ethereum is bigger that ripple. Bitcoin is way more ahead on every other coins that's why it already built its pillar and cannot be overtaken by any coins or alts.

By marketcap no
By use cases no
By community support no

No ripple can't overtake Bitcoin as it is not fully decentralized and it is one of the most manipulated coin by bankers.

Ripple is another cryptocurrency that has recently seen a spike or rise in value and could be set to overtake Bitcoin. But i dont think it ls going to happen as its not easy to surpass a king.

Now I know why ripple little by little dominating most of the altcoins in crypto world the power behind is because of being centralised.So its not a good basis to see it as the greatest competitor among the altcoins against bitcoin. Because the investors would still love to choose bitcoin unless government will ban all the wallet exchanges since they can not ban bitcoin and control it as. it is circulating in the computer.
 

Ripple will never overtake bitcoin in any situation. Because Bitcoin is the super star of crypto currency world where as ripple is just a new comer in this industry. There is also a very big gap in both currencies price. Bitcoin acceptance is every corner of the world but ripple is not accepted every where.